'Smile Time'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I see how this is.
Groundhog Day is Highlander: Endgame bad.
Groundhog Day is The Neverending Story bad. (And those two are surprisingly similar in premise. Interesting.)
Groundhog Day is Wrestling with Earnest Hemingway bad.
Oh! You know what else is bad? Shaun of the Dead.
Plus it leads to absolute crap like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sharing a title with the Alan Moore book.
And the third installment of Anne of Green Gables.
My BAD MOVIE is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Only movie I have EVER wanted to walk out on.
Oh! You know what else is bad? Shaun of the Dead.
More proof that Alibelle is a crazy crazyhead.
Groundhog Day is The Neverending Story bad. (And those two are surprisingly similar in premise. Interesting.)
t looks at Alibelle askance. Will not say anything.
I think I've mentioned here my utter loathing of Magnolia. How it's become my comparator bad movie. ("It was bad, but not Magnolia bad.")Steph, you made my day. I can never find people who share my loathing of this film. It seems everyone and his brother worships at the altar of Paul Thomas Anderson, even though he hasn't done a single thing that impressed me other than decent visuals. The only nice thing I can say about Magnolia is that it had the best delivery of terrible dialogue I've ever seen.
Looks at Alibelle askance. Will not say anything.
Well, I often refer to Groundhog Day as the neverending story. I've seen it three times, and it was excruciating. Just the same thing, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, etc. I mean, I got that he learned, and blah blah blah, but good grief, I so did not need to go through it that many times.
The only nice thing I can say about Magnolia is that it had the best delivery of terrible dialogue I've ever seen.
I also hated Magnolia, though I will agree about the delivery of horrible dialogue. I also liked the prologue with the unlikely connected events. The three hours that followed, however, were simply horrible, good delivery notwithstanding.
And failed to deliver on the sloganeered promise of "it'll all make sense in the end."
I am also filled with the Magnolia hatred.
The Arrival came out about the same time as Independence Day. Although it was just as silly, I thought it was better done and a little funnier.
Replace The Arrival with Mars Attacks, and better done and a little funnier with superior in every imaginable way and dcp is me.
My mind is so filled with hatred that it can't figure out what to destroy first.