It is one of the few movies where I have actually thought, "I want those X hours of my life back." The other movie that comes to mind is Troy. I don't remember whether I wanted my time back, but I definitely felt like asking for my money back.
Zoe: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us. Mal: Everyone always does. That's what makes us special.
'Serenity'
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Polter-Cow - May 07, 2009 3:47:05 pm PDT #1105 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Beverly - May 07, 2009 3:58:07 pm PDT #1106 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'd like 40 minutes of Costner closeups back from Wyatt Earp. Other than that, everyone else in it was stellar, particularly Dennis Quaid. He's no huckleberry, but damn, that was a fine performance.
Doc's just a great role.
megan walker - May 07, 2009 4:01:13 pm PDT #1107 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Dune
Last Action Hero
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Polter-Cow - May 07, 2009 4:11:35 pm PDT #1108 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love Last Action Hero ! Granted, I have not seen it since I was twelve, but still.
Aims - May 07, 2009 4:15:50 pm PDT #1109 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Used to love Dead Poets, now the almost-end just pisses me off. Suicide? That was the only way out? How melodramatic. Run away and join the circus, f***wad.
Bwah!! I didn't feel tha way until I saw DPS again about a year ago.
Atropa - May 07, 2009 4:33:12 pm PDT #1110 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I love Moulin Rouge with a huge, rhinestone-covered, ruffly love. It's so BIG AND BOMBASTIC! And very pretty!
Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2009 4:33:53 pm PDT #1111 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
A full 72.3% of the awful was Gwyneth Paltrow, though.
It's so much more watchable if you view it in light of the review that posited her reporter character was a saboteur trying to undermine the heroes' efforts at every turn.
I don't know if I can list Out Cold as my low water mark for movies or not, as I only watched it until the opening credits started and then walked out. But consider that I've watched Uwe Boll movies, Daredevil, and Stigmata all the way to the end and that was the movie that made me throw up my hands and cry uncle...
Frankenbuddha - May 07, 2009 4:47:23 pm PDT #1112 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, I like Memento, NBK (it's not supposed to be deep), and Moulin Rouge (it's not supposed to be deep. Dude, haven't you studied "the finish fetish"? Shiny surfaces.)
Heh, again, for the most part, Hec and I are one. MR was...too ADD for me. You couldn't SEE any of the set design - it was chopped to shreds in Lurmann's editing cuisinart.
Dune...Bram Stoker's Dracula
Neither of these are remotely GOOD movies, and yet I love them for their varied excesses.
Mine is Eye of the Beholder. God, not even Ewan McGregor could save that dreck.
Again, not even REMOTELY a good movie, but so determinedly weird, I enjoyed the hell out of it. See also (Ewan division), Nightwatch.
billytea - May 07, 2009 4:54:21 pm PDT #1113 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I love bad movies, when I can watch them with my brother. The quality of the mockery is a thing of beauty.
Scrappy - May 07, 2009 4:55:12 pm PDT #1114 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I found MR a chaotic, noisy, melodramatic mess on my first viewing and didn't like it at all. On my second viewing, it suddenly clicked and I dug it. It was still a chaotic, noisy, melodramatic mess, but it made a goofily enjoyable sense.