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Post by Spiderdancer on Sept 28, 2006 18:52:26 GMT -5
I wandered through part of "She's the Man" while Sib2 was watching it. Sib2 is the one with the catholic film taste who got me to watch "Legally Blonde" and "Josie and the Pussycats."
Someone has to become a costumed vigilante and go around punishing directors and producers who "update" Shakespeare in a manner involving the latest disposably blond teen stars. I vote we force them to make films in which all the characters are played by males irregardless of character gender, the way Shakespeare did originally.
This would also cut down those nontextual sex scenes.
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Post by sarahbot on Sept 29, 2006 5:59:28 GMT -5
Someone has to become a costumed vigilante and go around punishing directors and producers who "update" Shakespeare in a manner involving the latest disposably blond teen stars. Or this masked avenger could simply guide towards different plays. Think Titus Andronicus, or Richard III, or King Lear! Have fun casting the stars of High School Musical, producers! |
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Post by Ellielator on Feb 15, 2007 7:39:50 GMT -5
I could never make it through:
South Pacific (I hate 90% of all musicals)
Don't Look Now
Rambo
Yellow Submarine
They Live
GI Blues
and that Dark Shadows movie
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Post by sirgallahad2 on Feb 16, 2007 20:14:42 GMT -5
Let's see... couldn't make it through/films that I walked out of:
The thin Red Line: I made it all the way until Sean Penn and some random soldier are having a conversation in a field hospital. Random Soldier: "Do you know the worst part? I can sit here and watch that kid over there die, and I can't feel anything". Seam Penn: "I wish I knew that bliss". What the?? Howzit!? Buh?? D'OH!! for the love of!?!?!
3,000 miles to Graceland: CRAP!!!! THRICE CURSED UN-WATCHABLE HORSE DROPPINGS!!!!!!!
Batman and Robin: I was watching..... ah screw it!!
The Matrix Revolutions: Why GOD? WHY!!!!!!!
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Post by sarahbot on Feb 17, 2007 1:25:58 GMT -5
I hope I can make it through Don't Look Now. I was really looking forward to seeing it someday. Same with Rules of the Game, until I heard it's basically the template for Gosford Park, but I didn't get - though I may now, as my tastes have changed over the years.
Speaking of "I like watching pretentious films sometimes", I couldn't get through Apocalypse Now. When we studied Heart of Darkness, my prof couldn't stop referring to Apocalypse Now, so I decided to give it a try. This is the same prof who insists that HoD is difficult to read on purpose, so I'm guessing AN is along the same lines. But it's easier to get through an eighty page novella than three hours of Martin Sheen tripping.
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 3, 2007 14:20:35 GMT -5
I turn off movies all the time, because I put just about everything on my Netflix queue just to see if I like it. Most recently, the 70s version of Solaris, and the Cabinet of Dr....something...which is called a classic apparently for no other reason than it managed to survive from the 1920s.
Sometimes I put these kinds of movies back on the list towards the end, betting that I'll be in a more appropriate mood when it comes up again (this worked for The Producers and Pi: Faith in Chaos).
I walked out of one theater movie, but that was because the sound wasn't working. I should have walked out on Master of Disguise, Atlantis (that animated one), and Epic Movie. Probably there's others I've blocked from my memory.
A couple of movies I've been trained to like just because my room mate kept watching it, and I have the willpower of an overcooked piece of pasta: Super Troopers, and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I now own them for myself. Oddly, he never got me to like Full Metal Jacket or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I have a knack for perpetually thinking a movie will suddenly become very good in just five more minutes, so I'd better wait it out.
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Post by blinkfan on Mar 3, 2007 14:24:19 GMT -5
Ghost Rider
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Post by Storm_Rider on Mar 3, 2007 14:35:03 GMT -5
For me it's Napoleon Dynamite.
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Post by drew on Mar 4, 2007 1:01:03 GMT -5
I didn't make it through "8 Mile" or "Napoleon Dynamite" in one sitting. I did finish watching both of them eventually, but they didn't make the first pass.
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Post by DarthShady on Mar 4, 2007 17:52:25 GMT -5
One movie I couldn't make it through was Flight Plan. We had a half day at school my senior year, and while the underclassmen still had class (shortened, but still class) the seniors had an assembly about prom and graduation. After the assembly was over, they made us watch Flight Plan, and I couldn't make it past the first half hour so my friend Beth and I wound up ditching after that.
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Post by Al on Mar 4, 2007 19:23:23 GMT -5
Speed 2. When Willem Dafoe coated himself in leeches I pretty much decided that I'd seen all I needed to see of that particular cinematic endeavor.
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Post by coccatino on Mar 7, 2007 15:59:12 GMT -5
Speed 2. When Willem Dafoe coated himself in leeches I pretty much decided that I'd seen all I needed to see of that particular cinematic endeavor. HAHA! I didn't even make it that far, apparently, because I have no recollection of that having occurred. |
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Mar 7, 2007 17:02:33 GMT -5
American Psycho 2 - Probably the most sickening excuse for a sequel I've seen. As soon as the stupid twist was let out of the bag, I just had to turn it off. Only redeeming factor: Mila Kunis and seeing William Shatner sputter his way through the movie. Yes, William Shatner. How can this movie go wrong?  |
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on May 23, 2007 21:07:46 GMT -5
The closest I've ever come to leaving a theater early was "Hanging Up." The only reason I didn't was because I went with my sis, and I thought she was enjoying it. Sadly, she thought I was enjoying it, and was wishing we could leave early. Oh well. I know this is an OLD post to be quoting but this is exactly what happened to my friend and I during Epic Movie. I seriously want to hunt down and annhialate everyone involved with that movie. Also, Freedomland made me want to stab my eyeballs with a rusty spoon.  |
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Post by katiem on Oct 15, 2008 15:23:45 GMT -5
Grave of the Fireflies- I had to put out a pretty penny to get this one, and then-snore! I did wake up near the end, but I couldn't have cared less what happened to annoying brother and little mutant sister. Don't think I'll ever slip this one in the player again.
10000 BC- Why so slow? I actually turned this one off and watched The Happening. How bad is that???
The Cleaner- Sorry Sam, I know something good was bound to happen, but I just couldn't wait that long.
Atonement- Three times I've rented this! Three freakin' times! I always pass out right after Keira Knightly jumps into the fountain, which is a good 4 minutes into the film.
A Mid Summers Nights Dream- I tried Shakespeare, I really tried!
Sin City- I might be the only person who doesn't like this movie. I only got it because of my nearly 20 year crush on Elijah Wood...
And some movies I wish I had fallen asleep during:
The Carver- Turkey in the straw hee hee haw!
The Strangers-It started out alright...
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