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Post by Hucklebubba on Jan 23, 2004 15:29:10 GMT -5
Hee! I made a counter-thread! How clever I is!
The purpose of this thread, as you might have guessed, is to be the lime to PuggyD's thread's lemon.
What are some movies that you started out liking, but gradually became apathetic toward, or even disliked outright?
As mentioned on a previous thread long, long ago, the movie that best fits that category for me is Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
I think the only reason I ever even briefly liked FF:TSW, was that I felt somehow obligated to. My pre-movie psyched-upness temporarily delayed my waking up and smelling the coffee of disappointment. (That's the closest I've come so far to making a Justin metaphor.)
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Post by puggyd on Jan 23, 2004 15:58:22 GMT -5
"Office Space"! "Office Space"! A thousand times "Office Space"!
Kind of funny the first time, horribly lame the following quadrillion times when everyone forces you to watch it like it's some huge forgotten classic, despite the fact that everyone and his mom knows about it.
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Post by Genetic Mishap on Jan 23, 2004 20:46:51 GMT -5
Heavy Metal: FAKK 2.
The first time I saw it, I was all like "Whoa!". Second time, notsomuch.
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Post by jenfrazer on Jan 23, 2004 21:48:45 GMT -5
Oscar and Lucinda. I loved it in the first five minutes, and it went downhill from there to become my single-most hated film by the last five minutes.
I don't think I'd hate it as much if it hadn't started so well. Otherwise, I'd have turned off the tape before the end. But I kept thinking it would redeem itself. WRONG!
(ps. - don't throw stones in a glass church. and for god's sake, keep the church on dry land.)
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Post by DarthToad on Jan 24, 2004 22:00:43 GMT -5
I'm a bit embarressed to say this but the Star Wars prequals. I actually used to like them. Well, Episode II at first I was really blown away. I didn't care so much for the really corny moments but then, maybe because I saw it a few more times, maybe because people pointed it out, the movie became painfull. Episode I, well, it just got annoying.
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Post by Al on Jan 24, 2004 23:44:46 GMT -5
I definitely second Final Fantasy, although I own it and do not feel as though it was wasted money.
A Beautiful Mind was one that I tried my best to hate and ended up loving when I finally sat down to watch it. When I told my friends (who possess a disturbing affection for Russell Crowe), I was made to watch it four times more over the course of a semester. Each time I watched it, it just got worse and worse, until now I have more or less erased it from my memory entirely.*
Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes I enjoyed quite a bit in theaters, but with each susequent viewing became less and less appealing. I still think it looks quite impressive and he did a good job overall, but the movie's flaws have simply become too apparent.
I also feel the same way about the Star Wars prequels, but I still really don't mind them all that much.
Al
*However, I have never ever endorsed Ron Howard's Oscar. He had no business winning anything; two-and-a-half hours of inoffensive medium shots does not an award-winning director make.
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Post by Lissa on Jan 25, 2004 7:53:07 GMT -5
Even though I own it, A Beautiful Mind would sit a lot better with me if it hadn't gotten Best Picture over Moulin Rouge. It was good, but best movie of the year?
I think forcing someone into a movie is the surest way to get them to despise it. I still loathe Pulp Fiction, partly because of the reverence it was treated with when I was in college. (And I still hated it anyway.)
I can't think of many others off the top of my head, but I'm sure they're there.
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Post by jenfrazer on Jan 25, 2004 10:07:05 GMT -5
I think it was a case of "Oops, we should have given him an Oscar for Apollo 13, but we didn't even nominate him." I'm OK with Braveheart winning Best Picture in 1996, but Mel getting the director nod?
Although perhaps the Academy was in fact recognizing Ronny for his direction of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Lordy.
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Post by Magill on Jan 26, 2004 12:05:28 GMT -5
Not unlike when Dame Judy Dench got the Best Supporting Actress award for something like 5 minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love. I had heard it was payback for her not getting best acress the year before for Mrs. Brown (Helen Hunt won instead).
Continuing the hijack, I still wish Cate Blanchett had won for Elizabeth instead of Gwenyth Paltrow for SiL. But then, my name is also Elizabeth, so I could be biased. Though Cate was awesome as QE1, and I've been a fan of hers ever since.
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Post by Lissa on Jan 26, 2004 16:40:40 GMT -5
She really was.
I have to admit, I think Renee Zellweger is a shoe-in for supporting actress this year for the same reason- two nominations in lead actress two years in a row. I've heard she was phenomenal in Cold Mountain, but I think the combo utterly clinches it.
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