My comments about Roger and Me were not intended to be political. Believe it or not, I started this thread to talk about movies. Lately all the films I've seen have been crap.


I have to agree with most the people here on Napoleon Dynamite. A few funny parts yes, but mostly chaos/absurdity. I didn't get it.

That's what I thought before I saw it, but then that was the entire point of the movie. It took someone who was accustomed with the ways of the new, to appreciate and adopt the ways of the old. As Japan was being westernized, it was losing its far eastern heritage. Then this westerner comes along and takes up the far eastern philosphy. Doing exactly the opposite of what the country is doing.

It seems that most people I ask really liked A.I. ITS A FUCKING ROBOT, PEOPLE!!!

No of course, that was the gag. I guess I have a lousy sense of humor since my one attempt has failed miserably. That's why I included the Mexican and Last of the Mohicans bit (*badum bum*) in case anyone was confused.
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I also forgot about Garden State. Almost as bad as Napoleon Dynamite.

I didn't particularly care for The 25th Hour.
Or The English Patient.

Oh...my fault...

I loved The Last Samurai and jumped at the chance to discuss it. :|

And I also liked Last of the Mohicans, but I won't get into that.

I fell asleep during The Big Lebowski. Kill Bill 1 sucked, so I didn't see the 2nd one. Fell asleep during Donnie Darko.

AI, The English Patient, Simon Finch, Out of Africa.

However I really liked The Village and most people I know hated it. I think they went into it thinking it was a horror movie. It isn't, it is a mystery.

I've never heard of ethnicity being used to imply something out of the mainstream. I've only heard of it used to describe a different culture.

Last time I checked, Greek was as much an ethnicity as Brazillian.

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. You say you think ethnicity is stupid and false, yet you complain that a movie about "white" people is called ethnic. So which is it?

It sure doesn't seem like you do to me. I think you are confusing the idea of race with ethnicity. Ethnicity has to with language and culture, not skin color or genetic makeup.

<font size=5>The Ring</font>

Yeah...I said it! Fuckin sucked..overrated ass movie. :|

Asta!!

Oh yeah, The Ring was trash, I'm sure the sequel will be no better judging by the previews. I remember the movie was nothing when it first came out, then all of a sudden out of nowhere it was some kind of mainstream horror masterpiece. What a waste of film.

Titanic-this movie made me wanna vomit. k, thats a little extreme I know, but as someone else pointed out, that movie had nothing to do with the disaster took place.

Lord of the Rings
Spiderman 1&2

I really liked Donnie Darko...a lot of people don't get this movie....I really like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...not a lot of people understand that movie, either. Titanic was well done. I absolutely thought this movie was beautiful cinematography. I didn't care about the romance, I cared about the history.

I find that people don't "get" certain movies if they aren't in the right mood when they watch them. For example, if you're in crappy mood and you can't let certain problems go, then if you go watch a comedy you might not find it very funny. Or if you are watching a low-brow Amerian teen comedy but were expecting brittish humor. Things like that. I think if a movie is considered to be good by a lot of your friends (friends tend to have similar tastes, though there are exceptions, which is why I say a lot of them) then I think it's worth spending 2 hours of your time re-watching the movie when you're in a different mindset. Also, many times the second watching of a movie is actually better than the first watching.

As for people saying they don't "get" movies that they haven't even seen the whole of, for whatever reason - maybe you don't get it because you didn't watch the whole thing. Movies are supposed to be taken in all at once, not in pieces. If you only see the first half, or last half, or middle of a movie, then I wouldn't expect you to "get" why it's so good. Give them another chance and watch them all the way through. 99% of the time, if I commit myself to a movie, I watch it in its entirety just to give it a chance to pick up or explain itself.

There are few movies I don't like. Each has merit in its own way. Of all the movies listed here that I have watched, I can't think of any that I would say I didn't "get." Even a movie like Matrix Revolutions - I was disappointed by it, but everyone was disappointed by it, so I don't consider me not "getting" that. It did have some nice action in it, but it didn't live up to the expecations of the fans.

But see, therein lies the problem. It was hyped as a horror movie, but failed to meet the hype in that aspect. Then people touted it as a mystery, but it wasn't that either. The only thing mysterious about that whole movie was for some reason everytime I went to grab for some popcorn there was less than the last time I grabbed for it...this can be later attributed to moochers.

BLASPHEMY!

Just messing with you. But what is up with Star Wars 1 and 2. IMO crap compared to the originals.

ya ethnic greeks are caucasian. but their culture is not mainstream North American, therefore the ethnic tag. I suppose the correlation of ethnic to race isn't one to one.

I thought that Shrek 2 bit the big one. not as funny /innovative as Shrek classic. It tried too hard.

also, Million Dollar Baby couldn't hold my interest.

Liked Tarntino's stylized Hero though....

ive two that seem to be universally touted as masterpieces, clerks and requiem for a dream.

the former, i just couldnt grasp the supposed high brow humor, i guess i must be a bit more dull than i had first thought.

the latter, i can see that it was good at what is was trying to do (create a disturbing and difficult movie to watch), but pardon me if i cannae stand that. if im going to watch the downfall of a person i had better be somewhat entertained (for that reason alone, i <3 fear and loathing).

as for the reverse, i seem to be the only one i know who enjoyed punchdrunk love immensely. i suppose it might have been my state of mind at the time (depressed) but i saw it as a very powerful film

two nitpicks on the above posts:

the last samurai, while very entertaining, was far from very factual, at least in its portayal of the samurai and the respective warlords as proprietors and protectors of japanese heritage, they were largely corrupt, fed off the peasant population and were in the time of the film trying to regain momentum in the struggle for power that they were losing.

second nitpick, Hero wasn't done by Tarentino, though he was the one lighting a fire under mirimax' ass to get it imported.

as a parting jab, Lucky! Like, gosh, what were you thinking. Eat a darn cassadilla napoleon!

I am not a fucking Caucasian!
 

My skin is (commonly refered to as) white. My ethnic group? Scotch/Irish/English/German/Swedish. I am not a fucking Caucasian!

I am not so much offended as annoyed when people call white people Caucasian. Caucasian, although in the American vernacular, is really a bullshit term invented by a jerkoff German (see:Blumenbach) in the late 1700s. It is no longer used in anthropology and does not describe me, despite me being white.

Scarface, I just don't see what all the fuss is about.

the movie Free French Fries. Everyone disses on it so bad, makes me sad, makes me mad, it's a fad, i've been had. Maybe some free french fries will make be feel better.

I just don't get what people see in Napoleon Dynamite. Maybe I'm just turning into an old man or something. Aside from the crazy dance scene at the end, the rest of the movie was just retards at play.

Kill Bill 1 and 2

Just think they are utter rubbish.

Oh and The Ring - Rubbish as well :)

Nah, it was the execution. The original Spanish version (Abre Los Ojos)--also starring Penelope Cruz--was much better.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of those disliking Fight Club. I actually enjoyed it the first time through, just for the twist, but I don't think it holds up once you know the twist.

The Usual Suspects is another movie I enjoyed just once, and only for the big twist, and then just a little bit.

The Big Lebowski is my least favorite Cohen brothers movie by a wide margin. Painfully dull.

Tarantino DIDNT do hero. he just brought it to america or something like that. he didnt help the production one bit. and i didnt like it that much. Way too much slow motion action. i think we had enough of the matrix effects.

movie i didnt get was the 25th hour. what the fuck was that? worst movie for a long time.
finding nemo, shrek, shrek2, ice age, spiderman 1, spiderman 2, LOTR 1, and a few more i cant think of.

titanic...boring
Ghostbusters....whatever
Spaceballs....I hated it the first time Isaw it and every time since

LOTR
Braveheart
Boondock Saints

napolean dinamite or whatever, i found it lame, its funny to talk about tho

lost in translation -- i don't get it

matrix (all 3) -- i don't get them

The Matrix

Pulp Fiction. I think it's one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. I fell asleep halfway through it.

Sleepy Hollow and other Tim Burton movies. Tim Burton's desire to create a certain mood in his films just comes off as cheesy to me--Edward Scissorhands is a prime example of this.

Office Space. I've seen it a few times but heard it quoted so much I'm just tired of it.

Thelma and Louise

Regarding " The Ring": there is a japanese original that i like and then there is an american remake that has no value whatsoever.

The English Patient.

Sincerly,
Elaine Benes

I finally watched "Briget Jones's Diary".....wow, what a disappointment. I like all kinds of movies including chick flicks but I didn't like this one at all. Glad it was only a rental.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" the first time...didn't get it. Then, at the recommendation of my friend I watched stoned...holy moly...I love that movie.

Two movies: the first I "got", i just don't understand why the world fell in love with it. The second, I just didn't "get".

Titanic - The most overated movie of all time. I could say why, but I'd be repeating others in this thread that have already done my work for me. I think Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are both determined to make great movies throughout the rest of their career to cancel out this P.O.S.

Mulholland Drive - This movie is, by far, the most incomprehensible movie I've ever seen. True story: My wife and I walk out of the theatre in silence. We get in the car. She turns to me. I turn to her. At the same time we ask each other "What the fuck was that?!?!" I go home to read a synopsis of the movie on Salon.com. The author of the article claims that he too didn't truly understand it, but the article was designed to take a stab at explaining what he thought it meant. after reading it, I recognize what they were trying to do, but as a relatively intelligent fan of film, something this obtuse should never have been made.

The only movie where I felt absolutely robbed afterwards was "The Village". And to make matters worse, I didn't want to go but allowed some friends to talk me into going (there were 10 of them, so my ability to fend off peer pressure was weak). The majority of them liked it and I absolutely loathed it...but, I guess it doesn't really apply to this thread since most people like to take a steaming dump all over that movie whenever it's brought up (save for a few friends of mine who I have debated with until we were both blue in the face).


As far as movies that most everyone loves but I just wasn't impressed with--there are too many to mention, but off the top of my head--the two sequels to Austin Powers. Sure, I liked the original when it first came out, but then quickly got tired of it when I had to endure a million terrible impressions for several years. Then the sequels came out and the unfunny impressions multiplied exponentially...not to mention the fact that Austin Powers 2 was an exact carbon copy of the first with just a few elements tweaked and the edition of a couple new characters. I didn't bother to see Goldmember, but I'd say it's a safe bet that I wouldn't like it either. The Scary Movie series was also pretty shitty, in my opinion. I think the Wayans (other than Damon) are horribly overrated.

I agree, my family loved that movie, and I absolutely couldn't stand it.