Popular Movies that you Don't Get.

LameKat · Jul 21, 2009

Boondock Saints!
Not so much a well reviewed movie, but being from Ma. and working in Boston everyone around here loved it. "Its like Reservoir Dogs for Southie", BULLSHIT that movie sucked hard. Biggest Tarentino wanna be flick ever (and not well done).

TonK · Jul 21, 2009

Someone explain Donnie Darko.

rarehero · Jul 21, 2009

LameKat said:
Boondock Saints!
Not so much a well reviewed movie, but being from Ma. and working in Boston everyone around here loved it. "Its like Reservoir Dogs for Southie", BULLSHIT that movie sucked hard. Biggest Tarentino wanna be flick ever (and not well done).

awe. come on.
it's worth it just to see william dafoe dress in drag.

LameKat · Jul 21, 2009

rarehero said:
awe. come on.
it's worth it just to see william dafoe dress in drag.

Nope.

Deuce · Jul 21, 2009

TonK said:
Someone explain Donnie Darko.

Watch the director's cut. It'll spell things out more (which is not to its benefit, IMO).

Takumaji · Jul 21, 2009

Matrix.

Watched it twice but couldn't cope with its overdramatised and IMO mediocre to boring anime-ish plot. So yeah, one could say I didn't "get" it.

rarehero · Jul 21, 2009

LameKat said:
Nope.

I have a friend that qoutes that movie nonstop.
I don't think it's too bad a flick though.
just far fetched, that's all.

lithy · Jul 21, 2009

Deuce said:
Watch the director's cut. It'll spell things out more (which is not to its benefit, IMO).

The director intended for the movie to be a commentary about censorship in schools...

genjiglove · Jul 21, 2009

Back when it first came out everyone seemed to love Scream but I thought it was a piece of shit. I don't think I've ever seen such a smug, self satisfied movie in my life. Anyone who actually thought it was scary can go to hell.

I guess Titanic would be another one, although I can appreciate it on a technical level.

LameKat · Jul 21, 2009

rarehero said:
I have a friend that qoutes that movie nonstop.
I don't think it's too bad a flick though.
just far fetched, that's all.

I may be a bit too passionate with my hatred from the movie only because I work with alot of guys from Southie who act like it was written by God to show badass you are if you are from there.

AppleiDog · Jul 21, 2009

Rade said:
Did you ever decide to go see a movie because it was very well reviewed and looked like a lot of fun, but then walked out of the theatre extremely disappointed?

The most recent example of this, for me, would have to be The Hangover. Extremely well reviewed. Great word of mouth. An underdog film, successful at the box office. Usually, all of these combined can mean a great movie, but it can also be something terrible like Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Unfortunately, The Hangover was the latter. It was unfunny, boring and offensive (in all the wrong ways). The cast was unlikeable as well. It felt like it was being targeted at a very white, very middle class, suburban american audience that I don't think I quite fit into (I almost do).

The hangover was amazing one of the funniest movies i have seen in a long time, deffo getting it on Dvd when it comes out;

Buro Destruct · Jul 21, 2009

Rade said:
Did you ever decide to go see a movie because it was very well reviewed and looked like a lot of fun, but then walked out of the theatre extremely disappointed?

The most recent example of this, for me, would have to be The Hangover. Extremely well reviewed. Great word of mouth. An underdog film, successful at the box office. Usually, all of these combined can mean a great movie, but it can also be something terrible like Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Unfortunately, The Hangover was the latter. It was unfunny, boring and offensive (in all the wrong ways). The cast was unlikeable as well. It felt like it was being targeted at a very white, very middle class, suburban american audience that I don't think I quite fit into (I almost do).

Thank you. I was starting to think my brain was somehow dysfunctional because I'm seemingly the only person I know who didn't like The Hangover.

hanafuda · Jul 21, 2009

Red Cliff part 1

Who was fighting who, and why?

Tons of characters, all with praatically no introduction so you don't even know who they are nor give a crap about them. Then the next moment there is a huge battle scene with thousands of Chinese killing each other, and characters introduced a minute earlier getting maimed. Some woman suicide jumps down a well and I'm supposed to care?

Turned it off after 20 mins and wiped it.

HeartlessNinny · Jul 21, 2009

For me it's Transformers. I know that not everyone here liked it, but it definitely counts as a popular movie. I thought it was one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life, on par with shit like Waterworld or Battlefield Earth.

And I thought My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a pile of shit too, since someone brought that up (but I tend to hate all romantic comedies, with very few exceptions).

Jacen · Jul 21, 2009

Requiem of a dream - One of the most pointless and ugliest movies I have ever seen. Who wants to watch a movie about a bunch of crack heads killing themselves. The whole thing was like a trainwreak.

norton9478 · Jul 21, 2009

Does Anime count?

Becuase Ghost in a Shell sucked.

Rade K · Jul 21, 2009

norton9478 said:
Does Anime count?

Becuase Ghost in a Shell sucked.

I have a really hard time coming to terms with how I feel about a lot of these highly acclaimed animes. While I liked GitS, I always felt a little let down by Akira. Yeah, it's a technical marvel, it looks fucking amazing but the story telling is terrible.

It wasn't until I read the graphic novel that I realized how terrible the film really was.

The only really worthwhile, recommendable anime is the Miyazaki stuff. Everything else can be bewildering.

Rade K · Jul 21, 2009

Speaking of anime, I really wish they'd release Intersetella 5555 on some sort of HD format already.

Now that's a cool movie.

kernow · Jul 21, 2009

Tekkonkinkreet was like that, nice to look at, etc but wtf happened at the end.

Rade K · Jul 21, 2009

Jacen said:
Requiem of a dream - One of the most pointless and ugliest movies I have ever seen. Who wants to watch a movie about a bunch of crack heads killing themselves. The whole thing was like a trainwreak.

Well, that was kind of the point of the film.

Again, I was mesmerized by it.

Speaking of Aronofsky, I really liked The Fountain and The Wrestler as well. Pi is also quite cool, but I have not seen it in years.

Phyeir · Jul 21, 2009

Never understood how Napoleon Dynamite got popular. Movie got big when I was in college and after a LOT of pushing I finally watched it. Piece of crap all over.

kernow · Jul 21, 2009

I found it funny, but in certain parts, its a love it/hate it film.

Being John Malkovitch is on

and adaptation, wtf was that about

I think I have a short attention span.

Phyeir · Jul 21, 2009

kernow said:
I found it funny, but in certain parts, its a love it/hate it film.

I will admit to finding one part funny (it's also the only part I remember)... Napoleon throw a melon at Rico's van and hits it and he (Rico) screams like a 5 year old girl. Seeing a 70's porn star looking guy scream like that is funny.

mydogbilly · Jul 21, 2009

LameKat said:
Boondock Saints!
Not so much a well reviewed movie, but being from Ma. and working in Boston everyone around here loved it. "Its like Reservoir Dogs for Southie", BULLSHIT that movie sucked hard. Biggest Tarentino wanna be flick ever (and not well done).

I think you're missing the point of the film. It's dark comedy. Parody.

Rade K · Jul 21, 2009

Adaptation is incredible. Watch it two or three times to really get it.

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