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[Gryff]

Exactly, Moiche. Assuming that a viewer is supposed to identify with a character just because he/she is the "hero" is missing the point entirely.

@Inlander. I don't think anyone's trying to change your opinion of the movie, but arguing the points you have made as to why you don't like it is perfectly legitimate.

[practicality]

Anyone remember Alamo about 2 years ago?
A group of friends wanted to see it, so I went along. It sucked until one of them cracked up when Crockett died. Then it was great and funny.

[FaultyGluestick]

Movies that come to mind that I abhor are War of the Worlds and all the Harry Potter movies (future ones I'm sure, included), with the exception of the first one.  I thought that one was decent.

[SeanBateman]

OOGA NOOGA TROOGA?

[Daniel]

Movies that come to mind that I abhor are War of the Worlds

The original or the new one? I've not seen the original, but I thought the remake was super-abso-awesome-sweet.... until the end. Oh, the end.

[FaultyGluestick]

The original or the new one? I've not seen the original, but I thought the remake was super-abso-awesome-sweet.... until the end. Oh, the end.

The remake.  The ending was a lame excuse to finish the movie.  I realized that everything the characters did had no significance whatsoever.

[SeanBateman]

NOOGA NOOGA!

[Hat]

I haven't seen either of the movies, but I heard they ended the remake the same way as the book, with all the aliens succumbing to the common cold or whatever it was. Have I been misinformed, or did the ending manage to balls it up anyway, even sticking relativly close to the original idea?

I never went to see it, because I know I would spend half the time singing the songs from the Jeff Wayne album, and pissing people off.

"The chances of anything coming from mars, are a million to one, but still they-"

"Hey shut up, arsehole, I'm trying to watch the damn movie"

"Sorry.....  Farewell thunder-----Child, chi, chi, child!"

*Sounds of pummelling*

[Merkava]

(Rant about Fight Club)

I don't think that was the point of the movie at all.

I thought in this post-modern age the point of a work of art is whatever we, the viewer, make of it?  Regardless, if nothing else this is a thread about opinions.  What I wrote is what I took away from Fight Club, and no amount of telling me I'm wrong is going to change the fact that that's my overwhelming impression, and that I find it utterly repugnant.

I thought that the creator of something usually has a purpose in mind.

And you know, "think", I thought (w00t irony), meant my opinion. As in, I didn't think that the movie was about that.

WOOPS ME SUPID LOL

[Bunnyman]

I've come to a revelation during my time here.  (I'm wearing a shirt and tie, roll with me here)

All modern art is just one giant metahumoric joke.  That, or it's posers too fucked up on crystal to "get" the joke.  I mean, look at Duchamp's "Fountain," or half the shit in the SFMoMA.  Every time, I can see the artist laughing their ass off that people are analyzing the fact that some dude tipped over a urinal and signed it, or that some dude meticulously erased a De Koenig sketch, or made a tryptich out of formica.

Similarly, Jean-Luc Godard must have bene laughing his ass off during and after making Alphaville.  I mean, random photo-negative shots?  A fight and an attempted seduction happening simultaneously to a character, with no character realizing the other is happening?  The entire last half hour?

Gonna get back to you on Donnie Darko.  There are some total "Richard Kelly is so busting a gut right now" moments.  In the Director's Cut, anyway.

[Not An Addict]

NaA: You don't /get/ art, do you?

Thanks for completely missing my point. I most certainly did "get" American Beauty - that was my complaint. I got it a thousand times over, because the movie kept drilling its message into my head until I cried "uncle" and returned the DVD to Blockbuster in disgust.

[mainmanmazz]

Meet the parents.

Meet the Fockers.

All of the American pie series.

Ron Burgundy.

So, so, SO lame, unfanny. It was like watching slapstick, made even more unfunnier.

[Crash]

I walked out of The Fast & The Furious.

i'm so embarrassed about watching 15 minutes of that nefarious shite that i tell people i never even walked in.

[Merkava]

I've gotta say I hate Beetlejuice. It is probably the most pointless, overrated piece of crap excuse for a movie I have ever seen. Christ. So boring and so lame.

Tim Burton sucks. He's made, like, 3 good movies.

[Bunnyman]

Fortunately, I only saw the last 15 minutes of Fast & The Furious.  So Vin Diesel walks out of a house, killer motorcyclists with Micro Uzis show up, car chase ensues (this was improved immensely by shouts of "use the noz, Vin!" from teh audience), and then car race for no reason whatsoever, which ends in Vin trashing his GTO for no reason.  Whatsoever.  It was beautiful.

Apparently, I missed a bit involving what must have been the same bikers forcing some mechanic to ingest a quantity of gasoline.  Which I can only assume would end poorly for said mechanic.