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Post by carrie on Jan 31, 2007 18:06:33 GMT 1
a sister thread to crap bands.
last night we watched 'the exorcism of emily rose'. after the first ten minutes i accurately predicted the end and various sub-plots that would be developed. and i'm rubbish at that sort of thing.
then we watched some of 'alexander', fucking terrible (in fairness we were expecting something laughably bad). the greeks had suspiciously irish accents, i don't think we made it through the first of the three hours.
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Post by caroline on Jan 31, 2007 19:44:53 GMT 1
I would like to nominate 'The Fantastic Four' and 'The Village'. I want those four hours of my life back!
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Post by stuhuggett on Jan 31, 2007 20:00:43 GMT 1
I maintain mighty Margi Clarke's boxing film Blonde Fist is a stinker, but at least I wasn't expecting much. For films that have a good reputation, but I reckon are lower than dog-dirt, I nominate Se7en and Naked as two of the most pointless, mean-spirited, not-half-as-clever-as-they-think-they-are wastes of celluloid.
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Post by petra on Jan 31, 2007 22:20:58 GMT 1
I disagree on Naked. se7en is a true stinkah though.
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Post by carrie on Jan 31, 2007 23:11:17 GMT 1
i may be alone in liking meet joe black, everyone i've spoken to thinks it's utter dirge.
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Post by petra on Feb 1, 2007 8:09:34 GMT 1
no, i sort of liked it. grudgingly.
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Post by the colonial on Feb 1, 2007 18:32:54 GMT 1
I love the head in a box scene in Seven, funniest thing i have ever seen!
Thewlis in Naked is incredible, it is depressing though. Shit am i almost agreeing with Petra, off to kill myself then!
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Post by petra on Feb 1, 2007 18:35:36 GMT 1
suicide jokes are just the best.
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Post by petra on Feb 1, 2007 18:40:19 GMT 1
I know what Stuey means about Naked being deliberately soul destroying, and it is a problem I have with lots of other art that is joyless. Nil by mouth or The Heart is deceitful above all things are examples of art that is just so completely devoid of hope or life that I'm incapable of understanding or believing it (correctly, as it turns out in the case of THIDAAT). But I do think it's my problem - there isn't any kind of onus on art to be hopeful or promote a view of life that tends towards optimism... Naked though I just read a different way, I'm more interested in the power relationships between the characters than any of the apocalyptic stuff. And the power relationbships are subtle and in their own way loving.
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 3, 2007 23:53:42 GMT 1
Has anyone, apart from me (once on Channel 4, I think), ever seen Side By Side (dir. Bruce Beresford, 1975)? The tale of two rival clubs, starring an ailing Terry-Thomas and an aimless Barry Humphries, with guest musical appearances by Desmond Dekker, Mud, The Rubettes, etc? I'm not making any 'lost classic' claims, it really is shit, but retrospectively-curious shit!
As the Time Out Film Guide notes, the director went on to make Driving Miss Daisy..!
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 3, 2007 23:55:29 GMT 1
Um, that last post just brought up a Google Ad for dvds of Third Reich films! Oh dear...
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Post by caroline on Feb 9, 2007 12:40:32 GMT 1
Children of Men. Not a crap film actually, a pretty good film, although it ended quite abruptly, leaving Michael and I blinking at each other in a "Was that it?" sort of way. My niggle with it was, for a film part set in Bexhill (albeit a near future somewhat post-apocalyptic Bexhill - not that different from now, some might argue...  ) they didn't appear to have gone anywhere near it! Can't say too much for fear of spoiling it for those that want to see the film, but there's several points at which you think that they would need to show certain landmarks/streets, but nope. Don't know why they didn't just change the location to a fictional one- by all accounts they played fast and loose with the rest of the book (eg male infertility in the book became female infertility in the film). /rant |
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Post by alfie on Feb 9, 2007 13:32:12 GMT 1
the devil wears prada. Was very disappointed.
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Post by carrie on Feb 9, 2007 18:27:49 GMT 1
had the misfortune of waking up a few times during 'hitchhikers guide to the galaxy'
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 9, 2007 22:22:15 GMT 1
Related to Caroline's 'Children Of Men' quibble:
The book 'Educating Peter' (Bantam Press, 2003) by Tom Cox - in which said music-critic takes a teenage lad out and about in the UK to educate him on popular music - features one chapter, 'Mr Ed', allegedly set in Hastings.
It's surely not, though. Eastbourne, at a push, but not Hastings.
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Post by the colonial on Feb 10, 2007 16:39:31 GMT 1
The new Pink Panther film with Steve Martin. Shopgirl was bad enough being virtually unwatchable, and a complete vanity project, but I lasted 2 minutes with PP.
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Post by caroline on Feb 25, 2007 2:45:12 GMT 1
Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette'. It's...um...not very good. (Although the soundtrack's pretty decent...) Michael's more articulately angry about this film, so I'll leave it to him to elaborate, but suffice it to say: "Vive La Revolution!"  |
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 27, 2007 13:20:40 GMT 1
I saw 'Children Of Men' over the weekend: though it's clearly not filmed in Bexhill (I think those buildings would turn out to be pre-existing film sets, quite probably on the old aerodrome site near Hatfield), the flatlands they drive through that are meant to be around Rye (though they're not) are close enough... I guess using the name of an actual South Coast town, rather than a fictitious one, is meant to add enough realism without it actually mattering that the film's climax is made on studio property.
Good to hear Jarvis and The Kills on the soundtrack though.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 5, 2007 18:48:32 GMT 1
Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette'. It's...um...not very good. I watched this yesterday as part of my film club - thought it was great. Caroline - what didn't you like? I do wish there had been more dialogue between husband and wife - those bits were the best. Loved Children of Men. Although did not find the ending as up beat as Stu did. Started watching I, Robot last night. Refused to watch Cold Mountain - only read the book but that was enough to make me puke. I, Robot - really really bad - is it a comedy? Watched the documentary about the baby born with two heads, then When Harry met Sally (again) which was much better. |
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Post by caroline on Mar 5, 2007 19:56:01 GMT 1
Ah well, horses for courses. It just struck me as a prolonged musical trip throught Sofia Coppola's adolescence (not necessarily a bad thing), coupled with...well...not a lot else, really.
The fact that she was only a young 'un when she married, and felt unfulfilled in her marriage was laid on a bit thick, and the more interesting aspects of her life were glossed over, or not covered at all.
It just seemed a bit shallow... although maybe that was the point?
Kirsten Dunst v. cute though. And there were puuuuugs!
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 6, 2007 13:19:14 GMT 1
The ending of Children Of Men is upbeat! The boat that rescues them is painted in bright colours and is called Tomorrow. That's, like, symbolic!
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Post by petra on Mar 6, 2007 17:42:47 GMT 1
SPOILER MUCH
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 7, 2007 11:18:19 GMT 1
Not too much! Sorry.
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Post by alfie on Mar 12, 2007 15:52:53 GMT 1
after watching THE OMEN part 1 and 2 i thought part 3 was crap, total crap.
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Post by axis on Mar 12, 2007 17:25:38 GMT 1
yeah, Children of men pretty shit. As is The Black Dahlia. but none of the films mentioned yet sink to the depths of crap that is Behind Enemy Lines 2. it's worth waching just to see how crap a film can get.
(Kirsten Dunst is a bit of a pig face, not cute at all)
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 13, 2007 22:47:19 GMT 1
Hey, good to see you again, but what the hell is Behind Enemy Lines Pt 2?!
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Post by axis on Mar 14, 2007 12:08:41 GMT 1
Er keep up Stu, thread about CRAP FILMS? haha, yeah sorry i havnt been in touch. I went to Barcelona. im back in the land of eng now.
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Post by stuhuggett on Feb 22, 2009 23:29:31 GMT 1
So, Mike Myers' The Love Guru swept the board at The Golden Rasberries this weekend...
Comments, Nick?
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Post by nick on Feb 23, 2009 4:42:53 GMT 1
I did a day on B Unit and it seemed crap. Heard many horror stories about Mike Myers and his out of control ego/insecurity.
On another note - avoid "Smart People", directed by the nastiest director I have even met Noam Murro. If he walked in front of my van I would run him down. Also the film is rubbish.
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 2, 2009 15:35:05 GMT 1
Can any film with the comic talents of both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rhys Darby in be as totally crap as The Boat That Rocked is looking?
Be interested if anyone goes to see this.
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) they didn't appear to have gone anywhere near it!