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    Blockbusters That Blow

    Posts: 697 Member
    edited January 21 in Chit-Chat
    Okay, this is a variation on the thread about sleeper films that were surprisingly GREAT. What is a movie you have seen that received rave reviews, awards and/or was directly recommended to you....and it was terrible???!!!

    I will start with "Walk the Line", the one about Johnny Cash. Performances were fine, as promised. But I was so bored i wanted to run out screaming.

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      Any re-re-re-remakes of a superhero movie is total bull crap.
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      Eyes Wide Shut - I wanted to stab myself in the eyes, so painful, I even told people at the movie rental place not to bother renting it because it was so bad
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      Anyone remember "Mall Rats?" Recommended to me and the woman I was seeing at the time. It's the only movie I have ever walked out on.
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      OK, this one is from a long time ago, but it's the only one I have walked out on: Tin Men. About some guys peddling aluminum siding. Painful.
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      Okay, this is a variation on the thread about sleeper films that were surprisingly GREAT. What is a movie you have seen that received rave reviews, awards and/or was directly recommended to you....and it was terrible???!!!

      I will start with "Walk the Line", the one about Johnny Cash. Performances were fine, as promised. But I was so bored i wanted to run out screaming.

      OH, I agree! We rented this stupid movie and we couldn't get past the first 20 or so minutes. DULL!
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      "The Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey. Blah!
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      Titanic. Got dragged to it by all my friends senior year of high school. Then for my freshman year of college it seemed like EVERY chick had bought it the nanosecond it was released in stores and it was all any of them wanted to watch on a movie night.

      I was forced to hang out at the guys dorm so I could watch real movies. :tongue:
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      Lost In Translation - It was lost on me, and I speak English. If it wasn't for Scarlett Johansson's underwear I would have lapsed into a coma watching that movie.

      Lol...Sofia Coppola couldn't be more overrated. Marie Antoinette was complete and utter dogsh*t.
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      Lol...Sofia Coppola couldn't be more overrated. Marie Antoinette was complete and utter dogsh*t.

      ^^this is sooo true...also hate The Virgin Suicides..blah...:grumble:
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      No Country for Old Men
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      Wow soooo many... All of the Mission impossible movies...OMG!!!!! hate them all alot of crap about nothing really!!
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      No Country for Old Men
      Blasphemer! :tongue:
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      I'm sure I'll get tarred and feathered for this, but Brokeback Mountain. It was BORING.
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      Lost In Translation - It was lost on me, and I speak English. If it wasn't for Scarlett Johansson's underwear I would have lapsed into a coma watching that movie.

      Have to agree with this exactly. I still don't know/care what the hell that movie was about

      I just watched Cloud Atlas a few weeks ago and I've never been so bored in my life
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      Avatar. It was nothing more than a remake of Dances with Wolves using aliens and spaceships.
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      Any re-re-re-remakes of a superhero movie is total bull crap.
      Actually Batman Begins was better than the Batman movie.

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      OK, this one is from a long time ago, but it's the only one I have walked out on: Tin Men. About some guys peddling aluminum siding. Painful.
      Maybe it was the door to door salesman in me, but I thought that movie was hilarious.

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      Blasphemer! :tongue:

      agree, that movie was great
    • Posts: 3,303 Member
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      Actually Batman Begins was better than the Batman movie.

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      I am just so over the superhero genre - kid can do anything with a weird voice and strange face. Yuck!
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      Avatar. It was nothing more than a remake of Dances with Wolves using aliens and spaceships.
      Agree.

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      Remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" just blows compared to the original
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      Oz: The Great and Powerful


      I expected it to be GREAT, and it was MEH


      Since I am here, will share the link to my movie lovers group!

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/5224-film-buffs
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      Anyone remember "Mall Rats?" Recommended to me and the woman I was seeing at the time. It's the only movie I have ever walked out on.

      :angry:
    • Posts: 2,131 Member
      Oz: The Great and Powerful


      I expected it to be GREAT, and it was MEH


      Since I am here, will share the link to my movie lovers group!

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/5224-film-buffs

      Don't tell me that :sad: I was so excited when I saw the previews.
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      "The Hurt Locker"

      I thought it was completely over-hyped and utterly worthless. Complete re-hash of every other "up close & personal" war movie, all jammed into the Iraq landscape. Not sure what the critics saw in it, other than the James Cameron/Kathryn Bigelow angle at Oscar time.
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