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| 11 NOV 2004 at 8:29pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By dombrewer (11 NOV 2004 8:04pm)
I've managed to selectively remove much of the memory of the film from my mind, so I can't really comment at length (*phew*, I hear you exhale..), other than large slimy glowing building, a mirror to hell, Alice Cooper dressed up as a bum and an utterly non-sensical screenplay. Frantic last fifteen minutes. Do you mean confused and rushed?
Crud or genius. Crud or genius.
I'll take the cake please.
Whooou! [smiley=zombie.gif] You made me doubt about my use of "frantic" (thanks babelfish for your precious help).
No, frantic as in intense and well-done. As for Mr Alice Cooper, he's just cool with his half-bike (okay, I admit: that's a bit nonsensical and weird).
My worst movie of 2004 is The Whole Ten Yards; not funny, boring.
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| 11 NOV 2004 at 8:36pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By dombrewer (11 NOV 2004 8:10pm)
Whooooaa! Backing up here, I just read what you wrote again.
Better than "The Thing"? Are you hallucinating?
Okay, I forgot about "The Thing"; on par with "Halloween", but better than the rest.
(saying that, I secretly think that people are surestimating "The Thing".
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| 11 NOV 2004 at 9:31pm |
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Status : Online | I seen The Thing for the first time very recently. I was -very- impressed. It had brilliant effects, and obvious paralells with Lovecraft's 'At The Mountains Of Madness'.
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| 12 NOV 2004 at 6:33am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (11 NOV 2004 3:36pm)
Dreadful films like Anaconda and Jeepers Creepers survive just because if they are on TV I'll probably watch them again.
Movies like that I don't have to watch to know they are bad. One look at the trailer (the thing that's supposed to make you want to see the movie) and I already know it's something I won't like.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 12 NOV 2004 at 2:44pm |
EternalIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Of all the films I've seen, the worst one with absolutely no redeeming features would have to be the remake of The Day of the Jackal called The Jackal.
It starred Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sydney Poitier. Although the original 1973 film had it's flaws, the remake I simply found unwatchable. The revised plot was a complete hatchet job of the original Frederick Forsyth classic.
I'm sorry, I can't continue....I'm feeling sick just thinking about it.
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| 12 NOV 2004 at 8:45pm |
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By dombrewer (10 NOV 2004 6:35pm)
Hang on a minute - now you're talking about Jurassic Park, not Lost World. The first one is totally brilliant, there's no argument about that - we were comparing MR to JP:LW .
And I liked the funky eye scanning spiders and fight in the car factory. So there. Phhhttffff
Hmmm I don't know. There is something wrong about Jurassic Park, I've just never been able to put my finger on it. I would appreciate it if someone could help me direct my finger in the right direction though.
Feel free to ignore this post.
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| 12 NOV 2004 at 8:58pm |
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Status : Online | The story.The children.The trite ending.You want more?
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| 12 NOV 2004 at 9:55pm |
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Status : Offline | I must confess I always wanted the long shot of the helicopter speeding away across the ocean to suddenly end with the helicopter exploding in a violent ball of flame. Now there's an ending that would have set tongues wagging for a few years. Shame Speilberg isn't man enough to make a truly downbeat ending.
As for the flaws... well. If you read the book first you probably wanted more of that to translate - the compys killing Attenborough's character for one (all he deserved for the appalling scots accent he employs).
It is of course a family adventure movie when it could have been a adult thriller, that's the real issue, but all the same the T-rex attack and the velociraptors are so f-ing cool in it, it hardly matters that it's a PG.
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| 14 NOV 2004 at 1:47am |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Personally I really enjoyed "Van Helsing".
Worst movie, hmmmm, theres been a few, Id have to think about it.
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| 14 NOV 2004 at 12:01pm |
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Status : Online | Jurassic Park may have its faults (I loved it, as I had the book, and Conan Doyle's the Lost World years before), but I don't see how it can seriously qualify as the worst movie ever. For this category, surely there must be more than mere dislike?
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