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There is an increasingly nauseous thread in heaven on films, songs, music etc. that make people cry.
So, to counteract all of this meaningless moistness, can we find films, songs ( Not Choruses - we have done that ) which make us gag, throw up, or just laugh in ridicule.
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Top Gun. Its the campest movie ever made. The volleyball scene cracks me up everytime.
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Maybe Baby.
I spent most of film hoping that Buffy would turn up and drive a stake through Joely Richardson and Hugh Laurie's hearts.
Bridget Jones was nearly as bad, but at least one got to see Hugh Grant thrown through a plate glass window. One takes one's compensations where one finds them.
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Films that make you ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
Well, Titanic would be near the top of my list. Don't tell the folks in Heaven, though... some of them liked it...
A film I saw recently that made me laugh (not the intention of the director, I'm sure) was Pitch Black. For those who haven't seen it, it's all about these characters who crash-land on an alien planet. Shortly after they arrive, the multiple alien suns go into eclipse for, um, the foreseeable future, and lots of horrible alien Things come out of the woodwork to eat them. In the dark. This would have been quite frightening, but the Things whistled to each other just like the Clangers (translation for non-UK folks; cuddly aliens from an old children's TV show). We couldn't take them seriously, even after they'd eaten most of the cast...
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An awful lot of the films that are conducive to projecting my lunch to all the corners of the compass have already been mentioned in Heaven.
Anything, but anything with Meryl Steep in it would be a prime candidate for vomit-making.
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"The Wedding Planner" - I was the only male in a room of females who all spontaneously burst into tears in the last, pornographically over-sentimental scenes with ladles of slimey muzak swilling around in the background and acting which made "Neighbours" look like Bergman.
The only thing I wanted to spontaneously do was bury a hatchet in the television.
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I think the movie was called 'Home Alone', and I can't recall the name of the equally forgettable precocious brat who was the star. I only saw clips, but they had me cheering for the bad guys all the way.
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Star Wars. The godawful Munchkins. The cringemaking Jar Jar Binks. The incredible discovery that Luke Skywalker is the long-lost brother of Princess Leia, and they just happen to be Darth Vader's children. Yeah, right.
I like Dickens but he is sometimes very good for pukeworthy characters - Smike, Little Nell and her grandfather, Esther from Bleak House, and so on.
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Greta - bratface was McCaulay Caulkin.
For anyone who hadn't heard of the film Home Alone, or its two, yes TWO more sequels, the premise of all three was the same: Somehow (oh, I wonder) parents manage to leave cute-as-apple-pie lil kid home alone, whilst they jet off round the world. Then burglars decide to break in. Cute-as-apple-pie lil kid promptly reveals incredibly mean, vicious, sadistic streak as he proceeds to maim, burn, bruise, staple, cut, hammer and generally physically abuse the adults. All this is wonderfully funny, because he is a cute-as-apple-pie lil kid, and they are two big horrible burglars. Eventually the police get called (after the little boy has had mucho fun, and so hurt, maimed and generally enraged the pair, that they're talking about killing him. I would do too, if I was in their position. Forget talking. The little bastard would be trussed like a turkey already.) The police take the burglars off in handcuffs, whilst they mutter impotently about returning to get him. One wonders why they don't just sue the lil bastard for actual bodily harm? Parents return, and hug lil boy, saying how desperately sorry they were to have forgotten him (so sorry it took them a few days to realise? Yeah, sure. We believe you).
In short, schmaltzy, emotional pornography with plenty of 'acceptable' physical violence And this is good for our children to watch how?
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Wonderful thread idea! I'm going to throw down the gauntlet and say how much I loathed Dead Poets' Society. The kid kills himself because he can't be in a play (or whatever dumb ass reason it was)? I say the world is better off!
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I have not seen that many (nor would I care to do so), but my vote is for any Disney adaptation of a classic tale. As one example, I love the original story of Beauty and the Beast, and thought Disney's version (which I saw on stage - the film may be worse) was ludicrous and distorted the story completely.
As a blanket vote, I dislike intensely when anyone takes a classic story and twists it in order to insert some politically correct message.
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Originally posted by Jane R:
A film I saw recently that made me laugh (not the intention of the director, I'm sure) was Pitch Black.
Yes, I found plot holes in it -- though I don't recall what they were now -- oh yes! An ecosystem which is utterly dependent on passing spacecraft with edible passengers to show up at just the right moment! Silly me! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Vin Diesel was very hot in that movie, though, which is the only thing I liked in it.
I also found the recent Godzilla and -- people will HATE me for this -- The Matrix to be movies with HUGE plot holes. I really find it annoying when a movie has a huge plot hole which could have been patched up with one line of dialogue, said line springing to mind as I watch the movie.
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Originally posted by Qestia:
Wonderful thread idea! I'm going to throw down the gauntlet and say how much I loathed Dead Poets' Society. The kid kills himself because he can't be in a play (or whatever dumb ass reason it was)? I say the world is better off!
I agree! What a load of sentimental pap. The teacher was a wannabe "eccentric" loser, and his students were intensely irritating, unbelievably naïf blowhards.
Wow, this is such a good way to release pent-up stress... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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U571 has got to be near the top of this list.
Not only was it centered on a ludicrous lie that the Americans captured a vital Enigma machine and broke the code but it was an insult to the courage and intelligence of ther Brits who in reality got an Enigma and broke the code.
As one newspaper put it, what next from Hollywood?
A feature on how the Yanks defeated Napoleon at Waterloo? A docu-film about how an American in a loin cloth liberated India from British rule? Perhaps a period drama about an American spreading the word of God set in Palestine set in AD30?.
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Originally posted by Lifeman:
U571 has got to be near the top of this list.
Not only was it centered on a ludicrous lie that the Americans captured a vital Enigma machine and broke the code but it was an insult to the courage and intelligence of ther Brits who in reality got an Enigma and broke the code.
As one newspaper put it, what next from Hollywood?
A feature on how the Yanks defeated Napoleon at Waterloo? A docu-film about how an American in a loin cloth liberated India from British rule? Perhaps a period drama about an American spreading the word of God set in Palestine set in AD30?.
Lifeman,
Do you lose sleep over the fact that the Americans won the War of Independence?
I thought U-571 was pretty stupid, but if you watched the film, it had text at the end which recounted the sequence of historical events, and made it quite clear that the British caught the first Enigma machince (Americans caught some later on.) The film was even codedicated to the American and British forces responsible!
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Starship Troopers, Armageddon
and everything that just remotely resembles Pretty Woman
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RuthW
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Look, we all know that Jesus was an American, spoke English with an American accent, and was wrapped in the American flag when he died. Deal with it, Lifeman.
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Do you think we could maybe start a whole thread for people who thought Dead Poets Society was utter crap? It can be a lonely world out there.
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RuthW
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Sorry, forgot to gag.
Nica's post jogs my memory - anything with Julia Roberts in it automatically activates my gag reflex. And Keanu Reeves should have stopped after the Bill and Ted movies. I recently saw Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado about Nothing" again, and was reminded of my original opinion - Keanu Reeves should be seen and not heard.
Gag-making children's book: The Velveteen Rabbit.
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Originally posted by Professor Yaffle:
Maybe Baby.
Idle tangent and nothing at all to do with the gag-ness of the film...
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my sister was in it. Her first major acting role outside of student films and a marmite ad.
She's the large masseuse who gets to stand on Hugh Laurie and tell him to relax.
Look out for her soon on the new Basil Brush show playing a school bully.
Kirsti, famous by association
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Anything involving Jim Carey, I couldn't believe how awful Dumb & dumber was. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Many winners of "Best Picture" Oscar, especially:
Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
Forrest Gump
Dances with Wolves
Driving Miss Daisy
Rain Man
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[tangent]
Speaking of being in films....
My wife's cousin is a B-list Hollywood producer. One of his less-memorable efforts, a sci-fi made-for-television series entitled "V", was watched avidly by the entire family, including my mother-in-law, who failed to understand it. Charlie also cast his wife in the production--as one of the heroes. So at the end of the last episode, when all the good guys die saving the world from invasion, my mother-in-law observed, "My goodness, that spider-thing just ate Diane! Do you think that's why it died?
What could we say? It's not often you see aliens consuming your relatives on TV.
On a more uplifting note, so to speak, another of my wife's cousins writes screenplays, collaborated on The Runaway Bride, and is on a first-name basis with Julia Roberts. Memo to self: must cultivate this relationship assiduously. I haven't seen the film because it's on my retch and pitch list, but would love to meet JR.
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"Driving Miss Daisy" and "Rain Man" are brilliant!
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Can I also add ET. I upset some friends at college by saying I thought he looked like a bug, and should be squashed.
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But the winner of Worst Film Ever must be "First Knight", remember, with Richard Gere as Lancelot? I never wanted to see it but was hauled to the theater on 3 separate occasions to do so by 3 separate groups of friends. Actually I guess anything with Richard Gere would do. What was that movie with Winona Ryder as a dying teenager in love with that old fart. She turns out to be the perfect woman for him because she dies! Just like Julia R. was the perfect woman in Pretty Woman because she was paid to do whatever he wanted! Who comes up with this mysogynistic crap?
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I've already outed myself as a soggy sentimentalist on the thread in Heaven, but here's a Hellish opinion.
Though the film "Mimic" was total crap and artistically pretentious. All the dark scenes, very heavy-handed. Saw it in the theater and wanted to scream "alright, we GET it already!" Would have walked out after the first 20 minutes except I was with my sister who wanted to see it, figured she was enjoying it...and she stayed because she thought I was. Idiotic movie.
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Make that "Thought" (preview is your friend).
Bonfire of the Vanities - one of the most miscast films ever, which reminds me of Costner as Robin Hood...
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Originally posted by Lifeman:
U571 has got to be near the top of this list.
Not only was it centered on a ludicrous lie that the Americans captured a vital Enigma machine and broke the code but it was an insult to the courage and intelligence of ther Brits who in reality got an Enigma and broke the code.
As one newspaper put it, what next from Hollywood?
A feature on how the Yanks defeated Napoleon at Waterloo? A docu-film about how an American in a loin cloth liberated India from British rule? Perhaps a period drama about an American spreading the word of God set in Palestine set in AD30?.
Dang skippy! And you got your colors for the flag from US Americans, Lifeman. Red White and Blue. Heheheheheheheh ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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I walked out of Waterworld after 30 minutes and made them give me my money back. I did this even though I was travelling at the time and had nothing better to do except go back to the hotel.
What About Bob has the same effect on me as fingernails on chalkboards have on most people.
And I completely agree with Newman's Own regarding the vile practice of corrupting someone else's story by inserting your own message.
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MerseyMike - I agree Top gun was very camp...
That song 'playing with the boys'.... says it all really...
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I forgot to mention that the movie
Biggles more than makes us even for any transgressions..and ditto to what Ruthy said..GET OVER IT.
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Whooo-hooo!!!
Who mentioned 'Dead Poets' Society'???
And there was I thinking that I was the one, the only one who hated it! Well, aside from my twin brother too that is ...
Apart from being cringe-worthily naff it had the dubious distinction of being endorsed by the pastor of the church I was in at the time. He thought it was great and everybody followed like lemmings shouting 'Carpe Diem!' and missing out on the irony that anyone with the merest hint of non-conformity in our particular set-up would have ended up dead like the kid in the film.
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Mind you ... this pastor also used to take sermon illustrations from ... wait for it ... 'Karate Kid II' and even ... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) ... you'll never guess ... RAMBO movies!!!!
His wife was the only dissident brave enough to tell him they were crap.
![[Puke]](graemlins/puke.gif) pukity-puke ...
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Great thread! I agree with many of the films mentioned (haven't seen the others), and remember well when I went to see Dead Poets Society because I'd been assured it was wonderful and intelligent. (It, of course, was neither.)
I don't remember how it was that I saw the ultra-horrid Dumb and Dumber. It was the only time I remember having to walk out of a film because I needed to vomit (from some of the toilet jokes... that entire film was toilet jokes.)
I like Dickens, but some film and theatrical adaptations of his work are terrible. Does anyone remember the musical Scrooge? Oddly enough, I found much of it enjoyable, if highly romanticised and inaccurate (it could leave one believing that the way to have a dream Christmas was to be poor in the London of that day... the social message is gone!), but the ending was completely ridiculous. The entire sequence where Scrooge sees his future in hell, in no way adapted from the original, is trying and silly. As well, though admittedly seeing the marvellous Victorian toys is a treat, Scrooge's becoming "Father Christmas" in the end, and buying out a toy shop to indulge in ostentatious giving, seems far too shocked with consumerism to have any genuine message. Rather than being a newly benevolent soul who cares for the Cratchitt family, Scrooge is reduced to an impulsive spendthrift. Somehow, this seems as callous as Scrooge's original character - he is still blind to the reality of the poverty surrounding him, and thinks it will be alleviated by a day of extravagant presents!
I absolutely loathe "The Sound of Music"! One progresses from the company of nuns who are cartoon characters, to the spunky governess who transforms kids and captain just with a few cheery songs, to a picturesque escape over a non-existent mountain. During the tense, climactic scene when the Von Trapps are hiding from the Nazis, little Gretl (in an unintentionally funny line) captures the story's theme, as she asks Maria, "Do you think it would help if we sang 'Our Favourite Things?'" One nearly expects Maria to say that it would!
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Ruth W,
I did'nt realise that Jesus actually spoke English but with American accent. This could explain that outrageous scene in 'The Greatest Story ever told' where John Wayne (as a Roman Centurian) says in a deep voice on the day of the Crucifiction 'He waaas truuuuly the soooon of gaaaawdddd'.
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Lifeman,
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Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
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Mathew 27:54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
Why do you find these sections of the Passion narratives so -worthy? Or is it just the fact that they had the audacity to have someone speak with an American accent?
Would you have preferred Latin and Aramaic throughout, with authentic pronunciations?
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Oh, NO! Then you didn't go to "Sing Along Sound of Music" when it appeared at a theatre near you? And you with a trained voice and a background in costume design (as I recall)! It was the last thing I saw before I left the US, and I laughed myself sick. You bring your own flashlight for the scene in towards the end when the Nazis are searching for them in the convent. There is a costume competition in the interval--lots of girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, and a few pretty girls dressed up as brown paper packages tied up with strings (not string).
Disney cartoon movies make me gag. They also make me furious at the sheer shameless manipulation involved--and at the general degeneration in the art of the animated cartoon since I was a kid.
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I wound up going to see "Me, Myself and Irene" with a friend, just went to be sociable...ugh, big mistake.
I have rapidly decreasing patience with comics who think the more vulgar, the funnier. Whatever happened to wit???
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Though I too have been outed in Heaven as a sentimental sap, even I have my limits!
If you value your sanity, don't ever pick up a Danielle Steele "novel" (it wasn't my fault! I had to read it against my will!). And the less said about "Touched by an Angel" the better.
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Kudos to Newman's Own for noting that the Governess Has No Clothes (except the ones she stitched up for those loathsome children from old curtains). When I was a kid in Catholic school, the nuns treated us once a year to a movie, whenever possible of the morally uplifting variety. Usually it was a sword 'n' sandal epic with Susan Hayward and Victor Mature (his breasts were bigger). Once it was the delightful "Lilies of the Field." But three years running they took us to see that lousy stinkin' "The Sound of Music."
OK, the escape-via-talent-show subplot seemed a bit far-fetched, but the really unbelieveable part was that any red-blooded Austrian male worth his lederhosen would prefer that dishrag Maria to the witty, urbane, and sophisticated (not to mention perfectly gowned and coiffed) Baron-ESS (accent on the last syllable).
But Amos is quite right that the sing-along version redeems it. All the fun of a Rocky Horror midnight movie circa 1978 without the risk of flying frankfurters.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jesuitical Lad:
Lifeman,
Why do you find these sections of the Passion narratives so -worthy? Or is it just the fact that they had the audacity to have someone speak with an American accent?
Would you have preferred Latin and Aramaic throughout, with authentic pronunciations?
Geez, LatinMan,
It's ALL in the presentation. That scene has always made me laugh. John Wayne!?!?!? The Duke?
Somewhere in a this thread there's the term "miscast." It certainly applies here.
As long as we're on biblical epics, I nominate The Robe for it's quintessential 1950's-ness.
Lou
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Originally posted by Lou Poulain:
Geez, LatinMan,
Lou
Sorry...I meant Jesuitical Lad.
[Geez Lou, remember to preview post]
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Lou,
Oh, ok. Well, my anti-American-detectors were probably in overdrive there, so maybe I did miss the obvious. Apologies to Lifeman.
Assuming that was what he meant.
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I found Jack and Sarah nauseating too - the one with Richard E. Grant as the man who is made a widower just after his wife gives birth. But my family insist it was deeply moving... what does one do?
Other than, of course,
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John Wayne as a Roman centurion is a helluva lot more believable that John Wayne as Genghis Khan, the role he played in "The Conqueror." His best line upon gazing at the opposing tribe's princess played by Susan Hayward (again with the Susan Hayward!): "I see the Tartar woman and my blood says take her." Also in this botcherama were Agnes Moorehead, sadly better known as mother-in-law Endora on "Bewitched" than for "The Magnificent Ambersons"; Lee Van Cleef, he of spaghetti western fame; and William "Jake and the Fatman" Conrad.
But unlike "Dead Poets," it's a don't miss.
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duchess
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I actually love the Sound of Music. I guess because I have some good memories of seeing it...and I love the dippy singing. Too bad
Julie Andrews's doctor botched the job removing some benign tumors from her vocal codes...her beautiful singing voice is gone.
The dashing Caption...swoon. They just don't make them like that anymore (not that they ever did anyway).
The nun singing "Climb Every Mountain" is great.
All in all, it did p-o the original Vandertrapp family...but that was to be expected.
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Ian Climacus
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I've wept in Heaven. Now to gag in Hell.
I can't even remember the name...Shipwrecked?...the Tom Hanks movie where he fell in a love with a volleyball! A friend actually painted that atrocious "Mr Hand" [or whatever it is called] on a volleyball: I want to whenever I see it.
AI: I was bored after 1 hour, 1.5 hours, 2 hours, etc. Did it ever end? And that bloody robot-boy not rusting at the bottom of the ocean and the 'blue angel' or whatever "saving" him. Save me!
U571 pissed me off to. Adding 'Oh, by the way, the Brits were first' at the end did nothing for me. Though I liked the fact I could practise my German at the beginning.
Ian,
who - dare he says it - loves "The Sound of Music"
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Xavierite
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CASTAWAY!
Yep, that was rubbish. I was - in a rather unChristian manner, it has to be said - hoping he'd go mad and kill himself. The ball was a more sympathetic character than Hanks.
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Nunc Dimittis
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Who was it that said Dickens?
There are not enough puke smilies to describe my antipathy of Oliver and other Dickens Classics...
Add Annie to the list too: "I luv ya, termorra, I luv ya termorra, ye'r onlie a daye a waye."
(The Library teacher at my primary school made us watch these films about 50 million times. NEVER AGAIN !!!)
When it comes down to it, MOST films are crap, cringeworthy or otherwise. Why do we still subject ourselves to sitting in the dark with a large screen in front of us for two hours?
... With once exception (possibly three).
LOTR.
(What more need be said? )
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I have a personal hatred for the movie "Wizard of Oz". Being forced to watch that movie over-and-freakin'-over throughout my childhood caused something to snap. It's just one big irritant now. Even the mockery that Robin Williams used in "Good Morning Vietnam" made me grit my teeth - as I was laughing.
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Though the film "Mimic" was total crap and artistically pretentious.
Didn't even see this movie. I liked the THREE PAGE short story by Don Wallheim so much that I couldn't stand to see what they would do to it to make it into a feature-length movie.
The penultimate spleen-splitter definitely has to go to "Mission To Mars". I'm not sure if that piece of crap managed to miss any realm of hard science to fuck up. There's a more accurate representation of physics in Road Runner cartoons. My eight-year-old nephew with attention-defecit syndrome has a better understanding of genetics. Bishop Samuel Wilberforce could have presented a better understanding of the theory of evolution.
Dammit. Now I need to wipe the spittle off my screen...
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