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jlg
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Ah, yes indeed, the references to movies on planes (they definitely have a rule about showing the worst) and Titanic.
On a trans-atlantic flight with the members of my daughter's early-adolescent female chorus, we were treated to "The Man in the Iron Mask" starring the infamous Mr. DiCaprio. To be trapped in 747 without a single empty seat and have to watch such a total lack of acting ability while listening to the swoons and sighs of a bunch of thirteen-somethings. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
[Oh, Rook, I am so happy to find someone else who didn't like the Wizard of Oz as a child!]
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Leo DiCaprio looked like a 12 year old boy in that movie (Titantic) just couldn't get past that.
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Oh, yes, films one sees on a flight! I remember one, a recent "Little Women," which I saw under those circumstances. I believe the setting was c. 1860, but, as just one example, the daughter who has a chance for her first silk dress is up in arms over the treatment of garment workers in China....
I must say that the absolutely worst film I saw during a flight was "Simply Annie Mary." Mostly misery (father very ill, a child dying, a lost business), ridiculous comedy such as Annie Mary "levitating" when she wore an inflated rubber suit to impersonate Pavarotti in a show, and it was mistakenly inflated with helium.
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Ariel
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How could I forget. I must have blotted this one from my memory. The excruciating Mr Bean. Squirm time.
Hell would consist of a hot, stuffy cinema with a fidgety six foot man right in front of me exchanging little kisses and comments with his girlfriend throughout, three children kicking my seat from behind, and a special three hour showing of Mr Bean.
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Lifeman
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One film that really must be listed as unpardonable is 'The Patriot' starring Mel Gibson.
This film is worthy of note for heavily fictionalising real events in a not dissimilar way to the infamous 'U571' :-
1) The 'British' forces in the American War of Independence were to a fair extent made up of German units - you no more see Germans in this film that you see Brits or Canadians in 'Saving Private Ryan'.
2) The British are depicted as behaving like Nazi's burning civilians alive in a barn. I don't believe that this ever happened; it is documented that the Nazi's did do this to civilians in Ruusia. Could this be because the director of this film was German.
3) The British army down the ages has generally been very efficient. I think it unlikely that Mel Gibson and his two young sons could hold off a regiment single handed.
I think it is a pity that 'The Patriot' was such a bad film because the British regime of George III was appalling in the way it determined to govern America and a well made, acurate film about how the British were kicked out would be welcomed by me as much as anyone (I enjoyed 'Braveheart' and 'Michael Collins', neither of which put England in a good light).
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Second Mouse
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Just posted on the embarrasing tears thread in Heaven, so I'm here to put myself back in a more cynical frame of mind.
Pretty much anything with Hugh Grant in. For goodness sake, man, stop being so wet and standing round looking uncomfortable. And get your fringe cut, ![[Flaming]](graemlins/angryfire.gif) Stop flicking it about. He ruined an otherwise very good Jane Austen adaptation, because just the sight of him made me start to growl. (Do mice growl? This one does.)
The Littlest Hobo, and Gentle Ben.
And another vote for the second Austin Powers film. Especially annoying because the first was so funny, so I had high expectations.
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Originally posted by Lifeman:
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(I enjoyed 'Braveheart' and 'Michael Collins', neither of which put England in a good light).
Braveheart was unspeakably ghastly. It bore so little reality to history I expected Sean Connery to turn up and tell Mel Gibson "Ye cannae die McLeod, ye are immortal".
Although the casting of Patrick McGoohan as Hannibal Lecter, er, Edward I was amusing. I kept hoping that a herald would announce:
"All rise for King Edward I"
only to be told
"I am not a number, I am a free man".
Come to think of it we should all be grateful that Mel Gibson did not address the future king of Scotland with the words "G'day Bruce".
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So Braveheart was good, was it Lifeman?
Nah!
The real story of Wallace's struggle against the English would have made a far better movie. Why they had to muck about with it, I don't know.
I've not seen 'Michael Collins' but I gather there was similar exaggeration in that ... when in fact the actual story is sufficiently dramatic and interesting in and of itself.
I'm all for Brit'-bashing movies, provided they're done with a degree of aplomb. I'm Welsh so perfidious Albion deserves a good cinematic kicking from time to time. Saying that, the liberties taken by Mel Gibson etc simply for the sake of the Yankee Dollar ... ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
We're all supposed to treat the Americans with kid gloves since 9/11. And quite right too, but I quite like to scoff at their misdemeanours rather than seeing them glamourised in 'Black Hawk Down' or whatever it was ...
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I've seen far worse films, but the discussion of Braveheart reminded me of "Lady Jane" with Helena Bonham Carter, given the common "distortion of history" element. The circumstances of Jane's life and brief reign are so distorted as to make the book verge on the farcical. Whatever factors there were in Jane's situation, no part of it was in any way a "love story." The depiction of the madly romancing couple managing all sorts of reforms (for example, "their shilling" - and, while Jane did not found schools, the thought of schools where children would be cherished being run by her father, of all people, is fantasy beyond Puck) within a matter of a week practically reduces Jane's story to camp.
It was not a poor film, but I did feel disappointed at Shadowlands. Not too bad... unless one knew much about C. S. Lewis.
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Perfect Storm was incredibly bad and I had to sit through it on a bus THREE TIMES!! Everybody died, how can they possibly know what happened?!
Braveheart was also bad for being totally inaccurate history that everybody now thinks is true.
I had the bright idea of going to see the Avengers film, absolutely awful.
Pretty much anything with small children being cute and reuniting their families/dogs/whatever is nauseating. As are those "Inspirational" life stories that get made into TV movies.
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Originally posted by Newman's Own:
I must say that the absolutely worst film I saw during a flight was "Simply Annie Mary." Mostly misery (father very ill, a child dying, a lost business)...
Yes, terrible. Should have had it on my list. The sort of British film that epitomises everything I hate about British movies. Couldn't make up its mind what it wanted to be and kept changing gear.
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Originally posted by Qestia:
Strictly Ballroom was a satiric masterpiece!
I did enjoy that film. The toothpaste grins and the fantastically big hair! Wonderful.
It was just so full of cliches. A truly inspiring tale of love, dance and Cuban heels.
I saw something about the making of the film. At one stage the girl's granny is thumping out the beat on the guy's chest. But she couldn't actually keep the rhythm. There is an assistant patting her on the bum, to keep her temp right.
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Phil Williams:
We're all supposed to treat the Americans with kid gloves since 9/11.
Oh, please. As if the US-bashing ever lets up around here.
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And quite right too, but I quite like to scoff at their misdemeanours rather than seeing them glamourised in 'Black Hawk Down' or whatever it was ...
The movie was based on a book written by a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Having read it, I can assure you that it does not glamorize the debacle in Mogadishu. Here's the New York Times review of the book (you'll have to register for the site, but it's free): NY Times review of "Black Hawk Down" (book)
I didn't see the movie, but the reviews I read said it was a straightforward, non-heroic portrayal of what happened. Here's one review: Roger Ebert's review of "Black Hawk Down" (movie)
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Thank you, Professor Yaffle. You reminded me of the unquestionably worst movie of all time - Highlander 2: The Quickening. Roger Ebert said that it was "the most hilariously incomprehensible movie ... almost awesome in its badness." It was so bad that a radically re-edited "Renegade Version" was later released in which the plot was completely changed.
By the way Merseymike, I am a sci-fi-loving, registered-Republican, US gun owner and I thought your comment was a cheap shot which was out of place, if not out of character.
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Moo
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Originally posted by jlg:
[Oh, Rook, I am so happy to find someone else who didn't like the Wizard of Oz as a child!]
I saw that movie when I was four years old, and it terrified me.
I had an idea about what was supposed to be alive and what wasn't. Seeing the Scarecrow and the Tin Man moving and talking was very frightening for me.
If I had gone with an adult I would have asked to leave. Since I was with some slightly older children I didn't say anything. I was afraid they would call me a baby.
I had nightmares for years afterward.
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Scot : should I cogratulate you for being willing to admit to it, or recommend therapy?
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Merseymike, the day I start taking your recommendations is the day I will really need therapy. If you really feel like you want to display your ignorance, please start a thread on why you feel qualified to suggest that people like me are unusually likely to be idiots. Otherwise, how about taking my original point that your political sputum seems to be unrelated to the topic at hand.
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Qestia
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Originally posted by Scots lass:
Perfect Storm was incredibly bad and I had to sit through it on a bus THREE TIMES!! Everybody died, how can they possibly know what happened?!
Absolutely! Plus we were supposed to think that guy and his girlfriend had such a deep love, when she had given him a black eye and the scenes of them together were truly hellish?
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Originally posted by Scots lass:I had the bright idea of going to see the Avengers film, absolutely awful.
As a longtime Ralph Fiennes fan, this film couldn't have been more dissappointing, even with the gratuitous bum shot.
Re: Titanic, all the running around Jack and Rose were doing, you think they might have grabbed a lifejacket for Jack. That's what true love is. Or let him up on the wood she was floating on. It looked like there was room!
I'm throwing down another gauntlet and saying how much I disliked Jerry Maguire, as well. First off, that kid was definitely ![[Puke]](graemlins/puke.gif) -inducing, secondly, Renee Zellweger and the squinty-you had me from hello just made me ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) . I didn't forgive her until Bridget Jones' Diary, which was highly amusing.
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"Strange Days" was absolutely the most unpleasant movie I have ever seen. And "The Associate" with Whoopi Goldberg was a thoroughly preachy, boring "Tootsie" ripoff. I caught about 15 minutes of "Little Nicky" with Adam Sandler, and what I saw was so bad I don't ever want to sit through the whole thing.
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Originally posted by Moo:
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Originally posted by jlg:
[Oh, Rook, I am so happy to find someone else who didn't like the Wizard of Oz as a child!]
I saw that movie when I was four years old, and it terrified me...
I had nightmares for years afterward.
For some reason WOO was shown annually when I was growing up... And my family sat through it every time. I cried every time. My mom seemed to think I was moved by it somehow... It was really because I hated it!!! (Except for the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow... Harold Arlen wrote some wonderful music!)
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Originally posted by mysticlisa:
For some reason WOO was shown annually when I was growing up...
Damn thing's still shown annually in Canada - usually around Thanksgiving (er, the Canadian one). Like the CBC doesn't give me enough reasons to read a book instead as it is. Whenever I venture to my parents place to lay seige to their kitchen at that time of year, they usually try to ruin my appetite and fend me off by tuning in tWOO.
Merseymike, I'm not a Republican (or American for that matter), don't own a gun (mentioned I wasn't American, right?), but I'm with Scot on this one. Unless you are content with the metaphysical neon sign above your avatar saying "technophobe", how about stating something more specific? Be sure to compose it carefully on that handy desktop "thinking machine" you use to access this bulletin board - because I'll really enjoy testing your comments on you for rectal fit.
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E.T - What a complete and utter crock of sh*t. Who watched that when it first came out and cried? - you sad morons get a life. All I have to say further on that is
Best/worst spoiling of a movie (which I've never seen) - My brother telling me that in "The Usual Suspects" the guy with the limp did it. Apparently he did it at a cinema line too ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Originally posted by Lifeman:
One film that really must be listed as unpardonable is 'The Patriot' starring Mel Gibson.
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2) The British are depicted as behaving like Nazi's burning civilians alive in a barn. I don't believe that this ever happened; it is documented that the Nazi's did do this to civilians in Ruusia. Could this be because the director of this film was German.
Lifeman
I believe the scene to which you refer had the British locking 'rebels' in a church and burning it down. This did not happen during the War of Independence/Revolutionary War (delete as appropriate for position on east or west of Atlantic)...
Instead, it happened in Ireland some twenty years later during the United Irishmen uprising of Wolfe Tone, where the British set fire to some Catholics in this way. Complaints about 'The Patriot' as anti-British have always seemed rather lame to me, given that fact.
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I guess then it is ok to invent lies about any nation. I suppose if a film was made about the Invasion of Grenada involving the bombing of a wedding party combined with the detention of grendian officials with no protection under the geneva convention that would be OK?
I believe that historical accuracy is quite important and in the patriot I seem to remember misses out the fact that a plantation owner would have had slaves.
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Originally posted by Nightlamp:
I guess then it is ok to invent lies about any nation. I suppose if a film was made about the Invasion of Grenada involving the bombing of a wedding party combined with the detention of grendian officials with no protection under the geneva convention that would be OK?
I believe that historical accuracy is quite important and in the patriot I seem to remember misses out the fact that a plantation owner would have had slaves.
Not having seen the movie, I don'e know whether it is a 'good film', nor did I say that it is OK to 'make up lies'. The Patriot is clearly not historically accurate and that error, along with others mentioned, mean that you shouldn't take a line on the American Revolution from it.
What I objected to was the hyped-up anger of the British press and others who took offence at the church-burning, saying 'this never happened and it's a slander upon Britain to suggest our troops would ever do such a thing'. The fact is that British troops did do such things - no doubt other countries' forces were equally as bad - and the fake horror that 'we never did this to the Americans' seems to hide the fact that 'we did do it to the Irish'. From a film and historical point of view, 'borrowing' the event from another war is dreadful - but it was still an act by British troops against 'rebels' in the same century, just a bit closer to home than the 13 colonies.
Sorry, this is a tangent, and I'll calm down now.
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Originally posted by Robert Miller:
Best/worst spoiling of a movie (which I've never seen) - My brother telling me that in "The Usual Suspects" the guy with the limp did it. Apparently he did it at a cinema line too
I nominate my spouse for the best/worst spoiling of a movie. He told a friend before she saw "Grand Canyon" that it was pretty good, but sad when everyone died at the end. So the whole movie she's steeling herself for this moment, right up till the end when all the characters are staring at the Grand Canyon and she's thinking they're about to fall in it. Which of course never happened, and they were all fine.
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RuthW
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The newest offense: in the movie of A.S. Byatt's Possession they've made Roland an American. What a bone-headed thing to do. I loved this book, and I've been looking forward to the movie. Now I don't know if I can bear to see it.
review from the industry rag (LA Times)
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i loved that book, too, but paltrow? is that the best they could do?
all jaws sequals s**k.
wizard of oz, however, rules.
"fly my pretties!"
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To take just one more shot at the Sound of Music, with relation to historical accuracy, I believe it was just slightly off the mark (at least in the theatrical version - I don't recall if the dialogue at the ball is included in the film) to assume that no Austrians supported the Third Reich.
The part of the dreadful Titanic which angered me most was that Rose, at the film's conclusion, tosses the priceless jewel into the sea! All I could think of was that her family could never have had to worry about financial security for generations for what that jewel was worth!
I also shall pan, as a whole and without reservation, any of the biblical flicks of the 1950s that featured Jesus in a minor role and never showed his face.
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I can't think of a single Bible flick that doesn't make me gag with the possible exception of The Life of Brian.
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Originally posted by Amos:
I can't think of a single Bible flick that doesn't make me gag with the possible exception of The Life of Brian.
I did love Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth." The others... well, that could be a wonderful thread in itself!
So let it be written. So let it be done! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Originally posted by Newman's Own:
I also shall pan, as a whole and without reservation, any of the biblical flicks of the 1950s that featured Jesus in a minor role and never showed his face.
What, even Ben Hur which has the coolest chariot race sequence EVER! (Even if much else in its 5 1/2 hours is pretty stodgy).
I always liked Barabbas. The condemned man who is released ("the light hurts my eyes") because Jesus died in his place. Then spends the rest of the film obsessed with but unabe to comprehend this extraordinary fact. There are also terrific gladiator fights, Sicilian salt mine sequences and more. I believe you can now pick it up on DVD.
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So good to see others who hate Disney...Being a fan of fairy tales, I particularly hated The Little Mermaid, which I only saw because I had a headache and thought all the blue in the movie would be soothing...Ariel's supposed to die, dammit!
I found U-571 bearable only for the fact that I saw it with my hubby & a friend of his (both submariners) and we spent the whole movie making fun of their various inaccuracies...
For that matter, I find nearly every sub movie worthy, with the exception of Das Boot. And I have been forced to watch a good many.
Not much to add that's new, though I did particularly hate Wild, Wild West, which was the most annoyingly racist movie I have seen in a while. Also:
The Blair Witch Project
The Mummy Returns
Austin Powers (yep, I hated the first one)
The Sound of Music...For some odd reason, my 8th-grade German teacher made us watch this. Oh wait, I recall. He liked Switzerland, and at the end of the movie, they run into Switzerland.
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Robert Armin
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Spiderman. Was glancing at my watch all the way through, wondering how much more I had to endure (at the end discovered allmy friends had been doing the same, we should have walked out en masse). Bizzare lines like: "You're taller than you look stop hunching your shoulders," when he wasn't. And the never ending, truly speeches, where Peter Parker/MaryJane goes on and on about how wonderful the other's eyes are.
Totally agree with all that's been said about Titanic. In fact, anything with Lenny the Kipper in is pretty suspect in my book.
(BTW - don't you dare suggest killing off Ariel! She's the brightest light on board the Ship! Oh, you meant someone different? ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif) My mistake.)
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Originally posted by Sabra:
Ariel's supposed to die, dammit!
I object to that.
I thought the cracks about washing powder were bad enough. Now I'm getting death threats.
Wanderer, thanks and remind me to increase your salary. And get you a user name I can type correctly first time.
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Robert Armin
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(Although it is interesting to know where Ariel got her name from. There I was thinking she'd been all classical and Shakesperian, when she'd just pinched it from Disney. Ah well, she could have chosen Baloo I suppose. Or Snow White. Simon, if I pay you enough could you make the Little Mermaid Ariel's avatar? This could be a way of making some serious money, if we could pay to chose/alter shipmates's images!)
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Ariel
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Don't you dare even think about it. You do and I'll get Simon to change yours to Noo Noo from the Teletubbies. That should look good when you post in Purgatory.
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Well, it might improve my image of academic respectability! (Certainly can't harmit . . . .)
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Schroedinger's cat
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I'm also going to nominate "Treasures of the snow". The Book is OK if a little trite ( we were reading it to the boys over the holidays ), but the film is seriously gagworthy. Little house on the praire meets Heidi meets The Sound of Music, all in soft focus.
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Pyx_e
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The Thin Red Line is the only movie I have ever got up and walked out of (and I just sat through spy kids 2 with my four boys, who loved it ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ) utter utter utter shit. Never mind gagging I just hated every poseurish, overblown, quasi artistic bullshit filled moment of it. Did I tell you it was utter shit?
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blackbird
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i love thin red line. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) can't decide if it's because of Jim C's sex appeal, or Sean Penn who looks eerily like my padre. maybe it's the (almost complete) lack of a sappy love story like the type that ruined spiderman.
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Shoehorn with Teeth
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Grease.
A bunch of "teenagers" (played by actors in their 20s and 30s) with no self control or self respect.
Oh, and the singing and dancing. That was bearable.
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Amos
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I walked out of Mad Max. Genuine gagging. Now that I think of it, I've also walked out of Pollyanna (with the toe-curlingly embarrassing Hayley Mills).
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Originally posted by Presleyterian:
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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."
I have always wanted to see this film. If only because I have heard wonderful things of the Duke's wooing technique with Miss Hayward.
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Merseymike
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The Sound of Music is wonderful.
Its not my faultall of you who don't love it are heterosexual and just don't understand
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Amos
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The Sound of Music is wonderful, but only in the Dress Up and Sing Along version. Tell me, Merseymike what did you go as? Liesl, I bet.
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blackbird
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i can't find the other movie threads, and since i'm sure some will want to riducle and gag, i'll put my post here.
i saw Possession last night. yes, enormous details are left out (where's val? the glass coffin theme? etc.), but i read the book several years ago, so i can't remember it all anyway.
and i prefer the suggestion of sexual encounter, rather than the clumsy, gratuitous movie scene, though they didn't get carried away, thankfully, but all in all, i enjoyed it. (if you don't read the book before the movie, try to at least read these poems: Maud, Christabel, and Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.)
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Schroedinger's cat
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As we're in slagging off movies mode - the New Scooby Doo movie is really quite bad.
I suspect the influence of SMG was too strong - maye she has it is her contract that she has to kick people, adnthere has to be something supernatural going on. But it wasn't Scooby. It was a cartoonised version of Buffy.
And as such, unsuitable for my kids who love the real Scooby ( and watch it avidly! ). The original ideas ( Kids find themselves somewhere. Odd happenings. Finally unmasked as the Janitor/Rival with some fun tricks ) are far better.
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Campbellite
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Mrs. Campbellite and I has the singular misfortune of seeing The English Patient in theater. The cinematography was spectacular, but the story was boring as hell.
Mrs. Campbellite absolutely LOATHES Wizard of Oz. I don't care about it one way or the other.
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Schroedinger's cat
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The English Patient is much better on Video. In short doses. Not a particularly bad film, but slower that a squashed hedgehog.
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