Movies You Feel Bad About Not Liking?

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LostInTheMist

Okay, not literally "feel bad", but more like, "don't understand why you don't like a given movie".

So, we have all had big build ups to occasional movies, which have then fallen far short of our expectations. Or there's a classic movie out there that we just don't like. We want to like the movie. We feel like we SHOULD like the movie, but we just don't.

For example, I am a Science Fiction nut. I love all things science fiction, from space opera, to science fantasy, to hard science fiction. Everything. Except "Blade Runner". I don't know why. I feel like I should like it. It's Science Fiction. It's Harrison Ford. It's got an interesting plot, some fun ideas, and it's an ABSOLUTE CLASSIC. And yet... I don't like it. I've watched it twice, and not enjoyed it either time. Tried again a few days ago, and turned it off halfway through. I don't know why I don't like it. Anyway, my Mom and Uncle are both Science Fiction nuts like myself (my Mom has published a trilogy of science fiction BOOKS) and they don't get it either.
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Are you watching the Original Cut or the Director's cut that Ridley himself endorses. They're pretty radically different.

Still, go read the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, it's what Blade Runner is based on.

EDIT: The Godfather.

Seriously, it's exactly like the Family Guy clip with me.
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The Big Lebowski.

I didn't really find much of any amusement in it.
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I had one when I clicked on the thread and then I completely forgot what it is.

I'm kind of weird, though, and dislike a lot of things for very stupid reasons or for no reason at all. And you know I can think of at least three mainstream video games that fit that bill for me.

Oh, here's one. Almost every movie Tim Burton ever made.

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Silver Linings Playbook. Because I all but detest the two lead actors...
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Ah, I've never been a fan of Tim Burton either.
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I liked Nightmare Before Christmas for various reasons and the first Batman because I love Michael Keaton. But everything after, pretty much.

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I've been a Tim Burton fan... until I realized that he keeps repeating himself. That it was not a conscious choice from him to make his Batman movies gothic - that, instead, he makes *everything* gothic and he might have trouble moving out of that style.

I mean, he was supposed to make a Superman movie once... and his ideas included putting Superman into Edward Scissorhand-like costume. Because gothic Superman is *exactly* what the fans want to see...  ::)

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Quote from: Beorning on January 21, 2015, 04:59:33 PM
I've been a Tim Burton fan... until I realized that he keeps repeating himself. That it was not a conscious choice from him to make his Batman movies gothic - that, instead, he makes *everything* gothic and he might have trouble moving out of that style.

I mean, he was supposed to make a Superman movie once... and his ideas included putting Superman into Edward Scissorhand-like costume. Because gothic Superman is *exactly* what the fans want to see...  ::)

Heh maybe he is thinking "If they didn't want me to make it gothic why would they be hiring me?"  ;D

Nachtmahr

The biggest one for me that people tend to be upset about is probably 'Avatar'. Much like with that Family Guy clip above about the Godfather I just never cared about it. It feels like a weird, environmentalist 3D fad to me, and I find everything about it, including a large portion of it's fans, to be incredibly pretentious and preachy.

I've not even seen it, I've seen assortments, read reviews, had people insist on telling me why it's just not okay to not care about it, and yet I literally just don't give a damn. There's nothing about it that's new or original in my opinion, and it really just.. Oozes Disney.

I guess my point is that it feels more like a tech-demo than a movie to me.
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It's not just your opinion that there's nothing new about it. The plot is very similar to several other things, including a Smurfs episode and the movie Fern Gulley, which also had a similar plot, what with them shrinking the guy that was on the crew that was gonna bulldoze the forest so he could bomb around with the fairy and...see nature or whatever and come to learn its beauty.

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Well, even the alien (or whatever) designs were just painfully Hollywood.. And by that I mean 'safe' and boring.
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I've already vented my spleen about Avatar in the Bad & Ugly. The fact that it is the highest-grossing film currently causes me now small amount of irritation.
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Quote from: Nachtmahr on January 21, 2015, 05:30:05 PM
The biggest one for me that people tend to be upset about is probably 'Avatar'. Much like with that Family Guy clip above about the Godfather I just never cared about it. It feels like a weird, environmentalist 3D fad to me, and I find everything about it, including a large portion of it's fans, to be incredibly pretentious and preachy.

I've not even seen it, I've seen assortments, read reviews, had people insist on telling me why it's just not okay to not care about it, and yet I literally just don't give a damn. There's nothing about it that's new or original in my opinion, and it really just.. Oozes Disney.

Have you seen the image where someone describes the plot of Disney's Pocahontas and then substitutes a few words to end up with Avatar?

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True Grit. There was all that fuss about it and when I finally saw it, I was underwhelmed. It seemed like they were driving at some larger theme but never got around to actually addressing it. I'm not saying they had to have a character preach about something, but it seemed like they were aiming at something thought provoking and failed to do it. I'm not complaining that it lacked depth but rather that it felt like they were aiming for depth but never got deeper than a foot so to speak. That and it felt like a shorter movie than it was and an anti-climax. I wanted to like it more than I did because the characters had a chance to be more compelling than they were but it seemed as if the creators couldn't bring themselves to add it. There weren't even any eye dazzling gun fights or interesting plot twists. It just seemed that the film was way overhyped. It wasn't bad, but it simply disappointed me.

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Quote from: Oniya on January 21, 2015, 06:50:08 PM
Have you seen the image where someone describes the plot of Disney's Pocahontas and then substitutes a few words to end up with Avatar?

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I'd heard about people comparing the two, and then other other people getting unreasonably upset for no apparent reason about it. x3
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Amazing Spider-Man.

I tried to like it, but it felt it lacked something. Some of the actors looked as if they wanted to be anywhere else but in the movie. The plot was disconnected. I enjoyed Sam Raimi's Spider-man. It was a good attempt, and had that comic book feel to it when it came to the action sequences, plus Bruce Campbell  O:) and J.K. Simmons was awesome as J. Jonah Jameson.

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I think I would like Webb's Spidey films better too if it had J.K. Simmons in it as well :D



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Quote from: Lux12 on January 22, 2015, 01:08:57 PM
True Grit. There was all that fuss about it and when I finally saw it, I was underwhelmed. It seemed like they were driving at some larger theme but never got around to actually addressing it. I'm not saying they had to have a character preach about something, but it seemed like they were aiming at something thought provoking and failed to do it. I'm not complaining that it lacked depth but rather that it felt like they were aiming for depth but never got deeper than a foot so to speak. That and it felt like a shorter movie than it was and an anti-climax. I wanted to like it more than I did because the characters had a chance to be more compelling than they were but it seemed as if the creators couldn't bring themselves to add it. There weren't even any eye dazzling gun fights or interesting plot twists. It just seemed that the film was way overhyped. It wasn't bad, but it simply disappointed me.
John Wayne version or Jeff Bridges version?

The Bridges version really plays up the naturalist movement the original story was written in, which leads itself to some really wrenching anti-climaxes.
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Quote from: Inkidu on January 25, 2015, 08:16:58 PM
John Wayne version or Jeff Bridges version?

The Bridges version really plays up the naturalist movement the original story was written in, which leads itself to some really wrenching anti-climaxes.
I saw the Bridges version.

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For me its both Kill Bills and Inglorious Basterds.

To me Kill Bill felt like watching someone play Tekken for 2 hours. I just found it so terribly boring even though I probably should have liked it for all the quotes and blood.

And Inglorious Basterds... Well... Christoph Waltz was amazing in that one.
But I have a little problem with the movie and thats the propaganda-factor. Theres this movie in the movie, a black and white, german propaganda-flick, where a lonely german sharpshooter kills dozens of american soldiers. That movie has been labeled propaganda. Evil.
But wait... What is Inglorious Basterds about? A group of lonely american soldiers killing dozens of Nazis. Dont get me wrong, I have no problem with Nazis being the villains like they were in the Indiana Jones-movies, but here I have the feeling, Tarantino expects me to jump from my seat shouting HELL YEAH!, when Brad Pitt gives his "Every one of you owes me 10 Nazi-Skulls"-speech or when the bear-jew bashes that Nazis head with his baseball bat.
And for me thats not any better than that Nazi-propaganda movie.

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Quote from: Uebelator on February 04, 2015, 07:16:12 AM
For me its both Kill Bills and Inglorious Basterds.

To me Kill Bill felt like watching someone play Tekken for 2 hours. I just found it so terribly boring even though I probably should have liked it for all the quotes and blood.

And Inglorious Basterds... Well... Christoph Waltz was amazing in that one.
But I have a little problem with the movie and thats the propaganda-factor. Theres this movie in the movie, a black and white, german propaganda-flick, where a lonely german sharpshooter kills dozens of american soldiers. That movie has been labeled propaganda. Evil.
But wait... What is Inglorious Basterds about? A group of lonely american soldiers killing dozens of Nazis. Dont get me wrong, I have no problem with Nazis being the villains like they were in the Indiana Jones-movies, but here I have the feeling, Tarantino expects me to jump from my seat shouting HELL YEAH!, when Brad Pitt gives his "Every one of you owes me 10 Nazi-Skulls"-speech or when the bear-jew bashes that Nazis head with his baseball bat.
And for me thats not any better than that Nazi-propaganda movie.
Nazis are evil though, so it's cool? :\

It's literally a movie where no one can complain about the Nazi killing though.

I see what you mean. :\
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For me, it's some of the horror classics.

For once, I've long heard how The Exorcist is one of the finest horror movies out there. Finally, I've watched it two years ago... and it really disappointed me. I actually found that movie boring...

Also, Suspiria. Again, a movie that often comes up when discussing good horror films. Some people consider it one of the scariest movies of all time. I've seen it and... I really didn't find it that scary. It's atmospheric, it has nice cinematography, but still... I really don't get why it's considered so good.

The latest example is the famous Black Sunday from 1960. Again, I've read that it's a fantastic movie etc. Recently, I had an opportunity to see it. And for me, it was a snorefest. I don't get the appeal at all...

Thesunmaid

Any of the new bat man movies. I love christian bale...but...he is just not bat man to me. Heath ledger at the joker was pretty amazing so that saved that one movie for me...but the rest of it...the plot seems like it took a half hour to write over chicken wings and a bong. Everyone goes on and on about it but to me...honestly I was like...uhh...yay...for batman..But yeah. Just could not get into it..Also...the voice...its like he gargled with thumbtacks and half the time you have to sort of concentrate to be able to make out what he said.

I told someone this and they sent me this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2yv8aT0UFc

I was like yes! that's exactly what i am fucking well talking about...why does he sound like he is trying to cough something up when he talks? And also he crashes the bat bike...I mean...is this his first time driving one? Bale in that movie made bat man seem like he was just some guy cosplaying and had rich parents to buy him shit which he proceeded to crash. 

Some people get mad at me for it but he seemed inept and totally new to the whole being a super hero thing. Also...Anne Hathaway as catwoman...just...no...Eartha Kitt had that sort of natural purr to her voice....Michelle Pfeiffer pulled off the leather and the attitude...Hell even Haley Berry was kind of awesome if you completly ignored the comic books and just enjoyed Haley Berry in leather running around kicking ass...but I see Anne Hatheway and i think...shes the cute dork...not the bitchy dominant cat in leather...I don't hate her as an actress..Just not as cat woman.

Also pretty much any movie that thinks taking off a girls glasses makes her instantly hot. Like with the glasses there is no way a woman can be a sex kitten. Hello?! The sexy librarian...hell the baroness...she made glasses and leather look hot together. I would like to think I can pull off the hot bitch with or with out my glasses lol. But I have been told there is something about a woman looking at you with lust in her eyes staring at you over your glasses.(maybe this is just me?)
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I don't ever feel like I have to like a movie just because it's well regarded, so I don't really feel any obligation to like or even appreciate it. I've tried maybe 4 times to watch Blade Runner, and I haven't even been able to finish it.

There are movies I wanted to like but didn't. Do those count? Because Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Prometheus fit that criteria.

Lux12

Quote from: Beorning on February 04, 2015, 01:21:01 PM
For me, it's some of the horror classics.

For once, I've long heard how The Exorcist is one of the finest horror movies out there. Finally, I've watched it two years ago... and it really disappointed me. I actually found that movie boring...

As odd as it sounds, The Exorcist came off as more of a comedy with serious moments to me. I don't know what it was, but it made me laugh more than anything.

Then there's The Ring for me when it comes to horror. I watched and felt severely underwhelmed. People spoke of it as if it were this terrifying masterpiece and when I saw it, it felt like I was watching simplistic ghost flick with little in the way of truly frightening content. When I looked into the source material, it seemed like something I should have liked, but the way they handled just didn't do much. To be honest, it was more unnerving to me as a trailer and it felt like I should have been more terrified, but it wasn't the shocking fear fest I had hoped for. People made it out to be so disturbing and I simply couldn't be as terrified as I had hoped.

Beorning

Out of curiosity: have you seen the American remake of The Ring, or the Japanese original? I've seen both and I think that the original movie is superior. It really did scare me!

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Mine isn't so much a detest as I don't get it.  Training Day.  A decent movie all in all....but Oscar worthy for Denzel?  Not that I don't feel that he is Oscar worthy but for that role?  I didn't get it.

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Quote from: Beorning on February 04, 2015, 02:53:03 PM
Out of curiosity: have you seen the American remake of The Ring, or the Japanese original? I've seen both and I think that the original movie is superior. It really did scare me!
The American remake.

Oniya

Quote from: Thesunmaid on February 04, 2015, 01:35:21 PM
Also pretty much any movie that thinks taking off a girls glasses makes her instantly hot. Like with the glasses there is no way a woman can be a sex kitten. Hello?! The sexy librarian...hell the baroness...she made glasses and leather look hot together. I would like to think I can pull off the hot bitch with or with out my glasses lol. But I have been told there is something about a woman looking at you with lust in her eyes staring at you over your glasses.(maybe this is just me?)

I have a theory on the 'looking over the glasses' technique.  (Speaking as someone who can't make out that you're holding up fingers without mine, let alone tell you how many.)

Eyes are the windows to the soul (as someone once said.)  Glasses form a barrier to some extent.  Looking over them is sort of giving the other person the feeling that they are seeing past the barrier, but not the full extent of what is inside.  This applies to both the 'lustful glance' and the 'I'm going to whack your knuckles with a ruler' glance.
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The Godfather, and Scarface. I actually watched those back-to-back with a friend several years ago, and I couldn't understand what the big deal was. It's possible my attitude would have changed if I re-watched them today, but I have very little desire to do so.

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Scarface is another I just couldn't get into. It's a serviceable crime lord film, but the ending is fantastic, enough so that I'd recommend the movie just for the conclusion. Tony Montana is basically Icarus.

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Quote from: Rolo on February 04, 2015, 03:04:14 PM
Mine is so much a detest as I don't get it.  Training Day.  A decent movie all in all....but Oscar worthy for Denzel?  Not that I don't feel that he is Oscar worthy but for that role?  I didn't get it.

Same here with Gladiator. Dont get me wrong, the movie was okay, but I never got the hype around it. And an Oscar for Russel Crowe? For what? Grunting and sweating? Especially when he was up against Tom Hanks, Ed harris and Geoffrey Rush.

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Clerks or anything by Kevin Smith. I just don't think it's for my generation. :P
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Quote from: Inkidu on February 05, 2015, 08:33:49 AM
Clerks or anything by Kevin James. I just don't think it's for my generation. :P

Haha, seem like its not. His name is Kevin Smith. Kevin James was that fat comedy guy driving for UPS. ;)

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Quote from: Uebelator on February 05, 2015, 08:38:57 AM
Haha, seem like its not. His name is Kevin Smith. Kevin James was that fat comedy guy driving for UPS. ;)
Thanks for the catch. XP
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Underworld: Evolution

Liked the action. But, found Michael to be a bit annoying.

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The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water, One Missed Call.

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Quote from: Drake Valentine on February 07, 2015, 08:17:27 PM
The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water, One Missed Call.
I tend to not like a lot of J-Horror either.
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Quote from: Inkidu on February 07, 2015, 08:24:36 PM
I tend to not like a lot of J-Horror either.

Except those are rebooted American Horror ones.

I heard Rinju and Jun-go(think Grudge was called) was better in their Jap versions.

Not sure of the other two.

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The Japanese version of The Ring was better indeed. I don't know about The Grudge, as I have seen only the American version. But I actually liked that version... which was actually directed by the director of the original movie.

As for Dark Water, I haven't seen the American version, but the Japanese version is quite fine. Although it's a bit too similar to The Ring...

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Quote from: Beorning on February 07, 2015, 08:57:46 PM
The Japanese version of The Ring was better indeed. I don't know about The Grudge, as I have seen only the American version. But I actually liked that version... which was actually directed by the director of the original movie.

As for Dark Water, I haven't seen the American version, but the Japanese version is quite fine. Although it's a bit too similar to The Ring...

Grudge wasn't really that scary when I saw it. I mean, maybe freakiest part was with girl, but otherwise not too terrifying over all. Also Japanese version is Ju-On(which from reviews I had read it was much more scarier/frightening equivalent from remake.)

Also something else interesting I discover is that Ju-On is actually the third installment of the series. The other ones were Ju-On The Curse and Ju-On the Curse 2. Both of which were never released in America and were only available In Japan, Germany, and two other countries. Might see if I can find translated English-subtitled stream version somewhere.


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Quote from: Beorning on February 07, 2015, 08:57:46 PM
The Japanese version of The Ring was better indeed. I don't know about The Grudge, as I have seen only the American version. But I actually liked that version... which was actually directed by the director of the original movie.

As for Dark Water, I haven't seen the American version, but the Japanese version is quite fine. Although it's a bit too similar to The Ring...
Kind of reminds me of The Eye. They turned what was essentially a good ghost story/drama into a bad attempt at horror. The original wasn't terrifying, but it made for a decent supernatural drama. The remake had no such success.

Inkidu

I figured you might be talking about the remakes, and I tend to not like those or the originals. I just don't like the Japanese supernatural stuff. It's too unfair for my American tastes I think. I like a lot of their non-supernatural horror though.

Audition ooh, just makes me come out of my skin.
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I am of the opinion that 95% of the world's fucked up shit comes from Japan... And the rest is just remakes of Japanese stuff.
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The Grand Budaphest Hotel.
I really like Wes Anderson's style, it's really unique and instantly recognisable. But this one? It just felt a little too much like Fantastic Mr Fox for me. There were shots that were basically copy pasted from one to the other. While this might be the same in other Anderson films, I've found it harder to notice in other films.

On the other end of the spectrum:
zombies zombies zombies.
About a group of strippers defending themselves against hoards of zombies. What's not to love?
Everything, as it turns out. This is the only film that I've not been able to sit through.

And somewhere in between:
The 2Fast series. The first few were passable, but after that? It just got ridiculous.

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Quote from: Combicon on February 08, 2015, 08:55:01 PM
The 2Fast series. The first few were passable, but after that? It just got ridiculous.

The 2Fast series is actually one I feel good about not liking.  ;D

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I only Fast Five because of the Rock, Vin trying to speak portuguese, and the fact that the plot is so similar to... all the Ocean movies.
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There's a movie out there (and I watched it on Netflix of all places) called "Nude Nuns with Big Guns". As a man with a great love for cheap, low budget, cheesy, campy action flicks I thought you couldn't possibly make a better movie for me and the title alone meant it would be well worth a watch.

It wasn't so much that it was bad. It was that it was boring. How you make a film about nuns who get nude, have lesbian sex and use guns... sometimes at the same time... boring I don't know (although the fact the biggest gun used was a machine gun doesn't help) but they did. And I felt bad because a title like that deserves to be a classic of the genre.

On a more serious note I don't particularly rate the Dark Knight or Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker. That's not to say they're bad... I thought both were good, but there's a big difference between good and brilliant. I think Ledger was far better in Brokeback Mountain and deserved his Oscar for that more than for his role as the Joker; my personal view is that there was an element of Scorsese’s best director nod to it... just as the Academy made up for Scorsese not winning the award for some of his superior earlier work I think they somewhat made up for Ledger not winning for Brokeback by giving him it then.

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Just watched Into the Woods. It was alright. Meryl Streep was good as the Witch. Chris Pine on the other hand, not so much. It was agony listening to him sing. Like him better as Captain Kirk.

Oniya

It's a curse of the role - you've heard of the Superman curse?  The Captain Kirk curse involves a catastrophic affect on one's ability to carry a tune, even with a bucket.

(If you don't believe me, look up some of Shatner's recordings.)
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Lustful Bride

Quote from: Oniya on April 09, 2015, 11:05:52 AM
It's a curse of the role - you've heard of the Superman curse?  The Captain Kirk curse involves a catastrophic affect on one's ability to carry a tune, even with a bucket.

(If you don't believe me, look up some of Shatner's recordings.)

Like when he sang Rocketman
:.*takes a sanity loss*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I

Inkidu

Not to speak ill of the dead, but that particular curse seems to extend to the whole bridge crew. Anyone remember Leonard Nimoy's singing career?
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I just can't get into Star Trek in general. My dad and step dad are definite Star Trek fans and use to always watch the re runs that aired on Sci-Fi (Yes back before it was SyFy). For some reason I really can't enjoy the fandom despite my love for science fiction.

I hoped different for the 2009 movie but again.....bleh. I dunno what it is but I just can't enjoy the movies or the fandom in general so I'm sorry if I have offended any Trekkies here :(
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Quote from: Inkidu on April 09, 2015, 07:12:56 PM
Not to speak ill of the dead, but that particular curse seems to extend to the whole bridge crew. Anyone remember Leonard Nimoy's singing career?

Yep.  Shatner was worse.  At least in most of his pieces, Nimoy did that sort of 'speak-singing' thing.
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Quote from: Oniya on April 09, 2015, 09:20:30 PM
Yep.  Shatner was worse.  At least in most of his pieces, Nimoy did that sort of 'speak-singing' thing.
Obviously, the captain gets the brunt, but I suppose the sample size might be too small.

Anyone know if Mr. Takei has a singing career? XD
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#59
Here's the exception that proves the rule (pardon the unfortunate thumbnail):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrckNMfQj6c

Better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwxLPR6sU3A

And today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-vaHImX1c
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gaggedLouise

Well, to do Rocket Man in a creditable way, you have to know how to actually sing - like, shape a few lines, hit some high notes and...you know..

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I'm probably going to be crucified to some degree for this... but anything Star Wars or Star Trek. I can barely sit through any of them, and I generally walk away feeling like I've just lost/wasted hours of my life watching them. >.> Most of my friends are huge fans of one or the other or both, so I tend to get a lot of dirty and/or surprised looks for admitting I don't like them.

I could tolerate Episode I well enough... though that's because I enjoyed the part of the movie everyone else hated. Jar Jar was so dumb it was like watching a B-Flick. Comical to the point of absurdity, and it made me feel slightly less like curling up and dying right there in the theatre.
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Scarface. Pretty much just watching Al Pacino work his bad accent, and then die in the end. No likable characters, no plot to speak of, just.... all around crap. I can't say I feel bad about not liking it, but I can't understand how it got as much hype as it did.

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Thor, Captain America, the Hobbit trilogy.

I really don't get the hype.

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Not a movie, though it was made into one, which I understand is wretched. However, I don't care for Avatar: The Last Airbender. Tried to watch it, but it constantly reminded me of the terrible stuff I wrote in middle school. Each episode horrid reminder of just how bad I really was. :P
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Quote from: Freya on April 11, 2015, 06:00:02 PM
Thor, Captain America, the Hobbit trilogy.

I really don't get the hype.

I have very mixed feelings about "The Hobbit", too...

Uebelator

I'm not the biggest fan of the Hobbit either. Too long, too self-referential and Jackson is too much in love with his own Lot trilogy.
And it doesn't help that the story is pretty stupid too.

Inkidu

Quote from: Uebelator on April 12, 2015, 09:11:54 AM
I'm not the biggest fan of the Hobbit either. Too long, too self-referential and Jackson is too much in love with his own Lot trilogy.
And it doesn't help that the story is pretty stupid too.
Well, the story gets bogged down in a lot of that useless love-triangle and necromancer stuff that pads it out. If they'd stuck to the actual narrative of the book you'd have two awesomely done movies about a grand, dragon-slaying adventure.

The parts that are actually in the book have a lot of genuine feel, but Jackson was in love with his LotR trilogy.
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The third movie would have been immensely better without Alfrid....nuff said
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It might have been okay if they did just one movie. But three of them?
I haven't even seen the third one yet because the first two were actually pretty painful to watch. Those dwarves were annoyingly incompetent, stumbling around like fools, getting taken prisoner by everyone and their mother and generally never making a decision on their own after they left The Shire. It really feels like the stupid cartoon- version of LotR, that should have been made for children, but somehow they all ended up chopping off limbs again. But the stupid humour remained.

CassieBear

I watched the Hobbit cartoon as a kid and wasn't the biggest fan of it, so I never really saw the point in watching the like action movies. I would also get so antsy when it came to the LotR; I just couldn't sit still and watch them.

I couldn't stand a lot of the things the Coen brother did... but the one that I just can't sit through; I feel like I'm wasting my time with it is The Big Lebowski. I love all the actors who are in it, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Mr. Hoffman, Tara Reid... but just not in this movie.
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The Avengers falls into this category for me. I'm a pretty big Marvel dork and read on average about six or seven comics a week... but I have never liked the team-up stories.

There is something about having all of the heroes in one place that hits a sour note for me. I like to have the focus primarily on one or two characters, and with The Avengers I felt like there was less actual story than in the previous Marvel efforts. The plot was all about 'how these personalities work together as a unit to stop Loki', but I already knew most of them from their respective movies. I know the fun is in seeing how everyone interacts, but I didn't feel the whole Loki centric conflict was strong enough to carry two films (Thor being the first).

It is a shame because I love Joss Whedon and I love Marvel, so admitting that I was bored by it usually ends up getting me weird looks from my social circles for some reason.

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Second Pirates of the Carribean film for me. Its just my personal opinion I just didn't enjoy it that much except for the surprise ending.
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For me, and I think I already posted in here like a year ago, but anyway, for me the Hobbit trilogy definitely is one. Because for the books, I always found the Hobbit a lot better and more readable than LotR. Just shorter and more succinct and not nearly so wordy. I always liked Bilbo much better than Frodo and the LotR movies made this even more apparent (they made Frodo look like such a wuss) so I was sure I would like the Hobbit movies much better and Martin Freeman (is that how it's spelled?) really was one of the few parts I liked. And I definitely thought his part could have been better.

I've heard people say a lot of the things they added in the movies was stuff that was in Tolkien's original notes for the Hobbit and that several years after the original release of the Hobbit book, he wanted to release a version with all the left out stuff and someone was like "Hey, not a great idea" and if that's true, then whomever that person was had the right idea. I also kind of hated the elves in the LotR movies. Elrond wasn't nearly as much of a douche in the books. So I go into the first Hobbit movie like "Yeah, dwarves, cool. A cameo of Legolas, but whatever, man, dwarves!" and then? Just two and a half movies of hapless dwarves that would have been fun if their distinct personalities came with an ounce of competance being saved by the blond ninja of Mirkwood and the chick he's into. I say two and a half because the dwarves were almost getting it together in the first one. But it still had some elves pissing me off. Like Elrond being all like "Gandalf, bad wizard. You're grounded." Bitch, please. Gandalf the Grey has to ask your pointy eared ass for permission?

Sorry, that rant kind of got away from me.

Oniya

Quote from: Zekromnomnom on July 19, 2015, 09:21:35 AM
I've heard people say a lot of the things they added in the movies was stuff that was in Tolkien's original notes for the Hobbit and that several years after the original release of the Hobbit book, he wanted to release a version with all the left out stuff and someone was like "Hey, not a great idea" and if that's true, then whomever that person was had the right idea. I also kind of hated the elves in the LotR movies. Elrond wasn't nearly as much of a douche in the books. So I go into the first Hobbit movie like "Yeah, dwarves, cool. A cameo of Legolas, but whatever, man, dwarves!" and then? Just two and a half movies of hapless dwarves that would have been fun if their distinct personalities came with an ounce of competance being saved by the blond ninja of Mirkwood and the chick he's into. I say two and a half because the dwarves were almost getting it together in the first one. But it still had some elves pissing me off. Like Elrond being all like "Gandalf, bad wizard. You're grounded." Bitch, please. Gandalf the Grey has to ask your pointy eared ass for permission?

I think I'm glad I stuck with the Rankin/Bass versions.
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CaptainNexus616

I don't like the fact Gandalf found out about Sauron 60 YEARS BEFORE LORD OF THE RINGS AND DID NOTHING!!! Seriously that is lazy writing at its finest.

Plus I hated Alfrid
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No Gandalf didn't do anything because Elrond, Galadrial, and Saruman were all like "No,dude, it's cool. We don't need to worry. We're dumb and other than Saruman who outranks you, you're listening to us elves when you're a goddamn wizard for no reason." I'm not saying it's not lazy writing, it's just not as much Gandalf's fault.

I actually mostly forgot about Alfrid. But now that I do, yeah, that was a waste of time in the movie.

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Guys, just remember that Gandalf discovering that the Necromancer is Sauron is actually a canon thing. It was Tolkien who made it that way...