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Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:11 PM
I'm risking a lot of ridicule here by submitting my list off the top o' my head here, but I don't GOS.


List movies you either:

Never understood the popularity of...
Never grasped the deeper meaning of...


3 of mine:

Field of Dreams
Forrest Gump
Apocalypse Now


:pop:

SCOUT
5/12/2011, 01:13 PM
The English Patient

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 01:16 PM
Blair Witch Trial
The Ring
Avatar
Chicago

The
5/12/2011, 01:17 PM
Apocalypse Now

Surely, you jest.

Position Limit
5/12/2011, 01:17 PM
mulholland drive

SCOUT
5/12/2011, 01:18 PM
I second Avatar

WichitaSooner
5/12/2011, 01:19 PM
I'm risking a lot of ridicule here by submitting my list off the top o' my head here, but I don't GOS.


List movies you either:

Never understood the popularity of...
Never grasped the deeper meaning of...


3 of mine:

Field of Dreams
Forrest Gump
Apocalypse Now


:pop:


Based on this post, and this post alone, I would say that you have a really ****ed up relationship with your father....

crawfish
5/12/2011, 01:19 PM
The Big Lebowski.

I get the deeper meanings, I just have no idea why it appeals to so many people.

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 01:21 PM
Blair Witch Trial
The Ring
Avatar
Chicago

I second every one of those.

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 01:25 PM
I second every one of those.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

oudavid1
5/12/2011, 01:25 PM
Forrest Gump is a great one. But i can see how you dont get it.

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 01:28 PM
Forrest Gump is a case of them taking a crappy book and making a decent movie out of it. I can only laugh at anyone who went and bought the book after watching the movie.

silverwheels
5/12/2011, 01:39 PM
The Big Lebowski.

I get the deeper meanings, I just have no idea why it appeals to so many people.

Because I find it hilarious.

royalfan5
5/12/2011, 01:41 PM
I thought Easy Rider was boring as ****

Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:45 PM
Based on this post, and this post alone, I would say that you have a really ****ed up relationship with your father....



Interesting. I'll ask him.

How does F Gump figure into your analysis? I've only watched it once, don't remember it much. It was fine, but didn't amaze me like so many other people seem to be.

Position Limit
5/12/2011, 01:47 PM
the hangover

Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:48 PM
Surely, you jest.


No...seriously, I come from a military background and am retired myself. This makes me overly demand realism from movies and because I never understood the point (I was young and serving at the time), I couldn't suspend reality in my mind.

Are we supposed to pretend that could have happened?

Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:49 PM
Because I find it hilarious.


And timeless.

delhalew
5/12/2011, 01:49 PM
I thought Easy Rider was boring as ****

I second this. Also, Chicago was a terd. The Ring and Blair Witch are highly overrated.

The Maestro
5/12/2011, 01:49 PM
Any movie that is all CG and special effects based. Without the special effects, it is nothing.

Start with The Matrix and go from there.

I like a great script and story...not special effects.

delhalew
5/12/2011, 01:51 PM
No...seriously, I come from a military background and am retired myself. This makes me overly demand realism from movies and because I never understood the point (I was young and serving at the time), I couldn't suspend reality in my mind.

Are we supposed to pretend that could have happened?

Not really. Did you ever read the book Heart of Darkness?

The
5/12/2011, 01:52 PM
No...seriously, I come from a military background and am retired myself. This makes me overly demand realism from movies and because I never understood the point (I was young and serving at the time), I couldn't suspend reality in my mind.

Are we supposed to pretend that could have happened?

It's based on Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", which was set in colonial Africa. It's not really a war movie, but more of an introspective exploration of mans capacity for evil.

Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:54 PM
Never read it.

Frankly, I took it so literally, perhaps a second screening after a few extra decades might be in the offering.

Howzit
5/12/2011, 01:57 PM
Never read it.

Frankly, I took it so literally, perhaps a second screening after a few extra decades might be in the offering.

Maybe you should work on your relationship with your father first.

;)

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 01:57 PM
And Charlie Sheen's dad is really drunk and having a real breakdown at the start of the movie.

The
5/12/2011, 01:58 PM
Never read it.

Frankly, I took it so literally, perhaps a second screening after a few extra decades might be in the offering.


The entire film is based on symbolism; the madness of Kurtz juxtaposed against the insanity of the war itself while showing Willard's own descent as he goes down the river.

Never get off the boat.

Lott's Bandana
5/12/2011, 01:59 PM
Maybe you should work on your relationship with your father first.

;)


Perfect.

Thanks for the laugh that turned into a coughing fit.

delhalew
5/12/2011, 01:59 PM
Never read it.

Frankly, I took it so literally, perhaps a second screening after a few extra decades might be in the offering.

Look at less like a Vietnam movie, and focus on the transformation of the characters, and you may enjoy it more.

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 02:04 PM
Speaking of Apocalypse Now, there's a documentary called Hearts of Darkness, about the making of AN, that's worth watching, too. Coppola went through his own version of hell making that movie.

achiro
5/12/2011, 02:04 PM
The entire film is based on symbolism; the madness of Kurtz juxtaposed against the insanity of the war itself while showing Willard's own descent as he goes down the river.

Never get off the boat.

When you got up this morning I bet you had no idea you'd get to use the word "juxtaposed" today.

KuppiKunta
5/12/2011, 02:10 PM
When you got up this morning I bet you had no idea you'd get to use the word "juxtaposed" today.


Actually...he won the bounty because he was able to get into casual conversation first! Damn you, The!!!

Jammin'
5/12/2011, 02:35 PM
Punch Drunk Love: but I still found humor in some parts.
Avatar: Maybe I wasn't high enough to get this turdbomb.

stoopified
5/12/2011, 02:45 PM
I'm risking a lot of ridicule here by submitting my list off the top o' my head here, but I don't GOS.


List movies you either:

Never understood the popularity of...
Never grasped the deeper meaning of...


3 of mine:

Field of Dreams

Apocalypse Now


:pop:I agree with these two and would add

American Beauty

Big Lebowsky (mildly amusing at best)

Avatar (struck me as sci-fi version of Dances With Wolves)

Dances With Wolves

AlboSooner
5/12/2011, 02:46 PM
scent of a woman. why is there a blind dude in it

The
5/12/2011, 02:47 PM
The Sixth Sense.

I just figured out the twist. The guy is Bruce Willis the whole time!

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 02:47 PM
scent of a woman. why is there a blind dude in it

So Pacino would have something else to be enraged about.

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 02:51 PM
Pulp Fiction

Fargo

Kill Bill

I mean I "get" them, but I don't like them. Especially Fargo.

Also, I'm with LB on the Apocalypse Now POS. I was fairly fresh outta the military when that crap came out. I suppose it could have been good, but I couldn't understand a damn thing Brando was muttering.

The
5/12/2011, 02:52 PM
Pulp Fiction

Fargo

Kill Bill

I mean I "get" them, but I don't like them. Especially Fargo.

Also, I'm with LB on the Apocalypse Now POS. I was fairly fresh outta the military when that crap came out. I suppose it could have been good, but I couldn't understand a damn thing Brando was muttering.

I bet you like "Navy Seals".

The Maestro
5/12/2011, 02:52 PM
scent of a woman. why is there a blind dude in it

If he wasn't blind there would be no need for the aide to help him while the rest of the family was gone.

sooner_born_1960
5/12/2011, 02:53 PM
I kinda like Fargo.

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 02:54 PM
But why was it called Fargo?

AlboSooner
5/12/2011, 02:54 PM
GI Jane was a great movie. Demi Moore got hosed that year at the Oscars

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 02:54 PM
I bet you like "Navy Seals".

Never seen it.

I bet you like "My Penis."

sooner_born_1960
5/12/2011, 02:55 PM
But why was it called Fargo?
Who cares?

The
5/12/2011, 02:55 PM
Never seen it.

I bet you like "My Penis."


I've seen it. Too short, thin plot, and the climax was lackluster and unexpected.

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 02:56 PM
oooooh buuuuuuuurnzzzzz

3rdgensooner
5/12/2011, 03:06 PM
The English Patient
As Good as it Gets
Saving Private Ryan except for the first 20 mins

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 03:15 PM
Milky Maids 4
Bronze Bunz and Tight Ones 12
and what was the deal with Blasterload? I mean, really?

stoopified
5/12/2011, 03:52 PM
Milky Maids 4
Bronze Bunz and Tight Ones 12
and what was the deal with Blasterload? I mean, really?I can't believe badger lets you watch that tripe. I THOUGHT SHE HAD YOU BETTER TRAINED. :)

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 03:55 PM
:D :O ;)

3rdgensooner
5/12/2011, 04:17 PM
Maybe he watched those at badger's request.

Mississippi Sooner
5/12/2011, 04:21 PM
I'm thinking maybe he ain't always playing video games when he's in that other room. :D

But you want to talk about overrated porn? Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door. Only redeeming thing about BTGD is it has a couple of Oakland Raiders in it. No, they don't get nekkid.

Gunga Galunga
5/12/2011, 04:29 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.

cccasooner2
5/12/2011, 04:29 PM
The Exorcist - A laughable fairy tale. NTTAWWT

Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson at his best!!!! ;)

All the Kings Men - An oldie, but a real winner. ;)



PS. - I loved Fargo, doncha know?

mgsooner
5/12/2011, 04:40 PM
Free Willy 4: Escape from Pirate's Cove

Jammin'
5/12/2011, 04:41 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.

OOOOOOhhhhhhhhh nnnnnnnooooooooeeeeeeessssssss!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!@1 2@@!1!!

ByrnHoustonsSweatyPalms
5/12/2011, 04:42 PM
The Village by Shama Night Ding A Long.

Tulsa_Fireman
5/12/2011, 04:45 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.

You sir, DIAF.

mgsooner
5/12/2011, 04:48 PM
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House

Problem Child 3: Junior in Love

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 04:58 PM
Pulp Fiction is still the worst movie I've seen.

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:03 PM
Pulp Fiction is still the worst movie I've seen.
You haven't seen Troll 2, have you?

Tulsa_Fireman
5/12/2011, 05:04 PM
LEP IN DA HOOD

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 05:06 PM
You haven't seen Troll 2, have you?

Not yet. I watch reality tv, so my standards are pretty low.

Adrian
5/12/2011, 05:13 PM
I'm risking a lot of ridicule here by submitting my list off the top o' my head here, but I don't GOS.


List movies you either:

Never understood the popularity of...
Never grasped the deeper meaning of...




Field of Dreams



:pop:

http://www.hwdyk.com/q/quizimage/fieldofdreams.jpg
"Ray, people will pay eight bucks to see this crap. People will definitely pay eight bucks."

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:17 PM
Not yet. I watch reality tv, so my standards are pretty low.
There is a documentary about how bad it is. The documentary is bad.

SoCaliSooner
5/12/2011, 05:21 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.

One only sees undertones when they themselves are repressed.

I see unrivaled badassness coupled with alpha male domination.

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 05:21 PM
There is a documentary about how bad it is. The documentary is bad.

Real Housewives bad? And if so, which ones? There are levels even with them.

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:22 PM
Real Housewives bad? And if so, which ones? There are levels even with them.
I am unsure, as I do not watch reality TV. I am told it may be on the level of Jersey Shore, though. Sans fist pumping.

Mongo
5/12/2011, 05:24 PM
Pulp Fiction is still the worst movie I've seen.

dead.

to.

me.

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 05:24 PM
I am unsure, as I do not watch reality TV. I am told it may be on the level of Jersey Shore, though. Sans fist pumping.

ooh, that may be too awful even for me!

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:26 PM
HyophYBP_w4

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 05:30 PM
Embedding disabled by request FAIL

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:34 PM
Really? Works for me...

soonerchk
5/12/2011, 05:35 PM
Doesn't for me and now i'll never know just how it compares to Pulp Fiction.

NormanPride
5/12/2011, 05:42 PM
This is a tragedy! Perhaps this video will work...

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waynepayne
5/12/2011, 05:45 PM
Pulp Fiction is still the worst movie I've seen.



Admittedly its not as awesome as I first thought it was when it came out (still think Reservoir Dogs was better) but NO WAY its the worst.

I'd nominate Seven Pounds or A Sound of Thunder (SOBAD!)

Blue
5/12/2011, 05:51 PM
Pulp fiction, Big Lebowski, American Beauty, Apoc Now, Anchorman? Sure this isn't a best movies thread?

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 05:54 PM
Pulp fiction, Big Lebowski, American Beauty, Apoc Now, Anchorman? Sure this isn't a best movies thread?

Best for showing at a retard home maybe. With the obvious exception of TBL.

Blue
5/12/2011, 05:55 PM
Stupid is as stupid does.

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 05:56 PM
Yeah, FG was way overrated too.

Blue
5/12/2011, 05:57 PM
Whats your favorites Dean? Did you like Raising Arizona?

C&CDean
5/12/2011, 06:07 PM
Nay. Another POS? Full Metal Jacket. It was/is all sorts of meh to me.

My faves?

HPATSS
HPATCOS
HPATPOA
HPATGOF
HPATOOTP
HPATHBP
HPATDH

It's well documented on here that I'm partial to:

The Breakfast Club
Platoon
The African Queen
Kings Speech
The Goonies
Willow
Bridge over River Kwai
Dirty Dozen
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
True Grit (both versions)
Rio Lobo
Duel at Diablo
The Pink Panther
Pretty Woman
Young Frankenstein
Robin Hood (Costner and Men in Tights)
Snow White
Shrek
Jungle Book
Sandlot
Shanghai Noon
Big Trouble in Little China
and several more

soonerinabilene
5/12/2011, 06:15 PM
Donnie Darko. I cannot for the life of me figure out why people are obsessed with it.

sanantoniosooner
5/12/2011, 06:19 PM
Donnie Darko. I cannot for the life of me figure out why people are obsessed with it.

"cult favorite" is code for loved by a tiny group of people.

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 06:24 PM
Pulp Fiction is still the worst movie I've seen.

you're quite out of your mind...

but personally i never understood what the big hubub was all about with A Clockwork Orange

i get it was kubrick's 1984 and the lesson etc. etc. i just didnt think it was a very good movie.

jumperstop
5/12/2011, 06:30 PM
I was going to make a list of overrated movies, but it would be entirely too long. Most movies suck dick and most people are too retarded to notice or care. I have very high standards for the movie to be "good". Unfortunately for your thread, FG and Saving Private Ryan are two of the best movies of all time. Anything by Tom Hanks is gold...

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 06:36 PM
Anything by Tom Hanks is gold...

the 'Burbs is one of the funniest movies ever made

"Can Ray come out?"

"He's not allowed outside until he resembles the man i married!"

"Aww come on, Carol... We don't have that kinda time!"

royalfan5
5/12/2011, 06:37 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.
Yet, you leave Roadhouse out of this group.

jumperstop
5/12/2011, 06:38 PM
the 'Burbs is one of the funniest movies ever made

"Can Ray come out?"

"He's not allowed outside until he resembles the man i married!"

"Aww come on, Carol... We don't have that kinda time!"

I love that movie too, it's a classic

MR2-Sooner86
5/12/2011, 06:44 PM
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/ST3391~Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show-Posters.jpg

jumperstop
5/12/2011, 06:49 PM
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/ST3391~Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show-Posters.jpg

Perfect for this thread....don't see why people love this movie and the only time I saw it I didn't get it at all....

Blue
5/12/2011, 06:51 PM
Momento. I remember thinking, "Big Whoop."

Blue
5/12/2011, 06:53 PM
you're quite out of your mind...

but personally i never understood what the big hubub was all about with A Clockwork Orange

i get it was kubrick's 1984 and the lesson etc. etc. i just didnt think it was a very good movie.

Speaking of Kubrick, Eyes wide shut was pretty suck. Cept for the bewbs.

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 06:56 PM
Momento. I remember thinking, "Big Whoop."

it was called Memento and i'm right there with ya on that one. which kinda sucks... Guy Pierce has been a fav of mine since LA Confidential. now that was a great movie

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 06:56 PM
Nay. Another POS? Full Metal Jacket. It was/is all sorts of meh to me.

My faves?

HPATSS
HPATCOS
HPATPOA
HPATGOF
HPATOOTP
HPATHBP
HPATDH

It's well documented on here that I'm partial to:

The Breakfast Club
Platoon
The African Queen
Kings Speech
The Goonies
Willow
Bridge over River Kwai
Dirty Dozen
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
True Grit (both versions)
Rio Lobo
Duel at Diablo
The Pink Panther
Pretty Woman
Young Frankenstein
Robin Hood (Costner and Men in Tights)
Snow White
Shrek
Jungle Book
Sandlot
Shanghai Noon
Big Trouble in Little China
and several more

?

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 06:58 PM
?

Disney's Snow White was revolutionary in its animation.

tcrb
5/12/2011, 07:01 PM
"Wag the Dog" is he only movie I have ever gotten up and walked out of before the credits ran....until I went to see "Babel".

I also never really understood why "Scarface" was such a hit.

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 07:03 PM
Disney's Snow White was revolutionary in its animation.

noted

Blue
5/12/2011, 07:04 PM
"Wag the Dog" is he only movie I have ever gotten up and walked out of before the credits ran....until I went to see "Babel".

I also never really understood why "Scarface" was such a hit.

I hear ya on Babel, but scarface? Scarface was awesome.

Good night and Good Luck.

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 07:15 PM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.

My Opinion Matters
5/12/2011, 07:17 PM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.

:pop:

My internet hero for this day.

Caboose
5/12/2011, 07:24 PM
"cult favorite" is code for loved by a tiny group of people.

Somewhat related: When a movie or show is described as "campy".... WTF does that mean?

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 07:24 PM
I hear ya on Babel, but scarface? Scarface was awesome.

Good night and Good Luck.

Scarface was simply greatness.


When Tony was sitting at his desk, staring at his right knee and quietly mutters, "Manolo" to himself. awesomeness


Sophomore year at Tulane, 4 of us watched Scarface and took a shot of beer for every f-bomb (about 2 oz per shot) By the shootout scene at Tony's mansion, one the guys peed in the entry way.

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 07:26 PM
:pop:

My internet hero for this day.

Once you touch an adult female, these movies will seem less interesting.

I know I'm in the minority here, btw

XingTheRubicon
5/12/2011, 07:27 PM
Somewhat related: When a movie or show is described as "campy".... WTF does that mean?

opposite of edgy. after school specialish

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 07:29 PM
Somewhat related: When a movie or show is described as "campy".... WTF does that mean?

camp is intentionally cheap and over the top in presentation and makes very little effort to progress characters or draw the audience in emotionally.

i personally don't like it, but i understand why it has an appeal. basically if you ever paid money to see the spice girls in concert, you would enjoy camp cinema.

GKeeper316
5/12/2011, 07:34 PM
Scarface was simply greatness.

there's very few of us out there that truly hated scarface. i thought it was poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, and very very poorly scored.

michelle pfiefer wasn't even good in it, and she's in my top 5 all-time.

OhU1
5/12/2011, 07:35 PM
Porky's
Top Gun
Kill Bill
Natural Born Killers
Roadhouse

The dozens of animated movies with celebrity voice stars.

jk the sooner fan
5/12/2011, 07:35 PM
Forrest Gump is a love story - period.....if you dont get that, then you're trying too hard

and Saving Private Ryan? really? what was there to "not get"

Kill Bill was ridiculous in my opinion....those Harry Potter movies are pure gayness as well






;)

Soonrboy
5/12/2011, 08:57 PM
We walked out of Pulp Fiction. tried watching it later after everyone kept quoting it. Still hated it.

Caboose
5/12/2011, 09:15 PM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.

I don't know, all movies (except the ridiculously sh*tty ones) are simply telling a story. The genre (wizards, robots, mafia, etc) is just the backdrop in which the story is told. A story with a wizard in it can be just as good as a story with a mobster or astronaut or racehorse or retard in it.

cccasooner2
5/12/2011, 10:01 PM
We walked out of Pulp Fiction. tried watching it later after everyone kept quoting it. Still hated it.

Should have done the same with Barry Lyndon. Left the theatre with a numb butt that slept for a week. :(

TheBobbyTrain
5/12/2011, 10:35 PM
The Royal Tenenbaums. I don't understand it and probably never will

proud gonzo
5/12/2011, 10:46 PM
oh man, this thread just makes me sad.

Sooner_Tuf
5/12/2011, 11:12 PM
Fried Green Tomatoes - The Movie that makes every other movie good.

I liked Pulp Fiction. The scene with the "Wolf" was greatness.

ouwasp
5/12/2011, 11:32 PM
"Grand Canyon" was one pretentious pile of dung.

sooneron
5/12/2011, 11:49 PM
Backdraft and Point Break.
The homo-erotic undertones are too much.

and yet, nothing compared to Top Gun.

http://www.cultureblues.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/maverick-1.jpg

SoCaliSooner
5/12/2011, 11:57 PM
Harry Potter(s)
Star wars prequel
Twilight(s)

Wizard, spells, werewolves, vampires, interplanetary wars...cool for the preteen Jonas Brothers crowd.

proud gonzo
5/13/2011, 12:09 AM
Harry Potter(s)
Star wars prequel
Twilight(s)

Wizard, spells, werewolves, vampires, interplanetary wars...cool for the preteen Jonas Brothers crowd.
I bet you get along with jk.

SoCaliSooner
5/13/2011, 12:50 AM
I bet you get along with jk.

Not.
Really.

proud gonzo
5/13/2011, 01:22 AM
Not.
Really.
Well, I seem to recall he has a similar attitude about the fantasy genre.

yermom
5/13/2011, 03:14 AM
careful, you are defending Twilight and Star Wars prequels there :D

the Harry Potter movies aren't Lord of the Rings or anything, but they aren't bad

the movies i don't get are the Mighty Wind/Waiting for Guffman flicks



and Lebowski? i can understand not liking Pulp Fiction on a couple different fronts, but i think i look at someone a little differently if they don't like Lebowski

bigfatjerk
5/13/2011, 03:42 AM
Lion King: the best protagonists are lazy and basically outcasts, that have an entire motto praises being lazy and doing nothing in life. Great message for the kids there Disney. I'm still not convinced there is a real protagonist in the movie. It certainly wasn't Simba. I thought half way through the film Scar was supposed to be the guy to root for.

Anything with John Wayne in it. I'm sorry he was just a bad actor and those movies were basically the same stupid formula.

Then there's a ton of movies that were just way too long and the plots just aren't interesting enough for me to stick around. Gone with the Wind, Godfather movies, Casablanca there's other older films that are the same way. It wouldn't mind me if these movies were so long if they were interesting.

yermom
5/13/2011, 03:49 AM
are you 12? :D

bigfatjerk
5/13/2011, 04:12 AM
are you 12? :D

No I'm in my 20s. I was just coming up with popular movies that everyone seems to like. Kubrick's 2001 is another one that's about nothing, and No Country for Old Men from a few years ago.

I'm not biased towards newer movies. Heck there hasn't been a lot of good movies in recent years either. I like pretty much anything from Hitchcock, Capra, Choplin which have all been dead for decades.

jk the sooner fan
5/13/2011, 06:27 AM
Well, I seem to recall he has a similar attitude about the fantasy genre.

i feel so honored that you remember me so well

jk the sooner fan
5/13/2011, 06:30 AM
Not.
Really.

:(

Jacie
5/13/2011, 07:15 AM
Here is one yet to be mentioned, one I must add I have yet to see in it's entirety: Titanic

Elder daughter insisted her mother and I had to see it (we still haven't). I mean, we know what happens to the big boat. The story of the underdog getting the girl then losing the girl make it just another chick flick and throwing the really big diamond into the ocean is plain silly.

As for Apocalypse Now, the overall movie leaves the audience confused but there are scenes that are classics of cinema. The attack on the beach is only surpassed by the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan and has better lines I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The following scene sums up the entire Vietnam war (American teenagers with automatic weapons in an a culture completely alien to them and what are they doing? Being American teenagers, playing rock 'n roll loudly, waterskiing behind the gunboat and causing mischief when the wave rolls over the women in coolie hats).

delhalew
5/13/2011, 07:21 AM
Here is one yet to be mentioned, one I must add I have yet to see in it's entirety: Titanic

Elder daughter insisted her mother and I had to see it (we still haven't). I mean, we know what happens to the big boat. The story of the underdog getting the girl then losing the girl make it just another chick flick and throwing the really big diamond into the ocean is plain silly.

As for Apocalypse Now, the overall movie leaves the audience confused but there are scenes that are classics of cinema. The attack on the beach is only surpassed by the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan and has better lines I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The following scene sums up the entire Vietnam war (American teenagers with automatic weapons in an a culture completely alien to them and what are they doing? Being American teenagers, playing rock 'n roll loudly, waterskiing behind the gunboat and causing mischief when the wave rolls over the women in coolie hats).

I'm proud to have never watched Titanic.
Also, good point about the teenagers being teenagers.

SoCaliSooner
5/13/2011, 08:09 AM
:(

Sorry. One of my cokegobblers was supposed to come in here and act a fool. When that didn't happen, I was forced to renounce you.

Lott's Bandana
5/13/2011, 08:18 AM
Probably no one remembers this one, but I walked out of Network, puzzled.

delhalew
5/13/2011, 08:20 AM
Probably no one remembers this one, but I walked out of Network, puzzled.

How young do you think we are? :D

OUmillenium
5/13/2011, 08:23 AM
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...

Smells like...

Victory.

texaspokieokie
5/13/2011, 08:34 AM
Any movie that is all CG and special effects based. Without the special effects, it is nothing.

Start with The Matrix and go from there.

I like a great script and story...not special effects.

i like a certain (i know, this is hollywood) degree of reality.

used to be, wonder how they did that stunt ??

now it's heck, they can do anything with "special effects".

don't like (or even watch) movies about comic book stars. no superman,batman or spiderman.

texaspokieokie
5/13/2011, 08:35 AM
mulholland drive

i like this movie. or am i thinking about "mulholland falls".
the one with nick nolte.

texaspokieokie
5/13/2011, 08:37 AM
I thought Easy Rider was boring as ****

really like this movie.
it was made @ the right time.

delhalew
5/13/2011, 08:39 AM
i like this movie. or am i thinking about "mulholland falls".
the one with nick nolte.

No he is talking about a David Lynch film with some great boobies, but an elusive plot.

Spray
5/13/2011, 08:45 AM
The Rolling Stones.

Oh, wait.... wrong thread.

soonerchk
5/13/2011, 09:09 AM
Judging by my spek, people are quite divided on Pulp Fiction...

sooneron
5/13/2011, 09:15 AM
Here is one yet to be mentioned, one I must add I have yet to see in it's entirety: Titanic

Elder daughter insisted her mother and I had to see it (we still haven't). I mean, we know what happens to the big boat. The story of the underdog getting the girl then losing the girl make it just another chick flick and throwing the really big diamond into the ocean is plain silly.



Not that I love Titanic, but how do you NOT get a movie that haven't seen? It was cheesy- yes, but it was epic film making.
You're sorta like the Catholics getting all hot and bothered about Last Temptation when they hadn't seen it.

sooneron
5/13/2011, 09:17 AM
the movies i don't get are the Mighty Wind/Waiting for Guffman flicks



and Lebowski? i can understand not liking Pulp Fiction on a couple different fronts, but i think i look at someone a little differently if they don't like Lebowski

To me, you are becoming an enigma here. I know they are different types of movies, but in their subtleties they are very similar.:confused: I'm not referring to Pulp, btw.

soonerboy_odanorth
5/13/2011, 10:00 AM
Perfect for this thread....don't see why people love this movie and the only time I saw it I didn't get it at all....

The only reason people love it is that it is so completely atrocious that it almost goes all the way around the dial back to good. I think the people that "love" it really instead love mocking it... hence all the play acting of the characters, squirt guns, toilet paper, rice, etc. It is a piece of crap. Yet so are cow chips, and people gladly pick them up to see how far they can throw them, seemingly getting enjoyment from doing so.

I'll throw two more out there... Let's just say "Top Gun" and "Officer and a Gentleman" have not aged well. Not that they were any good to begin with, except maybe to adolescents.

AlboSooner
5/13/2011, 10:01 AM
can we add the spaghetti western: good bad ugly?

they were all bad. one just had a quicker draw.

The Maestro
5/13/2011, 10:12 AM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.

Excellent post.

On the topic of Pulp Fiction, I get that the movie is a bit strange, but how can you not appreciate the script in scenes like Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in the car, SLJ with the two folks holding up the restaurant and John Travolta and Uma Thurman in the restaurant? Some of the best script ever!

You don't have to love it, but that can be appreciated for the creativity.

delhalew
5/13/2011, 10:29 AM
Excellent post.

On the topic of Pulp Fiction, I get that the movie is a bit strange, but how can you not appreciate the script in scenes like Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in the car, SLJ with the two folks holding up the restaurant and John Travolta and Uma Thurman in the restaurant? Some of the best script ever!

You don't have to love it, but that can be appreciated for the creativity.

This. I have similar feelings about the Hopper vs Walken eggplant scene in True Romance.

KuppiKunta
5/13/2011, 10:32 AM
This. I have similar feelings about the Hopper vs Walken eggplant scene in True Romance.


True Romance was/is highly underrated.

The Maestro
5/13/2011, 10:58 AM
This. I have similar feelings about the Hopper vs Walken eggplant scene in True Romance.

Oh, and I failed to mention Walken's convo with the kid about the history of his dad's watch. If that isn't greatness then color me Keanu Reeves.

delhalew
5/13/2011, 11:07 AM
Oh, and I failed to mention Walken's convo with the kid about the history of his dad's watch. If that isn't greatness then color me Keanu Reeves.

"Whoa."

sanantoniosooner
5/13/2011, 11:13 AM
I've got a stack of DVD's that would make some of you commit suicide.

CGI....wizards...flying cars...interplanetary travel.....IT'S INCONCEIVABLE!!!

The
5/13/2011, 11:16 AM
I've got a stack of DVD's that would make some of you commit suicide.

CGI....wizards...flying cars...interplanetary travel.....IT'S INCONCEIVABLE!!!
http://emotibot.net/pix/1073.jpg

Jammin'
5/13/2011, 11:29 AM
Peter Pan.

Yeah, I know. It was one of my childhood favs, possible my very fav. But now that I have kids and have watched it as an adult, it's ****ing terrible. Pan is a whiney little bitch who throws a tantrum everytime he doesn't get exactly what he wants when he wants it. The little bastard is the only one to have really done anything bad (i.e. the **** cut off a man's hand and, as a joke mind you, threw it to a croc). And that whore Tinker Bell? Yeah, she admitted to trying to kill Wendy. Admitted it. On screen. But hey, no biggie, let's make a full length movie about her and convince kids she's someone to look up to. JFC Walt, what were you thinking releasing this drivel into the world?

Thaumaturge
5/13/2011, 11:41 AM
Peter Pan.

Yeah, I know. It was one of my childhood favs, possible my very fav. But now that I have kids and have watched it as an adult, it's ****ing terrible. Pan is a whiney little bitch who throws a tantrum everytime he doesn't get exactly what he wants when he wants it. The little bastard is the only one to have really done anything bad (i.e. the **** cut off a man's hand and, as a joke mind you, threw it to a croc). And that whore Tinker Bell? Yeah, she admitted to trying to kill Wendy. Admitted it. On screen. But hey, no biggie, let's make a full length movie about her and convince kids she's someone to look up to. JFC Walt, what were you thinking releasing this drivel into the world?

You can probably relate more to Peter Banning in the first half of Hook.

The Maestro
5/13/2011, 11:53 AM
I watched Peter Pan with my three year old recently. That movie was not racially P.C. by today's standards. Hilarious to go back and watch what you could say and do then. It was like a Mad Men cartoon!

Jammin'
5/13/2011, 12:06 PM
You can probably relate more to Peter Banning in the first half of Hook.

I relate to the pixie dust usage in the original Pan. ****'ll make you FLY, yo!

yermom
5/13/2011, 12:10 PM
To me, you are becoming an enigma here. I know they are different types of movies, but in their subtleties they are very similar.:confused: I'm not referring to Pulp, btw.

i'll take Christopher Guest with six fingers on his right hand, please.

MR2-Sooner86
5/13/2011, 03:14 PM
To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.

You really failed at life.

The Profit
5/13/2011, 03:17 PM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.




I guess you didn't like Mississippi Burning either!!

sanantoniosooner
5/13/2011, 03:19 PM
Driving Miss Daisey is right up Xing's alley

proud gonzo
5/13/2011, 03:32 PM
Lion King: the best protagonists are lazy and basically outcasts, that have an entire motto praises being lazy and doing nothing in life. Great message for the kids there Disney. I'm still not convinced there is a real protagonist in the movie. It certainly wasn't Simba. I thought half way through the film Scar was supposed to be the guy to root for.

ok, I won't even get into your inability to comprehend the plots of "long, old films". But seriously, you don't understand the lion king? The plot isn't even the slightly bit convoluted. And you clearly don't know what "protagonist" means. There's only one, by the way, and it's Simba. It's a classic, archetypal, coming-of-age story. Scar is the antagonist. And "Hakuna Matata" doesn't mean to be lazy. It means "no worries." Timon and Pumbaa were urging Simba to move on with his life and forget his troubled past rather than carrying around a burden of guilt.

Maybe you should stick to watching, I dunno, Blue's Clues or something. That might be simple enough for you to follow.

badger
5/13/2011, 03:35 PM
Sorry, I am skipping pages 1-8 to just say that "Where the Wild Things" are was an insanely long take on a cute artistic book and I really didn't enjoy it and didn't get why everyone thought it was so ingenious.

What was it? Were the different characters on the island supposed to be the kid's different moods or a shred of his personality in each one? Oh, now they're building a big round thing. And now there's birdies. And now the grouchy one is grouchy again. Zzzzzz.

bigfatjerk
5/13/2011, 03:39 PM
What was Simba feeling guilty for? And at what point did Simba go from being an annoying little brat that nobody could like to being a good guy? I never once saw that change. Just because he got older? The movie had no real guy to root for. Maybe in the first part the Dad is the closest thing. I'm shocked he didn't kill Simba as a little cub, because he deserved it.

badger
5/13/2011, 03:45 PM
We just went to see Lion King the musical but I've seen the movie a few times as well.

I think the turning point in the movie when even if you think he's a lazy prince is when he chooses to go back and face what's been haunting him for so long. You see that he feels guilty and that he knows he shunned responsibility and then he owns up to it. And then Timon and Pumba offer to help out too as "live bait" because Simba is their friend and all. So, they aren't that hate-worthy of characters.

proud gonzo
5/13/2011, 03:52 PM
What was Simba feeling guilty for? And at what point did Simba go from being an annoying little brat that nobody could like to being a good guy? I never once saw that change. Just because he got older? The movie had no real guy to root for. Maybe in the first part the Dad is the closest thing. I'm shocked he didn't kill Simba as a little cub, because he deserved it.
what Badger said. Simba felt guilty because he thought it was his fault his father died. He ran away from his fears and his guilt, and the changing point was when he returned home and faced those demons.

Just because you didn't get it doesn't mean "the movie had no real guy to root for."

badger
5/13/2011, 03:56 PM
Disney has created some really fun villains though and Scar was definitely one of them. Gaston from Beauty and the Beast was another. Poor Hiss from Robin Hood that was always foiled by everyone and everything. The list goes on :)

Falconnius
5/13/2011, 04:03 PM
Scarface was simply greatness.


When Tony was sitting at his desk, staring at his right knee and quietly mutters, "Manolo" to himself. awesomeness


Sophomore year at Tulane, 4 of us watched Scarface and took a shot of beer for every f-bomb (about 2 oz per shot) By the shootout scene at Tony's mansion, one the guys peed in the entry way.

How many of you know that Scarface is a remake of a 1932 film? I never knew until I woke up early a couple of weeks ago and the original was playing on TCM. The plot outline is basically the same, but revolves around Chicago gangsters. It was an interesting film to compare to the new one.

MR2-Sooner86
5/13/2011, 04:08 PM
http://images.moviepostershop.com/vanishing-point-movie-poster-1971-1020533333.jpg

http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30004252/2010/11/2010-11-01-09-31-17-8-the-blair-witch-project-cloverfield.jpeg

bigfatjerk
5/13/2011, 04:13 PM
After about Aladdin Disney went way down hill till Pixar came around.



How many of you know that Scarface is a remake of a 1932 film? I never knew until I woke up early a couple of weeks ago and the original was playing on TCM. The plot outline is basically the same, but revolves around Chicago gangsters. It was an interesting film to compare to the new one.

I've seen that one too, good film. The thing is that the 80s film was more of a 70s/80s excess film than it was about a gang. The 1932 version is more of a gangster film. Not that the 80s film was really a bad one.

Gandalf_The_Grey
5/13/2011, 04:21 PM
Schindler's List...I didn't laugh once :(

usmc-sooner
5/13/2011, 07:06 PM
Paranormal Activity not interesting not scary

SoonerBread
5/14/2011, 08:48 AM
Page 9 and no one's mentioned...

Pearl Harbor
Contact
Vanilla Sky (cept for the tiddies)

SanJoaquinSooner
5/14/2011, 09:15 AM
I agree with those who aren't big on films that rest on computer generated stuff, fantasy flicks, wizard ****, etc.

Also, a couple of people mentioned 2001, but also in that category for me are Close Encounters of a Third Kind and Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park had great special effects with all the dinosaurs but the characters in the film were not the least bit interesting. There was no reason to give a damn each time one was killed. An uninspiring script.

Close Encounters was a bore.

I liked Titanic. Kate Winslet is one of the great actresses of our time. She has entered Meryl Streep's league. The story itself was a great love story.

And it seems like someone always mentions "lack of historical accuracy" for determining if a film is good or not. Historical accuracy has nothing to do with the quality of a film. Zero, zilch, nada. Art doesn't work that way. Do you think Michaelangelo's painting of Creation of Adam accurately reflects how God and Adam really looked? Or for the skeptics, does it even matter if God and Adam really existed? No. It's still one of the greatest paintings ever. The same principle applies to film and literature.



http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wcQqAuTWa-4/Ru3IqPcW21I/AAAAAAAAAGU/6COft5dAl6E/s200/God+Creating+Adam.png

waynepayne
5/14/2011, 10:41 AM
Page 9 and no one's mentioned...

Pearl Harbor
Contact
Vanilla Sky (cept for the tiddies)

You should watch the original, Abre Los Ojos. It was waaaaay better than that Tom Cruise Cameron Diaz fiasco.

bigfatjerk
5/14/2011, 12:31 PM
Jurassic Park had great special effects with all the dinosaurs but the characters in the film were not the least bit interesting. There was no reason to give a damn each time one was killed. An uninspiring script.


I don't really disagree although music and effects make this one worth it. And I actually like one character in the movie. Sam Neill's character is a about the only character that's likable. And he doesn't really start off that way.

bigfatjerk
5/14/2011, 12:42 PM
I agree with those who aren't big on films that rest on computer generated stuff, fantasy flicks, wizard ****, etc.

Also, a couple of people mentioned 2001, but also in that category for me are Close Encounters of a Third Kind and Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park had great special effects with all the dinosaurs but the characters in the film were not the least bit interesting. There was no reason to give a damn each time one was killed. An uninspiring script.

Close Encounters was a bore.

I liked Titanic. Kate Winslet is one of the great actresses of our time. She has entered Meryl Streep's league. The story itself was a great love story.

And it seems like someone always mentions "lack of historical accuracy" for determining if a film is good or not. Historical accuracy has nothing to do with the quality of a film. Zero, zilch, nada. Art doesn't work that way. Do you think Michaelangelo's painting of Creation of Adam accurately reflects how God and Adam really looked? Or for the skeptics, does it even matter if God and Adam really existed? No. It's still one of the greatest paintings ever. The same principle applies to film and literature.



http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wcQqAuTWa-4/Ru3IqPcW21I/AAAAAAAAAGU/6COft5dAl6E/s200/God+Creating+Adam.png
On historical inaccuracies. You are exactly right nobody really cares if you make a good film. Tombstone is a pretty good film. Not very accurate historically, but it's a good story.

GrapevineSooner
5/14/2011, 01:34 PM
For me, it's Cast Away.

Great movie.

But why couldn't Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) leave Jerry (played by Chris Noth) after it was confirmed that Chuck (played by Tom Hanks) was alive?

Furthermore, why did Kelly marry if she, "always knew that Chuck was alive?"

SoonerBread
5/14/2011, 01:47 PM
Cuz she a triflin ho

C&CDean
5/14/2011, 07:33 PM
I agree with those who aren't big on films that rest on wizard ****,

You have 2 minutes to retract this statement sirrah.

proud gonzo
5/14/2011, 07:37 PM
For me, it's Cast Away.

Great movie.

But why couldn't Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) leave Jerry (played by Chris Noth) after it was confirmed that Chuck (played by Tom Hanks) was alive?

Furthermore, why did Kelly marry if she, "always knew that Chuck was alive?"
And there's no reason that Wilson had to get washed away. The movie ended about 20 minutes too late.

SicEmBaylor
5/14/2011, 07:55 PM
Lord of the Homos.err.Rings

sanantoniosooner
5/14/2011, 08:17 PM
I can't believe thousands of movies haven't been written from all the experts around here.

My Opinion Matters
5/14/2011, 09:25 PM
For me, it's Cast Away.

Great movie.

But why couldn't Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) leave Jerry (played by Chris Noth) after it was confirmed that Chuck (played by Tom Hanks) was alive?

Furthermore, why did Kelly marry if she, "always knew that Chuck was alive?"

Because she was married to the man and had his children.

Ctina
5/14/2011, 10:49 PM
And there's no reason that Wilson had to get washed away. The movie ended about 20 minutes too late.


Wilson washing away was him leaving his primitive life and partial insanity behind and rejoining the world. It was sad though, Wilson was kool.




I didn't get Dumb and Dumber. Everyone else thought it was funny. I thought it was plain stupid. Napoleon Dynamite was like that for me the first time I saw it, but then it got funny on the second viewing. Hubby made me watch it again.

My Opinion Matters
5/14/2011, 10:51 PM
Wilson washing away was him leaving his primitive life and partial insanity behind and rejoining the world. It was sad though, Wilson was kool.

HE SHOULD HAVE MARRIED WILSON LOL OMG HILARIUZ

northspeter
5/14/2011, 10:55 PM
i dont get the harry potter fascination...

Ctina
5/14/2011, 11:08 PM
HE SHOULD HAVE MARRIED WILSON LOL OMG HILARIUZ

Wilson>>> Helen Hunt

Ctina
5/14/2011, 11:10 PM
i dont get the harry potter fascination...

The movies = meh

The books are really good.

DIB
5/15/2011, 12:11 AM
anything CGI, don't care if robots beat up camaros. To this day, I have never seen Star Wars, Empire, or any of them, not one Harry Potter, not one LOTR. I just will never understand why a grown man with a functioning brain would ever want to see a movie with a wizard in it.


those Harry Potter movies are pure gayness as well


Harry Potter(s)
Star wars prequel
Twilight(s)

Wizard, spells, werewolves, vampires, interplanetary wars...cool for the preteen Jonas Brothers crowd.


I agree with those who aren't big on films that rest on computer generated stuff, fantasy flicks, wizard ****, etc.



i dont get the harry potter fascination...





Waste'em Dean!

GDC
5/15/2011, 06:27 PM
I snared a copy of the 5 hour workprint of Apocalypse Now. Report to follow.

jk the sooner fan
5/15/2011, 06:42 PM
Being John Malkovich

stupidest movie ever

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 06:52 PM
Waste'em Dean!

It's fairly common knowledge that at least 3 of these posters are dicks by nature/proxy. A couple of them are uber dicks. You know who you are.

And it's painfully obvious why. Let a little Harry into your heart and you just might be a better person. It ain't about "wizards." It's about a great story/storyline. Of course you mental midgets ain't quite sharp enough to "get it" but I still hold out some hope for you.

jk the sooner fan
5/15/2011, 06:54 PM
It's fairly common knowledge that at least 3 of these posters are dicks by nature/proxy. A couple of them are uber dicks. You know who you are.

And it's painfully obvious why. Let a little Harry into your heart and you just might be a better person. It ain't about "wizards." It's about a great story/storyline. Of course you mental midgets ain't quite sharp enough to "get it" but I still hold out some hope for you.

or it could simply be a matter of personal preference/taste

i've never liked that genre of books or movies....and i've tried them

hell i cant sit thru a Lord of the Rings

but yeah - you go with mental midget - that's so much easier a concept to grasp

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 07:02 PM
or it could simply be a matter of personal preference/taste

i've never liked that genre of books or movies....and i've tried them

hell i cant sit thru a Lord of the Rings

but yeah - you go with mental midget - that's so much easier a concept to grasp

Well, I wasn't pointing fingers, but it looks like dick #1 showed up. Who's next?

jk the sooner fan
5/15/2011, 07:03 PM
oh gosh i cant wait to find out

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 07:06 PM
Well it's gonna be some other no-life having sumbitch. Gayronteeed.

northspeter
5/15/2011, 07:58 PM
sorry im just not a big fan of kids fantasy movies, since im no longer one... not much for cartoons anymore either, unless they are old school....

BudSooner
5/15/2011, 08:05 PM
Any movie with Will Farrell, he is not funny in the least.

Ok, I forgot Old School was pretty damn funny.

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 08:25 PM
sorry im just not a big fan of kids fantasy movies, since im no longer one... not much for cartoons anymore either, unless they are old school....

So, what you're really trying to say is that since it's a story/stories about children it's gotta be a kids book, right? You and about a million other numbnutzes have made the same stupid mistake.

You ain't even tried them. Hell, at least I tried to watch a peter north movie before I realized his ernie was half my sizes.

northspeter
5/15/2011, 08:27 PM
So, what you're really trying to say is that since it's a story/stories about children it's gotta be a kids book, right? You and about a million other numbnutzes have made the same stupid mistake.

You ain't even tried them. Hell, at least I tried to watch a peter north movie before I realized his ernie was half my sizes.

i could give 2 ****s about the book... im pretty sure this is a movie thread peckerwood....

MR2-Sooner86
5/15/2011, 08:28 PM
I laugh at the above who talk about "CGI crap" or "Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/etc. are gay" or "that's for kids" because those people have no imagination, aren't creative, and are rather boring in how they see the world. They have no vision, goals, or dreams of their own.

Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon inspired people at NASA and look where that got us.

Star Trek's teleportation system is now being experimented with and becoming a reality.

The holograms from Star Wars are being built in labs for, hopefully, everyday applications.

I'm not too worried. The people who said that, mostly in high school, to me either watched nothing but ESPN or had an I.Q. that hovered around room temperature.

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 08:29 PM
i could give 2 ****s about the book... im pretty sure this is a movie thread peckerwood....

Peckerwood? Do I know you?

northspeter
5/15/2011, 08:30 PM
Peckerwood? Do I know you?

Woody???

C&CDean
5/15/2011, 08:32 PM
Woody???

Woody who? Woody you go **** up a rope?

northspeter
5/15/2011, 08:43 PM
dont get mad at me cuz your ashamed at liking movies about children... blame god.. he made you this way...

Crucifax Autumn
5/16/2011, 01:26 AM
This thread certainly has shown us which of the guys around here wear panties.

ouflak
5/16/2011, 02:20 AM
2001 (I later read the book, and sort of 'got it'... I guess....)

Get Shorty - I understand that these made-for-Hollywood movies have fewer requirements for actual story, plot, realism, etc..., but even in terms of those kinds of movies, I couldn't see the point of this film.

Ocean's 12 & 13. Too bad, because the movies started with promise and had some good ideas sparsely placed here and there. Boy did they wander well off into Whoknowsandwhocaresland.


Sorry if I'm dragging this thread back on topic.

jk the sooner fan
5/16/2011, 07:30 AM
2

Ocean's 12


slowest.............movie.................ever

olevetonahill
5/16/2011, 07:43 AM
I dont "get" any of em, cause I just aint a big movie watcher.
Hell the other night I had finished my last novel, and watched TeeVee for the 1st time in forver cept for the Thunder games

Watched Sling Blade for the 1st time . I give it a "Meh"

XingTheRubicon
5/16/2011, 08:15 AM
I laugh at the above who talk about "CGI crap" or "Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/etc. are gay" or "that's for kids" because those people have no imagination, aren't creative, and are rather boring in how they see the world. They have no vision, goals, or dreams of their own.

Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon inspired people at NASA and look where that got us.

Star Trek's teleportation system is now being experimented with and becoming a reality.

The holograms from Star Wars are being built in labs for, hopefully, everyday applications.

I'm not too worried. The people who said that, mostly in high school, to me either watched nothing but ESPN or had an I.Q. that hovered around room temperature.


http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3513/startreknerd.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/200/startreknerd.jpg/)

jk the sooner fan
5/16/2011, 08:18 AM
I laugh at the above who talk about "CGI crap" or "Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/etc. are gay" or "that's for kids" because those people have no imagination, aren't creative, and are rather boring in how they see the world. They have no vision, goals, or dreams of their own.



my gosh how did i miss this gem

XingTheRubicon
5/16/2011, 08:48 AM
there's very few of us out there that truly hated scarface. i thought it was poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, and very very poorly scored.

michelle pfiefer wasn't even good in it, and she's in my top 5 all-time.

If only DePalma and Oliver Stone got pointers from you and your dad.;)

The
5/16/2011, 09:17 AM
Has this been resolved yet?

C&CDean
5/16/2011, 09:18 AM
my gosh how did i miss this gem

Truth is kinda funky, no?

jk the sooner fan
5/16/2011, 09:21 AM
Truth is kinda funky, no?

you're certainly entitled to your opinion, and lord knows anything different is likely to get locked down

whatever gives you more validation - knock yourself out!

C&CDean
5/16/2011, 09:23 AM
you're certainly entitled to your opinion, and lord knows anything different is likely to get locked down
whatever gives you more validation - knock yourself out!

This would be whining Jon. Again.

jk the sooner fan
5/16/2011, 09:25 AM
truth is kinda funky, no?

C&CDean
5/16/2011, 09:35 AM
Accepting the whiner tendency as truth is the first step in getting better.

Good jorb.

Gandalf_The_Grey
5/16/2011, 10:06 AM
I liked Harry Potter because as a flaming liberal, Hermione showed that enhanced interrogation doesn't work when she outsmarted Bellatrix Lestrange. Thus proving once and for all that Enhanced Interrogation never will be effective. This message brought to you by the Huffington Post and HiJack 101.

The
5/16/2011, 10:09 AM
I liked Harry Potter because as a flaming liberal, Hermione showed that enhanced interrogation doesn't work when she outsmarted Bellatrix Lestrange. Thus proving once and for all that Enhanced Interrogation never will be effective. This message brought to you by the Huffington Post and HiJack 101.


Plus, didn't JK Rowlings come out that gandalf was gay?

Gandalf_The_Grey
5/16/2011, 10:12 AM
Actually it was Dumbledore, which wasn't a surprise since "Wand of Destiny" "Death Stick" are not weapons many heteroes know how to handle...

The
5/16/2011, 10:15 AM
Actually it was Dumbledore, which wasn't a surprise since "Wand of Destiny" "Death Stick" are not weapons many heteroes know how to handle...

I thought Dumbledore was the guy from King Arthur that took the sword from the stone and killed that dragon with all the dwarves.

Gandalf_The_Grey
5/16/2011, 10:35 AM
That was John Galt from Atlas Shrugged..

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 11:11 AM
Adam Resurrected

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SI72Qn7mM5Y/TTIVBZWprNI/AAAAAAAABG0/ypWBM6lSApE/s1600/adam%2Bresurrected%2B2009.jpg

GDC
5/16/2011, 11:34 AM
I thought Dumbledore was the guy from King Arthur that took the sword from the stone and killed that dragon with all the dwarves.

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/687010/80801287.jpg

rs.soonerfans
5/16/2011, 11:37 AM
I thought Dumbledore was the guy from King Arthur that took the sword from the stone and killed that dragon with all the dwarves.

Dumbledore was the guy who tossed Grindlewald's salad. Croutons!

crawfish
5/16/2011, 12:19 PM
Sorry, I am skipping pages 1-8 to just say that "Where the Wild Things" are was an insanely long take on a cute artistic book and I really didn't enjoy it and didn't get why everyone thought it was so ingenious.

What was it? Were the different characters on the island supposed to be the kid's different moods or a shred of his personality in each one? Oh, now they're building a big round thing. And now there's birdies. And now the grouchy one is grouchy again. Zzzzzz.

I absolutely love WTWTA, but I will admit that it's not a kids' movie. A kid working through feelings of rejection, inadequacy and insecurity. I totally get why most people would hate it, though.

crawfish
5/16/2011, 12:20 PM
Lord of the Homos.err.Rings

I'm so glad your opinion doesn't mean anything.

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 12:26 PM
Nothing like The Bridge to Terabithia to cheer up the kiddies.

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 12:28 PM
I'm so glad your opinion doesn't mean anything.

He just hates the idea of having to argue why a journey is or isn't as fun as an odyssey.

MR2-Sooner86
5/16/2011, 12:31 PM
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3513/startreknerd.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/200/startreknerd.jpg/)

And you molest your children, so what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

I simply pointed out an experimented and somehow that's bad or looked down upon? Sounds to me like somebody is threatened by intelligence. Not surprising as most simpletons and bottom feeders of society are. I'll give you another chance though.

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first handheld mobile phone, has credited Star Trek for inspiring him.

So, how is that a bad thing again?

I'll take your call off the air, thanks.

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 12:36 PM
It's funny how if one guy or one gal hadn't ever lived....there wouldn't be certain products and then 50 years later someone finds out that they actually stole their idea from someone in their science class and that the whole star trek or star wars thing was just a really cool way to bug the geek they stole the idea from.

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 12:37 PM
Is pot legal yet?

MR2-Sooner86
5/16/2011, 12:44 PM
Is pot legal yet?

What kind you want?

http://www.tradenote.net/images/users/000/113/995/products_images/Clay_Flower_Pots.jpg

http://ringoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/flower-pot.jpg

badger
5/16/2011, 01:51 PM
I totally agree with whoever said Oceans 12. The only scene worth remembering is the thief getting by all of the laser security lights.

Anyone else check out WWE-produced films just to see what they're like? Since they're insta-view on Netflix now, I've been catching even the most awful looking offerings. The only one I've missed was their first attempt, "See No Evil," which I made through about 10 minutes of cheesy stereotypical dialogue before I had to quit.

The Scorpion King, The Rundown and Walking Tall: They were somewhat fun, just as it's fun to go back as see what crap movie stars have to produce early in their career before they can get more selective with what roles to accept (and yes, I know he was in The Mummy Returns first).

The Marine: John Cena is such a silly actor in every movie role WWE sticks him in. At least this flick had a few good explosions.

The Condemned: I can't believe this piece of crap got green lighted or that Stone Cold would star in this piece of crap. Also, the first in a long line of WWE films that have a token Asian fight scene.

12 Rounds: This movie didn't suck, but sure didn't bank well at the box office. Ensured that all future WWE films would go straight to DVD (and Netflix! yay!)

The Marine 2: Picture the first "The Marine" movie, replace the top WWE star with a mid tier guy (Ted DiBiase Jr) and replace all guns with knives. Zzzzzz.

Legendary: Yay! They base it in Oklahoma! Wait... you shot it in Louisiana?! Booooo. John Cena is hardly believable as a drunkie older brother. Includes Danny Glover!

Knucklehead: So cheesy. I want the time I spent watching Big Show in undies making fart jokes refunded pronto.

The Chaperone: If it weren't for bad dialog, it might make a good parent/kid film. Alas, there's bad dialog. You'd think Stephanie and Vince would have given Triple H's flick a better script.

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia: I think Mr. Kennedy was out of the WWE by the time this flick came out. And I think the film sucked because WWE's explosion budget for films has progressively gotten thinner.

They have six more in waiting: "That's What I Am" (starring Randy Orton as the bully's father), "Inside Out" (another Triple H), "Family Reunion," "Bending the Rules," "Barricade," and "No One Lives."

Anyway, anyone else out there like to torture themselves with bad films by WWE? NP no longer watches them with me because they're so bad.

Anyway, in keeping with the theme of the thread, what I don't "get" about these films is that WWE keeps making them. Straight to DVD crap at this rate. They can't be making that much money. Are they just trying to diversify their product, even if it means CRAP?! Does WWE get paid a lot everytime a sucker like me watches a crap flick on Netflix insta-view?

bigfatjerk
5/16/2011, 02:10 PM
I laugh at the above who talk about "CGI crap" or "Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/etc. are gay" or "that's for kids" because those people have no imagination, aren't creative, and are rather boring in how they see the world. They have no vision, goals, or dreams of their own.

Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon inspired people at NASA and look where that got us.

Star Trek's teleportation system is now being experimented with and becoming a reality.

The holograms from Star Wars are being built in labs for, hopefully, everyday applications.

I'm not too worried. The people who said that, mostly in high school, to me either watched nothing but ESPN or had an I.Q. that hovered around room temperature.

No it's not. The power needed to do something like that is astronomical. This is probably one thing from Trek that will always be a fantasy. Trek did inspire a lot of technology. I think holodeck is becoming more and more of a reality with the game systems that are being created now. Cell phones as you later posted. Personal computers basically got their origins because of Trek nerds.

But to me I don't really care for any of this when watching a movie/show. I think of a couple things when I watch a movie/TV. Is it good story telling? Does it have characters you can identify with? They both kinda go hand in hand. The special effects only matter if they are good with the story. Lord of the Rings is awesome because of the story more than the effects. 2001 stinks because it has no story.

C&CDean
5/16/2011, 02:14 PM
But to me I don't really care for any of this when watching a movie/show. I think of a couple things when I watch a movie/TV. Is it good story telling? Does it have characters you can identify with? They both kinda go hand in hand. The special effects only matter if they are good with the story. Lord of the Rings is awesome because of the story more than the effects. 2001 stinks because it has no story.

This right here. I wonder how many Potter haters like oh, say pirate flicks?

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 02:19 PM
I had a turd that achieved warp speed.

bigfatjerk
5/16/2011, 03:02 PM
This right here. I wonder how many Potter haters like oh, say pirate flicks?

Well just look at the strengths of Star Wars eps IV-VI vs eps I-III

The effects for the 70s were amazing. But the story and characters is what outlasted the effects.

I don't remember any characters from eps I-III.

C&CDean
5/16/2011, 03:04 PM
Well just look at the strengths of Star Wars eps IV-VI vs eps I-III

The effects for the 70s were amazing. But the story and characters is what outlasted the effects.

I don't remember any characters from eps I-III.

I can't ever get Star Wars straight, and in all honesty, I'm not a fan. I liked the first two (which I think are supposed to be the last two?) but all the other ones I didn't even bother with. Way too confusing for my simple mind.

bigfatjerk
5/16/2011, 03:11 PM
Ep 6 isn't that much more complex. In fact it's really the least complex. And it's redeemable in a lot of ways. Still have the characters you follow through the movies.

The thing about the newer Star Wars you have stories that aren't explained and no real characters. Just empty vessels you follow through 3 movies that are doing things that are never explained. Basically stuff happens for whatever reasons. And Luke's dad was actually always evil instead of becoming a bad guy because of circumstance like was insinuated in the original movies.

I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars either. But I respect the older versions because they are actually good story telling and you have characters that you like.

StoopTroup
5/16/2011, 03:11 PM
I can't ever get Star Wars straight, and in all honesty, I'm not a fan. I liked the first two (which I think are supposed to be the last two?) but all the other ones I didn't even bother with. Way too confusing for my simple mind.

Well...the first 3 were actually 4, 5 and 6.

That's a good place to start to clear some of this up....

Jacie
5/16/2011, 04:28 PM
Well...the first 3 were actually 4, 5 and 6.

That's a good place to start to clear some of this up....

Yeah, when they start adapting what were illustrated stories (aka comic books) into movies they can get pretty confunsing . . .

XingTheRubicon
5/16/2011, 09:32 PM
And you molest your children, so what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

I simply pointed out an experimented and somehow that's bad or looked down upon? Sounds to me like somebody is threatened by intelligence. Not surprising as most simpletons and bottom feeders of society are. I'll give you another chance though.


Another chance is all I can ask for.

agoo758
5/21/2011, 04:30 PM
Lord of the Rings trilogy. All three are ****ty movies with **** poor writing (save yourself the post, I am obviously not talking about the books idiots) and lazy directing.

SoonerofAlabama
5/21/2011, 05:30 PM
I never thought Avatar was as good as everyone said it was.

Lott's Bandana
11/16/2011, 06:51 PM
Look at less like a Vietnam movie, and focus on the transformation of the characters, and you may enjoy it more.


Netflix finally hooked me up with the Director's Cut, which I will be tossing into the BluRay very soon.


Mind is open...