One of the Shittest Films you've seen!
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Oh my god I have never heard such clunky dialogue and uberschmalz in all my days. Peter Bradshaw (the don of movie critics):
"After this dire romcom, I was to be found hunched in a foetal ball of pain, and so immovable that the cinema staff had to slide a pole under my stomach and carry me out like Dick Whittington's belongings. "
Oh my god I have never heard such clunky dialogue and uberschmalz in all my days. Peter Bradshaw (the don of movie critics):
"After this dire romcom, I was to be found hunched in a foetal ball of pain, and so immovable that the cinema staff had to slide a pole under my stomach and carry me out like Dick Whittington's belongings. "
Windigo Shmindigo!!!
Zombie Flesheater Anybody?
Digressing back to The Game debate.
I loved it first time round as I really wanted to know what was going on. Loved the whole concept of it all. I think I suspended my disbelief with it and didn't take it too seriously. On that level it is an excellent film. However, as I start to analyse more, it does have many flaws. Everything happened perfectly...too perfectly. What would have happened if he jumped off a different side of the building? What if he decided to kill himself with his own gun? What if he decided not to kill himself (like his dad) but instead hire a private jet, go to Egypt, search for some treasure to get away from it all and then try and knob the twins from Funhouse. (remember them? Gorgeous!)
In that respect, it has many plot holes.
Still....fcuking good at the time, wasn't it!
The Game is an awesome film. The "what if he didn't do x, y, and z arguement is pointless as it'd just denegrate into a film about a day in the life of a very boring man!
are you saying these are sh!t or good??
S**t, I dont mind films that have meanings but they both totally lost me, more so in Donnie Darko, it took some sitting there to stay with it
S**t, I dont mind films that have meanings but they both totally lost me, more so in Donnie Darko, it took some sitting there to stay with it
yr from essex. say no more.
S**t, I dont mind films that have meanings but they both totally lost me, more so in Donnie Darko, it took some sitting there to stay with it
but that is the point (not for them to lose you), but for you to interpret the film however you see fit. it doesn't matter if you get it all or not, merely if you can take some of the messages from those films and make sense of them how you see fit or relate them to what is meaningful in your life.
i agree with what drew said earlier in that the best films are those that provoke thought, make you ask questions, inspire you, etc, etc
for me that is cinema at it's most powerful and both VS and DD are like that.8)
but that is the point (not for them to lose you), but for you to interpret the film however you see fit. it doesn't matter if you get it all or not, merely if you can take some of the messages from those films and make sense of them how you see fit or relate them to what is meaningful in your life.
i agree with what drew said earlier in that the best films are those that provoke thought, make you ask questions, inspire you, etc, etc
for me that is cinema at it's most powerful and both VS and DD are like that.8)
I like different films as in they dont always have an obvious or happy ending. But they did just lose me, Vanilla Sky was better out of the two I have to say. And that did make me think. But Donnie Darko - felt I wasted 2 hours of my life. But then thats my opinion, 1 out of so very many.
but with DD, the story enables you to visualise scenarios of whats going on or what happens next and why the same way when you read a book, your own imagination creates the characters and the landscape and the mood.
i'm not telling you to like it if you don't want to, i just think DD is like an open book that can be as good as you want it to be.
From the Guardian:
"Ten years after its release in cinemas Spice World: The Movie has finally earned the recognition it so richly deserves. The celluloid crime has been named the worst film of all time in a poll of 12,000 British filmgoers conducted by MSN Movies. Docking in second place was the all-time box office champion Titanic, while Grease 2 took the bronze medal. Close behind were Kevin Costner's much maligned adventure Waterworld and the gruesome horror tale Hostel. Amazingly Gigli, the universally vilified flop that starred former lovers Ben Affleck and J-Lo, ranks eighth. That top 10 in full: Spice World, Titanic, Grease 2, Waterworld, Hostel, Anaconda, Batman & Robin, Gigli, Catwoman, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. "
"Ten years after its release in cinemas Spice World: The Movie has finally earned the recognition it so richly deserves. The celluloid crime has been named the worst film of all time in a poll of 12,000 British filmgoers conducted by MSN Movies. Docking in second place was the all-time box office champion Titanic, while Grease 2 took the bronze medal. Close behind were Kevin Costner's much maligned adventure Waterworld and the gruesome horror tale Hostel. Amazingly Gigli, the universally vilified flop that starred former lovers Ben Affleck and J-Lo, ranks eighth. That top 10 in full: Spice World, Titanic, Grease 2, Waterworld, Hostel, Anaconda, Batman & Robin, Gigli, Catwoman, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. "
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I quite enjoyed Anaconda. Pure mindless Hollywood pulp