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Wait. Are you saying Pixar films aren't childrens films?

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My wife and I were so very psyched to watch Friends With Kids and that awesome cast. After about 15 minutes, we found it so banal and excruciatingly awful that we had to shut it off and gargle for 5 minutes. Too bad all that talent was just completely wasted. Our initial interest in this film has been irretrievably damaged.

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Tried watching How the West was Won, mostly because of the beautiful widescreen and amazing cast and crew.

Didn't take me long to find out why it doesn't get tons of praise. Holy crap. Couln't take more than half an hour...

I saw the first half hour of this documentary on Netflix. It said it was about the effects of being online all the time, but it turned out to be a tribute to the life of her sick father. Wasn't what I had expected.

The overly long musical intro and opening credits had me in a bad mood from the start, but in the hour or so I watched, it never really picked up and before long I had my Kindle in hand was browsing the web instead of paying attention. Also Lawrence is annoying. I told myself I'd watch it for the 60s list and I might come back to it, but I'm in no hurry to do so now.

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It was on tv, but I completly lost interest in it, and went to bed.

Philadelphia (1993)

Watched an hour of this movie last night, then turned it off. I had never seen it before and I was eager to see it... but it wasn't winning me over.

I didn't hate it... I just didn't think it was that good. From what I saw. It was directed by Jonathan Demme and I felt like I was watching his other famous movie, The Silence of the Lambs. From the way it was filmed, to the music, to the dimly lit rooms, to the annoying captions telling me "6 Weeks Later," "5 Days Later," "2 Months Later" -- every two minutes, it was so many days later! The movie even had that creepy cross eyed guy who played the insect specialist in Silence of the Lambs. I even felt like Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington were talking back and forth like Hannibal Lecter and Clarice, especially in that library scene.

Just because you make one really great movie... doesn't mean the rest of your films should feel like that one. I was very irked by how much it reminded me of The Silence of the Lambs in tone and everything.

And even though Tom Hanks won an Oscar for this movie, from what I saw... it didn't seem very deserved. I thought Denzel Washington was a lot better.

What also annoyed me was I thought the film was very sappy and sentimental towards gays. It had a very.... politically correct feel to it. In a way. And the story seemed very thin and very jumpy. It was jumping around from one week to the next. Tom Hanks' character, and even Denzel's character, didn't seem meaty. Nobody really seemed authentic.

Anyway, from what I saw, I was surprised by how mediocre this was. I definitely prefer Dallas Buyers Club as an AIDS movie over this thing.

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Noobs start movies and don't finish them.

True cinephiles always finish a movie. Amirite, mark f?

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

I just don't wanna suffer.

I thought Philadelphia had more weight at the time due to A) Being about a subject hardly touched before and B) Tom Hanks playing a serious role which was unheard of at the time.


Still a good film though.

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I certainly think the fact it was the first big Hollywood AIDS movie gave it a momentum/profile that it otherwise wouldn't have had.

Sure, at the time, it might have been something, but it didn't play like a good movie to me.

Interesting, though, how both Tom Hanks and Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor Oscars for playing people with AIDS.

Winning an Oscar for that kind of role is like winning an Oscar for being in Les Mis.

Now you listen here! Ain't NOBODY better say nuthin bad about Lawrence of Arabia, which I find endlessly watchable, even if just to see the scene transitions. That said, my fiance is not a fan.

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Charlie's Angels (2000)

45 minutes of Howard the Duck.

It wasn't awful... I was having a good time... but there was still another hour to go and I just couldn't............... I skimmed through the rest and thought it looked stupid as Hell.

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Taste Of Excitement - Ah, I wish that it were. I got just over 50 minutes into this when I finally decided that I just wasn't enjoying it at all, I didn't care about any of it and that I should just give up. It was dull enough when it was a Euro mystery, but once the espionage angle was introduced it was on borrowed time. It didn't last far beyond that.

I used to think this, but now I'm more like if the movie is total crap I don't see why I should bore and pain myself to death and waste time on a movie that sucks, when I could be watching a better one...