Least Favorite Movies this year

Not one specific part of the movie...I think that one user here can back me up on that one certain part of the movie that just...well you just can't describe.

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I heard Bowling For Columbine was no more than a desultory exercise in raising questions, while attempting to answer none.

I guess that is all one can expect from a propoganda piece o' crap.

What in the holy-hell!?
You start off by mentioning that you heard from someone that the movie was bad, snd you finish by making a statement about the quaity of the film?!
Shut up. Just... shut up.

I liked this film, and I'll accept criticism of it, but not uninformed criticism,

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Trust me. I do not need to see a movie to know it is propoganda, especially from a filmmaker who is a self-avowed troublemaker WITH A POLITICAL AGENDA. Let's be real.

To make a more detailed criticism without viewing the film would be irresponsible on my part, and I have no intentions of doing that. If I was visiting someone's house and the movie was on there, I would probably watch it. I'm sure there are some humorous scenes in it. But no way am I going to pay $6 or rent it 4 months later, while helping to finance the coffers of a confused, smart-ass Socialist filmmaker.

If Moore were a writer, he would be what's called a "show-off writer," and nothing more. Just like Maureen Dowd.

I can't contest this. I'm aware of my own bias against most movies about grief and suffering, and I was aware of it going into Moonlight Mile. I feel the same way about the last action in In the Bedroom - a movie I thought was terrific until Tom Wilkinson decided to wage a class war. Moonlight Mile, for me, was different in that it shifted the focus of the film to the fiance and how he feels about his place in the world. Intentions aside, the fact that this actually happened to Brad Siberling taints my viewpoint as well - at the end of the film, he doesn't seem to mind that his fiance died, because, well, he has a new girlfriend now and if his ex didn't die he might not have met her!

Perhaps you missed the last two thirds of the movie. I saw it as primarily is about the fiance, and the issues he's facing. Even the scenes of Sarandon and Hoffman are seen through his eyes and how their feelings affect him. Sarandon (who was, as always, marvelous) probably didnt have more than 40 minutes of screen time in a two hour movie, yet Jake Gyllenhal is in every scene. Sarandon's performance, and, to an extent, Hoffman's, take a backseat to Gyllenhal's confusion and become scenery. I regarded the issue of grief as peripheral because of this.

Sarandon is amazingly self-contained, and provided the only sense of power in the movie for me. She does more than what Hoffman could do, although he had at least 20 more minutes of screen time than she did. It's a great performance. Thought she was better in Igby Goes Down, but know what? I'd watch her in anything.

Me too. I'm willing to own up that it has a hell of a lot more to do with my own biases and feelings about some of the subject matter, but I'm not about to start defending it. I can't defend a movie that makes me sick.


Anyway, I'm at the Shirlington Library in Arlington, Virginia right now, killing time until my 4pm showing of Bowling For Columbine, a block away. Just saw Punch-Drunk Love at 12:40 and Manuel de Oliveira's I'm Going Home yesterday. I'm positively giddy.

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We'll just have to agree to disagree of course, but I do appreciate the reasoning behind the differences anyway.

And at least we do agree in that I'd watch Sarandon in anything too.

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I would too.
I would especially watch her in nothing.

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Did Van Wilder come out this year, 'cause that movie SUCKED!!!!! (in all caps and 5 exclamation points, no less)

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Yup, the turd-fest known as National Lampoon's Van Wilder was indeed released in this calendar year. I didn't include it on my list because I saw only the first half or so in the theater. I was killing time between two other movies and wandered in on a whim....and what a horrible whim it was. I honestly don't know how I lasted as long as I did.

Good Golly you guys get to see alot of movies. I don't get out a whole lot and mostly rent. So I have a short list.

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From all of your lists, I'm glad I missed Men in Black II in the theatres. I was also going to rent Blade II the other night, but since you all seem to hate it, I'll not waste my precious viewing time on it.

If you liked the first one, rent it just for sequel's sake. If you have yet to see the first one, watch it first.

I think the first Resident Evil should have been as the first game.

I didn't hate it. I have discriminating tastes when it comes to movies, and this movie rocks, considering what its intentions are: an atmospheric, action-packed, comic book thrill ride. Do yourself a favor and watch it.

I liked Blade the first movie better. a LOT better. it was more perverse and had a better villain. Blade 2 is okay but not great.

i agree this thread said "Least Favorite movie this year" and Blade II was it. The first one was better but Blade II was just not as good as i thought it was going to be. Worth watching when there is nothing better to do but i would hire something else if i had a choice.

Blade 2 is like, a thousand times better than the first one. There's those crazy vampires with the jaws! What's not to like?

Biggest letdown in Cinema- Eight Legged Freaks

Biggest letdown on Rental- Ghosts of Mars

Biggest personal letdown- Blade 2

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Seeing this movie on the previews excited me, I myself am a movie guru, and I thought this movie was going to be great, so me and my movie buddy's took a trip to the local theater to see this movie on its debut day......We came out of that movie very dissapointed, we were expecting hardcore action, fantastic plot, etc. etc. But it was by far one of the worst movies ive seen yet, I liked Battle Field Earth better, and thats sad. The plot was so lame and had no real meaning to it, the climax wasn't exciting at all, the only advantages it had was the sound and special effects, which you will only see in a few parts of the movie. Put this movie on your "DO NOT SEE LIST".

Changing Lanes, oh so slow and boring, even with Smauel L Jackson, it couldn't be saved.

Spiderman just plain sucked, everything about it, William deFoe at his worst, and then, to top it all off, Maguire was even worse

Men in Black 2, had potential, if only that had got a good director.

Im pretty sure I have seen some other bad films this year, just seem to have erased them from my memory

Adam

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YOU'RE HIGH!!! One of the best movies of the year.

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