great and horrible movies you saw

[meemee]

i want to keep a running thread for great movies or even terrible ones. i love movies. and i hate starting a new thread for each movie i saw.

it would be great if you just added what movie you saw that created a reaction within you. good or bad.

esp. if they are off the track movies.

i dont do netflix anymore (LOVED them) but i definitely do red box for the once in a while movies. limited to their choice though. and do theaters ocassionally.

so here goes.

slumdog millionaire. my friends and i loved this movie and had lots to talk about.

the visitor - an offbeat movie but a great one. really touched my heart. reminded me of station agent since the director i think made that too. i loved that movie too.

[Belia]

I'm watching "Armageddon" right now (Bruce Willis & Ben Affleck from 1998), and I LOVE this movie!!! :

I know people dog this movie all the time, but to me it's the best kind of brainless "popcorn" movie- funny in parts, exciting in parts, more than 90 minutes...... you totally get your money's worth. And it looks great in HD. Everytime I come across it I have to stop and watch.

As a matter of fact, I turned it on today b/c DS was crying, crying, crying and I was going to rock him to sleep, so I turned on "Michael Clayton" (which I haven't seen) and after about 3 minutes I had to turn it off..... no WAY could I hear all of that dialogue with DS's yelling.

I told myself "I need to watch something where the talking parts don't matter!"

[Theoretica]

I looooove movies.

One of my all time favorite movies is Malcom X. And almost anything with Denzel Washington.

Another fav is The Family Stone. It's really intricately woven with some flat out hilarious stuff in it. Plus it gives me and DH a 'tv couple' to aspire to, as both parents are sublimely hippiefied.

DH and I have a weakness for cheesey action adventure flicks and suspense stuff. So we love the Bad Boys movies, the Bourne movies, that sort of thing.

Movies I hate:

Captain America: World Police...we *love* South Park so we thought we'd love this. We didn't. We couldn't even sit through it. One of the few times we actually walked out of the theater.

I'll come back and add more, but that's the one that sticks out in my mind.

[meemee]

i have a weakness for romance. oh gosh at one time i used to watch 'love actually' a million times. its not so much the movie as that last scene in the airport where everyone is greeting whom they are meeting with a hug. i would literally bawl when i watched them.

i love kids movies too - esp. madagascar (because of chris rock, though i prefered the first one to the second) and iceage and shrek.

i cannot do horror. i could before but now i just cannot do it.

and i cannot stand slapstick humour. so many people enjoyed step brothers. i could not stand it. ewww. it was way too disgusting for me.

my fav. comedy is a norwegian film called elling. it is sooo hilarious.

i am a huge movie buff too and i used to do netflix when i watched regularly (my only thing when dd was a baby) and i loved the foreign film section.

BELIA: when dd was young and sleeping (yeah i watched movies at the cost of my sleep) i would watch dvds by turning down teh sound and reading subtitles. i was so grateful for that.

[AuntNi]

Theoretica, I love The Family Stone, too. I was turned off by the commercials, but after my mom recommended it, I just loved it.

Meemee, I love "Love Actually!" I watch it every Christmas, and some in between.

My current favorite movie is "Surf's Up." Another movie where I hated the commercials, but LOVE the movie. I've seen it probably a dozen times. It has a cute message, and the cast is terrific: Jeff Bridges, Shia LeBoeuf, Zoe Deschanel, the guy from Napoleon Dynamite, and Mario Cantone. It's good for every member of the family. At Christmas, my entire family, from my 61-yo parents, through me and my brother, down to my 6-yo DD, were howling watching it. My parents and I even got sucked into the behind the scenes featurettes.

My fave movie I've seen at the theater lately is "Doubt." I can't stop thinking about it.

[Theoretica]

Originally Posted by AuntNi

Theoretica, I love The Family Stone, too. I was turned off by the commercials, but after my mom recommended it, I just loved it.

Meemee, I love "Love Actually!" I watch it every Christmas, and some in between.

My current favorite movie is "Surf's Up." Another movie where I hated the commercials, but LOVE the movie. I've seen it probably a dozen times. It has a cute message, and the cast is terrific: Jeff Bridges, Shia LeBoeuf, Zoe Deschanel, the guy from Napoleon Dynamite, and Mario Cantone. It's good for every member of the family. At Christmas, my entire family, from my 61-yo parents, through me and my brother, down to my 6-yo DD, were howling watching it. My parents and I even got sucked into the behind the scenes featurettes.

My fave movie I've seen at the theater lately is "Doubt." I can't stop thinking about it.

nak

commercials? like on tv? don't get what youmean lol

[myjo]

My current favorite movie is "Surf's Up." Another movie where I hated the commercials, but LOVE the movie. I've seen it probably a dozen times. It has a cute message, and the cast is terrific: Jeff Bridges, Shia LeBoeuf, Zoe Deschanel, the guy from Napoleon Dynamite, and Mario Cantone. It's good for every member of the family. At Christmas, my entire family, from my 61-yo parents, through me and my brother, down to my 6-yo DD, were howling watching it. My parents and I even got sucked into the behind the scenes featurettes.

I love Surf's Up. I'm usually pretty luke-warm about kid's movies, but that one is a keeper. I also like Ratatoulli (sp?).

I'm mostly into Masterpiece Theater productions, indie movies, documentaries, and foreign films. Here's a list of some of my favorites:

BBC:
The Forsyte Saga
Bleak House
The Way We Live Now
Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch
North and South

Indie:
Dandelion
Juno
Danny Deckchair

Foreign:
Les Choristes (france)
Cautiva (Argentina)
Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit (UK)

Documentaries:
King Corn
The End of Suburbia
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Privileged Planet
Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man in the Sand

[Arduinna]

Horrible:

Mists of Avalon: There are no words for the absolute slaughter of the book.

Bloodrayne: worse than a B movie, stupid story that didn't follow the storyline of the game at all. Bad acting.

[roostery]

I love Psycho Beach Party. It's a sort of Alfred Hitchcock meets Gidget movie.

[sapientia]

I, too, thought the most horrible slaughter was the mists of avalon-that's one of my most favorite books of all time and the tv/movie rendition was a travesty at best.

I love Boondock Saints. Excellent. Of course, my most fave movie of all time is The Godfather. Gangs of NY is excellent, as well. Love The Secret of Roan Inish,
Love and a 45 was pretty cool
The Day the Earth Stood Still-the original
Love the old Romero Zombie flicks
The wind that shakes the barley
The departed.
jacob's ladder
apocalypse now
PI
there will be blood
ballad of jack and rose
snatch
fight club
smokin aces
serpico
walk the line
the notebook. Yes, I said it.

I could go on forever. I am a movie nut.

[spughy]

I don't watch a lot of movies, but DH and I rented "Mongol" a few weeks ago. It's a historical biopic about Genghis Khan's early life and while beautiful to watch, it's not exactly mentally challenging and smacks of propaganda. LOADS of plot resolution using the old "deus ex machina" that we were all warned against in high school. Also, most of the Mongols were played by Chinese or Japanese actors, which I found really jarring - although apparently they were actually all speaking Mongolian... so it must have been even worse to watch if you were actually Mongolian!

So, yeah, I'd give that one a miss.

[tinybutterfly]

I have a real fondness for cheesy, awful movies, but even I could not watch Octopus all the way through.

I especially love old sci-fi/horror movies...I even love NEW sci-fi/horror movies.

I love romantic comedies. I love goofy comedies. I love big epic action flicks. I adore Pixar movies. I am good with Disney movies. I enjoy foreign films, but haven't seen a ton.

I don't like James Bond, regular action movies...and horribly depressing movies.

Some movies I have LOVED...there are too many to mention all of them, but off the top of my head here are some...and some of them are "bad" movies, as in just cheesy.

Bread and Tulips
Off the Map
Rosemary's Baby
Amityville Horror ( the old one from the 70s)
Dracula ( old)
The Wolfman ( Bela Legosi)
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Happening ( oh sooo cheesy, bad acting...but it's just a hoot)
The Day After Tomorrow
Practical Magic
You've Got Mail
Sleeping With the Enemy
Braveheart
Rob Roy
Ratatouillie
BBC Pride and Prejudice
BBC Shakespeare retold Taming of the Shrew
Joshua
LOTRs
HP movies
Blood and Chocolate
The 10th Kingdom
Where the Heart is
You've Got Mail
Green Card
Hannah and Her Sisters
Bless the Child
Signs
Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Creepers 2
Leprechaun
The Howling
Acceptable Risk
Doc Hollywood
Jurassic Park, Lost World
Indiana Jones movies
The Goonies
Ghostbusters
Anaconda
Le Divorce
Safe Passage
The Big Easy
Flashback
The Princess Bride
Reality Bites
Stranger Than Fiction
Twister...

I'll stop now. :

BAD movies...

Octopus.

I was traumatized by Leaving Las Vegas, but it was a good movie.
Sophie's choice, same thing. Good movie, but traumatic.
The Grifters left me devastated.

I have a high tolerance for bad acting, cheesiness and cuteness and will overlook a lot in my enjoyment of a flick, but I don't do well with real life trauma. Those shake me to my core.

So...so far Octopus and James Bond movies are the only ones that make my BAD movie list so far.

[SusanElizabeth]

Originally Posted by tinybutterfly

BAD movies...

I was traumatized by Leaving Las Vegas, but it was a good movie.
Sophie's choice, same thing. Good movie, but traumatic.
The Grifters left me devasted.

I hated Leaving Las Vegas. It was one of the most intolerable movies I have ever seen. Even if it was well-acted, and technically good, YUCK.

:Puke

[tinybutterfly]

You know, I failed to make a distinction between movies I LOVE and watch all the time and GREAT movies...

Sorry about that!

[SusanElizabeth]

Here's another WORST EVER:

The Cook, the Thief, His Lover and His Wife.

A great movie if you love cannibalism and violence.

[tinybutterfly]

Originally Posted by SusanElizabeth

I hated Leaving Las Vegas. It was one of the most intolerable movies I have ever seen. Even if it was well-acted, and technically good, YUCK.

Yea, I know what you mean. A technically "good" movie, but awful to watch...and why would anyone WANT to watch it?

I had to remove the little puking dude in your quote...I have issues with him. * snort *

And...by quoting me, you have immortalized my bad spelling...I went back and changed it, but there it is.

La Vie En Rose was another stunner...just emotionally gutted me. Will NEVER watch that one again. Am sorry I watched it in the first place.

[becoming]

I'm a horror fan. Pretty much exclusively. Although I do love REALLY DUMB comedies, like "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," for example. Laughed until I cried.

My least favorite movie lately was "Funny Games" with Naomi Watts and that guy who played Peter on "Dawson's Creek." It was insaaaanely bad. Has anyone seen it? I would love to discuss the awful parts.

I really haven't seen anything I just loved lately. I'm borrowing the first four seasons of "One Tree Hill" from a friend, so I've been watching those like crazy so I can give them back to her. I have something like 45 movies on my DVR that I need to watch! I think I'm down to 6% of my recording space available.

[gomez12]

I just like to watch horrible movies.Still i am eagerly waiting to see more horrible movies.My favorite horrible movies are,
1.Saw
2.Evil Dead.
3.Resident Evil.
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gomez

Adult Dating

[myjo]

Hey tinybutterfly, if all the movies on your list are cheesy, than I like cheesy movies too! No need for the paper bad, LOL!

I loved You've Got Mail, Ratatouillie, and Pride and Prejudice. And Green Card, so happy someone mentioned that movie before me. I've always loved it, but didn't want to admit it. I also loved The Princess Bride, we've worn out two tapes of that. And Twister was corny and formulaic, but really fun to watch.

So, more than anything I love great movies, but I can certainly sit down and enjoy the corny ones sometimes too. Sometimes I'm just in the mood.