I'm a bit rubbish at watching films (short attention span)


However...    I've tried to watch LOTR about five times... never got past Bilbo leaving the Shire.


I'm in the 'love Pulp Fiction' group


Haven't  seen any Pirates ones... and I should for the same reason as Cariad.


I recorded Withnail and I the other night because it's raved about.   I'll probably delete it unwatched in a couple of years...


Oh and for the 'buggering about with the book' award.   Whoever did the screenplay of Captain Corelli's Mandolin should have been shot.

Grease...I flippin HATE it

Yeah.. but Temps... Grease is the word


Z.

I agree with those who don't like Moulin Rouge. I saw it on television and it was so in your face that it gave me a splitting headache. I'm glad I didn't see it at the cinema as that would have been even worse. That's the version with Nicole Kidman in. The film Moulin Rouge with Jose Ferrer as Toulouse Lautrec is a different matter. For the most part, the film is a good but not exceptional film. However the first 20 minutes I find to be possibly the best opening of a film I have ever seen.

Computer graphics.
Not all of them - but nearly all of them.
Just because they can do it doesn't mean they should do it.
I mostly prefer films with real human beings rather than computers.
I am quite good at suspending my disbelief (I like opera, ballet and pantomime), but
when they churn out things full of CGI (I think that's what it's called) I groan.

I also agree with the Star Wars, LOTR and Indiana Jones indifference....

Also 2001: A Space Odyssey...yawn....Blade Runner, and anything with either Russell Crowe or Danny Dire in it!

The Matrix -FX blah
Avatar - FX blah in 3D
Chicago - Musical crap
Moulin Rouge - Even worse musical crap
Vanishing Point - "Cult movie". Translation: utter shite.
The Other Boleyn Girl - and anything else with Natalie bloody Portman in. She CANNOT ACT!

Oh, and:

There Will Be Blood.
Well, there certainly would have been if I'd been made to sit through another minute of that bollux. Mind-shreddingly awful.

..An now n ever-y-body's heard the worrd
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
 
 
 

As has been said earlier; any film that is based on a novel and screws it up - which is most of them imo.
Forrest Gump - absolute crap
Tommy - the one with the Who in it. I loathe that film, I find it sick tbh.


I love a lot of the films in this thread that quite a few of you seem to hate

Tbh The first Matrix film was alright but the other two were just so bad that it kinda bled over into the first one and spoilt it by association. The same can also be said of the Rambo and Rocky snorathons

I love the first Matrix film, but the sequels should never have been made.


Starship Troopers - rubbish.

Donnie Darko - what a steaming crock of poo!

And Mulholland Drive. For "obscure", read "downright shite".

^^^^^ Both awesome films...

Awesomely overrated and awful.
Oh, and ANYTHING starring Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn or Will Ferrell.

Donnie Darko is in my top 5 of all time.  I loaned it to my sister, she switched off half way though.  It must be a marmite film.

More of a man film then eh?!
I loved it Loved this film, and the Butterfly Effect too

Anything Harry Potter

Anything Lord of the Rings

and, of course, The Great Gatsby

For me it's Avatar and recently Inception and Eat, Pray, Love  

Inception blew me away, I really enjoyed it 

James Bond fillums, all of them. Utter shite

Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Top Gun

Anything with Jim Carey in it.

Anything with Jim Carey in it.


Eternal Sunshine.. is good.  Truman Show's decent and all.  Not keen when he's going nuts.  Same with Robin Williams really.

I concur with Scotty... anything with Jim Carey in it.

Ref Saz :James Bond films


They so flaming long aren't they? I find myself drifting off after about half an hour. The only one I've ever really liked is the one set in New Orleans with the Voodoo and tarot reader.
There are some great baddies and good Bonds but the films are 3 times as long as they need to be

The Wizard of Oz has to be the most over-rated film of all time. Its sh*t!

All the Star Wars shite,
ditto Potter,
managed LOTR til Sean Bean died and promptly lost interest,
sat through Avatar and so wished I had just slept through it,
the Twilight stuff....just don't get it, none of them are anywhere near as hot as they make out....only decent vampire movies are Lost Boys and Bram Stoker's Dracula starring the brilliant Gary Oldman,
Trainspotting...can anyone explain this films appeal????????

trainspotting is a fab film.

but then I like most of the ones on your list (apart from LOTR)

That is cos you is odd Ditty...but I lubbs you anyway xxxxxxx

Slumdog Millionaire, it was meh IMO and overrated.

Yes, I maybe shouldn`t have said "anything" 
He`s got the acting capablities to play serious roles, just like Robin Williams. 
I liked him in Dead Poets Society.

Ref Darlo
Slumdog Millionaire, it was meh IMO and overrated

I've never seen it Darlo but I remember Edwardian Lil being really upset by it as she expected an upbeat feel good film and it's apparently really depressing. It doesn't appeal to me tbh

Mission Impossible Franchise
Charlie's Angels Franchise
Tomb Raider Franchise
Scooby Doo ...
Fantastic Four...
Get Carter remake
The Dukes of Hazard 
Thomas Crown Affair remake
The Beach
Days of Thunder 
The Patriot
Sliding Doors

The Bodyguard...self indulgent crap....
Four Weddings and a Funeral...utter shite.... 
The Matrix films....Keanu Reeves is nice to look at but is a rubbish Actor...always the same....
Platoon....the OH loves this??????
Mission Impossible Films...Tom Cruise just puts me off...I think it's his shortness and the Scientology weirdy thing...though I do like SOME of his Films
Anything with Keira Knightly in...if she wasn't good looking, she wouldn't even get a part in Hollyoaks as she's such a crap Actress.....

...any more and I'll let you know....

DiD

I adore Platoon....its a bloke thing

last films i got annoyed with-cos of the hype-paranormal activity-before that-blair witch project..and i havent read the whole thread-so if anyone else has named them films-i agree

I guess so Rawky He adores it too, so much that he insists on talking me through it EVERY time he watches it...........argh!!!

Gawn with the Wind 
James Bond (all)
Twilight
Rocky 1 - 97 
Chicago
Dances with Wolves 
Casablanca

Dame, I'm with you on all of those.