Shockingly bad movies you watched because they won awards etc

[edabomb]

There Will Be Blood anyone?? Great slow build up, but the climax with the tenpin just didn't do it for me. Kinda felt like I'd wasted a couple of hours afterwards.

 

[Fire]

Come on...

Why did you think it was shit?

Dunno. I saw it over five years ago now and can't really remember why. My flatmate at the time was talking it up to me, saying I must see it, etc.

I'll be honest though, I wasn't really paying attention. I'd actually forgotten about it until I read about it on this thread. Gonna go to JB hi-fi and buy it and sit down again actually, try to appreciate it this time.

 

[Aragorn]

so did anyone watch "the hours" with nicole kidman and can we all at least agree this was the worst movie ever nominated for a best film award at the oscars?

 

[hrundi99]

Dunno. I saw it over five years ago now and can't really remember why. My flatmate at the time was talking it up to me, saying I must see it, etc.

I'll be honest though, I wasn't really paying attention. I'd actually forgotten about it until I read about it on this thread. Gonna go to JB hi-fi and buy it and sit down again actually, try to appreciate it this time.

My film therapy appears to be working...

 

[Fire]

My film therapy appears to be working...

I'm interested to check it out again as it is a 'modern cult classic' of sorts, I'll let you know what I think mate. Cheers!

 

[Aragorn]

I'm interested to check it out again as it is a 'modern cult classic' of sorts, I'll let you know what I think mate. Cheers!

what movie?

 

[bileduct]

Has mullholland drive beeen mentioned yet?

Noooooo... Mulholland Drive was great. As was Lost Highway.

 

[bileduct]

Signs

That dude has made some really f**kin shit films.

I quite liked the Sixth Sense. I saw that on VCD a few months before it came out at the flicks here. I watched it without knowing what it was about and wasn't aware there was a twist ending, never looked for one and was genuinely surprised by it.

Unbreakable was ok, but it was a big giant turd rollercoaster after that, culminating in The Happening which was the final straw.

 

[Fire]

what movie?

Donnie Darko.

 

[bileduct]

Zoolander and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are the only two films I've ever walked out of at the cinema. I loved the original HHGTTG radio plays, the first two books and the TV series, but I could not sit through the movie.

Zoolander I could not get into at all. The petrol fight was amusing, but I just don't find Ben Stiller funny and Will Ferrell is hit and miss.

 

[bluesbreaker]

Has Amadeus been mentioned? Terrible movie.

The Seventh Sign/Seal, the swedish black and white one, terrible movie.

Children of Men - awesome, watch a guy drive around in a f**king car for 45 minutes with some whinging girl... real exciting Clive.

There Will Be Blood - boring as f**k, the ending was rubbish

The Godfather pt 1 - Takes 2 hours to even get remotely interesting, pt 2 kicked ass though

Avatar - comfortably could've gone for about 4 and a half hours less. probably still would've been shithouse though.

Fargo - Don't get the hype, used to love it when i was younger though, probably cause of the woodchipper. Coen brothers always

Shakespeare in Love - steaming pile of shit

All kubricks' movie (except maybe 2001) - just don't get him at all.

 

[gUt]

Donnie darko has a lot of deep themes running through it that most people wouldn't see and/or appreciate unless you open your mind

A true masterpiece of our time

Correct, it touches on a lot of philosophical and metaphysical questions, all while paying backhanded compliments to 80s pop culture in America. Really enjoyed this movie.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Godfather 1 shockingly bad? f**k you should be banned from watching cinema

 

[Thomas]

I came home last night and walked in on my missus watching the Justin Bieber movie. To be honest,I probably would have preferred walking in and seeing her in a gangbang featuring a geniused goat and Alan Jones.

Still, I watched it.

 

[Aragorn]

I came home last night and walked in on my missus watching the Justin Bieber movie. To be honest,I probably would have preferred walking in and seeing her in a gangbang featuring a geniused goat and Alan Jones.

Still, I watched it.

FMD, how are you and your wife?

 

[Springs]

Has Amadeus been mentioned? Terrible movie.

The Seventh Sign/Seal, the swedish black and white one, terrible movie.

Children of Men - awesome, watch a guy drive around in a f**king car for 45 minutes with some whinging girl... real exciting Clive.

There Will Be Blood - boring as f**k, the ending was rubbish

The Godfather pt 1 - Takes 2 hours to even get remotely interesting, pt 2 kicked ass though

Avatar - comfortably could've gone for about 4 and a half hours less. probably still would've been shithouse though.

Fargo - Don't get the hype, used to love it when i was younger though, probably cause of the woodchipper. Coen brothers always

Shakespeare in Love - steaming pile of shit

All kubricks' movie (except maybe 2001) - just don't get him at all.

Wow, what movies do you like exactly?

 

[Thomas]

FMD, how are you and your wife?

I...I...I don't want to talk about it.

 

[edabomb]

Melancholia anyone?

I thought it was pretty good - certainly a great visual feast. I found points of it a little too slow - though I would watch it again.

 

[Eddie Lab]

not sure if 'The Grey' won anything but I found it a bit disappointing. not shockingly bad just not up to the hype I heard it was.

 

[hrundi99]

Melancholia anyone?

I thought it was pretty good - certainly a great visual feast. I found points of it a little too slow - though I would watch it again.

I have a copy but I haven't watched it yet...