Most Boring Movie You've Ever Seen - Page 4

hayley · #46 05-08-2005, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

You were bored by Gladiator?????????????????????????????
Troy, I could maybe understand - though Eric Bana was too damn yummy... but Gladiator???? I'm shocked. (But then again, I saw the movie five times in the theater, own the dvd, own the vhs, own the book adaptation, and have a huge poster on my wall, so I'm a little biased.)

P.S.
Along the same lines, I just saw Ridley Scott's new epic "Kingdom of Heaven." It was good, but any potential to be great was dashed by the casting of ****bait, err, Orlando Bloom in the lead role. To paraphrase one reviewer, the actor who spent the movie in a mask (one of the characters was a leper so had to wear a mask to hide his disfigurement) expressed greater emotion than Orlando Bloom.

I hate Gladiator. It was OKAY as like summer movie epic material, but then when they had to go call it the greatest film of the year? I don't think so. I don't like Russell Crowe, and I think Ridley Scott's epics are overblown.

And wasn't the actor in the mask Edward Norton? (I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know if that's spoilery. I read it in a review) Orlando Bloom certainly sucks, but Edward Norton's torso minus legs, arms, and a head could out-act him and the majority of his colleagues.

GypsySorcerer · #47 05-08-2005, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by macmar71

Magnolia

I'm not too fond of that one. I did like the opening sequence, though.

MacMan · #48 05-08-2005, 12:09 PM

Well the most recent piece of crap I saw was "Oceans 12". Made no sense... What a waste of a great cast!!

Oh... and "Envy" sucked too, although I think Jack Black is a funny guy.

CreepingDeath · #49 05-08-2005, 03:07 PM

All this talk about Eric Bana reminded me of another really boring one: Hulk.

He's hot though, so I'll forgive him. The same goes for Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

ontheEdgeof17 · #50 05-08-2005, 03:14 PM

The Cider House Rules
Rules of Attraction

NaiveMelody23 · #51 05-08-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Word, and:

Word, but I think there was a method to the madness of Elephant. It was horrendously boring, but I think there was a reason why. I don't want to spoil it all for anyone, though, so I won't explain it.

I agree, but I just think they could've carried the message a little bit better. Maybe the director intended it on being just a droner.

Miss Vicky · #52 05-08-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

He does scrub up nicely but it's so weird that you talk of him like that. He started out here as a local comedian on some ****ty sketch show, so Hollywood 'hunk' is a step in different direction. I was just watching an earlier film that he appeared in, an Australian comedy called The Castle. He's a comedian, you never would have picked him and his wog Australia accent to end up where he did. Mind you, you only have to watch his performance in the film Chopper to understand, not so much the attractive quality (you mightn't think so highly of his appearance after that one), but the acting ability. You should also watch that one if you like seeing people's ears being cut off or just generally being stabbed in the head.

Eric Bana on a sketch comedy show? Wow. That's not what I expected. 'Course I don't really know anything about him or had even heard of him until Troy.
As for not thinking so highly of his appearance... well, let's of hot actors get ugly for certain roles, but I like them anyways. Russell Crowe got fat and gray-haired for The Insider, but I'd still do him.

Though his umm, attitude problem has started to kill my attraction to him. Joaquin Phoenix has love handles in "Ladder 49" and a full beard in "Hotel Rowanda" but I'd jump his bones anyday. But I'm starting to ramble, so uh, yeah, I'll stop now.

GateandGarden · #53 05-08-2005, 04:07 PM

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All this talk about Eric Bana reminded me of another really boring one: Hulk.

OMG. Worst. Comic book-based. Movie. Evah.

ontheEdgeof17 · #54 05-08-2005, 04:11 PM

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OMG. Worst. Comic book-based. Movie. Evah.

Heard of DareDevil?

GateandGarden · #55 05-08-2005, 04:14 PM

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Heard of DareDevil?

Oh wait. Haven't seen that one.

ontheEdgeof17 · #56 05-08-2005, 04:31 PM

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Oh wait. Haven't seen that one.

Consider yourself one lucky Lesbian.

Elecktra (the spin-off) was actually really good, though.

GateandGarden · #57 05-08-2005, 04:44 PM

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Consider yourself one lucky Lesbian.

At least our homos vs breeders poll showed that I'm not really the token lesbo around here!

GateandGarden · #58 05-08-2005, 06:08 PM

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I only saw about 5 minutes of the film The Hulk but in those minutes were far more interesting than the entire Spiderman film. I think Ang Lee is brilliant and I wouldn't just write it off as a stupid film like Spiderman or Dare Devil without addressing it's originality. Still, I haven't actually seen it.

You have to watch the whole thing. It was atrocious. Truly one of the worst things I've ever seen. I wish I'd walked out. And it really made me dislike Jennifer Connelly.

Serrart · #59 05-08-2005, 06:11 PM

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Yeah, before all of this he was a comedian known for impersonating our television presenters. He had his own show for about two nights and like everyone else's it was axed, never would have picked a Hollywood career for him. But after all this comedy, out of the blue he turned on a performance in this film 'Chopper'.

I only saw about 5 minutes of the film The Hulk but in those minutes were far more interesting than the entire Spiderman film. I think Ang Lee is brilliant and I wouldn't just write it off as a stupid film like Spiderman or Dare Devil without addressing it's originality. Still, I haven't actually seen it.

I'm always partial about Ang Lee, but I liked Hulk. He kept the comics dimension (especially with the green man visual aspect or the erm... Hulk dogs) filling it with overly deep characters. IMO, it came out as a conscious (or more likely unconscious) satire of movies like Spiderman or Xmen, where the directors are looking in the neatest way possible for the schizophrenic hollywoodian balance between those aspects. Moreover the father-son relationship between Bana and a quite disconcerting Nolte goes on the Elizabethan side: it's fun.

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As for Elephant, I thought it was brilliant. The pace was the entire point of the film! I was mesmerised by every shot and never found myself bored but I can see why would want it to hurry up. The film played like real life for the effect and......oh that reminds me, I had a copy of that until I leant it to someone, must get that back.

I like it a lot too. No messages, just life and time running by. Very scary for its truthfulness, it totally deserved to win Cannes over the melodramatic Dogville (wich I liked too, by the way).

Romy

NaiveMelody23 · #60 05-08-2005, 06:43 PM

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Eh. I don't know. The message definitely could have been carried better, but I think that part of the message lies in the slow pace.

Maybe, I guess we will truly never know