Movies you know sucked but Hollywood didn't

Titanic
Forrest Gump
Lost in Translation
Speed
Point Break
Matrix

I must say anything with Keanu is just sheer crap - no matter the supposed substance and graphic factor - he just sucks so many pieces of ass in the realms of acting that he hurts my head.

Lost in Translation I wanted so badly to like - love even - but I just could not - would not in a house with a mouse on a blouse whatEVAH - bleh!

Let's talk about the overdone remakes ad nauseum...can we not come up with original ideas for even a mega second in an effort to tell a story? I am so sick of overdone tv series and movies with better color being the idea du jour...What is next? A boxset of DVD remakes with Leo DiCaprio playing all of Bogie's roles opposite of Lindsey Lohan?

You're going to sit there and tell me Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure wasn't fucking awesome?

four words:





my own private idaho

In The Bedroom.

What a slow meditative piece of crap.

The Cell. One big mess!

I will say that My Own Private Idaho redeemed Keanu for a milisecond (and half of that honor goes to River Phoenix) in so many ways as What's Eating Gilbet Grape did for Di Caprio but what of it now?

Listen - I own Bill & Ted on dvd and love the shit out of it because it is an actor behaving in in his own element - case in point.

And?





[Edited on Jul 04, 2005 by JuneCleavage]

See, I liked that one a lot. The ambivalance and ambiguity of morality. The Brechtian episodic plot. The naturalistic slice-of-life vignettes.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

You want me to care enough about a ring to watch for nine hours? Fuck you, JRRRRRRRRR Tolkien and Peter Jackson!

I thought the first Matrix was actually pretty decent. Without Keanu it might have been elevated to pretty good.

Lost in Tanslation I will admit, is overated but still a great film.

Again - River's Edge was an amazing movie - but not because of Keanu's acting prowess. This is not a thread about Keanu Reeves - more about crappy movies that have been advertised as amazing.

They did roll out the hype machine a bit too much for Lost in Translation, but I found it to be a great character piece; it was marvelously acted. And it may be corny, but I can't help but finding Forrest Gump sweet as hell.

The book was better. . .

Believe me I'm totally down with Brecht. But Brecht aspired to acheive some sort of catharsis in his audience. This film made me acheive some sort of drowsiness.

On the whole people don't do to the movies to see life as they live as it is. It 's quite boring.

So many films are over-hyped and under acted....There are so few actors on the scene today--who even come close to the talent of the past--and further, very few screenwriters who are capable of turning out a quality screenplay which engulfs the audience while challanging them. I think that the "starfucker" mentality in the western world has hurt modern cinema to no end....and to an extent the Indie scene as well....
RIVERS EDGE-great fucking film...but not because of Reeves, the actor who really carries the piece is one Crispen Glover-and the fact that it was a true story pre-reality/stoner woods murder/forensic files type hype in modern TV/FILM...That sort of story was not being done in that era.....and would not be done so well today....
I think the problem lies with the audience who goes and pays for these fucking steaming piles of shit every week....if we all stopped going to see crap--Hollywood would be forced to either come up with some new ideas or import more Bollywood.

Where is the new Becall, Bogie, Brando, Grant.....Where is the new Hitchcock, Kubrick ect.....

Nope. Only elitist dorks like me do.

This is what I am saying...what happened to the story line? What happened to amazing actors/actresses? What happened to wanting to make somebody think?
It is not about cause or pomp and circumstance. But about story line and effect.
I am just looking for a story is all.
Give me a fucking story.

What? No one mentioned Waterworld?

geez


[Edited on Jul 04, 2005 by MrDaft]

okay, so I loved speed....


my choice: LADYKILLERS.

I think the story had really amazing dimension, but I found the acting a bit of a sag....I have read all the scripts to that series of film--it is quite funny how much really good cyberpunkesque text was cut....perhaps Joey Pants and Keannu just could not get it quite right....Lost in translation---what to say--I wanted to love that film but alas it was just another blow up doll on the road to bliss.

Perhaps modern cinema would do well to leave the soundtrack selling buisness for awhile and focus on a script....The Matrix could have been a much more taut franchise, but to my eyes and ears it just ended up being a bad excuse to pay for bigger and bigger effects over really setting up the real focus of the ideal behind the story....

I have to disagree. This movie may not be Academy Award material, but it is much better than it gets credit for. Look at it in terms of raw ingredients: surfers, undercover cops, bank robbers, skydivers, a young man coming into his own, and a minor love story. The first four things turn the adrenaline knob up to 11, and the other two flesh out the script. Sure, the script was needlessly complicated, but it wasn't like they could get by on the acting talents of Busey, Keanu, Petty and Swayze.

It isn't often that you can take a movie about a bunch of overdone, somewhat dumb subjects, cast a bunch of terrible actors in it, and come out with something that surpasses anything they could have achieved independent of each other. Point Break might be stupid, but it's also a lot more fun than most Hollywood action films.

I would agree with that about 75%....I am glad you bring up the Anime side of it, because that is a big part of what rubbed me wrong...I walked away feeling like the story was--or could have been much more tight and better executed...but again, I think the MATRIX franchise strained under the Hollywood curse of attaching stars to a picture over who might have played some of the parts a bit over the top ....but I did walk away again respecting the talents of Laurence Fishburne again....and it was great eye candy....The franchise (IMHO) just did not deserve to hype it got...

HOUSE OF THE DEAD!!!! That movie stole my soul. And then they let the same director make ALONE IN THE DARK!!!!! That movie stole my liver. NOW they are letting the very same director make BLOODRAYNE?????? I think this one will take my heart, whether I see it or not. Hollywood is blind.

GothyMcgee!

Can't act. In a cast of bumblers like that, though, she sparkled.

Cold Mountain