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Post by mechagamera on Oct 10, 2009 4:24:35 GMT -5
I'm a fan of horror movies and on a day that I had not much going on I decided to splurge and go see "The Collector" on a whim. I had seen trailers for it, and it looked conventional enough. I wasn't expecting it to be great, but I was expecting it to be at least worth my $10. I was wrong. Soooo wrong. It turned out to be a crappy "Saw" wanna be written or produced by one of the "Saw" fellas. Think "Saw," but on the CHEAP, and that's what it was like.
-Marc
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Post by batmite on Oct 10, 2009 10:41:17 GMT -5
First, I hate going to the movies alone. A friend talked me into giving it a go. This grand experiment began and ended in 2004. Perhaps, the movies in question helped in my decisions making process.
1) M. Night Shyamalan The Village
Duped into believing M. Night was the modern day Hitchcock, I watched this movie in what felt like solitary confinement. After the great reveal, most of the audience groaned in disbelief. One guy even got up and voiced his opinion, " we paid $8.75 for this, daaaammmmn".
2) Alien vs. Predator
Sadly, I have always been a fan of the video game series. I never play video games but for some reason, I really took to AvP 2. Long story short, AvP was wretchedly bad in a noble effort.
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Post by ometiklon on Oct 10, 2009 21:03:06 GMT -5
Sphere..
Man I really wanted to like this one.. However.
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Post by GProopdog on Oct 11, 2009 18:03:55 GMT -5
After the great reveal, most of the audience groaned in disbelief. One guy even got up and voiced his opinion, " we paid $8.75 for this, daaaammmmn". lol, something similar happened in the theatre where I was watching this abomination. The audience groaned and someone said out loud "Are you f*#*ing kidding me?"
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Post by Mirkwood Lodge on Oct 18, 2009 0:54:18 GMT -5
Every time I've been out with a group of friends and someone suggests we catch a movie all spur-of-the-moment like, it has been complete rubbish. Every damn time. Finding Neverland and Freddy Got Fingered spring to mind. There have been others.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Lord of the Rings abortion....I mean trilogy. Of course, I really can't comment on The Return of the King, since after the first two I refused to give that bare-foot ass Peter Jackson any more of my money. (If you haven't seen Dead Alive, check it out. Now that's quality Peter Jackson!)
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Post by Satchmo on Oct 18, 2009 14:00:12 GMT -5
Hey, I liked LOTR and Finding Neverland!
I really, really wanted to like Appaloosa. It wasn't an abomination or anything, just boring. Sooooooooooo boring. I waited 115 minutes for something to happen that would somehow advance the plot, but it never happened. I've seen tons of slow movies that were very good and very rewarding, like There Will Be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but Appaloosa just didn't go anywhere, and I mean anywhere. It was a bunch of various scenes and plot points that never came together. What a waste of a great cast.
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Post by anymomentnow on Oct 29, 2009 16:28:35 GMT -5
The Avengers and Catwoman popped into my head first, but there are others.
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Post by Joseph Javorsky on Oct 29, 2009 20:40:37 GMT -5
I paid to see "I hope they serve beer in hell" walked out after 40 minutes and went to Zombieland instead
I had intended to see Zombieland the whole time but when I got to the theater it was gonna be about a 45 minute wait, so instead of just being patient and seeing what I wanted to see I threw away 8 bucks for 40 minutes of garbage
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Post by Lounge Lizard on Nov 5, 2009 11:30:49 GMT -5
The Gravedancers. God that movie sucked hard. Although the ending made me laugh with the escape from the giant ghost skull in the Hummer.
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Post by lazlo25 on Nov 8, 2009 6:00:03 GMT -5
Twilight. Wasn't my idea, thank goodness. I hope to buy the Rifftrax for it one day. Agreed, that movie was only good for nap time.
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Post by jackbauer on Dec 6, 2009 16:34:42 GMT -5
the first one that came to mind was that godawful quigley down under. i kept telling myself i was going to walk out, but i though maybe something - anything - might happen, so i stuck it out. nothing ever did. i was the first one out of the theater when it ended. What? I love that movie. Great Tom Selleck performance, gorgeous Aussie scenery, Alan Rickman villainy, sweeping Basil Poledouris score and a young Laura San Giacomo spilling out of her top in every scene? ;D That movie was great.
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Post by Nuveena on Dec 6, 2009 23:33:04 GMT -5
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Twice. Maybe it was my love of Transformers or my optimism that the second one couldn't be as shockingly mediocre as the first, but...god. I was wrong. The fight at the end of the first one gave me a headache; this one did too, only it stayed with me, like a constant reminder of my shame of seeing this movie. Okay, the effects were good, but everything else was just...ugh. Wheelie and the Twins...more depressing than real comic relief.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Movie made no sense; it was just one random scene after another with a dozen plot lines left unfinished. Jack was just a parody of himself by then. The movie was also too long and dragged where it shouldn't have.
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Post by Continuing Legend on Dec 7, 2009 0:23:02 GMT -5
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I saw that, and realized how little must have happened in the 2nd one, since I watched the 3rd one having not seen the 2nd and wasn't even a little bit confused as to what had happened in between. Same effect happens with Star Wars: you don't have to watch episode 2, because everything that happens is neatly summarized within the first 5 minutes of episode 3. Then again, nothing happens in episode 2, except the Clone Wars start, but only during the last 5 minutes. Oh, speaking of Star Wars and crappy movies I paid to see... yeah, the prequels. And the Clone Wars movie, which was surprisingly enjoyable if you shut off your brain and don't expect it to be good, but it wasn't really worth going in Jedi costume on opening day, which I did, but I have no shame. I went with my girlfriend at the time and I think everyone was like, how the hell do you have a girlfriend? It was awesome. I saw Twilight with Rifftrax, and I thank God I didn't pay to see it unriffed. I enjoy some embarrassing things, but if I ever became a Twilight fangirl I'd have to kill myself.
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