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5 minutes ago, JimKongUno said:

 

I'd extend that to all Sandler films. Utter drivel

 

 

Blended

50 first dates

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The Wedding singer

 

4 exceptions - all really good imo

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3 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Anything with Jack Black.

 

School of Rock is entertainingly ridiculous, and High Fidelity was alright as i remember it.

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4 hours ago, rudi must stay said:

 

Drugged Marilyn Monroe?I don't agree at all, she is good as is he. He was Oscar nominated. I think it's a dry film comedy wise there isn't actually that much in it, but the shot in the lift isn't a joke but a good shot visually and it is full of them. And them talking quicker isn't a joke but to show the differences in culture. See it's not a film making fun of Japan, if anything it shows they're more advanced than the US 

Don't buy that at all. The only reason the shot in the lift is a "good" shot is because it moves onto the shot that shows Murray surrounded by short Japanese people. And Japanese talking quickly or more to the point at great length doesn't show differences in culture, unless you mean showing American/Western ignorance. And a shower head in a 5 star hotel catering to an international clientele not being designed for people of Murray's height? Come on! 

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14 minutes ago, Nookie Bear said:

 

School of Rock is entertainingly ridiculous, and High Fidelity was alright as i remember it.

 

School of Rock was one that immediately sprung to mind as being unbearably ****.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

School of Rock was one that immediately sprung to mind as being unbearably ****.

 

 

 

I would not have nominated it for an Oscar, granted.

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19 minutes ago, Nookie Bear said:

 

School of Rock is entertainingly ridiculous, and High Fidelity was alright as i remember it.

 

 

Shallow Hal is laugh a  minute.  And the Holiday is class.

 

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17 minutes ago, Francis Albert said:

Don't buy that at all. The only reason the shot in the lift is a "good" shot is because it moves onto the shot that shows Murray surrounded by short Japanese people. And Japanese talking quickly or more to the point at great length doesn't show differences in culture, unless you mean showing American/Western ignorance. And a shower head in a 5 star hotel catering to an international clientele not being designed for people of Murray's height? Come on! 

 

It is a good shot artistically, as he's miserable and they all look delighted/ getting on with their lives

 

The differences in culture make it an intriguing watch. That's exactly what it did, it highlighted people's lack of knowledge of Japan. It was a wholly original film, and the shower scene, well it's a poor scene for me. But one 2 minute scene isn't a reason to pan any film

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37 minutes ago, i8hibsh said:

 

 

Blended

50 first dates

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The Wedding singer

 

4 exceptions - all really good imo

You forgot about Happy Gilmore. One of the best back 9s of all time! ? 

 

The Hotel Transylvania films are good too albeit he provides voice overs. 

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17 hours ago, EH11_2NL said:

Withnail and I. Utterly awful and completely pointless.

No!!! - I love that film so much, one of my all time classics.

 

 

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53 minutes ago, i8hibsh said:

 

 

Blended

50 first dates

Click

The Wedding singer

 

4 exceptions - all really good imo

 

14 minutes ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

You forgot about Happy Gilmore. One of the best back 9s of all time! ? 

 

The Hotel Transylvania films are good too albeit he provides voice overs. 

 

Happy Gilmore is a shocking omission from i8’s list. 

 

I quite liked Just Go With It. The longest Yard was decent as well. 

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2 minutes ago, iantjambo said:

 

 

Happy Gilmore is a shocking omission from i8’s list. 

 

I quite liked Just Go With It. The longest Yard was decent as well. 

Just Go With It the one with Brooklyn Decker (Andy Roddick's other half ?) and Jennifer Aniston? If so, good film. 

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18 minutes ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

You forgot about Happy Gilmore. One of the best back 9s of all time! ? 

 

The Hotel Transylvania films are good too albeit he provides voice overs. 

 

I thought Hotel Transylvania was awful

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1 minute ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

Just Go With It the one with Brooklyn Decker (Andy Roddick's other half ?) and Jennifer Aniston? If so, good film. 

 

The very one.

 

Aniston in a bikini ?

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6 minutes ago, iantjambo said:

 

 

Happy Gilmore is a shocking omission from i8’s list. 

 

I quite liked Just Go With It. The longest Yard was decent as well. 

 

 

Any film where he does that imbecilic, childish voice (you'll know the one) has been left out.

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20 hours ago, Dino Velvet said:

Don't mess with the zohan. 

I quite liked this actually, thought it was really funny.

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16 hours ago, martoon said:

World War Z. 

 

Utter shite. Sat through it at the cinema and, not long after, someone gave me the DVD as a present. Gave it a second chance and, if anything, it was worse. 

 

Hardly used DVD free to a good home. Collect in person and I'll reimburse you for the petrol/bus fare. 

Another film I quite liked. When it first came out I didn't rate it that much but I was trying to compare it to the book. Seen it again a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it this time.

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adambraejambo
4 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Anything with Jack Black.

I would tend to agree with you. One exception though. 

 

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10 hours ago, robroy1874 said:

Year One with Jack Black - awful!

Was Year Two the sequel?

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I watched Rise of The Krays last week. It has no redeeming features at all. Dreadful acting. Awful script. Looks terrible. No surprise Dave "the porno king" Sullivan had a lot to do with it. Utter pants.

 

I know people consider it a classic but I absolutely detested The Wolf of Wall Street.

 

Worst I've ever seen is Natas The Reflection. A horror film. Took the cast 2 hours to work out the town of Natas was Satan spelled backwards. I worked it out when I picked the ******* video up!

 

That 2nd Independence Day is really really poor too

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13 minutes ago, Jamhammer said:

I watched Rise of The Krays last week. It has no redeeming features at all. Dreadful acting. Awful script. Looks terrible. No surprise Dave "the porno king" Sullivan had a lot to do with it. Utter pants.

 

I know people consider it a classic but I absolutely detested The Wolf of Wall Street.

 

Worst I've ever seen is Natas The Reflection. A horror film. Took the cast 2 hours to work out the town of Natas was Satan spelled backwards. I worked it out when I picked the ******* video up!

 

That 2nd Independence Day is really really poor too

 

Was there a Count Alucard as well?

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Just now, redjambo said:

 

Was there a Count Alucard as well?

Now THAT is a quality Hammer horror.

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rudi must stay

You can add Bruno to the list. Also Johnny Knoxville's film about the Special Olympics was truelly hideous

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Samuel Camazzola
5 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Anything with Jack Black.

Enemy of The State (Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Regina King, Jon Voigt) is a great film. Jack Black is in it but doesn't have a big role. 

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On 31/03/2019 at 21:06, redjambo said:

Lost in Translation. I waited all film for something to happen. Nothing did. And folk I was watching it with actually raved about it afterwards. Awful.

 

I agree with you mate. 

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7 hours ago, redjambo said:

 

Abre los ochos. Much better film.

 

The good thing is that they have now invented these things called "subtitles" so you can indeed give the original a go. ;)

 

Aye, I know, but you don’t really get the same feel for it reading it off the screen...then again, Narcos worked well, I might give this a go 

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12 hours ago, Francis Albert said:

Opinions obviously differ but I thought it lacked as much in the way of character relationship or good acting as it did plot. A bunch of rich Americans making a whisky advert, a task they saw as beneath them, bored sitting around in a five star hotel in the centre of one of the most exciting cities in the world, Tokyo seen only through the high rise hotel windows. Bill Murray expressionless, Scarlet Johansen equally so doing her impression of a drugged Marilyn Monroe. The gags I remember would have been outdated in a TV sketch show of 50 or 60 years ago. Murray in a shower, too tall to fit under the shower head. Shot of Murray apparently alone in a lift, camera pulls back to reveal the lift is crowded with Japanese people. Japanese Director of the ad talks rapidly for a minute to the cast. Translator translates with one short sentence ("hold the glass closer" or some such). See, Japanese people are short and speak a funny language using twenty words when one will do. Yet the audience which has been brainwashed by the pre-publicity laughs uproariously.

 

Of more recent offerings, the thing about Queen Anne with Olivia Coleman. I have even suppressed the title from my memory, but can just recall the hyper-ventilating Coleman (matched by much of the cast)  and the  equally out of control plot and direction.

 

 

When we came out of that Coleman film (which I took my wife to on her birthday) she said she thought it was one of the worse films she had ever seen. Personally I just thought it was a below average failure, with some decent acting but a terrible script, and totally unbelievable modern tropes overlaid on history

 

Had to laugh when we saw the oscar nominations (though I thought Coleman was probably the best of the lot)

 

As for Lost in translation I totally agree and also thought the 'love interest' was pretty creepy (Murray was about 53 , Johannsen was 17) and very implausible.

 

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55 minutes ago, scott herbertson said:

 

 

When we came out of that Coleman film (which I took my wife to on her birthday) she said she thought it was one of the worse films she had ever seen. Personally I just thought it was a below average failure, with some decent acting but a terrible script, and totally unbelievable modern tropes overlaid on history

 

Had to laugh when we saw the oscar nominations (though I thought Coleman was probably the best of the lot)

 

As for Lost in translation I totally agree and also thought the 'love interest' was pretty creepy (Murray was about 53 , Johannsen was 17) and very implausible.

 

 

I'm not saying that all the praise for The Favourite was justified and that it should have been as highly acclaimed as it was, but it should be viewed in context with the other films that the director, Yorgos Lanthimos, has made. I've only seen two of them, Dogtooth and The Lobster, and they are nothing if not left-field, quirky, highly-individualistic, and surreal. I found them both interesting and quite enjoyable, but can understand that many would not enjoy them at all.

 

The Favourite was definitely not meant to be a "period-drama" or historically accurate, but much more so an interesting main character and episode from British history filtered through the unique and unconventional vision of the director, and - of course - the writers.

 

None of this is trying to say that you, FA, or anyone else has to like it or should give it more credit than you have, but I'm certainly glad that there are directors and film-makers around like Lanthimos who are not just chasing the Hollywood mega-bucks and are not afraid to be controversial and different.

 

(It was a whole heap better than Amityville Horror 4, that's for sure!  :))

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14 hours ago, superjack said:

Another film I quite liked. When it first came out I didn't rate it that much but I was trying to compare it to the book. Seen it again a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it this time.

 

I actually gave it a third chance recently but only got half way through. It's maybe Brad Pitt's acting. More wooden than an arboretum. 

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Billy Maddison with Sandler is awesome.

 

all the lord of the rings film are utter guff 

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This has become a thread about films people didn't enjoy, I think the OP just wanted a list of genuinely rubbish films as opposed to personal taste. 

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9 hours ago, Auld Reekin' said:

 

I'm not saying that all the praise for The Favourite was justified and that it should have been as highly acclaimed as it was, but it should be viewed in context with the other films that the director, Yorgos Lanthimos, has made. I've only seen two of them, Dogtooth and The Lobster, and they are nothing if not left-field, quirky, highly-individualistic, and surreal. I found them both interesting and quite enjoyable, but can understand that many would not enjoy them at all.

 

The Favourite was definitely not meant to be a "period-drama" or historically accurate, but much more so an interesting main character and episode from British history filtered through the unique and unconventional vision of the director, and - of course - the writers.

 

None of this is trying to say that you, FA, or anyone else has to like it or should give it more credit than you have, but I'm certainly glad that there are directors and film-makers around like Lanthimos who are not just chasing the Hollywood mega-bucks and are not afraid to be controversial and different.

 

(It was a whole heap better than Amityville Horror 4, that's for sure!  :))

 

 

I quite enjoyed it - I thought the some of the humour was excellent and some of the acting too. I get antsy about history being misrepresented a bit (as an ex historian) but I can forgive it for a great film. My wife really hated it though!

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2 hours ago, Tazio said:

This has become a thread about films people didn't enjoy, I think the OP just wanted a list of genuinely rubbish films as opposed to personal taste. 

 

What's the difference? Stating that a film is "rubbish" is a subjective opinion and thus is dependent on personal taste.

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18 hours ago, Jamhammer said:

I watched Rise of The Krays last week. It has no redeeming features at all. Dreadful acting. Awful script. Looks terrible. No surprise Dave "the porno king" Sullivan had a lot to do with it. Utter pants.

 

I know people consider it a classic but I absolutely detested The Wolf of Wall Street.

 

Worst I've ever seen is Natas The Reflection. A horror film. Took the cast 2 hours to work out the town of Natas was Satan spelled backwards. I worked it out when I picked the ******* video up!

 

That 2nd Independence Day is really really poor too

 

I hate the Kemp brothers version too. A relentlessly horrible film. I know the subject matter is grim but even just a smidge of gallows humour could have made a difference.

 

"Goodfellas", for example, was a film about vicious people committing vile acts but there was the occasional bit of dark humour to it. 

 

The Natas thing doesn't even sound good enough for The Horror Channel. ?

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21 hours ago, adambraejambo said:

I would tend to agree with you. One exception though. 

 

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King Kong was good.

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10 minutes ago, Marvin said:

Anything with Robert Downey Jr

:thumbsdown:

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? Zodiac? Natural Born Killers? 

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17 minutes ago, Marvin said:

Anything with Robert Downey Jr

:thumbsdown:

US Marshals

Iron Man

The Avengers

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On 31/03/2019 at 21:03, The White Cockade said:

Only films I have walked out of are Highlander 2 and Peggy Sue got Married

both utter guff

I got a dvd once starring Cynthia Rothrock which  lasted about 5 minutes tops

" Peggy sue got married " is one of my favourite films ! Its brilliant and a moving spin on time travellers especially when she meets her grandparents again

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1 hour ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

Natural Born Killers? 

 

Forgot he was in that. I'm just not a fan of him.

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