General Movie Thread

[DoodleJump!]

Ok, So How to Lose Friends and Alienate People was not as funny as I thought it might be.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Just watched Basquiat after planning to watch it for 13 years.

Meh.

[Steve in North Hollywood]

Just watched Basquiat after planning to watch it for 13 years.

Meh.

Agreed.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

I didn't love Kids.

Actually, I did like Kids, but that was because I went to the movies incredibly high for two whole years and everything seemed good.  I even liked Mallrats and Natural Born Killers.  But no amount of weed was enough to make me like Forrest Gump.

i was young when all of those movies came out (im still young) and i enjoyed them only briefly.  Kids i enjoyed the first time and havent really enjoyed it since.  ive seen 30 minutes of forrest gump accumulatively and i dont like it.  

i still enjoy mallrats when it's on network television.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

I know this movie was brought up on the show...I watched "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage last night. Holy Canoli. I think Nic Cage played the whole movie in front of a green screen. I thought I was watching a cartoon!

Here's a still of Cage as the "brilliant-but-damaged" MIT professor. Do you like cliches?



Here he is cracking the code. It takes him all of 30 seconds.



Now I want to see "The Happening." Hope I have enough Laffy Taffy to get me through it.

[buffcoat]

I didn't love Kids.

Actually, I did like Kids, but that was because I went to the movies incredibly high for two whole years and everything seemed good.  I even liked Mallrats and Natural Born Killers.  But no amount of weed was enough to make me like Forrest Gump.

i was young when all of those movies came out (im still young) and i enjoyed them only briefly.  Kids i enjoyed the first time and havent really enjoyed it since.  ive seen 30 minutes of forrest gump accumulatively and i dont like it.  

i still enjoy mallrats when it's on network television.

Controversial, but:


Mallrats > Forrest Gump > Driving a roadkill truck > Kids

[yesno]

Gummo is pretty funny, though.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

I don't get why everyone loves to hate Forrest Gump. It's entertaining, at least I thought so.

[Big Plastic Head]

I don't get why everyone loves to hate Forrest Gump. It's entertaining, at least I thought so.

I would pay to see Forest Gummo if it existed.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

I don't get why everyone loves to hate Forrest Gump. It's entertaining, at least I thought so.

i havent seen enough of it to hate it, merely enough to not watch it any further.

[hugman]

I don't get why everyone loves to hate Forrest Gump. It's entertaining, at least I thought so.

i love it. and i almost always weep during it.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

It just seems like recently (in the past few years) I've noticed this trend of people hating on Forrest Gump. There are so many terrible movies out there to hate, why this one? It's harmless and fun. My grandmother kind of became obsessed with it (which was quite odd if you knew her) which maybe gives the movie sentimental value for me. But still.

[nec13]

It just seems like recently (in the past few years) I've noticed this trend of people hating on Forrest Gump. There are so many terrible movies out there to hate, why this one? It's harmless and fun. My grandmother kind of became obsessed with it (which was quite odd if you knew her) which maybe gives the movie sentimental value for me. But still.

This post basically sums up how I feel about Forrest Gump (minus the part about your grandmother).

It's not meant to be high art. And, of course, there are a multitude of films better than Forrest Gump. But it's not a bad film by any stretch.

[Martin]

I'm posting this here instead of in the YouTube thread. My apologies if you've already seen it posted by me on twitter or Facebook, but it's simply amazing, and I can watch it all day long.

This is three minutes of amazing test footage from Henri-Georges Clouzot's aborted 1964 version of L'enfer (which was ultimately filmed in 1994 by Claude Chabrol, from Clouzot's script). The footage features Romy Schneider, who was set to star in the film, and it's just dreamy.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9dizt_extrait-3-lenfer-dhenrigeorges-clou_shortfilms

[gravy boat]

It just seems like recently (in the past few years) I've noticed this trend of people hating on Forrest Gump. There are so many terrible movies out there to hate, why this one? It's harmless and fun. My grandmother kind of became obsessed with it (which was quite odd if you knew her) which maybe gives the movie sentimental value for me. But still.

This post basically sums up how I feel about Forrest Gump (minus the part about your grandmother).

It's not meant to be high art. And, of course, there are a multitude of films better than Forrest Gump. But it's not a bad film by any stretch.

I disliked it intensely at the time because it was then hailed as a great film, both by the press and all the older jackasses I worked with at the time ("It was around 1994, and I was a young pup, fresh out of school..."), and I thought it was boomer nostalgia/masturbation.  The film equivalent of We Didn't Start the Fire.  It's neither harmless nor fun.