[Private Zod]

I just recently saw "The Village" and even knowing ahead of time what the "twist" was I still really enjoyed it. Shamalan's movie's have recently suffered from his own "twist in every movie." people were like "Oh that twist I saw a mile away." and forget what the film is trying to say. I thought it was well done and went along with his other four films that I really enjoyed.

Although "Ocean's 12" sucked, there was one funny scene where Damon's character is talking to the real Bruce Willis and explaining to him when he figured out he was dead in "Sixth Sense". Willis turned to someone and said "Everyone now says they figured it out, yet the film still grossed $600 Million." Too many people try to find the faults, twists, and inside shit with so many films yet can't sit back and try to enjoy the for what their purpose is...escapist entertainment.

[Slade]

I think part of the Incredibles' point was to spoof the Fantastic Four, like in Ice Station Impossible, a Venture Bros. episode.

[Dragonspawn]

HOW DARE YOU!! I love chronicals of Riddick! and AvP, although overly dark was pretty good...wow you are really hard to please!

[A Link to the Past]

What? It was NOT pretty good. We expected Alien. We expected Predator. What we got was them hitting rock bottom with the series and continue digging.

[Marky]

The Village?  Please, movie is only good for watching once, and even then you can see the supposed "twist" coming a mile off!

Good for watching once? It wasn't even good for one view!

I agree the most with 'Treasure Hunt' that one was so lame and unbelievable. Funny how the largest treasure ever can only be found when using the history of the USA, a country that only exists for 200 years...

Edit: I can't believe no one put that horror movie with Sarah Michelle Geller on it. I can't even remember how it's called, The Unforgotten or something, right? It sucked really bad.

This post has been edited by Marky: 17 May 2005 - 06:43 AM

[Renegade]

I'm glad you like propaganda, via Farenheit 9/11.

[floppydisk]

Yeah, The Forgotten was interesting for the first 15 minutes, then it started using crappy plot devices, and the inherent romance story, and the crappy alien thing. I could tell I wouldn't like this movie, my sister wouldn't shut up about it. She described it as "Oh my GOD, that was great!" several times. I fucking hate her.

[civilian_number_two]

I'm glad you like propaganda, via Farenheit 9/11.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fight propaganda with propaganda. Saddam is in league with Osama. Osama is behind 9/11. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

[Darth Borba]

I liked Shaun of the Dead a lot. I thought it was pretty good.



And I thought Napolean Dynamite was pretty stupid. I thought it was kind of funny, I liked the character and how he acted, they should have done SOMETHING though.. I mean I always wanted to see a movie with just cool characters doing cool things, but this movie didn't have anyone doing anything cool.

[floppydisk]

Right on target.

[LiocModnar]

Exactly what's the appeal to the adaptation of I, Robot? It's another one of those When ___s Attack endeavours from Fox. The robots' breaking of the Three Laws was inconsistant, the premise didn't feel very Asimovian, and Susan Calvin portrayal was completely slaughtered.

[Harvey Globetrotter]

Fairly accurate overall, but I have some General Grievances (God I'm witty). First, the ones you liked.

FAHRENHEIT 9/11

Unresearched, ham-fisted propaganda and specualtion is not acceptable documentary film making.

Hero

Basically stylised crap if you ask me.

MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, The

I'm against anything that presents a mass murderer as a good guy. Do we venerate Hitler? No. Then why Che?

Passion OF THE CHRIST, The

Laughable in terms of supposed realism. Graphic yes. Disturbing yes. But if you hit an average man 7 times with a cat-o-nine tails, they're dead, let alone a slight man 50 times.

Village, The

M Night Shalyaman is getting real boring, this piece of crap was no exception.


Now, the ones you hated

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

You doofus. All Charlie Kaufman bashers should die.

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE

I have to really agree heavily with you on this one though. Big, dumb and stupid. Seinfeld would have made Freak Show funny for the fact that you'd never actually see him and your imagination would do all the work, like with the ugly baby and the goiter lady.

HellBoy

It wasn't bad enough to sit aside some of the dreck here.

KILL BILL VOL. 2

Much better than the first one. I really enjoyed this flick.

MILLION DOLLAR BABY

Another emphatic agreement. Manipulative crap.

NOTEBOOK, THE

Again, I really hated this too. That's two hours of my life I'm never getting back.

[floppydisk]

MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, The

I'm against anything that presents a mass murderer as a good guy. Do we venerate Hitler? No. Then why Che?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm not going to argue with you about this, but I can smell JM coming now...

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

You doofus. All Charlie Kaufman bashers should die.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I like the subtlety of your argument here...

[Mnesymone]

2004 was a year of A LOT of GREAT movies, good movies, and the worst movies in all of human history. Here they are;

Best Films of 2004 (Alphabetical Order)
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
Passion OF THE CHRIST, The
SUPER SIZE ME

THE WORST FILMS of 2004
   


Aviator, The
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN 
HellBoy 

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Responding to original post here. Wherever one is omitted from this list its because I agreed or didn't see the movie.
Fahrenheit 9/11... well - I found it sensationalist propaganda, admittedly the other side of the argument is also sensationalist propaganda but I suspect the truth is closer to the middle. Nowhere near as engaging as "bowling for columbine" and it struck me that bushwhacking was kind of taking a shot at a sitting duck.
The Passion of the Christ... it might have been a no-holds-barred realism with all the vagaries of crucifixion but that does not make it a good film. Weakest onscreen Satan ever. 15 minutes of scourging was more than enough and I felt extremely upset after watching it - not upset in the sad sense I got from "Finding Neverland" or any proper tragedy, but physically ill. Also the use of Aramaic may have been out of biblical loyalties but it made the film artistically inacessible.
Super Size Me... again with the physically ill.
Aviator... the quaratine scenes had all the subtlety of being concussed with a brick and the reappearance of the women late in the film failed to convince, but the planes were mechanically amazing and it had some superlative acting... Kate and Cate primarily and its always nice to see Ian Holm. Not a great film, and definitely not something I would consider an oscar contender but not one of the worst.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - artistically lovely, refreshingly good performance from Carrey, interesting concept and a succesful integration of all the various elements of filmmaking.
Harry potter - well, it wasn't great, but it was an enjoyable evening movie, Alan Rickman can save any film amd though there were countless lost opportunities it wasn't one of the worst films kicking around.
Hellboy - though I expected a comic book craptacular better than that lame Phantom flick but nowhere near the X-men conversions, I was surprised by this one. The absence of big name actors (problem which sank Phantom and Daredevil), the portrayal of Hellboy as a childish and not particularly graceful hero worked, Rasputin is a villain with great potential and the opening confrontation with the Nazis worked well enough - not great, but I survived watching it so it doesn't graveyard itself.

[Lord Aquaman]

I nominate "Catwoman" as the worst film of 2004.