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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 22 Jan 18 7.59pm

Originally posted by Mr_Gristle

The latest Alien film.

An insult.

I liked it. I'm not sure what people want from an Alien movie. The only mistake Ridley Scott made with that film was listening to what people want.

 

gaddifi Flag london 22 Jan 18 8.36pm

Come on now..Withnail and I is brilliant. Who can resist a firm young carrot?
Paul Mcgann often seen wandering round Dulwich.

 

YT Flag Oxford 22 Jan 18 8.40pm

Originally posted by orpingtoneagle

La La Land.


Dozed off. Didn't make sense before my little nap. Even less after.

But made perfect sense during it!

 


Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 22 Jan 18 10.27pm

Originally posted by gaddifi

Come on now..Withnail and I is brilliant. Who can resist a firm young carrot?
Paul Mcgann often seen wandering round Dulwich.

It's ok, yes. But enormously overrated.

 


Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

kevlee Flag born Wandsworth emigrated to Lanc... 22 Jan 18 10.43pm

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

Let the Right One In - some pretentious Swedish stuff about vampires - utter tosh, never seen four weddings and never will, apart from the first black adder, the unfunniest, anything by Richard Curtis is to be avoided like small pox, likewise anything with Gary Oldman or Benedictine Cucumberpatch.

Surely you are joking?
The Firm? One of the greatest football based films ever, especially when he beat up Snowy at the end with Selhurst Park in the background and then got shot.

 


Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

Dan Theolmesdaleroad Flag Up north 22 Jan 18 11.10pm

Long time since I've seen it, but I didn't think The Sixth Sense was all that. Saw the end coming a mile off.

Although I thought it started off very well, I didn't like La La Land much either. That City of Stars theme drove me up the wall.

I would probably have added Mamma Mia! to the list too, but I have no intention of ever seeing it even once.

There was a similar thread on here some years ago, and my list at the time included Annie Hall and Midnight Cowboy (both of which won an Oscar for Best Picture). Annie Hall has some great moments in it though so I wouldn't say it was that bad now, but I've still never understood the appeal of Midnight Cowboy.

It's all subjective though, and I'm sure many people love these films and think they're absolute classics - as much as I do Singin' in the Rain, Star Wars and The Shawshank Redemption!

 

Jamesey Flag Wandsworth 22 Jan 18 11.26pm

Several comments before this have been luke-warm about "La La Land".

In all my long cinema history I have never seen such a preposterously overrated load of wombats' poo.

Third (sorry fourth or even fifth) rate in every category...acting, music, screenplay, cinematography, and so on.

I would probably have just dismissed it as a rubbish non-event but when it started being compared to the magnificent classic Hollywood musicals of earlier times and winning awards I gasped in total astonishment.

Wasn't all that keen on it really.

 


Nothing is fool-proof - fools are too ingenious

General Waste Flag Reading 23 Jan 18 12.06am

Les Miserables (Russell Crowe & Hugh Jackman) was absolute torture . Also, The Hurt Locker, winner of The Academy award for best picture a while back, has to be one of the most over rated. Billed as “the best war movie of all time”, its constant filming through gaps in chairs, cracks in doors or with other objects partially obscuring your view (as if you’re spying on the action). I thought it was a steaming pile of s***e.

What do I know though? Gary Oldman, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption & the Star Wars films have all been mentioned on this thread as dislikes.
Confused.

 

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 23 Jan 18 12.21am

Dietmar Hamann made me laugh on the radio once. He's only seen 17 films. Doesn't like films I think. There's another big footballer the same. I think he's playing now.

 


COYP

Dan Theolmesdaleroad Flag Up north 23 Jan 18 12.46am

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Dietmar Hamann made me laugh on the radio once. He's only seen 17 films. Doesn't like films I think. There's another big footballer the same. I think he's playing now.

I remember that! I think Michael Owen is another one.

 

YT Flag Oxford 23 Jan 18 6.12am

Originally posted by Dan Theolmesdaleroad

I remember that! I think Michael Owen is another one.

Michael Owen once said he’d never read a book.

 


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Harry Beever Flag Newbury 23 Jan 18 7.52am

Originally posted by YT

Michael Owen once said he’d never read a book.

He needs a hobby to keep him out of the bookmakers!

 

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 23 Jan 18 8.29am

Originally posted by Harry Beever

He needs a hobby to keep him out of the bookmakers!

He's a jockey now so almost there.

 


COYP

Stuk Flag Top half 23 Jan 18 2.15pm

Originally posted by Dan Theolmesdaleroad

Long time since I've seen it, but I didn't think The Sixth Sense was all that. Saw the end coming a mile off.

Although I thought it started off very well, I didn't like La La Land much either. That City of Stars theme drove me up the wall.

I would probably have added Mamma Mia! to the list too, but I have no intention of ever seeing it even once.

There was a similar thread on here some years ago, and my list at the time included Annie Hall and Midnight Cowboy (both of which won an Oscar for Best Picture). Annie Hall has some great moments in it though so I wouldn't say it was that bad now, but I've still never understood the appeal of Midnight Cowboy.

It's all subjective though, and I'm sure many people love these films and think they're absolute classics - as much as I do Singin' in the Rain, Star Wars and The Shawshank Redemption!

Me neither. I've had the misfortune of seeing a small clip of it and no one in it can sing a f***ing note, which should kind of be a pre-requisite of being in a musical.

Blade Runner was toilet and the synthesiser did my head in.

I'll add Gladiator, and almost any remake of a film ever.

 


Optimistic as ever

Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 23 Jan 18 5.37pm

Having watched the new Star Wars film last night I would have to add this to the list.

Utter, utter drivel.

 


"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

Mr_Gristle Flag In the land of Whelk Eaters 23 Jan 18 5.59pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

I liked it. I'm not sure what people want from an Alien movie. The only mistake Ridley Scott made with that film was listening to what people want.

Couldn't live with the instant gestation thing, which then wasn't rigorously applied throughout the film.

Perhaps as a stand alone space romp it can be thought of as OK, but it's not fit to wear the shirt of the first two Aliens.

 


Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 27 Jan 18 1.36pm

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

Withnail's ok but hugely overrated. It's moderately amusing in parts but I don't get the whole "cult" thing that surrounds it.

Other overrated or underwhelming films:

Blade Runner
Citizen Kane
Revolver
Forrest Gump
The Krays
The Sound of Music (f*cking detest it)
Braveheart
Singin' in the Rain

The Blind Beggar before West Ham reminded me of this.

Yes The Krays is toilet but the scene when Steven Berkoff playing George Cornell goes into the office in the salvage yard is some of his best, typecast, funny overacting. I don't know if the other characters are the Richardsons or Purnells.

118.30 mins in. [Link]

Edited by Rudi Hedman (27 Jan 2018 1.38pm)

 


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cantrbury eagle Flag Canterbury 03 Feb 18 12.08am

cant believe there will be blood has not been mentioned the scene where he crawls up the hill with the violins seems to last 15 minutes and the film just drags on for ever.

 

PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 08 Feb 18 11.43pm

the Gary Oldman movie about Churchill...... longwinded, narrow in focus, ultimately boring.

good acting, wardrobe, set design, make-up, sound effects. Poxy writers.

 


Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

jimruss Flag Sidcup 09 Feb 18 10.51am

Any Star Trek film.

Utter, utter garbage

 

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