Horrible movies, and the people who get duped into waching them....

["Skeet" McD]

anything... i repeat ANYTHING by Woody Allen. But then again i didn't go in with high expectations, i was forced to watch them for classes. But by God that was torture...

Well, I don't know how old you are...or whether you're a native Manhattanite. I was in HS and College during the Woody Allen years, in largely Jewish Westchester Co...and then went to University at Binghamton, which was literally Jewish Long Island in exile. Woody Allen was A BIG DEAL.

I hated the early Allen movies then, and I hate 'em still, as art...but leaving their artistic pros/cons aside: I used to think: hey, I'm FROM NY...and know a good deal about the whole NY Jewish thing of the period. What would someone in say, Iowa (sorry, Fletch ) make of this? They couldn't possibly even understand enough of it to form a worthwhile opinion...but the movies were supposedly so popular....is it the herd instinct? Am I the one who's missing something?

But all that changed with Annie Hall...which I thought at the time was great, and--although it's a bit dated, which is the price you pay for being very topical--I still do. The final scenes actually made me think "awwwww..." about NYC...which I ran screaming from as fast as I could: it was a nightmare in the 70s: don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

"Skeet"

 

[Guttersnipe]

Australia . . . 'nuff said

 

[Mike1939]

anything... i repeat ANYTHING by Woody Allen. But then again i didn't go in with high expectations, i was forced to watch them for classes. But by God that was torture... If someone wanted to make me squeal about some kind of secret it would probably only take forcing me to watch one or two of his movies and i'd be singing like a canary. .

I'm not much of a Woody Allen fan myself and it's no skin of my nose if you like him or not but I just have to ask....Have you seen Radio Days?

 

[cecil]

Australia . . . 'nuff said

Pretty bad but I thought Moulin Rouge was worse. Awful. The only Baz I like is Romeo & Juliet.

 

[Lefty]

Everything with Sandra Bullock.
Everything with Nick Cage, except Adaptation.
That 4th Indy movie.

 

[Maguire]

lol hahahahah O man, thats classic. I also think Woody Allen and his movies are overrated. Woody has always reminded me of the Jerky Boys's Sol Rosenberg and vise versa.

Absolutely. I think he thinks, or at least his fans find his behavior endearing but I think if i knew him personally I'd probably have to punch him eventually, he'd get on my nerves for being so annoying and neurotic. I saw Annie Hall and as I said... it was difficult. I'm from NYC too and I am anxious to leave, so movies are an escape FROM New York. A movie about a character i can't stand in a setting i don't like ... two negatives in this case do NOT make a positive.

I never heard of Radio Days, Mike. And I imagine, given the context, i'm not missing out

Skeet- i am from Queens where oddly enough, most people don't think they are in the city. We often say "we are going into the city" to mean we are going into Manhattan because the suburbs are not equated with what we think of as "the city". Out of staters just look at us funny. I know there was a time when Woody Allen was the "big thing" or his movies were always heaped with praise and considered deep and substantial but i just don't see it. But that's just me I guess.

For the record, i didn't think Indiana 4 was that bad. I mean, it was just another Indiana Jones movie. It wasn't supposed to be Braveheart. It was silly but when i watch the original trilogy, i think it was silly and cartoonish too. They were all fun movies, but I wouldn't expect to come out of the theater with a deeper insight into the world.

 

[just_me]

Just a differing opinion. I'm also from NY (Brooklyn) and I love Woody Allen movies. Always have. Some are better than others, but I like most of them a lot. Hated Interiors, though.

 

[Feraud]

Everything with Sandra Bullock.
Everything with Nick Cage, except Adaptation.
That 4th Indy movie.

My sentiments exactly! lol

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Everything with Nick Cage, except Adaptation.

yes...yes...

the rock has the worst acting...oy...shakeshead

 

[celtic]

yes...yes...

the rock has the worst acting...oy...shakeshead

i take it you haven't seen Ghost Rider yet....

 

[filfoster]

Just a differing opinion. I'm also from NY (Brooklyn) and I love Woody Allen movies. Always have. Some are better than others, but I like most of them a lot. Hated Interiors, though.

Interiors was self indulgent, wasn't it? I wonder if he'd take a mulligan on that one today. So many wonderful movies over so many years. "Sleeper"; "Midnight Summer's Sex Comedy", Broadway Danny Rose, "Purple Rose of Cairo"; "What You Always Wanted to Know About Sex". Even "Zelig" holds up pretty well.

Now bad, that's easy: Radio Flyer, a movie Tom Hanks has probably paid his agent to destroy.

 

[filfoster]

BAD

Zoolander. And every Adam Sandler movie except Happy Gilmore

 

[filfoster]

Super bad

Gods and Generals. What a disappointment. I can't even recall when it was released. I think I'm repressing the memory.



Pearl Harbor. Perhaps even worse than Gods and Generals. I'll never forget the remarkable sound of B-25 tires squealing as Doolittle firewalled his throttles on takeoff.



AF

Gods and Generals: What a disappointment indeed! I wanted to hurt Ted Turner. What a missed opportunity.

And re Pearl Harbor, about 20 minutes of decent film inside a turkey.

 

[Woland]

Liquid Sky


Repo Man (Good soundtrack, though.)


.

How very, very, dare you!!!

OK, mu turn:

Betty Blue...

An utterly disgusting film.
The ending is a desperate copy of "The Tenant" by Mr. Polanski.

Prêt-à-Porter and The Player by Robert Altman.

Is it really possible to talk people into regarding these films as something else than manure?

*sighs pitifully*

 

[Lefty]

I like Love and Death, but all other Woody Allen movies just seem OK.

As to awful movies, I've got to add that I'm in the camp that hates David Lynch's work. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who just likes his movies, as most people seem to be firmly for or against them.

 

[Fedord Spaniard]

Absolutely. I think he thinks, or at least his fans find his behavior endearing but I think if i knew him personally I'd probably have to punch him eventually, he'd get on my nerves for being so annoying and neurotic.

HAHAHAHAHA lol lol Maguire, you should do stand up man...seriously. I feel that violent way about some hip hop artists and celebrities. I would never do it though cause its against the law and i wouldnt be a gentleman if i did. But yea i know how you feel. P.S. why stop at punching him, you should throw in a few roundhouse kicks too hahahhaha.

 

[dr greg]

Nightmare

Cassandra's Dream, not only the worst Woody Allen film, possibly one of the most inept productions by anybody, Ed Wood would have been ashamed.

 

[Diamondback]

HAHAHAHAHA lol lol Maguire, you should do stand up man...seriously. I feel that violent way about some hip hop artists and celebrities. I would never do it though cause its against the law and i wouldnt be a gentleman if i did. But yea i know how you feel. P.S. why stop at punching him, you should throw in a few roundhouse kicks too hahahhaha.

Umm, for the roundhouses wouldn't it be better to bring in Chuck Norris?lol

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Now playing: Basil Poledouris - Kaboom!!!
via FoxyTunes

 

[Marc Chevalier]

As to awful movies, I've got to add that I'm in the camp that hates David Lynch's work.

Right here with you in the firmly against camp :eusa_clap



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[Vornholt]

For myself, I just watched "The Graduate" last Saturday, and I will admit I saw absolutely no point to the thing whatsoever. A drifting loser with no plans of any sort, a long drawn-out chase of a girl who should have known better, and the most useless, non-ending I've seen outside of the re-imagined BSG finale. :rage: Anybody else with a similar view?