Greetings fellow modelers!

As I inadvertantly caused the destruction of the original "Loathsome
Movies" thread, I felt it was my responsibility to rebuild it.

In the spirit of STAR TREK IV, I built the new thread and gave it
an "-A" like the ENTERPRISE. :p

Back to the movies.

I hated "ALIEN Resurrection"

That movie should have been named "Regurgitation"!

I wish I could forget that revolting film.

Yuck.

Okay Then, Allow Me to Say again The Film "High Tension" is High Crap! They should Hand this one to you with Tongs it has such a Foul Stench with it! lol

John/Lonfan

I'm sure it was my rant about Hostel being nothing more than another Tarantino deal. But I'll say it again. Ever see Pulp Fiction? That's as gross as Hostel gets. In fact Hostel's a lot like Pulp Fiction without the story.

High Tension? Agree 100%. But don't forget to mention the 'twist ending'. It totally negates everything you've seen in the film. Unless the killer can be in 2 places at once. A twist ending for the sake of it doesn't work. If Jason ripped off his mask and he was Big Gay Al from South Park I wouldn't expect that, but it would at least be less stupid than the twist end from High Tension.

If you've ever sat through Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A., you have my deepest sympathies. An empty, meaningless film about beautiful, rich, successful people jumping in and out of each other's beds while they live empty, meaningless lives in empty, meaningless Los Angeles, it plays like a bad Robert Altman movie on Thorazine. Every few minutes some talentless singer-songwriter named Richard Baskin comes on the soundtrack, performing rambling, trite songs in a droning nasal whine that sounds like a singing goose. This picture confirms every cliché about Angelenos being shallow, superficial, self-centered and narcissistic. Oh, did I mention that I hate it?

Rush- Even though Greg Allman was a pretty good bad guy, and Jason Patric and Jennifer Leigh were effective as the undercover cops, the movie felt shallow, bloated, and not very smart.

Rush Hour- Loud and stupid, with very little thought put into what was said (in the film). Not Jackie Chan's finest hour.

Fools Rush In- Even Salma Hayak in lingerie couldn't save this bloated unrealistic bomb.

Rush Hour was also what lead the producers of Martial Law to include Arsenio as Sammo Hong's new partner, to copy the "wise-cracking black sidekick" schtick from the movie. Aresnio wasn't the first thing they did to ruin that show, but he may have been the kill shot.

Rush- Even though Greg Allman was a pretty good bad guy, and Jason Patric and Jennifer Leigh were effective as the undercover cops, the movie felt shallow, bloated, and not very smart.


Directed by a childhood friend of mine - Lili Fini Zanuck. It's the only feature Lili ever directed, and while not a great movie - it's got some pretty effective scenes in it. The scene where the black drug dealer makes Patric and Leigh hit up in front of him is chilling, and the movie also features an early performance by an actor who I really like - Max Perlich - and who seems to have disappeared off the map in recent years.

Clean out your PM box, Zorro, you're full again!

PM box cleaned out.

I don't know if not liking a movie fits the spirit of the original topic. These were supposed to be the ones that left you feeling unclean and disgusted, not just irritated?

But did I mention how much I hate "The Big Chill"?

I don't know if not liking a movie fits the spirit of the original topic. These were supposed to be the ones that left you feeling unclean and disgustedOh, okay then -- Manos: The Hands of Fate. This movie actively and aggressively hates anyone who watches it, and sets out to make its hatred apparent. Even having it get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment still makes it only barely watchable, and then only if you've taken your vitamins.

And my vote for Pleasantville still stands.

Qapla'

SSB

And here's another one -- The Rich Man's Wife, starring Halle Berry. Yes, she is beautiful in this movie and there's nothing wrong with her performance. What's wrong is the movie itself. You sit there and watch the entire thing as a flashback from Berry's point of view. It's something of a mystery about who killed Berry's husband, and almost the entire film is a flashback. And in literally the last minute of the film, the whole thing completely disregards the rules of such stories and reveals that Berry's story (she was telling all this to the police) was all a great big whopper! What's worse, all we really discover is that her character was lying and that she either killed her husband or had him killed. We don't have a clue how much of what we just watched was complete bunk her character made up and how much of it might have been true or nearly so. In other words, the movie comes out in the last sixty seconds and essentially points at you and laughs because you realize you just wasted the last couple of hours.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Qapla'

SSB

When it comes to jerking the audience around just for the hell of it JACOB'S LADDER is a work of art. A loathsome work of art, but a work of art nonetheless.

I vote for THE POSTMAN. I actually like Costner but that was really an awful film. The scene with Tom Petty is unbelivably bad.

Manos- The hands of fate! :freak:

I forgot!

What an awful film!

It truly fits the definition of Loathsome Movie!

Even Joel and the 'bots couldn't make it bearable.

When it comes to jerking the audience around just for the hell of it JACOB'S LADDER is a work of art. A loathsome work of art, but a work of art nonetheless.



A great film, how many others have tried to copy it? Sixth Sense to begin with.

I don't know if not liking a movie fits the spirit of the original topic. These were supposed to be the ones that left you feeling unclean and disgusted, not just irritated?Well, maybe Welcome to L.A. was just incredibly annoying, and Henry Jaglom's movies are simply a waste of film stock, but Welcome to Woop Woop was definitely, genuinely disgusting!

And I still don't see how anybody could hate Pleasantville!

How about Daredevil, I couldn't even finish watching it...between Aflack and Farrel Jennifer Gardners outfit couldn't save it!

How about Daredevil, I couldn't even finish watching it...between Aflack and Farrel Jennifer Gardners outfit couldn't save it!

Agreed. Pretty loathsome. I dream of an alternate universe where Martin Scorsese writes and directs "Daredevil".

(JACOB'S LADDER) ...is a great film, how many others have tried to copy it? Sixth Sense to begin with.

I think it's more likely that M. Night Shyamalan used JACOB'S LADDER as an example of how not to make a satisfying horror-thriller.

JACOB'S LADDER was an infamously difficult production in part because the filmmakers couldn't agree on how it should end (never a good sign). Multiple endings were shot, none of them really worked, and at the end of the day a compromise was reached -- the sort of compromise that ends up pleasing no one (including the audience, who stayed away in droves).

JACOB'S LADDER sucks sucks sucks.

I still don't see how anybody could hate Pleasantville!Well, here's a small part of it: I heard the movie praised for its cleverness, specifically in the scene where you learn the restroom stalls are completely empty; such things were never seen on TV shows of the ilk to which Pleasantville (the show within the film itself) is supposed to belong, so there's no such things as commodes, urinals or whatever euphemism you care to use in that universe. But it seems to me that the logical extension of that idea would -- ahem -- biologically preclude all the sex that happens later in the film.

That's just a small part of it, though. It would be difficult to tackle the larger issues I had with it for two reasons. One is that I think it would invite a discussion that would turn political no matter how mightily we try to stand fast against such a turn. The other is that I haven't seen it since it was first released on home video, so I'd find it difficult to cite specifics from the movie to support my impression of it -- I'd need to watch it again to present what I think coherently, and I just don't really wanna! ;)

Qapla'

SSB

The Pleasantville fire department only knows how to rescue cats from trees, because that's all they've ever done on the show. But just because they've never had to put out a fire doesn't mean they're incapable of putting out a fire. They only need someone to show them what the pumps and hoses are for. The same principle applies to sex, if you get my meaning. ;) ;) The movie is an allegory about loss of innocence, making the point that it's a bittersweet but necessary thing. People and cultures have to grow up sometime, and I don't see anything particularly political in that. I still think it's a charming film.