Baaaaaaaaaaad Movies

**Steve Bruce** · 14/06/2007, 1:39 PM

Originally Posted by the 12 th man

Wild at Heart.

I like Nicholas Cage-looks like I'm in the minority.

I like most Cage films.
Matchstick men
Face off
Con-Air etc etc

**First** · 14/06/2007, 1:40 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

So did I, just didn't want to be the first to say it!!

So did I , now that someone else has mentioned it.

**pete** · 14/06/2007, 1:50 PM

I will second Dud, Wheres My Car? mentioned above.

**John83** · 14/06/2007, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Few of us went to see Syriana there last year. Was fairly glad when yer man beside me asked me what had been happening for the past half hour, cos I was hoping I wasn't the only one completely lost. Ends with the revelation that someone is Canadian just before he's blown up. I want those two and a half hours back.

He wasn't Canadian. He'd just told the guy in the jeep that he was Canadian earlier.

As an aside, if you ever hear a UCD fan saying, "You're the Canadian," it's become slang for "You're acting quite stoned, don't you know."

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Aww no, Syriana was class. Its not that hard to follow. Were you drunk?

We had 2 B.Comms, 2 B.E.s and an English lit PhD there (if not more), all sober, and we decided after much debate that the movie was ****.

**sligoman** · 14/06/2007, 1:58 PM

The Blair Witch Project.

**Dodge** · 14/06/2007, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by John83

We had 2 B.Comms, 2 B.E.s and an English lit PhD there (if not more), all sober, and we decided after much debate that the movie was ****.

I know you probably didn't mean to come across as an academic snob, but read that gain and see what you make of it

In other news I understood Syriana and thought it was decent enough

**John83** · 14/06/2007, 2:12 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I know you probably didn't mean to come across as an academic snob, but read that gain and see what you make of it

In other news I understood Syriana and thought it was decent enough

Not the point - just pointing out that these weren't a collection of morons who mostly watch love island. Or is pointing out that you didn't understand what I meant academic snobbery too?

**Dodge** · 14/06/2007, 2:15 PM

I understood what you meant, I was pointing out how you came across hence the words "I know you probably didn't mean to come across as an academic snob"

**Risteard** · 14/06/2007, 2:36 PM

Get off my plane!!

**osarusan** · 14/06/2007, 3:00 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Get off my plane!!

HAHA, yes, the worst line of a truly awful movie.

**Dodge** · 14/06/2007, 3:12 PM

I think there should be two categories.

Obviously bad films that don't pretend to be otherwise (Dude, where's my car etc)

Films that have pretentions of being good (Signs, The English patient etc )

IMO the the first category doesn't really belong here as they do exactly what they say they're doing. If you watch Dude, Where's My Car you get exactly the film you should be expecting. I've nothing against these films. I won't watch most of them but still

The other kind are films that really really disappoint you. These are films that should be on this list

**jebus** · 14/06/2007, 3:37 PM

Originally Posted by John83

Not the point - just pointing out that these weren't a collection of morons who mostly watch love island

Thats snobbery of the highest order, who's to say someone who watches Love Island or any of the rest of those shows won't understand Syriana or any other movie, or that their opinion is any less valid than your academic view?

**Aldini98** · 14/06/2007, 3:47 PM

Miami Vice.

Absolute ****e.

Will be sueing Michael Mann for the 2 hours of my life back.

**osarusan** · 14/06/2007, 3:49 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I think there should be two categories.

Obviously bad films that don't pretend to be otherwise (Dude, where's my car etc)

Films that have pretentions of being good (Signs, The English patient etc )

IMO the the first category doesn't really belong here as they do exactly what they say they're doing. If you watch Dude, Where's My Car you get exactly the film you should be expecting. I've nothing against these films. I won't watch most of them but still

The other kind are films that really really disappoint you. These are films that should be on this list

Agreed. Films like "Dude Wheres My Car" and "Deuce Bigalow" probably meet the expectations of those who wanted to watch them in the first place.

Others, like Signs, The Village, and in my opinion Fight Club, think they are sending a message, cloak themselves in layers of supposedly deep meaning, but finally are about nothing at all. These are the films that really disappoint us, I think.

**John83** · 14/06/2007, 4:01 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Thats snobbery of the highest order, who's to say someone who watches Love Island or any of the rest of those shows won't understand Syriana or any other movie, or that their opinion is any less valid than your academic view?

Oh, FFS, opinions have nothing to do with this. Really, think about what that word means, and ask yourself where I dismissed anyone's opinion. And yes, I was snobby there about the TV I watch. Tie that in to academia, and you'll have a piece of fiction worthy of a Nobel prize.

BTW, apologies Dodge, I misread your tone.

**ollie** · 14/06/2007, 4:08 PM

Leprechauns 4
To top it off leprechaun has an english accent

**pete** · 14/06/2007, 4:40 PM

Originally Posted by ollie

Leprechauns 4
To top it off leprechaun has an english accent

Were you expecting a good movie?

**anto1208** · 14/06/2007, 5:29 PM

Clerks 2

jersey girl !!! the worst film ever made

**SaucyJack** · 14/06/2007, 6:06 PM

Originally Posted by anto1208

Clerks 2

jersey girl !!! the worst film ever made

I'll never get the appeal of Kevin Smith movies...and if not mentioned "Gigli"

**TonyD** · 14/06/2007, 8:42 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Others, like Signs, The Village, and in my opinion Fight Club,

Oh yeah. I HATED Fight Club. When it got to the end my reaction was "Oh, for Christs sake. I wasted two hours for THIS outcome.
(BTW I thought Signs was OK - haven't seen The Village.) Another film which came highly recommended to me was The Royal Tennenbaums, which I just didn't get at all.