redline248 said:

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Star Trek, as a movie franchise, seems to rarely be discussed around here. I wonder if there are others, like me, who haven't seen all the films. For instance I haven't seen First Contact or Insurrection.

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First Contact executes what few, if any, ST movies do - two equally engaging plot lines going on at the same time.

It also gives the best look, although briefly, at how bad ass Worf and Data are in hand to hand combat situations.

BadMoonRisin said:

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Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Book was good, movie before it was good.

Total poo poo.

And then all of the other JP movies after, just stop please!

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Lost World. I was in middle school, probably the first time I saw a movie and thought it sucked.

rhutton125 said:

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First Contact ****ing rules. I might have to throw it in later.

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ANd gave us an all-time Star Trek gif

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I guess I'll go with the Hobbit movies as disappointing. No one has mentioned those, yet.

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I think most of us knew they were at least going to be disappointing going in. Little of the prep work LOTR, too much reliance on CGI, stretching a 250 page book in to three 3+ hour movies. Even so, each film at least one or two redeeming scenes but they tend to get lost in the bloated garbage.

I know it will cause people to be all up in arms but I thought Oppenheimer was awful. Saw it at the theater with great hopes as I love the subject material and actors but it was just an ADHD combined with poor editing piece of garbage.

The Highlander follow-ups were even worse but they were not overhyped just awful.

Didn't read the thread but it's a three way tie of The Goonies, Avatar and Bird. Walked out of all of them.

KidDoc said:

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I know it will cause people to be all up in arms but I thought Oppenheimer was awful. Saw it at the theater with great hopes as I love the subject material and actors but it was just an ADHD combined with poor editing piece of garbage.

The Highlander follow-ups were even worse but they were not overhyped just awful.

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Agree with you about Oppenheimer. I excellent performances but to me just dull. I actually preferred the straight forward story telling of Fat Man and Little Boy to Nolan's film.

To each their own, but I loved them - all three of them.

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Apache said:

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The Thin Red Line was disappointing for me. I went in expecting something along the lines of the recently (at that time) released "Saving Private Ryan". I was wrong! Some liked it, it won awards, but I hated it.

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I do such a good job at forgetting that movie exists, and then along comes a poster to remind me that it does, in fact, exist.

That movie was absolute dog crap. It was marketed as a war movie, but really, I believe it was a National Geographic Special made by a guy clearly on dope where an occasional soldier who hop into the frame, maybe something would go boom, then there was a girl on a swing and an alligator. Or something.

Plus it failed at letting the viewer know why we should care about any of these guys. Why were they on this God-forsaken island? Contrast that with Enemy at the Gates (a story about which most Americans would have been unfamiliar) - it opens with a map of Europe and shows the spread of the Third Reich encroaching deep into Russia. Just show us a strategic map of the South Pacific, why taking Guadalcanal was important would have been clear with just a minute of historic exposition at the beginning of the movie. The rest of it, though, was not salvageable with that director.

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I still remember walking out of the theatre when it was over and someone commenting "the war wasn't as long as that movie" .

I tried to watch a show from the 1990s with my daughter. She looked at it and immediately said, Eww. That's old. And sent upstairs.

Rudyjax said:

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I tried to watch a show from the 1990s with my daughter. She looked at it and immediately said, Eww. That's old. And sent upstairs.

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That happens to me all the time, I grew up in the 80s and my kids think everything from the 80s is old fashioned and cringey so they never give the movies from that era a shot. As my son has gotten older though I turned him on to 80s music and he is obsessed with The Cure and The Ramones. Now that he is 15 I figured I would open him up to some more of the great cinema of the 80s and he and I watched Porky's while the wife complained from the kitchen the whole time. I don't think I have seen him laugh so hard in his life.

bonfarr said:

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Rudyjax said:

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I tried to watch a show from the 1990s with my daughter. She looked at it and immediately said, Eww. That's old. And sent upstairs.

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That happens to me all the time, I grew up in the 80s and my kids think everything from the 80s is old fashioned and cringey so they never give the movies from that era a shot. As my son has gotten older though I turned him on to 80s music and he is obsessed with The Cure and The Ramones. Now that he is 15 I figured I would open him up to some more of the great cinema of the 80s and he and I watched Porky's while the wife complained from the kitchen the whole time. I don't think I have seen him laugh so hard in his life.

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Porkies was made in the early 1980s and set in the mid 1950s. That would be the 1990s for us.

Eliminatus said:

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I'll take the not safe shot and skip low hanging fruit here.

Dunkirk

Movie was a mess and though I don't hate it, I really, really did not enjoy it. To be absolutely fair though, I allowed myself a LOT of hype beforehand. I am a massive warfare history nerd and Dunkirk has fascinated me since the first book I read on it at age 8 or 9 and with who was directing it, figured it would be a slam dunk.

Nope

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I felt the same way about this. But that was before I was aware of how Nolan likes to time-jump. I keep meaning to go back and watch it again with this in mind.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The books and TV series were great, but the movie was aweful

Star Wars The Last Jedi, we all know how bad that one was

I'm going with Oceans Twelve. Basically have erased it from the memory banks because it was so bad.

TexAgs91 said:

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The books and TV series were great, but the movie was aweful

Star Wars The Last Jedi, we all know how bad that one was

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Oooohh, yeah. Forgot how terrible the reboot of Hitchhiker's Guide was. Pathetically bad.

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TexAgs91 said:

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The books and TV series were great, but the movie was aweful

Star Wars The Last Jedi, we all know how bad that one was

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Oooohh, yeah. Forgot how terrible the reboot of Hitchhiker's Guide was. Pathetically bad.

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It was awful.

A disappointment for me was The Road with Viggo Mortensen. This was one of those films adapted from a book that just can't recreate what was so special in the Novel. I read the book right after my son was born and that made me deeply connected to the theme of the book. It's the first time I ever read a novel and had to put it down and walk away numerous times because my heart was racing so fast. The movie just could not convey those same emotions and ended up being just another one of the numerous films set in a dystopian environment and mostly forgettable to me. It wasn't awful but because of the greatness of Cormac McCarthys novel it was a big disappointment for me.

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bonfarr said:

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Goonies? Really?

You must have a stone cold heart not to like that movie.
During the Pandemic when no new releases were hitting theaters Alamo Drafthouse started playing classics once they weee able to reopen. I took my kids to see Goonies and ET and didn't tell them they were movies from the 80s so they wouldn't complain. The kids loved them every bit as much as I did when I was their age.

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I also don't see how anyone could walk out of Avatar either. Even if you didn't care for the story, the visual spectacle alone would keep you in your seat just to see what else Cameron came up with.

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I agree with this and I thought that movie was terrible. Terrible but a spectacle.

I often wonder if blood meridian will ever be made.

Sea Speed said:

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I often wonder if blood meridian will ever be made.

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That would be another challenge to bring to the big screen in a way that would recreate the emotions of the book. Portraying the violence in the film would probably end up making the movie seem like a gory mess unless it was done in just the right way. I imagine that may be why it has been tossed around for a long time but never actually made into a movie.

Napoleon. I was so excited for this. It was disjointed and all over the place. Just disappointing.

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bonfarr said:

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Goonies? Really?

You must have a stone cold heart not to like that movie.
During the Pandemic when no new releases were hitting theaters Alamo Drafthouse started playing classics once they weee able to reopen. I took my kids to see Goonies and ET and didn't tell them they were movies from the 80s so they wouldn't complain. The kids loved them every bit as much as I did when I was their age.

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I also don't see how anyone could walk out of Avatar either. Even if you didn't care for the story, the visual spectacle alone would keep you in your seat just to see what else Cameron came up with.

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I agree with this and I thought that movie was terrible. Terrible but a spectacle.

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It was Dances With Wolves on a far away moon.

But it's still the best 3D movie I've experienced.