6
« on: October 27, 2005, 01:32:17 am »
Movies I hated: La Vita e Bella/Life Is Beautiful. So corny, so obnoxious, so dumb. Even the Third Reich couldn't save it.
The Butterfly Effect. I waver between placing this in "hated", because it's so stupid, and "so bad it's good", because I couldn't stop laughing at the many ridiculously bad fates of Ashton Kutcher. I mean, Kutcher as a multiple-amputee drowning himself in the bathtub? Comedy gold. But, no, overall, it's just crap.
Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. I was with it early on, I really was. The sounds those tripods made? Terrifying. The gritty, realistic way he shot it? Excellent. Tom Cruise? He may be a looney tune in real life, but he is a good enough actor that you can forget that for a couple of hours. But little holes kept popping up--Tom's the only one in the world that can figure out how to get a car started again? They fall from the bottom of the tripod in that cage, all the way to the ground, and don't break every bone in their body? Not to mention Tim Robbins' lame character in a segment of the film that went on way too long. But it's the ending that breaks the camel's back--when Tom's son shows up alive and well. Tom's son who was SWALLOWED UP IN A GIANT BALL OF FIRE. So fuck you for that, Spielberg. Munich better be awesome or my love-hate relationship with your work will seriously start favoring the latter.
Speaking of that, I too hate E.T.. And Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was just amazingly dull.
One "so good it's bad" I could name is Super Mario Bros.: The Movie. It's my favorite video game movie just on the grounds of how bizarre it is. The games are so surreal and plotless--how ARE you supposed to make a movie out of that, anyway?
