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30 Aug 2010, 4:19 pm

The Twilight franchise
The Harry Potter franchise
Titanic
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2001: A Space Odyssey
There Will Be Blood

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30 Aug 2010, 4:24 pm

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The Dark Knight
Twilight movies
Titanic
Donnie Darko

I agree with all of those except for Donnie Darko... How is that overrated?

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30 Aug 2010, 4:46 pm

2001 space odessy, I was veeeeeeery disappointed when I watched that, nothing happens it's just people walking around in slow motion with freaky music in the background. Yaaaaawn.

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30 Aug 2010, 4:55 pm

2001: A Space Odyssey

Titanic

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Juno

Garden State

Twilight

Twilight: New Moon

Twilight: Eclipse

Superbad

Star Wars Episode 1

Star Wars Episode 2

Star Wars Episode 3

Crash {2005}

No Country for Old Men

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30 Aug 2010, 5:34 pm

Definitely agree with Juno and Crash, although I like the David Chronenberg version. Critics seem to agree that Twilight is a piece of s**t, its just popular.

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30 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm

Juno! :evil:

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30 Aug 2010, 7:22 pm

And Meryl Streep is just an ok actress.

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30 Aug 2010, 7:53 pm

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The Hurt Locker

Hurt Locker was good of its kind. How many films are made about people who disarm explosive devices? The only thing like I ever saw was the T.V. series -UXB- which was about British squads who disarmed unexploded German bombs.

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30 Aug 2010, 8:09 pm

Ironman

Kill Bill

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30 Aug 2010, 10:32 pm

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Star Wars prequels
Anything made by Disney

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30 Aug 2010, 11:28 pm

Pirates of the Caribbean - Don't get me wrong, I love Johnny Depp, but I didn't think Jack Sparrow was as mind-blowing of a character as everyone made him out to be. I also think the movies are too long; Curse of the Black Pearl could have ended a lot sooner if they didn't put in so many action scenes.

I admit that I do have a little bit of a grudge against the creators of PotC, because they're making Johnny work on the fourth installment of the series when he could have been working on Dark Shadows with Tim Burton instead. I'd much rather see Johnny play a vampire for the first time instead of seeing him play a pirate for the fourth time.

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31 Aug 2010, 2:10 am

The Blair Witch Project.
To be sure, it was a decent horror movie, but the expectation built up for it as the most frightening movie ever left me disappointed when I actually watched it.

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31 Aug 2010, 6:02 am

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Take away the special effects and you just have the same predictible nature vs. greed theme that's been done a hundred times. The alien race was too similar to Native Americans to give the movie a sci-fi feel.

I wonder how much the actors and actresses got paid for that film. Because it seems they would not have had much to do. I can understand you thinking it overrated and I agree. But I have to say I loved the plot and especially when Jake turns against the humans. But I am wondering if this film will become a novelty rather than a classic.

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31 Aug 2010, 6:06 am

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I have never understood the appeal of Kubrick's "The Shining" I certainly like a lot of his films, "A Clockwork Orange" "2001" "Dr. Strangelove" etc, but I don't get the Shining.

I even watched it with the expectation that it couldn't be as bad as my mother kept insisting, but actually it was. The film is stupidly made. I can't comment on whether it is a faithful adaption of the book. I haven't read it so I can only judge it on its merits as a film.

I think casting Jack Nicholson was a very poor choice. He normally plays kind of crazy anyway and I think the character would have worked better if an actor who normally seems well balanced ends up going completely nuts. Look at Jimmy Stewart's performance in "Vertigo" That was a creepy performance. I also found the cut back to Scatman Crothers that begins with a tight close up of some tacky nude woman poster to be rather offensive. What story telling purpose did that serve? It seemed more like Kubrick was thinking "Golly, it worked really well in Clockwork Orange, I think I'll do it again!"

I will admit there are some really great visuals in the film. The dead twin sisters and the blood pouring out of the doors are very evocative images. But the over the top acting with little connection to realistic human behavior makes the film seem like an experiment in style over substance.

I have to disagree. I read the book and from what I remember the film was more intense. In the book Jack comes after his wife and kid with a mallet rather than an axe. But I think Stanley Kubrik did a very good film. It is so absorbing and I think Nicholson was well cast along with Shelly Duvall.

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31 Aug 2010, 6:11 am

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I understand what you mean. The opposite happened to me with this film. I heard the hype, and I heard what friends said about it so I didn't bother going to see it. Then years later it came onto the television so I decided "why not watch it?" So I watched it alone at home with the lights off and was not expecting anything great. After the film I was very impressed. Mostly because it is an extreme example of letting an audience use their imagination. In most horror films the audience has more info than the characters because we are saying: "No don't go that way etc.." However the opposite is true in Blair Witch, the characters know more than the audience and so the audience has no option but to use their imaginations. And as they say the imagination of the audience is far more terrifying than anything that could be shown.

After watching that film I couldn't sleep because I was wondering what the hell happened to them all night long. And I kept thinking about the noises of the forrest they kept waking up to.

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31 Aug 2010, 6:14 am

Any new film advertised with the slogan: "This years must see film!" I avoid.

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