Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:36 pm**

Never saw Magnolia.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:24 pm**

Try to.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:22 pm**

Maybe I'm a bit more pedestrian in my tastes, but I really liked Crash and hated Magnolia. I haven't seen Crash since seeing in the theater though, so I wonder if I'd have any interest now. But I wanted to like Magnolia, but found it a major irritant, other than the frog scene at the end. I really enjoyed that part of it, and liked the music too.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:45 pm**

Considering how many people like them, I have never really been a fan of the Star Wars movies. I saw the original movie in the movie theater and came away thinking it was OK, and for kids (I think I was 13) but not for me.

People raved over The Empire Strikes Back, and it was a little better but overall probably not a movie I would want to watch again. Saw part of Return of the Jedi and thought it was utter crap.

For the final 3, friends at the time persuaded me to go to all of them and I though they were OK at best and really have no desire to see them again.

If I can avoid going to see the forthcoming one I will.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:39 pm**

i don't know if someone did mention it already, but Prometheus. That was supposed to be great...

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2014 8:10 am**

Ananda, I'm pretty sure everyone thought it was terrible.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:08 pm**

I finally found the time to watch Clerks a few months ago and was shocked to discover that I hated it. The film has a reputation for being a cult classic and Kevin Smith's first feature but I couldn't get over the amateur acting, clunky dialog and poor cinematography. I suppose if I had watched it back in the 90s I may have had a different opinion. I watch Comic Book Men regularly and it was interesting to see Walt Flanagan in the film. Other than that I sat watching the thing with a WTF look on my face.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:24 pm**

aTOMiC wrote:I finally found the time to watch Clerks a few months ago and was shocked to discover that I hated it. The film has a reputation for being a cult classic and Kevin Smith's first feature but I couldn't get over the amateur acting, clunky dialog and poor cinematography. I suppose if I had watched it back in the 90s I may have had a different opinion. I watch Comic Book Men regularly and it was interesting to see Walt Flanagan in the film. Other than that I sat watching the thing with a WTF look on my face.

Personally I've never understood the adulation of Smith - I think his movies are terrible.

Posted: **Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:47 pm**

C'mon guys; the scene in the car;

One guy is explaining to the other about how his cousin died as a result of trying to suck his own dick.

"Poor bastard - they found him lying on his bed with his legs over his head and his balls resting on his lips!"

Got to be one of the best lines ever commited to celluloid.

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:56 am**

The new Star Trek films. I wanted to love them so much. I love Star Trek, but they were just hollywood action films.

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:49 am**

Ananda wrote:The new Star Trek films. I wanted to love them so much. I love Star Trek, but they were just hollywood action films.

They were f*cking awful.

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:55 am**

Cail wrote:
Ananda wrote:The new Star Trek films. I wanted to love them so much. I love Star Trek, but they were just hollywood action films.
They were f*cking awful.

Yes. A darker version of the Star Trek universe could be brilliant if done right. I didn't even watch the second one. The first one felt like a parody of everything that was wrong with ToS. It would have been better if it had been a satire.

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:53 am**

As an alternative spin, flip the thread over and do it the other way......errr.....I mean tell some films you should have hated, but loved. C'mon - air your grubbly little [cinematic] secrets here!

The Island of Dr Moreau. [The one that Val Kilmer ****** up.]

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:57 pm**

I've been a Val Kilmer fan since Top Secret, and I'm an unashamed fan of the admittedly not-so-good remake of The Island of Dr Moreau. The movie's a mess, but it's at least an interesting mess.

Posted: **Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:33 pm**

Wrong thread?

I've been waiting for Kilmer to make a comeback. He's too talented not to.

Posted: **Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:15 am**

The best Doc Holiday ever!

Posted: **Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:24 pm**

Check him out in Spartan. It's written and directed by Davis Mamet.

Posted: **Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:32 pm**

I think I was supposed to love Independence Day but I loathed it. With every molecule in my body I loathed it. A hot (debatable), fighter pilot president of the US shooting down alien bad guys 'cause there is a shortage of fighter pilots.

Judd Hirsch, a good actor embracing every freeking stereotype of a Jew in one character, a terminally injured first lady that has time for long good byes and hugs and kisses. This movie was every stereotype shoved into one gigantic mess. The world in doomed without one computer nerd and a hero bucking bronco president. What pisses me most is the waste of a talented group of actors.

Nationalistic crap.

Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:27 am**

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Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:14 pm**

peter wrote:

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If that is a response to my post then I agree.....I seethe about that film. (I really need to get a life)

Kevin's Watch

Films you should have loved ...... but hated.