Kevin's Watch

They were good, okay, it's just that they seem to be praised everywhere and they just didn't totally...sweep me off my feet?

The love story in "The English Patient" just didn't work for me. I guess it has to do with Ralph Fiennes...he seems totally cold to me. I just didn't feel with the couple. Lack of chemistry, something like that.

Gladiator had great visuals, great music and sound...but the story is old and didn't really hold any surprises. I'd rather see Spartacus again.

Does it have to do with Russel Crowe...? It's not that I don't like him at all. Maybe I should watch "A Beautiful Mind" once more...hmmm.

I must say that I only saw Gladiator and ABM once.

Torrent wrote:The love story in "The English Patient" just didn't work for me. I guess it has to do with Ralph Fiennes...he seems totally cold to me. I just didn't feel with the couple. Lack of chemistry, something like that.

Despite that Ralph Fiennes is one of my favorite current day actors, I gotta agree. He's tailor-made for those evil roles--like in Schindler's List. Next thing ya know we'll be seeing him in a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez.

Lord Foul wrote:

Torrent wrote:The love story in "The English Patient" just didn't work for me. I guess it has to do with Ralph Fiennes...he seems totally cold to me. I just didn't feel with the couple. Lack of chemistry, something like that.

Despite that Ralph Fiennes is one of my favorite current day actors, I gotta agree. He's tailor-made for those evil roles--like in Schindler's List. Next thing ya know we'll be seeing him in a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez.

Ralph was awesome in Red Dragon as well.

dlbpharmd wrote:Ralph was awesome in Red Dragon as well.

Have you seen Spider, his Cronenberg movie? Jaw-dropping performance. The whole primary cast, in fact. Ghastly gloomy, but jaw-dropping.

I think my favorite Fiennes movie may be Strange Days, the mystery thriller based on the millenium. The English Patient is close, though, followed by Quiz Show.

The Life of David Gale is an "edge of your seat thriller" (cannot remember who I am quoting-some hack prob). Anyway, my arse! Literally, not on the edge of any seat. Quel bollock, as they say a Paris.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

You kidding? I loved LOTR! OK, well...I agree about the second one...of the three, that's my least favorite...
The problem, I guess, is that when you're doing something like that there will always be people that imagined it TOTALLY different than the way it turned out...especially with something so widely read as Lord of the Rings...I went into it pretty skeptical, and was pleasantly surprised to find that much of Middle Earth was the way I'd imagined it...but I can totally understand someone not finding that.

Some letdowns for me...umm, the Matrix sequels (they spent the entire second movie explaining the plot to Keanu Reeves! I was going, ok, we all get it, why can't he??!), the sequels to Disney's Aladdin (I am a professed Aladdin lover...yes, I do know they're kids movies ), American Beauty (somehow I just can't get past the whole thing about him being obsessed with a chick the same age as his daughter ), The Hulk, Lost in Translation, Monster, and both the new Star Wars Movies.

Matrix Reloaded.

Both Matrix sequels. Ghostbusters II. Robocop II. Highlander II.

Yeah...one would hope they could salvage the trilogy with Revolutions, but..alas - EPIC FAIL

Batman Returns
Hulk
Dune
Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom

The Lord of the Rings films. Genius literature turned into execrable popcorn-trash.

The only 2 times I've been disappointed by a movie were Dune (80's) and The Two Towers.

I'm generally not disappointed by movies. I just watch and if it's crap, so what? But the 2 above were exceptions because the source material was from my youth and there seemed reason to hope.

Strangely, I grew to enjoy TTT, and ROTK, which I really liked at first, fell big time when I watched the extended version.

ItisWritten wrote: I'm generally not disappointed by movies. I just watch and if it's crap, so what?

I applaud your healthy attitude. I just think we're all here because we're passionate about movies - the good and the bad - but it's often the bad ones that really get the passion flowing.

Strangely, I grew to enjoy TTT, and ROTK, which I really liked at first, fell big time when I watched the extended version.

That is unusual. I think most prefer the extended versions. Me, I like the original theatrical cut of Fellowship just fine.

matrixman wrote:

ItisWritten wrote: I'm generally not disappointed by movies. I just watch and if it's crap, so what?

I applaud your healthy attitude. I just think we're all here because we're passionate about movies - the good and the bad - but it's often the bad ones that really get the passion flowing.

Strangely, I grew to enjoy TTT, and ROTK, which I really liked at first, fell big time when I watched the extended version.

That is unusual. I think most prefer the extended versions. Me, I like the original theatrical cut of Fellowship just fine.

The first 2 extended versions added scenes that forwarded the book's story. The ROTK EV added scenes that mostly forwarded Jackson's vision. Until then, I could accept Jackson's cinema telling as long as we could get back to the book a bit. I just felt as if he reneged on the deal. JMO.

ItisWritten wrote: The first 2 extended versions added scenes that forwarded the book's story. The ROTK EV added scenes that mostly forwarded Jackson's vision. Until then, I could accept Jackson's cinema telling as long as we could get back to the book a bit. I just felt as if he reneged on the deal. JMO.

Really? From the scenes I remember, they were bringing back the book - Saruman in Isengard (yeah, they had him die there, but we have a little of the book there), the crossroads, the Voice of Sauron, the Houses of Healing, etc.

Nothing tops Indiana Jones 4 in terms of sheer disappointment for me.

-jay

kevinswatch wrote:Nothing tops Indiana Jones 4 in terms of sheer disappointment for me.

-jay

AHHHHah!!!! I knew there was another far more disappointing film, I just coudn't remember it at the time...what a dung heep of a movie.