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Even Steven Lloyd declared that only an idiot would even start watching The Interview. And he's not religious.

Heck, I said people would hate that movie immediately and I haven't seen it.

Supposedly movies are supposed to hook the viewer in the first ten minutes
or they are lost for good.

That means I should go back and watch eight more minutes of crappy THE INTERVIEW before
judging.

Not looking forward to it.

Thinktank wrote:Supposedly movies are supposed to hook the viewer in the first ten minutes
or they are lost for good.

That means I should go back and watch eight more minutes of crappy THE INTERVIEW before
judging.

Not looking forward to it.

I prefer to watch it from beginning to end ... if I like it, I like it ... if I don't, I don't. Just like a book, I don't give up on it after the first 2 Chapters to see if it sucks me in ... some of the best books I've ever read took halfway through it before I enjoyed it ... same with movies.

Queen K wrote:.....Steven Lloyd declared that only an idiot would even start watching The Interview. ....

I watched it for ten minutes.

Worst. Crap. Ever.



^ so stupid - it hurts your head to watch it for ten minutes. Imagine a whole hour and a half.

Thinktank wrote: ^ so stupid - it hurts your head to watch it for ten minutes.

Same with most of your posts. They should come with a warning: "Caution: This might hurt!"

Nice thing aboug Netflix. If a movie doesn't appeal in 10 minutes or so, I'm done with it and it didn't cost me extra. Same for on tv. Jst PPV that I feel ripped off.

And better than IMDB is Rotten Tomatoes.

TT - I will like every post you do a movie spoiler ( current)You know, like Gone Girl - she ain't gone

I watched another movie. The House.



I guess I could have asked for my money back. Usually you can tell in the first ten minutes when
a movie was produced by idiots, but I decided to keep watching for one hour. I hate bothering the people
who own the theater for a refund - even when the movie is ridiculously stupid.

This movie was so bad, it got me thinking about "how stuff works again." How does Hollywood work?
From Wikipedia: As of July 27, 2017, The House has grossed $24.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $7.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $31.9 million, against a production budget of $40 million

So, thanks to millions of other dummies like me, Hollywood can get back the money spent on a really worthless
movie, so dumb it's painful just to sit there and tolerate it for any length of time.
I thought the people who control Hollywood were smart, but they're not smart. It's just that
everyone else, who pays to see their movies is even dumber than they are.


There's the guy who wrote and directed the piece of crap. Andrew J Cohen.
Remember his name - and don't see any movie he is associated with.



Five angry faces. The maximum any of the movies on this thread can get.


..

Just watched "Cloud Atlas" for the third time. Awesome movie!

Is it on netlflix? I'm kinda wanting to see that one myself.

Thinktank wrote:..... the guy who wrote and directed the piece of crap. Andrew J Cohen.

^ I wonder if he laughs, knowing he is giving the people "slop - for the mind" and making a fortune doing it.
I would laugh. I would laugh all the way to the bank.

I saw movies from Iran, South Korea, India, Japan and Mexico on Netflix - all good. Really good.
They were all what movies are supposed to be, even if they didn't spend a fortune producing it.

And from Hollywood, I've seen some real slop.

Queen K wrote: I'm kinda wanting to see that one myself.

You’ll love it Queen. It’s been called a genre-breaking classic:

There can be little doubt that Cloud Atlas will become a classic that will be watched over and over again by its devoted followers, just like its predecessors by Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott. Despite the many questions I had in my mind when I left the theater and the moments during the film when I felt disappointed or confused, I knew this, and I have not stopped thinking about the movie and longing to be back in front of the screen.

It is easy to criticize this movie as some have done for being overly ambitious, pandering to low taste, being too simple or too complex, with too few actors or too many, or even for celebrating revenge violence against professional critics who write negative reviews. They may all be correct, but these critics will still put themselves in the same category as those that warned audiences against 2001 or Blade Runner. The truth is that Cloud Atlas is profound in its reach, its visual and acoustic impact, its mesmerizing flow and its completely ground-breaking storytelling, and movie goers will see it and feel it in their guts.

It is a movie that is a product of our age of internet-driven universal knowledge and vision, and the freedom we have to travel the world and jump between ages, genres, images and identities at our will. It reminds us that we are human and that we can still hear our heart beat, if we listen.

And, …

Kudos to all the filmmakers for adapting this famously "unfilmable" novel in such an inventive way. There are SIX separate timelines that switch after every scene, but instead of the plot, the narrative continuity follows the theme of the film. Once you clue in to that overall theme, it is no longer confusing when the story jumps from a runaway slave in the 1800s to a post apocalyptic future battle between some of the last humans remaining on earth.

All this audacious style and structure makes Cloud Atlas a curiosity to say the least, but the film is lifted to the realm of "Masterpiece" by the all-star ensemble cast. This impressive collection of actors fires off amazing performances like the Expendables 2 fires off high caliber bullets. I mean this will long be considered one of the greatest acting clinics ever filmed, and a high point in some already outstanding careers, as the end credits alone are astonishing to watch.

Overall this is a movie that transcends the simple elements of stars and plots and special effects, and boldly assumes to take the cinema to another level of storytelling, much like Avatar took film to a new level of technology a few years ago. The ambition, the technical brilliance and the passion that was put into this film makes it one of the great epics of our time.

So Harvey Weinstein is a successful Hollywood big shot. A genius? More like a big dummy.

His Weinstein Company produced 150 movies. I never saw one of them. Not one. This leads me to the conclusion
that *bleep* can be successful in Hollywood. I believe that 90% of Hollywood is a giant pile of garbage. Produced by Garbage people.
Here's the list of Weinstein's 150 movies, which I never saw even one:

Derailed
The Libertine
Transamerica
Mrs Henderson Presents
The Matador
Hoodwinked!
Doogal
Lucky Number Slevin
Scary Movie 4
Wordplay
Clerks II
Pulse
The Protector
Feast
School for Scoundrels
Stormbreaker
Shut Up & Sing
Fast Food Nation
Bobby
Black Christmas
Factory Girl
Miss Potter
Arthur and the Invisibles
Alone with Her
Breaking and Entering
Hannibal Rising
Nomad
TMNT
Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death Proof)
The Ex
DOA: Dead or Alive
1408
Sicko
Black Sheep
Who's Your Caddy?
Dedication
The Nanny Diaries
Halloween
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
The Hunting Party
The Mist
Awake
The Great Debaters
Cassandra's Dream
Rambo
La Misma Luna
Superhero Movie
The Forbidden Kingdom
Rogue
The Promotion
Boy A
Hell Ride
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Longshots
Elite Squad
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Soul Men
Outlander
Killshot
The Reader
Fanboys
Crossing Over
Inglourious Basterds
Halloween II
A Single Man
Capitalism: A Love Story
Janky Promoters
The Road
Nine

Youth in Revolt
Hurricane Season
Shelter
Le Concert
Piranha 3D
The Tillman Story
Nowhere Boy
All Good Things
The Fighter
The King's Speech
Blue Valentine
The Company Men
Miral
Scream 4
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
Submarine
Sarah's Key
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
Our Idiot Brother
Apollo 18
I Don't Know How She Does It
Dirty Girl
My Week with Marilyn
The Artist
The Iron Lady
Coriolanus
W.E.
Undefeated
Bully
The Intouchables
Piranha 3DD
Lawless
The Master
Butter
This Must Be the Place
Silver Linings Playbook
Killing Them Softly
Django Unchained
Escape from Planet Earth
Dark Skies
Quartet
The Sapphires
Scary Movie 5
Fruitvale Station
The Butler
The Grandmaster
Philomena
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
August: Osage County
The Nut Job
Vampire Academy
On the Other Side of the Tracks
The Railway Man
The Immigrant
Begin Again
The Giver
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Tracks
One Chance
St. Vincent
The Imitation Game[1]
Big Eyes
Paddington
Eva
Woman in Gold
Southpaw
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
No Escape
Burnt
Carol
Macbeth
The Hateful Eight
Jane Got a Gun
Regression
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Sing Street
Hands of Stone
Wild Oats
Lion
The Founder
Gold
3 Generations
Wind River[2]
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T ... pany_films

You haven't seen Rambo?

Husband liked Django Unchained (too bloody for me).

The majority of critics and the audience loved Transamerica.