h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No. My friends did, though. But I *did* expect not to be bored to sleep. Just remembering it makes me yawn.

Also, I think I am the only person on the planet (save for one other person I know) who really really *wanted* to walk out of Amelie, but I was with a friend so I stayed.

az

not nearly as bad as Dancer in the Dark though

Hello Az, hello Mister F.

No Im not a fan of Tolkeincouldnt say I dont like his stuff either, he may be good I dont read much fantasy simply because the few bits I did read relied merely on the ultimately undefeatable power of good and the everpresent and immortal danger from evil for the whole plot. Maybe the books had more but that is the essence of the film the whole journey quest or whatever is over this. The one dimensional story is made up for by decent acting and great effects.

Bear in mind that they still had to cut out a lot of stuff just to fit it all into 9hrs.

I recently saw Darkness Falls. Being a bit of an optomist, I was hoping that the ending would make up for the stultifyingly terrible mess that was the film.
I was wrong.
If anybody has a chance to see this film, don't.

Yes essentially the books are basically about the whole Good vs Evil thing as well. If the films were not your thing then you probably won't like the books that much methinks.

Yeah, I like (not love) Tolkein, read LOTR when I was nine, but even back then it was very obvious to me that he was an extreme, extreme technophobe. It's the second major theme, behind "Good vs Evil". I probably should hate it, actually, since it promotes racism, technophobia, and do-goodism. But it's not that bad.

It's interesting to me how people can differ so radically on topics like movies (or music, or art, or ...) My wife & I (baby boomers) would haved walked out on "Jackass: The Movie", but we were watching the DVD at home, so we just turned it off after a half hour or so (and we're both fans of "Animal House"). But a teenage son of some friends thinks its great. The never ending generation gap.

On the other hand, a good friend of mine thinks "Memento" is one of the five worst films of all time (along with Leonard Maltin, I think). My wife & I both enjoyed it, not a great movie, maybe, but interesting.

I don't love Jackass, and I fail to see how you can watch it for more than half an hour, but my friends insist that it's brilliant. So it's not just age.
Also, I hope that none of you think that "Magnolia" is a bad film.

Both Magnolia and Memento are fantastic films IMHO (see Jim I pay attention !)

Very funny. Especially Tom Cruise's male pep talks.

The only film I walked out of was Resident Evil, and that was due to some annonying kid in front of me who loudly answered his cellphone after talking thru the first 30 minutes of the film. I was furious and if he hadn't been with 8 friends I would have jumped the seat and throttled him. Bastard children.

Also the worst film, as defined in the book Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, is Road House with Patrick Swayze. Road House is peice of garbage by which all other films can be judged. It is the Litmus Test of Crap films. So in his own ironic way, Mike Nelson has made good use out of a terrible film.

I bet I can start a controversy with this one: I thought "Moulin Rouge" STANK. I liked the first half-hour, really, then once Nicole Kidman and Ewen McGregor met it became treacle. I couldn't believe those sappy ballads. Then she starts coughing into her hanky, and I thought, please, God, tell me they're not going to have her DIE. I didn't walk out only because I thought it HAD to get better -- so many friends had raved to me about it, and I loved "Strictly Ballroom."

I agree about "Blair Witch"; totally boring, and scary only if you're under 10.

I see Titanic got slated - excellent
The only good bits in that are special effects of said boat going down so one can probably fast forward the first 90 minutes of the movie and not miss anything.

I also notice it took until almost post 100 before LOTR got a mention. I'm afraid I couldn't comment on the merits of that movie, as the subject matter for me is one of deep deep boredom. Thus it's a film I'll never watch.

Eyes Wide Shut - I wonder about that one. It ought to have worked. You've got two good actors in Cruise and KIdman - OK one of them *is* better than the other - and a great director. Yet the end product has as much emotional grab as a dead fish. Could this be down to the impending failure of Cruise and KIdman's marriage, and the crap that was going around in their private lives was spilling out into the film?

I also loved both "Magnolia" and "Memento." They are among my favorite films. I love PT Anderson. And I don't think he's even 30 yet!

Re "Eyes Wide Shut" -- maybe it could be put down to the fact that Kubrick didn't get to finish his movie! Others finished it for him, and perhaps were far too reverent. It took me a week after I saw that movie to decide whether I liked it or not (final answer: not), because it was so well made.

Kubrick is indeed a Godlike director. Clockwork Orange, anyone? Whenever my girlfriend hears Ludwig Van these days, she gets really scared.

"Clockwork Orange" is one of my faves, as well, and I even saw it AFTER I read the book. If your girlfriend thinks the movie was scary, don't let her read the book. It's true you never listen to Beethoven the same way again!

I didn't think the film was scary, though, I thought it was witty and grrrrrreat. Who was the book by?

I agree. It was too stylized to be scary, and it WAS funny. I don't remember the book being funny. Anthony Burgess wrote it.

"American Psycho" was funny, too (the movie), but I don't think anyone anywhere saw that but me.