Movies you were supposed to like, but didn't [Archive]

Shadow_Ferret

11-21-2005, 12:23 PM

This should be interesting and might start a minor flamewar, but fun is fun.

What movies didn't you like that you were told you would like?

These can be movies that either:
1) were loved by critics
2) were extremely popular at the theater and in DVD sales
3) movies that people in your peer group said were can't misses.

I'll start.

Off the top of my head, I did not like:

Napoleon Dynamite
Gladiator
Master and Commander
Saving Private Ryan
Office Space
Caddyshack
Up a Creek
Anchor Man
Starsky and Hutch
Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands
Dodgeball

What are your's?

Sheep

11-21-2005, 12:35 PM

good thread.

first off, you didn't like Anchor Man, or Saving Private Ryan?! :eek: oh well...

I can't remember that last movie I was supposed to like, that I didn't.

The closest thing is Doom. But its a given not to like it.

OH, History of Violence. It looked really good, but the ending was just lame.

SheepStar

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 12:37 PM

The Sound of Music....I don't know why, I just hate that movie.

Star Wars: Episode 3 - Not a SW geek, but I liked the movies. This one was kind of disappointing.

Pearl Harbor - had a lot of potential, but really didn't do anything for me besides Kate... Attack scene was decent.

I thought Napoleon Dynamite and Office Space were fun and campy. M&C was OK. Gladiator was good. Saving Private Ryan was mostly good. Caddyshack was a bit overrated, IMO.

Matt34

11-21-2005, 01:03 PM

Both of the XXX movies. Second one was a gimmie I guess.

Most of the Godfathers, just couldn't get into them.

Spiderman I probably being the most popular movie I can't stand to watch in recent history.

How can't you call yourself a man and not like Gladiator or Saving Private Ryan????:p :p :p

majorloser

11-21-2005, 01:19 PM

The all time worst movie I ever saw was "Kiss of the Spider Woman". It was a major award winner, including an Oscar for Best Actor and other nominations.

"Two thumbs up", yeah right up the butt!

Buckle-meister

11-21-2005, 01:22 PM

...usually I am very easy going when it comes to movies...

As am I, yet I didn't think The Borne Identity was up to much even though everybody else I know thought it was excellent.

Regards

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 01:36 PM

Spiderman I probably being the most popular movie I can't stand to watch in recent history.

Wow, and here I thought I was the only person who hated that movie. I like Tobey and Kirsten is OK sometimes, but man that movie just plain stunk.

Shadow_Ferret

11-21-2005, 02:12 PM

How can't you call yourself a man and not like Gladiator or Saving Private Ryan????:p :p :p
Not sure why I didn't like Gladiator, it was a good looking movie, costuming and the fighting scenes were well researched, but for some reason I just didn't like it.

As far as Saving Private Ryan, that movie just made me very uncomfortable. Maybe because I was in the military, but I couldn't watch our men die, it was far too realistic and I must have emphathized too closely, because it just made me squirm. That, and I think there were many details about it that seemed rather implausible, the entire premise that they'd expend that much manpower to find one soldier. Also, and this just might have been my misinterpretation, but the old guy visiting the graves, they focused on his face then faded into Tom Hanks as he was landing. So my assumption was that the old guy was Tom Hanks and he was going to survive. Instead it turned out to be Matt Damian's character -- who had parachuted in and would NOT have any personal recollection of the landings. struck me as dishonest story telling.

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 02:13 PM

I'm sure you may not like the new one being made (announced).:p

The Bourne Ultimatum - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/

I thought the first one was OK, but Supremacy was crap. Probably won't bother to see the next one if it is the same director as Supremacy.

Matt34

11-21-2005, 02:54 PM

Also, and this just might have been my misinterpretation, but the old guy visiting the graves, they focused on his face then faded into Tom Hanks as he was landing. So my assumption was that the old guy was Tom Hanks and he was going to survive. Instead it turned out to be Matt Damian's character -- who had parachuted in and would NOT have any personal recollection of the landings. struck me as dishonest story telling.

Yeah, that threw me for a loop the first time I watched it too. I liked the realism though, so did the couple of WWII vets I have talked to about it. Shows what those men went through for this country, even if that particular story line was little far fetched.

I've been in 9yrs(2 combat tours), guess I'm a little desensitized to well......just about anything.

majorloser

11-21-2005, 02:56 PM

Not sure why I didn't like Gladiator, it was a good looking movie, costuming and the fighting scenes were well researched, but for some reason I just didn't like it.

Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

Matt34

11-21-2005, 03:02 PM

Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

LOL, yes it was, but he did play the part very well IMO.

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 05:23 PM

Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

That's because he was messed up. It was a different time then, and while I'm sure that was still not acceptable then, it was a lot different than it is in Western culture today.

gellor

11-21-2005, 06:56 PM

Please don't shoot me again ;) , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love

Sheep

11-21-2005, 07:11 PM

Please don't shoot me again ;) , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love

You didn't like sin city?!?!!?!

RABLE RABLE RABLE RABLE (angry sounds) :rolleyes: trying to keep privateer's spirit alive....

To each his own...

SheepStar

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 07:14 PM

I'll have to agree there; I was still waiting for something useful to get started when Punch Drunk Love ended. I think the fact that it ended was the best part.

Another one that everyone but me liked seems to be Daredevil. That movie was utter garbage; a waste of film.

Matt34

11-21-2005, 07:30 PM

Ah yes Daredevil and Electra, both horrible.

brian32672

11-21-2005, 08:28 PM

Please don't shoot me again ;) , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love
I had forgot to add that one to my list. And by chance I had even went to the movies to see it. (Sin City)
I thought it was terrible.... No bare Jessica Alba kinda got to me...
Also I was not alone on this, mom was there as well. She said the same thing. And there was no clapping at the end or any emotions from any of the viewers. Maybe I saw a different version. But I doubt it....

But on the Punch Drunk Love. I found it kinda amusing.
Specially since there was some music from the Popeye movie.....

Hmm, I had also kinda liked Elektra... Go figure. And I felt it was very good.
Out of my 1600 dvd's I watch this quite often (specially DTS version - I have both).

j_garcia

11-21-2005, 08:36 PM

I had forgot to add that one to my list. And by chance I had even went to the movies to see it. (Sin City) I thought it was terrible.... No bare Jessica Alba kinda got to me...

Well, we can hope for that in the director's cut coming in Dec. I liked Sin City. Good, not great. I liked it because it was a little different; just like all of Robert Rodriguez' movies so far.

gellor

11-21-2005, 10:51 PM

Ok guys look through this list to see which ones you thought were terrible.
Please know, the list is not complete I still have a lot of entries to put in. (about 80, mostly DTS)
It is a text file that was zipped. I recommend to just use wordpad. Not Microsoft Word.

ouch. I just haved to show my wife that list, since she says I have a LOT of movies. but 35 pages?! i think that fails the WAF. :)

20to20K

11-21-2005, 11:57 PM

1) The English Patient
2) Sideways
3) The Right Stuff
4) It's a Wonderful Life
5) Anything by Woody Allen

mike c

11-22-2005, 03:01 AM

whatever Ben Affleck touches turns to crap. and i wont even enumerate the movies he messed up... because they're ALL crap.

somebody kill him please.

Mr. Lamb Fries

11-22-2005, 10:45 AM

whatever Ben Affleck touches turns to crap. and i wont even enumerate the movies he messed up... because they're ALL crap.

somebody kill him please.

If i could boldly ammend mike c' statement..."Anything Ben affleck touches POST Matt Damon, turnes to crap!

j_garcia

11-22-2005, 12:50 PM

I'd agree there. There are a few Ben Affleck movies I like, like Dogma and Chasing Amy that I can think of, but other than that, I could be happy without ever seeing him in any more movies.

cmusic

11-22-2005, 02:46 PM

I don’t go to the movies much (my local theater sucks) so I usually wait until the movies I want to see come out on DVD or on HBO before I watch them. I don’t buy the DVD unless I really want to see the movie. My likes usually match with a few certain critics so I use their reviews to gauge what movies I want to spend my money on. I am not going to list any of the mainstream movies that most critics hate but the general public loves. So that makes my list smaller than most cinemaphiles.

Punch Drunk Love – I never got really interested in it although I think it is the best thing Adam Sandler ever did.
La Dolce Vita – I think I would have liked it if there was resolution at the end and it was about an hour shorter.
Million Dollar Baby – Oscar bait was all it was to me.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – 10 minutes into this one I was regretting spending my money on it.
Napoleon Dynamite – as a whole movie it sucked, if it were taken as a series of individual scenes it was ok.
Cold Mountain - It seemed the screenwriter ran out of ideas at the end.

One of my favorite movies of the past few years, Lost in Translation, is despised by nearly every one of my close friends. There are many other movies I like but my friends would hate too.

j_garcia

11-22-2005, 02:54 PM

How could I forget Million Dollar Baby? Maybe because it sucked? The performances were good, but I don't know why it was an oscar contender... I wasn't drawn into the story, nor did it strike any real chords with me.

Francious70

11-22-2005, 03:46 PM

Wow, I like most of the movies you guys are saying you don't like.

Movies I didn't like:

The Notebook (girlfriend made me watch it)
Anything Ben Afflek (post Kevin Smith)
Last of the Mohicans

Shadow_Ferret

11-22-2005, 04:42 PM

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

majorloser

11-22-2005, 04:50 PM

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

May Mini-me come and bite your ankles!

j_garcia

11-22-2005, 04:58 PM

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

I dig 'em. Goofy, dorky funny, like this generation's Airplane. They're SUPPOSED to be kind of stupid. :)

j_garcia

11-22-2005, 05:35 PM

Don't tell me, you didn't like Bambi either...

techigirl78

11-22-2005, 09:26 PM

I guess the two I can remember being the most disappointing to me were Napoleon Dynamite and Unbreakable. Not the Unbreakable wasn't ok, but it really didn't live up the the hype.

Jack Hammer

11-22-2005, 11:43 PM

I guess the two I can remember being the most disappointing to me were Napoleon Dynamite and Unbreakable. Not the Unbreakable wasn't ok, but it really didn't live up the the hype.

Unbreakable is a movie that I really want to like, but when I watch it I feel let down. Yet, I'll end up wathcing it again.:confused:

The other side of the spectrum is C.H.U.D. There's a movie that is so bad I should hate watching it, yet I keep coming back, and love it every time.:D

Johnny Canuck

11-23-2005, 01:07 AM

Gladiator and Sin City. Both yawners IMO.

A few more would include Old School, Sideways (good, but not Oscar calibre, ESPECIALLY in the comedy category as it wasn't funny, more a drama), It's A Wonderful Life, Apocalypse Now (far better war movies)...

speaking of war movies, I can not believe people would dis Saving Private Ryan. As far as I am concerned, there has never been a movie that showed the brutality of war more realistically. Since I saw it, on November 11, I really appreciate our vets more after watching this that was Steven Spielberg's hope. Platoon was a distant second in the war movie category.

Shadow_Ferret

11-24-2005, 12:53 AM

Shadow_Ferret

11-24-2005, 12:53 PM

Ha, then what is your basis on comparing it to Blazing Saddles??
Who compared it to Blazing Saddles?

j_garcia

11-24-2005, 03:44 PM

Someone mentioned The Patriot - you can add that to my list of movies I didn't like. Within about 10 min. I said "Hey, it's Braveheart...with guns" and that's pretty much what it turned out to be.

Sheep

11-24-2005, 04:41 PM

Adding to the list. Just saw "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Didn't get it.

Austin Powers is this generation's Airplane? I feel sorry for this generation then. Airplane, at the time, was cutting edge funny. Powers was just sophomoric potty humor, IMO.

This (my) generation doesn't have an "airplane".

Its just a bunch of dumb high school "drama" movies. If my generation was smart, they'd realize that highschool is(was) the best thing going for them in this life. I've seen alot of my friends from elementary school ruin their lives from drinking and drug problems.

All they do now is work dead end jobs and get drunk, EVERY WEEK. Just like they did in high school.... *shakes head*

SheepStar

j_garcia

11-25-2005, 01:37 AM

Powers was just sophomoric potty humor, IMO.

Yeah, airplane was something other than sophmoric humor...cutting edge...right :rolleyes:

Shadow_Ferret

11-28-2005, 12:30 PM

Airplane WAS cutting edge humor, as probably Blazing Saddles was before it.

Seen today, out of context of the times, they probably don't seem very cutting edge. I'll bet many don't find Martin and Lewis or The Marx Brothers very cutting edge today either. But they were in their day. Just as the TV show Laugh-In was cutting edge. And the TV show "Police Squad" (made by the creators of Airplane).

But these were movies that moved the bar, pushed the envelope, paved the way for the humor of today. They were doing things that just hadn't been done or were thought of as "forbidden."

I can't say Austin Powers was very cutting edge in that respect.

hifiman

11-28-2005, 02:29 PM

I'm surprised no one listed Lost in Translation. This was a bit amusing, but c'mon it was nothing close to the hype that surrounded it. I think if it had a different director it would have gone largely unoticed.

How about American Beauty. Again there was so much hype that this was the next best thing to sliced bread. It was ok, but just didn't live up to the hype.

j_garcia

11-28-2005, 02:41 PM

jaxvon

11-28-2005, 02:41 PM

-Anything with Ben Stiller in it
-Van Helsing (Not sure if I was supposed to like it, but it was a TERRIBLE movie)
-Titanic

As for DareDevil, I think this sums it up pretty well:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dare_devil

On an opposite note...

Finding Neverland was a surprisingly good movie that was made to look absolutely terrible and goofy by all the previews.

Shadow_Ferret

11-28-2005, 04:52 PM

Groucho Marx was cutting edge. I still find the Marx bros. movies funny. Airplane was not; it was highschool humor/satire - fart jokes for lack of a better term, as is Austin Powers. I call it "stupid funny" because it so stupid that you laugh. Mole.

At 10, I'm not sure you would have gotten the context of the movie. It was a satire on the entire disaster movie genre that had permeated the 70s. As I said, nowadays it probably hasn't aged well, after 25 years the jokes seem stale, but at the time it was considered as one of the best satire films of all time.

*shrugs* Don't mean to argue with you. I just don't think Austin Powers compares. AP was stale from day one. ;)

Shadow_Ferret

11-28-2005, 04:55 PM

-Anything with Ben Stiller in it
-Van Helsing (Not sure if I was supposed to like it, but it was a TERRIBLE movie)
-Titanic

As for DareDevil, I think this sums it up pretty well:

I'll agree with Ben Stiller and add anything with Will Farrell in it.

Aw, I love Van Helsing. :( Or at least Kate Beckinsale. ;)

j_garcia

11-28-2005, 05:12 PM

At 10, I'm not sure you would have gotten the context of the movie. It was a satire on the entire disaster movie genre that had permeated the 70s. As I said, nowadays it probably hasn't aged well, after 25 years the jokes seem stale, but at the time it was considered as one of the best satire films of all time.

*shrugs* Don't mean to argue with you. I just don't think Austin Powers compares. AP was stale from day one. ;)

I was already an avid movie goer at 10 (and a big fan of all those disaster movies), because that was what you did in the 70s at that age. Some of the humor was lost on me, but seeing it again years later, it was funny. Watching it today, it is definitely dated and not as funny. I'm not saying AP is groundbreaking or anything, but I do find them funny. :)

Van Helsing fan here too (or rather Kate...;) )

One thing that I find very interesting is that I tend to have a different opinion of certain movies when I watch them on DVD vs in the theater. There are periods when we go to a lot of movies in the theater and then there are periods where I wouldn't waste $10 to see anything that's playing so we fire up the HT. I try to catch what seem like big blockbuster type movies in the theater because they don't always have the same effect at home, regardless of the system.

jaxvon

11-28-2005, 08:21 PM

I'll agree with Ben Stiller and add anything with Will Farrell in it.

Aw, I love Van Helsing. :( Or at least Kate Beckinsale. ;)

The only redeeming thing about Van Helsing was the inclusion of hot actresses. It's the only thing that kept me from turning it off. Seriously though, the whole time I was thinking to myself, "Aw man, that was cheeeeeesy". I think it's what Army of Darkness would look like if it were made now, except for the part where Army of Darkness kicks a ton of a$$ and Van Helsing just doesn't. Sure he has cool gadgets, but Ash is 100x cooler than Van Helsing.

The Dukester

11-29-2005, 12:56 AM

I didn't like Gladiator at all. To me the lion scenes looked way to CG. Many of my friends thought it was the best, but not I!
Another movie I thought stunk was MIB 2. Talk about a let down after the original. Crikes. I didn't like the AP movies, either. I watched the first one through, the second about half way. That's it.
I heard a lot of hype about The Ring, also, but it didn't bowl me over.

A couple of others:
X-men (X-2 was much better)
Master and Commander
Scorpian King
Hulk

Rob Babcock

11-29-2005, 02:00 AM

I'd have to say War of the Worlds. A pretty weak offering IMO.

j_garcia

11-29-2005, 01:23 PM

I didn't like Gladiator at all. To me the lion scenes looked way to CG. Many of my friends thought it was the best, but not I!

They weren't CG, they were real, but they were composited.

mpompey

12-04-2005, 09:23 PM

When I saw this I had to add my $.02 The nominees are:

Sleepless in Seattle
Titanic (Don't get me wrong, excellent sound and visual effects. I just didn't go ga-ga over it)
Phantom Menace

macersl

12-09-2005, 08:26 PM

The Piano

I love Harvey Kietel but that movie was wretched.

It's not the movies themselves but the butchering George Lucas did to the original Star Wars was just frustrating. The CG looks so out of place.

Nick250

12-10-2005, 11:23 AM

The Piano

I love Harvey Kietel but that movie was wretched.

Agreed, horibble movie, but you do get to see Holly Hunter naked.

jmgillespie

12-13-2005, 01:16 PM

I agree with van helsing terrible movie I turned it off in the first 30 minutes. I don't think you were suppost to like sky captain and the world of tommorow but my buddy thought I should so we went and saw it and it totally sucked, the funny thing being is that he didn't want to go see Sin City like I didn't want to go see Sky Captain but he had to since I saw that ****ty movie he acted as though he didn't like Sin City but he did love Sky Captain but he ended up buying Sin City on DVD the day it came out and he didn't get Sky Captain so I gave him **** about it :). Didn't care for WOTW also but I bought the only thing I liked about the movie was the erry Tim Robbins character. Never thought the Exorcist was good/scary, Superman 1 & 2 sucked never even considered waching 3 & 4.

masak_aer

12-17-2005, 03:51 PM

My lists are as follows:
- Aviator
- Spiderman 1
- The ring 2
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Gigli (given..hehhehe)
- many others

gellor

12-17-2005, 05:11 PM

My lists are as follows:
- Gigli (given..hehhehe)

...I thought this was a list of movies you were SUPPOSED to like but didn't. ;)

kingdaddy

12-19-2005, 12:17 PM

I guess I'm the only one to mention the most over hyped and awarded movie trilogy of all time. Terrible movies, all of them, especially the last one, what, like three climaxes and four battle scenes with teary eyed reunions every other scene, gees, they broke every law in movie making yet everyone stood up an applauded these stinkers and I was dumb enough to buy them all.

Lord of The Rings, yuck!

BMXTRIX

12-19-2005, 01:20 PM

Top of my list?

Blair Witch Project - Flat out a dumb movie with a poor concept. An ancient concept really, following typical paths and then they use a regular camcorder to make it appear more realistic. Anyone who is serious about film making loves it - anyone who actually likes good films, hated it. It is entirely built around a pompous film makers guild instead of the concept of actually making a decent movie. Boring, not scary, slow, and hard to watch.

Cape Fear - That one really struck me as a bunch of dumb heroes that were being outwitted by a crook. It was like Home Alone for adults. A good movie needs smart bad guys and smart GOOD guys also!

Panic Room - Ditto, except everyone seemed a bit mentally challenged.

Unbreakable - Yes, I fell asleep during it. Why bother? Bruce Willis is one of the most flat actors I've ever seen, but usually the movies he selects work well around that level of charisma. Not this one!

Those are the movies that got solid reviews and I would give a 2 stars or less rating to. There are tons of movies I haven't liked, but reviewers didn't like them as well. Hulk, Daredevil, Hitchhikers Guide, etc.

Some people hate block busters to hate them. I go to movies to watch a movie. I set the bar low, and if a movie does better than that, I walk away happy. Heck, if I'm blowing 30 bucks or more to take my wife to a movie I WANT to enjoy it - not hate it!

BMXTRIX

12-19-2005, 01:25 PM

Ok guys look through this list to see which ones you thought were terrible.
Please know, the list is not complete I still have a lot of entries to put in. (about 80, mostly DTS)
It is a text file that was zipped. I recommend to just use wordpad. Not Microsoft Word.
Hopefully that's just a list of movies you have seen and not ones you actively dislike.

If so - well, I don't know what to say. Always thought this was supposed to be fun.

majorloser

12-19-2005, 01:29 PM

Got a new one to add to the list:

King Kong 2005

Saw it last night...........1 hour of action, 2 hours of HELL :mad:

brian32672

12-19-2005, 01:37 PM

Hopefully that's just a list of movies you have seen and not ones you actively dislike.

If so - well, I don't know what to say. Always thought this was supposed to be fun.
Funny. No thats a list of movies that I own. I was just asking for people to look at it and see which ones they dislike.
I like 94% on that list. The others on that list I just have in case someone wants to see one of the 6% that I dislike. Actually I have quite a few that are not even opened, and I have not seen yet. But that is about only 1 or 2%.
I have rated many movies over at IMDB, Netflix, etc.. and the last amount I rated at one site was about 3,500 movies.

EDIT:: Some people hate block busters to hate them.
Yeah I totally agree. I see it quite often.

pelvis70

12-20-2005, 02:23 AM

I hated pulp fiction and walked out half way through.
also hated napolean dynamite:mad:

ExtraCheese

01-03-2006, 03:10 AM

Napolean Dynamite grew on me. The movie I never really understood was Dr. Strangelove. Sure, I can see that it's SUPPOSED to be funny but one of the funniest ever?

Gigabit

01-03-2006, 07:43 AM

I'll have to add Million Dollar Baby

What a piece of junk. (IMHO)

Everybody else seems to love it. Me and my wife think we wasted 2 hours of our life watching that movie. :(

j_garcia

01-05-2006, 05:11 PM

I thought I already mentioned Million Dollar Baby? The performances were pretty good, but the movie wasn't all that interesting. Definitely not what I would call an Oscar caliber movie in my book.

Sheep

01-05-2006, 05:13 PM

I thought I already mentioned Million Dollar Baby? The performances were pretty good, but the movie wasn't all that interesting. Definitely not what I would call an Oscar caliber movie in my book.

If it was called "Punching a million dollar baby" I would have seen it...

SheepStar

Cygnus

01-08-2006, 04:37 AM

its no really the same (i dont know about its award status and wasnt really recommended it by anyone)

The day after tomorrow.

I really REALLY wanted to like this movie because it had a great plot, but it was very..not done very well.

muncybob

01-08-2006, 09:57 AM

was really hoping to like this...maybe if I was 14 I would have.

The Old Cowboy

01-08-2006, 10:35 PM

The film "Master and Commander" is one of the best historical films ever produced by Hollywood. There are very few of the films that are produced today that have any redeeming value. One of the worest is the new film "Broke Back Mountain." When I was younger I was fairly tolorate of other people, but as the "politically correct" phase hit us. I have changed. There are a few well made westerns such as "Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River, the John Ford movies, etc. But, I do object to homosexuals flaunting their lifestyles in films, on television or in any other fashion. I feel that this is one film that should be boycotted.:mad:

Sheep

01-08-2006, 11:17 PM

The Old Cowboy

01-08-2006, 11:17 PM

I didn't care for this film. If for no other reason than, I am retired from the US Army - 40 years service. I never could understand the reasoning behind sending a squad in search of one man just to inform him he was releaved of his military obligations and could go home [this film was based on the military reasoning that all the brothers in a family could not serve during a war together or at the same time]. If I remember correctly the whole squad died during the film.

I enlisted in 1958, one of my brothers and his best friend whom I raised joined with him and came to Indochina, my youngest brother joined the Army during this period. Now all of us were in the service at the same time during the Vietnam War.

mpompey

01-14-2006, 01:40 AM

There was one survivor besides Private Ryan, Pvt. Richard Reiben, played by Edwards Burns.

Here's something I found online:

The real "Ryan" was Sgt. Frederick (Fritz) Niland who, with some other members of the 101st, was inadvertently dropped too far inland. They eventually made their own way back to their unit at Carentan, where the Chaplain, Lt. Col. Father Francis Sampson, told Niland about the death of his three brothers, two at Normandy and one in the Far East. Under the US War Department's Sole Survivor Policy, brought about following the death of five Sullivan brothers serving on the same ship, Fr. Sampson arranged passage back to Britain and thereafter to his parents, Augusta and Michael Niland, in Tonawanda, New York. There was no behind-the-lines rescue mission, his mother was not a widow, nor is she believed to have received all three telegrams together. Additionally, the brother believed killed in the Far East turned out to have been captured and later returned home. Fr. Francis Sampson wrote about Niland and the story of the 101st, in his 1958 book, Look Out Below! (ISBN 1877702005).

The Chukker

01-16-2006, 07:50 AM

There was one survivor besides Private Ryan, Pvt. Richard Reiben, played by Edwards Burns.
Don't forget Corporal Uppum.

I can't say I saw any of the Matrix sequels in this thread, sorry if I missed it. The first one was terrific but holy toledo the sequels sucked @ss.

Add:
ANY "scary" movie released in the last 5 years except "The Grudge" (hey, I liked it -- I have a mark in my underwear to prove it) and "The Mothman Prophecies" [shudders]. :eek:

DNelms

01-16-2006, 10:18 PM

I know this may not be popular with many on this forum but IMO King Kong was a big dissapointment.

I have been a Kong fan since I saw the first version with my dad on television 35 years ago. The last two attempts to update and improve upon this classic have been nothing but an excersize in demostrating how technology does not make a movie better if the story is just not there. This latest version of King Kong was technically a great film but as far as story and plot it was terrible. Far too long. The scenes with the natives and the spider pit were nothing more than a way of demostrating how trash TV shows like fear factor have changed our veiwing habbits. Just because the special effects crew can do something in a film does not mean that they should do it.

And has there been a movie out in the last few years with dinosaurs that did not have the heros running from Velociraptors?

goodman

01-16-2006, 10:58 PM

All of the LOTR films (I didn't like the book, either). All of the Star Wars. Independence Day. Oceans 11 and 12. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Terminal, Million Dollar Baby also come to mind, as well as just about everything else I saw for the first time on DVD in 2005.

j_garcia

01-17-2006, 02:46 PM

All of the LOTR films (I didn't like the book, either).

Book? There are 3 primary books that the movies are based on, and there are I believe, 13 others also written by Tolkien that are related to that story such as The Hobbit.

sts9fan

01-17-2006, 03:57 PM

But, I do object to homosexuals flaunting their lifestyles in films, on television or in any other fashion. I feel that this is one film that should be boycotted.

have you seen the movie?? This is not a movie of flaunting homosexuals whatever that means. This is a love story no different then any other. Two people loving each other. Whats the beef?

P.S. I object to heterosexual flaunting