The movie thread

[chef_ducky 0]

Does anyone have the Love Guru on their computer or DVD that they would send me. I will pay them of course! I just want to see how bad it is and don't want to pay $9.00

[Fury of One 6]

Does anyone have the Love Guru on their computer or DVD that they would send me. I will pay them of course! I just want to see how bad it is and don't want to pay $9.00

You can watch it here -

http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/the_love_guru/

[chef_ducky 0]

Never heard of that site before. Thanks!

[chef_ducky 0]

Would work after 14 minutes!

[lampliter87 8]

I retract all previous statements. By far it was...

Hellboy II. Whole thing was a mess.

Really, I haven't seen it, but I heard a review from a guy who's usually pretty hard to please and he gave it 4 of 5.

I think too many people (not you, specifically, but in general) hold the popcorn fluff movies to the same standard as Shindler's List and Silence of the Lambs. "Bad" movies can be "good" too.

Superbad, for example, by most standards is an awful 'film' but a pretty damn good movie. If that makes any sense.

Then there are the Love Gurus of the world. Those aren't even good, for a bad movie.

I completely agree with you about Superbad. Hilarious. Don't know if you have seen it, but in my mind Hot Rod was in the same category. Stupid, but in a really great way, and it became a cult favorite on my team real quick.

Hellboy II on the other hand was poorly done. Stuff didn't make a lot of sense, plot flow was non-existant, and the "dramatic", "romantic", or generally touchy-feely moments (which there were way to many of for this type of film) were hollow and really cheesy in a bad kind of way. I also had read a lot of good reviews for it, and somehow it didn't live up to them. And don't get me wrong, I was a big fan of the first Hellboy and was dissapointed by the sequel.

[chippa13 1844]

What comic movies would you have above it? I have Spidey 2 and Superman above it with X2 and BB on the same level.

One that seems to always get overlooked but that I think was great was The Crow with Brandon Lee. Technically, a graphic novel but I really liked that movie.

[Spreedizzle 1]

Agreed. The Crow was a fantastic film. Very unfortunate that Brandon passed during the filming of it. :(

[mack 44]

What comic movies would you have above it? I have Spidey 2 and Superman above it with X2 and BB on the same level.

One that seems to always get overlooked but that I think was great was The Crow with Brandon Lee. Technically, a graphic novel but I really liked that movie.

Good call as that's a classic but I put it up with Ghost World as smaller adaptations. Both great adaptations, but they had a lot of leeway as they weren't based on the major franchises like Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, etc.

[chippa13 1844]

I haven't got around to the novel that the Crow was based on although I always mean to. As an aside, could there be a better movie that spawned worse sequels than the Crow, well, outside of Caddyshack.

[mack 44]

Fletch, Police Academy and Revenge of the Nerds come to mind, so we can just lump classic '80s comedies into one ball.

[sitzlejd 0]

Figured I'd revive this rather than start a new thread.

Just got back from "The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard" and it was TERRIBLE. There was one funny scene in the whole thing and that was by a guy making a cameo. More than one group of people walked out. Figured I'd warn people before they waste their money.

[Drewhunz 3]

There hasn't been a decent comedy since Friday After Next.

[adam14 182]

Had to go watch harry potter with my sister, worst one in my eyes out of the 6 they have made so far.

[Leafsrule16 5]

I thought funny people was awful, harry potter was a waste and the goods:live hard sell hard was also bad, however i did manage to call the last one. I have yet to see a truly great summer comedy this year, bit disappointing.

[hockey4me 0]

Came out a while ago, but Accepted was not bad.

[sitzlejd 0]

I thought funny people was awful, harry potter was a waste and the goods:live hard sell hard was also bad, however i did manage to call the last one. I have yet to see a truly great summer comedy this year, bit disappointing.

I thought The Hangover was great and even better the second time.

[adam14 182]

I thought that funny people would have been better with somebody else playing Adam Sandlers role.

[kosydar 0]

I thought Funny People was a good movie, not a good comedy.

[Rustpot 1]

District 9;

I thought between being a Peter Jackson movie and being somewhat original (no book, tv series or previous movie to go off) they'd have done a better job with the main plot. The effects were great, the story and action were there, but once again I had to just kind of dismiss a lot of buzzing questions and plotholes as it went.

I agree on Harry Potter being pretty weak. GI Joe was pretty shitty, another Transformers 2 except different hot chicks and no big robots- both require you to use your eyes and not your brain.

Hangover was pretty good for just a raunchy comedy, but it's no ground-breaking film.

I think just about every movie in the last 2 years can be canned into "why didn't they just make it ever so slightly different and make it a GREAT movie?"

[ndlancer95 0]

I thought funny people was awful, harry potter was a waste and the goods:live hard sell hard was also bad, however i did manage to call the last one. I have yet to see a truly great summer comedy this year, bit disappointing.

I thought The Hangover was great and even better the second time.

+1. that was freakin sweet.

[Leafsrule16 5]

How did i forget the hangover? On a sidenote, i saw district 9 and its far from a bad summer movie .. great show.

[Steve_v3 289]

How did i forget the hangover? On a sidenote, i saw district 9 and its far from a bad summer movie .. great show.

+1 I really enjoyed District 9.

[Dougie8 0]

Just saw District 9 last night, thought it was really good.

I went into Funny People thinking it was going to be a comedy, came out thinking it was a good movie, not a comedy. Adam Sandler normally ruins movies where he plays a serious role, but this time, not so much.

[cptjeff 0]

Had to go watch harry potter with my sister, worst one in my eyes out of the 6 they have made so far.

If you're using them as illustrations of the book, it was about the best.

If you're trying to follow them as movies, 3 and 4 were the best. They're also the two that left so much stuff out that it would be impossible to follow the rest of the series. My friends and myself, who were the original wave of readers (seriously- I have first american editions of one and two that my friend got me for my birthday packaged together at costco.) try and pretend those movies don't exist.

6 had it's faults, most notably all the snape backstory you get, But it was better at what it left out then the pos that was 3 and 4.

Aggravating thing about 4 was that they shot it to be two movies because of all the detail in there, decided they wanted one, and chopped it up. The choppy editing is actually really obvious if you're aware of that.

HP movies have problems. But this one was a lot better then some of the others.

[Ahriman 1]

Had to go watch harry potter with my sister, worst one in my eyes out of the 6 they have made so far.

If you're using them as illustrations of the book, it was about the best.

If you're trying to follow them as movies, 3 and 4 were the best. They're also the two that left so much stuff out that it would be impossible to follow the rest of the series. My friends and myself, who were the original wave of readers (seriously- I have first american editions of one and two that my friend got me for my birthday packaged together at costco.) try and pretend those movies don't exist.

I didn't realize my hard cover set of the books were a collector's item now :P But I agree with you about the movie, one of the best for the attentive reader and didn't rate so high for the average movie goer.