Least favourite film?

[medwayjon]

Green Street, the hoolie guy (teacher) sounds like a cross between an idiot trying to mimick a yank accent and a cockney.

Also it is a complete and utter fabrication of pure pony.

 

[haplesshacker]

Pretty Woman, Ghost, you get the idea!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'm with hapless re Ghost Pretty et al although I hated The Firm with Tom Cruise. I thought it was at least 30 minutes too long and did the book no favours.

 

[medwayjon]

My wife stuck pretty woman on last night, makes me want to vomit pure bile.

 

[Yidio]

Anything the Yanks have got their hands on and ruined...

To be honest,Jon,most of the hooligan films are a load of tosh.

 

[Dave3498]

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Both David Bowie crap.

 

[viscount17]

The Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds - long haul to Malaysia, limited number of films but we all turned this off.

Anything with Jim Carey, Adam Sandler,

 

[Dave3498]

I forgot to mention - Stop or My Mom will Shoot. A classic from Sly.

 

[CarpeDiem]

I do A-Level Film Studies (final exams in June), as a result I don't really have a 'Least Favorite' flim. This is because film studies has taught me why directors make films and I now subconsciencely look for a meaning in the film, so rather than watch a film because it has say Brad Pitt starring, I watch because the director is try to portray a message about something, afterall isn't that the meaning of a film?

 

[Herbie]

Well I cannot disagree so far

 

[SS2]

My wife stuck pretty woman on last night, makes me want to vomit pure bile.

Don't sit on the fence Jon, tell us what you really feel...

 

[viscount17]

I do A-Level Film Studies (final exams in June), as a result I don't really have a 'Least Favorite' flim. This is because film studies has taught me why directors make films and I now subconsciencely look for a meaning in the film, so rather than watch a film because it has say Brad Pitt starring, I watch because the director is try to portray a message about something, afterall isn't that the meaning of a film?

No.

Too many directors are pretentious prats who won't let little things like history and facts get in the way of their message.
The Americans did not capture a U-boat and Enigma to save the war. (Oh and my Dad, who happened to be there, said the Battle of the Bulge was a load of ********* as well)

Me, I want to be entertained

 

[CarpeDiem]

Too many directors are pretentious prats who won't let little things like history and facts get in the way of their message.
The Americans did not capture a U-boat and Enigma to save the war. (Oh and my Dad, who happened to be there, said the Battle of the Bulge was a load of ********* as well)

That is because they can, those types of films are easy to make. The story is already there, so are the characters and all Hollywood has to do is add some explosions, and this is what they are good at. Films about the war are a goldmine for film makers, and most of all Hollywood because people want to watch what happened, then they can go away and talk with their granddads about it and then watch the spin off together. A prime exapmle is 'Saving Private Ryan', not good film in my opinion but that is for another day; Saving Private Ryan is trying to show how brave Americans were in the face of adversity,with a soldier having lost all his brothers on one day, staying on to help his pals fight, because Americans are so great. It is a good example of what the war has become for Hollywood, a unexpendable source of revenue. It is something that still effects people today (as can be see in the opening scene) and thus people will go and watch it. That is why you will see films say that America captured this and that or sunk this ship and blew up that building, it is because it's a chance to make money, not get across a message. If you watch a British war movie and then an American one, I think you will see the difference.

 

[haplesshacker]

Perhaps with the exception of Platoon and Black Hawk Down. In both films the Yanks had their pants pulled down, and the directors weren't afraid to show that. Unlike Saving Private Ryan.

Strange how the thread has morphed so quickly.

So I'll add, pretty much any chick flick eg Bridget Jones.

 

[Imurg]

What on earth possessed whoever made it to make Ace Ventura????

Why???????????????????????????

 

[SammmeBee]

Green Street, the hoolie guy (teacher) sounds like a cross between an idiot trying to mimick a yank accent and a cockney.

Also it is a complete and utter fabrication of pure pony.

In what way? Are you trying to say there was/is no football violence?

 

[nomadpaul]

Green Street, the hoolie guy (teacher) sounds like a cross between an idiot trying to mimick a yank accent and a cockney.

Also it is a complete and utter fabrication of pure pony.

The actor is a Geordie and was in Byker grove

There are only 2 films that i ever hated at the pics.

Carry on Columbus was the biggest pile of toot known to man

Dick Tracy , which i only stayed to the end because i was nominated driver...and come to think of it , anything with mad-donna in it

 

[Ken_A]

Jim Carey films - and Lost in Translation - Why??????

 

[medwayjon]

Green Street, the hoolie guy (teacher) sounds like a cross between an idiot trying to mimick a yank accent and a cockney.

Also it is a complete and utter fabrication of pure pony.

In what way? Are you trying to say there was/is no football violence?

There is plenty, just that green street is complete tripe.

 

[SammmeBee]

The problem is it was made for the yanks and we just got to see it - it's really called Hooligans but they weren't allowed to call it that here....as people might really think it still goes on.....:raiseseyesinamollycoodlingnannystatekindofway: