Controversial opinions about other movies

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  • Posts: 17,757
    My issue with Matt Damon is that every time I watch him in a film, I expect him to start singing this tune :))
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    I think the Bourne films are excellent action thrillers and I do watch them a lot. Paul Greengrass handles action well and I think QoS emulated his Bourne films.

    They're certainly not 'trash' and anyone who thinks so probably doesn't have the attention span to deal with them.
  • edited March 2019 Posts: 377
    Yes, I think I went too far calling the Bourne series “trash”. I apologize for the hyperbole. I think more accurate words to describe the Bourne films would be “horse crap”.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Yes, I think I went too far calling the Bourne series “trash”. I apologize for the hyperbole. I think more accurate words to describe the Bourne films would be “horse crap”.

    Thanks for that in depth criticism.

    These boards ain't what they used to be....
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    Which Bourne movie is your favorite? The Bourne Stupidity or The Bourne Loser?
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    =))
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    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Yes, I think I went too far calling the Bourne series “trash”. I apologize for the hyperbole. I think more accurate words to describe the Bourne films would be “horse crap”.

    Thanks for that in depth criticism.

    These boards ain't what they used to be....

    Tell me about it!! And don't even go near the Bond 25 production thread!!
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Yes, I think I went too far calling the Bourne series “trash”. I apologize for the hyperbole. I think more accurate words to describe the Bourne films would be “horse crap”.

    Thanks for that in depth criticism.

    These boards ain't what they used to be....

    Tell me about it!! And don't even go near the Bond 25 production thread!!

    No i don't! Too many decent members are scarce. All seem to be replaced by immature clowns. Find myself using this site less and less.
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    Batman Forever and Batman & Robin - the latter particularly - are horrible movies, but can work as guilty pleasures and are more enjoyable than almost every Batman film after Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy (it it counts, Joker is the exception).
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Which Bourne movie is your favorite? The Bourne Stupidity or The Bourne Loser?

    @Mack_Bolan
    I think you've made your point about the Bournes. Don't be a broken record. Move on.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    The Bourne Identity is my favourite of the series by some distance.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    I recently came to the conclusion that I enjoy Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) better than Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I recently came to the conclusion that I enjoy Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) better than Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

    It's been a while since I watched those films, but as I remember them, I think Per qualche dollaro in più is better too.
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I recently came to the conclusion that I enjoy Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) better than Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

    I prefer it and A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS to the TGTBATU actually.

    I think it's because he wears that poncho more.
  • edited October 2019 Posts: 19,339
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Yes, I think I went too far calling the Bourne series “trash”. I apologize for the hyperbole. I think more accurate words to describe the Bourne films would be “horse crap”.

    Thanks for that in depth criticism.

    These boards ain't what they used to be....

    Tell me about it!! And don't even go near the Bond 25 production thread!!

    No i don't! Too many decent members are scarce. All seem to be replaced by immature clowns. Find myself using this site less and less.

    It is becoming tiresome in some areas,i do agree.
    And I stopped going into the Production Thread a long time ago,the spoilers were getting bigger and bigger,as was the bickering.

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    I do hope @LeonardPine that you will find the more polite members to be stimulating enough to keep you returning to these forums ;)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    I do hope @LeonardPine that you will find the more polite members to be stimulating enough to keep you returning to these forums ;)

    It would be hard to return here without them. Bless them all..
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    Looking forward to seeing Outland with Sean Connery on Bluray, I have not seen it since I saw it in cinema and really enjoying this Scifi movie that is actually quite good a sort of High Noon in space.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Looking forward to seeing Outland with Sean Connery on Bluray, I have not seen it since I saw it in cinema and really enjoying this Scifi movie that is actually quite good a sort of High Noon in space.

    Love that film. Connery is excellent with great support from Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen.

    Also has a good Jerry Goldsmith score.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    edited October 2019 Posts: 814
    I don’t think I have too many options about movies that can be construed as controversial.
    After racking my brain, here’s a few I thought of. They might not all be controversial.

    - I think the best Tarantino movie (or at least my favorite) is Jackie Brown. Yeah, I love Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (saw the latter in the theater when I was a tender 15) and some of the others are good, but I find myself enjoying Jackie Brown more. The music is better and Pam Grier is a badass.

    - Don’t particularly love The Matrix like everyone else does. It’s all right, not the second coming.

    - Speaking of Keanu, I like the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. He’s reeaaally wooden in it, but on purpose. It works for his version of Klatuu.

    - I think The Force Awakens is better than every other Star Wars movie with the exception of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. I think The Last Jedi is just behind it TFA.

    All I can think of for now.
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Looking forward to seeing Outland with Sean Connery on Bluray, I have not seen it since I saw it in cinema and really enjoying this Scifi movie that is actually quite good a sort of High Noon in space.

    Director Peter Hyams was always known as a journeyman Director, never doing anything out of the ordinary (you have to give him a medal for bravery for taking on the sequel to Kubricks 2001, A Space Odyssey)
    Outland is very entertaining, Connery looks great in it, and Peter Boyle is always value for money! Effects are quite good too, and the finale is as tense as High Noon, to which it's alluded too!
  • BondStuBondStu Moonraker 6
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    I really hate Forrest Gump

    Sentimental garbage, with a vomit inducing political message and each decade presented as nothing more than a caricature.

    When Gump does try to say something meaningful his microphone is conveniently unplugged.

    Ticked all the Academy award boxes. And Tom Hanks wisely never went 'full retard'

    @LeonardPine I completely agree. Forrest Gump can DO ONE.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    edited October 2019 Posts: 814
    I loved Forrest Gump when I saw it as a 15-year old back in 1994. I thought now as an adult the movie wouldn’t work for me anymore and I’d find it irritatingly trite.

    Nope, still like it, despite my better judgement.
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    Count me in among the Forrest Gump haters. Never understood the appeal.
  • BondStuBondStu Moonraker 6
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    I also find Tarantino grossly overrated.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Count me in among the Forrest Gump haters. Never understood the appeal.
    I'm with you guys as well. But once we're talking Tom Hanks movies, my all-time hate subject is The Green Mile. Sickening kitsch trying to cast professional killers (that's what guards in a death-row prison are, even if they are not acting intentionally sadistical) in a good light, with throwing in an assorted collectiion of pseudo-christian symbolism. One of the few movies where I even regret having bought the disc.
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    BondStu wrote: »
    I also find Tarantino grossly overrated.

    I quite enjoy some of his movies, but I'd agree. He casts well and has a good eye, but his characters have more attitude than character and want to shock for the sake of it.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    BondStu wrote: »
    I also find Tarantino grossly overrated.

    I'd have to disagree there...

    I think the guy's a genius. Made some of the most cool and interesting movies of the last 25 years.
  • Posts: 17,757
    I find Nolan grossly overrated.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I find the trio of David O'Russell, Bradley Cooper and in particular Jennifer Lawrence grossly overrated. Their movies are mean spirited and depressing.
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