Comments on: Weekly Opinion Poll: Two Thumbs Down

By: hooizz

hooizz — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:57:26 +0000

im with jen about hating on million dollar baby. the same goes for swimming pool… but how can you be a hater about vanilla sky and garden state!!!
SURE the ending of vanilla sky sucked, but it was a great overall film (and much to many peoples consternation, imho a better version than the non hollywoodized abre los ojos – if you want to argue with me about that, BRING IT) ha!
and of course ive hearted nportman ever since beautiful girls. (eeew).
cheers
hooizz

By: TCho

TCho — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:33:04 +0000

Yeah, definitely Million Dollar Baby for me

By: Fiorello LaGuardia

Fiorello LaGuardia — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:56:24 +0000

Jenny, you have made it too hard for me to respond. I will have to give you categories of movies I hate.
COMEDY: Absolutely *anything* starring Jerry Lewis or Jim (ugh, grunt,retch) Carrey.
ROMANCE: “Titanic” or “Love Story” or “Out of Africa” or “The Way We Were”… Talk about no chemistry! (I could go on and on in this category.)
ACTION: All the “Star Wars” movies
HORROR: “Prophecy” (Didn’t they have any money in the budget for a couple of klieg lights?)
SCI-FI: All of them, but especially “Space Oddysey 2001. YAWN-o-rama!

By: Darby

Darby — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:09:24 +0000

Swimming Pool? Oh that movie was terrible. Seriously that movie needed Rambo in it to liven it up.
Also I’m going to write-in pretty much everything made by M. Night Shyamalan, with with special bile directed towards The Sixth Sense. “OHHHHH LOOK AT ME I MAKE TWIST ENDINGS!” Yeah please dude get a life. *grrrr*

By: gillespie

gillespie — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:47:54 +0000

Citizen Kane?!? Come on, people! While I’ll give you it’s slow at times, it was made in 1941!! You show me a film from 1941 with the clever cinematography, the witty banter, and the suspense of a Citizen Kane, and I’ll agree and scream along with you.
Oh, and I chose The Grudge (only movie I’ve fallen asleep while watching at the movie theatre) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (only movie I went to watch at the movie theatre that I got up and left).

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:46:31 +0000

Jerry Maguire. Not a movie for single people to watch. You want to kill tom cruise by the end.

By: nicole

nicole — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:26:36 +0000

I remember the first time I watched It’s A Wonderful Life…the ear slapping part disturbed me for life. So I will never ever watch it again. Ever.
So I vote for A.
And I have to disagree with some of the above answers. I liked Blair Witch, loved Lost in Translation, and Amelie is my favorite film of all time (well..one of them).
But I still don’t get Citizen Kane…how? Why? It’s sooooooooo boring. Perhaps I’m just not the cinephile I thought I was…

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:59:03 +0000

Oh, god. Where do I even begin? With a list perhaps:
1. Loved Lost in Translation, but get why a lot of people would get annoyed.
2. SOOO happy to see that so many of you hated It's a Wonderful Life. You grow dearer to me each day.
3. Million Dollar Baby made me want to kill Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood. My favorite discussion with Natasha: "You know, this movie would be so much better if she just went blind now."
4. Never seen Citizen Kane, but don't know if I'll try now...
5. The Hours? Oh, yes. That was the year of the "Brave actress who made herself look 'ugly' so let's give her an Oscar." Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman... I know there were some more.
6. Loved Amelie, but j'adore les francais!
7. Liked Blair Witch, but mainly because my friends and I made little stick triangle figures like in the movie and hung them on my friend's doorway after we saw the movie together.
8. Liked Ocean's 11, but heard SUCH awful things about 12, and am glad I didn't waste the $9.
9. Phew. You've gotten me all fired up - I'm sure I'll have more later!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:42:52 +0000

Dear Jenny,
I say “The Hours.” A wonderful book absolutely ruined by the most insane SOUNDTRACK by Philip Glass. And, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf– which we only know because she’s wearing a fake nose and walking clomp clomp clomp??? Then, the most melodramatic performance by that guy who’s married to Amy Madigan (absurd that I remember her name, not his because she has a far less visible career). But that guy who played Pollack. Now “Pollack” was a good film. Anyway in “The Hours,” that guy who… cough. Cough. Must be dying. Cough. Cough.
Ugh!
Love,
Vivian

By: Cheesemeister V

Cheesemeister V — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:36:45 +0000

C.) Other: Amelie. If this load of dung had been made 10 years ago with Meg Ryan, or last year with that Jenifer Love gal it would've sunk with an eye-rolling plop into the depths of the cutsie bog. But no, cause it's all fancy-pants French the public believed it was oh so clever. Well not me sister!