Requiem for a Dream. My favorite quote about it is:

Designed to make you feel terrible. As pat and manufactured as the happy endings in the worst romantic movies, but in reverse.

I never understood the love for that Bill Murray character, and the movie is just a hodgepodge of random scenes, but I still like it.

Certainly the most overrated movie of the year. "It makes you think". No, The Godfather makes you think; Inception makes you puzzle over its plot and discuss inane concepts such as "kicks" in 1000+ page threads. It's not ambiguous either in any intelligent or relevant sense. Eraserhead is "ambiguous"; Inception merely ends 3 seconds early.

No, read the OP.

This is definitely a worse movie than the one I named, but I don't particularly "hate" it and it's fish in a barrel anyway. I loved the animated series and still fell asleep during the movie. The Xbox game based on the movie, which I just played recently, is significantly better than the film. In fact, the game draws some inspiration from the animated show, so if you were a fan of the series and have an Xbox I'd recommend it.

This is my problem with sci-fi/fantasy as well. Imagination is nice and all, but this attitude toward story making has dodged me from watching Lord of the Rings (My friend called it horrible, btw) and Avatar. I am sure they are both okay movies, but I don't feel like watching 7 hours of walking or 3 hours of candy-cane CGI.

Stanley Kubrick destroyed the ship because he didn't want any sequel for his movie. Many call this a wise decision because 2001 was such a masterpiece (apparently).

When I saw 2001, I was completely non-plussed. I have no idea why I watched the entire thing. To make things worse, I went ahead and read the book, which was written concurrently with the screenplay. I really tried to understand the movie, but I guess that isn't going to happen.


I agree with the sentiment toward Shawshank, but I also don't think it is horrible. I think that it was overbearing in that the constant use of voice-over blocked my ability to immerse myself into the movie. I hate watching movies that don't let me have my own emotional stance on the situation. Clearly, the script and story were strong enough to make the movie great regardless.

At first, I never agreed with the universal screenwriter teacher slogan "Erase the V/O," but looking at the movie through this prism makes me understand all its short-comings.

I take it you never saw the TV series? I would guess the movie attempted to follow what the TV series was doing. Considering the TV series was genius in its own way, and that it was animated (live action interpretations of animations are a wtf concept to me)....

Look, you can probably find some Aeon Flux on youtube or something, but you have to be awake to get it, and even then, it is an impossible story to understand. I am not sure I ever liked the TV show that much, so a movie certainly didn't excite me.

I think it was cool to watch at the time because it was shown on MTV in the mid-nineties, when MTV was a cultural icon for coolness. At the time, bands spent $1million on a music video, and for 3 weeks ahead of schedule, MTV was upping the hype on the video premier, showing behind the scenes looks, band interviews, and all sorts of stuff. At that time a music video premier was an event: invite all your friends to have soda and pizza event. Aeon Flux was created during this time, right around the time one could order a subscription to Anime videos for $9.99/mth + shipping & handling, delivered straight to your door. No one thought that Aeon Flux was the best show on TV at the time (and I am willing to bet that many of the fans didn't even think the show was good), but it had a powerful cultural effect on what constitutes popularity.

I don't understand why they would create the movie a decade after the show ended and was basically forgotten about. I suppose that those of use who were 16 at the time would never go see the live action version, not even for nostalgia purposes. To be certain, those that understood the concept of Aeon Flux would never go see it. Mix up a bunch of CGI and have a hot lead, and we have a hit for mindless teenagers. The difference? They will pay $12 to go see it. Not us.

Okay guys, I'll step on a sacred cow: Akira.

Absolutely horrible movie, plot, drawings, anything. This the most wtf anime. Pure laziness imo.

Inception, Requiem, Shawshank? Does anybody in the lounge actually hate bad movies?

Mine is Transformers 2. Robot heaven? *****

Because some of the guys who were 16 at the time found themselves 26 year olds with power at a studio but no original ideas to promote?

Requiem for a Dream is an excellent contribution. Also add - everything Aronofsky has made.

I questioned the part of his post where he said there was no clear delineation between good guys and bad guys since that's part of the show, but it doesn't matter, the movie is terrible under any lens. You haven't seen it?

Some episodes of Flux are pretty straightforward. Parodies of action movies for example, like in the Pilot or "War" shorts. They're available on MTV.com:

http://www.mtv.com/shows/aeon_flux/series.jhtml

Also, see my previous post on the subject if you missed it.

this thread reminds me of 2p2 sports forum. <3 all the hate

TALLEDAGA NIGHTS

Everybody thinks its so god damn funny. Its ****ing terrible

I am so chuffed to find out that there's at least one other person out there who agrees with me!

Omfg yes. That MTV task force quote about Requiem is sooo awesome. The fountain was just pretentious nonsense. I went to see Black Swan accidentally recently because I knew it got good reviews but didn't know anything about it, sat through through it and thought it blew hard then saw that hack's name in the closing credits and said yeah that makes sense.

I remember liking pi when I saw it when it first came out though.

Bad movies that are universally agreed upon as bad deserves no discussion or merit. Transformers 2 was released by the studio with silence. It is disturbing when they do this to a franchise movie. They did the same thing with Shrek 3.

When a movie is good, the studios want to show it off because it is something to be proud of. They will have advanced screenings and toss advertising dollars behind it. This doesn't happen to movies like Trans2, which is more baffling because just one or two years earlier, it was a tent pole movie. Indication number one of a turkey is "Transformers 3 did not have a critic's screening." Studios know that a movie skewered by critics will lose a ton of money. They'd rather the audience figure it out since word spreads a lot slower.

Listen, I can understand the hate for Aronofsky, but surely you haters must be excited to see his take on Wolverine.

Pay attention. Boondocks Saints has been mentinoned many times.

You're not trying say that AF was written for those who were actual fans of the TV show are you? Clearly, the good guys/bad guys were marked, though if I recall, the roles sometimes switched.

It has been a very long time since I seen the shows, and mind that my mind was teenage and drunk at the time.

Maybe I should watch a few episodes for kicks.