Archive through September 10, 2002
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TV ClubHouse: archive: Movies Sept 2002 - April 2003: Movies you thought you'd love, and ended up disappointed in: Archive through September 10, 2002

Angelnikki

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
jbean i liked What Women Want!! That was so cute. :)

Jbean

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 06:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
angel, i didn't HATE what women want, but i was disappointed in it. every preview i saw was hilarious, i guess it just wasn't what i expected. oh well, bygones.

Julieboo

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Juju! I wondered what those were for. I'm new to this. I've lurked for a while but only recently started posting....

Julieboo

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 06:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Off the subject a bit, but can someone tell me what the other 3 icons mean?

Teddybear

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju--- I did dislike these movies, so maybe you should go see them. I have heard that alot of people liked Royal Tenenbaums, but I just didnt get it.

Tess

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 11:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie--the other 3 are for the moderators for administrative work if necessary. Sometimes things need to be moved or links need to be fixed, etc. The first icon with the single sheet of paper and pencil is the one that lets us edit our posts within 10 minutes as Juju said. :)

Julieboo

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you. And BTW, back to the thread, my pick is:
The Story of Us.

Chance

Monday, March 04, 2002 - 09:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I absolutely hated In the Bedroom...I have found nobody I know who liked it. It was unrelentingly depressing.

Alaskagal

Monday, March 04, 2002 - 11:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Shallow Hal was a real disappointment. All the funny scenes were in the previews... I thought it'd be hilarious.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, March 04, 2002 - 03:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't hate In the Bedroom, but wasn't all that fond of it either. It was a downer of a movie. I didn't see anything too special about Sissy Spacek's performance. I thought the actor who played her husband carried the movie.

Whowhere

Monday, March 11, 2002 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Memento
Pay it Forward
My Best Friends Wedding

Some people I know, LOVED Memento. I thought it was a waste of my time.

Pay it Forward ended crappy. Why did they have to kill the kid?

I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

Sunshinemiss

Monday, March 11, 2002 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with Pay it forward definitely. Didnt need to happen to further the movie. A buzz-kill for sure.

A.I. sucked too.

Rush Hour 2- I liked the first one, the second would rate in my top 10 worst movies ever! I want my PPV money back!

Crazydog

Monday, March 11, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aargh, I consider A.I. one of the most horrifically boring things I had ever sat through. It was so slow and depressing. And then when the ferris wheel fell, I thought *at last* and got up to leave. BUT IT WENT ON FOR ANOTHER !@#$% THIRTY MINUTES. I must be stupid, because I just didn't get it.

Webkitty

Friday, March 22, 2002 - 01:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Disapointments for me:

Jurrasic Park II (was wild about the original, III was OK)
America's Sweethearts
Battlefield Earth
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Royal Tennenbaums


On the flip side of that I was doubtful of the following but ended up enjoying:

The Others
Sling Blade
Vertical Limit
Moulin Rouge

We somehow missed AI but it doesn't sound like we missed much!

Solidsnake

Friday, March 22, 2002 - 05:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crouching Tiger was a dissapointment 4 u ??

Webkitty

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
SS, a little, not a big one, but enough to list it.

Maris

Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was disappointed in Training Day.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I forgot I'd even seen Training Day until I saw the clips of it at the Academy Awards. Since Denzel won the Oscar for it, I had made a mental note to go see this movie. Then I found out I had already seen it. LOL. Certainly Denzel was great in it and plyaing against type, but the movie pretty much sucked.

Spygirl

Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have this rented to watch tomorrow in study breaks.

Oregonfire

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 09:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"O Brother Where Art Thou" was a disappointment for me. I really like the soundtrack, and like the Coen Brothers, but all of those pretentious words streaming out of George Clooney's mouth? I just didn't buy it, and couldn't get into the movie after realizing he was going to talk like that the whole way through.

Car54

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved O Brother Where Art Thou! The pretentiousness was kind of the point! I loved the stylized performances, the comedy, the music!

I watch it every time it is on cable if I can. Maybe it is because I grew up in a southern family and seems like I know a lot of the "characters" in the story.

Abbynormal

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I also love O Brother Where Art Thou! I bought it. The whole absurdity of it just cracks me up. I love that George Clooney is so obsessed with his hair. My new favorite saying is "Damn, we're in a tight spot". IMO this is a bonafied movie!

Oregonfire

Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 07:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to imdb.com to look at the user comments for "O Brother," and I saw that I wasn't the only one who found Clooney's language a problem. The reviewer's comments:

"I wanted to laugh whenever [Clooney] went into one of those pseudo-intellectual riffs, but I couldn't. Something was wrong about them. (The film tried to explain it away later--Everett went up for practicing law w/o a license--but I wasn't convinced. That was just way too convenient storywise.)"

I guess it's a matter of perspective: I'm an English instructor, and am used to (and sick of) pretension from grad school, and also know how difficult those words are to use in the correct context. My b*llsh*t detector was going haywire whenever Clooney opened his mouth; thus, I couldn't relax and let myself get into the movie because I kept being reminded that it was a movie. I may be in the minority, but it ruined the mood for me.

Give me "Raising Arizona" any day of the week over this film, Coen Brothers at their best!

Rolandcat

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Movies I walked out of:

Royal Tennebaums-afther 30 minutes I could not care less what happen.

Should have walked out: Blue Crush
A 5 minute clip made into a 2 hour movie.

Alegria

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 09:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I almost walked out of Serving Sara. I like Matthew Perry and was looking forward to a light, summer comedy. The whole thing was so canned & artificial and it seemed like it had been cranked out by the studio. The only thing I laughed at was when Elizabeth Hurley was trying to get some toilet paper from the dispenser to blow her nose with and I went in to this one with low expectations and a tolerant mind.