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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 9, 2019 3:05:45 GMT
... and then when you did, was not at all impressed by it?
There are three for me.
1) The Sandlot.
When I watched it, it was like, "This is the movie they make such a big deal out of?"
2) A Christmas Story
See above.
3) The Ring
Is this supposed to be scary?
It's a laugh a minute riot! This is funny, not scary!
Check out the over the top suicide by electricity in the bathtub scene. If you don't laugh at that, you are dead.
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 9, 2019 3:28:47 GMT
The Hangover. All this talk about it being a new comedy classic etc., and it just felt like a feature-length sitcom episode to me.
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Post by ck100 on Sept 9, 2019 3:46:25 GMT
The Waterboy. So many people at my school treated the film as if it's one of the funniest films ever made. So when I finally watched it to see what all the hype was about, I discovered that I didn't find it funny.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 9, 2019 3:52:26 GMT
I remember watching it here and there back in the day on TV and liking it but I like it less lately then back-in-the-day as I have not seen it since sometime prior to Dec 27th 2011. but come to think of it... ill probably get around to re-watching this before this year is over (and I expect my 6/10 rating to hold)  I have not seen A Christmas Story in it's entirety but given what little I did see, I don't see the appeal of it. kolchak92 I have not seen it but I don't expect to think much of it. maybe it's appeal is more of a younger generation thing?
When it comes to Adan Sandler it's all about Happy Gilmore (1996) as that still holds up unlike most of his other stuff from back in the old days.
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Post by ck100 on Sept 9, 2019 4:40:09 GMT
I also agree to an extent on Sandlot. I mean it's fine, but I don't think it's anything special. Certainly not a film worthy of such big anniversary events. It's a decent kid's film about baseball. Nothing more or less.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 9, 2019 4:44:52 GMT
"St. Elmo's Fire"
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 9, 2019 5:05:20 GMT
The Waterboy. So many people at my school treated the film as if it's one of the funniest films ever made. So when I finally watched it to see what all the hype was about, I discovered that I didn't find it funny. I've seen part of it and I'm like, "What is this shit? Oh yeah. It's Adam Sandler," and changed the channel.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 9, 2019 5:09:55 GMT
I also agree to an extent on Sandlot. I mean it's fine, but I don't think it's anything special. Certainly not a film worthy of such big anniversary events. It's a decent kid's film about baseball. Nothing more or less. Previews I'd see on other discs plus this catchphrase that I'd see in catalogs is what got me to finally watch it. The one and only highlight for me was seeing James Jones who I really like. 
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Post by ck100 on Sept 9, 2019 5:11:09 GMT
It seems Sandler's worst films are one where he does an annoying accent the whole time - Waterboy, Little Nicky, 8 Crazy Nights, etc. I like this Waterboy review from allmovie.com: "Every once in a while an actor generates enough popularity that even his or her worst films can bring in a crowd. Consider Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child or Julia Roberts' Sleeping With the Enemy, films that more people saw than actually enjoyed. Add to that list The Waterboy, the fourth in a string of hit comedies featuring Adam Sandler. While it's tough to make a case for The Wedding Singer or Billy Madison as great movies, it's easy to understand their popularity among fans of Sandler's overgrown man-child persona. Here that persona gets taken to its extreme, as Sandler plays a mentally impaired backwater resident with a voice that crosses the vocal tics of Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man character with the accent of Armand Assante in Belizaire the Cajun, a joke that's tedious at its introduction and unbearable by film's end. The only thing that sets The Waterboy apart from any other mediocre comedy is its welcome casting of Jerry Reed and Henry Winkler in supporting roles. In the right setting Sandler can be an appealing performer (as proved by the following year's Big Daddy); in the wrong he can be murderously grating." Read more at www.allmovie.com/movie/the-waterboy-v173675/review#2PeqR4bG6USdmDr9.99 |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 9, 2019 5:34:24 GMT
I also agree to an extent on Sandlot. I mean it's fine, but I don't think it's anything special. Certainly not a film worthy of such big anniversary events. It's a decent kid's film about baseball. Nothing more or less. Previews I'd see on other discs plus this catchphrase that I'd see in catalogs is what got me to finally watch it. The one and only highlight for me was seeing James Jones who I really like. This girl I hooked up with said that to me, and I didn't know what the fuck she was talking about. And I'd already seen the movie, it just made no impression. For early 90s kids baseball movies, give me Rookie of the Year. |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 9, 2019 5:37:16 GMT
It seems Sandler's worst films are one where he does an annoying accent the whole time - Waterboy, Little Nicky, 8 Crazy Nights, etc. That may be true. The one and only Sandler movie that I ever saw in theatres and liked enough to buy was his Wonderful Life remake called Click even though he was a mean asshole to others at times.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 9, 2019 5:39:22 GMT
Previews I'd see on other discs plus this catchphrase that I'd see in catalogs is what got me to finally watch it. The one and only highlight for me was seeing James Jones who I really like. This girl I hooked up with said that to me, and I didn't know what the fuck she was talking about. And I'd already seen the movie, it just made no impression. For early 90s kids baseball movies, give me Rookie of the Year. That is a good one and you have to let go of every single adult disbelief to enjoy it and feel like a kid to watch it. Otherwise you just won't have any fun with it at all.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 9, 2019 8:52:25 GMT
... and then when you did, was not at all impressed by it? There are three for me. 1) The Sandlot. When I watched it, it was like, "This is the movie they make such a big deal out of?" 2) A Christmas Story See above. 3) The Ring Is this supposed to be scary? It's a laugh a minute riot! This is funny, not scary! Check out the over the top suicide by electricity in the bathtub scene. If you don't laugh at that, you are dead. gone with the wind actually.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 9, 2019 9:50:04 GMT
The original Star Wars trilogy. ( I watched this after the prequel trilogy") I watched the original trilogy in around 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( I watched The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001 and the other two in 2016)
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 9, 2019 15:49:11 GMT
No Country for Old Men. I liked the movie, but I wasn't as blown away as I had expected to be given the huge praise it received when it came out.
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 9, 2019 17:53:28 GMT
The Pacino Scarface. I guess once I finally got around to seeing it I was pretty much done with the whole gangster/mafia genre. I could have done without the whole chainsaw scene too. Now, the old Paul Muni Scarface, I still totally enjoy.
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