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Tyrannorabbit
Joined: 04 Oct 2000 Posts: 3985 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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I caught about half of _The Peacemaker_ on TV the other night, and man, I was blown away by how unbelievably pedestrian and recycled it was. It was like every shot, every plot twist, every moment was cannibalized from other movies, just a pure assembly-line movie. Thing is, when I saw it in theaters when it came out, I thought it wasn't half bad. (total points of inspiration - the actual disarmament of the bomb [at least it wasn't the ol' red-wire-blue-wire bit], and the sniper part with the kid)
Same thing happened when I re-watched _Rising Sun_ recently. I liked it when it first came out. Saw it again, and the unbelievably bad dialogue made my jaw drop. Incredible. |
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Jake
Joined: 02 Mar 1999 Posts: 4963
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2002 11:44 pm Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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yeah I have that problem sometimes especially since I like action movies. I went back to see Robocop a few months ago and it was awful. I wondered how I could have ever thought the movie was any good.
I know some movies I've liked in the past have lost their value because they no longer rank up in terms of their original purpose to me. For instance I think I liked Rising Sun when I was in my mid teens because it shows a fair amount of skin in some scenes, but now that I'm in my early twenties I don't see it as any big deal. Likewise, movies such as Sliver have also lost some value. Action movies that I enjoyed only because they were incredibly violent also have lost their value. |
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THE_HELLION
Joined: 16 Feb 2002 Posts: 48 Location: DALLAS
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2002 7:04 am Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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WWhen I was a kid I loved going to the movies and watching Billy Jack..Now I can hardly stand to watch it |
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Butchman
Joined: 18 Nov 2000 Posts: 522 Location: Your Imagination
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2002 8:03 pm Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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Night of the Comet
Trick or Treat
Breaking all the rules
Summer School
House
Just to name a few of the movies I thought were cool when I was younger. Man, what was I thinking? |
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Desslar
Joined: 11 Jul 2001 Posts: 776 Location: Bloomington, IN
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:29 am Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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Skin, mindless violence, and especially Robocop still rule. Rising Sun, however, was always pretty lame. Might be Connery's worst. Then again there was Medicine Man.... |
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Jake
Joined: 02 Mar 1999 Posts: 4963
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 12:59 am Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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oh I still like mindless violence and skin, but there are definitely movies that I liked more when I was younger because they were the first skin or violence movies that I saw. They don't seem nearly as special now. Robocop doesn't seem as great as it used to be but I may have just been having a bad night when I saw it. |
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Tyrannorabbit
Joined: 04 Oct 2000 Posts: 3985 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 1:53 am Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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_RoboCop_ is still cool in my book. As for Connery's worst hour - hard to say if this, or _Highlander 2: The Quickening_ (which I just saw last night), is more worthy of that honor. |
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Ungodly
Joined: 19 Sep 2001 Posts: 197 Location: San Antonio, TX
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 8:27 am Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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quote: Originally posted by The Hellion:
[b]WWhen I was a kid I loved going to the movies and watching Billy Jack..Now I can hardly stand to watch it [/b]
Man I used to love the Billy Jack movies.
Also one that I watched recently that totally scared the piss outta me when I was a kid is a movie called "Devil's Rain" with William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine. Now it was total cheese but it sure was cool when I was young.
Did anyone else see this movie?? |
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Desslar
Joined: 11 Jul 2001 Posts: 776 Location: Bloomington, IN
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2002 2:13 pm Post subject: Once-tolerable movies, dropping like flies... |
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quote: Originally posted by Tyrannorabbit:
_RoboCop_ is still cool in my book. As for Connery's worst hour - hard to say if this, or _Highlander 2: The Quickening_ (which I just saw last night), is more worthy of that honor.
Oh, yeah. Forgot about that one. Wasn't there also one called Zardos or something? |
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