Lillybelle I second the nomination of Napoleon Dynamite. It took two hours of my life and I want them back!!!
Apparently, everyone who has seen ND either loves it, or hates it...there is no inbetween, really. I love it-simply because I KNOW a few of the people in it. I swear, the character Napoleon was literally written after my cousin. *Hope he never sees this post.*
The skin tight jeans, the blank expression, the attitude...the "dangits"...I mean, I really need to get out some old videos from when we were kids and put them on YouTube or something. It struck me as personally hilarious, because I "grew up" with the REAL Napoleon...and everyone in school looked at him and reacted to him exactly how it happened in the film.
The entire time I watched it, I kept saying "OMG! IT'S ______!" (insert cousin's name)
Simone, you're not alone. My teenagers loved Napoleon Dynamite and quoted every word in it. We're all so different in our movie tastes.
We have 5 TVs in our house for this exact reason. Nobody can agree on what to watch and everyone has different tastes. Mind you, I do enjoy the movies the kids watch -- they're 8 & 10 so they watch a lot of cartoon movies and I love those!
My brother and his gf are a huge horror film & action film fans and I don't like those. My dad loves old westerns and I find those SO boring!
And then there's me...I do love Bollywood films even if I can't understand them!
I don't like Tom Cruise films either...the only one he was any good in at all was Interview With A Vampire-which is the one film people thought he wouldn't be able to pull off. He actually captured Lestat's essence from the novel quite well.
Actually I do like that movie but I couldn't stand the book. I really (really really) hate Anne Rice's writing style. I thought it was pretty painful to read.
Let's see, even my kids (15 and 13 ) hated Napolean Dynomite so I didn't get sucked into that one.
Little Man (saw 15 minutes on a bootleg DVD and cut it off)
Big Fat Liar (HATED IT)
Blair Witch Project (wanted to tie the director up in a corner and cut him myself)
Unbreakable (that ending? WADAFA?)
National Treasure (would welcome a visit from my now deceased 12th grade history teacher than see that again)
Mystic River (Johnny Depp deserved that Oscar WAY more than stoic Sean Penn)
Aeon Flux (If only she had fallen on the sharp grass and died.....)
I am embarassed to say that I loved Dodgeball, Dumb and Dumber and White Chicks. I think that Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell should do Black Chicks. It would be a HOOT!
Did anyone else want to kill themselves after watching the English Patient? What a sleeper!!
I also cannot STAND any of the Austin Powers movies...especially the one where the guy eats his dried skin flakes. Bleh!
Regarding horror movies...I LIKE scary movies...I just hate mindless gore just for the sake of being disgustingly shocking. I loved Dracula and Poltergiest, for instance, but I was in ANOTHER ROOM while Jeepers Creepers was playing and the sounds alone from that movie made me want my mommy! Seriously, I don't know what it is that anyone finds entertaining in that. Just me...
I also pretty much hate anything done my Martin Scorcese (sp?). FAR too stressful for me and I have to just leave the room and do something wholesome like bake cookies. But I LOVED Twin Peaks' Fire Walk With Me. Very cool. My son is named after Kyle McLoughlin (sp?) by my husband.
Worst movies for me were: Blair Witch project (thank god we seen it at home & could turn it off) and Kill Bill (seen at movies & actually asked at box office if I could file a complaint)
Kill Bill was actually one of those movies that grew on me. I watched the first one, wasn't so sure about it, watched the second one and decided overall I liked it.
Oh I love "Kill Bill", both volumes. You just either get into Terrantino's(sp?) style or ya don't. My first experience with him was "Pulp Fiction". I don't like it as well as "Kill Bill", but it has it's moments. In fact, just caught "Kill Bill" in rerun the other night when I was looking for something to watch.
Oh I love "Kill Bill", both volumes. You just either get into Terrantino's(sp?) style or ya don't. My first experience with him was "Pulp Fiction". I don't like it as well as "Kill Bill", but it has it's moments. In fact, just caught "Kill Bill" in rerun the other night when I was looking for something to watch.
You know...I think it was Terrantino's movies that make me nervous and uneasy...not Scorcese. Who did Scarface? That was one of the ones that I found I really needed therapy after. I guess that's good for some...but I'd rather watch a fluffy Matthew McConaughey chick flick. Oh, I did watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that he was in, but fast forwarded through it until he was in it, then still couldn't watch because he was just so mean in it!
Oh I love "Kill Bill", both volumes. You just either get into Terrantino's(sp?) style or ya don't. My first experience with him was "Pulp Fiction". I don't like it as well as "Kill Bill", but it has it's moments. In fact, just caught "Kill Bill" in rerun the other night when I was looking for something to watch.
I completely agree, and am a big fan of his. Even though parts of Pulp Fiction were very freaky...some of the banter was HILARIOUS! I think it is the same with the Cohen Brothers (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ladykillers, Raising Arizona, etc.) you either like their style and humour, or you don't...
I definitely think films by both-Cohen Bros. and Terrantino-get better after multiple viewings-because you catch stuff you missed the times before.
Another here that loved Napoleon Dynamite! Can't get enough of that movie.
Dislikes...anything with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, ugh!
Stranger Than Fiction...love Will Ferrill but that movie bored the **** out of me.
Chainsaw Massacre...all of them.
There's more but for some reason I am drawing a blank.
What a sleeper!! 
