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...
"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" is good. I haven't seen those other two.
To be honest, I didn't give Brick a fair chance. I only got it because I have a disturbing love for Lukas Haas... yum. I would probably watch it alone, but i wasn't digging on the Film Noir and i felt like the movie opened up in the middle and I didn't know what was going on.
Napoleon Dynamite made me want to stop living. I hated that movie so much... there was one funny part when the kids brother threw a steak at him and it hit him in the face and knocked him off his bike. That was amusing as ****... but the movie overall made me just wish I was dead so I didn't have to be watching it.
Also Art School Confidential was horrid. All the funny parts were in the trailer and the rest of the movie was crap.
Elizabethtown! Susan Sarandon gives a stand-up comic routine in which she makes jokes about a neighbor getting a hard-on for her at her own husband's funeral. I just couldn't buy it. Also, the movie moved so slowly.
Castaway: I hated the ending. Life is disappointing enough, I want my movies to have happy endings. Plus, Tom Hanks has only been on the island for 2 or 3 years and somehow in that short period of time Helen Hunt has gotten over him, started dating again, got married, and has a kid that is one year's old by the time Tom makes it off the island. Seems like she must have started dating the day of the his plane went down to pull that off.
The 40-Year Old Virgin: It was funny for the first hour but after that I just wanted him to have sex so we could all move on with our lives.
Serendipity: I love John Cusack but the premise of this movie was completely unbelievable. I hate movies where two people meet and somehow, after only 15 minutes, they know they want to be together forever. I just can't buy it.
I also don't have the patience for thoughful, artsy type movies like The English Patient or Dances with Wolves. I like my movies to be over in 90 minutes or less. My main compliant about most movies is that they are a little slow.
I love Tom Cruise but he's turned out to be such a freak that I can't allow myself to see any more of his movies.
I hate that movies like Saw and Hostel are so popular. Those movies aren't horror. They're gore, pure and simple, and they're really sick. It's not scary to watch someone being tortured and dismembered, it's just disgusting. The fact that people get a twisted fascination out of it totally repulses me. I've heard those kinds of movies referred to as "torture porn" and I couldn't agree more.
I mean, what happened to real horror? Movies that are scary not because someone's hacking up teenagers all over the places, but because they set this mood of dread and anticipation and then make you totally unable to sleep at night? (The first time I saw The Exorcist was in high school, during the cinematic re-release, and by God, I couldn't sleep for days.)
Actually I loved Saw. It was such an intelligent horror movie. I saw Hostel because I thought it might be similar to Saw and boy was I wrong. I can't stand movies that are gore for gore sake which I think Hostel is a good example.
Thanks for reminding me---I didn't like Castaway either, I thought it was too slow for me, the ending didn't ruin it for me, the whole thing did. I take back ever saying I could just watch Tom Hanks read the phone book. Because that was about what that movie was. LOL
Yes, I hated the Blair Witch project too. And the 40 yr old Virgin, I didn't think it was all that humorous either. And the main character wasn't so endearing to me either.
But I did like Napoleon, true someone said, either you loved or hated it. We thought it was funny, reminded me of my high school days.
I don't think it makes anyone twisted for watching movies that are filled with gore. I certainly don't stare at them wide-eyed wishing it were me in the movie (on either end of the torture)--rather, I watch them cringing and appreciating how fortunate I am to have never been in such a situation since, yes, there really ARE such freaks out there in the world who enjoy torturing others. I read that the writer of Hostel got the idea from a REAL website he came across just like in the movie, where people could pay exorbitant amounts of money to torture someone. I guess it's not the movie itself that gets to me--it's the idea that people like that really exist. Not that I think of these movies as documentaries, exactly, but I like to watch things that make me remember that not everyone lives happily ever after and that no matter what happens in my life, things could always be worse! Maybe that's not the best way to explain it, but I really don't know how else to put it into words. In any case, it's certainly not a fascination with gore or torture, just an appreciation that not all movies have to give me the warm fuzzies. I watch every "scary" movie that comes out, and I certainly don't think it makes me a "sick" person.
And I LOVED Napoleon Dynamite And Kill Bill, even though I really can't stand Uma Thurman and think she did some pretty poor acting there--luckily, my love for Tarrantino, Lucy Liu, and David Carradine were greater than my dislike for Uma
Oh I loved Castaway! Guess that just shows that one man's trash is another man's treasure. I hated the first of the three new Star Wars movies so much I never saw anymore of them. I especially hated Jar Jar Bing and just knowing that his character would return turned me off completely.
Another one I didn't like was Lord of the Rings. Took me three attempts to get through it cause I kept falling asleep.
This sooo made me laugh...I never watched the movie, but I do remember when it came out. Along similar lines, did anyone watch "From Justin to Kelly" that came out after the first season of American Idol?
This sooo made me laugh...I never watched the movie, but I do remember when it came out. Along similar lines, did anyone watch "From Justin to Kelly" that came out after the first season of American Idol? 
