<p>JHS, you and I would make great movie buddies. Very similar tastes! Glad to find another person who liked Lincoln very much but also appreciates Judd Apatow. “Superbad” is one of my favorite comedies: so very, very funny and at the same (and despite its often crude moments) so full of heart and humanity ! Don’t laugh, but for me Superbad is right up there with Bringing Up Baby and Dr. Strangelove. </p>
<p>Avatar was very average, enjoyed Gravity but more than my husband did. Disliked Big Chill, was really bugged by Forrest Gump. I thought Woody Allen’s “Rome” movie was embarrassingly bad, and at the time of its release I was shocked by how much I disliked “Interiors.” I saw it again about a year ago, and wasn’t quite AS critical. </p>
<p>Love Superbad! (Bought my boys McLovin fake IDs as a joke.) I only ask that a movie entertain me. And that may be in a Tropic Thunder way, or a The Descendants way, or a Big Chill way, or Pulp Fiction way, or Ironman way, or Inception way, or even an Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter way. </p>
<p>I just ask not to be bored. (And I recognize that my standards are pretty low.)</p>
<p>I saw the first Star Wars with my brother - it was one of those movies you pretty much had to see, whether were truly interested in it or not. It was my brother’s third time seeing it at the theater. I didn’t see the second or third Star Wars, but did see the three recent ones with my sons. They weren’t bad but I’m not really a sci-fi kind of person. </p>
<p>I think it was JHS that led me to Zack and Miri make a Porno* a pretty silly, but quite funny movie. (Is Seth Rogan in the same league as Judd Apatow? For some reason I get them mixed up.) I haven’t seen any Judd Apatow movies. I thought Lincoln was solid, but way way overrated. I liked The Big Chill when I saw it, but it seemed like a rip-off of The Return of the Secaucus seven. The music was great though!</p>
<p>I’d be surprised if I’m the only other one who saw A Boy and his Dog, considering the range here. Male friends adored it. I did think I saw the “point behind the point” in Forrest Gump. (though it;s probably a stretch.) Recently saw Chef (four of us in the theater at prime time.) Waiting for reviews of Tammy, with Melissa McCarthy.</p>
<p>One of my fall-asleeps was Dead Poets Society. Didn’t like Good Will Hunting, the first try. Years later, could appreciate it better.</p>
<p>Seth Rogan is a Judd Apatow protege. Apatow cast him in Freaks and Geeks when he was 16 (and looked 30), and then made Rogan his co-writer on Undeclared. Most of the movies Rogan has been in were written, directed, and/or produced by Apatow, but not Zack and Miri, which was written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Gigli . . . .).</p>
<p>So many movies about food lately.
Its the new sex.</p>
<p>I believe Seth Rogan is mainly an actor, while Judd Apatow also produces & directs.
I think Ive only seen Seth Rogan in one movie, 50/50, with Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Rogan plays himself.</p>
<p>We were very disappointed in the new Godzilla movie. I thought Brian Cranston was terrible (as were most of the human actors), and the monster mayhem was unsatisfying as well.</p>
<p>I think the worst movie that we thought would be good was Goya’s Ghosts–made by the great Milos Forman. Unrelentingly horrible and stupid.</p>
<p>I do think that some movies suffer a lot if they aren’t seen on a really good big screen (Avatar and Gravity are examples). A big screen can also make a bad movie seem better–I once saw The Razor’s Edge with Bill Murray at the Ziegfeld in New York–not a good movie at all, but that giant screen made it seem so much better. I also saw Lawrence of Arabia there–I can’t imagine watching that on a small screen. </p>
<p>We saw Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm at the Cinerama.
I admit there can be advantages to having local billionaires as well as disadvantages.
( Paul Allen refurbished the theatre with state of the art sound and projection systems, when the property may have gone to condos)
We also saw PJ20 there!
:D</p>
<p>But since this thread is about movies we didnt like, Ill admit I never really * got* 2001-A space odyssey.
Of course I think I was 10 when my dad drug the whole family to see it.
( again, at the Cinerama).</p>
<p>Since there actually IS someone else here who loves Local Hero, are there any other Whit Stillman fans? Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco??</p>
<p>I always thought that 2001 A Space Odyssey was pretty boring, though pretty to look at. It seemed very dated the last time I saw it. (We were giving our kids the sci fi film education they needed.) Hal is a great villain though. The film that was really terrible which I remember being great when I first saw it was Silent Running. What a snooze. The robots were not nearly as cute and interesting as I remembered. Artoo was much better.</p>
<p>Oh and can I just say how much I despise having to type out code for italics and the like. I always seem to make a typo. It was so much easier when I could just do “Control i”. </p>
<p>I liked Metropolitan, but haven’t seen other Whit Stilman movies. I went to school with people from that world, but was not a part of it. So sort of a voyeuristic pleasure.</p>
<p>The running joke between me and DH is that the quickest way to get me to fall asleep is to watch 2001:A space odyssey. Ever since college, whether on the big screen or TV, I fall asleep while watching it. I have never seen that movie all the way through.</p>
<p>So as far as you know the apes nicknamed the monolith “Hal” and are beating the astronauts over the head with it. I can understand you falling asleep, especially in the first few minutes when nothing is happening. </p>
! Don’t laugh, but for me Superbad is right up there with Bringing Up Baby and Dr. Strangelove. </p>