Thank FSM For RiffTrax

[filkertom]

Oh.

My.

GAWD.

Anne & I just watched The Last Airbender. Not the superb pseudo-anime series from Nickelodeon, ohhhh no no no no no. Nope, the M. Night Shame-On-You flick

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[tomreedtoon]

Thanks to little money for movies, I've been thankfully free of really bad experiences in the last few years. What experiences I've had were cushioned by Rifftrax accompaniment, such as High School Musical and the two "Twilight Saga" films. These films are only watchable with Mike Nelson and party accompanying the disasters.

By the way, given the recent interest in Tron Legacy, I'd like to recommend the "Rifftrax Presents" of the original Tron, with riffing by Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm. Hope they'll be allowed to do the next film when it hits DVD.

[phillip2637]

District 9. Just vile and ugly from start to finish. Clichéd morality as an excuse for splatter-porn.

[saganth]

"Isn't She Great" was pretty bad as a comedy, though it did have one fantastic line (probably why they put it in the trailer for it). And "Sin City" was the first movie I ever paid to see in a theater that I walked out on, and I did that 25 minutes into the film. I later saw more of it on cable - wasn't a whole lot better. And I've recently seen some stinkers via Netflix: "Repo: The Genetic Opera", "Bulletproof Monk", "Hollywoodland", "Repli-Kate" and "Comic Book: The Movie". There have been others I got from my local library that I stopped watching, but mostly because they just did not hold my interest without actually being bad (there may have been some lousy ones but right now I can't remember them).

[__kat__]

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about Repo! the Genetic Opera? Everyone I know that has seen it has either loved it or hated it, I haven't heard any "meh" reactions. I'm on the "loved it" side myself, when you get Anthony Stewart Head singing, I'm going to sit and listen.

[saganth]

I just didn't care for the style or the content the songs were about - I guess I'm just not a rock-opera fan.

[fredhuggins]

I went to see Repo at a midnight screening with several very close friends, and the theater was filled with fans of the film. I think I was the only one who didn't like it. All style (and a rather boringly oppressive style at that), not one ounce of substance. And I like musicals, but I just found it distracting and fucking WEIRD that the characters never spoke, only sung.

[ericcoleman]

The Spirit. Did Miller ever actually read the original comic? Never made it through it.

[salkryn]

Maybe it's because I haven't read the original, but I thought that movie was hilarious, and quite decent taken on its own.

[ericcoleman]

Read some of them ... really, you'll see how revolting the movie is.

[redneckgaijin]

I watch extremely few movies at the theater, and a lot of what I get via Netflix doesn't get finished. (And I still have yet to watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in either fashion.)

That said, the last thing I watched end to end and hated was (on rental) the first live-action Transformers movie, or (in theater) the three Lord of the Rings movies.

The worst oh-god-I-have-to-sit-through-this movie moment, of course, was being a guest at someone else's house on a convention trip... and sitting through M. Night Shyarightyou'readirector's Unbreakable, which I sum up as a thirty-minute Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode padded to three stone-dull hours.

[saganth]

Oy, I forgot the woodness of the acting and the childish dialogue of the Star Wars prequel films. Or rather, I wish I could forget them...