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gromit |
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:22 pm |
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Nancy wrote: Here's my Worst of 2007, in no particular order:
The "Death Proof" segment of Grindhouse
D-War
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Fortunately I skipped all of those.
Was wondering about Mr. Magorium, but mostly because I keep getting it confused with a similarly titled film coming in 2008 (Mr. somebody's something Imaginarium by a well-known director). |
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:17 pm |
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gromit wrote: lady wakasa wrote:
Out of curiosity, would would the Jeremy Razzies look like?
As an addendumb, I was meaning to offer to tabulate the Worst Picture Award as part of the Blanchetivities. Instead I slept in.
Think it would be fun if everybody posts the five worst films they saw from 2007.
Here's mine:
(should this be ascending or descending?)
1. Darjeeling Limited
2. Rescue Dawn (Herzog)
3. Red Road
4. Sunshine
5. Hot Fuzz (Worst)
You really hated Hott Fuzz and Sunshine that much! I mean they were nothing to write home about - but God there were some big stinkers in 2007 |
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Nancy |
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:28 pm |
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gromit wrote: Was wondering about Mr. Magorium, but mostly because I keep getting it confused with a similarly titled film coming in 2008 (Mr. somebody's something Imaginarium by a well-known director).
Magorium is dreadful. Among other things, Dustin Hoffman's performance rivals that of Sir Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne for Worst Performance by a Former Oscar Winner. |
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lady wakasa |
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:18 pm |
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This is kinda hard to answer, because I saw so few current films last year (although I was making up for at the end).
I Am Legend was making me into one of Hitchcock's Plausibles (not necessarily a bad thing), but I wouldn't say it's an awful movie... |
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Nancy |
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:25 pm |
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Penelope is a modern-day fairy tale about a young woman (Christina Ricci) who has been cursed by having Richard E. Grant and Catherine O’Hara for parents. (Well, she also has the nose and ears of a pig, but that seems minor in comparison with the Mother from Hell.) The curse can only be broken when Penelope is accepted by one of “her own kind.” This is assumed to mean that she must marry one of her fellow bluebloods. Unfortunately, the blueblooded young men she encounters seem to be a bunch of wimps, who scream and run at the sight of her. She eventually meets Max (James McAvoy), who has gambled away his family fortune playing poker. Badly. He seems reluctant to break the curse, and Penelope runs away from home to see something of the world. Will they end up living happily ever after? Remember, I said this was a fairy tale. What do you think? The movie was entertaining, though a bit predictable. Reese Witherspoon produced the movie and has a small part as Penelope’s first female friend. The cast also includes Peter Dinklage as a tabloid photographer, and Nick Frost (the sidekick in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) as a poker player. Worth seeing on a cheap matinee. |
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gromit |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:41 am |
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I'm sure there were worse films out there, but I managed to avoid them.
Hot Fuzz just was a complete dopey let-down.
Barely got through it.
Sunshine was poorly executed. Incompetent direction.
The film I was trying to think of was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam. Unfortunately it starred Heath Ledger and Johnny Depp, so another rocky Giliam production. Was scheduled for 2008, but now I see it IMDb-ed as 2009. Probably some re-thinking and re-working to do. |
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mo_flixx |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:48 am |
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Nancy wrote: Penelope is a modern-day fairy tale about a young woman (Christina Ricci) who has been cursed by having Richard E. Grant and Catherine O’Hara for parents. (Well, she also has the nose and ears of a pig, but that seems minor in comparison with the Mother from Hell.) The curse can only be broken when Penelope is accepted by one of “her own kind.” This is assumed to mean that she must marry one of her fellow bluebloods. Unfortunately, the blueblooded young men she encounters seem to be a bunch of wimps, who scream and run at the sight of her. She eventually meets Max (James McAvoy), who has gambled away his family fortune playing poker. Badly. He seems reluctant to break the curse, and Penelope runs away from home to see something of the world. Will they end up living happily ever after? Remember, I said this was a fairy tale. What do you think? The movie was entertaining, though a bit predictable. Reese Witherspoon produced the movie and has a small part as Penelope’s first female friend. The cast also includes Peter Dinklage as a tabloid photographer, and Nick Frost (the sidekick in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) as a poker player. Worth seeing on a cheap matinee.
Sounds a bit Shrek-ian.
BTW I think this movie sat on the shelf for a long time before it was released. That's usually a bad sign. |
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mo_flixx |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:53 am |
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My vote for absolute worst of 2007 is SOUTHLAND TALES. Truly dreadful.
Most disappointing was DARJEELING LIMITED. Hard to miss with a movie set in India.
I found RENO 911: MIAMI bad with mildly redeeming moments of juvenile humor.
HOT FUZZ looks Oscar-worthy in comparison with these losers, and ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE had me humming the costumes. |
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Nancy |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:37 am |
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gromit wrote: The film I was trying to think of was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam. Unfortunately it starred Heath Ledger and Johnny Depp, so another rocky Giliam production. Was scheduled for 2008, but now I see it IMDb-ed as 2009. Probably some re-thinking and re-working to do.
I think that's the one where Heath Ledger is being replaced by three actors, one of which is Depp. Haven't heard much about it. |
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Nancy |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:39 am |
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gromit wrote: Hot Fuzz just was a complete dopey let-down.
Barely got through it.
It wasn't as good as Shaun of the Dead, but I still enjoyed it. |
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billyweeds |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:53 am |
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Nancy wrote: gromit wrote: Hot Fuzz just was a complete dopey let-down.
Barely got through it.
It wasn't as good as Shaun of the Dead, but I still enjoyed it.
I agree with gromit. I don't think I would have disliked Hot Fuzz as much as I did if it hadn't been so outrageously overpraised before I saw it. In any case, I saw it in a theater and felt robbed.
Loved Shaun of the Dead, btw. |
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Rod |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:19 am |
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I don't know if I've seen a truly lousy movie from '07 yet. I have had crushingly disappointing (No Country for Old Men, La Vie en rose ), the astonishingly silly (Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Copying Beethoven), the flat (The Golden Compass); and the numbingly noisy (Transformers). The Good German was pretty close to outright bad. |
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jeremy |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:19 pm |
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Did anyone get around to seeing London To Brighton . It might not have been the best film of last year, but at around $1,000 per minute of screen time (two oders of magnitude less than it took to make Spiderman III, it easily has to be the best value for money. |
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lady wakasa |
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:09 pm |
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My god, a remake of Seven Samurai is in preproduction (according to Variety). Shoot me now.
Well, there's rumors of Metropolis Redux, too, so I guess I need to be shot twice. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:19 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: My god, a remake of Seven Samurai is in preproduction (according to Variety). Shoot me now.
Well, there's rumors of Metropolis Redux, too, so I guess I need to be shot twice.
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