Criteria for avoiding films

[Jaykun85]

I would generally tend to to agree with you. However, the chase in French Connection (the first one, IIRC) with Gene Hackman was, IMO, the best and most exciting car chase in the history of film (of the films I've seen).

what about the classic film Bullet??

 

[Dayvo]

As I mentioned above, I haven't seen Bullitt.

 

[MichaelW2]

There's a flying armbar in "Flashpoint" that's so damned unlikely that it still has me hooting with joy even now. And I've seen that loads.

All I remember is Jennifer Beals looking adorably sweaty in a leotard, and doing some ace welding.

 

[MichaelW2]

I will rather overhaul my bottom bracket and scrub my chain with my own toothbrush than watch anything with Tom Cruize or any of his relatives in it.

A true nightmare for me would be a 3D animated Tom Cruize film with Celine Dion doing the opening song with slow panning views of a sunset on a tropical beach with subtitles and a cameo appearance with Claude van Damme.

You had me at "bottom bracket".

 

[slowmotion]

I don't know, no one in The Night Manager pleases you - too wooden apparently. But Day-Lewis, one of the most skilled and authentic actors around, is too serious. Any actors you do like?

I quite liked him trotting about looking all buff in Last of The Mohicans, but we'll never agree about There Will Be Blood.

Edit: Good actors can appear in appalling films, and appalling actors can get by in good films. It's all about the total package, not just the actor.

 

[MiK1138]

Cate Blanchett OMG she is SOOOOO bad

 

[jefmcg]

There's a thing you get with actors. Suddenly you can't stand them. I am so glad the first Kevin Costner film I saw was Field of Dreams. I don't think I could watch it again now my father is dead. Child/Dad is such a complicated relationship, and that game of catch tugged my heart strings, even though I think I was still living at home. If I'd seen Prince of Thieves, or Il Postino** first, I doubt I would have sat through it.

**yeah, sorry. Long standing joke confusing foreign darling film Il Postino and Costner's post-apocalypse wankfest The Postman.

 

[sight-pin]

If I'd seen Prince of Thieves,

That's worth the watch just to see Alan Rickman at work, He was a terrific actor.

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

That's worth the watch just to see Alan Rickman at work, He was a terrific actor.

Best Sheriff ever played.
And that's not being sentimental

 

[sight-pin]

I like District 9

Also gets my vote.

 

[NorthernDave]

That's worth the watch just to see Alan Rickman at work, He was a terrific actor.

"Locksley, I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon!"

 

[jefmcg]

That's worth the watch just to see Alan Rickman at work, He was a terrific actor.

I agree. Honestly, I wouldn't call it acting, but he is wonderful in that.

But that wasn't my point. An astute viewer would be annoyed with Costner after 2 or 3 films, so it's good to pick the right 2 or 3 films to start. You'd still enjoy Rickman's work in PoT, even if you hated Costner. But if you want to enjoy Costner's work ... I'd suggest No Way Out, Field Of Dreams and Bull Durham amongst your first 3. They may not be his greatest work, but they are all unwatchable if you want to punch Costner, and if you don't - they are good films.

 

[Profpointy]

what about the classic film Bullet??

never mind Bullit, what about the locomotive chase in " the Wrong Trousers"?

 

[jefmcg]

For road chase ...

Duel. And shows you what Spielberg is/was capable of, despite what he made when he had a ton of money

(Oh, and Bullett is brilliant, too)

Spielberg's ability to turn everything to sentimental mush

I've walked out of the cinema twice in my life. (not counting leaving Branagh's Frankenstein, realising that if I was watching it on telly, I'd excuse myself and make a cuppa. It's a stupid movie. Enjoyed it much more after a cuppa's length break.)

But the two movies I've walked out on are so different from each other. "Always", a Spielbergian piece of schlock that finally drove me over the edge with Audrey Hepburn giving Richard Dreyfus a celestial haircut with blunt scissors. I couldn't stay in the cinema after that. Tragically, this was her last film role. The other I couldn't stay in the cinema with was for the opposite reason, just brilliant film making, but so dark. Audition, by Takashi Miike. I thought it was a romance but .... I thought it was a rom com, which magnified the darkness.

 

[Jaykun85]

never mind Bullit, what about the locomotive chase in " the Wrong Trousers"?

Ok yea i have to tip my hat to you on that one .. the greatest british chase ever filmed there ..