While Grown Ups 2 was a bad comedy, it was freaking comedy gold compared to the abysmal piece of cinematic feces that was Marlon Wayans' Haunted House. If you want to truly have a torturous experience, watch Haunted House. The entirety of the film makes a spoof out of another irritating film franchise, which is Paranormal Activity. It tries to stretch this gimmick to an hour and a half, and much like Saturday Night Live skits that are made into films, it overstays its welcome after the first five minutes. The entire film consists of crude sex jokes, poking fun at human excrement and piss, and using racial humor that was cliched in the mid 1990s, when Wayans was in Living Colour. I hated this film so much, that I hope Wayans' career is haunted by Haunted House for a long time.
I never really considered the first Grown Ups to be that good. I mean.. it wasn't bad... but as Chris Rock said on a Stern interview.. it was an excuse for a bunch of friends to get together and have a good time.. and it felt just like that. There was no need for a sequel. A perfect example of Hollywood pushing a film simply based on numbers and dollars.
Pain & Gain: It's not M. Night bad, but Bay wastes the potential of his premise. What could've been a terrific blackly comic satire reminiscent of something like Fargo (but with steroids) unfortunately ends up being a crass (in typical Bay fashion) exercise in style that ends up mocking the original victims of the Sun Gym gang in the process. I don't see films which I think I will hate, so even my worst of the year isn't flat out horrible compared to some of the stuff that comes out in a typical year.
Out of all the movies I saw including rental I'd say after earth was most boring, diehard 5 the worst let down, and the worst I can't even remember but I know it out there and I'll prolly watch again cause I erased from my memory so I'll forgot how bad it was.
10. Runner Runner 9. Evil Dead 8. The Last Stand 7. To The Wonder 6. Olympus Has Fallen 5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation 4. The Purge 3. Bullet to the Head 2. Pain and Gain 1. A Good Day to Die Hard
Like Orion X, I try to read reviews before seeing a movie thus dodge the really bad ones. 'Course I'm a die hard Adam Sandler fan so I'm thinking even tho GrownUps is on Alonso's Worse Movies list I still might see it at my own peril.
***** I may have to agree with you on that! haha I really hope they get an original, stronger screenplay for the 3rd film...since this new universe just started and it's seemingly going downhill already.
***** I can understand how it might upset fans, but - now that I think about it - they didn't establish that Vulcan was one of the most important planets in the Federation. (At least in this new universe). That's something that can be attributed to the screenwriters. They didn't relate the impact the loss of Vulcan made to the Federation. That impact could have been shown in the second film's teaser rather than the Indiana Jones-like beginning we got. Sure, we got how Vulcan's loss affected Spock, especially since he lost his mother, but outside that...it seemed to be a casualty of the Nero incident. My biggest gripe from the first film was putting Kirk in command of 400+ people after he was shown to be a guy that doesn't follow orders/hates authority, a hard-head, cocky, immature. In the second film Kirk command is taken away and given back to him like it's nothing. Too, it's not established why Kirk and Spock are 'friends' in this second film - something else that should have gradually been built upon.
***** JJ Abrams' direction actually is good. However, the main problem is with the screenwriters. (Of course, if Abrams is one of those people who chose the screenwriters, then I too have to blame him...ahaha) Yeah, Shatner's Kirk was a renegade, but we understood where his renegade attitude came from...and he knew what was at stake (e.g. going after Spock in Star Trek III). With Pine's Kirk, as aforementioned, we haven't been given anything to show us that he has the gravitas as a starship captain. He's more like the lieutenant (or even Ensign) who is *training* to be a starship captain. I do like the casting of Pine, but he deserves a better written character.
i agree pacific rim is shit, and i'm tired of fake-geek hipster websites like io9 pushing it all the time. They should be pushing something like Dredd which was underseen.
Note: I didn't see A Good Day to Die Hard, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, R.I.P.D., Walking with Dinosaurs, Grown Ups 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Smurfs 2, Safe Haven, G.I Joe: Retaliation, The Lone Ranger, The Host, White House Down, Getaway, Scary Movie 5, The Counselor, Paranoia, or After Earth (and some others, and NO ONE saw Killing Season) because I had literally no interest and they all looked like absolute shit. 10 - The Family 9 - Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor 8 - Jack the Giant Slayer 7 - Olympus Has Fallen 6 - Beautiful Creatures 5 - The Internship 4 - Only God Forgives 3 - Identity Thief 2 - Room 237 1 - Movie 43 (worst "film" of all time)
I watched the first Grown Ups movie purely because I love Kevin James. My god it was so shit, I wouldn't even consider watching the second one. I don't understand why After Earth is so shit though? I saw it & thought it was ok, actually pretty entertaining. Nothing amazing, but imo not worthy of being considered worst movie of the year.
I don't get all the hate for "After Earth".. I really had low expectations but ended up enjoying it. It was just entertaining, nothing more, nothing less.
Worst movie of 2013 is Getaway or Scary Movie V. Both are just unwatchable. Rob Zombie is a hack and he had Lords of Salem that year which was awful as well. And perhaps the most heartbreaking movie experience of 2013 was A Good Day to Die Hard. :(
What about that one film with I think Selena Gomez in which they were trapped in this car... You were supposed to buy that she was this super tech-savvy nerdy bitch or whatever. I didn't see it, but it looked pretty bad.
Christy's absolute worst movie of 2013 is also my absolute worst. I can't stand that movie and this is coming from someone who likes Will and Jaden Smith.
I hate how all the good movies come out in 2 months in the winter, while we get dreck the rest of the year. Star Trek whatever was the worst movie of the year. And every subsequent Star Trek reboot is going to be horrible nonsensical garbage.
I really liked After Earth. Wasn't bothered by the nepotism, accents, pseudo science, Shyamalanisms, etc. at all. Really good little character study, I think.
Seriously people, this is about the WORST movies of the year! You can´t put Wolf of Wallstreet there, or Star Trek or Pacific Rim or Man of Steel even if you didn´t liked them. There are great things about all of them. For example I´ve never liked Iron Man, but I would never say it´s the worst movie of 2013. We are talking about pure crap: Grown Ups 2, Movie 43, 21 and over, Paranoia, etc.
Even Rob Schneider didn't return for this crappy movie Grown Ups 2.he was the funniest in the first one. After Earth I agree it had a good premise what ruin it was the bratty kid & part of the story.
I agree with the whattheflick picks... except for After Earth. Surprisingly, I liked the movie more than I was expecting. Not a masterpiece by any means, but bad? No, I don't agree with that.
Calling this a good year for movies is like calling our economy good. Yeah, there was some good stuff, but where my interests lie, in the aggregate, '13 stunk to high heaven. I've never seen so many heartless genre productions bearing Shakespearian drag and ugly imaginations. Film makers have evidently lost the skill to light their compositions, because most every flick looks like some breed of blind man's bluff. Shadow puppets rattle around with no clue given as to what the fuck is going on. The sad thing is, digital cameras are very light sensitive, so this is an "artistic choice". Who could have dreamed that fantasy, sci-fi, and comic book heroes could be so fucking dreary and lost in their own mythology? Need I say anything about the alien families and cheap fart jokes shoved in our faces as comedies? The continuing remake fever where perfectly good movies are reduced to pond scum? Yeah, great year, if you ignore the poverty surrounding the monuments.
I won't go into detail, but many of the movies you claim are "masterpieces", or even "very good" are stinking pieces of shit. I have no doubt you enjoyed them, but to me, that just reflects the declining tastes of an American public that knows nothing else. Just as awards continue to be given in the downward spiral of newspaper publishing, or even on, God forbid, MTV, there will always be gold ribbons given out, no matter how far we fall. People and cultures in decline seldom see how lousy they look, and still primp for the mirror. But go enjoy yourself. I'm sure you'll enjoy the umpteenth version of whatever franchise you call your own as you grow up. I only wish movies, one of my lifelong loves, hadn't turned into the disgusting whore she now is.
I love that my powers of articulation constantly come under fire here. Please inform me of the difficulty you found with my "big words". I'll try to dumb down my comments. I was eight when Star Trek came out. I was 25 or so when Star Wars came out. They were fun. They were kinda new. Now they're ridiculously serious soap operas with nonsensical everything. I was a serious comic book freak. Every Wednesday for my entire 4 years of High School, I read EVERY new comic that came out, from superheroes to Dot Polka. I know what makes comics fun, and most of the movie adaptations from Dark Knight on are as much fun as an exploding traffic court. From the X-Men to Zombie flicks, there seems to be a Fascist subtext of exceptional cliques being victimized by everyone else. Cue up the battle scene. I've lived through several waves of Hobbit fever, and though I'm glad a decent film experience has been created of the books, I find them tedious due to the fact that no one actually talks in the things. They're always blurting out "meaningful" stuff, like the bunch on TVs Alaska: The Last Frontier. "A man must be strong to survive here!" Enders Game? Blech. The Hunger Games? My God! This is why I thought you were 15. I could go on, but experience has shown me these kind of discussions never resolve themselves, they only devolve into traded insults. I wish you'd lived through an era when the arts were alive and prospering...When you can't imagine what's next. This is an era of ugly imaginations, mechanical sentimentality, and corporate vehicles posing as art. Like I said, eat it up. One day it'll hit you, and you'll remember this conversation. Good bye.
I love ALL kinds of movies, and I didn't say there were no good or even excellent ones this year. I said that by and large, the film industry is in as bad a shape as I have ever seen. I worked in a video rental place and took as many as 6 movies home a night. I'd smoke pot and lose myself in them till dawn. Every kind of movie, from porn, to drama, to foreign, to romantic comedies, to horror, to cartoons. I'm no snob. In fact, by now you must realize I've been a virtual vacuum cleaner when it comes to pop culture. Don't get me going about art, music, toys, publishing, erotica, or books. My indiscriminate consuming of all this junk came about because, like a whale filtering krill and plankton through it's baleen, it made me aware of the changes in the taste of the ocean of human behavior that occurs over time. I wanted the big picture. And I gotta say, the water stinks. I DON'T want to feel the way I do. I've been real popular about three times in my life as the wheel turned. But most of the time has been a mix of good and bad. But I have never been so alienated and afraid of the instincts of humanity as I am now. I lived through the Cold War, Duck and Cover and all that. We all thought things could go up in radioactive flames at any minute. I lived through Vietnam. We sent "advisors" there in '56, the year I was born. I watched as it crept closer and closer to me until I was 17 and got my draft registration papers. I kept sending back idiotic answers to the forms not knowing what to do. I couldn't outright dodge the draft because my father was a pretty high ranking errr...civil servant and HE would lose face. Fortunately the draft was ended as I fretted. I could go on, but my point is, through assassinations, war, poverty, madness, institutional racism, corruption, etc. I have never seen the population so lacking in imagination, so lacking in heart, so disdainful of created beauty, so willfully ignorant, so fucking proudly MEAN and STUPID as now. I have never had every word I say shot down without having at least a little agreement from my peers. It sucks. But I'll stand my ground. This is a world where the turd in the punchbowl calls the shots. ...And the golden memories of watching goofy old Adam West as Batman, sneaking views of Star Trek because it was past my bedtime, laughing out of a theater where I had just watched Star Trek or Indiana Jones, have been screwed up because they followed me through life like a strip of increasingly soiled toilet paper stuck to my heel. I can't stand most movies because I know everything about them in the first 30 seconds of the trailer. Everything is so cookie cutter, so by the numbers. Publishing is crumbling. Graphic art is a lost art. The news services are mouthpieces, the music industry is in shambles, everybody's walking around pecking blurbs and blats out on their phones like Coco the ape, National Geographic, the History Channel, Discovery, The Learning Channel (TLC), etc. are producing profiles of paranoid schizophrenics, and knuckle dragging sociopaths, without editorial comment. AND MOVIES SUCK! Because they don't reflect in any way, what I see going down. Say what you will. I don't care any more. I hear it every day. "...Ive been waiting here for so long, And all this time has passed me by, It doesn't seem to matter now. You stand there with your fixed expression Casting doubt on all I have to say. Why don't you touch me, touch me, Why don't you touch me, touch me, Touch me now, now, now, now, now..." (The Musical Box, Genesis) Sorry to be such a drag. Me PS. I just saw yesterday that Sore Losers, a cheap-ass, R rated, post punk sci-fi nightmare comedy is here on YT. You might have to search for it on Google. (I've just discovered the filthy old movies hidden here on YT) Check it out. It's a glorious mess. I assure you, it's a mess. But you've never seen anything like it.
Geez, could you guys rush through these any more quickly?? What happened to the long, relaxed, 20-minute discussions of SINGLE movies? These 5-minute rush-jobs are so lame.
wow for Paranoia i don't remember all those people even being in a movie together.
Kick-Ass 2 was the most purile, festering pile of shee-ite on gods green earth
I forget, but was "Movie 43", or whatever it was called, in 2013? Because I kept hearing it was the worst movie, possibly in a decade.
yes it came out in 2013
I would actually consider it the worst movie in the past 20 centuries
JackDzik Perhaps you haven't seen Troll 2?
sagerbj86
movie 43 is way better then troll 2
sagerbj86 I have in fact seen Troll 2, though Troll 2 is a "so bad it's good" film rather than an atrocity to cinema like Movie 43 was
While Grown Ups 2 was a bad comedy, it was freaking comedy gold compared to the abysmal piece of cinematic feces that was Marlon Wayans' Haunted House. If you want to truly have a torturous experience, watch Haunted House. The entirety of the film makes a spoof out of another irritating film franchise, which is Paranormal Activity. It tries to stretch this gimmick to an hour and a half, and much like Saturday Night Live skits that are made into films, it overstays its welcome after the first five minutes. The entire film consists of crude sex jokes, poking fun at human excrement and piss, and using racial humor that was cliched in the mid 1990s, when Wayans was in Living Colour. I hated this film so much, that I hope Wayans' career is haunted by Haunted House for a long time.
In A Haunted House there was at least effort.
Grown Ups 2 offers nothing and is damn near unwatchable.
No Movie 43, The Starving Games or Scary Movie 5?
Movie 43 was the absolute worst movie of 2013
yes
I agree.. I only watched it because I promised and would-be girlfriend. Hated the crap out of it.
Red 2
Pick any one from Movie 43, Only God forgives or Springbreakers
#3. Gangster Squad
#2. Iron Man 3
#1. The Lone Ranger
Can't choose between Baggage Claim and Paranoia, avoid both!
I never really considered the first Grown Ups to be that good. I mean.. it wasn't bad... but as Chris Rock said on a Stern interview.. it was an excuse for a bunch of friends to get together and have a good time.. and it felt just like that. There was no need for a sequel. A perfect example of Hollywood pushing a film simply based on numbers and dollars.
Pain & Gain: It's not M. Night bad, but Bay wastes the potential of his premise. What could've been a terrific blackly comic satire reminiscent of something like Fargo (but with steroids) unfortunately ends up being a crass (in typical Bay fashion) exercise in style that ends up mocking the original victims of the Sun Gym gang in the process.
I don't see films which I think I will hate, so even my worst of the year isn't flat out horrible compared to some of the stuff that comes out in a typical year.
That was waaaaaaayyyy too short.
Out of all the movies I saw including rental I'd say after earth was most boring, diehard 5 the worst let down, and the worst I can't even remember but I know it out there and I'll prolly watch again cause I erased from my memory so I'll forgot how bad it was.
10. Runner Runner
9. Evil Dead
8. The Last Stand
7. To The Wonder
6. Olympus Has Fallen
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
4. The Purge
3. Bullet to the Head
2. Pain and Gain
1. A Good Day to Die Hard
Like Orion X, I try to read reviews before seeing a movie thus dodge the really bad ones. 'Course I'm a die hard Adam Sandler fan so I'm thinking even tho GrownUps is on Alonso's Worse Movies list I still might see it at my own peril.
One of my picks for worst movie is Pacific Rim. *ugh*
A mediocre film that could have been so much better was Star Trek Into Darkness.
***** lol...
***** I may have to agree with you on that! haha
I really hope they get an original, stronger screenplay for the 3rd film...since this new universe just started and it's seemingly going downhill already.
***** I can understand how it might upset fans, but - now that I think about it - they didn't establish that Vulcan was one of the most important planets in the Federation. (At least in this new universe). That's something that can be attributed to the screenwriters. They didn't relate the impact the loss of Vulcan made to the Federation. That impact could have been shown in the second film's teaser rather than the Indiana Jones-like beginning we got. Sure, we got how Vulcan's loss affected Spock, especially since he lost his mother, but outside that...it seemed to be a casualty of the Nero incident.
My biggest gripe from the first film was putting Kirk in command of 400+ people after he was shown to be a guy that doesn't follow orders/hates authority, a hard-head, cocky, immature. In the second film Kirk command is taken away and given back to him like it's nothing. Too, it's not established why Kirk and Spock are 'friends' in this second film - something else that should have gradually been built upon.
***** JJ Abrams' direction actually is good. However, the main problem is with the screenwriters. (Of course, if Abrams is one of those people who chose the screenwriters, then I too have to blame him...ahaha)
Yeah, Shatner's Kirk was a renegade, but we understood where his renegade attitude came from...and he knew what was at stake (e.g. going after Spock in Star Trek III). With Pine's Kirk, as aforementioned, we haven't been given anything to show us that he has the gravitas as a starship captain. He's more like the lieutenant (or even Ensign) who is *training* to be a starship captain.
I do like the casting of Pine, but he deserves a better written character.
i agree pacific rim is shit, and i'm tired of fake-geek hipster websites like io9 pushing it all the time. They should be pushing something like Dredd which was underseen.
I want to hear more about Christy being a cougar. Meow.
I second that.
Note: I didn't see A Good Day to Die Hard, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, R.I.P.D., Walking with Dinosaurs, Grown Ups 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Smurfs 2, Safe Haven, G.I Joe: Retaliation, The Lone Ranger, The Host, White House Down, Getaway, Scary Movie 5, The Counselor, Paranoia, or After Earth (and some others, and NO ONE saw Killing Season) because I had literally no interest and they all looked like absolute shit.
10 - The Family
9 - Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
8 - Jack the Giant Slayer
7 - Olympus Has Fallen
6 - Beautiful Creatures
5 - The Internship
4 - Only God Forgives
3 - Identity Thief
2 - Room 237
1 - Movie 43 (worst "film" of all time)
Worst film for me was The Wolf of Wall Street. I thought that movie was just awful and the sad thing is it's competing for awards.
I put Wolf of Wall Street on my best films list. I had a great time at it.
@Ultragalactic LOL I do agree with u.
I watched the first Grown Ups movie purely because I love Kevin James. My god it was so shit, I wouldn't even consider watching the second one. I don't understand why After Earth is so shit though? I saw it & thought it was ok, actually pretty entertaining. Nothing amazing, but imo not worthy of being considered worst movie of the year.
so that dude was upset the guy only took his shirt off once.......
I don't get all the hate for "After Earth".. I really had low expectations but ended up enjoying it. It was just entertaining, nothing more, nothing less.
Worst movie of 2013 is Getaway or Scary Movie V. Both are just unwatchable. Rob Zombie is a hack and he had Lords of Salem that year which was awful as well. And perhaps the most heartbreaking movie experience of 2013 was A Good Day to Die Hard. :(
what about Movie 43.
What about that one film with I think Selena Gomez in which they were trapped in this car... You were supposed to buy that she was this super tech-savvy nerdy bitch or whatever. I didn't see it, but it looked pretty bad.
The Lone Ranger was pretty bad. Also Kick Ass 2 was a HUGE disappointment in comparison to how good the first one was.
gravity
Christy's absolute worst movie of 2013 is also my absolute worst. I can't stand that movie and this is coming from someone who likes Will and Jaden Smith.
I hate how all the good movies come out in 2 months in the winter, while we get dreck the rest of the year. Star Trek whatever was the worst movie of the year. And every subsequent Star Trek reboot is going to be horrible nonsensical garbage.
Worst movies of the year. But my favourite videos:-)
Did these people not see R.I.P.D.? Easily the worst movie of 2013 (though I admit I did not see Grown Ups 2).
i liked After Earth. it was a good movie.
I really liked After Earth. Wasn't bothered by the nepotism, accents, pseudo science, Shyamalanisms, etc. at all. Really good little character study, I think.
I typically like immature adult comedies but movie 43 truly was a steaming pile of shit. There was only one skit in that movie that I liked.
Seriously people, this is about the WORST movies of the year! You can´t put Wolf of Wallstreet there, or Star Trek or Pacific Rim or Man of Steel even if you didn´t liked them. There are great things about all of them. For example I´ve never liked Iron Man, but I would never say it´s the worst movie of 2013. We are talking about pure crap: Grown Ups 2, Movie 43, 21 and over, Paranoia, etc.
Even Rob Schneider didn't return for this crappy movie Grown Ups 2.he was the funniest in the first one. After Earth I agree it had a good premise what ruin it was the bratty kid & part of the story.
A Good Day to Die Hard, the fuckin worst turd I've seen in years.
MOVIE 43... FUCK THAT MOVIE!!!
I agree with the whattheflick picks... except for After Earth. Surprisingly, I liked the movie more than I was expecting. Not a masterpiece by any means, but bad? No, I don't agree with that.
2 guns
Good fucking grief, do these people watch 2 movies a week or something?
Such a shit year for movies even Ender's Game escaped your list.
None of you saw Movie 43?
I'm pretty sure Alonso LIKED it
The Hangover 3 was not a Bad Movie! Lemire is right
i don't watch bad movies. cause i dont suck at watching movies...
if this is your bad list i shant be seeing your "good" list. no idea to have fun. after earth was awesome.
I liked the first Grown Ups tbh but the second was bad
Grown Ups 2 is BY FAR the worst movie of 2013. It's tied with the live action Cat in the Hat and The English Patient for worst movie EVER.
The English Patient? Seriously?
I can't put into words the hate I have for that movie.
Sloopydrew How come? Too schmaltzy 4u?
sonicjrjr14
Not enough Sonic. ;-)
Sloopydrew Well shytttttt, you can say that about anything
XD
Ben needs to learn some basic courtesy. you don't point at people you like with your finger.
i fine grown ups 2 us good although it could have been longer
Wheres Top 10?
I liked After Earth.
Inappropriate Comedy it is the worst
Calling this a good year for movies is like calling our economy good.
Yeah, there was some good stuff, but where my interests lie, in the aggregate, '13 stunk to high heaven.
I've never seen so many heartless genre productions bearing Shakespearian drag and ugly imaginations.
Film makers have evidently lost the skill to light their compositions, because most every flick looks like some breed of blind man's bluff. Shadow puppets rattle around with no clue given as to what the fuck is going on. The sad thing is, digital cameras are very light sensitive, so this is an "artistic choice".
Who could have dreamed that fantasy, sci-fi, and comic book heroes could be so fucking dreary and lost in their own mythology?
Need I say anything about the alien families and cheap fart jokes shoved in our faces as comedies? The continuing remake fever where perfectly good movies are reduced to pond scum?
Yeah, great year, if you ignore the poverty surrounding the monuments.
I won't go into detail, but many of the movies you claim are "masterpieces", or even "very good" are stinking pieces of shit.
I have no doubt you enjoyed them, but to me, that just reflects the declining tastes of an American public that knows nothing else.
Just as awards continue to be given in the downward spiral of newspaper publishing, or even on, God forbid, MTV, there will always be gold ribbons given out, no matter how far we fall.
People and cultures in decline seldom see how lousy they look, and still primp for the mirror.
But go enjoy yourself. I'm sure you'll enjoy the umpteenth version of whatever franchise you call your own as you grow up.
I only wish movies, one of my lifelong loves, hadn't turned into the disgusting whore she now is.
I love that my powers of articulation constantly come under fire here.
Please inform me of the difficulty you found with my "big words". I'll try to dumb down my comments.
I was eight when Star Trek came out. I was 25 or so when Star Wars came out. They were fun. They were kinda new. Now they're ridiculously serious soap operas with nonsensical everything.
I was a serious comic book freak. Every Wednesday for my entire 4 years of High School, I read EVERY new comic that came out, from superheroes to Dot Polka. I know what makes comics fun, and most of the movie adaptations from Dark Knight on are as much fun as an exploding traffic court. From the X-Men to Zombie flicks, there seems to be a Fascist subtext of exceptional cliques being victimized by everyone else. Cue up the battle scene.
I've lived through several waves of Hobbit fever, and though I'm glad a decent film experience has been created of the books, I find them tedious due to the fact that no one actually talks in the things. They're always blurting out "meaningful" stuff, like the bunch on TVs Alaska: The Last Frontier. "A man must be strong to survive here!"
Enders Game? Blech.
The Hunger Games? My God! This is why I thought you were 15.
I could go on, but experience has shown me these kind of discussions never resolve themselves, they only devolve into traded insults.
I wish you'd lived through an era when the arts were alive and prospering...When you can't imagine what's next. This is an era of ugly imaginations, mechanical sentimentality, and corporate vehicles posing as art.
Like I said, eat it up. One day it'll hit you, and you'll remember this conversation.
Good bye.
I love ALL kinds of movies, and I didn't say there were no good or even excellent ones this year.
I said that by and large, the film industry is in as bad a shape as I have ever seen.
I worked in a video rental place and took as many as 6 movies home a night. I'd smoke pot and lose myself in them till dawn. Every kind of movie, from porn, to drama, to foreign, to romantic comedies, to horror, to cartoons.
I'm no snob. In fact, by now you must realize I've been a virtual vacuum cleaner when it comes to pop culture. Don't get me going about art, music, toys, publishing, erotica, or books.
My indiscriminate consuming of all this junk came about because, like a whale filtering krill and plankton through it's baleen, it made me aware of the changes in the taste of the ocean of human behavior that occurs over time.
I wanted the big picture.
And I gotta say, the water stinks.
I DON'T want to feel the way I do.
I've been real popular about three times in my life as the wheel turned. But most of the time has been a mix of good and bad.
But I have never been so alienated and afraid of the instincts of humanity as I am now.
I lived through the Cold War, Duck and Cover and all that. We all thought things could go up in radioactive flames at any minute.
I lived through Vietnam. We sent "advisors" there in '56, the year I was born. I watched as it crept closer and closer to me until I was 17 and got my draft registration papers. I kept sending back idiotic answers to the forms not knowing what to do. I couldn't outright dodge the draft because my father was a pretty high ranking errr...civil servant and HE would lose face. Fortunately the draft was ended as I fretted.
I could go on, but my point is, through assassinations, war, poverty, madness, institutional racism, corruption, etc. I have never seen the population so lacking in imagination, so lacking in heart, so disdainful of created beauty, so willfully ignorant, so fucking proudly MEAN and STUPID as now.
I have never had every word I say shot down without having at least a little agreement from my peers. It sucks. But I'll stand my ground. This is a world where the turd in the punchbowl calls the shots.
...And the golden memories of watching goofy old Adam West as Batman, sneaking views of Star Trek because it was past my bedtime, laughing out of a theater where I had just watched Star Trek or Indiana Jones, have been screwed up because they followed me through life like a strip of increasingly soiled toilet paper stuck to my heel.
I can't stand most movies because I know everything about them in the first 30 seconds of the trailer. Everything is so cookie cutter, so by the numbers.
Publishing is crumbling. Graphic art is a lost art. The news services are mouthpieces, the music industry is in shambles, everybody's walking around pecking blurbs and blats out on their phones like Coco the ape, National Geographic, the History Channel, Discovery, The Learning Channel (TLC), etc. are producing profiles of paranoid schizophrenics, and knuckle dragging sociopaths, without editorial comment.
AND MOVIES SUCK!
Because they don't reflect in any way, what I see going down.
Say what you will.
I don't care any more.
I hear it every day.
"...Ive been waiting here for so long,
And all this time has passed me by,
It doesn't seem to matter now.
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say.
Why don't you touch me, touch me,
Why don't you touch me, touch me,
Touch me now, now, now, now, now..."
(The Musical Box, Genesis)
Sorry to be such a drag.
Me
PS. I just saw yesterday that Sore Losers, a cheap-ass, R rated, post punk sci-fi nightmare comedy is here on YT. You might have to search for it on Google. (I've just discovered the filthy old movies hidden here on YT)
Check it out. It's a glorious mess. I assure you, it's a mess.
But you've never seen anything like it.
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Movie 43
Movie 43 its a piece of shit movie that is only worth watching it your bored out of your mind
Christy looks so hot
Grown ups 1 and 2 is amazing damn u
is Christy capable of using a term other than "self-serious" to describe things you don't like?
i like after earth, it was cool enough
They are fantastic film
A Good Day to Die Hard was the worst movie to me.
the getaway
Geez, could you guys rush through these any more quickly??
What happened to the long, relaxed, 20-minute discussions of SINGLE movies? These 5-minute rush-jobs are so lame.
If this was a movie I would pick this all those movies are better then this dumb thing