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Old 22-09-2004, 12:59 AM
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Hello all! We're all here because of our love for British Film, but what of these did you really dislike? Unfunny comedies,really dull thrillers sleep and ropey effects that sort of thing, it would be great to hear your views while I'm compiling me own list! Talk soon, all the best... :)

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I try not to give the bad movies much thought, but here are a few...

I'll be burned at the stake for this, but I dislike the Hammer horror movies. I don't do horror.

Some currents:

* Notting Hill (WATCH OUT YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED!)
* Brassed Off (hateful blasphemy bits)
* HiFidelity (ultimate hijacked Brit novel - although very Chicago accurate for anyone who grew up at the same time as the novel narrates)

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*Prime Suspect (trying too hard to be bad American TV and contrary)

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Old 23-09-2004, 06:27 AM
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ANYTHING involving Richard Curtis ! (Filmwise, that is)

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Old 23-09-2004, 08:18 AM
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Westerns
Was there ever a great western film, please dont quote high noon that was so narrow it could have been remake of a stage play
Remember those awful one act stage plays put on the big screen people go in and out of doors and up and downs stairs to keep the action moving ekkk!
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I'm not the greatest fan of westerns either. Perhaps it's because that never was a British genre. I do, however, like PALE RIDER and THE UNFORGIVEN.

Something else I'd like to mention (Deckard's film quote post reminded me of this...) CASINO ROYALE is pretty awful really. Terribly overindulgent. I still watch it (or bits of it) but I do leave CONSIDERABLE gaps between viewings.

In fact, a lot of Sellers' later stuff is similarly overindulged....

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Was there ever a great western film, please dont quote high noon that was so narrow it could have been remake of a stage play [/b]
Leone's westerns were great. The stand-off at the finale of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is one of the most entertaining film climaxes ever. Once Upon a Time in the West is another masterpiece with a more leisurely pace and the equivalent to many cinematic 'epics'.
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I liked Brassed Off.

The turn-offs are those derivative films hoping to cash-in on the success of a Four Weddings or Lock, Stock. Both gave rise to countless banal rom-coms and Cockney gangster flicks.Oh yes, and many of the Gainsborough Gothics I find tedious. (sorry, they've not aged well)
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I am partial to some so called spagetti western's violent (segio leonie)fistfull of dollars,few dollars,Django (the one where franco nero drags the coffin around with him)anything with an enio morricone score oops that another thread,lol

i hate sean bean"when saturday comes" dire violent
i hate robert carlise "plunket, violent ,full monty" never been able to get through without violent violent
"notting violent bridget j violent
beter go and water the horse and have a shot of red eye.
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Glenn Ford made quite a few really good Westerns in the 1950's, such as Rough Company; Jubal; The Fastest Gun Alive. Randolph Scott did a few good ones, too, like The Tall T and Seven Men From Now. There was also Joel McCrea in Wichita and The First Texan, which has never ever been shown on UK television...are you listening, BBC and ITV?

But two of the best Westerns to come out of the late 1950's were The Last Wagon with Richard Widmark and Tommy Rettig and The Tin Star with Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins. They all make today's films at the multiplexes look just what they are...junk!
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I may be in the minority but i just can't get into sci-fi,gothic,kung-fu,Matrix type films.
I found the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy boring & downright depressing.I have never read the book's & have no intention to do so - maybe that's why i couldn't follow the storylines.I found it a real chore to sit through even one of those films & couldn't take a repeat.
Also one movie i was deeply let down by,after all the press hype, was "Moulin Rouge" starring Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor.I hated it :mad:

The media have a lot to answer for over hyping many modern films that when viewed turn out to be pure rubbish.
I have a feeling payola is alive & well amongst film companies and many of today's media film critics.

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I may be in the minority but i just can't get into sci-fi,gothic,kung-fu,Matrix type films.
I found the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy boring & downright depressing.I have never read the book's & have no intention to do so - maybe that's why i couldn't follow the storylines.I found it a real chore to sit through even one of those films & couldn't take a repeat.
Also one movie i was deeply let down by,after all the press hype, was "Moulin Rouge" starring Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor.I hated it :mad:

The media have a lot to answer for over hyping many modern films that when viewed turn out to be pure rubbish.
I have a feeling payola is alive & well amongst film companies and many of today's media film critics.

Dave. [/b]
I'm with you on this one, Dave.

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I certainly agree about over-hyping Dave - good point. I do however think that now and again modern film makers do get it right(whatever genre you're into)but the problem with that is we real film fans get so fed up with the hype and downright ridiculous critical acclaim from some that we miss the good stuff!!
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Oh! and by the way(for starters) I really dislike the "Confessions of.." series and associated spin-offs of the 70's - absolute drivel.
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Here here DB7, I have to also put in a shout for Brassed Off, an excellent film....
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The Alf Garnett Saga.

Substitutes Booth and Stubbs with other actors, ditches the satirical slant of the TV series and reels off a succession of cheap racist 'jokes'. frown
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