JonathanLB
Mar 7th, 2002, 03:39:55 AM
I thought Monster's Ball was bad, holy crap! Gosford Park is three times worse! I'd give it no stars [edit: I changed from 1/2 to none; it just wasn't deserving of 1/2 star because Amelie was a better film and got 1/2]. I was thinking it had a chance at 2 stars, but after ONE FREAKIN' HOUR AND A HALF passed without a SINGLE THING happening, I figured it was destined for 1 star or less and sure enough, it made it there no problem.
CMJ, I believe you said you didn't care for this as much, well your advice should have been taken more seriously because this movie SUCKED!!!!!!
Monster's Ball started out very good and I thought it showed promise, it just sucked after that, but this sucked the entire film!! SUCKED, SUCKED, SUCKED.
I have never seen such awful trash. I liked Amelie better than I liked this stupid, inane, inept, poorly directed, poorly made, useless, boring, moronic piece of filth!
Robert Altman is terrible. He can kiss my butt. First, he's stupid. He was quoted as saying "Hollywood is responsible for the 9/11 attacks," must be nice for him since he is a stuck up British filmmaker. What reason would a British filmmaker have to be stuck up? Not a single good movie ever comes out of that country. Hell even France has made Brotherhood of the Wolf, so France: 1, England: 0, USA: 10,000 or whatever.
lol, of course Hollywood makes more bad movies than the rest of the countries in the world because we make like 500 times as many movies too!!!
I am beginning to yearn for the mediocrity of big budget duds like Queen of the Damned and Rollerball. Sure, they were not good movies, but they are 100 times better than anything I've seen at an art house theater lately.
I give all of these movies a fair chance and time after time, I do not let one bad independent movie ruin my attitude about trying to see all of these films, but time after time they just disappoint me by entirely sucking. You know, Memento, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, those are wonderful independent movies, what the hell happened to getting films like that?! Instead I am subjected to absolute drivel like Gosford Park and Amelie, and let's not forget the 0 star effort Mulholland Drive, or how about that POS Monster's Ball.
So let's see, between those FOUR movies they got a collective 2.5 stars, which is exactly what I gave Rollerball interestingly, LOL. What a load of crap.
I can safely say that Gosford Park was one of the ten most boring movies I have ever seen. 2001 would make my list too, but I think Gosford was MUCH more boring. Anyway, 2001 wasn't a bad movie, it was just boring. As a movie, it was a solid 2 star effort, I'll see it again though before I rate it for sure. Hell, HAL9000 was a killer character, gotta love HAL and he has some great lines, plus 2001 has some nice visuals here and there for sure, so even though it's slow, it's by no means a bad film.
Gosford Park, however, is horrible.
Have I used every possible bad adjective on this film yet? If not, they all apply.
Let's see, where do I start with this movie? Oh yeah, perhaps the fact that NOTHING HAPPENS until 1.5 hours into it, and yes I do know because I wear a watch and I made note of how much time passed before the first event took place.
So you may ask, "What do you mean by that? Are you being sarcastic?" DON'T MOCK ME!!! I am not sarcastic here. NOTHING F***ING HAPPENED UNTIL 1.5 HOURS IN, GOT IT?! LOL. The damn film goes on and on without anything happening at all. The characters all talk to each other, we learn a little bit about the servants, a little bit about some boring "important" people, yet nobody is interesting at all, the dialogue is ordinary and boring, not funny, not insightful, just boring.
I cannot imagine this film being any worse. You know, I'm a good writer, but I'm not nearly the comedian that this critic is whose review I am reading now, so let me just post a bit of what he says. This is from NeedCoffee.com and I agree with every word he says in the review, but he had me laughing my ass off:
"Ultimately, it's the pointlessness of the film that's the most debilitating (and making one in need of serious alcohol). Somebody dies, nobody in the house cares, so we sure as hell don't care. Hell, I had forgotten the dead person's name. I think a score card is needed for attempting to watch this film. In fact, make it a Yahtzee score card and go play the game instead of wasting your time on this unrelenting snoozer. You'll thank me."
Or how about: "I believe in this film we've found the ultimate cure for insomnia, because the most suspense you get out of the thing is whether you can stay conscious through the grueling two-hours-plus running time."
YES! I know some people here will be like, "Yeah, sure, whatever, right," but I went with my mom and the guy behind me was SNORING DURING THE MOVIE! I couldn't even believe how boring this film was.
Gosford Park is one of the worst films of 2001, it's a total piece of trash. I hope that nobody else goes and wastes their time on this drivel. I want those two hours and 30 minutes back badly. I really hate this artsy crap, I feel like going and destroying something after having seen that movie. It has just pissed me off thoroughly.
CMJ, I believe you said you didn't care for this as much, well your advice should have been taken more seriously because this movie SUCKED!!!!!!
Monster's Ball started out very good and I thought it showed promise, it just sucked after that, but this sucked the entire film!! SUCKED, SUCKED, SUCKED.
I have never seen such awful trash. I liked Amelie better than I liked this stupid, inane, inept, poorly directed, poorly made, useless, boring, moronic piece of filth!
Robert Altman is terrible. He can kiss my butt. First, he's stupid. He was quoted as saying "Hollywood is responsible for the 9/11 attacks," must be nice for him since he is a stuck up British filmmaker. What reason would a British filmmaker have to be stuck up? Not a single good movie ever comes out of that country. Hell even France has made Brotherhood of the Wolf, so France: 1, England: 0, USA: 10,000 or whatever.
lol, of course Hollywood makes more bad movies than the rest of the countries in the world because we make like 500 times as many movies too!!!
I am beginning to yearn for the mediocrity of big budget duds like Queen of the Damned and Rollerball. Sure, they were not good movies, but they are 100 times better than anything I've seen at an art house theater lately.
I give all of these movies a fair chance and time after time, I do not let one bad independent movie ruin my attitude about trying to see all of these films, but time after time they just disappoint me by entirely sucking. You know, Memento, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, those are wonderful independent movies, what the hell happened to getting films like that?! Instead I am subjected to absolute drivel like Gosford Park and Amelie, and let's not forget the 0 star effort Mulholland Drive, or how about that POS Monster's Ball.
So let's see, between those FOUR movies they got a collective 2.5 stars, which is exactly what I gave Rollerball interestingly, LOL. What a load of crap.
I can safely say that Gosford Park was one of the ten most boring movies I have ever seen. 2001 would make my list too, but I think Gosford was MUCH more boring. Anyway, 2001 wasn't a bad movie, it was just boring. As a movie, it was a solid 2 star effort, I'll see it again though before I rate it for sure. Hell, HAL9000 was a killer character, gotta love HAL and he has some great lines, plus 2001 has some nice visuals here and there for sure, so even though it's slow, it's by no means a bad film.
Gosford Park, however, is horrible.
Have I used every possible bad adjective on this film yet? If not, they all apply.
Let's see, where do I start with this movie? Oh yeah, perhaps the fact that NOTHING HAPPENS until 1.5 hours into it, and yes I do know because I wear a watch and I made note of how much time passed before the first event took place.
So you may ask, "What do you mean by that? Are you being sarcastic?" DON'T MOCK ME!!! I am not sarcastic here. NOTHING F***ING HAPPENED UNTIL 1.5 HOURS IN, GOT IT?! LOL. The damn film goes on and on without anything happening at all. The characters all talk to each other, we learn a little bit about the servants, a little bit about some boring "important" people, yet nobody is interesting at all, the dialogue is ordinary and boring, not funny, not insightful, just boring.
I cannot imagine this film being any worse. You know, I'm a good writer, but I'm not nearly the comedian that this critic is whose review I am reading now, so let me just post a bit of what he says. This is from NeedCoffee.com and I agree with every word he says in the review, but he had me laughing my ass off:
"Ultimately, it's the pointlessness of the film that's the most debilitating (and making one in need of serious alcohol). Somebody dies, nobody in the house cares, so we sure as hell don't care. Hell, I had forgotten the dead person's name. I think a score card is needed for attempting to watch this film. In fact, make it a Yahtzee score card and go play the game instead of wasting your time on this unrelenting snoozer. You'll thank me."
Or how about: "I believe in this film we've found the ultimate cure for insomnia, because the most suspense you get out of the thing is whether you can stay conscious through the grueling two-hours-plus running time."
YES! I know some people here will be like, "Yeah, sure, whatever, right," but I went with my mom and the guy behind me was SNORING DURING THE MOVIE! I couldn't even believe how boring this film was.
Gosford Park is one of the worst films of 2001, it's a total piece of trash. I hope that nobody else goes and wastes their time on this drivel. I want those two hours and 30 minutes back badly. I really hate this artsy crap, I feel like going and destroying something after having seen that movie. It has just pissed me off thoroughly.