According to the email I recieve: "I saw See No Evil, I'm not sure I need to see this to know what it will be."
According to some website: " Most "The _something_" movies tend to be awful. It is an action movie starring a wrestler. We all know how those goes... well, when they're good anyway."

Syd Lexia wrote:

Tebor wrote: Most "The _something_" movies tend to be awful." Whoever said that is clinically retarded. The Terminator The Exorcist The Godfather The Shining The Matrix I could keep going forever. And though I haven't seen it, The Departed looks pretty damn good.

They were refering to The (one word) movies, originally from a review of "The Musketeer". Of which, "The (one word)" really are pretty crappy, uncreative titles.

No matter how good "The Departed" is "Infernal Affairs" is a way better title.

Syd Lexia wrote:

And since IMDB, lists the Top 250 but only the bottom 100, here are the rest of the The One Word movies from the Top 250: The Conversation

The IMDB is populated by idiots and I trust their lists as much as a wolverine in my pants.

For example, here's a typical IMDB comment: "The Conversation" sucked much jizzass. Maybe for its time it was respected, but Coppola was off his game again with this picture! "Enemy of the State" as flawed as it was, was a better movie/sequel/reimagining/homage/whatever.

While you want to defend movies called The (something), it seems like they're fairly uncreative titles. As unP.C. as Hollywood is, there is a belief that an interesting title will represent a better picture, because the screenwriter took time to reflect the theme of the movie into the title. However, too creative titles will reflect someone who spent too much time on their title instead of their script. This is what I've learned doing coverage. Does it make sense? God knows.

Statistically, we have to go to Walmart bargain bin and have a fifty day movie marathon watching every The (something) movie ever made. I'm up for it whenever you are

But since I can tell you just want me to name a bunch of bad movies :
The Alamo
The Musketeer
The Cell
The Core - Fun, I'll give you that, cause I watch this much more often than "Million Dollar Baby".
The Rage
The Flinstones - Cheating, I know
The Fog (2005) - Original's not much better, but it's still better.
The Haunting (both versions, though the original is slightly better)
The Grudge and The Ring
The Beyond - I know it has its fans, but that's because it's so bad it's enjoyable. I need to be really sleep deprived to sit through the whole movie. (Tried watching 8 times, sat through it twice).
The Defender
The Forgotten - I know some people liked this film, but I barely understand why.
The Hunted (not starring Christopher Lambert =D)
The Tuxedo
The Limey
The Order
The Player - The ultimate Hollywood movie about Hollywood. Tedious, uncreative, boring, and an amazingly bad performance from Tim Robbins.
The Aviator - Fucking terrible. It's a movie I still watch and say: It's shot really well, but whoever likes this movie is just stroking off Scorsese. What the hell, Marty!?

However, "The Fighteners" and "The Goonies" are f'ing awesome. "The Game" is really a movie I've enjoyed 1 1/2 times. The other times I watched it, I found it slow, uneven, and not very interesting visually (the main reason to watch any Fincher film are the visuals, but there's less to learn from "The Game" than his other films for some reason).
I also enjoyed movies people perceive as bad like "The Watcher", "The Island", "The Wiz", "The Village", and "The Transporter". Ah, what the hell, I do like "The Flinstones"

WOOOO!!! BEST THREAD EVER!!!

Murdar Machene wrote:

The Thing. Check your Diabeetus and check it often.

Somebody got to the bloooood!

And technically, it's called "John Carpenter's The Thing"... unless we're talking about the Carrot Man original.

Char Aznable wrote:

I really hate it when I have no idea what anyone's talking about.

Nerd squabble (at least on my part). I should never quote anyone else ever again.

Syd Lexia wrote:

I hate J'Lo, but The Cell does have a following of some sort. It was interesting concept... I guess. And I did like The Forgotten, but I've only seen it once. If I watched it again, I might not like it as much. It made me jump a couple of times, which is all I really wanted it from it. And finally, I have no idea what movie that picture of Robert Patrick is from. I was hoping you were going to reply to the picture and spare me the embarassment of asking, but no such luck.

Good efforts, bad results.
"The Cell" is a beautiful looking movie, but the script is shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. Not to mention the acting, though Vince Vaughn being serious ALWAYS makes me laugh.
"The Forgotten" just bugs me because of A. The Script. B. Julianne Moore, who's good in half the movies she's in, but that's not one of them.
Both films, I believe, are on sale this week at Circuit City for $6...

Hmmm, I have a feeling a "name that movie from the screen shot" game thread is in order.

I haven't seen it yet, but a friend of mine said it was good for what it was. A couple of scenes he told me about sounded awesomely bad.