Knyte wrote:

The Deer Hunter

Oh dude, if there was ever a movie that doesn't deserve to win "Best Picture", it was this piece of shit. Granted, De Niro and Walken did amazing jobs, however the direction of this movie just sucked.

I remember the first time I saw this, everyone raved at how good it was, especially the Russian Roulette. I turn it on, and sit through about an hour of a wedding. A fucking wedding! I understand that they were trying to get me to identify with the humanity of the characters, but the damn thing goes on for SO fucking long, you just want the movie to end. About 20 minutes into the movie, I knew something was wrong, we weren't moving forward, we were stuck at this goddamn wedding! After that, we're treated to 2 guys aruging about boots for 15 minutes, Jesus Christ! Finally it gets to Vietnam and good thing they skipped boot camp, didn't need to see De Niro spend 10 minutes making his bed.

Somehow the 3 main characters are deployed and somehow meet up, we get a fucked up scene, then Vietnam is over. De Niro goes home and fucks Meryl Streep. Again, I know this was supposed to be a character study on how war affected these 3 guys, but honestly there's so much time spent on other aspects of what's going on, we never see the transformation, they just seem to snap, especially Walken who now earns a living doing Russian Roulette. Anyways, climax of the movie, De Niro tracks down both of his buddies, the first one (the guy no one gives a shit about) is limited to a wheelchair and seperated from his wife, and Walken kills himself when he and De Niro engage in a game of Roulette. That's basically all I remember, this movie could've been good if the direction was better, yet Michael Crimino wins a fucking Oscar for this piece of shit? There's a reason he hasn't done jack shit since this movie, because most production companies found out how much of a hack he is when he made Heaven's Gate.

Anyways, sorry for that little rant, The Deer Hunter is just one of those movies that pissed me off so much when I saw it, it's one of those movies that makes you want to make movies to prove you can do a better job, and believe me I can.

As far as good movies I've seen that I would probably never see again, I'd have to say most recently, Shutter Island. Good movie, but once you realize the plot and go back and watch it, you question as to why the hospital "allows" this to go on? Good movie, but once you sit down and think about it, it's just better not to sit through it again because that's what you'll be doing.

Heat is another one of those movies that was good, but I just wouldn't want to sit through it again for whatever reason.

You're entitled to like it, but just see my reasonings as to why I don't like it. Michael Crimino doesn't know how to tell a story or build characters. And spending 3 hours on a film that could've easily been trimmed down to 90 minutes and still delivered it's message. Given the resources and what I know about film making, I think I could do a better job.

AtmanRyu wrote:

Avatar. Somewhat subverted as the only positive thing I can say about the movie is that's pretty.

This

I can enjoy a movie despite it not being a groundbreaking (not even visually) masterpiece as far as the story goes, but I would never tell people to go see it or something.

I think Saving Private Ryan is up there too, Speilberg did such a good job of making me like most of the characters, I hated seeing them get slaughtered. The beaches of Normandy didn't bother me, it was much later in the film where the German guy was slowly sticking that fucking knife slowly into the Jewish guy while singing...that bothered me.