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[quote="Arc Orion";p="708561"]Funny thing is, I actually enjoy watching this movie, but try watching Mazes and Monsters. It's probably the worst movie I've every actually sat through. And I've seen it several times.[/quote]
Tom Hanks' finest acting, IMO. Well except for Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks' finest acting, IMO. Well except for Saving Private Ryan
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge
Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead. -- Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead. -- Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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Rest Stop nearly hit this list. I saw a clip of it on TV one day as I was headed out the door. Looked interesting, so I picked up a copy on dvd later that day when I went to Best Buy for other things. What a friggin waste...
The following contains spoilers. I don't care. The movie sucks enough that ruining it for you might actually help you enjoy it...
Firstly, the voiceover in the beginning could be done without. It was overly corny and rather pointless. The movie starts off rather typical with a high school girl running away with her boyfriend. He's headed to California. They're just not a good couple. At all. No chemistry. Shitty relationship in the script. If they're at each other this much now, they wouldn't last moving to a new city.
That's about where 'typical' flies out the window... taking common sense, any lingering hint of realism and the ability to suspend disbelief right along with it. From here on out the movie just gets increasingly retarded.
First, they have sex in the car on the side of a country road. Not a huge deal, just seemed forced and rather gratuitous. Strange, beat up, yellow 70's ford truck pulls off down the road nearby... hinting that the driver had been watching them.
Later the next day she whines that she needs to go to the bathroom. They stop at a secluded, run down rest stop in the middle of nowhere in backwoods California. She goes into the women's restroom, which is all nasty. He gets out of the car and lights a cigarette.
In the bathroom she sees tons of shit written / scratched into the stall about some guy stalking all these people and killing them. She glances past it all with this glazed over look in her eyes, like some dumb animal, and goes back outside... to find her bf and the car missing, his cigarette butt on the ground. So she sits on the curb crying for like 6 hours... seriously, like 6+ hours. Probably closer to 8 or 9. She doesn't go to the office. She doesn't start walking the way they'd been driving. She does try a phone, which has been cut, and her cell has no signal. So she sits there for OVER SIX HOURS, until it gets dark.
Then she finally breaks into the office. She tries a grand total of ONE channel on the CB to look for help. She turns on the TV and sees her and her boyfriend having sex on screen. Turns off the TV in disgust... but keeps sitting there. Turns on a radio and starts drinking, heavily, from this bottle she found in the desk.
I mean, come the fuck on. At some point you've got to THINK. The author seems to have had soem kind of mental block when it came to giving actual REASONS to keep her at the rest stop. So instead he just made her a fucking moron. And do we really, as movie watchers, care if a moron dies? Rediculous.
So, basically this shit just keeps happening over and over again. She ends up in the bathroom crying, locking herself in so he can't get to her and then when he leaves, she sits on the curb or in the office chillin until he returns. A cop shows up and he runs the cop over, so she drags the cop off to the side of the road and sits there watching as the guy chains up the cop's bike and drags it off... nevermind the fact that the cop's gun was right fucking next to her hand and she had all the time in the world to pull it out, aim carefully and take a few well-aimed shots.
Over and over and over the stupid keeps pouring out through the screne, intent on driving you insane as you sit there trying to figure out just what the fuck the deal is... IE: why didn't she just leave from the start? Why didn't she try more than 1 CB channel? Why didn't she get the fuck out of dodge when she saw herself on TV? Why, why, why?
And as if that wasn't enough, victims she sees, like the cop, vanish without a trace instantly... and for no reason. No explainations are given for anything, other than that the dude himself has been doing this for 30+ years and died a long time ago and was buried by some psycho family who lives in an RV. K... whatthefuckever.
What a piece of shit movie.
The following contains spoilers. I don't care. The movie sucks enough that ruining it for you might actually help you enjoy it...
Firstly, the voiceover in the beginning could be done without. It was overly corny and rather pointless. The movie starts off rather typical with a high school girl running away with her boyfriend. He's headed to California. They're just not a good couple. At all. No chemistry. Shitty relationship in the script. If they're at each other this much now, they wouldn't last moving to a new city.
That's about where 'typical' flies out the window... taking common sense, any lingering hint of realism and the ability to suspend disbelief right along with it. From here on out the movie just gets increasingly retarded.
First, they have sex in the car on the side of a country road. Not a huge deal, just seemed forced and rather gratuitous. Strange, beat up, yellow 70's ford truck pulls off down the road nearby... hinting that the driver had been watching them.
Later the next day she whines that she needs to go to the bathroom. They stop at a secluded, run down rest stop in the middle of nowhere in backwoods California. She goes into the women's restroom, which is all nasty. He gets out of the car and lights a cigarette.
In the bathroom she sees tons of shit written / scratched into the stall about some guy stalking all these people and killing them. She glances past it all with this glazed over look in her eyes, like some dumb animal, and goes back outside... to find her bf and the car missing, his cigarette butt on the ground. So she sits on the curb crying for like 6 hours... seriously, like 6+ hours. Probably closer to 8 or 9. She doesn't go to the office. She doesn't start walking the way they'd been driving. She does try a phone, which has been cut, and her cell has no signal. So she sits there for OVER SIX HOURS, until it gets dark.
Then she finally breaks into the office. She tries a grand total of ONE channel on the CB to look for help. She turns on the TV and sees her and her boyfriend having sex on screen. Turns off the TV in disgust... but keeps sitting there. Turns on a radio and starts drinking, heavily, from this bottle she found in the desk.
I mean, come the fuck on. At some point you've got to THINK. The author seems to have had soem kind of mental block when it came to giving actual REASONS to keep her at the rest stop. So instead he just made her a fucking moron. And do we really, as movie watchers, care if a moron dies? Rediculous.
So, basically this shit just keeps happening over and over again. She ends up in the bathroom crying, locking herself in so he can't get to her and then when he leaves, she sits on the curb or in the office chillin until he returns. A cop shows up and he runs the cop over, so she drags the cop off to the side of the road and sits there watching as the guy chains up the cop's bike and drags it off... nevermind the fact that the cop's gun was right fucking next to her hand and she had all the time in the world to pull it out, aim carefully and take a few well-aimed shots.
Over and over and over the stupid keeps pouring out through the screne, intent on driving you insane as you sit there trying to figure out just what the fuck the deal is... IE: why didn't she just leave from the start? Why didn't she try more than 1 CB channel? Why didn't she get the fuck out of dodge when she saw herself on TV? Why, why, why?
And as if that wasn't enough, victims she sees, like the cop, vanish without a trace instantly... and for no reason. No explainations are given for anything, other than that the dude himself has been doing this for 30+ years and died a long time ago and was buried by some psycho family who lives in an RV. K... whatthefuckever.
What a piece of shit movie.
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It's a tough call...I've seen a lot of bad movies, although none from that list. I think the worst movie I ever saw...and I don't recall the name of it, was one of those "aliens invade Earth" movies...IIRC, it was the one somewhat revolving around crop circles, then aliens invading to kill the humans, and it turns out, their weakness is water, so basically, we water the aliens and they die. Maybe somebody can put a name to it.
The one movie that comes to mind that was as terrible as that, if not worse, was Final Destination.
Terrible.
It started out good, like "yeah! this is gonna be great! action and suspense, thrill and danger!" Then a short way into the movie, it was more like "wtf? it's just a bunch of people dieing in stupid ways." Lame.
The one movie that comes to mind that was as terrible as that, if not worse, was Final Destination.
Terrible.
It started out good, like "yeah! this is gonna be great! action and suspense, thrill and danger!" Then a short way into the movie, it was more like "wtf? it's just a bunch of people dieing in stupid ways." Lame.
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While M. Night is a Hitchcock wannabe, I have enjoyed most of his films. I really like his shooting styles and storytelling, but his plots are sometimes a bit weak and predictable. Lady in the Water is his weakest offering with very poorly developed characters. It requires perhaps too much suspension of belief with characters suddenly and fervently holding to a Korean children's story. Unlike most people, I enjoyed The Village though I don't quite agree with the morals. I think Signs is his second or third best offering honestly -- and I'm tired of everyone complaining about the fucking water.
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The water thing, and the aliens themselves, were really quite secondary to the movie. The movie was about that family, broken faith and how the events in their lives that seemed so random had lead, ultimately, to their survival and redemption in their most trying moments. Thus the movie didn't focus on the aliens, didn't show much of them, didn't show you big battle scenes, etc.. they were as much a plot device as the house the family was living in.
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