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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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 Posted - 08/09/2004 : 09:29:48
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Take a look at the IMDb "Bottom 100" page... It's there:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
The user comments made me cry of laughter. Check this one out, about some movie called "House of the Dead":
<<Summary: If you like this movie, then I have no respect for your opinion.
"Kids" in their early 30s go to the world's lamest rave, held in the ruins of Jurassic Park. They are then attacked by the world's lamest zombies, and fight them off using concentrated stupidity and bullet-time. Then there's a vampire pirate and a helicopter.
People will try to justify this as a "Fun B Movie", "Something you aren't meant to take seriously" and that you should "Just turn your brain off and enjoy it".
Despite the fact opinions are subjective and thus cannot be right or wrong, these people are still wrong. While it is certainly a B-Movie, it's not fun, and the only way to enjoy it would be to think "at least these people are never, ever going to work again", except that they probably will.
The characters are totally bland cyphers who may as well be mannequins. This isn't "light" characterisation, it's non-existent characterisation, so I don't care what happens to them. Even when they should be scared or amazed - which the audience would at least relate to even if the characters redefine "2 dimensional" - the movie is too concerned with being cool to let us feel anything. There's so many bullet-time shots, video game clips (yeah, really), smug references to infinitely better movies and characters doing things solely so they can be put in danger that there's no truth to any of it; it's all soulless artifice that never progresses beyond the "A House of the Dead movie would be cool!" stage of its life.
No feeling. No life. No soul. A void. See, those "fun B-movies" that people love to go on about as some kind of justification for supporting tripe like this... they might have had bad effects, laughable scripts and wooden acting, but the people involved were trying to make something entertaining. The people who made House of the Dead were going on a $12 million self-indulgent ego-trip, and clearly didn't care what the end result was because, hey, wouldn't a House of the Dead movie be cool? Answer: Possibly, if it was made by someone else.
And, to cap it all off, they managed to take something as inherently cool as a VAMPIRE PIRATE, and then make him one of the most boring villains in history. If I made a movie, it would be about a vampire pirate killing the people who made this, then turning them into vampires so he could keep killing them. That would rule.
Positive aspects: Topless women.
Negative aspects: Everything else. You can also find topless women on the internet for free, and without supporting the makers of this film, rendering the only positive aspect moot.
Don't be tempted to rent it because it might be so bad it's good. It's an infuriating pile of wank, and, combined with the recent "hits" Resident Evil and Underworld, has probably set horror back to the pleistocene period. If you could give 0/10, I would. Actually, I'd go lower.>>
This other guy says about "The Wild World of Batwoman":
<<Summary: describing this movie as crap would be unfair to crap.>>
Denis
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Malax
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/09/2004 : 17:56:17
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I love imdb. I watch a film and then go look what people thought of it etc. You somtimes found out things you missed etc. I realise though, no matter what film you type you will find someone who loves it and berates everyone who hates it. Class
I May've Joined The Cult Of Frank If I Knew What The Balls Was Going On.
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I love the IMDB user comments
