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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 11:26 PM
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Name a movie you were not able to finish
For me , it was "Pink Flamingos". what a piece of trash
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 11:28 PM
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1. House of 1,000 corpses...
it just depressed the shit out of me
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 08:44 AM
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17. That's the first one that came to my mind.
Edited on Fri Oct-24-08 08:49 AM by PeterU
Just too weird. I like weird movies, but not that weird. That was just....bizarre. The only thing I really remember about it now is that they somehow turned Dwight Schrute into a fish?

The crazy thing is, the sequel "The Devil's Rejects" was actually a pretty good movie. It had a neat Tarantino crime spree movie vibe to it. Same characters, but much more engaging movie.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 04:16 PM
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60. Wow!
So I'm not alone.

I feel better now.
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JesterCS Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 12:23 PM
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61. same here
was a bit too..... predictable and campy for me.

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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 11:53 PM
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2. Lugio Fulci's Zombi. It got fucking boring.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-08 11:54 PM
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3. Not a movie, but I video of a tv show, "Hamish MacBeth."
What a stupid tv show.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:01 AM
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4. lucky you
in that you were not able to finish watching it and so missed the ending...I saw it when I was a freshman at UO and they played it on campus...about 20 guys from my dorm went to see it..."Surfing Bird" is a song I will always connect to the "amazing sphincter man" until the day I die!
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:04 AM
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5. Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story
Horrible.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:17 AM
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6. Only two people know karate. The Chinese, and the King, and that's me.
HYAA!!!

You know it was supposed to be horrible, right?
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 01:14 AM
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16. yeah, I was prepared to really just go with it -
but couldn't... was more horrible than I expected, so horrible it wasn't funny (to me).
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:26 PM
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50. I loved that movie and I love John C. Reilly. It was stupid fun.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 01:41 PM
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65. i couldn't finish it either
gave up after about 30 minutes
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:24 AM
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7. "Pay it Forward."
And the funny thing is, I did not see the beginning, either. I just changed the channel and watched several minutes of the middle. I couldn't even tell you exactly what was going on. But there was such an overlay of, I don't know--cinematic smarm? and the assenblage of actors, Hunt, Spacey and Osment? I got the impression they were fishing for Oscars. Another bite of the apple for all, as it were. I found myself completely uninterested in how it ended. All could and have done better.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:25 AM
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8. Some movie last spring
It made such an impression on me I can't remember the title. A teenager was pregnant and a couple was going to adopt her baby. It was highly touted and I wasted a half hour before bolting to see the remainder of another movie. What a waste. The dialog was so forced and absurd and overdone I was wondering how anyone could tolerate it.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 01:13 AM
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15. I know the tittle !
Wasilladed:The Bristol Palin Story.:P
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 09:57 AM
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23. Juno?
Edited on Fri Oct-24-08 09:59 AM by PeterU
It wasn't horrible, just a bit disappointing and overrated. It didn't live up to all the hype for me. The title character came off annoying with all her hip phrases.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:29 AM
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9. The newest straight to video Highlander movie
Not that anime that was bad ass. The new one with the cast from the tv show with the dumbass plotline. I bought it on DVD and still cant get through it. A damn disgrace to the show.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:51 AM
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10. The Mothman Prophecies or whatever.
:hide:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:36 PM
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41. Mothman was a HUGE disappointment
A few fleeting seconds of the actual beast on screen and 2 hours of agonizing over what the characters FELT about it.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:52 AM
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11. Tin Cup
It is impossible to enjoy this movie if you aren't a 100% golf lunatic.

It is also impossible to enjoy this movie even if you are a 100% golf lunatic, but in that case you have to pretend that you liked it, in order to save face.
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:43 PM
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43. Tin Cup sucked I hate him!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:52 AM
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12. Anyone's fucking wedding video. Seriously - what kind of asshole wants a copy,
let alone force anyone who is a so-called "loved one" to endure watching that fucking shitpile?
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 08:48 AM
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18. I'll see that wedding video and raise you...
a birth video. Yeah, it's a miracle and all. I totally get that. But that doesn't mean that you show it to casual acquaintances!!!!
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 02:58 PM
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29. Or vacation videos.
:puke:
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:46 PM
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44. Ya know what...pics and videos SUCK
the people you are looking at and or watching, are right Next to you . Give me a break!
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rdmtimp Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:56 AM
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13. Caligula
I only lasted 45 minutes. First and only time I've ever walked out of a movie theater.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 01:00 AM
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14. OMG
that was one that I couldn't stop watching and not because I was enjoying it. I was just so freaking stunned I couldn't move. Sat there with the remote in hand thinking :wtf:
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:26 PM
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51. Caligula is a masterpiece of sleazy moviemaking.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:27 PM
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52. Did you last long enough to see the part where he fists a guy?
:rofl:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 08:48 AM
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19. Pulp Fiction
ick
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1Hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 01:38 PM
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63. OMG. I LOVED Pulp Fiction! LOL n/t
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 09:23 AM
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20. Death to Smoochy.
I just really sucked.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 09:26 AM
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21. "Natural Born Killers." nt
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:18 PM
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47. I should have bailed on that suckfest - however, my friends were enjoying it
Why, I don't know... :shrug:
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:20 PM
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48. I gave up on Basic Instinct about 15 minutes in
Decided that a 24-pack of Keystone Light offered a stronger plot and better acting - I'm pretty sure I was right.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 09:54 AM
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22. Bad Lieutenant
I just didn't think it was very interesting. I thought it would be much better. I turned it off.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 10:23 AM
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24. "Shoot 'Em Up" with Clive Owen
I love Clive Owen but the first five minutes of this movie were insufferable. Over-choreographed, cartoonish action. I turned it off after Owen's character kills a guy with a carrot.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 10:32 AM
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25. I don't think I've ever managed to watch an entire Judd Apatow movie...
I started watching several of them because people say "Oh man, this movie...you've got to see it." and they're always nauseatingly dumb and disgusting and simply unredeemable. Now if I start to watch a movie and his name (or Seth Rogan) is in the opening credits I just turn it off then and save myself twenty minutes.
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 11:58 AM
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26. "Moulin Rouge" and "The Crow: City of Angels"
"The Crow: City of Angels" - Walked out of the theater halfway through. I'm a HUGE James O'barr fan, and i saw that film as a kick in the teeth to the "Crow" mythology that he had laid down in the comics.

That, and the acting was fuckin' terrible...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Moulin Rouge" - The cinematic style caused an intolerable headache within the first 20 minutes. Turned off the DVD and went to bed.
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Maccagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 12:03 PM
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27. Leaving Las Vegas
Hated it. Also War of the Roses, which is one of those oft-praised films that IMO was way over the top and overrated.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 02:48 PM
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28. The Russia House
I think that was the name. Three hours, IIRC, and I couldn't get past the first hour. Epic bore.

Bake
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 03:02 PM
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30. Death to Smoochy. It sucked out loud.
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 03:14 PM
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31. Because I Said So
:puke:
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1Hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 01:39 PM
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64. I suffered through that. Diane Keaton is SO unbearable anymore, imo. n/t
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 03:26 PM
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32. Moulin Rouge and Laser Misson (Brandon Lee, Ernest Borgnine).
You can't even begin to imagine how bad Laser Mission was.

As for Moulin Rouge, I stand stand musicals to begin with, but this one really made me gag.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 05:08 PM
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33. The Accused
The rape scene was the last bit I saw.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 05:21 PM
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34. The Telephone
As much as I adore Whoopi Goldberg, I could not stand that stupid movie.
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Dragonbreathp9d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 05:24 PM
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35. Spy Kids
Made me vomit, litterally, it was that bad
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 05:28 PM
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36. Michael Clayton
turned it off after 30 minutes. Just couldn't get into it.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:07 PM
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37. The most recent David Lynch movie.
I can't remember the name, with Laura Dern. His movies are always weird but this was impossible to get through. It made no sense whatsoever.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:15 PM
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38. The Cable Guy
The one with Jim Carrey.

Mystery Men was another one. Yegads, but it *sucked*.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:26 PM
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39. Blair Witch Project.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:34 PM
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40. "In the Name of The King" - with Jason Statham
My wife and I, after watching about 30 minutes of this piece of cinematic crap, decided to turn it off.

We kept hoping to find some semblance of a coherent plot or decent acting, but were left with nothing.
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 06:42 PM
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42. For me it was "Things we lost in the fire"
until I caught it from the beginning on HBO It was Great!!!
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:12 PM
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45. Moulin Rouge
It was the worst 20 minutes of my life!
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ok_cpu Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:16 PM
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46. "Closer" n/t
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:21 PM
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49. Billy Jack
Half way through the movie they evacuated the theater; a major refinery fire in the middle of the city. A cracking tower ignited, took off like a rocket, and crashed on an oil storage facility.

Pandemonium.

1977.

I never did get another chance to see the movie.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-08 07:27 PM
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53. Hamburger Hill. Too real.
Redstone
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BEZERKO Donating Member (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 04:46 AM
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54. Snatch
After Benicio del Toro's character appeared on the screen for the sixth time to Elvis's "Viva Las Vegas!" I swore, if I heard that intro one more time, I was going to throw the movie away. Six seconds later, I had to stop the movie to fufill my promise.

And Moulin Rouge kicked ass!
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:16 AM
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55. Titanic.
that was the silliest film I've ever seen... it was so amateurish with all that exposition going on... One of the Star Wars, from a few years back with the infamous line "I hate sand"
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:28 AM
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56. The Wicker Man
I walked out of the theater- a first for me.
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distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:32 AM
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57. Interesting.
I really liked that film!

(I'm assuming you are talking about the original version...)
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 04:14 PM
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59. Nope, the Nicholas Cage remake.
2 or 3 years ago, I think.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 01:34 PM
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62. I am with you, one of the WORST re-makes EVER... would have walked out
but it was on cable... after we figured the total BS, we spend the rest of the time laughing at the shite...

They turned it into an anti-feminist rant with very bad acting... including CAGE!
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La Coliniere Donating Member (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 07:55 AM
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58. Natural Born Killers
High minded pointlessness from Oliver Stone. Absolutely hated it. I also hated "W", but I sat through that one till the bitter end. (BTW, I loved "Pink Flamingos", low-brow pointlessness of the best kind. Long live Divine!)
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 02:00 PM
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66. Moulin Rouge ('01), Monsoon Wedding nt
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