100 worst movies Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Hair removal via waxing - bleh

[Dina Lerret]

On 12/20/05, Caius Marcius <coriolan at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> What should be most sobering is that nearly all of these films were
> released within the last decade.  Surely this presages the total
> collapse of Western Civilization. There have been so many bad movies
> made since 1996 that Ed Wood's Plan Nine From Outer Space (with an
> average rating of 3.5) is way too good to make the list.

However, that movie falls under the 'so bad, it's "cult" cool' category. ;-)

There's a bit of irony in the complaints about box office revenues not
being what they were because of internet downloads.  Yes, there's
probably some truth to that but the movies are also losing their
appeal.

For all those Oscar-winning movies, very few of them seem, for lack of
a better word, entertaining.  Case in point, Sideways was supposedly a
good movie but both my brother and his wife (they're in their 40s)
thought the movie boring.  While movies that viewers hope will be
'entertaining', are sometimes disappointing in storyline (the usual
complaint), acting, etc.

I'd really hate to think we've reached a Hollywood saturation point
where it's mostly downhill... Though, there can never be enough
Michael Rosenbaum in drag movies! :-D

I've never been a 'movie' person but almost *all* of
HBO/Cinemax/Showtime's recent box office movies they're 'premiering'
don't interest me.  I'm finding more interesting movies renting
'independent' and older films.  I've added IFC to my usual channel
flipping line-up.

One 'discovery' was seeing Mala Educación (Bad Education -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275491/ ) and I thought it a fairly good
movie that apparently got some award nominations and wins
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275491/awards ...Heh, yeah, it's got guys
in drag and explicit m/m sex but there's an interesting 'story within
a story' appeal.  Oh, and degrees of separation from Harry Potter: Bad
Education stars Gael Garcia Bernal who also stars in Y tu Mamá También
(And Your Mother Too) which is directed by Alfonso Cuaron. {g}

Dina




Dina