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WORST MOVIE!!!! don't you think!!...if not why

posted 20 years ago by kaden643
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this was the worst movie i have ever seen. i was very suprised with this movie. i knew it wasn't going to be amazingly spectacular but i thought it would be decent...at least two stars decent. especially with these 'A' list stars. boy was i wrong. first of all the acting was terrible. george clooney and his silly facial expressions and catherine zeta-jones trying to be sexy wiggling her butt every chance she got didn't help the plot. and how do jones and clooney get married so quickly. they don't even know each other and the next thing you know he kisses her after she visits him with her fiance, and says some cheesy line like 'your a fantastic woman.'i especially love the scene when jones gets married and clooney says something like 'if i know you then you will [predicts what she will do]...' How does he know her? From what past experiences???

The worst part was the beginning with geoffrey rush and his wife who is cheating on him. there was NOTHING funny. it was completely stupid and ridiculous, and not in a good way. Clooney and his sidekick who forced tears out every chance he could get did not help this terrible movie which had no point to it. honestly what was the point? there was no point. enough said. Oh, yes and one more thing: the almost dying boss. That was so random and dumb. you couldn't even understand what the man was saying half of the time and the scenes with him in it only make you shake your head more and more. this movie was the worst movie i have ever *emphasis on ever* seen. maybe i will go do something productive since i have just wasted 2 hours of my life.

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[–] sexy_superstud 20 years ago

It should have been titled, "Down With Love."

[–] kickthebaby-nl 20 years ago

GOD THAT MOVIE SUCKED....sorry Ewan

[–] sexy_superstud 20 years ago

"Down With Love" didn't suck! It's a chick flick, it's just not suited to everyone's tastes.

[–] pachyderm 20 years ago

if not why -

because the essence of the movie is subtlety, wit and farce -

you either get those or you don't - you didn't, i did

[–] BlueGreen 18 years ago

"because the essence of the movie is subtlety, wit and farce "

Yes, I can see that they WANTED to make that the essence of this movie, complete with a Clooney impersonation of Cary Grant. Which might have worked wonderfully (surely Clooney posseses enough sophistication to deliver subtle wit) - had they known how to produce "subtlety, wit and farce".

Alas, they didn't know how to produce them. Wit and slapstick don't mix well. And silly profiles of people screaming "Aaaaaahhh!" aren't all that funny anyway, but in this particular film they are positively painful to watch.

AWKWARD. Surprisingly inconsistent and awkward.
That is my personal opinion of this film, anyway.

[–] blogician 19 years ago

Not the worst ever, but it was pretty terrible.

[–] twisted_crimson 19 years ago

Totaly agree wid u m8! Me and my friend were just having our own convo thru out it. gota b one of the worst films ever.

[–] nuggdachamp11 19 years ago

Surely it is the Coen's worst, but not the worst ever. It was still damn funny.

"Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want."

[–] ruapehukid 19 years ago

Much worse are Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There. Only the cameo by the SF lawyer was good in that, IMO of course.

To appreciate Intolerable Cruelty to the full one requires a fairly extensive vocabulary. At leas 90 percant of people will miss at least some of the jokes due to deficient vocab.

[–] SandsofSamarkand 19 years ago

to appreciate Intolerable Cruelty requires a vocabulary of old B&W comedies. Thin man, etc. It remakes a genre - beautifully - that is no longer made. I didn't really appreciate Clooney until I saw this one, but then decided, yes, he can do comedy (and once again the Cohen brothers did not fail to satisfy). The bit where they are running around the house with the asthmatic hit man - brilliant!

Intolerable Cruelty is like 8 femmes - it doesn't make sense unless you get it.

[–] dbusta 19 years ago

I completely agree with this post.

Intolerable Cruelty was like Palm Beach Story, The Shop Around the Corner or Bringing Up Baby. Classic love/hate story with witty fast paced dialog. Done almost exactly in the style of something from the 40s. Obviously not as great as those classics, but certainly a hilarious homage.

[–] Mr_Wentworth-Brewster 18 years ago

I agree, I think the film was closest to the style of Preston Sturges.

"I'm not kind, I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm." - Waldo Lydecker

[–] otis1017 19 years ago

it was an absolute disaster

[–] matcak 19 years ago

Only mildly funny part was the hitman. And that was only funny because of the torture of watching the first 3/4 of the movie.

This didn't work. The Coen's are smart guys that make smart films. They missed the mark this time by going too High-brow. This isn't nearly as good as the old, old Cary Grant style sophisticated comedies. The pacing is way slow and the performers have little humerous dialog to work with. Wasted performances. These actors deserved better and I can't imagine what went on in the editing room. Painfully unfunny. Terrible.

[–] dan-508 19 years ago

WRONG.

[–] da_bomb_er 18 years ago

The original poster said: "if not why" (sic)

[–] mybrainbroke 19 years ago

I'll admit there were a few plot holes, and I didn't quite buy the ending, but the courtroom scene near the beginning was absolutely priceless.

Miles Massey: "Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard, they make no battery..." Mrs. Rexroth, do you know those lines?
Freddy Bender: Objection, your honor.
Judge Marva Munson: Grounds?
Freddy Bender: Uh... poetry recitation.

[Mr. Rexroth lunges at the Baron on the witness stand]
Freddy Bender: Objection, Your Honor! Strangling the witness!
Judge Marva Munson: I'm going to allow it.

[–] seviday 19 years ago

I haven't liked the movie either...can anyone tell me, why the Coen brothers are so famous and poular? I don't get it.