Pretty much opposite of Gil's movies.
LOTR - Complete and utter waste of my time. Fell asleep several times through each--- and the scenes just seem to drag on and onnnnnn.
Pirates of Caribbean - No thank you. I saw the first and found it very lame with all the magic, ghosts, etc. Why can't they make a good pirate movie that's set in reality?? Typical Hollywood cliche'd predictable cookie-cutter mess.
iRobot - This is my favourite book, so I went out and watched the movie in the theatre. Will Smith repulses me, and likewise so does Michael Bay, but I still had to see what it was about. Garbage. Pure garbage. There was NOTHING in the first hour that was related to the book--- at all--- so I walked out. It's like they name-dropped the book to sell seats. Susan the robot psychologist was the only character in the movie from the book. The rest was Will Smith's typical wise-crackin' smarmy piece of crap hero roleplaying. Sorry, but he is exactly the same in every single movie he's been in in the last 10 years.
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It's hard to pick favourites, but I enjoy slice-of-life dramas that don't necessarily have huge budgets and happy endings. I also like horror movies and sci-fi (especially time travel concepts).
Primer - Great Sundance Festival movie about two guys who figure out how to go only a few days back in time. Very very confusing and thought-provoking.
UHF - Comedy classic.
Cannibal the Musical - Matt Stone and Trey Parker musical comedy based on the only man to ever be charged in America with cannibalism. They made this in art school and it's hilarious--- plus the songs are catchy.
Goodfellas - Hard hitting gangster drama. I love that whole mafia genre (Sopranos, Fargo to an extent, Casino, etc.)
The Shining - Unsettling horror--- not as good as the book, but not as bad as Kubrick said it was.
The majority of movies I like I can only watch once or twice. For example I really enjoyed The Bully when it was on TV a few years ago, but wouldn't watch it again.
Bluntly, I just can't stand those crappy action movies where there's a guy and a girl escaping from danger and they fall in love, make out while huge lizards are approaching, but you know they can't die because Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are on board, and there's a bomb OH NOES! but they defuse it with exactly 1 second left on the enormous digital clock LCD (pffft--- like a timebomb would have a beeping digital clock in the first place), and it stars Ben Affleck, etc.
