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to think fucking Braveheart is the most wankingly awful film every made

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/02/2011 21:46

DP has got it on - every so often I look up at Mel Gibson's vile face and blowdry and hurl insults at the screen.

DP: shurrup getorf
Me: it's SHITE. I bet all the Scots in the world think it's SHITE as well
DP@ shurrup getorf

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fridascruffs · 13/02/2011 01:31

Worst thing about Titanic was KW's line about her painting- ' it's by... Picasso something...?' i heard James Cameron insists on writing his own scripts (Avatar et al) and he should REALLY leave it to someone with more subtlety than a sledgehammer.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 01:52

I like Braveheart. And Independence Day, and Titanic, and Armageddon, and Love Actually.

We Americans do like our saving the world bit, don't we? I suppose it makes sense since the movies are made here though...

Psammead · 13/02/2011 09:58

I like Armageddon.

Titanic is dreadful. I saw it on my first ever date ever and even then the only reason I didn't walk out and leave him there was because I was at the very end of the row, against the wall.

I have a soft spot for Notting Hill type films.

See, I thought Armageddon was quite anti-American in its way. Or rather, anti-establishment. Didn't they shoot holes in the flag? And refer to God as she?

I have started to write many posts on Avatar and then deleted them. My objection to it is based on the pseudo-African accents of the aliens. It really bugs me. Funny coloured, primitive, athletic, aggressive, tribal beings... threatened by the white guys, and saved by a 'blued-up' white guy because they can't organise themselves properly. With generic African accents. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:12

I thought that about Avatar too, Psammead. I think the thought process is "oh, we'll show that the white guys don't know everything and have to really get in touch with the natives" but there's something so off-putting about it.

Don't know how I feel about "Anti-American" things... some people things from there are quite lovely. Wink

expatinscotland · 13/02/2011 10:14

'We Americans do like our saving the world bit, don't we? I suppose it makes sense since the movies are made here though...'

Some do. This particular one finds such ilk a pile of steaming wank.

'Peal Harbor', man I was pulling for the Japanese, hoping they'd come through and just bomb the hell out of all those gits and put us out of our misery.

'Titanic', I knew how that was going to go, but was dragged along by a friend, thankfully to a dollar cinema. Half-way through, I couldn't take it anymore, so went out for a cigarette. Whilst there, met two Aussie chaps who'd been dragged there by women they'd hoped to shag. So we went to the bar in the same shopping centre and got drunk instead. It was a much better time!

expatinscotland · 13/02/2011 10:15

'Notting Hill': what a waste of perfectly good marijuana. I completely lost my buzz trying to watch that.

That was the last time I will ever watch anything with Julia-three-dick-gob Roberts in my life.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:16

Oh, I'm not all "USA! USA!" or anything like that, expat. :) This thread makes me want to sing "America! F*ck yeah!" from Team America: World Police :o

expatinscotland · 13/02/2011 10:17

'Tin Cup', so bad, it only comes back in snippets of nightmare flashbacks, years later.

'Bull Durham', I fell asleep so it can't be that bad.

T2 - one of the best films ever made :o.

expatinscotland · 13/02/2011 10:18

Anyone remember back when Hugh Grant was playing boarding school closet homosexuals and the like?

expatinscotland · 13/02/2011 10:19

Aitch, I expected so much more of you. Tin Cup?! Shock

Psammead · 13/02/2011 10:19

I should have made myself clearer - I don't like it because it's anti-American. I just think it has a few anti-American themes. I like America and generally the Americans I have met have all been intelligent and charming. But then I never did meet old Dubbya Wink

I said it had anti-American tones because several people said it was a big crash boom bang, America saves the day type movie. Which it is, but not in the same military, presidential, religious way of many movies Smile

Anyway, it doesn't matter really because I suspect I have lost all credibility by admitting that I like it!

Psammead · 13/02/2011 10:20

Oh, sorry - that was to CheerfulYank thread moved on whilst I was typing.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:23

I like to think it's our famous national deluded optimism coming into play. So there's a huge meteor that's going to destroy the entire earth? Well let's drill a hole in that sumbitch! We're AMERICANS!!

:o

Psammead · 13/02/2011 10:31

Not before it destroys Paris, mind...

Ever notice how no-one really seems to mind? Grin

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:34

"If there's one thing I hate, it's intolerance...and the French."

:o :o :o

Psammead · 13/02/2011 10:38

Hehe. I went to Paris ready to find the Parisians grumpy and rude. Damn it, they were nice.

Another comfortable stereotype shattered. I shall do my best keep a stiff upper lip, inflated sense of self-importance and fondness for fish and chips in order to keep the Brirish one alive Grin

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 10:46

Yes, we must all do what we can. I'll do my best to be brash, gun-happy, and ignorant of geography and current events happening outside of US borders. :)

Psammead · 13/02/2011 10:48

That's the spirit! What what!

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 11:01

Like, OMG! Y'all talk soooo cute! :o

dawntigga · 13/02/2011 11:04

YABU surely anything with Jason Stathem in it beats that hands down.

JasonStathemWentToTheKeanuReevesSchoolOfActingTiggaxx

Spenguin · 13/02/2011 11:31

Cheerful Yank - stop it! I'm spluttering coffee everywhere!

Spenguin · 13/02/2011 11:32

Yes, Jason Statham - what was that one where he had to keep his pulse up...cue awkward scene where he shags a girl on the pavement?

Snorbs · 13/02/2011 11:33

I do like a good mindless special effects-laden disaster movie. Armageddon, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow all do the trick quite nicely.

Has anyone mentioned The Core yet though? Ye gods and little fishes, that was an explosively bad film. It held the title for the Worst Abuses of Science for quite a long time until pipped by 2012.

ohboob · 13/02/2011 11:44

I really have to go and watch Braveheart now.

Someone else mentioned the Holiday. I don't mind that film but absolutely hate when they both arrive in their holiday swap houses and are dancing around going 'eeeeee' and 'wooooo' or some such crap. Like the director went 'and this is the part where we show the audience the actresses have great personalities. Skip about Kate. More skipping. MORE SKIPPING' They just look like morons.

CheerfulYank · 13/02/2011 12:14

Ohboob you're right about the Holiday. Plus I can barely stomach Jude Law now. Wanker. Except as Watson

Spenguin that is Crank you're thinking of, and that scene is excruciating! Only fourteen year old boys would get a kick out of it.

You're English?! Do you like, know Prince William and stuff? (she said breathlessly)