now we have slagged off Avatar, to start a new thread to pull to pieces the travesty that was Titanic?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Yes, look at me with my current affairs, starting a thread to slag off a film which came out about 10 years ago!

I mean, come on. Let's reduce what could have been an excellent story by inventing a 'across the class divides' love story, complete with the bastard English, jolly fiddle playing Irish, Americans who were evil and money loving (unless you were Leonardo DiC, or the fat jolly one played by Kathy Bates), a gun fight and the main character losing her virginity in the back of a car.

Honestly.

I have another to add to your list Kit. Isn't the water clean?!

No, sorry - I have to admit to loving this film too! . I sobbed so much the first time I had to put tissues in my mouth. Then I had to go and see it again....

And all this talk of shite films has reminded me of the shitest of all. I give you...
Pearl Harbour.
There's three hours of my life I'm not getting back

I very nearly didn't go on a second date with my now dh after he told me on our first date that Titanic was one of his favourite films ever (and that Westlife were his favourite band). Tragic. He still is, Take That reforming was on of the best days of his life, bless him. Ds and I dispair of him.

Kitstwins, you forgot the Godawful semi-nude portrait scene. Buttock-clenchingly twee and the farthest thing from erotic since Nurse Gladys Emmanuel ...

(What a fab thread!)

Oooh everyone on this thread and the other one is gagging to do over 'love actually' no?

Lets....

As a young, impressionable teenager I still thought the whole Leo 'n' Kate storyline was a load of gumph. I did however sob my heart out at the scene where the band was playing its last song, and they pan over the minor characters like the old couple cuddling on the bed, the mother reading to her children and the ship-builder setting the clock so it'll show the time they went down. sniffs

Gosh I thought I was the only one to utterly loathe this film. I really detested it but seem to remember a very pretty dress worn by Kate Winslet in one of the scenes.

I'd join a Love Actually slag-fest.

Ok, I know I'll probably be shouted down but ... the film I really loathe is Gladiator. Predictable, unimaginative, lazy script, lots of people only watched it because of Russell Crowe, a completely without-flaws hero, and of course the baddie was gay ... please. Almost as preposterous as Mel Gibson impregnating whatserface in Braveheart ... Oh don't get me started ...

Kitstwins is my new MN crush for that brilliant post

By the way, where's the Avatar slag-off thread?

Oh I fucking well hated Gladiator as well.

Unleash the gates of hell blah blah bloke bollocks.

Mwah, GetOrf!

So many 'film students' (spits) have despised me for despising Gladiator, I now seek them out to wind them up. Utter, utter bollocks.

Actually I don't think Love Actually (although appalling) was as bad as Notting Hill.

Ugh, I believe I was all of fifteen when this pile of shit dropped in theaters and went to see it with my very firstest little adorable teenage boyfriend...

who promptly developed a complex that he was nowhere near as adorable as Mr Spawn-of-Satan-Eyebrows-Leo and that women would never love him as much...

which had absolutely nothing to do with me unceremoniously dumping his over-sensitive ass a few weeks later

LifeOfKate, you must be the same age as me! I loved the film when it came out, I was 14 and went to see it 4 times. I loved Leonardo DiCaprio.

I will admit that it is shit but I still think of it as my favourite film just because I enjoyed it so much at the time.

This is much better than the original: Titanic in 5 seconds

Now Robin Hood with kevin Costner in has a certain appeal because you can shriek and point with your mates and say 'how the fuck would Robin Hood get his bouffant blow dried in mediaeval Nottingham', plus Alan Rickman is very funny in it.

CJCregg - have just seen your Nurse Gladys Emmanuel post and roared.

Love Actually is hateful for the sole reason it combines the hateful tlents of Martine McCutcheon and Keira Twatley in one film.

Btw, if I was to see it now it would not be my favourite film. Bugger, I've dug myself into a hole haven't I? You're all going to think Im a right loser!

PLUS all those rom coms with Hugh Grant give lie to the strange idea that women actually fancy chinless twats.

Robin Hood with Kevin Costner didn't take itself too seriously. It was a bit of a romp, with lots of action and its tongue firmly in its cheek, and I would happily watch it again and again.

RH with Twatface Crowe looks like utter bollocks. I saw the trailer the other day and any feeble desire I might have had to see it was vanquished. He's fighting major battles, for God's sake, as though RC had insisted on epic battle scenes in his contract, ignoring the inconvenient fact that Robin Hood was a pretty small-time outlaw hiding out in Sherwood Forest ... They've given him an army and, by the look of it, a fucking fleet of ships ... OK, I've run out of words now.

Cor, dear, GetOrf - what have you started here? I feel like I'm lancing a boil ...