By crikey, but Independence Day has aged.
I can't wait for the terrible bit of green screen with the dog in the tunnel. Or that bit where the Fresh Prince punches an Alien in the face and says "Welcome to Earth!"

When has a movie pissed you off?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 21:27, 24 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Cloverfield.
It just ended. Just... fucking... ended...
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 22:08, Reply)

Quick! Get under this bridge!

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 22:23, Reply)

Now I come to think about it,
same goes for No Country for Old Men.
It just fucking ended!! Is it really that unreasonable to expect the plot to be tied up and finished in some way...?
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 3:14, Reply)

^this in spades
Even worse are the smug twats who say "ah, you see you just didn't get it, did you?"
Yes, I fucking got it, I just didn't like it.
( finnbar has officially retired, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 10:39, Reply)

^This.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 12:40, Reply)

When I saw Independance Day at the cinema on its release.
Biggest pile of shit I'd ever seen at the flicks up to that point. A load of jingoistic, derivative War of the Worlds wank.

Until I went to see the movie version of the Avengers. By Christ that was awful.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Oh Jesus.
That was bad!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:28, Reply)

I NOES!
Oh god it was butt clenchingly awful. Biggest disappointment ever. Until I went to see Batman and Robin a couple of weeks later.

Uma Thurman, you're lovely. But stay away from classic genre characters. PLEASE!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:32, Reply)

Sadly - as someone who has stared at computer graphics all of her professional career - I can tell when it's fake...

The day I see something and think "the stunt-dude couldn't have possibily lived through that", then realised it was CGI - I shall go have an eyetest...

Bring back decent movies - Independence Day was on C4 in HD - I chose Sky 1HD.... Die Hard! No CGI and all the yippie-kie-yays you could ever want.. but in 1080i!
(Baile_Atha_Cliath is new to this b3ta nonsense, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:16, Reply)

Buggeration!
I turned on independence day to see how it'd aged... Didn't even notice Die Hard!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:27, Reply)

I like eggs

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:30, Reply)

Five of us shared a thirteen-egg scrambler this morning.
Fucking nom!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:33, Reply)

Gnommy eggy taste-explosion yo!

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:39, Reply)

i can tell from the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my time
lololol
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 6:38, Reply)

Volcano
Me and one of my housemates watched this pile of turd a few nights ago as we were bored and severely lacking in anything else interesting to do, short of stabbing rusty knifes up our japs eyes, we decided to watch Volcano. In retrospect, the whole jamming rusty implements into our urethras would have been better than watching Volcano.

It's just horrifically bad. The science in the film is laughable, and coming from a man who barely remembers GCSE geography/sciences, I could honestly have done better than that film did in terms of scientific accuracy. The visuals look shit, as the lava looks either like treacle, or like a really orange honey. And the CGI is laughably bad, even if it is being judged by 1997 standards (hell, the Aliens CGI looked better)

There's also a bit where Tommy Lee Jones grabs his supposedly 13 year old daughter (she looks about 15/16), and makes a leap over about a foot of lava onto a car. With his daughter held in his hands. Over fucking lava. Y'know, the stuff that burns if you go anywhere near it, let alone prance over it like some sort of Olympian Godman. And the bit where the train driver gets rescued is just hilariously bad. They could have easily pulled the guy out of the lava and just dragged him to a hospital minus his feet but instead stand around for several minutes to watch the guy die. Nice.

Finally, one other thing that annoyed me about the film was the number 23 firetruck. First seen on its side, toppled over, with firemen trapped inside. Lava overtakes it, and melts it really badly. Then, next seen perfectly intact driving up to the newly formed concrete barrier, completely unmelted. I might also add its one of the few firetrucks with a great fuck-off number on the front of it, so it is very distinctive. ARGH! (Yes, I'm being petty with that last point, but it just grinds my gears when stuff like that happens)
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:31, Reply)

In all honesty I expected very little from Die Hard 4.0
and I recieved even less, I wanted to ask Willis for my time back. I fucking loved the first and second one but with all franchises the longer it continues the more it sucks balls.

Kevin Smith should've stayed in Jersey for this ........ It did his brand no good at all
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:59, Reply)

die hard with a vengeance was fucking awesome
die hard 4.0 does not exist to me, and so that makes number 2 the worst of the triology
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 19:29, Reply)

I'm with Spunk that the order of greatness slowly declines
until the 4th where the quality plummets. It is dire.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 9:03, Reply)

The Core
Never has a film been so terrible to me that I turned it off and cared not how it ended. I think all nuke it to fix it film are shit. Like that one where they nuked the sun. What a pile of shit.

All films should be Event Horizon, that film was awesome.
( Peej, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I watched that for the first time last night
Good god, never again
(Buftoon posted this on, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 1:02, Reply)

Why?
Its great!
( Peej, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 8:48, Reply)

ID may have aged
but I still like it.
Modern B-movies are my favourite (see Eight-Legged Freaks).

Films that really pissed me off? Starship Troopers 3. It should be in the dictionary under the definition for "dire". It is the epitome of a Z-movie.
( finnbar has officially retired, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 10:44, Reply)

starship troopers 3
is far better than the second one at least. Not saying much I know, but still...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 19:30, Reply)

Yeah but that's like saying
A dog turd covered in cream is better than the plain dog turd...
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 23:09, Reply)