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absolutely, positively one of the worst films EVER

posted 11 years ago by emncaity
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Words cannot express how much this film makes my skin crawl. First, just the idea of it -- yet another live-action hubris film with the idea that somehow, it needed to be made. And not only made, but turning the original 30 minutes into 104 minutes, as if having all that extra time with Jim Carrey were just wonderful. Then there's the usual "tried to turn live people and sets into replications of cartoons" nonsense. And Carrey, doing that voice...what the @#$%ng @#$% is that, anyway? So we went from Boris Karloff to Jim Carrey, doing something that sounds like he's got a stuffy nose and all kinds of the typical broad, arch stupidity in pronunciations. Why? Was that just funnier, is why?

This movie leaves me despairing for the state of humanity. Just beyond pathetic. Even worse that the makers of the film made this trash-heap just because they thought they could cash in with a public that is mostly just fine with trash. Still worse yet, they were right. People paid. It made money. Even people who knew it wasn't any good said "Eh, why not, the kids might like it," and pulled out the wallets. And kids were further dumbed down, as if they needed to be dumbed down even more. We're absolutely at the end of the world. No question about it. The world has jumped the shark. No, I don't think I'm overstating.

[–] rrandcoyote 10 years ago

Totally agree.

Just rewatched it..It's beyond horrid!

No overreaction from you or me. It's just a disgusting pos. Kissing a dog's butt!?!

I wish Dr. Seuss could defend himself!

----------------- Church | State .

[–] emncaity 10 years ago

I wish Dr. Seuss could defend himself!

Wish I'd thought of that. You are sooo right.

Sorry for your lost couple of hours...one can only hope God will give them back to you, if you plead ignorance (I have)... ;-)

[–] joyce-miller777 10 years ago

No funny bone, huh? I laughed until I cried.

[–] emncaity 10 years ago

Yeah, that's it. If somebody doesn't find funny whatever you find funny, he must be lacking a sense of humor.

Tastes differ. Of course.

[–] TheMisanthrope 10 years ago

Yes, no exaggeration, this is really one of the worst films ever made.

Leonard part6, Howard the Duck, Action Jackson, Freddie Got Fingered, Zombie Holocaust, Trolls 2 bad.

Every copy in existence should be burned.

"God Hates Us All"

[–] emncaity 10 years ago

I was wincing somewhere in the middle of your second graf. Now I just feel like I need a bath.

[–] ComicNerd 10 years ago

It is a terrible movie, one that I can't figure out how it made so much money when it came out. There isn't one aspect of this movie that's done either bit well, maybe Hopkin's narration. Jim Carrey just does his thing like in Ace Venture, Batman Forever, it was like Howard just threw a bunch of outtakes in to the movie at points of Carrey goofing around. I have no problem with fleshing out a story to feature film length but flashback stuff was just poorly done. Also if you are going to try and make a live action cartoon get someone other then Ron Howard to direct it, he has the visual style of a block of wood. The movie is downright ugly with a weird haze over the colours and really bad camera work.

[–] emncaity 10 years ago

"Ugly" is right (and apt). Ugly and irritating beyond belief.

I don't think there's any doubt that it made money by appealing to the "as long as it's tabbed as a 'kid movie,' money will be spent" ethic. As in, it really doesn't matter whether a kids' movie is any good or not; it's something to do, something to send them to, something they can cry about not doing (that their friends are doing) until you fork over the cash to make the noise stop. And for too many kids, both then and now, loud and irritating is pretty much always funny.

I'm sounding a little grinchy myself, I guess, especially for somebody who has several (very happy) kids. It's not that I think every movie for children has to be Merchant/Ivory or something. I just get really pissed off at the literally billions of dollars that are spent in cynical efforts to paste together the elements (and the associated marketing items) of just anything kids and adults with absolutely no standards will pay money to see, as if it just didn't matter how bad it was (and clearly it doesn't). I don't think there's any reason why parents shouldn't pay attention to the quality of what their kids are seeing, at least to the extent that there should be some minimum we're-not-seeing-anything-below-this-line-because-it's-utter-sh$% kind of standard. In fact, I'd argue for something even better than that, if possible. Why not? Why should there be so many abysmally bad films for kids? The answer is that people buy tickets no matter what, of course. It's a business. I get it. But what if people stopped buying tickets to the dreck and started paying attention to what was actually well-made?

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

dude, calm down, it's just a movie, it can't hurt you if you don't let it

so many movies, so little time

[–] emncaity 8 years ago

I'll take the point.

But man...just so, so bad. And so much money.

But yeah.

[–] MariaMitchell 8 years ago

You need to chill the f- out. You're replying to like..every single comment. WTF?

Oh and the movie was awesome, btw..

[–] kramsey20 8 years ago

I disagree. It's way too forgettable to be one of the worst of all time...but it's still a turd that I can't believe Ron Howard allowed to sully his remarkable career with.