Worst film of 2001

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I went to the cinema one day to go and see 2 films in a row with some mates, followed by pool and bowling. the day started well with a showing of Ameircan pie 2. Wow! incredible film!.
Anyway, my horrible friend who likes Speilberg, (moron only ever made two good movies) decided we should go see A.I.

MY GOD WHAT A LONG BORING PIECE OF ****. I was even surprised that Speilberg could turn out this mount of idiotic rubbish. Yes the acting was superb....ish, i am not a fan of that little kid, i think he is a little wooden.
Now i realise this was origionally written by Kubrik, but i am sure any other director could have turned this into a decent film.

Here is my points of what was wrong with it.

1)The film was all over the place, no structure at all. It jumped from place to place, time to time.
2)It desperatly tried to intermix a sad story of a child's love for his mother with complicated sci fi fictional language....and aliens. And don't say it worked well cos Bicentenial man managed the same type pf story with a great deal more style.
3)You got the distinct feeling that throughout the film, Speilberg had desperatley tried to fit in moments of blodthirsty action and futuristic 'wowing' events, like sparkly aliens and buckets of acid.

Sorry but this film stank in my opinion and in every body elses that i know. Apart from my Speilberg loving mate who sort of liked it.

Which films was the worst of the year for you?

[This message has been edited by Sir Dargorn (edited June 04, 2002).]

 

Harry Potter. That movie SUCKED! It left out(IMO) 80% of the good parts in the book.

 

Wow, if "Bicentennial Man" was good in comparison, it must have sucked.

 

I can think of plenty of '01 movies far far far worse than AI.

13 Ghosts
The Animal
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Knight
Black Hawk Down
Down to Earth
The Fast and the Furious
From Hell
Glitter
Hannibal
Head Over Heels
Jeepers Creepers
A Knights Tale
The Majestic
Monkeybone
Pearl Harbor
Planet of the Shit Flinging Apes
Rock Star
Scary Movie 2
Shallow Hal
Snatch
Tomcats

Just to name a few...

[This message has been edited by Alex (edited June 06, 2002).]

 

Don't know... I don't watch bad movies

 

Harry Potter sucked! Not because it wasn't like the book, but because Harry Potter sucks! The book AND the movie! I think next time I stay in Math class instaed of going to such a piece of crap...

 

Nothing wrong with Harry imo. Liked the movie. Also liked lots of the abovementioned ones. No biggies in there, and most of them not really worth watching in the cinema, but hey, ease up.

 

I rather liked AI, true it would probably have been better if Stanley would have been able to make it but I still think it was rather interesting. Perhaps not a great movie but very see worthy. The crappiest picture from 2001 imo must have been Pearl Harbour, damn it sucked. The Fast and the Furious wasnt exactly top of the line either.

 

Hi- just a quick point about AI- it was not originally written by Kubrick or Spielberg but was based on a short story by the British sci-fi writer Brian Aldiss, who was very involved in the AI film project when it was in Kubrick's hands. That disjointed where-the-hell-is-this-story-going style is distinctively Aldiss, although I have seen other British cyberpunk writers try the same thing so maybe he started a trend. He seems to try to make an emotional impact without actually telling a story; sort of the "Impressionist" school of sci-fi.

I think the real problem with the movie was trying to make it a longer film than, say, 10 minutes- which is how long it takes to read the original short story. Some short stories make great films, Blade Runner being the best example, but some just don't (AI and Johnny Mnemonic being good examples of that). I wouldn't blame poor old Spielberg though- I think he did the best with the material that he possibly could have. Why he was willing to touch it is the real mystery.

 

@Sir Dargorn

I saw American Pie 2 when it opened here... because I like Alyson Hannigan... but I must say that this movie was quite bland. Just your standard teen comedy, not nearly as funny or creative as the first American Pie was.

 

@ Alex: I think it is rather stupid to say that A Knight's Tale was bad, sorry but that film rocked, the only people who didn't like it were eople without a sense of humour who went along to see a historically accurate medieval movie, it was briliant!

@ Sprite, thanks for telling me, i was really having a problem trying not to like Kubriks work, although i am still trying to force myself to like EYES WIDE SHUT.

@Early Grey, yeah i have to agree the movie wasn't anything on the origional, but still a hell of a lot better than most teen movies....apart from A KNIGHT'S TALE.

 

Sir Dragorn: You're partially right. Now that I think of it, A Knight's Tale was better than AI, which is sad considering the potential AI had, however that still wouldn't be saying much for A Knight's Tale.

Earl: Better than the first? Maybe... however I thought the only real problem in the first was that they spent too much time taking thier plot seriously; they corrected that in the second.

Ahhh yes, Eyes Wide Shut... Next to the Godfather I believe it to be one of the best put together, well directed and produced movies EVER... it's just too bad that it was a dumb story to begin with and Tom Cruise couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag...

[This message has been edited by Alex (edited June 05, 2002).]

 

Planet of the Shit Flinging Apes

LOL! I agree that this movie was horrible. This was probably the worst movie of 2001. The only amusing part was when the little chimp in the spaceship was knocked the **** out towards the ending!

AI was a bit out there, but Teddy made it worth watching.

And although 13 Ghosts was kinda lame, I really enjoyed that scene when that psycho ghost was ripping off Shannon Elizabeth's clothes. HEHEHE

-MM

 

No my favourite part of Planet of the Apes is this line:

Your monkey launches at 16:00.

hehehe