Movies I am ashamed I paid to see.........

Recently - "We own the Night". The opening scene with Eva Mendes was great but the rest of the movie sucked.
 
Mannequin... at a drive-in in Raton, NM. Wasn't a total loss though, because it was a double feature with Raising Arizona.
 
As usual for these threads, there are some pretty good movies listed here. But whatever. My answer is either Braveheart or Pulp Fiction. Or No Country for Old Men. Tough call.
 
I thought Lars and the Real Girl had promise. If he was divorced, failed at internet dating aand finally found a girlfriend who accepted him, then I thought the movie would have a lot to say about lack of intimacy and the divide between male-females.

But the movie was too timid with the concept and used the insularity of small scandinavian-american village to conceal its fantasy of Lars being a babe in the woods who grows to be a healthy emotional adult.
 
Lars and the Real Girl ****Spoiler Alert******



elface, I don't want to sidetrack this interesting thread too far, but I thought Lars was about overcoming grief. Lars is stuck in life because his mother died without him knowing her but with him being indirectly responsible for her death. The real girl allowed him to recreate the ideal of a boy's mother and the loss of that ideal.

The townfolk saw that he was doing no harm and pitched in to help him in his fantasy because they know he's a sweet character but desperately lonely. The doctor uses the real girl to help him exorcise his grief. One of the stronger small stories of the movie was how doing so does not liberate the doctor from her sadness.

His skeptical brother manages to assuage his own guilt for not doing enough for Lars when he was younger.

I thought all of this played well. The cast was great and I was moved. But, as I said above, to each his own.
 
Hope Floats. I made out through the entire movie (I was in high school) and was hard pressed not to vomit in my dates mouth from this movie.
 
Fair enough, elface. And interesting.

While I'm here,

I paid to see the Pall Bearer with David Swimmer. Awful. I don't even remember the plot.
 
I'm not sure The Pallbearer had a plot.

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I am about to win this contest....

Blue Lagoon......on opening night no less at the old Medallion theatre in Dallas. Back when only one theatre would debut a new movie.
 
I kinda disagree on Indiana Jones and Star Wars 1.
Don't get me wrong - both were terrible movies, but you shouldn't be ashamed for buying a ticket as they were on the back of great franchises. We only knew in hindsight that they sucked.
Whoever said Mama Mia however, really should have known better before they handed over their cash.
 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Pleasantville

Spider-man 2

Contact

Minority Report

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I also hated Pulp Fiction and No Country for Old Men but did not pay to see them.

Lars and the Real Girl is greatness. So is Weekend at Bernie's.
 
Deep Blue Sea

We were supposed to see South Park: The Movie that day but ended up in Deep Blue Sea for some reason. The part where Samuel L. Jackson was eaten by a shark was kind of cool. And then there's LL Cool J's rap theme, "Deepest, Bluest, My hand is like a shark's fin."
 
I once rented American Splendor and only made it half-way thru. Couldn't stand it even though it was "supposed" to be great.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut may be the best musical EVER made. Makes West Side Story seem like the worst piece of crap ever filmed. How do you not like Baseketball: We gotta get jobs, Then we get the khakis, Then we get the chicks.
 
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