After nearly 20 years this is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen (warning, naughty words)...

LOL, and to think that movie was Oscar worthy and "how dare anyone criticize it" at the time.

We've got too many good ones to mention!!

Angela's Ashes.

Monterey Jack wrote:Angela's Ashes.

Monterey Jack wrote:Angela's Ashes.

Gotta see this one qualified.

Eric W. wrote:

Monterey Jack wrote:Angela's Ashes.

Gotta see this one qualified.

First I've heard of anyone who thought it was funny. Depressing, sure, but that's how it was for Frank McCourt. The movie definitely felt authentic to me...nothing unintentionally funny about it.

AndyDursin wrote:First I've heard of anyone who thought it was funny. Depressing, sure, but that's how it was for Frank McCourt. The movie definitely felt authentic to me...nothing unintentionally funny about it.

I should say, especially compared to Stone's movie. Sure that movie was supposed to be "authentic" too but that penis sequence has become the stuff of legend among bad movie fans.

AndyDursin wrote:

Eric W. wrote:

Monterey Jack wrote:Angela's Ashes.

Gotta see this one qualified.

First I've heard of anyone who thought it was funny. Depressing, sure, but that's how it was for Frank McCourt. The movie definitely felt authentic to me...nothing unintentionally funny about it.

Incredibly depressing.

I can't fathom what, or how anyone could find anything remotely humorous about any of it whatsoever.

Incredibly depressing.

I can't fathom what, or how anyone could find anything remotely humorous about any of it whatsoever.

I agree. It was a depressing movie but I felt it was an excellent film capturing what McCourt had gone through, as many Irish immigrants had.

I mean, SCHINDLER'S LIST certainly wasn't unintentionally funny. I felt dramatically ANGELA'S ASHES was the same kind of gut-wrenching true story that basically was one tragic event after another...obviously very different, yet both had this unrelenting kind of emotional pull that really drained you as a viewer.

I'm probably not explaining this sufficiently, but I felt the same after watching both of them...just drained out. I couldn't see how any part of either film would be funny.

Maybe I was just having a bad day, but Angela's Ashes had me howling by the halfway point. Everything in that movie was so relentlessly unpleasant and Groundhog Day-style repetitive that the only defense I had against seeing characters I had no empathy for having so much misery and despair piled upon them I couldn't stand it anymore without finding a way to entertain myself. Gee, here's the fiftieth scene of the characters whining they have no food. Gee, here's the seventieth scene of the kids splashing through every rain puddle on the street. Gee, here's the hundredth scene of a character close to the family dying. I hated that movie. Hated hated HATED it.

Monterey Jack wrote:Maybe I was just having a bad day, but Angela's Ashes had me howling by the halfway point.

Can't see it.

Everything in that movie was so relentlessly unpleasant

For sure!

... and Groundhog Day-style repetitive that the only defense I had against seeing characters I had no empathy for having so much misery and despair piled upon them I couldn't stand it anymore without finding a way to entertain myself. Gee, here's the fiftieth scene of the characters whining they have no food. Gee, here's the seventieth scene of the kids splashing through every rain puddle on the street. Gee, here's the hundredth scene of a character close to the family dying. I hated that movie. Hated hated HATED it.

You do understand that this all really happened, yes?

I'm really not trying to pick you apart on this but...how could you not have empathy for people in these kinds of truly wretched conditions?

I'm just not connecting with you on this at all.


I can understand your criticisms of the movie, which I think I agree with for the most part.

I just don't understand your reactions at all. *shrugs*

Heh, if anything, I think I envy your reaction a little bit since mine was right along with Andy's.


The last thing I could do was laugh, though. It just really depressed the holy hell out of me and I'll never watch it again.

Andy Dursin wrote:
I agree. It was a depressing movie but I felt it was an excellent film capturing what McCourt had gone through, as many Irish immigrants had.

I mean, SCHINDLER'S LIST certainly wasn't unintentionally funny. I felt dramatically ANGELA'S ASHES was the same kind of gut-wrenching true story that basically was one tragic event after another...obviously very different, yet both had this unrelenting kind of emotional pull that really drained you as a viewer.

I'm probably not explaining this sufficiently, but I felt the same after watching both of them...just drained out. I couldn't see how any part of either film would be funny.

I totally understand.

"Drained" is the exact perfect description of what it feels like after you're done watching movies like those.

Nothing remotely funny about any of it.

Monterey Jack wrote:Angela's Ashes.

I thought the movie was extrememly pretentious- depressing, but in a pretentious way. I just couldn't get into it.

I have three words for you:


THE WICKER MAN.

I sat down with my nephew to watch this mess. It is, without question, one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life. Ranks right down there with MITCHELL, starring Joe Don Baker. We were laughing our asses off, nonstop.

How'd it get burned?
How'd it get burned?
How'd it get burned?
How'd it get burned?
How'd it get burned?
How'd it get burned?

LOL. I have this feeling the new WICKER MAN is only going to rise with time as an all-time favorite. I didn't think it was as funny as John Frankenheimer's PROPHECY -- which is one of my all-time unintentional hoots as Paul knows -- but as modern duds go it's at the VERY top of the list.

"Step AWAY from the bike!"

"What is that, what is that...?! Oh, no, not the bees...! AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! AHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!! AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Cage ninja-kicking Leelee Sobieski gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had in years.