Meet the Robinson (Couldn't finish it. It was getting stupid)
Primal Fear (The bikering between Gere and Linney annoyed me and looks childish. And, the idea that Norton is acting like he's retarted when in fact he's a psychopath, I kind of found that laughable)
Im sorry Brian Wilder, i must disagree with you on both of those. I genuinely enjoyed Meet the Robinsons (even if only because of the Bowler Hat Guy) and the end with the Matchbox 20 song was actually quite good.
As for Primal Fear I thought that, even after reading the book, the movie stood alone as an incredible thriller with a plot-twist ending. And for you to find Norton's performance laughable is ridiculous. I think it was one of his best parts to this day.
I don't know. Maybe I just don't find Norton's performance that convincing to me. I don't know. All I know is, is that when he finally switches to his "other half," I found it fake. And, when it was revealed that that he was acting the whole time, I didn't find that surprising. And, again, the bikering between Gere and Linney was not helping me liking this film. They are both suppose to be professionals and they act like children in a court room. I don't know what else to say.
Meet the Robinsons, all I can say is that I found the characters annoying and the jokes are out of place (Kung Fu fighting during dinner? With dialog not matching the lip movement? Wow, talk about crowbaring a joke in a middle of a film)
Another film that made me feel more dissapointed then angry was The Shining. The book is one of my favorites, and I thought that Stanley Kubrick (great director) took the wrong approch with the character of Jack Torrence. In the book, I found Jack to be a good, but a flawed man who loves his family. In the movie, he is protrayed as a psychopath, who tries to kill his family in order to win the hotel to himself. In the book, Jack fell into temptation by the hotel, but in the end, he redeem himself and sacrificed himself to save his family. In the film, all we get is a frozen body at the end. The film is missing the emotional connection between the three characters that the book has, and that, I believed, would have made the film a lot more scarier.
Knowing. I actually really liked everything up until the last 20 minutes or so. The accident and disaster scenes were really well done, and some scenes were very gripping, but the ending was just too "out there" and kinda ruined the rest of the movie for me.
For me, I love the visuals and the great acting by Jackie Earl Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. There are other reasons, but these are the ones that stick out the most for me.