I don't know why I've been so drawn to this thread... I must be more masochistic than I thought.
The Thin Red Line: I didn't give it my full attention when I watched it, but I walked away with the impression that it was supposed to give you a feel of what the war felt like for participants, the senselessness of it. You get to know a guy really well and he blows himself up with a grenade or walks into a building and you never see him again. From what I understand, war is mostly boring anyway--just staring at the scenery waiting for something to happen. But I don't know, that might have been just my liquor-induced post-movie intellectual foreplay. Heh, good movie now I think of it...
As for the website napoleon526 suggests: it's good as far as B-movies go--but those are bad almost by definition. I much prefer a good big-studio movie bashing. Pearl Harbour, for instance, deserves a few shots. Someone mentioned Titanic, which was utter ****e (although both of these had damn good action sequences). The Man in the Iron Mask is one my roomate dragged me to, and went a long way toward my deciding to move out.
Oh! oh! A Murder of Crows with Cuba Gooding Jr! On top of awful acting and a lame plot, it's got one of the worst young-actor-in-old-man-role make-up jobs I've
ever seen. It's SOOO obvious, and yet so central to the plot that you believe he's an old man.

I think Gooding Jr. just took the role for the hot sex scene in it. Certainly that's the closest thing to a reason for renting it I can think of.
Damn this thread hurts so good... [punch]
EDIT: I can't write "****e"?!? What the hell? Why is "crap" okay, but not "****E"--you know, with an "e" on the end, like in faux-old English? Why is that worse than, say, sh;t? T-Fall? You going soft on us here? :finger: Oops, I meant, :frog:
Oh boy, I'm in for it aren't I?
