Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[ozzjim]

No. The worst film I've ever seen.

You've not seen Cats. Or lost in translation to bring it back to the random defender we won't sign.

[Somniloquism]

Lost in Translation is great, even if not a lot happens in it.

Easily the most boring film in the history of film

Two hours of the opening credits would have done for me.

[Drummond]

No. The worst film I've ever seen.

Yes, the only film I've ever left half way through at the cinema. Utter nonsense.

[Sexual Ealing]

No. The worst film I've ever seen.

Yes, the only film I've ever left half way through at the cinema. Utter nonsense.

I don't want to derail the thread too much - I want to Google Slovenian trequartistas as much as the next reprobate - but the reason I cannot bear that fucking film is the fucking quasi-profundity it pretends to aspire to. You get the sense that whichever prick made it wanted you to think you were a little wiser at the end than you were at the beginning, whereas you've just sat through the filmic equivalent of a Queen gig if Jordan Peterson was the singer. Offensively bad.

[cdbearsfan]

There are thousands of worse films than Lost In Translation and The Matrix. Battle Royale 2, for starters.

[dr.chekov]

No. The worst film I've ever seen.

Yes, the only film I've ever left half way through at the cinema. Utter nonsense.

I don't want to derail the thread too much - I want to Google Slovenian trequartistas as much as the next reprobate - but the reason I cannot bear that fucking film is the fucking quasi-profundity it pretends to aspire to. You get the sense that whichever prick made it wanted you to think you were a little wiser at the end than you were at the beginning, whereas you've just sat through the filmic equivalent of a Queen gig if Jordan Peterson was the singer. Offensively bad.

Thought Shawshank Redemption was the worst film you’ve ever seen?

[Monty]

I quite like it (mainly because the Johansson's boyfriend character is so fucking irritating I enjoy watching him slowly lose his hot girlfriend), but nothing happens whatsoever and every now and again there's a 'funny Japs' joke straight out of When The Whistle Blows.

It's much better than Somewhere, which borders on evil.

Ed: thank you Doc, someone else who hates The Shawshank fucking Redemption.

[Sexual Ealing]

No. The worst film I've ever seen.

Yes, the only film I've ever left half way through at the cinema. Utter nonsense.

I don't want to derail the thread too much - I want to Google Slovenian trequartistas as much as the next reprobate - but the reason I cannot bear that fucking film is the fucking quasi-profundity it pretends to aspire to. You get the sense that whichever prick made it wanted you to think you were a little wiser at the end than you were at the beginning, whereas you've just sat through the filmic equivalent of a Queen gig if Jordan Peterson was the singer. Offensively bad.

Thought Shawshank Redemption was the worst film you’ve ever seen?

Yes, that too. And that's worse because I watched it to the end.

[martyn ellis]

Clearly not much going on in the transfer marker this morning.

[cdbearsfan]

Shawshank Redemption is excellent. I think I am pretty much word for word in agreement with Monty's view on LiT. I kind of liked it but no wish to ever watch it again.

[OCD]

For truly bad films, see Ocean's 12 or The Suicide Squad, which I was left convinced was done as a tax write-off.

[Somniloquism]

For truly bad films, see Ocean's 12 or The Suicide Squad, which I was left convinced was done as a tax write-off.

You need to change the latter to the Suicide Squad or just Suicide Squad. "The Suicide Squad" is the reboot done by James Gunn which was massively superior.

[RamboandBruno]

When LiT came out I felt universally alone amongst my mates, in that I didn’t like it. It was like I was missing the big profound, about loneliness, human connection and the meaning of life. Nope I got it, I just thought it juxtaposed pretension and dullness.

Give me 12 monkeys now…

[kippaxvilla2]

Green Street, Rise of the Footsoldier all versions, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Football Factory, that film where the old man in the East End pub punched the black gangster and then got killed himself.  That just would not happen.  Brents movie, that is just off the top of my head.

[Somniloquism]

Not sure what people were expecting from the original Matrix. It was pretty much an action movie with some sci-fi elements and I don't remember much profoundness aspects, quasi or otherwise. Now if that accusation had been levelled at 2, 3 or 4, I would whole heartedly agree. (Although the one line I liked from the second was that the Matrix was originally created as a utopia where no-one wanted for anything and humans instantly rebelled against it. That seemed realistic to me).