Terrible - Little Man Tate (1991) Discussion

[–] mutedaaa 19 years ago

so why did you post here?

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[–] Yoda101382 19 years ago

to voice my opinion

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Maybe you should try watching it again, after all you were only 9 when you first saw it. Of course you are entitled to your own opinion, I just know from my own personal experience that some movies that I saw when I was younger seemed stupid at the time and now I would consider them to be my favorites :)

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[–] Peedub 19 years ago

Thanks for looking out for nine year olds everywhere, brain trust.

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[–] Rotimer 18 years ago

I also saw this film with my parents about 10 years ago (I was around 14) and all three of us proclaimed this The Worst Film I've Ever Seen.

Again (if you have a problem with negative posts) I'm just expressing my opinion, not trying to start a fight and I feel I have justification for hunting it out and posting negatively seeing as for the last 10 years it has stayed top of my Worst Films in the World list.

I concede that I may have changed my opinions of it after a decade but I'm not going to watch it again to find out.

I've never had much truck with the power of the spoken word. You could say I'm not into oral sects!

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[–] deadsetlace 18 years ago

I liked this movie when I was a little kid and I still do ;-)

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[–] forest_1979 17 years ago

What on earth were these people doing here?!? I just can't figure out what prompts someone to actively contribute to a message board about a film they saw when they were that young (unless they were a child genius, I suppose, but somehow I doubt it in this case!) so many years later.

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[–] cutelovelylisa 15 years ago

hmm well some people remember movies even when they were young. I was about 9 when I saw this and I really enjoyed it... It isn't like people don't have memories.

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[–] AlexEvensen 16 years ago

Ok, but if you last saw it when you were 9 years old, maybe you should watch it agian before doing so :P

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[–] gregopego12 15 years ago

I saw the Grifters when I was in high school and thought it was bad. I watched it twenty years later, and still thought it was bad.

I always had wanted to see To Live and Die in L.A. and I finally did a year ago, and it was bad.

For some odd reason, I gave Robin Williams several chances, and the Fisher King was the last straw.
(excluding Alladin, and Night at the Museum)

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[–] cutelovelylisa 15 years ago

boring? hmmm... I have seen some boring movies but this is not one. You're allowed to voice your opinion but I have to wonder what you really think is a real quality movie. Hannah Montana? I also have to wonder what kind of parents you have if they thought this was boring. It's about an intelligent young boy and he truly does have a gift. Wouldn't most parents think this is a good film for someone young? I know when I was young my mom rented this for me an I loved it. We both loved it. Let me guess though... your parents probably let you watch rated R movies when you were a kid and they never thought that was boring. But again, you are allowed to have your opinion but don't think your gonna get many who agree with you.

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[–] MushroomNuggler 15 years ago

Yoda voiced an opinion. Why? To voice an opinion. Anyone else think this circular reasoning is circular in its reasoning?

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[–] bite_me_loser_86 13 years ago

so why did you post here?

This is a message board where people can post their opinions about a movie regardless of whether it is postive or negative. Why is that so hard for people to understand? If you take it so personally that someone else in the world did not enjoy this movie, then maybe you shouldn't go online and read message boards. Especially not if the thread title clearly reveals what kind of opinion of the movie the poster has.

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[–] jodiefosterfan62 18 years ago

HOW COULD U THINK IT WAS HORRIBLE?!?!?!?!?! IT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!

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[–] ladyorthetygr 18 years ago

I really liked the first half or so of the movie, but i have to agree with a few of the posters here who say it was awful.. i found the last half of the movie quite boring. It was very disappointing beucase i had first starting watching it a few years ago, then had to leave for some reason, but i'd loved the part i'd seen. I've thought of it ever since and decided to rent it tonight, sure i would enjoy the rest, but i really didn't. I was very surprised and disappointed i didn't like the 2nd half as much as the first. Oh well.

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[–] delran1980-imdb 18 years ago

You're either joking or a nut. The fact that Jodie Foster cannot act to save her life didn't help this dog at all.

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[–] zanmorrow 18 years ago

Or The Accused - her best part I think - watch that one and see if you change your opinion - not for the fainthearted tho.

O that blue, blue shirt of yours

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[–] Radalan 17 years ago

Jodie Foster cant act? Now thats a funny joke.

This movie is bad? I watched it when i was 9, i watched it few years ago, i watched recently. It was good every time i watched it.

But then again, what can you expect from a guy whom claims that the reason why a movie was banned in Poland in the beginning of the 90's is communism. That made me crack. :D

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[–] senttoruba 17 years ago

I watched it when I was about 8 and it left such a great impression. I cannot remember many details (the ones that stick out are when he meets the teenager and befriends him and then he walks in on him with a girl; when one of the kids at the pool has an accident; an institutional place).

I don't know if I ever want to see it again because I remember it as an important element to my childhood...many other movies i considered to be important to my childhood were weak when I tried to revitalize the meaning they had on me.

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[–] Prom_Queen_Carrie 17 years ago

lmao. Jodie Foster can't act? Tell me you're joking. Have you actually SEEN the Accused, Silence of the Lambs and Taxi Driver? Or do you just know her from blockbusters like Flightplan you moron.

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[–] cineaste1939 17 years ago

If you are interested in the problems in living caused when a physically, emotionally and experientially 7 year old person has a super-mature intellect you will likely enjoy this movie. If that subject doen't interest you, you won't.

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[–] slimypants 17 years ago

I found this to be a very touching and human story about the dynamic between a mother and child. Boring? I suppose it didn't have a lot of things blowing up...

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[–] pebelbeach 17 years ago

Anyone who dislikes this movie is obviously uneducated and small-minded. Congratulations on proclaiming your horrible downfalls to the world.

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[–] leeloo67 17 years ago

I just saw it at age 35 and I didn't like it either. Rambling, random and unfocused. What was the deal with the interjections of comedy here and there? The movie didn't work for me.

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[–] Matthew_Diamond 11 years ago

Agreed. I think the producers were trying to latch on to the success of "Silence of the Lambs" by using Jody Foster in some other kind of dramatic role, and it didn't work. Most films between 1990 and 1999, with a few exceptions were really bad, and evidence of that is the number of 2nd-hand VHS and DVD's of them in thrift stores--let's face it, the 90's were just not a good decade for filmmakers, again, with a few choice exceptions: (ergo, Quentin Tarantino films, "Unforgiven," "Dances with Wolves," "Forrest Gump", etc.

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[–] muffinpancake 16 years ago

I saw it when I was very young as well (this commonness really speaks to the age bracket of IMDb) and I remember being scared by this movie, something I'm a little surprised no one else has reported. I'm no genius like the kid in this movie, but at around 6-8ish (that's about the range I can guess; I'm 19 now, but I don't know how many years after '91 we watched it) I was starting to be afraid of growing up and I was aware of a lot of things regular kids my age weren't, like the boy Tate. I remember being afraid that I would get an ulcer like the kid in the movie, and maybe that my mom would leave me or something. It's the only movie I remember having this sort of effect on me, so I don't think I could ever really like it. Maybe I'll watch it one day, but I truly think that in many cases it is best to leave childhood memories as you left them and not go digging up memory boxes. Having golden years is important, and often those are the early ones.

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[–] thornnnn 15 years ago

I havent seen this movie yet. I was reading these comments to decide if i should watch it. I appreciate ALL the comments here.. I think the negative comments are as important as the positive ones. I want to know what people think about this movie.. good and bad. then decide for myself if i want to watch it. I've decided to watch the movie, but i found the negative comments more useful than the positive ones here. The worst posts here i think are the ones that want to restrict free thought and speech, or condemn others for sharing their thoughts, not the posts that offer honest opinion and fair critisim on the movie. (which is what i came to read).

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[–] Sebastian_Dan 15 years ago

It's a really good film, not for everyone though. The fact that you found it horrible doesn't mean anything. G'luck.

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