NFT: Movies that critics and fans liked but you don't

In comment 14498743 dep026 said:

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And I’m not sure Old School fits the criteria, but I never got the appeal of it wing funny. Just a knock off from animal house.

Being honest and saying that movie wasn't funny in front of my high school friends was the best way to offend them.

In comment 14498735 Anakim said:

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In comment 14498709 MOOPS said: Quote: Too many Tarantino films to mention. Anything Woody Allen after 1980. Annie Hall is amazing. One of my favorite films of all time. Hannah and Her Sisters is really good, for the most part. Bananas, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Sleeper...all sucked

I'll give you Hannah. Annie Hall is pre-1980.
Sort of just using 1980 as an arbitrary year. He had a few good ones after that, but it's mostly the Woodman getting accolades solely from his rep.

and 2001 being mentioned before about the 10,000 other movies is stunning.

In comment 14498799 Crispino said:

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and 2001 being mentioned before about the 10,000 other movies is stunning.

I like No Country, but There Will be Blood was tedious

In comment 14498745 Sneakers O'toole said:

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Painfully awful.

Absolutely it is.

In comment 14498808 montanagiant said:

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In comment 14498745 Sneakers O'toole said: Quote: Painfully awful. Absolutely it is.

I kept waiting for the ending to tie everything together and make sense and when it came I was like...
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.” My friends and I walked out in the last 10 minutes or whatever it was when he was in that stupid re-invention of himself

Was a tedious bunch of boomer nostalgia.

In comment 14498600 sb from NYT Forum said:

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...I know I am in the VAST minority on this one, but I just couldn't stand Edward Furlong. Also liked Arnold more as a villain in the role. .

You are definitely not in the minority on Furlong. He was incredibly annoying in T2

quentin tarantino

LIGHT WEIGHT

was a fucking snoozefest...

In comment 14498526 Pete in MD said:

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It insists upon itself.

Haha great stuff from FG

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But I shut it off after 20 minutes. I like Amy Poehler, but that movie was cringe worthy bad.

Not bad, some good acting, but really unremarkable. Ridiculous saccharine ending. Way overrated.

Leaving Las Vegas. Total piece of shit. I mean total. How did so many people get fooled?

Any movie by Tarantino not named Pulp Fiction. Most people love Inglorious Basterds - totally lost on me.

Big Lebowski and many other Coen Brothers’.

Scarface - just brutal. A lot of it comically bad, including Pacino.

Agree on Fight Club.


Repo Man is a classic!

This is one that I kept reading about how good it was but I thought it sucked.

In comment 14498700 Jay on the Island said:

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I don't get why people love this movie.

Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.

My list...

Crash
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Get Out

In comment 14498799 Crispino said:

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and 2001 being mentioned before about the 10,000 other movies is stunning.

Care to explain??

I mean the point is to think of critically acclaimed and objectively popular, loved movies that you personally didn't like...

So for me I thought about highly rated Rotten Tomato movies that I didn't like and Sideways and No Country for Old Men came to mind... Tons of movies I liked less but few that are objectively as "good" as those two.

If everyone posted about how they liked other movies people didn't (eg. I loved Black Panther and Get Out and will always love Gump) then this thread would be as tedious and anticlimactic as I felt No Country was... Lol

In comment 14498834 DCGMan said:

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In comment 14498700 Jay on the Island said: Quote: I don't get why people love this movie. Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man. My list... Crash Forrest Gump American Beauty Get Out

I didn't mind Get Out, but US was crappy

In comment 14498812 dep026 said:

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In comment 14498808 montanagiant said: Quote: In comment 14498745 Sneakers O'toole said: Quote: Painfully awful. Absolutely it is. I kept waiting for the ending to tie everything together and make sense and when it came I was like... “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.” My friends and I walked out in the last 10 minutes or whatever it was when he was in that stupid re-invention of himself

Just a strange weird-ass story that holds no kind of message

Blair Witch Project. Interesting concept, terrible execution.

Little Miss Sunshine - I loathed every single character in this movie, including the little girl.

Birdman - it wasn't bad, but it got Citizen Kane level praise and I didn't see what all the hoopla was about. Kind of dull and depressing.

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In comment 14498842 Greg from LI said:

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Hold your tongue you sonofabitch

What a steaming pile of crap

Too long & just another comic book movie as far as I could tell. Not sure I ever even got to the end.

I enjoyed Rushmore, kind of enjoyed The Royal Tannenbaums, and then was unable to be moved by any other film of his. Reducing characterization to "the guy who always wears the chef's hat" or "the girl who never smiles" just doesn't do it for me.

Forrest Gump is everything wrong with late 20th century film. Just a total crap movie.

I challenge anyone to re-watch that today and say it was passable with a straight face.

In comment 14498743 dep026 said:

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Fucking awful. And I’m not sure Old School fits the criteria, but I never got the appeal of it wing funny. Just a knock off from animal house.

Agree about Old School. Most of the Will Ferrell era of comedies were overrated dreck.

Saving Private Ryan

And I can't stand It's a Wonderful Life.

Hmmmm...I just realized that I'm a communist...who knew?

Monsters Ball … it just seemed to wander, going no where in particular and the most incomplete, unsatisfying ending I've seen.

The English patient was excruciating to sit through and try to figure out what the hell you were watching … but in the end it answered all the questions and a second watching was more satisfying.

On another note, a movie that committed suicide was Inglorious Basterds. I thought it was very good … until the last 20 minutes when it turned into a cartoon.

found Get Out to be boring.

Saw Late Night with the wife. I can't believe reviewers calling it hilarious. It was a total waste of 2 hours.

Also walked out of Lost in Translation.

In comment 14498657 Sneakers O'toole said:

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Unnatural speech takes me right put of them. So many of the old black and white classics apply for me.

+1

I totally agree....cringe worthy.

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In comment 14498603 Jints in Carolina said: Quote: The Last Jedi....it sucked major asshole. I’m not sure if any of the recent Star Wars movies would count as movie critics and fans liked, would they? Except for Rogue One, which was quality IMO. I actually liked Solo better that the critics and most fans did.

the critics went nuts for TLJ. IMO that movie was horrible...I will never watch it again.

Rogue One is the best of the new ones and yes I even enjoyed Solo.

In comment 14498888 RC in MD said:

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Saving Private Ryan

Yes. After the breathtaking invasion scenes, the rest of the movie is a by-the-numbers WWII movie. The invasion is still amazing though.

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Hmmmm...I just realized that I'm a communist...who knew?

Just now? You live in Maryland for crissakes! :)

The critics absolutely adored that steaming turd.

blowing Spacey for his performance in that movie.

In retrospect, it wasn't acting - it was a mirror image of his life!!

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In comment 14498936 Greg from LI said:

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Just now? You live in Maryland for crissakes! :)

This is true.

And add another war movie that not only won an Academy but got a lot of accolades...The Hurt Locker sucked. I absolutely hated that movie.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
No Country for Old Men
21 Grams

and the absolute worst movie ever made, Pearl Harbor.

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TRASH.

In comment 14499102 Greg from LI said:

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The movie made like a half a billion dollars in the box office, I am sure there were a few critics out there who praised that steaming pile of dog shit.

Critics hate Michael Bay

Hated it

No one has mentioned "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" yet.

In comment 14498593 Jim in Fairfax said:

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In comment 14498591 LauderdaleMatty said: Quote: Three hours of hell. Only thing good was DeCaprio dying. Ship sank in like 10 minutes real time yet 90 minutes later still sinking. I guess I have to give Cameron credit. He made me feel what it was like to suffer a slow death And for me Avatar was Dances w Wolves in space. And even Dances was a bit of a plot rip-off of A Man Called Horse. Soldier goes native Got it. Actually, Titanic took @ 2 1/2 hours to sink.

Matty's not a big fan of facts.

....was a movie I was looking forward to watching because the original was so good. And the critics loved it.

Simply awful.

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In comment 14498477 Canton said: Quote: w/ The Rock. I don’t know anyone who liked this

I liked it, but it was the winter on a Saturday or Sunday morning, and i was missing golf. In the first 3 minutes i decided to view it as a comedy. If you combine all those things its actually a pretty good movie.

it won best picture

i was really really bored the whole time

In comment 14498883 mfsd said:

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In comment 14498743 dep026 said: Quote: Fucking awful. And I’m not sure Old School fits the criteria, but I never got the appeal of it wing funny. Just a knock off from animal house. Agree about Old School. Most of the Will Ferrell era of comedies were overrated dreck.

He plays the same character over an over. Ok when you are doing a 5 minute skit. 5 movies later? Same w Owen Wilson. Just boring after a while