I have two of them:
Natural Born Killers - The only movie I ever walked out on halfway over. The whole scene in the teepee was the final straw.
Repoman - I mean WTF? It 98% from Rotten Tomatoes and 79% from fans. It's the dumbest hodgepodge of a movie mess I have ever seen
Anything Woody Allen after 1980.
I don't like British humor.
Except for Benny Hill.
Another one that comes to mind was "Gravity". I had heard a lot about it, and while some of the space scenes were impressive the movie was a let down from what I expected.
For shame!
I mean no one saw Gravity for the plot and dialogue. They saw it because of the amazing special effects.
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
Another one that comes to mind was "Gravity". I had heard a lot about it, and while some of the space scenes were impressive the movie was a let down from what I expected.
Everyone raves about the dialogue and the homages to the 1962 movie that was viewed by 14 people that inspired this film or that, but all of his work feels so strained and forced that it seems like it needs Preparation H at this stage of the game.
Maybe my friend's mindless adoration of everything he did grated me and I have extra disdain for the films, but the only redeeming quality I find is usually the soundtrack/music.
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Dr. Strangelove. Thought it was boring, and I love Peter Sellers. I think he's a comedic genius, but I thought Dr. Strangelove sucked.
2001: A Space Odyssey. I could've saved myself a lot of time and gotten the same out of it if I fast forwarded through the whole movie.
Eraserhead. Complete and utter garbage. Probably the most painfully terrible thing I've ever sat through. Anyone who thinks it was genius and ahead of its time needs to have his/her head examined.
When did you see 2001 ? I can see how it would be boring to today's audiences or even audiences in the last few decades. When it came out though times were different. It was the "golly gee whiz" era of science fiction. The real "star" of the movie was the technology. At that time people dreamed of interplanetary space travel and advanced computers. Thats why the movie sends so much time on long scenes the the spaceship, the anti gravity scenes, HAL's internals and the various gadgets. Also it was one of the first high budget technicolor movies with a symphonic sound track. That was a big deal when the only other form of entertainment were crappy cathode tube television sets.
Like 2010. I can see why people would like it at the time and I don't disagree that Kubrick is a genius, but God, what a slow-moving bore.
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.
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Dr. Strangelove. Thought it was boring, and I love Peter Sellers. I think he's a comedic genius, but I thought Dr. Strangelove sucked.
2001: A Space Odyssey. I could've saved myself a lot of time and gotten the same out of it if I fast forwarded through the whole movie.
Eraserhead. Complete and utter garbage. Probably the most painfully terrible thing I've ever sat through. Anyone who thinks it was genius and ahead of its time needs to have his/her head examined.
When did you see 2001 ? I can see how it would be boring to today's audiences or even audiences in the last few decades. When it came out though times were different. It was the "golly gee whiz" era of science fiction. The real "star" of the movie was the technology. At that time people dreamed of interplanetary space travel and advanced computers. Thats why the movie sends so much time on long scenes the the spaceship, the anti gravity scenes, HAL's internals and the various gadgets. Also it was one of the first high budget technicolor movies with a symphonic sound track. That was a big deal when the only other form of entertainment were crappy cathode tube television sets.
Yeah I still remember how I felt while watching that in the theater. There had been nothing like it to that point, ever.
And while yes it is slow paced many great movies of that time were slower paced compared with today's movies. In order for him to get the desired effect it had to be deliberately slow in comparison to what people were used to. I can see why a younger audience of today would find it too slow to enjoy but it was a great movie.
I just watched it a few months ago for the first time.. I guess I didn't get it.
But Black Panther is the most glaring one. Laughably stupid, without a redeeming quality.
I thought I was the only one that thought Black Panther wasn't just a bad movie, but incredibly stupid. Whoever wrote that script should be banned for life.
I can't remember walking out of a movie except for Pulp Fiction and I've stayed until the end with some really, really shitting ones.
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.
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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.
I like No Country, but There Will be Blood was tedious
Absolutely it is.
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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
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You are definitely not in the minority on Furlong. He was incredibly annoying in T2
LIGHT WEIGHT
Haha great stuff from FG
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.
Repo Man is a classic!
Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
My list...
Crash
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Get Out
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
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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
I didn't mind Get Out, but US was crappy
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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
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.
Hold your tongue you sonofabitch
I challenge anyone to re-watch that today and say it was passable with a straight face.
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.
And I can't stand It's a Wonderful Life.
Hmmmm...I just realized that I'm a communist...who knew?
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.