Name a movie that you hate that seemingly everyone else loves

[Orrex]

For me, it's Better Off Dead.

Hate it. HATE IT. All by itself it made me wholly unable to watch John Cusack for over 15 years.


Yours?

[eyepaddle]

1. Dead Poets Society

Did anyone in that movie ever ACTUALLY seize anything?

[ALago1]

47. Well...

...the main character did successfully seize that handgun towards the end...

[Shell Beau]

2. That is easy!! All of the Lord of the Rings!!!

Hated them!! I did like Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortenson, though!!

[Jokerman]

35. Another vote for LTR

After trudging through the first one I wanted my three hours back.

[Alleycat]

91. I'll third your vote

I tried three times to make it thru one of them - can't remember which. I just kept falling asleep.

[Jade Fox]

101. Turgid.....

I coulda read the books faster.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

111. LOL, I agree..

I fell asleep during every one of those movies.

[catbert836]

116. You're aware that you're going to hell, right?

I LOVED them.... to the point I saw them each 3+ times in the theater. But, I can't control your taste, so :toast:

[djeseru]

3. Titanic.

I just fast-forward to the sinking. Otherwise, I found it all pretty humorous.

I good probably think of a dozen more...

[Orrex]

6. Titanic doesn't count because EVERYONE hates it

:)

Well, except for the sinking. Everyone likes that part!

[LostinVA]

32. Uh-oh.... RonnyK loves it....

[Left Is Write]

183. I liked Titanic, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

However, I agree that it doesn't count in this poll because it is very widely hated!

[Call Me Wesley]

7. I always thought it was pretty funny,

how he was in the water (inside the ship) for what was like an eternity without showing any weakness, but outside in the water, which had the same temperature, he just died within minutes.

[Orrex]

43. Hollywood always plays fast and loose with hypothermia

Witness James Cameron's other sea epic The Abyss. Several times they make the point that the water is cold so cold so very very cold, to the point that it can preserve Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's lovely corpse until Pollock can revive her. But later on Pollock and that big guy swim for some huge distance underwater with no trouble at all.

Examples of this kind of oversight abound.

While I'm at it, the recent King Kong was pretty relaxed about chilly temperatures, too. Tell me that Ann Darrow would be comfy climbing a metal ladder outside the Empire State Building in December while wearing nothing more than an evening gown!

[Left Is Write]

184. I think it was more than minutes.

[RebelOne]

4. Crash and A Beautiful Mind

[amitten]

5. Yes! Crash! I am not alone! Of course I liked the message...I

just didn't like that it was delivered in a bad after-school special format.

Give me a movie about morality...fine! Just don't spoon feed it to me like I'm half brain-dead.

[Carni]

209. Putting on flame suit...I also hated crash

In fact I fell asleep about a half hour into the movie.

I think the message is great just found the movie to be kind of hokey.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. Anything by John Hughes

or his talentless lapdog protege Chris Columbus

[Shell Beau]

9. Name one of his movies. I am not sure I know who you are talking

about.

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. 16 Candles

Pretty in Pink
Vacation
Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
Home Alone
Ferris Beuller's agonizing death from testicular cancer and rabid bull goring... I mean, Day Off (sorry, wishful thinking there).
The Breakfast Club

Chris Columbus ouvre of rancid elephant droppings

Stepmom
Mrs. Doubtfire
Only the Lonely
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

[Shell Beau]

34. Oh! Well, I like some of those movies!

:)

[cemaphonic]

Columbus wrote Gremlins

So he's not all bad.

I think Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller hold up pretty well, (though I can easily see why many dislike them) Most other Hughes hasn't aged very well at all.

[LSK]

16. why do you hate America?

[Jamastiene]

95. Good call.

I like that one. :rofl:

[Briarius]

10. Napoleon Dynamite

I hate that movie, can't even stand to be in the same room when it's on

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. yeah, I fuckin hate that movie too

you know what was better than Napoleon Dynamite? White Chicks, which in and of itself should be reason enough for an extraterrestrial race to come and enslave/exterminate us all.

[ihaveaquestion]

19. me2 me2

I never got through the whole thing - there was no point - either to the movie or to my watching it.

[OhioBlue]

25. that movie was the first thing I though of when I read the post!

[Shell Beau]

30. Add me to that list as well!

[catbert836]

117. You're aware that your soul will be burned for eternity, correct?

No, I understand. It takes a special type of person to appreciate that movie.

[Briarius]

126. it's an MTV film

it was doomed to suck.

[catbert836]

145. Whatever.

I liked it, but I can't dictate taste, can I?

[Briarius]

200. One must have taste to dictate it

to us poor 'normal' folks.

I have a visceral hatred for that celluloid version of tub girl. The idea that a socially inept kid is funny in and of itself makes me want to find the writers and punch them in the face. For eternity.
:grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr::nuke:

[catbert836]

205. Well, I'm a teenager

who some could see as socially awkward, but I appreciated the movie. My theory is that you have to be a kid to really "get" it.

[Carni]

212. Catbert I am 42 and I still loved the movie

My fave scene was Tina carrying on (snorting etc) regarding the offensive food lol

[catbert836]

228. Awww... I should build you a cake.

For some reason, every adult I know who's seen the movie thinks its idiotic, stupid, moronic, blah blah blah. Thanks for breaking the stereotype. :pals:

[gordontron]

237. I'm a kid and I don't like it

I don't even consider myself socially awkward, but I just kinda felt sorry for the guy.

[Klukie]

223. chill out dude!

It is just a movie!

[Klukie]

151. I guess I'm that special type of person...

My husband and I think that movie is hilarious! I think I am even going to buy it. Can you bring me my chapstick? My lips are real bad!

[catbert836]

179. We should build a cake

for those who hate ND. That should warm up their cold hearts.

[Carni]

211. Oh no lol I loved that movie

Laughed my ass off over it

[Duer 157099]

231. I hated it the first time, loved it the second

(and you may wonder how the hell I would consider watching a movie I hated a second time?)

good question

[deadparrot]

11. Grease

Don't know why, I love musicals, but I could never get into it.

Oh, and Forrest Gump.

[swag]

73. Nice choices. Such pieces of shit.

[mikeiddy]

12. now voyager

[Bridget Burke]

27. Come on, now. How many people even remember Now Voyager?

I enjoy it as an old-fashioned 3-hanky flick. But I'm sure it doesn't appeal to everybody.

[mikeiddy]

33. My wife watches it all the time

It makes me want to throw things at the TV.

[Bridget Burke]

42. Somehow, I knew you were a guy.

Hey, some of my best friends are guys. But they generally don't care for 3-hankie pictures.

[mikeiddy]

44. Nah - I think it is Bette. I'm not too fond of her generally

but loathe her in this role.

(edited for spelling)

[Bridget Burke]

67. Then get your wife a copy of All This & Heaven Too

It's a 4-hankie movie! (Warning: It will probably send you screaming out of the room.)

[Mad_Dem_X]

80. Blasphemer! Bette was the QUEEN! LOL

[Strong Atheist]

88. Welcome to D.U.! nt.

[sarge43]

13. 2001: A Space Odyssey

And no, not because it's science fiction. It's another of Kubrick's ego trips.

[Zookeeper]

109. I find that film excruciatingly boring...

however, I do like Dr. Strangelove and Lolita. Kubrick is either very good or very bad.

[eyepaddle]

144. You're selling 2001 short, it's

mind-numbingly and soul-crushingly boring. If it were only excrutiatingly dull it would seem like a night ramped up on Ecstacy and Crack in comparison.

I watched it when I was about 10--because it was sci-fi--about 23 hours into it I realized, no, they aren't setting things up this IS what the movie is gonna be like:boring:

I watched it in my 20s to see if I was just too young the first time. As it turns out I was right!

[Zookeeper]

204. Well, said!

I'm so happy to know that it's not just ME. :toast:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

15. Forrest Gump & Crash (2005)

(Although both have been mentioned in this thread, so I'm thankfully not alone.)

[Texasgal]

17. The crying Game

I just didn't get it AT ALL!

[Orrex]

22. SPOILER: She's a dude

I don't get it, either. As soon as I saw Dil, I knew she was a he. The rest of the conceit just fell apart for me, though I guess it's a clever premise.

[cemaphonic]

62. Ugh.

I saw that movie knowing nothing about it, not even that there was some big surprise (I had been out of the US) My reaction:

This is an interesting and tense hostage drama.
(later)
When are they going to get back to the good IRA part?
(big surprise)
Oh man, now it's never going to get back to the story I was interested in.

[LSK]

20. i dont see what the big deal is with Lord of the Rings

[DelawareValleyDem]

21. Silence of the Lambs

[begin_within]

36. I second that... Yuk!

[Jade Fox]

102. Some critic called it...

a slasher film for intellectuals, or a Chuckie film for adults. Something like that.

[seemunkee]

23. Chicago and House of Sand and Fog

I hate musicals and ended up walking out on Chicago.

I was trapped in the middle of the row at sand and fog, I should have gnawed my leg off and hobbled out.

[applegrove]

156. I hated Chicago too. But for different reasons. Hated the characters (I

didn't know the story) and I hated the dancing. I wanted to see the original choreography.

[CBHagman]

24. Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary.

I almost walked out of Notting Hill. Musical montages in place of character development; a selfish, disloyal heroine (Julia Roberts in one of a string of unsympathetic parts); nothing emotionally affecting or really funny. Only the supporting cast was interesting -- that and the in-joke about period dramas at the end.

Renee Zellweger was a good sport and gave it the old college try in Bridget Jones's Diary, but the script was a mess and the movie was a disappointment.

[StellaBlue]

26. Citizen Kane

Sacrilege, I know... finally saw it last summer... meh.

[Bridget Burke]

28. I can understand the artistic value of Citizen Kane....

But I have no desire to see it again.

[begin_within]

38. I second that one. It's boring.

[Zookeeper]

115. You heathen!

I'm shocked! (Well, not really. I know not everyone likes it.)

It's not a warm movie, but it is brillant...especially for its time. It's so visually effective. Like "The Magnificent Ambersons," I think it warns against the folly of arrogance and the inevitability of change.

'Just sayin' :shrug:

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. Brazil

it literally put me to sleep.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

112. Same here...n/t

[smirkymonkey]

162. I couldn't get through it either.

It was just way too long and slow.

[LostinVA]

31. The English Patient and Pulp Fiction

[flamingyouth]

128. Me too

x(

[ihaveaquestion]

157. Loved PF; Hated EP

[begin_within]

37. Fargo

I don't exactly hate it, but it was a huge disappointment. Way too much hype for such a forgettable made-for-TV movie about some meaningless events in Minnesota - and Frances McDormand winning the Oscar instead of Brenda Blethyn was blasphemy.

[Bridget Burke]

69. Garrison Keeler mentioned it on his radio show.

He compared it to driving through North Dakota at 30 miles per hour.

[begin_within]

77. The people I know in that region are nothing like the people in "Fargo"

[TallahasseeGrannie]

39. Lord of the Rings...all of them

nasty looking little midget dudes. Too much violence.

T-Grannie

[Ava]

45. i HATE those movies!

they go on WAY too long!

[catbert836]

118. Oh. Sorry you're going to hell.

I did like you... but there's still time to be SAVED!

Just kidding. To each their own.

[XemaSab]

40. Pulp Fiction

I just never "got" what was supposed to be so great about it. :shrug:

[Mad_Dem_X]

82. Sam Jackson was good, otherwise

it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated.

[faithnotgreed]

83. definitely pulp fiction. and didnt think napoleon dynamite was funny

i dont often watch modern movies unless they are independent or foreign but those 2 i eventually watched
i far prefer old movies though there are a few of those i dont love

[Beaverhausen]

86. I agree

I actually couldn't get through more than an hour of it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

114. I never got it either.

I didn't find any of the characters likeable.

[skypilot]

169. I thought it was some kind of a joke when...

...the end credits started rolling. I was still waiting for this great movie that everyone had told me about and suddenly it was over.

[Paladin]

41. "Easy Rider"

Overindulgent, self-important, vapid, stoned-out bullshit. I thought so when I saw it in the '60's, and I still feel that way.

Single redeeming feature: "Wasn't Born To Follow" by The Byrds, on the soundtrack.....

[Bridget Burke]

68. I saw it when it premiered....

It was supposedly hip & so was I--at the time. But I never cared to see it again.

Great Soundtrack, though.

[Paladin]

87. Hasn't Aged Very Well, Has it?

And I didn't like it when it came out. Most of my friends at U.T. Austin at the time adored it; professors devoted entire class sessions to discussions of it, etc. Wretched excess. My favorite on-the-edge movie of that era: "Clockwork Orange." It played for the longest time.....

[Bridget Burke]

139. Definitely not.

I was not impressed at first viewing, either. (Not that I remember any subsequent viewings.)

I saw Clockwork Orange at its Houston premiere. We got there late & ended up sitting RIght Up Next to the Screen! Serious impact.

Have you seen O Lucky Man?

[Paladin]

154. I Think I Saw "O Lucky Man" And I Was Impressed With It......

...but it was a long time ago. Probably need to look around for a DVD of it and see it again.

Thanks for the reminder.....

[Taverner]

46. Dead Poet's Society, English Patient, Titanic, 40 Year Old Virgin

There are many....

[Nailzberg]

48. Magnolia

I don't understand the appeal. That DVD is more useful to me as a coaster.

[cemaphonic]

65. Boogie Nights was much better

It had a sense of humor that made that gang of miserable losers interesting to watch. Magnolia was just a bunch of miserable losers.

And that frogs bit can't hold a candle to Alfred Molina dancing to Sister Christian, while firecrackers are blowing up off-camera.

Great cast and acting though.

[Ediacara]

49. Crash and the Blair Witch Project

[Ava]

52. Blair Witch SUCKED!

that movie wasn't even scary!

Crash i like though.

[Jamastiene]

94. Blair Witch got all the attention for being a great low budget horror

movie, but "The Last Broadcast" was the real deal. I saw "The Last Broadcast" first and I can honestly say that Blair Witch paled in comparison. It sucked, like you said.

[CanuckAmok]

134. Blair Witch had THE BEST promotional ideas ever.

Ava won't remember this, but before BW was released, in stead of regular movie posters, the distributor put up "Missing" flyers with photos of the three actors. They were on lamp-posts, vacant buildings, etc. I have one somewhere. They didn't mention the movie at all, just that the missing perople were last seen entering the woods to do a documentary on some witch. There was a URL to get details.

It was brilliant promotion.

And, I don't know... I found the last two minutes really scary. I saw it on the big screen, and maybe that makes a difference. All that camera movement is really disorienting.

[Jamastiene]

135. If you liked Blair Witch, you will LOVE "The Last Broadcast."

I highly suggest it. It's the same genre, but so real, you'd think it was a documentary. I thought it was until then very end. I guess that helps if you don't already know it's really a movie.

You are right. That is a great promotional idea.

[CanuckAmok]

136. Yeah, I've seen it... it's great. Also great is....

...Incident at Loch Ness. Same sort of thing. And pretty funny, too.

[Ava]

174. Ava's not that young! lol

I remember the posters and the trailers for the movie. My mom and her best friend went to see the movie in theater but I didn't see it until later.

[Jazz2006]

108. Another vote here for Blair Witch Project as a crap movie. n/t

[terrya]

50. "Napolean Dynamite"

I rented it, with the expectations that it would be hilarious...and I sat through it, pissed that I was wasting my time with this complete cinematic piece of crap.

Everyone loved this movie and I despised it. An utter waste of time.

[Ava]

51. i own the movie

i think it has it's scenes, but you have to have been in "that" school. in the middle of no where, with a bunch of losers.


i was at "that" school. lol

[Ron Mexico]

53. The Fifth Fucking Element

I hated that movie so much that even if it didn't have Chris Tucker's intolerable antics and voice, I'd still have it in my all-time bottom five.

[Ron Mexico]

55. Star Wars and the next two sequels

I didn't see any of the prequels, but Star Wars was the most overrated movie of all time.

[Ron Mexico]

56. The Matrix

Dozens of blatant production errors, ripped off story, the lame "you have to live because I live you" towards the end that we all saw coming, shitty acting...this one sucked, sorry.

[Ron Mexico]

57. Forrest Gump

Inexcusably bad. The only fun in the movie is looking for anachronisms.

[ceile]

178. Seconded!!

I fucking hate that movie! Great soundtrack though.

[Dulcinea]

201. Hear, hear!

I hated "The Matrix." It bored me to tears.

[eyepaddle]

60. But is there ANYBODY who likes it?

I forgot Chris Tucker was in that.

It just dropped a notch or two in my estimation.

[Ron Mexico]

63. Everyone I know who has seen it likes it, and for the life of me I

can't figure out why. Leeloo was hot, but NOBODY is THAT hot.

[CanuckAmok]

129. I loved it, except for Chris Tucker...

Plus... well, you know....



Any movie with Gaultier as a costume designer can't be all bad!

[Zookeeper]

137. I liked it, even though I don't like Bruce Willis.

The romance was forgettable, but I loved the stylishness of the film: the look, the costumes, the futuristic vision, the somewhat campy quality and the mysterious singer.

Mr. Z. hated it.

[Bridget Burke]

140. I can forgive a lot if the visuals are good...

And let's not forget Teen Idol Luke Perry--offed in the first scene!

[Zookeeper]

194. I didn't realize Luke Perry was in it...

I don't think I knew who he was when I saw the movie. (I'm still not absolutely sure what he was in. Was it a TV show?)

[Blue_In_AK]

54. The Matrix kind of left me cold...

I didn't see the second and third installments.

[Ava]

59. the matrix is awesome

i have a really cool book that compares the matrix to Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave"

[Blue_In_AK]

64. I know, I'm really in the minority here...

I mean, I didn't HATE the movie, and I "got" it. I just wasn't as excited about it as everyone else seemed to be.

[Orrex]

66. I like the first Matrix as a movie

As a philosophical motif it's as old-hat as Plato himself.

That, I think, is why I dislike the Matrix Phenomenon so profoundly--a throng of acolytes latched onto its recycled philosophy and thought it was the best thing since "if a tree falls in the woods..."

Also, two-thirds of the trilogy sucked the big one, IMO!

[CanuckAmok]

130. Yeah, they should have stopped after #1.

But despite not liking the sequels at all, the freeway chase in (I think) #2 is one of the best chase sequences in movies.

[Orrex]

142. Funny you should mention that

I actually find the freeway chase to be horribly dull. My wife likened it to those 1940's cowboy pictures wherein the hero fights the villain atop a motionless traincar while a painted backdrop scrolls past. I never had a sense of urgency or danger. In fact, each fight scene became more interminible than the previous. The Neo-vs-Smith fracas on the playground went on for longer than the age of the universe, IMO.

[Vidar]

93. Despite being a computer geek, I walked out--only done it twice.

[Jade Fox]

103. I walked out on it too.....

Incomprehensible, derivative, and boring.

[skypilot]

168. I started dozing off on that one.

I will never understand its appeal.

[Shakespeare]

58. Fight Club.

"Oh, no, I bought an IKEA bookshelf, so I should go beat the shit out of myself and then blow up some office towers in Century City."

:eyes:

HATED that STUPID movie. Nearly gave myself a headache from rolling my eyes.

[Ava]

61. lol!

i can't stand that movie, but i don't like most movies of the movies that star Brad Pitt.

[realisticphish]

132. ever seen Snatch?

Brad Pitt is awesome in that one

[Ava]

175. nope, I haven't seen "Snatch"

I'll check it out though.

[SharonRB]

152. LOL

My daughter bugged me for months to watch it because she thinks it's so wonderful. I finally caved, but wasn't impressed.

I also hate "A Bridge Too Far" and "Glen Garry Glen Ross."

[Carni]

214. I must really be a sap that is one of my fave movies

So is Pulp Fiction and so is Napolean dynamite and so is the matrix...when you guys think *WTF LIKES THESE FILMS?* It's probably me lol

[RubyDuby in GA]

70. Sideways

Not one redeeming quality amongst both male characters. I really couldn't make up my mind with was a bigger asshole. I'm still undecided. I want my time and money back.

[smirkymonkey]

99. Arghhhh! I HATED Sideways!

For the life of me, I cannot understand what the critical acclaim was about. Bad script, acting, photography, story line - yuck, yuck, yuck!

Other films receiving critical acclaim that I hated:

Love Actually
Moulin Rouge
Signs
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Any kind of big, blockbuster fantasy or action movie, where its all about special effects and not much more.
Anything with Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson or Keira Knightly in it.

[ikojo]

122. I HATED that movie....I've never fidgeted so much

in a movie in my life.....BORING and pretentious....

Not one character was appealing.

[ihaveaquestion]

161. I agree - horrible over hyped BS!

I could somewhat see the sex appeal of the married guy and might have agreed to a good time with him, but nothing else since he was basically a shit.

But - how anyone could find the short, bald and whiny neurotic in any way appealing is totally beyond me!
:shrug:

[dolo amber]

71. Blue Velvet

:eyes: :boring:

[Carni]

215. Oh no I liked that too lol eom

[swag]

72. Star Wars, Mystic River, Serenity, Moulin Rouge, et al.

[taught_me_patience]

74. Good Will Hunting

completely contrived dreck...

Others include:
Passion of the Christ
Seabiscuit
Old School
Finding Neverland

[HughBeaumont]

158. Good Will Hunting SUPER sucked.

GOD, Paddy Chayefsky rose from the dead and said "DAMN that script is pompous". I mean, who the fuck TALKS in bourgeois name-drops?

[saltpoint]

75. CHARIOTS OF FIRE.

[CTyankee]

234. NO. It is one of the best movies ever made

You weren't really watching it.

[Left Is Write]

76. Moulin Rouge.

[Mad_Dem_X]

81. Yes - vastly overrated

piece of crap. I was so ready to love it; what a letdown.

The same with "Clueless." I heard nothing but good things, but when I finally saw it...meh. :boring:

[saltpoint]

78. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS. Arguably the film I hate the most of all films.

[ploppy]

187. One of the

only movies I ever walked out of was Midnight Express.

[mtnester]

79. All of the Austin Powers movies n/t

[LeftofU]

197. austin powers sucked.

could not finish any of them.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

84. The Piano, Punch Drunk Love, and A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind was especially disappointing. I saw it with my Sunday movie group, all of us old enough to remember the real folkie era, and we all found it unfunny. This was surprising, because we had all loved Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.

[Kashka-Kat]

159. I hated the piano - &any woman abusing film- & I dont care if it had a

woman director or not.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

85. "Office Space", "Jerry McGuire"...

"Forest Gump", "Titanic" -- to name just a few.

[Bossy Monkey]

163. Ditto on "Office Space" but "Titanic" was the greatest comedy of all time

Oh, it wasn't supposed to be funny? Oh well.

[Dulcinea]

202. I hated "Jerry Maguire."

Boring, stupid, and it had the no-talent freak Tom Cruise in it. He hasn't done anything worth watching since "Risky Business."

[Strong Atheist]

89. Anything by Woody Allen. nt.

[TheBaldyMan]

181. even 'Broadway Danny Rose' ? n/t

[Strong Atheist]

233. Never seen it, but I loathed Woody Allen years before it was

popular to do so...

[EstimatedProphet]

90. Grease!

YUCK!

[Scout]

92. Something About Mary

ick, stupid, waste of money and celluloid...

as is anything else with Ben Stiller.

[Roon]

96. Austin Powers

Of course, I generally hate ALL movies, but Austin Powers is the worst.

[lovelaureng]

97. Jerry Maguire

:puke:

[sweetheart]

98. Annie Hall and New York New York

bleech!

[SaveElmer]

100. Gone WIth the Wind

Melodramatic tripe...

Yeah I feel real sorry for the poor slaveholders

[fishwax]

104. Cider House Rules n/t

[bigwillq]

105. Forrest Gump (nt)

[Left Is Write]

182. I saw Forrest Gump once. It was moderately enjoyable...

and I have no desire ever to see it again.

[0007]

106. Dances with Wolfs

[KitchenWitch]

107. Living Out Loud

Total waste of time.

[IsIt1984Yet]

110. Lost in Translation

Hated it.

[SharonRB]

153. I was so glad I saw it on cable and hadn't paid to see it

Very, very boring.

[jpgray]

177. Yep.

[guinivere]

206. It was boring as hell. I was so disappointed. nt

[Carni]

216. Oh god I hated that too

Really didn't get it and fell asleep

[NNadir]

113. Pulp Fiction.

I never watched the whole thing actually, finding it b-o-r-i-n-g.

[u4ic]

119. Star Wars

*ducks*

edit: also It's A Wonderful Life

[Zookeeper]

120. Every Brian De Palma movie...

The guy could have been a good director, instead he chose to specialize in sleazy misogyny.

[Bombtrack]

171. why don't you cite some examples of his misogyny

simply showing characters do things you consider to be misogynistic does not make the storyteller misogynistic. And showing female skin, whether to arouse or not, is not an example of misogyny either.

[Bombtrack]

173. Memento was a big worthless gimmick with no message or heart

or anything fascinating about aside from an original way to tell a story, a story that was empty.

[Zookeeper]

203. I'm aware of the difference between the characters...

and the storyteller. For example, I'm a big fan of Scorcese and his films are full of misogynist characters. However, his films aren't (to me).

The problem with De Palma (Dressed to Kill and Scarface, for example) is not that he shows female skin, or that the way he shows it arouses you, or the fact that his male characters are brutal toward women. His problem is that he shows beautiful women, erotically photographed then shows them being brutalized or murdered from a voyeuristic point of view. I think De Palma is emotionally and developmentally stunted and I have no desire to encourage him by paying to see his movies.

At one time I thought "Carrie" was interesting. Now, I like it less and less on each viewing.

[Left Is Write]

185. You mean you didn't like Body Double?

That cinematic masterpiece? ;)

[Zookeeper]

195. Actually, I didn't see it...

I've been boycotting his movies for quite a while.

[Left Is Write]

196. Poor acting, thin see-through plot.

Lots of nudity.

[ikojo]

121. Titanic....

Independence Day

Forrest Gump

[Brigid]

123. Sideways

Disgusting and not funny at all. :thumbsdown:

[chaska]

124. Saw 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston' today....

I don't get it. Worst crap ever.

[Zookeeper]

125. I saw "V for Vendetta" today...

and thought it was pretty silly, overall. Although if a person is unaware of the way governments manipulate citizens using fear and the media, it would be enlightening.

[Broken_Hero]

127. a couple...

first off Deer Hunter...the first part of the movie, bored me to tears, i almost drove a nail into my eyeballs...and the rest was mediocre at best.

My other, The Thin Red Line...people told me it was better than saving private ryan, and while watching this movie, i did drive a ton of nails through my eyeballz....:)

[CanuckAmok]

131. Moulin Fucking Rouge

By god, that's gotta be the most craptacular movie ever made. I could only stand about :45 of it, and then I had to go murder the people who suggested I see it.

Fucking Disneyfied Bohemians.

Elton John.

Diet Absinthe.

And every fucking shot was too fucking busy!! Here's a new photographic technique you might try next time: Subtlety. My eyes had to dry out in the Bahamas without me, after being subjected to that sensory overload.

[smirkymonkey]

164. "Craptacular"

:rofl:

I concur.

[skypilot]

170. Unfuckingwatchable.

I saw it (or rather a half hour of it) for free at a club in my city that shows free movies on Mondays. I wanted to murder everyone on the scream and all the people in the audience.

[CanuckAmok]

133. Anything staring Mike Myers or Jim Carrey. Or David Fucking Spade.

I just don't find any of these "comedic geniuses" funny in the least.

[Zookeeper]

138. It's the curse of the SNL star...

who got too big for his britches.

Dana Carvey, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, Joe Piscapo, Adam Sandler and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few.

Based on the last Will Farrell movie I saw, I think he should be added to the list.

[HughBeaumont]

222. I don't know who's a bigger scenery gobbler . ..

Will Farrell, Martin Lawrence or Mike Myers.

[Zookeeper]

227. Yeah, that's kind of a toss-up.

At the moment I'd say Will Farrell, but that's probably because he's been giving one-note performances lately and I'm disappointed.

So...Hugh Beaumont? Was that the name of the actor who played Beaver's dad? Or am I making an ass of myself because it's actually your real name?

[HughBeaumont]

229. Nope. Just a moniker.

It isn't really meant to mock him either. I can watch Leave it to Beaver all week and never get sick of it. Ward Cleaver was the kind of parent that was firm but understanding. I really wanted to name myself WardCleaverExtravaganza . . . but there were too many letters. So here we are.

[Zookeeper]

230. Have many DUers made the connection? n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

141. Forrest Gump.

:puke:

[kay1864]

143. The Matrix

As soon as they said they were using humans as batteries (and feeding them), my WTF-meter went off. Baseless permise, hence the movie was built on a weak stack of cards.

Keanu's "acting" didn't help either.

[Burma Jones]

146. Mr. Holland's Opus

I would rather sit through Titanic 12 times than see that piece of crap again. That movie is the most egregious example of godawful melodrama I've ever seen, how I hate that movie.....

[El Fuego]

147. Titanic

Sitting through it was excruciating.

My boyfriend had a previous serious girlfriend who broke up with him because he hated "Titanic." So we have that in common! :)

[fleabert]

148. academy award nominated History of Violence

I walked out. the acting was horrible, and the screenplay was so predictable. I HATED HATED HATED that movie. once he started raping his wife on the stairs and she was 'into it' I was gone. fuck that mysoginistic shit. I was pissed before that scene, but that broke the camels back.

also- that stupid comic book movie i can't remember the name of, came out last year, bruce willis was in it, everyone kills each other, the women are all prostitutes and expendable. walked out of that too, when the guys legs get chopped off. Stupid stupid stupid.

[Zookeeper]

220. That was Sin City.

I planned to see it, then the more I heard about it, the less I wanted to.

[fleabert]

232. ah yes, or as I will call it from now on....Crap City!

I have no desire whatsoever to see the final hour or so that I missed. I wish I could have the time back that my beautiful mind wasted on it in the first place! lol :rofl:

[CanuckAmok]

241. Yeah, I expected more from it.

There was so much more that could have been done with the premise. I was really excited when I saw the trailer, and then *pfft*.

But Cronenberg is hit-and-miss, anyway.

[DrGonzoLives]

149. Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Fucking hate it now.

[guinivere]

208. Seriously? It's one of my favorites. nt

[DrGonzoLives]

224. After hearing it quoted ad nauseum for seven years

in high school and college, I got sick of it.

[HughBeaumont]

150. Pulp Fiction

Eccccch. Too wordy, frat-boy-deep, has no shelf life. I hate Uma Thurman, Johnny Scientology is a douche and Amanda Plummer is over-the-top annoying. I'm sick of the whole "F bombs, beatdowns and blood" shit.
Both Kill Bills. Overrated. As. Hell.
Natural Born Killers. Tries to be something it painfully isn't.
American Beauty. I hated people like this growing up and I wanted all of the characters to fucking die except for the gay neighbors.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Only Terry Gilliam movie that I hated profusely, just a senseless mess. I guess because I never did drugs I don't really belong to the club that relates to this one.
Fight Club. Once again, the need to over-testosterone completely ruins a good idea.
The Big Lebowski. Is it a "high" thing?
Magnolia. Tommy One Note once again ruins an otherwise good movie.
Most smug movies with actors like Chloe Sevigny and Jason Schwartzman in them
21 Grams. This movie got annoying about 20 minutes into it and just went on a downhill tear from there. Not even the great acting by Benicio could save it. And why the hell does "Oscar-worthy" performance by a female nowadays equate to "being a repellent, melodramatic bitch"?
Traffic. See "21 Grams", above.
Any Kevin Smith movie
Any Guy Ciccone movie
Any Bobby Zombie flick

[smitty]

213. You and I think alike. I detested all those movies too.

Kill Bill(s) sucked big time, ditto Pulp Fiction, Tarantino should be teleported to Hell. Natural Born Killers made me feel dirty just watching it. I felt the same way about American Beauty, people I detested as a kid were even more detestable watching them as an adult. Add Crash to the list, pretentious crapola, Hollywood at its self congratulatory worse.

[HughBeaumont]

221. For a Best Picture, I thought "Crash" was pretty pompous and below average

I thought Good Night and Good Luck should have won. Crash didn't even have it's moments, it was just unrealistic and silly. Then again, a bloated, pretty-boy vehicle like Shiteanic won Best Picture, so that's not really the best credibility measurement, is it?

Oh GOD, American Beauty . . . I'm sorry, but was I supposed to relate to ANY of those oversmug repellent people?

[SoulGlo]

155. Kill Bill any volume

matrix sequels, finding nemo

[MelliMel]

160. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pretty Woman,

and yes, Crash.

[smirkymonkey]

165. Forgot about those...

Hated 'em.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

190. I hated Eternal Sunshine. Lost interest about halfway through,

read a book through the rest of it (on DVD). Liked Crash pretty much, didn't care much for Pretty Woman.

[mac56]

166. "The Sound Of Music"

I. Fucking. Hate. It.

[Ava]

176. i've never made it through the first 10 minutes

:puke:

[Left Is Write]

186. My husband hates it too. Loathes it. Cannot be in the room if it's on.

I, on the other hand, could watch it any time!

[skypilot]

167. "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

As soon as Micky Rooney shows up playing the buck-tooth "Chinaman" I couldn't stop being annoyed with everything in the movie from that point on. And if I never hear "Moon River" again it will be too soon.

[nj_democrat_rocks]

172. Reservior Dogs

and anything else by no talent q. tarantino

[TheBaldyMan]

180. Airplane!

the most pointless waste of celluloid ever. I've never met anyone else who also thought it was truly dreadful.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

191. ... And don't call me Shirley!

Why do you hate America?

[TheBaldyMan]

193. God, I feel so alone.

Is there one other person on this planet that thinks that movie was crap ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

198. No. You are utterly alone.

"Airplane" was brilliant; maybe you just picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

By the way, do you like movies about gladiators?

Ever been in a Turkish prison?

Ever seen a grown man naked?

:) Sorry; I'll stop now.

[TheBaldyMan]

199. Noooooooooo!

;)

[CanuckAmok]

219. "And Leon's getting la-a-a-arger!"

[GalleryGod]

188. Good job, Orrex. This thread has been very helpful.

Everybody loves THE Wharf!

[DBoon]

189. delete

delete

[quiet.american]

192. I'm about to commit heresy: The Godfather -- all of 'em.

Have never made it through any of them. But, I actually do find it pretty entertaining to observe guys around me when the Godfather's on, especially if it happens to be on the tube while I'm out at the pizza shop or laundry mat -- the expression on their faces is almost like witnessing people who are in a religious trance.

[smitty]

210. Well, you're partially right.

Godfather, part III was an absolute dog. But the first two were very good.

[quiet.american]

226. "Godfather" has now officially been discussed. :)

-- no discussion of The Godfather is complete without somebody saying that! :)

[CanuckAmok]

239. They're really good, but over-rated, IMHO.

Maybe if I could examine them in the context of the year each was made. Maybe they were revolutionary for their time... I enjoy them, but I don't understand the worship.

[CanuckAmok]

240. Here's heresy: Citizen Kane

I. Just. Don't. Understand. The. Lauding.


I know it was a revolutionary film in many technical ways, but, yeesh.... meh.

[Radio_Lady]

207. "The Unforgiven" -- I just about had a heart attack when it won the Oscar!

[Southsideirish]

217. This is easy! "Mystic River" - I HATED it -preposterous plot, wallpaper

chewing, ham acting, ugh, I have to say it was one of the worst movies I ever saw. I was sick after seeing it.

[Iris]

218. Jerry Maguire

Well, I don't know if anyone loved it but I truly HATED it.

The worst was that there was a great Bruce Springsteen song in it and the pop radio stations started playing it with clips from the movie interspersed throughout - yuck yuck yuck.

[Catchawave]

225. Lord of the Rings

Don't know why, but they bored me silly.

[benny05]

242. 2nd choice

ding ding ding

[Buck Laser]

235. My Dinner With Andre

We actually got up and walked out out of boredom.

[benny05]

236. Indiana Jones

Fell asleep during it. :boring:

[AlCzervik]

238. Something about Mary and any of the Matrix movies--sucktastick