Name an Acclaimed and Lauded movie you just didnt like...

[Rabbi]

Haha, this could get heated as people have alligience to some of these movies like they wrote them themselves...

So, Name a movie or movies that is genereally held as a Master Work, Important, Critically acclaimed, the proverbial "Must See"....that you thought was a dookie bomb.

I'll start the ball rolling...

It is considered a very important movie and changed a lot of things in Hollywood...

Easy Rider.

What a bad movie.

[El Duderino]

Titanic

[Rabbi]

Titanic


For the most part, I agree. Good choice.

[Eric]

Out of Africa. Eric

[livegrenades]

2 girls 1 cup

[Rabbi]

Livegrenades, dont do that to this thread, please.

[12131]

Titanic
First thing that popped into my mind, also.

[OKgetdown]

The Matrix

[Rabbi]

The Matrix

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Say it aint so!!!!!!

[Andrewsky]

2 girls 1 cup

Are we allowed to discuss illegal activities?

[OKgetdown]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Say it aint so!!!!!!

Not so much the movie, eh. More of a Keanu Reeves thing.

When he awakes and says "I know Kung Fu".... it actually kinda pisses me off just a tiny bit.:rofl:

[Blast]

I can think of several, but I'll toss out Forrest Gump
Sorry Gump fans.:dunno:

[PeterJasonMN]

Matrix 3 sucked.

I still have yet to watch "The Lion King", nor will I. I haaaaaaaate the "Meet the Parents/Fockers" series. It's almost easier for me to name which ones I DIDN'T hate.

[OKgetdown]

Various Will Ferrell flics.

[Rabbi]

Matrix 3 sucked.

I still have yet to watch "The Lion King", nor will I. I haaaaaaaate the "Meet the Parents/Fockers" series. It's almost easier for me to name which ones I DIDN'T hate.


Lion King certainly counts but I wouldnt consider the Meet the Parents movies anywhere up to the level of world changing/acclaimed/important movies.

[Rabbi]

Various Will Ferrell flics.

Nah, for the most part, nothing comedy is in the category. Perhaps Blazing Saddles only...and that was just because of how ground breaking a film it was.

[PeterJasonMN]

Lion King certainly counts but I wouldnt consider the Meet the Parents movies anywhere up to the level of world changing/acclaimed/important movies.

Yeah I tried editing but my ISP kinda farted and I couldn't write a disclaimer.

[12131]

Matrix 3 sucked......
and #2.

[El Duderino]

Here is a "Top 100 Movies Of All Time" list...

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html

Plenty of stinkers in there if ya ask me.

[CLee0507]

I'll probably get flamed...lol but after hearing so much about The Deer Hunter, I bought it and although it has DeNiro and Walken, it didn't do it for me.

[oceanwarrior]

The Deer Hunter----Absolute rubbish to me

oceanwarrior

[BEER]

easy rider.

a clockwork orange.

napolean dynamite.

pulp fiction.

the blair witch project.

the original texas chainsaw massacre.

gone with the wind.

those are just the ones off the top of my head i've heard people raving about and i can't understand why.

[El Duderino]

For example....


Lord Of The Rings.


Started out ok but by the end I really wanted to see that little hobbit die a horrible death. Stupid Elijah Wood and that dumb face he made over and over. Blech!

This one...the half weepy, half crying I'm so tormented it hurts face....
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/apg_Rings_071218_ms.jpg

[OKgetdown]

For example....


Lord Of The Rings.


Started out ok but by the end I really wanted to see that little hobbit die a horrible death. Stupid Elijah Wood and that dumb face he made over and over. Blech!

This one...the half weepy, half crying I'm so tormented it hurts face....
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/apg_Rings_071218_ms.jpg

Oh yeah. Completely forgot about those boring sons of *****es.

[cgwahl]

Nah, for the most part, nothing comedy is in the category. Perhaps Blazing Saddles only...and that was just because of how ground breaking a film it was.


Any man that openly admits they hated Blazing Saddles can leave their mancard at the door. :cool:

[hpracing007]

I don't like any of the star wars movies... I've seen one and a half and that was way too much.

[OKgetdown]

Any man that openly admits they hated Blazing Saddles can leave their mancard at the door. :cool:

+1 Classic, total classic.

[Biscuitsjam]

2001

The Deer Hunter

Napolean Dynamite

[Rabbi]

Just so everyone knows....I was not knocking Blazing Saddles, just pointing out that it may be the only comedy that qualifies for the spirit of this thread.

Blazing Saddles is one of the best movies ever IMO.

[RunsFromBear]

Evita. Walked out after 15 minutes.

[isis07734]

+1 a clockwork orange

[CU4X4N]

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day Lewis is a great actor in it, but the movie just didn't do it for me.

I do like the milkshake line, though.

[winglock]

I didn't care for Titanic.

[cgwahl]

Just so everyone knows....I was not knocking Blazing Saddles, just pointing out that it may be the only comedy that qualifies for the spirit of this thread.

Blazing Saddles is one of the best movies ever IMO.


I know, was just making a statement on how awesome Blazing Saddles was. That and History of the World...Mel Brooks is why we need to perfect human cloning.

The Jews in Space movie will hopefully someday be a reality. Or possibly Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.



I guess they don't count since they're comedies, but I thought 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up were overrated.

[El_Ron1]

Anything with Adam Sandler.

[dsmw5142]

Titanic

Napolean Dynamite

Snakes on a plane

[CU4X4N]

Or possibly Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.



Nope.

Gonna be called "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2" :rofl:

[Soujurn]

Citizen Kane. Sorry, it just bores me to sleep.

Jaws. I couldn't believe how stupid the humans were. I was rooting for the shark.
I'm sorry, but there is no way eight 30.06 rounds from a M1 into a fish's gills, no matter how big it is, isn't going to cause it to bleed to death. Or a few well placed sticks of dynamite harpooned into its back ain't gonna give it a terminal head ache.

Close encounters Of The Third Kind. A great lead up to ...not much.

The Exorcist. This is a very anti Christian film. The Devil wins in the end. Looked at in that light, it works I suppose.

[Sundown]

The English Patient
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction, or for that matter any Tarantino film
No Country for Old Men (and I really like Tommy Lee Jones movies)
Any Godfather movie
Dr. Strangelove
ET

there are others, these are just the ones that spring to mind quickly

[ScarFace88]

Fargo.

[jamesriver]

Blade Runner :(

[troy96]

Fargo.


+10000000

I thought it was geared to the mentally deficient.

[El Duderino]

Blade Runner :(



Ok, now you've crossed the line.

[TazerRE]

Napoleon Dynamite

Titanic

Juno (it's not considered a "classic", but I've had MANY a debate lately with people about how much I freaking hate this movie)

Um...

Oh. Shaun of the Dead. Just did NOTHING for me.


Pretty much any horror movie. I try, but I just cannot understand where the appeal is with horror movies. Like Saw. I know a lot of people that think it's a great movie. I just don't care. At all.

[Herb Twoleaf]

Gone With the Wind
Seven Samurai
Dumb and Dumber
Dances With Wolves

[Annhl8rX]

Pretty much any of them. If critics like it, I probably don't.
here's a list of critically acclaimed movies I hate:
Titanic
Crash
American Beauty
Anything Star Wars---that's a big one for me
Easy Rider
Anything Lord of the Rings
Anything Harry Potter
Anything with Kevin Spacey...other than Se7en
Syriana
Brokeback Mountain...I haven't even seen it, but I guarantee I hate it
It's a Wonderful Life
I know there are a lot more that I can't think of right now.

[Sundown]

Pretty much any of them. If critics like it, I probably don't.


That's generally my view about movies as well.

[Trigger_Rush]

The English Patient
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction, or for that matter any Tarantino film
No Country for Old Men (and I really like Tommy Lee Jones movies)
Any Godfather movie
Dr. Strangelove
ET

there are others, these are just the ones that spring to mind quickly

Die.


On a side note, I didn't care for Pan's Labyrinth.

[Shabcat]

Goodfellas. I'm a huge mob movie aficionado but this just doesn't do it for me. Kind of boring.

The Shawshank Redemption. Corn stuffed with cheese.

Pulp Fiction. Not nearly as clever as the makers thought it was.

[Sundown]

Die.

Uh, no thanks. Those movies licked tremendous balls. They were so bad that they give the word bad a bad name.

[MC]

Babel.

Dear God:upeyes:

[Clyde in CO]

I agree with several that mentioned and would like to add:

Deliverance

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

[SergeantC]

The Godfather.

Taxi Driver.

I couldn't get into either of these movies.

[Arquebus12]

Dr. Strangelove is lost on me...

I see it, I get it, I find it humorous, but as a whole I never cared for it. Kubrick making comedies seems very wrong, the same as Spielberg making love stories.

In fact, I can't recall the last Spielberg movie that I really enjoyed other than Jaws and Private Ryan.

[Herb Twoleaf]

The Exorcist. This is a very anti Christian film. The Devil wins in the end. Looked at in that light, it works I suppose.

The Devil? You sure?

IIRC Karras provoked Pazuzu/whatever demonic entity it was into leaving Regan and entering his body, then threw himself out the window for the win.

Georgetown 1 - Legion 0.

Two priests giving their very lives to free a little girl from her torment seems pretty pro Christian to me.

[Bullman]

the Rocky movies, After number 1 it was just a money making venture. And number 1 was pretty blech for me anyway.

[Unlocked]

American Beauty :upeyes:

[MtBaldy]

The Constant Gardener.

I thought Rachel Weisz was pretty hot in The Mummy so I gave this a chance not expecting much. It stank so bad the dog left the room. I think I eventually finished it but it took several tries. At that I only finished it because I had bought it and only wanted to see if it ever got any better.

[Steve0853]

+1 for American Beauty. I guess a 7th grade boy might find it titillating.

Also.......Platoon was hyped so hard before I ever saw it, I don't guess it had a chance to live up to expectations. I thought it was below average.

[robertoh]

Gee. Where would I begin?:whistling:

[PlaneJane]

Doctor Zhivago. Watching what'shisname pulling frozen snot out of his mustache was the most exciting part of the entire interminable ordeal.

Jane

[volsbear]

I agree with several on here, and I'll add (prepare to be flamed) Schindler's List.

[Unlocked]

Simon Birch :upeyes:

[AnalogKid]

Pretty much anything by David Lynch. "Eraserhead"? Ugh! "Blue Velvet"? Horrible, and I like Isabella Rosselini. The whole "Twin Peaks" thing was just a huge waste of everyone's time. "Wild at Heart" with Nick Cage and Laura Dern was literally the very first movie I ever ejected from the tape player and returned to the video rental store before even watching half of it. It was THAT bad.

I will not knowingly ever watch any of his useless stuff again. Such a complete waste. Drives me nuts when people go on and on about what an auteur he is--whatever that is. Thankfully I don't hang out with alot of those types ;)

[okie]

Gone with the wind:supergrin:

[deMontacute]

The Godfather movies... Seriously, if you like these movies you are either a total sheep, or a total mental deficient...

Not super acclaimed, but I know alot of you here like it. The Big Libowski. Yeah, ummmm....

Anything with Leonardo Di Caprio...

[tbreed725]

lets see lord of the rings,pulp fiction .

[jhoagland]

Godzilla
Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Commando
T3
First Blood

[Glockerel]

Bridges of Madison County
Godfather 3
Anything with Will Ferrell (Feral?)

[PlaneJane]

Godzilla
Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Commando
T3
First Blood

Yeah, it sucked. It's only redemption was Robert Duval in general and specifically that great "Rubbing's racing" line. Most useful in discussion forums. :supergrin:

Jane

[Maelstrom]

Gangs of New York. The worst.

[Aurora]

Saving Private Ryan.

The beginning was stunning,....... but everything shown after that bordered on absurdity or madness. Every decision, every move, every representation, every premise, etc, .....was really, really bad.

The film was a great tribute to the WWII generation but that darn "infantry sub-processor" the Army put in the back of my head was screaming while I watched that movie.

V.

[Marine8541]

For me it's Apocalypse Now. Also though it's not acclaimed, I also have never understood the hold that the adolescent Red Dawn has on so many people who have shooting ties. Frankly it's embarrassing to see grown men who take this movie so serious.

[Jon91N/A]

The Deer Hunter. It has some of my favorite actors and though it is a good movie it just bored me to hell.

[Mrs. VR]

Office space :couch:

[Falling Crow]

The English Patient
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction, or for that matter any Tarantino film
No Country for Old Men (and I really like Tommy Lee Jones movies)
Any Godfather movie
Dr. Strangelove
ET

there are others, these are just the ones that spring to mind quickly

Plus 1,000 on the English Patient! I took my wife to see it (we were dating at the time) and if had had a pocket knife I would have slit my wrists to stop the agony! By the end of it I was beginning to wonder if gnawing my wrists would work! :phew: Last "chick flick" I ever took her to...

[Revelations]

Easy Rider

Maybe I was suppose to drop acid before I watched it. But, I just didnt "get" the movie.


No Country for Old Men

Just watched it on DVD. I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of the movie. Once Josh Brolin got killed I just couldnt follow the story after that. Maybe I just didnt "get it" either.

[JASV.17]

I also did not get Old Country. Especially the ending.

I love Godfather I and II (must be a sheep and a retard, which might explain why I didn't Old Country), however III sucked.

[PlaneJane]

...Red Dawn... Frankly it's embarrassing to see grown men who take this movie so serious.

Yep. Simply proof that lamentably not all the "feelers" are lefties.

Jane

[Extorris]

Deer Hunter and Scarface.

[grindchug]

Citizen Cane

[G30Jack]

Most anything that is Oscar nominated is lost on me. I want to be entertained not enlightened.

[Another Miller]

Pearl harbor.


The reviews made it look like an action flick,like the old tora tora tora.I enjoy some of that mushy stuff but too much and it ruins it.


I saw one the other day just to watch with the family, 2nd hand lions, that was a good flick.

[Maelstrom]

Office space :couch:

Blllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllasphemy!

We working stiffs appreciate it.

They just need to make one with homeschooling for you.:supergrin:

Desk Space or something.

[Brown Hawk]

Titanic - wet tee shirt contest on a sinking ship

Pearl Harbor - Mixing the Doolittle Raid, Fighter pilots flying bombers, etc. Great special effects, too bad there was no story to go with them.

Private Ryan - A RANGER captian ordering a frontal attack on an MG 42??!!!! And using his highly trained sniper to do it?? Among others

Hawk

[El Duderino]

Not super acclaimed, but I know alot of you here like it. The Big Lebowski. Yeah, ummmm....

...







Shut up Donny.


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[weybug]

As Good as it Gets

Hated it, hated it, hated it.

The Crying Game

Soooo boooring. The only good part was my nap.

[weybug]

Deer Hunter and Scarface.

Thanks. I thought I was the only man alive who hated Scarface.

[Agent6-3/8]

Apocalypse Now
Godfather
Blazing Saddles
Deliverance
Saving Private Ryan


FWIW, a lot of the movies I'm seeing mentioned in this thread are not acclaimed, just the typical BS Hollywood puts out and is forgotten in a year or two.

As far as Red Dawn goes, its far from acclaimed or a great movie. However, it is a fun, entertaining film that I rarely pass up when I see it on.

[rdsharp]

Pearl Harbor - Mixing the Doolittle Raid, Fighter pilots flying bombers, etc. Great special effects, too bad there was no story to go with them.

Well it did have Kate Beckinsale. Oh, you mentioned the special effects already! :tongueout: Actually, when I saw it, my first thought was that if the Japanese had dropped as much ordinance as the movie depicted, they would have obliterated the entire harbor.

Remains of the Day. When it was over, I looked at my wife and asked, "Is that all there is?"

Thin Red Line. How you can make Guadalcanal boring, and depict Marines daydreaming about swimming while pinned down by enemy fire is beyond me. It's the only movie I ever really wanted to walk out of. I stayed because I thought my wife liked it. Later, I found out she stayed because she thought I did.

[weybug]

I saw one the other day just to watch with the family, 2nd hand lions, that was a good flick.

Big +1. I loved this movie.

[silentpoet]

Natural Born Killers, I think Oliver stone was on drugs when he made this movie.

Resevoir Dogs, I liked parts of it, but the whole was lacking. QT is really over over over rated.

[Glock&KimberLady]

Any movie that is written for the mouth-breathing American contingent, feels the need to explain its storyline, has a feelgood ending and/or an ending that is so obviously a redemptive theme that I want to vomit.

That's damn near every movie that's "acclaimed" these days.

Titanic - dear God, how many errors can we make here? How many times to we have to see just how flawed the wealthy are, and how morally superior the sprawling masses are in comparison? Rich people ALWAYS get furious and shoot at people when their wimmins is stolen. And I could go on and on.

Any of the Spiderman movies...puh-lease. Can you say predictable?

Pearl Harbor - Hey, lookie! A war breaks out during a love story! :upeyes:

The English Patient - can you say painfully dull? Oh, we're so tortured...

Babel - one caveat: whatever that old lady was smokin, I want some. Other than that...Jesus, Brad, could you wring your hands and look like a girl any more?

Gangs of New York - oh, man, where to start on this one? Nevermind, i just won't get started.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy - in the beginning, there were movies where manly men (and half-men) lopped up ogres and critters and basically kicked ass wherever they went. Then, somewhere in the third movie, they all became tortured metro-style wimps who cast longing, half-homosexual glances at each other over the heart-wrenching perplexities of what to have for dinner. Bah.

Any of the "new" Star Wars movies - dude, you're gonna be a bad guy. You're fated to be the bad guy. Revel in it. Get the list "When I Become An Evil Overlord" from the internet and live by it. And dammit, get a scriptwriter who has a pulse and an acting coach who has acted. Wooden doesn't begin to describe it.

A Beautiful Mind - why, oh why, would you even consider letting your quite obviously mentally disturbed husband stay alone with an infant, you stupid twit? Even Jennifer Connelly's lovely blue eyes couldn't save this dog of a movie.

And on and on and on...I'm pretty jealous of my time, and wasting it on lame movies designed to pander to the masses just pisses me off. That being said, I occasionally enjoy a good romp with a totally worthless movie like "Hostel"...mainly because it doesn't pander to the masses, doesn't pretend to have a deep story (or subplot, or even a plot for that matter). It's just 90 minutes of squealing nastiness and someone in the room yelling, "Why the HELL did you do THAT, you IDIOT?!"

I have to disagree about "No Country", though. Didn't explain itself, obviously wasn't written for the Wal-Mart crowd, and had an ending that was more true to life than usual. Kinda like "O Brother Where Art Thou?" It didn't always make sense, because life rarely does.

[Glock&KimberLady]

Shut up Donny.


http://91.121.71.200/gifs/4832.gif

Hey, you stole that picture from me!

[MR. TWISTER]

For me Pulp Fiction, I hated it! Made like a soap opera & I don't like them either!!:supergrin:

[Squaw Man Wolfer]

Bridges of Madison County

[jhoagland]

Sara T
Triple XXX
Lost Boys

[Squaw Man Wolfer]

Shut up Donny.


http://91.121.71.200/gifs/4832.gif


"Hey! There's a BEVERAGE here, man!"

I think that the "Big Lebowski" is one of the ten best flicks EVER!

First time, it looks like just a frat boy flick, but it is a brilliant satire of current America. I watch rthe DVD about twice a year.

[Quark]

Babel. Stupid movie. With an underlying "gun causes problems all over the world" message.

[Sandbag]

Wow. I disagree with just about every movie you guys mention. Most
of them are favorites of mine. Well, except for English Patient. After about 5
minutes I was just wishing for the dude to hurry up and die.

I have a neighboor (and good friend) that doesn't watch movies. Period. He and his wife both! I guess they don't wanna be bothered.

So, I'm thinking maybe most of the you don't watch many movies... because
you can't seem to tell the good ones from the bad ones!!!!!

Oh, snakes on a plane... Just the idea of that movie makes me never want to see it!

[bocephus549]

Haha, this could get heated as people have alligience to some of these movies like they wrote them themselves...

So, Name a movie or movies that is genereally held as a Master Work, Important, Critically acclaimed, the proverbial "Must See"....that you thought was a dookie bomb.

I'll start the ball rolling...

It is considered a very important movie and changed a lot of things in Hollywood...

Easy Rider.

What a bad movie.

Oh no you didn't!

[stooxie]

Office space :couch:

+1

Here's mine: Brazil. Even under the guise of an Orwellian prophecy, I thought it sucked.

-Stooxie

[mundanenoodle]

Dances with Wolves, utter crap!
That goes for anything Costner does though.

[Agent6-3/8]

So, I'm thinking maybe most of the you don't watch many movies... because
you can't seem to tell the good ones from the bad ones!!!!!

Maybe you're the one that can't tell the good ones from the bad ones? :tongueout:

[Sandbag]

Maybe you're the one that can't tell the good ones from the bad ones? :tongueout:


You could be right! If I only ever watched bad movies... but enjoyed them, I would have inheretley bad taste no matter what I ever watched.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Soujurn]

The Devil? You sure?

IIRC Karras provoked Pazuzu/whatever demonic entity it was into leaving Regan and entering his body, then threw himself out the window for the win.

Georgetown 1 - Legion 0.

Two priests giving their very lives to free a little girl from her torment seems pretty pro Christian to me.

Nope, the demon never obeyed the orders of the priest's. Never once can you find in the bible where demons failed to instantly obey orders to leave a possessed person, when the exorcist had the correct authority to speak with the authoruty of Christ.
The deaths of several people at the hands of the demon.
The suicide of a priest.
The prolonged suffering of the child and her family.
The failure of the Church to exorcise the demon.
Remember, it only left the girl of its own free will, when it was invited to leave and enter a different host.
It is STILL free to re-enter the child if it wants to. And, if you know anything about scripture, free to bring 7 worse demons with it. See Matthew 12:44

No, this movie is certainly not pro Bible or pro Christian belief.

[Soujurn]

Saving Private Ryan.

The beginning was stunning,....... but everything shown after that bordered on absurdity or madness. Every decision, every move, every representation, every premise, etc, .....was really, really bad.

The film was a great tribute to the WWII generation but that darn "infantry sub-processor" the Army put in the back of my head was screaming while I watched that movie.

V.

I agree. Capt. Miller was a very bad officer. He got most of his men killed needlessly. Chiefly by being a friend more than their commander.
Also, I could never accept the idea that a Captain would be in charge of a platoon or in this case just a squad of men.
A Company Commander, as Miller most certainly would have been with his experience and rank, would not be assigned a search and rescue mission.
Maybe if he had been a Lieutenant, but not a Captain.
If he had been a Lt., then it would have been more believable for him to be such friends with a squad NCO like Sgt Horvath.

[Soujurn]

The Godfather movies... Seriously, if you like these movies you are either a total sheep, or a total mental deficient...


I partially agree.
The Godfather is a near perfect movie. Possibly the best American film made to date.
Godfather II suffers from trying too hard to recapture what worked in The Godfather.
The main problem is Al Pacino is no Marlon Brando, and cannot carry a film the way Brando could and did to perfection in The Godfather.

To the film makers credit though, they did show how Michael was trying to hang onto the life style his father created, but in a shallow manner which you could see through.

It had the trappings but not the heart of the first film.

Also, a very poor casting job. Troy Donahue? Give me a break. Connie would have seeked father figures, not effiminate hand kissers.

The Godfather on the other hand had excellent secondary roles and actors.

Richard Castellano as Clemenza.
Abe Vigoda as Tessio.
Richard Conte as Barzini.
To name but three who were perfect in this movie.

And Robert Di Nero? Very poor casting IMO. He is great in many roles, but in this one, he was as stiff as over cooked pasta.

Godfather III. Forget about it, I pretend it was never made.

[Clyde in CO]

Easy Rider

Maybe I was suppose to drop acid before I watched it. But, I just didnt "get" the movie.


No Country for Old Men

Just watched it on DVD. I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of the movie. Once Josh Brolin got killed I just couldnt follow the story after that. Maybe I just didnt "get it" either.


Thanks for the spoiler you idiot.

[gjk5]

Napoleon Dynamite (boring and completely unfunny)

Titanic (suckage on a truly epic scale)

Little Miss Sunshine (don't get why it won all those awards, snoozeworthy)

[Zell]

Lord of the Rings. Never got into that kind of stuff. Although I did kind of like the last one of the three.

[Zell]

Hobbits are just too goofy.

[gwalchmai]

The Color Purple.

[dhoomonyou]

brokeback mountain, not that theres anyhing wrong with that...

[byf43]

Any movie with Meryl Streep.
Any movie with Wil Ferrel (however you spell his name!)

The King & I. (Yul Brenner couldn't act his way out of a paper sack. He owned the rights to The Magnificient Seven and he was even rotten in that!)
The movie otherwise, was pretty good.

[kahrcarrier]

The Horse Whisperer.

[JMag]

Flame away, I don't care...it's "Pulp Fiction" for me. "Reservoir Dogs" is much better.

[Sundown]

Oh yeah, let's not forget The Pianist WTF was that all about?

[Platz]

Blood Diamond

There have been a lot of "greatest movies of all time" that I thought were just terrible, but that's the one that comes to mind at the moment. Saving Private Ryan was another.

[MrKandiyohi]

The Godfather - now it's not at the "dookie" level, but I just can't get interested in it. I've seen parts of - Caan getting whacked, and Pacino whacking everyone, but I just get bored after a while.

[gwalchmai]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Graduate
Paper Moon
Annie Hall

[Blaster]

Natural Born Killers - is the only movie I ever rented then turned off and never made it through.

The Sting - I walked out of the theater I was so bored. I walked out on it a second time. I finally made it through years later and determined I was correct the first two times.

Anything with - Bill Murry, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Will Farrell or Jim Carey.

[Hauptmann6]

Also, I could never accept the idea that a Captain would be in charge of a platoon or in this case just a squad of men.

In rifle company's after a couple months of combat, it was rare for a captain to be in charge. Usually lieutenants moved up from platoon.

[Agent6-3/8]

You could be right! If I only ever watched bad movies... but enjoyed them, I would have inheretley bad taste no matter what I ever watched.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Could be worse dude, you could have inherently bad taste in women and booze.:supergrin:

[cgwahl]

Office space :couch:


Oh it's on now. :supergrin:

[major]

I HATED "Gone With The Wind."

I watched about twenty minutes of the first "Lord of the Rings" movies, got up, and left the theater. I just don't enjoy fantasy. I'm sure they are great movies but that's just not the type of movie that I like.

Same with Harry Potter. I didn't even try to watch one of those. I was bored with the trailers.

[RyanSBHF]

Lost in Translation

Titanic

LOTR trilogy

Anything with Will Ferrel

[thetoastmaster]

My wife and I watched our way through the American Film Institute's top one hundred films. Most of them had some redeeming quality that justified its place. The one that left both Mrs. thetoastmaster and I scratching our heads was Midnight Cowboy. As far as I am concerned, that film is of no worth, either as entertainment or social commentary.

There are many other movies that I don't care for, but few of them are acclaimed or lauded by anyone through puberty.

[Glock21Owner]

Reservoir Dogs
The Thin Red Line
Crash

[PlaneJane]

I liked The English Patient

[briarpatch]

Gorillas in the mist.
Passage to India.
Cant think of any worse.

[stormbringerr]

jerry mcguire i just didn't think it was interesting.

anyone that didn't like lord of the rings is either very old or a cultural moron

[philly b]

that space oddyessy movie has to be one of the worst movies ive ever seen. complete waste of 2 hours.

[W Turner]

-The Constant Gardner

-That stupid movie that had Daniel Day Lewis playing some environmental wacko who had a creepy relationship with his daughter. Huge at the Oscars, big suckage.

-Titanic. Technically brilliant. Crappy movie.

-Casablanca. Fell asleep about 1/2 hour into it.

-The Deer Hunter - Group of my favorite actors, but couldn't get into it.

-Midnight Cowboy - WTF?

-Citizen Kane-AFI's greatest movie of all time? Whatever.

There have been more, but these were the first to come to mind.

Bull

[HollowHead]

The Passion Of The Christ. It needed to be better just to be bad. HH

[jeager]

Dances with Wolves, utter crap!
That goes for anything Costner does though.

I like where he runs off with Jane Fonda!

[Herb Twoleaf]

I like where he runs off with Jane Fonda!

I thought that was Pres. Roslin?

[2glock40s]

Apocalypse Now
True Romance

Neither one of them did a thing for me. Godfather 2 I thought sucked as well.

[Herb Twoleaf]

Sorry. Doubletap.

[Herb Twoleaf]

Nope, the demon never obeyed the orders of the priest's. Never once can you find in the bible where demons failed to instantly obey orders to leave a possessed person, when the exorcist had the correct authority to speak with the authoruty of Christ.
The deaths of several people at the hands of the demon.
The suicide of a priest.
The prolonged suffering of the child and her family.
The failure of the Church to exorcise the demon.
Remember, it only left the girl of its own free will, when it was invited to leave and enter a different host.
It is STILL free to re-enter the child if it wants to. And, if you know anything about scripture, free to bring 7 worse demons with it. See Matthew 12:44

No, this movie is certainly not pro Bible or pro Christian belief.


Hmm. Interesting perspective.

I don't mean to beat it to death, but I saw the Exorcist as loosely referencing Mark... the evil calling itself "Legion" (possibly your 7 demons already dug in), and calling the girl giving it refuge a "piglet" and a "sow". Even Christ didn't instantly compel Legion out. Karras' hiccup of faith, even after all he'd seen, forced him to improvise. Just substitute the stairs for the Sea of Galilee.

Mark 5:8-13, also Luke 8:30-33


To each his own, I guess. I happen to love Pulp Fiction.
:tongueout:

[MontanaLongbow]

O Brother, Where Art Thou,

Was the worst movie ever made. IMO

Well besides "Vampire Girls Gone Wild"

[Jbar4Ranch]

Jarhead

[RunsFromBear]

The New World. That never-ending background music just droned on and on...
After fifteen minutes, it was getting pretty annoying. After half an hour...:faint:

[SergeantC]

***SPOILER ALERT***

This weekend, on a plane trip between Munich and Chicago, I finally saw "No Country for Old Men," and I was rather disappointed.

It's well made, and well acted, but it just ends. There's no resolution. The psycho kills his way through the movie, and walks away at the end. The Sheriff decides he's looked to long into the abyss, and it is time to retire.

Nothing has changed at the end of the movie, except that a lot of people are dead.

Yes, a good movie, technically, but rather a let-down.

[Swan1172]

Gone With The Wind

I thought it was horrible.

[JesseCuster]

For example....


Lord Of The Rings.


Started out ok but by the end I really wanted to see that little hobbit die a horrible death. Stupid Elijah Wood and that dumb face he made over and over. Blech!

[/IMG]

I got tired of Frodo looking over his shoulder at the camera in slow motion.

Cut the Hobbits out of the LOTR movies and you have some great films.

I skip the Hobbit parts on DVD. Sorry to say it.... but in the Two Towers especially, hours of Frodo n' Sam wandering through the same grey landscape achieving nothing cannot compare with Gandalf curing Theoden, the battle at Helm's Deep, Aragorn's interaction with Eowyn, and all that jazz.

[grizzlyg23]

After watching Citizen Kane i felt that i had just watched 2 hours of my life just vanish before my eyes. The same goes for the lord of the rings borigy.

[12131]

Saving Private Ryan.

The beginning was stunning,....... but everything shown after that bordered on absurdity or madness. Every decision, every move, every representation, every premise, etc, .....was really, really bad.

The film was a great tribute to the WWII generation but that darn "infantry sub-processor" the Army put in the back of my head was screaming while I watched that movie.

V.
You hit the nail on the head, there.

[pugman]

[QUOTE=bull68;10085934


-Citizen Kane-AFI's greatest movie of all time? Whatever.


Bull[/QUOTE]

+1. I watched this a second time thinking I must be missing something...I'm not.

2001: Space Odyssey

Fargo: I might give this a second chance, but my wife and i both looked at each other at the end and thought it sucked

Armageddon: Sorry, I thought Deep Impact which came out about the same time was much better

[Indy_Guy_77]

Fargo.

They showed it on campus when I was a Freshman (1996-1997). My roommate and I walked out when they had to switch reels. I still haven't finished it. Terrible!

-J-

[SergeantC]

Taxi Driver. I just couldn't get into it.

The Godfather. I also couldn't get into this one.

I'll probably never finish either one.