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Movies You "Should" Like, But Don't
These movies are either classics, or rated very high, but I couldn't get into them... most of them I shut off or fell asleep on.
2001 Space Odyssey Dr. Strangelove Ferris Bueller's Day Off Gangs of New York - with the exception of Daniel Day Lewis's performance There Will Be Blood |
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09-11-2008, 08:50 AM | #2 |
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Of your list, Dr. Strangelove.
Others I can think of: LOTR 1 (first time it was OK, but I can't even begin to watch it again) & 3 (JUST END ALREADY). Bladerunner Ben-Hur
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09-11-2008, 08:51 AM | #3 |
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Anything made before 1970.
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09-11-2008, 08:52 AM | #4 |
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This is Spinal Tap.
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Grease
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09-11-2008, 09:31 AM | #6 |
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Bull Durham
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Dr. Strangelove
All of the LotR's, and Star Wars'. |
09-11-2008, 09:38 AM | #8 |
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The Godfather Series.
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09-11-2008, 09:38 AM | #9 |
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Groundhog Day
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09-11-2008, 09:54 AM | #10 |
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Dark Knight: I was willing to give it a meh and move on as if nothing ever happened, but the last 45 minutes forced me to openly despise this movie.
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09-11-2008, 10:10 AM | #11 |
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LOTR is the first one that comes immediately to mind. I've tried to watch the first one three times and just can't get through it.
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09-11-2008, 10:12 AM | #12 |
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Hate to repeat Lorena but when I saw the thread I only thought of one movie:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Worst, least funny, most boring "teen" movie ever. Last edited by molson : 09-11-2008 at 10:13 AM. |
09-11-2008, 10:16 AM | #13 |
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Star Wars. All of them.
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09-11-2008, 10:20 AM | #14 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Shawshank Redemption LOTR: The Two Towers LOTR: The Return of the King
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In the different strokes for different folks file... Superbad is by far my favorite of all the Apatow family movies (most of which I really liked)
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09-11-2008, 10:57 AM | #16 |
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There's a lot of bad taste-having motherfuckers up in this bizzatch.
I guess this is all part and parcel of the whole "miraculous rainbow of humanity" thing we have going on.
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09-11-2008, 11:14 AM | #17 |
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LOTR? Superbad? The Shawshank Redemption? The Godfather? Are you people serious? HB is right, you guys don't know good cinema!
I was thinking more along the lines of stupid movies like Titanic and Shakespeare in Love that didn't deserve the Oscar! L.A. Confidential and Saving Private Ryan were robbed!!!! Crash is another one. It was ok, but I didn't particularly like it. |
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Probably some combination of these two for me. Every time I try to go back and watch one of the "classics", it just doesn't do much for me. I remember when I was younger we actually had to watch Gone with the wind in school (part of Georgia education I guess as well as going to the Cyclorama every year, etc) and still enjoy that movie today... but other all time greats like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, etc... I just don't get into. I feel like there is something wrong and I should enjoy an all time great. I just am not as entertained by these "great movies". As for Superbad, I also don't really like it, didn't like Napolean Dynamite, or whatever that movie that Jack Black was in as the mexican wrestler... I just don't really get those type of movies for some reason. I don't find them funny, or entertaining at all, yet everyone seems to rave over them. |
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The classics are tough since things that made them great have been supplanted by newer movies. Amazing camera work or storytelling methods aren't as amazing later. I often find that I need to watch these movies, then read about why they are great, and then re-watch them. My example would be the Gene Hackman movie (can't think of the name) which claims to be the best car chase scene and the model for all future car chase scenes (as he is chasing an elevated train). I didn't think much of it at the time I saw it, but gained an appreciation for it later reading about how it was done. Quote:
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club (I have tried this one a couple of times) LOTR |
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Titanic
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
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Any Monty Python movie. Wall-E.
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Yeah, this thread is just now making me angry
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09-11-2008, 12:45 PM | #26 |
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Armageddon (haven't seen..boycotting)
Empire Records (chick flick in disguise) Any movie starring Jason Statham
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"Shakespeare in Love" is brilliant, rube. You aren't really answering the question though. It isn't movies you should like due to critical response, but movies you should like due to peer response.
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Pretty much anything that won a Best Picture Academy Award, and possibly a fair number of "Best Actor" or "Best Actress" ones.
I remember seeing "The Killing Fields" and realising that the reason the Cambodian actor won the Oscar that year was because he was the ONLY one in the entire movie who could act AT ALL. Bleh. And "Out of Africa" was a boring 3 hours. Etc etc etc.
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Oh, well that's different. Anything with stupid sophomoric humor, starring someone like Will Farrell, probably hits this for me.
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Pulp Fiction. Just didn't like it at all.
SUperbad was more disappointing than anything. It had it's moments, but it wasn't as good as I expected. |
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Pretty much anything directed by Tarantino (than again, I'll argue that they're mostly useless movies to begin with).
Or, to a lesser degree, Kevin Smith gets a lot of high regard that I don't understand- the only thing he's made worth anything is Dogma (quite funny). But I think his appeal is limited to 20-nothings and 30-nothings. SI
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09-11-2008, 01:24 PM | #36 |
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Pulp Fiction is one of 2 or 3 movies that I ever walked out of.
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The entire Matrix trilogy, but especially the last 2.
I want to go up to those movies and punch them in the face yelling, "hey man, chill!" |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought it was good, so I guess it doesn't really apply to the intent of the thread, but I didn't think it was nearly as good as most people make it out to be.
Movies I don't like (that most people seem to): Forest Gump Full Metal Jacket Trainspotting Mystic River |
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Oh, forgot to put The Godfather 2 and 3, especially 3. I've heard some say 3 is as good as the original, but I don't get the appeal. They could've stopped with The Godfather and I would've been ok with that.
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You mean 2. No one says 3 is as good as the original.
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I knew they said one of them was as good as the original. Neither is.
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Gone With The Wind is another horrible movie. I was home when I saw it, or I would have walked out of it too.
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Big Lebowski
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No Country for Old Men
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I was going to qualify that by saying the movie was fine until boot camp was over. So I guess I'm not the only one, then, that thinks that. Last edited by sabotai : 09-11-2008 at 02:38 PM. |
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the big lebowski
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I'm in the same boat with Full Metal Jacket as BrianD and Sabatoi.
Another movie that I thought had a huge disparity between 1st/2nd half was Princess Bride. The first 30 minutes of that is some of the funniest stuff I've seen on film, but after that it was kinda "meh". |
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The Rodents of Unusual Size will tear you apart for saying that!
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