Yea! fatbob! Hurray! He played a heroin addict in some movie and I thought the dramatic role was great. At comedy, he is no match for his father.

It's certainly fair to dislike these movies because you're not into comic books and superheroes; you're not the intended audience for them. But I don't think it's fair to say they're trying to present themselves as in any way realistic. They don't, which is meant to be part of their appeal. You get to see things that are impossible in real life. If that's not your cup of tea, so be it, we each have our own tastes.

[/quote]I admit these are totally my problem and not necessarily a problem with the films, but the effects reel for Spider-Man 2 is only 10 or 15 minutes long and Spider-Man would have died about 20 times in it if he was a real human. I can deal with shooting some webs out but come on, nobody who got bit by a spider can get hit by trains and fall off buildings without a scratch.[/quote]

First, he doesn't get hit by a train. He stands in front of a runaway train and stops it. The runaway train is a superhero staple, and I was delighted that they put it in there. But he's no longer a normal human. He has super strength, speed and endurance. In the comics, he can press 10-12 tons, making him about 200 times as strong as he was, and we can assume that his resistance to injury is about the same.

And he never gets by without a scratch. He's badly injured by both the fall and the train, and gets injured in his battles with Doc Ock.

If you cannot accept the concept of the superhero in the first place, that's cool, but the execution here (with some nitpicks) is first rate within that genre.

[quote]Fight Club and Mulholland Drive seem to be the movies that people love that other people love to hate. I think they were fantastic from the first time I saw them, and no, I don't claim to have understood them and I still don't entirely.[quote] I think Mulholland Drive is a very good movie also. It's possible to like light, accessible stuff like Spider-Man and deeper stuff like this, too.

Studios make movies, the MPAA assigns ratings. And it's commercial success that is the primary motivating factor in producing sequels, yes. That doesn't always make sequels bad, though I'd agree they usually are of lesser quality than the originals.

The biggest demographic for movies is teenagers, in particular teenaged boys. Studios cater to this audince by cranking out mindless action movies and teen sex comedies. Teenagers who haven't seen 20 versions of the "Popular Boy who takes the plain girl to the prom" movie are less likely to be tired of the formula.

Fortunately, we do still get movies for adults. It just takes a bit of searching to find them.

Great, it's not supposed to be real. Either way, knowing about physics and that the movie IS set on earth in New York to be exact I can't suspend disbelief to that extreme degree. The thread is about "Movies You Don't Like" and I don't like them. Don't take it personally.
The MPAA basically IS the major studios that make the crap. Trust me, I don't need a lesson.

The Lord of the Rings movies, I saw part of the first one and just couldn't get into it.

The Thin Red Line

Great actors, World War 2 - ordinarily things that guarantee me liking a film. I couldn't watch more than about 45 minutes of it. Bleah.

Oh, I'm not taking it personally, as I went out of my way to point out several times in my post. I just happend to disagree with certain points you made, and presented an alternate point of view on those points.

As in this--"the movie IS set on earth in New York to be exact". The movie is set in a New York, specifically the Marvel Universe New York, where superhero physics work just fine. I disagree with this particular point that you are making, while simultaneoulsy recognizing that it is a legitimate reason for disliking the movie. Not arguing taste, which is individual, and not taking anything personal. I'm just a nerd who enjoys debating things like this.

The blockbuster ones. The ones that cost a fortune to make and that we get pushed down our throughts ages before they even get released.

Fast & the Furious ... I still don't get it.

I really couldn't stand the critically acclaimed Million Dollar Baby. I'd go off on a tangent about it, but Roger Ebert's editor did a better job than I ever could:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...DITOR/50304001

Oh my gosh yes. A Clockwork Orange...good story...but the movie just sucked. And that scene at the end of the movie when the man feeds him that meat or whatever the heck it was...and he kept chewing it with his mouth open....ewww...one of my biggest pet peeves, and they played it for five minutes or so in this movie. :| NOT COOL.
I finally watched The Ring last Thursday night: what a piece of crap. The only reason I watched it all the way through was because my friends kept cracking jokes during it. :p
What else don't I like... the Shrek movies, oh, and those Legally Blonde movies. Ick.
I will never watch the Kill Bill volumes, EVER. I just HATE Uma Thurman. Every time I watch a movie she is in, she just brings that movie down a few notches. So to watch something she is actually starring in would drive me nuts. :crazy:

Not sure if this was covered yet, but in The Last of the Mohicans and The Last Samurai, the "main" characters were not who the title referred to. I believe that Uncas (an actual Mohican) was the last of the Mohicans, and the leader of the samurai (who takes Tom Cruise as prisoner) was the last samurai.

Any LOTR or Harry Potter. I just don't get it; I want to smash my tv.

i personally dont understand napolean dynamite, its really funny to talk about, but when watching it , it seems really lame.

My personal opinion. Not to be taken personally.

Napoleon Dynamite. After all of the hype about what a fantastic movie it was, I watched it twice and just didn't understand.

I have absolutely no idea why You Got Served was ever made (yes, I watched it). An hour and a half I'll never see again.

In general, it simply astounds me that Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon and Ashton Kutcher keep getting movie roles. I haven't seen a single worthwhile film from any of them.

I am obviously the only person walking the planet who didn't think Spider Man was a great piece of cinematic legend. I hated it AND the goddamn sequel.

I despise the movie "City of Angels" with every single fiber of my being. This movie (as well as it's "star", Meg Ryan) are responsible for completely turning me against the entire "Chick Flick" genre. Utter dreck. I still have nightmares.

I have a BIG problem with the recent remake of the 70's science fiction classic Rollerball. The new one with LL Cool J (for God's sake) is just horrendous.

The English Patient was the most mind-numbingly boring waste of celluloid and good actors that it has ever been my extreme displeasure to witness. Another one that makes me seriously question Hollywood.

I didn't finish Sheck 2. Too middle class for me.

I very much did like Lost In Translation.
It was not about Japan.
For me, it was about isolation, love, having class, values, morals.
Of course, four of those I know nothing about :-)

Sin City (Flame on)

I like/love a lot of the movies listed here. But ........ has to be the most over hyped movie ever. For a good year or two all I heard was how awesome it was. And then I rented it. I kept giving it a chance to get better. Over and over again. But goddamn......what a piece of crap.

Ooh, this is an easy one:

American Beauty (absolutely hate this movie)
Napolean Dynamite (it's got to be the dumbest movie I've ever seen)

Gone With the Wind - All through the movie, I just wanted to wring everyone's necks, but especially Scarlett's. And it dragged on and on and on and on and....

My Sassy Girl (The Korean movie) - My friends was going on and on about how good it was, and I was bored to tears. To make it worse, I had to watch it twice, the first time by myself because my cousin lent it to me, and I had heard good things about it. The second time I was at my friend's house and someone brought the movie.

Indiana Jones - Maybe I just don't like Harrison Ford (though Air Force One was good.)

Breakfast at Tiffany's

I was really hoping to make it through this thread without seeing this movie mentioned. And I almost did. But I'm not gonna go off defending it wildly, because I respect your opinion and I don't wanna start a debate. Suffice it to say I adore that movie.


As for me, I HATE Michael "Scripts Make My Brain Hurt" Bay. His movies are so much shit. You know if you gave me millions of dollars, insanely advanced technology and resources, I could blow stuff up over and over again and film it too.










Spacey gives one of the best performances of all time in American Beauty.
There.
That's all I'm saying.

Have to agree with Predeconinferno on this one, not many movies i totally hate, but American Beauty is definately not anywhere on my favourites lists, to say the least.

Gangs of New York was probably the one that I hated the most...within 10 minutes after the start time, I wanted to leave, and after three and a half hours, I wanted to hang myself.....

Everyone else thought it was a masterpiece 'shudder'

I've always read positive comments about Scorsese's "After Hours", but I thought the movie really kinda sucked.

I agree the acting was dismal. [duck and cover]

Sin City, Kill Bill.

I had someone describe the scene where Uma Thurman kills Lucy Liu in the winter garden as 'patient' and therefore totally awesome. I either heard or inferred something about a warrior ethic in that same description, which made me want to vomit. I don't really like the Japanese blood-bath genre, and there was no samurai beauty involved in the movie.
I'm not a purist, however,and found some parts to be amusing,but those were few and far between. I found the Kill Bill series, as well as Sin City to be tedious and extremely childish. Which says a lot for my feelings on the original sources of inspiration for these flicks, whatever they may be.
I thought that we were past the kind of misogyny exhibited in the film, but apparently there is quite a market for it. It just exhibited a deep-seated fear of women in power, castration, and an obsession with dominating women and young girls physically and sexually that I really couldn't swallow. No offense to those who are, but I'm not a feminist, and find the whole ideology irritating, but this film was out-and-out ridiculous. I'm surprised womens' groups aren't up in arms over the content and attitudes towards women, and I'm ashamed that so many long-haired fantasy-world geeks got just as excited as Yellow Bastard during the flick. Rodriguez did an awesome job with the camera work (as far as I understood it in the current Wired Magazine article, at least) but it was a damned waste of my time.

I only hope the newest Batman doesn't end up in this heap of burning flesh and celluloid.

I am talking about Sin City below, but forgot to reference it specifically.

And no offense is meant to people with long hair, or who like the fantasy genre, but this little experience just sort of pushed me over the edge. Our engineering and computer science departments students were packed into the theatre for Sin City, and I feel that I'm making a comment based on my experiences in the local population of Blacksburg, VA.


[QUOTE=hokiesandwich]Sin City, Kill Bill.

I thought that we were past the kind of misogyny exhibited in the film, but apparently there is quite a market for it. It just exhibited a deep-seated fear of women in power, castration, and an obsession with dominating women and young girls physically and sexually that I really couldn't swallow. No offense to those who are, but I'm not a feminist, and find the whole ideology irritating, but this film was out-and-out ridiculous. I'm surprised womens' groups aren't up in arms over the content and attitudes towards women, and I'm ashamed that so many long-haired fantasy-world geeks got just as excited as Yellow Bastard during the flick. Rodriguez did an awesome job with the camera work (as far as I understood it in the current Wired Magazine article, at least) but it was a damned waste of my time.

I'd have to agree with everyone when they say Napoleon Dynamite. I watched 20 minutes of it and figured that this had to have a Columbine-like ending. Horrible I know, but that is what I thought.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
I can't believe I wasted 1.5 hours of my life watching this movie! I mean I like Will Ferrell movies, especially Old School, but this was awful! I chuckled maybe once throughout this entire movie they call a 'comedy'. I don't get it, what is all the rave about? Some people have called it the best comedy ever.....to me it may be the worst.

I lasted about 20 minutes on that one.

The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars Saga, Potter....ah hell....basically anything that has to do with wizards, aliens or robots taking over the currnt world that they inhabit.

80 percent of the movies listed on this thread that are considered boring I love.I guess I'm a boring person!? :confused:

Exactly! That's the point of the thread. If people are posting movies that really belong in the thread, everyone should find that they like most of the movies posted. Of course, it doesn't exactly work out because some of them don't really belong (like Matrix 2/3 since everyone hates them), so YMMV.

the only movies i can think of that i just can't watch that everyone loves are definitely pulp fiction, kill bill 1/2, matrix 2/3, the american pie movies, just stuff like that.

Come to think of it, i rarely ever sit through movies i don't really like or know i'm going to like..
as for last good movie i saw: batman begins :)

The English Patient. The word patient definitely has a double meaning in this title. Boooooring.

Also, Titanic. Sappy (not the good kind of sappy) piece of shit, the only saving grace of which was Kate Winslet's bazongas. Or at least I think they were in there. If they weren't, it had no good part. Oh, except the end where DiCaprio dies. On a related note, I enjoyed the modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet immensely though, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

A Fish Called Wanda-disgusting piece of crap that was highly recommended by someone usually reliable. My friend and I couldn't believe what we were seeing.
2001:Space Odyssey. WTF? Boring, lame and it ended badly because the rest of the film made no sense so why not tack on a worthless nonsense ending. No, it's not deep. It's stupid.
Daughter just went to see Batman Begins and just sat there waiting for it to end.

I have to agree with NG on 2001. My roomate always raves about it, but I can barely make it a half hour into that flick before I am bored out of my mind.

The one that really gets me is Garden State. Everyone raves about Zach Braff and his awesome film. I hate Garden State. I just cannot stand the movie. I found it to be boring, underacted, and overrated.

I have a friend who can't stand Pulp Fiction either.... you guys are wierd, yo.

I'll third the 2001 thing - just a weird movie all up really.

So many movies, so much to hate....
Not a movie but a hugely hyped mini-series on Sci - Fi the Spielberg produced "Taken". I realize its doesn't really fit the thread but I was so utterly pissed at how horrible it was I just had to mention it.
With more relevance - "Akira" - a japanese anime that seemed to just consist of lots of yelling of the major characters names and giant tub of goo on a rampage. Overhyped, confusing garbage. Give me "BladeRunner" any day.
Anything by M. Night Shamalamadingdong. Yeah, I got that "The Village" was actually a community shut off from modern society about fifteen minutes in. How did I know? Because every M. Night movie has a "Twilight Zonian" twist and that was the most logical. Once you know there is a twist it doesn't take a genius to figure out what said twist is and then the rest of the movie just meanders along waiting to reveal what I already know. I knew the comic book guy would be the "evil enemy" in the "Unbreakable" and I knew Brucie was dead in "6th Sense". They're alright viewing fair but I don't find them great.

"Saving Private Ryan" - I never cared if Ryan was saved or if Tom Hanks got out alive. I can't really explain why. I usually love war movies but I never got into it. I found myself bored and ready to leave halfway through. Maybe it just needed R. Lee Ermy....

"Blair Witch" - Poorly shot drivel.

"Out of Africa" - I considered suicide a quarter of the way through.

"Master and Commander" - Would have rather watched "Love Boat".

2nd and 3rd "Matrix" films - such a promising beginning....

OH MY DEAR GOD
i forgot about blair witch

utter...crap

also, no offense, but after watching batman begins and loving it, but suffering through the previews, i have a request to make to all producers:
please...please...please...stop it with the hot chick on a martial arts killing spree...honestly, it is just overdone and frankly, only being done for eyecandy effect and the fanboy's little "ooo, boobies on screen and it would be so hot to get my ass kicked by a DD boobied girl"

seriously, it's old, overdone, and just not done well..

I guess I can add War of the Worlds to my list. The special effects were great, and it had a few moments where it seemed like it might even be good, but the plot is so thin, the moment you start to think about it, it collapses into nonsense. Too bad they didn't fix the plot in the remake to make sense, instead, they made it worse somehow. Bleh.

People are funny creatures :lol: Blair Witch is the ONLY movie that has ever given me nightmares....and I mean out of any movie ever.

I'd throw the last 3 star wars into the list....all but the last 40 minutes or so of the latest one.

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The two most popular movies that leave me cold are The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Grease. I think they have dated badly and what was once considered scandalous is now just grating.

I suppose you could read something into the fact that these are both campy musicals but I love Moulin Rouge and West Side Story for example. I also happen to work in theatre.

Mostly though, I imagine it has to do with all the amateur adaptations and tributes I have had to endure in my career.

Ditto on "TAKEN". Talk about a sluggish treacly disappointment!

Star wars. I just don't understand why people like them so much.
I'm actually stupider after having seen napoleon dyamite. There were some funny scenes, but most were just boring.

I would like to add my thoughts on Rocky Horror and Grease.... they both were awful in my opinion.

Granted I saw Rocky Horror on DVD, perhaps it woulda been better at a midnight screnning, but damn did it blow donkey kidneys.

Grease is a film I was told I HAD to watch.. as in "omigod, you haven't seen Grease? Let's watch it right now." Movies under pressure.. not for meesa.

Now I know why I never saw Grease.

Raging Bull. It could be deNiro acted so well, I hated him for years. The character he played was a real AH!

Fight Club...

I'm tired of whiny 20somethings thinking they deserve things without having to work for them and when they do that they feel it should have been more than what they got.

Napoleon Dynamite: i only lasted like 5 min to where hes like i want chapstick or some crap. wow that movie looked stupid

Kill Bill(s): wtf... jus a uma thurman killing people... wow id rather jus play cs thats freakin more realistic

War of the Worlds: was hopin for a crazy movie but ended up wit the thought "so there was no point?" i mean special effects were nice.. thought it be good cuz Batman Begins rocked :)

Lost in Translation was horrible. The folks who all pretend like they are in on the joke with movies like this one are so pretentious I want to throw up.

Napolean Dynomite... it was humorous at times but not enough to save the whole movie, not to mention the fact that EVERYONE quotes it all the time...and they aren't amusing any more.

Bubble Boy...it's repetitive...I got a nice sleep when my cousin tried to force me to watch it though.

titanic...although i refuse to see it on principle

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

THE SEVEN SAMURAI IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER!

Wow. Lots of Napoleon Dynamite haters here. Well you can all go eat a decroted piece of crap, because I loved it.

Movies I didn't like that everyone else did. Hmmm. There's probably about a billion. Any movie with Will Smith in it. Any movie with Drew Barrymore in it (exception - E.T.)
Any movie with Liv Tyler or Joquain Phoenix in it. EVERY JERRY BRUCKHEIMER MOVIE!
I know I'm not being very specific, but that's how I feel.

One specific movie I hated that everyone else loved: Fight Club (the most frequently mentioned movie on this thread). It's a movie that's cool to like. Made popular by the post secondary, free thinking, anti-establishment wannabe's, this movie was waaay less than the sum of it's parts. I strongly believe it should have just been about fighting. Once the buildings started getting bombed, I gave up.

You're insane. I'll admit that the followup Fierce Creatures wasn't all that funny, but Wanda? Someone must have given you the wrong tape. :hmm:

Some good ones (excuse me...bad ones) mentioned here.

I'm going to throw my hat into the ring and say any movie with Owen or Luke Wilson in it is probably crap. Everybody seems to love these guys and everything they do despite all the movies they've made that can be classified as utter crap or borderline crap.

But Owen is so funny?!?! No. He's not. He plays the exact same guy in every movie. Unfunny Owen.

Super Troopers and Kung Pow. I think those movies aren't very good at alll but it seems alot of people like it. I guess its just not my type of humor.

Traffic maybe the worst movie I have ever seen, everyone I know seem to love it.

my architect:
a stupid pretentious film made by a stupid pretentious little man who happens to be louis kahn's son. ok architecture footage in places done by a guy who has no fucking idea how to do it. and miserable music. miserable.

sideways. god i hated that film. everything about it. wretched.

I love classic movies. I could sit and watch TCM all day. I've seen many of the films on AFI's top 100 list. I intend to see them all some day. Having said that, I hate hate hate "Gone With the Wind."

I had never seen it, so finally, a couple of years ago, it's being shown on TCM and I think, "What the hell, it's long, but it's supposed to be this epically amazing film. I'll watch."

What a mistake <i>that</i> turned out to be. I'm not one of those people who yell at characters on tv or in film, but somehow found myself yelling, "God, would you just SHUT UP?!" over and over during this movie.

Frankly JJ, I don't give a damn...


(sorry about the swearing, I know how touchy you can be about it).

I would have to agree with alot of these posts. Movies now are so expensive and usually suck, for this reason hubby and I go to 'maybe' 1 a year in the theatre. Other than that we rent them, so that we can fast forward if we want too.
As for worst movies-- the Terminal with Tom Hanks. I usually love Tom, but this movie was awful. Terrible ending, and I really can't stand Catherine Zeta-Jones! Hubby can't stand anything with Ben Affleck in it- Pearl Harbor, Daredevil. Neither one of us liked Meet the Fockers-- total let down.

Napoleon Dynamite. It's not a bad movie, per se, it's just really over-rated and and over-played. Everybody's got to love it, and if they don't, then there's something wrong with them.

Get over it.


Kill Bill 1 & 2 - Not all that great. Quite dry, in fact. And I can't stand Michael Madsen. As an actor, his acting makes me want to gouge out my own eyes.

Vanilla Sky - The ending was a sheer cop-out. "Oooh, look at me, ooh, the other way, what's going on? Oh no! I'm being deep. Look at me. I'm so deep you can't even see me, that's how deep I am." Sadly bizarre, pointless movie. More dissapointing because I generally like Cameron Crowe. But "Vanilla Sky" was just shit.

Grease/Phantom of the Opera -

Hmm.

MUSICAL THEATRE IS DEAD! AND YOU KILLED IT! ASSHOLES!

Napoleon Dynamite

I'm not sure that Rocky Horror was ever supposed to be a good movie... and watching it on a DVD? well that's just plain silly -- Unless you are watching it with props -- and with people doing the dialog- there's no point to the movie...

The movie 'Yes'. I was thinking 'No' the whole time. Actually couldn't finish watching it.

JJ, this post made me shed a tear. Of course, GWTW is my favorite movie ever.

Another for me to add...Saving Private Ryan. I don't know if the physical illness the first half hour gave me made me not pay attention to the rest of the movie, or if it really just sucked, but I hated this film.

Geeez.

Actually, I haven't seen it, but from what I hear, I would be right there with you on this one. Another one that I just don't care for is "School of Rock". I just don't find Jack Black's brand of mock sincerity funny. I find it a bit pathetic and a lot annoying, and would prescribe for Mr. Black a long and arduous course of fustigation did I have my druthers. (English trans: He should be severely beaten with sticks.)

Since the thread has been bumped, I'll reitirate what a boring, horrible, useless piece of crap The Seven Samurai is. I want the 4 hours of my life back.

I will have to agree with most people that My Big Fat Greek Wedding was terrible. I just didn't think it was that funny. It had it's moments, but it wasn't Oscar material.

The Last Samurai - BORING!!

star trek :lol:

i know everyone like this or the most i have talk too they love that movis
but never like it

Pulp Fiction...

I just never really thought it was funny or even slightly witty... but everyone i know loves it! :hmm:

sweetpea

Napolean Dynamite & Titanic.

Both bored the hell out of me and ND didn't make me laugh, it just annoyed the hell out of me.

Closer
Lost In Translation

I didn't really feel like I could relate to either of those movies, but apparently a lot of other people could...

Definately Napolean Dynamite. So many coworkers and friends were bouncing around the one-liners, and they sounded funny. But the movie itself was just a load. I can't beleive that BOTH me and my wife actually watched the whole thing. Quirky movies like this I usually enjoy, but big thumbs down for this one.

Lost in Translation What a snoozefest. Well acted, yes. Interesting, no.

The Matrix, well the first one was somewhat entertaining, the second one was pointless, and I never even bothered with the third. They lost me mid-way through the second one.

And an honorable mention to Unbreakable. Here is a movie I thought has SO MUCH potential to be insanely cool, but nothing ever really happened. INCREDIBLY cool concept of a "real" superhero, but theat concept was just pissed away.

they lost me during the intro to the 2nd matrix. first was definitely a self contained movie, second and third were nothing more than $$$$ makers, materialistic whoredness

as for worst TV show everyone loves: That 70's show...WTF