Movies you don't like, but apparently everyone else does.
 

I did not "get" Sideways or Garden State. I thought both of them were very boring.

Name some movies that you don't "get" or why you like movies other people don't "get."

Fight Club. I just dont "get" it and it's not that I dont like Fincher because I love Seven.

The only thing more tedious to me than sitting through "Forrest Gump" was listening to everyone imitate him for the following 5 years.

I'll have to admit I didn't like the Lord of the Rings movies at all.

I loved the book, but the movies just plain didn't do it for me

Pulp Fiction. It just wasn't funny like everyone I know said it was.

Resivoir Dogs. I kept waiting for whatever it was that made people think it was a great movie, and I was still waiting when the credits rolled.

Now, I get Pulp Fiction. Very witty dialog, liberally spiced with obscenity, bearing little or no relation to what's coming next, putting you completely off guard. The other thing about it is the way the several plotlines come together, jangled out of true by the odd, non linear presentation. I like - Very clever - but I can see how somebody might niot get it in the very same way I don't get Resivoir Dogs.

WalkinDude, only your admission of liking the books prevents my seconds from calling on you in the morning. I get LOTR with a vengance. I've been waiting for 20 year for them to do a credible job of it. Hell, they could have cast Coreys Haim and Feldman as Boromir and Aragorn respectively and Bill Murray as Gandalf and I would have loved it. As ambitious as the scope of the project was, I forgive them their distortions of the books, and, as long as the third movie was, I even forgive the complete abence of the Scourging of the Shire and the dozen false endings.

M0rpheus, Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are the same person. Get it now?

Lost in Translation. I just didn't get what was so appealing about this movie. So you were in a country where you didn't speak the language... what did you expect to happen? I couldn't stay awake the first time through, but I forced myself to watch it all the way through the next day to see what the deal was. Seriously, it was so slow paced and boring that I wonder if it came out further away from award time that people would even know of it.

I've never been able to sit through a LOTR movie. I always, without fail, lose interest and either fall asleep or turn it off.

Hellboy; alot of my friends were telling me how good it was and that I needed to see it. I borrowed it from one of them, and returned it the same night. Terrible movie in my opinion.

-Finding Nemo: I just couldn't find anything particularly great about it. I know that it was this super movie for kids and adults alike, but I'd rather spend my money on something else.
-Gone with the Wind: arguabally one of the famous movies in history, this piece was one of the first epics. That being said, the movie was terrible. The characters were terribly one dimentional, the directing reminded me of the Blair Witch Project, and the thing went on forever. I started watching the movie 12 years ago, and I'm only half done.
-Home Alone: everyone thought this was cute and hilareous. I really, really didn't. Besides the music (by John Williams), this film was 100% formula and 0% substance. Comedies can have substance, people. Garden State is a good example.
-My Big Fat Greek Wedding: I have never seen a comedy less funny than this. It was a great let down.
-Titanic: This movie haunted me for over a year. I made the mistake of seeing it once. I've never been more pissed leaving a theater. Everyone was crying and laughing and was overjoyed, while I was filled with an indescribable rage. A long series of cliches spread across a terrible disaster, trying to give the history some unneeded romantic meaning. Will there be a movie called "Twin Towers" in 40 years, in which two people fall in love in the World Trade Center before it is taken down? This was not only a travesty for what it was, but for what it did. This movie made something like $600 million, making it the top grossing film of all time. This replaced a much greater movie, Star Wars Episode 4, that actually was a breakthrough in every way. People would go and see titanic 20 or 30 times. At $8 a ticket, that is one person spending $160-$240 at the box office on one movie. Clearly people have too much money. On top of all this, there was this song worse that I have words for choking the life from what little substance was left on the radio. That banshee of a singing witch Selene Dion, like nails on an astronomical chalkboard, was the stuff of the cruelest nightmares. The song played on every station (I even heard it on the local classical music station, the one place I thought would be safe from the insanity) constantly for months. Seeing Titanic is the only mistake I have made that I feel would merrit inventing a time machine in order to correct. So, as you can see, I didn't care for the movie.

All the Lord of the Rings movies.
All the Matrix movies.
Fight Club.

Lost in Translation - YAWN

Both Spider-Man movies - just didn't like them

Fight Club - Boring. Social commentary my ass.

Napoleon Dynamite - I found this mildly amusing at best. I didn't hate it or anything, but I really don't get what all the fuss is about.

Odd, because I can picture you going apeshit on someone's ass in some shitty bar basement.

Braveheart and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Fargo

When this movie came out some many people told me it was great and that I should go see it. I hated the movie. I usually like dark comedy but I did not get this movie at all.

Finding Nemo. This was a huge movie because children and adults liked it. But when I saw it, I just didn't get how so many people thought it was a great movie. It's not funny and the plot is boring. Why this is so popular, I'll never know...

ok ok, here are a few of mine (which will date me)

Breakfast Club.

The geek, the outcast, the popular girl, the strange girl, and the jock get locked up for Saturday detention == BORING! I've seen it with friends several times and it just never got any better.

Rushmore.

Supposedly witty, here's another one I thought was boring as shit.

Any Ashton Kutcher film.

That boy couldn't act even if Lionel Barrymoore, Sir Lawrence Olivier and Sir Alex Guiness tag-team channelled him.

He could take acting lessons from Scott Biao and improve.

Any of the Spider-Man movies, & The Matrix movies (the first was mediocre, the last 2 were terrible).

Kill Bill Volume 1. That has to be one of the worst movies ever made. Hubby rented it and he and my sister (and several friends) raved and raved about how kick ass it was. I stopped watching after about half of it and went and did some laundry instead. LAUNDRY! On a Saturday afternoon!

Dumb & Dumber - The only thing that was right about this movie was the title, because it got dumb & dumber as it went on. I love other stupid comedies like Me Myself & Irene and Kingpin, but this one just did not cut it for me. Unfortunately, everyone else I know thinks this and Cable Guy (another completely unfunny movie)are the two greatest comedies flics ever.

I know it is on many people's best of lists but I have never finished watching "Citizen Kane". Maybe I'll give it another try someday.

Vanilla Sky: I thought the story and concept was lame athough Penelope Cruz was dreamy..

The American Pie series. It seems that people rave about how hilarious they are, I didn't even end up seeing any of them until the 3rd one was about to come out. After seeing all 3 I found them kinda mediocre.
I enjoyed the 1st Harry Potter to an extent, the 2nd one wasn't as good but wasn't bad, the 3rd one I just didn't like at all. The direction and cinemotography was great...the story just riddled with plot holes and inconsistancies in my opinion.
Fahrenheit 9/11 was way too long and filled with information that I already knew/wasn't factually correct. I'm sad to see the Michael Moore that made Roger and Me and the Big One has evolved into what he is now.

I never saw the appeal of Roger and Me. A company doesn't have the right to close/scale back a factory? It is a free country right? Also, I heard that the problems shown in the movie were grossly exaggerated and had nothing to do with the factory (like on of the evictions shown).

I think Michael Moore is more interested in making money than telling the truth or caring about the issues he claims to support.



I saw I Heart Huckabee's today. I enjoyed it and thought it was very clever.

Lost In Translation - What's the big deal about this one? Bunch of stupid tourists make fun of a foreign country, hmmm...real hilarious.

Last Samurai - Right, some white guy is the last samurai....puleeze....Next thing you'll be telling me that Brad Pitt is a Mexican or that Daniel Day Lewis is the Last of the Mohicans...yeah, right....

American Beauty - what do a bunch of uppity middle class WASPS have to complain about, really? Hollywood, it's time to get over yourself. A snooze-fest.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding - This was the big ethnic movie of the year? Everyone was friggin' white in this film!! *scratches head*

I think people jump on bandwagons and unwittingly contribute to the overhype and the overblown.

Roger and Me is a great movie. It is refreshing to see a different point of view for a change. Of course a factory has the right to close down, that wasn't the point. Rather, it illustrates actions have consequences. Very telling and foeshadowing. Look at things now.
Where did you hear that the claims were overexaggerated? Source please. Also, one could also claim that the "claims" about Iraq are overexaggerated. Or the "claims" about the terrorist threat are over exaggerated.

Nice try at a little attempt to interject politics in an entertainment thread. If you really want to discuss it, let's chat over in the Politics thread and keep this one to movies ok? (*smiley face icon*)

Anyhoo, there should be a parallel thread on "Actors/actresses" that everyone loves but you don't to go along with this thread.

Cheers.

Matrix trilogy
LotR trilogy
Anything Star Wars
I'm sure there are tons more, but these are definately the main ones.

Oh dont get me wrong, I get that part. I just dont see why everyone thinks it's so good.

Monster's Ball - simply garbage.
Lost in Translation - simply garbage mark II.

Greek people are white. *scratches head*

If anything I would say your the one interjecting politics into the entertainment thread. Not liking a MM film is not a matter of politics, it is a matter of taste. I was responding to someone saying the F911 was not factually correct, and that this was change from previous films. I was simply stating that from what I heard, his older movies were not very honest either.

One thing I do believe is that no one should talk about MM movies in the entertainment thread, because they are not entertaining.

Also, for one talking about interjecting politics- you are the one talking about Iraq and terrorist threats.

source http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.as...1&nav=0RZFWD9x

I do agree with you on Lost in Translation. After the movie I was left wondering... is that it? What was the point of that? Another Sofia Coppola flick, The Virgin Suicides confused me too. She is either making crap, or this stuff is way over my head.

Last I checked, Greek was an ethnicity.

eth·nic
adj.

1.
1. Of or relating to a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
2. Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries: ethnic Hungarians living in northern Serbia.
3. Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group: ethnic restaurants; ethnic art.
2. Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish; heathen.


n.

A member of a particular ethnic group, especially one who maintains the language or customs of the group.

Also, I don't think it's your job to tell others what they can post and where.

Anyhow, back on topic, I never liked the Spiderman or X-Men movies. I always thought they were silly garbage.

i will be forever labeled "wierd" for not liking E.T. and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Napoleon Dynamite - Absolutely terrible. I was able to suffer through it, but the wife got up and went into the bedroom to watch tv.

LOTR - Still haven't seen a full movie yet. Not that I don't like them, just haven't seen them.

The Royal Tenenbaums. I watched a very healthy portion of this movie and at the time I just didn't get it at all. It was so sarcastic that it ceased to be funny. I have been thinking about giving it a second chance though, maybe I will like it...

E.T.
The Matrix movies
It's A Wonderful Life. People in my family like to watch it every year, and every year I can't watch more than half an hour of it.

Ethnicity is usually implied to be outside the mainstream, i.e.- white: So it is rather to me odd to see Greek as being toted as the rave, ethnic movie of the year given that there are dozens of foreign films that fit the "ethnic mold" (EX: City of God).

Greek people are indeed white and if you really want to argue the semantics and trivialities of ethnicity I suppose we could. I personally believe ethnicity is stupid and false. I see nothing wrong with my opinion and review. And I do know the definition of ethnicity thank you.

retsuki03,
As for the politics, of course I was making it poilitical because Michael Moore is political. He kind of automatically is place in political settings and contexts. I understand you didn't like his films, but your post seemed to me to be like veiled political baiting so I responded in kind to illustrate that. I thought since you are a rookie, and you like to talk about politics, that the Politics thread is a more appropriate forum to discuss things. (I wasn't trying to personally attack you, I was responding to what I perceived to be).

As for suggesting an appropriate thread/forum to post, it's done all the time, I see nothing wrong with what I did so get over it.

I hated The Matrix. I didn't even bother with the second because i thought the first was so bad.
Armageddon
I hate almost all of the big budget action flicks being produced these days. No story, no acting, no thanks.
Faceoff and any other Nicholas Cage movie.
MIB and any other Will Smith movie.
Come to think of it I'n not fond of very many hollywood movies anymore.

I might as well chime in. Everyone in the movie who was supposed to be greek was greek (of greek ethnicity). I'm not sure what you are arguing. The movie was meant to illustrate how greek-americans stereotypically act. Whether it was a good movie or not, that's your call.

It's innapropriate to "pull rank" unless you ae a mod. If someone is a newb and asks for help, you're welcome to give it. Newb's opinions are just as valid as anyone else's.

If somebody says "tots" in the cafeteria one more time I swear to god I am going to punch them in the face.

Fuck you Napoleon Dynamite! Most worthless hour and a half of my life, although it was probably less because I FAST FORWARDED through everything I had already heard a thousand million dillion times before. Yeah it has some memorable one liners, but take those out and you've got the stupidest movie ever made....EVER!!!

I also hated The Village. My roomate, who is practically one of M. Night Shymalan's (no clue how to spell that) personal concubines, called me an idiot for not "understanding" this movie. Of course I understood it, I understood it within the first 10 minutes! At which point I should have left but kept repeating to myself, "This has got to get better, this has got to get better. Think of Unbreakable...and Signs..."

I guess I also don't understand some people's view that if you don't like a movie you obviously missed the point and am some kind of uncultured dumbass.

Any of the kevin smith movies......I fail to see the humor in any of them

My point with the Greek thing is that I didn't get how this movie was supposed to be so ethnic as it was billed (if you remember the hype). I don't have a problem with Greek people, not sure how that got transpired or got overblown.

As for the political thing, I was not pulling 'rank' (at least I did not intend it to be as such) but rather making a helpful suggestion to another fellow TFP'r. I never said his (or newb's) opinions didn't count, not sure how that got out there either. In fact, if you read my post you'll see that I am familiar with his posts and we have indeed engaged in good debates in other threads. That's why I thought his post belonged in another thread (Politics).

retsuki03,
If you have been offended, by all means let me know. I've re-read my postings (in relation to our conversations) and I am confident that they have been civil and do not contain any ill-will.

In any case, willravel, I appreciate your comments but I think you misunderstood me.

Cheers.