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.

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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.

My comments about Roger and Me were not intended to be political. Believe it or not, I started this thread to talk about movies. Lately all the films I've seen have been crap.


I have to agree with most the people here on Napoleon Dynamite. A few funny parts yes, but mostly chaos/absurdity. I didn't get it.

That's what I thought before I saw it, but then that was the entire point of the movie. It took someone who was accustomed with the ways of the new, to appreciate and adopt the ways of the old. As Japan was being westernized, it was losing its far eastern heritage. Then this westerner comes along and takes up the far eastern philosphy. Doing exactly the opposite of what the country is doing.

It seems that most people I ask really liked A.I. ITS A FUCKING ROBOT, PEOPLE!!!

No of course, that was the gag. I guess I have a lousy sense of humor since my one attempt has failed miserably. That's why I included the Mexican and Last of the Mohicans bit (*badum bum*) in case anyone was confused.
:confused:

I also forgot about Garden State. Almost as bad as Napoleon Dynamite.

I didn't particularly care for The 25th Hour.
Or The English Patient.

Oh...my fault...

I loved The Last Samurai and jumped at the chance to discuss it. :|

And I also liked Last of the Mohicans, but I won't get into that.

I fell asleep during The Big Lebowski. Kill Bill 1 sucked, so I didn't see the 2nd one. Fell asleep during Donnie Darko.

AI, The English Patient, Simon Finch, Out of Africa.

However I really liked The Village and most people I know hated it. I think they went into it thinking it was a horror movie. It isn't, it is a mystery.

I've never heard of ethnicity being used to imply something out of the mainstream. I've only heard of it used to describe a different culture.

Last time I checked, Greek was as much an ethnicity as Brazillian.

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. You say you think ethnicity is stupid and false, yet you complain that a movie about "white" people is called ethnic. So which is it?

It sure doesn't seem like you do to me. I think you are confusing the idea of race with ethnicity. Ethnicity has to with language and culture, not skin color or genetic makeup.

<font size=5>The Ring</font>

Yeah...I said it! Fuckin sucked..overrated ass movie. :|

Asta!!

Oh yeah, The Ring was trash, I'm sure the sequel will be no better judging by the previews. I remember the movie was nothing when it first came out, then all of a sudden out of nowhere it was some kind of mainstream horror masterpiece. What a waste of film.

Titanic-this movie made me wanna vomit. k, thats a little extreme I know, but as someone else pointed out, that movie had nothing to do with the disaster took place.

Lord of the Rings
Spiderman 1&2

I really liked Donnie Darko...a lot of people don't get this movie....I really like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...not a lot of people understand that movie, either. Titanic was well done. I absolutely thought this movie was beautiful cinematography. I didn't care about the romance, I cared about the history.

I find that people don't "get" certain movies if they aren't in the right mood when they watch them. For example, if you're in crappy mood and you can't let certain problems go, then if you go watch a comedy you might not find it very funny. Or if you are watching a low-brow Amerian teen comedy but were expecting brittish humor. Things like that. I think if a movie is considered to be good by a lot of your friends (friends tend to have similar tastes, though there are exceptions, which is why I say a lot of them) then I think it's worth spending 2 hours of your time re-watching the movie when you're in a different mindset. Also, many times the second watching of a movie is actually better than the first watching.

As for people saying they don't "get" movies that they haven't even seen the whole of, for whatever reason - maybe you don't get it because you didn't watch the whole thing. Movies are supposed to be taken in all at once, not in pieces. If you only see the first half, or last half, or middle of a movie, then I wouldn't expect you to "get" why it's so good. Give them another chance and watch them all the way through. 99% of the time, if I commit myself to a movie, I watch it in its entirety just to give it a chance to pick up or explain itself.

There are few movies I don't like. Each has merit in its own way. Of all the movies listed here that I have watched, I can't think of any that I would say I didn't "get." Even a movie like Matrix Revolutions - I was disappointed by it, but everyone was disappointed by it, so I don't consider me not "getting" that. It did have some nice action in it, but it didn't live up to the expecations of the fans.

But see, therein lies the problem. It was hyped as a horror movie, but failed to meet the hype in that aspect. Then people touted it as a mystery, but it wasn't that either. The only thing mysterious about that whole movie was for some reason everytime I went to grab for some popcorn there was less than the last time I grabbed for it...this can be later attributed to moochers.

BLASPHEMY!

Just messing with you. But what is up with Star Wars 1 and 2. IMO crap compared to the originals.

ya ethnic greeks are caucasian. but their culture is not mainstream North American, therefore the ethnic tag. I suppose the correlation of ethnic to race isn't one to one.

I thought that Shrek 2 bit the big one. not as funny /innovative as Shrek classic. It tried too hard.

also, Million Dollar Baby couldn't hold my interest.

Liked Tarntino's stylized Hero though....

ive two that seem to be universally touted as masterpieces, clerks and requiem for a dream.

the former, i just couldnt grasp the supposed high brow humor, i guess i must be a bit more dull than i had first thought.

the latter, i can see that it was good at what is was trying to do (create a disturbing and difficult movie to watch), but pardon me if i cannae stand that. if im going to watch the downfall of a person i had better be somewhat entertained (for that reason alone, i <3 fear and loathing).

as for the reverse, i seem to be the only one i know who enjoyed punchdrunk love immensely. i suppose it might have been my state of mind at the time (depressed) but i saw it as a very powerful film

two nitpicks on the above posts:

the last samurai, while very entertaining, was far from very factual, at least in its portayal of the samurai and the respective warlords as proprietors and protectors of japanese heritage, they were largely corrupt, fed off the peasant population and were in the time of the film trying to regain momentum in the struggle for power that they were losing.

second nitpick, Hero wasn't done by Tarentino, though he was the one lighting a fire under mirimax' ass to get it imported.

as a parting jab, Lucky! Like, gosh, what were you thinking. Eat a darn cassadilla napoleon!

I am not a fucking Caucasian!
 

My skin is (commonly refered to as) white. My ethnic group? Scotch/Irish/English/German/Swedish. I am not a fucking Caucasian!

I am not so much offended as annoyed when people call white people Caucasian. Caucasian, although in the American vernacular, is really a bullshit term invented by a jerkoff German (see:Blumenbach) in the late 1700s. It is no longer used in anthropology and does not describe me, despite me being white.

Scarface, I just don't see what all the fuss is about.

the movie Free French Fries. Everyone disses on it so bad, makes me sad, makes me mad, it's a fad, i've been had. Maybe some free french fries will make be feel better.

I just don't get what people see in Napoleon Dynamite. Maybe I'm just turning into an old man or something. Aside from the crazy dance scene at the end, the rest of the movie was just retards at play.

Kill Bill 1 and 2

Just think they are utter rubbish.

Oh and The Ring - Rubbish as well :)

Nah, it was the execution. The original Spanish version (Abre Los Ojos)--also starring Penelope Cruz--was much better.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of those disliking Fight Club. I actually enjoyed it the first time through, just for the twist, but I don't think it holds up once you know the twist.

The Usual Suspects is another movie I enjoyed just once, and only for the big twist, and then just a little bit.

The Big Lebowski is my least favorite Cohen brothers movie by a wide margin. Painfully dull.

Tarantino DIDNT do hero. he just brought it to america or something like that. he didnt help the production one bit. and i didnt like it that much. Way too much slow motion action. i think we had enough of the matrix effects.

movie i didnt get was the 25th hour. what the fuck was that? worst movie for a long time.
finding nemo, shrek, shrek2, ice age, spiderman 1, spiderman 2, LOTR 1, and a few more i cant think of.

titanic...boring
Ghostbusters....whatever
Spaceballs....I hated it the first time Isaw it and every time since

LOTR
Braveheart
Boondock Saints

napolean dinamite or whatever, i found it lame, its funny to talk about tho

lost in translation -- i don't get it

matrix (all 3) -- i don't get them

The Matrix

Pulp Fiction. I think it's one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. I fell asleep halfway through it.

Sleepy Hollow and other Tim Burton movies. Tim Burton's desire to create a certain mood in his films just comes off as cheesy to me--Edward Scissorhands is a prime example of this.

Office Space. I've seen it a few times but heard it quoted so much I'm just tired of it.

Thelma and Louise

Regarding " The Ring": there is a japanese original that i like and then there is an american remake that has no value whatsoever.

The English Patient.

Sincerly,
Elaine Benes

I finally watched "Briget Jones's Diary".....wow, what a disappointment. I like all kinds of movies including chick flicks but I didn't like this one at all. Glad it was only a rental.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" the first time...didn't get it. Then, at the recommendation of my friend I watched stoned...holy moly...I love that movie.

Two movies: the first I "got", i just don't understand why the world fell in love with it. The second, I just didn't "get".

Titanic - The most overated movie of all time. I could say why, but I'd be repeating others in this thread that have already done my work for me. I think Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are both determined to make great movies throughout the rest of their career to cancel out this P.O.S.

Mulholland Drive - This movie is, by far, the most incomprehensible movie I've ever seen. True story: My wife and I walk out of the theatre in silence. We get in the car. She turns to me. I turn to her. At the same time we ask each other "What the fuck was that?!?!" I go home to read a synopsis of the movie on Salon.com. The author of the article claims that he too didn't truly understand it, but the article was designed to take a stab at explaining what he thought it meant. after reading it, I recognize what they were trying to do, but as a relatively intelligent fan of film, something this obtuse should never have been made.

The only movie where I felt absolutely robbed afterwards was "The Village". And to make matters worse, I didn't want to go but allowed some friends to talk me into going (there were 10 of them, so my ability to fend off peer pressure was weak). The majority of them liked it and I absolutely loathed it...but, I guess it doesn't really apply to this thread since most people like to take a steaming dump all over that movie whenever it's brought up (save for a few friends of mine who I have debated with until we were both blue in the face).


As far as movies that most everyone loves but I just wasn't impressed with--there are too many to mention, but off the top of my head--the two sequels to Austin Powers. Sure, I liked the original when it first came out, but then quickly got tired of it when I had to endure a million terrible impressions for several years. Then the sequels came out and the unfunny impressions multiplied exponentially...not to mention the fact that Austin Powers 2 was an exact carbon copy of the first with just a few elements tweaked and the edition of a couple new characters. I didn't bother to see Goldmember, but I'd say it's a safe bet that I wouldn't like it either. The Scary Movie series was also pretty shitty, in my opinion. I think the Wayans (other than Damon) are horribly overrated.

I agree, my family loved that movie, and I absolutely couldn't stand it.

Just a note on a movie that was mentioned a long time ago...The Last Samurai. Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai, the old samurai is. It's not really about Cruise, it's about him, and how he struggles to have an honorable life despite the changing world.

And AI would have been good I think if Kubrick had lived to make it, instead of spielberg.

Gotta agree with other s on The Ring..... it was one of the worst movies ever.

However the popular movie I loathe most is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. So lame...

For those who say they don't "get it", here's a quick summary of the social commentary it provides.

On the surface, it's a simple characterization of the quiet acceptance of violence in our society though we condemn it publicly. We all want to express our violent urges and get out pent up anger. Toward the end, the plot shifts and shows us how the uncontrolled release of that voilent energy allows us to succumb to the appeal of nihilism as a way of righting every wrong since the beginning of society.

Strip away the in-your-face stuff and you'll find that there are two underlying messages.

First, there's the tendency to have delusions of grandeur and build ourselves up as something we aren't when we're too afraid to change what we hate about our lives and instead just deal with it like we are told we should. This encompasses the narrator's hatred of his job, and his unwillingness to accept and acknowledge his subconscious love for Marla. Second, and I think that this is something that Palahniuk wanted to convey to us on an almost completely subliminal level, is the spiral of self-destruction and violence that comes from giving in to societal pressure and repressing homosexuality. He lusts after his fictional alter ego while that ego spends long nights fucking the woman that he subconsciously understands he "should" be with.

The Big Lebowski-- there was no point and I found very few things funny about it. I just didn't enjoy it.

I would say MiB and The Big Lebowski. I thought both were terrible.

I despise old movies like Casablanca and Citizen Kane.

The Ring was horrible - not scary in the LEAST bit. Kinda funny how everyone thinks it was... makes me feel better because I've always wanted to write some kind of horror movie, and if people are scared of the ring, they'd shit their pants with some of the stuff I have in my head.

A Clockwork Orange. The story itself is good, but the actual movie sucks. I don't mind watching the movie because of the story, but... yeah, it's pretty cheesy.

The Sixth Sense. Maybe I'm just very perceptive, but I'm not quite sure how so many people were caught off guard by the ending. I think it just goes to show how little people pay attention to fine details in movies ;) Same applies with The Others.

Hmm... can't really think of any others at the moment.

I liked Sixth Sense but I know what you mean about people being caught off guard. I was pretty sure I knew the ending after the "anniversary dinner" scene with his wife...

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" sucked...sucked...and sucked, horribly! Did I mention that I think this movie sucked?

I thought it ROCKED, but I'm in love with Shyamalan, so you know...

i just watched Raging Bull (boxing movie with DeNiro and Pesci), and I thought it sucked. But it won some Academy Awards.

I don't really care for the Matrix movies. I watched the first two but passed on the third. The special effects are the only good aspects.

I completely agree with this. I will see just about any movie because I really enjoy the experience. But the Matrix movies really put me out. I actually fell asleep during the first one. Feeling guilty, I attempted to see it again. That was my mistake.

Thats hits the spot :)
First one was decent, the other two hit the wall hard!

Huh. Was that in the book, or mentioned in some interview? I surely missed it in my three or four viewings of the film.

My pick: Meet the Parents

Ending airport scene aside, utter shite. The comedy equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. Seeing misfortune after misfortune visited upon Stiller, mistake after mistake made...this wasn't funny. It was painful and nothing else. Whatever muscles are exercised by cringing received a thorough workout.

Anything Woody Allen (that guy creeps me out)
Something About Mary, Fockers and all related Focker movies. I did like Dodgeball though.

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"

Doesn't make any sense as to why others like it so much. It was crap to me.

I liked it, but all my friends didn't, is it really liked by everyone? hehe

I don't think this movie really fits the thread because it seems like a movie that is shit on more often than not.

lost in translation.... i wanted to like it, but NOTHING HAPPENED... i have never been more bored watching a movie in my entire life.

I say Meet the Parents too...I haven't wished I was laughing more in my life. I'm sure Meet the Fockers is even worse but I'll spare myself the pain.

Also Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. I just don't "get" comic books, superheroes, or movies based on them. I also can't deal with such unrealistic movies that try to present themselves as somewhat realistic. 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. Look at Michael Jackson, he got bit by a spider and he can't even walk to court. =P

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. But their commercial failures show one of the reasons that the MPAA usually cranks out such crap as Scooby Doo 2. Every time someone tries to make an innovative movie, people don't like it because they don't understand it and the studio loses money, and when studios lose money, studio chiefs get fired (though I'm sure they haven't done too poorly with the DVD sales). On the other hand, they can make a sequel to a popular movie and no matter how bad it is it will make a ton of money. It's a cliche, but people will get what they pay for.

something about mary, really really not funny. anything ben stiller in fact, sorry ben but you just don't have the subtlety or timing for comedy, get a new job!