Films that sucked, but everyone else liked...
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Please stop talking about the Battlestar Galactica thing, 23skidoo. You bring it up in every other thread even though you claim you're past that. This thread is about movies, but yet you just had to get another jab in. I feel like I lived through the whole thing when I didn't know anything about it at the time.
A Beautiful Mind
Up
Pirates of the Caribbean 2&3
Wedding Crashers
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Transformers 2
I Am Legend
Cars
Hancock
Night at the Museum
The Waterboy
Click
Nacho Libre
White Chicks
I've seen a lot of stuff people my age think are "OMG SO AWESOME!!!111!" ugh
A Beautiful Mind
Up
Pirates of the Caribbean 2&3
Wedding Crashers
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Transformers 2
I Am Legend
Cars
Hancock
Night at the Museum
The Waterboy
Click
Nacho Libre
White Chicks
I've seen a lot of stuff people my age think are "OMG SO AWESOME!!!111!" ugh
I thought the first Pirates movie was dull and uninspired so I never bothered to see the rest. Forrest Gump was massively stupid and made me want to bash my brains in. I never understood the love for the Spiderman films; I thought they were rather boring and predictable.
Aliens is very much my least favorite Alien movie. (I should note that I've not seen Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem or whatever it was called.) There are some good ideas in there, the story isn't that bad, and the performances are all adequate to better, but the jingoism grates and Horner's score scuttles the movie for me. I love Alien 3 for its unremitting nihilism, I love Alien for being a really good scare, I tolerate Alien Resurrection because there are some really fantastic visuals. But Aliens is nigh unwatchable for me.Hooray, I am no longer the lone voice of dissent!I don't think it's terrible either, but I was really disappointed watching it again in 2009, for some of the same reasons that you were.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
A Beautiful Mind
Shrek (I thought it was mildly entertaining, then the world decided it was great. No, it wasn't.)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Armageddon (Wait, didn't anyone really like it?)
There's Something About Mary (I liked Ben Stiller before this movie, afterwards I avoided almost everything he did until Tropical Thunder.)
Traffic (A trite, condensed soap opera with a better budget.)
Bowling for Columbine (Moore's quite clever, he passes himself off as a regular midwestern joe when he's got a talent for propaganda that would make Joseph Goebbels green with envy.)
An Inconvenient Truth (No political comment, just that Al Gore is as boring as hell to listen to for that long.)
True Lies (It's more farcical than Last Action Hero, but far, far more loved. It also had Tom Arnold in it. TOM ARNOLD. CAMERON HAS A PACT WITH SATAN. There's no other explination.)
Shrek (I thought it was mildly entertaining, then the world decided it was great. No, it wasn't.)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Armageddon (Wait, didn't anyone really like it?)
There's Something About Mary (I liked Ben Stiller before this movie, afterwards I avoided almost everything he did until Tropical Thunder.)
Traffic (A trite, condensed soap opera with a better budget.)
Bowling for Columbine (Moore's quite clever, he passes himself off as a regular midwestern joe when he's got a talent for propaganda that would make Joseph Goebbels green with envy.)
An Inconvenient Truth (No political comment, just that Al Gore is as boring as hell to listen to for that long.)
True Lies (It's more farcical than Last Action Hero, but far, far more loved. It also had Tom Arnold in it. TOM ARNOLD. CAMERON HAS A PACT WITH SATAN. There's no other explination.)
District 9, Elizabeth, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mars Attacks, were all dreadful films. 28 Days later had a dreadful last third.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
I agree with that.
Whether or not a movie "sucks" is, of course, very much in the eye of the beholder. To each their own. Having said that, whatever works for others about these movies just doesn't work for me:
Gone With the Wind
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chariots of Fire
The Wrath of Khan
There are probably others (I'd include Independence Day but I'm not sure if "everyone else" likes it), but the ones I mentioned always spring immediately to mind whenever this topic pops up.
And while I don't think the Lord of the Rings movies or Casino Royale "sucked", I don't think they're as marvellous as they're sometimes made out to be, either.
Gone With the Wind
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chariots of Fire
The Wrath of Khan
Preach it, brother.
There are probably others (I'd include Independence Day but I'm not sure if "everyone else" likes it), but the ones I mentioned always spring immediately to mind whenever this topic pops up.
And while I don't think the Lord of the Rings movies or Casino Royale "sucked", I don't think they're as marvellous as they're sometimes made out to be, either.
Personally, while it's certainly not on par with, say, Showgirls in the bad film stakes, I think I'm the only one who didn't really "get" The Shawshank Redemption.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
AI
Saw the first Lord of the Rings movie, couldn't stand it and didn't ever see the other two.
Second Pirates movie was lame, didn't care to see the third.
AI
Saw the first Lord of the Rings movie, couldn't stand it and didn't ever see the other two.
Second Pirates movie was lame, didn't care to see the third.
Home Alone - mildly amusing at best. I remember sitting in the theater looking around at everyone else roaring with laughter wondering what was so funny.
My Best Friend's Wedding - Karaoke and spontanious song are not freaking hilarious.
Legends of the Fall - for some reason, I just can't get into watching this film. It just does nothing for me and I am a person that did like 'Seven Years in Tibet'.
and speaking of Brad Pitt . . .
All the 'Oceans' movies. Its like watching a bunch of actors get together and congratulate each other on how cool they are.
My Best Friend's Wedding - Karaoke and spontanious song are not freaking hilarious.
Legends of the Fall - for some reason, I just can't get into watching this film. It just does nothing for me and I am a person that did like 'Seven Years in Tibet'.
and speaking of Brad Pitt . . .
All the 'Oceans' movies. Its like watching a bunch of actors get together and congratulate each other on how cool they are.
Thespeckledkiwi
Vice Admiral
Recently Avatar, the first Transformers (by Michael Bay), Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, the Passion of the Christ...I'll think of others.
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
The sequels to "The Matrix" (the first had promise, but was "okay" at best)
Any of the Harry Potter films
"The Lord of the Rings"
"The Dark Knight"
"Red Dawn" (it sucked whe nit first came out, now they are making a remake...)
"Saw"
Bay's "Transformers"
"James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies"
"Scream"
"Executive Decision" (I turned the channel -- didn't even finish watching it)
"Gremlins" (okay, it didn't "suck, but it's nothing like the master piece people make it out to be)
"Star Trek: Nemesis"
JJ's "Star Trek"
"Traiing Day" (a film that never really had a point, and just fell apart at the end; I found I just didn't give a shit)
"Starship Troopers"
"King Kong" (2005)
The sequels to "The Matrix" (the first had promise, but was "okay" at best)
Any of the Harry Potter films
"The Lord of the Rings"
"The Dark Knight"
"Red Dawn" (it sucked whe nit first came out, now they are making a remake...)
"Saw"
Bay's "Transformers"
"James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies"
"Scream"
"Executive Decision" (I turned the channel -- didn't even finish watching it)
"Gremlins" (okay, it didn't "suck, but it's nothing like the master piece people make it out to be)
"Star Trek: Nemesis"
JJ's "Star Trek"
"Traiing Day" (a film that never really had a point, and just fell apart at the end; I found I just didn't give a shit)
"Starship Troopers"
"King Kong" (2005)
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forrest Gump (It did inspire a very good seafood restaurant, however.)
Both Transformers films.
Star Trek (2009)
Juno
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Blood Simple
The Maltese Falcon
The King Kong remake
Superman Returns (Everyone seemed to like it at the time; its hatedom has developed since then.)
Lost in Translation
And a special mention to WALL-E for losing my interest partway through, despite being a Pixar film.
What? Nobody liked this.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forrest Gump (It did inspire a very good seafood restaurant, however.)
Both Transformers films.
Star Trek (2009)
Juno
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Blood Simple
The Maltese Falcon
The King Kong remake
Superman Returns (Everyone seemed to like it at the time; its hatedom has developed since then.)
Lost in Translation
And a special mention to WALL-E for losing my interest partway through, despite being a Pixar film.
What? Nobody liked this.
The following will never play on my BD player ever again:
Paranormal Activity (made Blair Witch look epic)
Any Quentin Tarantino film (overrated hack imo)
Twilight
The Notebook
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
X3
Spiderman 3
Transformers 1 and 2
Paranormal Activity (made Blair Witch look epic)
Any Quentin Tarantino film (overrated hack imo)
Twilight
The Notebook
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
X3
Spiderman 3
Transformers 1 and 2
Spider-Man 2. I loved the 1st one. The 2nd one is just endless angst with unrelated action scenes inserted. All the complaints everyone had about Spider-Man 3 I said first about Spider-Man 2.
See, I disagree. There's just something about the Harry Potter films where I don't feel they ever become rediculous enough to provide good Rifftrax material, not like The Dark Knight or Star Wars: A New Hope.
"Oh, come on. Most people don't know what the D.A. does or what 'D.A.' even stands for."
See, I disagree. There's just something about the Harry Potter films where I don't feel they ever become rediculous enough to provide good Rifftrax material, not like The Dark Knight or Star Wars: A New Hope.
"Oh, come on. Most people don't know what the D.A. does or what 'D.A.' even stands for."
