Garden State. What a piece of shit movie, but everyone loved it.
Films that sucked, but everyone else liked...
- Thread starter Warped9
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It's hard to believe, Gep, but I've also seen people in the General Trek forum say it's either their favorite, or the best of the TNG films. Stunning comments.
Many of these are thanks to this thread jogging my memory:
V for Vendetta (possibly the worst movie I've ever seen)
Lost in Translation
American Beauty
300
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
Some of the ones that you people are crazy for not liking:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
Shawshank Redemption
District 9
Star Trek
V for Vendetta (possibly the worst movie I've ever seen)
Lost in Translation
American Beauty
300
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
Some of the ones that you people are crazy for not liking:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
Shawshank Redemption
District 9
Star Trek
Besides the first one, I'm not really sure "everyone else liked" the Matrix movies either.
I kind of enjoyed the second one, but the third one was a serious drop in quality for me even with the numerous high points that it had. OTOH, it did lead to me coining the phrase "Trinity Syndrome".
I kind of enjoyed the second one, but the third one was a serious drop in quality for me even with the numerous high points that it had. OTOH, it did lead to me coining the phrase "Trinity Syndrome".
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Lord Garth
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Kids/teenagers and the parents who were dragged along. I have yet to meet an adult who liked Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. None of my co-workers liked it either. They're in their early-to-mid-20s, so they didn't grow up with G1 like I did but they still didn't like it. It's just not a movie targeted to adults.
One key problem my co-workers (who are all black) had was that two of the characters racist caricatures and I agreed with them. I almost didn't see the movie on principal because I read about that. Then I decided to see for myself because I thought, "maybe the racism isn't as bad as they're hyping it up to be." I'd say it came pretty close.
On the flip side, most adults I know liked Star Trek (2009) to one degree or another (loved it, liked it, thought it was okay), so the audience for Star Trek picks up where Transformers left off. Paramount can reach almost the entire marketable age spectrum between these two franchises alone.
Well, it's not 'everyone' because there are a lot of opinions out there in this big world of ours; but these are movies that are considered successful or popular, but I personally don't care for:
*Titanic
*The Mist
*Cleo 5-7
*l'eclisse
*Twilight
*New Blood/New World/New Werewolves (whatever it was called)...
*Serenity...
*Friday...
*Friday After Next....
*Next Friday...
*Straw Dogs...
*Titanic
*The Mist
*Cleo 5-7
*l'eclisse
*Twilight
*New Blood/New World/New Werewolves (whatever it was called)...
*Serenity...
*Friday...
*Friday After Next....
*Next Friday...
*Straw Dogs...
Blair Witch
Forest Gump
Matrix
Grease
Liar Liar
StarWars bla, I admit a lot of Trek movies are meh but they are not over rated like the Lucas Wars franchise
The first Superman movie, the 2nd was much better despite the whole Donner fiasco
Some mediocre Will Smith film
Some mindless crap by Tarantino
Whatever crap they play on tv every Christmas
Forest Gump
Matrix
Grease
Liar Liar
StarWars bla, I admit a lot of Trek movies are meh but they are not over rated like the Lucas Wars franchise
The first Superman movie, the 2nd was much better despite the whole Donner fiasco
Some mediocre Will Smith film
Some mindless crap by Tarantino
Whatever crap they play on tv every Christmas
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Lord Garth
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Anything with Jim Carey or Adam Sandler. I can't stand either of them.
Joel_Kirk: I LOVED 'The Mist', best horror film I've seen in ages. Which brings me rather neatly to films like 'Saw' and other recent "horrors" that appear to be popular with some. Can't stand them personally.
'The English Patient' is one I never understood the appeal of. Tedious, pretentious shite.
The Ace Ventura films are another set that I thought were rubbish. Perhaps I just didn't get the joke. Nothing against Jim Carey's comedy films, 'The Mask' was OK at the time (have't seen it in ages, so that opinion could change) and I really like 'Liar Liar', 'Dumb and Dumber' and 'Bruce Almighty'.
Back to horrors for a second as I recently rewatched 'The Shining' and I had trouble understanding it's appeal. I don't think it's because I'm jaded or anything (I got scared by that "don't blink" episode of Dr. Who for goodness sake!) I just felt there were no characters I could root for and the story was about as subtle and a napalm enema. I known Kubrick is considered one of the best there's been but I have to occasionally wonder why. It's all very well shot and put together with very solid performances, but with a lot of his films I always seam to miss a sense of storytelling. Perhaps it's something only critics and true film buffs can appreciate, I honestly don't know.
'The English Patient' is one I never understood the appeal of. Tedious, pretentious shite.
The Ace Ventura films are another set that I thought were rubbish. Perhaps I just didn't get the joke. Nothing against Jim Carey's comedy films, 'The Mask' was OK at the time (have't seen it in ages, so that opinion could change) and I really like 'Liar Liar', 'Dumb and Dumber' and 'Bruce Almighty'.
Back to horrors for a second as I recently rewatched 'The Shining' and I had trouble understanding it's appeal. I don't think it's because I'm jaded or anything (I got scared by that "don't blink" episode of Dr. Who for goodness sake!) I just felt there were no characters I could root for and the story was about as subtle and a napalm enema. I known Kubrick is considered one of the best there's been but I have to occasionally wonder why. It's all very well shot and put together with very solid performances, but with a lot of his films I always seam to miss a sense of storytelling. Perhaps it's something only critics and true film buffs can appreciate, I honestly don't know.
The Transformers movies.
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Jetfire
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I was so excited to here about Jetfire being in the movie and they made him my all time favorite plane...a SR-71 Blackbird(the space shuttle would have worked too)...but then seeing the film...it was like expecting a PS3 for Christmas and getting nothing but socks & underwear instead. Since the 1st movie sucked...couldn't be too surprised the 2nd would also.
I was so excited to here about Jetfire being in the movie and they made him my all time favorite plane...a SR-71 Blackbird(the space shuttle would have worked too)...but then seeing the film...it was like expecting a PS3 for Christmas and getting nothing but socks & underwear instead. Since the 1st movie sucked...couldn't be too surprised the 2nd would also.
I actualy thought Jetfire was one of better devloped and better potrayed transformers in both movies.
Which says a lot considering how OTT Jetfire was. A robot, even an "old one" needs to walk with a wheeled cane?
Obviously people somewhere like the Transformers movies, but they're truly terrible. I wouldn't call the Harry Potter films terrible, but I definitely think they're boring and overrated.
Life is Beautiful is a terrible, trite, dishonest Oscar grab of bullshit. Same with Forrest Gump. I fucking hate Robert Zemeckis since...I don't know, Contact was probably the last good thing he directed, but he was definitely starting to fill up with massive suckage before that. Cast Away? Even the title is trite, wanna be clever hackitude. Piss poor, terrible film.
Life is Beautiful is a terrible, trite, dishonest Oscar grab of bullshit. Same with Forrest Gump. I fucking hate Robert Zemeckis since...I don't know, Contact was probably the last good thing he directed, but he was definitely starting to fill up with massive suckage before that. Cast Away? Even the title is trite, wanna be clever hackitude. Piss poor, terrible film.
That's assuming of course the crashdown bloke wasn't talking out of his arse. I liked how it was just vague and ambiguous enough that either explanation could be seen as valid. After all...
...once the boy was sacrificed, the mist did clear. Plus of course Ms. crazy pants wasn't stung by that thing and in the end, she did get her martyrdom.
Personally I believe the scientific version, but I appreciated how they left it open and didn't over explain it. From the commentary it's mentioned that there was originally a scene in the script at the front of the movie where you see what happend, but they didn't shoot it in order to save money. Good thing too, because it really wasn't necessary.
