Movies You Can't Stand
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I like T2, but I don't love it and Furlong is a big reason.
I think it's kinda overrated, and I saw it back in '91. And I am a HUGE Arnold fan.
I much prefer the first film.
Well, in Gravity's defense, it was meant to have a simple plot: Astronaut is stuck in space and tries to get home. Doesn't really need to get more complex than that.
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Anyway, I name Fight Club to the mix. For a movie that rails against consumerist cash cows and materialism, it became one heck of a marketing juggernaut. How did it do it? By being extremely self-indulgent and self-important, trying too hard to be edgy and cynical. Rebellion in style still isn't rebellion against consumerism.
The usual suspects whenever this theme turns up:
Gone With the Wind - too long, too melodramatic, some horrible acting, racially insensitive (even allowing for the various contributing factors)...just awful.
Citizen Kane - cinematographic genius aside, a very, very overrated movie.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - I simply don't get the fuss over these movies. At all.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - perhaps the most incredibly annoying child in the history of cinema and a pathetic, screeching, hysterical caricature of a female character are bad enough without it being boring as well.
As in all things, to each their own. No doubt I enjoy movies others dislike (The Princess Bride being among them), but the above are very much on my "can't stand" / will never watch again list.
Gone With the Wind - too long, too melodramatic, some horrible acting, racially insensitive (even allowing for the various contributing factors)...just awful.
Citizen Kane - cinematographic genius aside, a very, very overrated movie.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - I simply don't get the fuss over these movies. At all.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - perhaps the most incredibly annoying child in the history of cinema and a pathetic, screeching, hysterical caricature of a female character are bad enough without it being boring as well.
Bingo. It's a terrible movie that sends a terrible message to girls / women.
Which is yet another reason to detest it, IMO. To each their own.I didn't know people hated Pretty Woman. I mean, it's got Richard Gere!
Preach it. That...thing should have been marketed as a cure for insomnia.The English Patient.
Elaine Benes was right.
JUST DIE ALREADY!!!
As in all things, to each their own. No doubt I enjoy movies others dislike (The Princess Bride being among them), but the above are very much on my "can't stand" / will never watch again list.
I don't get the hate for Pretty Woman
Sure, he is first attracted to her looks (as most people do when they meet other people) but what keeps her around is her quirky personality which is lacking in his life.
Her being a prostitute actually poses a real problem in their developing relationship to the point where it leads to him hurting her very badly and then re-evaluating her as a person. At the end he has learned much from her as she did from him because she actively tries to move on from that life because he inspired her to do so (and then comes the mandatory fairy tale ending).
Yes, it is a fairy tale but so are Grimm's fairy tales or any other story with the message that love can conquer all hardships and differences and for that i like this fairy tale. Real world is much uglier but if we always wanted realism we'd only watch documentaries and the few shock movies that show life in all its ugliness.
Sure, he is first attracted to her looks (as most people do when they meet other people) but what keeps her around is her quirky personality which is lacking in his life.
Her being a prostitute actually poses a real problem in their developing relationship to the point where it leads to him hurting her very badly and then re-evaluating her as a person. At the end he has learned much from her as she did from him because she actively tries to move on from that life because he inspired her to do so (and then comes the mandatory fairy tale ending).
Yes, it is a fairy tale but so are Grimm's fairy tales or any other story with the message that love can conquer all hardships and differences and for that i like this fairy tale. Real world is much uglier but if we always wanted realism we'd only watch documentaries and the few shock movies that show life in all its ugliness.
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The movie's "message" boils down to this: Being attractive / pretty is all that matters, and it will get you a man.
I don't see anything even remotely worthwhile about it, but to each their own.
Forgot one earlier: The Wrath of Khan. Plot holes galore. Another very overrated movie, IMO.
The movie's "message" boils down to this: Being attractive / pretty is all that matters, and it will get you a man.
I don't see anything even remotely worthwhile about it, but to each their own.
Forgot one earlier: The Wrath of Khan. Plot holes galore. Another very overrated movie, IMO.
^ I like the Atari 2600 game better than the movie.
What, because it worked in one instance for a very charming and sociable woman and a dude with serious emotional issues? This isn't some animated Disney kids' movie we're talking about, and it's not exactly a "message" picture. It's a silly fairy tale for adults.
Again, I totally get why some don't like it, and that's fine, but I hardly think it an evil or corrupting flick; I don't think it inspired any women to "walk the streets" of LA.
Paths of Glory showed how crappy war is, and how generals in WWI just pushed ahead and did what they wanted regardless of the consequences in morale and lives; I don't see it as being manipulative in any way, shape or form. It's a tragedy that General Mireau couldn't have been fragged for what he did by his troops, but at least he gets dealt with at the end.
Movies I can't stand?
-Ghost World: Story of a manipulative young bitch who thinks that she's hot shit, but is actually a slacker with no direction who loves to play games. How critics have come to love this POS, I don't know.
Rushmore: I'm sorry,but I don't get it.
I'll ad more as I can think of them.
Agreed completely. It's as much about bureaucratic indifference and uncaring careerism as the war, and applies as much today as ever. An all-time favorite of mine.
Well, that was the point. Young people are selfish like that sometimes, they are not always fun and sympathetic as usually depicted in movies about young adults. She found out she needed to grow up. My wife didn't like it back then, either, but I found her watching it on cable the other day and she said she now thought it was pretty good.
Napoleon Dynamite: I've only seen it once and I remember not finding it the least bit funny and feeling that it was a chore to sit through.
Avatar: "OMG, it's so amazing!" was just about all I heard before I went to see it. Afterwards I definitely felt like it was a movie I didn't need to see or would watch again.
Avatar: "OMG, it's so amazing!" was just about all I heard before I went to see it. Afterwards I definitely felt like it was a movie I didn't need to see or would watch again.
I thought the anti-consumerist "message" was in itself aggravating yet made even more so by the hypocritical style. Also worse because I usually like Norton.
It's funny how the aspects of a film some cite as the reason they hate it is what others say won them over. For me, the above is the reason I like T2. It's what made it go beyond just one long chase-scene.
I started watching Shakespeare In Love about a year ago and shut it off after about 45 minutes. I need to give it another chance, but right now, it's going into this thread.
That film lost me in the early scene where the guy is screwing his chamber-maid while successfully maintaining a conversation with another guy. Outside of swingers and porn-stars I can't imagine anybody engaging in sex could possibly be that casual and cavalier.
Okay, one more:
The 40-Year-Old Virgin-I was at best indifferent to this movie, until I saw a still of Steve Carell's character lying on his bed reading comic books and surrounded by action figures; needless to say, I was insulted that Judd Apatow implied that being a virgin is synonymous with being a sci-fi fan, and have hated it ever since.
A person is a spinster for reasons known to them that have little to do with their collecting action figures or reading comic books and a male isn't like a female; Andy Stitzer isn't Evelyn Wyckoff,, and doesn't have to fear a male version of premature menopause.
I didn't really understand why that film critic had it in for Apatow over that recent shooting, but now I can understand-a little bit-why she doesn't
The 40-Year-Old Virgin-I was at best indifferent to this movie, until I saw a still of Steve Carell's character lying on his bed reading comic books and surrounded by action figures; needless to say, I was insulted that Judd Apatow implied that being a virgin is synonymous with being a sci-fi fan, and have hated it ever since.
A person is a spinster for reasons known to them that have little to do with their collecting action figures or reading comic books and a male isn't like a female; Andy Stitzer isn't Evelyn Wyckoff,, and doesn't have to fear a male version of premature menopause.
I didn't really understand why that film critic had it in for Apatow over that recent shooting, but now I can understand-a little bit-why she doesn't
For me it is Titanic.
How did this movie do so well?... I can barely watch it... but that most likely has to do with DiCaprio... He makes me cringe in any movie he is in..
How did this movie do so well?... I can barely watch it... but that most likely has to do with DiCaprio... He makes me cringe in any movie he is in..
Idk if anyone mentioned this already but Paranormal Activity for me. Super waste of time
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