How about a twist on the "movies you've never seen" post?

Name some movies that everyone has praised, but you have disliked or outright hated.

I'll start the ball rolling with:

Good Will Hunting
Pulp Fiction
Apocalypse Now
The Blair Witch Project

Not a big fan of...

Independence Day
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
Basic Instinct
Death Wish
Scent of a Woman

The Lost Boys

Everyone said, "You'll love it, Frank!"
I thought it was stupid. If you boil it down to essentials,
it was just a peer-pressure movie. "OK. I'll become a
vampire to fit in."

Stupid.

Apocalypse Now-The 1st movie that I ever wanted to get my money back.
Serenity- I really felt cheated on this one.

The Deer Hunter
Three Kings
Forrest Gump
Spiderman
The Ring

The Phantom Menace

Independence Day was pathetic.

The first two SW prequels were pointless and annoying.

any movie with Chevy Chase in it.

Star Wars
2001: A Space Odyssey
Saving Private Ryan

Any movie with Will Ferrel in it.

I have this picture in my head that if John Belushi could come back for just one day, the first thing he would do is dress up as one of the Blues Brothers and kick Ferrell in the butt.

Huzz

So-called "best" pictures I was completely underwhelmed by:

"Ghandi"
"Dances With Wolves"
"Braveheart"
"Titanic"

Also: most Robert Altman films, and any movie involving Sally Fields and a farm.

Couldn't stand:

Sideways (Made my brain hurt)
The Blair Witch Project (Fell Asleep)

Ditto on Will Ferrel.... as overrated as you can get, right up there with Pauly Shore (Ugh!!)

current:
40 year old virgin
wallace and gromit (And I DO appreciate produce)

prior:
Hitchhiker's Guide
any star trek movie

gotta agree with Dances With Wolves and Titanic .
better than barbituates for putting me to sleep .
hb

Porky's
Fletch
Go
Any movie with Adam Sandler. If you think about it, it's the same movie: Sandler plays a lovable schmuck who is taken out of his environment and placed with cruel and heartless jerks who want to break him... but in the end they change their evil ways because Sandler has shown them the light. After three of those, the man is not funny enough to sustain my interest.

José

Zorro, sometimes we seem from the same testtube:

Independence Day
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
Basic Instinct
Death Wish
Scent of a Woman

I LOVE Blair Witch, one of the most hated movies I ever hear about. But then I'm BIG on hiking and could really relate to the story and the environment, reminded me of me and my friends who actually used to build odd weirdnesses out in the woods out of found objects.

I would like to take this moment to flick some disdain (though not TOTAL disdain) at the Charlie Kaufman movies, even tho he's my brother's "friend" down in the Glendale/Pasadena/Eagle Rock area (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation. Eternal Light of the Unbearable Spotlessness of Being). Far from TOTAL disdain, I do like certain endearing qualities of these but I also get irritated by them.

May I again flog the wispy pedestrian corpse of Tim Burton? Don't dig his stuff as much as I would like to.

HOw about Finding Nemo anyone? Kinda ichy to me.

Any movie with a gerund in the title (Nemo, Malkovich, Trading Places, Chasing Amy, Feeling Minnesota, et al).

" How about Finding Nemo anyone ? kinda ichy to me ....
that's too funny man .
hb

gerund:A noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)

Most movies I have seen in the last few years fit in here. I want my money back!

Another great one to hate:

"The Matrix"

It's another hackneyed movie.

"Oh! The ChosenOne will save us!" :rolleyes:

Not again!

Couldn't he have just been another recruit that developed
the ability to control the Matrix?

Did it have to be a prophecy movie?

Ten minutes into it, I guessed the whole plot. It was boring.

I just kept saying: "Come on, Keanu. Get a clue! Just do it!"

Plus, I hated the "goo" factor. Why are many movies slimy and
depressing and disgusting and gross and gooey?

Some of you guys have a weird standard for movies "everybody praised"...

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm still making my mind up on The Day the Earth Stood Still. It occurred to me the aliens are just acting like jerks, and I can't take it as seriously after that.

Some of you guys have a weird standard for movies "everybody praised"...OK.
Than provide a list of movies you think are appropriate for
this thread, and I'll be happy to rip them apart! :tongue:

Pleasantville
American Beauty

Qapla'

SSB

Gotta agree with what's already been said here about:

The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001
The Matrix series
Dances With Wolves
Citizen Kane

And I'll add:

The English Patient
Platoon
Any Harry Potter film

Any movie with Adam Sandler.

José

I'm with ya on this one. I just can't bring myself to watch anything he is in. However, I can stomach Pauley Shore before Sandler.

Blade Runner

Mr. And Mrs Smith,last samauri,The Matrix, blade.

Home Alone. I absolutely don't understand what everyone saw in this film, and/or how it could possibly have made that much money. If you want to really see how this kind of physical humor is done, watch a Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin film.

Ghostbusters. The ambulance was cool...other than that... :confused:

Oh, and add me to the "I don't get the whole Will Farrell thing" list.

Blade Runner

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House of 1,000 Coprses
Airheads
Are We There Yet?
The last 3 Alien movies.
ID4 (no one seems to like)

Independence Day
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack

I LOVE Blair Witch, one of the most hated movies I ever hear about. But then I'm BIG on hiking and could really relate to the story and the environment, reminded me of me and my friends who actually used to build odd weirdnesses out in the woods out of found objects.

May I again flog the wispy pedestrian corpse of Tim Burton? Don't dig his stuff as much as I would like to.

I just couldn't get into Blair Witch...didn't think it was the least bit scary, just very hokey.

The Blues Brothers and Caddyshack are some of my favorites, but I love slapstick/screwball comedy.

Independence Day isn't a great movie, but it is a fun, cheesy "popcorn" flick. Great for a few laughs, great explosions, and turning the brain off for a while.

I can't believe I'm using my 1,500th post* just to say, "Anything with Ben Affleck in it." I can't believe he was actually considered for the Bond role. He's a talentless pretty face with the charisma of styrofoam and the depth of cardboard.

José

*I lost about 300 posts when HobbyTalk switched servers a couple of years ago

Plus, I hated the "goo" factor. Why are many movies slimy and depressing and disgusting and gross and gooey?It's the B.Y.C. (Because You Can) factor. Some practical-effects guy invents a new kind of slimy, gooey stuff that's fairly cheap and appropriately gross-looking, and it becomes a staple of horror/SF/fantasy movies for the next 30 years. "Egon, your mucus. . ."

Some of you guys have a weird standard for movies "everybody praised"...

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm still making my mind up on The Day the Earth Stood Still. It occurred to me the aliens are just acting like jerks, and I can't take it as seriously after that.

Would thinking of them as vorlons help any?

Though only Kosh 1 had any charm, and even there he couldn't rival Mr Rennie.

Movies I hated that everybody loved ... CADDYSHACK, MAGIC, Whatever the Grisham movie was with Tom Cruise, MI2 w/ Cruise, BIG CHILL (only liked the Hurt character, thought whole film was very charming and totally evil sellout), THE OMEN, ET ...

Movies that I loved that everybody hated might be just as interesting, since we have TREK 5 and Cap 1 and FRENCH CONNECTION II and some other neat things ...

E.T.

any Kevin Smith movie

Gone with the Wind

Easy Rider, an entire film about two hippies who ride around on motorcycles and get stoned. Yep, that was entertaining.

Most of John Carpenters stuff (except The Thing)
Matrix2 and Matrix3
Harry Potter (all)
Indiana Jones2
Planet of the Apes remake
Star Trek films
The Cave
Silence of the Lambs (where's Brian Cox?)
Contact
Panic Room
Seven

There's more but suffering from brain stop

Jim

portland 182 - you are a kindred spirit

Oh, I almost forgot. Any of the "Alien" films. Cool creature design, bad scripts. Please try to refrain from throwing things at me.

Couldn't stand any of the of the rings trilogy, found them boring, and just wanted to choke the sh*t out of Elijah Wood if I had to watch him cry one more time!