Most overrated films?

[Locut0s]

What films in your opinion are highly overrated? Remember this thread will likely be highly polarizing by default. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

First one that comes to mind for me is The Shawshank Redemption. It's rated #1 in IMDBs top 250 films. Every time I see people's lists of top 10 films I see it listed numerous times.

I don't think it's a horrible film by any means. It's a good tear jerker, I think I must have leaked a tear or two watching it. It's well directed, well acted and the screenplay is well adapted from King's novel. But like many a tear jerker it's emotionally manipulative, predictable and rather shallow. There's not much real art to the film aside from some good cinematography. It's a solid tear jerker as said but not a hell of a lot more IMHO. Yet it's listed time and again in people's top 10 favourites.

[jakeXT]

1. Drive

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drive_2011/

Drive should have had more driving, although if you compare it to Bullitt it's probably the same amount.


http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bullitt/

[CBGLuthier]

2. Avatar

Pretty pictures do not make up for a script that could have been better written by a third-grader.

But the real answer is ALL of them as there is no movie ever made that somebody does not hate.

[Locut0s]

3. God damn I hated Avatar. Wrote a funny review of it on IMDB. nt

[hunter]

13. Yes. Avatar. So much so I made some mocking images...

Jar Jar Binks Avatar audition photo:



How does the movie industry keep doing that?

How is it possible to spend a few hundred million dollars on a rotten hack story?

[Yavin4]

51. And that story has been done a million times

"A Man Called Horse"
"Dances with Wolves"
"The Last Samurai"

I am sick and tired of movies about a man's personal growth by bonding with his once enemy, and then fighting with them.

[Inkfreak]

4. The Artist. Not a fan.

Oh, and I never got into Avatar. I do understand it was a visually stunning movie. But I'll take an engrossing plot over fx anytime.

And my most underrated(or unknown)is City of God. That movie was amazing.

I love threads/discussions like these. Opinions vary so much. You can really find some great suggestions!

[hibbing]

27. +1

Hi,
I'm with you on The Artist, I have a hard time believing it won Best Picture.

Peace

[OmahaBlueDog]

57. + Another 1

The Artist is nothing more than a rehash of Singin' In The Rain and Dick Van Dyke's The Comic. There is no way that it should have won Best Picture.

[bigwillq]

101. So overrated. (nt)

[Sedona]

5. The Matrix!

Ponderous, fucking ponderous.

[darkangel218]

8. BS. Matrix is one of the best movies ever!!

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Ditto.

[Ron Obvious]

15. Agreed

It sets up interesting story, though not a very original one, and then degenerates into a stupid action flick. Crap.

[BainsBane]

81. I like the Matrix

The first is the best.

[mucifer]

87. agreed "Matrix" and "Avatar" both annoyed me.

[Xyzse]

6. LotR

It was good, but not that good.

[winter is coming]

44. It was one of those movies I would like a lot better if I'd never read the book.

I truly hated the way they dumbed down Merry and Pippin. They're such adolescent morons in the movie that when you arrive at the "You'll have to send us home tied up in a sack!" declaration, it's difficult to understand why Elrond didn't do exactly that.

[Xyzse]

56. Must confess...

I didn't get in to Tolkien that much.

I know, I know, I'm a blasphemer.
I've read the books though and I trudged through them.
I guess I was not too happy with the pacing.

[winter is coming]

58. They're not fast-paced, but they weren't meant to be, either.

Certainly not everyone's cup of tea.

[Xyzse]

76. I agree.

I mean, I can read slower paced books, which is fine.
Just think he could have gotten a better editor.

[sakabatou]

66. I disagree. I really liked it.

[Xyzse]

75. Lots of people do.

Just to me, it feels like it is.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it was good, just not THAT good.

[cyberswede]

7. I hated "There's Something About Mary"

Not a critically acclaimed movie, of course, but it seemed like everyone thought it was hilarious at the time it came out. I didn't think it was funny at all.

[OriginalGeek]

20. Yeah I get that

I thought it was kinda funny but only about half as funny as everyone else around me seemed to think it was. And that is only because I like Ben Stiller a lot. He's cracked me up ever since he yelled at that baby duck on that episode of Friends.

[GermanDem]

9. "The Piano"

I thought it was totally overrated.

[First Speaker]

10. ET

...sorry-but I loathe this film. Manipulative, obvious, "cute" in the worst way, with huge holes in the internal logic... Bah, humbug.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

11. My apologies but...

...the Godfather. I found it boring. Any of them.

[progressoid]

54. Yeah,

I've never seen the entire thing all the way through. Bits and pieces here and there, but have never been enthralled enough to watch the whole thing.

Meh.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

97. I haven't seen them all the way either.

I gave up on 1 and fell asleep during 2, woke up about 2/3 through.

[Midwestern Democrat]

63. I think its rep has faded a bit over time.

It was a huge phenomenon at the time but at this distance, it's clearly pulp - very well made, very well acted pulp, but pulp nonetheless.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

98. IMHO...

...the acting was mostly a characterization effort, which can only hold my interest if I am fundamentally interested in the character.

I'm kinda not big on gangster movies at all.

[Ron Obvious]

14. Star Wars

I probably would have enjoyed it if I had seen it without the incredible reputation it had by the time I saw it.

What a letdown.

I heard Skyfall was a great Bond film after the QoS disaster. I saw it yesterday and thought it was crap. All style and no substance. No heart.

[Populist_Prole]

24. I didn't do anything for me either

And I was pegged with scorn for being a negative naysayer who doesn't like anything. Even as a 13 year old I found it to be just feel-good escapist schlock. The kind of movie where "everybody's talking about it because everybody's talking about it because everybody saw it because everybody's talking about it" if you get my drift.

[sharp_stick]

16. Good Will Hunting by a mile.

I hated that movie with the heat of a thousand suns and I really hated all the people that kept telling me what a great movie it was.

Robin Williams as the shrink made me want to poke my eardrums out with an icepick. Every overacting "revelation" he spewed at the equally overacting Will Hunting character came from the chapter heading of a really bad Psych 101 book.


Fuck I hated that movie. When Williams won the Oscar for it I actually yelled "OH FUCK YOU!" at the tv. My wife started laughing her ass off. She's one of those people that keeps trying to convince me that this was a concept film instead of a generic piece of celluloid crap.

My wife likes to tell me that my response to this movie is pretty much the same as the response that Elaine has to The English Patient in Seinfeld.

[fizzgig]

21. i was so bored by that movie

i thought it was just me

[sharp_stick]

29. I remember going into work

on Monday and getting the usual "What did you do this weekend?" question. I mentioned that we went to see Good Will Hunting and I swear every damned person in the place was all over me with "Oh My God, wasn't that the greatest movie ever!?". They were all agreeing on what an incredible movie it was that I kind of wondered if I saw a different movie.

I'm glad not everyone likes the same stuff but I was so far off the curve on this one it took awhile to convince myself that I wasn't the crazy one. Once I came to terms with the indisputable fact that the move sucked and they were all nuts I felt better.

[opiate69]

70. Have you seen the sequel? Good Will HUnting 2: Hunting Season?

Epic! lmao

[sharp_stick]

93. I had not

that was hilarious.

[Archae]

17. Gone With The Wind.

Hammy acting, revisionist racist story.

Carol Burnett had a blast satirizing it.
(Complete with curtain rod!)

[winter is coming]

45. LOL. Truly an instance of the "sequel" outshining the original. n/t

[Dash87]

18. Quentin Tarrantino movies: all of them

Idiocracy - horrible movie, and not the "brilliant satire" that everyone claims it is.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - a movie more boring than watching paint dry

[Locut0s]

34. Lol we obviously have different tastes...

I wouldn't rate Tarrantino as the best director out there, except maybe for Pulp Fiction which I really think is great. But I don't think I've seen a single film of his that I didn't like. And I also quite liked Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

[progressoid]

55. Tarrantino is overrated IMHO.

He's not bad, but he's not the brilliant visionary everyone makes him out to be either.

[Locut0s]

62. He started in the direction of a brilliant visionary IMHO...

Reservoir Dogs and especially Pulp Fiction were like a real splash of cold water for many who saw them. Stylized, slick, amazing dialogue, fantastically directed and acted. They weren't fine films in the traditional sense, they were loud, in your face and violent, but there was no mistake IMHO that there was brilliance behind them! But he's gone back to the same well so many times it's starting to wear thin. Even some of his later work I really enjoy though. A few of the scenes in Inglorious Basterds are cinematically perfect. I still haven't seen a film by him yet that I really dislike. Though he's getting there, there were many aspects of Django that just didn't work at all, despite a few amazing scenes. I can easily see him making a HORRIBLE movie one of these days, he's not the type to know when to stop.

I fully understand why he's not to everyone's taste though.

[progressoid]

64. Agree about Pulp Fiction.

I actually enjoyed that one. He does have his moments. It just seems the violence and gore overwhelms the story.

[distantearlywarning]

105. I was just coming to this thread to post this answer.

But I see someone beat me to it.

Quentin Tarrantino films = pretentious and boring despite the boatloads of gratuitous violence.

The only one I ever kind of liked was the one about the vampires in Mexico. Later I found out that he only directed half of that film, so that's probably why I actually enjoyed parts of it.

[Dash87]

120. Rodriguez or whatever his name is co-directs with Tarantino to make

his movies tolerable. That's how I see it anyways.

I didn't like Dusk 'Til Dawn either.

[graham4anything]

109. agree 100%. Tarentino exploits, whereas David Lynch is a true artiste.

[caraher]

114. Idiocracy?

That's Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill.

I've not seen any Tarrantino movies myself; I'm alternately bored and repulsed by what I hear of them.

[Dash87]

119. I know. The way I worded it was kind of bad though.

I didn't mean to say QT made Idiocracy.

[bigwillq]

19. Titanic, Forrest Gump (nt)

[BainsBane]

82. +1

[mucifer]

88. I totally agree.

[cemaphonic]

22. Some Like it Hot

Not that it isn't good of course, and I love the hell out of Billy Wilder's movies in general, but it is wildly hailed as being in contention for the funniest movie ever when it suffers from:

1) The premise and many of the individual jokes have been relentlessly mined by dozens if not hundreds of sitcoms since then. Granted, this is because so many people over the years have found it totally hilarious, but it still made a lot of the gags seem stale. Victim of it's own success, I guess.

2) Partly because of 1, and also just changing times, guys in drag just aren't as inherently shocking or funny as in 1959.

And yeah, Shawshank is just mystifying. I liked it ok when it came out, and I can see it as the kind of movie that would be easy to get sucked into if you ran into it while changing channels or something, but there is really nothing that stands out about it at all.

[fizzgig]

23. napoleon dynamite

yawn

shawshank redemption is actually one of my favorite movies, brilliant adaptation.

[Populist_Prole]

25. +1. I love indie /quirky / dark films but

This was too quirky for me.

[Populist_Prole]

26. Any of those Indiana Jones series of action movies.

In the 1980's it was the beginning of my realization I was surrounded by people who are mouth breathing philistines. I used to get into tense arguments with people who defended those movies like angry drunk imbeciles. Nothing wrong with action, but these were just over the top action for action's sake escapist bullshit with a pandering and clear-cut sense of good guys vs bad guys and I would side with the bad guys just for spite.

[Midwestern Democrat]

71. The '80s is when the film industry permanently lost most of its prestige.

The stature gap in prestige between film and television used to be far, far, far more pronounced than it is today, but in the late '70s, Hollywood found out it could make a lot of money on a very consistent basis by making big budget productions out of material that used to be relegated to the very lowest end of the industry - low budget programmers and serials like "Buck Rodgers" and "Flash Gordon" that were aimed at children. I can't help but think of what films and filmmakers have been lost to us because so much money and focus is being placed on Marvel Comics crap and the like.

[Populist_Prole]

73. Interesting. Thanks for the insight

[NoGOPZone]

28. Silence of the Lambs nt

[Demo_Chris]

84. I could not agree more...

Everyone raved about Hopkins and Foster, but the guy who stole the entire freaking show was Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill.

[sharp_stick]

100. OMG that's Ted Levine

I've seen The Silence of the Lambs at least 4 times and I never made the connection that Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is actually Buffalo Bill.

I'll never watch an episode of Monk the same way again.

[olddots]

30. Top Gun

I wanted to blow up the whole world after that starting with Hollywood .I am embarrassed to be a human when I see crap like that.

[caraher]

115. As an airplane fanatic

that film was a must-see for me, but only for the F-14 porn. The story and dialogue were risible at best.

[Aristus]

31. All of the Connery 'Bond' films, including "Goldfinger".

Mostly because they've dated so badly. But also because Connery's portrayal was too tongue-in-cheek to take seriously. Which is why I've never understood the perception of Connery as the 'dangerous' Bond. He's not as genuinely campy as Roger Moore. But 'dangerous'? Please. He's Mr. Rogers next to Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig.

And Goldfinger loses for a couple of reasons: Bond's crack about The Beatles. His baby-blue terrycloth onesie. And the horribly outdated notion that all a lesbian needs is a real man's man to change her.

[pa28]

61. I saw that one recently and there's more. Much more.

Goldfinger goes through that elaborate presentation showcasing his criminal genius in front of the mafia bosses. I guess the purpose was to "recruit" them but then we find out he planned to kill them all along anyway. Why?

Then we find out the plan he outlined in the elaborate presentation was not really the plan at all.

After that the surviving crime boss was loaded into a lincoln along with a ton of gold and crushed into a little box that apparently only weighed a few hundred pounds. Huh? Why not take the gold out first?

And lastly the only thing of any real importance Bond did was "turn" Pussy Galore. Other than that he was pretty much along for the ride. Very little of the movie makes any sense at all.

Despite all that I loved it! I have no idea why.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. The Dark Knight.

A "meh" movie to the max. Felt rushed, disheveled. I didn't care about any of the characters or what happened to them. One minute Harvey Dent's a D.A. and a good guy, the next minute he's Two Face and a bad guy, and the next minute he's dead. Why was that storyline even in there?

It got a huge boost "thanks" to Heath Ledger's untimely death. And while I think he did a decent job, it was nowhere near as earth shattering as some people claim.

For all the talk about how great TDK supposedly was, I found it very forgettable.

[Locut0s]

33. I rather liked The Dark Knight, I would agree on The Dark Knight Rises...

Mess of a movie. Too long, boring, didn't care for any of the characters. Should have used another batman villain. Would have liked to see The Riddler for example. Even Bane could have been done better.

[nomorenomore08]

35. Pretty much any Hollywood blockbuster.

Although I thought the "disappointing" - box office-wise - new "Star Trek" was rather good, or at least entertaining. Which maybe proves my point.

[Locut0s]

38. My take on big blockbusters is usually "it's just a popcorn flick"...

So long as I keep that attitude I'm often not too disappointed. My favourite films are of course well make dramas but there's definitely a place in my heart for entertaining popcorn munchers, sci-fi, action flicks. But they have to be well made fluff. This is why I'm not too much a fan of any big block buster that takes itself too seriously. They should be made with entertainment in mind and little else. Don't go and try to tell a deep story with meaning at the same time, sorry it's just not going to work, and you probably don't have the talent to pull it off if you are making this kind of film. At the same time make sure there is SOME story worth watching, I'm looking at you Michael Bay. I'm a fairly big fan of most of the comic book films for this reason. They are usually somewhat tongue in cheek to begin with and the stories they tell usually have "just" enough meat on them to make the special effects and explosions not take centre stage 100%.

Again the key to liking most of this stuff is to go in with low expectations. Now I'm still talking about well made Hollywood fluff. You are correct that the majority of the stuff out there is still garbage.

[Boomerproud]

36. Pulp Fiction.

I hated it.

[Locut0s]

40. :'( nt

[winter is coming]

46. +1,000,000,000. n/t

[IrishEyes]

37. My ten films

Here is my list.

Titanic
Chicago
Wizard of Oz
Shakespeare in Love
E.T.
Top Gun
Inception
Sherlock Holmes (the one with Robert Downey Jr, and Jude Law)
Avatar
X-Men

[Locut0s]

39. I only have issue with a few of those...

Largely agree with you. I happen to like Inception a fair amount though. It's not the "OMFG my fucking mind was blown" type of film that it was made out to be, I'll give you that. And for that I suppose it deserves to be in this thread, but I still quite enjoyed it. I'm also a fairly big comic book movie fan in general so I liked X-Men. Although I should preface that with saying I like SOME of the X-Men films as there are about 4 of them now.

[IrishEyes]

42. I didn't hate inception. I was just really bored.

Plus, my friend kept saying it was the most amazing film.

I'm a total geek. I like many comic book films. I just didn't get why everyone seemed to like
X-men.

Some of the films on my list, I just mildly disliked. Others, I really hated.

[GermanDem]

112. Same here.

I just didn't get it. I usually watch movies to the end, even if I don't like them that much, but this one I just couldn't. Sooo boring!

[AsahinaKimi]

41. I would have to say

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This new Star Trek Movie. Since its new, I won't reveal any spoilers, and though it was entertaining at first, Than, I felt like I was ripped off by JJ Abrahams.

[sarge43]

90. Agree. I was underwhelmed. n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

91. It started out well but when the Mystery Man

Revealed his true identity i was like.. OH CRAP..not this again.

[sarge43]

92. (Possible spoiler) Too many chaotic action scenes covering a thin cliched narrative

You're right; it started well, then circled the drain. Trek is at its best when it's about ideas. Great potential with the beginnings of Section 31 (the dark side of the Federation), but .... *sigh.

[Throd]

43. It's a Wonderful Life

[GoCubsGo]

47. Yep.

Also:
The English Patient
Saturday Night Fever
Good Will Hunting
Titanic
Gone With the Wind
Dr. Zhivago
The Sound of Music

[distantearlywarning]

106. Completely agree.

Hated everything about that movie. Can't understand why it's such a classic. Plus it co-stars Dick Cheney as the evil banker who never gets his comeuppance.

[RudynJack]

48. Lost in Translation

I kept hearing such great things about it. I watched it waiting for it to get good. Then the credits rolled.

[fizzgig]

83. i didn't care much for that one, either

i didn't even bother finishing it. maybe i'd appreciate it more now that i'm at a different place in my life, but i'm not holding my breath.

[Demo_Chris]

85. I absolutely loved it.

I think it really spoke to men -- or at least men at a certain place in their lives. I felt it was one of the best movies I have ever seen actually.

[Tom Ripley]

49. 2001, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, all Speilberg and Lucas product

[Locut0s]

60. Lucas and Speilberg, agree.

They are both competent directors, though I don't think Lucas is anymore but every one of their films is hyped to much IMHO.

[caraher]

116. Amen

I did like the original Star Wars films but Lucas proved with the rest of his career that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. And Spielberg... every time I get talked into watching any of his movies I just get angry with myself for breaking my resolution not to watch his crap. I swore an oath against him at age 13 after watching that nothingburger called "Close Encounters" and have only violated my resolution a few times (the one I can remember was "Saving Private Ryan" and yeah, I wound up wanting to throw things at the screen - all that fantastic production wasted in support of a crudely manipulative, idiotic story). The one I get nagged about the most is the alleged need to see "ET." Sorry folks, not going to happen...

[marmar]

50. As Good As It Gets.......

...... and Jack Nicholson's performance was overrated right along with it.

[Trajan]

52. Oh goodie!

An 'I hate something' thread ...

Can't get enough of the hatreds ...

gimme gimme more ...

[Locut0s]

59. I'd hardly call it a hate something thread...

overrated simply means you didn't enjoy something nearly as much as it is commonly praised to be.

[dballance]

53. Passion of the Christ. Barely a moment without blood or torture

Mel Gibson is one sick bastard. Did we really need to see the guy's eyes get plucked out by the crow/raven? Like the rest of it wasn't disgusting enough.

[Libertas1776]

65. Peter Griffin pretty much...

explains my answer here...

and yes, i like "The Money Pit" too!

[hibbing]

68. It insists upon itself

Hi,
Thanks for posting this clip, funny scene. I love it when Peter gets all intellectual.

Peace

[Libertas1776]

69. hey, no prob

As for Peter Griffin getting all intellectual, well it's in his ancestral blood after all...

[sakabatou]

67. Harry Potter films

[Neoma]

103. True Harry Potter fans hate the movies, but buys them anyways.

As well as the videogames...

[opiate69]

72. "Coffee and Cigarettes"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379217/?ref_=sr_1

I generally don't mind Jim Jarmusch's stuff, but this was perhaps the most boring 90+ minutes of my entire life... almost as "captivating" as your typical soccer match.

[Mr.Bill]

74. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Can't watch more than five minutes of that crap.

[Recursion]

78. In fairness, that movie isn't really about "watching" (nt)

[Downtown Hound]

96. You gotta go see it in a theater with live performances

Then it's really fun. Watching it on video is well...not so much fun.

[Recursion]

77. I haven't liked a superhero movie since the Tim Burton "Batman"

None of them.

[Tabasco_Dave]

79. Triumph Of The Will

I saw it in history class and i thought it was a boring, pretentious propaganda film, not the cinematic masterpiece that everyone says it is.

[BainsBane]

80. Several Oscar winners

anything with Tom Hanks in it, Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, most films by Ron Howard.

[Demo_Chris]

86. Too many to list...

Casablanca -- weak acting, took itself too seriously for the ludicrous story

Breakfast at Tiffany's -- WTF was that?!

Shawshank Redemption -- good movie, but hardly deserving of all the praise

Napoleon Dynomite -- hated it

The Batman movie with Heath Ledger -- complete garbage

The Pianist -- had some good moments, but... meh

Schindler's List -- okay, overall I really liked it but I thought Liam Neeson was absolutely pathetic. On the other hand Ralph Fiennes was a revelation

Forest Gump -- I loathed this movie

[olddots]

89. Did i mention Flashdance ?

the over rated band thread would rip this place a part

[Tommy_Carcetti]

94. I forgot to mention "Taken"

A lot of people just heap love on that movie.

I actually couldn't stand it. A couple of reasons:

1. I have trouble buying Liam Neeson as a straight-out action hero.

2. Stupid characters and cheesy, unrealistic set-ups.

3. For a guy trying to get back his kidnapped daughter, ironically I don't think I've ever disliked a protagonist who you are supposed to like any more. For example, the guy needlessly shoots the innocent wife of a man of whom he need information. For no clear and particular reason. Or he ends up wasting time shooting people after the fact instead of using that time to find his daughter.

Just an incredibly dumb movie. My right wing mother-in-law loves it, for whatever reason.

[Paladin]

95. "Dr. Strangelove": Constantly overrated; hasn't aged well. (nt)

[sarge43]

99. 2001: A Space Odessey

Dumbest plot hole ever -- Bowman going after dead guy Poole and leaving the mission specialists to the tender mercies of HAL. Oh yeah, forgot his helmet, too. Wouldn't let him drive a golf cart let alone a multi million ship on a possible first contact mission.

[magical thyme]

102. Master and Commander. Cold Mountain.

I kept seeing a trailer for M&C with an incredible shot of whatizname the Aussie looking incredibly sexy. I waited and waited for the scene in the movie. It never happened and whatizname looked somewhat bloated and out of shape throughout the actual movie.

I saw a teevee review for Cold Mountain. The reviewer kept going on and on and on about "THE KISS" scene with Jude Law. I went on opening afternoon, to a matinee. I couldn't keep my mind on the movie, waiting for THE KISS. Then, just as it started, a bunch of snotnose teens jumped from their seats in the back and made a huge ruckus. THE KISS was ruined. They did the same thing at every single climax in the movie, at the final climax they rode down, and broke, the banister! And then ran out of the theater. Other than the "goat lady" I have no idea whether it was a decent movie or not. I did enjoy the goat lady very much, as at the time I had a very cute and incredibly annoying diabetic pygmy goat who ate my tulips, pooped on my deck, ran down the street with me chasing her getting both of us nearly killed, and ultimately brought the police to my farm. I so enjoyed the scene of the goat lady stabbing her "good little goaty" in the carotid that I went back to see the movie again for that specific moment.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

104. I'd also have to say Brokeback Mountain.

I'm sorry, I know a lot of people like it, and it wasn't horrible. But it didn't really live up to some of the hype for me, and I really didn't get much sense of chemistry from the two main characters' relationship, as I thought I would.

Plus I couldn't understand a damn word Heath Ledger was saying. I literally had to put on the closed captioning to understand him, his dialect was that bad.

Jeez, me listing both Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight as overrated--one must think I somehow really disliked Heath Ledger or something. (For the record, I don't.)

[distantearlywarning]

107. I have a list.

Everything by Quentin Tarrantino except the Mexican vampire movie (pretentious, boring, gratuitous violence)

It's A Wonderful Life (treacly, sentimental, and the bad guys get away with it in the end)

The Matrix (WTF is this movie even about? I've never managed to stay awake long enough to find out.)

The Graduate (depressing, stupid ending)

Silver Linings Playbook (apparently everyone else in the entire world liked this piece of crap except for me; by the end I wanted to punch every single character in this film in the face - every one of them was horribly, utterly, rage-inducingly unlikeable. Waste of $10 and 2.5 hours of my life I'll never get back.)

The Last Unicorn (went to see this one recently on the rec. of a friend. If I hadn't been afraid of hurting her feelings, I would have walked out halfway through. Sexist, trite, treacly, worst soundtrack in the history of the world. By the end of the movie I wanted to rip out my own eyeballs and stuff them into my ears. Everyone else in the theater stayed to get Peter Beagle's autograph at the end. There's no accounting for taste, I guess.)

[DotGone]

108. Any Tarantino or Kevin Smith film n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

111. Agreed on Kevin Smith.

While he's popular amongst the fanboy/hipster set, none of his movies have much appeal to me. I can't stand his Jay and Silent Bob characters especially.

[graham4anything]

110. Forest Gump, most manipulated Reaganesque type of film

[MattBaggins]

117. Titanic or any move with Decrapio

inception was the only movie he didn't manage to ruin.

[mysuzuki2]

118. Citizen Kane

Closely followed by 2001 and Gone With the Wind.

[Doc_Technical]

122. Citizen Kane:

A boring story told by five different people.
There were no car chases, no slow motion explosions shown
from different angles, no bodies flying through the air in slow
motion, no violence (except for one slap), no nudity or sex, no gallant
heroes, no evil villeins, no male bonding, no gun play, no narrow escapes,
no vampires, no zombies, no witches, no magic, no stunts,
no surprise endings, no moral lessons taught, and it wasn't even in color!

[bif]

121. The Austin Power movies and Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

And I like some dumb humor. Like Wayne's World and and all the Christopher Guest movies.

[Separation]

123. Probably gonna get a ton of flack for these

Pink Floyds The Wall - I just could not get into this movie, loved the soundtrack and the band. The movie, eh not so much.

The Twilight movies - I have a daughter that took me to all of them. She didn't quite like them either since she read the book.

Iron Man 3 - Ugh, just saw it last weekend. Should have seen Star Trek instead.

[RZM]

124. Here are a few

Million Dollar Baby
Frost/Nixon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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