Ok, movies the critics and your friends rave about, that you think sucked?

[Archae]

My choice for #1: "Pulp Fiction."

The music was great.
But it had two rotten things going for it.

Storyline that made *NO* sense at all, and John Revolting.

#2: "Rocky." Cliche city.

#3: "The China Syndrome." Too damn preachy.

#4: "Last Temptation Of Christ." BO-RING! :boring:

#5: "Bowling For Columbine." Just...plain...bullshit. :hide:

[KitchenWitch]

1. My friends liked "Living Out Loud"

I thought it stunk to high heaven.

[begin_within]

65. Except for that one scene when someone was trying to sing onstage and...

...Holly Hunter was heckling her... that was a hilarious scene and it saved the movie for me.

[Lerkfish]

145. yeah, my wife and I hated it, too.

it seemed like an awful lot of effort to go nowhere.

[Broken_Hero]

2. The Crying Game...

Meet Joe Black

The Grudge

hmm, i know there are more, but thats my 3 cents...:)

[TheBaldyMan]

3. any of the 'Airplane' movies

I prefer something less concentrated, Dragnet was bearable for half an hour but feature length gag-fests leaves me gagging.

[begin_within]

69. But I loved the "jive" scene with Barbara Billingsley.

[leftstreet]

4. Something About Mary was STUPID

Just sayin.

[HughBeaumont]

17. I second that.

Anybody else tired of the "punching bags are FUNNY!" formula? I don't know, I guess people get into mean-spirited shit such as this . . .

[Richardo]

28. Thank you.

I hated that movie.

[Giant Robot]

34. I got your back on this one too

It wasn't funny. Sad, pathetic, revolting, maybe those adjectives....but not funny.

[AlCzervik]

45. that one was horrible, people were laughing at loud when i went to see it

everyone but me, not a funny movie.

[m_welby]

47. apparently thats what passes for funny these days

I thought it was just stupid, gross, and not at all funny, but most people I know thought it was hilarious.

Bathroom gags were funny in junior high, but I've outgrown that crap now.

[CanuckAmok]

133. yup. LAME.

LAME, I says.

And all the "Mary" spawns, like the American Pie series.

Maybe I'm just too old.

[Ron Mexico]

136. I also support this, wholeheartedly. There's only so much mileage

you can get out of two or three mediocre jokes, and having Brett Favre in the movie would have been enough to ruin it for me anyway. He acts as well as the GOP governs.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

165. yes and so boring

[DanCa]

5. Titanic and the Passion of the Christ. (nt)

[Broken_Hero]

11. yeah, the Passion of the Christ was another one n/t

[ncrainbowgrrl]

195. Welll... There was ONE good scene in titanic.

:evilgrin:

Ok, back to PG= Moderator ncrainbowgrrl!

[Peter Frank]

6. Glen Gary Glen Ross...

Anyone who's worked in sales knows that this was poorly edited tripe.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. It was based on a play, though.

That may explain the editing.

[politicat]

7. Napoleon Dynamite.

What a bloody waste of film.

(And yes, in fact I did grow up in a Small Mormon Town in the rural west and there were weird kids in my school. But I still didn't find the film funny. )

[Peter Frank]

9. How right you are...

Have you ever seen Casino??? It's a friggin' yawning festival!

[politicat]

10. Nope...

I'm gonna be flamed for this, but I really don't like Joe Pesci's voice or mug.

It's personal - he reminds me of this boss I had at 15 who was creepy.

[ProfessorGAC]

138. 20 Minute Story. 135 Minute Movie

Do the math! That's why it sucked. TOO SLOW!
The Professor

[Fox Mulder]

12. I agree.

That movie sucked.

[blondeatlast]

19. I couldn't stand it. If I'd seen it in a theater with Mr. BAL, I would

have left him there.

Instead, I got up to make cookies!

[Thtwudbeme]

32. Sideways

And Endless Sunshine of the Spotless mind.

Hated em both.

[Lerkfish]

147. endless sunshine had potential, but in the end, it sucked.

[NYYFan]

42. I concur

I can count the times I laughed on one hand, and not a hearty laugh, but a step above a snicker- and that was at the end of the movie.

Sheesh !

[BigMcLargehuge]

86. Right there with you

the suckiest suck that ever sucked a suck

[Katherine Brengle]

105. I HATED THIS MOVIE!!! All of my friends, and my husband, really liked

it, and I just don't get it. The kid is a freak, he's annoying as hell, and it wasn't funny.

There were kids like that in my high school--they weren't funny either, just kind of depressing...

No need to try to make it funny--sometimes life just sucks, gooo-oooshhhhhh........

Triple-ick on this one :puke: :puke: :puke:.

[Lerkfish]

146. I agree: in fact, my coworkers reenacting the scenes is a lot funnier than

the actual scenes.
They kept pressuring me for months to see it. Everyday they'd do a bit from it. I admit THEY were funny doing it.
I finally rent the dvd and I keep thinking "this is 90 minutes or so from my life I"m never getting back."

[Pirate Smile]

179. I agree. I heard it was supposed to be good so I dragged my

husband to it on one of the few times we had a baby-sitter and it was terrible.

[Robeson]

13. Gladiator....

...It was hard to get through, it so boring.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

63. Never liked it either

went to see it with some friends in the theater and it seemed like I was there 5 hours how long was that movie.

[begin_within]

68. We rented it and watched the first 15 minutes and then turned it off.

[JPZenger]

75. So Jimmy, Do you Like Gladiator Movies?

That's a line from the airline captain to the young boy in the 1980s movie Airplane.

[Robeson]

95. LOL! That was a great line!....

...:rofl:

[BlueIris]

14. "21 grams" wasn't just poorly plotted and directed, it was offensive.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The kind of thing that makes you not only want the two hours you wasted watching it back, but enraged that those hours were spent watching such SHIT. It's been almost two years and I'm still bitter.

[rockymountaindem]

25. Just out of curiosity, why was it offensive? n/t

[henslee]

41. My BS detector I had a real hard time w/ it, too.

[mitchum]

168. It's another "handsome production"...

"quality" by default only because it's not a brainless action film.

[BlueIris]

186. Huh. I didn't even think of that issue.

Most of the people I know who loved it rave about Sean Penn's performance, despite the fact that to me he was clearly phoning it in the entire time, (I kinda wonder if he didn't do that on purpose, actually, after he figured out what a piece of shit that film is) and Naomi Watt's portrayal of a "sunny mom's 'brilliant' transition" into...what she becomes (which was also horrible because Watt's has the range of a turnip and that role required this little thing called emotional depth). What's worse is that most people totally overlooked the genius in the performance of Benecio del Torro, who was completely marginalized in the story thanks to Naomi and Penn pointlessly hogging the spotlight. ACK. And don't even Get. Me. Started. on the other feces in the misogyny and judgment fest plot. AWFUL. Scarred for life.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. I have never made it through Pulp fiction without falling asleep.

That said, I pick "Cold Mountain". :hi:

[HughBeaumont]

16. Pulp Fiction

Eccccch. Too wordy, frat-boy-deep, has no shelf life. I hate Uma Thurman, Johnny Scientology is a douche and Amanda Plummer is over-the-top annoying. I'm sick of the whole "F bombs, beatdowns and blood" shit.
Both Kill Bills. Overrated. As. Hell.
Natural Born Killers. Tries to be something it painfully isn't.
American Beauty. I hated people like this growing up and I wanted all of the characters to fucking die except for the gay neighbors.
Fight Club. Once again, the need to over-testosterone completely ruins a good idea
The Big Lebowski. Is it a "high" thing?
Magnolia. Tommy One Note once again ruins an otherwise good movie.
Most smug movies with actors like Chloe Sevigny and Jason Schwartzman in them
21 Grams. This movie got annoying about 20 minutes into it and just went on a downhill tear from there. Not even the great acting by Benicio could save it. And why the hell does "Oscar-worthy" performance by a female nowadays equate to "being a repellent, melodramatic bitch"?
Traffic. See "21 Grams", above.
Any Kevin Smith movie
Any Guy Ciccone movie
Any Bobby Zombie flick

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

35. Dare I ask what movies you DO like?

[HughBeaumont]

38. Why the "Dare I ask"?

My list is hardly the "be-all, end-all" of good movies, and I know you don't like Kubrick, so I'm not going there.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

40. Because there are a lot of good movies on your list.

I'd just like to see what you consider good.

And you're right, I don't think Kubrick is very good at all.

[HughBeaumont]

46. Sorry you feel that way.

I don't think a script that uses the word "fuck" 269 thousand times is anything but a boring slog, like watching two 12-year-olds who just discovered how to cuss for three hours. And this is coming from someone who likes to invent expletives. I see it as an unnecessary crutch more than anything.

I prefer movies like Kind Hearts and Coronets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Citizen Kane and anything by Sergio Leone. I don't want to hear any witticisms about "royales with cheese", self-indulgent projections by scriptwriters to show how overly smart they are or biblical quotes where not necessary. I care about situation, conflict, art, correctness, originality, timing and fluidity. Challenge me with your skill and the care you put into your craft.

And just in case you think I'm some kind of prude, I love Goodfellas, the first two Godfathers, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and even Pink Flamingos, fer cryin' out loud.

Pulp Fiction dragged in a lot of places, especially the scenes with Bruce Willis, which is a shame because I usually like watching him. Watching John Travolta pull his "Fat Barbarino" lameness, God just STOP already.

Kevin Smith movies suck to me because the acting is wooden and the scripts are WAY too pompous for their own good.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

51. Whether "fuck" is necessary or not depends on the characters depicted

A perfect example of this was "The Devil's Rejects". Even a critic's point of view (including Roger Ebert), this was a fantastic movie that used "fuck" pretty much every other word, but the characters involved would have spoken that way. From an artistic and literary standpoint, the movie was probably one of the most complex and well written films of the year even despite setting a profanity record. I agree it's usually unnecessary, but ruling out all such movies isn't a good idea.

No huge complaints about Cuckoo's Nest or Citizen Kane, though I still think Cuckoo's Nest doesn't realize its full potential. Leone is a straight Kurosawa rip-off, and he isn't 1/100th as talented.

Kevin Smith movies and Pulp Fiction have their niches, and won't appeal to everyone, no doubt, but they do certain things that other movies haven't, and for that reason they receive deserved praise (though it's usually been limited praise at that).

I don't think you're a prude at all - I was just curious as to what your tastes were. That's all. :hi:

[HughBeaumont]

54. To be fair, a lot of Kubrick's dialogue isn't that great.

I like Kurosawa, but a lot of his stuff is sleep-inducing. I still cannot stay awake during Ran and The Seven Samurai no matter how many times I've tried, and that sucks because I WANT to see The Seven Samurai the whole way through. Not so with The Hidden Fortress and Ikiru, both of which were astounding pieces of filmmaking.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

55. I agree, Ran and Seven Samurai are ridiculously long

But his mastery over every shot is amazing, especially for his time. I haven't seen the Hidden Fortress yet, but it's on my list. :-)

You should definitely try to finish Seven Samurai. I had to watch it in parts the first time around, but it was worth it.

[Katherine Brengle]

115. agreed--his films are visually stunning tho, and full metal jacket is

genius and disturbingly beautiful.

[driver8]

172. I absolutely hate Kevin Smith's movies...I just don't get it.

Speaking of saying "fuck" 269 thousand times, I thought "The Boondock Saints" sucked the big one, as well. A friend lent me this movie telling me it was "the greatest movie that no one has seen." I gave it back to him and said, "I can see why no one has seen it...it fucking blows."

[henslee]

44. I find Pulp Fiction deeply personal, funny & entertaining. I watched it

last night. It has a few mistakes. am not even a huge Tarentino fan but I can hear him in every bit of dialogue. He will never make another film like this.

[fishwax]

61. I like pretty much all of those

:D

Haven't seen 21 grams, but I thought it looked not particularly good ...

[begin_within]

64. The thing that ruined "American Beauty" for me was when...

...the homophobic neighbor "came out" during the rainy scene in the garage. That seemed cloying - the homophobic neighbor didn't have to be a closet case, he could have just been plain homophobic. That would have been a lot more believable to me. Other than that I kind of liked that movie.

[stanwyck]

89. Oh, c'mon. The "Big Lebowski"

is trippy, silly fun.
Relax and enjoy yourself.

[Katherine Brengle]

100. The Big Lebowski is one of my all-time favorite movies!!--

"Donnie, you're outta your element!"

Love it, love it, love it!

"This is what happens when you f**k a stranger in the ass!"

"Thas right, nobody f**ks with da Jesus."

("Eight-year olds, Dude...")

[Lethe]

125. LEBOWSKI FEST IN AUSTIN TX MAY 2006

on my god i just saw that! hell ya everyone come down.

http://www.lebowskifest.com/austin06.asp

[stanwyck]

140. my son and daughter

and I text message each other lines from The Big Lebowski.


Is this your homework, Larry? is a favorite.

[HughBeaumont]

93. Goddamnit, WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE GETTING ATTACKED ON THIS THREAD???

I tried, I didn't like them. AT ALL. Jesus, it IS wholly possible for someone to have different tastes in things than you. Really.

[Lerkfish]

149. note who is attacking you

and you will have your answer.

The fault lies with them, not you.

Everyone has differing tastes, and entertainment is subjective. Don't sweat it, I agree with many of your comments, if it helps.

[HughBeaumont]

160. It helps.

B-)

[elshiva]

176. AMEN! Here's to differing tastes!

:toast: Come on it's just movies! We're not making fun of your mother or something!

[HughBeaumont]

190. When you shit on cult films such as Lebowski or anything . . .

. . . by Tarantino or Kevin Smith, you might as well be. I've noticed that this also often holds true for movies like Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Natural Born Killers and Asian cinema in general; their fanboys are so fervent it brings out the worst if someone DARES to mess with their slice of beauty.

What I hate is the "Geeeez, HOW can you not like (insert movie here)? You have no taste." Oh FUCK, man, it's because everyone's different and I'm sick of the whole "being told that I HAVE to like" something.

[Lethe]

98. Big Lebowski and Jeff Bridges

own you

ps. Tron rocks you too!

[HughBeaumont]

119. Both are a Jim Jones cult that I'll stay on the sidelines for, TYVM.

And "own you"?

:wtf:

What are you, 17 and on Yahoo? Who talks like that?

[Lethe]

121. haha

no but i just played a very long Counterstrike session.

at least i didnt say "pwn j00"

these people disagree with you:

http://www.lebowskifest.com/

[HughBeaumont]

124. I have two friends who are Lebowskiites.

The best scenes in that movie are the First Edition montage and anything with John Turturro.

[DelawareValleyDem]

18. Silence of the Lambs nt

[BlueIris]

20. Oh, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Except for the first one...the theatrical release. That one had the best pacing, strongest performances and overall greatest consistency and was actually kinda good...thought not as "masterful" as some still insist on claiming. Jesus.

[Lilith Velkor]

84. Thank you!

I know three guys who are as hardcore Tolkiengeek as I am, and like me, they thought the first was OK, the second one sucked, and the third was an abomination.

The way people rave about it makes me wonder if I missed the showing where they handed out tabs of ecstasy.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

196. I agree- first was good, 2nd, not so much. 3rd: Is it almost over yet?

[ET Awful]

21. Mystic River . . .

I mean it didn't suck, but . . . I just didn't think it was all that great, strictly average.

[swag]

130. I disagree with you slightly.

I thought it sucked.

[ET Awful]

164. Hehehe, I was expecting a stout defense of the film.

The concept and the story had potential, I just think it was poorly acted, written and produced.

[elshiva]

177. Oh, that SUCKED! God none of the actors acted in that crap.

And the story was one cliche. Cross the wrong guys and you end up in the river. Really original. :eyes:

[LostinVA]

22. "The English Patient"

[bif]

23. "Chicago"

[BlueIris]

31. ACK. How could I have forgotten that one? SO mediocre.

Still don't understand why people were so in love with that. Well, except for Q. Latisha's performance, which was good. The rest? Meh. Totally meh.

[Katherine Brengle]

109. Agreed--I did the musical in high school and it was incredible--the movie

was garbage--I can't stand Rene Zellwegger (is that even how you spell her name?).

Just because someone picks out a few good outfits (with the help of a stylist) doesn't make them an incredible actress.

[last_texas_dem]

24. Mine

#1. Lost in Translation- Yeah, I "just don't get it", I know...

#2. Pulp Fiction- Some decent dialogue, but just because a movie is totally disgusting and disturbing does not make it "classic."

#3. Rushmore- Not a bad movie, just not the "funniest movie of all time" my friends had made it out to be.

#4. The Matrix- Just seemed to resonate with everyone else way more than me. Maybe that's just my problem.

#5. Napoleon Dynamite- Not nearly as laugh-out-loud hilarious as the critics and my fellow moviegoers made it out to be. I did watch half of it a second time and it had already gotten much funnier (and it does have a lot of fun, stupid, quotable dialogue) so I give it credit for that.

[JPZenger]

72. I agree on Napoleon Dynamite

I kept searching for some bit of humor in Napolean Dynamite and didn't find any.

[livetohike]

26. Forrest Gump

I thought it was idiotic.

[bigwillq]

39. Me too.

What a waste of a movie. :puke:

[serryjw]

87. Forrest Gump is my all time favorite movie

People either LOVED it or HATED it.I saw it a few days ago and cry every time

[Skittles]

127. I only lasted thirty minutes

I was absolutely floored by its stupidity

[Paladin]

171. I Tried To Like It.....

...but its trashing of the 60's anti-war movement was unforgivable. No wonder so many conservatives loved it.

[Left Is Write]

27. Moulin Rouge.

Almost everyone I know loved it.

I could barely get through all of it.

[Katherine Brengle]

107. I didn't finish it the first time, but when I watched it again, I fell in

love, for real. I've never been a big Nicole Kidman fan, and I wasn't really too fond of Ewan McGregor either, but my hubby (weirdly enough, lol) loved the movie and made me watch it and I really enjoyed it.

And now I am completely in love with Ewan McGregor... go figure... He was way too cute in The Island (which was actually quite good if you don't mind seriously insane and ridiculous action sequences, the moral component was incredibly moving).

[GirlinContempt]

132. !!!

Yes. What a dreadful movie. The singing was bad. The acting was bad. The costumes were bad. I alost left a couple of times, but i was with others so I just went out for smokes and cracked jokes under my breath the whole time.
It was torture. Ugh.

[LynneSin]

29. Anyone else think "The Wedding Crashers" was a waste of time

:hi: - ME!

The first 30-45 minutes of it were really good but then again most of the highlights from the trailer were from that period of the movie (which basically shows how they crash weddings).

After that the love story kicked in and instead of it going from wedding to wedding, they take it away from the weddings and to a Cape Cod retreat which pretty much put the movie into super boring mode.

[taterguy]

53. seconded

[cedahlia]

59. Major disappointment

:thumbsdown:

I usually love Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell, but even they couldn't save this movie for me. I'm baffled by all the praise heaped on this movie. Like you said, it was mostly boring and not that funny.

[JPZenger]

73. Totally agree

What a waste of film. Do they even use film anymore?

[Mizmoon]

30. "A Few Good Men"

I thought it was boring as hell.

[HuckleB]

33. American Beauty

Talk about cliched. Absolute drivel.

On the other hand, Pulp Fiction is also funny as all get out, with wonderful dialogue. And the story line makes perfect sense. And Rocky showed that a good film can be made even if it is filled with old cliches. The sequels showed that horrific films could be made under the same pretext, of course.

[Vektor]

117. Agreed! Thank you! - PURE UNADULTERATED SHIT.

The only good part was when Kevin Spacey's disgusting character "got his" in the end.

Worst fucking movie ever made.

[Frank Cannon]

129. Ah, yes, American Beauty is my favorite "Dirty Dozen" movie

A "Dirty Dozen" movie is one that wouldn't have been half bad if only Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and the rest of the Dirty Dozen had shown up at the end and gunned down the entire cast of loathsome characters.

[Lerkfish]

150. AGREED. all it had going for it was making you NOT care for anyone.

Kevin Spacey and the drug dealer are the only two sympathetic characters, and they're both losers.
I never thought I'd pay to see a plastic bag twirl in the wind for 15 minutes and then have some loserboy talk about how it connected all life together.

[tarkus]

36. Fight Club

I don't know why I don't like it, I just don't.

And I'm not a huge fan of Slacker, but Kevin Smith likes it.

[DrGonzoLives]

37. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Overhyped shit.

[NoPasaran]

43. "Porky's 2"

I remember some goofball raving about it at work back in the day and telling us all that not having seen the original "Porky's" would be no handicap to totally enjoying this oeuvre. Uh, thanks, but no thanks.

[HughBeaumont]

48. That's one of those films that's like . . .

funny the first couple times I watched it, and the third time I watched it, I realized I grew up. No shelf life on that one.

[jpgray]

49. Lost in Translation and Ghost World

Both featuring the Costner-like non-acting of Scarlett Johansen and tedious pandering to "unique" people who think individualism is thinking and behaving exactly as they do. The former is also notable for its bold foray into ditsy Hollywood starlet parody, and novel use of Japanese accents for humor.

:eyes:

:D

[begin_within]

67. Lost in Translation is the most over-rated film of the last 5 years.

Long stretches of boredom - somehow "being bored together" is the equivalent of a "relationship" between the Scarlet Johansen and Bill Murray characters - the most un-believable on-screen "relationship" in any movie of the last 5 years or so. It did have some interestinc scenery of Tokyo, but that's about it.

[Katherine Brengle]

101. amen--i shut it off after about 20 minutes--waste of 4 bucks. n/t

[mitchum]

169. Absolutely in agreement with you on that assessment

[Lerkfish]

151. The ONLY good scene from translation, IMHO is "lip the stockings"

everything else was slow and annoying.

[Richard Steele]

50. "Crash"

113 minutes of people creating problems for themselves
by being too angry to take 10 seconds and actually LISTEN to each other.

[cedahlia]

58. cliched, forced, trite, manipulative, insulting...

...let me count the ways in which that movie sucked. I will have to restrain myself from throwing something at my t.v. if that shitty film wins anything, but especially, Best Pic at the Oscars. :puke:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

60. YES!!

God that film was just utterly aweful shite.

The only film last year that was getting the whoops that annoyed me more was "Me and You and Everyone We Know".

edit to add - and fuck Harris for using "Crash" as a title.

[Katherine Brengle]

102. respectfully disagreeing on this one :) ----

I agree that the characters created their own problems, but the beauty of the film is that that is exactly what people really do in life.

Most of the "problems" we experience in life are created by our own fears, our own inability to cope with change, our own prejudices and dogmas...

I thought this film was beautifully made, visually speaking, and poignant. (I am a tough crowd too, lol.)

[mitchum]

167. I agree with you about the movie...

I was very impressed and it is beautifully made and poignant. However, the director said that he felt that the coming together of characters was not contrived. That is absolute nonsense. Of course, it is contrived. That is why one must accept the movie as a FABLE. That being said, within these contrivances, you are correct in that the characters DO behave as people really do in life.

[begin_within]

52. Citizen Kane, Titanic, Jurassic Park, The Silence of the Lambs

All of them duds.

[BlueIris]

56. I hate "Citizen Kane."

And the worst part about my hate is that I get what Welles was trying to communicate, I really do. But there's NOTHING BRILLIANT ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THAT FILM. In my view, it wasn't just boring it was bad. Once again, "got" it--just thought he didn't quite pull it off.

[begin_within]

66. It was a mediocre story, I still don't get why it is so "revered". I could

only sit through it one time.

[WeRQ4U]

70. It's revered more for the leaps it made in filming and cinematography...

Not really for the story. Although I thought it was a great story and a great movie.

[ProfessorGAC]

142. I'm With You

The direction and cinematography are what it made it's reputation on. The lighting configurations, the noir settings in various parts, the models and sets, . . . It's Intolerance taken up several notches. I think folks have to remember it was only 1939 when it was done. There are many, many camera, set, and lighting things that happened in that movie for the first time, and are still being copied.
The Professor

[Ron Green]

83. Gotta disagree with that. I always have a good time watching that one,

and as others have said, it works on all the cinematic levels as well as being a good story. Someone in this thread called it a "dud;" I think I'd have to question that person's movie taste.

[Dutch]

57. Being John Malkovich

Amusing central gimmick, but they chose to build around it a film that was stupid whilst clearly convinced of its own genius, as well as being gratingly smug and obnoxious in general. I really, truly loathe it.

[JPZenger]

71. I liked that movie.

I liked the wierdness of that movie. The two popular movies I hated were Jerry McGuire and War of the Worlds.

And then there was Titannic. One reviewer said that it was a great movie if you watched it without the sound. It won 11 Academy Awards, and none had anything to do with acting or writing.

Pearl Harbor was similar - fast forward to the action scenes and special effects, and skip all the dialogue.

[Katherine Brengle]

103. I liked it too--John Malkovich is a great actor and I love John Cusack,

for some unexplainable reason... he has that pathetic never-really-grew-up adolescent man cuteness that I would never put up with in real life, but it's fun on screen...

[realisticphish]

62. It's A Wonderful Life

Just plain old boring

Saw, Saw II, Hostel (All the same movie, really)
I don't understand why my generation enjoys watching torture, and pays for the privelidge

Casblanca
Again, boring

Date Movie, Scary Movie 1-3
Look, I hated all the cliches when they were in the actual movies; why the fuck would I want to see them all put together into one boring, juvenile film

Resevoir Dogs
:puke:

And, I must agree, Bowling for Columbine. Interesting film, but his conclusions are just too simple-minded for me.

[u4ic]

74. I agree with It's A Wonderful Life

Four Weddings and a Funeral...IF they would have put somebody other than that cardboard cutout Andie McDowell in it, I would have LOVED it. Her performance was like nails on chalkboard, and really ruined it for me.:scared:

[Lerkfish]

152. It's a wonderful life saved me from suicide.

My first wife had just passed away and it was the first christmas without her.

and that's all I'm gonna say about that.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

76. My List

1. Punch Drunk Love: A stupid, clueless, self-centered slob is first obsessed with a refined young women, wins her over, and then abandons her in the emergency room for some hare-brained overnight errand, and then...she takes him back? It's a fantasy for 15-year-old boys who want to be stupid, clueless, self-centered slobs and still get their dream girl.

2. The Piano: Prudish Sam Neill sends to America for mute Holly Hunter (and her out-of-wedlock daughter) as a picture bride and then ignores her, prefering to have tea with this gaggle of missionary ladies. (Why didn't he marry one of them?) Meanwhile, Harvey Keitel, looking as if he hasn't had a bath since the day he was born, seduces her into a mad passionate affair.

3. Vertical Limit: Man heads up mountain expedition to save his sister and her companion, who have fallen into a crevasse. They are going to blast them out with nitroglycerine, so each members of the party takes what looks like a beer keg of nitroglycerine in his backpack. The rescuers are blown up one by one as they stumble off paths, have rocks fall on them, get into fights, etc. Finally, the brother reaches the sister, and it takes only half a cup of nitroglycerine to get her out of the crevasse.

[Katherine Brengle]

108. I watched 10 minutes of Punch Drunk Love and fell asleep--

it was boring, and not in the "artistic" or "wait for it to pick up, the emotional component is important to the opening sequence" kind of way...

[WildEyedLiberal]

77. "Closer" - pretentious, banal tripe

I just can't enjoy any movie in which I loathe all the main characters. :shrug:

Clive Owen was a raging asshole, Julia Roberts and Jude Law were pathetic flakes, and Natalie Portman's character was too "enigmatic" to bother with any character development. It was two and a half hours of four people being shitty to each other and uttering banal lines clearly intended to be profound, such as: "Have you ever seen a human heart? It's like a fist wrapped in blood."

"Closer" is full of such overreaching pretentious tripe masquerading as incisive commentary on human nature and relationships. I want my two hours and seven dollars back. x(

[Dutch]

78. i couldn't agree more

Patrick Marber is a pretentious hack, imho.

[WildEyedLiberal]

79. And HOW could I forget the WORST dialogue exchange in cinematic history?

"What does your cunt taste like?"

"HEAVEN."

:rofl:

SO AWFUL! That sounds like a line from a third-rate softcore pr0n flick, not a "serious film." :rofl:

(Mods please forgive c-word usage, but the quote is neutered if I censor it.)

[stanwyck]

88. How could a movie

with four such attractive people -- who are also good actors -- be so amazingly dismal?
And I totally agree with your assessment.
Why did Roberts' character marry Owens' character? There was zero chemistry between those two. And the Portman/Law relationship didn't seem plausible, either.
And Portman was incredibly miscast.
Really bad movie.

[LanternWaste]

80. Without much thought...

Without much thought...

#1 Matrix; any of 'em... they all sucked cheese

#2 Gone With the Wind (A movie made specifically to make guy's heads explode with boredom)

#3 The whole Spiderman/Superman/X-men crapfest of sub-film. (That's more than one movie, but who's counting?)

Well, that's all that comes to mind-- but it's only Mon. afternoon during my lunch hour

[Elidor]

81. Shaun of the Dead

I'm the only person on planet earth who thought it was boring. A couple good laughs, and a major snooze-fest overall. I was expecting something like Evil Dead II.

[China_cat]

82. Madagascar.

Still waiting for the funny parts. Saw the movie a month ago.

[Lilith Velkor]

85. Spiderman

Blech.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

90. 40 y.o. Virgin

There were a couple funny scenes but most of it was lost on me.

[Lerkfish]

153. I disagree, but that's cool. My objection was the language.

Overall, I was impressed how by the end of movie, they had managed to make a group of extremely unlikeable characters transform into 3 dimensional sympathetic characters.
But with the language, I found myself cringing often.

[Lerkfish]

154. Fargo

I mean it was ok, but everyone hyped it as this great movie, and by the time I saw it, I was set up for greatness and kept thinking "wtf? this won an award?"

[otohara]

91. The Squid and the Whale was DREADFUL

yick - the critics raved

[cemaphonic]

92. My brother will kill me for this but,

The Thin Red Line was The Phantom Menace for film geeks. Guy who made two good movies in the 70s announces a new project, and everyone expects it to be the second coming of Jesus. Then it arrives, loaded with self-indulgent flaws like:

1) Unending cameos, by big stars who are just *so* excited to have landed a part in this once-in-a-generation role, totally ruining any sort of immersion in the setting and story. "Hey! We gotta take that hill before... Look! It's George Clooney... Nevermind him, Woody Harrelson just died!"

2) Really, really long, with very weird pacing. Kind of like Return of the King, if Jackson had made the post-Mount Doom parts about 3 times as long.

3) Tons of voiceover narration. Worse, tons of voiceover narration delivering vague freshman philosophy.

Cognitive dissonance is my only explanation for why people like this movie. Yes, Badlands was cool. But so was The Empire Strikes Back.

[Radical Activist]

94. Most overrated movie of the decade: Sideways

The friend I saw it with was equally unimpressed by its extreme suckage.

[Katherine Brengle]

104. I agree--well, mostly... -----

Maybe not the Most Overrated of the Decade, but definitely overrated.

There were a few humorous moments, but several things really bothered me about it:

1) I had absolutely NO empathy for the main character--he was a depressed slob with no appeal whatsoever, not even the "depressed-slob everyman" kind of appeal--he was just self-indulgent and gross, imho.
2) The guy from Wings was a perv and way too old to be acting the way he did--it wasn't endearing, it was just icky.
3) The big funny sell-line in all the previews was that "You're getting married on Saturday???" line from Sandra Oh (who I love, btw, and believe is truly brilliant--she was incredible in Dancing at the Blue Iguana) was not funny at all, in the context of the film--she was beating the crap out of him with a motorcycle helmet for using her like a hooker before his wedding--not cool, not funny, not even funny in a non-ha ha kind of way.

Oh, and he steals money from his mother--YOU'RE MIDDLE-AGED, BUDDY, GET A LIFE!

Okay, :rant: rant officially over.

[BlueIris]

96. "As Good As It Gets," "Good Will Hunting" and "Shakespeare in Love"

are three others I despise. I know they weren't exactly "critically acclaimed" by all--but my friends especially worship them all--which bugs. Because--Helen Hunt, Robin Williams and Gwynneth in her least compelling role ever? Meh.

[Katherine Brengle]

112. For period flicks, Cate Blanchette was amazing in "Elizabeth"--now

THAT was compelling, and still had Joseph Fiennes!

I like the story behind AGAIG, but I don't like Helen Hunt. I don't know what it is, but I just get irritable whenever I see her. The OCD angle has been done, and done, and done, and done as well, but whaddaya do...

[BlueIris]

118. What KILLED my ability not to hate AGAIG was how obviously

Oscar-baitey it was--on par with shit like "21 grams."

And I hate Helen Hunt. I'm not sure what makes me hate her more, the closet, self-hating lesbian vibe I get off her, her reputation as a mega-beeotch, the obvious amphetamine abuse or the ridiculous name she gave her daughter. I hate it all.

[Katherine Brengle]

122. lol--i haven't seen 21 grams, but i know what you mean. what did hunt nam

e her daughter?

[BlueIris]

128. Her daughter's name is Makena' Lei. Some of my Hawaiian

friends have pointed out that this isn't just cultural appropriation, it's cultural misappropriation (as Hunt claimed she was using a "traditional Hawaiian name" for the kid, but not only transliterated it, she misspelled the transliteration). And Makena' Lei Gordon Carnahan is one of the dorkiest names I've ever heard. Good job, Hel. Good job.

[LostinVA]

174. Oh yeah -- I've been saying for 20 years she's gay

[BlueIris]

187. 20 years, huh? I only noticed the "vibe" after a little birdy told me

about it in early '05. Now, it is painfully obvious to me.

[LostinVA]

189. Ha! I knew I had great gaydar!

She was in some Movie of the Weeks and Afterschool Specials in the 80's -- the gaydar went PING! PING! PING! And has never stopped!

[Lethe]

97. oh my god, before i even read your message text

i thought...."Pulp Fiction"

that movie was retarded, and Jon travolta needs to fucking die

[Katherine Brengle]

99. "Clue"--my friends made me watch it and i hated every minute--then my

friend Mathew, who is an actor, told me that I just couldn't appreciate it from an artist's perspective.

I told him that was bullshit--a crappy movie is a crappy movie.

:puke:

[Lethe]

106. wow i really thought that was a cool movie

but i really like the board game too. maybe it was because of that french maid.....

[Katherine Brengle]

111. lol! i love tim curry, but not even he could sell me on that movie--howev

er--the ending was kind of cool--i couldn't believe i managed to stay awake long enough to see it though.

:)

[Lethe]

114. yeah tim curry really sold that movie

he was great.

[Katherine Brengle]

116. he always is :) n/t

[Lerkfish]

158. he's great no matter what he's in. He's very underrated.

[Katherine Brengle]

110. COLD MOUNTAIN! I watched it for almost an hour and NOTHING

HAPPENED THE ENTIRE TIME.

I almost forgot about this one until I was responding to the Chicago post...

[Lethe]

113. yeah that sucked

except Jena Malone. thats the only reason i even tried to watch that.

(donnie darko rocked!)

[BlueIris]

120. Also, HOW could I have forgotten "The Hours"?

Worst. Kidman. Performance. Ever.

I would actually rather sit through "The Peacemaker" again than "The Hours."

[Katherine Brengle]

126. interesting--i've never heard anyone say they didn't like it--but i haven'

t seen it and i am only going on others' opinions, which we have all clearly discarded here, lol.

[LostinVA]

173. I think both the movie and Kidman are great -- although Moore is the best

[sbj405]

123. Sideways, Napolean Dynamite

[NNadir]

131. I found Pulp Fiction unwatchable.

[CanuckAmok]

134. Sodomaniac Pizza Girls #12

I know it was the highest-rated of the franchse, but the pacing was way off, and the denumente I could see coming a mile away.

[Hugin]

139. I only saw the colorized version.

But, I agree.

[Ron Mexico]

135. The Accidental Tourist

Boring, predictable, slow, completely devoid of any appeal whatsoever. Outside of "Pretty in Pink," I have never seen a worse movie.

[Lerkfish]

156. Accidental tourist was slower than molasses and I frankly didn't care

about the william hurt character at all.

[Ron Mexico]

159. I just want to say that

I am glad I'm not the only one. Thanks for chipping in.

[elshiva]

181. I liked it sort of because it was set in Baltimore.

[BlueIris]

137. Alright, here's one I always take crap for: "When Harry Met Sally."

I. Hate. This. Film.

The "characters" are the most stereotypical and dated representations of "modern" men and women I've ever seen, (I actually think the caricatures were dated for the day) the performances are all stilted, even Crystal's, and it just...isn't funny. The story is more tragic, pathetic and pitiful than funny or moving, especially if you agree with the explanation Nora Ephron gives for the film's premise: "Two people who realize that they have a great friendship, but if they have sex, they'll ruin everything--who have sex and ruin everything." Well, that's a beautiful love story, right there! And the end. My GOD. The impression I was left with was, "oh, for Christ's sake, now they're stuck with each other. Until the bitter, 'the magic is gone...and maybe it was never there' discussion proceeding the speedy divorce. About which they'll tell their friends: we never really clicked, and I think we just got married because we were scared to be alone." When people call that film "romantic," I want to throw shit at them.

[blondeatlast]

143. No crap from me--I despised it.

Had they stuck with Ephron's premise, it could have been a great twist on the romantic comedy genre--and thus worthy of my time.

[Ron Mexico]

155. I will also give you a crapless endorsement of your post.

The movie blew goat.

[blondeatlast]

141. "Pretty Woman"--I don't know about the critics, but my friends

loved it and I found it absolutely wretched.

[Ron Mexico]

144. So did I. It was fucking awful. True story:

When I saw it for the first time, it was a rental. I was dating a girl who would rip any movie I liked to shreds but would get all pissy if I dare spoke about against the shit she watched. I was really getting sick of it, but always figured that it was too small of an issue to argue about. At any rate, I was trying to get through the movie, and it was just irking the shit out of me with predictable stereotypical BS going left and right. But when the old fart said "We're gonna build great big ships together," I actually lost it to the point where I grabbed the remote, stopped the tape, turned to her and said "Not a fucking word. I cannot and will not take this shit anymore. Grab your coat and call a cab." I handed her some cab fare, rewound the tape and handed that to her, too.

Never saw her again, either. That movie was absolute agony.

[Brewman_Jax]

148. Unforgiven

couldn't finish the movie; and it won the Best Picture Oscar. Such is life. :eyes:

[Lerkfish]

157. I didn't like all of it, but there is one scene that to me is pure beauty.

when the hooker who had been slashed in the face with a razor offered to service Clint Eastwood, and he refuses, then she becomes very uncomfortable and stammers, and THEN he realizes he inadvertantly offended her....that interplay and level of acting in that one 5 minute scene is as good as cinema ever gets.

[NaturalHigh]

161. I didn't care for Pulp Fiction either.

The one that really bores me to tears, though, is Patriot Games. I actually fell asleep in the theater during that one.

The absolute worst movie of all time is Look Who's Talking. Anyone who enjoyed that movie (or any of its sequels) must be desperate for entertainment.

[Montauk6]

162. Any James Brooks movie

Yet on TV, the man's a genius: Taxi, MTM Show, Tracey Ullman's Fox show.

On the big screen, YUCK!

Terms of Endearment - Oh I just love comedies where a dying mom is telling her children goodbye!

Broadcast News - Albert Brooks as a nervous newsman literally pouring sweat on air (obvious makeup effect)... laugh? I thought I'd pee my pants!

As Good As It Gets - Jack Nicholson playing Jack Nicholson afraid to touch things... oh stop it, I'm so not dying over here.

[BlueIris]

185. It's Mel Brooks movies I can't stand.

At all.

[malta blue]

163. The English Patient

What a pile that one was...

[mitchum]

166. Blue Velvet, 2001, Pulp Fiction, Capote, Mystic River, The Hours...

the last three are from the contemporary genre that I have labeled "handsome productions" These are movies that are "great" only because they are not mindless action films. Oh boy, "quality" by default

[Paladin]

170. "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou"

God, what a snotty, self-satisfied waste of film stock. I can't believe some critics thought this flick was any good. Bill Murray, what were you thinking?

[blondeatlast]

192. Watching a cast like that trying to out deadpan each other

gave me the same reaction.

I don't think I laughed even once.

[elshiva]

175. LOL! John Revolting. Dad calls him "John Ravolta"

I hate the Passion of the Christ (have not seen Last Temptation...)

I hate Broken Flowers: Let's have a movie with an ending!

Ladies & Lavender: wasted the talents of Maggie Smith and Judi Dench on this piffle.

[Kathleen04]

183. I agree with Broken Flowers..

though I don't know anyone else who saw it. For good reason...

[EstimatedProphet]

178. Mulholland Drive

Everyone went on about how it was a work of genius, and at the same time, apologized for the obvious plot inconsistencies. David Lynch fans just won't admit that the guy's directing is schizophrenic, and they keep saying 'I know this was a mistake, but still he's a genius!' etc. etc. I swear, they're like Objectivists.

[XemaSab]

188. I'm very disappointed in you.

:(

[HughBeaumont]

191. MD did suck balls.

As did Lost Highway and Twin Peaks. I like Elephant Man and The Straight Story by him far more; I'm a sucker for biopics.

[BlueIris]

194. 'Kay, seriously? To say that it sucked balls, is an insult to...

well, yeah. You know what I would post if we didn't have that totally reasonable rule about not posting inappropriately in the Lounge about certain topics.

[HughBeaumont]

198. It sucked balls. I'm not you. I have different tastes.

It's not an insult to anything. It's an incoherent pile of bleak pseudo-art-house toss.

People have different tastes and ideas in what makes a good movie. One man's Memento is another man's Meatballs 2. When is ANYONE going to learn this?

And once again, why am I the only one getting attacked here???

[HeeBGBz]

180. Forest Gump

That movie totally annoyed me from start to finish.

[deadparrot]

182. Grease.

I love musicals, but I cannot. stand. that. show and/or movie.

:scared:

[Kathleen04]

184. Monty Python: Holy Grail

Everyone loves this movie, quotes from it, and reenacts it. Maybe I just don't get it? I thought it was very boring...

[RebelOne]

193. Million-Dollar Baby--it was totally predictable.

A Beautiful Mind--It made no sense to me. My Big, Fat Greek Wedding--Did not find it funny..

[Garbo]

197. EYES WIDE SHUT. No brainer.

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen. I wish my eyes had been shut, then I wouldn't have had to suffer through it.

What shocks me is that some people, even some DUers, think it is cinematic genius.

[HughBeaumont]

199. I dreaded watching that one going in, simply because . . .

Tommy One Note ruins just about every good idea put to cinema. Kubrick is my favorite director, but this movie is a giant shitcake. While the scenes, the use of color and the cinematography are great as usual . . . it's pretty much doomed by it's pompous story and the scenery-chewing ever melodramatic presence of L Ron Cruise and his grating ex-wife. These two try so hard to be edgy but fall flat on their asses every time.

Can't believe they put THIS in the box set and not Paths to Glory or Spartacus.