Here are mine:
- Forest Gump
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- The Matrix
- National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
- Toy Story 3
- The Lion King
- Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
- Black Hawk Down
- Rocky IV
On a side note while I don't hate Lord of the Rings I do think it is very very overrated and wasn't a good representation of the source material.
The Hurt Locker
Singin' in the Rain
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Bohemian Rhapsody
A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)
Speaking of Hitchcock, I actually wasn't a huge fan of North By Northwest, I think the main problem I had was Cary Grant, I know this is an unpopular opinion but I just found his performance not very compelling and he seemed to be trying way too hard to be funny and campy.
I realize it's a classic but I just didn't love it like most people seem to, I am more of a fan of Vertigo and Psycho.
Just because it's a classic, that doesn't mean you have to like it.
shareWow, what a list, some great movies there!
Me:
Once upon a time in he west
No country for old men
Blade Runner 2049
Inside out
While I don't hate Blood Diamond, I think it is highly overrated, even with one of my favorite actors as the lead. Similar movies were made that were way better too.
Wow I loved Blade Runner 2049, but to each his own I guess.
shareOh you went there huh?
Well then,
I loved The Lion King you ASSHOLE!!!
haha, just kidding man, im just sensitive when it comes to Timon and Pumbaa
;)
Akuna Matata
Ummm no I was just commenting, I'm not attacking you for not liking Blade Runner 2049, the original actually took me multiple viewings to actually get into.
shareIm just messing with you because you listed some great classics that most peeps love and then you're surprised I don't like Blade Runner 2049. You can rarely take me seriously, don't worry.
shareOK cool.
But yeah that's the point of this thread, to vent about films that you just don't understand why they are so popular and then have a discussion about it.
Once upon a time in the west
No country for old men
These 2 are in my top 20 list. What do you dislike about them?
OUATITW was long, boring, I didn't care for the characters and you know what, I don't even like the song. I plan to give it a rewatch someday but I have so many more interesting things to watch before. I rate it 5/10
No country for old men frustrated me when I saw at the theatre but when I rewatched it in the comfort of my home was a bit better. Now I rate it 6.5/10 so I can't say I don't like it. But the ending is definitely anticlimatic and I hate it.
Practically every new superhero movie. Mindless formulaic drivel.
I consider the extended Lord of the Ring movies to be visual masterpieces. Music, costumes, prop design, cinematography, scenery, houses and villages, directing. Some SFX is subpar though.
ET
Field of Dreams
Ghost
Risky Business
Star Wars
The Bodyguard
The Prince of Tides
The Way We Were
Every Superhero movie in the past 30 years.
The Harry Potter franchise (granted I only watched one, but I saw a few minutes of the other movies on TV and still not interested.)
Jaws (It's mediocre at best.)
The Sound of Music (or any others of it's kind like La La Land, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Les Miserables, etc. I hate dem musicals.)
Pulp Fiction
Black Panther
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic World (I'm not going to see the sequel, ever.)
The Incredibles (Basically just a stupid parody of Fantastic Four, yeah very original idea guys.)
Captain Marvel
All the Transformers sequels (The first one is cool tho'.)
Also all the Pirates of the Caribean sequels (The first one is really great.)
Both Guardian of the Galaxy movies
Thor: Ragnarok
The entire Hunger Games franchise (It's a ripoff.)
I HATE all musicals too! But man, Saving pvt Ryan, really?
shareEh I could see some people finding the ending of Saving Private Ryan a tad corny and cliched. I personally liked it aside from the "earn this" line which I hated. Miller was just putting an entire guilt trip on Ryan which he didn't deserve, the kid never wanted nor asked to be rescued.
shareYep. I hate musicals too!
shareGladiator. Hated this film, nothing but warmed over junk for people who've never seen a Roman or historical epic before. The story was paint by numbers.
Napoleon Dynamite. A cynically produced Hollywood studio trying to pass it off as a quaint, unpretentious low budget movie when it was anything but. Basically a more upbeat rip off version of Welcome to the Dollhouse, except more random and zany.
Se7en. Loved Fight Club (which Fincher directed and I consider a masterpiece), couldn't stand this movie.
The Usual Suspects. Only became popular because everyone was going gaga for any hip crime drama in the vein of Pulp Fiction.
Fargo. Same reason as The Usual Suspects, and one of the most mean-spirited movies I've ever seen.
Forrest Gump. Reagan era reactionary junk. Gave the dumbest and most ignorant of Americans an inspirational folk hero to admire and said that if you protested bad things and stood up against authority, bad things would happen to you.
American Beauty. Pretentious sitcom-level drivel and creepy fanboy homage to Jack Lemmon, masquerading as hard-hitting social commentary and art film.
Citizen Kane. Yes, it's visually stunning, but it's a classic style over substance film. It also made the mistake of basing itself around a very specific person and as a result, is no longer relatable. (No one could give a rat's ass about William Randolph Hearst anymore).
Beauty and the Beast. Some nice lessons there: 1) You can change him (an abusive asshole) if you just love him hard enough. 2) It doesn't matter what people look like on the outside, but...here's a drop dead gorgeous blue-eyed hunk who looks like something straight out of GQ as a reward for loving him on the inside.
The Magnificent Seven. It's nowhere near as people think it is. I think people want to like the movie because there are so many major stars in it.
Ghostbusters. Same thing. I was the perfect demographic for this movie (even watched the animated series), but there was nothing special about it to me. I think people want to desperately like it a lot more than they need to because it had the biggest stars of 1980s TV comedy in it.
I'll add GHOSTBUSTERS and AMERICAN BEAUTY to my list as well. Thanks for the reminders.
shareWow... I have to comment on three of your choices.
"Gladiator": I liked it, but I guess it would be too violent for my taste these days.
"Forrest Gump": Can you explain to me what is so "reactionary" about this movie? Because I feel quite the opposite, that they did everything to cater to some left-wing brigade. Forrest just happened to accidentally get Nixon caught, and the girl who was the big love of Forrest's life became a stupid hippy.
"Beauty & the Beast": Wrong. Belle did never like Beast before he started to change. She was going to leave him too, until he saved her from a pack of wolves. And if Beast hadn't been transformed back into his human form in the end, cue bestiality. Plus, the servants could never become human again either unless Beast was changed back first.
Marvel
shareStar Wars
superhero/comic books movies