Classic movies you can't stand?
Once Upon a Time in America.
The music's grating, the plot's boring, the character's uninteresting and the length interminable.
Citizen Kane
Pulp fiction
Titanic
I agree on Titanic.
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12 Angry Men (1957). Fantastic cast but have come to loathe it for reasons that belong on the political board.
share12 Angry Men (1957). Fantastic cast but have come to loathe it for reasons that belong on the political board.
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shareThe Sting. Is it a comedy? I wasn't that amused. boring movie.
Fight Club. I thought the plot twist was stupid.
I always thought that The Sting was criminally overrated. Fight Club I don't even consider a contender for classic status.
shareI've always loved the Sting, but you are not the first person I've heard say its boring.
shareThe Wizard of Oz
shareNo. Way. I'm going to drop a house on you.
shareI can’t stand that movie. When I was a kid in the 70s it played once a year on one of the three networks and my parents would put it on every year. I would probably appreciate the original book though because it was a political satire of the late 19th and early 20th century. For instance the cowardly lion represented William Jennings Bryan.
shareStreetcar named desire, Brando over acts.
Rebel without a cause, James Dean over acts.
The Deer Hunter, what a silly overly long film.
I agree
shareLust For Life, Kirk Douglas overacts. Van Gogh would never go hungry the way Douglas chews the scenery. He's miscast, in any case.
Frankenstein (1931). Kind of slow-moving, logic-deficient actions by characters, and lack of horror or suspense. Loved it as a kid, though.
Sound of Music. Don't get me started with those songs, especially "Doe, a deer, a female deer..." AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!
Kirk Douglas always seemed one dimensional and wooden to me no matter what part he played. I do agree though he is the last actor I would cast to play an artist.
Musicals are hard to take seriously, Sound of Music especially so. "We better run from the NAZI's! Do we have time to sing?"
I do like some musicals - dark ones (like Cabaret and Carousel) as well as more classic fare (High Society, Guys and Dolls) and some more recent releases (such as Chicago, Moulin Rouge, and Beyond The Sea). Anything corny or hokey though, count me out.
shareI don't hate Rebel Without a Cause but I lost some respect for it when I finally realized as an adult that all the events in the movie take place within a 24 hour period. Like, really!
sharePulp Fiction
shareI agree with the OP.
Lawrence of Arabia
I absolutely loathe this movie. I've tried watching it several times to get into it, and each time the flaws become more obvious.
shareand Dr. Zhivago, another one of David (un) Lean.
I didn't care for "The Bridge on the River Kwai", either.... I thought "Brief Encounter" was pretty good, though.
i really don't care for quite a few of antonioni's films. blow-up is great, & i recall liking l'avventura, but i recently watched:
la notte
l'eclisse
red desert
and i was completely bored by all of them, and never want to see them again.
i don't like crime dramas, drug trafficking films, that sort of thing. i recently gave goodfellas a watch for the first time, and i really didn't care for it. obviously i can see that it's got great qualities in it, but everything about it made my 'i'm bored' neurons fire. i haven't seen scarface in years, but i didn't like it when i watched it either.
The only ones by Antonioni I liked were Il Gido, L'Eclisse and to a lesser extent, The Passenger.
Goodfellas is soooo overrated.