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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.

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The Deer Hunter - well acted but an unrelenting downer that is slow and ponderous when it should be powerful
Blazing Saddles - a farting scene was the highlight. Enough said.
Rebel Without A Cause - overacted teenage melodrama
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - only memorable for Marilyn Monroe's singing, which shouldn't be any film's saving grace
The Avengers - this is a "classic" of the superhero genre right? It's also bloated and incoherent and leaves no emotional impact whatsoever
Titanic - I guessed the ending
Citizen Kane - boring as batshit

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I found the Russian roulette scene in Deer Hunter to be comical. The leap between being State side and then straight into combat is jarring as well. For such a long film it could have been done better.

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To Sir with Love - Well to do, educated black man shows up in a working class high school and puts shit on everyone and their way of life. Imagine if this were a well to do educated white man turning up in a high school in Africa and behaving the same way?

Dead Poets Society - An odd choice, as I like elements of the film. What I will never understand is the rich kid offing himself all because he isn't allowed to play pretend on stage. Is it really that serious that he can't wait a couple of years?

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Clockwork orange, hated it 👎🏻

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the king and i.

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If.... (1968)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Mind numbingly slow and tedious.

Taxi Driver (1976) - A grubby little film full of grubby little people.

Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Take out the performances of Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster and this was just another ordinary serial killer movie.



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I must disagree. All three films are quite excellent in my opinion.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) One of the best scenes in film history.

Taxi Driver (1976) One of the best character studies in film history.

Silence of the Lambs (1991) The 2 main characters gave absolutely great performances.

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Well that would put you with the majority of people who think highly of these "classic" films. This thread however is about people such as myself expressing the opposite opinion.


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Giant (1956)

Didn't like Rock Hudson's cattle family.

Didn't like Dean's character.

Could care less about what happened between them.

Raging Bull (1980)

Hard to watch for me, Jake Lamotta character was just to ugly.



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Musicals set in a real world. I just can't buy into people talking and interacting then breaking into song out of the blue.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: I just couldn't get into the story as much, even though I like both actors.

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