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Classic Films Everyone Praises, But You Can't Stand


I mean, you hear about, and possibly watch these movies that have been around for years, possibly even decades before you're born, and everyone thinks they're soooo great and advertise the living daylights out of them, or make references to them....but you watch them and think "Why in God's name would anybody like this? This film is awful! This film is boring!"

Gone with the Wind - I hated it after Scarlett gets married the first time, and I want to murder Scarlett for being such a bitch to everyone

Citizen Kane - for once I wouldn't be angry at Peter Griffin taping over it with the words, "It's his sled. That's it. There, I just saved you two boobless hours."

Cleopatra - don't like it after Caesar leaves Cleo's house to go to the senate (where he's later assassinated).

Mary Poppins - oh GOD that movie is so BOOORRRRINNG!!!! The only parts worth remembering are the cartoon adventure in the park and the kite scene at the end. Everything else sucks.

Casablanca - I don't like that it's in black and white, and the guy has to give up the girl at the end. I don't care if it's part of the story, I hate it.

West Side Story - stupid, contrived, ugly downtown city setting, and I don't feel anything for the characters involved.

Many old James Bond films - many of them are boring, dumb, or the babe he's with isn't as attractive as people make her out to be

Bonnie and Clyde - remind me again why I should care this film exists? These people are criminals and deserve everything they got. That, and I wanted to murder Blanche.

Every single Les Miserable film ever made - how could anyone like this story? The people in this are horrible to each other and it ends sadly.

Forrest Gump - I loved the title character, but I hate the girl they paired him with. She really was a low-class skank and didn't deserve him. Didn't like how much of society treated Forrest either, or how ungrateful people could be when he was being kind and helpful.

I have more, but those are the first ones I can think of right now.

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The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

About as interesting as watching paint dry.

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Godfather 2
2001: A Space Odyssey
Raging Bull
Chinatown
The Conversation
Hoosiers
Unforgiven

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Curse of the Bloody Voodoo Sockpuppet (2020)

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Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
Cape Fear (1991)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)


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3 Deniro/Scorsese movies, do you like any of their other movies?

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I don't think I've seen any of their other films. I doubt I will. The ones I've seen are so universally praised and I didn't like any of them so I won't bother watching others. Honestly, I felt Cape Fear was unintentionally funny, it was so bad.

I did like Scorcese's After Hours.

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Try Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

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Cape Fear (1991) is considered a "Classic film everyone praises"?

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Pales in comparison to the original.

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Casablanca
The Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Forrest Gump
12 Angry Men

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It was supposed to be some kind of "high art," because Liz played against type. Meh?

I've tried to watch it at least 4 times.

All I got out of it was various scenes of 4 drunks screaming at one another for 2 hours.
No story, no plot.

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Yeah I've given that one a few tries. Just can't finish it.

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What movies do you like?

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The Sting, Sicario, Wind River, No Country For Old Men, Speed, The Fugitive, Moneyball, A Few Good Men, The Big Lebowski, The Siege, Scream, Hard Eight, Enemy of the State, The Negotiator, Carlito's Way, State of Grace, Glengarry Glen Ross

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Air Force 1

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space odyssey

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