Critically Acclaimed Films That You Just Don't Like
 

I got this idea from the "rate the last movie you saw for the first time thread"

What are some movies that the general public and critics LOVE and ADORE that you just could not get in to or that you consider a massive bomb?






SUB QUESTION

What are some critically panned movies that you fucking love?

a movie that was loved by the critics and has millions of fans is District 9. I mean it wasn't a bad film and had important political tones but I wasn't big on it at all. I didn't think the dialog was very good and not a lot really happened.






Movies that are critically panned that I love are easy to name. Step Brothers, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore ect...

Away from comedies is the movie Reign Over Me. This movie gets a lot of shit from people and the critics. I think Sandler was brilliant and Cheadle wasn't half bad. This movie made me cry and kept me interested the entire film.

Schindlers List. I'll predefine somethings here. I like artsy movies. I like indy movies. I'm not some guy who jizzes at the sight of a new Will Ferrell movie. Action movies are pretty much my least favorite genre. I'm establishing that I think I have similiar taste/background to general critics etc. However didn't enjoy much about this movie at all. When I was watching it I groaned at having to put another disc in to keep watching, cause I already lost interest in it. Maybe I was just not in the mood for it when I did watch it. But dunno, didn't do much for me.

Schlomey, you very much make me want to gas you.

Let's see.... there's a bunch of hyped movies that I dislike but I can't think of that many right now but the two come to mind are Braveheart and Titanic.

Heat

Mullholland Drive sans the lesbian scene.

Braveheart was one of those supposedly "love or hate" movies I couldn't get up enough interest to love or hate. So I suppose I just don't like it. I mean, it's not bad, but it didn't live up to the hype. And this is coming from someone whose family is half sheepfuc...That is, Scot. I swear, my family gets a collective hardon for anything Scottish.

I think it was just the monologues. I mean, lame as they are, they stick in your head.

Never saw Titanic, and I'm trying really hard to keep that up. Well, not really. But I won't go out of my way to watch it.

As for ones I like...well, I don't make any pretense to only liking the artful movies. I like fun movies, and I think half my collection is comedy of some sort, from sophisticated/Jewish to retarded/black. I like Eurotrip and Super Troopers and the Harold and Kumar movies, all of which are pretty fucking dumb, but they're amusing.

Eurotrip , Super Troopers, Harold & Kumar....all movies in my library. :)

I love part 1 ...was very MEH about part 2.

Any Star Wars movie.

Inglorious Basterds

Basterds & star wars? Never thought they would end up here.

Pirates of The Caribbean triology there all way overrated.

I think most of the movies listed here are overrated true. But not something I strongly dislike and think is complete utter shit. Except Mullholland Drive, support that nomination. Didn't at all care for it, surprised I made it through it. Most Lynch films I'm really enjoy too.

The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather movies to some degree
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
The Usual Suspects
Seven
The Professional
Heat
most Pixar movies

How can you not like Shawshank? Terrorists and baby killers probably like that film. :'(

Same.



Also SAW, never saw the appeal to it, I never would have seen it to this day if not for my brother. The twist I guess is unexpected if you watch the movies in order (III was the first one I saw so that ruined that for me) but when you get that out of the way it just seems like another generic horror movie to me.

Generally though if I see a movie with all of the critical acclaim I avoid it. They generally don't appeal to me, I generally like comedies and action films, and everyone drooling over a movie just turns me off to it even more.

Actually thinking about comedies Superbad is actually another one, I got a copy of it from Amazon by mistake when I ordered something, and saw the first few minutes and turned it off. I probably should give it a second chance, but I didn't see what was so funny about it early on.

Usual Suspects - Hated the ending, pretty much negated everything seen up to that point. Fuck, hate this movie.

Hurt Locker - It was whatever

Crash - I can see why people went nuts over it, but it was horribly over dramatic and contrived I thought

Lord of the Rings - Great/ambitious, but I just never really got that into it.

Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty

Pulp Fiction

No Country For Old Men

One of the most boring movies ever.

same here

this is how Randall & I feel about LOTR.

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Taxi Driver
Hurt Locker
Braveheart

yeah i was not a fan of lord of the rings........this might not be critically acclaimed but Transformers sucked too.

Inglorious Basterds and I just don't like The Godfather movies.

Forrest Gump

Definitely American Beauty. Did not care for it at all. I think it started off good, but quickly went downhill.

I hated Avatar...was that critically acclaimed?

Lord of the Rings rules. :foc:

If you dont like FOrrest gump you need to just fuck right off and die. FOr real. How can you not like it? You can not love it, but to watch that movie and jsut think it wasnt good?

I hope James Dean is rotting in Hell. Rebel without a cause is an abortion.

Who the fuck doesn't like Taxi Driver? I can live with Usual Suspects and Se7en, but Taxi Driver? Do you have a serious chemical inbalance in the brain?

Also, any Tarantino movie is correct.

I guess so

So long as you realize, and seek help.

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it's just my personal opinion

I don't care if you hate Rebel w/o a Cause because that's your personal opinion

chill out guy....

Yes i'd agree that the majority of Tarantino's work is garbage but not all of it.

You guys are "shattering me" right now.

one scene doesnt make a movie

2001

what

Taxi Driver is "not exactly" a "mainstream" movie. I can see why a lot of people would not like it at all.

it was "critically acclaimed" though.

A lot of (most) critically acclaimed movies are not enjoyed by the general public.

RAWK.

Though i only own Eurotrip and Supertroopers. The former because my friends and I used to get drunk and watch it, and the latter because it's based in Vermont and several of the characters are actually based off dudes from the Brattleboro Barracks.

Hate Tarrantino, period. I'm yet to enjoy any movie he does. It's like he's trying to emulate other people's ideas, but misses the actual magic that makes them work, or made them work in the case of things which are closer to period pop.


The first one was fun. The second one was long and not fun. The third one was long, somewhat more fun, but strictly stupid.

I've never seen a SAW film because the genre has limited appeal to me. I'm tempted to watch one or two, but I've got a Netflix queue of like 400 movies, so I'm not bored enough.

Yeah, I do try things I might not like. Usually on DVD and usually only through Netflix. Sometimes, I "appreciate" them. I don't like every Kurosawa film, but I can appreciate what went into even the ones I don't like. The dude is an archetype unto himself, so I'm not bashing him. He's just the first example that comes to mind.

Lord of the Rings is part of a novelty genre for me. There are certain movies that seem awesome at the time, and LotR was one that hooked me because of the scenery porn. It had been years since I read the books, and they were filtered through nostalgia glasses, so I forgot about the pages of prose to describe a single blade of grass. It doesn't have to be visuals, anything can be a novelty.

I hated Brokeback Mountain. The characters were wooden, and not in a gay innuendo way. i just couldn't give a fuck about any of them. And even the sodomy seemed forced. I don't know a single gay who loved the movie, their reactions being midling at best. I know a ton of women who loved it, because it was HGA. It's like the entire movie was fanservice to a fanbase that didn't exist yet.

Oh, and I was going to comment on avoiding movies that are " critically acclaimed." I try like fuck to just rent/watch/buy what I like, but excessive gushing does sort of spoil me on a movie.

Braveheart is so historically incorrect that it is painful to watch.

I have never read the books (nor will I), but I liked the two movies based on those Dan Brown novels, Angels and Demons, and the other one. But they got ripped to shreds by the critics.

i don't think you can count stuff like star wars or LOTR because they are culty type films that are bound to divide opinion.

i thought the shining was fucking awful, but i think i read the book first. apocalypse now was terrible too, as far as i remember.

more recently, there will be blood and no country for old men both left me pretty cold. i mean they were decent but got far too overhyped.

There will be Blood and No Coutry were both good, but not the great films everyone made them to be.

Any gangster heavy movie for me.

The Godfather films. Goodfellas. Meh.

Requim pretty much tried to rape and murder me when I said I didn't think Braveheart was 'all that'.

But yeah, Braveheart.

Too many dirty scots.

So you're bitching about the historical accuracy of Braveheart, but you're completely giving Dan Brown a pass?

Dan Brown and the writers of Braveheart. Only one of them claimed their story was 99% accurate.

besides, historical records were sketchy. Who's to say William Wallace wasn't a 3' tall Nazi from Australia?

The Usual Suspects sucked. They tried to redeem an uninteresting story with a twist ending that didn't work because you don't care at all about any of the characters.

Crash was another one I didn't recommend on my review site that registered users rate highly. All of the racism in that movie seemed contrived and none of the characters had any depth beyond the race they were representing. I think the movie also had a bunch of "fancy dialogue" where they just talk for the sake of talking. Could be wrong about that though.

No, Crash sucked.

Apocalypse Now was another stinker. All I remember is how long it was and that pretentious scene in the end with the French.

Watching Planet 51 now. It was crtitically panned, but I'm enjoying it.

:heart: you for both of these comments

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Oh yeah and also Iron Man I didn't care for it for considering all the hype it had.

I queued this on Netflix, but I don't expect to enjoy it..

Queue Pocahontas instead. The same movie and it won't give you a headache from all of the blue.

LOL, I didn't care for pochahontas and I didnt like Avatar.

Mystic River.

I loved Mystic River but I can see where it might bore others.

...I never could watch any of the Lord of the Rings movies...

...or Star Wars. I just couldn't get into them for some reason.

I would suggest reading the LOTR books and if you still dont want to watch the movies then that your choice but it makes the movies better IMO.

As for Avatar, I got 45 mins into and said "I am so glad their were enough retards in the theatre to sell it out so I didnt get in"

I <3 Avatar. I went to it thinking it was Avatar: AirBender because I wasn't paying attention and was confused but happily confused by the end.

Don't like a lot of the middlebrow oscar bait movies, films like The Reader, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Chariots of Fire etc.

Not really critically acclaimed but I also tend to dislike a lot of "fan boy" movies like 300, V for Vendetta... and of course one of the worst movies ever made... the Boondock Saints.

you...didn't...LOVE...shawshank? :eek:

Pocahontas was pretty crappy.

Yeah, After reading the books, I was thinking "thank God this movie isn't as long as it could have been."

The books are long, dry, and deal with minutia. Tolkien's idea of epic included "anal retentive." The movies at least replace it with scenery porn.

LOL. Not sure I could make that mistake. Though given the 8% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, you're probably better off.

To expand on my momentary bout of retardation. I went to the cinema with a friend of mine. We had planned on seeing one thing but as we were standing there buying tickets she changed her mind and wanted to see Avatar. I was like...ok. I had been oblivious to television for a while so I guess the Avatar trailer passed by me. Anyways I didn't realize I was not watching the Airbender version of Avatar until I saw the first set of avatars and asked my friend...where is the Asian Kid!? lol yeah not much better than the first post.

Lord of The Rings - I always fall asleep watching this.

yea made it 40 minutes into the first one and fell asleep.