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.