Beloved movies you don't care for
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http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-movies-do-you-hate-that-everyone.html
Ken Levine, who is an excellent blogger and also a great TV writer (I don’t know about his radio skills, and baseball puts me to sleep quickly), and he lists here movies that other people love and he hates.
I have to be honest, I don’t have a lot of “new movies” in this field, since I don’t HAVE to watch a lot of movies I don’t want to any more. Also, with the way movies are marketed, it’s incredibly rare that a movie comes out that isn’t targeted to a specific audience with pinpoint precision, so if it’s not aimed at me (like a Tyler Parry movie or a Family Friendly Comedy) I’ll only see it if people tell me it’s really good. Does that mean Tyler Perry movies aren’t any good? I don’t know. I don’t watch them. They aren’t for me, but if the people they are aimed at like them, then good for them. Not everything is FOR me.
These movies, however, are ones that seem to get universal acclaim or have a large fanbase and I disliked them. A LOT.
The first one I thought of was Forrest Gump. I actively hate that movie and the message that “If you just shut the hell up and do what you’re told, you’ll be a happy millionaire!” Every character is a one dimensional cliché. AT BEST, it’s shamefully manipulative melodrama.
Others are:
Flashdance: an endless music video with terrible songs
Footloose: made in the 80’s, set in the 1580’s “The town has outlawed dancing!”
Gone With The Wind: long, melodramatic, racist and pretty
Transformers: I tried, dear sweet Koresh, I tried. Shia LaBeouf’s mother in the movie was a character I hated so much I wanted to travel back in time and stop everyone involved from working on any movie ever
Terms of Endearment I have a deep love of bad movies like Plan 9 and Robot Monster. When people ask what the worst movie I have ever seen is, I answer this movie.
Scarface (1982): This was a long, dull, violent crime movie that features the worst acting from an Academy Award winner ever.
Braveheart: Kind of shocked this movie is beloved while Rob Roy (which came out a couple of months before) is ignored.
Anything with Will Ferrill or Adam Sandler. I still think no one finds them funny and their success is a long, involved practical joke on me.
The Usual Suspects: I remember saying at the end “So that’s why it didn’t make any sense!”
I am SURE that people disagree with me, and that’s fine…what Beloved movies do YOU dislike?
Ken Levine, who is an excellent blogger and also a great TV writer (I don’t know about his radio skills, and baseball puts me to sleep quickly), and he lists here movies that other people love and he hates.
I have to be honest, I don’t have a lot of “new movies” in this field, since I don’t HAVE to watch a lot of movies I don’t want to any more. Also, with the way movies are marketed, it’s incredibly rare that a movie comes out that isn’t targeted to a specific audience with pinpoint precision, so if it’s not aimed at me (like a Tyler Parry movie or a Family Friendly Comedy) I’ll only see it if people tell me it’s really good. Does that mean Tyler Perry movies aren’t any good? I don’t know. I don’t watch them. They aren’t for me, but if the people they are aimed at like them, then good for them. Not everything is FOR me.
These movies, however, are ones that seem to get universal acclaim or have a large fanbase and I disliked them. A LOT.
The first one I thought of was Forrest Gump. I actively hate that movie and the message that “If you just shut the hell up and do what you’re told, you’ll be a happy millionaire!” Every character is a one dimensional cliché. AT BEST, it’s shamefully manipulative melodrama.
Others are:
Flashdance: an endless music video with terrible songs
Footloose: made in the 80’s, set in the 1580’s “The town has outlawed dancing!”
Gone With The Wind: long, melodramatic, racist and pretty
Transformers: I tried, dear sweet Koresh, I tried. Shia LaBeouf’s mother in the movie was a character I hated so much I wanted to travel back in time and stop everyone involved from working on any movie ever
Terms of Endearment I have a deep love of bad movies like Plan 9 and Robot Monster. When people ask what the worst movie I have ever seen is, I answer this movie.
Scarface (1982): This was a long, dull, violent crime movie that features the worst acting from an Academy Award winner ever.
Braveheart: Kind of shocked this movie is beloved while Rob Roy (which came out a couple of months before) is ignored.
Anything with Will Ferrill or Adam Sandler. I still think no one finds them funny and their success is a long, involved practical joke on me.
The Usual Suspects: I remember saying at the end “So that’s why it didn’t make any sense!”
I am SURE that people disagree with me, and that’s fine…what Beloved movies do YOU dislike?
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Personal choices:
The Godfather movies - yawn
Martin Scorcese in general - there are one or two that I can think of that I enjoyed.
Woody Allen movies - the neuroticism and uncomfortable humor just aren't my cuppa.
Wes Anderson movies - they just feel pretentious and hipster to me.
Pretty much anything with Meryl Streep. Just typing the name makes me yawn.
Starship Troopers. Most of my friends loved this one. I hated almost every minute of it. It could have been ok as a B scifi action flick. Unfortunately they disparaged what I consider to be a seminal work. Not even Dina Meyer can bring it back from that.
Fifth Element - huge marketing effort - comparisons to a Star Wars and Bladerunner. Instead, we get Chris Tucker and Gary Oldman as a lispy, malevolent Colonel Sanders with a bowl on his head.
Grease - Oh god I have to leave the room any time Summer Nights comes on. Still do.
Footloose - Thank God I'm not the only one who hates this.
Batman/Batman Returns - Keaton was the *only* thing I enjoyed about these movies.
The Lord of the Rings: I just don't care. They bore me. Books and movies.
Comedic remakes of things that weren't comedies originally. Like Starsky & Hutch.
Will Ferrell
Ben Stiller
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: This was just a boring confused mess for me.
Gladiator
Guardians of the Galaxy
Thor 2
Adam Sandler except Happy Gilmore
Star Trek (2009 reboot)
Fast and Furious Franchise
Gladiator
The English Patient
The Rocketeer
Boyhood
Passion of the Christ
Boo on all the Forest Gump haters. Where did your soul go? When he sees his son for the first time...... I'm crying now.......Forest Gump rules!
The Nolan Batman movies, particularly Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises. I like The Dark Knight alright, but as @Adam_Murdough once said (quoting Peter Griffin), "it insists upon itself" a bit too much. I just can't get behind a Batman who quits in the face of tragedy, and one that does almost none of his own detective work. Sure, he can kick ass creatively, but take Lucius and Alfred out of the equation and he's toast. Batman should always be the most clever guy in the room, and I never once got that feeling in any of these.
Drive - It's like two movies awkwardly stitched together, it's too damn quiet, and I just don't like Ryan Gosling. Albert Brooks was great, though; I'll give it that.
Dr. Strangelove - There are parts I think are extremely funny and parts that die on screen and still stretch out into eternity. It's just kind of a jumbled mess and falls apart as a result.
This is Spinal Tap - All the funny parts that everyone always quotes? They all happen in the first half of the movie, which is great. The second half gets really dull for me, right about the time Michael McKean's character meets his Yoko.
Where the Wild Things Are - The trailer might be the best, most beautiful short film ever made. I legitimately teared up a little the first time I saw it. The actual movie took my favorite book as a little kid and turned into an angry, angsty, creepy, boring mess. I can't remember ever leaving a theater so disappointed in my life.
Beautifully filmed, tragic movie with one of the most horrifying deaths I can imagine.
I KNOW people disagree with me. There is someone I have known since before the movie came out, and every so often, she'll just let me know out the blue that I am wrong about Forest Gump.
Avatar - gorgeous, illogical movie with a trite, recycled plot that could be fully summed up with “Trees good! Natives good! Military bad!”
Unobtanium - 'nuff said.
Boondock Saints - Quentin Tarantino, it ain't. Amateurish, it is.
2001: A Space Odyssey - pioneering visual effects that would evolve into movies like Star Wars and Close Encounters, but it lacked the storytelling that made those later films great. In short, 2001 is a three-hour bore. Heavily edited by the studio. And Kubrick is someone whose films I genuinely admire.
Fast and Furious (any of them) - sorry. Not for me.
Most any movie featuring Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler.
Some guilty pleasure movies for me range from the Shining, Crank, Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Better Off Dead, Ghostbusters, Lost Boys, Robocop, Purple Rain, Transporter, Spider-Man, Wild At Heart, Predator, Shaun of the Dead, Office Space, Big Lebowski, Vertigo, Wizard of Oz, Toy Story, Terminator, Aliens, Blazing Saddles, American Werewolf in London, 28 Days Later, Planet of the Apes (original, as well as parts 3 & 4) - you get the drift.
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Lula: About fifty thousand times.
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Jack (Eraserhead) Nance in a stolen scene as Bose “Double Aught” Spool
The Sound of Music
E.T.
Apocalypse Now
Annie Hall
Dances With Wolves
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Now my list.
Jaws-Robert Shaw is amazing in this. But as my Uncle use to say you take a 1lb of ice cream/Robert Shaw and in a pound of crap/the rest of the film and you end up with 2lbs of crap.
Forrest Gump-Totally changes what is a good book,into another Tom Hanks wants to get an Oscar film.
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises-I never feel the need to watch them again. Which isn't something I can say for TDK.
Any and all Superman films-Just not a fan of Superman. Never have been.
Grease & Scarface probably top the list. I just despise Grease from having to watch it so many times growing up with my sisters. Scarface I thought was greatly overrated.
Sure there are others on my list; Wall Street, Apocalypes Now, Highlander, Dirty Harry, to name a few. Looking at them objectively, they're all movies I've just seen in the last year. The hype & dated stuff felt dated. Plus, I've seen the replicants so many times the originals seem watered down.
All in all, no matter how high the praise, my viewing selections have nearly always come down to what I like. Even with high praise (Avatar, Hunger Games, Harry Potter) if it doesn't look interesting I'm just not going to waste my time.
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