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As an antidote to the other thread, what films do you dislike despite popular opinion?
I'll start off with Top Gun. Absolute bobbins from start to finish.
Shawshank
Ok film but that ending makes me hate it ...I wanted to vomit
Too american to sickly sweet too preposterous
Ruined an otherwise Ok film.
Skyfall. Could have left after the first twenty minutes.
The Harry Potter films, utter tosh, just don't understand why both the books and the films were successful.
I enjoyed Skyfall.
Tron is garbage.
Bladerunner.
Any musical - I just can't do them at all.
I'm sure there are others but that's for starters 🙂
TS
Anything with hugh grant in it
Only time I've ever fallen asleep in a cinema was during Lord of the Rings
fight club. i just don't get what all the fuss is about. i quite liked the storyline, up until the end when it was all in his head.
now sure, thats the whole point etc yadda yadda yadda, but i can't be arsed with all that bullshit.
The Big Lebowski.
Everyone raves about it, supposed to be a film classic, a seminal work. I was bored senseless watching it.
Matrix.
Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars
Startrek
Hot Fuzz .
Went and watched Black Swan - it has to be a case of the Emperor's new clothes, surely! It was pish!
Star wars
harry potter
lord of the rings,
top gun,
westerns,
mission impossible,
and probably any overhyped film ,that usually turns out crap.
At the moment..... The Princess Bride
I've tried watching Bladerunner a number of times because I feel I should but I just can't get into it at all. Just seems a bit crap.
Similar with The Godfather.
Also can't really see what all the fuss about Pulp Fiction was all about. TBH, I can't get excited by Tarrantino in general really although I did enjoy True Romance.
Anything with star, Matrix, Bourne or wars in the title.
Anything with Steve Martin in post "Father of the Bride"
Anything with Jennifer Aniston in.
Anything period drama'ish with Emma whatsherface in.
Anything with a title like "Fast n Furious"
Anything with Jet Lee in.
Absolutely anything with Nicholas Cage in. He is a proper goon.
Lost in Translation. I just didn't care about either of them.
Horse Box Gang Bang 4 - they jumped the shark on that one
It's not hard to call out a crap film that everyone knows is a crap film. Top Gun was/is iconic not because it was a good film but because it was a film of the era. It is celebrated for being cheesy. Add American Flyers - classic but also cheesy crap in equal measures!
Films that are meant to be good that I just can't get into - Fight Club and Kill Bill. I'm in the right demographic, the right age and the right gender but just can't warm to them.
Up
Final Destinations. They take ridiculous to the next level.
The Saw films.
+1 big lebowski. Just so shit, slow & boring.
The Big Lebowski.Everyone raves about it, supposed to be a film classic, a seminal work. I was bored senseless watching it.
It's easy to be underwhelmed by a film with so much hype. People expect it to be some kind of religious experience. It isn't a riot, it's quite subtle and it gets better with repeated watching.
No Country for Old Men.
up
blade runner
garden state
That thing with Bill Murray in, where he's in Japan...? Lost in Translation was it? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Good enough in it's own right but the story is a very basic rehashed one. It's OK I suppose.
American Beauty. Can't even remember what it was about now, I just remember it being boring.
withnail and i - id rather drink catspiss than watch more than the 20 minutes I once saw of it.
Sexy Beast
What a complete load of crap this film is, a bunch of luvey actors on a jolly in the sun all trying to out 'cockerny' each other.
Without a doubt the biggest waste of film stock ever.
Reservoir Dogs.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Road to Perdition
Harry Potter
Twilight
Team America
Borat
Blair witch
Blade runner
All the new star wars films
stewartc - MemberThe Harry Potter films, utter tosh, just don't understand why both the books and the films were successful.
One of them's alright- well made, more changes from the book, and some bad-assed wizarding. Order of the Phoenix maybe? It's not so bad.
Anything by Tarantino.
Blade Runner.
Hurt Locker
Scarface also The Godfather.
Skyfall
Any animated film featuring singing animals (Ice age?)
Most of those awful American comedies
The Shining. I swear nothing happens for three hours then there's about 15 minutes of running around with an axe. Nearly died of boredom.
I second the Hurt Locker. Add in Australia too - what a load of tripe.
Lord of the rings - not my cup of tea as a book, no interest in them as films.
The big lebowski, for the same reasons already stated by others.
Harry potter - they are children's books, highly regarded by retarded adults who wear mickey mouse socks, the films are exactly what I expected them to be (although I only watched the first one).
The star wars films were fantastic when I was a child, but watching them as an adult 30 years later reveals the absolute weakness of the basic writing.
Avatar.
Shawshank redemption.
Any Pixar type affair 'were adults can enjoy it too TM'
I'm struggling to see the point in this thread.
I'm struggling to understand some of the choices on this thread 😆
I'm struggling to understand some of the choices on this thread
That too.
Avengers.
Donnie Darko.
Harry Potter = St Trinians + wizardry - Pedophilia
boogie nights
mama mia
tarantino stuff
any james bond film
saw films and that whole voyeuristic torture horror genre
all jingositic american films (so about 80% of anything ever to come from that land of god bothering, gun toting, ignorant, red neck, hicks) 😀
+1 for Lost in Translation and I would like to add Into the Wild, 2 and half hours of my life wasted
Lost in translation. Utter tosh
These days, all of them. Just seeing the hype about some of the films, and the audiences that routinely go and see them, (especially the sequels) makes me fear for the future...
I struggle to see the point of most threads but, I think this one is quite interesting though, especially the blade runner nominations, especially when you're led to believe it's the next best thing to sliced
bread on other film threads. Still gonna give the final cut a go tho.
Another nomination is all the bond
films in the last 20 or so years.
I struggle to see the point of most threads but, I think this one is quite interesting though, especially the blade runner nominations, especially when you're led to believe it's the next best thing to sliced
bread on other film threads. Still gonna give the final cut a go tho.
Another nomination is all the books films in the last 20 or so years.
No, no it's not: This is still a tiny tiny sample of the world's film fans and obviously only attracts those with bad things to say. What about the millions of people who love the films mentioned here?
Again: Pointless thread.
Platoon. In fact, anything by Oliver Stone, with the possible exception of Salvador.
Top Gun/Days of Thunder etc.
Aliens.
Point Break.
All the Matrix films.
All the Saw films.
Nightmare on Elm Street - one of the worst films I've ever seen:
Halloween is a perfect example of how to make a horror film.
Elm Street is a perfect example of how not too.
Poltergeist.
The Fast and the Furious.
Avatar.
Again: Pointless thread.
Nah, all just opinion. No one's opinion is more valid than anyone elses.
Good fun though - some of my favourite films are up there.
Anchorman
Very mildly ammusing in a few parts the first time, I have freinds who will happily watch it repeatedly...the reasoning escapes me.
Just about any really gory horror film. Apart from Bad Taste and Peter Jackson's other earlier works. Those are funny.
Most rom-coms.
Anchorman works much better seen as a series of 2 min sketches on youtube, than when its all put together as a film.
SoccerDog - European edition
I know dissing clasic films makes you next level awesome, but can the haters explain why Bladerunner is being nominated?
Absolutely loved Bladerunner when I was younger.
Find it poor in most apects now.
I'm struggling to see the point in this thread
No more or less pointless than most of the stuff posted on here!
I read it not as 'films you think are crap' but films that don't live up to their hype or their supposed place in history. Top Gun, to quote one example someone gave... That's a cheesy/naff film, always has been. But it's deserving of its place in history for launching Tom Cruise to super-stardom and for some of the (at the time, groundbreaking) filmwork on the flying sequences.
I find it interesting to see what people think, especially of films that are widely regarded as 'good' films. Most people I know love top gun. I think it's rubbish. Just my opinion. Doesn't make it any more or less valid than the people who love it.
I'm surprised by a fair few if the choices that have been said. Particularly shawshank. Not the best film ever but I think it is a really good film.
But as always, if you don't like or see the point in a thread you don't have to post on it. I find a lot of threads pointless so don't post in them. Easy.
No Country For Old Men. Usually love Coen brothers films too.
Les Miserables - bobbins.
2001, Bladerunner and Apocalypse Now all have great elements but are pretty flawed.
+1 for Hurt Locker. Used to love Star Wars too but having rewatched recently I thought they were pretty poor.
I didn't enjoy Bladerunner which is why I nominated it. It didn't do anything for me, I didn't enjoy the acting, story or set. Doesn't mean it's a terrible film just that I didn't enjoy it. I was bored watching it. I did watch it twice just in case but was even more bored the second time.
TS
PS I don't feel next level awesome. I feel normal, like I normally do.
Black Swan and The Kings Speech. Really can't see what all the fuss was about. Utterly bored after 20 mins and it lasted right to the end.
Has the guy who doesn't like Jet Li movies seen Hero?
The Mrs dragged me along to see a film called the reader once, I think it won oscars and all kinds but christ it was boring.
And if [i]id[/i] suggested seeing a film with that many tits in it i'd have got a slap.
The Green Mile and The Royal Tenenbaums... overrated twaddle.
All three of the latest batman series.
Especially the middle one with the crap joker - not a patch on Jack Nicholson. Even Arnie made a better batman villain.
They prove the correlation between hype and shite.
I half expect a flaming for this, but:
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Star Wars - i love the idea of Star Wars, i enjoy the computer games, i've got the lego, but i can't sit through any of the films without switching over.
Thanks TS. Just wondering like!
Happy to be of service 🙂
I've tried to watch Bladerunner about 8 times, and fallen asleep after the first twenty minutes on every occasion. Therefore I can't say whether it's any good or not, but it's certainly never managed to grab my attention.
TBH, most of the films being dissed here are among my favourites.
Me too.
I have to say Gladiator for the reason that I have rarely seen such a good film that manages to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory, due to the quality or lack thereof of it's ending.
@ mikey74 it's that pointless that you keep coming back to it. Were you in the Muppets...
Hills Have Eyes 2 was a major disappointment to a brilliant prequel.
@ mikey74 it's that pointless that you keep coming back to it. We're you in the Muppets...
It's amazing how captivating pointlessness can be. However, my point stands: Many threads can be helpful, interesting, sad, happy, educational. This thread is just..... pointless.
And your point is...
Aye, as others have said, some of the classic films that are regularly acclaimed don't do an awful lot for me. It's pointless responding that from your perspective those films are great, it's a personal thing.
The ones for me that I simply don't get are
The Big Lebowski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind (yes, I know it's clever and it's not that difficult to understand, I just don't think it's a good film)
And, I'm going to get lynched for this one but, Withnail and I.
It always amazes me how different people have different perceptions about films. Keeps us all individual. Most of the above I like or at least don't dislike.
One of the only ones I never "got" was Twin Peaks.
Another Wtf film was Rec 2. I actually liked the format but it didn't work for me for some reason.