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"Great Movies" That You Don't Like.
May 11^th, 2012, 10:23am

Jauke's thread got me to thinking. There are several movies that most think of as some of the best ever that I can't stand. My friends and I walked out on Murder on the Orient Express. We had all been sound asleep during the movie. I woke up and looked across the aisle at my snoozing friends and "outta here!" The Godfather II was another one. Many people love this but to me it just went on forever from one boring scene with boring music to the next. I would rather have root canal than to try to sit through Gone With the Wind again. I think the movie actually took longer than the Civil War.
I know these movies are probably favorites to some of you. No offense is intended. Jauke's thread got me thinking that one man/woman's greatest ever is an other's terminally boring.
So what "great" movies do you hate??

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Reply #1 - May 11^th, 2012, 10:37am

Definitely second Gone with the Wind. I really detested that movie.

I'll add Alfred Hitchcock's rope. Interesting premise, but the ending was horrible. It turned from a boring, shallow, slightly preachy, philosophical/moral discourse to an out and out morality play. In an entirely unbelievable way. Maybe I just don't like that style of movie, but I was far from impressed.

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Greenman Descens Posts: 256	Re: "Great Movies" That You Don't Like. Reply #3 - May 11^th, 2012, 11:52am Second that. I hated Titanic.
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Bill Skinner Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1363	Re: "Great Movies" That You Don't Like. Reply #4 - May 11^th, 2012, 1:04pm Third on Titanic. Never managed to last more than about 5 minutes. Both sisters and my mother have it on DVD. Steel Magnolias is just as bad.
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Greenman Descens Posts: 256	Re: "Great Movies" That You Don't Like. Reply #5 - May 11^th, 2012, 1:10pm Second "Steel Magnolias" watching it with my girlfriend at the time was like having someone giving me soft, continous kicks in the testicals. Painful.
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Reply #6 - May 11^th, 2012, 1:36pm

I mentioned in the other thread that I'd likely seen all the "great" films but didn't count many of them among my favorites. GWTW... A soap opera. Beautifully done, but a soap opera.

I thought Titanic was OK. On the big screen... Pretty spectacular. However, I haven't seen it since.
Likewise Citizen Kane. Welles was superb, but think I've only sat through the whole thing the one time.

Here's a Wiki article on the "greatest" films:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best

Note that the first section includes international films... I admit Ran was among the most visually striking films I've ever seen... It's Kurosawa's take on Shakespeare's King Lear.

The Seven Samurai (done by Sergio Leone as The Magnificent Seven) was very good, and Casablanca stands up very well.

Some interesting lists on the page.

Some other rather odd favorites of mine include The Thin Red Line, (not the more current one, the older version with Jack Warden and Kier Dullea) A little thing called Morituri with Marlon Brando posing as an Austrian ex-pat seconded by British secret service to sink a ship...

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Reply #7 - May 11^th, 2012, 7:34pm

Quote from curious_aardvark on May 11^th, 2012, 10:56am:

titanic

What is the point of a film where everybody knows the ending before watching ?

Yeah sort of. I expected to hate this movie when it first came out, yet it sort of worked. As you say we all know the ship's going to sink. It was a totally farfetched scenario with the bitter and twisted little rich girl who's going to run off with with the handsome young free spirit. Wonder how handsome she'd think he was once she had six kids living in some slum in New York and Jack was off screwing some other young model who'd been posing for him?

I think the tension is provided by wondering how they're going to survive. Killing Jack off was a master stroke as he remains forever young and handsome and never has to acquire any boring old responsibility.

The end where Rose throws the diamond into the sea was unbelievably corny. Why? The only thing I can think of is that Jack and the diamond are somehow reunited. But the diamond was never a symbol of Jack. Of course the scene that should have followed was an enraged Mr. Lovett throwing Rose overboard with an anchor tied to her neck!

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Reply #9 - May 11^th, 2012, 9:38pm

I didn't mind Titanic so much, but Avatar was as worthless piece of you know what, in my opinion. I've never seen such wooden acting, such cardboard characters, and such a rehashed storyline get so much attention before. It was a rip-off of 70s sci-fi novels without crediting them, a rip-off of Dances With Wolves (which did the whole thing better) and its only redeeming feature was its computer animation, which was okay, but nothing that awed me.

The other film that is famously "great" that I despise is the film I consider to be the worst ever made - There Will Be Blood. When I saw it in theaters, there were four other people in the theater. 2 walked out. I had to wake up the other two who had fallen asleep. How they managed that with air raid sirens in the soundtrack is beyond me. Only somebody from a band as dumb as radiohead would think air raid sirens were "edgy" and "cool" for a movie sound track.

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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3401 Gender:	Re: "Great Movies" That You Don't Like. Reply #10 - May 11^th, 2012, 9:38pm Again on titanic. Any kind of musical is kind of like pulling teeth too. I really disagree with most of my generation in movie choices like Napolean Dynamite and Twilight. I haven't even seen the latter and I don't like it. Don't like chick flicks either but I guess thats pretty standard for a guy.
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Reply #11 - May 11^th, 2012, 11:36pm

Quote from Atlatlista on May 11^th, 2012, 9:38pm:

I didn't mind Titanic so much, but Avatar was as worthless piece of you know what, in my opinion. I've never seen such wooden acting, such cardboard characters, and such a rehashed storyline get so much attention before. It was a rip-off of 70s sci-fi novels without crediting them, a rip-off of Dances With Wolves (which did the whole thing better) and its only redeeming feature was its computer animation, which was okay, but nothing that awed me.

I didn't have a problem with it so much. Avatar was just Pocahontas retold with giant, blue cat-smurfs. what's not to like?

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Reply #12 - May 11^th, 2012, 11:47pm

Quote from Masiakasaurus on May 11^th, 2012, 11:36pm:

Quote from Atlatlista on May 11^th, 2012, 9:38pm:

I didn't mind Titanic so much, but Avatar was as worthless piece of you know what, in my opinion. I've never seen such wooden acting, such cardboard characters, and such a rehashed storyline get so much attention before. It was a rip-off of 70s sci-fi novels without crediting them, a rip-off of Dances With Wolves (which did the whole thing better) and its only redeeming feature was its computer animation, which was okay, but nothing that awed me.

I didn't have a problem with it so much. Avatar was just Pocahontas retold with giant, blue cat-smurfs. what's not to like?

I didn't think it resembled Pocahontas very much myself. However, I really didn't like the stereotypical meathead general, the ridiculous over-the-top capitalist CEO (ironic considering how much money Cameron made on the film), or the fact that they left a word like "unobtainium" in the script. I didn't like that they ripped a bunch of authors off without crediting them or giving them a dime. And I hate cats.

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Reply #13 - May 11^th, 2012, 11:52pm

Quote from Aussie on May 11^th, 2012, 7:34pm:

Quote from curious_aardvark on May 11^th, 2012, 10:56am:

titanic

What is the point of a film where everybody knows the ending before watching ?

Yeah sort of. I expected to hate this movie when it first came out, yet it sort of worked. As you say we all know the ship's going to sink. It was a totally farfetched scenario with the bitter and twisted little rich girl who's going to run off with with the handsome young free spirit. Wonder how handsome she'd think he was once she had six kids living in some slum in New York and Jack was off screwing some other young model who'd been posing for him?

I think the tension is provided by wondering how they're going to survive. Killing Jack off was a master stroke as he remains forever young and handsome and never has to acquire any boring old responsibility.

The end where Rose throws the diamond into the sea was unbelievably corny. Why? The only thing I can think of is that Jack and the diamond are somehow reunited. But the diamond was never a symbol of Jack. Of course the scene that should have followed was an enraged Mr. Lovett throwing Rose overboard with an anchor tied to her neck!

Guess it didn't air in Aus, but there was a TV commercial tied into that. Rose changed her mind, dove in after the diamond, sold it, and got a pocket full of cash.

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