Great Movies You Hate

[David]

"Hate" may be too strong a word for some; "dislike" may be better. Define "great" how you will: wildly popular, critically esteemed, awarded/lauded, merely good.

Maybe I should have changed the title to "Great Movies That Give Me the Schpilkes."

If we're talking about Oscar winners, I dislike dozens of movies, including:

Forrest Gump (The kind of movie that's made for one's neighbors)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (I've always disliked Cagney in this)
Ordinary People
On Golden Pond
An Officer & a Gentleman (A pox on this one)
Terms of Endearment
Wall Street (Really hate it)
Moonstruck (I really hate this one)
City Slickers (Another one designed specifically to please one's bourgeois neighbors)

There are other esteemed movies I'm just sort of blah about:

Stage Door
None But the Lonely Heart
The Lost Weekend (I rooted for the bat)
Of Human Bondage
Doctor Zhivago
Kitty Foyle
The Grapes of Wrath (what Bertrand Russell called the "fallacy of the superior virtue of the oppressed")
Mrs. Miniver
Tootsie
Spartacus (I should really give Kubrick his own list)

Some movies I haven't seen, but I know I'd dislike:

Rain Man
Mississippi Burning
Schindler's List
Braveheart
Good Will Hunting
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Other movies I don't particularly dislike -- at least I thought I didn't -- but I would never watch again:

The Miracle Worker
My Fair Lady (watch the Wendy Hiller "Pygmalion" just once & this one will be blotto in your memory)
The Lion in Winter
Patton

[GateandGarden]

The first one that comes to mind is Titanic, which everyone raved about and I basically assumed I wouldn't like so I never watched.

[dissention]

Pretty much all the ones you mentioned, with the exception of Tootsie and Of Human Bondage.

A Streetcar Named Desire
Rebel Without A Cause
National Velvet (Taylor at her most annoying)
Philadelphia
Castaway (pretty much anything with Tom Hanks)
Sabrina
The Godfather
Key Largo
Norma Rae
The Set-Up
They Call Me Mr. Tibbs
As Good As It Gets
The Shawshank Redemption
Out of Africa
Seabiscuit
The Usual Suspects
It's A Wonderful Life
Titanic
Foreign Correspondent
Alfie
Bottle Rocket
Buffalo '66

[GypsySorcerer]

Shakespeare in Love
The Matrix movies
Gone with the Wind
Sabrina (both versions)
Wuthering Heights
My Fair Lady
West Side Story

[amber]

Pretty much all the ones you mentioned, with the exception of Tootsie and Of Human Bondage.

Did he/you mean, Of Human Bondage, with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis???

[Hawkeye]

Shakespeare in Love
[/I]

you mean SHAKE A SPEAR in Love :laugh: I've never actually seen the movie but whenever I see that title I think of Scary Movie in the movie theatre and the way Brenday keeps saying Shake I Spear is so funny.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Shakespeare in Love


:eek: :eek: :eek:
I love this movie. I think it is one of the best romance movies of all times.

[cliffdweller]

The first one that comes to mind is Titanic, which everyone raved about and I basically assumed I wouldn't like so I never watched.

Me too.

I would also like to add The English Patient. I fell asleep while watching it!

[cliffdweller]

Bottle Rocket

Blaspheme! This movie is greatness!

Have you seen "The Life Aquatic"... yet? I thought it was pretty good, better even than Royal Tennenbaums which I could chalk up on the list as another "great" movie that I didn't really enjoy but that could also have to do with the fact that I was really sick when I saw it so all I can really remember is coughing and sneezing my head off.

Rushmore is still Wes Anderson's best movie to date though ;).

[ontheEdgeof17]

-Star Wars (all of them)
-LOTR
-English Patient
-Monster's Ball
-Cold Mountain
-Gone With The Wind
-It's A Wonderful Life

[GateandGarden]

-LOTRI like the LOTR movies. I'm not fanatical like some, though. They did make me think Orlando Bloom rules. What hits me harder is David's disdain for Moonstruck and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--two of my very favorite movies. Of course, almost anything with Cher works. :nod:

As for Shakespeare in Love, I really can't remember enough about that one to say whether or not I liked it.

[hayley]

I hate Shakespeare in Love... hate It's a Wonderful Life and Titanic, too. Also hate Dances with Wolves and almost anything of that ilk... Tootsie, definitely hate. Hate Pulp Fiction. Bored to tears by A Christmas Story.

Oh, and this probably shouldn't count, but everyone thinks Napoleon Dynamite is the funniest movie ever, and I thought it was the stupidest piece of crappy trash I've ever seen.

Sharon- I'm with you on loving Bottle Rocket. I loved A Life Aquatic, mainly for the music. David Bowie in Portuguese? Swoon.

[GateandGarden]

Oh, and this probably shouldn't count, but everyone thinks Napoleon Dynamite is the funniest movie ever, and I thought it was the stupidest piece of crappy trash I've ever seen.:shocked: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :(

Just kidding. It's not for everyone. :)

[skcin]

An Officer & a Gentleman [/I] (A pox on this one)
Terms of Endearment



No, a pox on YOU, sir! A pox on you! :mad:

I was just thinking about this the other day & of course, now I can't think of anything specific.

I do hate Mel Brooks' movies (I can't stand Blazing Saddles - hubby loves it)
Anything by Woody Allen (blech)
Monty Python (sorry Lux, it must be the stupid American in me.)

[dissention]

Blaspheme! This movie is greatness!

Have you seen "The Life Aquatic"... yet? I thought it was pretty good, better even than Royal Tennenbaums which I could chalk up on the list as another "great" movie that I didn't really enjoy but that could also have to do with the fact that I was really sick when I saw it so all I can really remember is coughing and sneezing my head off.

Rushmore is still Wes Anderson's best movie to date though ;).

Bottle Rocket has some hysterical moments, but it just doesn't do much for me for some reason.

I hated Life Aquatic with a passion. It was such a miserable failure in every sense of the word, I cringed throughout. Loved The Royal Tennenbaums more than Rushmore, though. :D

[dissention]

I do hate Mel Brooks' movies (I can't stand Blazing Saddles - hubby loves it)
Anything by Woody Allen (blech)

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I love Woody Allen. Even when he's at his worst, he's still good. With the exception of Stardust Memories and Anything Else, of course, which I couldn't bear one bit.

My favorite Brooks film is the one with his wife, Anne Bancroft, where they're improv theater actors during WWII. That movie is hysterical.

[dissention]

I hate Tom Hanks films. I just cannot stand him personally and the roles he picks.

But Rebel Without A Cause. That's ma Jimmy. Not Page, the other one. The first star to also be a brilliant actor. It's hard to watch films from that era and not be put off by the dialogue, and due to this it also contrasted his acting. It's a pity he couldn't have worked with some of the scripts of today which deal with 'realism' a lot more than those in his day.

Hanks gets on my nerves like you wouldn't believe. He's simply an annoying actor, IMO. I can tolerate him in fluff like The Money Pit and The 'Burbs, but otherwise I'd rather draw up my grocery list than watch him.

I don't hate Rebel Without A Cause, but I don't love it and I would never watch it again. :sorry: It just left me cold for some reason.

[gldstwmn]

The Godfather


What? :confused:

[gldstwmn]

the Schpilkes.



What is? :confused:

[dissention]

What? :confused:

I like the second one, but the first one is unbearable to me. :laugh:

[markolas]

You guys are killing me here :eek:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Forrest Gump are two of my favorite movies. Even though I do generally despise Tom Hanks.

I think it would be easier for me to compile a list of actors I greatly dislike...it's a safe bet that anything with them in it is going to be something I hate.

Tom Hanks (love Forrest Gump, though)
Kevin Costner
Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro (but I loved Jackie Brown)
Dennis Quaid
Melanie Griffith
Joan Crawford
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mel Gibson (except for the Mad Max movies)
Sylvester Stallone
Meg Ryan

[dissention]

Melanie Griffith

Melanie can't pick good scripts to save her life, but I love her. She was doing good up until she made Milk Money, but then it was all over. One bad movie after another. Though she was fab in Lolita, RKO 281, and Another Day In Paradise, IMO.

And Jackie Brown? :wavey: One of the best movies ever. How do I love Pam Grier? Lemme count the ways...

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Melanie can't pick good scripts to save her life, but I love her. ...
She was fabulous in Working Girl! Love that movie!

Some of you have named some movies I loved.....

On Golden Pond
Terms of Endearment
The Shawshank Redemption
English Patient
LOTR

[dissention]

She was fabulous in Working Girl! Love that movie!


Me, too. Most everything up until Milk Money was good (with the exception Bonfire of the Vanities :eek: ). Something Wild is high on the list of my all-time favorite movies, she was great in that one. She also made a movie that no one else seems to have seen called "In the Spirit" with Marlo Thomas and Elaine May that is one of my faves. She was only in it for a few minutes, but the movie itself is quite the rare goodie. Wish they'd put it on DVD because my tape is so worn out that the picture is almost black and white.

[GateandGarden]

Melanie can't pick good scripts to save her life, but I love her. She was doing good up until she made Milk Money, but then it was all over. One bad movie after another. Though she was fab in Lolita, RKO 281, and Another Day In Paradise, IMO.I have a bad feeling I know what you would think of the script of Buffalo Girls, but it's my favorite TV movie (mini-series) and I actually bought it and loved Melanie in it. It's quite cheesy but enjoyable. Plus, it has Reba in it and I love her. She didn't perform all that well in it, though.

[bikerchic]

Here's just a few that I don't like.....

http://www.sciflicks.com/movies_by_title.html

[dissention]

Here's just a few that I don't like.....

http://www.sciflicks.com/movies_by_title.html

Brazil?!
Cherry 2000?!
eXistenZ?!
Fahrenehit 451?!
They Live?!
War of the Worlds?!

I love all of those movies. :laugh:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Brazil?!
Cherry 2000?!
eXistenZ?!
Fahrenehit 451?!
They Live?!
War of the Worlds?!

I love all of those movies. :laugh:


I've only heard of a 1/3 of them. :shrug:

[Serrart]

Long Long list :nod:, just some and not in order:

Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
The English Patient
Ben Hur
Dances With The Wolves
Titanic
Top Gun
Interview With The Vampire
The Barefoot Contessa
The Green Room
Mighty Aphrodite (even if I loved the Greek choir)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walks With Me
American Beauty
From The Terrace
Cold Mountain
The Paradine Case (Charles Laughton was superb though)
The Passion (aka Jesus goes to Hollywood)
A Countess From Hong Kong
Leaving Las Vegas
Gangs Of New York
The Green Berets
Trapeze
Sleepers
Basic Instict
The Serpent's Egg
The Color Of The Money
Ghost
Matrix 2 &3
Good Will Hunting
The Horse Whisperer

And some remakes:
The Manchurian Candidate
The Truth About Charlie
Sabrina
Lolita
Psycho

Romy

[GateandGarden]

Brazil?!
Cherry 2000?!
eXistenZ?!
Fahrenehit 451?!
They Live?!
War of the Worlds?!

I love all of those movies. :laugh:Fahrenheit 451? Oh come on. It didn't even come close to being as good as the book. It's like 1984. Okay--I'll admit that I couldn't get all the way through the movie version of 1984, but that's because it was that bad!

Oh. My. God. They Live? That movie is hilarious! They've got contacts now! :laugh: That one should have been a MST3K movie. :nod:

[DrummerDeanna]

The only ones I can think of:

Monster's Ball
Top Gun
American Beauty
Girl Interupted (hate the JOlie...)

[dissention]

Mighty Aphrodite (even if I loved the Greek choir)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walks With Me
Leaving Las Vegas


I love Might Aphrodite and Fire Walk With Me. :laugh: Mighty Aphrodite cracked me up. And then we got the wretched Everyone Says I Love You. :rolleyes: Fire Walk With Me was utter crap, but it was entertaining.

Leaving Las Vegas was good because Elisabeth Shue was fabulous, but I can't stand Nicolas Cage and would probably never watch it ever again.

[dissention]

Fahrenheit 451? Oh come on. It didn't even come close to being as good as the book. It's like 1984. Okay--I'll admit that I couldn't get all the way through the movie version of 1984, but that's because it was that bad!

Oh. My. God. They Live? That movie is hilarious! They've got contacts now! :laugh: That one should have been a MST3K movie. :nod:

Of course it was awful when compared to the book, but I still thought it was good. I shudder to think what a remake would be like.

I love They Live, Rowdy Roddy Piper is good in it. :laugh: I saw it at the movies when I was eight and loved it. The ending sucks, though.

[Serrart]

I love Might Aphrodite and Fire Walk With Me. :laugh: Mighty Aphrodite cracked me up. And then we got the wretched Everyone Says I Love You. :rolleyes:

The thing I can't stand in Mighty Aphrodite is the Allen-Bonham Carter relationship, like the Allen-Roberts relationship in Everyone Says I love you (but I liked all the rest). They were blatantly ridiculous, badly written and acted. At least he should have given to those actresses decent characters with a bit of a background.


Leaving Las Vegas was good because Elisabeth Shue was fabulous, but I can't stand Nicolas Cage and would probably never watch it ever again.

I agree about Elisabeth Shue but no one could have saved the movie, IMO. Nicolas Cage's performance was too self-absorbed and predictable.

Romy

[dissention]

The thing I can't stand in Mighty Aphrodite is the Allen-Bonham Carter relationship, like the Allen-Roberts relationship in Everyone Says I love you (but I liked all the rest). They were blatantly ridiculous, badly written and acted. At least he should have given to those actresses decent characters with a bit of a background.

Yeah, I actually agree. But when it comes to Mighty Aphrodite, I think the good outweighed the bad. There were scenes in that movie that had me on the floor and the cast was top-notch. Everyone Says I Love You was just terrible. The songs were terrible, the cast was terrible, the story was terrible, etc. I don't think I laughed once throughout. Thank the stars for Deconstructing Harry because I thought he had lost it all after Everyone Says I Love You. He needs to use Judy Davis more, in my opinion. She's got a spark to her when it comes to his material like no one else, save maybe Keaton and Farrow at times.

I agree about Elisabeth Shue but no one could have saved the movie, IMO. Nicolas Cage's performance was too self-absorbed and predictable.

Romy

I also liked Julian Sands in it, but I think he's very good with the right role. Boxing Helena certainly didn't help his career, though.

[shackin'up]

The first one that comes to mind is Titanic, which everyone raved about and I basically assumed I wouldn't like so I never watched.

yeah....me neither. I already get seasick when I think about sitting out three hours of bullsh*t while i know the stupid thing sinks. In the end.

barf.

[Serrart]

Yeah, I actually agree. But when it comes to Mighty Aphrodite, I think the good outweighed the bad. There were scenes in that movie that had me on the floor and the cast was top-notch. Everyone Says I Love You was just terrible. The songs were terrible, the cast was terrible, the story was terrible, etc. I don't think I laughed once throughout.

Really? I laughed a lot through it, and liked the songs and the dance numbers. Like most of his most recent movies it has a collection of weak spots, but overall I enjoyed it.

Thank the stars for Deconstructing Harry because I thought he had lost it all after Everyone Says I Love You. He needs to use Judy Davis more, in my opinion. She's got a spark to her when it comes to his material like no one else, save maybe Keaton and Farrow at times.

Yes, he should use her more. I was blown away by her performance in Husbands and Wives, an authentic Woody vs Mia fest. :nod:

Romy

[Mad4stevie]

It's A Wonderful Life[/I]

Blasphamy! :shocked:

I am surprised by how many of you hate this! It is one of the only "sentimental movies" that I like.

As for popular movies that I hate: Unbreakable and Pulp Fiction (*ducks*).

[wondergirl9847]

Forrest Gump
Twin Peaks: Fire Walks With Me
The Passion (aka Jesus goes to Hollywood)

Sabrina
Lolita
Psycho

Romy

Forrest Gump...I like it, because it's weird. LOL

TP: FWWM...saw it a couple of times, it's weird, but TP is my favorite show EVAH.

The Passion...made me tense and cry. One of the greatest movies ever made, IMO.

Sabrina....thought it was cute, and I like Greg and Harrison.

Lolita...I love both versions, and I just watched the original the other night.

Psycho...never saw the remake, but the original is a classic.

[wondergirl9847]

yeah....me neither. I already get seasick when I think about sitting out three hours of bullsh*t while i know the stupid thing sinks. In the end.

barf.


Thanks for ruining the ending! :mad:


:laugh:

[GateandGarden]

Thanks for ruining the ending! :mad:


:laugh::laugh::lol::laugh:

[DeadliestPoison]

Fahrenheit 451? Oh come on. It didn't even come close to being as good as the book. It's like 1984. Okay--I'll admit that I couldn't get all the way through the movie version of 1984, but that's because it was that bad!
I don't really like the movie because of how incredibly dated it is. I had to read the book in 8th grade and then we watched the movie? Hooboy. The book was great, the movie not so much.

[DeadliestPoison]

I don't like the Lord Of The Rings films. When I go to see a movie I shouldn't want to fall asleep.

[cliffdweller]

I hated Life Aquatic with a passion.

Yeah, but you had to love the soundtrack right? :xoxo:

[dissention]

Yeah, but you had to love the soundtrack right? :xoxo:

Oh, but of course. :xoxo: Wes Anderson soundtracks are always fabulous, no matter how the movie is.

[dissention]

STARWARS
LORDRINGS
HARRYPOTTER

JUSTCUZ :lol:

Can't stand Star Wars myself, Lord of the Rings is the cinematic equivalent of melatonin, but I liked the first Harry Potter. :D

[Serrart]

TP: FWWM...saw it a couple of times, it's weird, but TP is my favorite show EVAH..

I loved the first 6 episodes, and then I was done with it. Lynch doing Lynch can be annoying. And Lynch doing Lynch doing Lynch as in TP: FWWM, was a bit sadistic. ;)

The Passion...made me tense and cry. One of the greatest movies ever made, IMO.

Many people adore this movie, I know. It's just that, I think Mel Gibson used violence as a vector to reach the audience, but didn't give any substantial edge to the characters. He shouted his message, but basically didn't have anything to say. He went to shoot in the same locations of The Gospel According to St. Matthew by P.P. Pasolini, because he said he loved the movie, but he should have watched it a couple of times more, it could have been helpful. JMHO :sorry:

Romy

[wondergirl9847]

Well, any movie that can make me as anxious and tense without seeing it...yeah, greatness. Also, if a movie can make me feel something, its done its job.

[dissention]

Many people adore this movie, I know. It's just that, I think Mel Gibson used violence as a vector to reach the audience, but didn't give any substantial edge to the characters. He shouted his message, but basically didn't have anything to say. He went to shoot in the same locations of The Gospel According to St. Matthew by P.P. Pasolini, because he said he loved the movie, but he should have watched it a couple of times more, it could have been helpful. JMHO :sorry:

Romy

Well, it's not surprising that many people adore The Passion, it's all about religion. Most people who believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible praise it as being a fantastic film that deeply moved them. Those of us who aren't religious and don't believe in any of that stuff have different views on it. Personally, I think it's a badly made movie, first and foremost. Heavyhanded as all get out, some awful acting, it's rather pretentious, and some of the directing bordered on amateurish.

[Villavic]

I didn't like Citizen Kane, I couldn't finish it, maybe I expected something different
All the Matrixes... sorry but I ALWAYS get sleep with these movies.
Hulk. sleepy too.
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. I think it was too much acid.
Ordinary People. Boring
The Godfathers... maybe good but not my style
Interview With The Vampire... much ado about nothing
Cold Mountain



In spite of the massive current opinion, I did like Titanic, GWTWind (great!!),

[Ledgegirl]

Gone with the wind. Tooooooooo loooooooooooooooooong and boring.

[amber]

Can't stand Star Wars myself, Lord of the Rings is the cinematic equivalent of melatonin, but I liked the first Harry Potter. :D
How weird that there is another person who doesn't really like both Star Wars and LOTR? Geez, what're the chances? I don't think i've ever met anyone who didn't like Star Wars :) ...well, besides my mom or something..

[ryan8472]

Well, it's not surprising that many people adore The Passion, it's all about religion. Most people who believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible praise it as being a fantastic film that deeply moved them. Those of us who aren't religious and don't believe in any of that stuff have different views on it. Personally, I think it's a badly made movie, first and foremost. Heavyhanded as all get out, some awful acting, it's rather pretentious, and some of the directing bordered on amateurish.
I still haven't seen The Passion. I still want to see it, just for the gruesomeness factor.

[ryan8472]

How weird that there is another person who doesn't really like both Star Wars and LOTR? Geez, what're the chances? I don't think i've ever met anyone who didn't like Star Wars :) ...well, besides my mom or something..
I like Star Wars. I'm really excited over the new movie. But the original movie does nothing for me. ESB is amazing though, IMO. LOTR is cool too. :nod:

[amber]

I like Star Wars. I'm really excited over the new movie. But the original movie does nothing for me. ESB is amazing though, IMO. LOTR is cool too. :nod:
see? Most people like either/or/both Star Wars & LOTR.
Hey, what's ESB? oh, Empire Strikes Back! :laugh:

[ryan8472]

see? Most people like either/or/both Star Wars & LOTR.
Hey, what's ESB? oh, Empire Strikes Back! :laugh:
Yup. ROTJ (that's RETURN OF THE JEDI for those who don't know :laugh: ) is ok too, but only for the last half.

[amber]

Eh. I don't care for either.
Slowly our ranks are growing...mwahahahahahahahaha!!!
:laugh:

[GypsySorcerer]

Eh. I don't care for either.

Star Wars? LOTR? Ick.

[dissention]

I still haven't seen The Passion. I still want to see it, just for the gruesomeness factor.

:laugh:

I am sooooo like that, too. I'll rent a movie based on its gruesomeness factor or it's bad reputation because I just have to see it for myself. :lol:

And Ryan? You know there's definitely something wrong when they let the likes of us adopt. :laugh:

[ryan8472]

:laugh:

I am sooooo like that, too. I'll rent a movie based on its gruesomeness factor or it's bad reputation because I just have to see it for myself. :lol:

And Ryan? You know there's definitely something wrong when they let the likes of us adopt. :laugh:
Speak for yourself! I am going to be a loving and adoring "parent" to Nick. :lol: