What Esteemed or Hugely Popular Films Do You Hate?
 

I hate AMADEUS, that Oscar-winning crowd-pleaser with Tom Hulce & Murray Abraham.

That movie is very patronizing (no pun intended) about an extraordinary time & many extraordinary people, Mozart included. I guess the Enlightenment & all its achievements didn't impress Forman.

It was all a pretty facile piece of puncturing, & not very enjoyable. It might have been fun had it been lowbrow rather than middlebrow, but the music & art were treated in a smugly philistine way.

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A Beautiful Mind: Schizophrenia is like a fun fantasy world, tee hee! Prettied-up nonsense.

The Untouchables: wallows in gore Friday the 13th style, or maybe something like Alien vs. Predator, except with the police against Al Capone. Basically, the focus is on lots and lots of violence, with no core beliefs to make it seem important. The protagonists are enforcing prohibition, but the whole thing is treated like a joke, with the good guys stealing a swig of alcohol when they get the chance, hardy har har.

The English Patient -- talk about a snoozer :eek:

That awful movie about the two idiots in the wine country - AWFUL

yuck
 

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Chariots of Fire

Vangelis was the composer - beautiful IMO, but lots of synth tripe in it.

I hate Blazing Saddles...enough said. :lol:
Probably will get my buns kicked by many, but I still hate that film.

You must be thrashed within an inch of death - IMMEDIATELY :mad:

:lol::lol::lol:

Let's face it - from the waist down, I'm kaput :angel:

star wars
harry potter

I love the old Star Wars alright. The new ones...tripe.

Harry Potter movies...yeah, they aren't that good. They are entertaining, but they could and should be much better.

I hated Superman Returns.

X-Men 3 stunk.

I remember Independence Day (with Will Smith) being huge for some reason. It's awful!

I dislike the Shrek movies. I find them really annoying. But, I like Mike Myers.

The Narnia movies suck. I love the books. *sigh*

The Star Trek films - a complete yawn!
Ghostbusters:)
Anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.
Anything with 'talking' animals - cats, dogs, horses.
But the worst (I think) was the one where John Wayne played Genghis Khan - terrible.

I've never been in into any of the Star Wars films

Was there one?

Anyway I hate Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, thought they were completely trite.

Lord of the Rings. *ducks for cover*

Gone With the Wind

Pirates of the Caribbean (couldn't even get through 1/4 of it)

Any of the Die Hard films

I'm sure there are plenty more I'm not thinking of. I'm frequently disappointed by movies which is why I seldom go to the theater.

Paddle to the Sea

You're dead.

I mean dead.

Off the top of my head...
Here's a list that's bound to tick off a lot of you:

Life is Beautiful, Sophie’s Choice, Schindler’s List, and about 99% of the films that say they are about the Holocaust
Meet the Parents
Wedding Crashers
Ghostbusters
Disclosure
Batman (Michael Keaton)
The Ring
Fantasia
Sleepless in Seattle
Forrest Gump
Do the Right Thing
Independence Day
Little Miss Sunshine
A Fish Called Wanda
The Ten Commandments
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Wizard of Oz
And to hassle Jason: Audrey Roooose

- Jake

Me too! I feel like I live in a vacuum because I am usually completely ignorant about all the movies out. Especially any big loud movie with explosions and computer generated imagery. Actually, I went last month to a movie (first time in about a year) and I thought my ears were going to explode from the sound of the previews. Holy smokes. :shocked:

Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
West Side Story
Jerry McGuire
Bridget Jones' Diary
Sleepless in Seattle

Moulin Rouge - Maybe one day I'll try to watch it with the sound off.

2001: A Space Odessey - I'm sleeping.

Braveheart - Sleeping again.

Miami Vice - The movie is a big ugly mess. Everything they got right on TV they effed up in the movie.

Shrek 3 - I really loved the first two. I just saw the 3rd last night & I want my hour and a half back.

anything directed by Clint Eastwood - It always looks like someone forgot to turn the lights on.

vehicles starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell - There's a huge difference between tongue-in-cheek and condescending.

I also hate the term "popcorn movie."

Ti-****ing-Tanic.

Because somebody had to say it.

Most of these are a mild dislike or simply apathy, but the first one is actual hatred.

A Clockwork Orange
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Lord Of The Rings
Harry Potter
Star Wars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Godfather Trilogy
Scarface
Monster's Ball
The Assassination of Jesse James
Toy Story 1 and 2 (don't hate them, just don't get their wild popularity)
Any superhero movie

Most/all of mine have already been mentioned, but lets not forget the pile of excrement known as NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. And don't tell me that I "don't get it". I get the humor. It's still a piece of ****.

OH that hurt!:eek:

oh...that hurt too! :eek:

silence of the lambs...especially now since my husband treats it as a comedy...whenever it's on, I have at least three days of constant movie quotes :rolleyes:

Revolting Films:

Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
Pulp Fiction
Titanic
Psycho
The Matrix
Karate Kid
American Beauty
No Country For Old Men
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
Fargo
Crash
Little Miss Sunshine
12 Monkeys

I absolutely HATE The Wizard of OZ

There was some very dark humor in the film particualry with Hopkin's portrayal of Lecter..but for that genre of film it is a masterpiece.

It puts the lotion on it's skin :wavey:

I don't like the Harry Potter movies, but being popular is not a reason to hate them. It's just not my type of movies.
I fell asleep with ALL the Matrix movies, don't know why but found them very boring!!!

I did hate Hulk, another sleeping pills overdose

Lost in Translation :eek:

...and anything with the artsy-fartsy stench of Wes Anderson:

-The Royal Tenenbaums (quite possibly the worst movie EVER made that was a critical hit)
-The Life Aquatic
-The Darjeeling Express

Accordingly, I guess one could conclude that I think Bill Murray is the most over-hyped, overrated actor in history. He (along with the Wilson brothers) plays the same deadpan, snarky, sarcastic, jaded character in EVERY movie. Make him stop!

yep, that exactly what I have to put up with!!! :lol:

I confess, I LOVE the movie and the book - as well as the other HL books. I saw it alone and was never so terrified running to my car in the movie parking lot after :laugh:

Pirates of the Caribbean (I'm sick of trying to spell that word right!) 2 and 3 were horrible ... well, 3 wasn't quite as bad as 2, but that's like saying Hitler wasn't quite as bad as Stalin, really.

Also, I rewatched Snow White recently and it was a major disappointment. Revisiting all the other Disneys has been wonderful, but Snow White was a real let down! :o

I'm totally confused. If you don't like Wes Anderson or Bill Murray why would you watch all those movies?

For me personally, I find some of the choices in this thread quite bizarre. I guess I'm quite easy going when it comes to movies.

I really tried to like those movies. One thing I could say positively about Wes Anderson's films is that they are visually quite stunning- saturated colors, large panning camera shots, interesting scenery, etc. And I appreciate some of the odd quirks- like the sailor who sings David Bowie songs throughout the movie, the Indian train conductor who speaks like a surfer dude, etc. But the scripts are just so unfunny, the pacing is dreadfully slow and he uses the same basic characters from one movie to the next. For example, the mother characters, in the "Royal Tenenbaums" and "Darjeeling Limited," both played by Anjelica Huston, are exactly the same- hyper, intellectual, emotionally distant, ironic, wry sense of humor. And there is at least one or two Wilson brothers, which is one or two Wilson brothers too many. There are too many deadpan one-liners. What is lacking in his movies is any sense of genuine emotion, humanity and empathy for the characters. Any sentiment comes across as saccharine, ironic or just campy. Throughout those movies I keep waiting for some kind of build up or big pay off at the end... but they just kind of peter out, exhausted by their own drollness. It's gotten to the point where I cannot wait for his next movie so I can continue to point out how terrible they are.

Did you like Rushmore? I like Wes Anderson, but like Peter Greenaway, he needs to move away from his "style" and try other techniques in filmmaking.

I need to add the following revolting films to my list:
Top Gun
The Aviator (DeCaprio is completely over-rated)
Kill Bill
Juno

I could be wrong but it seems to me that he isn't really aiming for that. Most films give you that or want to give you that but he seems to be aiming to give a different experience. Also they don't follow that build up and pay off thing that people have become accustomed to in movies and I guess if you want the regular format, three stage thing then don't see his films.

I also don't think any of his films have been "hugely popular" and after Rushmore they've only been esteemed by half the audience/critics, I would say. I wouldn't say you're in a small minority.