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