Popular "great" films you hate

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

"Gone with the Wind." Sorry . . . Can't stand it. It romanticizes womanizing and for me personally, all four hours of it basically
boil down to a shallow drama about a spoiled brat who eventually learns that it would be a good idea to change because
a war just burned down her entire state and impoverished everybody and their dog including her. Sorry, but she
should have figured that out by the end of the first reel. "As God is my witness I'll never be hungry again," rah-rah-rah
we get it, now get out in the field and work to repair your state like every single one of your neighbors already is. Sorry
to any fans, but I just simply don't get this movie.

I forgot to say why I chose Gone with the Wind. I saw it for the first time when it was re-released in the movie theaters several years ago (late '90s?). I went with my mother and my mother in law, both of whom were SO excited to see this film in the theater! Omg it was so painful for me- PAINFUL! I get the whole point, and I get it was done in the 1930s but still...awful. I was still relatively new to The South (born and raised NYer), so I may have had some bitterness. I will give Vivien Leigh credit for making me hate her, though!