Popular "great" films you hate

[Dodfather]

The first 2 films on this list may be important for several reasons in cinema but that doesn't make them good.

Easy Rider
Taxi Driver (possibly the most over-rated film ever)

Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull

I'm sure to think of more soon enough...

[Erin]

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I'd agree with you, but someone else listed it and it inspired me to complain some more about my mom's obsession with it.

I wasn't paying too much attention to the actual topic of the thread. I was thinking popular movies versus critically acclaimed. The only one I can think of is Lawrence of Arabia. I was extremely bored during that movie, and I normally love O'Toole.

[CreepingDeath]

Braveheart
The Patriot
E.T.
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
Titanic
Crash
Top Gun
Field of Dreams
Animal House
Training Day
Erin Brockovich
anything with Tom Hanks.

[David]

2001
Stalker
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Apocalypse Now

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by Villavic

..or just dislike, and why? Here are my confessions:

I felt asleep with the 3 MATRIX films. don't know why, but I didn't like them.
Citizen Kane. Sorry, I don't get it.
[B . . . . Don't change style, Hollywood is good being Hollywood.

"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.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

anything with Tom Hanks.

Oh dear god, yes. I liked Forrest Gump, but otherwise - ick. For a while in the '90s, he was seemingly in every other movie that came out, and I just got sick of him.

Robin Williams is another one that I can't stand. I don't think he's funny. At all. Tim Allen, either.

[Erin]

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.

She's even more dis-likable in the book, and dumber. Rhett rips her to shreds through the whole book, but it just goes over her head. The movie didn't really capture that aspect of the book, but despite her behavior you end up somehow rooting for her. How ruthless and passionate she is, which is why she survives while others who are stuck in the "old" ways fail in the New South, like Ashley. Plus I saw this movie when I was pretty young and was mesmerized by Vivien Leigh. I'm also a big fan of Clark Gable. I will say the romanticizing of slavery in both the book and movie is distasteful, but unfortunately a product of the times.

[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!

[Cornflake Girl]

Originally Posted by markolas

Robin Williams is another one that I can't stand. I don't think he's funny. At all. Tim Allen, either.

I agree about both. I also avoid Jim Carrey movies, I just don't think odd facial contortions are amusing.

[Livia]

I have no desire to see any of the Harry Potter movies. Haven't seen "Lord of the Rings" either.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

I agree about both. I also avoid Jim Carrey movies, I just don't think odd facial contortions are amusing.

I agree with you and the person you were commenting to. Tim Allen is not at all funny. Neither is Jim Carrey or Steve Martin for that matter.

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by Livia

I have no desire to see any of the Harry Potter movies. Haven't seen "Lord of the Rings" either.

But the HP books are AMAZING-- and that's coming from a Tolstoy and Fitzgerald fan They get more complex and dark as the series continues and its impossible to deny JK Rowling's ability as a storyteller.

[vermicious knid]

Gone With the Wind is my favorite movie. I have a book on the making of it as well.


I read that The Untouchables was great, and I despised it. Absolutely as gory as any slasher film, with "heroes" who don't even believe in their cause. Junk!

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by jannieC

Gone With the Wind.

OH HELLO...can't stand that movie!

[Erin]

Originally Posted by gretchen

OH HELLO...can't stand that movie!

Boo! Hiss!! But I'll forgive you!