Great Movies You Hate

David · #1 01-11-2005, 12:18 AM

"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 · #2 01-11-2005, 12:20 AM

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 · #3 01-11-2005, 12:29 AM

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 · #4 01-11-2005, 12:42 AM

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

amber · #5 01-11-2005, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by dissention

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 · #6 01-11-2005, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Shakespeare in Love
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you mean SHAKE A SPEAR in Love

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 · #7 01-11-2005, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Shakespeare in Love

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

cliffdweller · #8 01-11-2005, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Me too.

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

cliffdweller · #9 01-11-2005, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by dissention

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

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ontheEdgeof17 · #10 01-11-2005, 10:19 AM

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

GateandGarden · #11 01-11-2005, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

-LOTR

I 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.

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

hayley · #12 01-11-2005, 11:36 AM

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 · #13 01-11-2005, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by hayley

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.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Just kidding. It's not for everyone.

skcin · #14 01-11-2005, 11:48 AM

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

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

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 · #15 01-11-2005, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

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

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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.