This thread is to talk about popular movies that you personally never got in to.
Star Wars. I'm not into the whole Sci-Fi thing. People can't believe I don't like this but I honestly don't. I don't know what it is but it's just boring.
Avatar. Sure, the graphics were cool but the whole premise just turned me off.
Lord of the Rings. Boring. I think I was the only one of my peers that couldn't watch this thing over and over again.
What say you?
I burned down the church to atone for my transgressions.
Shrek ... gag.
Also, anything with Julia Roberts, her laugh really gets under my skin for some reason.
Can't sit through Casablanca
Most any war movie and gross horror flicks.
It is all a matter of perspective!!!
Ditto with Avatar. Couldn't stand it.
"A witty woman is a treasure, a witty beauty is a power!"
How about Ishtar ?
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Watched Gone With The Wind for the first time this weekend. That was four hours of my life I'm never getting back.
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
Oddly I liked Avatar. Don't know why really... but this is about hate!! so I will move on...
Most girl movies - Dirty Dancing is horrible, When Harry Met Sally is bad.
All Vampire Movies - Twilight has the worst acting I have had to sit through for probably 10 years.
Most scary movies - Horror movies past 1999 have all had one thing in common, they are bad. I liked the concepts of signs, paranormal activity, etc, but they all weren't good. The Saw movies just tried to make gore scary. Cloverfield? Really? The Ring was okay. I liked Blair Witch for its originality.
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who is not into Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. Add the Harry Potter series as well.
As for the Pirates of the Caribbean series and the Shrek series...eh. They're nothing life-changing for me, but they are OK movies to pass the time.
"Life's a journey, not a destination"
-Steven Tyler
Dirty Dancing is horribly good! They showed it on the big screen for a movie in the park deal around here and I went with some girlfriends, a good time!Originally posted by Hink_Planner
I fell asleep during LOTR, too long, didn't watch...
"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon." ~Peter Lynch
Nobody puts Baby in a corner....
"...I would never try to tick Hink off. He kinda intimidates me. He's quite butch, you know." - Maister
Forest Gump! Man, that movie got so much hype and maybe its because I waited too long to see it in the theaters, but I was so sorely disappointed. I thought it was so predictable and Disney-packaged (even though it wasn't Disney) and generally lame. I felt like a sucker for watching it.
I walked out on War of the Roses - and I've never walked out on a movie before or since. What a piece of crapola!
I'm sure there is more, but nothing's coming to mind yet.
To IP, I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter books with my son (though they can't hold a candle to Tolkien, IMO) but the movies are remarkably forgetful. I have watched most of them and I can't tell you a thing about them - they were mediocre at best. My son hates to watch movies of books he has read because he is always disappointed. I'm so proud of my little budding curmudgeon...
The purpose of life is a life of purpose
I've never read a single Harry Potter book, nor have I seen (or have any interest in seeing) any of the movies.
The first Star Wars movie was ok, but I wasn't really interested in any of the subsequent films in the series. I took a Sociology & the Mass Media course in college. As a final paper, we were supposed to view and analyze The Empire Strikes Back (new at the time), but I managed to get a waiver and see something else instead: An Officer and A Gentleman - not because I like Richard Gere (I can't stand him, actually!) but because it made a good subject for sociological analysis.
Speaking of Richard Gere, I'm not sure that I've ever sat through Pretty Woman. That's another popular movie that I didn't care for.
I forgot I was going to put that one on the list! What a piece of vomitous dog crap. There are so many things wrong with that movie, its hard to know where to begin. Just the premise - that some handsome, wealthy gentlemen will save prostitute Julia Roberts from a life of degeneracy like some sort of knight in shining armor - was so offensive to my sensibilities, I just couldn't take it. Fortunately this one was a rental. So, while my girlfriend sat and watched until the end, I stepped out for a beer...
The purpose of life is a life of purpose
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Footloose
Anything with Molly Ringworm
"And all this terrible change had come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. " - Leo Tolstoy
Star Wars (saw first and third one, never saw the prequels, nor understood the whole Star Wars phenomenon)
LOTR (saw the first one and dozed off)
Slumdog Millionaire (yes it was uber hyped but I thought it sucked especially after personally spending time in Dharavi)
Avatar (haven't seen it yet)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Wall (great album, the film not so much)
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
Titanic...
Children in the back seat can cause accidents - and vice versa.
Bear no like.....
Rocky II, Rocky III, yadda (original Rocky very good)
All the other Sylvester Stallone movies
Most action movies
Most "chick flicks"
Ahnold Schwarsguvnah movies
Bear
Occupy Cyburbia!
HOW ABOUT YENTL??? or Bird on a WireBut just how popular were these movies? I remember critics calling Ishtar one of the worst within a week of it hitting the big screen.
I really couldn't stand Titanic either.....I held off for years not seeing that crap.....then when I finally viewed the movie......I loved the very end where the ship sank, that was cool....
Now I'm a big Leo fan and Marky Mark fan......go figure
On the ground, protecting the Cyburbia Shove since 2004.
All James Cameron movies except for Aliens, and maybe The Abyss. I'll never understand how his past two movies have made billions of dollars each at the box office.
Two wrongs don't necessarily make a right, but three lefts do.
ZG forced me to watch that once. My ears and eyes bled for days.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
We actually watched it over two days. After the first, Mrs. ofos asked if we were going to watch the second act. My response? Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
“Death comes when memories of the past exceed the vision for the future.”
Are you talking about popular movies that we've seen that we didn't like, or popular movies that we refuse to see because we know they are crap.
Too many too mention if its the latter.
Dirty Dancing
Ghost
Footloose
Grease (1 and 2)
Blair Witch Project (booooring)
The English Patient (both long AND boring)
"When life gives you lemons, just say 'No thanks'." - Henry Rollins
- Titanic
- Pearl Harbor
- The Princess Bride
- Rent (yeah, I know it was a musical first)
- Napoleon Dynamite
- any Wes Anderson movie except Fantastic Mr. Fox
Anything over the past 20 years or so that purports to be a comedy. It's all bad, bad, bad.
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