Confessions: Highly acclaimed films you just did not like

Guys, you all disappoint me very much so. No, not because I am appalled by some of your choices, but because no one has resorted to violence yet! So I guess to get things started... To all you A Clockwork Orange, Strangers on a Train, Toy Story 3, Inglourious Basterds and Lost in Translation haters - this is for you:Nerd_Man

1. The Exorcist

I think The Exorcist 3 is a much better film.

2. Black Hawk down

3. Titanic

4. Saving private ryan

5. Crash

6. Chicago

7. Gran Torino

8. Field of dreams

9. Superbad

10. I am Legend

11. Breathless

12. Scarface

13. The Matrix

14. Training day

15. Gone With the wind

16. Pretty Woman

17. Lost in translation

18. Moulin rouge

19. Sweeney Todd

20. Garden state

21. Forrest Gump

22. Fight club

23. Easy Rider

24. The Dark Knight

25. Superman

[QUOTE="m0zart"]No Country for Old MenRikardur

I honestly could never consider A Clockwork Orange a good movie or a bad movie.. Its just there.. Specifically due to the fact the movie is just so dysfunctional and disturbing that I can't get enjoyment from it what so ever.

sSubZerOo

I feel the same way. Visually the film has this weird vibe I enjoy, but for what goes on inside of it, I am more disturbed than anything else.

The book, btw, has a final chapter that is never shown in the film, and made the experience much more enjoyable for me. Once I read the complete edition of the novel, I had a different overall feeling about the content. Apparantly though Kubrick hated that final chapter.

2. Black Hawk down

3. Titanic

8. Field of dreams

12. Scarface

13. The Matrix

16. Pretty Woman

18. Moulin rouge

Film-Guy

Yep... those get added to my list. But wow at some of those other choices *cringe*

Avatar and Transformers (1). I liked the 2nd one better.Crotazoa8

Were either of the Transformer movies highly acclaimed?

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I honestly could never consider A Clockwork Orange a good movie or a bad movie.. Its just there.. Specifically due to the fact the movie is just so dysfunctional and disturbing that I can't get enjoyment from it what so ever.

I feel the same way. Visually the film has this weird vibe I enjoy, but for what goes on inside of it, I am more disturbed than anything else.

The book, btw, has a final chapter that is never shown in the film, and made the experience much more enjoyable for me. Once I read the complete edition of the novel, I had a different overall feeling about the content. Apparantly though Kubrick hated that final chapter.

[QUOTE="m0zart"]No Country for Old MenRikardur

Agree. It was ok don't see whats so amazing about it though.

Inglorious Bastards,and There Will Be Blood were also ok but I didn't enjoy them nearly as much other people.

Wall-E comes to mind.chessmaster1989

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2. Black Hawk down

3. Titanic

8. Field of dreams

12. Scarface

13. The Matrix

16. Pretty Woman

18. Moulin rouge

m0zart

Yep... those get added to my list. But wow at some of those other choices *cringe*

I forgot to add Romeo and Juliet. Pretty much anything by that director Baz Luhrmann is crap.

Off the top of my head, I'd have to go with Avatar, Saving Private Ryan, No Country For Old Men, and Crash just to name a few.

No Country for Old Men.

• Dark Knight
• Cool Hand Luke
• Gone With the Wind
• Star Trek (2009)
• Chinatown
• American Psycho
• Naked
• Stagecoach
• Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Dracula (1931)
• Gunga Din
• The Kingdom (Riget)
• Scarface (1983)

Inglourious Basterds

Nerd_Man

Actually, it was pretty terrible. It shows how washed up Tarantino is.

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Inglourious Basterds

QuistisTrepe_

Actually, it was pretty terrible. It shows how washed up Tarantino is.

Resevoir Dogs

Death Proof

Avatar

A Clockwork Orange

300

Toy Story 1 & 2

Kick Ass

LOTR 1,2 & 3

Titanic

(Don't like Quentin Tarantino. Deathproof is his only good film.).Jazz_Fan

:lol:

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Inglourious Basterds

QuistisTrepe_

Actually, it was pretty terrible. It shows how washed up Tarantino is.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]Wall-E comes to mind.Nerd_Man

:D

Also I saw someone mention Crash but I wasn't aware that that movie was critically acclaimed... I thought a lot of critics hated it...

This is more of a controversial movie opinion, but I think the 1983 version of Scarface is absolutely hilarious.mo0ksi

I forgot to add Romeo and Juliet. Pretty much anything by that director Baz Luhrmann is crap.

Film-Guy

Ah, I just noticed you had "Lost in Translation" in that original list. Yep, I disliked that one. But I loved one of the other art films starring Bill Murray, "Broken Flowers".

What's interesting about those two films is that they seem to be presenting the exact opposite conclusion. The first seems to be saying "Don't tie yourself up with commitments, just live for the moment", while the second seems to be saying "If you live too much for the moment and don't make commitments, you'll end up emotionally bankrupt."

Admittedly, those are rather shallow interpretations, but they work for me at the present.

[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"][QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]Wall-E comes to mind.chessmaster1989

:D

Also I saw someone mention Crash but I wasn't aware that that movie was critically acclaimed... I thought a lot of critics hated it...

An Academy Award for best picture isn't critical acclaim?:?

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I forgot to add Romeo and Juliet. Pretty much anything by that director Baz Luhrmann is crap.

m0zart

Ah, I just noticed you had "Lost in Translation" in that original list. Yep, I disliked that one. But I loved one of the other art films starring Bill Murray, "Broken Flowers".

What's interesting about those two films is that they seem to be presenting the exact opposite conclusion. The first seems to be saying "Don't tie yourself up with commitments, just live for the moment", while the second seems to be saying "If you live too much for the moment and don't make commitments, you'll end up emotionally bankrupt."

Admittedly, those are rather shallow interpretations, but they work for me at the present.

I really enjoyed Broken Flowers too. I am actually just getting into the director of that film Jim Jarmusch. I like most of his films so far, except The Limits of control. That was terrible.

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[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"] You're just saying that because you know I made this thread. :xQuistisTrepe_

:D

Also I saw someone mention Crash but I wasn't aware that that movie was critically acclaimed... I thought a lot of critics hated it...

An Academy Award for best picture isn't critical acclaim?:?

It won Best Picture but still got a lot of negative reception. And I have met very few people who agree with it winning Best Picture...

The Road

...hated it

rawsavon

The trailers to The Road set me up for a very different film than the one I actually saw. I still enjoyed it, though. I thought it had a unique setting. I can't recall a post-apocalyptic film where everything is dying. Usually it's society trying to eitherrebuild in some form, like The Road Warrior/The Postman, or fight robots, like in Terminator/The Matrix. I'd never seen a film where humanity is truly dying.

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[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]

:D

Also I saw someone mention Crash but I wasn't aware that that movie was critically acclaimed... I thought a lot of critics hated it...

chessmaster1989

An Academy Award for best picture isn't critical acclaim?:?

It won Best Picture but still got a lot of negative reception. And I have met very few people who agree with it winning Best Picture...

It shouldn't have. Crash getting the nod over Brokeback Mountain was a joke.

It shouldn't have. Crash getting the nod over Brokeback Mountain was a joke.

QuistisTrepe_

I think that's the real reason why there are so many dissenters on Crash's win, that they think Brokeback Mountain should have won instead. I don't think it's because they didn't believe Crash deserved its critical acclaim, at least for the most part.

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It shouldn't have. Crash getting the nod over Brokeback Mountain was a joke.

m0zart

I think that's the real reason why there are so many dissenters on Crash's win, that they think Brokeback Mountain should have won instead. I don't think it's because they didn't believe Crash deserved its critical acclaim, at least for the most part.

I have no idea why Crash was even in the running in the first place. It was a terrible movie with some subpar performances, awful writing, and poorly developed characters wading through a stream of obnoxious cliches and contrived plot devices.

I have no idea why Crash was even in the running in the first place. It was a terrible movie with some subpar performances, awful writing, and poorly developed characters wading through a stream of obnoxious cliches and contrived plot devices.

QuistisTrepe_

I thought it was a relative good movie. But that's not the point. The point I am making is that many critics thought it deserved to be in the running, but were disillusioned at its winning over Brokeback (not all of course, Ebert thought Crash was better).

A thousand times Titanic.

Nor did I really enjoy Terms of Endearment.mattbbpl

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3. Avatar

Probably the most overrated movies I've seen

The Godfather 1 and 2.

It was alright but I didn't care for it. I felt the character of Michael Corleone was unrealistic and seemed to develop from a sweet man to a psychotic killer in the blink of an eye. It didn't feel real to me.

Chinatown

Punch-Drunk Love

Brokeback mountain

Titanic

300

The Road

I hate Avatar. Hate it.

Well glad to see only one person mentioned Shawshank...Anyway mine are No Country, Scarface, Gangs of NY, and I absolutely freakin hated the Wrestler.

Star TrekJeffSpicoli

All of them, or literally the one film that's called Star Trek? ...which is the 11th one... :?

Well glad to see only one person mentioned Shawshank...Anyway mine are No Country, Scarface, Gangs of NY, and I absolutely freakin hated the Wrestler.

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