Confessions: Highly acclaimed films you just did not like

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There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

I didn't enjoy either of these movies very much at all.

mattbbpl

They were just really good, acting, plot, etc. :P

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There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

I didn't enjoy either of these movies very much at all.

CBR600-RR

They were just really good, acting, plot, etc. :P

I know what you mean (mattbbpl) by not really "getting" these movies. Personally I didn't like the plot for either movie, I guess I just found them depressing and not that interesting. The acting was fine, I just didn't really enjoy either movie.

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[QUOTE="mattbbpl"] I never "got" these movies. They seemed like average fare to me. I must be missing something because I don't see the reason for their high praise.

bballm10

They were just really good, acting, plot, etc. :P

I know what you mean (mattbbpl) by not really "getting" these movies. Personally I didn't like the plot for either movie, I guess I just found them depressing and not that interesting. The acting was fine, I just didn't really enjoy either movie.

I guess it's like red wine, really good but an acquired taste. :P

Juno

American Gangster

There Will Be Blood

Fight Club

The Bourne Ultimatum

Batman Begins

Scarface

Invictus

Saving Private Ryan

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[QUOTE="Wolls"]The Godfather Lebbin

This, I had alot of issues with the Godfather. Its poorly paced, the movie goes in places where it does not and expands on it too much(i.e Michael Coreleone when he flees to italy was milked out far too long and slowed down the movie unnecessarily). Its well acted no doubt, but its poorly paced and for me that kills it, and the ending it self seems rushed compared to the build up and unneccesary slow down the film suffers from. Thats just my thoughts.

I can give you the ending. While I liked it, I can see how it could seem somewhat anti-climatic. Though the VERY last scene (Michael in his office) I found to make up for the assassination/church sequence. As for him going to Italy, I think it was a much needed detour from the dark urban expanse of New York.

Yeah, I will respectfully disagree with you on the assassination sequence. The film was slow, and then you get Vitos funeral, and then out of no where the assassins. There is a slight build up to them, but not compared to the rather slow pace of the film. As for Michael going italy, I see your point as that it was a welcome break contrast from the Urban aspect, but for me, it killed the movie for several reasons. One the Kay/Michael relationship made no sense after he went to Italy, it was like ok I fled to Italy, and I will marry this woman, and then she blows up, oh kays there I will ran back to her. Plus all the time in Italy was just not neccesary, it could of been much shorter and it made Kay feel like a back up girlfriend. Thats just me...I could go on more and more into the flaws, but as with anything else, flaws are subjective and this makes a nice respectable debate.

Aliens

25th Hour

No Country for Old Men

Downfall

Avatar.

I didn't think Twilight was all that great. mmwmwmmwmwmm

Harry Potter.

Lord of the Rings.

Blargh.

[QUOTE="mmwmwmmwmwmm"]I didn't think Twilight was all that great. Da_lil_PimP

I forgot about this one: The Hurt Locker. That is the worst movie I've seen in a while. I couldn't identify with the main character for crap. His action just seem to be random, like a different person wrote each one of his scenes. The military stuff was ****ed up too. Did they do any research for this film?

Gran Torino, aka "Clint Eastwood points firearms at minorities"Sajo7

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There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

I didn't enjoy either of these movies very much at all.

CBR600-RR

They were just really good, acting, plot, etc. :P

Downfall

stupid4

The Godfather Wolls

[QUOTE="Da_lil_PimP"][QUOTE="mmwmwmmwmwmm"]I didn't think Twilight was all that great. mmwmwmmwmwmm

I'd like to add Saving Private Ryan and the Bourne trilogy. The last completely disregarded the original book.Deihjan

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

[QUOTE="Deihjan"]I'd like to add Saving Private Ryan and the Bourne trilogy. The last completely disregarded the original book.Nerd_Man

District 9. It was so very, very over hyped. I have a feeling I will feel the same way about Avatar when I see it.GrandJury

Recently Avatar and Toy Story 3.

Avatar and Titanic, there is enough cheese between these two movies to end world hunger and more cliches' than a generic Stallone and Schwartzenegger action film combined.

There Will Be Blood, I don't mind long movies or movies without excitement but this was just taking the piss. There Will Be Nothing would have been a better title.bobbetybob

Dark knight

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Blasphemy!

Anyways i would have to say:

1. Avatar. Good graphics and effects, but it's essentially "Pocahontas with aliens"

2. Inception. Currently ranked 3rd in imdb, ahead of many other critically acclaimed movies. (GFP2). Inception is a great movie, no doubt but the ending was a tad predictiable and shallow.

I don't hate it, but Evil Dead 2 is not that amazing, just good, I prefer the original.

Hmm, a fair few:

The Star Wars series - Wow, saw that twist coming a mile away. And oh look, they're comparing sizes with their light sticks. How dull. And Jar Jar must die, please, that would probably be the best scene in a movie ever.

The Matrix movies - That was easy to figure out, though the acting is so wooden that a plank has more life.

300 - It oozes testosterone so much that Popeye wouldn't need spinach, just a tocuh of the case for the movie to get his muscles going.

Jurassic Park - Pretty CGI, so where's the acting? Yes, do run from the big T-Rex when you were told not to move, and please, keep screaming your head off and luring those beautifully rendered raptors over to you. And the movies are done, at last.

Titanic - You know, Decaprio should just keep asking to die in movies, at least that was the only thing about the movie that wasn't told in history! Yes, the ship sinks, now you've seen it, move on.

The recent Star Trek movie: Wait, Kirk is what, 25, 24, he's newly graduated from Starfleet Academy and while he may have saved the Earth from a very bitter Romulan, he still doesn't have the kind of experience needed to be a captain. But hey, this is Hollywood, let's just give him command of the Federation flagship, despite his inexperience as a whole, and send him out to strut his chin and give that winning smile, any wars, no problem, his chin will save the day!

The recent Transformers movies - A mini robot getting fresh with a young woman's leg, oookay. An OAP robot who shoots parachutes out his tail pipe, teens who need cold showers, majorly,and Megatron being defeated by the male teen hero. And there were some other Transformers there somewhere when the humans were done talking and struting. And there's more, but I think it's best to say nothing more. Bad, so bad.

Lord Of The Rings - Good movies, beautiful, but talk about obsessed over a piece of jewellary. Honestly, villians really need to sort out their lives. So what if it makes you all powerful? Just Ebay!

There's more, but I think I've said what I can.

I didn't think Twilight was all that great. mmwmwmmwmwmm

Avatar. I've experienced better story in a coloring book.

Pirate700

^^ this

also I never understood what was so great about 300 and juno

I would have to say Shutter island. So predictable, that story was already done too many times

Reservoir Dogs. Ok I liked it before, but then I saw City on Fire. Tarantino doesn't deserve all the praise.

Opinions aren't wrong. How someone perceives something is just how their mind works.

frostybanana

That's one philosophical perspective, yes.