Critically acclaimed movies that you can't stand.

As for me...I don't really think I enjoyed There Will Be Blood all that much I honesty didn't get it entirely. It was a character profile that while decent was not nearly as fascinating as many made it out to be...on the flip side minutes ago I finished watching A Prophet another critically acclaimed, albeit foreign film, and it is excellent.

2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe it's because I haven't watched it enough times to find the "true meaning" of it, but I've just never been able to wrap my head around it. I can still appreciate it being a big part of pop culture though.

English Patientlamprey263

Wall-E. Easily the worst Pixar movie ever. And yes, I'm counting Cars. *puts on flame shield*QWERTYCommander

What didn't you like about it?

The Departed.Gallego

Uh-oh this comment almost made me sick. The Departed is truly an incredible film and is my favorite movie by far. Scorsese simply executes everything he intends to, to the utmost perfection.

Recently, the Hurt Locker.

Probably not even in my top 20 movies of 2009

Most of them.

The big one off the top of my head is Godfather.

I also find Citizen Kane to be overrated beyond compare.

Inception

Monster's Ball or whatever and There Will be Blood.

I hate any movie that gets 100% on Rottentomatoes.

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

I did not see what the big deal was about There Will Be Blood. Such an awful, depressing, pointless movie.

sammyjenkis898

No Country for Old men. Not enough stuff happened in that movie imo.

Also Fight Club. It was like The Skulls on an acid trip.

No Country for Old Men.

no_more_fayth

Crash, really great actors but that's it.

Inception

TheWestCoastDon

****ing lost in translationHAHAITHINKNOT

Oh yah, this.

Obviously the film was drivel, so glancing around at other chellovecks in the audience, I had plenty of time to ponder the phenomenon of all the ****-eating grins. Here's the theory I came up with: It gives us an evolutionary edge...

In debunking a popular myth in Cecil's The Straight Dope, Dr. Song explains how it takes 12 muscles to smile, 13 to frown and only 2 muscles to fake a smile. So maintaining a knowing smirk and shutting off your brain through this turgid tripe actually preserves energy while simultaneously preventing any permanent psychological damage - kind of how loveable aquatic faux-mammals like the sea monkey or the water bear enter cryptobiosis until adverse conditions pass. Of course, this theory just assumes we have no all-seeing soul to rupture.

No Country for Old men. Not enough stuff happened in that movie imo.

Also Fight Club. It was like The Skulls on an acid trip.

gaming25

Alright, dude. I managed to read nearly every comment on every page of this thread, and nothing has truely rattled my tail until now. Fight Club is an obsolute beast of a movie. Forget opinion, you will always be wrong.

...and I will not take that back. Ever.

AzzoLovesBirdy

Oh hey yeah, I completely forgot about Fight Club. That movie sucked too. :P

[QUOTE="AzzoLovesBirdy"]

Alright, dude. I managed to read nearly every comment on every page of this thread, and nothing has truely rattled my tail until now. Fight Club is an absolute beast of a movie. Forget opinion, you will always be wrong.

...and I will not take that back. Ever.

GabuEx

Oh hey yeah, I completely forgot about Fight Club. That movie sucked too. :P

[spoiler] Inception
Shutter Island
Precious
An Education
Invictus
Drag Me to Hell
Up in the Air
The House of the Devil
State of Play
Man on Wire
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Gomorra
Transsiberian
Gran Torino
Breach
My Winnipeg
Juno
Hot Fuzz
3:10 to Yuma
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Last King of Scotland
Into the Wild
Million Dollar Baby
The Green Mile
Braveheart
Scarface
V for Vendetta
Mystic River
Rocky
Death Proof
The Aviator
Gangs of New York
A Beautiful Mind
Little Miss Sunshine
Munich
Crash
The Reader
Chicago
Babel
Raging Bull
Philadelphia
Titanic
Leon
The Usual Suspects (on rewatch)
The Untouchables
Sideways
As Good as It Gets
Jerry Maguire
The English Patient [/spoiler]

I hated 21 Grams, even though it looked like it'd be something that's right up my alley.

*shrugs*

Maybe I should watch it again.

MrGeezer

You should, it's a good movie ;)

Oh, a couple others.

XMen 2

Iron Man.

I did not hate them but I found them both boring and meh.

I also can't remember if this movie was praised but Mystic River. I HATED it.

the godfathercomp_atkins

Seriously, once you get passed the awesome sets and costumes there isn't much to like. The dialogue is lame, cliché, and bland and so is the plot. :(

Oh and please restrain yourself from mentioning Avatar, I know that many of you didn't like it (I didn´t like it too)and that many of you will mention that one. To keep this thread varied try choose another film other than Avatar. :)

MrEnvelope

You got mine TC. That movie was so stupid.

[QUOTE="HAHAITHINKNOT"]****ing lost in translationjimmyjammer69

Oh yah, this.

Obviously the film was drivel, so glancing around at other chellovecks in the audience, I had plenty of time to ponder the phenomenon of all the ****-eating grins. Here's the theory I came up with: It gives us an evolutionary edge...

In debunking a popular myth in Cecil's The Straight Dope, Dr. Song explains how it takes 12 muscles to smile, 13 to frown and only 2 muscles to fake a smile. So maintaining a knowing smirk and shutting off your brain through this turgid tripe actually preserves energy while simultaneously preventing any permanent psychological damage - kind of how loveable aquatic faux-mammals like the sea monkey or the water bear enter cryptobiosis until adverse conditions pass. Of course, this theory just assumes we have no all-seeing soul to rupture.

****ing lost in translationHAHAITHINKNOT

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]the godfatherAirGuitarist87

Crash.

What a sappy, pretentious piece of Oscar bait drivel.

Seriously, once you get passed the awesome sets and costumes there isn't much to like. The dialogue is lame, cliché, and bland and so is the plot. :(

Oh and please restrain yourself from mentioning Avatar, I know that many of you didn't like it (I didn´t like it too)and that many of you will mention that one. To keep this thread varied try choose another film other than Avatar. :)

MrEnvelope

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]the godfatherAirGuitarist87

2001: A space Odyssey (what a pretentious piece of crap)Laserwolf65

Gosford Park

A synopsis:

- Posh people go to big mansion in the country for the weekend.
- Nothing happens.
- Nothing happens.
- There's a murder.
- Nothing happens.
- Nothing happens.
- Weekend is over, posh people leave the big mansion in the country.
- Credits

Avatar, and the new age Star Trek

There will be Blood

Daniel Day Lewis was great

And that was about it.

[QUOTE="Laserwolf65"]2001: A space Odyssey (what a pretentious piece of crap)racer8dan