Not even Jon Gries could save the abomination of Napoleon Dynamite. It wasn't even stupid-funny, just stupid...and hard to sit through, as it was the kind of painfully bad that makes you squirm in your seat and feel embarassed for the state of the human race.
As for me, there are a lot of movies that everyone raves about that I dislike. I cannot stand most of Scorcese's movies, for example - I'm sorry, they're boring as **bleep**. Even Goodfellas. Not a big Kubrick fan either.
Deer Hunter was another one that people raved about. I cannot think of another movie that tries so hard to make you turn it off for the entire first hour.
Full Metal Jacket had the opposite problem - the beginning was good, and then they offed the only two interesting characters in the movie and ruined the remainder.
More recently I watched Happy Feet, which won an oscar and got a lot of praise. What people forgot to say was that the movie is absolute garbage. The whole thing is unfocused and scatterbrained and the (seemingly) hundreds of bursts into song are painful to sit through.
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