Great movies that actually suck... (to you!)

[acotts]

I've really grown tired of the long line of computer generated Uber-action flicks. They seem to be a string of fantastic explosions, littered with comic book heroes. (Avengers,Thor, Green Lantern,Iron Man,Hulk,etc.etc.) Scene after scene of unbelievable action, magnified with an unlimited budget. (not much of that budget actually spent on WRITING)
Transformers, Battleships, and reinvinted childhood heroes...with sequals added regularly...just in case that you didn't get enough in round one and two.

not great movies. not trying to be. The goal here is to be controversial.


...be honest, all of Quentin Tarantino's movies are 30 minutes too long. All of them.

[dgaddis]

Slumdog Millionaire.

+1,000 Didn't it win a ton of awards? Everyone thought it was great. Just made me not want to visit India...not that I wanted to anyways.

I really really enjoyed the Avengers. Didn't expect to at all, but I liked it, it was fun. The Dark Knight batman movies are awesome as well. I hated the recent Spiderman movies that did so well. The new one looks promising though.

I'm also a caveman. LOVE dumb and dumber (a new one is coming by the way, original cast and writers!), LOVE Jackass, love all the Will Ferrell movies (anchorman, old school, ballad of rick bobby, blades of glory, haven't seen the basketball movie yet).

The greatest movie you've never heard of: Poolhall Junkies. Check it out, especially if you like (or ever liked) playing pool. Even if you're not a pool person, still a great movie.

EDIT: Oh, and Borat might be the greatest movie of all time. I genuinely believe this.

[Tom]

Eyes Wide Shut, the movie that killed Stanley Kubrick. He watched the whole thing straight through one time and dropped stone dead.

[Matthew J]

Multiple 'meh' comments here - not a movie but I have never seen a Simpsons' episode I liked.

Speaking of Kubrick - Could never get into 2001 Space Odyssey. Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange I liked.

[Nierman]

Only movie I walked out on was UP. My kid caught the stomach bug and unloaded before we could exit the theater. Several others walked out shortly after us, I imagine.

Transitioning to TV shows, I've tried to sit through some It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes but that show's just not funny. Strange how some shows survive so many seasons.

[Bob Ross]

What did you not like about Forest Gump? I thought everyone liked that movie.

I have a friend who detests that film because he thinks it's "thinly disguised Christian propoganda".
Me, I love that film -- almost in spite of its plot -- simply for Tom Hanks' performance. The way he so completely inhabits the Gump character is breathtaking even after the dozenth time you've seen it.

[davids]

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Multiple 'meh' comments here - not a movie but I have never seen a Simpsons' episode I liked.

You are dead to me.

"The Artist". Insipid.

"Life is Beautiful". Idiotic and offensive.

[HorsCat]

...be honest, all of Quentin Tarantino's movies are 30 minutes too long. All of them.

pulp fiction was brilliant. every second of it. but i agree with the sentiment generally. reservoir dogs was too long; jackie brown shoulda not been made; and kill bill shoulda been one 100 minute movie.

"Life is Beautiful". Idiotic and offensive.

curious why you think that. as a jew who lost family members in the holocaust, i didn't find it offensive at all. i thought it was brilliant and touching. (i love bennigni, so maybe that's why)

[King Of Dirk]

an we put another spin on it .... I basically hate anything with Travolta for some reason. Horrible actor.

My wife and I howl with laughter every time Urban Cowboy is on tv. The early shot where he's coming into downtown Houston from the farm to make it big in "the city" passes by my home and office - neither of which existed then - and we get many laughs from the Sweathog trying to sound like a Texan. Neither he nor Debbie Winger are even close. For those of you who have only been here for NAHBS, it would be like Matthew McConaughey trying to star in Good Will Hunting.

[airedale]

Last movie I walked out of was Henry: portrait of a serial killer. Random violence and killings ain't my go. Fucking goth friends suggested we see it.

[Nierman]

Not really categorized as a great movie, but definitely a huge following like Lebowski: Clerks. I just can't do it.

However I never miss a chance to watch Walk Hard, Step Brothers or Talledega Nights.

[false_aesthetic]

1 - Taxi Driver: One of the most over-hyped movies of all time. The only thing I enjoyed was finally understanding where the Pantera song "The Badge" got its sample from.

2 - Deer Hunter: Took me 3 tries to get through it.

3 - Easy Rider: Can't get past how poorly the movie was shot.

4 - A Clockwork Orange: Again, too much hype.

5 - Sideways: Seemed like a movie about 1st world problems.

[davids]

curious why you think that. as a jew who lost family members in the holocaust, i didn't find it offensive at all. i thought it was brilliant and touching. (i love bennigni, so maybe that's why)

I thought it trivialized the Shoah, turned one of the greatest acts of systematic evil humanity has ever seen into a maudlin backdrop for a dopey dad and his even dumber kid. I know I'm in the minority here, but damn. I despised that movie.

[davids]

Not really categorized as a great movie, but definitely a huge following like Lebowski: Clerks. I just can't do it.

However I never miss a chance to watch Walk Hard, Step Brothers or Talledega Nights.

Hey, speaking of Talledega Nights... That movie has (or had) one of the most brilliantly comic scenes I can remember. And I say "had" because: I saw the movie in the theater. There's a scene where Will Ferrell's character goes to Sacha Baron Cohen's character's home. SBC is having a party, a bunch of guests are sitting around a table in the garden and the camera quickly pans past them... "Whoa!", I think, "Was that Mos Def and Elvis Costello???" The next moment, Will Ferrell is asking SBC, "What that Mos Def and Elvis Costello???" SBC tosses off, "No" and the scene moves on.

I thought that was a brilliant moment, put in there for the handful of folks who were going to have the exact reaction I did. And when I rented the movie I couldn't wait to see that moment again. But it was gone! Edited out of the DVD? Or did I imagine the whole thing?

[monadnocky]

4 - A Clockwork Orange: Again, too much hype.

When I was a younger, stupider man, I thought this was the greatest thing ever. Then, as an adult, I actually sat through the whole thing. WAAAAAYYY too long and over-indulgent, and I think now I thought it was cool so I could be considered edgy and hip.

Want something nihilistic and really good? Brazil by Terry Gilliam. Genius. He'd make an incredible psychoanalyst based solely upon his understanding of the unconscious.

So... who is going to be the first to say they HATED Brazil?

[echelon_john]

My friend Tuttle hated it. Or was it Buttle?

[rmplum]

Awesome.

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[RickM]

holliscx wrote; "I tried watching Citizen Kane twice and won't likely try a third time..."'


(Very) conventional wisdom has Kane being Well's best movie. I say..not by a long shot.

Best Wells film; "The Magnificent Ambersons".

[AJPM44]

Clerks blows. I also did not like Gone With the Wind.

[false_aesthetic]

OOooh. I'm gonna 2nd the Nicholas Cage thing too.

Everything from Birdy + Rumble Fish to Adaptation has been ruined by Nick. Worst possible choice Ghost Rider.