C'mon - there's got to be a few. Mine would have to be Das Boot, Goodfellas, Metropoolis, Citizen Kane, all of Woody Allens Manhatten/Annie Hall style stuff, 2001, Cinema Paradiso and Raging Bull.
I'm sure there's loads more but already I feel the need to stand in the corner with a bucket on my head so I think I'll leave it there!
Films you should have loved ...... but hated.
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Films you should have loved ...... but hated.
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
One of my biggest disappointments ever was Reign of Fire. It's not awful, but it has a great cast and a freaking amazing premise.......Mostly squandered. I don't think I've ever walked into a theater expecting more, then walking out feeling so let down.
I've hated a lot of movies everyone loves (most recently the horrifically bad Silver Linings Playbook, but generally if something is within my wheelhouse I tend to find something to like about it.
I've hated a lot of movies everyone loves (most recently the horrifically bad Silver Linings Playbook, but generally if something is within my wheelhouse I tend to find something to like about it.
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Definitely 2001 should be in there for me. People are always surprised that generally hate David Lynch films. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt as I do love two of his films (his version of Dune that I know a lot of people hate, and also The Elephant Man), but I almost always end up hating them. Since Twin Peaks is starting up again, I do want to give it another try to watch episodes of that as it sounds like an interesting mythology, but I don't know if I can take the execution of it.
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Remake of Planet of the apes.... although I guess I didn't 'hate' it, I was very disappointed in it. I truly expected more because the original was so stinking good.
The original movie with those incredible soundtracks and the 'surprises' along the way, just couldn't be beaten. It still brings chill bumps at parts near the end of the original when Taylor is speaking with Dr. Zaius and finds out that Zaius new all along.
Then later as the camera pans behind the Statue of Liberty
The original movie with those incredible soundtracks and the 'surprises' along the way, just couldn't be beaten. It still brings chill bumps at parts near the end of the original when Taylor is speaking with Dr. Zaius and finds out that Zaius new all along.
Then later as the camera pans behind the Statue of Liberty
Damnit, I may go home and watch this again tonight.Oh, my God!
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Being John Malkovich. Sounded cool in theory, but about halfway through, I decided it was stupid and sent the DVD back to Netflix.
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Can I add 'War Horse' to the list. Saw it last night and thought it plucked every cheap heart-string in the book without making even the slightest attempt at doing anything innovative. How did this win the academy award for 'best-film'?
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
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peter, 'War Horse' was nominated, but didn't win. 'The Artist' won that year.
I didn't enjoy 'Three Colours Red' when I saw it first, arty, French b****cks to my eyes. However, I am told (by those who purport to know) that Kieslowski is the finest filmmaker of our generation, so I'll need to revisit that one (100% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 95% Audience score
).
A film that I loved (but that those, who purport to know, hated) was 'Sideways'. I try to get a nice bottle of wine and sit down and watch it once a year. I've missed the last couple of years, so I guess that means I've a couple of nice bottles waiting for me!
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I didn't enjoy 'Three Colours Red' when I saw it first, arty, French b****cks to my eyes. However, I am told (by those who purport to know) that Kieslowski is the finest filmmaker of our generation, so I'll need to revisit that one (100% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 95% Audience score
).A film that I loved (but that those, who purport to know, hated) was 'Sideways'. I try to get a nice bottle of wine and sit down and watch it once a year. I've missed the last couple of years, so I guess that means I've a couple of nice bottles waiting for me!
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Re: Films you should have loved ...... but hated.
Yea. Many folk I know and respect love lots of Woody...I can only stand about 2 of them. Can't manage to like Paradiso, either.peter wrote:C'mon - there's got to be a few. Mine would have to be Das Boot, Goodfellas, Metropoolis, Citizen Kane, all of Woody Allens Manhatten/Annie Hall style stuff, 2001, Cinema Paradiso and Raging Bull.
Maybe the one that folk rip into me about most often is "It's a Wonderful Life."
I just can't stand it. At all. [sticking with a theme, with the upcoming season: A Christmas Carol. Not any version of play or movie, and not the book.]
More in line with kind of thing I think the OP is pointing at:
The Graduate. There are many things in it that I like a lot.
But somehow, as a whole piece, it just annoys the piss out of me.
I'd rather just listen to the Simon/Garfunkel tunes from it, and ignore the film.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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God yes, those awful 'three colors' films! An arty girl I knew at the time kept going on about them and I had to pretend I loved them. [She thought I was an 'artistic visionary', but if I remember rightly there was only one thing I had my eye on! 
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]President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Are you saying Red was arty, French b****cks, or the whole Three Colours trilogy? I certainly agree on Red, and bits of Blue, although I did enjoy Blue overall. I liked White as well, and it was the funniest of the batch, but I was also hot for Julie Delphy at the time, so my view may be off. And kinda the same with Blue since I was hot for Juliette Binoche. I've not watched any of them for years though.ussusimiel wrote: I didn't enjoy 'Three Colours Red' when I saw it first, arty, French b****cks to my eyes. However, I am told (by those who purport to know) that Kieslowski is the finest filmmaker of our generation, so I'll need to revisit that one (100% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 95% Audience score
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You really should have loved SLP, Cail. Of course, I even liked I Heart Huckabees so it's not like my opinion of David O. Russell films should be taken seriously. Then again, I had an interesting experience with American Hustle -- loved it in the theater, could barely watch it the second time, then found it hilarious all over again the third time I saw it. There were a number of layers to the movie.Cail wrote:One of my biggest disappointments ever was Reign of Fire. It's not awful, but it has a great cast and a freaking amazing premise.......Mostly squandered. I don't think I've ever walked into a theater expecting more, then walking out feeling so let down.
I've hated a lot of movies everyone loves (most recently the horrifically bad Silver Linings Playbook, but generally if something is within my wheelhouse I tend to find something to like about it.
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SLP is one of the 5 worst movies I've ever seen. SLP was so offensively bad that it makes me angry even thinking about it. I'd rather watch Jaws: The Revenge than SLP.
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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]President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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One movie that I absolutely hated, to the degree of almost having to hit something while watching it, was Crash. The movie about racism in L.A., not the Cronenberg movie of the same name.
Before seeing it, I had heard all this raving from people like Oprah and the critics that it was the greatest portrayal of racism and humanity and REAL PEOPLE and all of that.
So, I rented it one day when it came out on video.
Guh. The whole thing was an extended melodramatic version of someone yelling "yeah, well, you're racist too!!" at everyone he can see. The most morally upright people in the entire movie were the two car thieves. Actually, no, wait, I guess that would be the Mexican locksmith. But really, he was so downtrodden by the rest that he had no one to oppress.
Then it won Best Picture at the Oscars. 
Before seeing it, I had heard all this raving from people like Oprah and the critics that it was the greatest portrayal of racism and humanity and REAL PEOPLE and all of that.
So, I rented it one day when it came out on video.
Guh. The whole thing was an extended melodramatic version of someone yelling "yeah, well, you're racist too!!" at everyone he can see. The most morally upright people in the entire movie were the two car thieves. Actually, no, wait, I guess that would be the Mexican locksmith. But really, he was so downtrodden by the rest that he had no one to oppress.
Then it won Best Picture at the Oscars.
Yes, Crash was also offensively bad.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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OK - How did those of you who hated Crash get on with Magnolia. I don't remember much about Crash, but I do remember that on seeing it I thought it was a watered down version of the Magnolia idea [interconnectivity and all that] and a much inferior film; in fact Magnolia would rate as one of my all time favorite films.
President of Peace? You fucking idiots!
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
"I know what America is. America is a thing that you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." (Benjamin Netenyahu 2001.)
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard