Movies you were supposed to like, but didn't

This should be interesting and might start a minor flamewar, but fun is fun.

What movies didn't you like that you were told you would like?

These can be movies that either:
1) were loved by critics
2) were extremely popular at the theater and in DVD sales
3) movies that people in your peer group said were can't misses.

I'll start.

Off the top of my head, I did not like:

Napoleon Dynamite
Gladiator
Master and Commander
Saving Private Ryan
Office Space
Caddyshack
Up a Creek
Anchor Man
Starsky and Hutch
Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands
Dodgeball

What are your's?

good thread.


first off, you didn't like Anchor Man, or Saving Private Ryan?! oh well...

I can't remember that last movie I was supposed to like, that I didn't.

The closest thing is Doom. But its a given not to like it.

OH, History of Violence. It looked really good, but the ending was just lame.


SheepStar

The Sound of Music....I don't know why, I just hate that movie.

Star Wars: Episode 3 - Not a SW geek, but I liked the movies. This one was kind of disappointing.

Pearl Harbor - had a lot of potential, but really didn't do anything for me besides Kate... Attack scene was decent.

I thought Napoleon Dynamite and Office Space were fun and campy. M&C was OK. Gladiator was good. Saving Private Ryan was mostly good. Caddyshack was a bit overrated, IMO.

Both of the XXX movies. Second one was a gimmie I guess.

Most of the Godfathers, just couldn't get into them.

Spiderman I probably being the most popular movie I can't stand to watch in recent history.



How can't you call yourself a man and not like Gladiator or Saving Private Ryan????

The all time worst movie I ever saw was "Kiss of the Spider Woman". It was a major award winner, including an Oscar for Best Actor and other nominations.

"Two thumbs up", yeah right up the butt!

brian32672 said:

...usually I am very easy going when it comes to movies...

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As am I, yet I didn't think The Borne Identity was up to much even though everybody else I know thought it was excellent.

Regards

Spiderman I probably being the most popular movie I can't stand to watch in recent history.

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Wow, and here I thought I was the only person who hated that movie. I like Tobey and Kirsten is OK sometimes, but man that movie just plain stunk.

Matt34 said:

How can't you call yourself a man and not like Gladiator or Saving Private Ryan????

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Not sure why I didn't like Gladiator, it was a good looking movie, costuming and the fighting scenes were well researched, but for some reason I just didn't like it.

As far as Saving Private Ryan, that movie just made me very uncomfortable. Maybe because I was in the military, but I couldn't watch our men die, it was far too realistic and I must have emphathized too closely, because it just made me squirm. That, and I think there were many details about it that seemed rather implausible, the entire premise that they'd expend that much manpower to find one soldier. Also, and this just might have been my misinterpretation, but the old guy visiting the graves, they focused on his face then faded into Tom Hanks as he was landing. So my assumption was that the old guy was Tom Hanks and he was going to survive. Instead it turned out to be Matt Damian's character -- who had parachuted in and would NOT have any personal recollection of the landings. struck me as dishonest story telling.

brian32672 said:

I'm sure you may not like the new one being made (announced).

The Bourne Ultimatum - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/

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I thought the first one was OK, but Supremacy was crap. Probably won't bother to see the next one if it is the same director as Supremacy.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Also, and this just might have been my misinterpretation, but the old guy visiting the graves, they focused on his face then faded into Tom Hanks as he was landing. So my assumption was that the old guy was Tom Hanks and he was going to survive. Instead it turned out to be Matt Damian's character -- who had parachuted in and would NOT have any personal recollection of the landings. struck me as dishonest story telling.

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Yeah, that threw me for a loop the first time I watched it too. I liked the realism though, so did the couple of WWII vets I have talked to about it. Shows what those men went through for this country, even if that particular story line was little far fetched.

I've been in 9yrs(2 combat tours), guess I'm a little desensitized to well......just about anything.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Not sure why I didn't like Gladiator, it was a good looking movie, costuming and the fighting scenes were well researched, but for some reason I just didn't like it.

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Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

majorloser said:

Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

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LOL, yes it was, but he did play the part very well IMO.

majorloser said:

Well, the parts where Commodus was hot for his sister was a little creepy.

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That's because he was messed up. It was a different time then, and while I'm sure that was still not acceptable then, it was a lot different than it is in Western culture today.

Please don't shoot me again , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love

gellor said:

Please don't shoot me again , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love

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You didn't like sin city?!?!!?!


RABLE RABLE RABLE RABLE (angry sounds) trying to keep privateer's spirit alive....

To each his own...


SheepStar

I'll have to agree there; I was still waiting for something useful to get started when Punch Drunk Love ended. I think the fact that it ended was the best part.

Another one that everyone but me liked seems to be Daredevil. That movie was utter garbage; a waste of film.

Ah yes Daredevil and Electra, both horrible.

gellor said:

Please don't shoot me again , but the ones I can think of right now are:

Sin City
Forest Gump
King Arthur
Punch Drunk Love

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I had forgot to add that one to my list. And by chance I had even went to the movies to see it. (Sin City)
I thought it was terrible.... No bare Jessica Alba kinda got to me...
Also I was not alone on this, mom was there as well. She said the same thing. And there was no clapping at the end or any emotions from any of the viewers. Maybe I saw a different version. But I doubt it....

But on the Punch Drunk Love. I found it kinda amusing.
Specially since there was some music from the Popeye movie.....

Hmm, I had also kinda liked Elektra... Go figure. And I felt it was very good.
Out of my 1600 dvd's I watch this quite often (specially DTS version - I have both).

brian32672 said:

I had forgot to add that one to my list. And by chance I had even went to the movies to see it. (Sin City) I thought it was terrible.... No bare Jessica Alba kinda got to me...

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Well, we can hope for that in the director's cut coming in Dec. I liked Sin City. Good, not great. I liked it because it was a little different; just like all of Robert Rodriguez' movies so far.

brian32672 said:

Ok guys look through this list to see which ones you thought were terrible.
Please know, the list is not complete I still have a lot of entries to put in. (about 80, mostly DTS)
It is a text file that was zipped. I recommend to just use wordpad. Not Microsoft Word.

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ouch. I just haved to show my wife that list, since she says I have a LOT of movies. but 35 pages?! i think that fails the WAF.