Movies you were supposed to like, but didn't

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Hmmm...

1) The English Patient
2) Sideways
3) The Right Stuff
4) It's a Wonderful Life
5) Anything by Woody Allen

 

[mike c]

whatever Ben Affleck touches turns to crap. and i wont even enumerate the movies he messed up... because they're ALL crap.

somebody kill him please.

 

[Mr. Lamb Fries]

whatever Ben Affleck touches turns to crap. and i wont even enumerate the movies he messed up... because they're ALL crap.

somebody kill him please.

If i could boldly ammend mike c' statement..."Anything Ben affleck touches POST Matt Damon, turnes to crap!

 

[j_garcia]

I'd agree there. There are a few Ben Affleck movies I like, like Dogma and Chasing Amy that I can think of, but other than that, I could be happy without ever seeing him in any more movies.

 

[cmusic]

I don’t go to the movies much (my local theater sucks) so I usually wait until the movies I want to see come out on DVD or on HBO before I watch them. I don’t buy the DVD unless I really want to see the movie. My likes usually match with a few certain critics so I use their reviews to gauge what movies I want to spend my money on. I am not going to list any of the mainstream movies that most critics hate but the general public loves. So that makes my list smaller than most cinemaphiles.

Punch Drunk Love – I never got really interested in it although I think it is the best thing Adam Sandler ever did.
La Dolce Vita – I think I would have liked it if there was resolution at the end and it was about an hour shorter.
Million Dollar Baby – Oscar bait was all it was to me.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – 10 minutes into this one I was regretting spending my money on it.
Napoleon Dynamite – as a whole movie it sucked, if it were taken as a series of individual scenes it was ok.
Cold Mountain - It seemed the screenwriter ran out of ideas at the end.

One of my favorite movies of the past few years, Lost in Translation, is despised by nearly every one of my close friends. There are many other movies I like but my friends would hate too.

 

[j_garcia]

How could I forget Million Dollar Baby? Maybe because it sucked? The performances were good, but I don't know why it was an oscar contender... I wasn't drawn into the story, nor did it strike any real chords with me.

 

[Francious70]

Wow, I like most of the movies you guys are saying you don't like.

Movies I didn't like:

The Notebook (girlfriend made me watch it)
Anything Ben Afflek (post Kevin Smith)
Last of the Mohicans

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

 

[majorloser]

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

May Mini-me come and bite your ankles!

 

[j_garcia]

I forgot to mention the Austin Powers movies. Can't stand them.

I dig 'em. Goofy, dorky funny, like this generation's Airplane. They're SUPPOSED to be kind of stupid.

 

[j_garcia]

Don't tell me, you didn't like Bambi either...

 

[techigirl78]

I guess the two I can remember being the most disappointing to me were Napoleon Dynamite and Unbreakable. Not the Unbreakable wasn't ok, but it really didn't live up the the hype.

 

[Jack Hammer]

I guess the two I can remember being the most disappointing to me were Napoleon Dynamite and Unbreakable. Not the Unbreakable wasn't ok, but it really didn't live up the the hype.

Unbreakable is a movie that I really want to like, but when I watch it I feel let down. Yet, I'll end up wathcing it again.

The other side of the spectrum is C.H.U.D. There's a movie that is so bad I should hate watching it, yet I keep coming back, and love it every time.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

Gladiator and Sin City. Both yawners IMO.

A few more would include Old School, Sideways (good, but not Oscar calibre, ESPECIALLY in the comedy category as it wasn't funny, more a drama), It's A Wonderful Life, Apocalypse Now (far better war movies)...

speaking of war movies, I can not believe people would dis Saving Private Ryan. As far as I am concerned, there has never been a movie that showed the brutality of war more realistically. Since I saw it, on November 11, I really appreciate our vets more after watching this that was Steven Spielberg's hope. Platoon was a distant second in the war movie category.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

Adding to the list. Just saw "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Didn't get it.

Austin Powers is this generation's Airplane? I feel sorry for this generation then. Airplane, at the time, was cutting edge funny. Powers was just sophomoric potty humor, IMO.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

Ha, then what is your basis on comparing it to Blazing Saddles??

Who compared it to Blazing Saddles?

 

[j_garcia]

Someone mentioned The Patriot - you can add that to my list of movies I didn't like. Within about 10 min. I said "Hey, it's Braveheart...with guns" and that's pretty much what it turned out to be.

 

[Sheep]

Adding to the list. Just saw "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Didn't get it.

Austin Powers is this generation's Airplane? I feel sorry for this generation then. Airplane, at the time, was cutting edge funny. Powers was just sophomoric potty humor, IMO.

This (my) generation doesn't have an "airplane".

Its just a bunch of dumb high school "drama" movies. If my generation was smart, they'd realize that highschool is(was) the best thing going for them in this life. I've seen alot of my friends from elementary school ruin their lives from drinking and drug problems.

All they do now is work dead end jobs and get drunk, EVERY WEEK. Just like they did in high school.... *shakes head*

SheepStar

 

[j_garcia]

Powers was just sophomoric potty humor, IMO.

Yeah, airplane was something other than sophmoric humor...cutting edge...right

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

Airplane WAS cutting edge humor, as probably Blazing Saddles was before it.

Seen today, out of context of the times, they probably don't seem very cutting edge. I'll bet many don't find Martin and Lewis or The Marx Brothers very cutting edge today either. But they were in their day. Just as the TV show Laugh-In was cutting edge. And the TV show "Police Squad" (made by the creators of Airplane).

But these were movies that moved the bar, pushed the envelope, paved the way for the humor of today. They were doing things that just hadn't been done or were thought of as "forbidden."

I can't say Austin Powers was very cutting edge in that respect.