Movies you were supposed to like, but didn't

[brian32672]

Hopefully that's just a list of movies you have seen and not ones you actively dislike.

If so - well, I don't know what to say. Always thought this was supposed to be fun.

Funny. No thats a list of movies that I own. I was just asking for people to look at it and see which ones they dislike.
I like 94% on that list. The others on that list I just have in case someone wants to see one of the 6% that I dislike. Actually I have quite a few that are not even opened, and I have not seen yet. But that is about only 1 or 2%.
I have rated many movies over at IMDB, Netflix, etc.. and the last amount I rated at one site was about 3,500 movies.

EDIT::

Some people hate block busters to hate them.

Yeah I totally agree. I see it quite often.

 

[pelvis70]

I hated pulp fiction and walked out half way through.
also hated napolean dynamite

 

[ExtraCheese]

Napolean Dynamite grew on me. The movie I never really understood was Dr. Strangelove. Sure, I can see that it's SUPPOSED to be funny but one of the funniest ever?

 

[Gigabit]

I'll have to add Million Dollar Baby

What a piece of junk. (IMHO)

Everybody else seems to love it. Me and my wife think we wasted 2 hours of our life watching that movie.

 

[j_garcia]

I thought I already mentioned Million Dollar Baby? The performances were pretty good, but the movie wasn't all that interesting. Definitely not what I would call an Oscar caliber movie in my book.

 

[Sheep]

I thought I already mentioned Million Dollar Baby? The performances were pretty good, but the movie wasn't all that interesting. Definitely not what I would call an Oscar caliber movie in my book.

If it was called "Punching a million dollar baby" I would have seen it...

SheepStar

 

[Cygnus]

its no really the same (i dont know about its award status and wasnt really recommended it by anyone)

The day after tomorrow.

I really REALLY wanted to like this movie because it had a great plot, but it was very..not done very well.

 

[muncybob]

Just watched 40 Year Old Virgin

was really hoping to like this...maybe if I was 14 I would have.

 

[The Old Cowboy]

Movies that I like and dislike

The film "Master and Commander" is one of the best historical films ever produced by Hollywood. There are very few of the films that are produced today that have any redeeming value. One of the worest is the new film "Broke Back Mountain." When I was younger I was fairly tolorate of other people, but as the "politically correct" phase hit us. I have changed. There are a few well made westerns such as "Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River, the John Ford movies, etc. But, I do object to homosexuals flaunting their lifestyles in films, on television or in any other fashion. I feel that this is one film that should be boycotted.

 

[Sheep]

The film "Master and Commander" is one of the best historical films ever produced by Hollywood. There are very few of the films that are produced today that have any redeeming value. One of the worest is the new film "Broke Back Mountain." When I was younger I was fairly tolorate of other people, but as the "politically correct" phase hit us. I have changed. There are a few well made westerns such as "Monte Walsh, Last Stand at Saber River, the John Ford movies, etc. But, I do object to homosexuals flaunting their lifestyles in films, on television or in any other fashion. I feel that this is one film that should be boycotted.

Holly crap there is alot of homophobe's out there. Insecure much?

SheepStar

 

[The Old Cowboy]

Saving Private Ryan

I didn't care for this film. If for no other reason than, I am retired from the US Army - 40 years service. I never could understand the reasoning behind sending a squad in search of one man just to inform him he was releaved of his military obligations and could go home [this film was based on the military reasoning that all the brothers in a family could not serve during a war together or at the same time]. If I remember correctly the whole squad died during the film.

I enlisted in 1958, one of my brothers and his best friend whom I raised joined with him and came to Indochina, my youngest brother joined the Army during this period. Now all of us were in the service at the same time during the Vietnam War.

 

[mpompey]

There was one survivor besides Private Ryan, Pvt. Richard Reiben, played by Edwards Burns.

Here's something I found online:

The real "Ryan" was Sgt. Frederick (Fritz) Niland who, with some other members of the 101st, was inadvertently dropped too far inland. They eventually made their own way back to their unit at Carentan, where the Chaplain, Lt. Col. Father Francis Sampson, told Niland about the death of his three brothers, two at Normandy and one in the Far East. Under the US War Department's Sole Survivor Policy, brought about following the death of five Sullivan brothers serving on the same ship, Fr. Sampson arranged passage back to Britain and thereafter to his parents, Augusta and Michael Niland, in Tonawanda, New York. There was no behind-the-lines rescue mission, his mother was not a widow, nor is she believed to have received all three telegrams together. Additionally, the brother believed killed in the Far East turned out to have been captured and later returned home. Fr. Francis Sampson wrote about Niland and the story of the 101st, in his 1958 book, Look Out Below! (ISBN 1877702005).

 

[The Chukker]

There was one survivor besides Private Ryan, Pvt. Richard Reiben, played by Edwards Burns.

Don't forget Corporal Uppum.

I can't say I saw any of the Matrix sequels in this thread, sorry if I missed it. The first one was terrific but holy toledo the sequels sucked @ss.

Add:
ANY "scary" movie released in the last 5 years except "The Grudge" (hey, I liked it -- I have a mark in my underwear to prove it) and "The Mothman Prophecies" [shudders].

 

[DNelms]

Kong was the biggest disapointment in years

I know this may not be popular with many on this forum but IMO King Kong was a big dissapointment.

I have been a Kong fan since I saw the first version with my dad on television 35 years ago. The last two attempts to update and improve upon this classic have been nothing but an excersize in demostrating how technology does not make a movie better if the story is just not there. This latest version of King Kong was technically a great film but as far as story and plot it was terrible. Far too long. The scenes with the natives and the spider pit were nothing more than a way of demostrating how trash TV shows like fear factor have changed our veiwing habbits. Just because the special effects crew can do something in a film does not mean that they should do it.

And has there been a movie out in the last few years with dinosaurs that did not have the heros running from Velociraptors?

 

[goodman]

All of the LOTR films (I didn't like the book, either). All of the Star Wars. Independence Day. Oceans 11 and 12. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Terminal, Million Dollar Baby also come to mind, as well as just about everything else I saw for the first time on DVD in 2005.

 

[j_garcia]

All of the LOTR films (I didn't like the book, either).

Book? There are 3 primary books that the movies are based on, and there are I believe, 13 others also written by Tolkien that are related to that story such as The Hobbit.

 

[sts9fan]

But, I do object to homosexuals flaunting their lifestyles in films, on television or in any other fashion. I feel that this is one film that should be boycotted.

have you seen the movie?? This is not a movie of flaunting homosexuals whatever that means. This is a love story no different then any other. Two people loving each other. Whats the beef?

P.S. I object to heterosexual flaunting