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auximenies said:

It's hard not to turn this into a "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" thread...

 

canofhumdingers said:

Bladerunner

Wah? Aaaah! Eeeerr! Errr! Grrrrgle! Choke! Cough! Grrrrrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Gasp! Gaaaassp! Choke! Grrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Grrgle! Gasp! Small choke! Gasp! Thud...

Narration: In an attempt to avoid uttering the words "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" C3PX seems to have bitten his tongue so hard that he choked to death on his own blood.

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Love "2001". (wow Barbar Jinkx, was that Douglas Rain or a really good impersonator?)

Can't stand Tarantino. Just can't understand his appeal.

Hated, hated, hated "It's a wonderful life". Heard so much about it before seeing it, finally watched it, and mentally puked. I think it's overrated (Imdb says 8.7/10), and the story and the characters... please. So, if George had never been born, life wouldn't have been that different for everybody else, and Mary (oh gosh!) would have never gotten married and took the job as a bespectacled librarian!!! What a scandal !!

Bullshit, George, you're not a "lucky" guy, you're an idiot. All of the times you could've gone and chose to travel and lived your life and your dreams outside that stupid little town, you always chose to stay and "help" others, or should I say let them live off of you? I'm sorry, but you're an idiot, George Bailey, you're not an altruist, you're a doormat!

There's not even a payoff for the Mr. Potter character. When I saw it, I was like "WTF movie, aren't you even gonna give me the pleasure to see the "evil" Mr. Potter get punishment?"

Fuck you, fuck you very much, "It's a wonderful life".

 

most of these comments on Imdb say it better than me

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/usercomments?filter=hate

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Leonardo said:

Hated, hated, hated "It's a wonderful life". Heard so much about it before seeing it, finally watched it, and mentally puked. I think it's overrated (Imdb says 8.7/10), and the story and the characters... please. So, if George had never been born, life wouldn't have been that different for everybody else, and Mary (oh gosh!) would have never gotten married and took the job as a bespectacled librarian!!! What a scandal !!

Bullshit, George, you're not a "lucky" guy, you're an idiot. All of the times you could've gone and chose to travel and lived your life and your dreams outside that stupid little town, you always chose to stay and "help" others, or should I say let them live off of you? I'm sorry, but you're an idiot, George Bailey, you're not an altruist, you're a doormat!

There's not even a payoff for the Mr. Potter character. When I saw it, I was like "WTF movie, aren't you even gonna give me the pleasure to see the "evil" Mr. Potter get punishment?"

Fuck you, fuck you very much, "It's a wonderful life".

That was awesome, and I like the movie!

This is really hard to not make this a "You didn't like that movie?!" thread or in Axia's case "Raging Bull didn't make you want to die?!"

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C3PX said:

auximenies said:

It's hard not to turn this into a "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" thread...

 

canofhumdingers said:

Bladerunner

Wah? Aaaah! Eeeerr! Errr! Grrrrgle! Choke! Cough! Grrrrrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Gasp! Gaaaassp! Choke! Grrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Grrgle! Gasp! Small choke! Gasp! Thud...

Narration: In an attempt to avoid uttering the words "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" C3PX seems to have bitten his tongue so hard that he choked to death on his own blood.

 I knew that one would give some the same reaction seeing Lawrence of Arabia in this thread gave me...  But yeah.  I really wanted to like it.  Heard lots of good things.  But just couldn't get into it.

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I don't know if it qualifies as "great" or not, but I'd have to go with The Goonies. Boy, that movie pisses me off.

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Bladerunner wasn't as awesome as I hoped, but I can't say that I "hated" it.

And Lawrence of Arabia was just long, nothing against the movie itself.

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Akwat Kbrana said:

I don't know if it qualifies as "great" or not, but I'd have to go with The Goonies. Boy, that movie pisses me off.

 Listen. You can hate "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane" or "Starship Troopers" or anything you want. You can even call my wife ugly and my kid stupid. These are all matters of opinion.

But NO ONE gets to say anything bad about the Goonies!!!! No one!!!!!!!!!

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doubleofive said:

Bladerunner wasn't as awesome as I hoped, but I can't say that I "hated" it.

I agree with this.  I thought it was meh.

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this may come as a shock to people.   I've never watched Blade Runner.   At some point I intend to though 

Leonardo said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/usercomments?filter=hate

my God,  I just don't know what to say to those comments.   I had no idea Wonderful Life was hated so much.

doubleofive said:

Another vote for 2001.  Heck, lets go through AFI's top 25 movies that I watched with some friends:

24.     Raging Bull
23.     The Maltese Falcon
22.     2001: A Space Odyssey
8.     On the Waterfront
5.     Lawrence of Arabia
2.     Casablanca
1.     Citizen Kane

Raging Bull and On the Waterfront, seriously, two boxing movies?  I'll admit that Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Lawrence, and Kane are "classics", but it doesn't help them from being boring. 

What??   someone doesn't like Casablanca!!!????!!!!  *Warbler keels over and dies from shock*  

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Yeah, Blade Runner was rather meh to me. I was extremely bored with Saving Private Ryan after the truly outstanding Normandy sequence in the beginning. Second-hand exposure to Citizen Kane ruined it for me.

More as I think of them.

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I can't think of any right now, but I am curious as to why The Goonies elicits hate from you.  I mean, I can certainly understand that it's not some immune from criticism juggernaut, it's just fun adventure fluff, but what makes you get pissed off, Akwat?

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TV's Frink said:

Easy Rider.

Maybe not hate, but again, meh.

 I'll go with pure unadulterated hate for every single inch of film used for that piece of boring crap, except the brief ten minutes that had both Jack Nicolson and a plot at the same time.

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Blade Runner gets better the more you watch it.  I thought it was "meh" when I first saw it - now it's my favorite film of all time.

Lawrence of Arabia simply cannot be appreciated on a TV screen.  You need to see it in a movie theater, with the largest screen possible, preferably in 70mm (which is how it was shot).  It is a completely different experience, in such a good way.

2001 is, indeed, long and boring.  That movie should only have been about an hour and forty minutes, not two hours twenty.  I like 2010 (yes, with Roy Scheider) much, MUCH better than 2001.  Having said that, 2001 is an absolutely perfect film if you watch it while on LSD.

Easy Rider isn't terrible, but it is grossly overrated.

It's a Wonderful Life - oh dear God how much I hate this movie.  I'm so glad I'm not alone in that.

Saving Private Ryan - the first 45 minutes or so are good, the rest is pretty terrible.  Band of Brothers is a far better WWII-related film, despite the fact that it's a television miniseries and not a film at all.

Zoolander is just terrible.

Now for my own additions ... hmm ... firstly, Vertigo.  I don't hate it, I just don't get why it's supposedly such a "masterpiece."

Apocalypse Now Redux.  Completely ruins the power of the theatrical cut, yet I know people who've only seen the Redux version.

A Clockwork Orange.  I absolutely love the book.  The film?  It made me want to hunt down and destroy every copy of it, anywhere.

Full Metal Jacket.  Just not good after the boot camp part.

Braveheart.  Piece of shit film.

Slumdog Millionaire.  See Braveheart.

That's all I've got right now.

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Stripes...sort of.  The Full Metal Jacket comment reminded me of this one.  Stripes is great until they get out of basic training, then it becomes a completely different (and boring) movie.

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Capt. Frink, was Stripes ever considered a great movie? Not trying to be contentious, just curious. Not that threads ever stray or anything. :D

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Some people think Salo is a great film, I have watched and taken positive things away from some dark, disturbing movies in my time but I just found the film pointlessly sick, it didn't tell me anything new about the vileness humans can sink to and I got the feeling that almost everyone involved were just as awful as the characters in the film.

Seven has a similar (though obviously milder) effect on me.

It was essentially a Doctor Phibes film (without the wit or style) dressed up as something arty.

I could just imagine the sort of brain storming session that went into the script writing process.

Having a woman killed by a man wearing a razor sharp strap-on...classy if you keep quoting Milton.

Wolf Creek is also seen as a really good movie (not great in a 2001 sense but a cut above the average slasher flick).

While the cinematography is beautiful and some of the acting talent was top drawer I just found the characters dumb and the film was structured in such a way that I just felt angry and depressed after watching it.

Angry at the writer and the characters for doing all the dumb stuff that wouldn't be out of place in a Jason flick, angry at the director for framing the film like something actually new or daring was going to happen and depressed because it had the sort of boring realism that reminds me of how sick and soul crushing most news reports can be.

Compared to something like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre which is a grueling experience but also cathartic and broadly tragic and comedic it just doesn't measure up.

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canofhumdingers said:

C3PX said:

auximenies said:

It's hard not to turn this into a "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" thread...

 

canofhumdingers said:

Bladerunner

Wah? Aaaah! Eeeerr! Errr! Grrrrgle! Choke! Cough! Grrrrrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Gasp! Gaaaassp! Choke! Grrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Grrgle! Gasp! Small choke! Gasp! Thud...

Narration: In an attempt to avoid uttering the words "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" C3PX seems to have bitten his tongue so hard that he choked to death on his own blood.

 I knew that one would give some the same reaction seeing Lawrence of Arabia in this thread gave me...  But yeah.  I really wanted to like it.  Heard lots of good things.  But just couldn't get into it.

 

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"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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I did not like Blade Runner at all.

I actually contemplated suicide while watching Zoolander.

I couldn't hardly understand some of the people in Braveheart.

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click! *the lights go out*  click!  *the lights come back on and Leonardo and ChainsawAsh suddenly find themselves surrounded angry townspeople from Bedford Falls armed with bats, billy clubs, led pipes, etc.   One them says "you shouldn't go around badmouthing Wonderful Life, it can hazardous to your life." the townspeople proceed to beat Leonardo and ChainsawAsh almost to death. After the beating, one of them says "I hope you two have learned your lesson,  don't make have to come back and teach you another one. "*  click! *the lights go out again*  click!  *Warbler turns lights back on and sees Leonardo and ChainsawAsh bleeding, bruises all over their bodies with broken bones*   wow!  what happen to you two?  

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Damn!  That place was better off as Pottersville!

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:

Bladerunner wasn't as awesome as I hoped, but I can't say that I "hated" it.

I agree with this.  I thought it was meh.

Honestly, I didn't like it at all the first time I watched it. For some reason I got the urge to watch it again a year or two later, and found it to be a really enjoyable experience in a way that most movies are not, but yet, I still was not sure I really liked it. Now when I watch it, it is similar to the experience of reading a poem that you have fallen in love with or enjoying a really good glass of wine. 

I have yet to meet anyone that I know of who really liked that movie upon their first viewing. Not saying everyone would absolutely love it after multiple viewings, but that it is perhaps more of an aquired taste. As it stands now, if I was told I had to throw all my DVDs away and was allowed to keep only one for the rest of my life, it would without a doubt be Blade Runner. After my first viewing of the film I could never have imagined hearing myself say that.

 

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HAHA! I read this post after I made the above post. So I am not the only one who has experienced this exact same thing.

ChainsawAsh said:

Blade Runner gets better the more you watch it.  I thought it was "meh" when I first saw it - now it's my favorite film of all time.

 

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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ChainsawAsh said:

A Clockwork Orange.  I absolutely love the book.  The film?  It made me want to hunt down and destroy every copy of it, anywhere.

Full Metal Jacket.  Just not good after the boot camp part.

 

A Clockwork Orange is another movie I needed multiple viewings of to truly appreciate. I think it is because it is just so different, that during the first viewing your mind is overwhelmed and gets hung up on some things. During later viewings, knowing what to expect, you can process things better. But yeah, the book is better.

Full Metal Jacket. Kind of funny, I don't care a whole lot for the bootcamp bits at all. To me that part just feels like an incredibly long prologue, yet that is usually the only part of the film people ever remember about it. I think the film gets a lot better after that point. The final sequence with the sniper is one of my favorite things ever put to film.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Ice Age

Shrek

Return of the King

Top Gun

Rocky IV

Chariots of Fire

Batman

Batman Returns

Back to the Future (All of them)

Forest Gump

FAME!

Flash Dance

Home Alone

Requiem for a Dream

Gone with the Wind

The Champ (70's version)

The Truman Show

 

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Y'all have convinced me. I'm going to give Blade Runner another pass or two.

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