Great movies you hate. — Page 13

I don’t really like Airplane that much.

I generally like film realism and the French New Wave, but I thought Godard’s Breathless was awful. I got absolutely nothing out of it.

CloakedDragon97 said:

I don’t really like Airplane that much.

Same. However, I rather expect old comedies to be rather lackluster as a rule, since comedy as a genre fares poorly with distance in either time or place. The reason I have come up with is that since jokes are generally more funny the more situational and specific they are, the less impact they have over time as the nuance of the situations has gradually been lost.

fmalover said:

Actually 12 Angry Men is very questionable, as it has one juror manipulating the other eleven jurors into ruling in favour of the defendant.

Manipulating is different from persuading.

I found Napoleon Dynamite very underwhelming when I watched it.

CloakedDragon97 said:

I don’t really like Airplane that much.

Though in all seriousness, I respect your opinion. No art is universally loved.

Anyway, I didn’t really like The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis. The Eddie Murphy one was much better IMHO.

JadedSkywalker said:

There should be a thread for great films that make no sense. Because i don’t hate them but find them confusing. Like No Country for Old Men. I watched it again, and it is fantastic in editing, acting, directing and execution, but i don’t get it thematically i’m lost.

I thought the ending of the film explained the theme pretty well. Specifically with Juror #3, and his entire motive for voting guilty.

Oh, man, there’s so many. Too bad I’ve forgotten most of them…

• Forrest Gump
• Caddyshack
• Harry Potter movies (okay, I haven’t seen one but all the clips I’ve seen are just nothing I’d be interested in)
• Iron Man (one of the two Marvel movies I’ve seen and this is supposed to be a good one) --> all Marvel movies
• pretty much most “great” movies made in the 2000s
• oh yeah, ALL Tarantino movies
• and ALL Pixar movies
• and ALL Kubrick movies

These I don’t hate but I don’t get why they are considered great (if they are). I think they’re mediocre at best

• Gremlins films
• Vacation films
• Goonies

I don’t hate it (more like indifferent), but I didn’t really like Monty Python and the Holy Grail all that much. I found it just OK. I honestly think the opening credits are literally the best part of the movie. I did have some scattered laughs throughout the movie after that, but no belly laughs (apart from the opening credits).

Spuffure said:

I don’t hate it (more like indifferent), but I didn’t really like Monty Python and the Holy Grail all that much. I found it just OK. I honestly think the opening credits are literally the best part of the movie. I did have some scattered laughs throughout the movie after that, but no belly laughs (apart from the opening credits).

Hate to say it, but I’m also one of the few who agree with you. Although I think the movie peaked with the infamous black knight scene. After that, it all went downhill for me, and the jokes became more… Ehh.

Eyepainter said:

Spuffure said:

I don’t hate it (more like indifferent), but I didn’t really like Monty Python and the Holy Grail all that much. I found it just OK. I honestly think the opening credits are literally the best part of the movie. I did have some scattered laughs throughout the movie after that, but no belly laughs (apart from the opening credits).

Hate to say it, but I’m also one of the few who agree with you. Although I think the movie peaked with the infamous black knight scene. After that, it all went downhill for me, and the jokes became more… Ehh.

Thank you! I felt so alone. In terms of humour I much prefer Airplane. I also didn’t expect the Black Knight scene to be so early in the movie!

I forgot to add that near the end of the movie I was thinking “when will this be over?”

Imagine if Leslie Nielsen or (better yet) Stephen Stucker was King Arthur!

Eyes Wide Shut. Feature-length troll post, that’s what it is.

Superweapon VII said:

Eyes Wide Shut. Feature-length troll post, that’s what it is.

Hopefully, I’m not endorsing myself too hard, but I’m currently working on my own edit of EWS, and I’ve cut out roughly 36 minutes and brought it down to a two-hour long running time. Still in the works, and I have to start work on the audio commentary once I’ve prepped my edit of Episode I for fanedit.org for submission, but I figured I might let you know in case you’re interested.

Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. I was bored stiff and found it simply confusing and badly written. Maybe I’ll rewatch it soon so see if I just didn’t get it the first time.

Top Gun is heavily overrated. I found the movie incredibly boring except for mild excitement at the very beginning and end. The color grade looks like you gave 10 year old me the color page on Davinci Resolve and I went nuts on the gradient power windows. Tom Cruise is as stiff as always, the only likable character died halfway through, and the music is the most repetitive soundtrack I’ve ever heard. The movie would have been much better as a TV movie.

All in all, I just didn’t get much out of it.

Highlander. I couldn’t stand it.

Moulin Rouge. Cliche story with obnoxious cinematography and editing.

Midsommar. The pacing is mind-numbingly slow, the characters are about as deep as cardboard cutouts, and I only remember a couple even mildly scary scenes in this so-called “horror” movie. It feels like the director was trying to chase the success of movies like Get Out and The VVitch, without understanding why people liked those movies in the first place.

I agree. I think that Hereditary is a much better movie.