"Great" Movies You Hate

[Tank]

All things Woody Allen

 

i liked the purple rose of cairo. haven't seen annie hall. anything else of his i've tried to watch was a waste of time.

[Tank]

I like The Music Man and Sound of Music.

 

and you work at INO. no wonder i like you so much (in the most non-gay way possible that one dude can say that to another).

[Tank]

titanic id be ok with if it was just considered a lame chick movie. How it got so much praise baffles me. It was beyond

Avatar was the cartoon version of dances with wolves

 

i kept hearing david spade's SNL movie reviews where he'd say something like "I liked Avatar better the first time I saw it, when it was called Dances With Wolves." and ocho, that's a spot on analogy, one i thought of as well.

 

anyone know any details about avatar 2 yet?

[IEAngelsfan]

I like The Music Man and Sound of Music.

Lets not forget the best movie musical of all time, Singin in the Rain.

[mrwicked]

The best musicals pretty much always make for terrible movies.  

 

The recent film versions of Phantom and Les Mis were unwatchable.  And Mama Mia....barf. And Grease is banned from ever being sung in my classroom. Anything from that stupid thing makes my skin crawl. 

 

I do like a musical that nobody's ever heard of called 1776. I didn't think a musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence would work, but it really kinda did, IMO. 

 

i thought evita was pretty entertaining.

i still get some of the songs stuck in my head from time to time.

"on this niiiiiiiiiight of a thousand stars.... let me take you to heaven's door"

[mulwin444]

i liked the purple rose of cairo. haven't seen annie hall. anything else of his i've tried to watch was a waste of time.

I liked the earlier comedic stuff.  

"Take the Money and Run", "Bananas" and "Sleeper" were all solid but "Love and Death" was probably my favorite by him.  "Annie Hall" was obviously the peak for that era and then "Manhattan" was beginning of the decline of consistency.  For every "Zelig", "Hannah and Her Sisters" or Radio Days" there was "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy", "Stardust Memories" and "September".  The guy comes out with a new movie practically every year with some real hits (Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Midnight in Paris) but is an aquired taste for most.

[Ray McKigney]

Bullets Over Broadway is one of Woody Allen's best, in my opinion. I like most of his stuff. Whatever Works with Larry David is one of his funnier recent ones. Ever since Annie Hall, it seems like the ones that get the best reviews have a more serious tone than his straight out comedies. For instance, Blue Jasmine got really favorable reviews and Cate Blanchett won a Best Actress Oscar for it, but to me, it isn't one of his more enjoyable movies. She's terrific in it, but her character is essentially a female, non-funny version of the classic neurotic Woody Allen male lead character. To my mind, she just came across as extremely annoying. I'm obviously in the minority as most people I know who have watched it think it's really good.

[Chuck]

What i gather from this thread is that most of us would hate each other in person if there was no baseball

 

Wow, yeah, some really good movies that are getting shit on. Oh well, we can't all have good taste!

 

 

Apocalypse Now is one of my all-time favorites. 

 

The only movies that got "Great" reviews or considered great by some that I hate are:

 

Gravity (Zzzzzz)

Mad Max: Fury Road 

Birdman

There Will Be Blood

Fight Club

Inception

The Prestige

All of the Transformers movies

Interstellar (the ending ruined it for me)

Amadeus 

The Deer Hunter

The Grand Budapest Hotel

[Guest]

What i gather from this thread is that most of us would hate each other in person if there was no baseball

Lol I'm already starting to hate some people here because of these movie threads. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Lot of hate for there will be blood, but i liked that one. Its weird, and i could see people thinking its boring, and "what was the point"...

I guess it did suck. But i still liked it.

[Guest]

There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece. It's slow, but I enjoy a movie with a slow-pace.

[Ray McKigney]

Ever since There Will Be Blood, I don't think Paul Dano has been in one movie where he doesn't get the crap knocked out of him.

[Brandon]

All Wes Anderson movies. Ironically, as much as I dislike them, I actually found Grand Budapest Hotel tolerable.

[Stradling]

Wow, yeah, some really good movies that are getting shit on. Oh well, we can't all have good taste!

Apocalypse Now is one of my all-time favorites.

The only movies that got "Great" reviews or considered great by some that I hate are:

Gravity (Zzzzzz)

Mad Max: Fury Road

Birdman

There Will Be Blood

Fight Club

Inception

The Prestige

All of the Transformers movies

Interstellar (the ending ruined it for me)

Amadeus

The Deer Hunter

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Deer Hunter? Chuck you suck at life.

[Stradling]

All Wes Anderson movies. Ironically, as much as I dislike them, I actually found Grand Budapest Hotel tolerable.

I really like the Royal Tannebaums (spelling?).

[Brandon]

I have it still in the wrapper. Watched it once and somewhat liked it, not enough to open the package though. I don't hate it.

[Stradling]

I have it still in the wrapper. Watched it once and somewhat liked it, not enough to open the package though. I don't hate it.

These days that is almost a ringing endorsement. This forum and I am guessing most forums everyone either loves or hates things, very few people in the middle.

[nate]

I really like the Royal Tannebaums (spelling?).

 

 

My wife likes that movie.  I can't stand it.  I don't mind The Life Aquatic.  Not really a fan of anything Wes Anderson does though.

[Chuck]

The Deer Hunter? Chuck you suck at life.

I watched it twice and fell asleep both times. Maybe I'll give it shot. That was 15-20 years ago the last time I tried watching it.

[Tank]

Bullets Over Broadway is one of Woody Allen's best, in my opinion. I like most of his stuff. Whatever Works with Larry David is one of his funnier recent ones. Ever since Annie Hall, it seems like the ones that get the best reviews have a more serious tone than his straight out comedies. For instance, Blue Jasmine got really favorable reviews and Cate Blanchett won a Best Actress Oscar for it, but to me, it isn't one of his more enjoyable movies. She's terrific in it, but her character is essentially a female, non-funny version of the classic neurotic Woody Allen male lead character. To my mind, she just came across as extremely annoying. I'm obviously in the minority as most people I know who have watched it think it's really good.

 

a raiders fan that likes woody allen . . . who even knew that was possible.

[Tank]

I watched it twice and fell asleep both times. Maybe I'll give it shot. That was 15-20 years ago the last time I tried watching it.

 

well, you need to do the same with amadeus, too.

[notherhalo]

all quentin tarintino movies and fight club, and people who like fight club a lot

[red321]

The thing about Gravity, yes the story was predictable and drab. I so wanted her to get swallowed by a shark at the very end after all that.

But the one cool thing about it was the first 20 minutes was all one shot, no cuts. Visually it was impressive.

After that...well, I guess it was still visually well

Done at times.

[Tank]

Gravity was as stunning visually as any movie I can remember. I may not have liked parts of the story, but my eyes were never bored.

[Lou]

Pulp Fiction

The Big Lebowski

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Anything sci-fi