Critically acclaimed movies that didn’t live up to the hype for you?

I remember Scarface getting mixed reviews. Siskel didn't like it (04:00).

Shape of Water. I couldn’t get through it.

Licorice Pizza bored the shit out of me. I turned it off halfway through.

R1 It’s critically acclaimed today tho. Has a 4.1 rating on Letterboxd.

Inception. It was eye roll inducing.

And I am (generally) very easily amused.

Dune 2. I almost fell asleep in the theater. Boring as shit.

Scarface actually earned Brian De Palma a Razzie nomination for Worst Director. I don’t think it’s ever been really acclaimed, it just has an iconic status because of its memorable garishness.

It’s camp for straight guys.

I saw Romancing the Stone recently and thought it was shit. I don't know why it's such a well-known movie. It was disappointing because I love all the actors involved.

R5 I could not take Inception seriously either. When you would all pass out with headsets i totally checked out of the suspension of disbelief

they* not you

2001 A Space Odyssey

Usual Suspects. The non stop Kaiser Sose drove me NUTS

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Magnolia.

Scarface was reclaimed by hip hop culture in the 90s.

Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard. I watched it on my birthday, thinking it would be a treat for me to watch this great movie that so many people liked. Turns out that I can't count myself as one of those people.

I hear you, R16. I went to university in the 1970s and studied French, and necessarily French New Wave Cinema along with that, and I didn't get it then and still don't now, after some recent re-viewings on streaming. Not just Contempt, but any of it.

Blue Velvet.

The 400 Blows. I never got the hype, thought it was a good 'slice of life' movie, nothing more.

The War of the Roses

Once Upon a Time in America

Oppenheimer

Love the description of Scarface as "camp for straight guys"

It's true!

1917. Aside from the "one take" gimmick it was mostly a standard war film

The Dark Knight movies. I was bored.

Forrest Gump

Titanic aka Waiting for the Iceberg

Dress to Kill (1980)

(^.^) Dressed

12 Years a Slave

Million Dollar Baby

2001: A Space Odyssey

Network

Dr. Zhivago

Silkwood

Carnal Knowledge

The Sting

The Departed

'Vertigo'. It's always in the BFI top ten ever, but it never reaches that status for me. I'd choose to watch any of ten other Hitchcock films in preference.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Raging Bull

Leaving Las Vegas

LOTR

The Last Picture Show

What's Up Doc?

I thoroughly dislike Terms of Endearment

Forrest Gump

The Sting

The Artist

Life Is Beautiful

Children of Paradise

Dr. Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter

Top Gun Maverick. That was the best they could come up with after all these years.

Crash.

The safe choice for the Academy over Broke Back Mountain. Does anyone even remember that shitty Crash movie now?

I think "Lost in Translation" is the most boring movie I've ever sat through.

another day another negative nancy shit list on dl

STEEL MAGNOLIAS. What a POS movie this was.

THE IRON LADY.

BARRY LYNDON

[quote]Dr. Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter

Fake news. Zhivago only had a son.

[quote]The War of the Roses

that was NOT acclaimed

R13 Oh, man...I couldn't even finish it.

R41 I think it would've been better if the focus was ONLY on Tom Cruise's character. I was enjoying it UNTIL they brought in the "Save by the Bell" squad. Nice to look at but couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. Couldn't even finish it.

R42 Still stinging after that loss to BBM. I remember coming here during that time and there were PAGES of people bitching and moaning about Crash winning over BBM. I thought it was hilarious at the time because people here were losing their shit.

Badlands

Eyes Wide Shut

Braveheart

R49 Eyes Wide Shut was divisive—not unanimously praised and I don’t recall it winning any awards. Brave heart was a shmaltzy crowd pleasing big budget event like Dances With Wolves and Forest Gump. It was a big thing to make movies like that in the 90’s. Those movies are not anything great.

r50 why would you expect many dl posters to be able to apply the criteria?

LOTR. The most boring movies ever. And there's three of them. And each is like 5 hours long. All Nolan movies. Besides Memento

Wait OP fucking thinks Scarface was acclaimed when it was released?

Is this a parody post?

I have a sad list in mind, but none have been "critically acclaimed" or had "hype" to live up to.

R34 R35

I was so happy agreeing with everyone then I see the Sting and the Departed on the list :-(

#12, I re-watched Usual Suspects recently and it didn't hold-up. Just got bored and turned it off.

Oppenheimer. It's OK but it's not great. Nolan isn't a great director and he doesn't really have any surprising insights or unique perspectives on the man.

LA Confidential. It's good but I don't understand the Chinatown comparisons. Chinatown is a much deeper, complex and visually interesting movie.

LHOTP

The English Patient

Dawson's 100 Load Weekend

Amadeus. Chose the Director's Cut as I heard it's the best one. Returned to it no less than five times over the course of three months, but still couldn't bring myself to finish it. Interminably boring and I just couldn't get over the complete historical fiction of the central conflict that the movie is based on.

1917

Gone With the Wind. Long, drawn out soap opera.

40 years later, "Dallas" moved the whole shebang to a ranch in Texas and did it a lot better for a lot longer.

I can't imagine not enjoying Amadeus. How sad.

Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis

Most Spielberg movies are dreck.

The Fabelmans and Tar. Both boring.

What the fuck is LOTR?

LHOTP, I know. And that's not a movie.

2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain were both coma inducing.

The Towering Inferno

The Maltese Falcon. It bored me to tears. And I love a lot of film noirs. It's probably because I don't find Bogart a compelling presence. I know many do but I don't.

It's okay to have a piece of your soul missing, R72. No need to apologize. You can't help it.

Just like Brigid O'Shaughnessy!

R73, that's my other problem with the movie. Brigid is not a very convincing femme fatale in my opinion.

Dune 2. Boring, pretentious crap. I got through the first one with mild interest but the second one was unbearable. Question - in the future world of outer space where Dune seems to take place , why does everyone whisper everything they say? Or is that just the way that the director and actors signal to us that this is an IMPORTANT film and worthy of awards consideration?

Oppenheimer owns this thread.

R72

I really liked the remake of Maltese Falcon. Not so much the original.

Maltese Falcon is pretty talky and static for a noir, but I love Bogie and the supporting cast.

R77, I forgot that Bogart version is a remake.

"The Grapes of Wrath"

"The English Patient"

"Out of Africa"

"You Can't Take It with You"

Spielbergian films after the first Indiana Jones movie.

Lord of the Rings, R69.

Close Encounters of the Turd Kind. I hated this movie.

[quote] film noirs

Oh, dear!

films noir

R83, I posted that. And I am laughing too.

"The English Patient"

R80 = Elaine Benes.

"It's a Wonderful Life" I can't. And never could.

Capra at his "peak."

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

"The Sound of Music" Ugly as dog crap, inauthentic performances of inexplicable characters, except for Eleanor Parker and Richard Haydn, ghastly handling of the children, bad editing and so fucking self-congratulatory one sides perversely with Rolf.

"East of Eden"

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

Every film Julia Roberts made.

AND "Wuthering Heights"

The Godfather 1 & 2. Boring.

The English Patient (Elaine was right)

Terms of Endearment

Forrest Gump

The Sting

Breathless

[Quote] the War of the Roses

[Quote] that was NOT acclaimed

It currently has an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 80 MetaScore

Wall Street

R89 is RIGHT all the way through!

Ben-Hur (1959)

R64, "Dallas" didn't have Vivien Leigh and had nothing to do with the Civil War.

You could just as well have said "Bewitched" for as much of an analogy.

BLACK PANTHER. Not a fan of superhero movies. I see the need for something like this but I didn’t love it. I preferred GET OUT.

R96 I don't get the comparison. Totally different movies

BARBIE!

And, I have to agree with Openheimer.

Barbenheimer! - add my vote

Se7en is just torture porn with better direction

There's very little gore in Se7en. People are murdered in horrible waye but we only see glimpses of the aftermath. We don't even see the head in the box.

Kramer vs Kramer

Rain Man

A Woman Under the Influence

Patton

Apocalypse Now

Yeah, I didn't like Apocalypse Now, even at the time it came out. Way too long. Dennis Hopper is such a horrible actor.

Dances with Wolves

Everything, Everywhere All At Once. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

EEAAO needed to be 45mins shorter; it became so repetitive!

All the Godfathers!

All Scorsese movies. All of them!

Bergman's Cries and Whispers

Maestro. How can a film about music and a gay man (more or less) be this boring? Forgive me, I've said this before... how do you create a biopic about the man who arguably wrote the most important Broadway score of all time (not to mention all of the other achievements) and choose to focus the attention on his long-suffering wife?! (Answer: the family was involved with the project. Justice for Mom!) What a missed opportunity. Sorry, Bradley.

The only Ingmar Bergman movie I've liked is Persona. I tried watching 10 or so of his other movies and I disliked all of them.

Good Will Hunting. So boring, and entirely predictable. I felt as if I had seen it before, and it seemed to go on forever. And my God, Robin Williams (who I think was a comic genius) really revelled in being as miserable as possible in it.

R116, we probably do this far too often, but there are a lot of posters on this site who like to talk about movies, and even more who love to complain.

No, it's not the most original or illuminating topic (we get it, you agree with Elaine Benes about The English Patient), but it's harmless venting.

So many but the most recent for me was Oppenheimer and Iron Claw. Just long and boring

A lot of these films you have to know the 'backstories' to really enjoy them. And only film fanatics really bother.

Avatar

Any romantic movie where the leads fall madly in love after knowing each other for 5 minutes (Titanic, The Notebook).

Not sure if they’re considered “critically acclaimed” but I could never get into Harry Potter

Scarface is a trashy good time, with bad acting

[Quote] Wait OP fucking thinks Scarface was acclaimed when it was released?

[Quote] Is this a parody post?

R53 It was acclaimed by Roger Ebert who gave it 4 stars (Highest rating), Newsweek, Time, Variety and the NY Times. It currently has 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

'SCARFACE,' Brian De Palma's update of the 1932 classic directed by Howard Hawks and written by Ben Hecht, is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's 'Godfather.' In almost every way, though, the two films are memorably different.-Vincent Canby

R23 wins the thread!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

What a snooze fest.

On Golden Pond. Boring and overly sentimental. I can't stand all that crying.

R109 = Angela Bassett

Citizen Kane

I understand not enjoying Citizen Kane--Welles made several films that are more entertaining--but to claim it doesn't live up to the hype is ridiculous. Movies before and after Kane are just in a different ballgame. Citizen Kane showed what the talkies--and film, in general--were capable of.

R86 I LOOOOVE The Sound of Music, but you aren’t alone. A lot of people hate that film with a passion.

Brazil

2001: a Space Oddysey

Pulp Fiction

Hated it. Wanted to walk out but two of the four of us wanted to stay.

R133, I just don't like Terry Gilliam movies. His work doesn't do anything for me. But I get why people love him.

Can’t stand Terry Gilliam.

[quote]Dawson's 100 Load Weekend

Sequels are never as good as the original.