Movies everyone seems to love except you

Titanic (1997)

Terms of Endearment

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

"Pretty Woman"

Avatar (2009)

Blazing Saddles

All of them

Any superhero movie - I'm not watching that crap

Braveheart

The Matrix

Die Hard- I finally decided to watch it after so many years and people say it's the best action movie ever!!! I had to turn it off after ten minutes because of Bruce Willis' stupid smirk and the datedness of every fucking single element.

Also could not stomach Terms of Endearment.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz.

Manhattan by Woody Allen

ALL of the Star Wars Movies since 1999.

Everything Star Wars. Once was enough.

Pulp Fiction

I do love The Wizard of Oz and Manhattan, though. Unreservedly.

When Harry Met Sally — Annie Hall ripoff

R19- I LOVE Manhattan too but I'm not too fond of the Bronx or Staten Island

The Way We Were, Caddyshack, West Side Story, Working Girl, Atonement, Stokers Dracula, Shakespeare in Love, Almost everything done by Bogdanovich (his pacing kills me). 2001 Space Odyssey, Far and Away, Legends of the Fall,

I could go on, but I'm omitting all of the B crap that didn't aspire to being anything more. This was just off the top of my head, and I LOVE cinema, just not a fan of everything.

No Country For Old Men. Loses the thread about 3/4 of the way through. Hated it.

It’s A Wonderful Life.

Sleepless in Seattle.

When Harry Met Sally.

Wizard of Oz.

Cabaret. Dear God Cabaret. And I love the obc. Just not the movie. Two hours of Vincente Minnelli in drag just no.

On Golden Pond, and anything with Katharine Hepburn.

Steel Magnolias (1989)

Just NO

And Dench doing Don't Tell Mama on youtube is wonderful. Oh to have seen it with Haworth and Dench on stage.

"Gone With The Wind"... God, that movie is a cringe-fest 😬

Black Narcissus. Yes the art direction is fabulous but the horny mean nun driven to madness by the altitude and a shirtless man is laughable.

Forrest Fucking Gump

Powell and Pressburger are about art direction. The plots are usually incredibly silly and the acting atrocious. The finale in the red shoes has the most amateurish and dreadful performance ever in a non-student movie. That guy stinks to outer space. What's his name ? the queen with a german accent ?

“Fart In The Wind”

“Forest Twat”

Popular opinion changes over time.

A film like FORREST GUMP was beloved in its time (even by a few film critics), but I cannot imagine a wide audience viewing it today with anywhere near the same affection and regard. Case in point, it was shown a couple of years ago on a college campus nearby where students hooted and hissed throughout the entire film. They just hated it.

Time is not kind to sentimental faves like GUMP.

PS: I neglected to mention the obvious about GUMP: it was Best Picture of 1995 and won a number of other awards.

Go figure.

Back to the Future. I don't dislike it but I don't get the continuing adulation.

Love, Actually. Hate, actually. I find Emma Thompson affecting, but almost every other storyline is ridiculous. It's interesting to see how crazy sentimental the British can get about Christmas. And then when I hear that people have seen it 20-25 times!

Also, just about anything made after 2000. I have loved quite a few movies sine then but they are almost all non-Hollywood films.

Yes that final scene of The Red Shoes is terrible and very silly. Thing is I Know Where I'm Going is one of my favorite films.

I have never see The Sound of Music or the Back to the Future movies or any of the Marvel franchise or the Fast and Furious franchises. I did see the first Superman and Batman movies because they were a novelty then.

R24, did you mean Haworth OR Dench? Or am mistaken about something? I'd like to see Jill Haworth as Sally, too.

What movie had the scene where that guys flushed parrot came back up and bit that black woman’s ass while she was trying to shit?

Add me to those who cannot stand Forrest Gump...maudlin drivel that promotes stupidity and unquestioning patriotism over intelligence, critical analysis, and questioning authority

Yeah I knew I should have been clearer. I would have liked to have seen both the original Broadway and West End Productions of Cabaret. To have seen both women in the role.

I loathe Forrest Gump too. LOATHE.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

E.T.

[quote]Add me to those who cannot stand Forrest Gump

There were PLENTY of people who hated Forest Gump when it came out.

Cool Hand Luke

Kramer vs Kramer

Love Story

Midnight Cowboy

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tedious

The Sting Best picture winner

Gawd, I agree, "The Princess Bride" is of such small virtues, but everyone except us is so enamored of it! It is "kind of fun", in my opinion, but nothing more.

Same goes for "Stand By Me" which really baffles me. Why does everyone go nuts over it? I finally saw the incredibly annoying "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". I do not understand its popularity at all.

The king of shitty movies everyone adores is "Pretty Woman"! Gag. What a nice message for girls!

Anything with Dustin Hoffman in it excepting Tootsie and Midnight Cowboy

Forrest Lump

Butch and the Kid

Most of Streisand's films

A Star Is Born. Any version.

Titanic also

It's been ages, but I also remember being underwhelmed by "Black Narcissus", "A Matter of Life and Death" and "The Red Shoes", especially since they had such stellar reputations. I agree with the other poster that "I Know Where I'm Going!" was great, though.

Apocalypse Now. Super boring.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Woody Allen films.

Fight Club and The Big Lebowski. My brother showed both of them to me. Must be a straight guy thing. I just didn’t get it.

All the Star Wars and Star Trek movies. ET, Avatar, and every comic book movie.

Home Alone (1990)

Coming Home (1978)

A SAPPY movie

Jane Fonda rejected the part of Eric in An Unmarried Woman(1977) saying it was mundane or something but ends up instead in the lame Coming Home instead.

As it turns out An Unmarried Woman is a far better movie- especially amongst us dataloungers.

Jane WHO?

Erica not Eric

Love Actually Terrible movie!

The Royal Tenenbaums. I never thought a movie starring Gene Hackman could be irredeemable and unwatchable. He's one of my favorite actors of all time. But this was dreck. Even Hackman was unwatchable in it.

Tootsie. I just didn’t get the hype (and still don’t).

Doctor Zhivago (1965) Overly long and overrated.

Pulp Fiction

Moulin Rogue. Blegh.

The Notebook.

GREASE - a piece of dreck. THE SHINING - two of the worst screen performances ever committed to film. All of the Star War films and the Batmans and the Spidermans and all of that crap.

R67- The ONLY version of Batman I ever liked was the tv show from the 1960's.

I tried to watch Casablanca and couldn't keep watching.

“Reservoir Dogs”. I own it, but can’t sit through it.

R35- I prefer Carvel 🍦

over Marvel

The Godfather movies are boring.

Fight Club.

Yeah, the two Tim Burton Batman movies are incredibly DULL.

There's this atmosphere of self-reverence where something interesting to the viewers should be!

E.T. is schmaltz.

Avatar, it's like a Lisa Frank trapper keeper come to life

Top Gun (both of them)

Lethal Weapon (all of them)

Shakespeare in Love

Rain Man

Dances with Wolves

I didn't see it but Top Gun: Maverick looked so stupid. People wanted to see a 60-year-old Tom Cruise pretend to be cool?

CASABLANCA: talky, static, dull. And the two leads, while talented, really don't deliver that much chemistry together, IMHO.

Boogie Nights

Soapdish 9 to 5 Tootsie What Women Want Pretty Woman The Way We Were

Brokeback Mountain. Do we have to be murdered every single time...for the sake of art?

Any Star Wars movie

Murder on the Orient Express

It's A Wonderful Life

I've tried, but can't even get past the first fifteen minutes.

And that girly voice on Jimmy Stewart, I think hear smoking meth.

I literally could not be friends with someone who hates "Princess Bride".

Black Panther 2

The Ring

Scream

The Conjuring

Powertool

Almost Famous bored me to tears. It felt so sanitized, like a Disney film about that naughty rock & roll lifestyle. Most Wes Anderson films, because they feel too deliberately pretentious & twee.

Another view for It's a Wonderful Life

Where the Boys Are

The fucking Scream and Halloween movies and all Star Wars. Especially though, that Human Centipede movie. I also cannot stand John Wayne movies.

R82- Personally I prefer BAREBACK Mountain

I think by now Love Actually is pretty reviled by a lot of people, and not just on DL. A large number of people who’ve seen it hate it. Love it or hate it movie.

The English Patient

Cannot stand romcoms.

Muriel's Wedding

The Wizard of Oz

🤢It’s A Wonderful Life 🤮

Casablanca

Mulholland Drive

The Big Lebowski

Pulp fiction

La La Land. I wanted a terrorist attack to wipe out the cast and whole city.

Ghostbusters. Completely unfunny douchery.

The entire filmography of Robin Williams.

Of course, of course, anything to do with heinous Adam Sandler

That witch movie with Bette and SJP

Deep Throat

Gone with the Wind - romanticizes slavery

Showgirls - Before its release, I went to a "friends and family" screening in Westwood, where it was booed by the fucking film's friends and family.

The Addams Family (1991)

I guess I'm too used to the TV show. But it felt to me like this movie made them too dark and sucked all the fun out of it.

Dunkirk

The Dark Knight

The Bogart Maltese Falcon. (The earlier Ricardo Cortez one is better.)

I agree with you, OP. I didn't hate it but it didn't do much for me and I never felt the need to watch it after the first time.

My choice is Jerry Maguire. Annoying and ridiculous romance (?)! Must be a straight person thing...

I never knew of Ricardo Cortez until I saw a showing of Frank Capra's The Younger Generation. He was cute and a good actor.

Million Dollar Baby

Unforgiven

Atlantic City.

Any kind of Western, any era. So boring to me!

Top Gun.

The Shawshank Redemption. People seem to love it but when I got around to watching it I wondered what all the fuss was about.

Lawrence of Arabia. Waaaay too long and really? British Empire building again? White saviour? Please no.

"The Big Lebowski": couldn't go any further than the first 15 minutes, didn't understand the appeal at all. "Titanic": didn't even try watching it. I can feel I would hate it! I just know Di Caprio dies at the end and I'm so glad about it.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I avoided watching it my entire life until this past Thanksgiving. I found it insufferable.

Once Upon a Time in America (what a piece of shit)

The Innocents (a bore)

A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Christmas Story

The Night of the Hunter (50s corn)

Anything with Julia Roberts in it.

Also, I found the first 15 minutes of Up to be unmoving. This apparently qualifies me as a monster.

I'm not a western fan myself and people really get into TV westerns on the retro channels.

But William Wyler's The Westerner is a very good movie worth checking out. Unfortunately that shit of a human being Walter Brennan is terrific in it.

The only Julia Roberts movie I’ve ever seen is Pretty Woman, when I was like 10. I have absolutely zero time for her.

“Devil Wears Prada”. It’s triggering to watch because I had a very similar job.

My first job in NYC, I managed a NYC hairdresser’s business. He was doing hair for two Broadway shows, had a fledgling clothing line in Bloomingdale’s, had designers Gianni AND Calvin as clients, did half the beauty editors in the city, and many notable celebs including Jennifer Coolidge. He had a stable of sexy Brazilian stylists ant his shop including a porn star and a nagging drug habit.

The job was fun, I never paid for a drink or to get into a club, but it ended in tears.

The Dark Knight

Some Like It Hot. Hate it.

Pretty Woman is definitely on my list. Julia has to be the world’s most clean and wholesome street whore and Gere is the world’s most appealing John. Total Disneyfied fantasy stuff. Disturbing on some levels, but a beloved rom com to a lot of fraus.

The gender/sexual politics of PRETTY WOMAN have mostly cancelled it for younger generations, for the most part. I have yet to meet a Gen Z/younger Millennial woman who grew up knowing and loving this film.

Julia Roberts has her loyal following among the Boomers and Gen Xers. But she may as well be Sandra Dee to younger audiences.

Anything by John Hughes. It’s just a celebration of suburban meanness. They don’t stand the test of time and are cringeworthy to watch now.

Dr. Strangelove (totally unfunny and Peter Sellers is crap and overrated)

The Godfather (maybe if I was straight I'd like it).

The Big Lebowski (see above)

Under The Skin (boring as fuck)

Citizen Kane (All the time I was watching it I was thinking 'This is the best movie ever? Really??')

Anything by David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino or other tedious directors straight men have a bro-crush on.

Pink Flamingos

But only because it's always the token John Waters film in any all-time list. It's only there for the dog shit.

Polyester, Hairspray, Serial Mom, Desperate Living and *especially* Female Trouble are all more entertaining and much funnier.

The Monty Python movies...not funny

I love Kubrick but Strangelove was such a disappointment. Maybe the worst film of Kubrick's. Not in the least bit funny. The war room line is terrible yet everyone keeps quoting it as if it were clever.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. What a piece of schlock. A vehicle for Hepburn to dress up.

Imagine not liking Terms of Endearment … heartless philistines!

[quote]The Monty Python movies...not funny

What kind of loser lacking any sense of humor hates Monty Python? Their three big movies are among the best comedies in existence. WTF is wrong with you?

^^^ Agreed. Holy Grail, i.e., is brilliantly cuckoo. So many subtle sight gags, hilarious editing, surreal ending. Top ten for me.

[quote]R57 Jane Fonda rejected the part of Erica in An Unmarried Woman(1977) saying it was mundane or something but ends up in the lame Coming Home instead.

COMING HOME was a passion project for Fonda, who was at a point where she wanted (at least some of) her films to have meaningful messages. She came up with the concept, hired the screenwriter, and produced it. Then it was a hit and won her an Oscar.

So, no regrets.

^^ sorry, above quote was from r58

Scared to say… but Steel Magnolias.

For one thing, i want to bash the heroine in the fuckin’ head when she says, “I’d rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.” Bitch, you’re a tall, thin, white girl with great hair from a privileged family. You’re married to a handsome lawyer. A lot of people would trade places with you, thinking all that’s pretty damn special.

Thank god this ungrateful whiner dies.

That's awful. Who writes shit like that? Like a Hallmark card you give to somebody one who just found out they have inoperable cancer.

Jordan Peele's Us. I thought it wasn't very good and not particularly scary, even. But everyone else was raving about it and giving it 10/10.

Joker. I hated every frame of that piece of shit

^^ I kept waiting for the climax. It’s quite poorly constructed.

[bold]ANYTHING[/bold] by Woody Allen or with Woody Allen in it.

Animal House-never into vulgar frat boy comedies

Brokeback Mountain-they are SHEEPHERDERS not cowboys.

Call Me By Your Name. Absolutely NO sexual or amorous chemistry. The straight bros really jumped out.

And, speaking of Luca Guadagnino, his remake of Suspiria.

What a mess.

What a slap in the face to Dario Argento.

A lot of comedy dates poorly.

If you didn't see it the first time around, it's very possible to find Monty Python's films or TV shows crude, loud, overreaching, and not all that funny. (And sexist, but that's a whole other matter.)

I enjoy 1930s screwball comedy but never really cared for the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, or the 3 Stooges. Or Chaplin, for that matter.

Saturn 3

[Quote]A lot of comedy dates poorly.

virtually every rom-com or comedy with Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Mike Meyers, Jim Carey . . .

The first Harry Potter. Caveat: I'm older than 14

R153- ALL of the Harry Potter movies.

It was interesting how all the top tier British actors/actresses lined up to appear in that drivel.

Emma Watson is so painfully bad in the first few movies I do not understand why they didn't go with ANYONE else. There were surely other child actors who would've been an improvement?

[quote]R154 It was interesting how all the top tier British actors/actresses lined up to appear in that drivel.

Because they were assured a fortune. And a lot of steady sequels.

Definitely "La-La Land". What a fucking awful movie.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. No interest in either.

The Lord of the Rings

I tried watching Lord of the Rings and fell asleep after 15 minutes. I should keep a copy on hand for long flights to ensure I will doze off.

Some Like It Hot.

Ferris Bueller. I hate Matthew Broadrick.in this and wish his friend would have run over his head with the Ferrari and crushed it like a pumpkin.

Batman, Superman, anything man. I hate superhero movies.

The Godfather

R163, I watched that recently because I had heard how good it was. I thought Ferris himself was insufferable. Your post made me laugh.

Black Adam.

Ugh!

The Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface

Animal House

R167, does everyone love Black Adam? I thought it was a chore. I wish I had known it was just another "Shazam" movie, I probably wouldn't have bothered to pay money to see it in the theater.

I remember walking out of the theater of ‘Titanic’ and saying to my friend, “Well, it was no ‘The Poseidon Adventure’!” I was only half joking.

Every single superhero movie from the past 22 years.

[quote] I love Kubrick but Strangelove was such a disappointment. Maybe the worst film of Kubrick's. Not in the least bit funny. The war room line is terrible yet everyone keeps quoting it as if it were clever.

Same opinion here! I don't like it. It's the only Kubrick film I flat-out dislike.

[quote] ordan Peele's Us. I thought it wasn't very good and not particularly scary, even. But everyone else was raving about it and giving it 10/10.

Truly a half-baked movie. My friend and I walked out of the theatre and looked at each other and said "that was it?". Totally bogus movie, not the least-bit scary, only half-interesting yet acclaimed by critics too afraid of being called racist for not liking it.

Fargo - all my friends said I would love it because it was "offbeat", and apparently so was I. Hated it! Also Power of the Dog - BORING.

Mame, the one with Rosalind Russell. God, was she awful in that film.

R84, even lesbian hater David Ehrenstein testified here as to Hutton's gayness. He saw her and GF making out at a screening.

R163- My friend and I were in Canada in the summer of 1986 and went to see this movie. It was so awful we walked out during the movie. I've NEVER liked this movie.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) was a decent teen movie. This was annoying with annoying characters like Mathew Broderick as Ferris Bueller.

R174, just because people have different tastes than you does not mean they're "afraid of being called racist"

That is so stupid. You sound like a Republican

I fell out of like with Matthew Broderick when I saw him in Ferris Bueller.

The Big Lebowski

Bridesmaids. I would pay not to see it again.

[Quote]I remember walking out of the theater of ‘Titanic’ and saying to my friend, “Well, it was no ‘The Poseidon Adventure’!” I was only half joking.

Well, The Poseidon Adventure is about half the running time of Titanic which at least makes it easier to sit through. It took the RMS Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink, and the film is 3 hours and 14 minutes long

A lot of these movies aren't broadly loved at all, even if they have their proponents. I know OP, said "seems," but still.

Recent: Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Power Of The Dog. Neither even remotely lived up to it's hype, and I generally like Jane Campion. You could see where that film was going from almost the beginning, and how it would get there. EEAAO was just some sub-Matrix BS that wasn't profound in any way.

Also: everything Baz Luhrman has every directed. And I agree with the person about about The Royal Tenenbaums.

Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They’re all really stupid.

I was the first one to say Blazing Saddles but yeah Airplane is Carol Burnett skit funny. Which means it's painful. I'd put in IAMMMMW but it does have some inspired wonderful moments. But it is for the most part an unfunny slog.

It's A Wonderful Life, hated it.

Guess not everyone loves it, based on the number of one-star reviews, but Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula has an IMDb rating of 7.4(!). It's the only movie I wanted to walk out of, but I'm glad I stayed since it confirmed that I should have walked out!

That film is beautifully designed, though.

"Carol." What a pretentious snore.

Thanks for the warning R191. I see that on one of my streaming services sometimes and keep thinking I should watch it.

What stops me is that I just don't like Cate Bland-as-Shit. Which would probably be a good statement for a "actor everyone seems to love except you".

all the crap made by Judd Apatow

[quote]R192 What stops me is that I just don't like Cate Bland-as-Shit. Which would probably be a good statement for a "actor everyone seems to love except you".

This is sacrilege!

Carol is slow and boring, but Cate’s great in Blue Jasmine, Mrs. America, Elizabeth(s), The Talented Mr. Ripley… just about everything : (

Some very old trans grabbed onto Zel from the isle as he walked to the stage.

Star Wars

Butch Cassidy; The Sting. Plastic shit.

All Baz Luhrman movies.

^^ ditto

The Music Man. I've never been able to watch more than a few minutes of it.

Dirty Dancing and Footloose ugh!

R26

He's a very sexy man.

The original Star Wars and all the sequels. I bitched all the way home from the first one in 1977 that I was not fucking 7 years old and I didn't give a shit about space ships whizzing around.

Home Alone Forrest Gump The Wizard of Oz The Music Man Star Wars Airplane -- never watched more than a few clips. Same with Blazing Saddles Legally Blonde The Producers (the first version). Almost everyone thinks the remake sucked. Ferris Bueller's Day Off Sixteen Candles Animal House The superhero movies, with the exception of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and the first Thor movie Taika Waititi directed.

R182

Gary Oldman was made up to look so ugly. Ugh.

R153

I enjoyed the adult actor's performances and the kids were decent. But slowly but surely I would lose track of the plot.

BUTCH CASSIDY captures Redford and Newman at the peak of their physical beauty (and I would add in Katherine Ross, though she gets a lot less adoration from the camera). And some of the cinematography is lovely, and that song is charming.

But all that aside, it's really not a great or even very good film. It's a template for all those dopey Buddy Movies to follow, and not much else.

(I'm equally unimpressed by THE STING, for what it's worth.)

Still both films are enjoyable. When I was a boy I sat through Butch 2 and a half times and my idea of a good movie was Funny Girl or Oliver!

Trainwreck. Whatta piece of shit.

The World of Henry Orient. You expect a funny mid 60s Peter Sellers comedy and get the story of two teenage girls obsessed with the sex life of a middle aged concert pianist. In 1964! What were they thinking? And Angela plays another monster mother. In Manchurian Candidate it is compelling. Here it is just nasty.

Almost ANYTHING with Julia Roberts in it.

Big Liebowski for me, as well. Watched it with my brother, who likes it. Their drink of choice, White Russian (vodka, Kahlua, and half 'n' half), did not ring true for me as a former bar / restaurant worker and borderline alcoholic. Why? Too sweet & rich. Plus, you've got to have a perishable product on hand (half 'n' half). Plus, it has one too many ingredients. Regular drinkers tend to have a more simple go-to drink, like Bacardi and Coke.

Best in Show, another one that my brother liked.

Weird that I love Waiting for Guffman and Spinal Tap and can watch those 2 movies over and over ... and over.

Breakfast at Tiffany's - The casting director obviously had never read the book.

R203 And I love commas, and spacing. Legible text.

Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes I know it's supposed to be campy and it's all about the audience experience, but I just don't like it.

There's a huge anti-RHPS contingent

I thought the White Russian thing kinda worked. The character was more of a laid-back slow drunk. The always-slightly-buzzed type rather than the get-blackout-ASAP type.

I thought it was funny - like a SATC cosmo-type drink for this slob of a guy - but even daintier or girly.

I loved Lebowski except for Julianne Moore's character which grossed me out. Like some horny teenager's wet dream about what a woman ought to be.

ALL of the Jurassic Park Movies

R212

Hollywood surely did not want the real book. Even cleaned up, the movie managed to include one of the most racist stereotypes of a Japanese person I've ever seen.

Avatar

Ugh Cinema Paradisio, sentimental treacle, not even elevated enough to watch because it’s in Italian.

Persona.

Most Bergman movies for me. He's just one of those directors I dont' connect with, I find his work tedious.

"Birth of a Nation."

Not enough Klan.

Roberto Benigni's A Beautiful Life. Oscars for best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film. At the time it was much loved, but I doubt time has not been kind to this stupid offensive film. BTW WEHT the annoying Benigni?

Based on the fawnfest two threads over, I'm going with The Lion in Winter.

Titanic

Top Gun

Frozen

The English Patient

Austin Powers

Deadpool

Twister

The Notebook

My Best Friend’s Wedding

The Holiday

God I thought Cinema Paradiso was shit. And I love old american and european movies.

[quote]r228 Twister

That movie is fun as a cringe-fest!! Oh my god - so many moments….

To Kill A Mockingbird. Can't believe no one has mentioned it yet.

Random Harvest. Sappy drivel.

Little Women, Winona Ryder version. (I like all the other versions).

Most Martin Scorcese movies, including Raging Bull and The Age Of Innocence.

The Godfather (it's not bad, I just don't love it, certainly don't consider it, or Part II, the greatest films ever made.)

Lord Of The Rings, or anything else based on a Tolkein book, nor do I like Tolkein's books.

Nine To Five (HATE it).

Traffic (Worthless.)

Bonnie And Clyde (Bosley Crowther was right.)

Any Star Wars movies other than the first one.

The Notebook

Raging Bull is one I really don't get the love for. I don't see what's so deep and moving about the movie, it's just tedious to me. This is coming from someone who loves Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, Goodfellas and Bringing out the Dead.

Tea and Sympathy. Beside the lusting for John Kerr, I don’t get the love for this film. It’s homophobic garbage yet praised as something important to gay film history.

Same for Brokeback Mountain and Call Me By Your Name. I don’t need to see heterosexuality or female anatomy inserted into every so-called gay film.

[quote]Any Star Wars movies other than the first one.

Rogue one is really good. Empire (the second one) is also good. You're right about the rest.

R202, you sound fun. /s

R235 I didn't like the second one. *shrugs*

I'll also add:

Sounder. Saw it when it came ou. I guess I was still in school because I went with my mom one night. Both of us unimpressed. Watched it recently to see if I was wrong. I wasn't.

Cool Hand Luke. I can't seem to care about what happens.

The Thin Man Movies. This is hard because so many people like them I want to like them, too - but I don't think they're that grreat, and anyway, I don't like whodunits.

The Great Escape. It's boring.

(Should've checked my spelling...)

R117, The scene where Bogs tried to get Andy to suck him off was pretty hot. Andy could’ve had a much pleasant time in prison if he just loosened up a little.

Every Star Wars movie after Star Wars (1977)

Love Actually. The Holiday is better.

R228 Good list of overrated tacky movies.

I quibble that The Notebook is overrated sure, and treacly, but it's one I don't mind, anyway. It's an effective "airplane movie".

Last Tango in Paris. MASSIVELY overrated film that Pauline Kael cummed 1000 times to. I wonder what she was seeing when she called it the most erotic movie ever.

Cum came came?

R244, I apologize; I'm exhausted.

Shame by Steve McQueen. Cary Mulligan's rendition of New York, New York is supposed to be a key scene but it's performed so badly that it kills the scene.

La Grande Illusion. Can't understand the appeal of this famous film.

The Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was about 15 and went with my friends and became so bored I went to the lobby and played pinball. Needless to say, I avoided all the other films in the series. Ditto Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I did the same thing during Magnum Force R248. I think that's the one where Clint Eastwood says 'Make my day'?

Not sure... I was so disgusted I went to the lobby and watched the popcorn pop. I was about 17.

A Christmas Story

R248, we can NOT be friends. How you found Raiders boring, I'll never understand. The sequels weren't great though, so no real loss there.

'Travels fast and straight down a linear plot, and the ceaseless rush quickly becomes monotonous.' -Dave Kehr Chicago Reader

That sums it up for me R251

R246 Was she no good at spreading the word?

Jules and Jim

This was part of the French Wave films of the 1960s and hailed as a classic. I found it annoying and depressing and stole 2 hours of my time..

R248 I was probably 19 or 20, I was visiting friends in NYC and they had to see it. I wasn't sure what it would be, but as I watched it it just seemed insulting to the intelligence and I tuned out. Unfortunately couldn't walk out as someone had treated me to it. I did like Close Encounters and R249 Magnum Force, though. Come to think of it, I don't "love" Jaws. It worked on my emotions in the way it was supposed to, but I wouldn't be dying to see it again.

Also, do you think it would even be possible at this point to go back to a Hollywood without ANY superhero movies? Can you imagine what it would be like to look at a Top 10 or Top 20 box office list of the year's films, and see no superhero or comic book themes at all? And cut way back in general on the monsters, supernatural, and fantasy.

I hated American Beauty when I first saw it and thought it was very overrated and heavy-handed.

Some of AMERICAN BEAUTY is quite heavy-handed (that freakin' plastic bag as a metaphor for.... what exactly?), then and now. I think Alan Ball did much better work overall in SIX FEET UNDER, where he explored a lot of the same themes.

I will say this about BEAUTY: it's probably Kevin Spacey's best, most compassionate performance. Certainly as a lead actor.

I found all those original action/comic book movies pretty boring. The only thing I liked about Star Wars was Mark Hammill's beauty which sadly we were never to see again. Idiot. Drinking and driving.

Same, R257. Didn't like it from the very first viewing at the cinema, which was a VERY unpopular opinion at the time - and for the same reasons you list.

That plastic bag scene was ridiculous. I secretly judged my bf at the time for thinking it was profound. Fucksake.

On a whim, I watched HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) with Warren Beatty. I remember the title from my childhood. Dozens of awards, including 9 Oscar noms. On AFIs list of greatest American movies ever.

WTF was the fuss all about? It's not terrible but it's not very funny. Or interesting. Or remotely fresh or surprising.

I would make a case that it's Beatty's last minutes of looking genuinely fuckable and hot onscreen. Otherwise, there is no reason to see this film, IMHO.

The music in Cinema Paradiso was horrible

The Big Lebowski. Still quoted (by straight guys), but I couldn't get into it and I never laughed once. Seemed like the Coen brothers desperately trying to be John Waters but with none of the charm.

As someone who graduated from high school in 2012 I had to suffer the fact that all my classmates (even females) where obsessed with that piece of loathsome shit called "Project X". Around a year later I decided to watch it on cable and my feelings towards it were justified. I felt like the oldest 19 year old guy on the planet, since I never understood how can anyone would think those 3 imbecile main characters could be considered funny.

I don't know any non-American who views The Wizard of Oz particularly fondly. It seems to the very embodiment of American schmaltz.

Gone With The Wind is a not-very-good women's picture in the worst sense of the word.

Dawson's 50 Load Weekend was just tedious and flabby ugly.

Sordid for the sake of masturbation or art should be beautifully ugly – not just plain ugly.

The Lion King. HATE IT. I don’t know which is worse, all the prey animals bowing to the lions or the lion cub singing that he can’t wait to be king. Apparently the fans of this movie missed the point that for him to be king his father has to die.

[quote]Ghostbusters. Completely unfunny douchery.

A friend was selling DVDs to raise some cash a few years ago so I bought his copy of Ghostbusters, along with some other movies. Watched it for the first time since probably the 1990s when it was on cable. I was shocked to discover it had no plot! There was NO PLOT in Ghostbusters. None. "Guys who might be professors maybe open a ghost-hunting business and one ghost is kind of mean" is not a plot.

It's fine, it's a solid dumb movie and sometimes I like dumb movies, but it's not a good movie. It's just sentimental to people who were kids when it was originally released in theaters.

Every Woody Allen movie ever made.

[quote]Big Liebowski for me, as well. Watched it with my brother, who likes it. Their drink of choice, White Russian (vodka, Kahlua, and half 'n' half), did not ring true for me as a former bar / restaurant worker and borderline alcoholic. Why? Too sweet & rich.

Okay r211 but that's the joke. The joke is that it's a ridiculous drink for an alcoholic to be drinking all day, every day. He keeps getting irritated when he can't find cream or half & half, and that's the point, that he's a fucking ludicrous human being.

Sound of Music Star Wars LOTR Any movie starring Leo Di Caprio

It Follows

YES R271! Did not understand how anyone thought It Follows was any good!

The thing is the entire world loved GWTW or most of the world anyway. And you may not like women's pictures but the film is the most successful of them all so it had to have been a very good one. So maybe you simply think personally that it's a lousy movie which is fair enough.

R273-I've never been able to get through it.

[quote]On a whim, I watched HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) with Warren Beatty. I remember the title from my childhood. Dozens of awards, including 9 Oscar noms. On AFIs list of greatest American movies ever. WTF was the fuss all about? It's not terrible but it's not very funny. Or interesting. Or remotely fresh or surprising.

R261 I remember seeing it when it came out and not getting why it was so popular. The movie was a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, with Robert Montgomery in the Beatty part - except as a prize-fighter, not a football player. The original (a great movie) was probably unfamiliar to almost everyone in those days. So I figured people were just charmed by the same premise, and some of the better performances. It was slow in that 70's Hollywood Canyon-culture sort of way, vs. the snappy, fast-paced, lighter original. I still don't get the big appeal.

R273 I never considered GWTW a "women's picture" and I don't think audiences of the time did. It's a historical drama.

Dirty Dancing….ewwwww

Casablanca, Cabaret, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, The Godfather.

The Wolf of Wall Street.

I hated Leo’s character, and all the scammers, so much. I was hoping he’d OD.

Everyone I know loves it. I don’t get it.

Bull Durham

That ridiculous line in r280 that Kevin Costner spews out about long, slow wet kisses that last for three days always makes me urp.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

This movie is practically keeping Hot Topic afloat with all the merch. It’s not that great.

R281 the only part I laughed at was when the bat boy told costner’s character to get a hit and Costner replied, ‘Shut up.’ The delivery was good.

The Sting. I don't know why. I thought it was dull.

Planet Of The Apes (original). All the kids loved it - except me.

The Poseidon Adventure - when I was young and it was a hit, or later when it was camp - don't really love it.

The Graduate. It's well made but I feel like I'm on the outside looking in, not involving and not very funny.

A Man For All Seasons. I thought it was boring. Paul Scofield didn't especially impress me.

Father Goose, w/ Cary Grant, Leslie Caron. Not very funny, and those schoolgirls without personalities are weird.

I know many will come for me, but I find Princess Bride insufferable, it’s not even fun in a zany, crazy kind of way, it’s just insipid.

I liked American Beauty a lot, but that plastic bag scene is still a cringe fest. R258 is right. Alan Ball would go on do explore family relationships and death in a much more profound way with Six Feet Under. Of course, it's hardly fair to compare them. One had 2 hours to tell its story and the other had multiple seasons to do it. Obviously, the latter will come across as more interesting and nuanced.

The Lord of the Rings nearly put me into a coma. Beautifully shot film and I can appreciate that, but I didn't care about anyone in the film.

Recently, that Halloween reboot from 2018 that got all the rave reviews left me completely unmoved. It was nice to see Jamie Lee Curtis back again, but she tread the same ground in H20 20 years before that and did it better. I couldn't believe all the great reviews saying it was the best one since the original and how scary it was. Where were those scares? It felt like a collection of scenes from previous sequels stitched together without a single interesting character or suspenseful moment.

R285 I agree, can't even sit through it.

"Tha DaVinci Code" and his equally crappy sequels. I never understood the hype over those shitfests.

R288, I completely forgot that there were even movies released based on the book. God, that was a long time ago.

The Virgin Suicides

It was fine, that’s it.

I don't like Pillow Talk or the other Day and Hudson (and Randall) comedies. I like Day and Hudson (and Randall) in other things, just not these stupid comedies.

Withnail & I.

I should be the exact demographic that would love this movie but I just couldn't sit through it. I kept hoping that somehow it would turn a corner and stop being boring, dreary, and repulsive, and become funny or witty or droll. It never happened.

Phantom Thread. Incredibly dull. The only interesting part was when he ate a poison mushroom and almost died. And then ate another.

Well I like Send Me No flowers. Hudson is very funny for such a handsome man. A super glossy mid sixties time capsule. At least for the kind of movie people liked. And it gives Day a chance for her perfect hilarious slow burn.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I was rooting for his sister, Jeanie. Matthew Broderick was too smug and narcissistic to be likable.

Fight Club

Anchorman. In fact, any movie with Will Ferrell.

The Notebook. Saw it once and that was enough. I thought it was nice they died together, not sad.

Ryan Gosling’s character was an ass. James Marsden was a way better choice.

Frozen. Dumb story. Song got old real fast.

R299 just Let it Go!

FROZEN really was a chore to sit through (at least for this adult) but the sequel is unwatchably bad, without any good songs to redeem it.

I actually like Frozen well enough, but my god the sequel, Frozen 2, is gawdawful, and impossible to sit through. Just bad.

R294 Send Me No Flowers is different than the other two. It's more grounded, or something, don't you think? The other two are romcoms, single people getting together. The play used to be popular in summer stock and I saw Van Johnson in it - it was a lot funnier than the movie. (I just looked the play up on IBDB and it only ran 40 performances. It starred David Wayne and Nancy Olson.)

Interesting they made a movie of it when it was a flop play. Same thing with other flop plays like Kind Sir and Goodbye Charlie.

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A tiresome tasteless conventional farce. Director Norman Jewison (“Moonstruck”/”Agnes of God”) can’t keep the slight story line afloat. Julius J. Epstein adapts it from a play by Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore. This is the last and weakest of the Day/Hudson collaborations.George Kimball (Rock Hudson) is a hypochondriac. Despite this he has been happily married to Judy (Doris Day) for 8 years. When George visits his doctor (Edward Andrews) to complain of indigestion, he overhears his doctor talking about another patient but mistakenly thinks it’s about him. George concludes he has only a few weeks to live and tells this to Arnold Nash (Tony Randall), his over sympathetic neighbor and best friend. He also tells Arnold that he wants wealthy oilman Bert Powers ( Clint Walker), her college sweetheart, to be her next husband so that she will be well-taken care of after he’s gone. George’s attempts to throw his wife and Bert together make for awkward comedy.

Thin, one note sitcom premise stretched to an unendurable length.

Top Gun Maverick

I wanted to see it at the movies when it first came out last summer THEN everyone I knew suddenly saw it before I did and started saying “it’s good. You have to see it”. Then I lost interest for that reason.

R298 The Notebook it's a piece of crap that brainwashed an entire generation of millennial girls who think their lives will be more meaningful by chosing an obsessive, toxic douche over a well-mannered, stable, decent man.

Bridesmaids

I find Pretty Woman and Forrest Gump to be nauseating garbage.

R303 Not only that but it was a hit in summer theater. It was very funny when I saw it. The movie is actually sort of dark the way Rock Hudson plays the hypochondriac husband. Kind Sir (which became the movie Indiscreet,1958) seems like one of those plays that ran until the advance sale was over. Big names Mary Martin-Charles Boyer-Joshua Logan-Norman Krasna being the drawing card (166 performances, according to IBDB. Goodbye Charlie: 109).

I Heart Huckabees

Absolutely worthless drivel meant to pass as fare for "...sophisticated folks who are in the know!"

The English Patient

Anything with Tom Cruise in it.

I Heart Huckabees cannot possibly have been intended for a sophisticated audience. The best line was "Fuckabees," for crying out loud.

La La Land leads the pack.

Crazy Rich Asians

Another vote for The Prinxess Bride

Most of the films on the BFI Top 100

Indiscreet is such a light piece of fluff made pleasurable by the performances of its stars and supporting players. I'm surprised Boyer and Martin couldn't get a year out of it on light romantic comedy charm alone.

Casafuckingblanca, The Goonies

[QUOTE]Crazy Rich Asians

Agreed.

The Dark Knight

I've loved and still love so many movies you guys are listing (in fact, I don't think I can be friends with anyone who hates on The Princess Bride)... but man, La La Land sucked. So did Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Brad Pitt was the only decent thing about it, and really only for that one scene about taking his loads).

Oh, and Howl's Moving Castle! SO MANY PEOPLE RAVE ABOUT THIS MOVIE, and it was utterly boring shit. I want those two hours back. It didn't make a lick of sense. Utterly stupid.

Armageddon. Utter shit. Even the actors seemed to know, as Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck literally sleepwalk through their roles, giving the worst performances of their lives (and that's saying something!). Stupid, dumb, idiotic, and did I mention stupid? The whole plot was just an insult to anyone with even a high school understanding of science, physics, space, logic, etc. HATED IT.

The Great Lebowski was OK.

Monty python was Ok

I was a little disappointed after finally watch them. Too high expectations I guess

The Twilight series…

A Star is Born. All versions.

R315 The New York Times called it "trivial theatre that is spasmodically entertaining."

Logan said: "My great idea of pairing Mary Martin and Charles Boyer in a light romantic comedy had backfired. The public came to see a combination of South Pacific, Algiers and Mayerling. With their appetites set for a juicy steak dinner they had been served fish. Exquisitely prepared fish but nevertheless not steak. And the shock to the taste buds caused not only disappointment but anger."

Yet it made a successful film with two movie stars as big as they get so go figure.

I hated The Princess Bride. Also Forest Gump.

R324 This is from Wikipedia for the movie:

It was popular and well reviewed. Logan saw the movie expecting to find it different from the play and was surprised to find it "verbatim" like Kind Sir. "Krasna's writing and my taste were more than vindicated," said Logan. "Had I been well [directing the play] it would have been another story."

Logan had a breakdown during the rehearsal period. I don't think Indiscreet is very good, I'm probably in the minority. I think Bergman and Grant are excellent in it, but it's very lighweight and sort of annoying.

I made out with my date during "Schindler's List," but that doesn't mean I didn't really enjoy the movie!

West Side Story, both of them.

R34 And yet I've seen The Red Shoes in a packed theater more than once, and no one ever reacted as if se last scene was terrible, or silly. Just the opposite, the audience is usually attentive and moved. Nor did I find it terrible or silly.

Cult fave Harold and Maude with Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort

the glacially paced 2001:A Space Odyssey

I do not like Forest Gump.

But I love Princess Bride, and don't understand the hate for it. It's great. It's hilarious. It's fun. It's well done. There's literally nothing worth hating about it.

Prom Night.

Both of them.

Does everyone love Prom Night??

I've despised every Spielberg schlock - including Schindler's List. His heavy handed, black and white, puerile way of looking at things leaped out at me. Wish some Brit had done a grown-up shades of gray version.

Anyhow, I did love Harold and Maude. The great Cat Stevens songs (before he converted to lunatic extreme Islam) - the fabulous Vivian Pickles constantly berating poor Harold - the love of strangers' funerals that Harold and Maude shared... oh and I can watch Ruth Gordon in anything and be happy (like Elsa Lanchester).

The Harold actor Bud Cort had a horrific accident lacerating his face and breaking many bones, then spent decades trying to get damages paid through endless court battles. Sad.

Sorry - it's one of my faves, but I get that it's a bit dopey (especially after I complained that that's why I hate the Spiels)

R332 the only truly great Prom Night movie is the second one, Hello Mary Lou, which has nothing to do with the original.

I only recently saw Harold and Maude and found it sporadically amusing, but not the classic many have told me it was.

I don't know why but I think you should see Harold And Maude in a theater with an audience. I enjoyed it a lot the second time I saw it - that way - even though I had seen it on TV.

I agree about Spielberg. There's always something dumb about his films. Even the one I like most, Close Encounters.

I hate movies generally.

I've come to prefer documentaries.

ALL THE NEW MOVIES!

I don't know any of them anymore.

Back in the day, I never undrestood why some of my friends or classmates talked of "The Butterfly Effect" as if it was the most complex and thoughtful film ever done. I saw it once and I thought it was a pretentious piece of crap.

R339 I was annoyed when SNL quoted Bette Davis in All About Eve and claimed her line was, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride."

That's not correct (and not funny). The line was "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night." "Bumpy night" was a take off on "bumpy flight." It referred to airplane seatbelts (not automobile seatbelts, which weren't around, then).

R341 you so schmart 💋

R341 It's a coyse.