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Post by housemouse on Jan 5, 2006 21:35:25 GMT -5
I was just telling someone how I didn't like the movie Titanic. I also didn't like Ghost or Forest Gump. Those are all movies that people loved and I hated.
It got me to thinking, which popular movies, that won all kinds of awards, or that everyone raved about did you not like?
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Post by greenbeing on Jan 5, 2006 21:53:50 GMT -5
American Beauty!
--GB
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Post by Eyphur on Jan 5, 2006 21:59:47 GMT -5
I don't like epic fantasies and movies where lots of people die. So I have avoided movies such as Titanic, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter. I don't like movies involving dead animals either or actually animal movies in general. The first movie that I ever saw in a theater was Prancer (about a reindeer that falls to earth and hides out in a girls barn for a while or something like that) I was 3 when my mom took me to see it, even then I didn't like yet it seems I had to watch it every year in elementary school. I'm sure there are others but Prancer is the one that sticks out at the moment.  |
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Post by dogma on Jan 5, 2006 22:07:56 GMT -5
any movies that are filmed in the dark,, like the batman movies,, dick tracy,, etc,, i'll come up with more,, i'm sure
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Post by anna on Jan 5, 2006 22:31:07 GMT -5
The Bridges of Madison County  |
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Post by doobrah on Jan 6, 2006 8:12:10 GMT -5
First, let me say that I LOOOVE movies. I even like some dumb movies that make me laugh (like "Good Burger" with Kenan and Kel). So these are the ones that initially come to mind as particularly bad:
Mulholland Drive
Bridges of Madison County
Titanic
Aquatic Life of Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
Boxing Helena
...and any movie where they get 2/3 of the way into and can't figure out how to end it!
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Post by shmeep on Jan 6, 2006 8:15:57 GMT -5
I disliked Braveheart.
Great topic, Mouse!
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Post by hoosier on Jan 6, 2006 17:53:40 GMT -5
I absolutely hate a movie that has no ending--it leaves you hanging, its unresolved, blechhh. Its like the writer just pooped out or something! I aways tend to give it a happy or at least decent ending in my mind but I feel let down somehow. On movie I just hate is Firebirds with Nicholas Cage, Sean Young and Tommy Lee Jones. I can take or leave Cage but have always been a Tommy Lee fan and could not see how he could have made such an inane flick I still want my money back  |
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Post by greenbeing on Jan 8, 2006 15:30:52 GMT -5
I love stupid comedies. Really. And I love smart comedies, too. But right now I'm concentrating on comedies I didn't like.
I actually don't remember Pulp Fiction. I watched it, but that's the only thing I remember. I blocked the rest out.
Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Something About Mary. I tried to like Ben Stiller. I gave him his fair chance. But it wasn't just that I don't like him as an actor, but the movies were just bad. And Something About Mary disturbed me greatly. I was actually frightened. Are comedies supposed to scare you?
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore. I've never liked Adam Sandler. Again, I tried. A couple of my friends adore him, so I've been dragged through the likes of the Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates, which weren't as bad as the above mentioned, but they really weren't any fun. I didn't laugh. (I have this odd connection between the Dave Mathews Band and Adam Sandler in my head and I don't know why, but I've also never liked DMB while everyone around me falls head over heels... Not at all pertinent to this thread, but the connection just struck me, so I thought I'd write it down and see if I could figure it out. I'm clueless--which, actually, was a pretty okay movie.)
Ace Ventura, the Mask. I never used to like Jim Carrey, but he redeemed himself with the Majestic. (See, I will give people several chances!) I just don't like it when Jim Carrey plays Jim Carrey, a la Ace.
Bridget Jones's Diary. I don't really care for Renee, either, though I've tried! (I think I would have liked Chicago and Down With Love better without her.) And I actually like this book, which I read after seeing the movie. But I didn't like the movie.
Oh, dear, looking over my list, it really makes me look like a bad person, like I won't give a movie a chance if certain people are in them. That's not the case, really! I just happened to put down Zoolander, and poof, two more came out with connections to Z. Oh dear, oh dear, I must go stand in the corner now. Bad GB, bad, shame.
Like E, I won't watch movies with dogs in them anymore. The "dead animal" movies. You just know something bad is going to happen. Or the director creates a cheap and evil sadness by doing something like in the Incredible Journey where you thought the dog died, but it was okay. But ooh, that was evil to make me think the dog died. I've refused to watch animal movies since I was about eight (Milo and Otis, I think that one made me cry, too, and I don't like to cry.) (When I was about 11, I was trying to explain my dislike of animal movies to my sis, who was rather mean to me growing up, hence, she said, you just absolutely must read read A Dog Called Kitty and Where the Red Fern Grows. I've never been the same since. It didn't help that a couple years later they killed Farley off in For Better or Worse. I cried for weeks over all three of those. I thought about reading No More Dead Dogs last year, but I chickened out, because even though it's about this phenomenon of killing off animals, I was afraid the author would go ahead and kill off another just out of spite. --And now I will get off my soap box.) Oh, and the Last Unicorn! Perhaps we should have a thread of "Movies that Scarred me for Life."
--GB
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Post by awlrite4now on Jan 9, 2006 0:04:44 GMT -5
I've never watched any of the Star Wars movies, Lord of the Rings, or very much sci fi at all. Yesterday I watched Christmas with the Kranks, and although I enjoyed listening to the audio book of "Skipping Christmas", that movie sucked. I'm just not that big a movie watcher. Give me some comic books, and I'm happy.  |
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Post by inuvik on Jan 9, 2006 16:24:40 GMT -5
Just recently: King Kong (waste of A LOT of time, over 3 hours of blah)
I also didn't like Chicago and couldn't believe it when it won best picture!
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Post by hoosier on Jan 10, 2006 17:24:54 GMT -5
I am not one for those overly gory horror movies One I also didn't like, can't say I hated it more like disappointed, was Raise the Titanic. I liked Richard Jordan and read the Clive Cussler book which I thought was great but the movie left me cold. I know they have to decide what to leave and what to leave out when adapting a book to the screen but they mutilated this one. There are countless books I think would make excellent movies but I just know I wouldn't even recognize them after some screenwriters got a hold of them!  |
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Post by carl1951 on Jan 10, 2006 17:59:37 GMT -5
There are so many.
Independence Day is one.
Later, Carl
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Post by greenbeing on Jan 12, 2006 21:29:05 GMT -5
I don't like horror movies, either.
At one of my friend's birthday parties, they ended up watching Fear. And I knew what was coming. Cute dog, scary music, psycho on the loose... So I started to leave the room, but one of her friends called me back, said it wasn't bad, I turn around just in time to see a dog head pop through the doggie door... Evil.
For a cast party we ended up going to see Spawn because a couple of the guys were comic book junkies. They loved it, but one of my friends and I spent the whole movie rooting for the dog. Thankfully, for once, the dog lived!
Very Bad Things was a very bad movie. And yes, I know someone who thought it was a great and hilarious movie...
--GB
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Post by kytdunne on Jan 18, 2006 4:03:16 GMT -5
Which popular movies, that won all kinds of awards, or that everyone raved about did you not like? Hands down, no contest, found it a colossal waste of everything involved: The English Patient. Kyt |
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