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Highly Rated Movies You Don't Like

TomH1138 said:
Love Sound of Music.
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good. :p

TomH1138 said:
Matrix: As with Avatar, it's all about the effects (which are phenomenal). But the story is poorly paced and the characters are inhuman and uninteresting.
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Matrix is in my top 10. It's not imho about the effects, because it has such a creative story that allows for cool FX to be a part of it, but not the main point. It would have been better if they had picked some actor with more skill than dead fish Keanu though.

TomH1138 said:
Great action sequences wrapped around unlikeable characters.
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I like all the characters in Pirates. Jack is funny and unique, Will is kind of the brave hero type, Barbossa is evil but still likable (which is good in this case), and Keira Knightley is... Keira Knightley...

TomH1138 said:
Spider-Man 2: Hailed as the best in the series, but IMO it's the worst. One bad cliche after another.
Saving a child from a burning building? One character leaving another at the altar? (What is this, Friends?) Ripping off the Richard Donner-Superman run through the alley to change into the costume again?

Peter inexplicably loses his powers, then gets them back just as inexplicably. There's a whole scene of Peter eating lunch with the landlord's daughter that accomplishes nothing in terms of story, character or theme - I have no idea how this scene wound up in the film. Aunt May's subplot about losing the house (again) is not integrated into the larger plot in any way. It can be completely removed without anyone knowing it's missing.

Peter and MJ, who were so great in the first movie, become obnoxious and whiny here. The bad acting and the atrocious dialogue doesn't help.

And yet this film regularly gets 4 stars from movie critics and fans, who usually place it above X-Men 2 and Iron Man 2, which IMO are hugely more exciting, more entertaining, and more inventive superhero sequels on every level. I just don't get it at all.

Of course, you're entitled to disagree if you want. :)
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Oh man, 3 is wayyy worse than 2. I do like 2 the best - most interesting villain, some of the best action, good script, etc. Some of the acting can be a bit mediocre, and I didn't really care for Peter losing his powers either, too inexplicable and cliche. And I do like X2 and Iron Man 2 more. But I enjoyed it.
 
Spiderman 2 has always been my favorite film in the series. Spiderman 3 is garbage and the first one is ok until the Green Goblin appears.
 
TomH1138 said:
What specifically didn't you like about The Sixth Sense?
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I found the movie boring, the characters uninteresting, and I saw the twist coming.
 
Two words:

Forrest.
Gump.

/thread
 
Pirates of the Motherflippin' Caribbean.
 
A clockwork orange:

Now I recognize the directing and editing skills and the bold decisions of this movie.
I don't hate it, far from it.
It's just not my kind of movie.


Usual Suspects:

Fell asleep during this one (not on theater though), only to wake up on the last scene to learn "you know what".
and I thought "good Lord, I did not miss a thing, the whole movie was a joke".
 
Thought this would be easy but the only movies that really fit for me are

The Dark Knight
Hangover Movies
Basterds

Of the four I like Basterds the most although the whole thing was a bit of an anticlimax, TDK and Hangovers 1 & 2 just stunk.
 
1) thank you TomH for using the porno word correctly. it's not always about humping and the true meaning has been lost to most people.
2) Hangover (1&2). though it's not fair for me to put 2 there because the first one was so terribly boring that i fell asleep part way though. and i couldn't get over it being an obvious Dude, Where's My Car ripoff.
3) and i agree about Gladiator. at the time i worked at a movie theater. and watching the people go see that movie, it was obvious they were only going to see it to say they saw it.
4) i have others, but most of them have already been mentioned. and No Country for Old Men.
(in that films defense, i probably didn't "get it.")
5) i love Fight Club. that is all.
 
Another one for Avatar. It's not that I hate it, but it was cliche and dull.
The Lion King - everyone seems to love this, but me.
I hate all musicals bar The Blues Brothers.

Blade Runner, 300, Fight Club, Se7en, Sixth Sense and all those are excellent in my book.
 
Neglify said:
Pirates of the Motherflippin' Caribbean.
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2, 3, 4, yeah, I agree. But 1 was a legitimate movie.
 
Some of the movies in this thread are only highly rated by geeks. Popular and highly rated are not the same things. "300"? Really? The New Yorker: "A muscle-magazine fantasy crossed with a video game and an Army recruiting film"; Roger Ebert: "300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud." I could go on.

"Avatar" has some of the biggest clichés in recent storytelling, and I thought critics more or less agreed on that - even the ones who liked it.

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My choices:

Babel. One of the ten worst movies I've seen, and inexplicably quite well-regarded. Badly acted, pointless, and ridiculously pompous.

No Country for Old Men. Has some of Babel's failings. Pompous and pointless. Remove the meditation on violence/(post)modern society disguise and you're left with a chase movie with characters that make so stupid choices it's bordering on deus ex machina.

The Usual Suspects. Again, "pointless" is the word that comes to mind. It's so "clever" it ends up reducing itself to nothing.

The Matrix. Not half as smart as it thinks it is.

Total Recall. The campy fun parts and the dystopian scifi parts are completely at odds with eachother and tear the film apart, IMO.
 
Return of the Jedi.
I don't hate it, but it's far worse than the other two, for all the obvious reasons.
George Lucas being the prime one. He threw Kerschner's story line down the drain, and he shouldn't have.
Also, damn Ewoks. Care Bears on crack. How I loathe them!!

The Force Unleashed II's Battle on Endor DLC pack was the greatest piece of self-parody ever.
Take out Ewoks by smashing their heads into your armour-padded knees = Ridiculously fun.
 
theslime said:
Babel. One of the ten worst movies I've seen, and inexplicably quite well-regarded. Badly acted, pointless, and ridiculously pompous.
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^
 
All of the Twilight movies! Vampires that sparkle in the day. Give me a break. I went to see the first one with my missus(who says she realises there no good but still likes them:shock:) and I couldnt believe the hype that surrounds it. Are people seeing something I dont? Are they watching the same movie I had the misfortune to see?
But Kristan Stewart, I reckon I would.
Bite her if I were a vampire I mean.
 
lpd said:
All of the Twilight movies! Vampires that sparkle in the day. Give me a break. I went to see the first one with my missus(who says she realises there no good but still likes them:shock:) and I couldnt believe the hype that surrounds it. Are people seeing something I dont? Are they watching the same movie I had the misfortune to see?
But Kristan Stewart, I reckon I would.
Bite her if I were a vampire I mean.
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Twilight is by no means highly rated :lol: I guess you're talking about popularity though. But, just because...

IMDB -
Twilight: 5.3
New Moon: 4.5
Eclipse: 4.8
Breaking Dawn: 4.7

RT -
Twilight: 49%
New Moon: 28%
Eclipse: 49%
Breaking Dawn: 26%
 
Ah I see.Ok I take it back.
But I would
 
Don't take it back! Sparkling vampires?! WTF?

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