The Labrynth. Not the David Bowie one. The Nazi one.
The Labrynth. Not the David Bowie one. The Nazi one.
theclaws wrote:
Oh man, I loved Little Miss Sunshine!
But I hated Guardians of the Galaxy. I still can't understand why so many people love that movie.
I'm convinced that if the first five minutes of Guardians struck zero emotional chords with you, and you didn't jive with the humor, you're going to find Guardians underwhelming. Personally, I believe it boasted some of the best character development and humor you could expect from an action movie coupled with solid pacing and not too many mindless explosions.
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
the Truthh wrote:
Arrival
This for sure. It was the slowest Sci Fi movie ever. The plot was total garbage. If I had been alone I would have walked out, instead just napped through part of the second half. Everyone I was with hated it and we couldn't believe the overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Why do people go into a science fiction movie with the expectation of it being fast-paced? Science-fiction is the genre of ideas. I mean how many times do you need to see laser gun go Pew-Pew!??
banned Pete wrote:
I don’t remember walking out of a movie, however, among movies with great fan or critic reviews, I’ve never stayed awake all the way through Bladerunner or Apocalypse Now. And I WISH I had walked out of Mother.
I'll give you Mother!
But not being able to maintain attention to two of the best movies of all time is a poor reflection on your taste in movies and on your soul in general.
American Hustle - My future gf and I both hated it, but sat through it for the other’s sake. We both agreed that we would have left halfway through had we know the torture was mutual.
Dark City - My friend and I were expecting something otherworldly and surreal. My friend said “I think we both just got a lot dumber after watching that.” I solemnly nodded in agreement. We never talked about it again.
Hollow Man - Okay, lots of people think this one is stupid. But wow... it has such a promising start. It reminded me of “The Fly” in a good way. By halfway, you are like “WTF, how did this go downhill so fast?” And by the end, you are praying to be shot in the head by a jihadist.
just pointing out that your stance is stupid wrote:...not being able to maintain attention to two of the best movies of all time is a poor reflection on your taste in movies and on your soul in general.
Haha ha, to each their own. Some of my favourite movies have been dissed by others in this thread, and I accept that other people (like you) can and do have bad taste from time to time. :-)
This is probably true for most people on this thread, but some of the movies listed are really high on my list and in other cases, I am in complete agreement that they sucked.
My answer is the movie Life (the one made in 1999 with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence). It's one thing when you go to a comedy movie and the jokes just don't fit your sense of humor. It's another thing when you go to a comedy and can't recognize that anyone even tried to make a joke and the tone of the movie is depressing.
The thing about Annie Hall is that all of the bits in it were fresh and original at the time it came out. Now it's been imitated and duplicated and ripped off so completely that even for people seeing it for the first time, it must seem stale.
Agree about Annie Hall, another acclaimed film so boring I’d forgotten I saw it.
Loved Dark City; not for most people, I’m sure.
Apocalypse Now I refuse to watch; to take Heart of Darkness out of Africa is a waste. Conversely, Jakob’s Ladder being moved into modern America from the Civil War (“Occurrence at Owl Creek”) was masterful.
To converge this and the best concert thread - I walked out of a Madonna concert once. Boring crap.
Eraserhead.
It got 5 stars in the newspaper and we went to watch that movie after a bday dinner.
It was a terrible film. I wanted to leave but it was one friend's birthday. So I stayed but it was 100% torture.
just pointing out that your stance is stupid wrote:
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
This for sure. It was the slowest Sci Fi movie ever. The plot was total garbage. If I had been alone I would have walked out, instead just napped through part of the second half. Everyone I was with hated it and we couldn't believe the overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Why do people go into a science fiction movie with the expectation of it being fast-paced? Science-fiction is the genre of ideas. I mean how many times do you need to see laser gun go Pew-Pew!??
It wasn't that arrival wasn't fast paced, it was that it had no pace. It limped along with a boring plot to an anti climatic finish.
Miss Trowel wrote:
The Shawshank Redemption. Always appears on best-film-ever lists and is unwatchable, cringey, sentimental tripe. I like gritty realism, which it tries to be, but it's so twee and clean it looks like Friends. Watched it twice. Hate it.
Yes! And the voice-over narration seems like lazy handholding for a broad audience.,
Avengers Endgame.
How dare they kill my boy Thanos in the first 10 minutes. He saved the universe in Infinity War, they're just so ungrateful. I got excited in the 3rd act when Thanos was back, but again left in disappointment.
Barabbas wrote:
A River Runs Through It, and Beloved. Walked out of both.
Stop it. Get some help.
Miss Trowel wrote:
The Shawshank Redemption. Always appears on best-film-ever lists and is unwatchable, cringey, sentimental tripe. I like gritty realism, which it tries to be, but it's so twee and clean it looks like Friends. Watched it twice. Hate it.
Stop it. Get some help.
David S wrote:
The Thin Red Line
This right here. I remember some critic at the time referring to it as "the thinking man's Saving Private Ryan" which in hindsight was a huge red flag. I maybe wathced 20 minutes beofre I bailed.
The Thin Red line seems to capture war perfectly in that you have moments of sheer terror interspersed with boredom and waiting.
I wished I could have walked out of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I went with a friend that paid. If I had paid, I would have left after 10 minutes.
Oh Please wrote:
About 10 years ago I decided to watch every Best Picture Oscar winner, and the one movie I couldn't get through was "The Deer Hunter." It screams of director being infatuated with himself. It could have been cut to half the length.
Most recently, "The Irishman" is up there. I watched it on Amazon Prime, and the first night fell asleep about an hour in. The next night I went to finish, and realized I wasn't even halfway through. I kept going, but was not really interested in any of it. The guys in the movie were too old for most of the movie (the flashbacks).
Every single super hero movie or derivative is up there as well. Cannot stand the over the top CGI or even the thought of "heros" having to dress up like it's Halloween. I can't even make it through a trailer for one of those movies. Jokes on me though, Marvel and company have made billions upon billions and I am just a guy posting on LetsRun.
Re: The super hero/comic book genre. I feel people don't realize they are taking characters and storylines from the you know comic books that the super heros are in and most were created over half a century ago. Like they aren't creating new characters here but taking decades of storylines and making a movie franchise.