Movie that you almost walked out on but got great reviews from critics and the public at large?

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Took my brother in law (he was 13 at the time) to see Avengers Infinity War. I'd seen the Iron Man movies (fine) and Captain America (quite meh), and Thor Ragnorak (enjoyable). I'm not a huge super hero guy but can enjoy myself even if I'm never entranced by them.

I found myself laughing out loud in the cinema. Some of the dialogue was so stunningly bad, so many forced bone headed decisions, random CGI fight scenes unnecessary even by super hero standards, and so many massively contrived moments to drag the plot forward whether it made sense or not.

Again on this topic. Problem with these mega mutli movie franchises is jumping in the middle or missing a movie here or there is you may miss out on some inside joke or theme that could seem stupid on it's own. If that makes sense.

Part II of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was absolutely terrible and I didn't leave only out of politeness to my captors (hosts) at the time. Character development or even distinction and narrative were apparently entirely foreign to Peter Jackson in that movie.

The Talented Mr. Ripley: I can never get those hours back.

Showgirls

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Showgirls

Loved that movie.. It was about SFH ya know.

Show girls is supposed to be "so bad its good" but actually, it's just extremely horribly bad. You know those conversion schools they have for homosexuals to supposedly make them stop being gay? This is a conversion movie that makes heterosexuals stop being straight.

What About Bob. Absolutely terrible. Even aside from generally disliking Bill Murray and his idea of what is funny, this one sucks.

Iron Man 3 stands out as immensely disappointing. The trailers leading up to it made it seem like Ben Kingsley was going to be this epic terrorist character where he was putting on a great voice, etc. And then they basically turned his character into Russell Brand. Major bummer IMO and people raved. Don't get it

Dont get the hate for Bill Murray on here either. What About Bob is OK. Groundhog Day is classic. And Bill Murray has cranked out many good movies from late 70s to present day. Contrast his movies with Adam Sandlers who has made maybe 3 good movies out of what 30 since 2000 (Uncut Gems was good) or Eddie Murphy who has made maybe 2 good movies out of 20 or so since 2000. Or Steve Martin who hasn't made a good movie since 1999.

Any comic book based movie. I don’t understand how anyone can sit through that shite.

Evita

Lala Land

Actually hurt physically to watch

When I was a teenager I took my Dad to see Purple Rain. My Dad started laughing ( Cape Fear type laugh) during some of the scenes, like when Prince first rolled up on his motorcycle, then fell asleep and started snoring loudly.

I had a time when my computer was being used at night and movie rentals were only 50 cents each, so I rented a bunch of Bill Murray films. Every one of them was funny. He may have been bad in SNL, but elevates every otherwise bad movie he's in.

Joker.

Everyone loved it. It was terrible on so many levels.

And an insult to Heath Ledger.

Considering diving into a movie binge and looking for suggestions for what YOU would consider 5-10 personal 'Must See' mainstream movies in the past 10-15 years. Recently I've watched "Hail, Caesar!" (AMAZING movie lol), "Silence" (Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield), and The Imitation Game and loved all of them. I love summer popcorn flicks as well like Spider-Man, Newer Planet of the Apes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, etc

Considering diving into a movie binge and looking for suggestions for what YOU would consider 5-10 personal 'Must See' mainstream movies in the past 10-15 years. Recently I've watched "Hail, Caesar!" (AMAZING movie lol), "Silence" (Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield), and The Imitation Game and loved all of them. I love summer popcorn flicks as well like Spider-Man, Newer Planet of the Apes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, etc

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What was the recent one where the girl falls in love with the water creature? I didn't walk out, but I fell asleep, and decided never to finish it. I feel like you have to be in the right mood for some of these movies. I watched Parasite last night, and it was ok, but Best Picture?

Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Kietel jerking off on a car full of teenage girls yet the "critics" called it art.

Take Phoenix out of Joker and it's a 'B' movie.

I enjoyed Lady in the Water but can see how someone would not like it, Similar to OUATIH, The Irishman, etc. These movies are for cinema lovers, and thus tend to be too slow or self-indulgent.

I'm not into Star Wars, Lord of the Rings so I wont even see them. I walked out of Pan's Labyrinth after friends raved about it. Another film I walked out of along time ago was Dune but I dont think that was supposed to be a very good film.

I did not watch it in theaters but Once upon a time in Hollywood. almost stopped watching because I was bored and I knew the story of the the Manson killings , but I guess I was wrong and had the story mixed up. The movie ended up a little better than I thought.

Transformers... all after the original. I watched them on TV, but I really didn't pay much attention to them. In a theater, I would have been bored.

Until the last two movies, this series had global sales of over $1 billion per movie.