RE: "Classic Films" that are actually utter rubbish.

American Beauty

Prototype for the Tea Party: 1925 Birth of a Nation

Citizen Kane...had to watch it for a film class, I honestly couldn't watch it, horrible movie, extremely boring, would much rather watch Norbit or Big Mommas house 3.

Gay boys in the dorm here wank together watching:

Full Metal Jacket

Top Gun

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Fight Club

Braveheart

Hollywood gay favorites wrote:

Gay boys in the dorm here wank together watching:

Full Metal Jacket

Top Gun

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

Fight Club

Braveheart

Presumably, you're too busy to watch because you're sewing sequins to your skinny jeans...

Star Wars

I loved it when I was a kid, but every actor (except for harrison ford and james earl jones' voice) in it SUCKS and the dialogue is retarded.

Fellas,

Homos are people too. My shipmates be doin it to 1) The Sands of Iwo Jima, 2) D-Day, 3) Dirty Dozen, 4) The Sand Pebbles, and my favorite 5) HBO's Game of Thrones.

Clockwork Orange. Does nothing for me.

Scarface, Amadeus.

I like Fellini a lot, but during his neo-realist phase. Not a fan of the artsy films.

Gone with the Wind

Oh ragazzo wrote:

Clockwork Orange. Does nothing for me.

Could not agree more.

A Clockwork Orange, The Graduate, and Amadeus are all good picks. The second half of "A Clockwork Orange" is impossible to watch. Anyone over 15 realizes now that the most sympathetic character in "The Graduate" is actually Mrs. Robinson.

I have to agree with Elaine Benis that "The English Patient" is also dreadful. Some things that were cutting edge in their day don't impress at all now. "Tom Jones" is frantic but it isn't the least bit funny. Some of the British historical costume dramas, like "A Man For all Seasons," for a total snooze, too.

Schindler's List.

It was a good movie but no better than 100 other movies ever made. Yet this regularly makes the all time top 10 list of great movies.

I didn't really get any enlightenment about the holocaust that I didn't have already from a basic high school education. It disturbs how so many people came out of that movie shocked at the portrayal of what had happened. What the hell did you think happened?

I don't understand why people are bashing The Graduate. It captures the aimlessness of a recent college graduate that did everything right in life and isn't very enthusiastic about the path laid out for him since the day he was born. And I really admire the camera work.

To add some fuel to the discussion, Casablanca. Can't stand it.

You must be joking about A Clockwork Orange. I can understand why some would hate 2001, despite the fact that it is justifiably a major cultural totem, but the former? You don't like the values in it? If you want to dislike a Kubrick film, try Barry Lyndon or Eyes Wide Shut, though I liked the latter.

Full Metal Jacket absolutely does not belong with those other war films. Braveheart is patriotic bs, Platoon is unsubtle, and Full Metal Jacket is greatness from opening to conclusion. And Citizen Kane is a great, great film, but not for the young. Give it a few years and try again.

Drivel on the academy award scale would be forrest gump, english patient, mrs. miniver, terms of endearment, and so many others.

Some good ones above, but I have to agree with this guy, I think The Graduate is great, for the reasons below, as well as a great soundtrack and the rebellious finish, breaking up a wedding and charting a new path. Oh and I still want to pork Elaine :)Another note, some of the above aren't "classics", Top Gun? I think by classic the OP means movies generally considered as "great films", best pictures, etc, or maybe cult classics. On that note, The Big Lebowski couldn't suck more!

crazy person wrote:

I don't understand why people are bashing The Graduate. It captures the aimlessness of a recent college graduate that did everything right in life and isn't very enthusiastic about the path laid out for him since the day he was born. And I really admire the camera work.

To add some fuel to the discussion, Casablanca. Can't stand it.

Casablanca has just about the most perfect script of any movie ever made. Let's not be silly.

Yanqui wrote:

Casablanca has just about the most perfect script of any movie ever made. Let's not be silly.

Agreed. Great script. Great movie.

Not sure I agree about Schindler's List being a bad flick.....directing in the first 10-15 min is some of the most brilliant filmwork I've ever seen, and it's not necessarily supposed to enlighten the viewer about the holocaust. It's supposed to show how a "flawed" man can do tremendously heroic deeds.

Yanqui wrote:

Casablanca has just about the most perfect script of any movie ever made. Let's not be silly.

Haven't watched it in a few years, and my film tastes have greatly changed, so maybe I'll give it another try. But I just couldn't get that into it. I guess I'm not a fan of the romantic aspects, although the movie does capture that idea of temporary loves we meet sometimes in life.