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

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  • Mencken1976
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:04am CST
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    Three of mine:

    Original Star Wars - Another science fiction piece with dialogue and music used as filler for action and graphics.
    The Lighthouse - Absolute nightmare of a movie that has incredible pretensions to being artful, deep and meaningful. Most can't see through the crafted veneers so they are intimidated (like how some feel like in art galleries where even the worst rubbish has hidden meanings) and pay homage to it.
    Titanic - So many vapid superficial stereotypes, no wonder why the communist Chinese loved it.
  • Star
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:09am CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57bOy2Dzjg
  • Star
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:14am CST
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    I couldn't get through Avatar.
  • boosted
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:14am CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    Only movie Ive walked out of is A place beyond the pines. I'm told it picked up after we left but man the first hour or whatever was a brutal watch.
  • Mencken1976
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:20am CST
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    Lol. That's one of those you have to watch otherwise you're the odd man or woman out in the office.

    Movies whose plot line is immediately discernible irritate me to no end, Avatar is another in the long line of human bashing (as if nature is sooo benevolent and primitive tribes sooo noble and lead such wonderful stress free lives).
  • fisky
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 10:22am CST
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    Little Miss Sunshine. It gets a 91% critic and 91% audience score. I turned it off about 3/4 of the way through. To be fair, I've never liked Steve Carell in anything.
  • Miss Trowel
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 11:43am CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    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.
  • theclaws
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 11:58am CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    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.
  • Barabbas
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 11:59am CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    A River Runs Through It, and Beloved. Walked out of both.
  • jesseriley
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:10pm CST
    re: Miss Trowel
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    Loved Shawshank, had to see it 10 times just to get the best scene: Red looks at the guns in the pawn shop, but chooses one of the compasses instead (to find what Andy buried for him).

    Lost In Translation, waste o money.
  • not a fan
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:13pm CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Star
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:13pm CST
    re: Miss Trowel
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    Oh no, not Shawshank!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7MB1pgb9w

    You can't hate that. You are banned form society!
  • Fattttty B
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:20pm CST
    re: fisky
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    fisky wrote:

    Little Miss Sunshine. It gets a 91% critic and 91% audience score. I turned it off about 3/4 of the way through. To be fair, I've never liked Steve Carell in anything.


    That movie was awful. Avatar was another movie I did not enjoy.
  • jesseriley
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:22pm CST
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    It’s not realism, it’s Stephen King: how many taboos can you violate in one story.
  • David S
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:33pm CST
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    The Thin Red Line
  • trite
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:42pm CST
    re: Mencken1976
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    All of the marvel movies.
  • Precious Roy
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:43pm CST
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    Schindler's List. Artistically, it was pure garbage. Spielberg was blatantly ripping off Orson Wells and other great cinematographers of the 1940s and 50s with his black and white filming. It was especially hacky because everything was shot in very high resolution so that it really didn't look like a period film. It just looked like someone forgot to turn on the color. And the girl with the red coat was about as subtle as a Jim Carrey movie. It also seemed like Spielberg was more interesting in special effects to show what it looks like when someone gets shot in the head than he was in developing the characters of the Holocaust victims. In fact, it verged on being a sort of genocide porn that was more interested in the gore than in the humanity. The last straw was Liam Neeson's big speech when the death camps were going to be liberated. It was sooo hammy and such a blatant pandering to the Academy Awards. Ralph Fiennes should have played Schindler instead of Neeson.
  • Star
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:56pm CST
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-umlbHX28k
  • moooodey
    6 days ago 01/14/2020 12:59pm CST
    re: jesseriley
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    jesseriley wrote:
    Lost In Translation, waste o money.


    One of the best movies I've seen.
  • Star
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    6 days ago 01/14/2020 1:01pm CST
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQnH450hPM