Name some.

I don't know. I'm kind of surprised to see a few of you here so down on Full Metal Jacket.
I do agree that the film was kind of in two parts but, as any one knows that's ever been to boot camp, the first part of the movie was dead on and absolutely riveting and brilliant. I will probably defend it till my dying breath.

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Fight Club.

Ok, that you're definitely gonna need to explain.

Here are the films I've seen that I would consider truly bad. That would mean or less. And yes I think the first truly bad movie is the first one. I will bold the truly worse one on there

1. Shawshank Redemption
68. To Kill a Mockingbird
69. The Prestige
120. Heat
134. Ran
137. Sin City
140. No Country for Old Men
195. Slumdog Millionaire
200. La Strada

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I can only agree with La Strada.

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The Matrix at #18 would be the first one for me. The acting is just poor in that movie and I see it as more of a cult favorite for sci-fi geeks than an actually great film. The next one would be 2001: A Space Odyssey at #93. I know that's probably an unpopular opinion and I respect the technical pioneering by Kubrick in that film, but the film has a boring/non-existent plot with little dialogue. Yes it's beautiful, especially for its time period, but I came to watch a movie not a painting.

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I don't know about first but I sure do hate Wall-E.

Also, Oldboy is a mess.

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Forrest Gump is the most overrated and I don't really like that much anymore, TSS is overrated but I think it's good.

Full Metal Jacket overrated, decent enough though. Same with Braveheart.

Avatar is massively overrated, although never watched it fully and don't really desire to.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is pretty bad.

Most of the films on their are too high, but the more I look at it the more I realise I don't really hate many films do I? :P

I take it you're a fan of Fight Club then, I am too and I get quite annoyed when people criticise it. Most of the criticisms of the film are completely stupid, most decide to focus their hate on the ending of course which is actually completely logical and in fitting with the rest of the film.

Recently I found this article written by Jim Emerson, one of my favourite film critics, about Fight Club. For any Fight Club fans, or even haters, I think it is a great read: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/.../40828001/1023

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I enjoy Fight Club but I think it's way too high on IMDB top list.It's fun,entertaining and ... well,and that's all.I don't think that it is very well shot.

I enjoyed this film.It was a challenge but I prefer it to 8 1/2.Haven't seen any other Fellini's work.

yeah,I think something like that,too.

if it was up to me,I would put Forrest in the first place and TSS lower. :D

maybe you're not into special effect films?Avatar is spectacular and I'm a fan of HP series.

Actually, 2012 me apparently had a brain aneurysm and thought Thomas was responding to my urging Sinedd to name some similar films to The Apartment with Fight Club, which he clearly wasn't.

I haven't seen it in maybe a year, but I do remember liking it a lot.

Same here. Hated 8 1/2 while only didn't like La Strada.

Oldboy is a masterpiece, though.

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At number 26, The Usual Suspects tries to be complicated for the sole purpose of pulling the rug out from under us at the end. It completely invalidates the entire film, a pointless and annoying film, the first truly bad film on the list

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****ing Dark Knight Rises

[quote=Powdered Water;652678]@ C&W Really? You think Full Metal Jacket is worse then Eyes Wide Shut?
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Nothing is worse than Eyes Wide Shut. I really enjoy Kubrick, but that movie was awful. Not the direction, not the mise-en-scene, the sound was absolutely perfect, but the plot and the acting were teeth grinding agony.

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^ Well, that didn't work out.

Sin City I believe would qualify for that. It had an interesting style, but what a steaming load of **** act/ors/resses.

What don't you like about To Kill a Mockingbird?

Peck was great and all, but I personally thought it was a weak literary adaption. It never came close to showing all the emotion of the book, which even that I think is a bit overrated.