A Movie Everyone Likes That You Think Is Crap?
 

well i was reading through the topic called "crap movies that you like" and i thought of the opposite. now when reading other peoples movies, try not to argue and stuff since that would be expected when saying a "great" movie is "crap". now of course i dont think these movies are crap (although some might be) but i just dont think they are that good and didnt live up to their hype:

Pulp Fiction - i just watched this for the first time the other day and i was expecting a movie that would just blow my mind after hearing what everyone says about it and seeing that its #16 on the IMDB top 250 list. boy was i let down. i found it really boring and the whole bruce willis story was unneeded

Donnie Darko - i LOVE psychological thrillers (memento is my #1 favorite movie and identity is #6 on my list) but this was just plain old confusing. a good psychological movie should sum everything up at the end but right when the credits started rolling in donnie darko, i was like "so thats it? what the hell hapened?" deffinatly an overrated movie

Requiem For A Dream - just plain boring

every Steven Spielberg movie except for HOOK, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, and the INDIANA JONES TRILLOGY - yes, i honestly think Hook and Catch Me If You Can (the later is more expected) are Spielberg's best movies. all the others i find quite boring/bad.

remember, these are all IMO

Titanic

Armageddon
Donnie Darko (I don't think it's crap, just not good)

Forrest Gump
Titanic

Gladiator...I wanted nonstop fighting and I got a stinking love story or at least way to much of one.

Moulin Rouge...It's a musical...nuff said.After seeing that tub o crap,i never gave Chicago a moments notice.

Gladiator was mostly fighting..... But every movie should have SOMEWHAT of a sub-plot.

We've had this thread before.

But

Moulin Rouge
Terminator 3
Donnie Darko

My expectation's are probrably unrealistic of Gladiator but,the first time I saw it I was really disappointed.I wanted to see a true life and death struggle to stay alive and for me that would have been enough.I probrably would have enjoyed it more if my girlfriend at the time was'nt such a .....well ya know ;)

Meh.

Insomnia, I'd expected a lot more out of it.

Gore Verbinski's remake of The Ring.

Really, Why?

I really don't like A Clockwork Orange. Not because it was confrontational as some might say but because it did nothing for me. I never connected with the film and found the whole thing pretty stupid.

I would normally make lesser men out of Pulp bashers, but I agree whole-heartedly with the Speilberg part.

Speilberg is the biggest hack in the business, who puts out a movie every year or 2 to line his pockets. He stuffs them with over-used special effects to wow people, but who's fooled?

He ruined a film that had potential (Stanley Kubrick's partly finished A.I). He took a harsh, brutal story and gave it childish elements (the talking bear? Him seeing his mother again? That's not KUbrick!!!)

I personally believe his best work was Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Schindler's List. Everything else by him is shovelware.





Oh yeah, movies everyone loves but I hate:
Butterfly Effect, Fast and the Furious and it's many clones, Dodgeball, Van Helsing, Gothika, and most new stuff that the pot-heads who hang outside my apartment like.

And while we're dissing stuff, **** Pink Floyd. Meaning of Dark Side of the Moon? What ****ing meaning?! Name a Classic Rock band that had any kind of meaning!

Pink Floyd.


As for biggest hack, my vote goes to Guy Ritchie.

Pulp Fiction..it just doesn't do it for me.

casablanca - i think it would have been better if it wasn't 9am when i saw it and i wasnt sitting on the most uncomfortable lecture chairs in the world at the time because i watched a little bit of it the other day on tv and it looked better than the first time.
the other one i didnt like (for the same reason) was ...... for some reason i cant even remember the name. so annoying. had a really famous actor in it, went on to do a bit of directing. the film was like a guide on how hollywood films should be made....i dont know why i cant remember it....oh well...the characters names were henry and helen. the woman had a really annoying voice but i loved her. he worked at a newspaper factory. everyone has heard of this film. anyway, i just thought it went on forever.

There isn't a damn thing wrong with Spielberg, jeepers.

ANYway, movies I think are crap that everybody else likes?. .

Donnie Darko
the Ring
Little Nicky
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Desperado

remake of the ring
white chicks

i jus didnt like them as much as other people did, there were some good scenes in both movies but the rest jus didnt do it for me

The Adventures of Robin Hood I think that was the name (it had Clark Gable). It's the most irritating film I've ever seen because almost every other line is a hearty laugh from either Robin or his Merry Men. I preferred Prince of Thieves.

for the sake of my own sanity....
 

http://www.errolflynn.net/Filmography/Rh8.jpg
Errol Flynn (aka not Clark Gable) as Robin of Locksley in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Here I am surprised to learn that there are people who liked white chicks.

Me too!!! bleah! I was bored to distraction.

Also: AI. I kinda hated it. Everybody that I normally agree with about movies loves this, but I found it to be horribly disjointed and silly.

The Exorcist, for ****s sake, this movie is pussy. Another one would have to be Gone with the Wind, I hate the movie.

This thread already exists here

Please use the search function to avoid duplicate threads....

Yeah that's the one. Always getting the names mixed up...

kill bill
kill bill 2
lord of the rings the fellowship of the ring
lord of the rings the two towers
lord of the rings the return of the king

Spiderman 2. They reall should have called it "The Mis-Adventures of Peter Parker: A Romantic Comedy, Drama, with a teaspoon of Action. Guest starring Spiderman as himself."

I'm gonna say scarface. I just recently saw this film and it just didn't do it for me. Mabe I expected too much with all the positive comments towards it. Perhaps if I had seen it back in the day I would have loved it, I don't know.

Pulp Fiction-What the hell? I didn't see any point exerted into this movie...just drugs.

Reservoir Dogs-Band of criminals together...pulling a heist, no-one to trust? Should of been a book or an FX Movie

The Ring-I won't even go there

Head of State-Are you nuts?

Black Knight-So, what's the SYMBOLOGY there?

People liked these movies?!?! :p

:rolleyes:

Sixth Sense
Unbreakable

Both of them are boring and slow, yet have praise heaped upon them

gotta say i loved donnie darko...but it's cozz i hate getting to the end of movies where every little end has been wrapped up and u know everything and u can just say "ahh...i understand!" it's more fun watching it again later and picking up more info and talking to people about it and ****.... oh yeh

from dusk till dawn
titanic for sure
chicago

For me it would have to be:

< Titanic :mad:
< Moulin Rouge
< Spider-Man

UTTER RUBBISH

I wanted to bash my skull against my TV when watching Moulin Rouge (who ever told Nicole Kidman she could sing?) and I hated Lost in Translation.

:laugh: Wasn't that bad was it?? What did you think of Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger's singing in Chicago?

*Keep in mind that they are actresses first* ;)

I didn't mind the singing in either of those films.

Moulin Rouge was at least adventurous for a modern day musical, and im not sure where your going with Lost in Translation, its decent.
If you hated that you probably need guns in your movies, or cartoons

Hmm… well I haven't seen Lost in Translation yet… but I hated Moulin Rouge and I can guarantee you I don't need guns in my movies… or cartoons…

I think it all boils down to being an individual with individual tastes... take your signature for example... apparently you like it and I think it sucks... each to their own I guess...

I thought they actually did okay, and liked the movie. Don't get me wrong, not all musical movies are bad! I was just giving my opinion of movies I didn't like. :D

Anchorman
Garfield
remake of Godzilla

Hulk
Showgirls
Thinner

kill bill 1 & 2
Big Fish
The Hulk
The Cat in the Hat (but I don't know anyone that really did like it)

Why did you see volume 2 if you thought 1 was crap?

movies everybody loved but I hated!
 

The Hours : believe me, it felt like it took more than hours, more like days out of my life to see!

Dodgeball : I walked into it thinking 'hey, this is the #! movie in america, and I barely laughed during it!!!!!! And I thought the girl on girl kiss at the end was just sick and twisted!

Catwoman : not much to say about this, even though I usually love superhero movies, but there was no depth (story) to it!

I have more, I just can't think of any right now!

I hated Pulp Fiction.

Two words - Pulp Fiction. It had the occasional moment but as a whole the movie was plain junk. I've only seen Reservoir Dogs and Fiction and Reservoir Dogs is hella better!

I can't understand how people never liked Pulp Fiction, it was a masterstroke and extremely funny. I don't like Lord of The Rings, but everyone else seems to love it, just not y cup of tea.

Pulp Fiction did not match up to what I expected. That's my opinion. You have yours as well.

I concur.

The only thing that comes to mind is Requiem For A Dream. I just found it a bit boring, and everything that had to do with the mother annoyed me. (I hope I'm thinking of the right movie. lol)

Yeah
 

This is a very controversial movie. I personally love it and think it's one of the greatest movies in the last decade so I just wanted to fill you in about some things so you might be able to appreciate it more.

No matter how you feel about Pulp-Fiction as a movie, you can't debate that it's just another movie. The way Pulp-fiction was written is much different than practically every-movie, save some unpopular ones he copied the idea from.

Now, A lot of people didn't understand of didn't get why the movie's chronology was rearranged and overlapped. Tarantino did this because if he wrote it chronologically, you wouldn't understand the point of the movie. It opens with the most important scene and ends with most impotant scene to the plot of the movie. The first scene set the plot for the movie and the last one summed up the movie's point (brilliantly, I might add). In every story, someone dies and someone gets saved. I'm not gonna write who from every story because it's irrelevant but what's great about that fact, written into the script is that in the last story, Samuel L. Jackson gets saved but not in the same way the rest of them were. Jules was saved spiritually. His soul was saved. That was one of the points of the movie and how people are tempted by evil which is what's in the case, that or Marsellus Wallace's soul (which is supposed to represent evil anyway).

Also, besides the different structure of the story, the way the script carries the plot is also uniquely different from most movies. The movie moves the plot mostly through its diologue. And it's diologue was cleverly written so for once in a movie, we find ourselves actually entertained just by what the character's are saying. It's a breath-of-fresh-air from most movies where the diologue is emphasized in many parts for carrying the plot and is pretty clean-cut. The Diologue in most movies is written for a purpose in the plot where Pulp-Fiction's diologue is written mostly for entertainment (but is still used for character development ofcourse just like in normal movies) and is written at a pace like regular people are talking unlike slower-than-reality movies.

As for the low-lives in the movie. The character's are low-lifes for mainly three reasons. The first is because it fits the plot, the second because its supposed to comment on the pop-culture of the United States (A commentary) and also just to stick it to the rest of writers in hollywood that he can make a movie with such low-life character's and make it a hit because of the amount of entertainment they deliver, regardless of who they are. And also to an extant, to show that no matter what field oa peson works in, they're pretty much still people which helps the strenth of the moral of the story (the plot) itself.

I think it's great. When I first saw it, I couldn't take the large amount of violence seriously because of the diologue and of how much violence there was. They really weren't painted to be such bad-guys. It was a sort-of criticism of Hollywood movies. I loved Pulp-Fiction a lot. But don't get me wrong. I HATED KILLBILL. I also didn't like Troy that much, Independence Day, and T3, That's all I can name, right now. My thoughts.

The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy. blah

Huh? Point? Sorry, there was no point to this movie. The only good thing Tarantino did in this fim was take the time to mix it up, so only the brilliant minds could keep up. On the other hand, it stunk of everything. It sported nothing but useless acting. Precious time taken away from these actors, but someone how it elevated them from this movie with a "point"

Sorry, but there was no point. The movie included sub-points, which lead to a bigger point...NOTHING! Comprehend? If not, think about it this way. You have the trunk of the stree, right? This is the TRUE point to the movie. Course this is a true tree, not cut down, so it has branches. The branches are sub-points. Sorry, but if theres a sub point...it should lead right to the point, which leads to the roots. It didn't.

I was no WHERE NEAR ENTERTAINED by what they said. The dialogue and conversations they had were mere things. These are the conversations I have with friends and family. I don't look for life similarities in movies...I look for something in a different catergory...still including life, but with much more difference.

As for this being potraying the pop-culture of America? HOLY ****! Good idea Tarantino. Let this movie released out to the whole world. Let it be watched in third world countries. It's all ready great most of the world thinks of us as crap...it's even better that a movie, so recognized, can explain the problems and filth around here.

Sorry, but this gives Western civilization a bad look. It gave me a bad vibe, and I'll stick to it.

No where near is Tarantino a great, legendary actor. I don't know what got him so high, but there must be a glitch in the matrix :rolleyes:

Thirt-teen and Scarface, ( the godfather, and Goodfellas was way better)

The Whole Ten Yards i liked it does anyone think its a load of crap movie?

rocky horror picture show, dirty dancing -older but damn they still haunt, crap
as for newer films..
the village- complete ass...
kill bill set wasnt bad but was highly over rated.

Hachi

I was lulled into a false sense of enjoyment at the start of this movie about a bond between a music professor and a handsome ginger - brown Akita puppy, then a grown dog. I should have been forewarned by listening closer to the prescient and morose piano score, which plays achingly throughout the movie to its excruciatingly long, drawn out heartbreaking end.

SPOILER ahead.

Of course the dog dies. After devoted
owner ( inappropriately cast jmho) Richard Gere dies. And dog spends ten years (!) waiting for him to come home, at the commuter train station, becoming a homeless animal as dependent as poor Blanch on 'the kindness of strangers.' And I felt like it was ten years until the director ( named Lassie , no less) would put that poor decrepit dog and this tearjerker movie out of their respective miseries. Based on a supposed true story, this is just so absolutely depressing a film. I cannot imagine why anyone who loves animals - as I do- would want to waste their time on it. In the end, it's not really about celebrating and rightfully mourning the beauty of a bond between human and animal- it's just about dragging out this depressing denouement and tearing your heart out. And that it's considered a family film boggles the mind- I wouldn't expose any child to this film unless they were a pre pubescent Ted Bundy. Come to think of it, he probably would have loved this movie.

Jmho but if you love animals - don't see this movie !!! Hug your cat or dog instead. Don't have one? Then visit your friend who has a lovable lap sitting tabby. Or go to the park and watch the parade of Goldens and poodles. Akitas even. One of them will surely come up to you to be petted ( you can pretty much count on the Goldens). Or watch videos of squirrels eating pizza or cockatoos fetching car keys. Do yourself a favor -and don't watch this movie.

And yes, I know it seems to have garnered nothing but glowing reviews from everyone but me. But as me, if I ever want to have an experience similar to watching this painfully glum movie, I'd go to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. Wouldn' t hurt as much and wouldn't last as llllloooonnnnnngggggg.

Brazil (1985), and A Clockwork Orange (1971).

I felt the stories were in fact very sloppily done, and do not understand all the love and hype.

Re: A Movie Everyone Likes That You Think Is Crap?
 

Oof, you can smell the 2004 coming off this thread.

Also, lol at young me posting Pulp Fiction.

Re: A Movie Everyone Likes That You Think Is Crap?
 

What do you mean 2004?

It might be because this thread was originally started in 2004, but I don't know, that's just me.

Re: A Movie Everyone Likes That You Think Is Crap?
 

Fight Club and Boondock Saints are the first two that come to mind.

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I also like how even back in 2004 people were all "this thread's been done already".

Also, is Boondock Saints an everybody-loves-this kind of movie? Seems like most of the time I've seen it mentioned lately is in a negative fashion.

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I only have one movie for this thread:p

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I wouldn't say it was crap, but I found Dunkirk overrated. I didn't get the fuss. Maybe not being European caused me to not get attached to the events that unfolded on the screen. Maybe the nonlinear story affected my viewing experience. I am not against nonlinear plotlines, but I thought it was overdone here. But I didn't enjoy it at all.
Not to forget my ears getting destroyed by that loud sounds.

I remember it getting a good deal of hype for a short period before settling into its current status as the "cult movie that's really crap".,

The difference in Pulp FIction is an interesting one as I would argue its actually only after 2004 that Tarantino's influence has really been fully felt. You had a lot of would be followers like Guy Ritchie back in the 90's but the likes of the McDonagh brothers have IMHO been a lot more successful.

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I think it's easy to name Pulp Fiction when it's hyped as one of the greatest movies ever and ends up being 150 minutes of foul-mouthed dialogue punctuated by the occasional spot of violence that has no readily-digestible point (beyond themes of honour and redemption even for such low-life characters as these), which isn't going to work for everyone. I think it benefits from a second chance, at least.

Also you've got to laugh at a user with a Tony Soprano quote in their usertitle complaining about how Pulp Fiction makes Western culture look bad. That's the annoying thing about bumping old threads, you get users in them who say some of the most foolish stuff but they're no longer around for you to clown on them. Such a shame. The same goes for some of these choices that aren't "everybody likes this" films - I can't believe one person thought Catwoman was a film that everyone but them liked.

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At least you’re aware and getting pleasure from it but it’s very sad.