Movies You Thought You'd Love, But Don't?
 

I'm watching the game, I'll come back once I've had a second to think about it.

Rear Window, All About Eve and No Country are a few that i should love but don't for whatever reason. There's plenty of others.

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Big Trouble in Little China

John Carpenter? Kurt Russell? Cult Classic? The concept is John Wayne stuck in a Shaw Brothers flick? Sign me up!

Except it wasn't what I signed up for. By all rights I should adore it, but the film just doesn't click with me, even after rewatching it. It's a movie I want to love but can't, and it leaves me cold.

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See my top 12 Film Disappointment list for a few. But aside from them I guess you could add Shaft to the list.

Natural Born Killers, Blow, Bronson, Shutter Island, Inherent Vice, Kill Bill I & II, just to name a few.

Yeah I will say Natural Born Killers too. That flick sucked.

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Alien and The Godfather, sadly. Both decent for me but I don't love either.

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Godfather III, September (Woody), There are several but I will have to think about it.

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I think the biggest one for me would be American Psycho. Reading the plot, it seemed like a movie that would easily be a favorite of mine, but then I watched it and thought it was just... meh. It really seemed like my kind of movie but barely any of it clicked with me.

Also, just like Crick and Gun, Natural Born Killers is another one I thought I was really gonna like but after watching I was pretty disappointed. It had a couple good parts but overall just didn't click either. A lot of the camp in it just didn't work for me.

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The last I recalled was guy ritchie snatch - idk it just become less engaging the 2nd time I watch it

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too many to count.

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I think a movie that really disapponted me is Fight Club, I found it so boring!

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i had high hopes of Their finest, which had very good reviews. but i didn't like it very much, apart from Bill nighy who was fun.

I wanted to love American Hustle, but I hated Bradley Cooper's character, and he dragged the film way down. Even seeing Amy Adams' boobs for the first time couldn't save the film.

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I wanted to love Silver Linings Playbook but all the characters made me feel homicidal.

I thought I would hate Big Trouble in Little China and avoided it for years...I finally saw it and even though I didn't understand everything that went on, I did enjoy it and having Kurt Russell in the lead certainly helped.

I'll second September...it was agony getting through that one, one of Woody's worst films.

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I had high hopes for Looper, but I didn't like it.

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The Departed

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12 Angry Men (bleeding heart pandering, hated it)
Jackie (right wing political rabble, hated it too)
Dial M for Murder (meh)
Betsy's Wedding (not funny)
Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen at his most unimaginative)
Diana (the worst bio-pic ever made....well maybe)