Films You Hate, But Everyone Else Loves

I hated A Beautiful Mind...both Crowe and Ron Howard have done a lot more interesting work. Actually so has Jennifer Connelly come to think of it. And Marlon Brando was sex on legs in A Streetcar Named Desire.

I just don't get the love for Vanilla Sky...I've watched it twice and I just don't understand that movie.

I love 1776 and S.O.B..

Big second to the Saw movies...I don't get what people see in that garbage...I got through two of them and that was enough.

Count me in on Blade Runner!

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I couldn't get into that one either. It didn't bore me as much as 2001 or Lawrence of Arabia but it was still pretty dull.

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Harry Potter
Twilight
Braveheart
Gladiator
300
Inception
Don Jon
Paranormal Activity
Matrix
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Probably a few more that I'm not remembering atm, in bold those I really, really dislike, the others I just find overrated.

How could anyone hate There Will Be Blood? Movie is practically perfect.

To Each His Own! That is the only thing i can say!

I got a lot of stick for hating Blade Runner. Well in fact, except for a few handful Sci-fi movies, I consider that genre as meaningless drivel! So too most comedies. But Comedies > Sci-Fi.

Ah, my people. The revolution is coming.

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Mine:

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Shawshank Redemption, I don't actually hate it but it borrowed way too heavily from the plot of Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo (I elaborated on this in another thread) - so I had to take points off for originality.

Superbad is another one - it had some funny moments, but the two cop characters were just annoying and weird, and about half of the film focused on them instead of the teenagers trying to lose their virginity.

I'd also say animated films in general; I feel that the entire concept is just a step below live action filming; even when they deserve appreciation for their "art" - isn't really the reason I go to see films - I go to see acting and characters, and you can't capture that kind of depth in animation. This is why children enjoy animated films - they offer visual stimuli but only maintain a level of depth which a kid can understand.

While I sort of agree with this, I disagree with the rest, in particular this:

It all depends which animated film or what kind of animation we're talking about here

I'm obviously not talking about R-rated animation - I was just saying that there's a reason kids would be more interested in watching a Cartoon Network show than a film like The Godfather (even if you censor out all of the explicit moments).

Yeah, it makes sense, but that sounded like you were disparaging the medium as a whole

Terminator 2
Aliens
Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Transformers
Pacific Rim
300
The Avengers
Avatar

Titantic is another no-brainer if it hasn't been mentioned already (which I'm sure it has).

Avatar is another one - I don't think this was ever considered a critical masterpiece anyway, but it was generic and forgettable; basically just "Disney's Pocahontas with aliens"; the only reason it sold over $1 billion was because it was the first film to use the new 3D effects.

Fair enough

Transformers was never exactly critically acclaimed to begin with. The first one managed to get average reviews at best; the sequels were all trashed by the critics big time

I don't think films mentioned in this thread have to be critically acclaimed to qualify, they can just be sufficiently popular instead.

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I also hated Titanic.