Your Most Controversial Film Opinions?

Also, I find Predator to be SO overrated. It, honestly, has a really tense and really cool 3rd act but the rest is so boring and filled with one note and cheesy characters. I can see how people like this film but I am not a fan at all of cheesy, 80's, testosterone-filled movies. It was so cringe-worthy and boring, except for a really good 3rd act. I really want there to be a dark, violent, mature, tense Predator horror film. That's my kind of film.

I don't like The Shawshank Redemption and it bothers me every time I see it sat there at the top of 'best film' lists.

I don't think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is all that either.

In my opinion, 2001 is not one of those movie that should require a mindset trying to grasp it's entire meaning. Perhaps it's because when I first saw it I was amazed by the imagery alone and didn't think of anything else. A black monolith gives me a feeling of relaxation, not confusion.

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Haven't I said enough??

I am...hanging my head in shame.

All of them.

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What an utterly bizarre thing to say.

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Yaasss,i was thinking i knew id forgotten something.
do not understand the love for this movie at all.

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Raul and Sean will be cracking some skulls in this thread soon i imagine.

Wow! those are two polar opposite views on Vertigo! So I will have to decide who's right I'll watch Vertigo and see what I think

Are you a fan of Hitchcock, Citizen?

Vertigo is my third favourite of his after North By Northwest and Notorious. I have seen 14 of his films.

Yup, I'm a big fan of Hitch's. I've seen many of his films and most of his American made films. I loved both Notorious and really like North By Northwest. I just seen one of his older British films, Jamaica Inn the other day. For some strange reason I have never gotten around to watching Vertigo. But thanks to this thread I just requested it from my library.

Something controversial by film-goer standards? Okay, I got this:

I like the Star Wars prequels (a trilogy where 2 films are consistently hated) more than The Social Network (a film many people thought deserved BP of 2010). I'm serious - I've even reviewed them:

Star Wars Ep. I - 6/10
Star Wars Ep. II - 5/10
Star Wars Ep. III - 9/10

TSN - 4/10

Few popular and/or acclaimed films i don't like much:

Rear Window, No Country For Old Men, L'avventura, Blade Runner, American History X, Trainspotting, All About Eve.

Few panned or mixed reviewed films i like a lot:

Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Showgirls, Batman Forever, Baseketball, The Cable Guy, Poltergeist II

Perhaps Blade Runner will grow on you with a second viewing? Have you only seen it once?

Also i really love the cell-i think its visually so stunning and the nightmare-ish tone it sets.
i dont know what people here think of it but from what i read online most seem to hate it-not met any in real life whose even seen it.
though i am not a fan of vince vaughn.

I saw Gummo, which I liked.. Julien Donkey Boy was ok, Werner Herzog was hilarious.. I once tried watching "Spring Breakers" but it seemed like a movie trying to make money, and in the last year or so, if I don't like the first 15-20 minutes, I put on something else, as I don't watch as many movies as I did a few years ago when I didn't have the internet at home..

Twice. I just think it is one of those films that will never work for me. As i said i think it is extremely well made so i understand why it is so loved and acclaimed, i just can't connect with it.

I like trashy cinema. I like hateful cinema. I like imperfections in cinema. I think a lot of people are seeking for a level of perfection that is unreachable and causes a small level of anxiety. So I embrace the imperfections, for that reason and others.

I think people who really love Blade Runner connect to it, in an almost spiritual way. So if someone doesn't connect, then the rest of the film doesn't seem to speak to them. I'll be curious to see your review of it in the 10th.