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

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12 Angry Men is NOT bleeding heart pandering in the slightest. It's not ethos at work at all, but logos. Only the primary antagonist believes that the opposing side is based on sympathy, and that's his flaw. You need to look a little deeper.

The Matrix. Incredibly entertaining, but overrated- and the music is cheesy. It's cool and groundbreaking and I like it but it's not one of my favorites.

After a couple failed attempts, I actually came to enjoy Casablanca (took a minute to not hear parodies of the movie with every line!). Right there with you on Citizen Kane, though (although I do have it in my Netflix queue to give it another go one of these years).

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"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."

Finally! Now I get it!

Nice to know I'm not the only one who's not crazy about every move the Coens make. Raising Arizona? The Big Lebowski? O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Yeah, sure, great. Um, everything else of theirs I've seen so far (admittedly not a lot)? Nah.

I have seen Blade Runner few times, and probably will watch it again before the reboot.

Every time I saw it, I felt the same.

If a movie is that complex to understand, then it's too hard to love.

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conformity, perception, distortion, etc... a great movie.

I did not care for Burn After Reading. Love the casting. More or less liked the individual stories. At the end of the day, nothing came together for me.

I've been thinking on this thread for some time off and on, and it's bugging the hell out of me that I cannot think of any movies that just disappointed me. I mean, ones that I expected to really enjoy. Perhaps I've blocked them, mentally?

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Enemy at the Gates

I remember being pretty excited by the trailer for this one. The editing (at least to the trailer!) made me think this movie might be some type of conceptual reinvention of the standard war flick. I remember being taken back by the momentary freeze-frame and transition effects during certain cuts within the trailer. The movie, unfortunately, was without those effects and the story was fairly standard I thought, and did not make up for my visual disappointment.

ID4
I may have listed this disappointment elsewhere but it pissed me off so much it deserves additional highlight. I'm a sci-fi nerd from birth. This movie promised to be action-packed, epic, and dark (I mean, it's the end of the world!). My mistake to assume that this movie had intentions of being serious. I guess.

What's that? Aliens? If we only had a scientist that could... what? Your ex husband? GREAT! Now, if we only had some context to this invader...do what, now? We have a SHIP of theirs in a super secret underground base ALREADY?! AWESOMESAUSCE! Now. If we only had a live spe....oh REALLY?! YES! Let's talk to it!!! Now.... if only we just had a one-in-a-million pilot to fly this thing back to the mothers.... YOU?! YOU can pilot this??! what LUCK!!! Wait. didn't you fail... ah hell. Nevermind. You'll do, Mr. Smith! Do you think we could infiltrate their.... oh? you already have a Mac-based VIRUS to upload onto an alien network based on our infantile understanding of 1990's earth technology?! Can it fit on a USB... wait no. I mean, can it fit on a floppy!? Or even an IOMEGA ZIP!? Let's hope they have 56k dialup, or at least a standard 9-pin serial port!! ...and on and on.

**** that movie really annoys the hell out of me.
Sorry for not tagging that in spoilers.

p.s. I'm aware that I misspelled sauce. what's the point in going back now? ID4 sucks, and then you die. life has no meaning anymore. game over, man....

But still!!!

Same here - both paragraphs!

I loved Burn After Reading - several times - and I think it's why I didnt like No Country. I stupidly expected it to be the same tone so will have to go back for a rewatch when I'm feeling in a mood for something darker.

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

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I'm mixed on that one. I get the criticisms, I do and I agree with a lot of them. I really enjoyed the movie apart from a few obvious cringe moments, but a lot of it seemed out of left field. I'm really hoping that the following movies help stabilize and ground BvS ...really hoping =*(

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I can never get over how you don't like 12 Angry Men - especially since we usually agree on most movies. I've always found it to be one of those ones where, once I turn it on, I can't turn it off (I think it's THAT good)! And the funny thing, as you know, I'm quite conservative - but I've never seen it as bleeding heart.

It's really a social study - and an acting showcase as 12 diverse characters (and actors) are confined to play off each other (and don't get me started on the fine ensemble cast of classic male supporting actors of the 60's).

I'd agree that the message is simple and the reality of 11 jurors changing their positions may be a bit hard to swallow, but the setting of a trial deliberation is merely the backdrop to a great play.

I know what you mean! I had considered it one of the great classics, then the last time I watched it, I just flipped my viewpoint on it, and went from loving it to hating it.

It's not boring, in fact it's riveting and filmed and acted extremely well too.

I know what you mean here too. I'm actually quite liberal on most issues, so you would think I would love 12 Angry Men, only it makes me angry too!

Interesting.

In what way?

Why did your feeling toward it just flip so drastically? What did you see in it that you suddenly realized that changed the way you viewed it?

I know you said it's bleeding heart pandering (are you channelling Lee J. Cobb here?) and I'm assuming that's due to the messages of prejudice made blatantly clear in the movie - yes, they hit you over the head with it.

The only thing that used to make me angry about it was Jack Warden's character wanting to get to the ball game!

And the guy who changes his mind to follow the crowd...

To be fair to Citizen, following the crowd would be liking 12 Angry Men if anything him disliking it is going against the crowd. Unless i'm misunderstanding you there.