Overrated Movies: Films that Everyone Loves but You Can't Stand

[Larry Moecurley]

Hey, it's Friday night, I'm in a (somewhat rare) fun mood, and I hope you are too!

For me, When Harry Met Sally was formulaic and predictable. The lady I saw it with agreed.
Pretty much everything by David Lynch, our most orrated director.
Fight Club. Even with the twist, it was a dumb movie.
The Usual Suspects. This film didn't even have a twist, as the situation was obvious less then 30 minutes in.


My favorite genre is horror, where there is no shortage of glorified dreck:
The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
The Grudge Japanese woman does amazing crocodile impression!
Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise. Saw the first movie, learned Freddy was a child-molester, never saw another one!

THE SHINING: Absolutely, positively the most overrated movie of my lifetime! Stephen King's novel was fantastic Stanley Kubrick's mutilation of it was nothing short of reprehensible! Another "Great Director" from the same abusive mold of Hitchcock, Polanski, the aforementioned Lynch, and Allen. Just ask Shellry Duvall, if she can still speak!

And the number of WORDS WASTED, in books, film "documentaries," magazine articles and college theses trying to "analyze" this ultimate cinematic equivalent of The Emperor's New Clothes is APPALLING!

My personal analysis of The Shining is brief, concise, to the point:
It's a shit movie. Ignore it!

And absolutely, feel free to share your own examples, horror or non.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. The Lebowski shitshow

[silverweb]

31. I wasn't impressed, either.

Didn't see it for years after it was such a big hit, then decided I should probably catch up with the pop culture attached to it.

Although it was mildly amusing, it was mostly stupid, and I couldn't see what everyone else was so agog about.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

163. I struggled to get through it.

I know that's sacrilege here, as it is worshipped on DU and often quoted here... but it just didn't do it for me. Forced myself to get through it.

[silverweb]

2. Pulp Fiction.

I even tried watching it again 10 years later to give it a fair chance and still hated it.

[pnwest]

7. Oh, see, now I love Pulp Fiction!

[Skittles]

23. it's a great movie

LOVED it

[Reader Rabbit]

10. I feel this way about anything by Tarantino.

It all seems like adolescent-fantasy violence porn to me.

[silverweb]

25. "...adolescent-fantasy violence porn."

Yes! That's exactly what it felt like!

I tried to really hard to find some kind of a theme or coherent story line the second time I suffered through it and couldn't find one. It just seemed like a very long 2-1/2 hours of gratuitous violence.

[DonaldsRump]

28. Everything EXCEPT Pulp Fiction

This movie is a masterpiece of the highest order. It's perfect in every way!

[captain queeg]

40. Not impressed with Kill Bill

[honest.abe]

34. +1

I couldnt get past the first 15 minutes.

[Larry Moecurley]

89. I didn't Hate it

But it was definitely underwhelming!

[Mad_Dem_X]

191. Agreed

I gave it a shot because my friend raved about it...but I just couldn't get into it.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

193. I also hated Pulp Fiction

It might be the worst movie I have ever seen in a theater.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Shawshank

[LizBeth]

13. My boys raved about that. Insisted, demanded I watch it. I did and realized I had already watched

and was that unimpressed I had forgotten.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. +1

[Larry Moecurley]

91. OUCH

That was a good movie!

[Bluepinky]

129. Shawshank is one of my top ten favorite movies.

It’s an understated work of art. Love it more each time I see it. Justice prevails in the end. Some of its charm is due to Morgan Freeman’s narration.

[pnwest]

4. "Grease" is fecking stupid. I just kept thinking

“Am I really supposed to believe these people with wrinkles are HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS?” Plus I am deathly allergic to musicals.

[empedocles]

21. The movie was cleaner than the original stage version - if that would help

[Dream Girl]

24. Me too. I thought I was the only one who hated musicals. I find them so annoying!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

202. I hate musicals, too. I am being urged to see Hamilton.

If it turns up free on Netflix I might have a look, but a hyped musical is still a musical.

[haele]

159. I always saw Grease as a retelling of Incident at Owl Creek.....

Sandy was never rescued, we are just experiencing her final wish hallucinations as she's drowning. Rizzo was what she always secretly wanted to be.

Pretty much a horror movie in disguise....

Haele

[DFW]

182. Grease was always my all time number one choice for this category.

Hands down!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

184. I think "Grease" exists for one reason only:

Drunken karaoke nights.

[Danmel]

210. Grease is my least favorite musical ever

By far

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Titanic.

A colossal bore. I kept cheering for the ship to sink so the damn thing would end.

[mucifer]

33. yes awful

[California_Republic]

64. Haha. I say fast forward until you hear someone yell " iceberg!"

[Reader Rabbit]

6. The English Patient

I wish now that I had followed my instinct and walked out of that pretentious snooze-fest.

[pnwest]

22. I just watch it to see that gorgeous, beautiful

Sikh gentleman, Kip. He is insanely gorgeous. When he takes off his head gear and shows all that gorgeous hair..... rrrAWR!

[volstork]

76. I'm with you!

The story line with the Sikh man and (?) Juliette Binoche was the only tolerable part of that dreck!

("Just DIE already!!!!" -- Elaine Benes)

[Laffy Kat]

147. Totally agree. Didn't like the movie, but Kip was hot. nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

152. I thought the relationship between Kip and the nurse

was far more interesting than the main characters.

[Paladin]

153. You would enjoy the novel by Michael Ondaatje.

Beyond being a terrific read, it has more details on Kip's later life, beyond his riding off on a motorbike. Very gratifying.

[redstateblues]

55. That movie seemed like it lasted six hours

[ailsagirl]

68. I went into the movie thinking it would be great

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That's what I had heard, anyway

[Paladin]

101. Well, it wouldn't be a DU movie-trashing thread...

...without a significant dumping on "The English Patient."

Everybody's entitled to their own opinions (for the time being); I thought "The English Patient" was a first-rate movie, based on an even better novel. Given the kind of shit flicks we're inundated with now---are you paying attention, "Joker" fans?---it looks even better in retrospect. But then, that's just my own opinion.

[hlthe2b]

121. Me too. +++

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

203. I liked it, too.

[NRaleighLiberal]

118. one of our top 10.

[hlthe2b]

120. Cinematically one of the most beautifully shot films I've ever seen and a favorite of mine

I never understood the hate. Then again, I worked in the Middle East for many years and loved the story, settings, themes, and people. The actors were great as well.

To each his/her own but I will never understand the love/hate divide on that movie.

[LizBeth]

8. Tin cup. I think it is horrible and so many like it. Annie, one of the only moves I walk out on.

[NRaleighLiberal]

117. agree. loathe it.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Citizen Kane. nt

[The Magistrate]

11. 'It's A Wonderful Life', Sir

There are others in this class, but my detestation of this abominable thing in contrast to its evident popularity dwarfs them all.

The nearest thing to a redeeming feature it has it that it birthed 'Burt and Ernie', and I have never liked even that routine on Sesame Street.

[Dream Girl]

27. How did it birth Burt and Ernie?

[Clash City Rocker]

52. There are characters named Burt and Ernie in the movie

[DonaldsRump]

29. It is a movie, Sir, about finding hope where there is none

I usually always agree with your deep insights, but this is one where I beg to differ, Dear Magistrate!

[The Magistrate]

80. I Am Sure A Great Many People Like It, Sir

And I would not deprive them of it, or of their joy in it.

[mopinko]

73. i'm pretty sure the first time i saw it all i noticed was that uncle billy

had a pet squirrel AND a pet crow.
my dad had a pair of hand raised squirrels when he was a kid named mickey and nicky. rode around on his shoulders and inside his shirt. grew up hearing all kinds of stories about them.
he tried to get me a baby flying squirrel once.

and i always wanted a crow. used to love yelling back and forth w them w my older son when he was tiny. peek momhood.

i feel a bit more kindly toward it now that it is back under copyright and not shown on 50 channels every december.

[The Magistrate]

79. There Is That, Ma'am

The proliferation, the way when the season came it could barely be avoided, certainly sharpened my distaste.

I love crows. We used to have a good many near our place, and then there was some illness that swept the species here and they practically disappeared. We are beginning to see a few again. That is bird you can ask how your day will go, and get a reliable answer from, if you can only figure how to read it....

[mopinko]

82. west nile virus. 2002.

i got it too.
barely see crows, and still no blue jays anywhere around here.
used to have a regular murder of 20-30 of them that sat in an old cottonwood 2 doors down and sometimes in my ancient silver maple. had a few nest along the metra tracks north of here a couple years ago, but havent seen them since.
i really miss them.

[The Magistrate]

104. We Like That Show A Great Deal, Ma'am

And the similarity has been noted playfully at home....

[sl8]

99. You would have plenty of company in 1946.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90135/how-its-wonderful-life-went-box-office-dud-accidental-christmas-tradition
How It's a Wonderful Life Went From Box Office Dud to Accidental Christmas Tradition

[The Magistrate]

105. A Shame They Could Not Make It Stick, Sir

Of course it did eventually inspire this....


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tklum

[NRaleighLiberal]

116. one of our top 10!

[The Magistrate]

187. I Like The way You Think, Sir

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Forrest Gump

I found that interminable and painful. I happened to see it with someone who reviewed movies for a living, so when I was asked what I thought, I hesitated to answer, but it turned out the reviewer agreed. So when I heard people praising it, I thought they were joking. I've liked Tom Hanks in everything else I've seen him in, but you couldn't pay me enough to sit through Forrest Gump again.

[Skittles]

20. I AGREE

I didn't even last 30 minutes - pure dreck and fucking ANNOYING

[mucifer]

35. HATED that movie Agree!!

[pnwest]

39. I missed whatever point this movie was

trying to make.

[3catwoman3]

71. I detested that movie, and, like you...

...typically like Tom Hanks.

The story line was just too implausible.

[Larry Moecurley]

92. Yep

Gotta agree with you on that one!

[NRaleighLiberal]

115. one of our favorites!

[Paladin]

124. That movie's trashing of the anti-war movement was unforgivable.

Strictly "Green Berets" level propaganda. I'll certainly never watch it again.

[hlthe2b]

125. Nah... It is not possible for me to criticize anything that stars Tom Hanks. (I adore him)

[yardwork]

158. Agree! I loathe that movie!!!!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

165. I thought it was vacuous.

It's one of those movies I think of as "content free". The other ones that I think don't have content are Sex, Lies and Videotape, and Road to Perdition (Murdering people in cold blood as part of a gangster outfit does not count as a plot.).

[Codeine]

206. A total piece of shit film. nt

[Frasier Balzov]

14. Hoosiers.

I finally saw it for free on YouTube after hearing how great it was for thirty years.

What a corny disappointment.

There have been so many more Gene Hackman movies which were worthy of him.

[yellowdogintexas]

156. The real key to Hoosiers is the grit and fight in that little team. Sometimes Corny is what we need

It is a true story. Hoosiers is a microcosm of the fanaticism of Indiana High School Basketball.

Not sure anymore about Indiana, but in Kentucky all teams compete equally for the State Championship - no divisions by school size or anything. When it is Tournament time, it is basically a new season and everyone starts on the same page. KY has had some real shockers in the Sweet Sixteen.

They were still doing it this way in Indiana when the Hoosiers story took place.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Green Mile

[LizBeth]

19. I loved Green Mile. Lol

[pnwest]

26. Me too. The scene where John Coffey

is crying and staying “I didn’t mean to hurt ‘em” is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. I literally wanted to crawl into the movie and gather him into my arms and hold him and comfort him. He broke my heart.

[LizBeth]

36. +1

[captain queeg]

43. Me too. One of the few movies I've seen several times.

Not that that’s a real good indicator. I’ve also seen The Good, Bad, and the Ugly several times and think it’s great, but saw I Robot several times and think it’s just average.

[NRaleighLiberal]

114. we love it!

[jpak]

17. The Princess Bride

Really?

[pnwest]

32. I LOVE this one! Makes me chuckle the

whole way thru!

[jpak]

38. Vile and disgusting

Inconceivable!

[pnwest]

41. Inconthievable!

[Ferrets are Cool]

46. One of my top 5 watchable movies

[USALiberal]

86. Wow, tells me a lot! Nt

[jpak]

126. All that kissing kissing kissing

Where are the sports?

[NRaleighLiberal]

113. We love it!

[hamsterjill]

213. I hated that movie!

I watched it only because everyone at work loved it and wouldn’t stop talking about it. Absolute groaner.

[LizBeth]

18. Avatar is another one. I have never been able to sit thru the whole thing. I get bored.

[Dream Girl]

30. This!

[honest.abe]

37. BENJAMIN BUTTON

The most boring movie of all time... imho.

[dewsgirl]

62. I disagree with 90 percent of this thread, but I agree 100 percent

on Benjamin Button.

[Aristus]

87. Read the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I read the story before the I saw the film. The film: not so good. The story: so moving, I had tears in my eyes at the end.

[TuxedoKat]

127. I didn't know he wrote that

I like his short stories. Will definitely check it out. Did you ever read "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by him?

[Glorfindel]

102. I totally agree

It's as if they set out to make a boring movie, and just for kicks made it annoying, too. What a waste of talent.

[fishwax]

149. Yeah, I thought that one was way overrated too

[pnwest]

42. The World According to Garp.

Just as much of an indecipherable mess as Forrest Gump.

[captain queeg]

45. Yep

[3catwoman3]

72. The book was bad enough that I...

...didn’t bother with the movie.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

166. Basically a bunch of castration fantasies.

I read the book before I saw the movie but it still didn't make sense. I have read The Cider House Rules, and I think it is a far better novel than Garp. They say you should write what you know. John Irving's grandfather was a doctor in New England and an ether addict. Like the doctor in the novel.

[madaboutharry]

44. I hated Star Wars.

[Ferrets are Cool]

48. Now you've crossed a line

[madaboutharry]

49. .....

[Ferrets are Cool]

50. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ferrets are Cool]

54. I want to say Mulholland Dr., but I don't think ANYONE loved it

And, I don't hate it, I just can't freaking understand it.

[Upthevibe]

205. Ferrets are Cool.....You'd be wrong thinking no one loved Mulholland Drive....

I and the friend I went with thought it was great! (as did others in our "group" who saw it at different times). It was a David Lynch film so you can pretty much count on it being unusually framed and nonlinear.

At the time, I was teaching for LAUSD and at that time they had year round school. The friend I went with was also a teacher and we
were both off track so we went to a theatre in Westwood in the middle of the day and in the middle of the week. I remember this so clearly because Carl Reiner and his wife were at the same showing and it was kind of cool seeing them...

[grumpyduck]

53. May The Force not be with you, then.

[LeftInTX]

176. I still hate it!!

Funny story:

This hottest guy on campus finally asked me on a date. He takes me to this move that he's real excited to see. (Star Wars)
I have to pretend I think it's the coolest thing ever and I can't figure out what on earth the movie is about it. Afterwards, we go out to eat and he's going on and on and saying things like, "What did you think about this scene and that scene??" I totally faked it, but I guess my insincerity must have shown..LOL

[NBachers]

47. Totally agree on The Shining. I had to sit through Donny Darko once, and hope to never do it again.

I recently made the mistake of watching Alien: Covenant. What a shitty movie. Who's bright idea was the bromance between the two smug snooty arrogant pretentious and oh-so-superior despicable English robots? If there's anything I can't stand, it's pretentious androids with conceited English accents and a superiority complex. It's the old "the butler is superior to the idiots he's butlering but he's also lamely devious" dodge. Then trying to be "really like intellectual" with broken threads of haughty philosophical krap tossed in to "elevate" the "concept." Rubbish

A cast full of I-don't-care-what-happens-to-any-of-these-people forgettables. I hated this movie before the opening credits were even finished. Avoid

I"m sure there are others - I'll be watching the thread to see if anyone fills in the blanks.

[Larry Moecurley]

93. The Alien Franchise Should've Stopped after #2

Same with Terminator.

[NRaleighLiberal]

112. Donnie Darko is one of our favorites

[Joel Eyeforth]

161. It was overrated, and the novel was definitely better

But I still enjoyed The Shining. Not a great movie, but certainly a good one.

[calguy]

51. Sleepless in Seatle

[ailsagirl]

69. WAY overrated!!

[NRaleighLiberal]

111. one of our favorites.

[redstateblues]

56. Titanic

[NRaleighLiberal]

110. yes! "jack! rose! jack! rose!"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

190. Titanic is visually stunning.

Its dialogue and story, however, are pure crap.

So it pretty much evens itself out as an overall mediocre movie in my book.

[pdxflyboy]

57. Saint Elmo's Fire. n/t

[ret5hd]

58. OK OK...I'll say it. Nobody else is brave enough...Revenge Of The Nerds.

I am willing to take your "slings and arrows" for the team.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

168. Pretty horrifying in retrospect.

Rape and other things.

[LakeArenal]

59. Blue Velvet.

[Mad_Dem_X]

192. YES. Terrible movie.

I'm not a David Lynch fan at all.

[if..fish..had..wings]

60. Star Wars

Hated the first one when it came out.

Hated the second one when it came out.

Waited years to see and hate the third one on VHS.

Watched one of the newer ones, horrid, awful, stupid and ugh.

[Squinch]

61. Inception. Blech.

[dewsgirl]

63. Facts.

[tanyev]

65. Casablanca.

Boring, slow, and not for one second do I feel any chemistry between Bogart and Bergman.

[Amy-Strange]

70. I love that movie, but...

-

I can't really argue with what you're saying, except for the chemistry part.

Maybe it's just me, but that ending does it to me every time, and I even heard that it was a last minute thing too.

BUT, I still had to watch it three or four times, before I could even figure out what the hell was going on, and don't even get me started on the Maltese Falcon!!!
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[NBachers]

78. I like the Maltese Falcon; I live in San Francisco and visit the areas where it happened; but I'd

need an advisor or interpreter to sit with me and keep me straight on everything that's happening in it. I watched it for years on late-night movies, and never stayed awake through the whole thing. I've finally got a grasp on it, but I can't watch it when I'm tired or distracted, or it'll dissolve into a black and white fog.

[NRaleighLiberal]

109. one of our favorites

[Amy-Strange]

66. The Shining! Ha, I've seen porn parodies that were better, and...

-

the book is even worse.

Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of his characters, but this book didn't even have one.

I actually saw it in the movie theaters, and luckily, I woke up just in time to see all that stunning ice photography at the end.

Oh, and of course, when Jack hacks his way through the door and says, "Heeeeere's Johnny," is simply hilarious!
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[NRaleighLiberal]

108. loved the book, loved the movie except for Shelly Duvall's awful acting

[Amy-Strange]

135. Didn't she play Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend?

[NRaleighLiberal]

136. yes. I am just not a fan of her style.

[Amy-Strange]

138. In my opinion, her eyes detract from the film, and...

-

I'm not a big fan either, but I'm sure there are those who love her regardless.

Hopefully anyway.
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[Paladin]

139. Jeez, that "Popeye" movie sucked donkey dicks, didn't it?

Even more recreational drugs in obvious use than the usual Robert Altman flick. On both sides of the camera.

[Amy-Strange]

140. It was definitely a train wreck n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

154. One of the few movies I walked out of

Just painful to watch.

[mercuryblues]

181. If it helps any

The director of the Shining was horrible to Duvall. He kept her in the dark about what was going to happen to get an "honest" reaction. He terrorized her on the set. When her "honest" reaction wasn't good enough he made her film the scene over and over, The baseball bat scene took 127 takes. Those were her real tears.

[NRaleighLiberal]

67. Patch Adams. Sweet Home Alabama. Mamma Mia. La La Land

major gagging vomit for all!

[Glorfindel]

103. I had forgotten Patch Adams...ugh.

I haven't seen the other three. They just didn't look like anything in which I'd be interested.

[3catwoman3]

74. Terms of Endearment.

I kept thinking, “Just die already.”

The Deer Hunter.

[Staph]

75. Taxi Driver

It's the only movie that I ever walked out of. The characters were the sort of people that I would run away from. There was nothing redeeming in the whole thing.

(Sorry, fellow grammar Nazis! I know that I ended TWO sentences with prepositions. Taxi Driver simply riles me.)

[3catwoman3]

143. Fellow grammar and usage nerd here. Go easy on yourself.

“The only movie out of which I ever walked,” and “...the sort of people from whom I would run away,” might be by the book, but people might find us pretentious.

[2naSalit]

77. Lincoln...

The lighting was horrible and all it reminded me of was that fucking hoax called "Freedom Train" back in 1976. It had faceless mannequins with images of real faces projected onto the faceless heads of the mannequins, it was creepy and ultra low tech. The movie was horrible writing and poorly directed, whoever is was that directed it.

[Amy-Strange]

81. What about movies that are so bad, they're considered cult classics?

-

Not too long ago, I ran across a website that listed the top ten most disgusting movies of all times, that were considered cult classics.

I've seen some really bad movies, and I figured this was just hype, but I was wrong.

I'm not even going to get into the description of most of them, except to say that I could almost stomach Cannibal Holocaust, until the end.

A judge even had to force the director to bring in one of the actresses just to make sure she was still alive!

One movie, though, really stood out, but I can't remember the name, except it had "Sun" in the title.

It was "allegedly" filmed while the Japanese did endurance experiments on the Chinese population during World War II.

It was the most disgusting thing that I've ever watched in my whole life, but I am not going to sully this board with any kind of description of what happened.

You can just use your imagination, but I'll bet you won't even come close...
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[Lasher]

175. Any of the Godzilla movies could fit that description

[LeftInTX]

178. Disco Godfather

Saturday Night Fever meets blaxploitation. Crazy, funny movie. Rudy Ray Moore tackles corrupt officials and drug dealers who are pushing angel dust.

Watch the entire movie, free here:

https://tubitv.com/movies/496326/disco_godfather

Hobo With a Shotgun

Trailer is too graphic to link. Even the trailer is for Mature Audiences This 2011 film is grindhouse at it's best (or worse!) Lots of blood, violence and gore.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640459/

Watch the entire movie, free here:
https://tubitv.com/movies/438050/hobo_with_a_shotgun

[Amy-Strange]

199. Thank you n/t

[muntrv]

83. "Rudy."

[njhoneybadger]

84. Lawrence of Arabia

I think it's 7 or 8 hours long. Seems like it.

[Totally Tunsie]

150. ...all that sand.

[LeftInTX]

179. Omar Sharif

said "Never take a woman to Lawrence of Arabia."

[hunter]

85. The Big Chill.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/

I remember thinking if that is going to be my life KILL ME NOW!

[Kyl Notjon]

209. LOL @ KMW!

And you're right about the movie. Should've been titled 'Self-Absorbed Contemplaters of Their Own Navels'

[pattyloutwo]

88. So many!

Raising Arizona, all of those 80s movies like Sixteen Candles, St Elmo’s, Groundhog Day... I know there are more! Movies where obnoxious male characters think they’re funny and they’re not. Bill Murray comes to mind.

[needledriver]

90. ET

Dumb. Hated it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

94. 2001 A Space Odyssey.

I mean, really? Men dressed up in monkey suits at the beginning. Then the middle part where you can tell Pan Am will go out of business before too long, given the skimpy load factors on its earth to moon shuttle. Finally the completely incomprehensible third part that makes zero sense.

In the science fiction world it's regarded as a classic, which I cannot understand at all.

The original short story by Arthur C. Clarke, "The Sentinel" is actually quite good and I'd recommend it to anyone.

As a science fiction person, I find most supposedly s-f movies to be not very good. The very best, most purely science-fictional one I've ever seen is "12 Monkeys". It's excellent.

[bif]

133. My number one favorite movie of all time.

I've seen in at least a dozen times.

[First Speaker]

95. Any movie with Robin Williams...

...I would have said Chevy Chase, but who ever "rated" any of them to begin with?

[Paladin]

106. I thought he was impressive in "Good Will Hunting" (an OK but not great movie).

On the other hand, the movie of "The World According To Garp" did a vast disservice to a great novel, Williams' leading role very much included.

[Zorro]

132. The Fisher King is a remarkably good movie

It was a great vehicle for Robin Williams' manic schtick.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

204. I liked most of the movies where he was actually either funny or creepy,

like Insomnia or One Hour Photo, but I just hated his sentimental movies - What Dreams May Come totally sucked. I also loathed one of the supposedly funny ones, Death to Smoochy.

[smirkymonkey]

96. "Love, Actually"

So many people love that movie and I HATED it! I don't even know where to start. So many talented actors and such a shit script. One stupid subplot after the other and each one worse than the one before it. I have never seen such a stupid, insulting movie in my life.

[NRaleighLiberal]

107. I despised it too.

[smirkymonkey]

131. Oh good! I am glad someone out there agrees with me!

[Coventina]

195. I like the porn stand-ins. The stalker guy after his friend's wife is creepy.

And Alan Rickman being a dick just makes me sad.

Oh, and the poor woman with her needy brother breaks my heart.

Did you ever watch the sit-com "Arrested Development"?
They make fun of "Love, Actually" ruthlessly, over a series of episodes.
If you hated the movie, it will make your heart smile.

[jmowreader]

97. The Graduate

This is one of the Sixties’ most beloved films. I have no idea why, as it is completely unwatchable. It’s like “come see Ben Braddock, the most spineless and lazy man in America, get bullied for two hours.”

[Paladin]

100. "Gone With The Wind."

Never have cared for it.

[Senor Insomne]

172. Understood

It's not my #1 overrated movie (I'll have to think about that), but it normalizes racism. Promotes it, in fact. Hattie McDaniel's character is portrayed as being happy!

[Coventina]

196. Hated the book. Was never interested in seeing the movie.

I happened to come across it on TV once, and was just in time for the rape scene.
Suddenly, next morning Scarlett is all smiles. Turns out, headstrong women just need to be raped into submission to be happy.

[NRaleighLiberal]

119. all this thread proves is that reaction to the arts is a completely individual thing

[hlthe2b]

122. ... and that those who agree with ME....

are, of course, right!

[NRaleighLiberal]

123. ex...ACT...ly! Humans are so tribal, need to be agreed with.

[avebury]

128. Lawrence of Arabia

My parents dragged us to see it when it came out. I was really young and all I remember was there was a lot of San. I have never managed to watch it again as an adult.

[Paladin]

130. Great movie.

A few years ago I went to London and viewed an extraordinary collection of Lawrence artifacts---everything from his newborn clothing to the motorbike on which he was killed. A unique, heroic, complex individual; David Lean's film does him justice.

[bif]

134. Ghostbusters. Chicago. I could name a million of them.

[Amy-Strange]

137. Which Ghostbusters?

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I thought the first one was kind of campy, and I haven't seen the second one yet, but heard it was better.
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[bif]

145. The first one.

I don't think I even cracked a smile watching it. So I have absolutely no interest in seeing the sequel.

[Amy-Strange]

146. It's a remake, with women instead of men, but...

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I understand, especially since you didn't like the first one.

The only movie that I liked with Bill Murray was Groundhog Day.
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[raccoon]

141. Independence Day, Titanic, the English Patient. Nt

[Demsrule86]

142. Red Dawn...can't stand the old one or the new one.

[mentalsolstice]

144. I know I'll get berated, Blazing Saddles...

A lot of funny scenes, however, just hard to follow if you take your eyes 👀 away for a second.

[Generic Brad]

148. Pretty Woman

I never understood the appeal outside of two good looking people acting out a ridiculous premise.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

167. The premise bothers me.

If you're a young attractive woman, you can be a "escort" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and find a sugar daddy, and then you can rave about how independent you are and how self-determining you are. No, I am not buying that.

[Skittles]

200. that's why I never saw it

the premise made me sick

[Kyl Notjon]

212. Ever heard of a movie called "Whore" starring (I think) Teresa Russell?

It's the bucket of cold water over the head of anyone who thought "Pretty Woman" was great.

[Totally Tunsie]

151. Scent of a Woman

IMO, Pacino's worst. When it wasn't boring, it was insulting.

[pnwest]

170. Yeah, that was awful.

[TexasBushwhacker]

155. Bridges of Madison County

We're supposed to be broken hearted because she doesn't leave her devoted husband for a traveling photographer? Puh-leeze. And the dialogue was so corny!

" This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime."

PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!!!

[pnwest]

171. OMG!! I LOVE this movie! The passion was

palpable between these two, it was Eastwood’s most understated, sympathetic character. And when she’s in the truck with her husband with her hand on the doorknob trying to decide...utterly brilliant acting from Meryl. I felt everything she was feeling, all the consequences flashing through her mind for whatever decision she makes. Her heart exploding with longing and loss as they drive away. But I will admit this one is definitely a “chick flick“. It’s a fantasy of every bored, lonely wife who’s ever mourned the loss of her youth, beauty and opportunities, to be swept off her feet by a sexy, deep, passionate man who SEES her, and reminds her of her womanhood.

And yes, people DO talk like that!

[TexasBushwhacker]

173. I'm a chick and I went with my best friend who is also female

We laughed through the whole thing, but whatever melts your butter ...

[pnwest]

177. This thread is so interesting- the wildly different

reactions to the same movies, LOL. My butter was thoroughly melted by Clint Eastwood in this movie

[mikeargo]

157. All of the Batman movies

Except the 'original' with Adam West.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

169. YES! The Dark Knight was a complete waste of time and talent and money.

No emotional connections between the characters. There were two young ladies who were quickly killed off. Nothing but violence and threats of violence. And the people that saw it the same time I did (young people) just couldn't understand why I got nothing out of it.

I saw the first version of the darker Batman, the one with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson and the toxic sludge. It had some humor in it and was OK. Later they just got more violent and weird and sick. No, I don't want to watch Heath Ledger acting like a sociopath, because I don't need to look at them on movie screens, I've seen a few in real life.

Adam West is the only true Batman.

[jalan48]

160. Rocky. Since white fighters were unable to win the heavyweight boxing title they had to make a

movie where it happened. Sylvester Stallone sucks IMHO.

[Wolf Frankula]

211. Rocky Loses in the First Movie.

Wolf

[Joel Eyeforth]

162. Rosemary's Baby, just like I said in Smirkeymonkey's earlier thread on the same theme

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1379258

For some reason, the above didn't kick that thread.

[roamer65]

164. Visionquest.

[Zorro]

174. Napoleon Dynamite

Just seemed stupid to me.

[LeftInTX]

180. Streetcar Named Desire

Don't care of Vivien Leigh and her histronics

[Tommy_Carcetti]

183. The Dark Knight, Goodfellas.

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The Dark Knight was boring and forgettable to me. The plot felt rushed and hurried, and half of the actors phoned it in. I think it got much of its acclaim from Heath Ledger's untimely death (who, for the record, was not one of the actors who phoned it in.)

Goodfellas--Good writing, good acting, good directing. But zero likable or compelling characters. I absolutely hated every single one of them. Which you might say, well yeah--it's a mob movie. Which is true, but you could still make them interesting. The Godfather had interesting characters. The Sopranos had interesting characters. Goodfellas was simply the story of a wannabe mobster who got caught and turned informant not for any moral reasons, but just to save his own skin.

Ditto on another Scorcese project, The Wolf of Wall Street. Same thing--zero likable characters. Made worse by the fact that an unrepentant Jordan Belfort made a cameo in it.

Scorcese's a very talented director (see The Departed, The Last Temptation of Christ), but his "true crime" dramas leave me feeling cold.

[Dave Starsky]

189. American Beauty

I thought it was skeevy, pretentious garbage when it came out. It's a disgusting jerk-off fantasy for middle-aged incels. And that was long before we heard about Kevin Spacey's proclivities.

I absolutely fucking hate that movie.

[Coventina]

194. The Usual Suspects

The ramblings of a liar, who you can see through very quickly.
Not a big surprise at all.

[bif]

197. "The Gods Must be Crazy"

The stupidest movie ever. I just don't get it. I absolutely loathe that movie.

[kairos12]

198. Star Wars.

[Stuart G]

201. "Psycho"...Alfred Hitchcock....Scared me so bad, I walked out..Still hate it !!!!

[Mike 03]

207. My dad always said he was traumatized by that movie. There were three movies that

traumatized him.

Bambi (when he was really young)
Psycho
The Exorcist (If he couldn't take Bambi, he probably should have known better than to see that one)

[Mendocino]

208. Scarface