Brilliant movies that leave you cold?

[vixengrl]

Here's one to start with--I recently saw Fellini's "La Strada".

(spoilers?)

I thought it was touching and poignant in places, but I know that it's a classic and is considered one of the maestro's best, and wondered why it ultimately left me a little cold. I adored the character of The Fool. (His characterization of Zampano as being like a dog that seems like he could almost speak, but can only bark to express himself, seemed really wise.) I tried to sympathize with Gelsomina (but I'm a product of a different time and a sexual revolution away). But I couldn't at all like Zampano, and even at the end, when he is supposed to be having this redemptive show of emotion on the beach, all I could think was, "Yeah, well. You feel something. Good for you....but like, two people are dead so, whev. You still suck." I kind of wished the characters were fleshed out more. (And yeah, maybe Gelsomina being a simple sketch of innocent child-like spirit and Zampano being a simple brute is the point--but daggone. I watch movies to see "people", not ideas.)

Anyone else find a movie that was supposed to be genius, that you just couldn't get down with?

[BlueIris]

1. "Citizen Kane."

Too abstruse, lengthy and just plain boring to me.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Anything by Woody Allen. I just don't get him.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Everyone said Juno was great

but I just thought it was annoying, and did not even finish it.