The problem with this topic is that anyone who really loves movies has lots and lots of films that fall within this category. The one that immediately comes to mind is “Titanic.” An oldie but baddy is “A Man and a Woman” (“Un Homme et une Femme”), which was like a saccharine commercial. And, when it came out, I hated David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago,” which seemed to me beautiful and phony — unlike Lean’s “Great Expectations,” which is marvelous.
Two words: Boondock Saints. Then again, the friendship pretty much ends if someone I know tells me they loved that movie.
This thread has already been posted earlier.
EDIT: and just so I don’t seem like I’m being an unhelpful dick:
http://www.theauteurs.com/topics/315/comments
oops! no offense taken. There are so many topics by now……..
I think it was much easier to navigate them all when they were just on one page, but I suppose it’s gotten too big for that.
I agree with Boondock Saints and Pan’s Labyrinth.
Juno is a film my friends love but I think is very overrated.
Also I know a lot of people who liked Atonement, and that was torture to me.
JUNO.
Disregard. I misunderstood the question.
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Yeah, JUNO definately equals RUBBISH when you start comparing it to REAL ART.
HAHAHA, how funny to think about such a thing!
I thought Juno was occasionally clever. Its not great, but I wouldn’t go as far as to classify it as rubbish. I mean, the people falling head over heels for movies like Juno probably aren’t the kinds of people to view movies as an art form, yeah know?
Napoleon Dynamite
Juno, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Dark Knight.
Each of them was just awful, though each was awful in its own unique way. And I fully reject this dichotomy between film as entertainment and film as “real art”. That is rubbish. All entertainment is art and all art is, in its way, entertaining. Poor communication (movies) are bad for people to watch, period. Now: movies can be light and not be terrible. (See Galaxy Quest for a very, very light but tremendously well-written film.) Bad movies make people’s souls baser than they were before.
Pan’s Labyrinth
No Country for Old Men
Slumdog Mill.
Teeth
Tully
I had the misfortune of seeing “Transformers,” which the friends I saw it with loved. I don’t know what I was thinking. Awful script (same old rehashed story I’ve seen a thousand times), acting (0 character development, nor do I care about them), even the action scenes (which Michael Bay should be good at because they’re all he cares about) were messy. I couldn’t tell what was going on during those fight scenes. They complained that I didn’t grow up on Transformers (which I didn’t), so I didn’t like the movie. That was bull. It was really a bad movie. Luckily, I think more and more of my friends are starting to agree with me. Furthermore, I didn’t grow up reading The Lord of the Rings prior to seeing the first film, and I loved it.
Amarcord, definitely. I get a lot, and I mean a lot, of shit for not liking it. In fact, I think one of the main things that detracts me from it is the way some people try to shove it down my throat.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I appreciated the genius behind the shooting, but it was basically just a movie about guys on drugs. I don’t need to watch things I can see for free.
My friends and I usually enjoy the same movies; from highly regarded films like No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Adaptation, to foreign films like Hara Kiri, and Audition, to action films like The Dark Knight, The Matrix movies, Children of Men, and Contour, and sometimes we just like campy movies like The Spirit. Though sometimes it escapes me why my friends some movies, like Max Payne and Soldier. Movies where the drama is made up entirely of dramatic pauses.
@ Col. Dax — I hear ya. Amarcord was awful.
“the friendship pretty much ends if someone I know tells me they loved that movie.”
Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a movie I feel that way about… I should ask my roommate, she probably knows.
Later: Yeah, mostly political stuff. If someone said “I love Birth of a Nation—it instills values that’ve been truly lost in this society”, I don’t think I could be that person’s friend. If someone watched Triumph of the Will and said “We need more of this in our society, there isn’t enough order and discipline.” If someone watched October with me and said, “Yep, those Bolsheviks sure had it right.” That kind of stuff. Ironically enough all of those are great films that I feel are very important viewing for everyone.
I mean, I just got done seeing a preview screening of Observe and Report, and it was so awful I died a little inside. But if one of my friends said, “Haha, it was funny!” we’d just have to agree to disagree. Bad movies happen and people watch them anyway. I get upset over it myself, but nobody should waste the stress on stuff like that, and ending friendships over opinions doesn’t seem like that makes you a very good friend.
As a response to what was probably a much more facetious statement than my response intoned.
—PolarisDiB
In more recent years…Forrest Gump – Crash – Babel. Those are titles that have spurred the most verbal and written arguments.
Donnie Darko. I know I’m wrong but I was totally underwhelmed.
Transformers. Few people told me they loved it but most said they were entertained. I fell asleep multiple times.
Ghostbusters. Yeah I know. To my great shame. I keep wanting to laugh more when I watch it.
Peter Jackson’s KING KONG. The group I went with loved it. I didn’t hate it, but I had a lot of problems with it.
Slumdog!
Probably all the garbage, being a teen still in high school most of my friends favorite movies are Smoking Aces, Crash, Grandma’s Boy, Friday Night Lights, etc.
Scarface
Juno. Ellen Page was annoying, Diablo Cody is a garbage writer, the story was terrible, she tried to demonize Jason Bateman’s character for no reason and failed miserably and just made the film end up looking stupid.
F*** Juno
Col.Dax and Polaris, I also pretty much hated Amarcord. It did absolutely nothing for me.
Boondock Saints was a nice action movie, but the whole philosophy behind it was pure garbage. It’s definitely overrated.
I thought Little Miss Sunshine was stupid. I’m tired of those “quirky” comedy movies.
The Dark Knight had some moments, but it mostly annoyed me (I liked Batman Begins). There’s something about the way that film is structured with constant shit happening all the time that seems completely crass and commercial.
I watched the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair with friends and I remember thinking that it wasn’t too bad when I first saw it, but this time I thought it was pretty terrible.
I liked Juno. Despite an annoying beginning and some bad dialogue, it turned into a good little movie, I thought.
Kill Bill
Children of Men and The Departed
Ankit Bhargava
Pan’s Labyrinth for me. Was a good movie, but not as much as everybody praised it.