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So what's the film that your friends loved and you thought was rubbish.

Alvaro

about 3 years ago

The list is too long, so here are just the 2 most recent ones:

The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake.
Watchmen
Any other world-disaster movie involving a guy and girl who are (kind of) in love (or eventually fall for each other and/or any of it’s variations) and eventually save the world

vladdyt​rout

about 3 years ago

Titanic (’nuff said)
Red Dragon (come on, no where near as good as Manhunter)
Expelled (that wacky movie about intelligent design with the wacky Ben Stein)

Alex Noble

about 3 years ago

I’m happy that I have finally read someone that agrees batman begins was better than the dark knight.

JIMMY TWO TIMES

about 3 years ago

In Bruges

Chuck Moran

about 3 years ago

I’m going back farther then the rest of you here. That’s because the one movie – and I mean TO THIS DAY – that I still hate and everybody thought it was great back then is “Flashdance”. The only other one is “Animal House”. not that I hated “Animal House”, I just don’t think it’s the comedy classic everybody likes to think it is………

Col. Dax

about 3 years ago

Ran is another one. I just dislike the film, and I really seem to be the only one that doesn’t think it’s a masterpiece.

Polaris​DiB

about 3 years ago

@Liz: “There’s something about the way that film is structured with constant shit happening all the time that seems completely crass and commercial.”

Haha, wow. What an ironic statement.

But glad to meet people who dislike Amarcord. The more I meet, the more comfortable I am with my opinion on it. Sure I could not care what anybody thinks, but you gotta step delicately when dealing with perceived “classics”.

—PolarisDiB

Joseph Montoto

about 3 years ago

Slumdog Millionaire

Doctor Lemongl​ow

about 3 years ago

Bowling for Columbine was lazy and hypocritical and facile, the documentary as an exercise in pandering.
It wasn’t even good propaganda.

Syriana was a cringe-inducing, too-long episode of free association and conspiracy fetish. It is to politics as Nine and 1/2 Weeks is to sex.

Fried Green Tomatoes was dreadful. It portrayed the South in much the same way that jumping up and down portrays flight.

Joshua D.

about 3 years ago

Yes, this was done some time ago, but movies come out all the time and new people join. So, now I’d have to agree with previous posters about Juno. Awful, awful film.
Titanic I agree with: what’s the mystery? Not to mention just plain bad and unnecessary.
Gone With The Wind: I don’t care what my colleagues say, this film is a plodding bag of gas.
Kill Bill v. 2: part one was fun, but the second half was a waste. Tarantino disappointed me with this tripe.
It’s A Wonderful Life: Holy hell, bite me! I hate this holiday favorite that isn’t even a Christmas movie.
The English Patient: “Just DIE already!”

ArmandS

about 3 years ago

Fight Club.

Blech.

akusoku​zangato​ts

about 3 years ago

I thought children of men was very impressive.

And dear god FIGHT CLUB. People need to stop calling it the best movie ever made.

Christo​pher Shaw

about 3 years ago

Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Boondock Saints, Titanic, Into the Wild, Slumdog Millionaire, I’m not there, Jules and Jim, Breathless, The Magnificent Seven, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Me and You and Everyone we Know, I Heart Huckabees, A Clockwork Orange (this one hurts…love Kubrick), Les Enfants Terribles, Hudsucker Proxy

miriam

about 3 years ago

there will be blood and citizen kane…probably because I didn’t understand it but oh well

Ryan Estabro​oks

about 3 years ago

High Tension
Transformers

Le Feu Follet

about 3 years ago

Yes, well, I’ll go with There Will Be Blood, too.

Shannan

about 3 years ago

forrest gump
the shawshank redemption
american beauty
adaptation
seven
LE FEU FOLLET i think if u watch TWBB again it you will (possibly) feel differently about it, especially you being a fan of PTA’s previous works. i am still curious what it was about his other films u thought there will be blood was lacking?

House of Pleasur​e

about 3 years ago

Twilight.. Don’t even get me started.

filmbot

about 3 years ago

Cashback. Friends and people from my neighborhood said many wonderful things about this one, but I just think is another boring, corny slapstick comedy.

Roman Petrov

about 3 years ago

Oh, and (I could get flack for this…) The Big Lebowski.

On a similar note, Napoleon Dynamite. Both films are absolutely plotless.

Sean Walker Hutton

about 3 years ago

300, Pan’s Labyrinth, Slumdog

Sumner Forbes

about 3 years ago

The Dark Knight, I fell alseep the second time.

Kellen

about 3 years ago

slumdog millionaire and juno.

Rocio

about 3 years ago

My friends aren’t cinephiles, and I hate most of the movies they enjoy. Most recently, TWILIGHT. Just, ugh.

Andrew OC

over 2 years ago

Drumroll please…

TRANSFORMERS 2 !!!

Hang me now. That or Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull load of vomit. This is only a handful of friends, no hate for those with GOOD taste in film haha.

McBean

over 2 years ago

John Woo movies. Particularly Hard Boiled and The Killer. Never could understand what they saw in them.

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 2 years ago

John Woo Hollywood movies, i could never understand the appeal of Face / Off, Broken Arrow or especially Mission Impossible II….y’all never believe how many fans these types of films have in Greece!!!

Vocalities

over 2 years ago

Transformers.
GI Joe.
Hard Boiled.
Taxi Driver.
LOTR.
300.
Brick.
Will Smith movies.
Scarface.

Jesse Richards

over 2 years ago

Pulp Fiction
Juno
Slumdog Millionaire
There Will Be Blood

and just about anything that gets nominated for an Oscar these days.

Matt

over 2 years ago

oh so many of them. Grandma’s Boy comes to mind.
(my friends have horrible taste)