This one is really going to get me nailed to the cross, but I never liked Christopher Guest’s “mockumentaries.” This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind and Best In Show all left me unentertained. There were good moments, but I didn’t think these movies were just that funny.
American Beauty. Most people would consider it a modern classic, but it rubbed me the wrong way. I’m still not sure why.
As good as it gets
Out of Africa
Fargo
Titanic
Platoon
Unforgiven
Saving private Ryan
Born on the fourth of July
Dances with wolves
The wonderful wizard of Oz
The ten commandments
From here to Eternity
Each and every movie in which Mickey Rooney or Judy Garland ever appeared.
Adding to my list:
Apocalypse Now
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Unforgiven
The Silence of the Lambs
Forrest Gump
Children of Men
He also didn’t direct Conan. But yes I was aware and that is what I meant.
I couldn’t stand Forrest Gump. I tried watching it a couple of times, and gave up in disgust. In general, I don’t like idiot plots, I don’t like mentally challenged main characters, and I don’t like movies that insult my intelligence.
I find it curious that you would label Conan as “by” Oliver Stone. I’d have thought that directing, editing and acting all come much higher on the list of faults of the Conan franchise than the writing.
The Godfather
Titanic
Gone with the Wind --I hate everyone in it, the melodrama, the screeching, Prissy, etc.
It’s a Wonderful Life is just plain depressing.
He’s a lot of things. But can you seriously say that the guy who directed Angels in America, Carnal Knowledge and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is bland?
ralph124c writes:
> -HEAVEN’S GATE-thought it was stupid!
You’d have to look awful far to find anyone who ever considered it a great film. It’s generally considered to be a terrible film by a director who was at least thought at the time to be first-rate.
The first one that comes to mind for me is Gladiator. Sitting through that was the longest six months of my life.
I haven’t seen anything else from the director of Conan, but I’ve seen several of Brian DePalma’s films. From that I would deduce that the problem with Conan and Scarface was the screenwriter not the director. Just watching a few DePalma films, you’ll pick up his style and his taste in characters. And sometimes that leads him to good scripts and sometimes to rather vacuous ones. Nothing about his quirks that makes him Brian DePalma puts me off to his films.
While as Oliver Stone, with the exception of Every Other Sunday, has consistently always tried to produce something that seems to be seeking to show how deep and meaningful it is, while really not being very deep at all–and often stinking of propoganda. And that feeling comes through from his scripts that were directed by other people. So it seems fair to say that the issue is him, not the other people. (And I’ll admit that its rather impressive that he can get his stench into things even when they have so little happening as Conan or The Hand.)
Another vote for Citizen Kane. I saw it and remember just saying, “So?”.
Deer Hunter
2001
Spartacus
The Shining
Apocalypse Now
Star Wars (if any are in fact considered great)
Godfather
LOTR
All Indiana Jones movies
The Matrix
The Pianist (not an objectively bad movie - I just couldn’t sympathize with the lead character after he escaped instead of joining the ghetto uprising)
Ran
Blade Runner
All things James Bond
I enjoyed Spinal Tap, but I didn’t think it was side-splittingly funny. I just don’t think comedy works as well in film as it does on TV. Spinal Tap is one of the funnier films I’ve seen, but it’s miles behind a lot of episodes of my favourite TV comedies. Perhaps because TV shows’ long-running nature means that they don’t have to spend time setting up the basic situation and characters?
Shane
Titanic
Cleopatra
American Graffiti.
Maybe I’m too young to appreciate it. But I watched it around the age that the main characters were, and went through the same problems they went through (minus the car wreck), and it still didn’t do anything for me.
Last Year at Marienbad. Supposedly a great film, but I think Michael Medved’s viscious dissection of it (In The Fifty Worst Films of All Time) hits the nail on the head. And the guy who thinks he can play Nim really well in the movie is acually an incompetant hack. This might be intentional on the Director’s part, but I doubt it.
Neither Pepper Mill nor I can STAND The English Patient. Or The Crying Game.
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I will grant that Citizen Kane is a very important film (Camera, sound design, etc), but man is it boring. QUOTE]
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought Citizen Kane was a snore fest.
I was astonished that a movie about gladitorial combat could be so goddamned boring.