There probably isn’t a single “high-hyped” movie that at least one person around here doesn’t particularly care for. I think a better title for this thread is: “I didn’t like Alien. Why was it so hyped?”
Oh, yeh, even in meh-mode I was still touched by HAL’s death. That has to be the most powerful scene in the whole movie, not least because you can hear the sorrow in Dave’s voice as he does it. And I agree, the technical stuff was very good. But overall it somply didn’t engage me as it had on first viewing, and – and this is probably where the small screen had significant effect – the psychedelic stuff at the end didn’t blow me away this time. More of an “oh, interesting effect there” reaction.
Still, I give it props for being a radical departure from the conventional sci-fi opus of its day.
Now, Dr. Strangelove – that still holds up very well for me.
I’d agree, one of those movies that had a nice idea that maybe made me smile and say, neat, but not feverish as so many reviewers and fans did.
Much like The Exorcist actually.
Borat. All the hype and all the reviews and word of mouth made me sure that this was a funny, intelligent, satirical jab at American culture that I’d love.
I watched it about 2/3s of the way through and realized that I was bored out of my skull and that the beauty of Netflix was that I didn’t have any money invested specifically in the DVD so I might as well send it on its way.
I almost never, these days, watch a movie that sucks. My time is valuable to me and so is my Netflix account. But meh, yeah, I get meh. Movies that do it for other people, even other people with your tastes, but just not you.
I finally got around to watching Monster last week, and, yeah, it was an amazing acting performance by Charlize Theron, but the movie as a whole just left me, yeah, meh. I almost turned it off halfway through because I just didn’t have any emotional investment in those people at all; there was only once scene where I honestly cared about anybody in the whole movie. Impressive performance in a movie that just didn’t hit it off with me.
AGREED!!! What is with the fucking “Woe is me, I’m such a loser and I live in a shithole apartment and…what?..oh, I’m SPIDERMAN now!!!” plotline that seems to go through all of the movies?! And what is with “emo Spiderman” (as my friends and I call him) in number 3?! Stan Lee made a better comic than this, he should sue!
How familiar are you with the character? That’s EXACTLY the way Stan Lee wrote him.
American Beauty
Lost in Translation
Ghostworld
Spiderman 1 & 2 (haven’t bothered to see 3 yet)
Brokeback Mountain
Austin Powers
Star Wars (all of them, but especially IV-VI)
The Fog (orginial but only because the sucky remake wasn’t hyped too)
Not high-hyped but still over-hyped:
Broken Flowers
Little Miss Sunshine
Monster’s Ball
A History of Violence
You’re always classy like that — accepting apologies and letting grudges go.
To clear up some of the lingering controversy from page 2, I really didn’t even comprehend enough of the plot to dislike the movie. It just plain bored me. The last thing I remember from it was some desert-like landscape with up-shots of transformer toys emulating giant robots on an asteroid or something with, apparently, an oxygen-rich atmosphere. I faded out. When I woke up, a friend was punching my ribs and saying, “Can you believe how cool that was!” And I said something like, “Yeah. No.”
It’s take over 100 posts to say?:
It’s Snakes! On A Plane!
and it will put you to sleep
Yeah, I’m not sure why people found Borat so original and groundbreaking.
It’s as if they refused to watch Tom Green, Jackass, and Punk’d because they were too lowbrow and then howled with laughter at Borat because they’ve never seen anything like it before.
Second (or whatever) on all Shreks, the last two Matrices (I liked the first one, but didn’t see that it was amazing or deep), all Spidermans, Kill Bill, Sequels of Austin Powers, Me You and Everyone we Know, Lost in Translation, Moulin Rouge (Chicago too), Titanic, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, everything by Uwe Boll, Schizopolis, new Charlie and the Chocolate factory (liked the old one better) and the LOTR franchise as well as pretty much all American romantic comedies.
Some random movies from different genres/taste levels that I did like, for comparison: Sunshine, Coffy, the Talented Mr. Ripley, THX1138, Logan’s Run, Coming to America, The Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, X-Men (not the third one though), Lola Rennt, Monsoon Wedding, Last Life in the Universe, Children of Men, The Women, Tamala 2010 (etc.), all the Pixar movies I’ve seen so far, the Bourne franchise.
Years ago I was dating a lady who worked for The Academy.
Yes, we got free passes - plus the Academy owned a theatre in Beverly Hills and premiered new movies there.
We saw some great movies there. We also saw a piece of crap called The English Patient.
I didn’t figure out what was going on in the movie until about 5 minutes from the end. Not good for a movie that lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes.
When we came out of the theatre I looked at C and said “What the hell was that?”
She had no idea either. And this piece of steaming excrement won 9 Oscars?
Even today, I wish I had my 2 hours and 40 minutes back.
I was bored. I was restless. I was annoyed. I was disappointed. I was watching
Casino Royale.
Do I have to hand in my Cafe Society decoder ring now?
Both movies I hate are here already:
But Borat is foreign! It’s funny if it’s done in a fakey accent!
Meh. Just the 30-second bunny version was enough to let me know that this is not a movie made for my enjoyment.
I got an hour into that crap, realized I had no clue what was going on, who the characters were, what they were doing, and why I should care about it. Fortunately I checked it out from the library so I didn’t plunk down any hard-earned cash for my disappointment.
But in the comic he’s not so dreadfully annoying. Idk…maybe just seeing him as a real person doing stuff makes me want to punch myself in the face…
Oh, you’re alone.
So very, very, very alone . . .
::d&r::
Dr. Strangelove, maybe? I certainly think it’s a great movie…
Yeah, “Emo Spiderman” sucked donkey dick. I didn’t like the first one much, had to be induced to watch the second, which I surprisingly thoroughly enjoyed, and was excited to watch the third, which was so full of potential, but turned out to be so awful.
Also - anything Superman. I hate that mealy-mouthed jingoistic monocultured Mr. Clean eager beaver bumbling idiot son of a bitch in tights. What a fag. (disclaimer: normally I like fags, just not Superfag.)
I have to nominate Pulp Fiction. Granted, I didn’t see the movie until years after it came out, but I just don’t think it’s that great. There are a few exciting parts, but the rest of the movie is painfully dull. And then there’s the part at the end where those two guys get abducted by the rednecks and put in a sex dungeon. Sorry, but that was so over-the-top ridiculous that I couldn’t take the movie seriously after that.