Disclaimer:
Given the ridiculousness of the OP, I was hoping this would turn into an ironic thread. However, as it didn’t, I would like to state for the record that I wasn’t serious about what I said about Pulp Fiction.
I kinda wonder if that was the intent (the ridiculousness of the OP that is)
its kinda like talking to people about “Contact” and hearing them bitch because the alien was her dad and blah blah blah blah then when you ask them what the movie was about you hear aliens contact earth and they build blah blah blah blah
inspite of the fact the the entire movie has nothing to do with aliens big machines government or anything other than faith.
different people will always come away with different views on things.
one of the above posters hates the matrix and I agree…completely but he also hates Fight Club for apperantly the same reasons…2 movies with nothing in common at all. one a dark comedy and the other an fx fest staring an actor with all the talent of a can of spam.
its all opinion.
Right on.
The Godfather? My god. “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”. “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.” Who says that shit? Who fucking talks like that? “I don’t want you coming out of the bathroom with just your dick in your hand”.
And, they’re in America. They’re in Italy. He’s got one wife. He’s got another. What the fuck is going on?
Casablanca. Hello. Black & white. What fucking year is this?
I understand, but an homage to crap is still crap. I didn’t like Star Wars, either.
I think Braveheart did that.
Lucas and Spielberg saw their influences through the eyes of childhood wonder. That’s their excuse. Yours is . . . “an homage to crap is still crap.” Nice.
The crappiest crap of all-time:
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Rear Window
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Dr. Strangelove
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Forrest Gump
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Monsters, Inc.
Too crappy for the Top 250: -
City of God
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Amelie
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Vertigo
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Se7en
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American History X
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L.A. Confidential
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Requiem for a Dream
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Crash
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Cool Hand Luke
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Run Lola Run
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The Conversation
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Scarface
Well, some of us outgrow childhood wonder. Sorry. Hell, I didn’t like those movies when I was a child! Maybe I’m just weird.
Point is, I really dislike over-the-top, unrealistic, predictable action movies with cookie-cutter characters, no matter what the filmmakers’ reasons for making them are.
Why should saying “Oh, the director liked children’s action serials when he was a kid” suddenly make me like a movie I hated?
It might help you understand two of the most popular movie series of all time. It’s not like we’re talking Battle Beyond the Stars and The Rundown. There’s a reason these films are so popular.
I agree with a number of posters in the thread that there are no movies on that list that I’ve seen that I think are truly crap, although there are some that wouldn’t go on my top 250 list. I realize, though, that part of that is that I really don’t like either Tarantino or Kubrick, and both of them are heavly represented on there. If you’re curious, I think that Tarantino tends to be much too nihilistically violent for me (and while I admit Scorsese also tends to be nihilistically violent, for whatever reason I still like his stuff), and, while Kubrick’s work tended to be visually stunning, I think that it tended to suffer in terms of plot and coherance. I mean, the first half hour and the last half hour of 2001 contains no dialog. I tend to agree with Rock Hudson, who said after he saw the movie, “Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?”
I can’t personally understand how you couldn’t like “Ed Wood”. “Ed Wood” is a brilliant movie. Only people with hearts made of clockwork and broken glass could dislike “Ed Wood”.
So it’s incompetent, retarded, stupid and stupid. A pretty compelling argument.
Now if he’d said that about its real life subject, it’d be a perfectly reasonable and accurate argument.
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After reading the first two on the OP’s list, you could have written the rest yourself.
The entire list could have been summed up by saying, “I’m too cool for the cool canon.”
It had nothing to do with an intelligent criticism of the films themselves, and everything to do with some kind of meta-posing.
Hardly. I think it’s funny when people make conclusions about a person’s taste level by hearing just a few likes and dislikes.
So, if you dislike these particular eight movies on the IMDb Top 250, then you’re a philistine?
It is to laugh, people.
I like a lot of arty movies. I hate a lot of arty movies. I like a lot of pop movies. I hate a lot of pop movies. Doesn’t everyone?
Well, I guess that’s me then, if you say so.
The OP asks what movies we think are crap. I think it’s crap. You think it’s brilliant. Vive la Difference!