I hate T&L. Aside from all the other poor decisions they make, killing yourself in the name of female empowerment is utterly stupid.
The worst of the Bond films. FRWL is a contender, and maybe add Casino Royale, but not Goldfinger!
You had me until “director’s cut”. The original theatrical, please!
(I chuckle that you distinguish “original director’s cut” from the seemingly endless stream of “better director’s cut” and “final director’s cut” and “we really mean it this time! final director’s cut! SRSLY”)
Ah, but there’s the rub. A film’s worth to who? I’m interested in a film’s worth to me, and I often disagree with professional critics. The only critic I pretty much consistently agreed with was the late great Roger Ebert. Then there are critics like Richard Brody, who writes for the New Yorker, and seems to have a powerful affinity for obscure art house dreck. Besides, so many movies on RT have ratings in the high 90s or even 100% that it ceases to be meaningful. It’s relatively rare for IMDb to rate a movie higher than about 7.9.
I found it helpful to filter the IMDb search to 1 million ratings or more, then sort by highest rating. Figuring that the only movies that have a chance to be universally viewed positively are movies that a ton of people rated positively on IMDb.
There is a pretty serious recency bias in such a list, but in fairness, I think there would be equivalent recency bias for any movie to qualify here. Getting younger generations to watch black and white movies is probably about as difficult as getting me to watch them.
Getting older generations to watch and enjoy aa more modern movie is probably easier but still not easy.
I loved it when I was a kid, but it does not age well. It’s one in a long line of white savior stories that exist for white people and by white people.
Must have seen it at the wrong age then. I came out of the theatre depressed. May have been the Spanish voice over?
Now I think that one single voice against a film is too high a bar, I take my nib back on WoO. The others remain.
People have mentioned the Sound of Music, which is fine, I guess, but nobody’s suggested the greatest Hollywood musical of all time, Singin’ in the Rain? I’m sure someone will prove me wrong, but I don’t think it’s possible to dislike that movie.
Right, due to all of the poor decisions they make throughout the film. I absolutely hated Thelma & Louise from start to finish. There is no way it is in the universe of films that everyone agrees is good, IMHO.
And they weren’t necessarily facing death row back in Arkansas. Instead of Louise cashing out her life savings and letting a drifter steal it, she could have paid for a good lawyer to either get her off on self-defense or at least a reduced charge. None of the the other crimes they committed were potential capital offenses.
I still think Apollo 13 should be a contender. One person upthread said he didn’t like it because he doesn’t like Tom Hanks, but c’mon, that like saying you don’t like puppies.
And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, I will add The Martian to the list, which is another one of my favorite films.
Does anybody else feel that both Julie Andrews and James Stewart have a relation to goodness that elicits a response like the uncanny valley hypothesizes for resemblance to humans? It comes close, which makes it even more distressing, but it is not the real thing. Ony you can’t really point to what is wrong. But it is.
So there go My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, and all of Stewart’s X-Mas movies.
I dislike Singin’ in the Rain for a really stupid reason: The movie is not about singing in the rain. The movie title comes from possibly the most iconic scene in movie history, but that’s not the focus of the movie.
That was me and it’s more like I don’t like inane actors that pander to their audiences. Was Apollo 13 the one where Hanks played the quietly decent man trying to conquer his fear for the greater good, or was that every other movie he churns out at the pablum factory?
