Wow, holy heck yes. This movie caused my physical pain, and not in the “laughing too hard” way. Man, that thing was terrible. There’s a comic somewhere that I can’t find that literally contains the words “If this is as bad as Napoleon Dynamite, I’m leaving you.”
(repeating what some have already posted)
This Is Spinal Tap
It’s so cool that I really really wanted to like it. I remember renting that movie on a couple of occasions thinking that maybe I didn’t “get it” the first time around.
It had lots of quirky gags such as the “11” thing and the Stonehenge bit, but it just wasn’t entertaining.
Star Wars and all of its progeny.
It was a good movie in 1977. It was an awesome movie to see as a tween, but then again so were Close Encounters and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The plot is relatively thin though, and the special effects were nice but not worth crowing about for forty years.
My problem with it is that so many better movies have been made in the intervening decades but people continue to go on about Star Wars. I have sat through some of the prequels, accompanying family members, but I got nothing from them.
As far as space and effects, 2001 was a much better film with a far deeper plot in my opinion (notwithstanding the fact that many have mentioned 2001 in this thread).
HATE this movie. Such a complete piece of crap.
Completely agree. I love this movie.
I didn’t find the late-1980s “Batman” all that great, either.
Fight Club.
A bunch of stupid mentally ill people doing stupid mentally ill stuff.
And a lot of fans took this to be some sort of how-to for life???
Most movies in general.
There are a few that are pretty awful but that I love anyway though. But I guess that’s a different thread.
Some Like It Hot
One joke for two hours.
Hah hah hah, men in women’s clothes.
I like all three stars and Wilder…but this is atrocious drivel that Benny Hill would be embarrassed about airing.
And don’t try to explain how groundbreaking it was; it was not…
Red River
Wayne and Clift
Look, I get it.
Some males have daddy issues.
But this is constantly heralded as one of the great westerns…no doubt by critics with, ummmm…let’s see, I know…daddy issues.
It is not in the top ten of the western genre, but is played constantly on broadcast and cable.
If I give you $100, will you stop programming this soap opera on a horse?
Avatar
As my 84 y.o. Mother said, What was the point? Blue people?
The Bond movie, Spectre. I can’t tell you how much I was looking forward to it, and how disappointed I was. It was a complete mess from start to finish.
I couldn’t get through the first half-hour of No Country for Old Men.
I love many of the movies mentioned here, but I’ll agree with Blair Witch Project. I also saw that with a group of friends and we just found it a boring mess of a film. Absolutely nothing scary or suspenseful about it. It was like the sort of shit we’d do in high school, crawling around the “haunted” graveyards with a camcorder, except when we did that, we were actually a little bit scared, but watching somebody else do it. Boring as fucking hell.
The reason to watch Tootsie is to watch Jessica Lange undressing.
And it’s the reason to become Tootsie.
Me too. I’ve seem bunches of these movies, and this is the full list of comic book movies I have ever actually enjoyed: Batman Forever, Tank Girl, The Crow, the Blade Trilogy, The X-Men movies (2000-2006), Guardians of the Galaxy I & II. That’s it, end of list.
My brother tried to convince me on Christmas Eve that I’d like the latest Thor movie and Ant Man…yeah, no.
Among films often hailed as towering masterpieces,the three that have left me underwhelmed:
Vertigo
2001
The Searchers
None of them is a bad film and each has scenes of great power but they don’t hold up as a whole IMO.
Among more recent films, Lost in Translation stands out as a film that underwhelmed and indeed annoyed me.
I didn’t think “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was all that, either, but a lot of it was the implicit racism, due to Mickey Rooney being cast as the crabby Japanese landlord, instead of a genuine Japanese actor.
“Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” was pretty good, but here was my take on it: If my son or daughter came home from vacation and said that s/he was going to marry someone s/he had known for 10 days, with a significant age difference, I’d be a trifle bit upset too.
[Blazing Saddles Reference]The groom’s a n—<clang!>[/BSr]
Two come to mind right away Jaws, absotely horrible, and The Justice League.The Flash portrayal was ridiculous.
I honestly thought the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy mediocre along with The Hobbit. Maybe that’s because I read the books and so found them far superior.
It’s been a while since I saw this movie but wasn’t that Geena Davis?