The English Patient. I’d been looking forward to seeing it for weeks and was so disappointed I could have cried. Every minute in the cinema passed like hours. Worse, I had dragged along someone I didn’t know very well, so didn’ t like to ask if they wanted to leave in case they were enjoying it, but then felt obliged to leave too. After the film was over, I discovered they had been hating it too. :smack:
When Seinfeld did an episode in which Elaine goes to see The English Patient and hates it, I felt like I was watching my life on TV
Any of the happy-love-girly-syrupy-sweet chick flicks my roommate is inexplicably fond of. Love Actually, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally…I hate romantic comedies.
Also, any comedy with Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler. They just make me angry.
Oh yeah, and Boogie Nights: It’s like, what, 8 hours long, and just full of tired 70’s references, one-dimensional characters, shallow melodrama, weak attempts at humor, and showcases for Respected Independent Film Actors To Display Their Craft.
which reminds me of American Beauty: Another attempt to take paper-thin characters and completely predictable stereotypical situations and pass it off as saying something profound. “Look deeper” past the stereotypes and you’ll see – more stereotypes! It’s redeemed only by the fact that Mena Suvari lying naked on a bed of roses is a great image, and a memorable one.
I almost forgot this movie: Donnie Darko. I know there are literally thousands of people, some of them on this board, who think it’s one of the greatest movies ever. I’d rather eat goat.
Easter Parade. I can’t begin to categorise my hatred of this film. It has all the appearance of a nice, colourful, slightly second-banana Hollywood musical but actually it is the devil’s own testicles.
**Requiem for a Dream. **Mahoosively overrated, over-directed, over-acted, stupidly plotted, unwatchable cack.
Father of the Bride II. Oh no, Diane Keaton has to have the baby despite being about 50 million years old! And Steve Martin will have to sell their dream home to some nasty foreigner! The horror! Another film that appears harmless but is actually propagating a political agenda so nasty and mean-spirited that Peter Hitchens (poisonous brother of Christopher) would baulk to entertain it.
Snow Day - this one felt personal because it seemed to be desperately trying to be Pete and Pete: The Movie, and thereby desecrating one of the greatest television shows ever produced.
One of the very few movies I ever stopped watching partway through was The Wedding Singer. I simply could not finish that garbage.
Shrek - the epitome of all that is wrong in film comedy.
Ooh, be forever grateful that you made that decision because it means you missed the repellant suckathon that is Dogville. Add that piece of garbage to my list.
I’ll second all of the following: Gone with the Wind: wouldn’t begrudge others, but I couldn’t stand it. Moulin Rouge: hyperactive, and I hate anachronisms in general. Magnolia: the director’s so in love with himself that he took what story there was and stretched it out beyond belief. And the part where all the characters are singing along with the same song at the same time strained all credibility.
And I’ll add a few: The Reflecting skin: for what reason was this nihilistic, abusive, depressing piece of crap ever made? Absolutely no point to all the sickness in it. The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover: Incredibly disgusting. I fast forwarded a lot of it because I would have puked otherwise. Again, what is the point?
[QUOTE= Blue Velvet
Now, Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I wanted to check out more Lynch, and this one seemed to be well regarded. The opening scenes had me going “Oh yeah, this is going to be great.” Nope. It ended up being so brutal and degrading that I couldn’t take enough showers to wash the scum off. Who needs this shit, part deux.[/QUOTE]
“hit me”
Seriously, Blue Velvet made me laugh. I thought it was great. The same with** Pink Flamingo’s**. That shit is classic.
I’m going to blow my intellectual snob cred right out of the water here, but I don’t think I’ve seen any movie by Jean-Luc Godard that hasn’t made me want to run piano wire through my eyeballs in relief from torturous boredom. Le Mepris (Contempt) seemed to be designed to demonstrate his, well, contempt for the audience.
I’ve always wanted to see Alphaville but I just don’t know if I can handle the experience without a Clockwork Orange-like apparatus to keep me in my seat.
I might be the only one on earth, but I really, really hated Love Actually.
I used to almost kinda-sorta like sappy romcom’s, but this one may have cured me. I don’t know why. Wait, yes I do.
The plot was ridiculous. The love stories were ridiculous. The dialog was crap. BTW, just because someone is saying it with a British accent, doesn’t make it witty.
Oh, and I loved the part about 20 minutes in where they show you a lady’s boobs. I guess that’s to keep the bf’s/hubbies that were dragged there awake on the outside chance that there might be more of the same later in the flic.
Was this movie shown to your high school class, or were you “forced” to go see it by a friend or friends? If it was an assigned film, what in hell was the school thinking, and how did they avoid getting lynched by the parents???
