I know we just had a thread like this not too long ago, but I thought it was a fun thread and might be good to start again.
Reason being, I just watched Superbad. Or rather, tried to. I didn’t get past about 30 minutes of the movie and am returning it to Netflix today, thoroughly disgusted with youth today. or something like that.
What I saw of the movie struck me as banal and unfunny. And I liked movies like Animal House and such. I maybe smiled at two of the jokes in this one, and the profanity and vulgarity was way over the top. I like f-bombs as much as anyone but that’s why they’re called f-bombs. These kids couldn’t get past three words without cursing.
Then, I went on Wiki this morning and found it opened at number 1, that lots and lots of people loved it, that it has an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Obviously they saw something in it I never did. Perhaps they merely had the endurance to finish it, I could not. I gave it the lowest rating I could on Netflix.
Feel free to share your own stories of movies everyone else loved and you hated it.
I came to post the same film. I also couldn’t finish Superbad. It was just terrible. The humor was at about a sixth grade level, but not at a funny sixth grade level. It was like the kid in sixth grade who thought he was funny but everyone just hated him.
I’m really confused about that film in seeing how highly rated it is. Comedy suits certain tastes, and typically I can see value in all styles of comedy, even if it isn’t my cup of tea. But this film was just dumb, like Wayans Brothers dumb, which is fine, but typically films like that aren’t reviewed well. I don’t get it.
Alien. Poorly plotted piece of crap, with relies on all the characters in it being dumber than a lead pipe as they consistently do the stupidest possible thing in every scene.
The Usual Suspects. Everyone told me what a great movie it was, but to me it seemed like it was trying too heard to channel David Mamet by way of Quentin Tarantino. I guess that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but I was just bored with the execution, and by the time they had the big reveal at the end I cared so little about the plot or characters I just went “meh.”
It appears I’m not alone on this forum, but I bought the Blu-ray of The Hurt Locker without watching it first. I hated it. I also did the same for The Hangover. While I didn’t hate it, it wasn’t as great as the hype led me to believe. I doubt I blind buy very much anymore.
People really seem to enjoy slamming Top Gun nowdays, but when it came out it seemed like everyone thought it was soo cool. I hated it. Tom Cruise’s cocky, never-do-wrong characters always bugged the frell out of me. I couldn’t stand seeing the same missile launching from the same fighter 3 times. I couldn’t stand the stupid, BS, unbelievable romantic subplot. So enjoy hating Top Gun, everyone, but I hated it first.
I could just say that I hate SPR because it isn’t Band of Brothers. SVP has a lame plot that is borrowed from a dozen other WWII movies then covered a nice thick layer of schmaltz.
Definitely The Hangover. It was the opposite of funny. It was where funny went to die. I’ll never understand why it has such a huge fanbase or why it won a Golden Globe. One of life’s great mysteries.
How the hell did this piece of shit win Best Picture? If you take out all the racial slurs and cussing, its just an after school special on why you should be nice to people.
Add me to the list of people who couldn’t finish Superbad.
For whatever reason, I don’t get David Lean’s “great” films. **Lawrence of Arabia **and **Bridge on the River Kwai **both struck me as boring, ponderous, and drained of life and emotion. Brief Encounter was so dead to me as to be intolerable.
Napoleon Dynamite is the main one that comes to mind. I really wanted to like it, but I just could not “connect” with the film. I kept waiting for it to get funny.
I don’t know if everyone loved this one, but my husband and I watched The Truth About Cats and Dogs with some friends, and everyone else loved it. The film cast Janeane Garofalo as “the plain girl” versus Uma Thurman’s “the beautiful girl”, which was my first quibble - not to mention my husband’s. Garofalo is attractive. Uma’s character has an abusive boyfriend, and I don’t remember that plot line getting resolved at all. (Perhaps it did, but both my husband and I were going “WTF?” at the end over just leaving that part aside.) The whole film left us rolling our eyes and generally annoyed, but our friends thought it was cute and sweet.
Anything by Mel Brooks, but especially Blazing Saddles. Watching it led to sex for the first time with a girl I was seeing, and I still think I got cheated. I fucking hate that movie.
Pulp Fiction. Maybe it didn’t help that my husband and I watched it together at his insistence after we’d been going through some problems, but I didn’t catch any of the supposed humor or irony it’s supposed to have; it depressed me thoroughly.
I am not trying to defend Napoleon Dynamite, a movie I haven’t even seen.
But if writer/director Jared Hess were reading this forum, he’d probably be thinking, "What do you mean EVERYBODY liked Napoleon Dynamite except you? If EVERYBODY but you loved it, why am I not rolling in dough right now?
Napoleon Dynamite was only a modest cult hit. The few people who liked it got into it in a big way, but the vast majority of the population has barely even heard of it.
As I’ve noted before, when people “Am I the only one who didn’t like this-or-that,” they usually mean, “I seem to be the only one in my small circle of friends who didn’t like this.”
MOST people weren’t Monty Python fans in the 1970s. But if you were a nerd going to an intellectual all-boys high school in the 1970s (as I was), it sure SEEMED as if everybody else could recite the “Spam” sketch in its entirety.
MOST people have never read any of the “Twilight” books, but it may well seem to a sensitive 13 year old girl that she’s the only one who hasn’t read them all.
We shouldn’t assume our small circles of friends are in an yway typical of the world at large.
