The Matrix. Pretty, yes, but incredibly boring, and the sequels outright sucked.
OMG, Lost in Translation. I came away genuinely angry at those two people. Two ignorant Americans that were in this beautiful city, full of culture and beauty and history, a chance I would have jumped at, and all they could do was bitch and moan and whine at how horrible their lives were and just sit around.
Ooo, I’m getting mad just thinking about it. Must go away.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. A lot of people told me how funny this was, and it even got some good reviews.
I’m not a hater of Will Ferrell, but I thought this movie brought out all his worst qualities. The film also embodied all the worst aspect of Judd Apatow’s flicks (overgrown adolescents, a lot weird random scenes, a running time that could stand to be shaved by about 20 minutes) with none of the sharp writing that made his later movies a hoot.
Overall, I’d rank this as just barely above Wayans Brothers level of comedy.
I liked the original, but was not a fan of the sequels at all, so those go on my “hated” list.
The rest of the group I saw The Triplets of Belleville with seemed to be impressed; I nodded off and retained only a vague impression that I knew little and cared less about what any of these characters were doing.
I like most Cohen Brothers movies, but I never understood why “everyone” thought Fargo was so great.
The only funny part in the whole movie was the anchorman fight. But, I can watch that on youtube!
Were you watching expecting a comedy? I find many people who dislike the film watched the film as if it were a comedy. This approach to the film is driven by the fact that many people, for some reason, consider it a comedy, and it is often talked about on those terms. If it were meant to be a comedy I think the movie is a failure. However, as a thriller it is a great film. I believe the Coen brothers intended the film to be a thriller with some quirky comedic elements, but first and formost a thriller. A big clue is the full title: Fargo a thriller by Joel & Ethan Coen.
I agree with both Reservoir Dogs and Lost in Translation I did not like either of them.
One was over the top violent and the other boring.
His conversion started in prison I guess, so it was quite some time. Still, he decides that black people are A-Ok because he makes a black friend and gets raped by a white guy, he really needs to rethink how quickly he jumps to conclusions.
I don’t get it, why are you putting these together? Because they’re both Iberian-language movies with violence?
I thought it was painfully unfunny the first time I saw it. I like it a bit better as time goes on, but it’s still not as amazing and quotable as everyone thinks.
Which reminds me: I didn’t laugh once at Little Miss Sunshine. It’s one of those movies that’s painful to watch due to the awkwardness, but isn’t you know, funny.
Shrek- sucked. It’s a stupid and hateful movie.
The Matrix- sucked. It’s boring.
I am showing my age, but I remember as a youth seeing “Easy Rider” and was very happy when one of the main characters was shot and killed. I actually applauded, to the wild embarrassment of the guy who had gone with me to the movie. I thought the audience was going to kill me and revoke my “hippie” license on the spot.
I just hated that film - pretentious garbage but a film loved by 99.9% of my generation.
Matrix - what can I tell you…saw the first, then saw the second - and didn’t even bother to watch the third one when it started showing up on television.
And, sorry to say, I didn’t find Pyscho scary one iota. That people still call that shower scene terrifying baffles me. Really? That scared you? And still does? I thought the end of Carrie was scarier, and the Shining was a far creepier film.
I don’t know if everyone loved it or what, but I hated Meet the Parents. I sometimes think people who loved it must have had an easy time with their in-laws and their parents’ acceptance of their SO. Me and my SO - his parents are wonderful to me and mine hate him, but we BOTH cringed every moment of the movie and I couldn’t enjoy it at all.
I can’t remember one except for some mentioned already. So I agree on Saving Private Ryan, aside for the first fifteen minutes which was really something else; then it became just another WWII cliché ridden flick. Also Forest Gump, rather boring. And The Matrix – rather boring. The sequels unwatchable crap.
I was reading this thread waiting to see if I could post this…to me, humor that revolves around someone being chronically anxious and uncmofortable in his own skin, as well as being awkward, just isn’t funny. This plus the fact that you can see the punchlines coming for about 3 miles.
I mean, compare this film to the one with Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac, “Guess Who?” where there are uncomfortable situations, but all in all it is not a movie dominated by awkwardness.
So, basically, almost any movie with Ben Stiller is unwatchable. So add to this the film “There’s Something [overrated] About Mary”
I don’t know to what degree it’s important to mask spoilers for 25-30 year old movies, but just in case:
The Breakfast Club - I felt like the entire thing was just a series of non-sequiturs and I didn’t understand why we were supposed to believe that the kids were really connecting with each other after they spent the entire film picking on each other and then having random outbursts.
I also felt super skeeved-out about the two romances that develop: Bender sexually harrasses Claire throughout the entire movie and basically makes her crack, and Andy seems to only be interested in Allison because she pulls her hair back.
The Shining - What the hell? I couldn’t get through more than half an hour of this. Three people run around doing mostly ordinary, boring things while ear-splitting ‘scary’ music plays, and every once in a while something gratuitously ‘freaky’ happens. After I left to do something more interesting (like staring at a wall or watching grass grow), I went and looked up how it ends.
The one potentially interesting part about the movie - Danny’s psychic ability - was never really explored or utilized, other than to further contribute to the contrived ‘creepiness’ of the movie. Maybe the novel went further into it, but I shouldn’t need to read the novel to understand the film adaption.
I was also going to mention Napoleon Dynamite, but I think now that the trend has died down, most people are acknowledging that it was two hours of nothing happening interspersed with the occasional hipster-humorous sound bite.
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is not a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining. Kubrick’s film is a “Let’s steal some of the central plot points, the setting, and the names of the characters from a Stephen King novel and see if we can make a movie out of it” project.
Read the book. It’s the best thing Stephen King ever wrote.
Armageddon - Absolute garbage, and my opinion of anyone who puts it in their top ten drops significantly.
I understand if you just didn’t like it, but it’s an homage to kung fu movies… taking out the viloance/amputations is like saying “Animal House would be much better if there wasn’t so many raunchy jokes”
I think my vote is for Caddyshack. Bill Murray’s story about the Dalai Lama cracks me up, but other than that… meh. I didn’t hate it but I don’t get why everyone says its the most quotable movie of all time.
Then you, obviously, don’t have that goin’ for you.