This probably won’t make me popular around here, but…The Princess Bride.
I tried. Really I did. Twice. Both times I fell asleep. Boring movie.
I was going to say **Napoleon Dynamite **too, but…yeah. I guess everybody *didn’t *love it. It just seemed that way at the time.
I hear people citing this a lot, but isn’t there some rather obvious symbolism involved there?
The Shawshank Redemption. A bunch of stereotyped characters colliding to make the number one rated film on IMDB. Whatever.
Gladiator. It was a pretty good movie until an ending worthy of a 1970s era TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain.
Also count me in for Meet the Parents. I can’t stand Ben Stiller’s brand of “humor.”
Sort of, I guess. The crime and violence in the dog fighting portion of Amores Perros reduced the shock created by City of God, which is why most people I know enjoyed it so much. I suppose if I had viewed Slumdog Millionaire around the same time, the same thing would happen (and not because Freida Pinto is a Portuguese name). 
Re: You’ve Got Mail, I don’t imagine that it was widely considered the movie of the year or anything, but everywhere I went people were cooing about how sweet it was. Blech.
I thought Napoleon Dynamite was funny, but my husband thought it was bizarre. I think you have to have spent the early 80’s in a small town to like it, or something. Most of the characters reminded me of home.
I actually couldn’t help comparing Slumdog to City of God because of the whole poverty thing. But I had no feeling at all towards City of God–it felt so emotionless to me, whereas I definitely liked Slumdog. I didn’t think it was necessarily as great as people said it was but I liked it.
I like westerns. I like Brad Pitt. After hearing how great The Assassination of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford was, I should have loved it. What a long, boring movie. Editing would have helped this one a lot.
I really liked City of God. But now that you remind me, Slumdog was not that great. The premise was great about how he got his answers, but the flashback scenes were generic crime movie, and I was waiting for something to make me care. He falls in love with a girl he met briefly, and his brother dumps him because he’s horny. Whatever.
Speaking of Westerns, Unforgiven. It comes across as a corny B-movie, and is boring to boot.
Omg, am I with you! What was that piece of crap anyway and what was it doing at the Oscars?
Also, Forrest Gump.
good lord, what sort of misconceived taste could ever view this as a movie for a top 10? I hope never to meet anyone like this.
Other films in this thread I’ve also hated: *Superbad, The Usual Suspects, Saving Private Ryan, American History X, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Meet the Parents *(why is Stiller’s character devoting all this attention and effort to such a boring fiancee?), and Gladiator.
my own contribution: Milk. Such a dull, uninspired biopic hoping (as it turns out, successfully) to ride the coattails of recent political currents. And I don’t like its utopian portrayal of the gay community of that decade: give me Friedkin’s Cruising any day for some harsh, accurate realism on that note.
Benjamin Button: It was supposed to be great, there was Oscar buzz, the guy at the store suggested it to me, I bought it and was bored to tears. BOR-fucking-ING.
Dancer in the Dark: A movie all the cool kids loved, you’re not cool if you don’t like it. I’m not cool.
Amelie: See above.
Citizen Kane: Greatest movie ever? Please…
Lord of the Rings: Not so boring or bad, but just too fucking long. I fell asleep during all three films and never bothered to watch them again. No thanks!
The Big Lebowski - pointless movie about a bunch of losers, who do loser things, and deservedly have crappy things happen to them because they’re such losers. And then Steve Buscemi dies for no reason.
Utter shite.
I’ve hated most Mel Brooks stuff other than Silent Movie.
I posted in the other thread so I’ll try not to repeat myself - but I agree with Triplets of Belleville. In fact I don’t know anyone who did like it.
Moulin Rouge. If there’s anything worse than crap, it’s artsy derivative crap. I can’t believe this drek got 8 Oscar nominations. I watched it free . . . and I still want my money back.
The appeal of Children of Men baffles me utterly, for reasons I have spelled out in detail on this board.
The violence doesn’t get to me:the all-too-obvious cloying self-referentialism does. No filmmaker has an ego as big as Tarantino, and it shows. The only thing from him I liked was Pulp Fiction (mainly for the final scene). Rented Inglorious Basterds-same old song.
You are a woman of refined tastes.
I’m not trying to convince anybody to like the movie, but this isn’t really an accurate description of what happens in it. Derek spends three years in prison, over the course of which…
[spoiler]… he becomes disillusioned with the white supremacist movement (when he sees them doing things that he sees as a violation of his “principles,” like selling drugs to minorities in prison), is raped by the group he had been a part of, has a black man to thank for not being killed, and another black man (his mentor) to thank for getting out of prison when he did. Recall also that Derek’s white supremacism didn’t get that bad until the death of his father; prior to that he had respected what’s his face, Captain Sisko.
It also isn’t that he becomes totally non-racist after he gets out of jail. There isn’t any particular reason to think that Derek no longer harbors racist views. He just wants to get away from the white supremacy movement because he doesn’t want Danny to end up like him. It takes years in prison, a vicious assault, and a deep concern for the care of his brother for Derek to abandon his Neo-Nazi group thing; it’s not like he just flipped his racism switch.[/spoiler]
In other news, I’m with winterhawk11. The Princess Bride is like anti-entertainment. I have no idea why anybody likes it, let alone sees merit in quoting it all the time.
I love westerns but somehow I had never seen Silverado until recently. Supposedly a great movie with an all star cast!
What a boring turd of a movie.