Gone with the Wind.
Nobody in that film is interesting, likeable, or sympathetic. And it’s FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS of uninteresting, unlikeable, unsympathetic people.
The only thing I liked about it was a scene where Scarlett was running down stairs toward Rhett. I was fascinated by how fast her feet moved.
I strongly agree.
The most over rated piece of shit of all time.
A couple of those movies are a bit over-rated, but I liked almost all of them to one degree or another. The only one I think I actually hated is Fargo. I like most of the other Cohen brothers films, and over-the-top violence doesn’t bother me, but Fargo is one of the few movies I got bored enough watching that I turned it off halfway through.
Into The Wild
The kid was an idiot and got what was coming to him.
Pride was similar - she could have chosen to live disfigured, but killed herself instead.
If Titanic and Saving Private Ryan didn’t each have their one big, technically mind-blowing scene (sinking and D-Day, respectively), I think they both would have just faded away at the box office. Both of those enormously difficult to engineer scenes and the hype related to them is what put butts in the theater seats and made them mega-hits.
As for Psycho I think it just didn’t age well. My mom said she screamed in the theater when the chair was spun around to reveal Norman’s less-than-lively mother. I didn’t see the big deal at all and I didn’t know it was supposed to be a surprise.
My friend’s mom explained it to us (she saw it in the theater). At the time, you didn’t really see nudity in mainstream movies. Although strategic camera work kept Janet Leigh’s parts covered, my friend’s mom said it was the first times in her movie-going experience that she was really aware of a woman’s nakedness and exposure onscreen, so when the shower attack came it had more of a psychological impact because my friend’s mom said she had already been uncomfortable about how exposed and vulnerable Leigh was (especially knowing Norman had peep-holes too).
She did not mention however, if she felt the reveal was scary at the time.
But since that film came out, we’re a lot more used to seeing women disrobe and be murdered and little kids got to watch a face melt in Raiders of the Lost Ark. There’s nothing really uncomfortable or shocking about Psycho anymore, we see more sick and twisted stuff on prime time everyday.
I’ve seen it, and didn’t hate it, but I have no desire to see it again. It isn’t particularly fun to watch or groundbreaking, and way overrated. Other people have explained lust, so I will just point out that he’s a serial killer. His killings don’t necessarily have to make logical sense, despite the conceit of the movie. Some real killers have serious hangups about prostitutes, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they confuse it with lust.
I do hate the movie for spawning the insipid trend of replacing letters with numbers in movies, musical groups, etc. The title kinda makes sense, because a “7” rotated is sort of a “V.” That doesn’t excuse things like “5ive.” I pronounce these things phonetically out of spite.
I have not seen the movie, but I got the same impression from the book when I read it ages ago. I don’t think Krakauer necessarily intended it to be sympathetic anyway. Did the movie go out of the way to make us like him?
This is one rare case where the IMDB is wrong. “Se7en” is a marketing logo, but the movie’s official title is “Seven”:
You and me both. Admittedly, I never saw the first one, but I saw II on campus. I remember being BORED SILLY. The movie was 3.5 hours long. At numerous points after hour 2, they could have simply stopped the movie and I would not have felt deprived of any interesting plot points.
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. We didn’t see this in the theater, rather we rented it and watched it at home. Here’s a kid who has everything he could desire (spoiled rotten), and decides to buck the rules for no reason other than to goof off - ruining a number of lives in the process.
Big Trouble in Little China. All my friends love this movie, and I hated it. When it was still in the theaters, me and my boyfriend snuck in to see it - and then walked out.
Come to think of it, there have been exactly two Kurt Russell films I’ve enjoyed - Tombstone and Stargate. (Yeah, yeah, Stargate was crap, but it was enjoyable crap.)
I would have put Eternal Sunshine in the category of movies that I liked and everyone else hated. What gave you the impression that it was popular?
In terms of popular movies I hated, I walked out of the theater during Rocky.
I don’t think it went out of its way to get us to like him. I think it established that this kid relied on luck and tiny bit of information to get by. The kid was a likable sort but being likable is not the same as rooting for him as the hero. It’s a journey picture, we’re just watching events unfold.
Does anyone else remember the episode of Seinfeld about how Elaine hating The English Patient and trying to hide it from her coworkers?
I wonder how many people fake liking a movie, because other people say they like it or it is something they think they should like. Maybe that would explain The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I think the title should have been shortened to Unbearable.
I don’t know if this fits into the ‘everybody loved it’ designation, but here is one I Totally Hated: Brick
You never saw The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes?
Same here, I couldn’t stand Brick
Another one that a lot of my friends liked was The Machinist. I thought it was dull and the ending unsatisfactory.
It’s number 58 in the IMDB “most popular movies” list linked above.
Driving Miss Daisy- the story of a miserable old bitch and her stereotypical black servant from the time she’s 65 and he’s 50 til the time she’s 142 and he’s 127. It had its moments I’ll grant and the actors did more than anyone else could have with the script, but generally I thought it was vastly overrated, so obviously written by a former kid from a rich family (which it was) and I thought Hoke would have been well within his rights to smother her in her sleep one morning.
Another vote for Superbad- I stayed awake through 3 Porkys movies (not on my short or long list of faves but I’ve seen worse) but this one I couldn’t pay attention to without FFW.
Sweeney Todd- I dislike the play, hated the movie.
40 Year Old Virgin. Everyone said I had to see it and I like Steve Carell but I couldn’t even make it all the way through.