Shakespeare was a genius, the best writer of witty wordplay I’ve seen in a playwright. For this alone he deserves a high place in the canon, but just on the strength of overall story, he’s not all that great.
I’ve never understood how Bob Dylan is such an icon. He’s a bad singer and an average musician. As for his songwriting skills I think it’s a case of Dylan writing semi-meaningless lines that rhyme and people reading a deeper meaning into them. On the few occasions when he isn’t being obscure he’s so obvious it’s painful.
Easy Rider
This fucking thing was on TV the other night, and I didn’t like it now any more than I liked it the first time I saw it ages ago, and every time since. In fact, I think I’ve grown from mild annoyance to the point I detest the sight of Captain America, with his dumbfuck vacuous stare, cruising the desert highway. “I’m hip about time, man.” Yeah, well, it’ll be a long fucking time until you crawl out from under the junkie rock after this POS road movie, so enjoy it, peabrain. Relatively speaking, Jack N.'s a beam of brilliant comic light in an otherwise shit-brown fog of hippy-worshiping, tie-dyed dreck, where a bunch of stoned goofballs wander around aimlessly spouting off a bunch of Zen-by-numbers bullshit as if people wasted on grass really don’t sound quite so fucking annoying to anyone not also as stoned as they are. Either that or it’s Dennis Hopper being Dennis-fucking-Hopper, meaning, being a perpetual drugged-out volitile whack-job, which, for him of course, isn’t acting at all.
I didn’t see this one. ^o^
I agree. So much. What’s worse than the story - which is problematic itself - is the art and the layout. It’s not at all attractive. The flow from panel to panel and caption to caption is awkward.
Gone With the Wind continues to be a vastly overrated waste of time, IMO.
I think Stanley Kubrick was the most bloated pretentious over-rated director in the history of film. His early works were good, especially Paths of Glory. Dr. Strangelove was good, too. Then he believed his own hype (I guess) and started turning out shite like Clockwork Orange. And Full Metal Jacket. And Eyes Wide Shut. From beyond the grave he posessed Spielberg and made A.I..
I can’t watch more than a few minutes of it before one of the women-folk starts shrieking, driving me from the room.
You listed one of mine special hates in the OP. Jimmy Stewart’s voice and mannerism annoy the hell outta me. It’s a Wonderful Life, especailly, chaps my hide. The whiney woe-is-me crap is grating.
I thought Star Wars pretty boring, actually. *:: ducking, so the spitballs will stick on my screen instead of in my hair:: *
And ‘Titanic’ was a horrible film. Bad dialogue, over-acting galore and silly to the point of laughable.
And it got a lot of Oscars. :mad:
Hey, I’m a Shakespeare nut, and even I admit he stole every single story he could get his hands on. 
Me? Hm. Am I the only one who thinks Gilmore Girls is just way over-the-top cutesy? It just feels so fake.
Speaking of It’s a Wonderful Life, I didn’t like this at all the one time I saw it. We were supposed to believe that George Bailey thought his life was worthless, when in the first few minutes of the film, before he’s even out of adulthood, we see him save three lives (two literally: his brother’s and the pharmacy customer, and one (the pharmacist) from horrible guilt and quite possibly going to prison). Then he selflessly gives up his life’s dream to save his father’s business and the town from Potter, and he marries the perfect woman. By the time he was wishing he’d never been born, I was ready to erect a statue to his greatness.
The whole segment with George seeing how horrible the town would be if he’d never been born elicited a reaction something like: “Duh! Weren’t you paying attention during the first half of the movie?!”
Sounds like you avoid Simpsons threads, then. Most fans seem to enjoy hating the current version of the show more than anything else. 
I haven’t seen many of Frank Capra’s movies, but I haven’t been impressed by anything I’ve seen. People, this is just schmaltz. It’s pure, 100% China white schmaltz and I guess people like that, but that’s all it is. It’s so cheesy you could trap mice with it. So corny they could harvest it by the ton in Iowa. You get the point. This also goes for Frank Darabont, who thinks he’s Capra reincarnated, and that brings me to another sacred cow: The Shawshank Redemption. Somebody seems to have decided this is a modern classic. (Everybody at IMDb, for one.) If it seems classic, that’s because the whole thing is one giant cliche, from the basic plotline to all of the characters, especially Morgan Freeman’s, and the ending. Blech.
James Joyce’s Ulysses. It’s a boring, stupid, overlong, incoherent piece of literary dreck that I singlehandedly blame for 20th century literature sucking so intensely. Ulysses paved the way for every affluent white male windbag to turn in their 1,000+ page novels about nothing - here’s looking at you, Pynchon, Vidal, Robbins, Updike, McCarthy, Wright, Gass, Gaddis, etc.!
Also, John Coltrane.
The movie is pretty faithful to the Stephen King novella, but Hollywood did schmaltzify up the ending.
The shortstory ended more ambiguously with Red on the bus to Mexico. It’s optimistic, iirc, but we don’t actually see his reunion with Andy. Of course Hollywood can’t leave us hanging, so they gave us a happy happy ending.
This is why I hope they never, ever get it into their heads to try to adapt The Mist. It will only end in tears.
Emily Dickinson. Well tra-la-la,
Yeah, that’s a noble thing to aspire to. (Probably I am taking this too literally. How can you tell a fainting robin from a dead one?) Somehow I am thinking she never got this chance, or if she did that nest was just a wee bit too high for her to reach.
Oh. I thought it was a fainting robin.
And while we’re at it, Sylvia Plath.
Um . . . speak for yourself, dear.
Needed the rhyme, did we? Left our rhyming dictionary on the other continent?
It’s Fascist, not Nazi.
Weezer. And, judging by the way they are worshipped now, Nirvana.
Deer Hunter. Words fail me with regard to this enormous piece of crap; I actually cheered when the guy finally lost the game of Russian roulette.
Star Wars. Seemed horribly generic and empty.
Lord of the Rings, the book(s) - utter shit compared to The Hobbit. Utter shit on its own, for that matter. Epic in excessive description, but not in plot.
Indiana Jones movies (unless they’re meant to be parodies, in which case I have been whooshed).
Are we including things that don’t actually suck, but which we are inclined to look disfavorably upon because of the enormous number of people who hold them up to be the Bomb-Diggety-Shiznit™ to which all future endeavors must invariably be compared? Because I’ve got a few of those (yes, more than just the one you’re waiting for me to mention, and I’m not about to dredge that whole thing up again).
Or is this thread just for things we actually think are bad?
If you dislike them and not simply out of a natural contrariness that anything popular must suck, sure.