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I found all the Lord of the Rings movies incredibly dull

I hate The Wizard of Oz because it's  a musical (for some reason I hate most musicals) and because the entire thing was a dream

I didn't like Zoolander at all. I found it to be stupid and mind numblingly bad.

Had a similiar topic a while back for Classics so I won't repeat myself on what I said there.

I'm not into Lord of the Rings myself, but I will give it a shot if someone asks me to watch it.  I am opposed to most Oscar bait films, like King's Speech & The Piano, with rare exceptions.  I am also not into most 'torture porn' films, like Saw & Funny Games.  Maybe they aren't extremely popular, but they are popular enough to mention.

However, to save everyone some time, most people here don't like Avatar, The Dark Knight, most CGI big blockbusters, remakes besides The Thing, and Indiana Jones IV.  That should clear things up.   :teddyr:

Yep, What he said.  :thumbup:

Funny, I did not consider FUNNY GAMES 'torture porn.'  I thought it had something to say and chose a very edgy way to say it.  It was a slam against violence in American movies.

Not saying you have to like it, of course, just that given that it has a fundamentally anti-violent theme, the violence is not gratuitous or even meant to be enjoyed (as it would in something labeled "porn").  The violence, and story itself, I think is meant to be sickening and repulsive, not prurient.

Regardless, I really hate that film, especially the stupid plot twist (the remote) that felt like the director/writer/producer/whoever came up with it that seemed like they pulled it right out of his or her ass.

I dislike about 95% of them.

What he said!  :thumbup:

Pretty much this.  I've got about as much interest in seeing Slumdog Millionaire as I do in watching an entire season of the Rosie O'Donnel show.

"The Wizard of Oz".

I hate how good and evil are depicted as a black and white thing. No gray. You're born good or you're born evil. That's stupid. Evil isn't in our biology! It's not as simple as "That person is good, that one is bad." Also it's a very bright, happy, and campy film. I hate movies that try to be super happy. Also it all turns out to be a dream in the end. I hate dream endings.

Personally I liked it's sequel, "Return to Oz" it's a lot darker and twisted. I had more fun watching that one.

I hated Barn Yard Nymphos IV. Not enough goat. :thumbdown:

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Would you enjoy it more if the Cowardly Lion was female? Just kidding. :teddyr:

Seriously, while I have a certain fondness for the movie, I also don't believe in absolute good or evil, although some people make me wonder about the latter. For storytelling purposes, however, I don't really mind it. Sometimes, particularly with kids' stories, it's nice to just lay out good guys and bad guys and get on with the tale.

You would probably enjoy reading "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. It tells the story from the witch's point of view, as well as laying out her life story and explaining why she behaves as she does. The Wizard's government is portrayed as something of an iron-fisted dictatorship, run by a con man who uses Dorothy to do his dirty work. It's been a few years since I read it, but it had some interesting ideas, such as the Yellow Brick Road being an ill-advised public works project that turned out to be an expensive white elephant.

I find Billy Madison incredibly stupid. Not stupid funny, was stupid stupid. Even as a kid I thought the movie was dumb and an insult to my inteilligence. The only good thing in the movie in my opinion is in the clip below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEhDZN0RFjw

Best put down in a movie ever!

For me, I'd go with all of the Star Wars films.  I LOVED playing with the toys as a kid, so I'm thinking that I must have liked them at some time, but they just don't do it for me now.

Also:
The Passion of the Christ
Avatar (already mentioned as a catch-all, but I still gotta throw it in)
Forrest Gump
Iron Man (better than I was expecting, but not a fan)
Men In Black

Kill Bill. Didn't do anything for me and I never bothered with the 2nd half.

Napoleon Dynamite- I was surprised how popular this thing got, and it's getting an animated series soon. Though I did like the director's last movie Gentleman Broncos because it was so absurd and the protagonist was a nerdy teen who wrote science fiction.

Lord of the Rings- More like Bored of the ...(I'll stop there).

Anything from Zack Snyder.

@ Hammock Rider it's funny that you mention that, because I felt Barnyard Nymphos IV had too much goat. Different strokes for different folks.

I could - and have - watch the LOTR films over and over.  LOVE them.  Of course, I had read the entire trilogy 28 times by the time I graduated high school, and a dozen times or so since then.  Guess you could say I'm a fan.

As a rule, boring melodramas just don't do it for me.  SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, KRAMER VS. KRAMER, THE ENGLISH PATIENT - yawnsville.  Give me a good solid fantasy, or lots of explosions, decapitations, and Anne Hathaway and I'm good.

Hmmm...probably anything with Will Smith in it. PG-13 horror is pathetic. Most newer movies I see advertised these days REALLY p**s me off. I'm glad I'm not a regular theater goer. Just a lot of overhyped CGI s**tfests that are severely lacking in style, atmosphere, and good old fashioned storytelling. I'd much rather watch Z-grade horror/exploitation films than the latest Hollywood blockbusters.

Hey, don't you be dissing on The Ring and Tremors!

I found There's Something About Mary to be mind meltingly bad.  I think that's because of Cameron Diaz.  I don't like her as an actor.

The Charlies Angels movies were awful.  It took me a long time to see Zoolander as a crazy comedy and not a documentary.

I didn't like Gone With The Wind or any of the Hitchcock thrillers.  And don't even get me started on Woody Allen's dreck.

 :buggedout:

I don't care for:

Gone With the Wind
A Clockwork Orange
Transformers (2007)
American Beauty
Cars
Trick 'r Treat (popular in the sense that everyone who sees it seems to like it)
300
Blue Velvet
The Expendables (2010)
The Bourne Identity
Monster's Ball
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Animal House
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (I'm sure it's not popular on this forum)
Click
Saw

Spider-Man 2

Most of 'em. That's why I like "bad" movies.

 :lookingup:

I never saw "The Ring". I've only seen ”　リ　ン　グ　”. (It means 'Ringu', the original Japanese version. Did I mention I know Japanese?)

^5

I'm with you !

That makes three of us!

I'm not a big fan of SAW and it's umpteen-dozen sequels and ripoffs. 

Likewise for the Blair Witch Project. 

I hated both Nolan Batman movies. 

 I've seen both.  I think The Ring was better. 

I think it's more like PG-13 horror in its more recent state (The Roomate, Darkness, Darkness Falls, The Fog remake, The Grudge, Pulse, Prom Night remake, The Unborn, When a Stranger Calls remake, Wicker Man remake (see a trend?), Cry Wolf, etc.) is pathetic.  To be honest I haven't seen any of the ones I mentioned except The Grudge but I'm pretty sure they all suck.  I can't think of many PG-13 horror flicks I like aside from maybe Drag Me to Hell, but there are older films that are either PG, G, or not rated (but would probably be PG) that are good like Jaws, The Haunting (rated G and one of the scariest movies ever!),Something Wicked This Way Comes, Nosferatu (1929), and Carnival of Souls.  I'm sure others could come up with more or better examples.

While I can't agree with hating The Wizard of Oz (although its certainly a nostalgia thing in my case), I totally agree about the whole black vs white concept (if you're looking for a really awesome childhood fantasy, I would recommend its more recent Japanese equivalent, Spirited Away, which is by no means super happy and runs on shades of grey). Also agree with liking Return to Oz, which is much closer to Baum's original intent.

Urgg.... I didn't care for that movie at all.

Very true. It's possible to make a very scary and exciting movie without showing much that would warrant an R or an NC-17 rating. Some of the scariest movies I can think of would easily qualify for a PG rating today. The problem is that a few decades of exploitation horror and slasher films have taught filmmakers to make (and audiences to expect) horror that has little plot and minimal characterization, but a lot of blood, gore and violence. Instead of scaring the audience, horror films have tried to shock, surprise and gross us out. That was fine in the 70s and 80s. Today, however, corporations control the industry, and they want movies the whole family can go and see. And filmmakers seem unable or unwilling to make a scary movie that doesn't rely on a lot of blood and violence and action. So, now we get too many horror movies that have a crappy plot, no good characters, and a lot of the other stuff chopped out or left out in order to get a PG rating. There's nothing wrong with PG horror. What I think we object to is PG horror that isn't conceived and written to work within a PG rating. Bad PG horror is a movie that should be NC-17, but gets watered down to make it PG.

Toy Story 2- It had more questions unanswered than answered.
Citizen Kane- I fell asleep on it.
Blade Runner- I find it hard to believe that the movie is still a neo-film noir.

just about every other new f**king comedy, Oscar grabby ass  movies (The King's Speech), slasher films, and much much more.


@Pilgermann- Cars ain't a movie, hell, it never existed! :tongueout:

I neglected to mention Click earlier.

I liked Darkness Falls and The Grudge...

Everyone's entitled to their opinions but ... :buggedout:

Citizen Kane raised the bar on film as a medium. The ingenuity of this film is staggering.

They used every trick in the book and then created some new ones. Constantly moving shots, sometimes the sets and props were built to break away and go back together as the camera passes. Moving Shots that seamlessly combine matte paintings, models and live action. 

Incredibly distant sets with deep depth of field and remain evenly lit. Which considering film speeds at that time, was no easy task and required enough light to melt antarctica. All the low angle shots where lit from a false ceiling that was actually stretched muslin cloth.

It's a non linear story that jumps back and forth through time and various people recollections. It's edited with swishpans, snap zooms, lens covers, clever reveals.

I take something new away from this film every time I watch it.
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But hey, to each their own.

SE7EN, though I liked some things and I like Fincher generally.
FORREST GUMP
LETHAL WEAPON, and the sequels are even worse.
RAMBO II
GOOD WILL HUNTING

I remember Mission: Impossible II being big when it came out.
Mind you, I think the Limp Bizkit song might have been responsible for the populatiy. It is rather fun to listen too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdpP6ynPbiY&feature=related

I tried to watch it last night, got bored senseless and never finished it.


Enjoy the tune, skip the film. M:I III is great though. :thumbup:

Wow, it's good to see that I'm not alone in that.
Come here, you! :cheers:

Yeah, that was kind of a disappointment.
The milking machine part was cool, though.

All of the new Transformers movies.

I'm with you on Forrest Gump, kind of. I look at it like a "bad" movie, and so there's lot's to make fun of. But hey, even my hero Tom Hanks is allowed to make the occasional turkey.

Anything by Pixar- I don't see quality storytelling, I see bland (and occasionally ugly) animation, generic kiddie-filler storylines with manipulative emotional blackmail.
The Dark Knight-A film that breeds stupidity.

Though I liked Milk, I think it was good, but not great, Oscar worthy good. But hey, what do I know?

I like Forrest Gump, but mainly for the laughs. Gump was one of the characters my friends and I used to do impressions of back when the movie was still a big deal.

Kevin Murphy, of MST3K, has on a couple of occasions described Forrest Gump as one of his most despised movies. He's called it "emotional pornography," said that it's designed to "milk tears from the audience like a cow" and that he could have somebody's hand up his a$$ and feel less manipulated. I remember reading a piece he wrote on The World's Fastest Indian, where he compared it to Forrest Gump as a similar story, but more honest and understated and genuine, if a bit corny, while Gump just keeps trying to push your buttons.

Any movie that turns out to be a dream or was all in a character's mind.  Movies like that can kiss my fat, white ass.  The more I enjoyed the movie, the more it p**ses me off when it's revealed to be a dream.  (The original Invaders From Mars is probably the best example.)

Movies that shoehorn in a lot of comedy when comedy isn't even remotely appropriate.  (The '09 Star Trek is a good example.)

Movies with "twists".  I've only seen a couple of those that worked.  (Diabolique is the classic example.  The ending that logically followed from the events would have been far more satisfying than the "twist".)

Well said!  :cheers:

for me, any of the raunchy, sex themed comedies from the las 10 years. i just don't think they are funny. The nudity is usually good,but the stories are not. I'd rather watch Airplane or Used Cars.

but hey, that's just me

Burn After Reading.  :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:

Make it 4!

Woody Allen's self indulgent,whiney p**sy pant's movies make me wanna tie him up to a chair,force feed him booze and tacos,and make him watch (CLOCKWORK ORANGE style) Shaw Bros. Kung Fu movies!  :hot:

(Heh-thats funny I wrote 'p**s-y pants-the robot censor thought it was puss-y pants!) I cant write p**s! Hmmm...p**s. Ok....P!SSY PANTS.OK! I DID IT!)

You know I usually like all the Coen films (even their more obscure ones like A SERIOUS MAN and THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE), but for some reason I just cannot get into or even finish this one.

Some day I should give it another shot . . . or not.

Don't like many Woody Allen movies either aside from SLEEPER.

I'm not saying I don't like Forrest Gump, but it's to make fun of it's faults. There's so much cliche going on in that film for it to be good, that's from some of the primary characters all the way down to the bit parts. Just about every character was a bad caricature. I always laugh at how bad the moment is when that old woman at the bus stop says: "So....you just RAN?" The deliver of that line was sooooooo bad, and the movie is loaded with moments like that.

I usually can't stand Woody Allen, but I always had a soft spot for "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask." I can't hate any movie in which John Carradine creates a giant t!t that terrorizes the countryside. The whole control room bit was good too.

I like Allen's silly slapstick comedies like Everything you wanted to know... and Sleeper. But his ego stroking and mental masturbation movies I have a hard time sitting through.