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Added 2024-03-02 19:02:06 +0000 UTCWhat's a movie you hate that everyone else seems to love.
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I think the only movie I really hate that most seem to love is "fellowship of the ring" especially extended edition... but you've talked about that one a bunch... I hate "The Hurt Locker" , "I heart Huckabees" "Shakespeare in love"
Sutil
2024-03-21 16:22:40 +0000 UTCWorld War Z had so much potential, but ended up collapsing under the weight of its own expectations (not to mention a third act that was so laughably unrealistic that one would think the screenwriters did a marathon viewing of every Disney animated film ending before completing the script). Inject yourself with the virus and suddenly you become invisible to the people who have fully turned into zombies? Really? That’s the best they could come up with? I know with The Walking Dead, they could mask their scent of being alive by covering their bodies with the blood and guts of a walker … but there was just too much suspension of disbelief to go along with that trite. And yet somehow, the movie grossed hundreds of millions and has plans (at some point) for a sequel. The filmmakers should do themselves a favor and find new screenwriters and commit to a hard R-rating if they do get around to making a sequel. And no silly, Disney-animated movie resolution this time. It should be dark like the books.
TenzingNorgay82
2024-03-13 17:25:11 +0000 UTCI’m so glad you said something. Lol. I’m with you.
Dean Imperial
2024-03-06 13:07:30 +0000 UTC“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” “Slumdog Millionaire” “Everything Everwhere All at Once” “Manchester by-the-Sea” Dislike not hate: “Moonlight” “Parasite”
Dean Imperial
2024-03-06 13:06:38 +0000 UTCGladiator (2000). I don't hate it, just overrated. Been a while since I saw it for the first and only time - somewhere around 2010, so I was late for the party. I remember being disappointed with the second half. Fights at Colosseum didn't meet the status that film had and still has. I was expecting more spectacular stuff. Maybe if I watch it again, my respond will be different, but as for now it is what it is.
Oskitello
2024-03-03 20:50:32 +0000 UTC"Gravity": It's ambitious, and the cinematography is great. The action was fast-paced and thrilling, but I didn't feel close to the characters. It seems like drama without substance. It looks good, but I felt nothing. Also, it feels unrealistic due to its writing. It's surprising that the same director who made "Children of Men," a movie rich in substance, directed Gravity. Something seems to be missing in Gravity. Despite being hailed as the best modern sci-fi by many, I don't share that sentiment. Could watching Gravity on my laptop be the reason I'm not impressed?
Hemant Persendiya
2024-03-03 09:47:41 +0000 UTCBlade runner 2049. I detest this film like a sickness. Its like watching paint dry. Put me to Alton first viewing. It’s a rip off of the original. Absolutely nothing new or needed. Ruins the great ambiguous ending of the first. Finally the film highlights every thing wrong with Ryan gosslyn as a leading man.he has absolutely no charisma and I know the character is somewhat supposed to come off like that but there a difference between stoic and boring. He is boring. Blows my mind every one hails this film as a masterpiece. I hate it.
Herbert Baker
2024-03-03 04:06:53 +0000 UTCMalignant.
Ken
2024-03-03 01:55:28 +0000 UTCInterstellar (2014) Dull characters, unintentionally funny dialogue, and requires too much suspension of disbelief. Additionally, despite all the scientific explanations, it all gets truncated and whittled down to the very cliched idea that in the end "love conquers all." Easily Nolan’s worst film next to The Dark Knight Rises.
Stephen
2024-03-02 22:35:14 +0000 UTCI absolutely agree! This movie seems to me like less smart people trying to do what Monty Python did well and naturally. It felt forced all the way through.
Paul Todisco
2024-03-02 20:40:55 +0000 UTCThe Princess Bride. This one makes me feel like there is something wrong with me. I can’t seem to get into it no matter how hard I try. I love all kinds of humor - Holy Grail, dr Strangelove, best in show, even airplane. Somehow this brand of cheesy humor misses the mark with me.
Paul Robinson
2024-03-02 20:14:48 +0000 UTCLawrence of Arabia. Dull characters, story isn’t very engaging, humor falls flat for me, and the tone is just all over the place.
Henri J. Mertens
2024-03-02 19:59:54 +0000 UTCRemember The Titans. It's one of those tug at your heartstrings Hallmark channel type films about racism, sports, and togetherness that everyone I know, especially my parents, absolutely adore. I love my parents to death but they're not cinephiles and I've tried and failed dozens of times to make them understand that there's hardly any genuine understanding of the real life people the film is based on and instead is just another one of those biographies that uses every manipulative emotional cliché to appeal to a wider audience with zero tension and broad caricatures. It apparently works for many because this film is adored by the African American community, at least where I live, and speaking as an African American, it's basically Disney's version of Crash.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-03-02 19:46:00 +0000 UTCNow You See Me is one of the dumbest movies ever made. There are dumb movies that are meant to be dumb, and there are dumb movies that think they’re smart. This one falls in the latter category. When you write a script with a twist, the twist should make sense in the context of the story. This movie’s twist seems to have been added for … the sole reason of adding a twist. It makes no sense. They go through a cat & mouse thing for almost the entire movie and then we find out (SPOILER ALERT!) that the cat (in this case, the FBI agent) was in on it the whole time and hired the people he’s chasing after. All of the trouble he goes through chasing after them is completely pointless. It’s not a smart movie. It’s a DUMB movie. And yet, for some reason, people liked it enough for there to be a sequel. Did I see it? AWW, HELL NO!!!!
TenzingNorgay82
2024-03-02 19:41:55 +0000 UTCLa La Land - A outrageously pretentious repurposing of earlier & better works.
Ross Skilton
2024-03-02 19:34:43 +0000 UTCAvatar (or as I prefer to call it, Dances with Smurfs) is wholly unoriginal and boring. If I wanted to watch a movie that looks like a video game … I’d just play a video game instead. At least, it would be more interesting. Once again, Cameron went for style over substance. And these Smurf people hissing like cats, give me a break! Such a stupid movie. And the fact that Cameron is making this waste of celluloid into a series of 5 movies (with the first sequel taking 13 years to be made because “the technology wasn’t quite there yet”) is just a colossal waste of time and money. I can’t understand what appeals to people about these movies. Billions of dollars going to … a non-video game … video game movie? As Stewie on Family Guy would say, “What the deuce?!”
TenzingNorgay82
2024-03-02 19:30:46 +0000 UTCTitanic is one of the worst films to win Best Picture (let alone make a ton of money at the box office). The story is awful, and I’m not talking from a tragedy standpoint with the boat sinking. I’m talking about the story of Jack & Rose. It’s like it was written by a middle school student for their school play. It’s pathetic. Yes, the visuals are stunning. I loved every single one of James Cameron’s previous films (well, except Piranha II). The scripts in each of them were smart and engaging. Titanic is a visually striking film, yes. But a film like that should have substance. Titanic has none. And the fact that Titanic won Best Picture in 1997 over the likes of L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, and As Good As It Gets will always be a sore spot for me in the history of the Oscars.
TenzingNorgay82
2024-03-02 19:23:32 +0000 UTC
