Films people like that you don't

[criterionmaster]

Post any films that people like that you don't care for.

[ie]

Short reviews for each. You'll be expected to IMDB the English or uncommon ones.

2046 (2004) - 4/10 - I got bored... couldn't finish it though.
39 Steps (1935) - 5/10 - Just didn't care for it all that much.
Animal House (1978) - 2/10 - Didn't find it funny. At all.
Apollo 13 (1995) - 5/10 - Discussed in another thread.
Big Fish (2003) - 3/10 - Didn't do it for me. (criterionmaster is going to make me watch it again because my rating keeps changing...)
Chicago (2002) - 4/10 - I just couldn't get into it.
Crank (2006) - 7/10 - The plot was too unbelievable for me.
I Heart Huckabees (2004) - 1/10 - I don't even know how people could like this movie.
Matrix 3 (2003) - 3/10 - The war sequence didn't do it for me, along with most of it.
Spaceballs (1987) - 5/10 - It had its moments, but I didn't enjoy it... to death or anything.
Superman 1 (1978) - 5/10 - It was decent enough, but I couldn't overall get behind it.

City of Lost Children (1995) - 7/10 - I didn't love it as much as everyone else did.
Metropolis (2001) - 7/10 - I thought it was decent, but didn't love it.


And we've had the Kubrick discussions before.

[agentknight]

IMO 2046 and I Heart Huckabees were amazing. No offense, but you tend to have a kinda short attention span when it comes to movies ie...

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - 1/10 - Holy SHIT! Films don't get any worse! This was a throaway action movie at best, and at its worse nothing but wretched explotation. At no point did Spielberg give a shit about his characters nor did he have a single bit of respect for the people who died in the war: he was just exploiting them for the sake of a decent action scene or fifty.

Crash (2004) - 1/10 - This sentimental, unsubtle god-awful piece of shit made by the guy who created Walker, Texas Ranger was somehow released (right after Million Dollar Baby, no less) to immmense acclaim and numerous Oscars. To think that anyone could be so stupid as to like this movie reflects very poorly upon human civilisation.

The Godfather (1972) - 7/10 - OK, I didn't hate it, but to me this film wasn't really the masterpiece it was made out to be. It had some great scenes and beautiful cinematography, but as a whole it just didn't do it for me.

Scarface (1983) - 5/10 - Was this film intentionally ridiculous? It was a typical rise-and-fall story contructed of meek cliches with an absurdly over-the-top performance by Al Pacino and countless bizzare fixtures of the '80s such as the crazily colorful clothes, which, with any luck, single mothers responded to by screaming "OH GOD, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!".

...and, for fun, some films that no one likes...

Rebound (2005) - 1/10 - Martin Lawrence proves he is the least funny man alive. How this absolute disaster of a film could not have been deliberately made is beyond me. There is no cohesive story, and the moments that try to be sentimental fall falt on their ass, only managing to further prove how disgustingly deplorable Lawrence's character is. This film really is VIOLENTLY awful.

American Outlaws (2001) - 1/10 - Colin Farrel and a gang of nobodies star in this frustratingly awful MTV-style western which does everything it can to be as moronic and unsubtle as possible. This is really an example of Hollywood sinking to the lowest common denominator when it comes to film - even the simplest of minds would feel cheated by this disaster.

[blackmoses]

Rear Window - 7/10 I don't know why I don't like this I have re-watched it (and I will keep rewatching it) but I still just don't like it that much.

[ie]

Nah, I don't have a short attention span.

But thanks for attempting to insult me based off of what little you know, or actually care to want to know, about me, and then covering it up with what can basically be interpreted as "you know, I don't mean this libel I'm going to write about you - which ie, if people believe it, will really undermind what people think of you, because it means you can't actually enjoy any movies that were made less than ten years ago and aren't MTV-ready - as an insult, I'm just kind of going to write it down so you can get upset and then everyone will wonder why you're upset." So, yeah.




I do think Scarface is slightly overrated, but I thought it was decent enough.

[Clark Nova]

First, I gotta agree about Crash. Yeah, the concept of how bad racism is in our lives is very important, but how the fuck did this screenplay win an Oscar? It's entirely plot-motivated and incredibly overly-sentimental...as if all these characters ever talk and think about is racism. a 5.5 or 6/10

Next, Gladiator (another Best Picture winner). It wasn't bad, I suppose, just not a masterpiece like everyone thinks. Crowe was decent enough, but Joaquin Phoenix just over-acted to the point of being laughable, and much of the dialogue was just ridiculously heavy-handed. I'd probably give it a 7/10.

And now, the holy grail: the two films that EVERYBODY my age (18-21 or so) loves but I absolutely loathe:

Donnie Darko: a 5/10 at best. Yeah, Kelly shows some promise as a director, but what, because it's confusing as hell and has an ambiguous ending makes it philosophical and special? It's just teen angst put on screen. The performances were empty and lifeless and the overly-depressing tone was just stupid. For god's sake, could somebody in this movie at least crack a smile?

The Boondock Saints: this one is just so god-damn awful it's left me speechless. We've seen a lot of Tarantino wannabes over the years, but Troy Duffy just takes the cake. This is all style and zero substance. Dafoe is the only saving grace with his spirited performance, but other than that, this was just stupid action and nifty-looking scenes (like Dafoe's investigation interplayed with the shooting at the house) that do nothing to further the plot. It's just Dafoe acting crazy and the McManus Brothers screaming their lungs out every other second. A 3/10 at best.

[kiddo]

I don`t like The Boondock Saints very much myself, but I do not agree with you on the last sentence. The scene you mention, I find to be one of the best. Why should every scene in a film do anything "to further the plot"? "Plot" is overrated

EDIT: Let me mention some films here myself:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - It has its moments of greatness, and some scenes are hilarious as hell, but as a whole, I find this highly overrated. (**/*****)

Yojimbo - I like Kurosawa ALOT, do not get me wrong, but I think this samurai classic is overrated. It has great cinematography, but the story and the length of the film is not satisfying enough. I think it`s quite a good film, but not the masterpiece so many think it is. (***/*****)

I`ll come back with more...

[Clark Nova]

kiddo said:

I don`t like The Boondock Saints very much myself, but I do not agree with you on the last sentence. The scene you mention, I find to be one of the best. Why should every scene in a film do anything "to further the plot"? "Plot" is overrated

EDIT: Let me mention some films here myself:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - It has its moments of greatness, and some scenes are hilarious as hell, but as a whole, I find this highly overrated. (**/*****)

Yojimbo - I like Kurosawa ALOT, do not get me wrong, but I think this samurai classic is overrated. It has great cinematography, but the story and the length of the film is not satisfying enough. I think it`s quite a good film, but not the masterpiece so many think it is. (***/*****)

I`ll come back with more...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I love that scene in Boondock Saints too, with the brothers shooting the gangsters while dafoe narrates right there...but it's just used for style and has no context with the rest of the film, so to me it just felt like it was cool for the sake of showing something cool and nothing more.

as for your other two, holy grail's got its moments, but there's only so much Python I can take in one sitting. It just grates on you after a while. And while I think Kurosawa made a number of films superior, I still think Yojimbo's a masterpiece (really, Kurosawa's oft-forgotten masterpiece.) Yeah, you can have the moral life lessons of Ikiru, the awe-inspiring images of Ran and the societal philosophy of Seven Samurai, but Yojimbo's a masterpiece for a much different reason. This is just a badass Samurai (maybe the most badass movie character I've ever seen) f*cking with rival gangs in incredibly clever ways, for his own benefit...not to mention the final standoff...omg, that was awesome. While the other ones make you think, this one's just there for your entertainment. It may very well be the greatest spaghetti western ever made. ;D

[captainofbeef]

Donnie Darko
Amelie
Boondock Saints
Sonatine
Garden State

More that I can't remember right now.

[agentknight]

Yeah, Amelie and Garden State sucked. The former's incessant cheerieness made me want to kill someone and the latter had some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. Both films had a hot female lead, though, which is really what kept me watching to the end

[criterionmaster]

Agreed! Amelie is probably one of the most overrated films ever. I actually made a list of the reason I didn't like the film on the back of the DVD case when I rented it, wish I could remember the list...Something about how un-"charming" the film is and how unfunny the film is. I didn't laugh once, I did cringe many times though. Everytime I can tell a director is trying to be unique or charming with a film, thats when i hate it. It shouldn't seem forced like in the film. It just bothered the hell out of me.

As for Garden Suck, boy did it suck. So much pretentious crap; now I have a definition of how NOT to make a "indie" film.

[Clark Nova]

Yeah, I too hate it when a director intentionally tries to be unique or clever, just to show the audience how different he can be. Case and point: the films of Wes Anderson. Royal Tenenbaums isn't terrible, i guess (mainly because of Gene Hackman's outstanding performance), but I couldn't stand Life Aquatic. To me, it was just Anderson trying to show how clever he can be...one unexpected "gag" after the next that have that quality of him winking and nudging at you to get you to see how clever he is.

[criterionmaster]

Well for him I think he actually has great talent. I for one loved Life Aquatic; Bill Murray was outstanding. But I can see what your saying, he really was pushing it on the film. I think he has just the right amount of "charm" and "quirkyness" in Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore; he may have overdone it on Life Aquatic. I still like him a lot, his films are so much fun to watch and probably the only comedies I can watch nowadays since mostly poorly-written ones come out. I have great respect for the guy at least.