Great films you hate (or just didnt get) Spoiler Alert

A Dub in Glasgo · 11-02-2011 11:30PM

I think I would rather take the IMDB ratings than some of the pile of sh1te that is posted here about films

Dudess · 11-02-2011 11:30PM

Heat is a film I've always found really difficult to get into - haven't actually managed to watch it fully yet.

galah · 11-02-2011 11:32PM

that wine one - arsesideways. Just awful.

Didnt get Brokeback Mountain either. Booooring. yes, they're gay, so what?

Or 17 years in Tibet (apart from the bit where yer man takes his shirt of, woke up long enough for that). Slept through Saving Private Ryan.

And I still think they could have cut down Lord of the Rings to roughly 5 minutes - has the ring, loses it, finds it again, the end. Instead of 600 hours of boring fight scenes.

I'm sure there's more...

PK2008 · 11-02-2011 11:32PM

+1 for Hurt Locker- shame really, it could've been good but quickly descended into Hollywood cliche

lil'bug · 11-02-2011 11:32PM

I Am Ledgend utter crap!!
i am a lady type person and i love The Big Lebowski, I also like the Kingpin

Dudess · 11-02-2011 11:32PM

walshb wrote: »

Vanilla Sky? Thought it was crap!

A film that seems to be overwhelmingly despised anyway though.

I loved it. :pac:

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

I think I would rather take the IMDB ratings than some of the pile of sh1te that is posted here about films

It's just opinions...

Daemos · 11-02-2011 11:33PM

Superbad - So bad I couldn't watch it all the way through. Super bad indeed.

Batman Begins - The train scene is the only good part, the rest is so boring

The Dark Knight - Ditto for its sequel save the last half hour

District 9 - Aliens? A meatphor for real life? Haven't I seen this before?

lil'bug · 11-02-2011 11:33PM

I Am Legend utter crap!!
i am a lady type person and i love The Big Lebowski, I also like the Kingpin

CK2010 · 11-02-2011 11:33PM

galah wrote: »

that wine one - arsesideways. Just awful.

Didnt get Brokeback Mountain either. Booooring. yes, they're gay, so what?

I'm sure there's more...

Thank you!

11-02-2011 11:34PM

galah wrote: »

that wine one - arsesideways. Just awful.

Didnt get Brokeback Mountain either. Booooring. yes, they're gay, so what?

Or 17 years in Tibet (apart from the bit where yer man takes his shirt of, woke up long enough for that). Slept through Saving Private Ryan.

And I still think they could have cut down Lord of the Rings to roughly 5 minutes - has the ring, loses it, finds it again, the end. Instead of 600 hours of boring fight scenes.

I'm sure there's more...

You sound like the type who'd go to a restaurant and order a bottle of merlot. I'm out of here!

walshb · 11-02-2011 11:35PM

Dudess wrote: »

A film that seems to be overwhelmingly despised anyway though.

I loved it. :pac:

It's just opinions...

Wasn't sure if the film was rated highly by the experts/critics....Anyway, thanks for clearin that up. For once, the majority did get it right!

Dempsey · 11-02-2011 11:35PM

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Slumdog Millionaire
All Coen Brothers Films

NeedaNewName · 11-02-2011 11:37PM

Daemos wrote: »

Superbad - So bad I couldn't watch it all the way through. Super bad indeed.

That was indeed super sh1te but I will say that the bit at the end where the lass is chatting to him and he falls forward and head butts her in the face actually made me nearly choke laughing.

Probably because I spent the previous hour wondering why people thought this crap was so "brilliant" and didn't actually expect a very, very funny bit.

[edit]I note you failed to see it all the way through. I suggest you go to the bit I mentioned above. Classic film moment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDC9hrNVeIM

barbarians · 11-02-2011 11:38PM

I thought no country For Old Men was a great film!!
Was my type of film to be fair, I'm strange that way.

Recently, everyone is talking about how great The fighter is.
I though it was shíte.

(Can't wait 'til someone mentions Forresst Gump as a bad film, holy war will ensue :pac: )

starbelgrade · 11-02-2011 11:40PM

Sergeant wrote: »

Burn after reading. Usually a fan of the Coen brothers and anything with John Malkovich in it, but it was rubbish. Like the editor forgot to put in the last half hour of the film.

I thought that film was hilarious. Laughed my arse off watching it.

Couldn't stand the one after it.. the one about the Jews. It was dismal.

The Coens can be really hit & miss, but when they hit, they hit hard as with "True Grit" - a fabulous film by all accounts. My favourite film of 2010.

galah · 11-02-2011 11:40PM

Sacramento wrote: »

You sound like the type who'd go to a restaurant and order a bottle of merlot. I'm out of here!

don't drink reds, sorry ;-)

The Coen brothers have been mentioned as well - definitely didnt get the one based on Ulysses (whatever that was called). The accents, holy cow!

Aishae · 11-02-2011 11:41PM

kill bill vil. 1 onwards - i get the storyline, such as it is. but i didnt get what the feck everyone was getting a hard on about this series for

space odyssey 2001
ok that may be that im deaf so i cant appreciate it in all its musicness

Millicent · 11-02-2011 11:42PM

Daemos wrote: »

The Dark Knight - Ditto for its sequel save the last half hour

Thank you! The Dark Knight annoys the piss out of me. Overlong, disjointed and the start of me being turned off the once amazing Christian Bale and his stupid voice, so much that I wanted to smoosh his face with a pair of Caterpillars. The film seems to be sacrosanct because Heath Ledger died after it (granted, his Joker was brilliant).

"What do you mean you thought Dark Knight was overrated? Heath Ledger was in it."

or

"I just don't think you understood it. Heath Ledger's acting was brilliant and he died before his time."

What's to understand? Christopher Nolan likes things that go boom and when the only thing you can say for a film is that an actor who died after it was brilliant, you're reaching. A film that makes Maggie Gyllenhal look shite and which just sandwiches the underrated Aaron Eckhart into an underdeveloped Two-Face plot is crap, end of.

*breathes out*

Jaysus, I've been storing that one up for longer than I realised!

walshb · 11-02-2011 11:44PM

Deer Hunter. Cut out that boring hr long wedding scene and it might be ok

Also, Platoon. Overrated. Damn boring!

CiaranMT · 11-02-2011 11:45PM

smokedeels wrote: »

Gran Torino (or "gravelly voiced man in a fast car")

My friend had it on DVD before I heard the hype, I now know that it was an illegal copy but at the time I assumed it was some straight-to-dvd film Eastwood had done a few years prior.

Formulaic and obvious plot, average performances from a cast I didn't recognise and a cliché main character.

I didn't like it and I don't get the fuss that I later heard.

This. Harry Brown is far, far superior. Stellar performance from Michael Caine.

NeedaNewName · 11-02-2011 11:48PM

walshb wrote: »

Also, Platoon. Overrated. Damn boring!

ah no way. Thats a proper classic walshb!

Wibbs · 11-02-2011 11:48PM

Dudess wrote: »

The Big Lebowski.

Dr. Strangelove.

You're insane. Don't get me wrong. I love you to bits, but I'm still signing the sectioning forms.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Slumdog Millionaire =****e. Then again I think of the Lord of the Rings in book form or whatever as akin to The Pink Floyd in music. Promises much, but except for one or two highlights overly long pretentious crap wittering on about nothing with nary a tune throughout.*

*The wrinklies are gonna effin kill me for this one.

Lyra Fangs · 11-02-2011 11:48PM

Let the Right One In.......

Got a really good rating on rotten tomatoes, reviews online said it was good.
Why? WHY? did I trust them, watched it for ten minutes and it nearly killed me.

Twas so boring.

I was also recommended to watch The Hangover by at least half a dozen friends (apparently it was comedic gold). Turned out to be absolutely rubbish not one funny moment IMO.

walshb · 11-02-2011 11:50PM

NeedaNewName wrote: »

ah no way. Thats a proper classic walshb!

No, gimme' Apocalypse Now anyday!

Blazer · 11-02-2011 11:50PM

walshb wrote: »

Also, Platoon. Overrated. Damn boring!

People who hate Platoon will burn in napalm hell for all eternity. :mad:

Dempsey · 11-02-2011 11:52PM

walshb wrote: »

No, gimme' Apocalypse Now anyday!

Really? You thought Platoon was boring, thought the Deer Hunter was too slow yet loved Apocalypse Now?? I find that strange tbh

tim_holsters · 11-02-2011 11:55PM

bertie4evr wrote: »

Barry Lyndon.

I could watch all Kubrick's films over and over but couldn't make it through this.

Yeah but BL is a fine looking movie, plus Bomber from Auf Wiedersehen Pet is in it.

It seems Bomber liked a barney in the 18th century just as much as he did in the 20th.

NeedaNewName · 11-02-2011 11:55PM

walshb wrote: »

No, gimme' Apocalypse Now anyday!

Great film but you have to give Platoon the credit it deserves. That was never a hyped film like most mentioned. That was just a good film that got huge because it was good. Great even!

I suggest a re-watch, you mustn't have been in a good frame of mind when you saw it first

walshb · 11-02-2011 11:56PM

NeedaNewName wrote: »

Great film but you have to give Platoon the credit it deserves. That was never a hyped film like most mentioned. That was just a good film that got huge because it was good. Great even!

I suggest a re-watch, you mustn't have been in a good frame of mind when you saw it first

Possibly. Also, had heard so so much about it. Maybe I expected too much.
I can barely remember it now, a sure sign I didn't like it. Will rewatch it!

11-02-2011 11:57PM

That Spanish horror movie Rec is another one thats horribly overrated..painfully predictable,annoying cast,not a scare to be had etc,etc

and while I'm at it Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Knocked Up can piss off aswell

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