Critically Acclaimed Movies you did not like
Critically Acclaimed Movies you did not like
This was inspired by another thread on what movies you recently saw and recommend.
My question to you all is what critically acclaimed and/or Oscar nominated movies did you not like. I'll go first.
The English Patient
American Hustle and
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My question to you all is what critically acclaimed and/or Oscar nominated movies did you not like. I'll go first.
The English Patient
American Hustle and
Dallas Buyers Club
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Shakespeare in Love
Annie Hall
Titanic
Ordinary People
A Beautiful Mind
Terms of Endearment
Annie Hall
Titanic
Ordinary People
A Beautiful Mind
Terms of Endearment
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All of them.
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You are lumping two very different groups. I can think of virtually endless Oscar-nominated films I didn't like; but it would take work to come up with a list of critically acclaimed movies I didn't like. Of the movies listed so far that I've seen, I've liked them all.
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Two of mine already made this list:
The English Patient (over 2 hours of my life wasted that I'll never get back)
Titanic (ditto, except closer to 3 hours IIRC)
The English Patient (over 2 hours of my life wasted that I'll never get back)
Titanic (ditto, except closer to 3 hours IIRC)
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Chariots of Fire.
I went to see Chariots of Fire when it was launched. I left the theater in the middle of the boring movie. The movie was nominated for a bunch Academy Awards--maybe they watched a different version of the movie.
I went to see Chariots of Fire when it was launched. I left the theater in the middle of the boring movie. The movie was nominated for a bunch Academy Awards--maybe they watched a different version of the movie.
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Crash
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Everything by Wes Anderson (except Rushmore).
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Blue Jasmine
The Descendants
The Descendants
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Star Wars
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Beat me to it.matjen wrote:Crash
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I'm pretty good at telling whether a movie is something I'd like, so when I end up sitting through a movie I dislike it's usually out of social obligation or because some critic whose judgement I trust recommended it. In the second category are
- Jindabyne. Opens with a murder, then runs to its end with no one ever bothering to investigate the murder or even seeming to consider that this might be a possibility.
- Being John Malkovich. Clever, but every single character is so completely despicable that I ended up hating all of them.
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I loved Chariots of Fire. I watch it again every few years.cfs wrote:Chariots of Fire.
I went to see Chariots of Fire when it was launched. I left the theater in the middle of the boring movie. The movie was nominated for a bunch Academy Awards--maybe they watched a different version of the movie.
On the other hand I recommended it to a friend, who found it boring and wondered what I saw in it.
I don't know anything.
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The Chariots of Fire disparity reminds me of Finding Neverland. I loved it, recommended it to a female friend, who said it was the worst piece of garbage. Admittedly, I was flying and possiby a tad drunk when I saw it, but still ...
(Loved Chariots at the time - I was 13, and everyone in school had to go and see it - haven't seen since, so maybe it has not held up.)
(Loved Chariots at the time - I was 13, and everyone in school had to go and see it - haven't seen since, so maybe it has not held up.)
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Easily the worst Best Picture winner I've ever seen.JonnyDVM wrote:Beat me to it.matjen wrote:Crash
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Has to be at the top. I rarely turn off a movie mid stream but this one made it about 30 minutes.market timer wrote:Easily the worst Best Picture winner I've ever seen.JonnyDVM wrote:Beat me to it.matjen wrote:Crash
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I think we were able to cancel "American Hustle" before we got charged.
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I guess delight, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But I liked the The English Patient very much.
I still have vivid memories of the opening flight over the ocean-like desert, the cave paintings of the prehistoric sea, Kristin Scott Thomas' campfire story, the rope and flare tour of church paintings, and Juliette Binoche crying as she scores morphine ampules with a file before killing Ralph Fiennes.
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"Easy Rider." Man, it's like really, really boring, you know?
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Last Year in Marienbad
Anything by Ingmar Bergman (spent too much timing telling people I didn't like Bergman, and they would say "which ones did you see?" and then whatever I'd say they'd say "oh, you saw the wrong ones, go see Wild Strawberries" or whatever, and like an idiot I'd go see it and hate it too...
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Barry Lyndon
Any Buster Keaton movie
Anything by Ingmar Bergman (spent too much timing telling people I didn't like Bergman, and they would say "which ones did you see?" and then whatever I'd say they'd say "oh, you saw the wrong ones, go see Wild Strawberries" or whatever, and like an idiot I'd go see it and hate it too...
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Barry Lyndon
Any Buster Keaton movie
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HA HA. I thought the EXACT same thing after getting done with that movie. If I remember correctly by response was the same as Elaine from Seinfeld, "Just die already and stop telling your stupid story!!"Erwin007 wrote:The English Patient (over 2 hours of my life wasted that I'll never get back)
But did like Titanic, but that might be because I was getting over being dumped by first serious relationship.
I also liked Crash so maybe not accounting for taste?
Good luck.
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Boyhood. 2 hours 45 minutes of slice of life movie, no deep meaning, unlikeable main character. It wasn't absolutely horrible like Crash though.
I never liked the Lord of the Rings movies either. Not my thing.
I never liked the Lord of the Rings movies either. Not my thing.
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Million Dollar Baby
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
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I must be an outlier, but I like nearly all the movies people are listing.
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Rushmore but not Bottle Rocket? Mr. fantastic Fox was good as well.dgdevil wrote:Everything by Wes Anderson (except Rushmore).
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Brokeback Mountain. Garbage.
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
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I slept through large chunks of Lord of the Rings (first episode). I thought it would never end, and was with a family group which meant that I could not leave.
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Gone With The Wind.
First time I walked out after 20 minutes - boring. Each time since then, I've simply fallen asleep, awakened and turned it off.
First time I walked out after 20 minutes - boring. Each time since then, I've simply fallen asleep, awakened and turned it off.
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Crash
The Hurt Locker
Argo
Shakespeare in Love
Fargo
Woody Allen movies
Easy Rider Agree, a total bore I turned off well before the end.
While not Academy Award caliber, many popular movies I didn't care for. Top of that list: Something About Mary. Lame unfunny waste of time.
The Hurt Locker
Argo
Shakespeare in Love
Fargo
Woody Allen movies
Easy Rider Agree, a total bore I turned off well before the end.
While not Academy Award caliber, many popular movies I didn't care for. Top of that list: Something About Mary. Lame unfunny waste of time.
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Heresy!sschullo wrote:Star Wars
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The Piano
Fish Called Wanda
The Inglorious Basterds
plus, another vote for English Patient
Fish Called Wanda
The Inglorious Basterds
plus, another vote for English Patient
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Memento--handily.
Since it was my idea to see it, I told my friends I'd give them a refund.
They settled for the local watering hole.
Lev
Since it was my idea to see it, I told my friends I'd give them a refund.
They settled for the local watering hole.
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boring:
english pt
shindlers list
all woody allen movies
hurt locker
capote
sideways
remains of the day
dances with wolves
english pt
shindlers list
all woody allen movies
hurt locker
capote
sideways
remains of the day
dances with wolves
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I sense a pattern here...Crash
The Hurt Locker
Argo
Shakespeare in Love
Fargo
Woody Allen movies
Easy Rider Agree, a total bore I turned off well before the end.
Perhaps all movies that contain "argo"? Could that also include movies with Victor Argo...
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Slumdog Millionaire - trite.
There Will Be Blood - tedious and unpleasant
Million Dollar Baby - Predictable and boring.
I'd make you buy me a beer, too, if I had to see Memento again.
Best movie I've seen in the last decade: Magnolia with no less than Tom Cruise. Pure art.
Most depressing movie: Boogie Nights.
There Will Be Blood - tedious and unpleasant
Million Dollar Baby - Predictable and boring.
I'd make you buy me a beer, too, if I had to see Memento again.
Best movie I've seen in the last decade: Magnolia with no less than Tom Cruise. Pure art.
Most depressing movie: Boogie Nights.
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Forrest Gump -- too cloyingly cute
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Whoa! - No Country for Old Men, is one of my All Time Favorite Movies.peppers wrote: No Country For Old Men
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So far, these come to mind- from reading other listings
Ordinary People (got the Oscar instead of Raging Bull - who ever watches Ordinary people now; raging bull is in most film courses)
The English Patient
Shakespeare in Love
Pulp Fiction (but loved Kill Bill, go figure)
Any Woody Allen movie - way overrated
Ordinary People (got the Oscar instead of Raging Bull - who ever watches Ordinary people now; raging bull is in most film courses)
The English Patient
Shakespeare in Love
Pulp Fiction (but loved Kill Bill, go figure)
Any Woody Allen movie - way overrated
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It's in a tight battle with Argo.market timer wrote:Easily the worst Best Picture winner I've ever seen.JonnyDVM wrote:Beat me to it.matjen wrote:Crash
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"Magic Mike". I think I recall that it got a lot of press, not sure how critically acclaimed it was.
Saw it on TV last night, well 3/4 of it before I turned it off. Pretty boring. Happy I didn't pay $12 to see it when it first came out.
Saw it on TV last night, well 3/4 of it before I turned it off. Pretty boring. Happy I didn't pay $12 to see it when it first came out.
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Yes, forgot that one.island wrote:...Easy Rider...
There's a comparison with Citizen Kane. In my opinion Citizen Kane is a very good movie, but not by any means the masterpiece film people seem to think it is. I think they give it a ton of undeserved extra points because of a) Orson Welles being an industry outsider... and b) because a lot of people disliked Hearst and/or were afraid of him and admired Welles for taking him on... and c) because it did have a pretty nice little pack of cool cinematographic tricks. Deep focus, seeing the ceilings in interior rooms, crazy tracking shots through neon signs... In total, a movie that was very good, but called great.
Well, similarly, Easy Rider got a lot of undeserved extra points for a) being a low-budget film made by industry outsiders... and b) because it was "counterculture." You could say it c) had its own cinematographic tricks but I don't think shakiness and grain are worthy of admiration. In other words, a movie that was actually not very good... but called great.
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Showing my age, but add UPA cartoons to the list. UPA was founded by cartoonists who'd left Disney during the 1941 animator's strike, and the struggling studio didn't have the money to do full animation so they used limited animation... and a lot of people wanted to believe that they were more artistic and creative than Disney. Well, Gerald McBoingBoing is OK but give me Dumbo over Gerald McBoingBoing any day.
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I hated Groundhog's Day. Apparently it's considered an existential classic.
Going down the list of the AFI Top 100 movies:
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown (can't say I honestly saw the whole thing, I was so bored after 10 minutes I turned it off)
The Maltese Falcon
The Deer Hunter (I enjoyed parts of it very much, but on the whole it didn't do it for me)
Titanic
It was also nice reading the list to see a ton of movies I really enjoyed.
Going down the list of the AFI Top 100 movies:
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown (can't say I honestly saw the whole thing, I was so bored after 10 minutes I turned it off)
The Maltese Falcon
The Deer Hunter (I enjoyed parts of it very much, but on the whole it didn't do it for me)
Titanic
It was also nice reading the list to see a ton of movies I really enjoyed.
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I don't know if they are critically acclaimed, but I don't like the Monty Python movies for the most part. Most people I know seem to love them, but I think the humor is kind of stupid, I mean, british
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I agree. Most British Humor is an acquired taste especially Month Python.coalcracker wrote:I don't know if they are critically acclaimed, but I don't like the Monty Python movies for the most part. Most people I know seem to love them, but I think the humor is kind of stupid, I mean, british
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the King's Speech
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Pulp Fiction. A porno film would be considered G rated compared to the trash in this garbage dump.
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You mean you didn't like Monty Python and the Holy Gail? It's hilarious.coalcracker wrote:I don't know if they are critically acclaimed, but I don't like the Monty Python movies for the most part. Most people I know seem to love them, but I think the humor is kind of stupid, I mean, british
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Ordinary People the film version of The Catcher in the Rye, about a teen with a bunch of 1%er problems.
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Most of my favorite movies are listed in this thread, not a big fan of Easy Rider though. There are a few I haven't seen (Crash, American Hustle) so maybe I should see those. Someone listed Schindlers List and Hurt Locker as boring, really?