I thought this was a thread about great movies you thought were horrible. Bringing up shit like Tango & Cash is just talking about horrible movies. Though I agree the Blair Witch Project is probably not regarded by any film critics as great art either. That shit awful.

I'll go with Citizen Cane. I've never watched the whole movie because I can't watch more than 10 minutes without shutting that shit off.
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It didn't help that I'd seen Glory the night before, which to this day ranks only behind Casablanca on my all time favorites list.
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Remind me to slap you at the next tailgate. :-)
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Gettysburg.

Man, I want to like that movie so badly. I just can't power through it.

Critics loved The Aviator and I thought that movie was just a complete waste of time. Fans seem to love Burn After Reading and I thought that was one of the worst damn movies I've ever seen.

I'm supposed to love Wall-E and think it's an all time Disney classic - {fart noises}

My memory is that both Crash and Traffic were released around the same time and told similar stories in similar ways and were beloved by critics; I thought they both sucked. People swear that Sideways and Swingers are hilarious - they are not. My dad says The Big Chill is fantastic - he is wrong.

The Sixth Sense is a piece of crap saved by a good ending. Gangs of New York should've been good but they thought they could cast Cameron Diaz in a movie with actual good actors and we wouldn't notice her; instead she just killed the movie (similar to Sophia Copola in GF3; that movie's not as bad as its reputation but she just ruins it).

I understand why I'm supposed to like American Beauty and As Good as it Gets - I still don't. And I hate to admit this one but I simply have no interest in watching when I see it on cable is Field of Dreams. I think that makes me a shitty baseball fan but that movie just isn't my thing. I'll take Eight Men Out over that sappy schlock every time.

I could probably do this for another hour but at some point I just feel like I'm being mean.
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Same here. A friend of mine kept telling me they were great movies, and maybe they are, but I tried 4 or 5 times to make it through the 1st one and just couldn't. I'd sleep through it, or just lose interest.

I did finally make it through the first 2 movies this past year and I know eventually my son is going to make me watch the 3rd, but once I'm through them I'll never watch them again.
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Man, I'm irritated with myself for not coming up with Easy Rider - how did that POS ever become a classic? Lousy movie.

Agreed w/r/t Woody Allen - never enjoyed anything of his that I've seen. Avatar was tedious and stupid and Fern Gully for people who fancy themselves serious.

As for the Blair Witch Project - I thought everyone agreed that this was a shitty movie with excellent marketing and nothing else? Is everyone not on the same page there yet? My bad...
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Things that annoyed me about LOTR (besides the third one being half an hour too long as previously mentioned).

1. Gollum. Basically the Jar Jar Binks of LOTR. I was happier to see him burn at the end than the ring.

2. The tree things. The looked like glorified parade floats.

3. Why didn't they just send the giant birds to deliver the ring to Mt. Doom in the first place? Sure would have saved a lot of time and trouble.
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The Ents are such cool characters in the books. They really did do them a disservice in the movies.

As for the Eagles; again the books kind flesh that out a bit but the bottom line is that they aren't exactly Ubers (they may well have said 'no thanks' as many other entities did during the conflict) and even if they were agreeable, they couldn't send the eagles because they'd draw attention and get wrecked very very quickly due all Sauron's spies. They're kinda the escort fighters of the LOTR world - you can use them when you already have air supremacy but you can't go treating them like air superiority fighters. They needed to maintain stealth for as long as possible to get into the region and then into the mountain. Burning them before you controlled the ground would've just gotten them knocked out of the sky while simultaneously blowing the element of surprise.

It makes sense in print but the movie does make you take pause.
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Recently watched Once Upon a Time in America on Netflix.

It was ok, but I’m not sure why critics rave over it? I didn’t think it had much story (it just sort of meanders) and it was icky in parts. Especially that rape scene. Wtf??
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I don't think it's a great movie at all but I know a lot of people do but Fight Club is the answer for me....the most overrated garbage I've ever seen. Don't understand why it gets so much love, will always be my answer.
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This thread is basically the inverse of a guilty pleasures movie thread. Great stuff.


Would read again!
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I knew my post would get that response from you. :-)
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I know I'm probably alone on this but - Seven. I hated that movie.

And Blair Witch was mostly annoying with a couple of spooky moments.
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Oh, and I finally got around to seeing Dr. Strangelove for the first time and was, um, underwhelmed.
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:-)
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