Movies Amazing movies you just don't like?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Are there any movies everyone loves and hails as masterpieces, but you don't like and/or see anything especial in?

For example: everyone's always talking about how awesome the Top Gun movies are... but I just check out before a single dogfight can actually take place.

I'll admit the air choreography looks AWESOME, but that's not enough to carry a whole movie for me — it's firmly on "YouTube Clip" territory at that point.

You?

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

I remember Batman Begins getting an insane amount of critical acclaim when it first came out. I’ve never really liked it in all honesty, even back then as a kid, I just couldn’t understand what the hype was about with that film. Dark Knight I enjoyed and Dark Knight Rises I thought was decent, but Batman Begins just never clicked for me

 

[Lod 10]

I didn't like the ending of Ratatouille when I was a child.

 

[ricc]

Im gonna say most Tarantino movies.

Like, they are mostly perfect movies by technical and screenwriting and acting "measurements", but when i see those movies i feel like somebody is trying to convince me to like them more than make me enjoy them for my own sake. When i watch a movie i personally want to watch a artist give me his own perspective, i feel like most movies outside the hollywood brand names are kind autobiographical movies from the directors, or at the very least they leave part of themselves printed on them (if you look at spider man raimi movies, they are raimi movies).

But if i look at Tarantino movies, i feel like he's saying to me that he studied a lot of movies and know how to script and that is the best way to do it so i have to enjoy it when i personally enjoy more flawed movies but that give me a new perspective on a subject or on life outside of movies themselves. Otherwise it's just like an echo chamber of cinephiles making movies for themselves and few others.

Recently i met Lav Diaz and that really change the way i perceive story and the feeling on how to tell them, and i think that you dont need to meet him to grasp the same point he was giving to me, if you watch his movies you still see it because he is his movies in a way.

So generally if i watch a movie and i see that is just made to sell merch or show that is good because it's well executed (especially if there is no message behind) i cant perceive it honestly even if everybody agrees that is good

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

Any movie with Will Ferrell in it, I absolutely cannot stand the guy. I don't know why, it's just that his voice irritates me to no end, and I will not watch anything he is in, regardless of how much praise the movie receives.

 

[MrSoFarAway]

Interstellar. Everybody high praises it for being a very intelectual movie, but just a boring movie for me.

 

[zombie100379]

it seems everytime nolan releases a film - people wanna kiss his ass , he's probably a nice guy but it feels like he's constantly telling his audience "look how clever i am"

 

[Ronann]

for me its avenger endgame, it's like the first phase of this movies was really dragging, but i understand the points, why it was like that, and it's served well after the previous movie ending, it just, i don't really like it, since it's to slow, and they intended to make the movies really long without add anything,
( infinity war more better than endgame)

 

[Pearly]

Blues brothers.

Not funny outside of a handful of moments.

LOTR

Bored me to f**king tears outside of the two towers being bearable.

Sam Raimi's Spider man.

I hated it, cemented loser dork Peter as de facto Peter.

There's too many "greats" that just did not click with me at all. I also don't tally bad in my head, just good. Saves more room in my memory that way.

 

[BrawlMan]

I remember Batman Begins getting an insane amount of critical acclaim when it first came out. I’ve never really liked it in all honesty, even back then as a kid, I just couldn’t understand what the hype was about with that film. Dark Knight I enjoyed and Dark Knight Rises I thought was decent, but Batman Begins just never clicked for me

Even Nolan admitted he fucked up with the action scenes in Batman Begins. I don't hate BB exactly, but is the least re-watchable of the trilogy to me, and tends to drag on way too long.

But if i look at Tarantino movies, i feel like he's saying to me that he studied a lot of movies and know how to script and that is the best way to do it so i have to enjoy it when i personally enjoy more flawed movies but that give me a new perspective on a subject or on life outside of movies themselves. Otherwise it's just like an echo chamber of cinephiles making movies for themselves and few others.

Tarantino's main problem as well, is that he thinks he's "discovered" these films and made them "relevant again". No, you're just pulling a Family Guy and hope people, mainly cinephiles, get your references or be impressed.

Any movie with Will Ferrell in it, I absolutely cannot stand the guy. I don't know why, it's just that his voice irritates me to no end, and I will not watch anything he is in, regardless of how much praise the movie receives.

Will Ferrell plays the same screaming man child nearly every single time. The only time I liked him is in The Other Guys. Otherwise, I wanted nothing do with them, and Hollywood was desperate to make him the next big comedy thing, and shove him down people's throats throughout the 2000s.

Interstellar. Everybody high praises it for being a very intelectual movie, but just a boring movie for me.

Aside from the Dark Knight Trilogy, I do not like any of Nolan's other films. He's literally Micheal Bay for "smart people".

Anything by James Cameron starting at Titanic and afterward. The guy sold out years ago, and has no problem supporting AI bullshit. Titanic is a shitty romance movie, that focuses on two leads who are not that interesting, and should have been about several characters on the ship, and not just Jack and Rose.

Avatar (2009) and its sequels are shitty versions of Princess Mononoke, Dances With Wolves, and Ferngully. The fact people got shocked or disappointed with the third film, shows how blind sided they made themselves into thinking these films are "original masterpieces", or that copying everything and making the 3D unique for the time is okay. The first film is nothing more than a glorified tech demo for real 3D glasses. A gimmick that got old real fast in the mid 2010s. Not to mention, so many other CGI films have copied Avatar's techniques and motion capture work, nothing unique stand out about it anymore since the mid to late 2010s.

Any Oscar bait films I go out of my way to avoid in general.

 

[Sheepy765]

I honestly didn’t like 2001: A Space Odyssey. It feels very slow and like nothing happens (save for a small handful events). I enjoy Kubrick’s other films but that one just didn’t do it for me.

Skinamarink also doesn’t feel like it would do it for me for the same reason.

 

[Boofy]

Total Recall(the original) is by far the weakest of the Veerhoeven scifi trilogy for me. I love me some Arnie but I felt it should have starred someone like Kurt Russell. And Michael Ironside steals the show.

There's a lot of cool shit going on the first half of the film, and some of the best effects in cinema, but I'm not a huge fan of the sum of its parts and I felt it could have been a lot better (and more ambiguous) .

Now Robocop, otoh...top 5 movie of all time.