"Great" movies you can't stand

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:11 pm

Similar in concept to the "Bad movies you love anyway" thread, what films do absolutely hate that are commonly considered (either by critics or the masses) as great?

Post by **Nutso** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:14 pm

Titanic.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:44 pm

LotR:RotK - not quite the worst in the trillogy, but far, far short of the standard set by FotR.

Phantom Renegade · Post by **Phantom Renegade** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:21 pm

Lord of the Rings movies, Harry Potter movies, and Titanic. Titanic should end like this.

I've seen that video a dozen times, still makes me laugh.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:25 pm

Seven. I hate that movie.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:12 pm

Schindler's List.

I know, I know, but I thought it was boring, not particularly moving or emotional, and it cheated on the "shower" scene in a way that I just do not understand. Wild horses wouldn't make me watch it again.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:44 pm

Titanic for me as well, and Gone With the Wind. I just can't see the attraction.

Captain Picard's Hair · Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:48 pm

Phantom Renegade wrote:Harry Potter movies,

I never thought they lived up to the books myself. (nevertheless, I can't picture the characters as anything but the movie representations though - which generally weren't bad. Snape and Black were quite well played, etc.)

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:49 pm

Oh Lordy. I found myself watching the start of Gone With the Wind once, and I thought "Hell, this looks dull but I'll watch it until thingy says that 'don't give a damn' line and then bail."

It's virtually the last bloody line in the movie! I sat there for three and a half hours waiting. By the end of it I was thinking "say the bloody line, say the bloody line..."

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:17 pm

Yep. All the length of Gandhi, none of the pesky thought-provoking.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:15 pm

I'll go with Titanic. For Christ's sake, just sink the fucking boat already!

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:18 pm

Rochey wrote:I'll go with Titanic. For Christ's sake, just sink the f***ing boat already!

I don't know; the "Kate Winslet posing for her portrait" scene wasn't entirely unnecessary.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:23 pm

If the film were cut down to just that one scene and the rest consisted of a home-made film of a 10-year-old re-enacting the sinking scene with a toy ship, it'd be far superior to what we really got.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:42 pm

Wait a minute... the ship sinks?!

Here's one - Eyes Wide Shut. The great, great, GREAT Kubrick shuffled off this mortal coil with a huge black mark on his career.

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