What movie do you hate that everyone else loved?

[smirkymonkey]

Since it's the holiday season, one of mine is "Love, Actually"

Everyone loves that movie and I hated it with a passion for a number of reasons. I just thought it was insulting and stupid, but so many people consider it their favorite holiday film.

I'm pretty sure I could come up with a number of others, but I was wondering what you all think.

[madaboutharry]

1. Star Wars

[SeaDoo77]

57. Ditto

[LeftInTX]

94. I hate sci-fi!!

[flibbitygiblets]

114. Unwatchable nerd drivel

Ish! Just, no.

[lunamagica]

134. I loved the first Star Wars, but I was a kid then. Never had any interest in the series

[Freethinker65]

164. Same

[Doitnow]

213. I'm almost 83 and I've been to a LOT of movies. The only movie I ever walked out on was

Star Wars. Couldn't stand the noise. Everything about it was loud.

[zanana1]

274. And I thought I was the only one. nt

[radhika]

283. The English Patient....

Maudlin and repetitive.

If the patient had one more flashback before dying, I swear I would have jumped screaming and fled the theater.

[Alice11111]

419. That is exactly mine. All my gfs loved it. Well, everyone did.

It went on and on.

About a year later, there was a Sienfeld on if. As I remember, Elaine wound up having to sit through it twice. She was pissing off everyone because she was reluctant when they talked about loving it She was losing it the second time in the movie, and afterwards, the audience started chasing her to beat her up.

[Still Blue in PDX]

400. I slept through the first one and skipped the rest. nt

[3catwoman3]

2. Forest Gump - aauuugggghhhhh!

Terms of Endearment - even worse.

The Deer Hunter.

[applegrove]

6. Hated FG too.

[rurallib]

24. me three on Forest G.

[Control-Z]

26. I was just going to write that.

But you did it for me. Hate the movie.

[d_r]

76. five for fg

I've never seen titanic though

[Satch59]

104. Me six on FG...

Halfway through I just got madder & madder...it was just so far fetched and dumb...

I also hated Airplane...jokes were just too corny...ugh!

[mr_lebowski]

296. Airplane? Did you see it at that time (1980)?

It was one of the funniest flicks ever made back then, seriously ...

But maybe it's just not to your personal taste.

Heck ... some people (my wife) even hate Monty Python ... Even Life of Brian and The Holy Grail (most egregiously) ... to me that's just wrong. You have to totally lack a sense of humor (esp. for the first 1 hour ... it does get dumb after that point ... Tale of Sir Lancelot is the last great part). But to her, it's just all unfunny/dumb.

Humor is one of the most subjective things I can think of. And definitely requires a certain frame of reference in many cases. Some people don't like humor where you have to 'understand it' to 'get it' ... they like only really, really obvious stuff. If they have to really THINK to see why it's funny, it's off-putting. Not saying you are that way, just some people. I suppose the more esoteric humor is generally my favorite ...

[MyOwnPeace]

319. "We're the Judean People's Front"

"F**k off, the People's Front of Judea?"

There NEVER was a funnier flick!!!!

(sorry - from "The Life of Brian" - Monty Python!)

[mr_lebowski]

328. SPLITTERS!

[Satch59]

349. I think it's a "guy thing"

My husband loves Airplane and Monty Python and early Woody Allen...while me, not so much... Wonder if other women feel the same?

[Alice11111]

420. Have to say, I agree w your hubby...some of my favs.

[flibbitygiblets]

461. Love Python, not a guy

Mom loves them too. Frickin hilarious.

But Woody Allen, hell no.

[forgotmylogin]

393. It was the first mainstream parody movie.

Pre Naked Gun, pre Top Secret! pre Wayans Bros' Scary Movies, pre "Not Another-insert genre-Movie!"s.

If you know all that the format seems tired and it's not apparent how Airplane! was new and groundbreaking. Plus, it really helps to have seen the Airport movies it was based on and directly satirizes.

[RobinA]

411. Roger, Roger

They were corny, but somehow hilarious to some. I should have absolutely hated Airplane, but thought it was a scream.

[forgotmylogin]

159. Gump gets seven.

[livetohike]

165. Thats my pick too. I still dont see the attraction. n/t

[forgotmylogin]

391. My problem

is that right from frame one I realize "I'm already on board with the lesson this movie wants to teach me; yes, you don't judge a book by its cover. I don't need to spend two hours with this."

I suppose the way it's set up you're supposed to laugh at the "odd duck" and feel sorry for him and then learn his accomplishments and feel ashamed you misjudged him.

Plus the Tom Hanks factor. I guess I'm just weird...he's a great actor, he does great projects. I don't care to sit through them.

[LisaM]

205. Add me to the Gump Group - terrible movie.

When it was Oscar time, a fellow Gump Hater and I held an Oscar watching party of 2 - us - specifically so we could through balled up paper at the TV every time it was mentioned.

[thucythucy]

208. Gump for so many reasons.

Esthetic and political.

[Codeine]

223. God I fucking HATED that movie.

Awful tripe.

[Puzzler]

356. ... add me to the FG group.

... it made its (already questionable) point with a proverbial sledgehammer.

-Puzzler

[hatrack]

383. Yep, Gump . . .

A movie that was just freaking thrilled with its own cleverness.

Plus, "Didn't the 60s just SUCK?!?!?!?"

[Still Blue in PDX]

401. Forrest Gump for the win. nt

[RandomAccess]

403. Wow -- so happy to see all these Gump haters

I thought I was about the only one, making me no better than Mr. Scrooge or the Grinch.

[Skittles]

463. I watched I think 20 minutes of it

it was just schlock; I hated it.....couldn't believe the Oscar wins. UGH.

[Demoiselle]

471. Add me to the Forest Gump list.

[3catwoman3]

473. After so many years of thinking I was an outlier...

...on this atrocious movie, it feels really good to know I am not alone in thinking it stunk.

[CherokeeDem]

3. Titanic....

And any movie with Tom Cruise... with the exception of Top Gun... I was rooting for Iceman... and I LOVED the fighter jets!

[Laffy Kat]

12. Me, too. He ruins the movie for me. nt

[nocalflea]

103. Damn , I coulda' written this !

Every single word.

[forgotmylogin]

161. Dealbreaker actors for me are Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves...

and shockingly Tom Hanks.

I know Hanks is great...but I'm weirdly never interested in the movies he does.

[mr_lebowski]

372. Cage was pretty good in Matchstick Men ... which is also a pretty good movie overall ...

And he does a decent job in Leaving Las Vegas ... other than that though ... yeah. He's pretty bad.

[forgotmylogin]

390. He's definitely done good work...

but quality varies wildly based on if he's in "I just need to pay my rent" mode.

[geardaddy]

181. Agreed.

Any movie with Cruise in it.

[pansypoo53219]

212. titanic is a remake w/ a slapped on romance.

love actually also. star wars meh. the wedding singer was awful.

[forgotmylogin]

395. Cameron is really good at including something for everyone.

A straight remake of the Titanic sinking wouldn't have flown.

So take known histroy people already know, slap on a framing story and scientific research and a hot actor and heroine the audience can identify with and a fictional romance and then go from period historical recreation into an action movie at the halfway mark (really, you're following orders to shoot someone on a sinking ship to settle your boss's grudge?) so it has male and female demographic appeal then pile millions of dollars on set design, millions of dollars on special effects and top with a Celine Dion top-40 ready song over the credits.

I don't at all blame them for doing it; it was very successful, but an incredibly formulaic blockbuster.

[mr_lebowski]

342. I actually love Risky Business ... his first star-turn ...

Personally think it's a much better movie than Top Gun too.

To me, it's up there with Fast Times, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Breakfast Club, etc ...

Come to think of it, looking over this thread, surprised none of these 5 greats didn't make SOMEONE'S list.

[tymorial]

4. Titanic

[applegrove]

5. Yes I did not fall for that couple. I think I was too old. It was just harrowing

to watch.

[Corvo Bianco]

201. I fell so hard. I was 11 and I saw the movie 5 times in theater.

Just walking along with my backpack and my gal pals down to the cinema day after day.

OH! Then I plastered hundreds of black and white at-home-printed little Leonardo DiCaprio pictures all over my bedroom. It was really special.

[applegrove]

207. That would have made it more bearable to love the couple. I usually do fall for the couple. But

not for Titanic. I was in my twenties I think.

[dflprincess]

244. I took two of my nieces to it, one was 11 and one was 7

(her mother said she could go to it).

As we were leaving their home my brother (their dad), trying to be funny, called out "The boat sinks." The younger niece almost had a fit because he "ruined the movie". We all just stood and stared at her - it had never dawned on any us that she didn't know the Titanic sunk - I thought people were just born knowing that. (And, of course, it's "given away" at the start of the movie.)

Anyway, the 7 year old also developed a huge crush on Leo. She wrote him a letter than I almost hesitated to let her send lest he think she was a deranged stalker, but she did get a nice letter and photo back from him (or whoever handles that sort of thing for him).

[Alice11111]

421. Plus, I got so, so sick of Celine Dion. Not nearly as bad as

The English Patient though.

[Glorfindel]

7. "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Incredibly depressing and pointless. What a waste of brilliant actors.

The remake of "Mad Max" I found unwatchable and boring. Since it's Christmas, "and at Christmas you tell the truth", I can't imagine anyone not liking "Love, Actually."

[Alpeduez21]

8. Tootsie

Casablanca, too.

[smirkymonkey]

80. I loved Casablanca. Why didn't you like it?

It's such a classic. It was so romantic. But then I am a sucker for period pieces.

[Alpeduez21]

210. I think it has been oversold

I tried watching it and it just didn't grab me. I have never seen it from start to finish. I'm pretty sure Bogart just doesn't do it for me.

[WinstonSmith4740]

270. My all time favorite.

Saw it for the first time on a double feature with "Play it Again Sam". It was awesome.

[Alice11111]

422. Still love it. Need it about every other year.

[Canoe52]

481. Agree with you on Tootsie,

the movie totally sucked.

[dhill926]

9. didn't hate it....

but didn't like La La Land....

[spooky3]

256. ditto but

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I liked Ryan Gosling in it.

[Laffy Kat]

10. Don't judge me.

"The Godfather." I understand it's a great movie, everything about it. Just didn't care for it. Also, "The English Patient"; god was that a slog, IMO.

[genxlib]

37. I happen to agree with you

Maybe hated is a strong word but I think they are way overrated

[TexasBushwhacker]

49. I agree about TEP

I also hate "Bridges of Madison County".

[OregonBlue]

140. Hated the movie and the book. It was so soppy and overly sentimental.

[Mira]

246. Hated the book so much

never bothered with the movie. In spite of Streep.

[OregonBlue]

299. Agree!!! We are supposed to believe that a one time encounter changed these two peoples lives

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in ways we and they cannot even imagine. A few hours was one of the greatest love stories never told. Sigh........

[TexasBushwhacker]

358. As if it was this horrible tragedy

for her to stay with a husband who loves her, who she has built a life with, for a traveling photographer passing through town. Girl should have sewn some wild oats. My best friend an I laughed all the way through it.

[OregonBlue]

465. I had to force myself to finish it. It was so sappy. Then one day a friend of mine,

a very tough doctor, GP of 40 years came in carrying the book and I asked how he liked it and he said it made him cry. I had to get out of his office really fast before he could see that I was about to burst out laughing. Oh well, each to their own.

[TexasBushwhacker]

466. The dialogue had such gems, like

"This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime."

PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!

[OregonBlue]

468. I know. It was just plain sappy. And by the way, that kind of certainty doesn't come just

once in a lifetime. Like I said, I couldn't believe my tough GP friend was so easily sucked in but then, I guess we all need a little trash romance in our lives sometimes. LOL. I quit reading these when I was like 12 or 13.

[Tikki]

68. I don't do mafia movies, ever.

Tikki

[MontanaMama]

102. So with you.

I never got The Godfather. Don't want to get it either.

[regnaD kciN]

108. "The English Patient" was a horrible adaptation of a great novel...

Seriously, if you haven't read the book, give it a try. Completely different and much deeper than the movie.

[Alice11111]

423. TEP, lord, help me

[Manifestor_of_Light]

489. I don't like gangster movies in the first place.

They are horrible human beings who kill other people in cold blood just because it's business. Hollywood hiring nice looking actors and using set design, costume design, cinematography, music and all the theatrical arts to make it look nice doesn't cover up that these are immoral evil people.

I like to read about mobsters (there's a serious twitter account here about one of the biggest con artists in the world and their history of fraud. twitter.com/LincolnsBible )

I don't watch really violent movies because I don't want to have nightmares. I don't want to see blood and guts and be frightened. I don't watch horror movies for the same reason.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Bambi! But I love,.....

[geardaddy]

182. I always loved Bambi Meets Godzilla!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

184. A classic by any measure! 👍🏻

[ailsagirl]

13. I came up with six...

Clockwork Orange
2001 A Space Odyssey
The English patient
Sleepless in Seattle
Titanic
Star Wars

There are others but those came to mind immediately.

[smirkymonkey]

30. I could never bring myself to watch "A Clockwork Orange"

I always thought it would be too disturbing. I doubt I will ever see it.

[Laffy Kat]

43. Same here.

Oddly, I love the soundtrack.

[Stuart G]

54. hate that violence....seen enough..

[ailsagirl]

73. Amen!!

[cry baby]

215. Me, too! Hated the movie...have loved and listened to the soundtrack

up to present day!

[Laffy Kat]

217. Plus, you know if you see the movie it will ruin the soundtrack!

You'll think of the violence while listening.

[cry baby]

236. True. I try to just focus on the music and push out memories

of that movie. I wish I hadn't watched it.

[VOX]

62. It's not Kubrick's finest moment, anyway.

Although not as bad as the gag-inducing "Eyes Wide Shut." Kubrick topped himself with those amazingly jagged, black-and-white classics like "Paths of Glory," "Lolita," and "The Killing."

[ailsagirl]

71. It was disgusting

I certainly wasn't there of my own volition-- ugh!!!

[cos dem]

90. Kubrick certainly is not for every one.

[ailsagirl]

245. That film could never have been made today

Just abhorrent!

[Mira]

259. It is the single only movie I forbade my son to see

until he was 18 years old. I think he might have obeyed. But I don't trust it.

[Stuart G]

59. I will never watch .."Saving Private Ryan"..never..

too much killing in movies.'

.yea it is fake killing, but still works on me to make me feel bad. I don't need to feel bad..
Feel bad movies are out, in general.

I taught high school and showed a whole lot of "feel bad movies"...with real death in the films.....some over and over and over to get a point across...enough!!

[forgotmylogin]

163. Skipped Private Ryan as well.

I'm ice cold on most war films in general.

Plus Spielberg is real good at ripping your guts out when he fancies it. Schindler's list was epic, but I never need to watch it again.

Also Amistad. The chain scene on the boat messed me up for a good long while.

[Codeine]

224. I love half your list

and despise the other half. Not bad!

[LiberalLovinLug]

315. Clockwork Orange is on my list of favorites

Yes it has violence, or "ultra violence" which in comparison to today's violence in movies, especially in the graphic sense, was nothing.
It was one of the darkest most biting black comedies ever made, and Kubrick brilliantly mocked and highlighted much of the hypocrisy of both the conservative and overly PC liberal political points of view on the issue of crime and punishment. And Malcolm McDowell is perfectly cast in that. Scarily convincing. His character reminds me of some alt-right nazified radical youth in America these days, in how they cannot ever have their minds change. A prophetic and disturbing piece of sci-fi.

Sorry, no one else was defending it, and I had to. But that's not the theme of this thread. So I'll say that that last film "Eyes Wide Shut" by Kubrick was off the rails the whole way through. It didn't help that Tom Cruise was the main star. That would be one my "hated" films.

[JDC]

14. Napoleon Dynamite

[unblock]

160. agreed.

we figured we must be turning old if younger people are supposed to find anything worthwhile at all about that.

i only watched it because i assumed elvis costello (who has performed under the name "napoleon dynamite" had something to do with it. turned out they just stole the name.

[Duppers]

189. Same here. nt

[mr_lebowski]

298. It's freaking brilliant ...

You just don't get it.

Probably failed to even get stoned first too

[LiberalLovinLug]

316. Me three

The shtick of the character got old after about ten minutes. Telling that that actor hasn't had a lot of prominent work since.

[Calista241]

325. Moist quotable movie ever.

[JDC]

327. Ah yes, greats such as: Vote for Pedro

And this winner:

I caught you a tasty bass.

[dhol82]

482. I loved that movie

Different strokes for different folks.

[Skittles]

15. Star Wars

saw the original at the theater, fell asleep a quarter of the way in, never saw another one

[smirkymonkey]

70. They always bored me.

I never saw the appeal.

[Skittles]

122. I just thought it was stupid

the dialogue, the characters.....cringe-worthy

I don't get it either and it's not that I don't like sci-fi because I have always liked Star Trek

[Phentex]

126. same here...

didn't hate them but I thought they were boring.

[Alice11111]

424. Just more over done, big money, blockbusters

[Skittles]

425. and they seem to have become the norm now

I used to be such a movie buff but more and more it is just CGI crap

[Alice11111]

427. For sure! I try to wait until the goid ones are on Amazon.

Sometimes, they are when they are still in the theatre.

[Chipper Chat]

16. Mrs. Miniver

[Demoiselle]

317. My father loathed Greer Garson..

…He called her "Greer Gruesome." I think it was those sparkly sparkly eyes.

[Chipper Chat]

344. it was my mom's favorite movie.

I fell asleep everytime I slapped it in the dvd.

[hatrack]

384. Horrible, horrible movie . . .

If you'd like to experience the Anti-Mrs. Miniver, check out "Hope And Glory" - John Boorman on growing up during The Blitz. Brilliant and funny!

[Chipper Chat]

398. Will do.

Maybe I'll stay awake

[PoorMonger]

17. The Hangover Series

Although maybe hate is too stong a word. But I don’t like them. I mean I watched the first two - but I just don’t like them. Maybe it’s me getting old but the first one came out every one of my friends acted like it was great and I should love it.

[Duppers]

190. Couldn't watch any of them very long.

[GP6971]

18. Any remake of the original

let me keep my memories good or bad.

[TexasProgresive]

19. Ill play, but I dont think it was popular

Zabriskie Point

[zipplewrath]

20. Moonstruck

And Beaches

[genxlib]

39. Agree on both of those

[lunamagica]

132. Moonstruk is one of my favorite all-time movies!

I love the acting the dialogue -I will admit that Nicolas Cage was the weakest part of the movie, but everything else makes up for it.

I never get tired of watching it.

[Mira]

247. To me

Moonstruck is flawless.
My best possible rating for a movie.

[Sedona]

21. LA LA Land

[dhol82]

82. Sooooo agree! Was that not the worst movie ever?

Still can’t believe that Emma Stone won the Oscar.
Can’t sing, can’t dance, can’t act. Obviously a triple threat for the Oscar.

[zipplewrath]

124. Not even close

Way worse movies. But I will say, it was so obviously just a movie that would resonate with some demographic of the movie watching/loving public. It's kinda like Chorus Line was the dance show that all dancers and dance fans would want to see, but after that it was a mediocre if not disturbing story. Take away the dancing and singing, and La La Land was kinda a boring storing with a disturbing main character.

[Lokilooney]

226. Did you know that all the music was just added in later?

https://entertainment.theonion.com/the-onion-reviews-la-la-land-1819596177

[nocoincidences]

138. I am a lover of great musicals

and this movie was not even good, much less great. Everything about it was awful, as far as I am concerned.

[kag]

286. Sooooo agree!!! n/t

[JonLP24]

339. I hate musicals so I only lasted 5 minutes

That's all I saw of the whole film.

[Alice11111]

426. Yes. It is another people get all sappy & defensive about.

They thought it was a modern day Westside Story, but they lost it after one scene.
I took a friend w Parkinson's, who has a cane. When we left, he said, we can dance better than that. He threw down his cane and we mocked them, which wasn't hard.
Wannebe Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers.

I was so glad Moonlighting won the Oscar, even belatedly.

[clutterbox1830]

475. I didn't care for this one either.

Thought the story was meh. I'm not sure why is was nominated for all those Oscars awards. Seriously best costume design?

Although part of me didn't like the film because I don't care/like jazz music even though my friends said I might have a change of heart after I watch the film. It didn't. In fact, I walked out of the theater at the late musical number.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

22. Pretty Woman

[smirkymonkey]

31. Ugh! Hated that movie!

I pretty much hate anything that Julia Roberts is in. She irritates me to no end.

[Alice11111]

430. I was planning on writing that. She seems so fake to me.

Fake too big smile. Fake, girl next door. Fake, I'm so pretty. Bad actress. Fake Meryl Streep.

A friend was pushing me to see her new movie, but
ugg.

[madaboutharry]

63. I hated Pretty Woman.

I found it unbelievable that Richard Gere would pick up a streetwalker and try to turn her into My Fair Lady. What a dumb movie.

[zipplewrath]

125. Yeah, it's kinda a disturbing plot

It's that fairy tale/Cinderella concept wrapped around prostitution. I can never quite tell if it is a male fantasy or a female one.

[TexasBushwhacker]

359. Yeah a friend of mine said "But it's a Cinderella story"

and I said "if Cinderalla gave blowjobs".

Did you know it was originally written as a drama?

[Phentex]

127. Another one I never saw the appeal...

overrated in my opinion

[underpants]

379. I've read that it originally was going to star Ellen Barkin

and it had a tragic ending. It was re-written for Julia Roberts with a very different ending.

[TexasBushwhacker]

467. Yes, it was written as a rather heavy drama called "3000" n/t

[OceanChick]

23. Love Story

So insipid. Everyone was crying but me. I was just irritated.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

86. Not to mention the most stupid line ever:

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Really?

[OceanChick]

101. Haha - yeah!

Love means ALWAYS having to say you're sorry. Every day, usually!

[spike jones]

350. "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

So does not giving a shit.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

354. Yes!

If I ever have the misfortune to have someone quote that line at me, I'll return with yours. Thank you!

[Alice11111]

431. Truly awful. Made for teenagers, with the most untrue line ever.

[applegrove]

99. I could not make it 1/2 way through when I tried a few months ago.

[CurtEastPoint]

25. Big Lebowski

[applegrove]

100. Walked away half way through.

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[CurtEastPoint]

123. I think I gave it 1/2 hour.

[Paladin]

150. I thought "Big Lebowski" was OK, but I don't understand its cult classic status.

The Coens have done a lot better work.

[Duppers]

191. Weird that it bored me.

I'm just very critical of most films, perhaps like only 5% of them.

[mr_lebowski]

297. You're just ... so wrong ...

lol ... it's such a great movie ... but admittedly, it's very much just great 'in it's way'.

It's really one of those love/hate movies ... like Napoleon Dynamite, any Monty Python, Rocky Horror, Eraserhead, Harold and Maude ... to name a few.

Some people just ... don't get it, and thus hate it. Or they can't deal with the 272 F-bombs in it.

[Alice11111]

438. Liked it. Saw it the first time on TV, while bf slept beside me.

I was blown away by the acting, script.

[underpants]

303. It was a bit funny but I don't understand they adoration

Good parts and I love "The Dude" but overall I didn't GET IT.

[clutterbox1830]

474. A really do not understand the cult following of this movie either.

Thought it was meh, but nothing really memorable in my eyes.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. A Fish Named Wanda.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Really? I loved that movie!

Why did you hate it?

[no_hypocrisy]

50. I simply didn't find it funny.

OTOH, I laughed my ass off with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[smirkymonkey]

83. I love all the Monty Python films!

I think they are brilliant!

[kag]

287. Interesting. I HATE all the Monty Python films.

EXCEPT for A Fish Called Wanda. That one I liked. Maybe because I'm a Jamie Lee Curtis fan.

[smirkymonkey]

289. Really? Why do you hate them?

I think they are hilarious.

[kag]

291. Something about the British humor.

Which is weird because I'm a bit of an anglo-phile. And I love John Cleese. But I just hated all of the gross stuff--the blood and vomiting.

Having said that, "Every Sperm is Sacred" is one of the best movie songs of all time. It just can't make up for the rest of the movie.

[smirkymonkey]

293. I think I like them because I love absurd humor.

"Found this spoon sir!"

[nancy1942]

141. I totally agree.

[Laffy Kat]

44. With you!

Never did anything for me.

[femmocrat]

144. Same here.

I didn't think it was funny.

Also, "When Harry Met Sally." Yuk.

[mr_lebowski]

300. Wow ... no offense, but your taste in movies is seriously flawed ...

A Fish Called Wanda is bloody brilliant ...

Though I guess if Brit humour isn't your thing ... you're not going to like it.

You're wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion

[no_hypocrisy]

305. I'm brutally honest. It didn't do anything for me.

And I do like British dry wit although I'm still not on board with Gilbert & Sullivan.

[Alice11111]

428. I didn't like it either. Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't appeal to me.

Dumb film.

[Chasstev365]

28. Raising Arizona: NOT FUNNY!

[smirkymonkey]

33. I agree. It was terrible!

[The Polack MSgt]

152. Your on a anonymous political forum for a couple yeras and ya think you know

Someone, let's say someone named Smirkeymonkey, and suddenly you find out that you never really knew them at all...

Raising Arizona was and still is amazing.

You'd see that - if ya didn't have a panty on your head

[Alice11111]

432. !!!

We seem to agree on movies.

[unblock]

156. unless round's funny.

[AllyCat]

29. Titanic. Awful.

[a kennedy]

183. Ditto, when it did come out I remember all the female students that worked in our office

just could NOT get enough Titanic. All falling over themselves with Leanardo..... I thought, and still do that Kate’s head was huge compared to his. I know I shouldn’t make fun of anyone’s appearance, but shoot they just did not go together AT ALL in MHO.

[TexasBushwhacker]

360. Leo was horribly miscast

His character was supposed to be older and more worldly than Rose (Kate Winslet), but he looked like he had just gotten his learner's permit.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

34. Any of the "Vacation" movies with Chevy Chase.

Especially the Christmas one.

[Duppers]

192. Gawd yes!

[rurallib]

472. o thank you

thought I was the only one

[Joel Eyeforth]

486. I'll amend that to "ANY Movie with Chevy Chase," period.

He always plays an asshole! I do not think this is coincidental.

[IADEMO2004]

35. I see everyone else didn't love Titanic but still a small number.

[Permanut]

36. Caddyshack..

Couldn't tell why it did so well.

[Pope George Ringo II]

206. For me, that one just didn't age well.

Loved it as a child, but as the years go by it really looks worse and worse.

[Generic Brad]

38. Top Gun

Was that even a movie? It seemed more like a crappy extended video to me.

[hibbing]

42. The volleyball scene is epic though, haha

[genxlib]

40. Avatar and Frozen

I also hated An Officer and a Gentleman

[exboyfil]

115. Avatar for me

The ultimate Mighty Whitey. With just some editing and adjustment to script it could have been a great movie. Someone who has never been in a highly sophisticated culture becomes the best fighter in the culture. It would have been so much better if he had to be continually protected, but his knowledge and tactics of the humans defined the battle plan. If he was an adviser I could have enjoyed it so much more.

See this with movies about the Mighty Whitey in native American and African settings.

[Squinch]

281. I think Frozen was someone's LSD flashback. Completely bizarre. I hated it too.

[Olafjoy]

374. Wanted you to know

I just wanted you to know that even though you hated Frozen, you are still worth melting for!

[Squinch]

396. Well, I declare!

And so are you!

[hibbing]

41. A Few Good Men

A combination of overacting, bad acting, and two actors I can't stand, Kevin Bacon and Tom Cruise. As for Jack Nicholson, I usually like him. However in this movie it came across to me as look at me, I'm acting!


Peace

[mikeysnot]

202. this for me is cringe worthy

I wanted to post this also. WAAAAYYYYY over acting, pretentious dialog.

I cringe when ever SM plays the soundbites on her show...

[Pisces]

45. Thelma and Louise

[CatMor]

47. I also hate Thelma and Louise

highly overrated.

[Lefta Dissenter]

53. Yup

A friend brought up Thelma and Louise the other day as a prospective band name or something. Why, because they're going to go down in a spectacular crash? [sorry, belated spoiler alert]. I just hated the whole thing.

[LeftInTX]

91. I hated it too!

I have a pet peeve about road trip movies that are not filmed on location. In the parts where they were supposed to be in Arkansas and Texas, it was sooo obvious that they were Southern California. Really turned me off.

[shanny]

483. Fwiw they were never in Texas

--"you wanna go to Mexico without going through Texas??!?"

[RandomAccess]

404. One of my top favorite movies along with

Tootsie,which someone else listed as most hated.

[Pisces]

408. I was enraged when they nominated it for an Oscar. Terrible, terrible movie.

[RandomAccess]

410. What in your mind was so terrible about it?

[Pisces]

414. Everything, they start robbing places, driving off the cliff

Ugh! Terrible acting, terrible story

[silverweb]

46. Pulp Fiction.

I watched it again recently after many years to see if I might find something worthwhile in it now that I missed before. Nope. Still hate it.

[dflprincess]

51. Me too

It seemed like the longest movie I ever went to.

[silverweb]

120. Yes!

It seemed to go on, pointlessly, forever. I really tried to understand why people liked it, but I can't. LOL

[Awsi Dooger]

271. I will never forgive the so-called friends who took me to see Pulp Fiction

Never. Absolutely never.

This was in Las Vegas and we were betting sports for a living. Sharp handicappers. Yet they took me to that movie. I will always find it difficult to believe.

I lived in Las Vegas for 25 years and nothing appalled me like that movie.

[silverweb]

272. It was appalling, wasn't it?

It seemed completely pointless, just a lot of violence and gore. A friend of mine had said I'd like it. I guess he didn't know me very well.

[MyOwnPeace]

322. Yep!

Sitting here scrolling though all of the comments - waiting to see if I'm the only one would "nominate" this one - OMG - it was like getting a root canal without drugs! I just didn't "get it" - and don't know if I ever will.
I'm tempted to "try it" again, but really, was I that far off the last time?

CLIFF NOTES: Pulp Fiction - WTF?

[whathehell]

48. Good Will Hunting..

Could think of a couple more, probably, but that's the first that comes to mind.

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Do not ever, EVER, expect me to forgive a parent that beats their kids, especially if they never even apologize.

[Alice11111]

445. Book was way better than the movie.

[TDale313]

55. The Hangover

[Cartoonist]

56. The Godfather

A world I detest.

[lkinwi]

58. Theres Something About Mary

I didn’t think it was all that funny. Most of my coworkers thought I was nuts.

[WinstonSmith4740]

269. I'm with you.

Couldn't figure out the attraction, and yeah, my friends thought I was nuts, too. Matt Dillon was great, though.

[smirkymonkey]

60. Sideways, Diner and Swingers

The most annoying movies I can think of. Just a bunch of whiners.

[spooky3]

257. REALLY disliked Sideways. Didn't see the other two.

[mr_lebowski]

308. Sideways is decent, Swingers is a great snapshot of an era and various archetypes ...

While neither are truly great films, there's no way I can concur that they suck ... I enjoyed both.

Did you see them when they came out?

I really have to think that a LOT of the movies that are showing up on this list are NOT films that people saw at the time they came out, or within 6 months or so digitally.

There's a LOT LOT LOT of films where you have to watch it concurrently while living in the era (not just 'having lived in it', because memories fade) ... to really appreciate why it's revered.

Star Wars is a great example. At the time it came out, it was an ASTOUNDING technical achievement. It was like NOTHING anyone had ever done. Sci-Fi hadn't come much further than the TV shows from the 60's like Star Trek TOS and Lost in Space. Star Wars BLEW PEOPLES MINDS. Now it looks cheap and kinda corny, but at the time, it took people 'to space' in a way that had never been experienced. That's why for about an entire YEAR, you had to wait in a huge line to see that movie. Many people bragged how many times they'd gone to the cinema and seen it. It was a cultural phenomenon at the time, one I've never seen repeated with a Film, ever.

If you saw it for the first time, years and years later, you cannot possibly understand the phenomenon like the people who were 'there' ... esp. those 10-16 yo in 1977.

[smirkymonkey]

320. The reason I don't like those films is because I thought the

characters were unlikable and whiny. I really didn't like any of the characters in "Sideways" and in "Swingers" the thing I remember most is just the whining. I just thought it was the most annoying movie.

[RandySF]

61. ET

[forgotmylogin]

166. Nooooo...

I remember being so embarrassed for crying in the packed auditorium on opening night at the mature age of 11, totally oblivious that every other person in the audience was similarly broken down into a blubbering mess.

Then the sound that filled the theater when ET is reprieved. Spielberg: JUST KIDDING! YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CHILDHOOD SOUL BACK NOW. BUT REALIZE I WON'T BE SO GENEROUS IN THE FUTURE!

Yes, it was totally manipulative, but I still can't avoid becoming verklempt when I hear the bicycle liftoff music.

[cyclonefence]

242. Me too

Boy gets dog. Boy loses dog. Boy gets dog. Dog goes to heaven.

[Merlot]

277. ET - UG

Also, Avitar. To be fair, I didn't finish it...but am pretty sure it didn't get any better.

Forrest Gump was awful, I wanted to leave after the kkk scene. It's only redeaming feature was Robin Wright.

Love Actually was quite the letdown. So many good actors (to many, actually), so few good lines.

[maryellen99]

64. Back to The Future and Jurassic Park nt

[Alice11111]

436. Loved Jurassic Park. Agree about Back to the Future.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

65. Arrival.

Sci-fi drama that EVERYONE raved about, but I found it predictable, and the ending was just as stupid/sappy as Contact. Horrible film.

Same with Interstellar. "Love was the answer". Sappy. Fucking. Bullshit.

[Ohiya]

69. Agree on Interstellar

I walked out about two thirds of the way though

[dhol82]

84. Totally agree on Arrival

So boring and predictable.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

88. Yet so many people loved it...

I don't understand how.

[dhol82]

130. I hated it from start to finish.

Couldn’t wait for it to end.
I was thinking boring, boring, boring. Others were leaving the theater saying it was great.
Go figure.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

142. Same.

Never underestimate the (bad) tastes of the masses.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

87. I'm with you on all of these.

[CrispyQ]

402. Contact, the book, had a fab ending!

Sagan

Hated the movie. Hated it!

[smirkymonkey]

66. Does anybody else hate "Love, Actually"?

That movie just made me want to puke.

[MaryMagdaline]

67. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman

Superman name any action movie

[smirkymonkey]

74. I hate most action movies, but I really liked "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

I agree with you on the others though.

[MaryMagdaline]

128. Sat through Raiders with my sister

We were laughing with pain of having sat through it. She then said "oh no," realizing she had promised to see it with her husband and would have to go see it again.

[Ilsa]

378. The Big Bang Theory had an episode in which

Amy Farrah Fowler, after seeing it for the first time ever with Sheldon, remarked to him that "Indiana Jones plays no role in the outcome of the story. If he weren’t in the film, it would turn out exactly the same… If he weren’t in the movie, the Nazis would still have found the Ark, taken it to the island, opened it up, and all died, just like they did."

[TlalocW]

72. Apocalypse Now

I honestly don't understand the appeal of the movie nor do I think Marlon Brando is an acting god. I've liked him in some movies, hated him in others, and hated him in this.

TlalocW

[LeftInTX]

92. Hate it too!

[Basic LA]

75. The original Willy Wonka!

Hated it. So much yelling & corny effects.

[regnaD kciN]

109. Same here. Awful.

Since it kind of bombed upon release, and only attained cult status from college screenings in the early '70s, I'm guessing you had to be stoned out of your mind to really appreciate it.

[Alice11111]

429. I love anything with Gene Wilder.

[JenniferJuniper]

77. Star Wars also.

[Mme. Defarge]

78. Florence Foster Jenkins

[dhol82]

85. Yup, that was just a stupid picture.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

221. I just loved it. FFJ was a real person, legendary for her bad singing

which she seemed blissfully unaware of. If you're a musician you'll get it (all the musicians I know, especially the singers, loved the movie). The accompanist (played by "Howard Wollowitz" of "The Big Bang Theory" ) almost stole the show, but Meryl Streep was just brilliant. She did the singing herself, and you'd be surprised how hard it is for a good singer to sing badly. She and the pianist did all the music in live takes, too. I thought it was a terrific portrayal of how a person can be manipulated by their own dreams - FFJ was a good pianist in her youth and wanted desperately to sing opera but had no ear. People who wanted her money let her think she could sing, and her husband enabled her. It was both funny and sad, but very well done.

[Alice11111]

446. That is what made it good, besides Streep. It was a real struggle

Her hubby juggling the bad reviews. Her being so out of touch....

[Katinfl]

79. Pulp Fiction

I hated it. Never could understand why it was so successful.

[cos dem]

81. Sully

The real story is compelling. The movie is an attempted "Govermment can't do anything right" hit job.
As a pilot, I have a great appreciation for the NTSB and the work they've done to create the world's safest air traffic system. The way the "investigation" was portrayed in the movie was mostly bullshit.

[regnaD kciN]

110. What else would you expect from Clint "Empty Chair" Eastwood?

He's always going to make sure his far-right, government is eeeeeeeeeevil (except when killing brown people in slow-motion) propaganda gets included.

[mr_lebowski]

311. Clint has made many, many very good movies ...

Much as I hate his politics ... he's been shockingly good as a director ...

If he was a liberal his films would be highly revered on DU I guarantee you. Very few haven't at least been 'good', if not great.

Didn't see Sully tho ...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

147. Yes. I simply didn't buy the NTSB whinging that Sully should have landed the plane

At LaGuardia or Teterboro. They would have been pleased that he brought the plane down without any fatalities or serious injuries.

[smirkymonkey]

89. Ok, am I the only person that hated "Love, Actually"?

That film made me want to tear my hair out. Does anyone else have an opinion?

[sweetloukillbot]

231. I love Bill Nighy and a couple lines in it

"I hate Uncle Jaimie!" and "Let's get drunk and watch porn" are two of my favorite movie lines though, and the scene with Hugh Grant and the kid in the octopus costume was funny. Also the whole overly-inclusive Christmas pagaent.

But generally it's just men being creepers.

[smirkymonkey]

233. Actually, his story was the best part of the film.

The rest of it was corny beyond belief.

[sweetloukillbot]

262. I also liked the couple from the British Office as porno stand-ins as well

And Laura Linney's part was okay.

[Mira]

248. Favorite movie of dear friends

they showed it to me, and I felt like hiding that I really disliked it.

[smirkymonkey]

253. Thank YOU!

At last, someone else disliked this film as much as I did. It was just so stupid and silly.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

93. 2001 A Space Odyssey.

It's laughably bad. In the beginning, men in monkey suits. Then the Pan Am moon shuttle. It previews the end of the once glorious Pan Am, because of crappy load factors. And the whole HAL thing. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I hang out in the science fiction world (attend some cons, know a bunch of writers) and my opinion is a distinct minority. That film is unjustly revered.

The original story it is based on, "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke is pretty good. If you want to read it: http://econtent.typepad.com/TheSentinel.pdf

[kag]

288. Yes! I was going to mention this if no one else had.

My husband and I argue about his movie all the time. He LOVES it. I fell asleep. He talks about how the SE's were so novel and amazing when it was made, and I get that, but I'm ten years younger than him. I guess I just can't get into the head of someone who had never seen that stuff. And anyway, you have to sit through 90 minutes of boring before you even get to that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

295. Uh, oh, I don't know what you mean by the SE's.

People who never read science fiction, who've only seen the movies or the TV shows, don't really know s-f. Science fiction is, above all in my opinion, a literature of ideas. The movies and the TV shows are generally contemporary people and issues magically placed in the future or on another planet.

Plus, the people who make the movies and the TV shows know how to do those things and are very good at them, especially the technical side. But most of them have never read the written s-f, and it shows.

[kag]

321. Sorry. I was talking about the special effects.

My husband is a big Sci-Fi guy--books and movies. I prefer mysteries and dramas. Occasionally we can agree on a comedy.

But if a movie is really good, he and I can both enjoy it no matter what genre.

[RandomAccess]

405. That would be SFx

[PJMcK]

326. I profoundly disagree

However, you seem to see the film from your perspective. I see it differently.

Have you read Mr. Clarke's novelization? It fills in many of the abstractions of the film.

In any event, to each our own!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

337. No, I haven't read the novelization.

But I did read the original story long before the movie. Fantastic story. Dumb movie. In my opinion.

I am very aware that my opinion about 2001 is in a tiny minority. Especially within the science fiction community, that movie is revered, and I don't really know why. On the other hand the movie that for me is the very best purely science-fictional movie ever, 12 Monkeys, is not particularly thought well of. Every so often I re-watch it to make sure I still think as highly of it, and I always do. Oh, and do not waste one second of your precious time on the French movie that supposedly inspired 12 Monkeys, La Jetée, which I found to be completely incomprehensible. And no, I have not watched the TV series of that name. 12 Monkeys, that is.

On the other hand, if you've seen La Jetée and loved it, what we now both know is that neither one of us could reliably recommend a movie to the other.

[tapermaker]

95. There are a few

Any Ronald raygun movie

Boxcar Bertha

Porky's

Slumdog millionaire

[beveeheart]

96. Crouching Tigar Hidden Dragon

is #1, but also similar movies with unbelievable moves by the actors.

[Chemisse]

169. I hated that.

[beveeheart]

186. A friend and I would alternate choosing movies.

After she chose that one, I've gotten to pick all the ones we see. lol

[Chemisse]

211. That bad - LOL!

That and English Patient have made me swear off award-winning movies.

[geardaddy]

185. I loved it

but then I lived in the PRC and Taiwan for a total of five years and really love those cheesy Kung Fu movies.

[Xolodno]

97. Pulp Fiction

...awful.

Honorable mentions;

The Black Swan - Not into psychological thrillers, a bit too much experience in dealing with others who have mental illness, so most turn me off.

Avatar - Disney Cartoon movie remake of Pocahontas.

[Dawson Leery]

98. There are a few:

The Lord of The Rings Series
My Best Friends Wedding
La La Land

[UnTied]

105. Debbie Does Dallas

[customerserviceguy]

106. Slumdog Millionaire

It even got Best Picture, without any of its actors being nominated in the four acting categories. To me, great pictures are driven not only by great directing and producing, etc., but by great and memorable performances.

[TexasBushwhacker]

365. The acting categories were problematic for Slumdog

So much of the movie was when Jamal was young. The young actor who played Jamal as a boy actually won a Screen Actors Guild award.

[customerserviceguy]

382. You could say the same thing

about 2016's "Lion", a picture I loved. Much of the film focused on Saroo as a child, in fact, I think the touching scenes from his youth were what got the movie a Best Picture nomination. However, the film did garner a couple of acting nominations for the cast from the last part of the movie.

I'm hard pressed to come up with another film that won Best Picture without any acting performances receiving a nomination at the Oscars.

[TexasBushwhacker]

386. Since 2009, there can be up to 10 Best Picture nominees

But still only 5 nominees in each of the acting categories. I like to keep up with the Screen Actors Guild awards, because that is actors nominating and voting for actors.

[customerserviceguy]

387. That's a good point

but have any films won Best Picture without any nominations in the four acting categories? And five slots for each category adds up to twenty slots for ten movies, that's an average of two per film. I would imagine that the one chosen by the same set of people for Best Picture would at least have half of the average. But clearly not in this case.

[TexasBushwhacker]

388. There weren't any acting noms for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King n/t

[customerserviceguy]

392. Ah, forgot about that one

I've felt it was an award for the trilogy given to Peter Jackson for his outstanding work on the series, and not just that individual picture. The film also pretty much swept the table that year in the other non-acting categories, and I believe it was for the same reason. The previous two film were not awarded heavily in those categories, and the end of the trilogy was a way to honor the achievements of the technical wizards who brought Middle Earth to life.

If you agree with that idea, then you do have the nomination of Ian McKellan for the extremely memorable portrayal of Gandalf.

[TexasBushwhacker]

394. I don't have a problem with "body of work" wins

I was happy when Jeff Bridges won for "Crazy Heart" but I don't think it was his best performance ever.

[rusty quoin]

107. There are too many movies for me to list.

But what surprised me is how many hate in what is my opinion, at the least decent movies, if not very good.

I found out decades ago, a first viewing film experience can depend on your mood. If you are in love for example and the world is great, the two of you can thoroughly enjoy it. If you are sullen, you would be different.

I always wondered how film critics do what they do. They mostly need to get it right the first time, because it’s there in print. It’s their reputation. Do they each have ways of separating their emotions from what they view?

I watched La La Land recently. My wife was not keen about it. I listened to her. I did not want to see it because I expected to be equally put off. After all, I know what a really good musical is...Singing in the Rain.

And so I finally sat and watched it, and I was in tears by the end. I thought it was about as good as you could get today. It was beautifully done, but people here hated it...go figure.

[regnaD kciN]

111. I'm not sure everyone else loved it, but Bray-Fart...I mean Braveheart.

Even though I have some Scottish ancestry, watching Mad Mel's exercise in homophobia made me want to throw things at the screen.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

146. Ah, time to drag out my rant on Braveheart.

Inaccurate literally from the opening narration to the last shot.

The opening narration is:

Scotland 1280 AD. I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. The king of Scotland had died without a son, and the king of England, a cruel pagan known as Edward the Longshanks, claimed the throne of Scotland for himself. Scotland's nobles fought him and fought each other over the crown. So Longshanks invited them to talks of truce -- no weapons, one page only. Among the farmers of that shire was Malcolm Wallace, a commoner with his own lands. He had two sons -- John and William.

In 1280, King Alexander III of Scotland was not only not dead, but his two sons were also alive and well. The younger son, David, died in 1281, the elder son, Alexander, died in 1284, and Alexander III himself died in 1286.

When Alexander III died, he left a granddaughter, Margaret, who was acknowledged as his heir by the Scottish nobles and King Edward I of England, who opened negotiations to marry her to his son. Rather than fighting each other over the crown, the Scots appointed regents who ruled until she died in 1290.

At this point, the nobles did not fall into civil war, and Edward did not claim the throne of Scotland for himself. Instead, the Scots nobles asked Edward to preside as a neutral party over a commission to determine who was the rightful king. While Edward did claim overlordship of Scotland and undoubtedly influenced the conclusion, the result was to choose (in 1292) John Balliol as King of Scotland by the normal rules of primogeniture.

At no time did Edward invite the nobles of Scotland "to talks of truce -- no weapons, one page only". Certainly not in 1280, when Alexander III had his nobles well in hand, nor in 1286, nor in 1290, nor in 1292, nor in 1296.

Balliol did start a war against Edward in 1296, because he felt that Edward was being overbearing. Unfortunately for Balliol, Edward was one of the best generals ever to sit on the English throne, and he beat Balliol handily.

Edward was in no sense a "pagan" -- there hadn't been any true pagans in Britain for centuries. He wasn't even a paganus in the Classical Latin sense of "peasant" or "yokel".

Malcolm Wallace -- or possibly Alan Wallace -- was a member of the lesser nobility, not a commoner. He had three sons in 1280, not two. The one left out was the eldest, also named Malcolm. Both Malcolm and John outlived William.

So even in the one paragraph narration there are multiple errors of fact.

The movie claims that English lords in Scotland claimed the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night. Never happened. Marriage was under the control of the Catholic Church, which has always supported marital fidelity. Do you seriously expect that the Church would allow such a thing? If it did exist, then why weren't there constant peasant revolts? Prima nocte never happened in England nor in Scotland. It was first mentioned as an unfounded rumor about French noblemen during the 18th century.

Wallace could not have had an affair with Princess Isabella and father King Edward III. First, Isabella didn't leave France until after Wallace's death and Wallace's one visit to France occurred when Isabella was a baby. Second, at the time of Wallace's death, Isabella was a child of nine or ten. Third, it must have been the longest pregnancy on record, since Wallace was killed in 1305 and Edward III was born in 1312.

Robert the Bruce could not have betrayed Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, because the Bruce wasn't there. Indeed, it is probable that Wallace and the Bruce never actually met.

In the depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, there is a distinct lack of bridges. The bridge in the battle was the only way for the English to cross the river to get to the other side, so it was of prime importance in the battle -- for American Civil War buffs, think of the Battle of Antietam.

A 13th century Scot wearing woad? Please. Similarly, no Scots of that time wore plaid or kilts.

Edward I did not murder Piers Gaveston, who outlived Edward by five years. Nor did Edward and Wallace die simultaneously -- Edward died two years after Wallace.

The last scene has Robert the Bruce starting the Battle of Bannockburn immediately on hearing of Wallace's execution. I know that news traveled more slowly in those days, but it did not take nine years for that piece of news to make it from England to Scotland.

BTW, "Brave heart" refers to the Bruce, not to Wallace. So they even got the title wrong.

[geardaddy]

187. I never watched that film for the very reasons you stated

I can't stand Gibson, and the whole thing seemed to be a nothing but a historical train wreck.

[kag]

284. Thank you for this.

I knew a little bit of that history, but you've got a lot of detail here. I've read Alison Weir's biography of Isabella twice, and I knew that she never slept with, nor even met, William Wallace.

So again, Thank you.

[Alice11111]

434. Wow, Impressive!

[Mira]

250. I hated it!

Passionately

[kimbutgar]

112. English patient

Fell asleep boring ass movie.

[NRaleighLiberal]

136. On my top 10 list!

that's what's great about the arts - one person's snoozer is another's gem.

[Paladin]

153. It wouldn't be a DU Hated Movies thread without mention of "The English Patient."

I like the movie, and the book it was based on is first-rate, as well.

[Chemisse]

170. That was the worst.

I didn't even get halfway through before shutting it off.

[Alice11111]

440. It only got worse, same stuff, bad plot. Painfully boring.

Evidently, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David agree, they did a take off on it.

[spooky3]

260. dull, dull, dull

[kimbutgar]

265. But beautiful film making visually but dull, dull, dull

[kag]

285. Both hubby and I hated this movie.

Went to see it after friends raved about about it. Ugh.

[CanonRay]

113. Out of Africa

[NRaleighLiberal]

137. probably my favorite movie of all time!

another example of the joy of the arts - and how it hits us each so differently

[Duppers]

195. Mine too!!

I posted below before seeing this one:

"It's a TRUE story, you know.
+ the great cinematography of the magnificent landscapes and wildlife of Africa.
+ Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, what's to hate??"

I adore this movie!

[CanonRay]

198. Puts me to sleep...

[Mrs. Overall]

174. Me, too. I hated it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

222. Seriously? I loved it!

[jmowreader]

116. The Graduate

I can't imagine anyone in the world identifying with Ben Braddock.

[flibbitygiblets]

117. Fargo. Tried several times, just can't.

Star wars, all of them
Anything with tom The Ego cruise
Every musical ever
Hail Caesar
All 007 movies

[mr_lebowski]

312. Some 'get' the Coens, and some don't ... it's that simple ...

I like-to-love almost everything they ever do ...

[flibbitygiblets]

331. I also love most Cohen movies. I could watch O Brother every day

I've seen Raising Arizona dozens of times and loved it. It took a few tries, but I even came to like the Big Lebowski.

Lots of people, (even Cohen fans) didn't care for Hail Caesar, so I'll chalk that up to a miss on their part.

But so many people LOVED Fargo. So why don't I "get" that movie? I feel like I'm missing something.

[spooky3]

435. Generally like them, but Inside Llewyn Davis was awful.

[California_Republic]

118. A Christmas Story

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

264. Agreed. Watching it once was one time too many.

Unfortunately, my in-laws LOVE it and insist on showing it when we visit for the holidays. Whenever it's on, all I can think of is this:

[California_Republic]

275. Ha ha! Just seems like an over acted made for tv one hour show.

[Leith]

119. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A stupid person't idea of what it would be like when aliens visit Earth for the first time: they will be in a giant Simon Says game and make you build a mountain of mashed potatoes with your bare hands.

[lunamagica]

133. Oh, that hurts...my favorite Sci-fi movie

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[caraher]

268. Right with you

Came out when I was 13, really looked forward to it... laughed at the mashed potatoes. As it neared its end I was breathlessly waiting for it to start making sense... light show, lots of noises and... nothing. I was really angry.

It was then that I began my boycott of films directed by Steven Spielberg. I broke it for "Saving Private Ryan" and walked away from that one pissed off too.

I really hate the ham-fisted, gratuitous audience manipulation he seems to love.

[mr_lebowski]

334. Yeah, no that movie is crap ... this is a great example for this thread ...

[stopbush]

121. Little Miss Sunshine. What a POS.

[Mira]

251. I felt the same way.

I was unable to relate to anyone in it.

[mr_lebowski]

370. Sheesh ... Alan Arkin alone makes it at least watchable ...

Kinnear and Carrell and the mom (forget her name) and of course Abby Breslin are all solid ...

Hate for this movie is unfathomable to me.

Is it 'overrated', okay, sure ... but outright bad/scorn-worthy?

C'mon ... it's a solid movie.

[stopbush]

380. A set of movie cliches coupled with unbelieveable situations

that require a huge stretch of ones imagination to keep it afloat.

Entirely predictable and a waste of the talents of some great actors.

[marked50]

129. ET

barf

[Alice11111]

441. I've always loved it

[Doc_Technical]

131. The Unforgiven (1992)

Natural Born Killers

[japple]

135. The Shining. I think the casting was horrible.

Apparently Stephen King didn't think too much of the film either.

[Dragonfly64]

167. I hated that they changed the ending.

I though it was anticlimactic compared to the book. Stephen King is such an outstanding writer I'm not sure any movie can really do his work justice. The made-for-tv miniseries of The Shining with Stephen Weber was good though, and true to the book.

[japple]

178. Thanks, will check out the miniseries if it's available on Netflix.

[clutterbox1830]

479. If you are referring to the 1997 mini-series, I found that to be so boring.

I know King's directed it, but I prefer the movie version much better. King's movie was so dull and not scary at all imo.
I actually prefer Kubrik's version over the book too except the boy's (Danny) character. The book also more character arcs, but I didn't care about those people that much anyways.
To each their own.

[moose65]

484. Amen!

When I was a teenager I was a BIG Stephen King fan, so I read The Shining and went to the theater to see it, and I loved it! But after all these years, it has not aged well in my opinion. I hadn't seen it in years and the Blu-ray was on sale for $6.99 and I bought it a few years ago.... it was not how I remembered it! Of course, everyone remembers the iconic scenes (like Jack breaking down the door), but when I re-watched it again as a 40-something adult, I was amazed at the true lack of horror in the film, as compared to the novel. In the novel, Wendy kills Jack at the bottom of the stairs, and the hotel resurrects him and he comes after her. The film cut out all of the supernatural elements, and it's not clear if Jack is imagining the ghosts or if they're real. In the novel, there is no doubt that they're real! Of course, I always hated Shelley Duvall as Wendy - I find her way too shrill and hysterical.

[NRaleighLiberal]

139. So many, and much of what come out as blockbusters over the last decade or so

La La Land
The Hobbit (three bad movies from one great book?!)
Silver Linings Playbook
Hunger Games (all of them)
Inside Out
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Birdman
Inherent Vice

ALL of the "mumble" movies (when the dialog is recorded so low that you can't understand what the actors are saying)

[needledriver]

143. Wall-E

Beautifully animated but doesn’t make a lick of sense.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

145. Blair Witch Project

Amateurish in all respects.

[OriginalGeek]

188. Worst movie I've ever seen

And I saw it at a theater that serves craft beer! There is not enough beer in Florida to change my opinion of Blair Witch though.

[Alice11111]

442. Beyond bad. Stupid cult following.

[joanbarnes]

148. Agreed.

[IrishEyes]

149. Watership Down.

I saw it when I was a kid and bawled my eyes out. I really hated this movie.

I also hate

Shakespeare in Love
Titanic
E.T.
The Wizard of Oz
Top Gun
Avatar
Forrest Gump
Clockwork Orange

There are probably more but that is enough for now.

[DFW]

151. Grease.

Though many other listed came close, but the OP said "that everybody else loved," and I am the only person I know that hated Grease.

I was dragged into seeing Grease when a British friend was visiting in Boston, and insisted we all go see it. I HATED it, and the only part that wasn't awful was when a group of people from India entered the theater about 20 minutes after the film had begun, and started protesting so loudly about the film as to interfere with the sound track. They were protesting loudly, and with strong Indian accents, "This is not Jaws. Why is this not Jaws? We wanted to see Jaws, and this is most certainly not Jaws." It sounded like one of the most extreme Peter Sellers routines, and I was laughing so hard, I forgot for a moment about how awful Grease was. The usher had apparently not understood what they were asking for (presumably Jaws) and showed them into our theater instead.

[NBachers]

266. I'm laughing out loud reading over your post.

I can just hear the over-the-top-too-much Peter Sellers routine.

[The Polack MSgt]

154. I thought Dancing with Wolves would be boring

But it turned out to be contrived and boring

[kag]

290. With you on that. I hated DWW.

[TexasBushwhacker]

363. At least 30 minutes too long n/t

[CatMor]

155. Gone With the Wind

I had a hard time watching the whole movie. Thought Scarlet was a most despicable person.

[underpants]

304. I'm with you in that.

Scarlett was a miserable ...she was miserable.

[CatMor]

343. I can't imagine anyone falling in love with her....

she was one nasty girl.

[mac56]

157. The Sound of Music

[yankeepants]

267. Yes! We are a rare breed The SOM haters

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

415. I hated SOM as well

I could feel my teeth rotting from all the treacle.

[Moral Compass]

158. Ghost

I’ve rarely seen acting so bad or a script so bad. This was the cheesiest, most over the top movie I’d seen since “The Way We Were” or “Titanic” or “Avatar”...

I guess there’s a lot of movies I haven’t liked...

But “Ghost” remains at the top of the list.

[Runningdawg]

162. Out Of Africa

[Duppers]

193. Omg, Out Of Africa is my favorite movie!

It's a TRUE story, you know + the great cinematography of the magnificent landscapes and wildlife of Africa. + Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, what's to hate??

[Runningdawg]

399. To each their own, variety is the spice of life.

[vsrazdem]

168. The English Patient

[blue cat]

171. The Notebook

Anyone?

[aaaaaa5a]

172. Frozen.

I know I am not the target audience for this movie. But my goodness! I couldn't even sit through the entire movie I was so bored.

[krispos42]

255. I didn't think it was anything special...

...And I wanted to take a hair dryer to Olef. A useless character shoved into a movie solely for marketing purposes.

I think of him like I think of Jar-Jar Binks.

[aaaaaa5a]

173. Arrival.

This movie was confusing and bored me to tears.

[Mrs. Overall]

176. The Grand Budapest Hotel

[Mira]

249. Wes Anderson at his best IMO

I also liked "The Royal Tennenbaums". Budapest is the only movie that had me cackling and loving the credits, and I went home and ordered the soundtrack which I play a lot still.

[underpants]

307. Yes I've tried with Wes Anderson but I just don't think the movies are funny

He misses a best or a step.

[mr_lebowski]

332. I suppose you hate The Royal Tenebaums as well? Geez ... theres much wrongness on this thread ...

I'm kinda blown away.

There's plenty of 'overrated' movies being called out (Forrest Gump & Avatar for example), but very few people are citing are worthy of outright HATE.

Pulp Fiction? HATE? REALLY?

Ya got no taste in film if you hate that movie. Either that, or you're hopelessly over-sensitive. Pulp Fiction is CLASSIC. Period.

IMHO ...

I see there's someone saying Wall-E? COME ON.

What's next ... the Toy Story trilogy SUCKED, too?

UP! was too depressing?

[Alice11111]

443. A bad, vapid knockoff

[samnsara]

177. Dumb and Dumber, Steel Magnolias, Lost in Translation

[NRaleighLiberal]

197. Lost in Translation is one of my all time favorites!

This thread is a great example of the range of how different movies affect us all so differently.

[Alice11111]

444. Yeah, it's how real life works out. Plus, Bill Murray

[50 Shades Of Blue]

230. I didn't see D&Der, but I loathed the other two as well.

[Siwsan]

179. Slum Dog Millionaires - wayyyyyy too predictable

I was set to really enjoy the movie, but ended up forcing myself to sit through it, to see if something, anything would surprise me.

[Mike Nelson]

180. A Top Five...

1. Titanic (the one with Leo DiCaprio)
2. The Searchers (the fat Indian wife scenes make me sick)
3. Pretty Woman (celebrates prostitution)
4. The Big Lebowski (big bore)
5. Dressed to Kill (fake Hitchcock)

[a kennedy]

194. Interview with a Vampire

[NRaleighLiberal]

196. agreed - hated it!

[mr_lebowski]

330. Yeah, no, that movie was shit ... now we're talking ... aside from English Patient ...

I don't really agree with very many takes on this thread ... but IWAV was terribad.

[cannabis_flower]

199. A Mighty Heart

Angelina Jolie plays Mariane Pearl. Journalist Daniel Pearl was killed in Pakistan. Most of the movie is scenes of people driving around on the crowded streets of Karachi and Jolie crying and wailing.

[Chalco]

200. Dunkirk!

[janterry]

203. Mr. Bean's Holiday

Anything with that horrid Mr. Bean (whatever his real name is).

The worst movie ever.

[LisaM]

204. Million Dollar Baby.

I can't tell you how intensely I disliked that movie.

[Alpeduez21]

220. That movie taught me how to hit a speed bag

My favorite exorcise is jump rope for a song, hit the bag for a song. Do about 10 songs.

[mikeargo]

209. Ghostbusters!

Was it supposed to be funny?

[jpak]

214. It's a Wonderful Life

[Merlot]

278. Hated it.

There are SO many much better holiday movies from that era.

[Onyrleft]

397. Why is it a classic?

It just seems simplistic and pompous.

[Wolf Frankula]

216. Gone With the Wind

Plays with Camera, aka Dances with Wolves

Little Big Nose, aka Little Big Man,

Avatar.

and since it's Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life (the one without Al Bundy) and A Christmas Carol (most versions)

Wolf

[BHDem53]

218. Anything made after the Silent Era.

Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd were absolute geniuses.

[mainer]

219. Moulin Rouge

We turned it off about halfway through.

[mainstreetonce]

227. Love it

It's one of the few movies I can watch over and over.

[Codeine]

225. Avatar. What an offensive pile of shit

that fucking video-game-looking excuse for a film is. Noble Savage nonsense.

[kag]

292. Which was sad, because...

the Anime it was based on was great. I watched the whole thing with my kids. The movie just took all of the humor out of it.

[Binkie The Clown]

228. I love ALL movies.

well, with the single exception of Battlefield Earth, but everybody hates that one.

[MrModerate]

229. "The Hurt Locker." More ignorant piffle has never been put on screen. n/t

[Lokilooney]

232. High Fidelity

Runner up, (insert any popular Adam Sandler movie here)

Now Macgruber the movie, future classic!

[mr_lebowski]

333. Unbelievable ...

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No offense, but your taste is awful

Not the Sandler part ... Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore were pretty decent, but most of his stuff has indeed sucked. The serious one where he's dying was pretty decent tho to ...

But High Fidelity is a straight-up classic flick ...

[Lokilooney]

373. Well I guess considering the thread title

I nailed it!

I think it was the acting that put me off, Cusack's perpetual exasperated demeanor, Black's non stop manic acting is insufferable and they should have just tried to get the real Moby to see if he would act in it...

I did see that one Sandler flick, and the first half was actually decent, the second half my eyes glassed over.

On the other hand I was serious about Macgruber, so it's fair to call my taste into question...

[TomSlick]

234. I'm late to the discussion and my choice will be unpopular.

I loath "It's a Wonderful Life." Such pap. It argues that the good guys will win and the Mr. Potters of the world will get their comeuppance in the end. The Mr. Potts almost always win.

I have a deal with my wife. She will watch it once a Christmas season and I'll sit in another room drinking.

[kwassa]

235. I'm with you. What should we drink to?

[TomSlick]

237. Single malt scotch - lots.

Bah, humbug!

[kwassa]

239. hah!

I am currently indulging.

[TomSlick]

240. Slainte mhath!

[kwassa]

241. I had to Google that!

[kwassa]

238. GONE WITH THE WIND!!!!

Scarlett is a self-centered racist in the beginning of the film, and a self-centered racist idiot in the end. Her suitors only want her money.

Character development. Why would any sane person want to spend time with her?

Frankly, my dear ....

[Dalton Mac]

243. Paranormal Activity

Snooooooooooooooooooozefest!

[Joel Eyeforth]

487. Yep.

Boring as paint drying.

[DUgosh]

252. Pay it Forward & The Shack

Whoever made these movies have never lost a child

[True_Blue]

254. Les Miserables

I've never been a fan of musicals.

[spooky3]

258. Do the Right Thing

Thought it was terribly sexist, which was disappointing from a director who should know better.

[UnTied]

261. Why do you keep re-posting this so often?

I keep seeing this in my feed multiple times per day. Is there a reason? Just curious.

[smirkymonkey]

273. I don't. I have only posted it once.

[WhiteTara]

335. Each time a post receives a reply

it is counted. At the count of each 25 posts, it reaches a "milestone" and posts back to the top. So you may see the same post, but you can see how many replies it has received.

Welcome to DU BTW

[NBachers]

263. The Crying Game

[Faux pas]

276. A Beautiful Mind

[TexasBushwhacker]

366. Agreed. Talk about loosely based on real people

Ron Howard sanitized it far too much.

[Faux pas]

416. Yep

[snowybirdie]

279. The Godfather

Series. Glorification of soulless stupid people

[Tree-Hugger]

280. A Christmas Story nt

[Squinch]

282. Inception. What a mess!

[Codeine]

306. The only good thing to come out of that film

is being able to say "Inception!" in awed tones whenever somebody gets meta enough to start referencing things within other things.

[Squinch]

323. This is true! Or when people are so caught up in the process of doing something

thing being done gets completely lost.

[kag]

294. Silence of the Lambs.

Hated it. Was mad at myself for going to see it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

368. I didn't like it either

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Oddly enough, I had a boyfriend that had a bit part (one line in one scene) in it and he still gets residual checks.

[Midnight Writer]

301. The Passion of the Christ. Was big deal around here. Folk going multiple times. Also Billy Jack.

Billy Jack was held over at our local cinema for five months.

[TexasBushwhacker]

367. Billy Jack was AWFUL!

[Midnight Writer]

371. Billy Jack was terrible, and I bet I saw it five times that summer cause my friends wanted to go.

The theatre became a teen hangout, just swamped with young people. It became like a social scene with people coming back night after night. My brother-in-law has that "One Tin Soldier" song on a tape and plays that thing over and over.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

469. For a movie that is against violence

It is a remarkably violent movie.

[LakeArenal]

302. Any John Wayne movie

[underpants]

309. Great topic. I'm amazed at some of the responses.

Not because we're supposedly a collective but because there are some movies mentioned that I never thought people didn't "get".

[underpants]

310. "Reality Bites" was one for me.

Ben Stiller is the only one who survived for me.

[katmondoo]

313. It's a Wonderful Life

It plays every Christmas and I hate it, so maudlin

[Awsi Dooger]

314. Pulp Fiction is human excrement applied to film

Everyone involved in making that film should be banned from everything for life

[Squinch]

324. I agree! Sadly, you and I are the only ones who see it.

[mr_lebowski]

336. You are the only two completely WRONG people, apparently ;)

That movie is almost start to finish awesome & one of the greatest movies ever made ... cept for The Gimp, I could've done w/o that whole storyline ... some other kinda 'rescue' by Willis would've been better ... Other than that ...

The whole Keitel as 'The Wolf' sequence ... is so classic, it's just past words, man ...

[TexasBushwhacker]

364. I love it too. n/t

[kairos12]

318. Any title with words Star Trek in it.

[CountAllVotes]

329. Wonder Woman

Too much for me!

[JonLP24]

338. English Patient

The Deer Hunter and Citizen Kane.

Also The Artist but I'm not alone despite winning an award there is always multiple copies available at the library (unlike being on hold)

[mr_lebowski]

340. The absolute BEST ANSWER to this thread: PATCH ADAMS ...

Don't get me wrong, I love love love Robin. RIP ...

But that movie made like a bajillion dollars, and soooooo many people LOVED IT ... and it was absolute SHIT.

Utterly manipulative schlocky dreck ... made movies like Steel Magnolia's look subtle.

Here's a few more good answers to this thread:
1) Bridges of Madison County
2) The Prince of Tides (these first two mainly for how much worse they were than the source)
3) Driving Miss Daisy (too long, and so painfully boring)
4) Steel Magnolias (so manipulative)
5) 9 to 5 (cheesy, and not in a good way)
6) The English Patient (see Driving Miss Daisy)
7) The Blues Brothers (I like Dan and John, but it's overrated and really not a good movie. Neighbors ... now that one was classic)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

456. That one sucked. Another Robin Williams movie that sucked was

"What Dreams May Come." It was sort of a takeoff on the Orpheus and Euridice myth, but it was dumb and sentimental; tried to make up for the treacle with bright colors and special effects. I loved Robin Williams too, most of the time, but although a lot of people liked that movie I thought it was a stinker.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

341. "It's a Wonderful Life"

Not "uplifting" in the least. Really rather depressing, actually, and morally obtuse.

[agincourt]

345. Romancing the Stone

thought it was just dumb, big hit in the eighties though, figures.

[lexington filly]

346. Lone Survivor. One of two movies I've ever walked out.

But loved Saving Private Ryan.
Both relatively true stories but SPR's graphic violence was used to tell the story and LS's graphic violence seemed to be the story to me.

[Pisces]

409. They needed women on the team. There were many choices to be made besides killing the goat

Herders and letting the young teen go. Seems insane that this is what they came up with. I know its hindsight, but men seem very myopic in their thinking. More brainstorming on what to do would have changed the scenario.

[sakabatou]

347. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

What a snore-fest!

[milestogo]

348. Pulp Fiction

[Heartstrings]

351. Minority Report

[mr_lebowski]

369. Blown away how many truly good movies are on this thread ... I think MR is awesome ...

Though I suppose that's the point of the thread.

The scenes with the older lady with the killer plants, and the eye surgeon ... those two scenes alone make the movie worthwhile in my book ... also, Max Von Sydow ... who was ALWAYS brilliant ...

Given the overall sentiments on the thread here, I expect someone's gonna chime in any minute now with True Romance, 12 Monkeys, or maybe even Princess Bride ... and make me lose all faith in humanity ....

[Heartstrings]

381. I actually had a difficult time with this one.

My daughter was in "the business", so we're all movie buffs.

Just not a fan of this Spielberg production. Creeped me out and I don't get creeped out easily by films. Max Von Sydow was indeed brilliant, as always. Tom Cruise....meh! Not a fan of him either.

Should have put Avatar....that film gave me a massive migraine!

[RainCaster]

352. Anything with Nicole Kidman

I just can't stay awake that long. Boring.

[smirkymonkey]

353. I agree, although I did think "The Others" was pretty good.

But that's about it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

361. Dead Calm was good too n/t

[spooky3]

437. She was very good in Lion.

[Alice11111]

447. Hollywood loves her. Probably, a nice person, but Overrated

[Puzzler]

355. Star Wars ...

-Puzzler

[MustLoveBeagles]

357. Neighbors

It only got a few chuckles out of me which I didn't think was possible in a movie starring Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi. I thought it was stupid. Maybe I just just didn't get it.

I didn't care for Thank You for Smoking either. It's a well made film. It just didn't do anything for me.

I didn't hate Blair Witch Project, but thought it was over rated.

[spooky3]

439. Agree; awful, but I dont recall many people loving it

[MustLoveBeagles]

457. Then I guess we're in good company then

[spooky3]

458. yes!

[Golden Raisin]

362. Groundhog Day.

Plus any film with Jerry Lewis or Jim Carrey.

[world wide wally]

375. Citizen Kane

Although it is a cure for insomnia.
I tried watching it twice and fell asleep both times. Not just me but my wife too.

[Willie Pep]

376. Animal House.

I only liked the scenes with John Belushi. The rest of the movie was unfunny to me. The same goes for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It just wasn't funny in my opinion.

[get the red out]

377. Titanic

Can we get more depressing?

[Lucky Luciano]

385. The English Patient.

I didn’t make it through:

[Alice11111]

448. Awful!!! Probably most named film here. People got mad at

Me because I didn't like it. It was divisive, either loved or hated it, so much so that Seinfeld did a show.

[relayerbob]

389. Titanic without a doubt

Dicrapio sank the entire movie without the iceberg

[infidel621]

406. Avatar nt

[moose65]

407. Frozen!

Worst Disney movie ever made. Completely over-rated with a silly story and bad songs. I despise “Let it Go” with a passion. Awkward lyrics, terrible melody, and impossible to sing.

On the flip side, I absolutely adore “Tangled.”

[RobinA]

412. Last Tango in Paris

Blechhh. Marlon Brando sulking in French for what seemed like about 8 hours.

[mythology]

413. The one I haven't seen mentioned here is The Matrix

To me it was a much worse movie with the same basic plot as Dark City that came out the same year.

Others are Gone with the Wind and Fight Club.

I didn't care for the Godfather, but I found it incredibly boring.

[Alice11111]

433. Dumb. Flashy blockbuster for people who think they

can see beyond, but they really can't see through shit.

[LanternWaste]

417. The Matrix movies

The Matrix movies (they don't rise to the qualifier of 'film', 'movie will have to do).

Sub-literate treatment of Poe's Dream Within a Dream without the flourish of good language. A movie that sets off to redefine reality ends with a shoot-out?

In the end, little more than a derivative amalgam of disjointed and trendy philosophies, tied together with nothing more than special effects.

[bullsnarfle]

418. Rocky. Yuck.

I couldn't stand any of those pathetic, dysfunctional characters. That goes for all the Rocky movies.

[Alice11111]

449. Any of Kate Hudson, Mathew M comedies. He is bad in comedy

and so is she.

[smirkymonkey]

453. Ugh! I hate Kate Hudson!

She ruins everything she is in.

[Alice11111]

455. She didn't get her mom's talent, for sure.

[dawg day]

450. 4 weddings and a funeral

But I did love the reading of the Auden passage-

?t=9s

[smirkymonkey]

454. I loved that scene too, and I liked many of the characters except for

Hugh Grant and especially Andie MacDowell. She was so miscast and completely ruined that movie! Even Duckface was kind of amusingly awful. I kind of have a weakness for quirky British characters, but Andie drove me up a wall.

[ocd liberal]

451. Star Wars

My sincere apologies.

[Shrek]

452. Anything with Meryl Streep

Criminally overrated actress and immutably taints anything she appears in.

[smirkymonkey]

460. Donald, is that you?

[Awsi Dooger]

459. Pulp Fiction is the cinematic equivalent of Roy Moore

Probably inspired by Roy Moore, who undoubtedly sat in the theater showing after showing and eyed 16 year olds.

[Alice11111]

462. Revenge, Kevin Costner...my least favorie of all time

[GoneOffShore]

464. Life of Pi

Great SFX, but really awful movie.

[alarimer]

470. Arrival

Of all the recent science fiction movies, this one was a pretentious snooze-fest. It made no sense at all.

[sharedvalues]

476. "Her". blech

[clutterbox1830]

477. Either one of the Blade Runner movies.

I struggle to stay awake during either of them.

[gopiscrap]

478. Star Wars (all of them) followed by Harry Potter

[TDale313]

480. The Hangover.

I just didn’t find it funny. Bridesmaids, otoh- loved.

[MissMillie]

485. Pulp Fiction and

The Godfather.

I can't sit through all that violence.

[Joel Eyeforth]

488. Rosemary's Baby

Sorry, but it was boring!