Confess! What excellent movies do you hate?

[CanuckAmok]

What movies are critically acclaimed, or commercial blockbusters, yet you hate them?

For me: Citizen Kane and The Seventh Seal. I understand the genius which went into making them, but shaddap already! If I ever have to see either of them again, I'll kill myself first.

[TrogL]

1. Nell and Joy Luck Club

I find them upsetting, mostly 'cause I don't get it.

[SaveElmer]

2. Gone With the Wind - Ugh !!!

Maudlin CRAP if you ask me....oh those poor rich southern slaveholders...I feel soo bad !!! The only good scene in that movie was the burning of Atlanta (sorry Georgians...I love Atlanta now)

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Then It's Not Excellent

I also think it's a piece of crap. Way overwrought, wooden acting, glacially paced script and a director who was more impressed with wide angle lenses than with telling a story.

I think it's the second most overrated film ever.
The Professor

[SaveElmer]

5. Definitely not excellent in my book

I thought the question was about movies that are generally thought to be excellent but you think stink.

What's #1 for you ?

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Titanic

I was just kidding about the excellent thing. You understood the question the same way i did. My attempt at humor was feeble.

I used to consider GWTW the most overrated movie ever made, until my wife and i tried to sit through Titanic when it was on cable PPV. Geez, is that horrible. Worse script than GWTW, most overacted movie ever, and the pace is geologic.

I didn't think a successful and well received movie could be worse than GWTW but then Cameron proved me wrong.
The Professor

[CrownPrinceBandar]

25. Stinky Kick!!

[alphafemale]

9. Another vote for "GWTW"

Even in the "They should have known better" category.

"Birth of a Nation" is gripping because the stark difference in what people believed is so stark and horrifying.

[caledesi]

3. The English Patient. *I agree with Elaine on Seinfeld* LOL!

B - O -R - I - N - G

[myrna minx]

6. Me too. n/t

[jonnyblitz]

8. I didn't mind the book.

the movie was a bit long.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. Actually, that Seinfeld episode is on cable(TBS) tonite

I hated TEP too!!

[HEyHEY]

24. just watched it!

I hated LOTR the first one, half way through I turned it off and I've never looked back. Also, le femme nikita.

[geniph]

10. 2001

I'm sorry, I cannot seem to stay awake for the whole thing. I love the book, though.

[MsUnderstood]

11. Where do I start?

5) Moulin Rouge--I know it received some oscar nominations but I can't think of why.

4) My Fair Lady-misogyny all wrapped up in song and dance

3) Titanic--what a Bust. Was I the only one thinking at the end "yea, right"

2) Seven (brad pitt) talk about bad dialouge "WHATS IN THE BOX?!?!" I don't think they meant that scene to be a comedy.

1) Gangs of New York--Leo was ugly in that movie and the movie had no point. I heard later that the gang fight scene at the end was complete garbage.

[Martin Eden]

13. Gangs of New York & Moulin Rouge

I thought G of NY was overblown and unrealistic, and I didn't enjoy it one bit.

Moulin Rouge was like a bad acid trip; the only scene I liked was Roxanne.

[chaska]

12. Forest Gump and Shine

both sucked.

[SheilaT]

14. 2001 is the dumbest

movie out there passing itself off as science fiction. The original short story "The Sentinal" is outstanding.

[CShine]

15. "Eyes Wide Shut"............ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

[onebigbadwulf]

16. Gangs of NY HANDS DOWN!

Worst movie ever made ever

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Gangs of NY was certainly a bad recent movie

The story of the New York draft riots of the Civil War era is a fascinating one, but they spent only 15 minutes out of that infernal movie on it.

The sets were surreal, and the characters were not realistic either. Too many heads being busted for no reason.

[WWW]

19. Newcomer, The Missing, hated it, too unbelievable. n/t

[Zuni]

20. The English Patient

It was dreadful.
In real life, Lazlo Almasy was a hungarian Nazi supporter who worked for the Germans by choice. He helped smuggle spies through secret desert routes into British held Egypt. He was also a homosexual and he died on a desert trip in the 1950s of diaharrea.
He was an archaeologist though, but that is the only part of his sordid life that the movie was honest about.

[Zuni]

21. The Professional

I hated that film too.

[lapislzi]

22. All the Godfathers

I don't *get* the obsession with organized crime and violence.

[Alexander]

23. Gladiator. What a horrible movie.

Actually, it wasn't that bad. They just forgot little things, like THE PLOT.

[HEyHEY]

26. AMEN!!!!

After seeing it my opinion of my friends intelligence was severely dropped. They couldn't see this Ben Hur wanna be had no effort put in to it at all. Just a buncha crap...will movies ever be good again?