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Critically Acclaimed Films You Don't Like

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  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    HASEROT wrote: »
    i dont hate The Dark Knight... but lets call it like it is, it's an episode of Law & Order with Batman characters in it - and Batman as a guest star.
    Yep!
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    The Birdman. Just boring.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »
    I actually think you see her ta-tas in it

    They can be seen, along with basically everything else, in a lot of her French films. Braveheart has officially lost all its usefulness now. :))
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited June 2016 Posts: 23,883
    I believe Eva Green has given us a peek too, as has Seydoux. To be commended, truly.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I believe Eva Green has given us a peek too, as has Seydoux. To be commended, truly.

    Eva is nude in almost every movie she's in, it seems. I've done heavy research into these said movies, taking each scene with Eva exposed frame by frame, for entirely scientific reasons, of course.

  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I believe Eva Green has given us a peek too, as has Seydoux. To be commended, truly.

    Eva is nude in almost every movie she's in, it seems. I've done heavy research into these said movies, taking each scene with Eva exposed frame by frame, for entirely scientific reasons, of course.
    Of course. I aim to take up such detailed scientific research too soon, as part of an exploration into European cinema, and will perhaps brush up on a little French as well in the process.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    bondjames wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I believe Eva Green has given us a peek too, as has Seydoux. To be commended, truly.

    Eva is nude in almost every movie she's in, it seems. I've done heavy research into these said movies, taking each scene with Eva exposed frame by frame, for entirely scientific reasons, of course.
    Of course. I aim to take up such detailed scientific research too soon, as part of an exploration into European cinema, and will perhaps brush up on a little French as well in the process.

    I've been working on a little Danish, myself, but the language is proving quite...distracting.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    I have to admit that this year's films and a few of the last year's that have gained godly recognition and praise haven't really lived up to that ranking ground with me. To cite a few: Captain America: Civil War, Deadpool, Avengers: Age of Ultron and its predecessor... They were just... I mean they are fine, great and all that... but some people just made them all seem too godly, which certainly wasn't the case.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    From what I've seen, Ultron wasn't received well at all. I like it, but from what I've seen it was viewed as a disappointment in comparison the the first. I think I actually prefer it to 1, too. I think the characters are used a lot more interestingly, and through Ultron and his agenda, the film says a lot of powerful things about the nature of humanity, fear, and legacy.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I really liked the start of Ultron. I agree that there were some interesting ideas there which could have been played up more.

    It just lost me towards the end, because the big battle just went on and on with more and more mayhem. It's probably just me, but as I mentioned after seeing the latest X-Men film, all this continued CGI city destruction is just losing me these days. I've really had enough.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    edited June 2016 Posts: 4,591
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I believe Eva Green has given us a peek too, as has Seydoux. To be commended, truly.

    Eva is nude in almost every movie she's in, it seems. I've done heavy research into these said movies, taking each scene with Eva exposed frame by frame, for entirely scientific reasons, of course.

    The Dreamers is the first one that comes to mind.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Destructo-porn filmmaking can get very tiring, yes, and you have to wonder how many people are dying because of what's going on, no matter the intention of the heroes. Civil War actually addresses this beautifully, but I definitely see where you're coming from.
  • bondsumbondsum
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Braveheart

    I actually came out of the cinema angry after seeing this tripe!

    Historically a load of cod sporran swinging bollocks and just such a transparent dig at the English it'd be offensive if it wasn't so laughable.

    Oooh here's the nasty old English! Cowards. rapists and evil!
    There's another one that Mel Gibson made that also twisted history and turned the British Army into barn-burning Stormtroopers with people inside them, an actual atrocity that the Nazis commited in WW2 and not the British. It's no coincidence that this tripe was directed by a German too. The film I'm referring to is The Patriot. Then again, any movie directed by Roland Emmerich is terrible.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    bondjames wrote: »
    Of course. I aim to take up such detailed scientific research too soon, as part of an exploration into European cinema, and will perhaps brush up on a little French as well in the process.

    The French have made dozens of cinema masterpieces. It's really worth discovering. I also strongly recommend Italian cinema.

    Happy to see some enthusiasm for European cinema! ^:)^
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    Of course. I aim to take up such detailed scientific research too soon, as part of an exploration into European cinema, and will perhaps brush up on a little French as well in the process.

    The French have made dozens of cinema masterpieces. It's really worth discovering. I also strongly recommend Italian cinema.

    Happy to see some enthusiasm for European cinema! ^:)^

    Wherever the exposed and wondrous breasts of cinema are lingering, @bondjames and I shall follow.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    Of course. I aim to take up such detailed scientific research too soon, as part of an exploration into European cinema, and will perhaps brush up on a little French as well in the process.

    The French have made dozens of cinema masterpieces. It's really worth discovering. I also strongly recommend Italian cinema.

    Happy to see some enthusiasm for European cinema! ^:)^

    Wherever the exposed and wondrous breasts of cinema are lingering, @bondjames and I shall follow.
    How can I join this gang?
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    bondsum wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Braveheart

    I actually came out of the cinema angry after seeing this tripe!

    Historically a load of cod sporran swinging bollocks and just such a transparent dig at the English it'd be offensive if it wasn't so laughable.

    Oooh here's the nasty old English! Cowards. rapists and evil!
    There's another one that Mel Gibson made that also twisted history and turned the British Army into barn-burning Stormtroopers with people inside them, an actual atrocity that the Nazis commited in WW2 and not the British. It's no coincidence that this tripe was directed by a German too. The film I'm referring to is The Patriot. Then again, any movie directed by Roland Emmerich is terrible.

    I avoid any movie directed by Emmerich or Michael Bay.

    After Braveheart I didn't give The Patriot a thought to even seeing it.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    Braveheart was the first R rated movie I watched with my parents, so it was something of a milestone.
    But even as a 12 year old, I suspected this 'true story' was a bit of a stretch. I did some research and the first thing I found was that Princess Isabella wasn't hardly 10 when Wallace died. Then it only snowballed from there with the inaccuracies.

    But still, that doesn't mean it's not an awesome movie! It's quotable as hell too! To this day, whenever my wife says something totally random like 'I think I'll order sushi for dinner' I'll respond with 'Do it. And let the English see you do it.'
    Then I usually giggle like an idiot and she rolls her eyes! =))
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Apparently some bandwagon has emerged proclaiming Crash as some misread masterpiece. I had to watch it seven times throughout high school. Take it from me, folks. Crash is a melodramatic preachy corny piece of shit.

    I got half way through and realised it was a patronising, condescending, POS.

    Oscar really does have a lot to answer for!

    The other patronising rubbish I really hate is Forrest Gump
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Apparently some bandwagon has emerged proclaiming Crash as some misread masterpiece. I had to watch it seven times throughout high school. Take it from me, folks. Crash is a melodramatic preachy corny piece of shit.

    I got half way through and realised it was a patronising, condescending, POS.

    Oscar really does have a lot to answer for!

    The other patronising rubbish I really hate is Forrest Gump

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who loathes Forrest Gump. Not because it's a bad movie but it's a morally depraved one. Borderline fascistic at some moments.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Apparently some bandwagon has emerged proclaiming Crash as some misread masterpiece. I had to watch it seven times throughout high school. Take it from me, folks. Crash is a melodramatic preachy corny piece of shit.

    I got half way through and realised it was a patronising, condescending, POS.

    Oscar really does have a lot to answer for!

    The other patronising rubbish I really hate is Forrest Gump
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Apparently some bandwagon has emerged proclaiming Crash as some misread masterpiece. I had to watch it seven times throughout high school. Take it from me, folks. Crash is a melodramatic preachy corny piece of shit.

    I got half way through and realised it was a patronising, condescending, POS.

    Oscar really does have a lot to answer for!

    The other patronising rubbish I really hate is Forrest Gump

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who loathes Forrest Gump. Not because it's a bad movie but it's a morally depraved one. Borderline fascistic at some moments.

    Yeah, it's the sort of tripe The Academy loves.

    It's such a smug film that thinks it's really clever.

    Pulp Fiction was the best film that year by a mile.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The message of Forrest Gump: do as you're told, don't ask questions and you will be rewarded.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    The message of Forrest Gump: do as you're told, don't ask questions and you will be rewarded.

    Yeah. Ask questions, rebel and buck the system = Die of Aids

    Nice message.



  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited July 2016 Posts: 23,883
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    The message of Forrest Gump: do as you're told, don't ask questions and you will be rewarded.

    Yeah. Ask questions, rebel and buck the system = Die of Aids

    Nice message.
    I've not seen it, and have no intention to. Seems cheesy to me.

    At the risk of drawing the ire of members, I have to say that Raiders of the Lost Ark is a film I've never been able to get into. Some good scenes undeniably but overall I'm unimpressed, and have always felt this way. Temple of Doom & Last Crusade (my favourite) are two I really like, but the first one is a bit of a bore to me. Same goes for the fourth installment.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I love Ark but I agree with Amy in The Big Bang Theory: Indiana Jones is completely superfluous to the plot, which frustrated me as a child.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    DO THE RIGHT THING

    Spike Lee's film is often considered one of the best films of all time. Can someone explain this to me? I get its messages and meaning and all that, but the acting is only so-and-so, the film is boring and the "climax" is too much. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, but I would rather think of it as above-average instead of as "one of the best films ever made;"
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited July 2019 Posts: 17,759
    There are a lot of films I just can't seem to enjoy. Here's the first (critically acclaimed) ones that I could think of:

    - Avatar
    - Batman Begins
    - The Dark Knight
    - The Dark Knight Rises
    - Inception
    - Skyfall
    - Spectre
    - The Harry Potter series
    - The Matrix
    - Most of the Disney film catalogue (too "cute" for my tastes; Disney characters (or rather the main characters in almost any film) are painfully perfect – and as a result totally uninteresting)
    - 2001: A Space Odyssey
    - Max Manus
    - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    There are a lot of films I just can't seem to enjoy. Here's the first (critically acclaimed) ones that I could think of:

    - Avatar
    - Batman Begins
    - The Dark Knight
    - The Dark Knight Rises
    - Inception
    - Skyfall
    - Spectre
    - The Harry Potter series
    - The Matrix
    - Most of the Disney film catalogue (too "cute" for my tastes; Disney characters (or rather the main characters in almost any film) are painfully perfect – and as a result totally uninteresting)
    - 2001: A Space Odyssey
    - Max Manus
    - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Now you're hard to please!!!
  • Matt007Matt007
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    Blade runner
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited July 2019 Posts: 3,497
    Avaturd, I mean Tar (Delgo meets Apocalypto and The Smurfs or something?)
    Batman Returns
    Titanic (I hated Dicaprio back then, but Blood Diamond & The Departed changed all that lol)
    No Country For Old Men
    Everything Lord Of The Rings & The Hobbit

    (The Dark Knight has been in my top ten ever since I saw it. Nolan's films always open up these big debates which I like very much ha ha...)



  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited July 2019 Posts: 17,759
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    There are a lot of films I just can't seem to enjoy. Here's the first (critically acclaimed) ones that I could think of:

    - Avatar
    - Batman Begins
    - The Dark Knight
    - The Dark Knight Rises
    - Inception
    - Skyfall
    - Spectre
    - The Harry Potter series
    - The Matrix
    - Most of the Disney film catalogue (too "cute" for my tastes; Disney characters (or rather the main characters in almost any film) are painfully perfect – and as a result totally uninteresting)
    - 2001: A Space Odyssey
    - Max Manus
    - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Now you're hard to please!!!

    I guess so…

    I can elaborate my list a bit:
    - Avatar is just visuals, there's nothing interesting as far as story goes.
    - I can't sit through most of Nolan's films; they're totally uninteresting. The only one I kinda like is Memento, because it's a small film with an interesting concept – unlike the overblown films that followed.
    - SF and SP I've covered in detail before on other threads. Sorry, Sam!
    - The Harry Potter films are just a bit boring, IMO. Much prefer the books.
    - The Matrix is a film that's fine to watch once; multiple viewings, not so much…
    - Disney in general only produces films that are morality tales, love tales, etc. – often featuring very "perfect" characters. I much more prefer the characters of other studios; Daffy Duck, Sylvester the cat, Tom & Jerry. The list goes on.
    - 2001: A Space Odyssey and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are films I really tried to like, but just couldn't – and I can't really put my finger on why, necessary.
    - Max Manus is one of the most popular Norwegian films ever, yet I found little of interest here, other than the historical background. I'd rather read books on the events the film is based on.
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