Worst "Best Rated" Movies

[Saccopoo]

From my personal perspective, Russell Crowe's Gladiator tops them all.

So many missed edit problems. Horrible acting. Shit plot line. It's the worst movie that's ever won "Best Picture" from the Oscars.

"O Brother, Where Art Thou," which wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, got massively jobbed that year for the stinkfest that was Gladiator. (How's this for a huge FU: O Brother wasn't even nominated for Best Music/Original Score.)

Fucking Billy Elliot.

[TimBone]

I agree with the whole OP.

[TimBone]

I had no idea about O brother not being nominated for best music, though. That's fucking crazy.

[Saccopoo]

I had no idea about O brother not being nominated for best music, though. That's ****ing crazy.

Yeah, Gladiator got nominated for that as well.

O, Brother? Zilch.

[Saccopoo]

Watch the opening battle scene in Gladiator. Near end of the battle, there's two extra's standing in the middle of the screen just talking to each other as if someone yelled "cut!"

How do you miss that shit? It's fucking embarrassing.

[Ming the Merciless]

I don't think the music was original or written specifically for the movie...

But I'm clueless..

We need Dane to shed light on this.

I love the movie and soundtrack

[EPodolak]

I remember when "Shakespeare in Love" won best film awards. Pretty bland. Saving Private Ryan was out that year to boot.

[007]

Titanic

[New World Order]

Titanic



This

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

O brother is a great movie. I am outraged, Cosmo-style, by this outrage.

[007]

This

The only memorable thing about that was bringing in Sean Connery to say the word Titanic for its win. LMAO

[Cheater5]

I hate myself a little for watching The English Patient.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Wall-E

Any Marvel superhero movie

[Why Not?]

O Brother is a top ten, IMO. Gladiator is meh. Award shows of any kind are stupid.

[Kman34]

Titanic

I hate myself a little for watching The English Patient.

Wall-E

Any Marvel superhero movie

O Brother is a top ten, IMO. Gladiator is meh. Award shows of any kind are stupid.

I like all these shows....I guess I'm not as smart as you guys.... ''I'll have my revenge in this life or the next'' :thumb:

[Deberg_1990]

From my personal perspective, Russell Crowe's Gladiator tops them all.

So many missed edit problems. Horrible acting. Shit plot line. It's the worst movie that's ever won "Best Picture" from the Oscars.

"O Brother, Where Art Thou," which wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, got massively jobbed that year for the stinkfest that was Gladiator. (How's this for a huge FU: O Brother wasn't even nominated for Best Music/Original Score.)

****ing Billy Elliot.


Oscar is full of snubs throughout its history.

Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now? WTF?

[Nzoner]

Oscar is full of snubs throughout its history.

Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now? WTF?

Erin Brockovich over Requiem For A Dream was it for me,I haven't watched since.

[notorious]

Ghostbusters 2

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Ghostbusters 2

ewwwwwwwwwwwww......

[Prison Bitch]

Forrest Gump. Awful, atrocious, hideously dumb movie and it stole best Pic from some great ones like Pulp + Shawshank

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Forrest Gump. Awful, atrocious, hideously dumb movie and it stole best Pic from some great ones like Pulp + Shawshank

Baby Boomers hate this post, and are Cosmo-outraged.

[hometeam]

The Piano.

What a terrible POS

[siberian khatru]

Just in recent years, I thought "Boyhood" was wildly overrated. To me, it was all gimmick.

[rico]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I get red in the face with rage just thinking about how awful that fucking movie is.

[Cheater5]

Just in recent years, I thought "Boyhood" was wildly overrated. To me, it was all gimmick.

Good one. Wasted concept on a flat movie.

[Bowser]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I get red in the face with rage just thinking about how awful that fucking movie is.

Yeah, wasn't a fan.

I thought Gravity was completely overrated, too.

[RunKC]

Avatar.

People hyped this movie so much and it fucking sucked

[Bowser]

Avatar.

People hyped this movie so much and it fucking sucked

Fucking this. Shit.

[Saccopoo]

Oscar is full of snubs throughout its history.

Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now? WTF?

http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2011/01/apocalypse_now_high.gif

[morphius]

Forrest Gump. Awful, atrocious, hideously dumb movie and it stole best Pic from some great ones like Pulp + Shawshank

Generally I view movies that win best picture as movies that were not meant for me.

I know it has a huge following, but I thought Pulp Fiction was lame as hell. Couldn't give a crap about any of the characters in that movie, and the awkward dance scene between travolta and the chick was so lame I wished Machete would have ran in and chopped their damned heads off.

Shawshank on the other hand, great, great movie.

[hometeam]

Forrest Gump is an incredible movie. Now y'all just naysayin~

[GloucesterChief]

Fight Club. Easily guessed the twist pretty early. Pretty dull movie without the surprise.

[wazu]

Generally I view movies that win best picture as movies that were not meant for me.

I know it has a huge following, but I thought Pulp Fiction was lame as hell. Couldn't give a crap about any of the characters in that movie, and the awkward dance scene between travolta and the chick was so lame I wished Machete would have ran in and chopped their damned heads off.

Shawshank on the other hand, great, great movie.

Dude. Yes, ChiefsPlanet is a "safe" place to just be yourself, but not safe enough that you can admit to not liking Pulp Fiction.

[wazu]

Fight Club. Easily guessed the twist pretty early. Pretty dull movie without the surprise.

:rolleyes:

[GloucesterChief]

:rolleyes:

My opinion. The twist wasn't that mind blowing and without it the movie is just meh.

[jonzie04]

I have no idea how "The Tree of Life" is rated. But it made me want to blow my brains out.

[AndChiefs]

Crash and dances with wolves

[wazu]

My opinion. The twist wasn't that mind blowing and without it the movie is just meh.

Fair enough. Congrats on being part of the .1% that saw that twist coming. But even knowing about the twist I think that movie is incredible. Probably in my Top 10.

[Halfcan]

Birdman- is the worst "Best Picture" movie of all time. What a complete over-acted pos.

[wazu]

Birdman- is the worst "Best Picture" movie of all time. What a complete over-acted pos.

So. Much. This.

[xztop123]

I didnt like gladiator either

[xztop123]

Not sure how highly it was rated but i couldn't stand Eternal Sunshine with Jim Carey

[wazu]

I thought I liked Gladiator, but for some reason I've never been compelled to watch it a second time.

[The Franchise]

I thought I liked Gladiator, but for some reason I've never been compelled to watch it a second time.

If you're having trouble sleeping......start the movie after the first battle sequence. Guaranteed to be out.

[Gonzo]

Fucking Birdman.
Terrible movie. The only reason it was made was for the Hollywood douchebags to sniff each-other's farts and give it an award. Hollywood is so far up its own ass.

[Gonzo]

Birdman- is the worst "Best Picture" movie of all time. What a complete over-acted pos.

So yeah... This

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Toy Story movies. Hearing of grown men bawling over it is lulz worthy as well.

[blaise]

I never thought Ghostbusters was funny. Or Beverly Hills Cop.

[Wildcat2005]

Twelve Years a Slave

Received a lot of positive feedback from the critics as some sort of modern day Schindler's List but I really disliked that movie

[The Franchise]

Toy Story movies. Hearing of grown men bawling over it is lulz worthy as well.

http://media.giphy.com/media/93rI3szziYMYo/giphy.gif

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Napoleon Dynamite was a huge streaming pile of crap by the way

[RealSNR]

I was pretty pissed when The King's Speech won a few years ago.

I thought Black Swan should have won.

[BigRichard]

Napoleon Dynamite was a huge streaming pile of crap by the way

Have to agree here.

I don't get the love of that or No Country for Old Men. No one I know liked that movie.

And Forrest Gump was the bomb!

[GloucesterChief]

I liked Birdman. It wasn't the best movie I have ever seen but it was good.

[Bwana]

I was flying back from the east coast and Devine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood was the in-flight movie staring James Garner and Sandra Bullock. It was so bad I was trying to figure out how to bring the plane down to make it stop. The hell with waterboarding, if the CIA wants Johnny Taliban to spill their guts, make him watch that over and over on a loop.

[Grim]

Avatar.

People hyped this movie so much and it ****ing sucked
^this^
I liked it better when it was called "Dances With Wolves" and I'd rather watch a third trimester abortion being performed than watch "Avatar" or "Dances With Wolves" again.

[morphius]

Napoleon Dynamite was a huge streaming pile of crap by the way

Can't argue with that! I'm not sure I made it to the end, and I tried because my brother in law found it hilarious.

[Prison Bitch]

****ing Birdman.
Terrible movie. The only reason it was made was for the Hollywood douchebags to sniff each-other's farts and give it an award. Hollywood is so far up its own ass.

Yeah! Except actually the opposite: it's a low budget film that specifically mocks what Hollywood has become and what it's putting out now. Did you completely miss the point?

[GloucesterChief]

Yeah! Except actually the opposite: it's a low budget film that specifically mocks what Hollywood has become and what it's putting out now. Did you completely miss the point?

Oh it got some shots on the stage acting art snobs as well. In fact it was pretty much taking shots at the whole hollywood/broadway culture.

[Jerm]

Slumdog Millionaire

[ThaVirus]

Titanic



Wall-E



Any Marvel superhero movie



Forrest Gump. Awful, atrocious, hideously dumb movie and it stole best Pic from some great ones like Pulp + Shawshank



Toy Story movies. Hearing of grown men bawling over it is lulz worthy as well.



Twelve Years a Slave



Received a lot of positive feedback from the critics as some sort of modern day Schindler's List but I really disliked that movie



Slumdog Millionaire


All good movies

[Bob Dole]

Birdman- is the worst "Best Picture" movie of all time. What a complete over-acted pos.

It will be replaced next year by Birdman II: The Tranny Edition

[Pepe Silvia]

Wolf of Wall Street. Hated it.

[The Franchise]

Wolf of Wall Street. Hated it.

lolwut? Why?

[ThaVirus]

Wolf of Wall Street. Hated it.


Wow. Die.

[Pitt Gorilla]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I get red in the face with rage just thinking about how awful that ****ing movie is.I've only seen it once, but I liked that movie.

[Pablo]

Wolf of Wall Street was way too vulgar and had way, way too much sex and drug use for my tastes!

I had to shut it off and watch something wholesome like Dumbo Drop.

[blaise]

The Muppets movies.

[saphojunkie]

Napoleon Dynamite was a huge streaming pile of crap by the way

You might just be an idiot.

[cosmo20002]

Have to agree here.

I don't get the love of that or No Country for Old Men. No one I know liked that movie.

And Forrest Gump was the bomb!

These words do not make any sense to me.

[Pepe Silvia]

Wow. Die.

3 hours of Leo shouting, yeah that was awesome, not.

[saphojunkie]

Birdman and - sadly - Boyhood are the two recent ones.

Avatar wasn't reviewed well.

Some people here are really missing the point. This isn't "What popular movies do you hate?"

Forrest Gump is closer - there is a tremendous amount of debate about whether that movie is actually good or not. I, personally, think it is. But Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption are so galactically better than Forrest Gump that it forces you to rip it to shreds for having beat both of them.

William Goldman has an excellent critique of Saving Private Ryan, and why it's actually a terrible script. Personally, I really thought it should have won best picture, purely for the d-day scene, but Shakespeare in Love is still an excellent movie.

[RealSNR]

These words do not make any sense to me.

I preferred There Will Be Blood. But NCFOM was also good.

[cosmo20002]

Shawshank is one of the best of all time. Pulp Fiction is also great.
But Forest Gump didn't suck. It shouldn't have won, but it was pretty good and it was unique, so I get why it did win.

The worst "best" movie was Crash. Horrible.

[saphojunkie]

These words do not make any sense to me.

No one liked it. No one enjoyed it.

It is, however, an absolutely towering monolith of dramatic tension. Incredible movie. Two things:

1. There is no music. There is no escape from the tension. They don't manipulate the atmosphere to make you feel an ominousness. Nope. Just amazing scenes without escape.

2. The violence steadily yet assuredly scales back during the movie. The first few deaths are incredibly visceral and explicit. They show you less and less as the movie goes on, so that, by the end, all you have to see is him WIPING HIS SHOES and you know a death has occurred. Because that is all that death means to him - dirty shoes. This is no country for old men, here people.

[Halfcan]

****ing Birdman.
Terrible movie. The only reason it was made was for the Hollywood douchebags to sniff each-other's farts and give it an award. Hollywood is so far up its own ass.

Exactly!! :thumb: And it beat American Sniper for the win. How does this happen?

I could not find one thing I liked about the movie and at the end ...Keaton flies off?? WTF is that all about? Just horrible. It made me want to shoot myself in the mouth like he did.

[BWillie]

Oh, I was waiting for a thread like this. Now, don't get me wrong, I look at ratings before I see a movie and usually make a choice depending on it, but there are still some horrible movies with high ratings that the sheep love. Of the IMDB top 250, I would rank the following movies 1.5 stars or less out of 4 stars:
Any Quinten Tarantino movie, too cartoonie, too unbelievable, too little substance. I don't get why people like his movies, only one that was any good was the one about fake Nazi Germany.
Lord of the Rings, all of them, & Harry Potter (I'll admit, I'm biased because I absolutely hate fantasy movies and feel like they are garbage)
Star Wars, all of them (See above)
Mad Max, Fury Road (It's a fucking 3 hour car chase in the desert with retards, it's only good action, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Just because it has Hardy in it doesn't make it good)
Sin City

[saphojunkie]

Shawshank is one of the best of all time. Pulp Fiction is also great.
But Forest Gump didn't suck. It shouldn't have won, but it was pretty good and it was unique, so I get why it did win.

The worst "best" movie was Crash. Horrible.

Exactly.

It's like Trent Green hanging out with Tom Brady and Joe Montana. Hey man, you're like, good and all, but uh... we're kind of in our own club over here.

There's hot, and then there's model hot.

[saphojunkie]

Also, reading this thread, I am quite sure that I do not want to read CP's opinions on any of the movies I write. Not sure I really do stuff that you guys would appreciate.

I'm gonna have to write a serious fucking gritty ass drama to get some CP street cred.

Oh well... more dramedy!

[The Franchise]

Oh, I was waiting for a thread like this. Now, don't get me wrong, I look at ratings before I see a movie and usually make a choice depending on it, but there are still some horrible movies with high ratings that the sheep love. Of the IMDB top 250, I would rank the following movies 1.5 stars or less out of 4 stars:
Any Quinten Tarantino movie, too cartoonie, too unbelievable, too little substance. I don't get why people like his movies, only one that was any good was the one about fake Nazi Germany.
Lord of the Rings, all of them, & Harry Potter (I'll admit, I'm biased because I absolutely hate fantasy movies and feel like they are garbage)
Star Wars, all of them (See above)
Mad Max, Fury Road (It's a fucking 3 hour car chase in the desert with retards, it's only good action, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Just because it has Hardy in it doesn't make it good)
Sin City

:facepalm:....for the entire thing.

[saphojunkie]

:facepalm:....for the entire thing.

I have a friend that just hates fantasy. Can't stand anything fantastical.

Some people it just isn't their bag.

But again - this isn't POPULAR movies that you DON'T LIKE. Most star wars movies weren't reviewed well. Stay on topic here, people.

Mad Max counts, though - reviewed well and he has objections to it.

What made Mad Max good was the use of practical effects (save that ridiculous lizard eating moment at the beginning) and the completely balls-out audacity to put a bald albino in a red onesy suspended by bungee cords while playing a flaming guitar on the front of a death bus.

I mean, hot fucking damn, that alone made the whole movie.

[BWillie]

Best movies in IMDB Top 250

The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Seven
American History X
The Departed
Wall-E
Good Will Hunting
Heat (Love this movie)
Casino
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show

[cosmo20002]

Oh, I was waiting for a thread like this. Now, don't get me wrong, I look at ratings before I see a movie and usually make a choice depending on it, but there are still some horrible movies with high ratings that the sheep love. Of the IMDB top 250, I would rank the following movies 1.5 stars or less out of 4 stars:
Any Quinten Tarantino movie, too cartoonie, too unbelievable, too little substance. I don't get why people like his movies, only one that was any good was the one about fake Nazi Germany.
Lord of the Rings, all of them, & Harry Potter (I'll admit, I'm biased because I absolutely hate fantasy movies and feel like they are garbage)
Star Wars, all of them (See above)
Mad Max, Fury Road (It's a ****ing 3 hour car chase in the desert with retards, it's only good action, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Just because it has Hardy in it doesn't make it good)
Sin City

Tarantino is great, but yes, there's always a fight scene that is too cartoony. I know he a fondness for the 70s schlocky bloodfests and the Japanese stuff, but all the freshly cut limbs flying all over and blood spurting across the room...yeah, it is kind of dumb.

[saphojunkie]

Best movies in IMDB Top 250

The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Seven
American History X
The Departed
Wall-E
Good Will Hunting
Heat (Love this movie)
Casino
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show

You need to watch some cinema that predates Nirvana, mate.

[BWillie]

Tarantino is great, but yes, there's always a fight scene that is too cartoony. I know he a fondness for the 70s schlocky bloodfests and the Japanese stuff, but all the freshly cut limbs flying all over and blood spurting across the room...yeah, it is kind of dumb.

Yeah, I mean they are entertaining, but his style, to me, just can't warrant Top Top Material.

[BWillie]

You need to watch some cinema that predates Nirvana, mate.

Well yeah I'm only 31, so I can't say much about movies made before Back to the Future.

[saphojunkie]

Well yeah I'm only 31, so I can't say much about movies made before Back to the Future.

So many amazing movies you can still watch. I'm jealous.

[Saulbadguy]

Prometheus. What an awful movie.

[RealSNR]

Well yeah I'm only 31, so I can't say much about movies made before Back to the Future.

So did somebody destroy all the movies that were ever made before 1995?

Oh, they didn't? Oh, they're MORE readily accessible to people than at any other time in history?

Age is not an excuse.

[BWillie]

So did somebody destroy all the movies that were ever made before 1995?

Oh, they didn't? Oh, they're MORE readily accessible to people than at any other time in history?

Age is not an excuse.

I think Star Wars is what turned me off of older movies, and they aren't even that old. I saw the 1st three of them, usually against my will, and I was just like wow this is what critically acclaimed good older movies are like? So I just didn't really want to watch anymore of them.

I tried to watch a more recent Star Wars in theaters but it was so bad I walked out. Star Wars and Fantasia. Only movies I've ever walked out of.

[BigMeatballDave]

I have a friend that just hates fantasy. Can't stand anything fantastical.

Some people it just isn't their bag.

But again - this isn't POPULAR movies that you DON'T LIKE. Most star wars movies weren't reviewed well. Stay on topic here, people.

Mad Max counts, though - reviewed well and he has objections to it.

What made Mad Max good was the use of practical effects (save that ridiculous lizard eating moment at the beginning) and the completely balls-out audacity to put a bald albino in a red onesy suspended by bungee cords while playing a flaming guitar on the front of a death bus.

I mean, hot fucking damn, that alone made the whole movie.

I loathe Fantasy. LotRs is the biggest PoS ever made.

I enjoy cancer treatment more.

[BigMeatballDave]

Tarantino is great, but yes, there's always a fight scene that is too cartoony. I know he a fondness for the 70s schlocky bloodfests and the Japanese stuff, but all the freshly cut limbs flying all over and blood spurting across the room...yeah, it is kind of dumb.

That over-the-top stuff is hilarious to me. Some of those Kill Bill scenes are a riot. Not great cinema at all, but entertaining and funny as shit.

[BigMeatballDave]

Best movies in IMDB Top 250

The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Seven
American History X
The Departed
Wall-E
Good Will Hunting
Heat (Love this movie)
Casino
Groundhog Day
The Truman ShowGreat list. You should add A Few Good Men, Goodfellas, and Shawshank Redemption to it.


I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second you can come down here, flash a badge and make me nervous.

[noa]

Hated Crash
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[TimBone]

Well yeah I'm 31, so I can't say much about t from tmovies made before Back to the Future.
You know you're allowed to watch movies from before you were born, right?


Edit: just read that Star Wars turned you off from older films. But from the sound of your earlier post, Fantasy/Sci-fi doesn't seem to be your thing, so why would you let those movies shape your view of all older movies?

[WhawhaWhat]

If you don't like Wall-E, then you have no soul. Also Wolf of Wall Street wasn't that great of a movie. Hot broads for sure but the movie was average at best.

[RunKC]

Best movies in IMDB Top 250

The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Seven
American History X
The Departed
Wall-E
Good Will Hunting
Heat (Love this movie)
Casino
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show

Wall-E? Wtf? This movie was terrible.

There's no dialogue in the first hour of the goddamn movie. It's just a robot trying to act cute.

[Kaepernick]

Tons of good calls in this thread.

I will add Life of Pi.

[Kaepernick]

Have to agree here.

I don't get the love of that or No Country for Old Men. No one I know liked that movie.

And Forrest Gump was the bomb!

Shut your whore mouth! Awesome movie.

[Al Bundy]

I hate The Matrix.

[Kaepernick]

I think Star Wars is what turned me off of older movies, and they aren't even that old. I saw the 1st three of them, usually against my will, and I was just like wow this is what critically acclaimed good older movies are like? So I just didn't really want to watch anymore of them.

I tried to watch a more recent Star Wars in theaters but it was so bad I walked out. Star Wars and Fantasia. Only movies I've ever walked out of.


If Star Wars ruins someone for older movies, they should stick with TV.

Just curious... Did you see Indy Jones I and III and what did you think of those? Did you see ET or Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

If you haven't seen any of those, give them a try. Or the Great Escape from the 60s. Watch Taxi Driver or The Deer Hunter. Seen the Godfather? MASH. Chinatown is amazing. Blade Runner. Terminator. Rocky for goodness sake. The Graduate. Cool Hand Luke. The magnificent Seven or thev Wild Ones.

Just see a couple of the above and see if it opens the door for you or not. You can save Casablanca for later.

[WhawhaWhat]

No Country for Old Men. No one I know liked that movie.

^ Probably a member of ISIS right here.

[Kaepernick]

No one liked it. No one enjoyed it.

It is, however, an absolutely towering monolith of dramatic tension. Incredible movie. Two things:

1. There is no music. There is no escape from the tension. They don't manipulate the atmosphere to make you feel an ominousness. Nope. Just amazing scenes without escape.

2. The violence steadily yet assuredly scales back during the movie. The first few deaths are incredibly visceral and explicit. They show you less and less as the movie goes on, so that, by the end, all you have to see is him WIPING HIS SHOES and you know a death has occurred. Because that is all that death means to him - dirty shoes. This is no country for old men, here people.

If you disliked No Country for Old Men, then you would really hate There Will Be Blood.

[BWillie]

If you disliked No Country for Old Men, then you would really hate There Will Be Blood.

That movie is pretty cool, you think you are watching a movie about Josh Brolan, then they kill him half way through the movie. hahaha. I was like WTF, noo, you sons of bitches. Then I laughed. Also, Javier Bardems character was amazing.

[TimBone]

If Star Wars ruins someone for older movies, they should stick with TV.
Some people don't care for certain genres, you twat. Go back to the Niner board.

[Otter]

Young Dr. Frankenstein - So many great reviews. I laughed once during the whole movie.</br></br> The Jerk - See above</br></br> Before my time and not my sense of humor. Painful to sit thru.

[Kaepernick]

Some people don't care for certain genres, you twat. Go back to the Niner board.

Eat me.

[Kman34]

Armageddon...Un realistic steaming pile of shit...

[Pitt Gorilla]

Armageddon...Un realistic steaming pile of shit...That was critically acclaimed? I can't imagine.

[ModSocks]

No Country For Old Men was forgettable. Literally. I don't remember anything about it other than i watched it at some point.

[MahiMike]

There hasn't been a quality movie in like 20 years

[ThaVirus]

Was No Country for Old Men the one with that guy that was carrying around the can of gas that would put it up to people's heads and blow their brains out?

[Otter]

If Star Wars ruins someone for older movies, they should stick with TV.

Just curious... Did you see Indy Jones I and III and what did you think of those? Did you see ET or Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

If you haven't seen any of those, give them a try. Or the Great Escape from the 60s. Watch Taxi Driver or The Deer Hunter. Seen the Godfather? MASH. Chinatown is amazing. Blade Runner. Terminator. Rocky for goodness sake. The Graduate. Cool Hand Luke. The magnificent Seven or thev Wild Ones.

Just see a couple of the above and see if it opens the door for you or not. You can save Casablanca for later. There's two more I didn't like:</br></br>Taxi Driver</br>The Deer Hunter</br></br> The Deer Hunter was excruciatingly slow and Taxi Driver I thought was just plain dumb. The rest (MASH was OK, not great) were excellent movies. The Great Escape is fucking classic.

[ModSocks]

There hasn't been a quality movie in like 20 years

I bet you use to walk 50 miles through 20 ft of snow everyday just to get to school back in your day.

[BWillie]

I bet you use to walk 50 miles through 20 ft of snow everyday just to get to school back in your day.

Uphill, both ways.

[KCUnited]

Schindler's List was depressing af.

[PunkinDrublic]

I hate superhero movies and refuse to watch them. Can't stand the fanboys who won't stfu about them.

[Easy 6]

Love/hate the op... you're not the first person I've heard say they didn't "get" Gladiator, and all I can say to that is WHAT THE **** DO YOU WANT?

That was the single most realistic movie depicting that era ever made... believable story, incredibly well done action, and oh yeah... the acting was ****ing GREAT, are you people on DOPE or something?

Totally agree about O Brother, didn't know it wasn't even nominated... awesome movie with one of the 5 best soundtracks of all time.

I'll throw Avatar out there, outside of the effects its a boring, paint by numbers piece of crap.

[RunKC]

Last movie I got truly pumped for was The Dark Knight.

Even that movie had some flaws

[Hammock Parties]

Star Wars, all of them (See above)


YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE

[BWillie]

Last movie I got truly pumped for was The Dark Knight.

Even that movie had some flaws

I really don't like superhero movies at all, except for Batman for some reason. I thought The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight rises were both equally as good. I know people usually put TDK a little higher, but I thought #3 was just as good.

[The Franchise]

YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE

ROFL

[Pasta Little Brioni]

YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE

Indiana Jones :evil:

[Easy 6]

Gonzo didn't like Birdman, oh my... one of the best and deepest character ensembles in a looong time.

There weren't two seconds of bad acting or dialogue in that movie, earned ever word of praise it got.

Gonzo...

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[Pablo]

Count me in the not giving a hot shit about anything Star Wars related group. I've tried and no. Just not interesting in the slightest.

[Hammock Parties]

Gonzo didn't like Birdman, oh my... one of the best and deepest character ensembles in a looong time.


There's absolutely nothing deep about any of the characters in that movie.

It was pretentious garbage.

[Fish]

Oh, I was waiting for a thread like this. Now, don't get me wrong, I look at ratings before I see a movie and usually make a choice depending on it, but there are still some horrible movies with high ratings that the sheep love. Of the IMDB top 250, I would rank the following movies 1.5 stars or less out of 4 stars:
Any Quinten Tarantino movie, too cartoonie, too unbelievable, too little substance. I don't get why people like his movies, only one that was any good was the one about fake Nazi Germany.
Lord of the Rings, all of them, & Harry Potter (I'll admit, I'm biased because I absolutely hate fantasy movies and feel like they are garbage)
Star Wars, all of them (See above)
Mad Max, Fury Road (It's a fucking 3 hour car chase in the desert with retards, it's only good action, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Just because it has Hardy in it doesn't make it good)
Sin City

Your opinions are just the worst..

[Easy 6]

There's absolutely nothing deep about any of the characters in that movie.

It was pretentious garbage.

See, stuff like this is why I ****ING HATE not having a search function.

You are a liar, plain and simple, you loved that movie and YOU are the pretentious piece of garbage.

[Saccopoo]

See, stuff like this is why I ****ING HATE not having a search function.

You are a liar, plain and simple, you loved that movie and YOU are the pretentious piece of garbage.

I think you just lost Easy 6.

Welcome back to Positivityville Easy.

[Hammock Parties]

BWillie hates fun.

[Hammock Parties]

See, stuff like this is why I ****ING HATE not having a search function.

You are a liar, plain and simple, you loved that movie and YOU are the pretentious piece of garbage.

No, I didn't love it. It was a good movie, and I enjoyed it, but it was nowhere near worthy of being Best Picture quality, and it was pretentious garbage. That can still be enjoyable, but should be regarded for what it was, instead of what it so obviously felt it was entitled to be.

The main worth of the film was in it's technical aspects and acting, not it's plot or characters.

[Easy 6]

I think you just lost Easy 6.

Welcome back to Positivityville Easy.

I always lean to the positive side, but I wont just sit back and take a shitshow lying down, either.

I AM HARD, BUT I AM FAIR

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[Easy 6]

No, I didn't love it. It was a good movie, and I enjoyed it, but it was nowhere near worthy of being Best Picture quality, and it was pretentious garbage. That can still be enjoyable, but should be regarded for what it was, instead of what it so obviously felt it was entitled to be.

The main worth of the film was in it's technical aspects and acting, not it's plot or characters.

Spin cycle, activate.

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[kcpasco]

I agree with Titanic. Good Will Hunting and As good as it gets were much better movies that year.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Too many Pixar abortions to list

[Kaepernick]

There hasn't been a quality movie in like 20 years

I have seen so many shitty movies on Netflix the past 5 years. No clue as to why, just most movies today run mediocre to pure unadulterated shit.

I cant go quite as far as you though. There is the occasional gem.


Inception

Django Unchained

Moneyball

Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Departed

Midnight in Paris

Inside Llewyn Davis

Memento

Rush

Bourne trilogy

The King's Speech

No Country for Old Men

Up in the Air

Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

School of Rock

Zero Dark Thirty

Gran Torino

Invincible

The Blind Side

Cinderella Man

[scho63]

I have seen so many shitty movies on Netflix the past 5 years. No clue as to why, just most movies today run mediocre to pure unadulterated shit.

I cant go quite as far as you though. There is the occasional gem.


No Country for Old Men


Just saw this again on cable and it still has one of the scariest villains ever in Javier Bardem. Just a great movie all the way around. :thumb:

[notorious]

No Country for Old Men is a movie I will watch every time it's on TV.


I fucking love it.

[saphojunkie]

You people are fucking morons.

[saphojunkie]

May as well ask a colony of retarded orangutans their opinion on Caravaggio.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Wolf of Wall Street. Hated it.

Great post. Trash movie

[wazu]

Count me in the not giving a hot shit about anything Star Wars related group. I've tried and no. Just not interesting in the slightest.

So you fit into at least one of these categories:

1. A woman
2. Over the age of 70
3. Was never young

[kysirsoze]

Exactly!! :thumb: And it beat American Sniper for the win. How does this happen?

I could not find one thing I liked about the movie and at the end ...Keaton flies off?? WTF is that all about? Just horrible. It made me want to shoot myself in the mouth like he did.

I "Spoilered" your quote since that's what that function is fucking for.

LOL American Sniper was so fucking terrible. Just... I mean they cast good actors and have a subject matter that most American audiences are invested in. Clint Eastwood is losing his mind. The entire thing felt as fake as a creepy animatronic baby arm. Really manipulative and dishonest, too. Just a total disaster. Birdman was one of the best movies I've ever seen. Saying it was for Hollywood types to smell each other's farts is not only a really boring way of saying "I didn't get it" but it's a terrible critique since that is the fundamental opposite of what the movie was about.

Thanks for bringing up American Sniper, though. That would probably top my list if it weren't for Boyhood and Crash. Crash is unlikely to ever be topped in the overrated garbage category. I think the entire Academy is pretty embarrassed they gave it the award.



BTW, before everybody gets all fucking menstrual about the "I didn't get it" line... like all films it is totally possible to dislike Birdman still "get it". I'm not insulting all who didn't like it. I AM insulting people that can't stand something that isn't 300 or Forrest Gump so they just call it pretentious because they don't know what else to say.

[kysirsoze]

Best movies in IMDB Top 250

The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Seven
American History X
The Departed
Wall-E
Good Will Hunting
Heat (Love this movie)
Casino
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show

Whatcha bench?

[wazu]

I "Spoilered" your quote since that's what that function is fucking for.

LOL American Sniper was so fucking terrible. Just... I mean they cast good actors and have a subject matter that most American audiences are invested in. Clint Eastwood is losing his mind. The entire thing felt as fake as a creepy animatronic baby arm. Really manipulative and dishonest, too. Just a total disaster. Birdman was one of the best movies I've ever seen. Saying it was for Hollywood types to smell each other's farts is not only a really boring way of saying "I didn't get it" but it's a terrible critique since that is the fundamental opposite of what the movie was about.

Thanks for bringing up American Sniper, though. That would probably top my list if it weren't for Boyhood and Crash. Crash is unlikely to ever be topped in the overrated garbage category. I think the entire Academy is pretty embarrassed they gave it the award.



BTW, before everybody gets all fucking menstrual about the "I didn't get it" line... like all films it is totally possible to dislike Birdman still "get it". I'm not insulting all who didn't like it. I AM insulting people that can't stand something that isn't 300 or Forrest Gump so they just call it pretentious because they don't know what else to say.

Oooh, I like that description. That is exactly how I felt about Birdman. Gonna use that.

[wazu]

And I freely admit to not "getting it". I also admit to not wanting to.

[TimBone]

Count me in the not giving a hot shit about anything Star Wars related group. I've tried and no. Just not interesting in the slightest.

Sometimes, I feel like Pablo is my long lost brother. This is one of those times. I just never cared for anything Star Wars.

Also, Pablo is probably the more handsome of us brothers as well, and that kinda pisses me off a bit.

[kysirsoze]

Oooh, I like that description. That is exactly how I felt about Birdman. Gonna use that.

The "fingers in my ears, won't make a point so it can't be refuted or rebutted" approach to film criticism. AKA the "Chiefsplanet Method".

And I freely admit to not "getting it". I also admit to not wanting to.

If you don't understand something, how can you know you don't want to? If you only want to go to movies for surface level entertainment, 95% of the movies at your local theater will fit that bill. That doesn't mean that's all film is good for.

[Pablo]

Sometimes, I feel like Pablo is my long lost brother. This is one of those times. I just never cared for anything Star Wars.

Also, Pablo is probably the more handsome of us brothers as well, and that kinda pisses me off a bit.You're making me blush.

Maybe I'll give Star Wars another shot. No, no I won't actually. That shit sucks. Missed the Sci fi nerd boat and it's not turning back around for me.

[notorious]

American Sniper is a good example of over rated.


It was nothing like the book, and while I watched it and I just rolled my eyes.

[Pablo]

Yeah American sniper was light war porn for simple folks to stand up and clap for at the end. Just a solid meh in the war film line up.

[suzzer99]

Any Paul Thomas Anderson movie that isn't Boogie Nights.

Any Wes Anderson movie period.

Any Oliver Stone movie that isn't Platoon or Wall Street.

Any Tarantino movie that isn't Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs or True Romance.

Million Dollar Baby

Good Will Hunting

totally agree Gladiator was a massively inferior version of Braveheart

[srvy]

Slumdog Millionaire

I caught that one on netflix and actually really liked it.

[kysirsoze]

Any Paul Thomas Anderson movie that isn't Boogie Nights.

Any Wes Anderson movie period.

Any Oliver Stone movie that isn't Platoon or Wall Street.

Any Tarantino movie that isn't Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs or True Romance.

Million Dollar Baby

Good Will Hunting

totally agree Gladiator was a massively inferior version of Braveheart


I tend to kinda like Wes Anderson, but I don't hate this list at all. Most of them aren't totally offensive but definitely overrated.

[srvy]

If you disliked No Country for Old Men, then you would really hate There Will Be Blood.

I liked Gangs of NY better the TWBB and I hate Leo but Bill the Butcher was incredible.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Watch the opening battle scene in Gladiator. Near end of the battle, there's two extra's standing in the middle of the screen just talking to each other as if someone yelled "cut!"

How do you miss that shit? It's ****ing embarrassing.

Kind of like that apostrophe is just standing in the middle of the word "extras" for some reason?

[Mama Hip Rockets]

I have no idea how "The Tree of Life" is rated. But it made me want to blow my brains out.

I agree with this. I think I could only handle about 20 or 30 minutes before I just gave up.

[srvy]

Count me in the not giving a hot shit about anything Star Wars related group. I've tried and no. Just not interesting in the slightest.


Me three.

[RobBlake]

Contrarians love this thread. lol

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Over the past few years, I've gone on a quest to watch most of the IMDB top 250. Most of them are good, but a few of them I have a really hard time understanding the fascination over.

Here are some that I really hated (1-2 stars out of 10):
Fight Club
All of the Star Wars movies. I didn't see these as a kid, so I'm watching them for the first time as a 30-year-old. Without that nostalgia factor that people have, these movies are really awful.
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Dictator
Wall-E
American Beauty
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The General
Howl's Moving Castle
Jaws
Notorious
Roman Holiday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
La Strada

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Was No Country for Old Men the one with that guy that was carrying around the can of gas that would put it up to people's heads and blow their brains out?

Yes.

[Just Passin' By]

LMAO

Some of you need to be forcibly prevented from ever again giving your opinion on movies.

[Gonzo]

Gonzo didn't like Birdman, oh my... one of the best and deepest character ensembles in a looong time.

There weren't two seconds of bad acting or dialogue in that movie, earned ever word of praise it got.

Gonzo...

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Sorry man but I would rather eat spaghetti out of a used colostomy bag a tounge-punch a cancer stoma that belongs to a 90 year old woman than ever see 5 seconds of Birdman again. It was a self-absorbed, pretentious pile of Monkey shit.

[TimBone]

LMAO

Some of you need to be forcibly prevented from ever again giving your opinion on movies.
Big Birdman fan, are ya?

[Pepe Silvia]

Sorry man but I would rather eat spaghetti out of a used colostomy bag a tounge-punch a cancer stoma that belongs to a 90 year old woman than ever see 5 seconds of Birdman again. It was a self-absorbed, pretentious pile of Monkey shit.

I wouldn't do the nasty shit you're saying but I agree that was the worst POS ever created and I'm a big Keaton fan.

[Kaepernick]

Schindler's List was depressing af.



http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsb0ra_making-out-during-schindler-s-list_fun

[Kaepernick]

Just saw this again on cable and it still has one of the scariest villains ever in Javier Bardem. Just a great movie all the way around. :thumb:

He is a genuinely depicted amoral psychopath. He has no empathy whatsoever. He has no code beyond the misguided rule of his coin. He is just an apetite and nothing and nobody has value who is in the way of what he wants to consume.

No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood have 2 of the most raw straight forward villains I have ever seen in movies, because they can only see what they want and what pleases them and every other thing on the planet, every person, man, woman, and child, is just a means to the end of getting what they want, and they hold no life valuable save their own.

Just bone chilling evil people. There is no talking with them or compromise. If you are in their way, you are dead or worse because they no empathy whatsoever and are nothing but a lone human appetite. Perfect psychopaths.

Not the only 2 perfectly played movie villains, but great examples of it.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Plainview is my goddamned business hero.

[Kaepernick]

OK, a quick movie story for you all.

My dad is gone but for 15 years he was receiving kidney dialysis. The nurses were great and the place was great.

One day my dad asked my brother Chris, being a movie afficianado, to recommend him a good movie to watch. One of my Chris's favorites at the time, was "Reservoir Dogs". My Dad doesn't tell him what he wants it for, just takes it.

He brings it to kidney dialysis with all the nice mellow nurses and all the other patients, and gives the movie to the Nurse. "Al brought a movie for us," she says.

In short order, there are a lot of shocked and horrified faces going around the room among the proper ladies and gentlemen at the clinic and my dad being half deaf, hasn't heard a single word from the movie so he is clueless what is up. One of the nurses finally tears the DVD out of the player and tells my dad, "Al, don't bring anymore movies."

My dad goes home and asks my brother what the problem was and my brother almost goes into cardiac shock, "You brought that to dialysis! Oh my God!"

True story.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Lol at the butthurt over the selections in this thread.

[GloucesterChief]

Over the past few years, I've gone on a quest to watch most of the IMDB top 250. Most of them are good, but a few of them I have a really hard time understanding the fascination over.

Here are some that I really hated (1-2 stars out of 10):
Fight Club
All of the Star Wars movies. I didn't see these as a kid, so I'm watching them for the first time as a 30-year-old. Without that nostalgia factor that people have, these movies are really awful.
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Dictator
Wall-E
American Beauty
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The General
Howl's Moving Castle
Jaws
Notorious
Roman Holiday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
La Strada

Are there any movies that you like?

[kysirsoze]

Are there any movies that you like?

No shit. That list runs the gamut of great film. So many movies that are awesome for very different reasons.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

No shit. That list runs the gamut of great film. So many movies that are awesome for very different reasons.

:evil: Usual Suspects

[Dayze]

I thought Shaving Ryan's Privates was completely overrated.

[chiefzilla1501]

Any Paul Thomas Anderson movie that isn't Boogie Nights.

Any Wes Anderson movie period.

Any Oliver Stone movie that isn't Platoon or Wall Street.

Any Tarantino movie that isn't Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs or True Romance.

Million Dollar Baby

Good Will Hunting

totally agree Gladiator was a massively inferior version of Braveheart

I don't really understand how anyone can dislike PT Anderson. Hard Eight and Punch Drunk Love are magnificent. There will be blood is long, but it's also one hell of a movie.

[suzzer99]

I liked Gangs of NY better the TWBB and I hate Leo but Bill the Butcher was incredible.

I liked the rest of the movie but thought Bill the Butcher was way too over-the-top and cartoony. I actually preferred the documentary on the Gangs of New York to the movie.

[Jerm]

Over the past few years, I've gone on a quest to watch most of the IMDB top 250. Most of them are good, but a few of them I have a really hard time understanding the fascination over.

Here are some that I really hated (1-2 stars out of 10):
Fight Club
All of the Star Wars movies. I didn't see these as a kid, so I'm watching them for the first time as a 30-year-old. Without that nostalgia factor that people have, these movies are really awful.
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Dictator
Wall-E
American Beauty
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The General
Howl's Moving Castle
Jaws
Notorious
Roman Holiday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
La Strada

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:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

[suzzer99]

I have the following movies on my DVR and I'm going to watch one of them right now: The Doors, Raging Bull, the Devils Advocate, Blues Brothers, Princess Bride, Sling Blade, Slumdog Millionaire.

I've already seen everything except Raging Bull and Princess Bride. But it's been a long time for most of the others.

Btw I just watched Wonderland and strongly recommend it if you're into true-ish crime combined with crumbling squalid druggy early 80s LA. I was riveted the entire time, and sad when the movie was over.

I also just watched Saturday Night Fever or the first time in a while – which was awesome. I love the shots of Brooklyn in the 70s and just every thing about that movie.

[Jerm]

Wonderland is awesome...

[Saccopoo]

Too many Pixar abortions to list

The Incredibles should have won Best Picture.

Fantastic movie.

[suzzer99]

I don't really understand how anyone can dislike PT Anderson. Hard Eight and Punch Drunk Love are magnificent. There will be blood is long, but it's also one hell of a movie.

I haven't seen either of those two, but the trailer for Hard Eight really turned me off. It reminded me too much of Magnolia - which I cannot over emphasize how much I hated.

Boogie Nights however is my second favorite movie behind Alien.

[Saccopoo]

Any Paul Thomas Anderson movie that isn't Boogie Nights.

Any Wes Anderson movie period.

Any Oliver Stone movie that isn't Platoon or Wall Street.

Any Tarantino movie that isn't Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs or True Romance.

Million Dollar Baby

Good Will Hunting

totally agree Gladiator was a massively inferior version of Braveheart

+ Any Kevin Smith movie that isn't Clerks.

[suzzer99]

Good one. Also made me think of - any Jon Favreau movie that isn't Swingers.

[Saccopoo]

He is a genuinely depicted amoral psychopath. He has no empathy whatsoever. He has no code beyond the misguided rule of his coin. He is just an apetite and nothing and nobody has value who is in the way of what he wants to consume.

No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood have 2 of the most raw straight forward villains I have ever seen in movies, because they can only see what they want and what pleases them and every other thing on the planet, every person, man, woman, and child, is just a means to the end of getting what they want, and they hold no life valuable save their own.

Just bone chilling evil people. There is no talking with them or compromise. If you are in their way, you are dead or worse because they no empathy whatsoever and are nothing but a lone human appetite. Perfect psychopaths.

Not the only 2 perfectly played movie villains, but great examples of it.

Robert Mitchum in the original Cape Fear as well.

[Saccopoo]

I have the following movies on my DVR and I'm going to watch one of them right now: The Doors, Raging Bull, the Devils Advocate, Blues Brothers, Princess Bride, Sling Blade, Slumdog Millionaire.

I've already seen everything except Raging Bull and Princess Bride. But it's been a long time for most of the others.

Btw I just watched Wonderland and strongly recommend it if you're into true-ish crime combined with crumbling squalid druggy early 80s LA. I was riveted the entire time, and sad when the movie was over.

I also just watched Saturday Night Fever or the first time in a while – which was awesome. I love the shots of Brooklyn in the 70s and just every thing about that movie.

Watch them both. Right now. Terrific movies.

[suzzer99]

I actually didn't hate the Grand Budapest Hotel. But that was mainly for the imagery. Wes Anderson's characters are just too quirky for the sake of quirkiness, and his style is too cloying for my tastes.

[suzzer99]

Watch them both. Right now. Terrific movies.

I think I'm going to go with devils advocate right now. It's the devil you know. Get it? Up top!

[srvy]

:evil: Usual Suspects

That by the way was a great movie.

[Brock]

I know birdman was supposed to be good. It wasn't.

[Brock]

Also, I'm a big coen brothers fan, but inside llewyn davis and a serious man are masturbatory horseshit

[Saccopoo]

Also, I'm a big coen brothers fan, but inside llewyn davis and a serious man are masturbatory horseshit

Is it okay to say that I hate "The Big Lebowski?"

[Brock]

Is it okay to say that I hate "The Big Lebowski?"

Many do. I liked it when I was high.

[suzzer99]

Any Coen Brpthers movie that's not Fargo or Raising Arizona.

(I haven't seen oh brother where art though)

[Pablo]

Any Coen Brpthers movie that's not Fargo or Raising Arizona.

(I haven't seen oh brother where art though)

Very much worth watching.

[Saccopoo]

Any Coen Brpthers movie that's not Fargo or Raising Arizona.

(I haven't seen oh brother where art though)

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[Brock]

Any Coen Brpthers movie that's not Fargo or Raising Arizona.

(I haven't seen oh brother where art though)

Blood simple is damn good too.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Oscar is full of snubs throughout its history.

Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now? WTF?

How about Ordinary People over Raging Bull?

I think the worst of all time though has got to be Shakespeare in Love over Elizabeth. You have two period pieces from the same period, one is a formulaic romantic comedy, the other is a brilliant period drama. And the romantic comedy wins. I am still baffled over that one. I watched both recently and was blown away at how terrible Shakespeare in Love was. I will never understand how it ended up getting picked.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Over the past few years, I've gone on a quest to watch most of the IMDB top 250. Most of them are good, but a few of them I have a really hard time understanding the fascination over.

Here are some that I really hated (1-2 stars out of 10):
Fight Club
All of the Star Wars movies. I didn't see these as a kid, so I'm watching them for the first time as a 30-year-old. Without that nostalgia factor that people have, these movies are really awful.
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Dictator
Wall-E
American Beauty
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The General
Howl's Moving Castle
Jaws
Notorious
Roman Holiday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
La Strada

What? Dr. Strangelove and Seven Samurai are two of the greatest films ever made. And who doesn't like Buster Keaton?

[TimBone]

Any Coen Brpthers movie that's not Fargo or Raising Arizona.

(I haven't seen oh brother where art though)

That's just insane. You should watch that soon.

[Psyko Tek]

Wall-E

Any Marvel superhero movie

yep, you are a tosser, and should limit your interaction with humanity,
since that doesn't interfere wiht you normal day to day sucking, carry on as usual

[Miles]

Can see why some wouldn't like No Country for Old Men. Might be my preference for best Coen brothers have made and they have a lot of good ones.

[TripleThreat]

Watch the opening battle scene in Gladiator. Near end of the battle, there's two extra's standing in the middle of the screen just talking to each other as if someone yelled "cut!"

How do you miss that shit? It's ****ing embarrassing.

How do you know they werent just soldiers that were all finished fighting the enemies that they had slain, and there werent really enough left to fight and were critiquing the lesser soldiers on if they were good fighters or not? Meaning most of the enemies were dead, So they just watched the last couple of barbarians die?

My great great grandfather told me his great grandfather's, great grandfather used to do this exact thing.

[Miles]

How do you know they werent just soldiers that were all finished fighting the enemies that they had slain, and there werent really enough left to fight and were critiquing the lesser soldiers on if they were good fighters or not? Meaning most of the enemies were dead, So they just watched the last couple of barbarians die?

My great great grandfather told me his great grandfather's, great grandfather used to do this exact thing.

I couldn't tell and didn't notice them because the camera was shaking everywhere. I liked Gladiator but that first battle scene was the first time I noticed and was annoyed with shaky camera action.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Wonderland is awesome...

True. Need to watch again.

[BigMeatballDave]

Wonderland. Forgot about that movie. Pretty good.

[Gonzo]

Over the past few years, I've gone on a quest to watch most of the IMDB top 250. Most of them are good, but a few of them I have a really hard time understanding the fascination over.

Here are some that I really hated (1-2 stars out of 10):
Fight Club
All of the Star Wars movies. I didn't see these as a kid, so I'm watching them for the first time as a 30-year-old. Without that nostalgia factor that people have, these movies are really awful.
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Dictator
Wall-E
American Beauty
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The General
Howl's Moving Castle
Jaws
Notorious
Roman Holiday
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
La Strada

Everyone has an opinion but I gotta say man, you're cold and dead inside.

Blade Runner???
Jaws?????
Fucking Stranglove?! Are u srsly? One of my ten best movies.
If you don't like Star Wars you might be a communist.

[stumppy]

Everyone has an opinion but I gotta say man, you're cold and dead inside.

Blade Runner???
Jaws?????
Fucking Stranglove?! Are u srsly? One of my ten best movies.
If you don't like Star Wars you might be a communist.

I think his list explains the 'thurman merman' name/

[chiefzilla1501]

Good one. Also made me think of - any Jon Favreau movie that isn't Swingers.

He's done some good work. Chef was a good watch. Elf was good -- not Favreau's fault that it's been overdone to death. The Ironman series has been good, though I don't think most writers/directors can really showcase their range in superhero movies.

[chiefzilla1501]

I haven't seen either of those two, but the trailer for Hard Eight really turned me off. It reminded me too much of Magnolia - which I cannot over emphasize how much I hated.

Boogie Nights however is my second favorite movie behind Alien.

I don't blame for not liking Magnolia. It's pretentious.

Hard Eight is a much simpler story -- doesn't wow you, but just a good character movie. Punch Drunk Love is enjoyable but is subtly a really brilliant movie when you figure out what he's trying to do.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Everyone has an opinion but I gotta say man, you're cold and dead inside.

Blade Runner???
Jaws?????
****ing Stranglove?! Are u srsly? One of my ten best movies.
If you don't like Star Wars you might be a communist.

Keep in mind, I didn't watch any of these movies till I was at least 30 years old. I think people enjoy most of them because they have nostalgia from watching them when they were kids, but I don't have that luxury. It's kind of like if someone my age watches Home Alone or The Sandlot for the first time now, they don't really get the appeal.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Are there any movies that you like?

Yes. I like lots of movies. From the same list (IMDB Top 250), here are some movies I really like:

Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Schindler's List
Inception
City of God
It's a Wonderful Life
Interstellar
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Intouchables
Terminator 2
The Green Mile
Whiplash
Memento
The Departed
Gladiator
Back to the Future
The Prestige
The Lives of Others
Double Indemnity
L.A. Confidential
Inglourious Basterds
Batman Begins
Downfall
V for Vendetta
No Country for Old Men
Hotel Rwanda
12 Years a Slave
Shutter Island
The Truman Show
Ip Man
The Imitation Game
The Help
Anatomy of a Murder

[ReynardMuldrake]

I couldn't tell and didn't notice them because the camera was shaking everywhere. I liked Gladiator but that first battle scene was the first time I noticed and was annoyed with shaky camera action.

The first battle scene in Gladiator is some of the worst camerawork ever. I can't stand that stutter-step slow mo, and the cuts are so fast you can't tell what you're looking at. The movie gets better, but I still think the movie is overrated.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Everyone has an opinion but I gotta say man, you're cold and dead inside.

Blade Runner???
Jaws?????
Fucking Stranglove?! Are u srsly? One of my ten best movies.
If you don't like Star Wars you might be a communist.

I've never heard of "Howl's Moving Castle," and Princess Mononoke is WAY overrated, but most every other movie on that list is a classic.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Everyone has an opinion but I gotta say man, you're cold and dead inside.

Blade Runner???
Jaws?????
Fucking Stranglove?! Are u srsly? One of my ten best movies.
If you don't like Star Wars you might be a communist.

Also, I would argue that Dr. Strangelove is the greatest film of all time. Everything about it is brilliant.

[saphojunkie]

Also, I would argue that Dr. Strangelove is the greatest film of all time. Everything about it is brilliant.

There is no such thing.

[Rausch]

Yes. I like lots of movies. From the same list (IMDB Top 250), here are some movies I really like:

Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Schindler's List
Inception
City of God
It's a Wonderful Life
Interstellar
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Intouchables
Terminator 2
The Green Mile
Whiplash
Memento
The Departed
Gladiator
Back to the Future
The Prestige
The Lives of Others
Double Indemnity
L.A. Confidential
Inglourious Basterds
Batman Begins
Downfall
V for Vendetta
No Country for Old Men
Hotel Rwanda
12 Years a Slave
Shutter Island
The Truman Show
Ip Man
The Imitation Game
The Help
Anatomy of a Murder

I didn't see Fight Club in there.

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[Kaepernick]

I don't blame for not liking Magnolia. It's pretentious.

Hard Eight is a much simpler story -- doesn't wow you, but just a good character movie. Punch Drunk Love is enjoyable but is subtly a really brilliant movie when you figure out what he's trying to do.

I hate movies like Magnolia. I am very plot driven. People who are very character driven like movies like Magnolia. It is basically a series of character studies without any plot.

I am with Aristotle who said every story should have a beginning, am middle, and an end. So I like movies that set up a story, tell the story, then have a final resolution. A real ending. Things are solved. The director tells you how the story ends with a known resolution.

A lot of movies are just a slice of life or "day in the life" type, and I generally don't like those day in the life movies. A guy gets up, goes about his day, the day ends and you have no clue what happens going forward. Obviously this can be a year or 20 years, but either way, it is not a plotted story told. It is characters going about a series of events that flesh out their character, but there is no story behind it.

Ronin is as story. You begin with a caper, the story of the caper is told, and at the end they catch the bad guys.

Heat is a story. You begin with a crew planning a big heist, the story revolves around the heist, the story of the leader is resolved when he can't overcome his tragic flaw which is a thirst for vengeance.

Lost in Translation, Clerks, Sideways, Inside Llewyn Davis, are examples of movies that just ramble on with characters and there isn't really as story. One of the better of these types of movies is the Breakfast Club. Somewhere is another one that works.

[Infidel Goat]

I don't think anybody has brought it up, but I'd offer Thin Red Line as my pick for worst "best rated" movie.

[srvy]

I don't think anybody has brought it up, but I'd offer Thin Red Line as my pick for worst "best rated" movie.

Yep that one smelled!

Zero Dark Thirty bored me to sleep. I havn't liked anything from that director.

[Fire Me Boy!]

I remember when "Shakespeare in Love" won best film awards. Pretty bland. Saving Private Ryan was out that year to boot.

Life is Beautiful was out that year, too.

Most people agree that Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful split the vote, allowing the third-place movie to win.

[Saccopoo]

Life is Beautiful was out that year, too.

Most people agree that Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful split the vote, allowing the third-place movie to win.

I actually like Shakespeare in Love a lot, whereas I'm not really a huge SPR fan. (Not a big Hanks fan anyway.) Life is Beautiful is a very good movie, but I felt that SIL was a solid winner that year.

Oh, and welcome back.

[Hootie]

literally any movie by Wes Anderson

[srvy]

literally any movie by Wes Anderson

Even Royal Tenenbaums and Life Aquatic?

[suzzer99]

On the flip side - what are (were) Scorcese and Kubrick batting - .900? Any other directors with more than a half dozen movies and that good of a track record?

[Chuck Fargers]

Oh, I was waiting for a thread like this. Now, don't get me wrong, I look at ratings before I see a movie and usually make a choice depending on it, but there are still some horrible movies with high ratings that the sheep love. Of the IMDB top 250, I would rank the following movies 1.5 stars or less out of 4 stars:
Any Quinten Tarantino movie, too cartoonie, too unbelievable, too little substance. I don't get why people like his movies, only one that was any good was the one about fake Nazi Germany.
Lord of the Rings, all of them, & Harry Potter (I'll admit, I'm biased because I absolutely hate fantasy movies and feel like they are garbage)
Star Wars, all of them (See above)
Mad Max, Fury Road (It's a fucking 3 hour car chase in the desert with retards, it's only good action, horrible plot, horrible everything else. Just because it has Hardy in it doesn't make it good)
Sin City
Do you sniff glue? That's the only explanation I can come up with for this drivel.

[Chuck Fargers]

I don't think anybody has brought it up, but I'd offer Thin Red Line as my pick for worst "best rated" movie.
A... Fucking... Men. That movie made me want to put a bullet in my head. Magnolia and Birdman were not good either.

I'm just curious... Why no love for Into The Wild? I haven't seen anyone mention it and I thought it was outstanding.

[Miles]

I don't get Terrence Malick movies at all (Thin Red Line, New World, Tree of Life). Usually heavily praised by critics but everyone I know hates them.

[Miles]

I'm just curious... Why no love for Into The Wild? I haven't seen anyone mention it and I thought it was outstanding.

This is an anti-love thread and that was a pretty good movie.

[Chuck Fargers]

This is an anti-love thread and that was a pretty good movie.
You mean to tell me in the previous 227 posts before yours, no one discussed movies they like at some point during their post?

[notorious]

Thin Red Line is a very over-rated movie IMO.

I was shocked when I checked the reviews after I watched it.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Natural Born Killers...I hate movies that make you feel like shit, and that movie fits the bill. Everyone loved it, I hated it.

[milkman]

If a movie is critically acclaimed, it is a near certainty that I think it was pure crap.

I simply want mindless entertainment.

I stopped going to the movies years ago.

I stopped renting movies years ago.

[Tombstone RJ]

Natural Born Killers...I hate movies that make you feel like shit, and that movie fits the bill. Everyone loved it, I hated it.

agreed, that movie blows chunks.

[Tombstone RJ]

I don't get Terrence Malick movies at all (Thin Red Line, New World, Tree of Life). Usually heavily praised by critics but everyone I know hates them.

I have not seen New World (thankfully) but I totally agree that Thin Red Line and Tree of Life were both complete garbage. Awful movies.