Popular movies that you just didn't like

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  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    Twilight, Titanic and Avatar to name a few!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Just bc you don't like it doesn't mean its not good. I agree with a lot of choices (twilight esp), but guess what just bc it doesn't entertain you (or us, the majority at this site it seems) does not mean it didn't entertain the teenagers that it was created for.

    I have to minorly disagree only because I think films who throw away any solid plot just to have an hour and a half of sex jokes, fart jokes, poor slapstick, and general randomness aren't good whether I watch them or not. To me those feed off teenagers and college students with the sense of humor of a 13 year old boy finding boobs on the internet for the first time or the people that leech around on the cesspool site that is 4chan. But, again that is my opinion and others are bound to say they disagree with it and that's fine. That aside yes you are right, just because you don't like something or abhor it doesn't mean it's automatic trash.

    I actually do agree that just because *I* don't like something doesn't make it not good. I hated The da Vinci Code, but can objectively say that Dan Brown is a good writer and I understand why people liked it. I didn't enjoy The Hunger Games (book or movie), but I don't think it was not good in the objective sense. It just wasn't for me.

    But there is good writing and bad writing that one can judge objectively. Still, art is subjective and totally in the eye of the beholder.

    I can't stand Will Ferrell. I think he is funny in a certain context, but he always takes the joke too far. There were scenes in Taladega Nights that were funny for about two minutes that he dragged out for 10 minutes until it wasn't funny anymore. I had the same problem with Knocked Up and 40-Year-Old Virgin. They were funny for the first 90 minutes or so, but then the joke got old.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Most Adam Sandler mivies.

    JM
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
    Most Adam Sandler movies.
    You took the words right out of my mouth...

    and add to that list - most Ben Stiller/Will Ferrell/Jon Heder/Bradley Cooper/Jack Black movies.

    all those silly road-trip/girlfriend movies like Hangover/Bridesmaids/etc etc etc. and I never GOT American Pie (despite loving Alyson Hannigan)

    Also all those gangster/Mafia movies like The Godfather trilogy, Good Fellows, etc

    Apocalypse Now
    Lost in Translation
    Forrest Gump
    Titanic

    I think I'll leave it here for just now... :laugh:
  • mattemery
    mattemery Posts: 38 Member
    Some commendable listings here....but by far the worst, most pretentious, "artsy" movie that was nominated for every major awards show.... TREE OF LIFE. Awful! Walked by the same theatre a week after I saw it and they had a sign out front " No refunds for Tree of Life" no other movies....just that god awful acid trip.

    ^^^^^^^

    THIS... Absolutely
  • Pengi81
    Pengi81 Posts: 336 Member

    "Superbad" - was SUPER BAD!!

    Finally, someone else who agrees with me on this

    I didn't laugh once, and I want those hours back!
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    all romantic comedies

    The plot of every romantic comedy:

    two people meet. they either hook up then fight, or hate eachother right off the bat

    the rest of the movie is supposedly-but-not-actually "witty" banter and supposedly-but-not-even-close-to "funny" situations revolving around why these two people aren't happy with eachother

    then in the end there is a big huge moment with epic music when they realize they are truly meant to be together

    cue vomit. every romantic comedy i have ever seen has been a drain on precious hours of my life. friends/boyfriends have constantly made me sit down to movies they said were "hilarious" only for me to find out right away what a ****storm of mediocrity and nausia i was in for. Lately I've been dragged through

    Bridesmades (where a bunch of psycho *****es are *****es to everyone for a few hours? NOT funny)

    I Love You Man (great cast? not about heterosexual romance? STILL FILLED WITH HORRIBLE-NESS)

    Knocked Up (oh fun, several hours of two people screaming at eachother intersperced with stoner humor.)
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Dirty Dancing... why does every woman like this movie?
    Avatar... didn't hate it. But I didn't like it.
    The Dark Knight. I just couldn't get into it.

    I would say Bridesmaids but I didn't think that one was very popular. I thought it was really boring and not funny at all.
    And then there's Twilight. I still can't quite comprehend why these movies are popular.


    Oh and Marley and Me. I thought the movie was alright but I could never figure out why everyone thought that movie was "so sad"... Oh no, the stupid, horrible, dog who ruined everything died. ????
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Avatar...the movie equivalent of TL:DR

    Napoleon Dynamite...I think I laughed 1 time during the entire movie & questioned why I was watching it the entire time

    Twilight...Hollywood purposely went out & recruited the worst actors imaginable and lumped them all together just to punish society as a whole
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Titanic
    Dirty Dancing
    Memento
    Heat
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    P.S. In regards to Bridesmaids...I heard the funniest scene was the deleted scene with Paul Rudd; but I have yet to see it.
  • crazytreelady
    crazytreelady Posts: 752 Member
    Twilight series
    Black Swan
    Shutter Island
    Dirty Dancing
    Ghost
    Most Clint Eastwood directed movies

    The list goes on for quite a while
  • saturnine15
    saturnine15 Posts: 140
    I HATE Napoleon Dynamite.

    Also dislike:

    Pulp Fiction
  • Hanablu2
    Hanablu2 Posts: 134 Member
    Melancholia I can't believe Kirsten Dunst got an award for being dull and staring in the whole movie. Napolean Dynamite another movie where the main character and the supporting characters are all dull. Bridesmaids: Oscar nominated for farting and being disgusting, please! The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers soooo perverted do not let your kids watch it.
  • amuhlou
    amuhlou Posts: 693 Member
    Titanic for me too. Too sappy. Too long.
  • Toxictwist
    Toxictwist Posts: 274
    -Bridesmaids
    -Harry Potter
    -Lord of the Rings
    -Twilight
  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    Lord of the Rings. Bored the crap outta me...
  • Bruinsmama
    Bruinsmama Posts: 53 Member
    Did anyone say GHOST yet? I HATED that movie!
  • Jlfisch
    Jlfisch Posts: 27
    Titantic, anything with leonardo diCRAPio in it :laugh: Does it really take that long to sink a ship??
  • BlueInkDot
    BlueInkDot Posts: 702 Member
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets makes me feel like I'm having a nightmare. All of the others were fine, it was just something about the lighting in that one.

    Army of Darkness makes me feel like I'm having a fever dream.

    Dumb and Dumber, and all of the Austin Powers movies - my siblings are always on me like WHY DON'T YOU LIKE THESE MOVIES????? THEY ARE SO FUNNY!!!!!! But I really don't like the gross humor. I'm not into it. It's disgusting, it's not funny, and I feel like I'm gonna throw up. I like a poop joke just as much as the next person (or more, in most cases) but I don't want to SEE it. Jeez. That's just too far. :/
  • FindingSamMon
    FindingSamMon Posts: 990 Member
    American Beauty.

    And ya, the Godzilla with Mathew Brodrick WAS horrible!

    ^^^This^^^^^ Plus I really hated the Blair Witch Project. I asked for my money back when it was over.
  • ajohn252
    ajohn252 Posts: 158
    Marley and Me! I would have put that bratty dog down pronto.

    Oh yeah and the dreaded Twilight.
  • jsugihara86
    jsugihara86 Posts: 71 Member
    Hunger Games!
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    2012: Worst movie ever!
  • tambink
    tambink Posts: 349
    Star Wars
    Harry Potter
    Twlight
  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
    So many people hate Avatar, that hurts me on a deep level :sad: LOL j/k

    Anything that is really stupid funny. Like Austin Powers, Superbad, The Hangover, etc. I would need to be really, and I mean REALLY, drunk to even sit through any of them.
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
    Inception was the worst movie ever. I fell asleep.

    And to all you haters on Star Wars? Really?! The original trilogy was AMAZING.
    It's Jar-Jar Binks that brought the whole franchise down!

    Episodes 4-6: Good
    Episode 1: Awful. Kill the Gungan.
    Episode 2: OK, too much CG, but lots of action
    Episode 3: Similar in drama to TESB, too much CG, but not awful.
  • thelovelyLIZ
    thelovelyLIZ Posts: 1,227 Member
    Titanic. I enjoyed the first hour or so, but as soon as the ship started sinking I just got bored. I was ready for the movie to be over, the sinking took way too long.

    Napoleon Dynamite. I saw it at the dollar theatre on 50 cent Tuesday, and when we got done my friend said "I could have had more fun throwing the two quarters I spent to see this movie at a wall for an hour and a half." Pretty much my sentiment.
  • TraceyR68
    TraceyR68 Posts: 41 Member
    Bridesmaids!! I was looking forward to seeing it and was SO disappointed.
  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets makes me feel like I'm having a nightmare. All of the others were fine, it was just something about the lighting in that one.

    Army of Darkness makes me feel like I'm having a fever dream.

    Dumb and Dumber, and all of the Austin Powers movies - my siblings are always on me like WHY DON'T YOU LIKE THESE MOVIES????? THEY ARE SO FUNNY!!!!!! But I really don't like the gross humor. I'm not into it. It's disgusting, it's not funny, and I feel like I'm gonna throw up. I like a poop joke just as much as the next person (or more, in most cases) but I don't want to SEE it. Jeez. That's just too far. :/

    I guess that means you don't like the American Pie series, which is so funny to me I hurt myself laughing. Otherwise, me and you are on the same page.
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