Name a movie or show that you didn't like that everyone else did.

[bif]

Mine would be Austin Powers and Seinfeld.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Avatar

I was bored with the storyline and characters and 3D gives me a headache.

[HopeHoops]

2. I only had a few exposures to Seinfeld and thought it was rather dumb.

Three or four lines with a not-very-funny punch line and that stupid bass guitar thing to switch scenes. *Yawn*

[pacalo]

3. I don't understand why "Casablanca" is rated so highly.

I've always liked Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman, but I never could get into that movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. The Piano

Plot holes you could shove a baby grand through:

Sam Neill is in New Zealand, surrounded by adoring missionary ladies, but he sends to America for a mail-order bride (Holly Hunter) who is not only mute but has a daughter out of wedlock.

Then he goes ahead and IGNORES said mail-order bride to spend all his time having tea with the missionary ladies.

Now anyone with a normal libido would set about making Sam Neill notice her, but instead, Holly Hunter gets the hots for Harvey Keitel, who goes around looking like he hasn't had a bath for a few decades. Meanwhile, the local Maori children teach the daughter how to hump trees.

By the time Sam Neill threw the piano overboard and Holly Hunter jumped in after it, I was hoping that her heavy Victorian clothes would cause her to drown.

[cyberswede]

5. There's Something About Mary

I didn't find it funny at all - I'm completely mystified as to whey people liked that movie.

[LynneSin]

10. It's weird - the 2 times I saw it in the theaters I laughed my ass off but...

When I watch it on TV I find it boring as hell.

Same thing with "The 40-Year Virgin".

However "The Hangover" is funny no matter where I watch it.

[cyberswede]

25. Could it be the theater atmosphere?

I saw TSAM on tv, not in the theater. Come to think of it, I usually like movies I see in the theater. Must be the popcorn or milk duds. :)

[LynneSin]

27. Probably the reason why I felt "The Wedding Crashers" was sucky

I mean the first 30 minutes of the movie with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crashing weddings was pretty funny. Then they got into that stupid romance part of the movie and I just flip the channel. BTW, never saw it in the theaters.

I do think you're right- there's something about seeing the movie in the theaters, especially a comedy, that makes it funnier. Probably because laughter is infectious - you get a few people laughing, then everyone else starts laughing too.

This is probably why there are only a few comedies that crossover well between theater and home viewing. Personally I think "The Hangover" was one of the best ones but I suspect "The Hangover 2" probably won't.

[bluethruandthru]

85. +10000

stupid and not at all funny.

[stuntcat]

93. + a million

And I've had to sit through it twice now, hanging out with my in-laws. 4 hours I can never get back.

[meegbear]

6. Sienfeld / Friends ...

but I do like some Seinfeld episodes (but not many).

[woo me with science]

44. Agree on Friends.

Never liked a single one of the characters.

[MilesColtrane]

7. Every Will Ferrell movie but Elf

[NewJeffCT]

92. I would say everything from Will Ferrell

he just rubs me the wrong way

[LeftinOH]

8. "Friends": Painfully unfunny, but lots of nice hair. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

66. Yep.

Never understood the attraction to that one.

[LynneSin]

9. "Gone with the Wind" sucked bigtime suckage

Outside of the amazing cinematography, the movie was trite and boorish. Scarlett O'Hara was an awful woman who deserves to die alone miserable an unhappy. Rhett's biggest mistake was not dumping her sorry ass years earlier.

I saw it in the theater once. When she did the "God as my Witness" scene and the curtains closed - I thought the movie was overwith and couldn't wait to get home. I should have ignored what the couple had said and just gone home and enjoyed my evening.

[MicaelS]

26. Two Thumbs WAY UP for that post...

Every time Scarlett came on the screen I wanted to smack her. Hard. GWTW is a 4 hour long soap opera.

[LynneSin]

52. OMG I'm such a non-violent person and she's one of the few people in this world

I could justify slapping her upside the head.

I'm trying not to use the word bitch to define a woman but Scarlett O'Hara is probably one of the few exceptions.

[Darth_Kitten]

54. But, there was Melly.

:)

I'm an Olivia de Havilland fan. Great actress.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

62. Leslie Howard was a great actor. But his character sucked.

Ashley was such a wimp.

Melanie was a cardboard cutout of goodness.

It's sad that we remember Leslie Howard for that role when he had many others that were much better: The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage, Spitfire.

[GoCubsGo]

68. That was an awful film.

I was dragged to it as a young child. The only thing I could remember was the amputation scene. Saw it decades later. The rest of it sucked just as badly.

[Rambis]

11. Pulp Fiction was a shower of shyte- (nm)

x

[Bake]

12. TI-EFFIN-TANIC!

What a buncha crap!

Bake

[driver8]

37. AMEN!! Titanic sucks the big one...

After I saw this pile of shit, I couldn't believe that people were seeing it more than once! Why??

[Misskittycat]

47. Totally agree. It was awful. n/t

[Denninmi]

80. A waste of film stock and time.

The ending was extremely predictable and stupid. If she loved him so much, why didn't she make more of an effort to try to save him. Why, because he had to die, of course, since we all knew it was coming.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Just about any major reality TV show

Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, etc. I have barely watched anything related to them over the years, and then only in passing.

[ceile]

14. Forest Gump, Singles, Seinfeld

If it wasn't for the two movies having incredible sound tracks, they'd be useless.

[KurtNYC]

28. Forest Gump, as a movie, was smug, like it was soooo clever...

it wasn't.

Friends was unfunny and vapid.
American Idol
Blade Runner, aside from Art Direction, is mediocre; not bad but not the masterpiece some seem to think it is.

[alsame]

15. The Wizard of Oz. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

63. Read The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

Wizard of Oz is a typical hero's journey just like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and many others.

[fishwax]

83. but being a hero's journey doesn't mean it's good

:P

I like Wizard of Oz, though :)

[alsame]

86. Very true, but something about the imagery really freaked me

out when I first saw it as a child. Not the Witch, that's a pretty standard figure in children's lit and fairy tales. But things like the flying monkey, the talking trees, even the Munchkin voices scared me.

I avoided it for years and then saw it again as an adult and still didn't like it. I know I'm in the minority because it's so well-loved, but I'll stick with Harry Potter. :)

[bigwillq]

16. Forrest Gump

L O S T

[Raffi Ella]

17. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I am in love w/ Brad Pitt but I thought it was soooo contrived and way too long. Hated it.

I don't watch a lot of TV. Ever since 9/11 my TV is always on MSNBC. I mean I'll watch a show every now and then- I watched The Voice on Tuesday, but I probably won't watch it next week.

I always mean to watch Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars but I always forget. I don't even know what channel they're on.

[kentauros]

18. Primer

The thread on it with my arguments against are around here somewhere recent :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Forrest Gump, and Citizen Kane...nt

[bikebloke]

20. The Sopranos

Half way through Season One, I got tired of the gumbah schtick. Luckily, the DVD's were freebies. I donated them to the public library so perhaps others could enjoy it.

[WinkyDink]

21. Survivor; The Amazing Race; Oprah.

[RedCloud]

22. Contact

Seems like the biorhythm clock should have been introduced for evidence.

[Pool Hall Ace]

23. "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Citizen Kane"

They both left me saying, "That's it?" at the end. :shrug:

[zipplewrath]

24. Moonstruck

I was ready to walk out but was with a large number of freinds. Afterwards I was surprised to find out how many would have gone with me.

Terms of Endearment was awful, and won an Oscar.

[applegrove]

29. Beverly Hills 91210. I think it is because I just hated high school. All my girlfriends watched

it and talked about it.

[BlueIris]

30. The Dark Knight and LOST.

Really did not give a rat's ass about LOST.

[femmocrat]

31. Seinfeld. Thirtysomething. n/t

[solara]

32. Sex and the City- series and the movie

LOST, in fact any of the so called "reality" shows; Nash Bridges, Full House, Fresh Prince of Bel Air; 7th Heaven; Everybody Loves Raymond -

bahhh TV mostly sucks


:eyes:

[7wo7rees]

33. Anything by Adam Sandler

[digonswine]

76. Yes.

[TaleWgnDg]

79. Yup . . . n/t

[some guy]

34. Goodfellas

I dislike anything and everything with Joe Pesci.

[7wo7rees]

78. You may have insulted him a li'l bit.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

35. Black Swan.

I was pretty amazed at how little I cared about any of the characters. Hell, Hannibal Lecter had more redeeming qualities than Nina & Company.

[blue_onyx]

39. I agree

I didn't see the point of the movie. There wasn't much of a story. It was basically a girl having a breakdown. I was disappointed because it looked far more interesting in the commercials.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

61. It felt as if I were watching a movie directed by a horny teenage boy.

The masturbation, the groping by the boss, the girl-on-girl action, the old guy yanking it on the subway. Gratuitous is gratuitous, and anything done that deliberately, to be controversial, is a turn-off. The sad thing is she was having a breakdown, and I didn't care -- she wasn't sympathetic at all. I might watch "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" again, just to compare, since it's been so many years.

[XemaSab]

74. I didn't think it was gratuitous

I thought it was there to indicate that Nina feels very threatened by sexuality.

Think about it: all the "sex" scenes were gross and disturbing. That's intentional.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

82. Nina felt threatened by many things; perhaps that's why I found her so difficult to take.

The girl-on-girl was "gross and disturbing"? That seemed realistic -- two people stumbling home from a club and going at it with abandon. Even though Nina was fairly passive, we did get to *enjoy* her big, fat liberating orgasm. And it was a stretch to believe that as controlled as Nina was, she'd hit a club the night before a big performance, drinking, rolling, and having sex with strangers.

As far as two other "sex" scenes, it's likely that many women, not just Nina, would feel threatened by being groped by a superior, and by some guy simulating yanking it while on the subway alone at night.

And the masturbation scene seemed wholly unnecessary. We already knew the mother was domineering and unstable -- the tense cake scene proved that. It was clear early on that there was something very wrong going on in that apartment, from the little girl bedroom to the doors that did not lock. Nina seemed familiar with "exploring"; it was the mother invading her privacy that was the issue.

I suppose I'm not a fan of being beaten over the head with certain themes, and that's what this film felt like to me. The metamorphosis into black swan was manipulative and rushed. The dance (pardon the pun) between reality and madness grew monotonous. To each his or her own, though, eh?

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Think About That

Then maybe you'll understand that you understand it better than you think.
GAC

[XemaSab]

36. There were a few mentioned upthread

I thought "Inception" sucked hard.

[digonswine]

77. It was a neat idea but is was toooo stoopid to watch.

[yankeepants]

38. The Sound of Music

[Lionel Mandrake]

81. Did you ever see the real Maria von Trapp?

She didn't look like Julie Andrews.

[brettdale]

40. worst comedy ever

Friends

[brettdale]

41. also

Jim carry movies, will farrell movies.

[trackfan]

42. 2001: A Space Odyssey

meh..

[sarge43]

51. Me too.

Kubrick at his most self indulgent and condescending.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. The Dark Knight. Violent waste of film and time.

Sex and the City - i can't imagine watching a bunch of airheaded muffies who get orgasmic over shoes no sane person could walk in.

All TV sitcoms except The Simpsons. It doesn't have a laugh track to provoke your Pavlovian response. You have to listen to get the jokes, and watch the picture to see the funny signs.
As a result, where I live, nobody has ever HEARD of The Simpsons in 22 years, neither have they watched it.

Didn't like Avatar. Thought Titanic was quite good except for the script and the lousy Celine Dion song. Leo wasn't old enough to be a leading man, but a lot of it was excellent. The special effects, sets and costumes were excellent. I wish they had had a leading man role for a mature guy like Victor Garber....for us mature ladies.


The Life of David Gale was filmed in Austin and Huntsville and is about the Death Penalty in Texas. Stars Kevin Spacey. Roger Ebert gave it an F. I think he did so because he is not used to the constant executions in Texas and the attitude of the politicians towards it. The end was kind of ambiguous but otherwise it was thought provoking.


My daughter made me watch Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. I thought they were a waste of time and a glorification of violence. I have forgotten just about everything about them.
Another case of no personal relationships, and lots of violence instead of a plot.

OTOH, I liked Beavis and Butthead Do America. I was made to watch that because "Ashton Kutcher is hot and takes his shirt off."

[donheld]

45. Can't say I dislike it but, I've so far, refused to watch Titanic

No really good reason.

[BlueIris]

55. You're a wise one. $200 million worth of eye candy but no plot.

And I mean no plot. They didn't even make an effort to come up with a believable plot. At all.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

64. ship sinking and hundreds drowning is not a plot?

That's more plot than a lot of movies I have seen.
Yeah the script sucked, and Celine Dion's song sucked, and Leo was not old enough to be a leading man.

I liked it a lot better than many movies.
I liked Kathy Bates as Molly Brown.
I liked Victor Garber as the architect.
I liked the special effects.
i liked the sets.
I liked the costumes.
I cried at the old Strauss couple drowning together.
I cried at the woman telling her children the story of Tir-na-Nog.

So call me an idiot.

[mucifer]

46. The Matrix nt

[Angleae]

48. Another vote for The Dark Knight

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Titanic

My wife and i thought it was dreck. We were laughing out loud at it (not with it) and walked out. Then we tried to watch what we missed on HBO (or Showtime or whatever) and couldn't get through it, even in the comfort of our own home.

Yet, it made a gazillion dollars, so we were clearly in the minority. And, more bafflingly, it won awards. AWARDS! AWARDS? For that?

I also agree with the first reply on his thread. Avatar blew.
GAC

[Darth_Kitten]

53. I once walked out of an Austin Powers movie....

literally...I just found it so bad. :(

And Seinfeld, just never watched it. I get tired of people whining. :)

[annonymous]

56. I never liked Seinfeld

I tried to watch it a few times and found the characters annoying as hell.

[auntAgonist]

57. Lost and most reality shows. n/t

[NoGOPZone]

58. Silence of the Lambs

He eats people! Oooh, I'm so scared!!

[blue neen]

59. Two and a Half Men

Unfunny and sexist.

[nolabear]

60. Avatar.

Dances With Smurfs, indeed. And DAMN that woman's shriek made me want to rip my eardrums out.

[Chan790]

65. There are a few but the most-especial "What is this shit?" belongs to Buffy. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

67. Gray's Anatomy and Lost.

Meh. And, in the movie department, "Saturday Night Fever", "The Sound of Music", and most of all, "It's a Wonderful Life".

[cherish44]

69. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

check most other game show/ competitions

American Idol? BLECHHHHH!

[S_E_Fudd]

70. E.T. and Gone With the Wind....nt

[provis99]

71. Avatar.

My brother and I were aghast at how bad and derivative it was, yet everyone else in the theatre stood up and CLAPPED.

And I hated Dangerous Liasons, too. Who the heck would take John Malkovich seriously as a great seducer? The guy was just creepy. I and five female friends actually sat and laughed through the whole movie, before asking for our money back.

[bighughdiehl]

72. Pulp Fiction

and all Tarantino stuff except Inglorious Bastards.
Avatar-cheesy in every way
Friends-most unfunny sitcom ever.
Black Swan-The bell Jar on film with a lesbian sex scene thrown in...blecch.
Almost any reality show

[Orrex]

73. The JLo spanking tape

Not a fan, and I don't care how many Loungers love it.

[Zephie]

75. .

dyslexia sucks.

[distantearlywarning]

84. Seinfeld. Friends. Anything starring Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell.

And on edit: It's a Wonderful Life. No, it's a crappy life, where the Dick Cheney lookalike bad guy essentially gets away with his evil deeds.

[Very_Boring_Name]

87. Grey's Anatomy

[dixiegrrrrl]

88. Beaches. Actually, anything with Bette Midler.

She's loud, annoying, screechy, overacts, and has 3 expressions, all unpleasant to look at.
And cannot sing, either.
I never got the Kleenex moment in Beaches.


right behind that, anything with Streisand. Maybe the Fannie Brice thing was ok, but my god, The Way We Were??????
We are supposed to believe Redford and Streisand as a couple???


I would sooner eat bricks.

[Paladin]

89. "Gone With The Wind," "The Sound Of Music," "Easy Rider" (n/t)

[fishwax]

90. The Cider House Rules

[obxhead]

91. American Idol and

every other copycat that is or has been on.

[hamsterjill]

94. The latest Star Trek

I hated it. Everyone that I know who saw it loved it.

I thought it was stupid.

[riderinthestorm]

95. The Big Lebowski, Brother Where Art Thou. Any hard core war movie

like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. Most Jack Black, Mel Gibson or Adam Sandler movies. Some of the old musicals are just too hard to endure anymore like "Music Man".