Popular films that you think weren't much good.

[WildRosie]

The Italian Job
Ghostbusters
Tequila Sunrise

These were in the days I still went to the cinema. Years ago. I didn't get the appeal of any of the foregoing. Is it just me ?

Dead Poets Society. I loved this film to bits when it first came out in my first year at uni, but three or four years later when I had read around feminism, sociology and certain kinds of literature, and generally developed critical thinking, I found the manipulative melodrama of the plot left a nasty taste. The absence of women and the accepted, casual contempt in which women were held didn’t escape me second time round, and the popular young teacher’s behaviour looked irresponsible and inappropriate, if not downright negligent.

Meet Joe Black

why do people keep saying this? It flopped, the reviews weren't great and you never see it on the classics/great films lists.

Love actually - it grew on me with repeated viewings but it hasn't aged well at all..so many troubling and irritating scenes

Avatar - too predictable though I love the male lead

The usual suspects - hugely boring though I watched it as a teenager. Maybe it's better than I thought.

All the original star wars movies

Hugo - the movie where time stood still (probably because it was bored too).

And I agree with the Italian job. Also hate it because I've got a lot of nasty comments overly the years whenever I mentioned I didn't like it.

There will be blood - just didn't get it at all. We all thought there was something wrong for the first 30min with the sound as no one said anything.

Avatar - too predictable though I love the male lead

avatar was a bland story, it was more the ground breaking graphics that made it appealing.

Love Actually
Titanic
Forest Gump

all total push

Lol, total pish - thanks autocorrect

Dirty Dancing. Never finished it. Don't care about any of the characters at all.
The Holiday. Dreadful tripe.
The Blair Witch Project. For some reason I was bored and irritated by the incessant hysteria rather than scared.

Citizen Kane. Very shouty and dull as hell.

That's so sad. Did you see them as a child or an adult?

Pulp Fiction
Titanic

Slumdog Millionaire. I turned up to the cinema expecting a feelgood film, and ended up watching a kid wading about in shit, amongst other horrors.

The tacked-on bit of Bollywood at the end seemed utterly incongruous.

Why is it sad?

I loved all of these! Great how we’re all so different.

Bridesmaids……utter crap

Dunkirk. I found it quite difficult to watch but not in the way intended. There's plenty documentaries on the subject much more educational and engaging imo.

Is that what happens in the end? I can't contribute to this thread except that ... I have never seen Shawshank to the end. I just stop caring about the characters. I have seen most of it a few times, and now I avoid, because I just know how I stop caring about what happens suddenly, about 90 minutes in.

Someone comes along with evidence of Dufresne's innocence. The prison governor has this person killed as Dufresne is too useful for his embezzlement scheme.

So Dufresne embezzles all the money himself, escapes from prison and sends a dossier to the local law enforcement people. Red gets paroled a year later and joins Dufresne. The governor kills himself. Film then ends.

He's very good at playing Michael Caine. And that can be a very good thing. He was downright scary in Mona Lisa.

"You bloody fool George .... you bloody fool"

I love lots of the films sneered at on this thread. Oh well, I guess I’ll never be one of the cool kids. <shrugs>

Saving Private Ryan. Self indulgent shithousery with Tom "headroom" Hanks gurning in uniform and making out like the yanks won the bloody war.

It Follows
Lord of the Rings trilogy
TitaniC
The dark knight
inception
Schindlers list
a clockwork orange

and soooo many more 😂

A Star is Born (the latest one)

Utter, utter boring drivel with boring characters and mediocre songs. And totally romanticises alcoholism and enabling behaviours. Lady Gaga using her dress to cover his pissy pants Also why did she have to do an unnecessary full frontal nude scene when Bradley Cooper’s character gets too pissed and put in the shower his shirt doesn’t even come off? I was so cross I wasted my time on this. And I didn’t see any chemistry at all - unless ‘chemistry’ is one man being a nasty vile slurring prick to an insipid woman.

I also hated a star is born with Lady GaGa.
She started off well, but it he film dragged a lot and that 'shallows' song was awful dirge

Same! Every storyline is cringe:

Creepy best make stalker video and turns up at front door.

Boss hits on younger female employee.

Classic male midlife crisis falls for younger female colleague.

Dorky guy ends up as a babe magnet in USA

No chemistry among any of them. Emma Thompson stands out as a gem amongst the rest.