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Just noticed that awful film Mrs Harris goes to Paris is on TV I saw it at the cinema. Awful and the write up sounded so good. Hated Mama Mia and Barbie too.

Oh yeah, and Barbie. What the hell was that?

Avatar was such a boring film, along with all Star Wars/Lord of the Rings.

I love most of the films mentioned here.

Not Everything Everywhere All at Once though, that was the most irritating crapfest I’ve ever sat through. Apart from Poor Thing.

So those that didn’t like Bridesmaids, you didn’t laugh at all at the bit where they got food poisoning in the dress shop? It’s fascinating to me how you couldn’t laugh just a tiny, tiny bit at that. Not even a wonky smile? I’m giggling just thinking about it.

Anora. I felt the whole film was geared up purely for the male gaze. But then I think a lot of Oscar winners/nominees are just guff. Though I enjoyed Conclave.

I loved Barbie. It was hilarious!

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La La land
The Piano

Taxi driver
fight club
talented mr ripley (Matt Damon one)

The obvious answer is Star Wars. All of them. I saw the original trilogy first time round and enjoyed them. Because I was a child at the time and they are children’s films. Good ones, too. I then made the mistake of watching the first ‘prequel’ as an adult and walked out because it was so awful. But that’s hardly surprising because it’s a children’s film and I was no longer a child.

Less obviously, perhaps, the Shawshank Redemption. It’s obviously not a bad film, but it is mawkish & ridiculously overrated. I can never understand why it’s so many people’s favourite film. Maybe because they don’t watch more challenging, ambiguous or complex movies?

Goodnight Mister Tom

The book is brilliant though

The original three films were great at the time though - it’s all the other prequels and assorted related films that are dross, trying to milk as much as possible from the franchise but succeeding only in producing yawn-fests. Ditto all the Marvel stuff: I genuinely don’t get any of it.

Very few sequels are as good as the originals - the exceptions IMO are probably Toy Story and the Before trilogy - but then I feel very few films in general these days are made to fit the 50s-ish female demographic. I rarely go to the cinema as a result.

I have always hated Grease. Obvs the music is catchy, but the message of it is terrible.

I hate the original Disney films where women need to be rescued. And all the non consensual kissing princes do, f-that!

The Favourite, absolutely hated it and I usually LOVE both Olivia Coleman and Rachel Weisz. Felt so sad for Glenn Close not winning the Oscar for The Wife (which was superb) because of that stupid film.

Barbie - fell asleep.

My Sister's Keeper - loved the book and no idea why they changed the ending of the film so dramatically, it totally ruined it.

My Best Friend's Wedding - Julia Roberts is a fucking lunatic and her behaviour is obscenely weird and possessive. IRL the handsome groom would've told her where to get off and never spoken to her again.

Mrs Harris was such a let down from a wonderful warm book
LaLa Land and Moulin Rouge
also agree with avatar

i loved grease at about 12 years old but looking back the story is really bad

Beetlejuice
Dirty Dancing
Among others

Jumanji - the first one . Didn’t mind the newer one so much.

I liked the original Mrs Harris goes to Paris movie which starred Angela Lansbury.

Mama Mia was dreadful, as was Four Weddings and a Funeral, Quartet and Brassed Off. Luckily, I avoided Fishermen's Friends - the trailer warned me off.

Wow! Not even the bit where she's crossing the street in the wedding dress when disaster strikes? I laugh every time I think about it. I thought the competitive speeches were really funny too. Isn't it amazing how differently we all react to comedy?

Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy
Big hype
barely tittered 🤷‍♀️

I agree about Jim Carey films - but with one exception for The Truman Show, which I loved. But I might have liked it even more with a different actor in it.

Oh - just remembered my worst film of all time: Bend It Like Beckham. Awful.

Stand by me. I even started a thread to try to see its appeal but people who love it, both on here and in real life, can't say what it is they love about it. I asked about the 13-year-old kid taking a gun to a knife fight and being lauded as a "peacemaker" by the narrator, and got told I was overthinking it.

I mainly found Donny Darko confusing, but what I hate about it is that a teenage girl character has her mother disappear, and has good reason to fear the worst, but when she goes to ask Donnie's help she forgets about her mother and has sex with him and we never hear or see another thing about the mother, because this is a boy-comes-of-age film and the protagonist's first fuck is what matters.

Agreed!

Also agree with Barbie, Love Actually and The Holiday, and would add Poor Things

Babygirl. In my opinion, it seemed disjointed and not the least bit sexy.

Most of the Bond films. (The ones I've seen) Not my kind of thing

Pretty Woman - just an offensive glamorisation of prostitution