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Field is Dreams is a crap film, so is Withnail & I

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plastique · 11/12/2016 18:35

I've pretended to like Field of Dreams for at least 10 years.. It's utter nonsense! Brought it up today with a mate.. Haha she hates Withnail & I but has always maintained she was a fan!!! If you understand where we're coming from. What film to you secretly hate that everyone else apparently loves ???

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Nicknameofawesome · 11/12/2016 21:54

Also sorry affleck but good will hunting is utter tripe.

Cellardoor23 · 11/12/2016 21:55

Die Hard
Rocky
All the James Bond films

Cellardoor23 · 11/12/2016 22:00

I really, really detest Mama Mia as well. It's on at the theatre where I live just now. I don't understand why it's so popular.

OlennasWimple · 11/12/2016 22:02

I didn't like Field of Dreams the first time I saw it, now I know a bit about baseball I have re-watched it and finally "get" it

8 Mile, O Brother Where Art Thou? and The Godfather all leave me cold though

havalina1 · 11/12/2016 22:03

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - absolute crap!!! Friends LOVED it growing up and would in a cult-like way go watch it in the local cinema where it ran every Friday for decades.

Tigresswoods · 11/12/2016 22:08

How can anyone hate Elf????

However:

Grease
Dirty Dancing
Goonies

^
Crap

SenecaFalls · 11/12/2016 22:18

I like Field of Dreams because I love baseball. But the best baseball movie of them all is Bull Durham.

wevecomeonholidaybymistake · 11/12/2016 22:23

Ahem, Withnail is a glorious film.

I hate Pulp Fiction and everyone seems to love it.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 11/12/2016 22:23

Another who fails to be enchanted by It's A Wonderful Life.

Blue Velvet? Yuk Double yuk.

Oh and Pretty Woman vile and misogynistic.

DramaInPyjamas · 11/12/2016 22:25

I don't think Will Ferrell is funny at all in anything, so I can't see the attraction in Elf.. And I love every Christmas movie ever made!
I cringe when people gush over it.

I just googled and didn't realise it was 13 years old. 13 years of Elf hatingGrin

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 11/12/2016 22:26

Also didn't rate Bridesmaids and didn't think it was the feminist masterpiece everyone else made it out to be.

It isn't. It's quite a nasty movie.

Amelie to whoever said they didn't see it because of her simpering on the poster - the entire film was exactly that.

zukiecat · 11/12/2016 22:31

YY to all James Bond films,

I just don't get them at all,

And I can never decide about The Grinch, it's irritating and The Whos are creepy as hell

Roussette · 11/12/2016 22:39

Apart from quite a few on here... here is my hate list that others rave about

Cube. So say a cult film. So depressing and horrible
Avatar. Could it be any more boring
Gravity. Predictable
ET. Hate it
French Connection. So rated but so boring
Fargo
Lost in Translation. Awful
You've got Mail. Sooooo wet
Any James Bond film with Roger Moore in

That'll do for now Grin

TheWitTank · 11/12/2016 22:40

Avatar is dreadful. Unbearably boring.

Roussette · 11/12/2016 22:41

(I wish I hadn't reminded myself about Cube. If you worry about films and outcomes and things, don't watch it, it affected me at the time, I now have to think of Toy Story instead Grin)

mynachos · 11/12/2016 22:48

shallow hal.............. woeful

gettingbythistime · 11/12/2016 22:52

Withnail and I is a beautiful work of pure genius. If I hadn't dabbled I probably wouldn't have loved it though

MrsBlennerhassett · 11/12/2016 22:57

The Shawshank Redemption and American History X.

The Shawshank Redemption is just a giant man fairytale wankfest and American History X is basically just ed norton showing off.

i genuinely absolutely love Withnail and I tho.

MrsBlennerhassett · 11/12/2016 22:59

oh and Forrest Gump. Just makes me cringe.

MakeItRain · 11/12/2016 23:02

I love The Shawshank Redemption!
Hated Withnail and I.
I loved An Officer and a Gentleman when I was a teenager but watched it recently and was really shocked at what a complete pile of utterly sexist rubbish it was.
Dirty Dancing was cringeworthy. Dances with Wolves was the longest 3 hours of my life.

FrancisCrawford · 11/12/2016 23:09

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Mynestisfullofempty · 11/12/2016 23:12

I don't think it's possible to understand any of The Matrix films unless you've experienced lucid dreams many times. I had several years of lucid dreams as a side-effect of medication and I really believe that they enabled me to understand The Matrix films and that anyone who hadn't had them just wouldn't 'get it'.

DaisyBD · 11/12/2016 23:20

I saw withnail 11 times in the cinema Blush

Livingtothefull · 11/12/2016 23:39

I agree that Titanic is shite, I hated everything about it.

Over 1500 real people died horribly that night, their names were all documented..so we know exactly who died. Yet that wasn't tragedy enough for the makers of the film so they made up some crap 'romance' about 2 fictitious people?

And then the old bag 'Rose' referring to the survivors in the lifeboats 'waiting for dawn; waiting for absolution, which never came'. A nice bit of survivor guilt there with reference to the 705 real life, traumatised, mostly bereaved survivors of the disaster. Survivors everywhere: be sure you feel guilty for surviving when others didn't.

That's before we get on to how certain members of the crew were portrayed. Remember these were real people with real names….these were people who launched the lifeboats and loaded passengers into them, knowing that the ship was sinking and that they themselves would probably not survive. Their conduct during that night was as good a definition of heroism as any I have heard of.

So when we see 'First Officer Murdoch' shooting a passenger and then committing suicide (without any historical record that indicates this actually happened) that is a real (potentially heroic) person that is being traduced there.

So when I say that Titanic is a big pile of shite I think I am being unduly kind.

FrancisCrawford · 11/12/2016 23:47

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