Supposedly good films that you thought were shit?

[BlueSmarties76]

I've just watched Before Sunrise & Before Sunset. Both highly rated and well regarded. I didn't enjoy either of them, especially Before Sunset. It was basically two quite uninteresting characters talking to each other for the duration of the film, and I didn't even like the characters either!

Tell me some of the highly rated / regarded films that you think are crap?

No! I love Tarantino. He's someone who loves film and does what he wants as opposed what the studio wants. In a world where Human Centipede exists, he's not especially sick, either.

I'd agree with The English Patient.

Also, Donnie Darko - pants.

The Shining - Jack Nicholson scenery-chewing pants.

Oh yes, Godfather films massively over rated!

I didn't think Donnie Darko was terrible, but I really didn't understand why it was so popular.

Generally I like Tarantino.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. Wish I could have had my own memories of that erased.

Agree re Before Sunrise too. Yawns ville

The Usual Suspects. I have tried to watch it 5 times and fallen asleep every single time.

Agree about Tarantino. Nasty, violent, misogynistic.

Anything my brother with a BA in Film recommends. Guaranteed to be slow, pretentious and often black and white.

Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood's Cowboy comeback film. Most boring film ever, ever.

The Piano. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Les Mis. Loved the stage show. Couldn't wait for the movie. Shame its so awful.

Bridesmaids, it did nothing for me, is it just that it's mainly women that it's so hyped?! Well done women, have a pat on the head

It is funny, my favourite films are before sunrise, and before sunset. Rings so true to me, almost like it is about DH and me (we met in Germany in the mid nineties, just a fling....only it turned out to be luuuuurve just like the movie )

Eternal sunshine is another fave of mine (again, I can relate to it, and lik the message of the film)

IPity After much badgering from Netflix, I watched Donnie Darko on Saturday night. When I first watched it ten years ago I really enjoyed it and understood it.
Saturday night, however, I was bored out of my box and I didn't have a fucking clue what it was all meant to be about. Just seemed to be a lot of long, linger shots and musical notes and a completely nonsensical story.

Also, I just wanted to shout at Donnie to stand up fucking straight and take that stupid top-lip-weirdly-curled-over-the-bottom-one half smile off his face.

Add me to the Tarantino-haters as well. Such pretentious bollocks and I think he actually does exactly what 'the studio' wants, I doubt he'd be as rich as he is if he was that much of a rebel.

I will admit to liking the Before and After Sunrise trilogy , they're full of shite as well but I find them endearing and have a soft spot for them because they're my husbands favourite films. Eternal Sunshine however is a step too far for me - I found it tedious.

I don't mind Quentin Tarantino films - they're alright but I do find that he remakes the same film over and over again. It's not so much that he is influenced by other filmmakers, he just copies. Hateful Eight was like a greatest hits of a film - all his favourite actors all had their own wee monologue, the script was good but I'd felt I'd seen it before. It was just retreading the same old stuff/story - I think his only saving grace is the dialogue.

Lost in Translation. Love Bill Murray but hated this film.
Yy to Les Mis. Sat through 45 mins thinking how ghastly it was and assuming it must get much better as people rave about it so much. Nope. Switched it off.

Cloud Atlas
The Tree of Life
Hours of my life I will never get back...

Boyhood. Ok it was a great achievement but boy was it dull!

Y, lost in translation was dull.

Boyhood I thought was an interesting concept but I agree it wasn't as amazing as it was supposed to be.

In fact, Boyhood wasn't amazing at all, just fairly good.

Avatar (the blue one.)

Pants

Black Swan and Magnolia. I think both of them won loads of awards but I thought they were a load of pretentious shite.
And that bloody awful one with Matthew mccoughonhey (sorry, can't spell today) where he's an astronaught and travels back in time to look at his daughter through the wall. DH loved it. Guff. Infinity??

OH yes, my DH loved that one too, Cass. I thought it was ok but wouldn't have chosen to watch it and could have lived without watching it, tbf. Certainly didn't deserve the "You Have to see this, it's amazing!" that DH came out with.

Agree with PP about Lost In Translation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Gave up on the second one as was completely lost pretty much the moment it started. Stuck with LIT as we were in the cinema and I kept thinking, everyone has raved about this being brilliant - something must happen soon surely? Nothing did. Baffled.

Also hated Goodfellas but I am probably alone in that as most people seem to have thought that was brilliant.

Also pretty much anything Oliver Stone has ever made. Turgid, overlong crap (IMO). Slept through most of Natural Born Killers.

Also AI - really depressing.

The Grand Budapest Hotel was terrible, DP loved it though so I suffered through it for him.
I hated In Bruges and Lost In Translation as I had no idea what was going on.
Life of Pi pissed me off at the end because I hated the ambiguity of it all.

ITA with Black Swan. The best criticism of it that I've read is that it's not scary/tense enough to be a thriller and not OTT enough to be a camp classic.

Mulholland Drive is another stinker. Very stilted acting, nonsense plot and a very unconvincing lesbian relationship that seems to be only there to titillate straight men.