Classic films you hate

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schmitty2407

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So. There's talk of classic films you haven't seen. How about classic films you have seen, but hated.

I hated The Shining. It wasn't in the least bit scary - how the hell did it get an 18 rating?
 
I can't say I'm keen on any of Stanley Kubrick's films. He seems overrated to me. However, the classic film I absolutely hated was Apocalypse Now. I saw it when it was first released and if I hadn't been one of a large group of students who all went to see it together I would have walked out before the end. It was years before I could bear the sight of Martin Sheen.
 
Fight Club
American History X

In my opinion seriously overated films, & Edward Norton isn't as amazing as people make out, I find he lacks charisma I couldn't care about what happened to the main characters that he played in both films. Brad Pitt and Edward furlong stole the show both times. And I think both these films try too hard to be cool, the actual story is pretty dull +uninspiring after a while. I'm proplby the only one who hates these films but oh well I stand by that! :D
 
Casablanca, isn't that the film where someone says.....play it again sam,.....this could be the start of a beautiful frienRABhip.........here's looking at you kid......of all the gin joints in all the world, you had to come into my place.......and, tell me, why did you come to Casablanca? Reply, I came for the waters. The waters? but we're in the middle of the desert. Response, I was misinformed. Nah, don't like it (I lie).
 
Quite a few have done nothing for me, but the ones which immediately spring to mind are...
"Psycho"
"The BirRAB"
"Withnail and I"
"Fight Club"
"Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

As for "The Shining" I love it, and what makes it scary isn't so much what happens on the screen but the entire atmosphere the film creates, and more importantly what you don't see.
 
The Godfather
Schindler's List
American Beauty
Casablanca
Dances With Wolves
etc, etc

The list goes on and on and on...



Well I disagree with your choices there, but I do understand what you mean and you do make a good point about Norton's "hot'n'cold" charisma.

Not surprised about 'American History X', lest we forget Tony Kaye's aRAB in Variety and him taking New Line Cinema to court over it!
 
I have problems with most classic films as I fear they are often overated. Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street didn't scare or entertain me one bit and I often respect horror films an dtheir effects of the time but even in the 70s/80s I wouldn't have been scared.
Titanic stinked of Leonardo DiCaprio's appeal for young girls, sheesh. The general plot was very simple and slow moving.
American Beauty was s softporn for middleaged perverts with the hots for the "oh so wonderful" Mena Suvari.
George Lucas generally sickens me with his constant reworkings on dead franchises such as Star Wars and now even Indiana Jones. He's only gone and commissioned 2 new star wars TV shows.
The biggest hollywood director I disapprove of is Steven Spielberg, Jaws may have had some good camerawork but the plot and acting was wooden whilst all Clsoe Encounters made me think abotu afterwarRAB was "what shapes can I mould from my mashed potato?". E.T. and A.I are just tragically overated children's tales with sci-fi thrown in, E.T. in particular was about a heap of dung befriending a child.
Did Spielberg have to have Tom Cruise's smug face in his films of Minority report or War of the WorlRAB? I think Cruise has taken over cinema, I can't stand Cruise, get him off my TV.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" only made me laugh when Kirsten Dunst said "I'm a stupid girl with a stupid crush". The editing, plot, characters, colour schemes, music etc. were all very disturbing and literally made me rub my wrist with my sharp key. Some regard this film as a classic.
The original 1989 Batman annoyed me at how much Jack Nicholson got his pasty face all voer the camera, the film wasn't titled "Joker".
Airplane! was deviant right from the unnecessary exclamation mark in it's title, and in one dreadfulyl unfunny scene the s**t literally hit the fan.

I could think of many more but my god wouldn't we all be depressed?
 
Last Tango in Paris = Preposterous tosh.


To misquote John Peel:

"I know there are some people out there who don't like 'Withnail & I': they must be half dead with beastliness; I spurn them with my toe" :)
 
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