Classic/Iconic/Art films you think are rubbish

I quite enjoyed A ma Soeur... It was a bit predictable though. Rather nasty.

I hate, hate, hate A Bout De Souffle yet everyone always raves and raves because it was the first of the New Wave French films. I thought it was boring, but jean Seburg (sp?) was rather sweet.

I also didn't like Lost in Translation, I just found it tedious.



I felt the same way about 'Brick'... Boring and pretentious teen film noir.
 
After all the years of people going on about it cos you couldnt get it over here, when I finally saw clockwork orange i thought it was a pile of shite....
and personally that pretty much goes for the rest of kubricks crap as well...

no country for old men, there will be blood, and the more recent burn after reading and gran torino...
all over hyped by critics IMO... given like 5* or 5/5 etc and all pants i thought..
they were just stories that went nowhere...

we watched the wizard of oz the other day actually for my daughter..
I know its 1939 or whenever, but OMG what appauling acting, terrible sets and FX, how has that rubbish remained so popular...
 
Not that I'm much of a movie-goer, but...

Fight Club
Sin City

For those that DO like glorified and over-the-top violence, they're great. But for me, who merely got dragged along to see them, I don't see the point and never will. My idea of a classic is Top Gun. :p

I bet I'll be saying the same about The Wrestler when I download it. I don't think I've seen a single bad review yet, which makes me all the more suspicious about its "classic" merit.

Just remembered
 
However, none of those could be considered an art house film. For starters none of them have subtitles. :)

You'd have to add something Continental to fill that category. Perhaps something by Ingmar Begman. The Seventh Seal anyone?
 
I had a low opinion of this film before I saw it, and I avoided it like the plague when it was everyones 'omg amazing' film.

I think I saw it 6 years after and I was 'omg that's good', because I had forgotton the hype and just watched it expecting a plain horror film.

I think the hype can ruin movies


Woody Allen is still tripe though
 
Saw Bladerunner advertised on TV a few months ago and heard that this was a great classic. I was very disappointed as I thought it was very depressive rubbish. I watched 3/4 of it before switching off.
 
As an 18 year old girl, I should love it :D

I love Patrick Swayze though, and Ghost is one of my favourite films.

I'd rather watch Grease than Dirty Dancing any day :)
 
i had to watch the opening of Once Upon A Time In The West in Film Studies :yawn: didn't like it. i don't think i could watch the whole thing.
 
Why can't I edit a post I made less than hour ago?

Anyway, add Pulp Fiction to my small list. I had to sit through that drival for media studies in a darkened room - temptation to fall asleep much? :eek:
 
Fight Club - pants.
Matrix - Garbage.
Lord of the Rings - Nearly as bad as the sh!te book.
Four Weddings and a Funeral - Yaaaawn.
Trainspotting - Junk
Harry Potter - Yak!
Forest Gump - Pure Drivel
Rainman - Bluergh!


I know they are not 'classics' but they are films people rave about
 
i had to watch this as part of my Film Studies course. we were doing British film in the 60s. we saw this along with A Hard Day's Night and If. I can see the point of the film, but that's only through having to study it closely...however, it's not a film i would choose to watch, if i had a choice. Nor is If A Hard Day's Night was the best of the bunch
 
Nowhere are you "told" you should be "in awe" of the films listed except in your own perception; there's plenty of negative criticism to be had about all of them from both back then and now. It sounRAB more like a case of being self-conscious about not having been able to "get" them, and wanting to save face.
 
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