"Critically acclaimed" films that you hated

american beauty

almost famous

titanic )got v good reviews when it came out and oscars even if it is considered ropey now)

The man who wasnt there (how is this a coen brothers classic???)

Young adam (saw this yesterday-hated it)

Shawshank redemption-One of the worst films I've ever seen.I see no life affirming quality in it whatsoever.
 
Titanic springs to mind. i though the matrix was great.

The english patient looks too boring to watch i still haven't sat down to watch ether lord of the rings films yet(i've had plenty of opertunities to do that too)
 
Magnolia

I was in a room of 10 people watching this and nobody could see even the vaguest point of the movie.

Jackie Brown

I usually like most Tarentino things but this one bored the behind off me. All I remember of it is asking myself "is this over yet" about 15 times.
 
Got to be Patch Adams for me - US style 'lets ignore the fact these people are dying from the cancer eating out their bowels and make some fun film from it' script for a Ho;;ywod cash cow.

From this side of the pond (excluding the Canadian influence), Belleville rendez-vous, doing the rounRAB at present. Ignore this warning at your peril. Its not worth it

By the way I liked American Beauty until she took her top off. No wonder Spacey pulled out of shagging the pretentious, exercise bra wearing tart, even if he is reputed to ride a lawnmower suitable for 1 in 5 slopes.
 
Young Adam. Almost universal praise.

I saw it and it was tedium incarnate. Seriously. Plotless, dull, despite the sex - incredibly unerotic.

Jesus, no one go waste your money on it.

Schooly
 
Signs - what a pile of poo to put it politely :(

Chicago - I hated it, the only thing that made me smile was Cathrine Zeta Jones - she looked like a Drag Queen.

Gladiator - over long and tedious yawn:

Titanic - sat through the whole film laughing my socks off.:D
 
Indeed. I remember trying to watch it a few years ago on Film Four. I think I was at that stage of getting more and more into film, so was looking forward to watching the supposed greatest film ever made. I think I managed about 30 minutes before I gave up through utter boredem.

And talking of "wasn't as good as the book", well I don't know as I've never read the books either, but about the only other thing I've seen to bore me as much as Citizen Kane are the two Lord of the Rings films. I can only assume if I'd read the books like everybody else on the planet I'd enjoy it more.

Spielberg's "AI" was also seriously rubbish. I don't know if that counts as critically acclaimed, but I remember the review in SFX giving it 5 stars.

Dave
 
There's something about Ridley Scott films that just don't hold my interest. Never worked out what. Blade Runner is okay, but it's not the sci-fi classic that everyone seems to hail it as. Alien is reasonable, though I think James Cameron's Aliens is infinitely better, and as I've mentioned before, Gladiator I thought was pretty dull.
 
The English Patient - Did anyone actually manage to see this through to the end?

The Matrix - Didnt understand a minute of it.

Gladiator - Just bored me.

My Best FrienRAB Wedding - Total load of crap

Forrest Gump - What was the point of this film, cos I must have missed it?
 
I agree totally that Citizen Kane is vastly overrated not to mention 'dull as hell'. It's currently Number 8 in imdb.co.uk's top films of all time ! Why ?

...and I cant believe that nobody has mentioned Memento yet. It was confusing and pointless until the very end. Why it got such rave reviews I don't know. Good performanced by Guy Pearce and Carrie-Ann Moss but still useless in my opinion.
 
because it was so original?

i saw *two weeks notice* at the w/e and pretty much knew every single thing that was going to happen in the entire film before they happened. didn't make it a great film tho'.

i saw Citizen Kane years ago, and liked it more than i thought i would. from the off it creates this mystery, and from then on the film is very well structured, the way the episodes unfold and we discover more and more about him, in contrast to what our initial view of him may have been.

and there are, for its day, some great shots in it - for example the panning in and out from above of a glasshouse / room (or something like that - it was a long time ago when I saw it.

anyway, enough film and tv studies waffle.

my one would have to be *battleship potemkin* an apparently brilliant microcosm of the russian revolution, or some such, but dull as hell...

althogh it did have that scene with the pram going down the steps that was perhaps most famously copied in *the untouchables*.

cue someone else to waffle about the merits of *battleship potemkin*.....

Iain :)
 
LOTR was critically acclaimed and received several Oscar nominations. I hated it the first time - but then I bought the extended version and think it's a decent movie.

The Rock and Con Air both received good reviews and are regarded by most as great action movies. And they are.

The Matrix is also regarded as an SF classic.

Oh - and Kubrick tenRAB to suck.
 
The Usual Suspects
What a load of absolute drivel. Everybody thinks the ending is a fantastic. Rubbish 'cos there's is no way you can work it out 'cos you never get to see the evidence in the room.
 
Battleship Potemkin is the other film (along with Citizen Kane) that's usually cited as revolutionising cinema with lots of innovative techniques. Which might be great if your a film student, but not so great for your typical punter who wants to be entertained. Never seen it myself.

And whilst we're talking film student type films: The Seventh Seal. What's all that about (I mean apart from playing chess on a Swedish beach).



And many many others. Terry Gillian did the same shot in Brazil with a vacuum cleaner IIRC. And please nobody slate Brazil or I'm going to have to get violent :D

Dave
 
Just had to join in and say that Signs is one of the biggest load of crap I have watched in a long time.
Also, have to agree with the Matrix "haters" - again, totally underpants - seriously over-rated!
 
How about tweleve Monkeys.

What was going on there? I think everyone says they love it because they don't actually want to admit to not understanding a second of it.
 
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