Highly rated films you think are bad

What?! I thought it was brilliant (and just about the only Jim Carey film I have ever liked). As I did Lost in Translation. I guess I just like movies where "not much" happens. Garden State is another example.
 
Charlie Wilson's War
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton

Some have also mentioned but I have to agree anything that involves Woody Allen.
 
Lost in Translation- Didn't get the appeal :confused:

I agree with whoever listed The Englishpatient- dull. Anyone watch Seinfeld? There's an episode where Elaine goes mad after being forced to sit through this more than once. :eek::)
 
Thank you! I was going to mention the Godfather trilogy. I had never seen any of them but recently bought the trilogy boxset thinking it was about time I saw this "classic"

I struggled to the end of the first one, fell asleep in the second and I haven't been able to face the third one yet.
 
Okay, I totally mis-understood this thread title. I thought this was about highly rated films, not just by the viewers, but by everyone including film-makers.

So when most film-makers vote Citizen Kane as being the best film or The Godfather, they're saying not only because it was 'exciting' but because it broke ground on technique, some new device or storytelling. So, I find parts of 2001 'boring' but I also recognise why it's so highly rated (heck, it still looks better than a lot of today's space films).
 
The Bourne Ultimatum


Really enjoyed the first, the second slightly less and this one not at all.

All I can remember of it is a lot of big set piece action scenes one after the other, and very little dialogue or story development.

very disappointed
 
I'm with whoever said Tarantino is overrated.

Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs left me just feeling, 'Well so what?' and although Jackie Brown wasn't bad, it was return to form with the nonsense and bizarrely overhyped (and incredibly overlong) Kill Bill. :p
 
I hated Pulp Fiction. Most Tim Burton movies bore me to tears (esp, the Nightmare before Xmas)

Also hated Barton Fink

Annie Hall, walked out halfway through.
 
Lost in Translation
Titanic
Pearl Harbour (though thinking about it, I don't believe it was ever highly rated!)
American Beauty
The Royal Tennenbaums
There Will be Blood
Beowulf
Gross Point Blank (probably more to do with Minnie Driver)
Citizen Kane

Never seen - The English Patient - seems like to much 'stiff upper lip angst!'
 
I agree with I am Legend.

Signs - I enjoyed this one, probably my second favourite from the man after The Village.

House of sand and fog - I didn't enjoy this at all

Road to perdition - Worth the watch but nothing memorable

Big fish (8.0) - Enjoyed this, not as much as Burton's other work though

V for vendetta - Wasn't amazing like a lot said, but still entertaining for me

Good night and good luck - This dvd is still in my to watch pile

Assasination of Richard Nixon - Is this the one with Sean Penn? it was decent but nothing special.
 
If you found part I & II boring then whatever you do, do not watch part III - you will be suicidal! :eek: :p
I am saying this as a fan of Godfather part I & II.
 
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