Movies That You Hate: An Anti-Recommendation Thread

[uumlau]

Must disagree heavily with Equilibrium. Good action, good world, nice criticism of pharmaceuticals and T worldview, and a beautiful depiction of Fi. If you slept through it, you missed the point of it. I would recommend a rewatch.

I don't need to watch it again to know that Sean Bean dies (again).

No, the imagery is overdone. Anything with "fascist" themes tends to be overdone. Never mind the rebellion of the emo Bohemian artists. Not to Godwin the thread, but Hitler was an emo Bohemian artist who strove not to suppress emotion with a cult of rationality, but to evoke emotion for political power. I couldn't suspend my disbelieve long enough to find this film at all engaging.

 

[prplchknz]

I'm also not sure what the point of a sequel would be to It Follows. (What's it going to be? "It Follows Some More"? What else is there to say?!)

How about: "Will you please quit following me? jesus freaking christ!"

(I've actually not seen the film)

 

[Arctic Hysteria]

More to hate list:

Almost anything with Jennifer Lawrence in the leading role. (She's probably the most overrated actress ever. She's pretty and cool, but she acts the same in every single role she has. Silver Linings Playbook was lame. Her performance in American Hustle was painful to watch. Hunger Games are bore fests. I don't care to touch Serena or Joy.)

The Great Gatsby (As soon as I saw Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan on the cast list, I knew what kind of goo it'd be)

Juno (Ellen Page is rather annoying)

Sin City (could never sit through even 20 minutes of it)

Anything that has got Zack Snyder involved (Not going to the theatre for Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad. Nope! I'll use that money pizza instead)

Gravity (pretentious and corny)

Pulp Fiction (sorry guys, I just can't learn to like it )

 

[Tellenbach]

I have very low standards and I enjoy most movies at the theatre with the exception of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Nothing in Common (early Tom Hanks film). The recent movies that have disappointed include:

1) Cloud Atlas - the previews looked great, but the movie was overly complex and not very engaging
2) Boyhood - so much time and effort put into this, but it's still terribly mundane
3) The Hobbit franchise - not enough Beorn, not enough Smaug, too much dwarf
4) Prometheus - I was looking forward to this because the preview looked great, but it didn't deliver. Not enough alien.

I also agree that American Beauty sucked. My advice: Stay away from Eric Rohmer films and French films in general.

Edit: to add Schindler's List, long and boring and depressing. This is the movie that ruined Spielberg. He hasn't made a decent film after this.

 

[highlander]

Greek Wedding 2 is not very good. Funny it's the same actors. The writing just isn't good at all.

I thought Schindler's list was awesome

 

[Arctic Hysteria]

I have very low standards and I enjoy most movies at the theatre with the exception of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Nothing in Common (early Tom Hanks film). The recent movies that have disappointed include:

1) Cloud Atlas - the previews looked great, but the movie was overly complex and not very engaging
2) Boyhood - so much time and effort put into this, but it's still terribly mundane
3) The Hobbit franchise - not enough Beorn, not enough Smaug, too much dwarf
4) Prometheus - I was looking forward to this because the preview looked great, but it didn't deliver. Not enough alien.

I also agree that American Beauty sucked. My advice: Stay away from Eric Rohmer films and French films in general.

Edit: to add Schindler's List, long and boring and depressing. This is the movie that ruined Spielberg. He hasn't made a decent film after this.

I personally love Boyhood. The commitment of the cast and crew was admirable. It was not mundane to me, compelling and moving in parts in fact, as I could relate to so many things that happened in it. Also, main character is INFP and I caught myself smiling at most of the things he said and the way he expressed himself.

French films are pretty bipolar. I really dislike the majority of French comedies, esp. romantic comedies. However, there are several French films I highly recommend, such as the crime thriller Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne), comedy The Intouchables (Intouchables), a handful of Michael Haneke's works such as the psychological thriller Caché, the erotic thriller The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) and romantic drama Amour, and then of course we have the controversial Irréversible.

Other than that, I agree with you on the rest. Schindler's List was super boring, I was barely touched. Cloud Atlas looked special but not engaging. The Hobbit franchise should never have been made.

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More to hate list:

I respect Lars von Trier's artistry, but I find it very hard to sit through his movies. The only one I liked was Dancer in the Dark. Everything else is extreme and too... unhealthy INFJ.

Frozen

Shrek franchise as well as most of Dreamworks' animations

Into the Woods

Everything made about Steve Jobs

Fast & Furious franchise

Most movies with the full names of the main guys in the titles: Jerry Maguire, Alex Cross, Nancy Drew, Jack Reacher, John Wick, John Carter, Max Payne, Forrest Gump (again), Happy Gilmore, Johnny English, Jonah Hex. You name it.

Movies with the word "versus" in the titles: AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Monsters vs. Aliens, Freddy vs. Jason.

 

[Yama]

I don't really watch movies, but I think I'd rather die than get dragged into seeing basically any action movie ever. They just suck and are super boring. Name any one of them and I'd probably rather avoid it.

 

[magpie]

I really disliked Mad Max Fury Road. And also The Avengers.

 

[chickpea]

the hangover franchise despite being a libtard feminazi SJW etc I can actually appreciate dumb bro humor most of the time but all of those movies are aggressively stupid and offensive to me.

most action/comic book/superhero movies are not my cup of tea unless there's something exceptional about them.

Requiem for a dream is definitely the worst movie I have ever seen

i can enjoy requiem for a dream because of the visuals and acting but yeah the plot is actually really horrible and after school special-esque.

 

[cascadeco]

[MENTION=22039]Arctic Hysteria[/MENTION] - what movies do you actually *like*?

Apparently I'm not that picky. The only movie I can say I genuinely hated (that I can think of atm) was 'Coffee and Cigarettes'.

I also didn't like the Hobbit movies, but I'm an avid fan of Tolkien so the first movie was a huge turnoff for me. I also really disliked the star wars movie with JarJar.

 

[1487610420]

horror, overt drama

 

[mintleaf]

Midnight in Paris

 

[Evo]

Dinner with schmucks
And
Human centipede..........

 

[small.wonder]

The Fox and The Hound, animated sadism by Disney. That movie should die, just like it tortuously murdered friendship!

I don't have personal feelings about this at all.

 

[Arctic Hysteria]

[MENTION=22039]Arctic Hysteria[/MENTION] - what movies do you actually *like*?

Tons.

 

[Crabs]

I really disliked Mad Max Fury Road. And also The Avengers.

I just saw Mad Max today. Not gonna say I hated it, but it was waaay overrated. 6 Academy Awards? Wtf was the academy smoking?

I hate it when any movie utilizes fast motion; the only exception being the threesome scene in A Clockwork Orange. As far as highly stylistic, surreal films go, Sin City and its sequel are way better than Mad Max. I think Fury Road got extra brownie points for its feminist undertones. That's the last time I buy a movie before watching it. Should've learned not to trust Rotten Tomatoes after they gave the last two Mission Impossibles a ridiculously high rating.

 

[uumlau]

Tons.

I've not seen that movie. What's it about?

 

[Z Buck McFate]

+1 to anti-recommending Crash. The appeal that one had on people absolutely confounded me.

As for Equilibrium: it seemed like an homage to (or very loose remake of) Fahrenheit 451, and I can remember thinking a person's probably gotta like the campy overblown style of that particular niche of 70s sci-fi to appreciate it (e.g. Logan's Run, Soylent Green, etc). I kinda liked seeing that general template with updated sci-fi effects. I could forgive the camp, because it so closely resembled the actual camp of that genre that it was effectively nostalgic.

 

[Arctic Hysteria]

I've not seen that movie. What's it about?

It's about trolls, with INTJ main antagonist troll that died in the end. Totally amaze-ball

 

[wolfnara]

More!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. so boring.
The hangover.
Ice Age 4
Happy Feet
The Road
The Dark Knight films
Monsters vs aliens
Forest Gump
The Tree of Life

When I was quite young, I saw one of the Pokemon movies. I believe I fell asleep, and was not really upset that I dozed off because I could not follow whatever the plot was supposed to be. If you are a kid and you are not even annoyed with yourself for dozing off during a movie, you know it sucked, and you know it sucked badly.

Pokemon:The first movie