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Classic films that you feel are terrible

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I do find the whole time travel technology in the Terminator films to be pretty ludicrous now. And young John Connor in T2 is extremely annoying.
 
Movies aren't music.

Movies today are lacking in originality and cultural impact, but the quality of acting and directing has gotten incrementally better with each passing year.

Thus unless you're a film buff it's hard to say the classics hold up.
 
Maybe not classic but acclaimed out the ass.

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Self-important dreck. Most documentaries start by showing you something weird, maybe boring, and then slowly convincing you that's it's something worth caring about.

Man on Wire is just "Suck mah Dick!" from frame one. If you don't care about the group of french weirdos in the first 2 minutes you will not care after 90.
 
Also agree on Donnie Darko; probably the worst film I've ever seen based on expectation. Transformers 2 is the absolute worst based on quality, but considering I'd heard so much good about DD, I fucking HATED it
 
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

When I was a kid, I fell asleep watching it. I tried again some years ago, and still fell asleep. It's cute and stuff, but I just don't get it.
 
marrec said:
Oh please, I love slow and old movies but 2001 is paced terribly, has characters that are really stupid for being so important, and is dated by the stupid 15 minute acid trip at the end.

Alien Hotelroom.

I mean come on.
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Sorry if you weren't even able to get the first ten minutes of the movie i don't know why anyone should give you credit.
 
Speevy said:
Movies aren't music.

Movies today are lacking in originality and cultural impact, but the quality of acting and directing has gotten incrementally better with each passing year.

Thus unless you're a film buff it's hard to say the classics hold up.
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yes and no.

i also find the faster pacing now more enjoyable.
 
tokkun said:
Wall-E

I guess it may be great for children, but I heard a lot of rave reviews from adults and can only evaluate it honestly as an adult. The movie treats the viewer like an idiot. There is absolutely no subtlety; character emotions are hammed up to the nth degree and the morals of the story are practically screamed in the audience's face.
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Here's one I agree with. I left the theater disappointed, one of the few Pixar films to disappoint me at the time.

My kids love it though, so I've seen it a zillion times since then. It's grown on me a bit, and I can appreciate some of the technique, especially pre-space scenes.
 
I guess it's more about the movie being totally mean spirited that got me, and the person doing it is a dumbass. I really wouldn't mind if it's a smart character struggling against lesser ones, and even then getting lambasted by then. But if it's a douchebag who reeks of stereotypes of typical school jocks rolled into a character and NOT getting what's coming to him, then all humor fails.

Yeah, never liked WALL-E. It was enjoyable prior to the humans but when they introduced them the movie fell apart. But people are easily swayed to cute stuff (see: Fluttershy) so it gets free pass.
 
SamVimes said:
Sorry if you weren't even able to get the first ten minutes of the movie i don't know why anyone should give you credit.
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My interpretation of the first self-important 10 minutes of that movie is basically saying the same thing. Technology evolves through conflict. Scary stuff man.

Oh, and as soon as they get the tech to beat up the poor pigs they're suddenly meat eaters?

Yea, cause that's how it works.
 
ReturnOfTheRAT said:
I see T2, Taxi Driver, The Graduate, Scarface, and Cool Hand Luke being posted here.

WTF is wrong with you people?
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It happens. Those things that strike a chord with you and make you love a movie? Well, the reverse happens.

For Taxi Driver, I just found De Niro's characters completely unlikable. So I'm watching a film, I don't like the character, I don't like his actions, of course I won't like it. I can't think of any movie where I completely loathed the protagonist. Immediately afterwards I had a debate with my friend on whether it was possible to enjoy a movie when you have no investment in the main character.

In the case of Cool Hand Luke, it's a little unfair, but after the egg eating scene, when Newman passes out on the table like Christ on the cross, I felt like the director had beat me over the head with the symbolism bat. I mean, really.
 
xbhaskarx said:
Gone With the Wind, it's like a bad soap opera full of melodrama and a series of tragedies.

This thread will be amusing just to see what movies certain people here consider to be "classic films" and "terrible"...
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If I were a racist hick, and a woman, I might like it.

Lol at the pussies listing Ferris Bueller.
 
Ferris Bueller was awful. I echo the sentiments in this thread. I have no desire to watch a giant douche be douchey to people, especially people just doing their job.

As for my own choice, I'm not sure if it's a classic to the public, but GAF seemed to be ga-ga over Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I hated that film.
 
Speevy said:
Movies aren't music.

Movies today are lacking in originality and cultural impact, but the quality of acting and directing has gotten incrementally better with each passing year.

Thus unless you're a film buff it's hard to say the classics hold up.
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Directing has gotten worse. Go watch a Nicholas Ray or John Ford film and compare it something made today.
 
marrec said:
Is this the official interpretation?

I always thought the movie was a message on how technology can be both awesome and terrible at the same time. The monolith spurred the advances in technology, but didn't force anyone to do anything.
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Might just be mine, but it seems like the monolith is there to spur things along. That's what happens each time it shows up.

marrec said:
Scarface was never very good to begin with.
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I liked it when I was a teenager, when it first came out. But yeah. Ridiculous movie in hindsight.
 
Speevy said:
Movies aren't music.

Movies today are lacking in originality and cultural impact, but the quality of acting and directing has gotten incrementally better with each passing year.

Thus unless you're a film buff it's hard to say the classics hold up.
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I understand this to an extent. It's easier than ever for even hacks and newbies to copy the style of the classics and end up with a feature that at least looks competently made. As and avid MST3K watcher it's amazing how much of that early shit barely even resembles a move.

Then again, it makes it that much more astounding when you see a movie like The Third Man (1949) with over 20 cuts per minute in the opening.
 
Plinko said:
As for my own choice, I'm not sure if it's a classic to the public, but GAF seemed to be ga-ga over Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I hated that film.
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Heh, I just watched that film and had a "OMG why have I never watched this before" moment after it was all done.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Might just be mine, but it seems like the monolith is there to spur things along. That's what happens each time it shows up.
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I think, could be wrong, that it doesn't produce conflict. It just helps along Tech. It was the monkeys that got all violent on each other because of it.

Again, I understand what story it was trying to tell. Technology can be beautiful (with the long space porn shots of the ship fucking the shit out of space) and Technology can be BAAAD (monkeys on monkey violence, HAL being neurotic)
 
mac said:
Maybe not classic but acclaimed out the ass.

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Self-important dreck. Most documentaries start by showing you something weird, maybe boring, and then slowly convincing you that's it's something worth caring about.

Man on Wire is just "Suck mah Dick!" from frame one. If you don't care about the group of french weirdos in the first 2 minutes you will not care after 90.
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I agree thoroughly. That thing was a chore to sit through.
 
I knew this thread would make me rage but I never would have predicted it would be in the first post.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Really? It was a great, charming, funny 80s movie about kids doing stuff around Chicago. It had some really memorable characters and moments and was just an overall amazing movie. I dare to read the rest of this thread.
 
marrec said:
I haven't seen Men In Tights in awhile...

Is it still good?
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It was never good. But I don't get people who think Blazing Saddles is his only good movie, or that he doesn't have any.
Young Frankenstein is incredible.
 
wenis said:
The Godfather 1 & 2.

I just can't get into them. Beyond stuffy and bloated. I have no connection to any of the characters so everyone is expendable and everything feels so fucking threadbare that I just fall through the story and fall asleep an hour in. It honestly feels like it only ever got the attention it got because of Coppola and Marlon Brando. If those two pieces were missing it would have never been considered a classic and that is definitely not my definition of a classic when you're able to take away two ingredients and the film falls apart because of that.
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You are so wrong.
 
Mr. Serious Business said:
I knew this thread would make me rage but I never would have predicted it would be in the first post.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Really? It was a great, charming, funny 80s movie about kids doing stuff around Chicago. It had some really memorable characters and moments and was just an overall amazing movie. I dare to read the rest of this thread.
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By charming you mean obnoxious and down-right mean-spirited?
 
Computer said:
2001: A Space Odyssey.
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I love space movies, but this. A thousand times this. While I can appreciate parts of 2001 from a directorial and artistic perspective, as a movie I feel it fails horribly overall. There are just too many parts where I get absolutely bored to tears watching it. I honestly prefer the sequel 2010. I feel it is a more engaging and entertaining film than 2001. Sure it's not as impressive artistically, but I don't watch films as sleeping aids, and 2001 puts me to sleep way too easily.
 
JB1981 said:
You are so wrong.
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I won't tag quote because that's just dumb, but ya know...

I don't think this is a thread designed to discuss why we think each others points are wrong, plus neither of us are probably open to turning our opinions around on the matter.
 
Mengy said:
I love space movies, but this. A thousand times this. While I can appreciate parts of 2001 from a directorial and artistic perspective, as a movie I feel it fails horribly overall. There are just too many parts where I get absolutely bored to tears watching it. I honestly prefer the sequel 2010. I feel it is a more engaging and entertaining film than 2001. Sure it's not as impressive artistically, but I don't watch films as sleeping aids, and 2001 puts me to sleep way too easily.
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Mee too.

If I want to watch ships fucking the shit out of space, I'll watch 2001.

If I want to watch an awesome Sci-Fi flick with the guy from Jaws? I'll watch 2010 thanks.
 
blazing saddles might have made me chuckle twice. probably because ive seen all those jokes now just with better movies framing them
 
wenis said:
The Godfather 1 & 2.

I just can't get into them. Beyond stuffy and bloated. I have no connection to any of the characters so everyone is expendable and everything feels so fucking threadbare that I just fall through the story and fall asleep an hour in. It honestly feels like it only ever got the attention it got because of Coppola and Marlon Brando. If those two pieces were missing it would have never been considered a classic and that is definitely not my definition of a classic when you're able to take away two ingredients and the film falls apart because of that.
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But really though, 2001. Fuck that movie.

And I have tried to sit through Blade Runner on at least 4 different occasions over the years, haven't succeeded yet.
 
Am I gonna get attacked for saying A Clockwork Orange and Dazed and Confused are bad films?

Orange just feel like it's weird for the sake of being weird.

Dazed just goes nowhere and I don't care about anyone in it.
 
sans_pants said:
blazing saddles might have made me chuckle twice. probably because ive seen all those jokes now just with better movies framing them
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Let me guess... Family Guy fan?
 
I will say though, I don't know how much it counts as a 'classic' but I didn't like the first Evil Dead that much. It was pretty much Ash freaking out in a cabin for an hour.

sans_pants said:
weird science the show>weird science the movie
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I looked it up cause I just barely remembered and and it went on for five seasons!?
 
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