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Classic films that you feel are terrible
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sans_pants
avec_pénis
Kubrick took the book and tried to make it his own thing instead of telling the already awesome story from the book.
I think it works as a movie, but ya I can see where someone wouldn't like it.
iKeepPlaying
Banned
Although you might not believe me, but I love the shit out of the point and click Indy games (Fate of Atlantis mainly). Which is why I tried to watch the movies, but nope... I just couldn't stand them.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
Vertigo. It's just not a good movie.
This post and thread makes me ill.
SonicMegaDrive
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Weird Science only annoys me because the title song from that movie is the only thing most people know of by Oingo Boingo. And it's one of their worst songs, frankly.
Blade Runner has it's own sets of issues, while I love the movie (all cuts) it isn't easy at all for people who aren't familiar with Melodramatic Sci-Fi in a Neo-Noir setting. Especially since most of the fanbase is increasingly rabid with each passing decade treating the film like it's a tome for the future.
It's a hard film to adjust too.
Ignatz Mouse
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Not a fan of ET at all.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
It's definitely the beginning of lazy diminishing returns for Mel Brooks' movies. Or maybe even SPACEBALLS as mentioned above, although I do still get a kick out of that. He also started going for a TV look with these movies--I don't know if this was a budget decision or part of the joke or what, but he used to have a pretty good eye, all things considered. Young Frankenstein is rather beautifully shot. From SPACEBALLS on his movies just got cheaper and cheaper-looking.
8½, never liked it, feel overly masturbatory even for me, and I like Wim Wenders.
And Empire Strikes Back, but to even touch we probably need a dedicated thread (I can bore you with the reasons if anyone really care, but I seriously doubt you can have a normal discussion about that movie on the internets).
And Empire Strikes Back, but to even touch we probably need a dedicated thread (I can bore you with the reasons if anyone really care, but I seriously doubt you can have a normal discussion about that movie on the internets).
You miss your old tag too?
SonicMegaDrive
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Two counts for Vertigo, I notice.
Personally, I think it's one of the greatest films ever made. I'm a huge Hitchcock fan, and I consider it one of his best.
Personally, I think it's one of the greatest films ever made. I'm a huge Hitchcock fan, and I consider it one of his best.
Phuturephunk
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I can't watch T2 again because of Eddie Furlong. I just really didn't give a shit back then, but now..its like..oh God, shut up and die.
My hatred for ET is profound
also: back to the future has most definitely not held up
Vire
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Jesus... some of the posts in this thread make my head and heart hurt. :/
I mean I can understand some of the more strange and out there films like 2001, and Clockwork Orange. But fucking hell, it's Harrison Ford beating up Nazis!
ViewtifulJC
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I can't take this, I have to get out of here
Ignatz Mouse
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I rank it very highly too-- but I also remember really being "meh" on it on first viewing.
It's not an easily digested/appreciated film, even if the plot is very straightforward.
Maybe not the sequels but the original is a god damn classic.
Vire
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Avatar will never be regarded as a classic. I've already seen Pocahontas and I didn't like it then.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
You're implying that the most common trail of thought for Avatar isn't "it has great visuals but the story is shit"
Wait till you see Birth of a Nation.
Nappuccino
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Oh man... Dazed and Confused.
I don't think I'll ever understand the love for this movie. Or anything else Linklater has directed.
sans_pants
avec_pénis
no one considers avatar a classic
whew, Breathless? at least you didn't say The 400 Blows. That would have been... bad.
In 30 years they will.
And then he followed it up with Intolerance!
SonicMegaDrive
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Avatar will age about as well as a finely-used pair of BVDs.
Oxigen_Waste
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He's made better movies? Lol... You do know that Vertigo is regarded as his magnum opus alongside Rear Window, right?
And personally, I think Vertigo is his absolute best film.
I could understand not liking it, as by today's standard the thing is a cliché infestation... but being bored by it I cannot comprehend... oO
What's not to like? Oo
This. Thank you.
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As for me, Chinatown. The movie's awesome, but I don't like it very much. I can appreciate why it's as well regarded as it is, but personally I don't really enjoy it that much.
sans_pants
avec_pénis
not a chance
Deified Data
Banned
Haha, this. Donnie Darko is the sort of thing a 14-year-old would describe as being very "smart" horror. It's not. It's really not.
Really loose definition of "classic", though.
This thread is in danger of creating a stupidity singularity, with so much wrong stacked together that it causes the thread to fall in on itself taking all of GAF with it.
Fine, add me to the stupid: Anything Tim Burton has done since 1999 aside from Big Fish. Every film by Michael Moore. Moulin Rouge. Chicago. Crash. Shutter Island. I Saw the Devil. Every movie with Helen Hunt aside from Cast Away and maybe Twister if you're drunk. I know they're not classics, but they're the only ones I consider terrible.
Fine, add me to the stupid: Anything Tim Burton has done since 1999 aside from Big Fish. Every film by Michael Moore. Moulin Rouge. Chicago. Crash. Shutter Island. I Saw the Devil. Every movie with Helen Hunt aside from Cast Away and maybe Twister if you're drunk. I know they're not classics, but they're the only ones I consider terrible.
AHHHHHhhhHHhhHHhHhHhhHHhHh.
You are making me very sad GAF.
I'm a cinema student. My attempt at bad taste.
Count me as someone who didn't come away from Schindler's List being happy and wanting to start dancing.
The 1980s American version with Richard Gere is much more fun.
sixteen-bit
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I thought Le Cercle Rouge was super shitty.
Kubricks Ghost
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So much hate. My chest hurts. I'm out.
And a poor film. The acceptance of producer-driven Golden Age Hollywood has led to this attempt to recontexualize any film that made a few bucks, or has some sort of cultural significance as Classic. Just because it's on daytime TCM doesn't mean it's good, folks. The AFI lists are equally laughable.
Casablanca is genuinely good, though, with its stature growing every year. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it on this year's Sight & Sound poll long list.
Oh thank Ozu! I don't think I would have been able to take that if you were serious.
Aaaaaand there we go D=
Have you seen Once Upon a Time in the West?
Oxigen_Waste
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