Films that are universally acclaimed and have won shedloads of awards and whatnot that you watched and thought were just a lot of boring old rubbish.......
Last night's effort - The Revenant.
The guy playing the bear should have won the oscar. That was an amazing scene.
The rest of it was just mostly chilly mumbling.
Avatar, Titanic and The Last Jedi
+1 for The Revenant and raise you
Lost in Translation for truly dire drivel
The Revenant was okay.
Birdman though, christ, gave up half way through.
Aye, Birdman, Star Wars 1-3, The 2 last Alien related ones (Prometheus, can't even remember the 2nd ones name)
Ronin (great chase tho) - pish
Wolf of Wall St - massively overated (DiCrapio's only good film is The Departed IMO)
Anything with Tom Cruise (apart from Collateral).
I'll stop there for a breather.
I saw the revenant at the cinema and remember thinking 'I enjoyed it but I'd have been bored watching it at home, it needed the big screen'
Avatar was real derivative nonsense
The Godfather. I found it slow and dull.
The Shawshazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sorry, nodded off for a moment there.
Titanic and the original Star Wars (never watched any new ones). Tried watching that Birdman film but quit early into it.
No Country for Old Men.
Another vote for Godfather, I think I've seen about 10mins of it over the years and every time I think it's still pish and turn it over/off
The Exorcist is pretty dull as well.
Close Encounters.
Aliens.
A Nightmare on Elm St.
Another vote for Godfather, I think I’ve seen about 10mins of it over the years and every time I think it’s still pish and turn it over/off
yeah cause 10 mins of a film like that is perfect to review it 😉
Apocalypse Now - what utter crap
The 2 last Alien related ones (Prometheus, can’t even remember the 2nd ones name)
Didn’t they both get pretty shit reviews all round? Alien You blow and I’ll do the fingering is a terrible film IMO.
Some of my favourite films up there people!
titanic, avatar, Star Wars prequels all absolutely horrendous though
Natural Born Killers
Blair Witch Project
Schindler's List
The Revenant definitely utter garbage.
Interstellar
The Arrival
There Will be Blood.
Drac - there will be blood is immense! And the arrival or arrival (Amy Adams?)
honestly I’m reading this remembering loads of great films I want to watch again 😂
Aliens
WTF? How can anyone think that is a bad movie? Granted the sequels were bad, but Aliens is a superb film.
All Star Wars and Star Treks. Grease.
Crash
Eyes Wide Shut
Dead Poets' Society
Synecdoche, New York
120 Days of Sodom
There Will be Blood
There was blood. What else did you want?
12 years a slave. Went to cinema to watch it, wish I hadn't gone.
+1 Prometheus
Jurassic Park, Lost World. Ridiculous film.
We watched "The greatest showman" at the weekend. Aparrently everyone raves about it, the nephew has seen it 6 times (though i suspect some female member of the cast to be the reason).
It's rubbish the mrs summed it up as Hugh Jackman trying to be 20, failing and not taking his top off.
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Apocalypse Now – what utter crap
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GTFO NOW! How in the hell can you say that??? It is an amazing film! It nearly bankrupted a film studio, drove its director to a breakdown, gave the lead actor a heart attack, gave the world the love of the smell of napalm in the morning! You, sir, have no taste.
Gangs of New York on the other hand...
Also, Tom Cruise has been in a noteworthy film, just that it deserves in the other thread of films that are so bad they are good: Top Gun. A classic.
anything by gus van sant
Sicario
Wow some people really didn't get some awesome films, I feel sad for you all!!
yeah cause 10 mins of a film like that is perfect to review it
I wasn't reviewing its just personal observation. I understand its a "great" film it's just not something I'm that keen on.
Another vote for -> There Will be Blood
There are some terrific films mentioned up there. I have this "debate" with my brother regularly.
There is a thread in this I suspect - a film which is slow paced and based around character development and conflicting motivations seems to be getting a bad rap IMO. Some stories are not just about a basic 1-2-3 plot line. But each to their own.
Widely appreciated films that I thought were rubbish:
- Apocalypse Yawn
- Birdman (I actually walked out of the cinema, it was dreadful)
- Alien (singular)
- Withnail and I (I genuinely don't get it. It's awful)
- Bladerunner (although I'm willing to give that another go, I was about 16 when I watched it)
- Kill Bill (typical pretentious Tarantino w@*k)
a film which is slow paced and based around character development and conflicting motivations seems to be getting a bad rap IMO.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">I, generally, like slower paced, longer films, that have the time to develop character and plot. However, slow pace need not mean no pace (like Apocalypse When)</span>
I don't [i]really[/i] think that's the type of "bad film" the thread is about IHN, but hey-ho.
Bladerunner (although I’m willing to give that another go, I was about 16 when I watched it)
Do yourself a favour and get the Final Cut, it's the only version that is truly awesome, the rest are in the unfinished/studio meddled end of things
TBH when people dismiss something that many people have appriciated as top quality examples of films as being Dreadful or Awful it seems like the point has been missed and really you didn't enjoy it or get it or appreciate what it was doing.
there are plenty of actually really bad films out there that are nothing but derivative cliche to lame gag to obvious set up twist to take to task before most of this lot in here.
napoleon dynamite.
it has no real story , no real ending , utterly shit visuals.
rather funny - but only once.
I don’t <em class="bbcode-em">really think that’s the type of “bad film” the thread is about IHN, but hey-ho.
Eh? What have I missed? I though this was the "films that people say are good but you think are rubbish" thread, as opposed to the other "films that you think are great that mopst people say are rubbish" thread.
TBH when people dismiss something that many people have appriciated as top quality examples of films as being Dreadful or Awful it seems like the point has been missed and really you didn’t enjoy it or get it or appreciate what it was doing.
Careful now, this is where the pretension often kicks in. It's perfectly possible to 'get' a film and still not like it (for me, Apocalypse Now falls into that camp). Or, indeed, realise that there's nothing to 'get', and there's a strong whiff of Emperor's New Clothes (I'm looking at you, Tarantino)
Careful now, this is where the pretension often kicks in. It’s perfectly possible to ‘get’ a film and still not like it
Hence I added not enjoy also, you don't have to like everything and not everything good will be liked
Shit, sorry IHN, I thought I was reading a different thread. I do beg your pardon. does 😳 still work?
I shall think of something proper to add 🙂
Agree with Apocalypse Now and you're forgiven 🙂
[i]The Shawshazzzz[/i]
Most definitely that. In fact, any film that Tom Hanks ruins by being in.
Con Air - now I honestly think people are being ironic when they say it was good. Aren't they?
All Mission Impossible films
All James Bond films, except "From Russia..", cos I saw that when I was about 12 with my Auntie.
[edit]Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourites. It doesn't matter how slow it is, just seeing great actors all in the same film is enough for me -Marlon Brando
Martin Sheen
Robert Duvall
Laurence Fishburne
Dennis Hopper
awesome 😀
Some people are just posting random shit films and saying they don't like them.
This should be critically acclaimed films you don't like. Napoleon Dynamite, Mission Impossible films, recent Aliens films, Star Wars prequels were never critically acclaimed or universally lauded. They are just mediocre to shit films.
Casablanca, tried to watch it twice turned it off both times as I was bored senseless
Casablanca, tried to watch it twice turned it off both times as I was bored senseless
I guess you mustn't have got it 😉
Napoleon Dynamite got some good reviews and is a cult classic. Personally, I would put it in the other thread.
This should be critically acclaimed films you don’t like.
I can't go and check reviews of all the films I don't like. Mission Impossible, Alien, Star Wars sequels' box office takings were massive. So they're acclaimed by a fair few people, I'm sure.
"Napoleon Dynamite got some good reviews and is a cult classic. Personally, I would put it in the other thread."
which is exactly where i was posting it but some knob keeps making duplicate threads with subtly different titles 😉
Looking at the list of oscar best picture winners, there were a lot of good or at least watchable films before the mid 80's (although some may have aged now), I think then a change took place from good films being nominated, to films being made to a formula to target the oscar, and since then most have really been a bit crap.
Schindler's List
Really???
Difficult to watch granted, but a bad film?
Here's some fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture Scroll down and every Best Picture nominated film 😀 I've gone to 1990, from there.
There's an awful lot I haven't seen - 2012 winner: Argo ? never even 'eard of it!
Here - the Sixth Sense - has anyone watched that twice? It's crap, cos once you know the twist there's no point!
"2012 winner: Argo ? never even ‘eard of it!"
watch it then , its really rather good.
the Sixth Sense – has anyone watched that twice? It’s crap, cos once you know the twist there’s no point!
Yes there is, to be pedantic & see how obvious it was all along...
[i]watch it then , its really rather good.[/i]
Will do!
Most glaring from the list is Silence of the Lambs. Hammy old Anthony and the most crap ending. Hated it.
Most glaring from the list is Silence of the Lambs.
Silence of the Lambs a great film, you think its less worthy than say Driving Miss Daisy or Shakespeare in Love?
+1 for Argo though, really good
[i]Silence of the Lambs a great film, you think its less worthy[/i]
See, that's the point of the thread? Films you don't like that other people do? "Less worthy"?
I've not seen either of the other 2, as I know they're not my sort of film. So it would be a bit silly to put them in a thread about films I don't like.
Kill Bill. Just bilge.
Interesting how personal/subjective this is, many posted above I love.
Films like Bond I think are about adjusting your expectations - it's cheesy comforting entertainment - not great films. (I also like the 1st few Transformers and Planet of the Apes films).
I get that Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull or whatever can seem pretentious drivel....but I love them!
Films like Bond I think are about adjusting your expectations
Totally agree! I tried my best, but I still hated Skyfall. Except Javier Bardem's scenes.
Argo just read the true bits to go with it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21003432
Fun and great film there
Con Air – now I honestly think people are being ironic when they say it was good. Aren’t they?
You want the other thread.
Dunkirk.
I really enjoy war films but this was shocking. I even tried watching it a second time at home and gave up less than half way though.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Blue Valentine - Massively depressing
Gravity - ]Okay once...maybe?
Inglorious Bastards - almost saved by Christopher Waltz
Castaway - Much as I like Tom Hanks
Saving Private Ryan - The first 10-15 mins are epic, but when compared to Band of Brothers.
Interstellar is bloody brilliant...as is Aliens and I do like Avatar.
Castaway – Much as I like Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks sucks, he's like the Billy Joel of movies. Has he ever done anything worthwhile?
Tom Hanks?
3 movies here
Bridge of Spies
Forrest Gump
Sully
The Post
Would be my quick pick of good films he has been in
Tom Hanks is great.
The Money Pit
Dragnet
Big
The 'Burbs
Turner and Hooch
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Toy Story(all of them)
Saving Private Ryan
The Green Mile
Cast Away
Road to Perdition
Catch me if you can
The Terminal
The Da Vinci Code
Captain Phillips
Bridge of Spies
Sully
I'll admit a lot of his films are very middle of the road, but not all of them, there's a decent amount of grit in there too, well considering we're talking about Tom Hanks.
Bridge of Spies was boring. Forrest Gump was lame. Haven't seen the others. Basically, Tom Hanks isn't so bad that he shouldn't be an actor, he's just not very good. Any competent actor could play his roles. The great actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman, for example, take run-of-the-mill roles and make them really come to life. Tom Hanks never does that, he just turns up, reads his lines in a competent way, and banks his paycheck.
Edit.
Any actor could have played Tom Hank's role in Saving Private Ryan. The assault on the beach was awesome, the rest of the movie was lame.
The Terminal was boring, lame nonsense.
The Green Mile was absolutely heinous. Utter bilge.
Can't be bothered going through the rest of his films, but most of them were lame. The ones that didn't suck could have been played by anyone. Toy Story is a great movie, but it would have been a great movie with anyone else replacing Tom Hanks.
Damn forum pushed me out then back onto the wrong thread! 😆
Bridge of Spies was boring
Other opinions are available, it was never a Bourne or Tom Clancy style, it was slower, made to make you think and consider while the thriller part was ramped up in a more realistic way without resorting to stupid car chases that didn't happen. It's a story of 2 men and hopw their lives have a significant part in history. But hey if that is boring probably avoid similar excellent films.
Other opinions are available
Other opinions are sadly mistaken.
Why has P-Jay listed a bunch of films ruined by Tom Hanks? 😆
Whilst neglecting to list his only decent film: "Splash" ?
Cliffhanger. Silvester Stallone at his very best! With the bonus of wonderfully (un?)realistic climbing sequences. I've seen this film at least 5 times and would happily spend another afternoon sprawled oh the sofa with a family bag of crisps and a Leffe or two and watch it again. Heaven.
Surely it has to be Silverado.
It has every Western meme and cliche known to man, and just when you think they've left out the widder woman with a boy and a dog, there they are. And they didn't forget the stampede or the preacher either...
Then there's the incongruity of Cleese playing a straight part.
I was surprised by the appearance of Martians with ray guns, but my wife tells me that must have happened in the bit when I was disturbing the cinema with my snoring.
And to top it off, it goes on, and on, and on, and on.
And on...
Agree with Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins comes across a bit ‘Carry On Cannibal’ ott and camp. He’d have been caught before killing his first victim. Brian Cox portraying the same character in Manhunter is s much more believable and frightening Lector.
Agree with "There Will be Blood" not only did it plod along but all the characters were just so self centered I just didn't care what happened to them.
The wife was also in total agreement!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44945132
Quick list of potential Oscar nods next time to avoid 😉
That film where the guy is stuck in a phone booth. I mean phone kiosk. Oh. Phone box. He's stuck in a goddamn phone box ffs.
Charlie Willson's war is a decent film that right at the end gives the American govt a punch in the face about middle eastern foreign policy. There is also some guff in that list
Bridge of Spies was boring. Forrest Gump was lame. Haven’t seen the others. Basically, Tom Hanks isn’t so bad that he shouldn’t be an actor, he’s just not very good. Any competent actor could play his roles. The great actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman, for example, take run-of-the-mill roles and make them really come to life.
Funny that you post about Bridge of Spies and then start talking about great actors. Bridge of Spies has a genuinely great actor in it (Mark Rylance) and is almost worth watching just for him. (And the gulf between his and Hank’s acting ability is massive.)
Gravity
I mean the signs were there; Sandra Bullock, George Clooney...
But all our friends told us it was an amazing film.
Me and the old lady watched it **** me, what a boring film, I mean did anything actually happen?
You watched it on your telly didn't you? I mean, it was by no means a brilliant film (or a shit one 😆 ) but it was quite a spectacle on the cinema screen.