Okay, so I think it's safe to say we all love movies, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
But, I also know that we don't love ALL movies. I just got done watching (part of) Robert Altman's "Nashville," which is hailed as a masterpiece. It is well-made on a technical level but I really couldn't stand it. Maybe it's because I hate country music, or because it features a billion characters but never focuses on any long enough for the viewer to care, maybe I didn't "get it," or relate. Regardless of the reason, I didn't like this "masterpiece" of a film one bit.
So, that made me curious - which classics, masterpieces, or universally-liked films did you dislike or hate and why?
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Good topic. Although one that I had to give a lot of thought in to.
Citizen Kane - I don't hate or dislike it... I'm just really indifferent.
Annie Hall - For some reason I've never been able to watch it for longer than half an hour without simply getting bored.
I was thinking I was the only one who was going to say Citizen Kane. I understand what made it so "great" which is the film techniques that Wells used, but as a movie I just didn't care for it. But I definitely respect it for what it was and what it's done.
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I'm not sure I made this clear earlier, but these don't all have to be older films, they can be any film that's considered a "masterpiece" or is near universally well-liked; so they can be recent films too.
I don't dislike it, but I can not see what the big fuss is over Casablanca. This always pops into my head when this subject it brought up.
Another film of his that I thought was one big bore of a film, A Prairie Home Companion. I can't stop watching a film, have to get to the end, but I was waiting for this to end more or less from the start... don't think it's hailed as a masterpiece though.
I don't know if the movies were any better, but I read the book versions of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "Lord of the Flies" and thought that they were both pretentious and juvenile.
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Return of the Jedi was boring except for the space battles.
Iron Man 1 & 2 I guess... can't really think of any others.
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Sep 8th, 2010 12:59 AM
The GodFather,I wouldn't say that I cant stand it,but I do find alot of the movie quite slow and boring,too be honest
