Flicks You WANT to Like But Just CAN'T

[Lisa Miller]

All of the Star Wars movies
All of the Alien movies
All of the Harry Potter movies
All of the Lord of the Rings movies

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Finally, because I'm UnAmerican It's a Wonderful Life. Yes, I'm a pinko commie.

Heh. I never saw it until this Christmas and my husband basically thought I was raised by wolves.

For me, it's the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. During the first one I remember thinking, God, isn't it over yet? I like all of the actors in it, but all of the films seem to drag on, with the fighting and the fighting, and the, well, fighting.

Lisa Miller, love the name! I have the whole News Radio series waiting to be watched. The actual packaging on the box set is beyond crap. Where is the love?

[lowercase]

There Will Be Blood. I didn't get the thing with the purportedly awesome soundtrack, and I found it unspeakably boring and just...zzzzzzzzzzz. The umpteenth time he sat down with a group to discuss his plans for...zzzzzzzz...yeah, I just had to turn it off.

I'll go a bit further down the pinko commie path and say that not only do I just have no patience for It's a Wonderful Life, I kind of hate all Christmas movies. Except maybe "Elf." And if I'm in a pleasant enough mood, "A Christmas Story." I'm trying to not raise my son to be quite the curmudgeon I am, so this year I tried to be sporting and get him interested in watching some of the classics that leave me cold, and he literally said "Meh, we don't have to watch that."

[kateln]

Actually, Elf and all of Will Ferrell's movies. Except for Stranger then Fiction.

Knocked Up
My Best Friend's Wedding They started singing, and I just had to get up and walk out. So dull!

[SweetOblivion]

Jan 17, 2010 0:25:21 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

Titanic. I saw it for free, and I still wanted my money back.

You WANTED to like Titanic, SweetO? Really? SWEETO LOVES LEO!SWEETO LOVES LEO!

HA! Sorry, I like my men to look like men, not perpetual 15-year-old boys. I like Leo as an actor, but he doesn't set my panties on fire. So THERE!

[Baby Fish Mouth]

Avatar. Cool visuals couldn't save the thin plotline and cliched characters.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall. A good friend told me this was one of the funniest movies she'd ever seen. I had to turn it off halfway through because it was so painfully unfunny.

Bright Star. Usually any British period romance will do it for me, but this one was dreadfully boring.

[Maddiemoo]

Battle Royale. I just rented it last night and I thought the idea of it was really cool, but wow, that was some terrible acting. Dialog was awful too. Maybe something got lost in translation, but I was bummed at how not-awesome it was.

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The Wild One with Marlon Brando. All I see in it is cheesy dialogue and terrible acting. Even Brando is awkwardly bad in it imo.

[smockery]

I kind of wanted to like Four Weddings and a Funeral because so many people told me how great it was. Yeah, I ended up fast forwarding through a good chunk. Its the movie that made me swear to never buy a movie before seeing it ever again.

ETA: Also, POTC: Dead Man's Chest because I liked the first one, but man that sucked. It sucked to the point that I made a point to not bother with the last one at all in any form.

[chonies]

Donnie Darko. I love weird movies that ask profound questions from a messed up point of view but this was just a painful snoozefest.

Oh, and The Simpsons Movie. I'm huge Simpsons fan, but I found this one hard to watch.

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Battle Royale. I just rented it last night and I thought the idea of it was really cool, but wow, that was some terrible acting. Dialog was awful too. Maybe something got lost in translation, but I was bummed at how not-awesome it was.

Oh yes, I totally agree! Just because something's a cult film doesn't mean it's a classic, people! My ex was really into this sort of movie, as well as Yakuza films and anything with Beat Takeshi. I tried, I really did. I liked some of Beat Takeshi but after awhile the stories all ran together.