Unpopular movie opinions...

[Bebop]

Julia Roberts is not a pretty woman. I think that says more about me than about her. lol She has a frighteningly large mouth and when mixed with her laugh, she scares me the way an overly expressive clown would. I can't sit through any of her movies.

 

[Katarina]

I love The Happening. It's supposed to be an homage to cheesy B-movies, and in that regard it was a success.

That was my favorite movie that year.

 

[Sunny]

I was terribly disappointed after I finally saw It's a Wonderful Life.

My dad can't stand that one. He loathes it. I can take it or leave it.

Doctor Strange, Bringing Up Baby drove my brothers and I crazy when we saw it last spring. I think maybe I can make myself stand it now, but the first time through we were frantic.

 

[dhermann1]

This is so refreshing!

 

[1961MJS]

Robin Williams

Hi, I absolutely hate Robin Williams movies. I don't know how much he is involved in writing them, but starting with "The World According to Garp", I hate his movies. Hilarious comedy with tragedy. I especially dislike the scene in Garp where he come flying into the driveway and rear ends his wife's car. Attempting to keep this PG, quoting the transsexual football player "I had it removed surgically, but to have it bitten off in a Buick..." That's hilarious, but Garp's kid is killed in the wreck also (tragedy). I HATED it. :rage:

You really can't laugh at a scene where a kid gets killed, even in a movie. Peter Pan was also a happy / sad thing.

Later

 

[Edward]

I'm with you both on that one. I would go further and say that is pretty much my opinion of all of Kubrick's output.

I always found him very hit and miss. Some of his stuff I absolutely loved (Full Metal Jacket, Spartacus, Dr Strangelove), while some of it (Eyes Wide Shut for a start) was utter twaddle. In some ways thed most bitterly disappointing one was A Clockwork Orange. I adored the book and the film has one or two sublime moments (Alex imagining himself whipping the soon-to-be-crucified Christ was a superbly shot sequence). It has dated very badly, but what really makes it intolerable for me is the fact that they changed the ending by arbitrarily doing away with the book's epilogue in which Alex comes home to discover that all his friends have grown up and left his childish gang violence behind, and he is alone. A very significant point of the satire, cut because it didn't give Hollywood a 'happy ending'.... gah. (I have also heard that the first US print of the novel made a similar omission, not sure if this is true, though).

 

[scottyrocks]

As a teenager, I couldnt get enough of Mork and Mindy, and williams' standup kept me on the edge of my seat, as did an interview on TV with David Frost. But his first few movies, including Popeye, and Seize the Day just left me wondering whutdaheck??

 

[dhermann1]

Kubrick

Let's not forget "Barry Lyndon". A very surprising brilliant performance by Ryan O'Neal.
Actually, since I liked the flick, this post is fftopic:

 

[bunnyb.gal]

I agree entirely Edward. Overblown, pretentious crap.

Probably a brilliant cure for insomnia though.

Me three - 2001 - yawn. I don't really get the Godfather trilogy, either. Star Wars, Forrest Gump, E.T., nah. I have a really really hard time with 1) Nouvelle Vague films, 2) almost any musical where they break into song and dance anywhere but on the stage - read most 50's musicals 3) probably 99.9% of Digimation or CGI -heavy films, 4) any films which have anything like shakycam, MTV-style speed editing or any bizarre editing/camerawork which draws attention to itself and has nothing to do with helping along characterisation, mood or narrative.

Gee, I think that's pretty much it!

 

[fortworthgal]

I despised The World According to Garp and Fargo.

 

[Atomic Age]

As a huge fan of film noir, I find Sunset Blvd to be completely unwatchable. In fact I'll go so far as to say that its not even film noir!

I don't find the films of Quentin Tarantino to be brilliant. They are for the most part a watch it once and forget about it type of stuff.

I don't get the cult of Fight Club. I just don't get it. It was mildly entertaining, but nothing to write home about.

Doug

 

[Chasseur]

Actually I agree with many earlier posters: while I generally like Cohen Brothers' movies I don't get the hype on Fargo. 2001 leaves me bored and cold, though I like most of Kubrik's films. Not sure about the Tarantino thing either, to me he's a lot like M. Night Shyamalan: he has one trick and keeps riding it into the ground. Ditto Wes Anderson.

I have a hard time 'getting into' most 1930s movies. In constrast, I watch and love many 1940s and 50s. Something about earlier movies I find hard to watch in general, in particular Clark Gable films, the Thin Man series (heck I didn't even like the book either...) etc.

I do not understand why people love some modern actresses like Reece Witherspoon, Julia Styles or Julia Roberts. Just don't get it.

But Dr. Strange really hit the nail on the head with this one. I just don't get sports movies, since I find they are all really the same movie. Underdog player or team, against the odds, evil manager or rival, slow mo ball in air or horse running, etc.

But my all-time most hated genre is the Inspirational Sports Drama. I just can't buy into the whole sports-is-the-noblest-aspiration-of-mankind bushwa that these films traffic in, nor does winning the big game (fight, race, whatever) ever seem important enough for the dramatic freight that it's allegedly carrying. (I admit it: I am that rare creature, a totally sports-disinterested male. I am mystified at how large sports looms in modern culture...

 

[Miss Golightly]

Julia Roberts is not a pretty woman. I think that says more about me than about her. lol She has a frighteningly large mouth and when mixed with her laugh, she scares me the way an overly expressive clown would. I can't sit through any of her movies.

I laughed out good and loud when I read that - it's so true! It's like someone told her it was cute in that scene in Pretty Woman when RG snaps the jewellery case onto her hand and she decided to put the big guffaw into any movie she is in - very grating....

As for movies that I just don't get, I feel that I should have enjoyed The Barefoot Contessa - the beautiful Ava Gardner, Bogie and gorgeous cinematography but I just found it soooooooo dull.

 

[Mav]

Star Wars

Oh, yeah- that.*yucky*

 

[Chasseur]

Almost forgot, I just don't find Will Farrell and Jack Black funny. Never have. I hated Will Farrell when he was on SNL, one of the reasons I stopped watching it back then... in particular that cheerleading skit...

 

[staggerwing]

I watch very few movies but have seen enough the know I can't stand "It's a Wonderful Life" and ET was a huge disappointment. The all time worst was something I got draged to with my wife and some friends in the mid 1990s. Can't remember the name of it but the main character was an English butler. I'd have rather watched the pavement crack. Come to think of it, about 30 minutes in, I left them and went outside and did watch the pavement crack. Just awful.

Regards,
Staggerwing

 

[Puzzicato]

Julia Roberts is not a pretty woman. I think that says more about me than about her. lol She has a frighteningly large mouth and when mixed with her laugh, she scares me the way an overly expressive clown would. I can't sit through any of her movies.

My husband claims that she is a woman's woman - that men actually don't find her attractive. Cameron Diaz, Liv Tyler and a few others get that label too.

My unpopular movie opinion? Titanic was a load of tripe and I resent the hours it snatched from my life.

 

[Paisley]

I got sooooo sick of "My Heart Will Go On" when Titanic came out. It must have been on the radio every morning for years.

 

[scottyrocks]

Almost forgot, I just don't find Will Farrell and Jack Black funny. Never have. I hated Will Farrell when he was on SNL, one of the reasons I stopped watching it back then... in particular that cheerleading skit...

And to that I'll add in any movie Chevy Chase was ever in. Or maybe I just dont like him. He's just not funny. I think the last time he was funny was when he did the 'newcasts' (Weekend Update?) on SNL. He's on of these guys who is himself in every movie he's been in.

 

[1961MJS]

Cobra, the only movie I ever walked out of

Hi

My wife and I walked out of the movie Cobra. When they got to the scene where a bunch of guys were holding a couple of full sized axes and banging them together we started giggling and had to leave.

Later

P.S. a second ET comment. A friend of mine who was forced by his fiancee to go see the movie was in BIG trouble because he started giggling when ET was dying. To quote: "The whole idea that a wad of rubber cement was dying was just funny." :eusa_clap

Much later now.