Movies you don't like but everyone else loves...

[Xtreme]

Can’t stand the ‘Back to the Future’ movies & I haven’t even bothered with the 3rd film.

whats wrong with the 3rd one

BTTF is the greatest trilogy of all time, that said like most other series with the third film (Superman III, Jaws 3 etc) by the third film the quality dips. I have an appreciation for the film in general, but I really wish they didn't do the Doc Brown love story angle. That's what drags it down for me.

Transformers Movies
Fast and Furious 6,7 and 8

Marathon-ing the G1 Transformers box set, good times . The Paramount movies..... not so good, first was ok in a "cartoon to live action" movie sense (kind of sucks on re-watches). Found the second god-awful, never finished the third and have not bothered with the rest.

Love the first Fast and the furious movie because it's basically Point Break with cars . I even have an appreciation for the second movie (which most F&F fans dub as the worst movie in the franchise). I care little for the rest and think they really stretched the concept with 5-7 (have not seen 8, in fact I may never own it on dvd).

That's cool. No recriminations. Taste is personal.

On a rewatch I just find myself yearning for the 13 mins of Heath Ledger and yawning through the rest of the 2+ hrs when he's offscreen.

Didnt like the one with bane in it, thought it was overlong and boring.

I love The Dark Knight trilogy, it's funny how sections of people either love Begins but hate Dark Knight/DKR.... or love The Dark Knight but hate Begins and DKR. I think The Dark Knight is the best movie in the trilogy, not just because of Ledger..... take Batman and Joker out of it, it would still be a great crime film.

I've mentioned it previously - I love what The Dark Knight Rises did - even though yes it's the weakest movie in the series. I enjoyed the call backs to Batman Begins and felt that the story was decent enough. As I've said before it was my favourite movie of 2012 .

In comparison (and fitting to the thread title even though I've repeated this opinion countless times already) I hated The Avengers. I just felt it was too hokey AND the obvious cgi was too off putting to enjoy what was going on in the film itself.

 

[MatthewB]

BTTF is the greatest trilogy of all time, that said like most other series with the third film (Superman III, Jaws 3 etc) by the third film the quality dips. I have an appreciation for the film in general, but I really wish they didn't do the Doc Brown love story angle. That's what drags it down for me.

they obviously wanted to switch the story more to Doc than Marty for the 3rd one, but probably could have done it better, it doesn't stop me enjoying the movie though

 

[emuboy]

Sometimes you don't like a popular movie because it isn't your taste. For example, I don't like the Harry Potter movies, but I'm not really into magic/fantasy type stories so this is understandable.

However, have you seen a movie that given your taste in cinema you should have liked, that you wanted to like and tried to like but simply could not like?

That was my experience with Wayne's World. I first saw this in 1992 when I was in high school and I went to see it at the cinema with friends after an exam. They all loved it and given the amount of laughter in the cinema, so did everyone else. I hated it and didn't laugh once, but when I thought about it afterwards I reasoned I was in a bad mood that afternoon, as the exam hadn't gone well. Normally I liked slacker type comedies. I gave it another try when it was screened on TV I think about 1994, but gave up after an hour and went to bed. But it was a hot day, and I was tired.

Over the next two decades I didn't think about the film much, only occasionally mentioning it in conversations about disliked films and people were quite surprised. Then one Saturday a couple of years ago I was having a massive case of early 1990s nostalgia, and by remarkable coincidence Wayne's World was on TV that night. I sat down to watch it thinking I would finally enjoy and appreciate the film - and hated it as much as the first time I saw it way back in 1992.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Sometimes you don't like a popular movie because it isn't your taste. For example, I don't like the Harry Potter movies, but I'm not really into magic/fantasy type stories so this is understandable.

However, have you seen a movie that given your taste in cinema you should have liked, that you wanted to like and tried to like but simply could not like?

That was my experience with Wayne's World. I first saw this in 1992 when I was in high school and I went to see it at the cinema with friends after an exam. They all loved it and given the amount of laughter in the cinema, so did everyone else. I hated it and didn't laugh once, but when I thought about it afterwards I reasoned I was in a bad mood that afternoon, as the exam hadn't gone well. Normally I liked slacker type comedies. I gave it another try when it was screened on TV I think about 1994, but gave up after an hour and went to bed. But it was a hot day, and I was tired.

Over the next two decades I didn't think about the film much, only occasionally mentioning it in conversations about disliked films and people were quite surprised. Then one Saturday a couple of years ago I was having a massive case of early 1990s nostalgia, and by remarkable coincidence Wayne's World was on TV that night. I sat down to watch it thinking I would finally enjoy and appreciate the film - and hated it as much as the first time I saw it way back in 1992.

I liked your post not because I agree with you, but I could relate very easily to what you're saying!

 

[just_kick_it]

A few that I can think of that get praise from the critics and I just cant get into are Fight Club and the original Star Wars movies.

Another one that has a cult following that I really disliked was The Warriors.

 

[Kram]

Fight Club is crap.

 

[just_kick_it]

Fight Club is crap.

Yeh I thought the exact same! I watched it about 6 or 7 years ago after hearing endless positive reviews for what turned out to be a steaming turd of a movie!!

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Aliens, shit all over the masterpiece that is Alien.

They are all really, REALLY different movies, the Alien series. Different moods and intent for each one. It was only after I got the huge Alien/Predator box set that I really appreciated the Alien series. I mean, I always loved 1 & 2, but 3 and 4 I always seemed to not give much of a shit about until the box set release.

I love 'em all now.

 

[edgie]

Back to the Future III suffers from having very little time travel in it. It's the sore thumb of the trilogy. Mind you the second one is just the first one from different angles in the last third...

Xtreme how can you not like Transformers 1986? An endless hard rock soundtrack? Fighting? Montages? Vince DiCola score music? It's basically Rocky IV!

 

[chefmeister]

A few that I can think of that get praise from the critics and I just cant get into are Fight Club and the original Star Wars movies.

Another one that has a cult following that I really disliked was The Warriors.

That’s strange, man.
I love all those you mentioned and have watched each many, many times.

 

[just_kick_it]

That’s strange, man.
I love all those you mentioned and have watched each many, many times.

Yeh each to their own. Each of those movies has received massive wraps over the years and I went into all of them expecting a masterpiece but was bitterly disappointed. I haven't watched any of the Star Wars movies since I was about 10 though so maybe it's time to give them another try before the new one comes out!

 

[Xtreme]

Back to the Future III suffers from having very little time travel in it. It's the sore thumb of the trilogy. Mind you the second one is just the first one from different angles in the last third...

Xtreme how can you not like Transformers 1986? An endless hard rock soundtrack? Fighting? Montages? Vince DiCola score music? It's basically Rocky IV!

I was referring to the 2007 live action/cgi fest.

The 86 movie is fine!

 

[emuboy]

Back to the Future III suffers from having very little time travel in it. It's the sore thumb of the trilogy. Mind you the second one is just the first one from different angles in the last third...

Xtreme how can you not like Transformers 1986? An endless hard rock soundtrack? Fighting? Montages? Vince DiCola score music? It's basically Rocky IV!

I don't like Back to the Future III either, but I thought I might have been biased because I don't like Westerns.

One movie I have seen get glowing critical reviews but which I absolutely hated was 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Can't people see the problems with this film? It is boring for one, lacks the elements that made Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade such great films and the acting is so bad. Not so bad it is good, like with the early 1990s Australian soap opera 'Paradise Beach' but irritatingly bad, flat out bad, like spending more than two hours listening to somebody dragging their nails down a blackboard.

 

[Young Gun #6]

Pulp Fiction

 

[Punchy Bassett]

I don't like Back to the Future III either, but I thought I might have been biased because I don't like Westerns.

One movie I have seen get glowing critical reviews but which I absolutely hated was 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Can't people see the problems with this film? It is boring for one, lacks the elements that made Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade such great films and the acting is so bad. Not so bad it is good, like with the early 1990s Australian soap opera 'Paradise Beach' but irritatingly bad, flat out bad, like spending more than two hours listening to somebody dragging their nails down a blackboard.

Have a read of Spielberg's and Lucas' thoughts on Temple of Doom they both hated the end product admitted their personal lives at the time affected how it went.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Xtreme how can you not like Transformers 1986? An endless hard rock soundtrack? Fighting? Montages? Vince DiCola score music? It's basically Rocky IV!

Cause it killed off all my childhood heroes!! Some of them like Wheeljack got all of a one second oh look he's dead frame!!

 

[edgie]

I don't like Back to the Future III either, but I thought I might have been biased because I don't like Westerns.

One movie I have seen get glowing critical reviews but which I absolutely hated was 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Can't people see the problems with this film? It is boring for one, lacks the elements that made Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade such great films and the acting is so bad. Not so bad it is good, like with the early 1990s Australian soap opera 'Paradise Beach' but irritatingly bad, flat out bad, like spending more than two hours listening to somebody dragging their nails down a blackboard.

Glowing critical reviews? For a long time is was considered the worst of the franchise, even below Crystal Skull. Only in the last few years I think opinions have changed, cause dark and gritty is the thing now...

 

[MatthewB]

Glowing critical reviews? For a long time is was considered the worst of the franchise, even below Crystal Skull. Only in the last few years I think opinions have changed, cause dark and gritty is the thing now...

i was never much of a fan of Temple of Doom when it first came out, but the more and more i watched i the more i enjoyed it, now its probably my favourite Indy movie

 

[chefmeister]

Titanic, can’t stand the ****ing thing.

 

[JackOutback]

Glowing critical reviews? For a long time is was considered the worst of the franchise, even below Crystal Skull. Only in the last few years I think opinions have changed, cause dark and gritty is the thing now...

Nah, it was never considered worse than Crystal Skull, but it was definitely considered the weakest of the trilogy.

 

[emuboy]

Glowing critical reviews? For a long time is was considered the worst of the franchise, even below Crystal Skull. Only in the last few years I think opinions have changed, cause dark and gritty is the thing now...

It was on TV the other week, and had good write ups. I don't know why, it isn't dark and gritty it is flat out awful from beginning to end, especially the acting. It isn't even like it is bad, campy acting you can laugh at and be entertained by, it is just bad. And how could anybody think that the character of Willie Scott, the love interest in this movie, was ever a good idea?

 

[Kong]

On that note, I hate the entire Indiana Jones trilogy (haven't seen the 4th).

Temple of Doom is one of the worst films that I have seen in the last 5 years, and the other two are pretty average.

His character as a whole has not aged well.

 

[Russian Demon]

All Superhero movies (apart from V for Vendetta, Sin City & Watchmen).

CGI wankfests that take A grade actors, give them B grade script and end up with C grade movies.

I can't believe the cinema going public shell out $25 a ticket for this drivel.

 

[HomerThompson]

La La Land.

 

[sydney eagle]

I'm not a fan of Kubrick's stuff "2001:. "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining". Saw each of them once and have no desire to ever watch any of them again.