Movies other people love but you don't 'get'
 

One of mine has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can appreciate that it has visually interesting moments, I am a science fiction fan and I like 'artsy' films (I am a bit world cinema fan) but I just don't get why people love it so much. To me, it just goes on and on.

What films do you not 'get' that most other people appear to love?

Princess Bride is my choice for this. Same with Blair Witch Project.

Awww...what don't you like about the Princess Bride? I am sure it could be an age thing for kids movies like that. When you watched them and how old you were can help. For example, whenever I see The Goonies I am seeing it through my eight year old (or so) eyes.

I am with you totally on Blair Witch though. I never understood why it was suppose to be so shocking.

I agree with you on that. While I liked Blair Witch I never saw Princess Bride until a few years ago. When I did see I wasn't impressed. I kind of shrugged and went, oh well. All of my friends that love it saw it when they were kids and I think part of it is remembering how they felt when they saw it back then and it makes the nostalgic for it.

Here is one for me: The Godfather. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I don't see why some people say it is all that. It has some great moments in it, but to be honest I preferred Goodfellas and Casino to it.

avatar, harry potter, and tv series like lost and 24

avatar - stupid

lord of ring - i don't enjoy

When it comes to Harry Potter I have seen the movies (never read the books and won't read the books) and I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Yeah, they look cool and might have an interesting story, but I have never been blown away by them nor have I ever wanted to watch them more than once.

The show 24 was really interesting the first couple of seasons, then it got old. How many times can Jack save the day in a 24 hour period? Not to mention you would think as much as the government fucked him over time and again he would eventually just give up and go live somewhere outside the country and be at peace.

Anything Twilight related. I have never seen them because even the trailers bore me. From what I hear they are terrible movies and yet millions love them.

Donnie Darko - someone I know really loves it, whole thing just confused me.

Theres also a bit heap of films i've never bothered to watch like the Harry Potter ones for example.

First couple of times i saw 2001 (circa late 70's) i thought "what the hell?" but then someone suggested i watch it and not try to read alot of things into it, then i got it and i really like it now.

if i was 15 when lord of the rings movies came out i probably would have liked them as i liked the books at that time. but now i gotta say they just bore the crap out of me. same goes for harry potter...just smacks of lame fantasy.

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American Beauty.

I get it, and that's the problem. It's such an obvious fucking movie and overrated.

If you look at 2001 in the time it came out, you could say it was ahead of its time. Same with Citizen Kane. Are they earth-shattering now? Probably not.

The Royal Tenenbaums

there is a long list of such films

Raising Arizona.

I have had people tell me how fucking funny and brilliant it is -- I thought it just plain sucked :2 cents:

Anything at all with Jim Carrey in. A very, very, very unfunny and deeply annoying person.

I can't watch anything with him in either.

Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to... blablabla...
I fell asleep, didn't think it was funny at all. It's in the IMDB top 250 so I am sure it's me.

Twilight.

Good god, it was the worst acted movie I have ever seen (and that is saying something, cause I have seen a bunch). Just awful, I was actually laughing out loud at certain parts...which others watching with me were not happy about...

Check the "Director's cut" and it will make much more sense...

totally agree on both. even though i love the lord of the rings books.

In his comedy mode I agree. I have, however, enjoyed him in his more serious roles like Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine.

i love eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

It is a really fantastic film. He hasn't done much straight work lately though, guess it doesn't pay off as well for him.

Napoleon Dynamite

barely let out a chuckle

I'd have to say pretty much all that have been mentioned so far.
Harry potter
Lord of the Rings
Avatar
Donnie Darko
Napolean Dynamite
Twilight


yeah, they all suck.

Fargo 1996

I enjoyed Avatar in Imax3D and I love Napoleon Dynamite. The rest of your list, is exactly what I was going to type out.

Avatar - ppl are almost crying because they loved it so much and all I thought about it was "so what?"

The first batman movies (with Nicholson etc)

Donnie Darko is one of those love or hate films it seems. It personally blew me away. And his other films seem to have the same effect on people. I liked both "The Box" (a remake of an outer limits story i think) and "Southland Tales" for its sheer audacity.

Pretty much anything made after 1987.

Better off Dead? A Classic.
Real Genius? Superb.

Sunshine? Meh. Two hours too long.
Moon? Coulda been done in half an hour.
Stepfather? Garbage.
Drag me to Hell? I turned it off, and I watched Stepfather.

Is that a different version of the film or one of those tedious things with a commentary?
All I can remember about Fargo is the woodchipper in the snow.
I was in France staying with a family when Batman came out. They took me to see it expecting it to be in French so i'd have to use my brain to understand it and it was in English with French subtitles :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

They were so pissed off they took me to see Le Grand Bleu the next day too which wasn't a bad film either.

requiem for a dream, tried to sit thru it 2x and turned it off..

Das Boot is another, can't see myself watching a movie for 5 hrs.

2001: The Space Odyssey was exactly the first movie that immediately came to my mind

I saw that first and I felt totally lobotomized after, like from the very first minute to the very last - extremely disturbing

Quite possibly, I'd never ever get any sort of meaning, hadn't I re-watch that recently with a very good friend of mine, who read the original and we simply stopped the movie every 5 minutes or so, and he always gave me the "description" of what's going on.

Movies I never got but found rather entertaning - that could be Italian directors Marco Ferreri or Pier Paolo Passolini

Never had luck with Bergmann either, the only aspect of his personality that's left to like for me is his endless sexual private life potential :)

Jean Luc Godard - I still have to watch his first movie with Jean Paul Belmondo, that could be a good one, other than that I tried to watch "Week End" and "Sympathy for the devil" and had to stop after like 10 minutes, I just was not in the mood for "perverse symbolism".

Michealangelo Antonioni - although I seriously dig his early works, including his "international" works such as "Blowup" "Zabriskie Point" or "Profession Reporter" I just recently bought me the "Identification of a woman" ("L'Iddentificatione una Donna" ) from 1982 and seriously, I just couldn't get it, the music, visuals were really exciting, yet the plot basically consisted of the main hero fucking various girls and women left and right, and dialogues consisted from quotes I couldn't put into any context at all.

Although one quote I found extremely interesting, memorized it, and use to use when I talk with women where I have a "romantic" interest :)

I found exactly and precisely the reason why "Godfather" is so popular.

It's all about the penis!

Every time I ask anyone in the world, even if they barely read any book or barely are interested in movies, they always name GODFATHER among their favorite movies...

Then I ask why - what exactly do they remember from that movie?

In 99 pct. of the cases they remember Sonny's huge dick (Sonny is played by James Caan in the original) or Maro Puzo's citation regarding his wife having a delicate plastic operation, I'm serious :)

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any starwars, startrek movie. Can't stand them.

There are too many of these to name for me. But right off the top of my head I have to say No Country for Old Men. I get it, it's just plain dumb and it feels like it's made for dumb people.

Anything made by Tarantino after Pulp Fiction is garbage.

Crappy television shows such as Lost, 24, House. Every and all reality shows.

It's the "director's cut", it does has a slower pace and (in my opinion) it will make much more "sense". Always felt this was a very "lynchean" (as in David Lynch) movie so enjoy it for the sake of the movie itself.

Since death is most effective aphrodisiac in history I can imagine the appeal

I sure wouldn't want to masturbate with vampires through my teens though :)

Totally agree, never got it - "Brazil" from Terry Gilliam is another movie in that league

Of course one of my all time favorites

Requiem for a Dream - I read the original from Hubert Selby Jr. before seeing the movie and regard it as the most excellent filming of any novel by this date, needless to mention the novel might not exactly be exciting for everyone

Das Boot - watched for 4+ hours without loosing my breath - Herbert Gronemeyer and Jurgen Prochnow put on some of the most incredible performances I ever saw, that I could watch and understand the movie in original helped too

Since I always was a WW II freak I agree that this movie is not for anyone, who actually is not a WW II freak :)

It all comes down to your cultural background and interests, everyone is unique and there's no one sided definition of "taste"

All films done on a computer.

Matrix
=too much sci-fi for me

Ironman
Spiderman
Superman
Harry poter
Hellboy
Underworld
= childish / unreal or both

All comedies and horrors with teenagers
=retarded over-used scenarios, trite dialogues, jokes and stupid characters

Terminator 3+
=no comment.

I like films that are based on a real life or on historical events, dramas, with dark atmosphere. I like horrors too but only a few of them are actually scary and therefore, good. Comedies only with inteligent kind of humor. From comedies, lately, I only liked Meet the Parents (1) and The Zohan (not great but good).

Basically I like all films with Michael Douglass, Jack Nicolson, Tom Hanks and Robert DeNiro and George Clooney.

Pulp fiction was good.. but not that kind of movie I couldnt sleep after.. Just normal. There are a lot of boring passages.

I felt the same way about this movie

Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. This thread pretty much confirms that. One man's crap is another's masterpiece.

True, but some people simply have bad taste. :2 cents:



Well I did say everything after Pulp Fiction was garbage.

deleting all my freeones bookmarks! :mad: :mad:

i'm not into star trek at all but i'm hard about my star wars lol



my :2 cents: on avatar : it was an okay movie but i just couldn't get over the parallels to native american history.

The Matrix :disgust


And i've only ever seen the 1st one because that was enough...

The Cable Guy
Independence Day

why ppl like them i still cant figure out

Don't ever recall talking to anyone who likes those movie lol

Napolean Dynamite - give me a fucking break!
Lord of the rings - tried watching the first one twice and fell asleep both times
The Matrix - didn't excite me at all

one movie that gave a huge boner and that almost nobody speaks of was Mongol - I think I 've seen it three times already

pirates of caribean

alice in wonderland