The other side of film dissonance...

[Kahuna Burger]

Well, I got to the Raise Dead Film thread after all my favorites had already been taken, so I'm gonna start off the other side of the coin.

What films have you seen that "The Critics" and most people you've talked to liked, but you just couldn't stand?

The big one for me is Fargo. Dear lord save me. My bf and I watched that entire movie on tape saying "This has to get better. There has to be a reason this thing is nominated for an oscar. Please, make the hurting stop."

Kahuna Burger

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Well, I got to the Raise Dead Film thread after all my favorites had already been taken, so I'm gonna start off the other side of the coin.

What films have you seen that "The Critics" and most people you've talked to liked, but you just couldn't stand?

The big one for me is Fargo. Dear lord save me. My bf and I watched that entire movie on tape saying "This has to get better. There has to be a reason this thing is nominated for an oscar. Please, make the hurting stop."

One for me was The English Patient. It literally put me to sleep before the opening credits stopped rolling. An amazingly boring, turgid, overlong movie.

I did like Fargo, but thought that, like The Usual Suspects, it wasn't as good as lots of people seemed to think.

 

[DanMcS]

Mulholand Drive. Sweet jesus. My friends liked this movie, and it drove me insane. Nothing happens for a long time, and then some people talk, and then nothing happens for a while longer, and then it turns out it didn't matter anyway because it was all a dream. I want that part of my life back.

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Mulholand Drive. Sweet jesus. My friends liked this movie, and it drove me insane. Nothing happens for a long time, and then some people talk, and then nothing happens for a while longer, and then it turns out it didn't matter anyway because it was all a dream. I want that part of my life back.

well, yeah, but it has... well, you know, in it.

 

[Crothian]

Something about Mary.....everyone said how good it was and the blah blah blah....it was horrid, not the least bit funny.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Titanic: I'm not alone I know, but it does seem to be way more popular with the women while you would need to shoot me and drag my dead body to the theater before I would see it.

Rocky Horror: I will go insane and start killing people if I am ever forced to go see this again.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

The Full Monty. I heard all this great stuff about it, how it was the funniest UK comedy film, like, ever, and then I saw it and I was of the opinion "Yeah, it's OK."

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Titanic: I'm not alone I know, but it does seem to be way more popular with the women while you would need to shoot me and drag my dead body to the theater before I would see it.

I take this perverse pride in never having seen Titanic (or episode one). I'm weird that way....

Kahuna Burger

 

[Mallus]

Anything by Todd Solandz {Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling}.

His films are indie circuit critics' favorites.

They fill me with anger, particularly Happiness. When my friends praise him, I wonder if they are, in fact, insane.

And anything with Jim Carrey, with the exception of The Truman Show and The Mask.

And Armegeddon. I hate that film for dragging two of my favorite actors down with it; Bruce Willis {he never fails to entertain me, wait, Armegeddon} and Steve Buscemi.

Funny, though, I liked Titanic...

 

[Kahuna Burger]

And Armegeddon. I hate that film for dragging two of my favorite actors down with it; Bruce Willis {he never fails to entertain me, wait, Armegeddon} and Steve Buscemi.

Ugh, Armagedon... Wouldn't it have been easier to write "you love america and woman are soft and nice but useless when it comes down to it" on a lead pipe and beat me over the head with THAT for a few hours... I least I wouldn't remember it....

Kahuna Burger