Top 10 movies everyone else liked but you thought were meh

[RJ_MacReady]

- Marvel movies
- Breaking Bad (yeah..I know it’s a series).
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Cool Hand Luke
- Fast and the Furious
- The Expendables
- Disney Movies
- Almost any movie w/Will Smith.



Two that have been heralded as cinematic masterpieces by Hollywood:
- Mystic River
- Crash

 

[Montanalo]

Rather than simply naming individual movies, I grouped my by category. Sorry, it's the way my brain works.

Any Owen Wilson film (I have to admit, I have not seen all of his movies but, of the ones I have seen, he plays exactly the same character in every one - and, I might add, he plays the character poorly).

All Batman movies with the exception of "The Dark Knight" and I like it primarily because of Heath Ledger's Joker.

Any Fast and Furious movie.

All Hallmark movies (similar to Owen Wilson, they are all the same)

Most of the Star Trek spin-off TV shows. Although, I did enjoy the first few seasons of TNG. Big fan of the original TV series and, interestingly enough, the re-booted movies with Chris Pine.

 

[CouchCoach]

Maybe movies you didn't really get, didn't understand why they were even popular.

1. Forest Gump
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Field of Dreams
4. Harry Potter
5. Blues Brothers
6. Friday the 13th(Or any slasher movie)
7. Dumb and Dumber
8. Biodome
9. The Fast and the Furious
10. The Expendables

Well, ksk, if the wife kicks you out, coming to crash here is no longer an option. I own 1-3, all of 4 and just watched the entire saga through the holidays, and 5, 7 and the whole set of 10.

However, I will list Tarantino movies, except for Inglorius *******s, musicals, except for The Music Man with Robert Preston and most English made dramas. The English, except for the hooligans and ruffians, are just too proper for me.

But when it comes to not being able to grasp the popularity of something, Beavis and Butthead always mystified me but not as much as people repeating the stupid things they said trying to imitate their voices.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

The only Fast and Furious movie I liked was the one that went rogue from the rest...Tokyo Drift.
If you served I don't think you could not like Saving Private Ryan unless you have issues with PTSD The first 30 minutes alone is amazing, the rest is just good.
Apocalypse now I have a love/hate relationship with. It's not a movie I would NOT buy, rent, record or seek out, however if it is on and I start watching, I usually will finish it.
I don't see how a guy would not like the Godfather II I can understand the third one, heck even give a pass on the first maybe.

For me recently....The Irishman on netflix. Watched about an hour of it and it felt like it was 2 hours. The actual movie is over three hours and I just could not see myself sitting through it.
It just did not have the magic of Casino and Goodfellows and maybe that is my fault thinking it would be like that with pesci and deniro.

The original Psycho - Watched it as a kid and just did not see it as scary at all.

The original Amittyville Horror - Same as above, seen it as a kid when it was just out and I think the only time I jumped was a cheap jump scare of a cat jumping out or something similar.

Black Hawk Down - A will not watch this movie a second time. One of the few movies that just got me too angry and upset about. I will leave it at that.

I agree with some about reservoir dogs. I like tarantino films but this one always seemed overrated to me. Story goes that he wrote True Romance but sold the script in order to get money to make R-Dogs. I personally like True Romance a great deal more.

Titanic - Sure it is more of a chick flick but after years of not watching it I finally seen it and frankly at the very end I wanted to beat the crap out of the old lady or throw her butt overboard with the jewel.

Pretty much any Woody Allen movie - I think the only one I even remotely cared for was Everything you wanted to know about sex but was afraid to ask and I think even that one only had a couple of scenes I found funny.

 

[kskboys]

Well, ksk, if the wife kicks you out, coming to crash here is no longer an option. I own 1-3, all of 4 and just watched the entire saga through the holidays, and 5, 7 and the whole set of 10.

However, I will list Tarantino movies, except for Inglorius *******s, musicals, except for The Music Man with Robert Preston and most English made dramas. The English, except for the hooligans and ruffians, are just too proper for me.

But when it comes to not being able to grasp the popularity of something, Beavis and Butthead always mystified me but not as much as people repeating the stupid things they said trying to imitate their voices.

Yeah, but I don't mind most chick flicks. I liked Jerry McGuire.

 

[Xelda]

Titanic - Sure it is more of a chick flick but after years of not watching it I finally seen it and frankly at the very end I wanted to beat the crap out of the old lady or throw her butt overboard with the jewel.

That would have been the best alternate ending possible! The movie would have been viewed in a far better light with you swooping in to save us from any more of her drivel. The diamond didn't do anything wrong though. To me, the best and worst part of the movie was when the ship started to crack apart with sounds coming from several directions and the lighting was flickering on and off in the theater.

 

[nobody]

Avatar (The only good thing about that movie was the 3-D effects)
Almost any Kevin Costner movie.
Titanic
Forrest Gump

 

[Doomsday]

Okay, this thread should have been locked the moment someone said the Godfather. Blasphemy!

Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowski
Fargo

 

[Runwildboys]

Many many times I've heard people agree w/ the crowd that so and so movie was good/bad, only to tell me later they really didn't. Happens all the time.

I've never been afraid to go against the grain.

Get these movies that I thought were decent:

Catwoman
Waterworld


Not great, but I thought both were worth watching.

If Halle Berry is in it, it's worth watching.

Waterworks was okay, but not worth the budget.

 

[Londonboy]

Maybe movies you didn't really get, didn't understand why they were even popular.

1. Forest Gump
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Field of Dreams
4. Harry Potter
5. Blues Brothers
6. Friday the 13th(Or any slasher movie)
7. Dumb and Dumber
8. Biodome
9. The Fast and the Furious
10. The Expendables

No.5 shocks Me, it's one of the few American comedies I find funny.

 

[Londonboy]

Close encounters of the 3rd kind.
Braveheart.
Every costume/period drama of the simpering posh Girl needs husband ilk.
Every Tom Cruise film.
Every Rocky movie.
Every sports film of the plucky underdog overcomes the odds to triumph variety (see above for the worst offenders).
Saving Private Ryan.
Superhero movies.
U571.
Sandra Bullock movies.
Rom Coms from the grand gesture wins reluctant Girl's heart school of lazy scriptwriting.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I can’t think of 10 off the top right now but a couple that stand out to me are The Big Lebowski and Pineapple Express.

I think with Lebowski it may just be a byproduct of how hyped up it is as sort of a cult classic which I just don’t get. With Pineapple Express it’s definitely due to the fact I don’t find watching someone stoned particularly funny.

 

[CouchCoach]

We've got 2.5 pages on this and no better example of the different, and allowable, tastes we have as individuals. Some have a few of my top 10 in their bottom 10 but that's OK. Londy has 2 of my all time top 10 with Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan.

Now, let us consider Londy's nationality and that of one Mr. William Wallace for his distaste of this fine film. I bet he cried like I did in Old Yeller when Longshanks tapped out. And I don't get Saving Private Ryan at all. Here we are sending our boys over there to take care of business because his Parliament allowed the war machine to grow to that size and he's dissing on our film. I am surprised he didn't list The Patriot...………. because of the ending.

Sir Londy, I will raise your any Tom Cruise or Rocky film with Monty Python and any period British drama. The English Patient should not have survived.

 

[kskboys]

are you talking about the first one or the more recent ones??

I have a mob movie for u that is really different, and found out some things I did not know.
It is a new one called Mob.Town.2019, it is all about the meeting in I think 1957 where a bunch of mob bosses had a meeting and because of one
state policeman who did not like one particular mob guy, whose house they were meeting at lol, wound up getting them all busted but in
a very comical way.
Them getting busted together is what exposed the mafia to the public, and forced hoover to acknowledge it existed.
It is not like other mob movies.

I might try it, but mob movies in general just bore me. Same as car chase movies and most war movies. Prolly why I didn't like Saving Private Ryan or The Fast and the Furious. I heard both were different and I would love them. They weren't, and I didn't.

 

[kskboys]

No.5 shocks Me, it's one of the few American comedies I find funny.

It was basically for Sat Nite Live fans, and I wasn't.

 

[kskboys]

I can’t think of 10 off the top right now but a couple that stand out to me are The Big Lebowski and Pineapple Express.

I think with Lebowski it may just be a byproduct of how hyped up it is as sort of a cult classic which I just don’t get. With Pineapple Express it’s definitely due to the fact I don’t find watching someone stoned particularly funny.

Ah, there's another that will shock. I thought the Cheech and Chong movies were bleh for the same reason you just said. I simply don't understand the attraction of watching people get high.

 

[kskboys]

If Halle Berry is in it, it's worth watching.

Waterworks was okay, but not worth the budget.

See, and that's what everyone reiterates about Waterworld. Which begs the question: "Why do you care what the budget for it was?"

Serious question. Why would a film's budget affect your enjoyment? I really don't understand how that is a relevant point.

 

[kskboys]

I honestly was assuming he was kidding
Some of those are so epic....imo, of course.

I mean, The Godfather? Not good?
To each his own though!

And actually, that's what this thread is about. Popular films you didn't care for.

 

[Runwildboys]

See, and that's what everyone reiterates about Waterworld. Which begs the question: "Why do you care what the budget for it was?"

Serious question. Why would a film's budget affect your enjoyment? I really don't understand how that is a relevant point.

It didn't affect my enjoyment of it. I'm just surprised someone read the script and thought it was worth it.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

If Halle Berry is in it, it's worth watching.

Waterworks was okay, but not worth the budget.

Is Waterworks the porn fetish version of Water World?