Popular movies that do nothing for you

[repete66211]

What movies come to mind that you just don't get? I'm not talking about critically acclaimed movies or classics, but rather about movies that seem to be very popular with the general public but which you didn't enjoy, don't like or hate.

Here are a few of mine (amended, thanks to some suggestions):

Some of Hitchcock's movies, Psycho, Vertigo and Rear Window in particular
The Matrix
Superbad
TDK - In defense, I thought it was OK but not that good
Pretty much all horror movies
Vampire movies
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
Most super hero/comic book movies

This post isn't about arguing the merits of movies you like so please keep it civil.

[Batman1980]

Nacho Libre
Taken
Slumdog Millionaire(ha!)
That's all I can think of for now.

[Diesel]

Anything Jack Black
Just about anything Will Ferrell
Also anything Seth Rogen
Most horror movies
Twilight (I watched it, it was eh. Not terrible, but not great. Minus the sparkling it would be a movie I'd watch on tv while bored one day)

[red_5ive]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Anything Jack Black
Just about anything Will Ferrell
Also anything Seth Rogen
Most horror movies
Twilight (I watched it, it was eh. Not terrible, but not great. Minus the sparkling it would be a movie I'd watch on tv while bored one day)

Agree with anything Rogen. Also anything Jonah Hill.

[Booyahs the name]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Anything Jack Black
Just about anything Will Ferrell
Also anything Seth Rogen
Most horror movies
Twilight (I watched it, it was eh. Not terrible, but not great. Minus the sparkling it would be a movie I'd watch on tv while bored one day)

I AGREEEEEE!!!! With the exception to Will Ferrell. The one movie he was in i completely love which was Stranger Than Fiction. Other than that i agree :-)

[MosHighDef]

everything pixar disney
Everything super hero except Iron Man

not a movie but True Blood. I cant stand that crap

[modano079]

The only one I can really think of is Pineapple Express

[GLaDOS]

Casino Royale has already scarred me enough.

[duckman]

Slumdog Millionaire (turns out that lady justice isnt the only icon wearing a blindfold ....so is oscar.)

[Bear28]

Tropic Thunder

[Jellybeans]

Watchmen

[Kyo28]

Originally Posted by duckman

Slumdog Millionaire (turns out that lady justice isnt the only icon wearing a blindfold ....so is oscar.)

I feel the same way. Everyone is raving on this movie but it leaves me stone-cold.

Also:
- Titanic (apart from the succesful CGI, there's nothing there for me)
- The English Patient: the only movie in my entire life I actually stopped watching before the end credits rolled.
- Kill Bill: instead of an original movie with oriental influences, I see a movie that adds nothing to the genre and falls from one cliche into the next. I doubt Tarantino even understands the true meaning of and difference between Chinese Wuxia movies and Japanese martial arts movies.

[bradtown]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Nacho Libre
Taken
Slumdog Millionaire(ha!)
That's all I can think of for now.

lol me too. I actually never watched Nacho Libre and Slumdog Millionaire, although i knew they were popular back then. But "Taken" is a great action adventure movie actually, the sequel is also good.

[Pizzamorg]

Put my name down for Drive too, I thought it was a cool film but really really overhyped and very very dull.

[Buscemi]

Birdman. People love to tell me how wrong I am when I say I didn't like it.

Others:
- every movie directed by Joss Whedon (I'm only counting his first two since Age of Ultron is still recent and I haven't seen it)
- every movie directed by David O. Russell not named Three Kings
- every movie directed by Rian Johnson
- Gravity (in fact, nearly every Alfonso Cuaron film)
- God's Not Dead (this was probably the worst film of 2014 and yet it made $60 million and is getting a sequel)
- The Conjuring
- Dances with Wolves
- Shakespeare in Love (I only has this on Blu-ray as it was part of a set so that answers the question of why I have a copy)
- Iron Man Three
- American Sniper
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- Frances Ha
- Whiplash
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Frozen
- Big Hero 6
- The Babadook
- It Follows
- The Hunger Games series

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

- Frances Ha

Frances Ha is now considered "popular?" I think that would be news to Gerwig and Baumbach.

I mean, trust me: I love the film, and i WISH strange, little, weird movies like that were more popular. But the day that Frances Ha is considered popular, I'm checking my blood for hallucinogens.

ETA: We're talking about a movie here with a grand total box office of just over $4M.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Pizzamorg

Put my name down for Drive too, I thought it was a cool film but really really overhyped and very very dull.

You obviously just didn't get it - that's what I get told every time I say it was a dull movie.

I think Blade Runner is far from great too. Has a very interesting look to it but I found the story to be lacking a lot. I think there were a few sci-fi films from that time that get more praise than they deserve. The look good or have great effects but the story is poor.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

You obviously just didn't get it - that's what I get told every time I say it was a dull movie.

I think Blade Runner is far from great too. Has a very interesting look to it but I found the story to be lacking a lot. I think there were a few sci-fi films from that time that get more praise than they deserve. The look good or have great effects but the story is poor.

Blade Runner is a chilling story, and that's how I felt when I saw it in the theater and that's how I feel about it now. I think that any film that addresses, in one way or another, what it means to be human is scary on some level.

[Pizzamorg]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

You obviously just didn't get it - that's what I get told every time I say it was a dull movie.

I think Blade Runner is far from great too. Has a very interesting look to it but I found the story to be lacking a lot. I think there were a few sci-fi films from that time that get more praise than they deserve. The look good or have great effects but the story is poor.

Blade Runner is my favourite film but I do admit that I return to Blade Runner for the world and not for the story or the characters. The same can't really be said for Drive for me, though, Gosling looking cool in a tacky jacket only stretches so far.

[Canuck21]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Batman Begins