Iconic movies you don't like.
You know you got them. I'll start:
Platoon
Singin' in the Rain
Ben-Hur
The Gold Rush
Rear Window
Chariots of Fire
Stand by Me
The Secret of NIMH.
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The deer hunter
Apocalypse now
The big lebowski
Jaws
The graduate
A clockwork orange
Breakfast at tiffanys
Taxi driver
Schindler's list
Forrest Gump
Those are some great films in this list!
shareSo everyone says but I find all of them over rated.
The Russian roulette scene in Deer hunter is hilarious though.
So what exactly DO you like? Looks like you took a list of many popular movies and put them out without context.
Was Schundlers list some porn remake of Schindler's List?
But I'll agree about Forrest Gump. Funny to watch the first time, but ultimately kind of a nothing burger.
Well the thread is about "Iconic movies you don't like" so of course any film listed will be popular, right?
I was on my phone when I typed it and didn't realize the typo on what is obviously Schindler's List.
I like a lot of films, I do however tend to question things and especially when a film is over hyped I tend to become disappointed when I see it. Not many films live up to their own press.
You are completely right about the thread title. Has to be an iconic movie. Check.
I also have noticed the phenomenon of hyping something making the experience hard to achieve the expectation. I used to play records at parties that were personal favorites expecting everyone would agree, but they never sounded quite as good as Led Zeppelin or Supertramp (at the time).
I can't understand how anyone can like techno or electronic dance music. To me it is all just random blips with the same drum beat behind every "song". I wonder about the people who listen to it, what are they getting from it? I kind of get it if they are at a club and just want to dance, but what about when you hear it blasting from a car or someone's home?
When I listen to music, I really absorb it and it means a lot to me. I just can't see how that stuff can be meaningful to anyone.
Do you actually dislike those movies? Sounds like it's not that you dislike them, it's that you think they're not as great as you expected them to be, or as reviews led you to believe.
shareI do actually dislike them yeah. There are worse of course, there are plenty of really crap films out there that make you wonder how and why they were even made. But the films listed as per thread title are all iconic and "mainstream" so to speak. They are all considered to be amazing for some reason and I don't see why.
i've never really liked 'the road warrior' that much. it's clearly better than any of the other post-apocalypse films that were a bit of a craze in the 80s, but it still always bores me a little. fury road, on the other hand, blew my head off & i definitely rate it as one of the most exciting action films i've ever seen.
i almost always find myself bored by westerns. every few months i try another one to see if it will click with me, and i usually find all my 'i want to watch something else' neurons firing. among the ones i haven't liked:
high plains drifter
once upon a time in the west
the man who shot liberty valence
red river
all considered classics, but i just could not get on their wavelength.
a few others:
gaslight
the dark knight
schindler's list
I was only able to get through half of Gaslight. I'm not a fan of Westerns either.
sharePulp Fiction
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Prestige
Is The Prestige really iconic?
shareSome people think so.
shareI really liked the movie but i never thought about it like that. Not sure what the definition is though.
shareAnything by C Nolan gets special status. Plus with Jackman and Bale, you can't just toss it away like some Thunder Road B movie.
shareI liked it too, it's the only Nolan film i have really gotten into and thought about after seeing it, i wish he did more like that instead of all his crazy sci-fi stuff.
shareI don't know if it's really well enough known to be iconic (I feel like more people than not that I ask about that movie haven't seen it). That said, The Prestige is one of my favorite movies.
shareHow can you not like Pulp Fiction??
shareI hate that film and have tried to watch it three times but could never make it to the end.
shareIt's a bit on the long side and at first I had a bit of trouble getting through the Bruce Willis chapter, but that one got better every time I watched it.
shareeveryone should see it at least once.
shareThey're re-releasing it in theatre next month, so I'm definitely going to go see it then.
shareI like PF. It was innovative at it's time. And it's visually very lively. It never lets up. A captivating movie on a lot of levels. I'm not a big Tarantino supporter, but this worked really well.
shareI love his first 3 movies, they're great. The rest stinks, in my opinion.
shareI also do think he found a comfort zone, an exploitable groove, that he kept going to. Which is too bad, as he had the resources to make anything he wanted. He likely doesn't feel comfortable doing a love story, or an immigrant's story in Black & White. He needs to see people bleeding.
shareJackie Brown was kinda refreshing after Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I've always felt he's probably better at adapting other people's stories. I mean, Roger Avary contributed siginificantly to Pulp Fiction's script and we all know how original Reservoir Dogs really is (although it's one of my favourite movies!)
sharemy personal take on tarantino is that he hit home runs his first two times at the plate with dogs & fiction, then stumbled about a bit, perhaps lost his way until inglourious basterds, which is maaaybe his best, and he's been on sure footing since then.
i don't think he's made a bad film, but i do find the stretch from jackie brown through death proof a step below everything else he's done.
i'd basically rank them like this:
inglourious basterds
pulp fiction
reservoir dogs
the hateful eight
django unchained
death proof
kill bill
jackie brown
Speaking of Roger Avery, I love Killing Zoe which has that QT vibe.
shareNo, I think Inglourious Basterds is about his worst, an example of what went wrong with him.
I don't really get how you can put Jackie Brown last, even behind Death Proof.
well, i'm a simple man, and ultimately when i judge such things the main thing i ask myself is how much i was engaged. was i bored? & jackie brown ultimately bored me.
now i haven't watched it in a good length of time, but i know i've seen it 4 times, 3 of those in the year it was released. I gave it those 2nd & 3rd watches that year because i was willing to believe that there was something there that i might have missed, & i was with people who wanted to see it.
when i watched it the 2nd time with friends, at first they said 'what is it you don't like about this - it's great' - but then it droned on, & by the end they said 'ah, this is same same same with no payoff.
& when i watched it a 3rd time with by brother in law, i very distinctly remember him saying, when there was still a good 20 minutes left, 'jesus fucking christ, does this movie ever end?'
it has all the elements in place, and for its first hour or so it plays perfectly, but it is too long, & it meanders at the end instead of giving me the complete story that i thought pf & rd did.
and, while it don't think django or hateful eight are perfect, and certainly h8 is far, far too long, i can honestly say i watched them through to the end each time & i was happy to sit & live in those worlds for their entire running time. & i'll put in a word for the opening scene of basterds, which i think is the most perfect bit of film tarantino's ever made - best dialogue, best atmosphere, his finest moment imo.
i'm not out to change your mind or anything silly like that. if you dig jackie brown, then great. we are all free to curate our own movie worlds, & it doesn't hurt either of us if we like different things.
Lol, that's kind of a complicated explanation just to say you don't like it. I got it.π
You don't need to bring in your friends to justify your opinion, though. Personally, I don't know any one who disliked Jackie Brown. On the contrary, some seem to prefer it for its more mature and less violent character. Anyway, their opinion does nog validate either one of our opinions of the movie. Everyone's entitled to their own.
Don't worry about changing my opinion, I pretty much despise every Tarantino movie after Kill Bill. I don't waver that easily. π
Citizen Kane
I understand and appreciate that the creative camera work involved was brilliant for the time but the story was really boring
Just my opinion
I felt the same. Brilliant, innovative camera work, but other than that, meh.
2001, like watching paint dry, except for that scene with HAL, which I loved.
The Shining, still have never been able to watch it all the way through.
Vertigo and The Birds. Psycho to a lesser degree.
Some people claim the narrative of Kane was unique as well, doing a story through multiple medias like that (though largely a traditional narrative).
It was nothing new, though. Bram Stoker's novel of Dracula is written exclusively through correspondence between the characters, which is why it is shown and heard so much in the Coppola movie.