Once Upon a Time in America.
The music's grating, the plot's boring, the character's uninteresting and the length interminable.
Space 2001
Titanic
2001:A Space Odyssey I try to watch it, but I find it terribly slow moving. I must be missing the point!
Titanic Never saw the whole thing, but I've read books about it and the true stories of the passengers are fascinating. What the *bleep* was the point of having fictional characters fall in love and turn a major tragedy into a soap opera?
High Noon Geez, is it dull! I know many people LOVE Gary Cooper, but to me he is the acting equivalent of watching paint dry or grass grow.
I didn't find High Noon boring, but I found it very one note, stupid and silly. A guy is so completely unmatched by the villains that he desperately crawls from person to person to help him. But then when he is left alone to kill them, does it easily without breaking a sweat. What was the point, then?
Grace Kelly was also terrible in this, with her annoyingly fake patrician accent and voice that sounded like she was about to break out into tears any second. I'm amazed she had a career after this.
I admit I never actually watched High Noon all the way through. Someone was watching it in the living room. I was in the kitchen and I was trying to listen to it, but I hardly heard any dialogue! It seemed so slow and dull. I like dialogue in a film.
shareI hated 2001: A Space Odyssey.
shareCasablanca.
shareI barely lasted a half hour into the movie before getting turned off by the dialogue. I know people will call me crazy for saying that because it is the most quotable movie of all time. But to me, that underscores its weakness. The movie is a string of clever dialogue but so clever as to be unnatural. It reminds me of a sitcom that is genuinely funny but at the same time feels hollow because all the characters are doing just spouting clever one liners and rejoinders at each other. Maybe I'll try watching Casablanca again.
shareHaha I have never been able to finish once upon a time in america.
I have to go with inglourious basterds, so tedious. I wouldn't even call it a real film.
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Gladiator
The Usual Suspects
Se7en (but ironically, love Fight Club)
12 Monkeys
12 Angry Men
Fail Safe
ET (remember watching it years ago and feeling unimpressed)
Schindler's List (don't hate it but I dislike it for being Oscar bait)
Jurassic Park (don't even get me started on this one)
Especially Gladiator. This was a movie written by hacks who were trusting that the public was too young to have seen every historical epic movie within the past 60 years. The first time I watched it, I fell into a sound sleep because I knew exactly where it was going to go every minute. All I had to do was recognize what plot point it had lifted from which movie and go, "Okay, he's going to do X now, because this is that same scene out of Spartacus," or, "This is the part in The Ten Commandment when Moses did Y."
gladiator is my fav
shareThe Apartment
shareYes. And keep in mind that I love Billy Wilder. But I think this movie stinks, like his other romantic comedy, Sabrina. Why are we supposed to root for the two main characters to get together? She's a narcissistic gold digging, self-pitying tramp. He's a wimp and loser. Whooo.
You just reminded me of another classic movie I strongly dislike: Breakfast at Tiffany's. Both main characters are horribly miscast, George Peppard wooden and the ending sappy.
Audrey Hepburn badly miscast in Breakfast at Tiffany's? You're the first person I've come across to say that. That's probably the role she's most known for.
shareOnce Upon a Time in America was faaaar too long, over three hours!
shareThe African Queen. I never understood the hype.
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