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What are some super popular films that you just don't care for?

posted 3 years ago by M1sterDoct0r (4565)
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You either hate them, think they're just fine or you just don't get what the big deal is. Here's a couple for me:

Back to Future (1985) - Or basically the entire trilogy. The thing is, I don't even dislike 'em, I think they're fine. I just never got they hype for them. Maybe if I grew up in the era I would've gotten it? I don't know.

Naightmare on Elm Street films: Maybe it's because I don't care for Slashers that much but those films in particular just never appealed to me.

Argo (2012) - It's been almost a decade & I still have no freaking idea what the big deal was with this film. Best picture, really? This one? Oh well...

Forrest Gump (1994) - Another one that I think is ok but still don't get what the big deal is with the film. Gary Sinise is pretty good though.

What are some films that YOU think are maybe a bit overrated or overhyped? Again, it's all about personal preferences

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 3 years ago

I don't care for most superhero movies. I do like some of them, don't get me wrong. They just all feel so formulaic to me and I feel like if you've seen one you've seen them all, and they really aren't that great.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

I'm feeling a bit fatigued by Superhero movies lately. Just a tiny bit. Not sick of 'em, yet. I've just not been enjoying them as much lately.

This year's The Suicide Squad was the first Superhero film that I genuinely loved & enjoyed thoroughly since Into the Spiderverse.

And yeah, I definitely agree, the formula is getting repetitive.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Marvel, Disney Star Wars, Harry Potter, Transformers, Fast and Furious, Jurassic Park, Gump, ET, Best picture movies since 2000.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

Is there any film franchise that you do actually like? Like genuinely...

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Most sequels tend to bore me by the third or fourth movie, but I do still like Mad Max, Planet of the Apes, Batman, original Star Wars and some James Bond.

I prefer genres like Film Noir, Westerns, War, Science Fiction, Comedy and Action over watching the same old franchise crap tbh.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

Mad Max is pretty excellent. Only the third one is weak. And only by Mad Max standards. Otherwise, good film.

I also love the Mission Impossible films. It's the RARE occasion that a franchise gets better with later sequels. At least in my experience.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

I own so many Tom Cruise films and enjoy most of his movies but I've never watched the Mission Impossible films other than the first, something I need to change!

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

Second one is the only bad one. Atrocious. Third is solid

But you should definitely check out the second half of the series. The second trilogy if you will. Mission Impossible 4, 5 & 6 are just absolutely amazing.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

I saw the first only once in the 90's, I might just start with the second trilogy as they are the best rated.

[–] samoanjoes (58619) 3 years ago

New or old Planet of the Apes series?

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Both apart from a few sequels and the Burton movie.

[–] samoanjoes (58619) 3 years ago

I haven't seen the sequels of the original series, but I liked the sequels of the new ones.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

All three movies are pretty solid with good direction.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21722) 3 years ago

The Titantic

[–] beantown23 (1438) 3 years ago

X2 I always remember Celtic Kevin Garnett shouting Top of the World after winning a World Championship and thought he was a Cagney White Heat fan not realizing it came from the movie Titanic.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78608) 3 years ago

Yeah, Titanic was stupid
We all knew the ending anyway and then Billy Zane started running around with a gun and Rose couldn't scoot over two feet so Jack wouldn't freeze to death..? And tossing a million dollar trinket into the ocean?!?

Titanic is an annoying movie

[–] samoanjoes (58619) 3 years ago

Almost all Marvel movies. I could make a pretty long list of TV shows.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

Popular shows that you don't like was probably one of my very first Posts here earlier this year.

So please, feel free to add 'em here as well...

American Horror Stories, Orange is the New Black, Seinfeld, This is Us & House of Cards are some of mine.

[–] samoanjoes (58619) 3 years ago

The Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
Modern Family
Rome
True Blood
Mad Men
Community
30 Rock
Justified
Boardwalk Empire
The Wire

These are just from the top of my head. Honestly, when I look at this list, it reminds me of why I usually avoid TV shows.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Shawshank Redemption seems like an average movie to me.

[–] blue1981 (8199) 3 years ago

Any Marvel Movie or Disney made Star Wars movie.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

I will never watch:

Any prison movie—Green Mile, Shawshank—unless it involves a lot of hot nude women.

Schindler‘s List

E.T.

Baby Driver

Black Panther

Any Fast/Furious movie after the first

Any Transformers movie

The Shape of Water

Brokeback Mountain

Any Star Wars ANYTHING after the first 3 movies

Any George Lucas Director’s Cut after the first Director’s Cut he does of a given film of his.

Same thing for Ridley Scott fucking around with Blade Runner.

All YA novel-based franchises: Twilight, Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent. Young adults (and, while we’re at it, who the fuck thinks someone 14 to 18 years old is an adult? I mean, other than some zygote who is 14 to 18 years old) have shit taste, and apparently no one who buys these books and movies is a heterosexual male.

I watched it, but I deeply regretted it: Gladiator, a chick flick disguised as a boy movie. Some woman who thought she loved me sent me the DVD for Valentine’s Day. She really wanted to fuck Russell Crowe (at least, she did 200 pounds ago). I watched it, then tossed it in the trash.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

Add Francis Ford Coppola to that list as well. Guy seems to be just coming out with different cuts of his films

I can't wait for the super duper extra deluxe extreme edition of Apocalypse Now.

[–] Kowalski (79156) 3 years ago

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN?...YOU'RE SUCH A DICK.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Basically all popular horror movies like IT and IT 2, Annabelle, Hereditary, Final Destination, Chucky, The Exorcist, Freddy, Jason, Freddy x Jason, etc. etc. For me, horror movies are one of the most formulaic genre ever, alongside zombie movies and found footage movies.

They're all pretty much the same. I don't know why some of them were so popular as if they broke new grounds or something.

I get the first SAW and the couple first found footage films (Blair Witch, REC) were groundbreaking and new at the time. I respect that. But then all the sequels and copycats are just regurgirating the same gimmick over and over again. Bleh.

That said, I have some horror movies I like for some unknown reasons: Drag Me to Hell, The Rite, Sanctum, House of Wax (the one with Paris Hilton, lol. She's actually fine in it.)

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4565) 3 years ago

I never got what the big deal was with found footage films. Just constant camera shaking. I just find them nauseating to watch

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78608) 3 years ago

Aside from Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project the 'found-footage' movies have been crap

'Found-Footage' signals a director with no vision, actors with no chops and a lack of a coherent script

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i'd push back a little bit against that, in that there are some that are genuinely well made and use the format in a fun way.

(rec) for eg is one of the great horror movies of the last 20 years in my books. maybe the only film that truly frightened me as an adult, not to oversell it.

lake mungo is another film i absolutely love, on my top 100, though you could probably classify that more as fake documentary.

but i'm actually a bit of a found footage fanatic, in that i generally love the format, and even when the movies are self-evidently complete crap, i'll watch them and get a kick out of them.

nobody asked for it, but here are some ff movies that i think are legitimately good/great, besides the two i mentioned:

cannibal holocaust
zero day
exhibit a
the sacrament
afflicted
dirties
be my cat
operation avalanche
the poughkeepsie takes
megan is missing
grave encounters
willow creek (this is a bit of a cheat, cuz the film is mostly really dull, but it has a great, great scene at the end)
digging up the marrow
creep
butterfly kisses
the taking of deborah logan
the den

honestly, i'd stand by all these films as being fun and entertaining and occasionally genuinely creepy.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78608) 3 years ago

Fair point

Cannibal Holocaust is sometimes cited as a daddy of the genre and The Poughkeepsie Tapes was pretty good and creepy