What "Great" movie do you not like?

Fair enough Brother. Like we often say here, it would be a boring place if we all liked the same stuff.
Give Casino a go though. It’s worth a try.

The Godfather- I just don’t like Mafia movies. I don’t care for the Sopranos or Carlitos way or Scarface or Good Fellas or Casino or any Mafia movies. Just not my thing. Not saying that they aren’t great movies, just saying that its not my cup of Tea.

Million Dollar Baby- Too unrealistic from a boxing standpoint.

Boy oh boy…I could make a huge list of these…:wink:

CITIZEN KANE
GONE WITH THE WIND
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
STAR WARS (all of 'em!)

and more…

Haha I love Star Wars!

Just thought of another one, Wuthering Heights, 1939, based on the Emily Bronte novel, with Lawrence Olivier. I don’t know why the character Heathcliff is one of the most enduring protaginists in literature in film, he comes off as an unlikkeable, childish, whiny, depressing, sadistic asshole. Its hard to like a movie when the protagnist is so unlikeable.

[quote=“mrchallenge, post:42, topic:644”]The Godfather- I just don’t like Mafia movies. I don’t care for the Sopranos or Carlitos way or Scarface or Good Fellas or Casino or any Mafia movies. Just not my thing. Not saying that they aren’t great movies, just saying that its not my cup of Tea.

Million Dollar Baby- Too unrealistic from a boxing standpoint.[/quote]
its okay to dislike mafia films, but I think scarface is not really a mafia film. It is about drug trafficking and you could say tony is a mafia type if guy. But I think it is very different in style to the mafia films. From the slow moved mafia films where honour and stuff is important it is a big way to get to scarface where a drug-addict psycho looses controll of what he himself build up. very different in tone and style I think. so maybe you dont like movies about organized crime???
how about blow(i liked it a lot, but depressing too)and traffic(which was okay but besides benicio del torro not too special, and the stuff with the colors was bit boring after a time)

Yeah I guess I dislike “organized crime” movies. For some reason however, I really like “Cop Land” with sylvestor stallone, which was about corrupt policemen.

… thus being an “organized crime” movie.

That’s his point. That this is one he does like…

well and what a coincidence a friend just came over with his movie collection and we watched casino. Well and it showed me what i dislike about it like goodfellas. The main guys are just too stupid. i mean why did de niro fire the idiot that was son-in-law or somthing to someone important, he could have given him a lookout jon that was no danger at all. And pesci is as allways overagressive and does not see this. so good beginning but the errors they make are so obvious and stupid.
well and de niro surviving the car thing is ridiculous; and his wife annoyed for being a stupid drug addict.
the only characters that are smart in these films are the old guys, the new generation often acts stupid. so it did not convince me either but was nice to see; at least the actors are great and we watched it in english which is also of highly importance for this one i think

And what if the same movie was set in the wild west?

well dont know, i think it focuses highly on the organization of the crime thing. the whole beginning hour or even more the tricks to get the money are established. would be comparable to a western where they establish a plan to rob some banks over a hour. that is boring. i mean it is all about building an empire and then seeing how it crumbles down by little mistakes(the same in godfellas). that is what i dislike about them too.
so to get to the question, i could not imagine this in the wild west. i actually liked the vegas setting and i think it showed the 70´s 80´s vegas the way it was. and this is unbelievable, how easy their work was.
well but i just hate how it gets destroyed by the stupidity of the main characters. the same in blow which i liked where the deep character gives away his USA connection and is double crossed.
but all of them are based on real things and so them criminals werent that smart overall it seems.

SE7EN - i thought it was boring and got quite restless watching it, i also thought THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT which seems to get all the praise in the world was a pile of shit

Totally agree with you on Blair Witch. It’s been said before and it’s true: Cannibal Holocaust ripoff. And a very poor one at that.
As for me:

  • Kill Bill, especially vol. 2 (boring as hell, lame, incoherent and unoriginal: basically everything pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are not)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (boring. didn’t care for the ‘sublime’ humour)
  • The Magnificent Seven (very uninspired remake. only wallach delivers imo)
  • Irréversible (hey, let’s fill this movie up. a ten minute anal rape scene ought to do it. furthermore it’s like memento on crack)
  • The Invisible Man (the hysterical screaming woman ruined it. good fx though for that time, but that’s all.)
  • Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (ok. if you like shit eating minors. lousy cinematography. crap (hehe) story)
  • Idioterne (utter crap. wanna be spat in the face by lars von trier? watch this)
  • The Breakfast Club (annoying)
  • Gohatto (what the hell? a samurai slut doing the whole dojo?)
  • V for Vendetta (Fake ass Zorro from the future. what an annoying character)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I actually like this movie alot. Unfortunately Mickey Rooney’s blatently racist impersonation of a japanese american landlord is disgusting to watch and ruins the movie. It would have been a great movie if those scenes were cut out.

YES. I completely agree with you. Dialogue going nowhere, uninteresting plot. Tarantino plagarizing Tarantino and doing a bad job at it.

Ah, come on. Don’t go kicking no Danish film directors butt, please. Definitely not Trier’s finest but hey it aint that bad. Just finished his Europe-trilogy a couple of weeks ago, seen any of those movies? Especially Forbrydelsens Element aka The Element of Crime and Europa are really interesting movies.

I wasn’t actually going to post anything to this topic but now that we got into Trier I couldn’t resist. He has made some excellent film, Dogville for example but I think Breaking the Waves is one of the crappiest film I’ve ever seen. some say it’s one of the most sentimental and saddest film they’ve seen. I was just irritated. I’ll go for Douglas Sirk when I want some melodrama.

I’m also so fed up with his obsession to shoot everything with hand held camera. It makes my head ache wathing it.

I like Festen and Gamle mænd i nye bile. Idioterne, in my opinion, was terrible. Crew and equipment visible in shots, gratuitous porn scene etc. A friend of mine said that the essence of the movie was to let out the idiot in you. In that regard the movie did a good job. I felt like an idiot for watching it.

True. Same thing goes for Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible by the way.

Finally someone who shares my point of view. Everyone seems to prasing it and i just can’t understand why. Lots of probably unintentionally funny scenes [wedding or all this crap those old ladies were saying]. And above all it was terribly boring.

[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:56, topic:644”]I wasn’t actually going to post anything to this topic but now that we got into Trier I couldn’t resist. He has made some excellent film, Dogville for example but I think Breaking the Waves is one of the crappiest film I’ve ever seen. some say it’s one of the most sentimental and saddest film they’ve seen. I was just irritated. I’ll go for Douglas Sirk when I want some melodrama.

I’m also so fed up with his obsession to shoot everything with hand held camera. It makes my head ache wathing it.[/quote]
See the Europe trilogy… Better than the above… Handheld camera irritates me as well. Go see his earlier movies. Definitely worth it. Epidemic is more or less the Dogme-concept in action before it was ‘invented’ so skip that if need be but see part 1 and 3 of the Trilogy then. A totally different backyard. Dogville actually bored ME thought the concept of those crayon-lines to define rooms/scenes were just a pain.

LOL. Festen is filmed handheld so should have made your head explode. Gamle mænd etc. is just Danish comedy lots of that around. Some good and some not so good.

Yes. But it all depends on the camerman having a firm hand. I can’t recollect being annoyed with it when it comes to that movie. By the way, the Dutch made a remake of Gamle mænd i nye bile. Haven’t watched it though, so I can’t tell you if it’s any good. But if you know the abominable level of the average Dutch movie and the fact that it’s a remake, don’t expect anything. There are, and have been, some good Dutch directors though. Guys like Paul Verhoeven, Dick Maas, Fons Rademakers and I probably forgot some. But those are exceptions.