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Movies everyone loves that you don't get

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Gone with the Wind. I hated that movie; I still can't figure out why everyone loves O'Hara so much, she's the very definition of a psychotic evil bitch.

Edit: forgot Bladerunner, that movie was marginally passable until the last half hour, then it was just 😕. I mean if you want to make a movie laced to the gills with symbolism and weird philosophical thoughts, ok, but why wait until the last half hour to throw it all in there?
 
-Anything by Tarantino. Sorry, talent not found. Inundating a movie with swear words or gore is not talent.
-Royal Tenenbaums. A comedy without comedy. That's original, at least.

For anyone who put down Lost In Translation, if you ever have a chance to travel or live in Japan, the movie will resonate a great deal more. We could identify with many of the scenes having spent three years there (and actually visited that hotel when we went to Tokyo, because of the movie). I can understand how the movie might be somewhat incomprehensible without that perspective.
 
Originally posted by: AndrewR

For anyone who put down Lost In Translation, if you ever have a chance to travel or live in Japan, the movie will resonate a great deal more. We could identify with many of the scenes having spent three years there (and actually visited that hotel when we went to Tokyo, because of the movie). I can understand how the movie might be somewhat incomprehensible without that perspective.
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So are you saying that the movie Lost in Translation is.... um.... Lost in translation?
 
There are lots I agree with in this thread. I'll add Rocky Horror Picture Show to the list. It's not generally highly rated, but it has a certain cult following and I'd say it's one of the movies I hate most. So terrible.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Lord of the Rings
Pan's Labyrinth
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fail and uber-fail

What's there to "get" about LOTR other than what a supreme artistic achievement it is? If you find LOTR's plot and characters a little confusing (not sure how, but whatever) then read the books. But my god, even if you get a little mixed up sometimes I don't see how you couldn't be caught up in the total epic awesomeness of the movies.

As far as Pan's Labyrinth, I realize the movie can be interpreted a couple different ways (the fantasy scenes being real or a dream) but I think it works both ways. And of course the photography is absolutely brilliant.
 
Dr. Strangelove is great if I ever can't fall asleep. Just put that on and I'm out cold in 10 minutes.
 
Originally posted by: Kev
Dr. Strangelove is great if I ever can't fall asleep. Just put that on and I'm out cold in 10 minutes.
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shame, cause it's brilliant. Peter Sellars is damn awesome.

my take on Pan's Labyrinth (mention previously), is that while it looks great, it's 2 non-connected stories mashed into one. Whether or not the fairy tale business is a dream or real, there's a large issue with the Spanish Civil War--neither of these two stories have any connection. It's trying to be two stories. I thought each, on their own, were well done; but it just wasn't very cohesive.

Oh, and then there's the problem with the baby-eating monster still on the loose. Why should that thing be allowed to live, anyway? wtf....
 
Originally posted by: queenrobot
I have to say Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind. I found it incredibly sad and boring.
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wow. Easily my favorite film that year. It was sad, but I also thought it was incredible. I love Kaufman flicks.
 
Dark City -- still the only movie that I walked out on it. It blows dog.
Vanilla Sky -- If I wasn't there with a date that thought it was really into it...It would have been the second
 
This thread is less about movies you "don't get" and more about movies that you just hate.

We never have enough of these threads...
 
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: Whitecloak
titanic
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Most guys cringe when you mention any romance-flick because they typically have these pussy-whipped guys doing all kinds of silly self-demeaning crap 'for that one girl'. Guys typically think these movies give women all kinds of ideas and train them to have unrealistic expectations from Gallant Knights in Shining Armor, always willing to bend over.

The twist that I really like about Titanic is Rose. While Leo plays a penniless guy with enough balls to steal some rich wanker's woman, you have to give credit to Winslet's incredibly strong character. A rebel, she does some pretty hardcore stuff to save Leo from the bottom deck, jumps back on the ship and stick with her man until the very end.

It's pretty awesome when you think about it. No bumbling, aloof, Hugh Grant-like dude trying desperately to woo some woman - this movie had one of the strongest female leads in a romance movie.

(I haven't seen many classic romance movies, like Casablanca, but Titanic is one of my favorite romances ever. Winslet never disappoints.)

It's half-an-hour longer than it really needed to be (the second run through the lower decks after Cal starts shooting at them was kinda unnecessary) but it's not a bad/terrible movie by any standards.
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Romance?! It wasn't about stealing a girl from her boyfriend; it was about taking advantage of an emotionally fragile female who was on the virge of committing suicide. Reality: you don't go from suicidal to deeply in love with a stranger and having sex with the stranger within 2 days.

And, as far as plot twists, if Rose would have kept her ass in the lifeboat, Jack would have survived by being the one who got to climb on top of the hunk of wood that was floating. Also, oddly, 10 minutes in the North Atlantic is enough to kill everyone, but spending 15 minutes in the North Atlantic when half the Titanic was underwater didn't seem to phase them.

2 hours into that piece of crap, I was rooting for the North Atlantic. (to steal a line from someone else on ATOT)
 
Being John Malkovich - "Weird" is not the same thing as "artsy". Unfortunately, artists and movie nerds tend to think that one equals the other.

Pirates of the Caribbean Series - Shitty storyline, Lame Jokes, and bad actors all bolted to an amazing Johnny Depp character performance. What a waste.

Crash - Was actually ok until it became too coincidental at the end to take seriously. Still, only above average. I have no idea where the Oscar nods came from.

Donnie Darko - See "Being John Malkovich".

Juno - It's not an amazing and forward thinking film just because it deals with teenage pregnancy. Read this, god dammit.


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Will Ferrell is not fucking funny.

The genius in Pulp Fiction is allowing the characters to chew on the dialogue, and the dialogue being so worth chewing on. This also goes for most Coen Brothers movies.

The Fifth Element is *not* a good movie, but it is a *fun* movie. The two can be entirely separate, and if you don't get the difference just...quit life.

Judd Apatow films are interesting for their accuracy in portraying teenage awkwardness, but they're certainly not as wonderful as the critics say they are. They're basically just Napoleon Dynamite without the surreal aspects...I mean all of them, because pretty much all of Apatow's movies are about teenage awkwardness or male immaturity.


/done
 
"The Shawshank Redemption". But it's not really a case of not getting the movie as not getting how people can have such poor taste as to like it. 😉
 
I've come to find that asking people whether or not they liked The Godfather is a pretty good metric on whether or not I want to continue speaking to them.
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Basically anything by Kubrik
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even full metal jacket? that was some funny stuff!

"how can you shoot women and children?"
"it's easy! you just don't lead them as much!"
🙂
 
National Treasure - Book of secrets.

If you played the indiana jones theme tune and read the davinci code to a million monkeys with typewriters, this is the screenplay they'd write. Its just far too random, and totally unbelievable.

Another thing I don't get is Nicholas Cage. Nicholas cage cannot act, nicholas cage plays nicholas cage.
 
Originally posted by: async
National Treasure - Book of secrets.

If you played the indiana jones theme tune and read the davinci code to a million monkeys with typewriters, this is the screenplay they'd write. Its just far too random, and totally unbelievable.

Another thing I don't get is Nicholas Cage. Nicholas cage cannot act, nicholas cage plays nicholas cage.
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Aww bro what do you mean 😀
 
Number 1 on the list: Donnie Darko, that movie sucked so hard yet everyone loves it.

All the truly idiotic movies confuse me also, stuff like Shoot 'Em Up and Crank, I don't see how anyone can watch those.

Virtually every British movie ever made.
 
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