Movies you hate, that everyone else seems to love

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Never heard of the movie Adam...

Napolean Dynamite.

I saw it at the dollar theater and someone else paid- I still felt like I should get my money back.

And Twilight.

Pretty much any movie that everyone seems to love that has no plot.

The Hangover. This movie cut and pasted jokes from hundreds of past comedies, and inserted distasteful elements that were intended to be funny but were not. Unlike Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and to a certain extent Knocked Up, The Hangover was not at all good.

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Twlight
High School Musical
Napolean Dynamite
The new Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (I LOVED the one from the 70's)
Pirates of the Carabian
Gran Torino (My brother insisted we all watch it because Clint Eastwood's character reminded him of our dad so much. I was thankful I brought my laptop because I was bored to tears watching it.)
The live action 101 Dalmations because they did not talk
Black Beauty (because he simply narated and I wanted to see him relatate from the abuse and kick some ass)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimaroon (I was really disapointed with this because Spirit did not actualy talk but narated. He wasn't a sissy like Black Beauty but I would have liked to see him retaliate more)

Pretty much anything that is popular with mainstream media or anything socialy oriented I hate. If there are animals in it, they must talk, not narrate. If humans must be in the movie, I want to see the animals retaliate against them...I mean really retaliate.

There are many but the one I just watched was The Hurt Locker. This is the type of movie I might normally like but this one sucked. Good grief, I can't figure out why this movie is rated so high by so many people, it makes no sense. Almost everything in the movie is so wrong, from the incorrect uniforms, soldiers assaulting a superior, ridiculously incorrect tactics, procedures, locations, the list goes on and on. No actual soldier could possibly like this movie and I would think even people that don't know anything about the topic could recognize the stupidity of it. I mean I can forgive some of the things for cinematic effect in any movie but this one seems slapped together very haphazardly. There must have been no technical adviser(s) for this film and/or it's just a writer's juvenile fantasy.

Then there is the overdone shaky camera "documentary" crap. People have been complaining about this for years, to make a movie in 2008 that overuses it so much is inexcusable. It's not a bad effect when used properly but this movie is nearly 100% super-shake-cam from start to finish; my head was spinning.

On top of all that it completely failed to make any emotional connection with me at all. Things would happen that I could tell were meant to pull heart strings, make you feel something, or at least connect you to the characters and all I felt was "meh, so what." Even ignoring every other problem, it utterly and completely failed to pull me into the movie or even care about a single character.

It just boggles my mind how it could be rated so high. It is some sort of conspiracy? Makes no sense. Is there a huge crowd of people paid to do positive reviews or something?! The writing sucked so much that I was fast forwarding through the last 30 or 45 minutes.

Netflix thought I would give it something crazy like 4.5 stars (and the user average is like 4.3 right now). Ha! It's not a 1-star movie because at least they mostly used real military equipment but the execution was horrible; 2-stars.

Meet the Fockers. I don't even know if it's that popular today but all I know is at the time, people claimed the movie was so funny but it sucked.

High School Musical 1, 2, and 3

They're nothing more than a G-rated remake of Grease.

Twilight and New Moon

*BLAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"

Don't get me started on Hannah Montana: The Movie
and the concert movie of the Jonas Bros.

It's rare for me to outright hate a generally critically and commercially popular film, but these are some exceptions.

"The Wicker Man" (1973)
"E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà" (1981)
"The Thing" (1982)
"Fight Club" (1999)

I can't stand Chick Flicks. I don't see how people could have the serious maturity to sit through a soap opera movie, either.

Titanic. I loathe that film, not just because it's historically inaccurate (no gunshots were ever fired on that ship. Ever), but because the dialogue is cringe-worthy in more than one place ("oh Jack, I'm flying!" ) and the central romantic plot is about as appealing as getting punched in the face. Plus, it has Celine freakin' Dion singing the film's gut-tearingly bad signature tune.

Ugh.

Me neither. Personally I don't understand why other women like watching movies that make them cry - for example, my mom LOVES Steel Magnolias and Five People You Meet in Heaven, but they make her cry. Anytime a movie is overly depressing and makes me cry, I never want to see it again. That's why I hate Forrest Gump, and why I won't go anywhere near Grave of The Fireflies.

I personally didn't really enjoy Avatar the plot twist were too obvious to me and they act like the concept of chi and connecting life forces are a new ideal. I quote one critic's description "Dances with Wolves in Space".

legally blonde
romantic comedies
twilight
bring it on
chick flicks

Spot on

This.



J.J. Abrams raped this franchise. Without lube.

Eyes Wide Shut
The English Patient