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I liked most of the movies mentioned so far, but this one, my god, what a crapfest.

The Harry Potter series. So many stolen ideas, many of which are so badly written that the story actually makes no sense when you think about it. Never mind the terrible acting, the good actors are given awful roles and the art design of the whole thing is atrocious.

I don't get it.

Matrix
LOTR

Most of the Star Wars movies, except the 1st one, havent seen the new ones yet. Loved the cgi, costumes music etc, hated the acting and thought the storyline cliche, recently got all the dvds and am going to give it one more go in a binge watch, sometimes tastes change

Avengers - all series, Spiderman, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Mad Maxx-fury road off the top of my head


I can add pretty much any movie the posh critics gush over and the emotionally manipulative ones where someone coughs out a lung and dies a long lingering death, any Adam Sandler or Liam Neeson movie, most Lifetime or Hallmark channel movies.....


lol day-um I sound grouchy

There was no CGI in the first one. :P It hadn't been invented yet.

Bridge to Terabithia

Movie could have been better.
It had potential to be like Pan's Labyrinth.

The only one I can think of that wasn't nearly as good as I was expecting it to be based on praise : The Avengers. I only enjoyed the Hulk scenes. Oh yes, and I loved The Avengers. I'm a bit dumbfounded by the poor reviews on this one :P

A friend and I rented that when it came out, we burst out laughing at the Kevin Bacon interrogation scene, and the church scene with corny organ music. I normally like Clint Eastwood films, but that was pretty bad.

Green Room
This was just stupid from beginning to end. This is one of those movies that ends and you have more fun spending 20 minutes discussing how stupid it was with the person you watched it with than you did watching it.

Don't Breathe
This falls into the same exact category as the last movie, except add that this one was completely predictable.

Over the past couple of years I've learned that if a movie actually has 'Rotten Tomatoes' printed across the cover, it's almost guaranteed to be a stinker.

I'll add a bonus movie:

Galaxy Quest
I watched this in a room full of nerds, no-one laughed even once, yet everyone claimed to like it. I think it was a badly produced movie with a good premise and cast. The only thing I remember about this movie was Sigourney Weaver in that tight costume... Maybe I missed something and need to watch it now that I'm older.

No Country For Old Men.

Hook the viewer with interesting events and then just a bunch of random crap.

Miyazaki's anime that stole a title & the names of four characters from Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, and then promptly tossed the entire plot of the book out the window. I don't mean compressed it, or altered scenes, I mean just blatantly went off in a completely different direction. He turned a book that has nothing to do with war into a war movie, and a BORING war movie, at that. It's pretty in spots, but that's all I can say in its favor. At least I didn't pay to watch it in a theater.

No body armor is bullet proof when you take a direct hit. The necessary materials haven't been invented yet to make it happen. I have to laud the writers for the more accurate portrayal of body armor. If you take a direct hit in body armor, you might not have the bullet puncturing you, but there's a good chance that there'll be enough force left to scramble your internal organs enough to be fatal. However, body armor that can deflect a bullet is much more reasonable.

It also happens to make for a somewhat more interesting movie than if the main character spends his whole time being impervious to bullets, there's some actual risk if he gets hit.
That's the studio executives. They saw how many people were going back to watch the sixth sense multiple times to try and see what pipe was laid for the ending and the resulting box office numbers that they wanted to repeat it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work. Some movies lend themselves to that naturally and others don't. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls is a good example of that not working. They didn't lay enough pipe to make the ending work. It was a cheap shot that pretty much ruined a decent movie. And since it comes at the end, that's the part that most people forget.

The people whining about the refrigerator and the rest of the movie need to GTFO as they clearly didn't watch any of the other films. The refrigerator thing is hardly less realistic than Indie managing to ride a submarine for thousands of miles without any food or water, and that's assuming that the sub didn't go underwater at any point in the journey. Or perhaps people regulalry rip hearts out of people's chests with their bare hands.

Haha. I A good laugh to end my day. But yeah, as they say: "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one." I love both trilogies (LOTR more) but if you find them less appealing then I do, fine by me. It wont change my opinon of them.

But, back on topic, first movie that comes to mind - Interstellar. Honestly, I don't see why it gets all the praise. Yeah sure there's the Nolan aspect and it is visually very beatiful movie. But for a movie that people praise as hard science fiction movie it kinda fails in that aspect. I mean when they said that love is the greatest force in the universe and it transcends everything I laughed my ass off. Those kinds of things have no place in science fiction movies in my opinion. Also the ending was stretched as far as it goes and then some more.
And then there is Nolan, his fans are worst fans ever. They worship him as a God walking amogst mere mortals and think he can not do anything wrong or make a mediocre movie. I don't agree with that. He is a good director with a good sense of cinematography and effects but not all his movies are best of all times as his fans would like you to believe. Honestly his best movie is Prestige, I watch that movie once a year and its always amazing. But that's just my opinion.

That was crappy, no idea why it received good reviews.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Booooring. I recall being the only one not laughing on scenes that were supposed to be funny, I guess. Like Indiana Senior sitting on a chair "to think" and that opens the needed escape route. Ha. Ha. It was still better than Temple of Doom though...


The Harry Potter movies. I am not even sure if I've seen them all from start to finish because it may have been I just got so bored with some of them that I stopped watching. But for instance the first movie, it is just so infantile, simple and cliched.

I hated especially the ending when the winner of the group contests were announced. First it seemed another team was going to win... but out of nowhere the school principal, or what that quasi-Gandalf was, came up with bullshit points for Potter's team so that they would barely win the contest, like "10 extra points for Harry Potter's team for bravery" etc.. And then all the leaders of the school seemed happy and relieved that Potter's team won. Biased referees!

That ending, and also the quidditch match they had, seemed to teach that nothing is more important than winning, even if by questionable means (like biased referees who favor your team). I don't know, maybe it is a cultural thing, I just found that "message" questionable.


A Prophet

A friend of mine suggested this movie to me, saying he really liked it. It was not a bad movie and the acting etc. was quite good and believable... but I still didn't find the movie overall that interesting or enthralling. It was a pretty normal movie of a nobody becoming a sort of crime boss in a jail. I'm not even quite sure what exactly was the point of the movie.

While the movie was gritty and realistic, I didn't find it that plausible that a nice guy like that would become a crime boss.


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the original Swedish version)

Overall it was an ok movie story-point of view etc.... but I didn't like much the overall feminist/"white hetero men are evil" vibe in the movie. It made it feel a bit like a political propaganda movie to me. After all, the original title of the movie is "Men who hate women", that should tell all you need to know.

It was e.g. glaring to me how all the baddies in the movie were, indeed, white men. Either some rich Swedish men (e.g. Martin Vanger, or Lisbeth's supervisor who goes to rape her), or Finn-Swedish small time criminals/bikers, or those men who attacked Lisbeth on the street. I guess it would have been unthinkable in a Swedish movie that e.g. the street punks or the criminals would have been non-white asylum seekers, not PC enough. White men are a safe choice for evil parts. :)