Good movies you admit are good but dislike anyway
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The Toy Story movies. I can tell they are good, but just never particularly liked them, even though I fitted well in the target demographic.
I guess there just never was any character I really liked. I tended to like (mad) scientist characters as a kid. Okay, I still do.
Also, I never saw the appeal of having toys of those characters. The one thing I did like about the movies was the idea of the toys coming to life, but I wanted to make up my own adventures and characters for my toys, not play with toys of toys.
I don't really dislike the movies, just feel apathy towards them.
A lot of Pixar's movies are like that, as are Disney-movies, now that I think about it.
Most Pixar's movies don't really have a character I'd like to root for, so I don't care. I can tell they are good, but they don't interest me.
It kinda depends on the subject matter and the movie (or other art-piece), but I can enjoy pieces dealing with harsh issues, even if (and maybe especially) if it's something I've experienced.
It can feel very good to see those issues reflected in fiction, even if it ends badly, and you can distance yourself from it somewhat and get another point of view.
Especially if it has some very beautiful or intelligent or funny things in it as well, so you can sort of hang onto those and enjoy them at least.
I think one big part in Black Swan's case (with me anyway) was that you knew from the start what kind of tone the movie had. It didn't have a surprisingly gloom ending, that can ruin your enjoyement if the things you did enjoy are destroyed.
If anything, the ending had a positive side to it. As in, (SPOILERS)she was heading to destruction, but finally went out with a bang.
I guess some people could enjoy it by thinking that at least it's not them, or that their problems are small compared to them.
Especially if they distance it enough from reality so they don't symphatise fully with the fictional character.
There have been sad books that affected me that way, because I didn't really identify with the suffering character, so I never really believed on emotional level that they weren't fictional.
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Also, there are a lot of movies people tell me are good, but since they are either of a genre I don't find interesting (like romantic comedy or sports-film) I don't like them.
Terminator 1 and 2 bored me to death. I think I stopped watching the second midway through. Or maybe it was the first? I don't care.
I guess there just never was any character I really liked. I tended to like (mad) scientist characters as a kid. Okay, I still do.
Also, I never saw the appeal of having toys of those characters. The one thing I did like about the movies was the idea of the toys coming to life, but I wanted to make up my own adventures and characters for my toys, not play with toys of toys.
I don't really dislike the movies, just feel apathy towards them.
A lot of Pixar's movies are like that, as are Disney-movies, now that I think about it.
Most Pixar's movies don't really have a character I'd like to root for, so I don't care. I can tell they are good, but they don't interest me.
I enjoyed it, not the best movie of all time, but good.J03bot said:
It kinda depends on the subject matter and the movie (or other art-piece), but I can enjoy pieces dealing with harsh issues, even if (and maybe especially) if it's something I've experienced.
It can feel very good to see those issues reflected in fiction, even if it ends badly, and you can distance yourself from it somewhat and get another point of view.
Especially if it has some very beautiful or intelligent or funny things in it as well, so you can sort of hang onto those and enjoy them at least.
I think one big part in Black Swan's case (with me anyway) was that you knew from the start what kind of tone the movie had. It didn't have a surprisingly gloom ending, that can ruin your enjoyement if the things you did enjoy are destroyed.
If anything, the ending had a positive side to it. As in, (SPOILERS)she was heading to destruction, but finally went out with a bang.
I guess some people could enjoy it by thinking that at least it's not them, or that their problems are small compared to them.
Especially if they distance it enough from reality so they don't symphatise fully with the fictional character.
There have been sad books that affected me that way, because I didn't really identify with the suffering character, so I never really believed on emotional level that they weren't fictional.
EDIT:
Also, there are a lot of movies people tell me are good, but since they are either of a genre I don't find interesting (like romantic comedy or sports-film) I don't like them.
Terminator 1 and 2 bored me to death. I think I stopped watching the second midway through. Or maybe it was the first? I don't care.
Rocky. I'm sorry.
I know that it's got an of emotional message and all that, but I can't get around Sylvester Stallone's acting. He is just not a very good actor. I also dislike the others, as well as all of the Rambos, but with them I'm not confined by admitting them to be good movies.
I don't particularly dislike it, but I don't like how much praise The King's Speech received. I couldn't find anything particularly wrong with it, but nothing really right, either
I know that it's got an of emotional message and all that, but I can't get around Sylvester Stallone's acting. He is just not a very good actor. I also dislike the others, as well as all of the Rambos, but with them I'm not confined by admitting them to be good movies.
I don't particularly dislike it, but I don't like how much praise The King's Speech received. I couldn't find anything particularly wrong with it, but nothing really right, either
Heres something I have to ask everyone here, why is everyone seemingly apologetic? You're allowed to dislike a film, no one's going to flame you for it unless it's a film that's popular with teens and young adults. Namely, geek films, or God forbid Twilight. No one is going to bat an eye you don't fancy the Godfather, or Goodfellas or Citizen Kane.
Though admit you don't like Twilight, Avatar or the Matrix, and you'll be face to face with some bizarre characters. Trust me, I know.
Though admit you don't like Twilight, Avatar or the Matrix, and you'll be face to face with some bizarre characters. Trust me, I know.
Well, the thread is about movies you think are good, but don't like, so some kind of explanation apart from "it sucks" would be nice.20thCenturyBoy said:
And just writing off your choices without explaining why in a thread like that would be less interesting anyway.
With anything, you're going to find people who take personal offence you don't like the same thing they do. It's just a matter of finding those people, and with popular things, running into them is easier.
Although, I might not hang in the right places, but I have never met anyone who likes Twilight for any other reason than for how bad it is. The only reason I even know about it is because of all the hate (same with bieber) and people complaining about people who like it.
I disagree. Avatar is a good film. It is an impressive act of craftsmanship at every conceivable level. It's one problem is that it is trite, generic, and stale, I think.Mandalore_15 said:
And yet, it is undeniable that the film has struck a chord with people. To go around saying the film is certifiably bad is kind of baseless. The arbiter of quality is the public, not some centralized academic body somewhere in the world.
Its just spelt Damon.Douwe Drost said:
And he was on BBC Radio1 (a few years ago now) and he actually done the Maaaatt Daaaamon thing himself, live on the Radio, it was awsome.
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I don't get Harry Potter films. I mean i wact almost anything but they just look dull and a tad stupid to me,
Films like The Queen, or the Kings Speach too, why do i want to pay money to hear the boring life of some rich person. No thanks
But i can see why people would like them just not my taste.
There will be blood, No Country for Old Men and Chinatown are some who pop to mind.
And City of Men and City of God.
They all just bored the shit out of me. If I can't keep myself up through the film (and don't want to resume after sleeping) than I can't enjoy it.
And City of Men and City of God.
They all just bored the shit out of me. If I can't keep myself up through the film (and don't want to resume after sleeping) than I can't enjoy it.
I would have to say A Clockwork Orange is probably one of the few movies I enjoyed for everything else being good but didn't do it for me. I love how many of my friends try to defend it to this day for being good, when I agree that the director did his job well, the actors did well and everything is aesthetically pleasing, but it just isn't good.