Movies You Respect but Don't Actually Like

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Sylocat

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As Good As It Gets, which is a brilliant, insightful portrayal of mental illness... and I can't sit through it because it's just so uncomfortable. I don't even dislike the movie itself, I just don't like the experience of watching it.
 

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For me one of the main ones would have to be David Lynch's Inland Empire. It contains some truly amazing imagery, as well as the most realistic depiction of a dream I have ever seen on film. To watch, however... well, let's just say that it's three hours long and I was acutely aware of every minute.
 

thesilentman

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lechat said:
twilight
utter garbage but i do admire the way they done the movie so well it basically hypnotizes 14 year old girls.
I find this funny. A good number of girls near where I live hate the movies with a passion. We're anything but normal here.

OT- I cannot stand The Hobbit after I read the book. The pacing almost kills it, but the later parts of the movie are pretty well made for a movie (not comparing to LOTR).
 

Adeptus Aspartem

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Avatar- WAY too preachy for my tastes, but I respect the work put into it. That and the fact that James Cameron took the time to create his own language.
Sorry had to laugh at this xD Since the storyline is just an Hollywood version of the smurfs! Always get me.
But jeah, the film is meh, but the scenic shots are jaw-dropping-awesome and it's still probably the best use of 3D in a movie.

I also agree on the Blair Witch Project. I thought the suspense in the beginning was actually quite awesome - to clearify i watched the movie the first time only 2-3 years ago^^ - but then one of the idiots just throws away the map with the sentence "We were lost anyway".
Aaaaaaaaaand that's where the movie lost me and i thought "just another teenie horror/slasher".
 

Daveman

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Goodfellas. I mean I hear it's good but I just got so bored watching it I never managed to finish it.

Similarly Pulp Fiction, I get it that it's great but literally everything except Bruce Willis' storyline failed to interest me at all. Don't think I'll watch it again.

Also, Life of Brian. I know it's great and I guess I enjoy it enough but I just love everything else Monty Python does so much more that me not liking their supposed best comedy film that much struck me as odd.

Also Casino Royale. I get it's a good movie, but I went in expecting a BOND movie and what I got was Bond girl that looked like she should be in twilight, Jason Bourne-esque fighting and chasing and implants under the skin and enough card games to put an episode of YuGiOh to shame. It's weird because everyone would point out how it was very accurate to the book, but who gives a shit about the books? The books didn't have a tricked out Aston or Sean Connerys accent.
 

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I respect Dr. Stragelove or How I Learnd To Stop Caring And Love The Bomb, but it was just all.....BWUH to me, granted I saw it as a yound child, so maybe I'll have a renewed apprication or it.
 

octafish

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Funny Games, it's clever, interesting and subversive but can anyone actually enjoy it? In a similar way Die Brucke and Come and See, they are powerful haunting films, but just too grueling for me to "like".
 

scorptatious

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Probably Jaws.

I just didn't really see the appeal myself. Still though, it must have done something right to get the popularity it got.

Also Avatar.

I will say the movie has great visuals. But beyond that it's Pocahontas with blue cat people. Plus I didn't like how black and white the characters are. I remember hearing at the beginning at the movie, the protagonist mentioned how bad the economy was at Earth, so to me, it could have been a morally grey area in which the humans have to mine the planet for their own survival.

Kind of a wasted opportunity to me.
 

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Casual Shinji said:
Apocalypse Now
Ninja'd.

That movie was just plain unpleasant to watch. I enjoyed it for its artistic value and all, but it just took it out of me.
 

soul_rune1984

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The Man Who Fell to Earth. The story is beautifully tragic but my god is it slow moving to the point of dull. That, and I didn't give a single f*ck about the professer who was banging his students. If you cut the magority of his half of the story out that movie would be watchable for me.
 

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octafish said:
Funny Games, it's clever, interesting and subversive but can anyone actually enjoy it? In a similar way Die Brucke and Come and See, they are powerful haunting films, but just too grueling for me to "like".
Yeah I was talking to someone about that movie the other day. I don't think it's a movie that is meant to be liked. I thought it was great but like Requiem for a Dream, I will never watch it again. Also since the guy who directed Funny Games did Amour I will probably avoid that as well.
 

XMark

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I don't really like Airplane or Spaceballs anymore, since the jokes have gotten old for me.

However, I have come to respect them after watching some more recent "____ Movie" parody movies, which do nothing but make references without actually making jokes. Disaster Movie in particular was so horribly unfunny that it defies all reasonable explanation.

I kind of wish I could wipe Airplane and Spaceballs out of my memory so I could watch them again without knowing every joke in advance. For now, I'm just trusting my memory that they were hilarious.
 

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Frybird said:
2001: A space odyssey:
My choice too. Superb shot composition, good acting, outstanding score, great premise. Unfortunately, for me anyway, it's simply less than the sum of its parts. I can appreciate its rationale & construction, but the implementation leaves me cold.
 

Zen Bard

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Lost in Translation

My wife made me watch it (yes...I was forced).

Thought it was a brilliant character study and a beautifully shot film. Bill Murray was excellent as...well...Bill Murray. And ScarJo was hot.

But I simply didn't enjoy it. It just felt forced. Like Sophia Coppola was trying too hard to make me appreciate its "artsiness"

I staunchly refused.
 

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Anything by Michael Bay: You've got to be pretty damn smart to make something so horribly abominable and still get so much money out of it.

Battleship, for having the balls to make a movie about BATTLESHIP. Not that bad, actually, but I still didn't enjoy it.

A lot of "technical marvel" films, such as Avatar. Most technically advanced films are actually pretty weak in other areas (understandably so, for budget reasons), I feel. Unfortunately, it seems the areas I care about most are what's axed first: Good writing, good acting, and subtle storytelling.

Not really a movie per say, but (I know I'm probably going to get lynched for this) the HBO Game of Thrones series. MASSIVE kudos for trying to translate something so dense and for the huge risk of adapting a nerd favourite yet completely unknown outside nerdy cycles saga, but I just don't enjoy it. It manages to be slow enough to be boring to me, yet TV-ised enough that I feel like I'm missing out on way too many details (EG: The chain missing in Season 2).
 

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Oh my god! I was fine with this until someone said a movie that I love! This is heresy!

OK, I'm calm now. I actually went to the movie in theaters back December when they re-released it for a night in the lead up to Django Unchained. I'd seen it many times before but watching it with a packed theater was a very fun and memorable experience.

But I can respect you not liking the movie. We all have our own tastes.

MetalMagpie said:
Pulp Fiction

I respect it as a classic film with a huge reputation, but I personally find most of it really unmemorable. It's one of those films that's more fun to talk about (theories about the contents of the suitcase, etc.) then it is to actually watch.
 

Lovely Mixture

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Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee. It's definitely not a bad movie, and was definitely worthy of an Oscar, but it is very tedious to watch at some points and the climax builds up to nothing really.


Inglorious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino. This movie shows that Tarantino can write some good stuff (the beginning scene) but then it falls into the usual Tarantino violence-fest that he cannot get away from.


I don't like or respect Avatar, I guess I can respect Cameron's work on it. I don't think Cameron is a bad director, he made both Terminators and Aliens, but Avatar and Titanic are bland tripe. Special effects do not make up for bad characterization and shallow storylines.
 

Robot Number V

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I think just about every movie Tarantino has ever made fits into that category for me. Also, "Requiem for a Dream". It's a very well crafted movie with a really legitimate and well-presented point behind it...but holy SHIT is it hard to actually watch.
 

Lilani

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Casablanca. I respect its scope and its aesthetic beauty, but the gender politics just get on my nerves. "I don't want to think anymore, think for the both of us!" And Humphrey Bogart seemed less like a heartthrob and more like a depressive grump.
 

MetalMagpie

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ungothicdove said:
Oh my god! I was fine with this until someone said a movie that I love! This is heresy!

OK, I'm calm now. I actually went to the movie in theaters back December when they re-released it for a night in the lead up to Django Unchained. I'd seen it many times before but watching it with a packed theater was a very fun and memorable experience.

But I can respect you not liking the movie. We all have our own tastes.

MetalMagpie said:
Pulp Fiction

I respect it as a classic film with a huge reputation, but I personally find most of it really unmemorable. It's one of those films that's more fun to talk about (theories about the contents of the suitcase, etc.) then it is to actually watch.
Aww. Sorry. ;)

It's one of the unavoidable problems of "X you don't like" threads. Someone is always going to name something you love. We human beings are varied like that.