GeraldRice Wrote:Easy Rider. I just didn't care about either of them. Even the tagline annoyed me: "A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere!". I guess that was supposed to be the America he was looking for wasn't there. The one he found certainly didn't surprise me.Good call on Easy Rider. That movies was rotten.
Another "classic" that I can't stand:
The Graduate
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:Good call on Easy Rider. That movies was rotten.
Another "classic" that I can't stand:
The Graduate
[SIZE="1"]I love Super Troopers, though.
I gotta disagree with you on "Easy Rider" and "The Graduate." I suspect you needed to be alive at the time the films were released to appreciate the social commentary and cultural aspects of the film. I'm not sure those areas translate all that well now. But back then, they blew most of us out of the water.
I've seen "The Graduate" recently and it doesn't hold up well, but I wouldn't say that I can't bear it.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Lisa Wrote:OMG! ... What a snoozefest. Another like that is "Open Range." Of course I despise Kevin Costner so that didn't help.
Lisa
I loved "Open Range." I actually bought it, but I haven't watched it again since I did.
GeraldRice Wrote:Thelma and Louise. I thought the whole thing was annoying end-to-end..
"Thelma and Louise" rocked my world when it was released, but oddly, I've never been able to watch it again. It's a one-time-only viewing kinda movie for me.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
I'm so glad you mentioned Forest Gump, Maggers. That's a hard one to admit you don't like because people tend to act like you just announced that you have leprosy. 
Titanic.... meh.
Titanic.... meh.
How many vikings does it take to change a light bulb?
None. The light from the burning monastery is more than sufficient.
May the Norse be with you.
EWMAN, Jr.
Most of these have been mentioned:
Mystic river
A river runs Through It
Deliverance (maybe it is something about rivers)
All Star Wars
7th Star Trek
2001 (I really do like a lot of scifi)
Scent of a Woman
Seven
Jaws (all)
all Rocky
Bone Collector
Starship Troopers 2
Ya Ya Sisterhood
Steel Magnolias
Mystic river
A river runs Through It
Deliverance (maybe it is something about rivers)
All Star Wars
7th Star Trek
2001 (I really do like a lot of scifi)
Scent of a Woman
Seven
Jaws (all)
all Rocky
Bone Collector
Starship Troopers 2
Ya Ya Sisterhood
Steel Magnolias
Amon Wrote:ID4 - Independence Day - Other than the blown-up and pretentious SFX, this film had nothing to offer other than Will Smith's lame attempts at humour as the last of his street-cred disappeared.
I take offense to your statements regarding Will Smith in ID4: Will Smith never had any street cred.
I went to see Independence Day in the theater 4 times and watched it again last July 4. See, I do like some scifi.
Slingblade: Bo-ring. Predictable. Pointless. This is the epitome of terrible movies at my house - we compare all others against it.
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Oh, here's a classic for me: Face/Off. I loved it in the theater, liked it less when I rented it and subsequent viewings on cable it became more and more unbearable. The conclusion I've come to is John Woo is good at action but not much else.
webby Wrote:Slingblade: Bo-ring. Predictable. Pointless. This is the epitome of terrible movies at my house - we compare all others against it.I have what I like to call my Triumvirate of Bad Movies: The River; Drop Dead Fred; and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft