Movies you just don't get

[PatrickHoyt]

Yeah I had to rip off the Bands you just don't get thread (sorry Billy) and make a movies thread. Try to keep it to the movies that are absolute classics that everyone love but you just don't understand why.

Remember this is just for fun.

The two main movies I've never really been fond of or gotten into at all:

Gone with the Wind
Fried Green Tomatoes

 

[Ruthven]

Natural Born Killers.

I actually "get" and appreciate what Stone was trying to say, I just don't think he was successful at saying it.

 

[sh0kr0k]

Gone with the Wind - I understand it was quite extraordinary in it's time, but I just don't see it holding up to many of today's love story blockbusters.

Star Wars... sorry, maybe it's because I didn't grow up watching the originals. They are entertaining, but I don't get why the whole storyline is as popular as it is.

Dumb and Dumber - kill me swiftly!

Lost Highway - ....huh?

 

[rockyracoon]

Any Steve Martin movie. Boggles my mind how people find him funny.

Ditto for anything Martin Short has ever done. He's just awful.

Super Troopers. Guess if I still smoked this might be funny.

Police Academy 1-??? Not sure how long they kept this joke of a series going, could be on 15 by now, but 1 was more than enough for me.

Kevin Smith movies.

 

[Cheiron]

Citizen Kane - I get it. But its nowhere close to my #1 greatest film of all time.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Attack of the Killer Tomatos - Absolute TRASH!

Fast & The Furious - Maybe I see too many wannabes. Do you really need to make your Honda Civic sound like a flatulating bull? Give me the good ol' days of REAL muscle cars!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Super Troopers. Guess if I still smoked this might be funny.

I LOVE that movie!

 

[Ascension]

Alot of movies are a generational/timeframe thing. If you weren't around at the time...you probably just don't know. Like...l know people that say that the Smokey & the Bandit movies are stupid. But...if you've ever owned a Trans Am...


Porn - what?

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Hehehehehe yep! The first S&B is a CLASSIC!

 

[Cheiron]

Ascension, I really agree. Which is why during a massive classic movie spree that I'm on... I'm trying to watch it with different eyes than I would of a movie coming out today.

 

[edgeofthorns]

Anything that Will Farrell stars in. I just don't think the guy is funny...at all.

Also, the James Bond movies. I just don't get what all the hype is about with these things.

~Brian~

 

[Ascension]

Anything that Will Farrell stars in. I just don't think the guy is funny...at all.

or Jim Carrey

Also, the James Bond movies. I just don't get what all the hype is about with these things.

Aww cmon now...Sean Connery is the man.

 

[Rider of Theli]

...The two main movies I've never really been fond of or gotten into at all:

Gone with the Wind
Fried Green Tomatoes

heh heh, my wife's two favorite movies of ALL time! She was watching her dvd of Fried green Tomatoes again two nights ago. LOL.

here's one that disappointed me very recently... Bridge to Terabithia. It's not so much that I didn't get it, but I certainly expected a bit more from previews and trailers. :Smug: It also seemed that the story swerved a bit too much - like maybe they cut out about 30-45 minutes to rush it out. *shrug* I dunno.

I'll try to think of some others later and add more thoughts.

 

[Yippee38]

or Jim Carrey

Yeah. That guy is the same character in every movie!

 

[See You In Hell]

Well technically I suppose I'm not sticking to classics but follows is a sampling of films, in no particular order, that most (that I'm aware of anyway) seem to like but just didn't click with me.

Natural Born Killers - I couldn't even finish this one it was so bad.

Fight Club - I'm perhaps the only person on Earth that couldn't stand this film. If there was a point being made I clearly missed it.

Pulp Fiction - It had a few decent moments but overall I will probably never understand why this movie was so appealing to everyone.

Any zombie movie - Gore for the sake of gore, I don't get it. Why is it appealing to watch the undead rip out peoples' intestines and devour them? I'm the first to admit that cannibalism has always struck a sensitive chord with me for whatever reason, and I make it a point to try to avoid anything that graphically depicts that act.

L. A. Confidential - I should have liked this but it just didn't click.

Annie Hall - Woody Allen movies typically do little for me but this one did nothing.

Hellboy - A lot of folks I've talked to actually liked this movie. I thought is was damn near unwatchable. Yet another failed comic book adaptation in my opinion. Horrible!

The Forgotten - I wish I could have forgotten it!


Well, methinks that's enough for now.....

 

[booB]

Star Wars... sorry, maybe it's because I didn't grow up watching the originals. They are entertaining, but I don't get why the whole storyline is as popular as it is.

I'm going to incur the wrath of the Star Wars Nerd Militia here, but I think the new trilogy (I-III) is far better and more epic than the original trilogy (IV-VI). That said, I didn't see the original movies until about 2002, or so.

Lost Highway - ....huh?

one of my favorite movies.

Any Steve Martin movie. Boggles my mind how people find him funny.

Ditto for anything Martin Short has ever done. He's just awful.

Super Troopers. Guess if I still smoked this might be funny.

Police Academy 1-??? Not sure how long they kept this joke of a series going, could be on 15 by now, but 1 was more than enough for me.

Kevin Smith movies.

What comedies do you like? I'm just curious... I've never seen you say something was funny.

 

[Entrerie]

I could never understand what was so great about Akira aside from the animation. It seemed like a crack smokers tour de force. It's the iconic anime film of the 80's though so I guess it was shocking back then to see people get killed in a cartoon.

Evangelion - I thought this was way over rated.

So far there is only one movie that is so bad that I am ashamed to admit I got to see it at a screening for free, and that is Hot Rod.

The last 2 movies I've seen, I highly recommend worth watching are Stardust and Superbad.

 

[J-Man]

I never really understood or got into the following movies

A Clockwork Orange
Annie Hall
Pulp Fiction
The day the earth stood still
The Thing

Now for movies that I would see over and over

All Harry Potter
Star Wars I-VI
Starman
The 300 Spartans(not to be confused wih 300)
Tremors I and II
1984
Logan's Run

 

[OrbWeaver]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that doesn't get Kevin Smith films. Though I did like Dogma. But my boyfriend just has a FIT everytime I say "I just don't dig Kevin Smith..."

I also don't get the James Bond films. BORING.

Vampire movies - vampires are froo-froo any more. I think we can all thank Anne Rice for that.

Werewolf movies - why must the good majority of them suck? I've only seen two quality Werewolf movies: An American Werewolf in London and Silver Bullet. The sequel to Werewolf in London had some nifty CGI wolves, but the story was weak. No other werewolf movie is really worth mentioning, except to say how bad it is. Is it -that- difficult for horror writers to write a good Werewolf flick?

Zombie movies - the concept freaks me the fuck out. However, the damn things shamble slowly! Kick them in the head, smash them with a 2x4, shoot them - whatever! But they're not -that- hard to defeat! And really, if you think about it, fresh zombies may be able to move quickly, but not for too long. Once rigor mortis sets in, they're screwed. And then when the rotting process begins...the damn things would fall apart! If you think about it, zombies aren't all that fearsome after an hour or so.

Scream - why does everybody like this movie? It sucks!

Most gore/slasher flicks - blood for the sake of blood = retarded. Give me a good psychological, edge-of-your-seat thriller any day.

Clueless - Again, why does everybody like this movie? It was stupid the first time I watched it, it was stupid when I saw it again on TV. It's just a stupid movie!

Grease - overrated! Another movie that people soil themselves over. It's just a twisted version of O. Henry's Gift of the Magi.

 

[Entrerie]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that doesn't get Kevin Smith films. Though I did like Dogma. But my boyfriend just has a FIT everytime I say "I just don't dig Kevin Smith..."

I also don't get the James Bond films. BORING.

Vampire movies - vampires are froo-froo any more. I think we can all thank Anne Rice for that.

Werewolf movies - why must the good majority of them suck? I've only seen two quality Werewolf movies: An American Werewolf in London and Silver Bullet. The sequel to Werewolf in London had some nifty CGI wolves, but the story was weak. No other werewolf movie is really worth mentioning, except to say how bad it is. Is it -that- difficult for horror writers to write a good Werewolf flick?

Zombie movies - the concept freaks me the fuck out. However, the damn things shamble slowly! Kick them in the head, smash them with a 2x4, shoot them - whatever! But they're not -that- hard to defeat! And really, if you think about it, fresh zombies may be able to move quickly, but not for too long. Once rigor mortis sets in, they're screwed. And then when the rotting process begins...the damn things would fall apart! If you think about it, zombies aren't all that fearsome after an hour or so.

Scream - why does everybody like this movie? It sucks!

Most gore/slasher flicks - blood for the sake of blood = retarded. Give me a good psychological, edge-of-your-seat thriller any day.

Clueless - Again, why does everybody like this movie? It was stupid the first time I watched it, it was stupid when I saw it again on TV. It's just a stupid movie!

Grease - overrated! Another movie that people soil themselves over. It's just a twisted version of O. Henry's Gift of the Magi.

There were plenty of good werewolf and Vampire movies in the 80s/90s. The howling series was a good one, I must have watched Howling 4 the Marsupials like 50 times on cable back in the day. Company of Wolves is pretty cool, the effects are kinda cheesy but I would shit bricks if I saw this as a little kid. For Vampires well you have the hammer films which are okay, my favorite all time take though just happens to be Interview with a vampire, but I also like the Sub-Species movies with Radu.

Now zombies, they scare you because there is no escape, sure they are slow and what not and you may survive for a little while but in the end they win by numbers. It's like one of my favorite comics that's called "The Walking Dead" it's not the zombies who are the walking dead but the people that are trying to survive, their time is already up from the moment the zombie plague started. My favorite all time zombie movie has to be Return of the Living Dead, that is a classic and I don't think I could sleep for weeks after watching it. The last good zombie movie was Zack Snyder's Day of the Dead remake, it was a no brainer that 300 would kick all sorts of ass. I think he is making a Watchmen movie now, or Escape from New York remake.