Mabuse

You prefer The Illusionist? Explain to me how you could prefer that film. They use fucking CGI for the magic tricks. That movie is a shit sandwich.

davidlynchfan

500 Days of Summer.

and it seems like every mofo owns that movie. Every time I check out someone's movie collection..that stupid movie pops up first (yeah, I get the alphabetical order angle) but every mofo seems to own that darn movie. And, oh yeah, I hate that movie.

DJariya

johnnysd

I think Unforgiven is one of the best westerns ever.

stvn1974

I think it is one of the best films ever. Everything past the "it's a hell of a thing, killing a man..." speech is brilliant. The rest of the film is great too.

johnnysd

Lol, I am in the same boat. I actually hate his movies, especially the last few. He seems to have interesting concepts but then plot them in the most contrived, complicated and ludicrous way possible. I will likely never see another. Interstellar, a complete crap fast was the last straw for me but not as bad as Inception. In fact the movie of his I like the best is Insomnia which most hate. Did not hate The Prestige either but the twist was obvious only a few minutes in.

johnnysd

I can get behind the broader statement as well. I think it may be one of the Top 5 scripts ever written, it is just brilliant and eloquent.

inri222

I agree although I do not hate them, I just think they are not as good as people say they are. I do love Memento and think it is his best film.

DVDMagic

There really aren't that many movies out there that I would go so far as to say I "hated" - didn't care for, etc maybe?

That said...

The Thin Red Line
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

rank as 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen

JimRochester

I enjoyed O' Brother when I saw it.

Thin Red Line had tons of people on this board claiming it was the best movie ever. Far better than Saving Private Ryan which came out at the same time. I tried twice to watch that movie and fell asleep both times. The second time was the middle of the day. Two tries is my limit.

Brack

Had I not seen The Thin Red Line in theaters, I probably would have fallen asleep or changed the channel. It's not horrible, but tries too hard to be high art, with so many quiet moments and introspective scenes that it just kind of chugs along. I'm not a big fan of Malick's brand of filmmaking, so take my criticism with that in mind.

inri222

Different strokes for different folks, IMO TTRL is excellent and SPR is a giant turd.

JimRochester

Your opinion doesn't surprise me one bit. I've said all along you have a much more sophisticated taste where mine is rather shallow. You like stuff I couldn't imagine being interested in.

Inri222: Plot, character development, pacing, theme, soundtrack, acting.

Me: Holy shit, you see that stuff blow up?

It's funny because the parts of TTRL that I saw, I didn't dislike, I just couldn't stay engrossed. The aforementioned periods of no dialogue and hypnotic music just lulled me to sleep.

I would definitely argue that SPR isn't that bad but is certainly not the artistic vision TTRL is. They took a relatively simple story which is based on events from after the Sullivan brothers all died on the same ship, and threw in an opening, a middle and a finale' battle scene. At the time of release the D-Day landing was pretty groundbreaking so even if you didn't care for the story, the realism of battle put to film should be appreciated.

Daytripper

Bump.

I was talking to friends this week about movies we hate. REALLY hate. And two that immediately came to my mind were "Dan in Real Life" and "It's Complicated". "The Family Stone" would also be on my list but not as bad as those other two. Close though. All three films have disgustingly sweet and Hallmark level family relationships with one another. None of my family members are like that and I don't know anyone who has families like that either.

Toddarino

Napoleon Dynamite.
The hatred I feel for that movie is unbelievable.
On a lighter note here’s some movies I still hate, but don’t throw me into a blind rage.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1&2
Robin Hood : Prince Of Thieves

beavis69

The recent passing of Sean Connery reminded me of a movie I absolutely hated, but is universally loved, The Untouchables. The first time I saw it I thought it was so over the top and dumb. I then went online to read reviews (as I usually do) only to discover it is beloved by many people. At first I thought it was like some obscure meme or cultural joke, "oh The Untouchables is amazing haha". Nope, people actually like it. For whatever reason that made me hate it even more.

Daytripper

I also hate "The Hangover" with passion for the very reasons you mention above. And thrilled to see several people mention it here too. I saw it on a Saturday morning opening weekend. Way before the box-office tallies came out and not knowing it was on it's way to becoming a massive hit. I sat there watching it with my friend in total silence. Neither one of us laughed. Not once. At one point she turned to me and said "Hell, even the soundtrack sucks". The theater was only 25% full too. Maybe because it was a 10:00 AM showing. But I didn't hear too many laughs either from anyone else. I just walked out thinking "What a stupid unfunny film". But then when I heard one person after another tell me it was the funniest thing they ever saw, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. That's when I realized how much I hated it

Jaymole

Hatred is rare for me as I usually avoid films that I know I am not going to like. These however make the cut:

Hoosiers
Braveheart
Forrest Gump

Why So Blu?

Part 1 is fine, but 2 & 3 are beyond garbage.

Groucho

Because of the convenience of streaming I rarely sit through a movie that I hate, but for some reason I watched the entirety of "It Chapter 2", which wasn't even bad in a "fun" way.

mwbmis

The Fever Pitch remake. I've never seen it, but I have hated this movie ever since I saw Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore frolicking on the Busch Stadium field after the Cardinals lost the World Series in 2004. Fuck them both. Fuck everyone involved with that fucking decision. I will never, ever, EVER watch that fucking movie.*

*It's worth noting that I really don't care about this anymore, but I'm still never going to watch the movie.

Quatermass

Two excellent choices. I would also add "Parental Guidance" with Bette Midler and Billy Crystal for the same reasons.

Noonan

Zombie Halloween 2 is probably the only film I can ascend to the level of hate. Fucking unicorn.

Runaway

And if you had watched it back then, you couldn't remember it today. Absolutley forgettable movie, you can't remake Fever Pitch into a generic Drew Barrymore romcom.

devilshalo

The film that got Connery his Oscar? I love the film and all of its clunkiness. Even for a Mamet/DePalma film, it's rather clunky at times. DeNiro's overacting. Costner's flat delivery.

If there was a DePalma film I don't care for it's the first Mission: Impossible, but I may have to revisit it. I think Woo kind of killed the type of espionage film series it should have been, to the more action oriented one it is now. And speaking of spy films, I would tend to 'hate' the Brosnan Bond films.