Challenge: List the Top 5 Movies that EVERYONE Loved...Except YOU!

[Derek V]

Cross-posted from the Lounge. Now, I want the hard-core view.

I've got my list ready to go. (Hell, I had to leave a couple off.)

5: A Christmas Story. Never saw it in the theater, but an ex of mine insisted that we rent and watch it. I left the room after about 50 minutes. BORING!

4: The Blair Witch Project. There is NOTHING scary in this movie! Nothing!

3: Paranormal Activity. Okay, the final 46 seconds were scary. That is, if you somehow managed to stay awake that long!

2. When Harry Met Sally. (Also my #1 Overrated Movie of All Time.) The gal I was dating at the time (not the ex mentioned above) and I both agreed that it was a routine, formulaic Boy Meets Girl Falls In Love With Girl Loses Girl But Gets Girl Back At The End snoozefest.

Warning: Allcaps Ahead:

1. The Usual Suspects. (Also my #2 Most Overrated Movie of All Time.) WHAT. THE FUCK?!? WE WERE TOLD IN THE TRALIER THAT KEYSER SOZE IS ONE OF THE GUYS AT THE HEIST. AND KEVIN SPACEY'S CHARACTER WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THEM WHO SURVIVED SAID HEIST!!! IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS THE REAL VILLAIN OF THE PIECE ALMOST FROM THE GET-GO! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Here's mine

#1. The Help - Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated it!

#2. Syriana - Everyone I know - loved that movie. I thought that was the most boring lame assed movie ever.

#3. The Graduate - to me, the movie suuuuuuuuuuuucked.

#4. Toy Story. Full Stop. Did not like Toy Story

#5. Anything by Quentin Tarantino. I've tried folks - I've really tried. But I just - I can't. I don't like his movies. I just don't like them.

[Derek V]

7. Tarantino, the Most Overrated Director in today's Hollywood

As for The Help, I didn't see it, but isn't it the eight billionth iteration of "Gosh, look at those nice, white people helping out those poor, black ones who are incapable of helping themselves"?

[JustAnotherGen]

8. The true tip on Tarantino?

Very interesting book. I came away believing his advent was truly the end of the independent film festival as an entity unto itself. Instead - they are now Mogul Makers.

http://www.amazon.com/Down-Dirty-Pictures-Sundance-Independent/dp/0684862581

[whathehell]

11. Agree with you on Tarantino..

I hated Resevoir Dogs and any number of his over the top violent flicks.

[BeyondGeography]

2. It's just me, but

5. The Big Chill: Boomers throw a self-indulgent party for themselves and not even great music can save them.

4. Out of Africa: Streep and Redford set a record for most amount of camera time dedicated to sizzle-free romance.

3. Dances With Wolves: You see that next plot punch coming? It's even more telegraphed than the last one. Where's Jeremiah Johnson when you need him?

2. The Piano: I yawned, then I yawned some more. Kiss the girl already, Harvey.

1. Star Wars: Rhymes with bores. This is where the 70s started to get pear-shaped, and the whole damned country went with it. I never got it and I never will.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Totally agree on Star Wars....watched 10 min and walked out

But, I always win that game "I've Never...." (seen a Star Wars movie) with that one.

Of course, not a big science fictiony type. Are you?

[BeyondGeography]

5. I'm not

and I know that's a big part of it. But I tried, I really did...

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Yeah - Out of Africa

Not Pollack's best work.

But Double R still looked hot in it!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Agree on Christmas Story - Yikes isn't one or two years enough? We have

to watch it every single year.

I absolutely almost puked at TREE OF LIFE - it was like a nonsensical acid trip.

Most overrated to me -
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ARGO
MOST EVERYTHING WITH GEORGE CLOONEY AND BRAD PITT

[mainstreetonce]

6. I did not like

Silver Linings Playbook at all.

My husband who had a library of Civil War books could not watch Gone With The Wind.

[whathehell]

10. Didn't like Silve Linings Playbook either, and hated "The Departed" with

a red hot passion.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Not a fan of Pitt at all

Clooney I like when he takes a comic - I.E. Brother Where Art Thou.

[scarletwoman]

13. In no particular order:

1. The Sound of Music - aside from the fact that I generally dislike musicals (West Side Story being the ONE exception), I can't stand Julie Andrews' hairdo. It's so ugly I simply can't bear to look at it. The whole thing is idiotic anyway.

2. The Silence of the Lambs - fervently wish I could unsee it. Totally YUK.

3. Rocky - Sylvester Stallone - ick, ick, ick.

4. Braveheart - oh please! Spare me Mel Gibson and his self-serving delusions of heroism and obsession with sadism.

5. Dances With Wolves - well, thank goodness the poor Indians had a heroic white man to stand up for them. Barf.

I've only named movies I've actually seen. There are definitely dozens more movies which have been wildly poplular that I've never had the slightest inclination to bother with.

[sweetloukillbot]

14. Let's see...

1) Forrest Gump
2) Dances With Wolves
3) Braveheart
4) Titanic
5) Evita (the only movie I ever walked out of)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Was it the horrible low-IQ accent in FG? nt

[aranthus]

16. I don't even understand why people liked these movies.

1. Titanic: Populist twaddle, and a story everyone knew the ending of.

2. Star Trek (the Chris Pine travesty): As a science fiction film it was terrible, with obvious contrivances and character improbabilities that robbed it of any believability. As Star Trek it was an insulting sacrilige.

3. Avatar: Brainless eye candy.

4. No Country for Old Men: The only thing the film has to say is that if you're too stupid to live, then you'll die. It hides its idiocy with an empty world weariness.

5. Inglorious Basterds: Though almost any Tarantino movie would fit the bill. He doesn't make genre films or homages to genres. He makes violence films that rip off genres.

[Derek V]

17. Re: "Star Trek"

I didn't even see the film, or its sequel(s). William Shatner is James T. Kirk. For anyone else to play that role is, to echo your words, an insulting sacrilige!

[davidpdx]

21. Funny story about Titanic

I went to see another movie and was selected for a pre-screening of a movie. They don't tell you what movie it is, you just go and see the movie and fill out a survey afterward.

Well as you guessed the movie was Titanic. I was very critical of the movie including the length (generally 2 hour movies are ok, but once they get closer to 2 1/2-3 that is ridiculous). I even said that the movie was going to a box office flop. Yeah, was I wrong on that one. I saw it again in the theater and the second time I liked it a bit more. I still think the movie is way too long.

[skippercollector]

18. my list and I know it is 7, not 5

Avatar (A friend and I waited until it had come to a second-run theater, and then went to it on discount night--$1.25 admission--and I still think we got ripped off.)
Boogie Nights (I had to take a shower when I got home after seeing it because I felt so scuzzy!)
E.T.
Forrest Gump
Get Shorty (I apologized to my friend for suggesting it as we were leaving the theater)
Jurassic Park
Titanic

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. Do I have to have actually seen it?

I have a number of very popular movies that I could see were going to be just torture and avoided seeing-

Here's my list of the ones I have seen:
Ghostbusters
E.T.
Harry Potter
Star Trek (Or as I call it, Sci Fi Action Franchise Loosely Based on Star Trek)
Leaving Las Vegas

Bonus: Anything by David Lynch, All the Batman movies prior to Batman Begins, and while I love James Cameron the man, I think James Cameron the director is highly overrated.

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Also, on edit, I see a lot of people with similar lists to mine, including many that didn't make my list on technicalities:
Avatar- It was bad, but there are many I hated more
Titanic- Didn't see it. Didn't need to see it.
Starship Troopers- I think everybody hated that movie- just not as much as I did.

[davidpdx]

20. My list

In no particular order:

5) The entire Harry Potter series

4) The entire Twilight series

3) Any movie that has "Transformers" in the title

2) The Hours

1) Casino (the only movie I've ever walked out of and asked for a refund)