I sat through GWTW years ago, and I was bored...SO bored. Highly overrated. I have several popular movies that I have no interest in sitting through: E.T, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Princess Bride, Jennifer Aniston films other than Office Space, and every Star Wars movie after the third one (Because I didn't learn my lesson the first three times)
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 11, 2019 3:25 PM MST
Movies prior to like 1970 just don't really do it for me....I know they are classics but they just have this dated feel to them I can't get past. It all just feels so fake to me.
I like how you shunned the entire Jennifer Aniston filmography with one exception. I shun Melissa McCarthy but without exception.
i looooove sixteen candles! it was my moms fav movie when she was a teen so whenever it was on tv she would watch it, which is why i have seen it so much too.
ive seen bits and pieces of the breakfast club but i've never actually sat through it
Breakfast Club is another overrated one. Not a bad movie, just not something to get so excited about.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at June 23, 2019 6:01 PM MDT
I have never seen the movie. I don't know how I knew it was Avatar, I guess Jaimie's description just sounded Avatar-y to me. Or Smurf-fy, and I knew that was not correct. hah.
I wasn't able to get through that one, it put me to sleep. I can't even remember the parts I did watch, but I know it was called Avatar. However, every time I hear that word I think of that awful Shyamalan movie that I watched just because I thought it would at least be a funny kind of bad but it wasn't even that. So it's forever tainted for me.
I opened the question expecting to say GoneWithTheWind.
But you already had that one, so "Solaris" instead I once watched the first 10 minutes of it, and found it so horribly boring that I got up and left. But it was all the rage in SF circles. with everyone calling it a masterpiece.
The book it was based on was even written by one of my favorite authors "Stanislaw Lem", but I just couldent stand the movie. Maybe backlash from high expectations ;-)
Are you talking about the old one or the new one? I haven't seen the new one with george clooney, but I had the same reaction as you for the 1972 russian version. But I watched through the whole thing out of obligation, asking myself a few times during the move "where the f**k is this going??"
And then I got to the last 15 seconds, and something is revealed, and it blew my mind. Suddenly the whole thing made perfect sense, and I even watched it a second time in the same week. That viewing was not at all boring, and it was actually kind of hilarious knowing exactly what I was seeing now, the twist seemed painfully obvious and I couldn't believe I didn't see it coming. I thought my friend (who I was showing it to, and who was also bored) would guess the end and maybe I was just a dummy, but he was also blown away by it.
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