Generally Well regarded films that you thought were rubbish

[Triggaaar]

Ok, this is not a highly rated film, and no doubt everyone knows it's rubbish, but...
I'm home alone, and wanted to watch some easy action film last night. There was nothing else available, and it got 7.3 (not a bad score) on IMDB. So I watched... Fast & Furious 5. OMFG!

 

[mikes smalls]

The Departed.

Yep! a pale imitation of the original- Infernal affairs.

 

[jezzer]

Beetlejuice has got to be one of the most god awful efforts ever made and i went to the cinema to see Get Shorty and can honestly say ive never paid to see such a load of trash as that- i can remember when the film finished everyone was saying to eachother even people youd never met before, welll that was a complete load of crap wasnt it, and they were right.

 

[SeagullSongs]

Ok, this is not a highly rated film, and no doubt everyone knows it's rubbish, but...
I'm home alone, and wanted to watch some easy action film last night. There was nothing else available, and it got 7.3 (not a bad score) on IMDB. So I watched... Fast & Furious 5. OMFG!

I love that film actually. So predictable but I enjoyed it.
Is it bad that I know all of the lyrics to the Spanish song at the end Danza Kuduro?

 

[Albion in the north]

Vanilla Sky.. IMHO Garbage

 

[The Large One]

Withnail and I

Like the Beatles music, everyone likes it as they have been brought up to think that way

I think you're saying that to sound moody and edgy.

You're wrong, mind.

 

[Triggaaar]

I love that film actually.

I don't get it, it was just so awful. I knew it would be poor, but I was just in the mood for some easy, lighthearted action, and yet still I couldn't believe what I was making myself watch. I was actually saying to myself (I talk to myself quite a bit) 'you're not going to make yourself watch this are you?'. It made Independence Day seem realistic.

 

[Albion Dan]

Crash. Not the car crash one the rasicm in America commentary one. What a load of sanctimonious right on contrived rubbish. The plot was so poor you could see the storyline coming twenty minutes before it arrived.

 

[Triggaaar]

Brokeback Mountain. Garbage.

 

[jakarta]

I cannot watch any of the Star Wars Franchise stuff - such B Movie Cowboys & Indians In Space although Carrie Fisher wearing not much interested me for a short while....

 

[Gwylan]

Can't be arsed to trawl through 8 pages of this so these might have been mentioned.

Shawshank Redemption - not rubbish, just very, very dull. There are far, far better jailbreak films.

Blade Runner - the ultimate in style over substance. I'm a big Dick fan and I was looking forward to this but it was far too flash.

The Deer Hunter - it won loads of Oscars but completely left me cold

Saving Private Ryan - brilliant opening 20 minutes and then goes downhill - taking the long way.

I'm sure there are loads more but these immediately spring to mind

 

[martyn20]

The Crying Game.

'He got his lad out Father'

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

Top Gun

I just don't get what's supposed to be so good about it at all!

 

[Worthingite]

I think Brad Pitt is a very good actor but the film was slow and boring. The team of no hopers went on a record breaking 20 match winning streak for no apparent reason, apart from some bunkum about stats over talent, but the problem was by the time it happened I did not care anymore. Turd.

I liked it, but then I like Baseball, so it probably made a bit more sense to me!!

 

[00snook]

For me anchorman, paranormal activity and clover field

Anchorman = Genius
Paranormal Activity = terrifying the first time, rubbish after that
Clover Field = not that good

 

[Worthingite]

Anything by Tarantino (with the exception of Pulp Fiction)
LOTR Trilogy
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Prometheus (I thought it was crap, couldn't understand why everyone was double handed wanking over it so much)
Tron
Most things with Nicholas Cage (with the exception of Lord of War)
Harry Potter was a bit meh, but I liked some of the CGI so it's almost spared

However, [MENTION=23006]Goring-by-Seagull[/MENTION], you should be ashamed of yourself. The Departed overrated?!?! Actually, films are subjective, so I'll let you off.....for now!!

 

[00snook]

Top Gun

I just don't get what's supposed to be so good about it at all!

Um.....Yee Ha, Jesters Dead.

Or maybe.....Son, your ego's s writing cheques your body cant cash?

 

[Worthingite]

Top Gun

I just don't get what's supposed to be so good about it at all!

It's possibly the most homo-erotic film I have ever watched. I watched it recently for the first time in about 20 years, and I was waiting for Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer to "get it on".

 

[Worthingite]

I cannot watch any of the Star Wars Franchise stuff - such B Movie Cowboys & Indians In Space although Carrie Fisher wearing not much interested me for a short while....

Is it sacrilegious to say that I have NEVER watched ANY of the Star Wars films, and I'm 30!!! Has just never appealed to me, I really should watch them I guess. I was the same about Gladiator for years - always thought it was too long and a bit "thesp" for my liking. I was wrong about that (VERY wrong about the thesp bit!)

 

[Worthingite]

Black Swan.

Bloody awful

I KNEW there was a film I was forgetting on my list!! I only watched it to see Mila Kunis get her kit off though, so my expectations went through the floor when it didn't happen the way I imagined it. Really crap film in every other respect too!!