Films you're not allowed not to like.

[Pommygranite]

Apocolypse Now. Apart from the helicopter/village attack scene its friggin boring.

And the end bit with Brando being fat and useless is a rambling mess.

[justinbaker]

Fantasty - flying about films (all of them). stting dragon and that stuff too. Personal taste is realism films. Favirites are anything with Hopkins in it! If I want fantasy I simply go to bed and think of Fiona Bruce!

[beanbag]

Mad Mission 2 and Mega Force.



They were legendary movies in my mind from when I was a kid. I wore the tapes out as I watched them so much.

The other day I downloaded them for nostalgia and what a let-down that was. The hot girl was downright nasty. The scenes were st and resembled Turkish Rambo, and the whole plot was a load of crap.

Not happy.....childhood memories ruined!

[Driller]

All of the Star Wars films.

[derestrictor]

Diablo SVTT said:

Taxi Driver
Layer Cake

Agree emphatically with TD but pathologically disagree with LC, a film I find utterly compelling.

[torres del paine]

Off the top of my head:

Napoleon Dynamite - gobsmacked.
Shaun of the Dead - lame.
Carlito's Way - Al Pacino over-acting (overacting?)

[CommanderJameson]

Also, The Shawshank Redemption.

I watched this having been told that it's awesome and amazing and uplifting and stuff.

What it is is a cure for insomnia.

[Diablo SVTT]

derestrictor said:

Diablo SVTT said:

Taxi Driver
Layer Cake

Agree emphatically with TD but pathologically disagree with LC, a film I find utterly compelling.

I expected too much from LC upon hearing what people thought of it, and felt that it fell rather short, much rather like TD though not quite anywhere near as spectacularly. Perhaps a rewatch of LC is due.

[parakitaMol.]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?

Utter balderdash.

[Clambake]

t951 said:

Titanic

Not sure you've got the hang of this thread...

[derestrictor]

Diablo SVTT said:

derestrictor said:

Diablo SVTT said:

Taxi Driver
Layer Cake

Agree emphatically with TD but pathologically disagree with LC, a film I find utterly compelling.

I expected too much from LC upon hearing what people thought of it, and felt that it fell rather short, much rather like TD though not quite anywhere near as spectacularly. Perhaps a rewatch of LC is due.

Please do!

Having said that, I think films can just 'get you' for reasons difficult to describe but nevertheless you are subjectively taken in.

After all, it's the only explanation I can proffer for my curious penchant for Battle Beyond The Stars, although the spacecraft piloted by The Waltons very own John Boy sculpted in the form of twin female mammaries may have been partly to blame.-

[Prometheus]

KANEIT said:

Prometheus said:

I've been pondering this and it seems to me there are some films you're simply not allowed not to like. The ones people rave about and quote endlessly in a vain attempt to look cool, or look at you aghast like your life is empty and blighted because you didn't appreciate them.

I'll kick off with Blade Runner and Pulp Fiction, which may actually be great films but did feck all for me.

Why do you assume people rave on about films to look cool? Maybe they really love those films? I do rave on about Blade Runner, if asked, because it is my favourite film of all time. The Motorcycle Diaries and 36 are some of the films I love too. I'm not bothered if someone doesn't like it or doesn't think I should like films with Harrison Ford in them or nigh on thirty year old sci-fi. We're all different and appreciate different genres and elements of films. I really like The Fifth Element - it's the same genre as Blade Runner yet so very different a film. Some people will love Blade Runner and hate The Fifth Element. I'm not a fan of Tarantino in general but can see why some people like his films.

In essence - get over it!

I am over it.

I'd still like to have the next person that quotes that bloody Rutger Hauer "time to die" speech beaten to death with their own shoes.

[Bushmaster]

Prometheus said:

KANEIT said:

Prometheus said:

I've been pondering this and it seems to me there are some films you're simply not allowed not to like. The ones people rave about and quote endlessly in a vain attempt to look cool, or look at you aghast like your life is empty and blighted because you didn't appreciate them.

I'll kick off with Blade Runner and Pulp Fiction, which may actually be great films but did feck all for me.

Why do you assume people rave on about films to look cool? Maybe they really love those films? I do rave on about Blade Runner, if asked, because it is my favourite film of all time. The Motorcycle Diaries and 36 are some of the films I love too. I'm not bothered if someone doesn't like it or doesn't think I should like films with Harrison Ford in them or nigh on thirty year old sci-fi. We're all different and appreciate different genres and elements of films. I really like The Fifth Element - it's the same genre as Blade Runner yet so very different a film. Some people will love Blade Runner and hate The Fifth Element. I'm not a fan of Tarantino in general but can see why some people like his films.

In essence - get over it!

I am over it.

I'd still like to have the next person that quotes that bloody Rutger Hauer "time to die" speech beaten to death with their own shoes.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 355d (mapped) diesels on fire off the shoulder of the M42. I watched C-types glitter in the dark near the Mulsanne Straight. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain...time to die.

[parakitaMol.]

Martin Scorsese's wkfests 'Gangs of New York'
& 'Shine a Light'

God I hate that tt

The Lagerfeld of the film world.

[shirt]

shine a light? its a concert film, ergo you are allowed to dislike it if you don't like the stones.

agreed with GONY, but as an argument against scorcese yours is pretty weak. he's done some amazing work and you pick a docu and a rare turkey to berate him with??

imo of course.

[Lefty Guns]

Prometheus said:

I've been pondering this and it seems to me there are some films you're simply not allowed not to like. The ones people rave about and quote endlessly in a vain attempt to look cool, or look at you aghast like your life is empty and blighted because you didn't appreciate them.

I'll kick off with Blade Runner and Pulp Fiction, which may actually be great films but did feck all for me.

I've actually tried to watch BR a few times but always get bored and turn it off.

PF I love though.

[Lefty Guns]

Pommygranite said:

Apocolypse Now. Apart from the helicopter/village attack scene its friggin boring.

And the end bit with Brando being fat and useless is a rambling mess.

Spot-on.

Every Brosnan Bond film except Goldeneye.
Every Moore Bond film except, hang on, they're all guff.

Reservoir Dogs.

Brokeback Mountain, seriously. If I say I don't like it I get called a homophobe. I'm not, I just didn't like it. Pretentious bucket of wk.

Edited by Lefty Guns on Thursday 19th March 12:22

[CommanderJameson]

parakitaMol. said:

Martin Scorsese's wkfests 'Gangs of New York'
& 'Shine a Light'

God I hate that tt

The Lagerfeld of the film world.

All true, but you won't be vilified in polite company for voicing this opinion, which is in stark contrast to the pitchforks and torches that come out if you dare to not like Forrest Felching Gump.

[otolith]

By disagreeing with the collective liking for Forrest Gump, you clearly demonstrate that you missed the whole point of the movie - non-conformists are BAD PEOPLE and will come to a bad end; blessed are the dumb, credulous sheep who do as they are told.

(I quite liked the film, actually, but was a bit uncomfortable with the message)

[B16 RTT]

All the Indianna Jones films.
And Back to the Future.

Just don't see the appeal.

Edited by B16 RTT on Thursday 19th March 12:41