Least Favorite Good/Classic Movies

Some posts in the "Favorite Bad Movies" thread leaned more towards this topic, so I thought I'd create a mirror thread for them.

I'll kick it off with 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I understand is very popular with the LSD crowd, probably because acid helps you hallucinate that there's something interesting in it. God, this was boring.

I'm also not a big fan of A Clockwork Orange just because it's so relentlessly unpleasant. I can recognize it as a well-made film, but I have no desire to ever see it again.

Actually, I'm apparently not big on Kubrick in general (though The Shining did have some nice stuff in it). Too much Art, not enough Interesting.

Finally, another that comes to mind that people inexplicably go nuts over is Microcosmos. An hour and a half of bugs doing bugs things to music. I love nature specials and Koyaanisqatsi, but this killed me.

Scarface - I think it's considered a classic. But I find it falls flat on the mob films spectrum.

Inception - Not a classic yet, but I am the only person I know (in person) who does not like this movie.

Blade Runner...Maybe it's only because I happened to watch the suposedly inferior Theatrical Cut, but I really really hated this movie.

Jaws...It takes a lot to bore me but this was so scathingly uninteresting that it got painful by the end.

The Thin Red Line...Peaceful serene shot of quaint villagers untouched by the ravages of war, poetic quip, gunfire, pretty bird, metaphor for lost innocence, a shot of the sky through the trees, Sean Penn, poetic quip on the fortitude and/or cruelty of mankind, pretty pretty birds, an explosion, metaphor of the unattainable, monkeys, a river, peaceful hillside being ravaged by not-so-peaceful men, dead bodies, pretty pretty pretty birds, suddenly George Clooney, loss, unedited raw pretentiousness, PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY BIRDS. That's the entire movie, in a nutshell. I really dislike Terrence Malick.

Titanic, 2001, Apocalypse Now (not so much that I dislike it, I just don't think it's as good as most people seem to think it is), Alien, and there are a bunch of others I can't think of.

H8ERS!

Ok - Citizen Kane. Yeah, I can appreciate it, it's always in the top 100 and every film student studies it - but it's like this big bloated empty arty dud. I watched it in three of four separate sittings because the oppressive atmosphere just didn't do it for me. Like beholding a precious black and white Faberge Egg, and wishing it would just crack and fall to smithereens.

I have so much hatred for West Side Story. And yes, I love musicals, old movies, etc. but this movie is awful.

Shawshank Redemption. I thought it was alright. I just don't see why everyone seems to love it so much.
American Beauty. Again, I thought it was alright.
The English Patient. The rest of the audience seemed to think they were watching some David Lean masterpiece. I just wanted to get out.

Casablanca. The first time I saw it I couldn't understand what was going on, so I read a plot summary before watching it again some years later. Still didn't understand what was so great about it.

Oh my god, so many.

The Godfathers
Dog Day Afternoon
Citizen Kane
Scarface
Christmas Story (I don't know if this counts but I think it's a classic Christmas movie. It just isn't A Wonderful Life.


Oh, and don't forget Donnie Darko, the most overrated movie ever in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Inky

I have so much hatred for West Side Story. And yes, I love musicals, old movies, etc. but this movie is awful.

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If you can find Pauline Kael's review of West Side Story, you should read it. She hated it, too. West Side Story definitely ruins the Romeo and Juliet plot. When one's mind's ear hears, "O, I am fortune's fool!", the script of the movie calls for an anguished, "Maria!"

By the way, I love musicals, too. It's often people who don't normally like musicals who love West Side Story.

"I Feel Pretty" may vie with "We've had a Real Good Clambake" (from Carousel) for the worst song in a famous musical. How Steven Sondheim could pen lyrics like, "Say it loud and there's music playing, Say it soft and it's almost like praying,"(from "Maria") is beyond me.