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Since the dawn of the silver screen thousands of movies have been made. Some are considered classics, must see movies. The greatest films of all time.
What movie that is widely regarded as a masterpiece have you watched and you thought Meh 🫤 I don’t see what the fuss is about??
Gladiator….. bang average in my opinion. |
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"Since the dawn of the silver screen thousands of movies have been made. Some are considered classics, must see movies. The greatest films of all time.
What movie that is widely regarded as a masterpiece have you watched and you thought Meh 🫤 I don’t see what the fuss is about??
Gladiator….. bang average in my opinion. "
Oh there are so many! Maybe because I watched them after all the hype. Goodfellas and scarface for a start. Ok but 🤷🏽♂️ |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁"
I think you might start a fight with that one |
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Most classic musicals.
There’s some undeniably iconic numbers in them but they were generally ‘padded’ out (to fill the required running time) interminably.
The exception would be West Side Story though which I felt was superb throughout (well apart from that ‘Be cool’ number which has aged rather badly) |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁
I think you might start a fight with that one"
I’ll start digging myself a tunnel to safety now…. 😜 |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁
I think you might start a fight with that one
I’ll start digging myself a tunnel to safety now…. 😜"
Don’t anyone dare say the great escape! |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁
I think you might start a fight with that one
I’ll start digging myself a tunnel to safety now…. 😜
Don’t anyone dare say the great escape!"
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Birdman starring Michael Keaton.
Now, I love Keaton normally and this particular film came with a whole slew of five star reviews so I sat my arse down to watch it with high hopes.
Alas! Sweet Jesus! ‘Twas a pile of self congratulatory, pretentious drivel, the regretful likes I have seldom seen before or since (nor bloody well wish to!) 😵💫
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"Birdman starring Michael Keaton.
Now, I love Keaton normally and this particular film came with a whole slew of five star reviews so I sat my arse down to watch it with high hopes.
Alas! Sweet Jesus! ‘Twas a pile of self congratulatory, pretentious drivel, the regretful likes I have seldom seen before or since (nor bloody well wish to!) 😵💫
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Agree. Same as lost in translation. Waste of time |
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American Hustle: Whilst I did admittedly quite like the ending and I thought that Christian Bale was great in it, I personally found all other aspects of this ‘modern classic’ to be rather….well, frankly shit.
Encouraging actors to ad lib their lines throughout an entire film seldom produces good results and even the usually dependable Bradley Cooper’s overacting was especially off putting in my opinion.
It’s doubly a shame as the same director along with Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence previously gave us the superb, Silver Linings Playbook which I loved.
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"Birdman starring Michael Keaton.
Now, I love Keaton normally and this particular film came with a whole slew of five star reviews so I sat my arse down to watch it with high hopes.
Alas! Sweet Jesus! ‘Twas a pile of self congratulatory, pretentious drivel, the regretful likes I have seldom seen before or since (nor bloody well wish to!) 😵💫
Agree. Same as lost in translation. Waste of time "
Yes to Lost in Translation.
Donnie Darko too. All the positive reviews it gets because "it's art" baffles me (that being said i quite like the soundtrack) |
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As a Trekkie speaking Star Wars didn't do it for me, too much hype at the time, Clapperboard did a whole episode on it..
Great special effects but story just drags on n on. Didn't see it original release because of the hype.
Borrowed the vhs 3 tape box set 35 years later off a friend. Didn't enjoy it.
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Chinatown (1974) - love Polanski, love Jack Nicholson, love Faye Dunaway but how and why this one gets held in high reverence just baffles me. Its a mediocre 20's film noir thriller at best. It also allegedly has one of the greatest twists in cinematic history... one that I actually missed upon 1st viewing.
My other choices - Batman, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Interview With The Vampire & Shawshank Redemption already been chosen I think. |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁"
I often say something is "Shawshank Redemption" in that its good, at times very good but its just not THAT good  |
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"American Hustle: Whilst I did admittedly quite like the ending and I thought that Christian Bale was great in it, I personally found all other aspects of this ‘modern classic’ to be rather….well, frankly shit.
Encouraging actors to ad lib their lines throughout an entire film seldom produces good results and even the usually dependable Bradley Cooper’s overacting was especially off putting in my opinion.
It’s doubly a shame as the same director along with Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence previously gave us the superb, Silver Linings Playbook which I loved.
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Bale and Amy Adams are so good in Hustle but Cooper and Lawrence stink it up with their overacting! Still worth watching for Amy Adams dress though.  |
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"La La Land. Two boring and unsympathetic characters who can't dance.
Deservedly lost the Oscar to Moonlight which is a modern classic."
Do you know what, Leo, I know it’s not even 6am but I agree with you completely on this.
Maybe I was wrong about you |
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"No Country for Old Men ... No spoilers, but near the end, it's like the directors or writer couldn't be bothered telling the story anymore..... 🤬"
I'm glad it ended that way. Knew it was going to happen. Didn't need to see it. |
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I love how divisive and subjective movie opinions and tastes are! There are a few listed above (I am very much in the 'musicals are shit' camp) that I would agree do not meet expectations their hype or status give them. But equally there are a few up there that I will argue as 'classics' till the cows come home!!
For me, despite its standing, I have to give it to 'Laurence of Arabia'. Just bored the whole way through.
...also, glad to see Die Hard is not mentioned once! 😉 |
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"La La Land. Two boring and unsympathetic characters who can't dance.
Deservedly lost the Oscar to Moonlight which is a modern classic."
I always felt like it was trying too hard to be an old fashioned classic musical. Failed miserably in my opinion. Glad to know I'm not the only one who hated it! |
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Forest Gump- its sort of OK, just not the 'Wow!' many seem to have watching it. Hanks has done much better stuff.
Anything Marvel/DC, seen one, seen em all- same with things like Fast & Furious
LOTR. Went to the cinema for the first one, fell asleep after an hour of not much happening- didn't bother with the others from then on.
Grease. Hard to take a bunch of middle aged people playing 17 year olds seriously- fairly shoddy all round. Best thing about it was the cars. |
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"I’m gonna go Pineapple Express. One of the worst films I’ve ever sat through.
And Mad Max. Equally as awful. "
Mad Max and Mad Max 2 are great movies, everything after it shite, Fury Road didn’t deserve to have Mad Max in the title. |
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There was a film where scarlett johansson played an alien that landed in scotland.
I hated that film. I know people that loved it though.
The director did the film sexy beast, a few years before, which I thought was quite good.. |
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"There was a film where scarlett johansson played an alien that landed in scotland.
I hated that film. I know people that loved it though.
The director did the film sexy beast, a few years before, which I thought was quite good.."
Under the Skin? |
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"There was a film where scarlett johansson played an alien that landed in scotland.
I hated that film. I know people that loved it though.
The director did the film sexy beast, a few years before, which I thought was quite good..
Under the Skin?"
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"Since the dawn of the silver screen thousands of movies have been made. Some are considered classics, must see movies. The greatest films of all time.
What movie that is widely regarded as a masterpiece have you watched and you thought Meh 🫤 I don’t see what the fuss is about??
Gladiator….. bang average in my opinion.
Oh there are so many! Maybe because I watched them after all the hype. Goodfellas and scarface for a start. Ok but 🤷🏽♂️"
Sacrilege!
Wash your mouth out with soap and water!  |
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"Die Hard, just don’t get the fuss? Or Rambo
I know right! 🙄 ...although, 'First Blood' has grown on me over the years "
I think can appreciate Rambo for what it was more now I’m older, but as a film, I just never got the hype and as for Die Hard  |
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"The Godfather. It was just a slow, gangster wank-fest"
As a fellow Derby person, I thought the same. I just couldn't get into the Godfather series at all, but I'm happy to try them again if I can muster it. |
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"The Godfather. It was just a slow, gangster wank-fest
Oh Joe, how could you 
Commonly regarded on virtually every list as the greatest gangster movie of all time.
Goodfellas is better  "
Goodfellas prob the best ever Gangster/Mafia film. Godfather is really a family revenge tragedy that's just set in the world - King Lear with Cannoli. |
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Can't be bothered to read through all the comments but I've only ever seen about half of a star wars movie and that was a half too much for me.
I'd be surprised if I was the only one saying so .
Mr . L |
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"The Revenant..... it just went on and on and on
Seems to be the curse of modern films - so many ruined by over indulgent Directors when they'd be much stronger with a good edit."
Yes added to this films that could just be one film made into 2 as a completely unnecessary Hollywood money grab. Wicked is a good example of this. |
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"The Revenant..... it just went on and on and on
Seems to be the curse of modern films - so many ruined by over indulgent Directors when they'd be much stronger with a good edit.
Yes added to this films that could just be one film made into 2 as a completely unnecessary Hollywood money grab. Wicked is a good example of this. "
Although great films the last two installs ments could have been one part for the hunger games |
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I see that Francis Ford Coppola’s, Apocalypse Now was mentioned earlier….
I concur wholeheartedly with the sentiment!
I found it to be a grotesquely overblown, overly self indulgent and generally, very boring film.
If I’m being honest, I find all of Coppola’s films to generally fit this description although I did admittedly enjoy his version of Dracula (despite the usually superb Anthony Hopkins rather hammy portrayal of Abraham Van Helsing)
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"I find all of Coppola’s films to generally fit this description although I did admittedly enjoy his version of Dracula (despite the usually superb Anthony Hopkins rather hammy portrayal of Abraham Van Helsing)
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Completely agree... I enjoyed Dracula, but it certainly wasn't the sum of its parts; so much bad about it!! I think it was just carried solely on the shoulders of Gary Oldman! |
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"The Godfather. It was just a slow, gangster wank-fest
Oh Joe, how could you
Commonly regarded on virtually every list as the greatest gangster movie of all time.
Goodfellas is better "
Good fellas is always no 2. Read the book the movie was based on, and it's even better. |
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"This is controversial but I wasn’t exactly enthralled by The Shawshank Redemption.
It was certainly well made and the performances were great but I just felt….well…meh 🙁
I think you might start a fight with that one
I’ll start digging myself a tunnel to safety now…. 😜
Don’t anyone dare say the great escape!
😱😂😂😂"
Not even Tom Dick or Harry |
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"I find all of Coppola’s films to generally fit this description although I did admittedly enjoy his version of Dracula (despite the usually superb Anthony Hopkins rather hammy portrayal of Abraham Van Helsing)
Completely agree... I enjoyed Dracula, but it certainly wasn't the sum of its parts; so much bad about it!! I think it was just carried solely on the shoulders of Gary Oldman!"
Coppola's a good early example of what I mentioned earlier- Directors who are also Producers and have no-one to reign in their excesses. Apart from Godfather 1 his best film IMO is The Conversation, a brilliant tight film with Gene Hackman.
Tarantino's another one - apart from Reservoir Dogs all his films could easily lose 30 minutes and be better for it ! |
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"I find all of Coppola’s films to generally fit this description although I did admittedly enjoy his version of Dracula (despite the usually superb Anthony Hopkins rather hammy portrayal of Abraham Van Helsing)
Completely agree... I enjoyed Dracula, but it certainly wasn't the sum of its parts; so much bad about it!! I think it was just carried solely on the shoulders of Gary Oldman!
Coppola's a good early example of what I mentioned earlier- Directors who are also Producers and have no-one to reign in their excesses. Apart from Godfather 1 his best film IMO is The Conversation, a brilliant tight film with Gene Hackman.
Tarantino's another one - apart from Reservoir Dogs all his films could easily lose 30 minutes and be better for it !"
Absolutely; Excessive running times are a major bone of contention for me as regards so many modern films.
Take the recent, Wicked for instance; Just short of three (interminable!) hours(!!!) - and in this bloated running time, it only managed to tell half the actual story (I can visualise the Hollywood executives greedily rubbing their hands whilst waiting to reap in a ton more dosh from part 2)
Sometimes, as the colloquialism goes, ‘less is more.’
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