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Author Topic: "Classic" movies you hate...and why Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 07-01-2010 02:50 PM                  Let's turn that other thread upside down. Occasionally I sit down to watch a classic film that I haven't seen before and am at a loss to see why it has such a reputation. Sometimes I think they are crap. I'll start with: Fellini's 8 1/2 Seemed like just a lot of self-absorbed vignettes. The musical "Nine" wasn't much better.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-01-2010 03:03 PM                        2001: A Space Odyssey is the first thing that comes to my mind. Most old people jack off to this movie and have instantaneous orgasms when talking about how great it is, but not me. Old people will accuse me of having ADD because I do not appreciate the fact that this movie has next to no editing at times. Just loooooong sustained shots of nothing happening. Maybe if I were an old fart who liked to sit on his front porch and wait for someone to walk by and consider that a day well spent, something like that might keep my interest. I will admit that I enjoyed the middle part of the movie with the dude from Star Trek and the other dude on the space ship along with HAL. That was cool. But everything before that and everything after is just a waste of time. I think people take psychedelic mind-altering drugs when watching this, as it is usually the old hippies from the 60's and 70's who love this shit. I do not need 20 minutes of flying over a false color mountain, only to be interrupted with a close-up of some asshole's eyeball. I also don't need 30 minutes of apes in the beginning with a very poor edit of a tossed bone/spaceship (the bone isn't even at the same angle as the ship, what a shitty cut. You can remove the actual edit from the print by several frames on both sides and it will have no effect on the supposed "impact" of the edit). I know most of you will shed many tears over my review of the movie here, but that's the way it is. Your beloved 2001 sucks. I love most other Kubrik movies, but I have not seen Clockwork Orange because it has a guy on the cover and he is wearing a silly little hat. On the back it said something about tap dancing. I do not like hats or tap dancing so I will not watch this movie. I'll try to think of more movies later.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-01-2010 03:09 PM                        +1  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 07-01-2010 03:46 PM                  I was going to save this one for later but I can't wait...for the new one you guys are going to ream for me, I mean! Lawrence of Arabia This was available in HD on demand a couple of years ago and I was excited as I had never seen it. Three times I started watching it and three times I had to turn it off before I shot myself in the head out of boredom...usually after about 30 minutes. Does this movie get good? I haven't been so bored watching a movie since my next entry: Chariots of Fire What a piece of garbage that was. Can you believe that techno-garbage noise won the Oscar for best musical score? I don't remember why I even tried to watch it...I think is was showing in a double feature with a real movie!  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-01-2010 04:13 PM                     quote: Chariots of Fire What a piece of garbage that was. Can you believe that techno-garbage noise won the Oscar for best musical score? I don't remember why I even tried to watch it...I think is was showing in a double feature with a real movie! The (mostly piano) Vangelis music doesn't bother me as much as the fact that the movie won an Oscar for...BEST COSTUMES! The only costumes were gym shorts and t-shirts, and period costumes which were merely rented  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 07-01-2010 04:20 PM                     The Wizard of Oz. ...because when my brother and I were younger (much) WE wanted to see Bambi, but my sister, SHE wanted to watch The Wizard of Oz and she won the straw poll.....AND she spent half the movie under the seat scared because of the green witch. Oz sucks.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-01-2010 04:35 PM                     quote: Joe Tommassello Lawrence of Arabia I'll have to go for another David Lean film, 'Brief Encounter'. I like most of his films, but this one is just so boring. If you go to Carnforth Station, where the location scenes were filmed, they actually play it continuously in the refreshment room, so you can watch it all day long if you want to. Carnforth is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so very few people get off the train there except for fans of the film who run up and down the subway (the sort you walk through, not the sort that trains run through) ramp, look at the clock, and have a cup of tea in the refreshment room (I'm not even sure if it's the original one, or a reconstruction). I've never really liked 'Citizen Kane' either.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-01-2010 04:41 PM                     Thunder Road, starring Robert Mitchum, has left me cold. This was a popular movie out here when it was released in the 50s, and maybe it's something to do with the period, or with the moonshine running, but I find little to like about it. The 2 things that stand out is the casting of Robert Mitchum's son as his brother and Mitchum's smashing of the bad guy's hat.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-01-2010 06:30 PM                        I have never seen 2001 but based on everything I've heard and read about it over the years, I think I would agree with Joe on it.  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 07-01-2010 07:09 PM                     Re: Chariots of Fire... In addition to the Oscars mentioned above, it also won Best Picture and Writing. I haven't seen it for a long time, so won't give an opinion.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-01-2010 08:10 PM                     I've never been a big Lawrence of Arabia fan though I think it is technically beautiful. I was never an ET fan either. But "The Last Picture Show" is one I definitely don't "get." It is supposed to be great but not for me. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-01-2010 09:48 PM                     2001 - Joe's review is spot on. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Lawrence of Arabia - Again, boring but as Steve says, "technically beautiful". This just goes to show you that a movie that looks pretty isn't necessarily entertaining. Avatar - Maybe this isn't old enough to be called a "classic", but it was the biggest movie of all time, and yet we have another Lawrence lesson...a movie that looks pretty isn't necessarily entertaining. James Cameron, one of my favorite directors, you have failed me. A Clockwork Orange - Just retarded. I could only make it 30-45 minutes into this not-funny-at-all gargantuan turd. I'm pretty sure you have to be a brain dead pothead to get the humor in this. Gandhi - Couldn't make it very far into this one either.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-01-2010 11:11 PM                        Amadeus. Ghandi. I don't "get" Slumdog Millionaire either.  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-02-2010 12:04 AM                     GONE WITH THE WIND is not extraordinarily terrible, but it is extraordinarily over-rated. Thankfully, I've only seen it once. But I remember spending the whole nine hours thinking about how the main character is not even remotely likable. Not the worst movie, but certainly the most highly-regarded bad movie.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-02-2010 12:11 AM                        I liked Amadeus but it has been a long time since I have seen it. It was perhaps a little bit long for its own good, thinking back.  |  IP: Logged

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