JCC Critically acclaimed media you dislike

beetills

 

I'm going to say all the Fast and the Furious Franchise; at least everything after the first movie. I enjoyed the first movie, but the next couple seemed somewhat redundant (albeit in different locations), and then it went straight on action hero genre and forgot about the street racing bit altogether.

 

Critically acclaimed

 

The abstract notion that the the omnipresent specter of death brings meaning to life.

Also, The Big Bang Theory. That show isn’t very good.

 

I don't like the critically acclaimed film Gigli starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

 

Seasons 1 and 2 of Star Trek: Picard are technically critically acclaimed, despite the fans (rightfully) trashing it. I hate Star Trek: Discovery and stopped watching after season 2. Nu-Trek, in general, has been a mixed bag. Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and season 3 of Picard have been good to great. Everything else, not so much.

 

The Godfather: soap operas about bad people being bad to each other. I just don't care.
Lawrence of Arabia: slow, boring, and the story doesn't do much.

 

breaking bad - watched two episodes and it was obviously very well made, but i just didn't care for it. thought the whole thing would just be dark and gross and no thanks.
the wire - similar to the above, watched the first four or five episodes and it didn't grab me, though it's clearly well crafted.
mad max: fury road - felt like a long, expensive music video to me. the stunt work was impressive but i was bored.

 

Casablanca and Citizen Kane. Dislike is a harsh word. I merely am indifferent to them both.

 

Tbf FromSoft games do have story and characters, it’s just that you have to dig to find some parts of them and other parts you kind of have to piece together on your own.

 

The Wire

yeah, I know , I know, and I don't care.

 

tom with the true bravery while the rest of y'all are dunking on a racist movie from 90 years ago.

 

The best part of Gone With The Wind was hearing my high school history teacher grumble out “Bunch of Southern apologia lost cause crap!” the first and only time someone brought it up in class (in retrospect this and his dedication to assigning regular reading from Howard Zinn were cool as **** for a guy working in Arizona).

Oh and I guess that one time I was walking by Margaret Mitchell’s house and they were hosting a jazz concert in the yard, that was fun.

Therefore, two good things came from that book and film.

 

Interstellar was acclaimed, wasn't it? I thought it was dull, nonsensical, and pretentious.

 

The big one for me has always been Wizard of Oz. I find it often literally unwatchable. It's so annoying that I can't stand it. I like the scene where Garland sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow. That's a great song and she gives a really beautiful and nuanced performance of it, particularly for someone as young as she was.

Then they get to Oz and the movie isn't even through the Munchkins sequences before I wanted to put my foot through the TV.



People like this? Why? I mean, just why? It's just awful.



Unwatchable. Garbage. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Simultaneously the worst acting and the worst singing ever. It's so cringe that I can't even get through the whole song.

A newer one is The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino. Got an 86 on Metacritic, got a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars that year, Criterion put out the Blu-Ray. It's also absolute trash. Got one of my rare 0 star ratings when I reviewed it. Even Wizard of Oz got like one star. Not a single redeeming thing about The Great Beauty.

 

I refer you to the Breaking Bad thread title.

 

i already know i'm an idiot. it's probably the only thing i know.

 

Technically I have a lot to list as I've often been accused of disliking movies/shows/music just because they are popular. That's only about 1/2 right lol. So my one entry is

Mass Effect games. Got all three for free with my 360. Everyone and their mother would rant at me about how awesome they are. A college friend even said it's his favorite game series of all time. Started the first and made it to like the 2nd planet and gave up. One of the worst games I've played. Sold them to a new/used store.

As an aside my brain has a policy- if I hear too many people tell me to watch something in too short of a timespan guaranteed I will never watch it mostly out of spite. This happened with Stranger Things. For weeks all anyone could talk about was that show. Saw the first season and it was the most 'meh' show in a long time. My wife watched rest of series but I barely finished S2.

 

Some films that haven’t been brought up yet:
American Beauty
The Shape of Water
Forrest Gump
Avatar
Kingsman
Napoleon Dynamite
Midnight Cowboy
Tom Jones
Alfie
Persona
Leon: The Professional
West Side Story
Scarface
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Zorba the Greek
Annihilation
District 9
Platoon
A Few Good Men
Jeanne Dielman
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Bonnie and Clyde

 

Okay, now for a serious answer, I feel like these movies are objectively bad. This is a personal opinion, no need to get “butt hurt” about it:

1.CITIZEN KANE (1941) 2.CASABLANCA (1942) 3.GODFATHER, THE (1972) 4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) 6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939) 7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) 9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
11.IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) 12.SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
13.BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (1957) 14.SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
15.STAR WARS (1977)
16.ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
17.AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951)
18.PSYCHO (1960)
19.CHINATOWN (1974)
20.ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) 21.GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
22.2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
23.MALTESE FALCON, THE (1941)
24.RAGING BULL (1980)
25.E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
26.DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
27.BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)
28.APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
29.MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) 30.TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) 31.ANNIE HALL (1977)
32.GODFATHER PART II, THE (1974)
33.HIGH NOON (1952)
34.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35.IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
36.MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
37.BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (1946) 38.DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39.DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
40.NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
41.WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
42.REAR WINDOW (1954)
43.KING KONG (1933)
44.BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (1915) 45.STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (1951) 46.CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (1971)
47.TAXI DRIVER (1976)
48.JAWS (1975)
49.SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) 50.BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) 51.PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE(1940)
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52.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53.AMADEUS (1984)
54.ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 55.SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (1965)
56.M*A*S*H(1970)
57.THIRD MAN, THE (1949)
58.FANTASIA (1940)
59.REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
60.RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
61.VERTIGO (1958)
62.TOOTSIE (1982)
63.STAGECOACH (1939)
64.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) 65.SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (1991) 66.NETWORK (1976)
67.MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962) 68.AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (1951)
69.SHANE (1953)
70.FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (1971)
71.FORREST GUMP (1994)
72.BEN-HUR (1959)
73.WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74.GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
75.DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76.CITY LIGHTS (1931)
77.AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
78.ROCKY (1976)
79.DEER HUNTER, THE (1978)
80.WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
81.MODERN TIMES (1936)
82.GIANT (1956)
83.PLATOON (1986)
84.FARGO (1996)
85.DUCK SOUP (1933)
86.MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) 87.FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88.EASY RIDER (1969)
89.PATTON (1970)
90.JAZZ SINGER, THE (1927)
91.MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92.PLACE IN THE SUN, A(1951)
93.APARTMENT, THE (1960)
94.GOODFELLAS (1990)
95.PULP FICTION (1994)
96.SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
97.BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98.UNFORGIVEN (1992)
99.GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
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loving that that’s what you noticed being off with that post ngl