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Breaking bad, couldn't get past first five episodes

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The first couple of seasons are mediocre, but it gets crazy good later.

I would have to say avatar and Jurassic park.

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I didn't think it was possible to not like Jurassic Park.

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Has anyone seen Under the Skin or Mr. Turner. Am I wrong? Were those amazing movies to anyone?

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Under The Skin sucked... I'm all for weird, makes-you-think, arthouse stuff (loved Melancholia)... but there wasn't any point to that movie. It was just pretentious, avant-garde nonsense trying to pass itself off as intellectual film making.

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OBreaking bad, couldn't get past first five episodes

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The first couple of seasons are mediocre, but it gets crazy good later.

I would have to say avatar and Jurassic park.

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You actually thought JP and Avatar were bad?

I sort of feel like some of these are disappointments or maybe back to the "average" category in the other thread. I want to know what movies people watched and were like, "holy hell...I wish I had my 2 or 3 hours of my life back". Or, "wow...what the F did I just watch? How can this be? The critics said it was entertaining or great".

I think some of the movies listed are more of indifferent or neutral vs BAD.


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Avatar was special effects and not much else. No real plot except getting hit over the head every 30 seconds for two hours with the environmental theme (and I say that as someone who is a pretty staunch supporter of many of those causes). I watched it once and have never had any sort of desire to watch it again, and have little desire to see the sequels.
Jurassic park I tried to watch three different times and turned it off all three because it was nothing more than a horror flick with dinosaurs. I finally forced myself to sit through it and I literally did feel like I wasted 3 hours. Again once you get past the special effects, almost no plot and nothing outside the first few minutes that makes you think at all, other than wondering how else they can have a dinosaur attack someone. To me that's boring, not making a judgment for other people...I tend to feel the same way about a number of Spielberg movies though for the same reason, they are generally simple relative to their genre. Some people like going to movies to get away and not think, I am the opposite. Comedies are the exception for me.

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Under The Skin sucked... I'm all for weird, makes-you-think, arthouse stuff (loved Melancholia)... but there wasn't any point to that movie. It was just pretentious, avant-garde nonsense trying to pass itself off as intellectual film making.

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Thank you! I was hoping someone else here could validate my , " wtf was this " thinking.

Avatar was just a redux of ferngully with a prettier picture.

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Selma
Inside Out
The Butler
Her

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I was ready to slit my wrists by the end of this one.

Dances with wolves, last samurai

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Avatar was just a redux of ferngully with a prettier picture.

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The Force Awakens was just a redux of A New Hope with a prettier picture. A New Hope was a just a redux of The Hidden Fortress and Flash Gordon with a prettier picture.

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Avatar was just a redux of ferngully with a prettier picture.

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APOCALYPSE NOW. Visually great. Awesome music. And it would be great to act in because the dialog was so easy to learn. Just scream the F word as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and interjection and throw in an occasional "and" or "the" to break up the monotony.

NOTES ON A SCANDAL. How much damage can a musical score do? Try completely destroying an otherwise ok film. The music would have been well suited to a Transformers or Lost Ark type epic, I watched a few minutes of it on cable, and it was worse than I remembered.

PULP FICTION. I've watched it on fast forward several times. A great scene here, a great scene there. Just nothing to hold it together. But I watch Samuel L Jackson's scenes with the sound off and closed captioning on so I can say the dialog along with him. That dude is a force of nature.

THE SHINING. A great book, a solid screenplay, great camera work and music, and a performance by Jack Nicholson that should have gotten him a spanking. When you overact this badly in the opening scenes before the demons from the Overlook have had a chance at you, there's nowhere to go but down.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. We saw it first run (reserved seats!) at the Windsor in Houston. The box the United Nations came in was cool. The ending was fun. But there was loud snoring from all over the auditorium all through it. More that one person has told me that I'll never understand it because I've never done drugs. Whatever.

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You don't have to expand on it, but I'm curious why you disliked either?

I haven't seen Hurt Locker. I saw District 9. For some reason I thought I was watching a Half-Life game turned into movie. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't deep. It basically was akin to Elysium (or the other way around).

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A lot of us military folks didn't care for Hurt Locker. Hard to suspend belief when you've been there.

Anything directed by Clint Eastwood. Slow and boring.

Flags of our Fathers. Wanted to shoot myself.

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Anything directed by Clint Eastwood. Slow and boring.

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American Sniper was slow and boring?

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Anything directed by Clint Eastwood. Slow and boring.

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American Sniper was slow and boring?

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Yes and very meh

Yup.

The Place Beyond the Pines. I was begging for time to speed up to get the hell outta the theatre.

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The Place Beyond the Pines. I was begging for time to speed up to get the hell outta the theatre.

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That's a good one. I at times like it, then got bored. ..and more bored...and thought...wow 20 minutes too long. 2hr 20min long...80% on RT.

The English Patient

fell asleep 15 minutes in zzzzz

Any time this question comes up the first movie that comes to mind is "Lost in Translation". My god, how that movie sucked. A few days ago, the kids were asking about movies that were a total let-down. They asked my wife, she looked at me and asked "What was that movie with Bill Murray in Tokyo?" A movie that will live in infamy.

There are not words in the English language to describe how I despise that movie.

Second place is pretty much anything by Tarantino.

You didn't like Django?!

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You didn't like Django?!

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Haven't seen it. Given how much I dislike the rest of his work, probably won't.

See it. I thought it was different enough from his other work. Im not a massive fan of his other stuff tbh. It's ok, but Django imo was a fun flick.

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See it. I thought it was different enough from his other work. Im not a massive fan of his other stuff tbh. It's ok, but Django imo was a fun flick.

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On your recommendation, I'll give it a shot. If it sucks I'm suing you for the cost the rental and 2 hours of my life.

Yikes....maybe you should pass. It is closer to 2hr 45 min.

Redbox it and watch 30min. If you hate it, save the other 2hr 15.

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Any time this question comes up the first movie that comes to mind is "Lost in Translation". My god, how that movie sucked. A few days ago, the kids were asking about movies that were a total let-down. They asked my wife, she looked at me and asked "What was that movie with Bill Murray in Tokyo?" A movie that will live in infamy.

There are not words in the English language to describe how I despise that movie.

Second place is pretty much anything by Tarantino.

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I think the problem with lost in translation is that by the time most people saw it was hyped up as somethings way more than it was, it was never much more than a cross between a slice of life and fish(es) out of water story. In that vain I think it's good, but it certainly isn't something that should have been hyped up the way it was.

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Remember the Titans isn't that bad.

Django is not a good movie.

Its like someone was trying to copy a Tarantino film so they overly exaggerated all the things he normally does in his films. If you don't like Tarantino movies, you will really hate this one.

In some ways i think Grand Budapest Hotel and Django are similar in that they both have exaggerative scenes and acting.

Django is one that ill defend. I don't think it's cinematic style or message is odd and murky like some of the artsy movies i think are terrible. At the very least id say it is a popcorn flick and i was on the edge of my seat to see django exact revenge.

i think Django is Tarantino's 2nd best movie.

What was his best? Pulp Fiction?