Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread


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    @boomzilla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    So you never watched Star Wars either, or what? They all had to die. It wouldn't have made any sense otherwise.

    I did watch it. It said "we lost good people getting this information." It didn't say how many, and it sure didn't say "TPK."

    It's a problem of incorrect management of expectations. Everything before the third act promised the viewers a heist story, and then it turned out to not be anything like a heist story.



  • @asdf said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I also agree with @cartman82 regarding Django Unchained. Worst Tarantino movie I've seen so far.

    Don't remember too much of Django, but I didn't particularly like the Hateful Eight either.


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    I don't think there's any movies I truly hate, and a lot of those I dislike are crap films anyway e.g. Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift. But there is one highly acclaimed film I'll definitely say I dislike: Titanic. It's too long, rammed with factual inaccuracies, and I just don't like it.


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    @maciejasjmj I'm with you on Interstellar, except I think the premise was complete garbage too.

    Also, I enjoyed Django Unchained, even if I wouldn't call it particularly great, but the one after that (The Hateful Eight) was so boring I had to stop watching halfway through. People say it gets really good in the second half but I'm not sitting through an hour and a half of exposition moving at a glacial pace just to get there. I could feel my brain cells killing themselves.

    Oh, and District 9. God, I hate that movie. Such a waste of good CG.


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    @raceprouk I was going to say Titanic here, too, but I'd think most people around here would have said the same thing. When it came out, it seemed like the only people who were obsessed with the movie were teenage girls oogling DiCaprio.


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    @cvi said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I didn't particularly like the Hateful Eight either.

    Never watched that one. Thanks for the warning.

    @raceprouk said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Titanic. It's too long, rammed with factual inaccuracies, and I just don't like it.

    Are you saying you didn't like the movie with the best sex scene of all times? Blasphemy!

    (Yes, that was sarcasm.)


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    @the_quiet_one said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    When it came out, it seemed like the only people who were obsessed with the movie were teenage girls oogling DiCaprio.

    And since both it, and the next movie I saw DiCaprio was in (something about an island or whatever?), were both pretty much marketed like that, it killed my will to watch anything involving him. Which was a shame, he's a good actor and was in some good stuff, but his face had the immediate effect of me going "ughhhh, not this shit again" for years.


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    @onyx It really wasn't until The Departed that I started to respect him as an actor.



  • @blek said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I'm with you on Interstellar, except I think the premise was complete garbage too.

    Agreed. Despite the premise, it had potential for like the first half. Then ... well :wtf:. Agreed on both Hateful Eight and District 9. I couldn't wait for the former to finally end, felt like it went on forever (167 very long minutes, apparently).

    Also: Gravity. For all the accolades it got, I thought it was rather ... uninspired.


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    @onyx I had the same reaction to Brad Pitt until I realised he was in quite a lot of my favourite films ever (12 Monkeys, Fight Club etc.), and that he was actually a pretty good actor as well as a pretty boy


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    @jaloopa TBH that's something I've never really understood. Maybe I'm just a poor judge of male beauty, but why is he regarded as incredibly hot? To me Brad Pitt just looks like... some guy.


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    @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @jaloopa TBH that's something I've never really understood. Maybe I'm just a poor judge of male beauty, but why is he regarded as incredibly hot? To me Brad Pitt just looks like... some guy.

    I think that's just it. He's the male version of the "girl next door."


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    @masonwheeler I'm not a great judge either, but I can see he seems to match a lot of the characteristics. He certainly doesn't look like Steve Buscemi

    I realised a while ago that I can sort of tell a good looking man: if I look at him and immediately think he's probably a dickhead, that generally means he's good looking. I think it stems from the people who bulled me at school being the good looking/popular boys.


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    From the IMDB Top 250:

    Forrest Gump - Never got into it. Just found it a long, boring look into the life of some idiot I don't care about. I found it highly overrated.
    Life is Beautiful - Another movie I didn't get into it and just sat around bored for the entire viewing. Can't remember much about it, though.
    Grave of the Fireflies - Such a tragedy. If I could have cared at least one bit about the main characters. What is it with these kinds of war-time movies having to be so goddamn boring?
    Taxi Driver - Too long since I watched so can't remember anything other than that I didn't like it.
    Stand By Me - Another movie I remember being so boring I purged it from my mind.

    And special mention goes out to Stanley Kubrick for consistently making movies with an interesting premise and turning them into drawn-out slogs. Every movie I have watched by him has been excruciatingly slow making me question whether Star Trek: The Motion Picture can count as a fast-paced action piece in comparison.



  • @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    So from my perspective, Kubrik's influence ruins the movie, while Clarke's more conventional story with clearly fleshed out ideas hits the mark.

    I like movies that don't spell things out and let you create half the story in your own imagination.

    In additin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, there's Stalker and Solaris (both versions are good-- the 1970s one is slightly better than the Clooney remake. Also, strangely, both movie versions have aged much better than the novel, which is sci-fi but not even imaginative enough to come up with a world where the space station didn't have a huge library of paper books.)

    The problem with Clarke's story is that you read it and then... there's nothing to discuss. It's all there on the page. There's no questions to answer. The original story Kubrick based the film on was called The Sentinel and it, like the film, leaves a lot to the imagination.

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    You expect too much from a movie made on like $ 10K budget. It's not perfect, but it's way better than it has any right to be given their production.

    Even with a $10k budget they could have made a time machine prop that didn't look like it was built from garbage bags.

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    It's not the indie sci-fi movie Jesus. Everyone knows that honor goes to "The Man From Earth".

    Ugh. God that movie was fucking awful.

    The honor of "indie sci-fi movie Jesus" is Clerks, by the by.

    @onyx said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Speaking of highly acclaimed nerd movies - Lord of the Rings. Fuck it. Fuck it with a boring machine. I can appreciate slow paced movies, but not only nothing happens, all characters are so boring and shallow I'd rather watch a kindergarten puppet show.

    The first movie needed 15 minutes cut from it. The second needed a half-hour cut from it. The third needed an hour cut from it.

    Good thing they didn't make a fourth.

    @asdf said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    You don't like Pulp Fiction?

    I don't like Pulp Fiction.

    @raceprouk said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Titanic. It's too long, rammed with factual inaccuracies, and I just don't like it.

    Whaaa...? Like... what? I mean it's not perfect but "rammed with factual inaccuracies" is ridiculous, it's far more accurate than the vast majority of historical films.

    Besides, Rose, the main character, is the universe's biggest troll.

    "Oh so you're looking for a ruby necklace? Huh? Weird, I don't know where anything like that could be. Hey guys careful with my fish tank, k?"

    Hell, there's probably more inaccuracies in the "modern-day" (meaning mid-90s) depiction of the underwater archaeologists than there is in the historical bits.

    @onyx said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    And since both it, and the next movie I saw DiCaprio was in (something about an island or whatever?), were both pretty much marketed like that, it killed my will to watch anything involving him. Which was a shame, he's a good actor and was in some good stuff, but his face had the immediate effect of me going "ughhhh, not this shit again" for years.

    I like Titanic, and DiCaprio also did an excellent job in The Aviator, which is one of my favorite biopics.

    @atazhaia said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Forrest Gump - Never got into it. Just found it a long, boring look into the life of some idiot I don't care about. I found it highly overrated.

    My grandma told me that to live a good life, I should be like Forrest Gump. I pointed out to her that everything that happens to him in the goddamned movie is pure luck (with one exception-- rescuing soldiers in Vietnam). The only thing his "kind heartedness" gives him is he doesn't fuck any of it up. Other than that, the football coach finding he can run-- luck. The shrimp boat being the only one not damaged by the hurricane-- luck. Him stumbling into Apple stock in 1976-- luck.

    I kind of regret saying that. I was right, but I regret saying it.


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    @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I don't like Pulp Fiction.

    Let me put it this way: I get why people might not like that kind of movie, but it was perfectly executed and - unlike many other movies in this thread - definitely manages to be great at what it was originally intended to be.



  • @asdf What kind of movie do you think Pulp Fiction is exactly? If you're going to say a "mafia movie", the Godfather series wants to have a word.


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    @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    If you're going to say a "mafia movie", the Godfather series wants to have a word.

    An action movie that tells a piece of pulp fiction - with a healthy dose of irony, so the audience can have a laugh about what's happening on screen.

    It's okay not to like Tarantino's humor, but I think it was perfectly executed.


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    @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Good thing they didn't make a fourth.

    Reminds me of a conversation I overheard after Fellowship came out

    It was good, but I can't see how they'll be able to stretch the story to two more films

    I thik I'd read the books twice at that point



  • The movie has some clever dialog, and other clever visual gags. (I like how, for example, it never tells you what the MacGuffin is, then also portrays it on screen as a mysteriously glowing briefcase.)

    The problem is the characters: the film doesn't have a single character who's likable, or even understandable (to me). And not like we're talking about something like the Dirty Dozen where sure the characters are all bad guys, but they're working towards a noble goal-- these characters are all sociopaths interested only in themselves. It's disgusting.

    Maybe it's a movie made for sociopaths.

    Either way, the small bits of cleverness don't override the fact that there's no relatable characters in the movie. Not for me.

    There's also one specific scene that bugs the shit out of me but I'll be late for work if I bother typing out why so I won't.

    By the way, you know what movies are better at portraying pulp fiction? Flash Gordon. The Fistful of Dollars Trilogy. That Star Trek: TNG episode where Riker gets trapped in the badly-written casino. That's what pulp fiction was. Sure there were gangster stories too, but nothing like what Tarantino filmed.


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    @onyx said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Lord of the Rings.

    You gotta be friggin kidd... Hmm yes I understand. First time I watched LTR it was like a physical exercise, did not like it at all and in several occasions was expecting an end that did not come. Years later after reading the book, it is now one of my favorites. I can watch it again, but still cannot binge watch it all. Take your time.



  • @asdf I already kind of not like pulp fiction when somebody told me the scenes were at a random order. Then one time I watched like 30s of it, think it didn't made sense and left the room. Never heard of this one anymore.

    The 8th hateful I watched some good 30min before thinking it's boring as hell and looking for something else.


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    @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    It's not the indie sci-fi movie Jesus. Everyone knows that honor goes to "The Man From Earth".

    Ugh. God that movie was fucking awful.

    I like that audioboo... I mean movie, yes, movie...


    Filed under: Genuinely listened to the thing like twice so far without ever looking at the screen


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    @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @boomzilla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    So you never watched Star Wars either, or what? They all had to die. It wouldn't have made any sense otherwise.

    I did watch it. It said "we lost good people getting this information." It didn't say how many, and it sure didn't say "TPK."

    It's a problem of incorrect management of expectations. Everything before the third act promised the viewers a heist story, and then it turned out to not be anything like a heist story.

    That's because you're fixated on The Longest Day instead of The Dirty Dozen. It had enough heist plus good old fashioned Star Wars violence, but with the guts to kill everyone when they need to.



  • @kt_ said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @karla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    • 2001 the space odyssey. Loved the sequel, loved the books. But the original was just dull and too stretched out.

    • Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Hate the druggy characters. And Johnny Dep.

    • Big Lebovsky. Hate the druggy characters.
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    • Pirates from Caribbean. Hate the characters and Johnny Dep.

    • Basically any combination of druggies, whacky humor and Johnny Dep.

    Why you hating on Johnny DepP 😍 ❓

    Because he was a good and promising actor and somehow ended up awful and without even a hint of flair.

    I always liked him. Though time and marriage has not been good to him.


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    @blakeyrat Fuck... On mobile and I tried to quote what you said about sociopaths but the quote is gone now. Anyways, that's what Tarantino movies are about: sociopaths. If you can't enjoy a story full of them then, yeah, you won't like Tarantino movies. I like them and appreciate then for what they are.



  • @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Kill Bill

    After all the action in the first one, I was really disappointed with the lack of action in the second one.


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    @blakeyrat You're not supposed to like any of the characters. Unlikable characters is a flaw in a plotline only if the director/writer intended you to like them, but it's clear that not a single character has a redeemable quality, and that is the intention. Except possibly for Jules in the end, but even that's a grey area. If that's not your cup of tea, then fine, but calling people who enjoyed the movie sociopaths is missing the point. The movie is a window into a world of some of the worst people in society, some of which die, and others who get tortured.

    Besides, Christopher Walken's character seems good enough to me. If there's anyone to root for it's him. Heck, they should have a prequel to Pulp Fiction called The Gold Watch.



  • @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Maybe it's a movie made for sociopaths.

    I've always joked, I'm glad Tarantino makes film and has an outlet because otherwise he would be a serial killer.



  • @karla
    He is only making two more films, he still has plenty of time.



  • @the_quiet_one said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Little Miss Sunshine

    This movie just seemed creepy to me. But it's probably also because I find childrens' pageants to be inherently creepy anyways.

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    • 2001 the space odyssey. Loved the sequel, loved the books. But the original was just dull and too stretched out.

    Agreed.

    Forrest Gump

    Way, way too long. Other than that it was a decent movie.

    Spider-Man 3

    It was awful; doesn't even deserve the 3/5 stars it has on IMDb. There were too many stupid plot lines going on at once, and I thought that the conflict was

    gimmicky and dumb. (here be spoilers)

    Plot twist: THEY are the bad guys! But also good guys! To win the external battles, they must first win the internal battles... yes, to earn their roles they each have to go and find the little woodsman in themselves! (wait no, that's from Hoodwinked. Good movie, BTW.) I want a superhero movies with good guys and bad guys, dammit... not angsty characters with superpowers who can't make up their fucking minds whether to kill each other or sing Kum ba yah.

    Arlington Road

    I think the main reason that I hate this movie...

    is because things go absolutely flawlessly for the bad guys and they get off scot-free, and the blame all gets pinned on some scapegoat. And it wasn't even a movie where you can get behind the "bad" guys and root for them, like the Oceans movies or other similar heist films, or like movies where the hero is considered by many to be a "bad" guy (Batman, Fight Club)... I literally spent the whole movie hoping that they'd get caught. It gradually built up all this tension, and you just knew that some detail in their elaborate plot was somehow going to come undone and their whole plan would unravel. But no, it goes off perfectly and ends with them riding off into the sunset.

    @polygeekery said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    "The Pursuit Of Happyness"

    Absolute garbage film. I may be the only one who did not love it. I saw it in the theaters and walked out as it was so slowly paced and just...boring. I get the message they were trying to send, but that movie is a cure for insomnia.

    I did not even watch it, even though I usually like Will Smith; that movie looked boring as shit.

    General note: can we get some more spoilering going on in here? I know you're all having a grand time hating on The Prestige, but we have <details><summary>Click for spoiler</summary> spoiler goes here</details> and we have <abbr title="spoiler goes here">Hover for spoiler</abbr>. Pick one; use it.



  • @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Ugh. God that movie was fucking awful.
    The honor of "indie sci-fi movie Jesus" is Clerks, by the by.

    Man From Earth is the best. I never actually saw Clerks, but was under impression that was just some ordinary people talking, nothing to do with SF?



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    Any movie that I've seen that starred Melissa McCarthy

    Melissa McCarthy kills movies. She's not funny. She's not a good actress. She's basically the female equivalent of Adam Sandler, except not as funny or good at acting (and I realize that's not a particularly high bar). Her roles are basically all "obnoxious, loud, unattractive woman whose sole redeeming qualities are that she spews profanity and is not afraid of a poop joke".



  • @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    The movie has some clever dialog, and other clever visual gags. (I like how, for example, it never tells you what the MacGuffin is, then also portrays it on screen as a mysteriously glowing briefcase.)

    The problem is the characters: the film doesn't have a single character who's likable, or even understandable (to me). And not like we're talking about something like the Dirty Dozen where sure the characters are all bad guys, but they're working towards a noble goal-- these characters are all sociopaths interested only in themselves. It's disgusting.

    Maybe it's a movie made for sociopaths.

    Either way, the small bits of cleverness don't override the fact that there's no relatable characters in the movie. Not for me.

    You are absolutely misunderstanding this movie (and anyone else who claims the movie is just some cool sociopaths).

    Pulp Fiction is all about karmic justice and how choices that characters make influence their lives and lives of others.

    Samuel L Jackson and Travolta miraculously survive a hail of bullets. Then they survive having a dead body inside their car, in broad day light.

    Jackson concludes it's a sign from God. Travolta concludes it's just a coincidence.

    Travolta has another brush with death when he nearly kills his boss's wife. He still doesn't change his ways. That's 3 warnings.

    Travolta is then killed while waiting in ambush for Bruce Willis. Jackson isn't there because, having found God earlier, he gave up the life of crime.

    Bruce Willis is only there because his girlfriend forgot to bring his father's watch, for which many sacrifices were made in order to get passed down to Bruce. So this long chain of coincidences and decisions is what brought Bruce Willis to cross paths with and kill Travolta (which is the pivotal point of the movie IMO).

    Afterwards, Bruce makes the (good) choice to save the mafia boss who is trying to kill him, and he is pardoned in return. So Travolta basically died for nothing, he won't even be avenged by his boss.

    Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson make irrational but karmically correct choices (recover father's watch, give up crime), and prosper. Travolta ignores the warning signs from "above", and is killed senselessly, just as he believed the world was.

    There are of course a lot of vignettes and little side characters around it, but this is the main thrust.

    It's not all just "cool" nonsense.



  • Yeah I got all that, I still don't like the movie.

    And since you're a sociopath, it doesn't really help much for you to claim it's not a movie for sociopaths, just FYI there.



  • @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @blakeyrat said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Ugh. God that movie was fucking awful.
    The honor of "indie sci-fi movie Jesus" is Clerks, by the by.

    Man From Earth is the best. I never actually saw Clerks, but was under impression that was just some ordinary people talking, nothing to do with SF?

    They mostly talk about Star Wars.


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    @asdf But that soundtrack though


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    @karla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @kt_ said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @karla said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    • 2001 the space odyssey. Loved the sequel, loved the books. But the original was just dull and too stretched out.

    • Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Hate the druggy characters. And Johnny Dep.

    • Big Lebovsky. Hate the druggy characters.
      :

    • Pirates from Caribbean. Hate the characters and Johnny Dep.

    • Basically any combination of druggies, whacky humor and Johnny Dep.

    Why you hating on Johnny DepP 😍 ❓

    Because he was a good and promising actor and somehow ended up awful and without even a hint of flair.

    I always liked him. Though time and marriage has not been good to him.

    De gustibus..., I guess. :)


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    @cartman82 Heh, I thought I was the only one who liked that movie. Or even knew about it.



  • @blek said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 Heh, I thought I was the only one who liked that movie. Or even knew about it.

    That's everyone's favorite "hidden gem" movie.


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    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    That's everyone's favorite "hidden gem" movie.

    What about Unbreakable? Great movie, from back when Shyamalan didn't suck yet, but hugely underrated and a lot of people don't even know about it.



  • @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    What about Unbreakable? Great movie, from back when Shyamalan didn't suck yet, but hugely underrated and a lot of people don't even know about it.

    That's a big budget movie with A-list actors.

    Man From Earth is like a local drama club got together with 0 budget and made a classic.



  • @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    That's everyone's favorite "hidden gem" movie.

    What about Unbreakable? Great movie, from back when Shyamalan didn't suck yet, but hugely underrated and a lot of people don't even know about it.

    I actually really liked Split... I also liked how they connected the movies in its end credits (don't worry, I'm not spoiling anything by saying that).


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    @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cartman82 said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    That's everyone's favorite "hidden gem" movie.

    What about Unbreakable? Great movie, from back when Shyamalan didn't suck yet, but hugely underrated and a lot of people don't even know about it.

    Agreed. It got good reviews at the time, and I personally enjoyed it. I think people were going into the movie thinking it was going to give them the same reaction as The Sixth Sense did. The twist wasn't nearly as startling, but it wasn't really meant to be. It's just a movie with good writing and storytelling, and IMO made a lot more sense and had less holes than Sixth Sense did.

    I was going to put The Sixth Sense in this list, but the only reason I didn't was because regardless of how I feel about it now, the ending was truly one of the most gut-wrenching I've experienced, all 5,000 lines of fridge logic aside. Plus, regardless of the plot holes, I do think the acting was superb, and it was enjoyable when I saw it.


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    @the_quiet_one said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    regardless of how I feel about it now, the ending was truly one of the most gut-wrenching I've experienced, all 5,000 lines of fridge logic aside. Plus, regardless of the plot holes, I do think the acting was superb, and it was enjoyable when I saw it.

    I spent the whole movie bored out of my mind, got to the twist and wondered briefly if it retroactively made it a good movie. I decided it didn't because I'd still spent that 90 minutes before the twist bored.

    Haven't watched it again, although I think looking for the hints might be more interesting



  • @masonwheeler said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    What about Unbreakable?

    Terrible movie I can't believe I watched to the end



  • @the_quiet_one said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I was going to put The Sixth Sense in this list

    Eh, I figured out the twist almost as soon as Willis' character had the slightest hint of non-interaction with the world - what, 10 minutes in? The rest of more curious to see how long it took for the twist to reveal itself.



  • @jaloopa said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I spent the whole movie bored out of my mind, got to the twist and wondered briefly if it retroactively made it a good movie. I decided it didn't because I'd still spent that 90 minutes before the twist bored.

    I called the twist about 20 minutes in. There's a scene that's a huge giveaway if you have any imagination at all.

    There's a scene where you're meant think the wife is ignoring Bruce Willis because the movie hints they've had some nasty argument/divorce in the past, but she ignores him SO completely it was obvious to me that she literally didn't even see him. I mean, credit to the actress for doing a great job, but it also kind of gave it all away very early on.

    I also called Lone Star's twist about a third of the way through, pissing off the friend who was watching the movie with me. (It's not really a highly acclaimed movie, but it had a lot of buzz in the late-90s.)

    I thought Unbreakable was a better movie. Everything Sham-a-scam has made since then has been complete garbage.



  • @arantor said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    Eh, I figured out the twist almost as soon as Willis' character had the slightest hint of non-interaction with the world - what, 10 minutes in?

    YOU'RE MY MOVIE BUDDY!



  • @asdf said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    @cvi said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:

    I didn't particularly like the Hateful Eight either.

    Never watched that one. Thanks for the warning.

    I started watching it (on cable). Switched channels after about a 1/2 hr.


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