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Popular movies you can't stand....

Posted by danj (A) on April 13, 2002 at 17:17:30

Forgetting the movies currently in release, those less than 2 years old, and grade-Z fodder, what are some of the critically popular and/or successful movies that you just don't get or can't stand? You think they suck or can't understand why anybody thinks it's so great..........

My list of ten (out of many):

1. "Silence of the Lambs" (Love Hopkins and I am in love with Jodi Foster but this thing is stupid and ugly). The sequel, Hannibal, is just as ridiculious.
2. "HEAT" (DeNiro and Pacino but that is all)
3. "The Phantom Menace" (I loved the original trilogy but this one is way too much SFX and way too little story)
4. "Batman" - Tim Burton with Keaton and Nicholson (on my list of the worst films ever made)
5. "Cleopatara" (1963) I really dislike Elizabeth Taylor when she's in her "movie star" mode. She could really act when she wanted to but this film isn't the place to see good acting. This may be the world record film for the number of excellent actors in the cast who should have loked for work elsewhere. See the 1930's C.B. DeMille version with Claudette Colbert. Tells the same story in 1/2 the time with much better acting.
6. "Natural Born Killers." How many ways can you say "This thing sucks?"
7. "The Ten Commandments." What destroys this movie for me isn't the story - it's the greatest epic story ever told - but the incredibly hammy acting by the "A" cast. DeMille at his best - and worst. See #5, above, for a good DeMille movie.
8. "Tommy Boy." Bless Chris Farley's heart. Poor kid had lots of spirit but very little actual talent. Tried to be Belushi but just didn't have the stuff.
9. "The Lost World: Jurassic Park II." The original Jurassic park was a real thrill. The sequels had no reason for being. Not scary and not worth watching. Much too predictible.
10. "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Spielberg almost ruined this series with this cliche-on-cliche claptrap. Granted, the series is all about cliche but at least the first and third installments were interesting and fun. This one is just loud and DUMB, DUMB, DUMB.

Okay, flamers, get out your flamethrowers.

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