Critically acclaimed movies you don't like

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Magikrazy

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Are there any movies that you hate despite being adored by critics?

I hated The English Patient. That movie was incredibly boring, and yet it beat Fargo for Best Picture.
 
I didn't hate it, but I thought Brave was overrated. Avatar was also nothing special: the visuals were the best part.
 
Not really a movie, but the Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" was pretty overrated. I didn't hate it, but it is overrated.
 
Frozen. Disclaimer: I don't hate the movie at all. I just didn't like it as much as the critics liked it.

Some music was good, others felt...forced and unnecessary at points. I also personally do not like musicals.
 
Juno

I went to it because everybody said it was a really funny comedy and the only amusing part was when my sister dumped her bucket of popcorn on me during the most serious part of the film.

Like if people had told me it was a serious movie I might have thought differently but eh, whatcanyoudo.
 
Avatar - Took far too long to get to where we all knew it was going to go about 5 minutes in, and none of the stuff in between that time was interesting.

I also generally dislike the Harry Potter after Prisoner of Askaban, I find they get too boring.
 
Also, I hate whenever they split a movie into two or three parts.

The first movie always ends up putting me to sleep.
 
Magikrazy said:
Also, I hate whenever they split a movie into two or three parts.
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Everyone knows that it's a cynical cash grab. From a consumer point of view, I'll never understand why they'll split the Hobbit into three parts, as well as Mockingjay into two parts. Ugggghhh.

Avatar was a boring movie. Most of the praise just goes to how pretty it is, and while Avatar is no doubt a masterpiece when it comes to artistry, the things that make the movie stand up (plot, characters, writing, script, etc.) falls flat, which makes Avatar a good piece of art, but not a good movie.
 
I thought splitting Harry Potter 7 into two made sense after seeing Part 1 and thinking it was awesomely edited from the book, but then Part 2 went really fast and part of me felt like they could have made one really long movie and just shortened the bank part and a couple other bits here and there to try and keep it reasonable. Plus, the slew of unnecessary splits that it caused ("hey, we can do that too") is very regrettable.

Duskull said:
I also generally dislike the Harry Potter after Prisoner of Askaban, I find they get too boring.
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Harry Potter 3 was my least favourite of the films too. There was so much unnecessary filler.

Yui Hirasawa said:
Juno
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Agreed.
 
Walkazo said:
Duskull said:
I also generally dislike the Harry Potter after Prisoner of Askaban, I find they get too boring.
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Harry Potter 3 was my least favourite of the films too. There was so much unnecessary filler.
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The sixth one was my least favorite. It was just so uninteresting to me. You'd think i'd like it more what with a major character death and a lot of key back story for the villain, but neither the book or movie held my interest very well.
 
Walkazo said:
Duskull said:
I also generally dislike the Harry Potter after Prisoner of Askaban, I find they get too boring.
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Harry Potter 3 was my least favourite of the films too. There was so much unnecessary filler.
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I said I dislike them, after that movie. Askaban might actually be my favourite :P
 
brave wasn't actually critically acclaimed

avatar was really praised more for its special effects than its story, i think, which was basically just alien dances with wolves

i didn't like pulp fiction or princess mononoke, but to be fair i didn't really pay attention to the dialogue of the first and couldn't hear the dialogue of the second, so maybe i'll have to rewatch them

i also thought looper was just "eh", and i disliked source code
 
The ending to Looper made me rage. The movie was so good, it promised so much...

...then... that.

>.<
 
Avatar (Pretty visuals but boring plot)
Pretty much everything Spielberg does except Tintin, Catch me if you can, and Lincoln
Everything Tarentino has been doing starting from Kill Bill (No need to get so carried away with your violence man)
Drive (Loved the first half but the rest felt like watching a Tarentino movie...from the 2000s)
Every Marvel movie except Days of Future Past
Ides of March (Don't mind political films but this was being a little too obvious)
The Help (so obvious with its message)
Anything Stephen Daldry does (Yes even The Hours)
Amour (Nothing happens...NOTHING!)
Precious (I hate Monique's character so much!)
The Matrix (Sorry but I prefer the energetic "Whoooah" over the dull "Whoa")
Love Ridley Scott but not a fan of the Alien franchise as a whole
Martin Scorsese is my all time favorite director...but Raging Bull is his most overrated
Frozen (I don't hate it it's a great film, but seriously can we stop with the Let it Go references and covers?)
Boogie Nights (I love Paul Thomas Anderson, but this feels like watching one of those porn tapes the video store clerk hands you from the back than a movie)
The only Arnold film I love is Twins
 
The Avengers. It just burned out on me over time, and I didn't even like it that much initially. I'd like to see something different for a comic movie, especially if it's not from Marvel or DC Comics.
 
supermariofan said:
Pretty much everything Spielberg does except Tintin, Catch me if you can, and Lincoln
Every Marvel movie except Days of Future Past
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Mariofan169 said:
supermariofan said:
Pretty much everything Spielberg does except Tintin, Catch me if you can, and Lincoln
Every Marvel movie except Days of Future Past
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Wait, what?
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Not counting him as a producer because I do enjoy Land Before Time, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Flags of our Fathers. Just not a fan of him behind the camera that much.
 
The Lion King

I mean it wasn't really bad but I never really liked it that much either
 
supermariofan said:
Mariofan169 said:
supermariofan said:
Pretty much everything Spielberg does except Tintin, Catch me if you can, and Lincoln
Every Marvel movie except Days of Future Past
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Wait, what?
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Not counting him as a producer because I do enjoy Land Before Time, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Flags of our Fathers. Just not a fan of him behind the camera that much.
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Not even Jurassic Park or Jaws?
 
I despise 2001: A Space Odyssey and think it's a boring waste of time that wasn't interesting in the slightest other than HAL, which is about twenty, thirty minutes of the entire long and terrible movie. The sequel, 2010, was much better in there was actually stuff happening throughout the entire movie and there was a satisfying conclusion. 2010 is probably my most underrated movie.

I also didn't really enjoy Forrest Gump because he's basically a Mary Sue but I can see why people like it, so that one doesn't really bother me as much.

A while back I saw Vertigo and thought that was terrible as well, because even though the twist in the middle was really good the rest of the movie was just slow filler.
 
Baby Luigi said:
Frozen. Disclaimer: I don't hate the movie at all. I just didn't like it as much as the critics liked it.
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