The English patient. I tried watching it once, got bored 10 minutes into it and zapped my way through other channels with something more entertaining. I know it has gained many oscars and whatnot but it still feels incredibly, skull-numbingly boring to me.
I'm seeing a lot of films in here that we're not necessarily supposed to view as "good" by modern standards. Citizen Kane, for instance, is mostly known for introducing new cinematic techniques into the artform. Hitchcock's films came prior to decades of refinement in the medium. I like a lot these films, but I certainly couldn't fault you for not liking them. In many ways their methods are clumsy by today's standards, and I think you would need to treat many of them as timepieces in order to truly appreciate them.
The Shining comes to mind... It's pretty slow.Aquat1cF1sh
Slow = bad. Gotcha.
Anywho, I find the original Scarface by Howard Hawks to be absolutely awful on a multitude of levels. It's probably one of the dumbest gangster films I've ever seen.
I also don't care for Taxi Driver all that much, despite watching it twice.
The Shawshank Redemption The Good, the Bad and the Ugly One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Casablanca Psycho Saving Private Ryan Back to the Future (I like the movie, but I just don't get all the hype about it) Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange Die Hard (Same with Back to the Future) Every Indiana Jones movie (Same with Back to the Future) Blade Runner The Big Lebowski Platoon The Wizard of Oz Ben-Hur Every Rocky movie The Exorcist (Same with Back to the Future) Every Rambo movie (Same with Back to the Future)
The Shawshank Redemption The Good, the Bad and the Ugly One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Casablanca Psycho Saving Private Ryan Back to the Future (I like the movie, but I just don't get all the hype about it) Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange Die Hard (Same with Back to the Future) Every Indiana Jones movie (Same with Back to the Future) Blade Runner The Big Lebowski Platoon The Wizard of Oz Ben-Hur Every Rocky movie The Exorcist (Same with Back to the Future) Every Rambo movie (Same with Back to the Future)Tqricardinho
[QUOTE="Tqricardinho"]The Shawshank Redemption The Good, the Bad and the Ugly One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Casablanca Psycho Saving Private Ryan Back to the Future (I like the movie, but I just don't get all the hype about it) Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange Die Hard (Same with Back to the Future) Every Indiana Jones movie (Same with Back to the Future) Blade Runner The Big Lebowski Platoon The Wizard of Oz Ben-Hur Every Rocky movie The Exorcist (Same with Back to the Future) Every Rambo movie (Same with Back to the Future)Aljosa23
I was excited to watch Blade Runner for the first time a few years ago and it was a little underwhelming. Maybe I should watch the Director's Cut.
theycallmeRP
Blade Runner gets so much praise because of the time it came out in. Was innovative for the time. Still an entertaining movie. I thought it was decent.
[QUOTE="Aquat1cF1sh"]The Shining comes to mind... It's pretty slow.drinkerofjuice
Slow = bad. Gotcha.
Anywho, I find the original Scarface by Howard Hawks to be absolutely awful on a multitude of levels. It's probably one of the dumbest gangster films I've ever seen.
I also don't care for Taxi Driver all that much, despite watching it twice.
Well obviously not just its slowness, but the fact that I didn't find it very interesting at all.
I was excited to watch Blade Runner for the first time a few years ago and it was a little underwhelming. Maybe I should watch the Director's Cut.
The_Lipscomb
Blade Runner gets so much praise because of the time it came out in. Was innovative for the time. Still an entertaining movie. I thought it was decent.Not really. Blade Runner was pretty misunderstood when it released. Critics thought it was too complicated and it did pretty badly in the box office. It was only until years later when Scott did his Director's Cut that it reached a high level of acclaim. Love Blade Runner. <3
2001. A very pretentious film, with a lot of fluff and unnecessary scenery porn.
Hal, however, is a great character.
If anything, the more I think about it, 2001 would have been a lot better if the fluff were cut out, and if had been reworked into a Twilight Zone episode.
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