Movies Everyone Loves but I Hate
These are a collection of hugely popular films which for some reason I find myself not enjoying.
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- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony MoranFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.It's rather ironic that out of what I've seen of the body of work of John Carpenter, the "Master of Horror", most of the stuff I actually enjoyed was his non-horror work, films like Dark Star, Escape From New York, Starman, They Live, Vampires (yes that's listed as horror but it's more of an action film). It only figures that the movie I deem the worst of his collection is one of his most renowned.
For me, this movie was extremely predictable. I don't know if that's just the result of bad screenwriting or just its pop-cultural impact, but I knew from the start who was going to die and practically spent most of the video waiting for Michael Myers to kill those two girls, who of course spent most of the movie practically begging to die horribly.
The worst part for me, however, and what really ruined the film, was the ending. The whole thing where Michael Myers is stabbed twice, then shot, and then falls out of a second story window, and somehow manages to get up and walk away left me more confused than it did scared. I wouldn't mind so much except it literally comes out of nowhere.
I sort of get now that Carpenter intended Michael Myers to have some supernatural qualities, but I just think the film didn't do a good job of setting it up. There is almost no indication that he's invincible, and I'm sorry, one kid complaining about "the boogeyman" in one or two scenes does not count as actual build-up. - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.I don't know that I'd call this terrible. Actually, from a technical standpoint, it was a pretty impressive film. The acting was decent for the most part (aside from Brad Pitt), and it was quite impressive how it was shot in three different languages (with English being the least used of the three).
My main issue is that it didn't seem to certain of what kind of film it was trying to be. I mean most people I've talked to argue that its some kind of comedy in which we get to enjoy Nazis getting slaughtered. Okay, sure, they did some terrible things I can see why some might enjoy that, but if that's the case, it kinda ruins the mood when they make you feel bad for practically every German soldier on screen (that bar scene quickly comes to mind). It's really hard to laugh at the brutal slaughter of a soldier the film just went to great lengths to show was just an ordinary man celebrating the birth of his son.
On the other hand, maybe it is a serious wartime drama with some real messages. That would explain the effort at realism by having the majority of the film be in French and German. On some level several scenes seemed to be trying to emphasize the idea that war is not black-and-white, that not all Germans were Nazis and that the Allies also did horrible things. Again, the bar scene comes to mind, also the scene involving that one officer getting beaten to death with a baseball bat. My main issue with this is ironically that I feel the final scene kinda betrays the rest of the film. I'm sorry, but when you're trying to make a serious and realistic war film with very real messages, having it end with Hitler getting shot just kinda defeats the purpose.
Personally, I just think it would have been better if the movie had just stuck to one direction, either stick to the glorifying of killing Nazis, or the very serious wartime messages. The two don't mix. - DirectorEdgar WrightStarsMichael CeraMary Elizabeth WinsteadKieran CulkinIn a magically realistic version of Toronto, a young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes one by one in order to win her heart.I'm sorry, this movie was just incredibly stupid for my tastes. I don't think I need to explain the absurdity of the plot (and I don't know who thought it would be a remotely good idea).
Aside from that, the main character is impossible to relate to because he's a complete jerk. Yes, I've seen good anti-heroes, but a guy who early on knowingly ditches and psychologically harms his own girlfriend who genuinely loves him based solely on some other girl with purple hair isn't exactly a great way for us to sympathize with him. At least with someone like Snake Plissken there was a certain amount of complexity to the character and we could sort of understand why he acted the way he did. - DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.I know this is supposed to be a classic, but I just had a lot of trouble getting into it. I know it's not supposed to be a conventional story but the plot just seemed to be a bunch of incoherent segments without much to do with each other aside from a few characters.
Also I felt like many of the gags seemed to go on way longer than necessary, things like that scene where Hulot bumps into his old army buddy, goes inside, and then we see a long shot of some stuff happening in various people's windows before he leaves and goes on to do other things that have nothing to do with this scene. Then there was that whole night club scene that I felt went on way too long, and it just kept going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
And what was up with those chairs? Everywhere Hulot went there was this gag (at least outside of the night club and final scenes), Hulot kept encountering people showing off these chairs that scrunched up and made a weird noise if you applied pressure to them. What was the joke? How was any of this supposed to be funny. I just really don't get it.