Films that everyone likes .... except you!

Mama Mia, over-rated rubbish with no story to it, but I loved West Side Story

Brief Encounter is top of my list of films I don't like. Once, I was having some work done in the house and we got talking about films and I confessed that I didn't like Brief Encounter. The chap was horrified, and sulked for the rest of the day. It's Celia Johnson (?) and that mangled 30s middle class accent - het for hat etc.
I didn't like La La Land either. couldn't engage with it at all.
When I was young and at home we all used to love the films that came on TV at the weekend. Bringing Up Baby and Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House were two, but now they really irritate me. Anything called a screwball comedy puts me off. Oh dear! Perhaps it's my age,

jerseygirl

Top Gun, We didn't watch it all. I found it hard to see Tom Cruise as an ace pilot. Needless to say we wont be watching the sequel

Ironically he is an Ace Pilot in the real world

Tiredoldwoman I'd tried to watch Groundhog day many times......
I'm sorry but this just made me laugh out loud . I do like that film!
Couldn't bear the latest Downton Abbey offering though. Quite possibly the dullest film I've ever watched.

Love Actually is probably my most hated film, too many characters with too many plots. Wonderful life has a nice ending but the first hour or so is boring. Have tried to watch Citizen Kane but couldn't do it, it seems to be a very masculine film, are there any women in it?
Normally I love musicals, but the Sound of Music left me cold as well.
My son likes Wes Anderson films, so have had to sit through a few of those.

Sadly I often fall asleep in the cinema so rarely go! By the time things come on tv I usually have an idea if I want to see them. I sometimes record it at the same time so if the inevitable zzz’s come I can watch the end later. A film has to be very exciting for me to remain awake!

On Golden Pond - plain boring

The Piano - Just not believeable

I enjoyed Summer Holiday at the time but it has really dated. And those little scenarios are really weird. The miming sequence, the women that turn old, the girl having affairs with lots of men (A Swinging Affair). It's all a bit strange. My granddaughter watched it but I don't think she's struck on it. Shame really, because some of it is great fun with the young people on the bus.

Just thought of another Les Miserables which I found totally depressing.

Titanic - Spoiler: It sinks.
Pretty Woman - Sleazebag buys a prostitute.
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Casual racism, cruelty to a cat.
Dirty Dancing - Older man has unhealthy interest in an inexperienced young woman.
I do like lots of films mentioned on here that other people hate.
Each to their own, I guess

La La Land was dire. Don’t like James Bond at all but did enjoy the last one it felt very sad, not like the rest.

Can’t stand Mary Poppins

Love all the films Sidney Poitier has been in.

Can’t stand any slapstick comedy including all the ridiculous comedy Christmas films especially Elf

Another vote for...
Mamma Mia
Love Actually
Dirty Dancing (apart from Patrick)..
Absolute rubbish!

grannybuy

I can’t understand the hype about two particular films - The Greatest Showman and Dirty Dancing. I bought the dvd of The Greatest Showman to watch with DGC. I found it quite flat, and thought that the music was unmemorable. However, it was extremely popular, and I know people who have watched it a number of times.

I bought the dvd, too. Don’t even remember watching it I was so bored. Never understood the fuss about Mama Mia. But I quite enjoyed the follow up one, mainly because Cher is always so watchable.

Also hated The Greatest Showman. Load of tripe.
Crocodile Dundee just wasn't funny.
A Star is Born extremely dull.

simiisme

Titanic - Spoiler: It sinks.
Pretty Woman - Sleazebag buys a prostitute.
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Casual racism, cruelty to a cat.
Dirty Dancing - Older man has unhealthy interest in an inexperienced young woman.
I do like lots of films mentioned on here that other people hate.
Each to their own, I guess

So many older films have content we would now consider wrong, but we enjoyed them at the time. We see things very differently now.
One film that shocked me when I saw it more recently was Swiss Family Robinson which had quite a bit of animal cruelty including a fight between a tiger and two great danes. I couldn't watch! Really horrible to see. Yet we watched it as children and even my children watched it. Animal welfare was not considered in those days, but is now.

La La Land
The Greatest Showman
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

plus loads of others which I can't remember offhand.

Don't Look Up with Leonardo di Caprio. Don't get the fuss.
Mama Mia. I love Abba's music but thought the film was a boring cringe fest.
James Bond films. I love the music, but that's about it

went away for a weekend treat and the host and his family put on inception all the other guests fell asleep tried to watch it several times since and still find it boring

Another vote for Lord of the Rings and The Greatest Showman. Mr. Music wants to see the new Top Gun film but will have to go on his own. Possibly the film l dislike more than any other is Forrest Gump. Many Americans seem to find it iconic but l found it totally predictable and so saccharine that my teeth were furring up.
One thing I find annoying in modern historical films is anachronism in the name of political correctness. I have no problem with actors and actresses of any background but this was particularly apparent in the film of Mary, Queen of Scots. Multiculturalism is natural and right in most modern dramas but in a sixteenth century setting or 1930s rural Yorkshire (the remake of All Creatures Great and Small), it sticks out like a sore thumb.

I meant to add that it seems like tokenism at its worst, too.

A lot of the movies mentioned above I didn't bother to see because they didn't appeal to me. I did see Mama Mia, and was embarrassed for the actors that were so miscast and couldn't sing.

The Godfather - I was too young to see it when it came out in theatres, and it didn't appeal to me at all when it was on TV years later.

Gone with the Wind.... just because it is too long.
Any comic book based movie - just because it's not my thing.
Pulp Fiction - too brutal!
Little Miss Sunshine - what the heck was that about?

Top Gun - thought it was overlong and boring, and won't be watching the new sequel

I tried to watch Roman Holiday for the first time recently but only managed the first half hour, the script was so terrible and downright naff. However the stills really do make good posters.

Can't stand Dirty Dancing. Creeps me out.
Don't like star wars, Lord of rings, Harry Potter. A star is born (lady gaga and Bradley Cooper) District 9

Loved The Greatest Showman

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