What untouchable r/movies favorites do you just not understand the appeal of? I'll start...

tmbcake13 · 5 months

Just noticed that "The Hangover" is in the Top 100. Not saying it's not an enjoyable and funny movie, but I'd put most Apatow-produced/directed films in front of it, not to mention countless other comedies. Just don't see why it was considered to be so unbelievably funny.

lookslikeiwojima · 5 months

The thing I really dig about The Big Lebowski is that it's North by Northwest but with a slacker/stoner instead of an ad man from New York. The movie also has two clear homages to it with the Dude using the pencil to see what Treehorn wrote, and being drugged and unbelieved by the local police as a result.

Barnichole · 5 months

I refuse to watch any movie that isn't Troll 2.

actionpark · 5 months

waking life.

all the weed in the world couldn't stop me from hating these pretentious assholes spouting off high school philosophy. (well, maybe all of it.)

it just reminds me of that scene in stella where michael in black says, "like i believe in god, but not that he's like some guy with a beard." (misquoting from memory.)

ASpaceMonkey · 5 months

Juno is #198 on reddit's top 250?! Really?

thetomjoad · 5 months

paranormal activity. i saw this in theaters and after all the hype was left very disappointed by the scares. i can appreciate a good build up but it has to lead to something in the end

TKmac02 · 5 months

Boondock saints. Why is this movie so good? Whats the appeal????

runningtheblade · 5 months

Scarface. Certainly a good movie but a classic? Hm.

maroon5fan · 5 months

The Notebook. Everyone says it's a great love story, but i didn't think it was that great.

sarajbee · 5 months

death proof. i'm over the lengthy diatribes and borrowed ideas/music that quentin tarantino has to offer.

sillohollis · 5 months

The Fountain. I remember my friends talking it up so much saying how it was right up my ally. But, the story was absolutely terrible. I mean, the idea was good but, how they executed it was painful to watch; despite how pretty it was.

itchy_eyes · 5 months

The Fountain... God I hate that movie

asymptomatic · 5 months

Primer. It appeals to my puzzle-solving side, and it's great in that respect, but that doesn't automatically make it a great movie. I concede it's well thought out and complex which leads to satisfaction if you can figure it out. It just think it could have introduced a more nourishing plot to the concept.

Edit: I'm not to proud to admit that I couldn't and still haven't figured it all out. On the first play through I was annoyed because I hadn't realized I'd missed the point until it ended. However, I did teach myself how to complete the Rubic cube without cheating, and that badge of honor is good enough for me.

JoCoLaRedux · 5 months

Taken.

To me, it's pretty obviously a mediocre, second-rate action flick featuring the always boring Liam Neeson, but whether he's playing a boring Jedi Master, a boring A-Team leader, a boring spy, or the voice of a boring magical Lion, reddit loves it some big, boring Liam Neeson.

Just look at this scene where Liam delivers his try-hard, wannabe badass monologue. You can tell by the kidnapper's delayed response that he's probably doing a crossword puzzle and trying to stay awake, because Neeson is just so friggin' boring.

"Huh? Oh, good luck."

a_penguin · 5 months

Scarface, I don't understand why everyone puts this movie up on some untouchable platform when it was complete garbage. But that's just this guy's opinion.

PunkRockMakesMeSmile · 5 months

Oh man, this thread's gonna piss me off.

Frazzed · 5 months

Why did I click on this thread? I knew what would happen. I'm super pissed right now. Also, Forrest Gump is #19. I hate that movie. Second worst Best Picture winner next to Crash.

girafa · 5 months

Audition is a boring Japanese soap opera about nothing. It's the daydream result of watching a telenovela and snickering "Dude what if she's like a psycho and chops him up?" Then someone made that thought into a movie, but forgot that an hour of telenovela isn't entertaining.

edit: spelling

girafa · 5 months

(500) Days of Summer was a contrived horse-shit version of Annie Hall

specialkake · 5 months

I used to love the Fifth Element, but I recently tried to show it to my wife who had never seen it and it was embarrassing.

old_merc · 5 months

Grandma's Boy was very unremarkable.

Deepsiix · 5 months

The Untouchables

jbu311 · 5 months

the dark knight

christian bale's batman voice
the fact that nolan has to explain every moral dilemma to the audience as if we could not figure it out on our own. The movie is no longer deep when the writer has to explain every little thing to the audience (e.g., the boat/prisoner dilemma, dark vs. white knight). There is something respectable about sending a subtle but clear message vs. the writer just smacking you in the face with the message and insulting your intelligence.
action scenes were long and boring and weren't well done from a technical standpoint - see the action sequence critique of TDK
heath ledger's performance was good. it was also very different, but just because you haven't seen it before doesn't mean it was an amazing performance.
movie was way too long
no breaks in the tension, pacing problems

would like to add more, but haven't seen the movie in a while

leguillotine · 5 months

People still seem to think Gran Torino was a good movie. Bad acting and dumb symbolism/plot devices ruined it.

ASpaceMonkey · 5 months

The Fifth Element. I vaguely remember really enjoying the film right up until the introduction of Chris Tucker's character. I just couldn't get past it.

turdmalone · 5 months

A Clockwork Orange

I understand the appeal, I think I understood the movie, it just didn't appeal to me.

runs and hides

girafa · 5 months

The Man From Earth is a total abortion of a movie. Don't ever watch it, no matter how many pseudo intellectuals flap their heads about it.

girafa · 5 months

Fight Club is insanely overrated.

baluk01 · 5 months

The Man From Earth and Synecdoche, New York.

Frankeh · 5 months

The Fall. It's crap.

cobblestati · 5 months

Inception.. Decent action movie? Sure... A great movie? No

The Social Network... Entertaining? Yep... Great movie? No

BulkVanderhuge · 5 months

Requiem for a Dream

I didn't think the performances were that great. And the situations that the characters found themselves in I thought were too outrageous to be a real portrayal of drug addiction. I found it very exploitative, and shocking just to be shocking.

mcneemic · 5 months

That's just like, your opinion man

kalei50 · 5 months

I like this thread, and I'm curious to see if anyone else agrees with me on these:

I've pretty much detested Sasha Cohen since the Ali G show, so I've never been able to watch his movies. Borat and Hugo both looked like movies I'd never be able to sit through, though I tried with Borat. Just not my kind of humor.

I also agree with votes for the 5th Element, mainly due to Chris Tucker, who I refuse to watch in any movie except for Jackie Brown, because he got executed by Samuel L Jackson (FTW! :)

exidy · 5 months

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. One cute idea, 90 minutes beating it to death. And this is coming from a Kate Winslet fan.

Awkward_Hugs · 5 months

Maybe I saw the wrong version but I didn't like Blade Runner all that much. Too much Harrison Ford narration and I thought they played this track too many goddamn times. It definitely had great visuals though.

jsfly · 5 months

District 9 - Pretty forgettable in my opinion, because... well... I've forgotten everything about the film since I last seen it.

sajohnson · 5 months

I'm curious what movies people do like. If you think Kubrick a bad director, say, and that 2001 is a bad movie, say, what do you think is a good movie?

jmpdragonfly · 5 months

I clicked on the headline thinking of "The Big Lebowski". I know people that just love it. I've not been able to get through it. I find it so abysmally boring and stupid. That sensation of "this is going to be time from my life I will never get back" overwhelms me, and I must turn it off to seek something worthwhile.

DJWhamo · 5 months

I don't know if it's an r/movies favorite, but I've commented before that I simply don't understand the appeal of 'Taxi Driver', to nothing but downvotes. I never said I thought it was bad...

Absyrd · 5 months

Primer. I really don't get all the love for it.

fermented-fetus · 5 months

Donnie Darko do not get the obsession at all.. OOOh look at me im Dark and Edgy because i liked Donnie Darko

nuvosaur · 5 months

The Untouchables. I never understood why people love it so much

zillah1985 · 5 months

Toy Story. 2. and 3. /shields self from onslaught

It just didn't click, and for someone who had a deep connection with his toys, it should of. It probably was just over-hyped in my eyes. But most every other Pixar movie was fantastic.

Spiel88 · 5 months

Requiem for a Dream is one of the few movies I've turned-off out of sheer boredom.

t3h_jream · 5 months

I'm going to get absolutely slammed, but so be it. I think this list in general is quite poor, not only for the order, but the fact that many of these movies don't have a right to be on the list in the first place. #4: Inception, in my mind a story that didn't have a whole lot of substance but was just disjointed enough to seem artistic and cover for its lack of depth. #8: The Dark Knight; this should not be on any top 200 list let alone in the top 10. I for the record loved Batman Begins and i thought Heath in TDK was exquisite...that being said a murky story line that jammed what should have been two movies (a joker and a two-face) into one which left me quite disinterested when the joker wasn't on the screen. Lastly Back to The Future at #17? Ill admit that part of the reason it doesn't do much for me is that it doesn't have the nostalgia from my youth that it does for so many and maybe that's why i don't "get it." But i hope that most will agree that putting it ahead of things like Goodfellas, the good the bad and the ugly, the godfather, se7en, dr. strangelove, a clockwork orange, there will be blood (etc.) is a bit of a travesty. This concludes my rant, commence the downvotes.

rjbrown57 · 5 months

moon. Its a 3 star film no more no less.

Minxie · 5 months

Had to scroll down half the page before I even reached a movie I've actually seen.

illiniry · 5 months

The English Patient. Elaine Benes hates it too.

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