Films that were acclaimed that are actually rubbish

[jimharri]

Blade Runner. I just don't get the hype about it. You can also chuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Absolute garbage.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Don't have an enormous problem with artistic license as long as it isn't badged as historically accurate - like no-one watches a Tarantino looking for true to life events (I hope).

But you were alright with the sound of music? :-)

And the last Samauri to be fair

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

Lost in Translation. Absolute crap. That’s a couple of hours of my life I’ll never get back

 

[BlueTG]

You can also chuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Absolute garbage.

2 hours and 40 mins of fuck all he tried to save with a 10 minute blood bath.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Forrest Gump
Titanic
Birdman
Moulin Rouge
Castaway
The Revenant
The Beach
Sahara

All of those are shit. Including the ones I haven't seen.
Especially the ones I haven't seen.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Pulp Fiction.
People around me raved about it.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Blade Runner. I just don't get the hype about it. You can also chuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Absolute garbage.

Just an honest question, jh. (Blade Runner's up there in my top five films, out of hundreds that I've seen). My brother's got no time for it, but he says science fiction films in general bore him. Is that the case with you?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Blade Runner. I just don't get the hype about it. You can also chuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Absolute garbage.

Original Bladerunner was brilliant.

 

[EnzoMCFC]

99% of free films on amazon prime - shite

 

[jimharri]

Just an honest question, jh. (Blade Runner's up there in my top five films, out of hundreds that I've seen). My brother's got no time for it, but he says science fiction films in general bore him. Is that the case with you?

Not at all. It wouldn't be my favourite genre, that's true. But Close Encounters is one of my favourite films. Love Silent Running, the original SW trio, the second and third Star Trek films (Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock), 2001, the first two Terminator films, Capricorn One, Outland. I just can't get into BR, and I'm not gone on the unrelenting darkness of the film. But it's got a huge (you might say, "massive"!) cult following now, so I would appear to be in the minority. So be it.


*Edit* Think calling Capricorn One a Sci fi film might be stretching it a bit though!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

By the way, just a point to all. Blade Runner was most definitely not acclaimed when it came out. It folded quite quickly in the cinemas, it got no Academy Awards, and it got BAFTAs for things like costume design, which no-one gives a monkey's about anyway. It was a sleeper, which gathered pace through the nineties and noughties. A bit like Withnail and I. (I've come to that particular party very, very late, by the way, mainly because of what was said about it on this very forum. I'd never heard of it before. I've still only seen clips from it, but I really want to see the whole thing now).

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

You can also chuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Absolute garbage.

And the first two were great
Once Upon A Time in the West.
Once Upon A time in America.

 

[WestGorton]

Blue Velvet. Yawwwwwwnnnn

 

[jazzy]

The god father trilogy abouslute dog shite ,
The wizard of Oz
The wizz
Lala land
The artist
Forest gimp
Big
Bravehart
The patriot
Black panther + all other marvel comic films
Could go on all about musicals Being shite and what ever wins the Oscar for best picture

 

[jimharri]

And the first two were great
Once Upon A Time in the West.
Once Upon A time in America.

The last one is brilliant. Tends to be overlooked in favour of the Godfather films and Goodfellas, but it's a fantastic film.

 

[mexico1970]

*Edit* Think calling Capricorn One a Sci fi film might be stretching it a bit though!

The Eagle has landed ;)

 

[jimharri]

The Eagle has landed ;)

Or not, as the case may be!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Super hero/comic book films. They’re all dreadful! None of them have a decent storyline in them and are all predictable.

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.

No Country For Old Men.
Whats the fucking point in the entire film?

Agree with all those apart from Return of the King, as all 3 were shite. The director fucked about too much with a great story and turned it into utter & complete tosh in parts.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

The Full Monty
East is East

Both released within a year if each other. Both were called "The funniest British film of the year".

Both were about as funny as the news is, now.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Any film with Tom Cruise, bar Rain Man. Worst actor in history.
Any Mel Brooks film. Puerile, OTT shite. Primary school level humour.
Any remake of a great film, particularly True Grit, The Magnificent Seven, The Taking of Pelham 123 and Assault on Precint 13.