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I mostly just watch things that appeal to me without paying any attention to the critics. Only if a movie is still praised and well remembered years later do I see it because of the acclaim.

However for the well-received films I have seen the ones I hate are:
-Avatar (exactly the same plot as Pocahontas, but without any subtlety)
-Donnie Darko (boring, and I found the main character completely unlikable)
-Gravity (the visuals were great, but the plot and characters didn't hold my interest)
-Boyhood (it was a neat experiment, too bad they forgot to write a plot for it)

The ones I disliked:
-Fight Club (it was an okay movie, but utterly failed to live up to the hype)
-The Big Lebowski (There were a couple of funny scenes, but I did not care what happened to any of the characters and the comedy alone wasn't enough to hold my interest)
-The Witch (I actually love this one for the wrong reasons. It was so joyless and boring, that a friend and I had an awesome time mocking and riffing it, much to the dismay of another friend who showed us the movie because he loved it)



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NintendoPie said:
-Newcloud- said:
I cant stand the newer Fast and Furious movies 5,6 and 7 I dont like how they got so over the top and the characters are just able to handle every situation.

I wouldn't say the Fast and Furious movies are necessarily critically acclaimed, but I would say they don't deserve the "fresh" ratings they do have.

Ya I dont know how well they did critically I just assumed highly since people I know praise them and I needed to vent lol.



FloatingWaffles said:

A huge while back I tried to watch The Dark Knight (second film) but it was too long and I got bored so fast because nothing was really happening from what I remember. I don't even think I made it halfway through the movie.

Maybe if I were to watch it again now I would feel differently about it. I wouldn't say I hated it though, just at the time didn't understand why it was so critically acclaimed. 

It felt like a superhero movie which was more than explosions, guns, women, and sudden heroic actions. 

I appreciated The Dark Knight for its ability to be a superhero movie which is actually great. Not just in terms of casual Joe reviews, but in the eyes of more picky movie watchers



RJ_Sizzle said:
kopstudent89 said:
Gravity - Bang average movie never got the hype

Cabin in the Woods - It seems that anything you do to spice up the horror genre does really well with critics even if the premise is totally bollocks

Babadook - Again. quite a let down

Most superhero movies with 80+ on rotten - Apart from a very few, they all are just boring now. Sooner or later people will stop going



It's mainly the Marvel ones. It seems like when DC came out with movies, it made fans in the press double down on Marvel to the point where they can do no wrong now. That's why I'm genuinely shocked at the Iron Fist reviews. Doctor Strange was merely an OK movie. The DC ones aren't good (I liked MoS though), but, they're appropriately polarizing like comic books tend to be. Marvel movies get a pass as if it's dutiful to do so now and it's made them formulaic, now they're getting too over-extended.

DC ones are mostly just bad (apart from the Dark Knight trilogy) but you're right Marvel movies get a pass. Doctor Strange was ok but I really hated the ending, it made absolutely no sense in any scientific way especially as it's a big part of the Marvel universe. They've become repetitive and bland apart from a few movies. Even the first Averngers hasn't aged that well imo, it was mostly hype from having many superheroes in one movie.

Movies in general have been mostly a let down or decent at best recently. I can't seem to enjoy them like I enjoy series at the moment which are having a bit of a golden age 



Super hero movies - they all seem to be the same - you saw one, you seen them all.



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It's half a century old, but The Graduate.
It's well made for what it is, but the sensibilities of the day just don't land today. The characters come across as either idiots or creeps who fail to earn my sympathy.



I can't think of many but from some of the responses, I can say the revenant for sure. Couldn't even finish it, stopped it about halfway and never went back to it, too boring. Other than that, any musicals that fit the category, they just bore me. Probably most Oscar movies too, they seem to be boring most times, the only ones I remember liking were gladiator and the slum dog millionaire.



2001: A Space Odyssey, it has good special effects and cinematography. The score is pretty good although it probably would have been better if Alex North would have did the score instead of going with classical music. Everything else is sub par and its easily one of the most overrated movies of all time.