Movies you just don't get

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Anonymous wrote:As good as it gets

I thought it should've been called "as good as it gets for women with low self esteem "

Helen hunt's character wanting to be with jack Nicholson's character...why??? The dog was the best thing about the movie

YES to this!

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Anonymous wrote:Every minute of any of the Lord of the Rings movies. I should have known though - I hated the books.

. I watched them back to back -loved them!!

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Anonymous wrote:Legends of the Fall.

Yeah, I didn't get this one either.

Three words: Young Brad Pitt.

This is the only thing you need to understand about that movie.

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Anonymous wrote:Magnolia

Agreed on this - though I found the background noise so annoying I could not concentrate on the movie.

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Legends of the Fall is so bad--the story is ridiculous, but especially the part where Anthony Hopkins acts like he has a stroke. He just cannot pull it off. My sisters and I make fun of that part of the movie all the time.

He should stick to pretending to be a psychopath or saying lines like "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti"

Now another movie that is supposed to suck but I actually like is Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I can sit through that rom-com longer than I can watch some horse crap like You've Got Mail or Sleeping with Other People.

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Anonymous wrote:Magnolia

Agreed on this - though I found the background noise so annoying I could not concentrate on the movie.

I love Magnolia, but it makes me want to die. I feel the same way about Little Children, Revolutionary Road, and Blue Valentine.

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Princess bride

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Anonymous wrote:That stupid movie with the Asian woman from Grey's Anatomy and the guy who plays SJP's husband on the Divorce. The one with the scene about merlot. It got such critical acclaim, and I seriously thought it was the most boring film about hatefully self-absorbed asshats.

Sideways.

Yeah -- but those hatefully self-absorbed asshats -- that is the whole point of the movie... kind of like Seinfeld. (The Seinfeld characters got arrested for being self absorbed asshats!)

Their neuroses -- That is what makes it funny.

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Tropic Thunder. So many people thought it was funny. I just didn't get it. At all

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Forrest Gump
American Beauty

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Anonymous wrote:Bill blass mall cop

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Hilarious slip/autocorrect!

Bill Blass is a fashion designer.



Paul Blart is a Mall Cop.

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Blair Witch Project

+1 -- this is the only one on the list which I agree with.

A lot of the ones mentioned are great movies... (well, not dirty dancing, but that is what it is... not something you don't get).

Blair Witch -- there was just so much hype when I saw it... perhaps it was overhyped and I had large expectations... maybe that's the problem with a lot of these movies.

Lol ... by contrast, I went to see Blair Witch Project the day after I got back from 2 months of camping / backwoods travel / totally off-the-grid life, and had never heard of it. Was excited to be back in civilization (sort of - still camping, but closer to a town than I'd been in months), showed up at a theater, and picked the next movie that was starting. I honest-to-god seriously thought it was a documentary at first. Totally freaked me out. Didn't take too long to figure it out, but by then I was already scarred. The best part was going back to my campsite and sleeping in the woods that night. It holds the record for the most freaked out I've ever been by a movie. Can totally see how it would be a different experience if you heard the hype ahead of time, though.

Oh, I also loved Memento and Sliding Doors. SD might might not have had the best acting or effects, but I loved the premise of how a split second can change the entire direction of your life.

My contribution, more on the "don't get the appeal" side than the "don't understand the movie" side: Eat Pray Love. Hated that movie. Why I wasted 2 hours of my life on that narcissistic bitch is beyond me.

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Anonymous wrote:Shakespeare in love.

I think we can stipulate "all Gwyneth Paltrow movies" -- that's just bad acting.

+1. Her Oscar for that was a rigged inside job.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on Lost in Translation
also
Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Lost in Translation = Sophia Coppola nepotism. Or some word explaining how a movie like that gets made let alone acclaimed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Blair Witch Project

+1 -- this is the only one on the list which I agree with.

A lot of the ones mentioned are great movies... (well, not dirty dancing, but that is what it is... not something you don't get).

Blair Witch -- there was just so much hype when I saw it... perhaps it was overhyped and I had large expectations... maybe that's the problem with a lot of these movies.

Lol ... by contrast, I went to see Blair Witch Project the day after I got back from 2 months of camping / backwoods travel / totally off-the-grid life, and had never heard of it. Was excited to be back in civilization (sort of - still camping, but closer to a town than I'd been in months), showed up at a theater, and picked the next movie that was starting. I honest-to-god seriously thought it was a documentary at first. Totally freaked me out. Didn't take too long to figure it out, but by then I was already scarred. The best part was going back to my campsite and sleeping in the woods that night. It holds the record for the most freaked out I've ever been by a movie. Can totally see how it would be a different experience if you heard the hype ahead of time, though.
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HA HA i love you! great story. I'm stealing it for my next cocktail party ...