Movies you just don't get

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Anonymous wrote:This thread should be split into two.

The first would be "Movies so dumb I don't get why anyone wants to watch them" (e.g. Titanic)

The second would be "Movies I'm way too stupid to understand" (e.g. movies by Tarantino or Kubrick)

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Anonymous wrote:The English Patient
Lost in Translation
Black Swan
Movie with Nicholas Cage drinking himself to death in a hotel room cannot remember the title but oh god whyyyyy
Monsters Ball
Anything with Billy Bob

Ok, loved Black Swan, but otherwise I'm with you. I was completely traumatized by Leaving Las Vegas - I have never wanted to walk out of a movie theater so bad in my life.

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Dirty Dancing so lame

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I tried to read No Country for Old Men and I was so confused. I was hoping the movie would be better not now I don't have much hope.

I didn't get Inception.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The English Patient
Lost in Translation
Black Swan
Movie with Nicholas Cage drinking himself to death in a hotel room cannot remember the title but oh god whyyyyy
Monsters Ball
Anything with Billy Bob

Ok, loved Black Swan, but otherwise I'm with you. I was completely traumatized by Leaving Las Vegas - I have never wanted to walk out of a movie theater so bad in my life.

Lol (pp here)
I felt awful after Leaving Las Vegas it was way to depressing. I watched that at home so could have just turned it off I guess.
The Black Swan oh man I did want to leave the theater but I sensed that I was an outlier (confirmed by this thread!). And DH refused to leave with me. I did bolt out the second it was over before the credits rolled, left DH in the dust. Maybe I will try it again another time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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Lost in Translation
AI
Jacob's Ladder
Vanilla Sky

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing hill.
Watching for the first time, I kept thinking WHY are we rooting for this couple? Don't get it. Below my low standards for a romance.

Notting Hill, but I agree it should be renamed Nothing Hill. LOL.

We call it Nodding Off.

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Black Swan.

I cannot believe Portman got the Oscar for it and so much critical acclaim. I was laughing hysterically at her big emotional scenes they were so absurdly over the top.

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Vanilla Sky

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Girl with a Pearl Earring - Gawd Scarlett Johanssen cannot act!

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Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing so lame

Blasphemy!

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Love Actually.

In what world is that stupid movie supposed to be marketed as a Christmas movie?

I love all the actors in it and like most British movies, but Love Actually is so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread should be split into two.

The first would be "Movies so dumb I don't get why anyone wants to watch them" (e.g. Titanic)

The second would be "Movies I'm way too stupid to understand" (e.g. movies by Tarantino or Kubrick)

And don't forget "Moviesthat really suck but I pretend to like because I am very pretentious and like to fancy myself smarter than everyone else."

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Black swan. Is. awesome. So is lost in translation.

Early Quentin Tarantino is good, not liking his later movies as much. So much violence it's insane.

Love Lars von trier movies like melancholia.

I thought boyhood was good until the end and that boy can't act.