Anonymous
Post 11/21/2016 05:57     Subject: Movies you just don't get

Memento

saw it three times and still could not figure it out

Maybe I'm just dumb?
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2016 02:01     Subject: Movies you just don't get

Eraserhead
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 23:07     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get

Anonymous wrote:The Princess Bride

It seems everyone loves it---I can't stand it.


My husband and I hated it when we finally saw it. We didn't find it funny at all!

As for movies I didn't get, I remember being kind of lost in the second Kill Bill movie.
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 23:05     Subject: Movies you just don't get

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


Yessss, honey! +1M


WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD!


Haha! One of my favorite movies! Love the soundtrack so much!


Also a big O Bro fan. When it came out, my college town had a theatre with $2 Tuesdays, and I saw it every week for two months. I even won a trivia contest on the movie website and got a can of Dapper Dan. However, I took many friends to see it, and it was about 50/50 for people who lived it and people who didn't get it at all. But so many great lines! Ain't this place a geographical oddity--two weeks from everywhere!
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 23:02     Subject: Movies you just don't get

I liked most of the movies mentioned on this thread. (Agnostic about Titanic, but saw it for what it was: Hollywood blockbuster.

But one movie that was extremely difficult for me to watch was Guardians of the a Galaxy. And the whole superheroes genre eludes me in general. Much prefer the quirky indy films like Being John Malkovich, etc.
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 22:56     Subject: Movies you just don't get

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing so lame


Blasphemy!


OMG I hate Dirty Dancing. So stupid. I do not get at all why people love it. Totally ridiculous and stupid.
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 22:56     Subject: Movies you just don't get

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


Yessss, honey! +1M


WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD!


Haha! One of my favorite movies! Love the soundtrack so much!
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 22:52     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get

OP here again. To clarify my intent for this thread since a few posters asked, I am looking for movies that you can't understand why everyone else seems to adore and/or the movie received critical acclaim.

Lots of great contributions to this thread...
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 22:50     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get

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.
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 21:39     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get



Blair Witch Project
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 21:31     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get

Anonymous wrote:As Good As It Gets, with Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear.


Loved this
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 21:22     Subject: Movies you just don't get

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


Yessss, honey! +1M


WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD!
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 21:01     Subject: Re:Movies you just don't get

Anonymous wrote:The Princess Bride

It seems everyone loves it---I can't stand it.


I've seen it twice. It's a cute movie, but even kids can see past its hokeyness. I honestly would have preferred to watch a movie about the little boy and his grandfather.

My contributions to the discussion:

The Ides of March
Anchorman
Thank You for Smoking (it was OK/forgettable)
Zoolander
Bridesmaids
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 20:58     Subject: Movies you just don't get

I loved Black Swan
Anonymous
Post 11/20/2016 20:57     Subject: Movies you just don't get

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


Yessss, honey! +1M