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Most loved movie/show that you hated


Okay, this is the reverse question raised in another post. What show or movie did you hate that everyone else seemingly raved about?

I'll take the first bullet...

For me it was Mad Max:Fury Road. I was kinda meh about Tom Hardy as the new Max. Still, I gave it a chance... gave up 20 minutes in, didn't watch it again ever.

The movie's biggest failing, to my mind, was that it completely ignored the carefully constructed world of the first three movies, particularly 2 and 3. In those movies, Miller showed us this world driven by scarcity. We see Max scrambling to catch a few drops of precious gasoline in an old aluminum pie plate. We see The Humungus carefully measure out the bullets he will use because they are so rare.

The entire plot of the second movie was driven by the battle to get control of a supply of gasoline. The entire concept of Barter Town (powered by pig feces) in the third movie is based on scarcity.

In Fury Road, I watched the villainous villain stupidly dump a huge sum of water over his people just so he could see them scramble for it before most of it washed away. It was at the point where I saw the flame-throwing, gas-guzzling guitar that I gave up. In a world of "blood and fire" these things were simply stupid... but they looked cool, didn't they?

And that was the problem for me. By all accounts, it was a very good ACTION movie. It just wasn't a good MAD MAX movie.

FWIW...

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I hate Community

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Once Upon a Time in America

So many people who I deeply respect and whose tastes I normally share absolutely rave about this film.

I won't say I hated it, but I thought it was very overrated, very boring and I would never watch it again.

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Weird, because I've seen comments where people say that if they're channel surfing, they stop surfing if they come across it, no matter what point the movie is at, they watch the rest of it. I've never watched it, so what do I know? Having read the synopsis, it's something that doesn't appeal to me.

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Ive seen it 2-3 times and liked it just fine but i dont really understand the gigantic following either

It was quite good though and Freeman was simply amazing

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Morgan Freeman stated on the Jay Leno show that he "hated" his fans and didn't want them bothering him with any kind of conversation or requests for autographs, Leno actually told him that he shouldn't have said that on national TV, MF said he didn't care,
As far as I'm concerned he's a dick and I wouldn't watch any movie that he was in, his acting is like a one trick pony anyway, always the same.

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It blows my mind that movie is so high on everybody's list!

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For me it's Cinema Paradiso. IMDb rating of 8.5, thoroughly loved by critics and the art crowd whose opinions I more or less respect. But dear lord it made me want strangle the projectionist.

Oh add to that the Fellini masterpiece 8 1/2. Same as above, excruciating. And I have a high tolerance for pain.

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lol well thank you for at least making me feel like less of a freak. You're the only other person I know who has admitted to not loving it.

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I can see that. Sort of like what we were talking about in the Kubrick thread, glorifying serial killers goes hand in hand with shock value & visceral thrills (or glorifying rapists)

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Subject matter doesn't appeal to me, either, so I've never watched it.

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Friends and Seinfeld, never found either very funny.

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Ben Affleck's "The Town"

It was poorly made, poorly cast, and poorly acted. The first few minutes, with the opening bank heist, was interesting, but then it started to disintegrate and go downhill in a matter of minutes.

I also think that the message conveyed to me by "The Town" was/is that people don't have to be held accountable for what they do, and if they have to hurt or kill innocent people to get what they want so be it. It also gives the message that it's okay to subvert the law (which Claire did) by pretending to work with the Feds and to cover the ass of a violent criminal and help him become a fugitive from the law, both of which Claire also did.

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I know it's pretty divisive, but I feel like enough people love it for me to put down Avatar. Not the airbender one (no one likes that one do they?), the boring, bloated, POS James Cameron one.

Also agree with you on Mad Max: Fury Road.

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I didn't like Avatar at all. I was shocked by its success and I'm even more shocked that he is making four sequels.

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No! That is the worst news I've heard this week.

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Haha. Oh, that's good.

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