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horrorfilmx		#21	[-]
Jul 24 11 7:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING I don't think I've TRIED to like a movie as much as I've tried to like this one. I'm not sure Carpenter's Thing fits your own criteria --- some people love it, many (like me) hate it, but it's not one of those movies that fans seem expected to adore.
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Hamicus Helen		#22	[-]
Jul 24 11 8:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: OK, I was hoping I could dodge being first, coward that I am, but I'll start with one of the Universal classics: THE INVISIBLE MAN I was so bored by this one. I've never understood the interest in the character--his 'power' is that you can't see him. Big deal. It's not scary, the comedy is campy (I know ,that's the point...), and it's a chore to sit through. I've seen people rave about this and I just don't see the appeal. D'oh! This post disturbs me to the core hehe. My favourite universal. Parts of the film are so unnerving to me, especially that whole reign of terror conversation, chills me. And I love the camp For me it would be The Exorcist. I've watched it twice and both times it's just bored me rigid. All I like about it is the ending. I recently watched part 3 and loved that one. A few days ago I would have agreed with Blade Runner, but the other night I watched the Final Cut version and for some reason I really liked it this time. "You think that when you die you go to heaven. You come to us!"
Grant		#23	[-]
Jul 24 11 9:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know about "hate" but I never got caught up in Mad Max. And I never got TERRIBLY caught up in Star Wars or Jaws.
TomWeaver999		#24	[-]
Jul 24 11 9:28 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	EXORCIST, 2001, Carpenter's THE THING, on and on. Even ALIEN struck me as a bit of a bore. (I did like ALIENS though.) I don't h-a-t-e STAR WARS but I saw the first one at kinda-the-right-age (late teens) and ... well, the best thing I can say about it is that it struck me as silly fun that would have been MORE fun if it had been an hour shorter. I never had any desire to see the sequels (or prequels, or whatever they are). There seem to be enough people who've made a religion out of them, so obviously they don't "need" me. My track record of disliking the "modern classics" is so perfect that I long ago gave up even trying to catch up with them.
Reegs		#25	[-]
Jul 24 11 9:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: Reegs wrote: Hate is an awfully strong word. Reegs, Sure, but we use it and love commonly--"I love my new car" or "I hate that color on you" and I figure most of us are mature enough to handle it. Except for roguevolent, of course, but we can handle him... That's why this isn't about over/underrated movies, but classics that you 'hate'. It's the counterpoint to all those threads we have about 'bad' movies we love...like FRANKENSTEIN VS THE SPACE MONSTER! To be sure, I know what you mean. The common usage definition of the word "hate". The Shining and 2001 are still there. Clarification needed: are these movies "classic" as defined by the members of this board - the average, working class, good neighbor, never swayed by the hype Amurkin movie fan, or by the panty wearing, brie eating, chablis sipping dilettante professional "film critic" who first checks a director's pedigree before considering the work? Not that it matters. Last Edited By: Reegs Jul 24 11 9:51 AM. Edited 2 times.
Grant		#26	[-]
Jul 24 11 9:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You summed up one thing extremely well - the bigger the "religion," the less it needs me / you / them. That goes for the huge escapist entertainment like Star Wars at the one extreme, and it goes for incredibly relevant entertainment like To Kill A Mockingbird at the other extreme. Or anything else.
Spoiler II		#27	[-]
Jul 24 11 10:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Grant wrote: I don't know about "hate" but I never got caught up in Mad Max. And I never got TERRIBLY caught up in Star Wars or Jaws. MAD MAX is a good candidate. Never lived up to that great HEAVY METAL style warrior image on the one sheet and is all but towered over by its own sequel. ROAD WARRIOR is everything MAD MAX promises but doesn't deliver.
Rider		#28	[-]
Jul 24 11 10:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Before this thread devolves into arguing about the word classic let's just define it as this: If you are sitting in a room full of 20 movies buffs and said the following line "I don't like film X", if 18 out of the 20 will turn around and look at you like you have 5 heads and start to lecture you then we can define it as a classic for the purposes of this thread. In other words movies that are generally universally agreed upon to be 4 stars or better on a 5 star scale.
Hjalmar Poelzig		#29	[-]
Jul 24 11 1:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay I'll bite. I don't like the Howard Hawks version of The Thing. Anti-intellectual. Not scary. Doesn't have much in common with the book. I hope it's okay to say this.
robertg		#30	[-]
Jul 24 11 1:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. This is the first movie that made me fall asleep during the middle of it. Of course, I was only about seven years at the time, but still.... (In terms of Spielberg, DUEL is an infinitely better film... and shorter, too!) A more recent example would be INCEPTION. I found it to be overrated on almost every single possible level. THE DARK KNIGHT bored me to tears as well. Fight and/or chase scenes that drag on for thirty minutes tend to make my eyes glaze over.
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Rider		#31	[-]
Jul 24 11 1:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Inception was horrible. There are a number of recent movies that got huge amounts of praise that I just don't get. Hurt Locker is another example, I thought it was laughably cliche, but others thought it was Oscar worthy.
Jonatwork		#32	[-]
Jul 24 11 4:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: EXORCIST, 2001, Carpenter's THE THING, on and on. Even ALIEN struck me as a bit of a bore. (I did like ALIENS though.) I don't h-a-t-e STAR WARS but I saw the first one at kinda-the-right-age (late teens) and ... well, the best thing I can say about it is that it struck me as silly fun that would have been MORE fun if it had been an hour shorter. I never had any desire to see the sequels (or prequels, or whatever they are). There seem to be enough people who've made a religion out of them, so obviously they don't "need" me. My track record of disliking the "modern classics" is so perfect that I long ago gave up even trying to catch up with them. Now there's a man who gets into the spirit of things. (I seem to recall you also not caring for THE CONQUEROR WORM, and I thought I was gonna cry--"I'm not alone!" I'll see your ALIEN and see you ALIENS, Tom. I love the original movie, and have not watched ALIENS in something like twenty years. It seemed to be everything the first one was trying to get away from--'tough talking' macho gun-firing heroe cliches, who turn over military command to a forklift driver at the first sign of trouble, and a LOT of screentime that folks who like the movie call "building suspense" but I call "nothing interesting happening." And The Kid, who lets us all know the feminist heroine is, you know, still like a mom, so don't think we're implying she's TOO strong... Around the time Ripley is running around dropping flares I was thinking, "OK, are we done yet?" After an hour or so of looking grim and pinging machines, we have monotonous action leading to an over-the-top and quite silly puppet battle climax. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
rogueevolent		#33	[-]
Jul 24 11 4:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: Reegs wrote: Hate is an awfully strong word. Reegs, Sure, but we use it and love commonly--"I love my new car" or "I hate that color on you" and I figure most of us are mature enough to handle it. Except for roguevolent, of course, but we can handle him... That's why this isn't about over/underrated movies, but classics that you 'hate'. It's the counterpoint to all those threads we have about 'bad' movies we love...like FRANKENSTEIN VS THE SPACE MONSTER! HEY!!! JOHN!!! I resemble that remark! Take my wife............. please! actually, I too hate a lot of stuff, including a few so-called "classic" horror/sci-fi movies. I "hate" the remake of THE FLY. I "hate" LOGAN's RUN see, see, I can get into the spirit of this thread. Gimme a chance - Jay "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
SAM33		#34	[-]
Jul 24 11 5:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, I don't even consider the 70's and 80's "classic", but if it counts, I'll agree with THE SHINING and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. Overrated for sure. Even ET didn't hold up for me on second viewing 20+ years after the first theatrical one, although I loved it the first time. STAR WARS too, I was never in love with it as so many were/are, but I do like EMPIRE. One that, especially as an adult, I really find hard to sit through is the '31 DRACULA. Count me as the rare bird who likes the Glass/Kronos score, and seeing them play it live was the most I've ever enjoyed this creaker. How's that for heresy around here? Now that's a classic! SAM33
Rider		#35	[-]
Jul 24 11 5:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've never really enjoyed the '31 Dracula either.
horrorfilmx		#36	[-]
Jul 24 11 6:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hjalmar Poelzig wrote: Okay I'll bite. I don't like the Howard Hawks version of The Thing. Anti-intellectual. Not scary. Doesn't have much in common with the book. I hope it's okay to say this. Anti-intellectual? I thought it was fairly even handed. Not scary? Scared me when I was young and parts of it still make me jump. Doesn't have much in common with the book? Well, can't argue that.
bipolarber		#37	[-]
Jul 24 11 10:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Lugosi Dracula has pretty much left me cold all these years... It's just crudely made. (Of course, maybe my problem is that I saw the Spanish version first...) But "hate?" The only science fiction/horror film I've ever walked out on was "Starship Troopers." I guess this is what comes of actually reading a book before they make it into a movie... "Human Centipede"... a coldly calculated attempt to disgust the audiance. Artistically worthless. Pretty much the entire "slasher" genre, with the possible exceptions of the First Halloween, and the first Nightmare On Elm Street. "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
SAM33		#38	[-]
Jul 25 11 6:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Actually I agree with you, Bi - I wouldn't say I "hate" any of the films I listed. Just don't enjoy them much. And strangely enough, I too walked out on Starship Troopers - I guess that's as close as I've come to "hating" a picture, but again, I don't consider it or any of the other films you list "classic" by a long shot! SAM33
Joe Karlosi		#39	[-]
Jul 25 11 7:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hjalmar Poelzig wrote: Okay I'll bite. I don't like the Howard Hawks version of The Thing. Anti-intellectual. Not scary. Doesn't have much in common with the book. I hope it's okay to say this. It's okay with me. I say it all the time! I find THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD a talky bore, not scary, not nearly as smart as it thinks it is, and these days it comes off as another stereotypical '50s monster movie (yes, I realize it was an original when it came out, but sometimes a movie can be dulled by subsequent copycats). Oh, and the baldie guy looks silly as a "monster". CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and THE SHINING don't do anything for me either. "Guy named Squeamy got thrown from the fifth floor. He's deader'n a mackerel." Last Edited By: Joe Karlosi Jul 25 11 7:23 AM. Edited 1 times.
Omega Man		#40	[-]
Jul 25 11 8:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I would say ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN... only it isn't a horror film. (Allegedly, it's a comedy.) "Dammit, it's jammed!" www.eccentric-cinema.com
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