Classic Films You Love To Hate

[Pete]

I absolutely ****ing hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Pete

I absolutely ****ing hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

You are not alone.

[salem_kapsaski]

I HATED Jaws and get furious whenever I see it listed among best Horror Films lists.
Most of Stan Brakhage's films look to me like something Beavis and Butthead could have made for art-class.
Also hate Angelopoulos (!!) and everything I've seen by Haneke to date (especially Benny's Video!).

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by Pete

I absolutely ****ing hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

me too, ****ing hate that film.

[Phurious]

I have to say that I'm not a fan of Aliens. Compared to the other three movies it's the one I enjoy the least, yep, I even prefer to watch Resurrection

After what Scott did with the first claustrophobic and tense movie, and creating that incredible style, I just though Cameron shifted too much into predictable gung-ho territory that is certainly befitting of the 80s, but went some way to lose the mystery and tenebrous feeling of the former.

Fincher's is flawed for sure, but like Scott's there is a unique style, vision and setting that rescue it from being the predictable gunfest that Cameron's was.

And I like all of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movies. I love the little quirks he brings to the film and the cast is stellar: Michael Wincott, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pignon, Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya and Brad Dourif!
And I even liked the swimming aliens.

[Gojirosan]

Last House On The Left, The Exorcist and Fight Club are the films that immediately spring to mind here.

LHOTL is just rubbish - a badly made and mean spirited farrago. No amount of tacked on murmurings about Vietnam can add any depth to it.

The Exorcist is an efficiently made film, but both boring and overblown at the same time (which I suppose is some kind of achievement!). EVen my belovéd Max Von Sydow cannot salvage any respect from me for this over-rated nonsense.

Fight Club - well...where to start? A ridiculous idea, tedious to the point of annoyance, and more pretentious than a barrelful of sixth form philosophy students. Absolute trash that looks like a film school project with a massive budget.

[Gojirosan]

Oh yes, and almost all Steven Spielberg films. It is easier to list the films of his that I DO like*.






*Jaws, Duel, Sugarland Express, Empire Of The Sun...I maintain a nostalgic fondness for Close Encounters... but a recent rewatch proved cringe inducing

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Fight Club - well...where to start? A ridiculous idea, tedious to the point of annoyance, and more pretentious than a barrelful of sixth form philosophy students. Absolute trash that looks like a film school project with a massive budget.

Gojirosan, much food for thought there... Fight Club - good selection - I havn't seen the film in a few years now, but recently I was talking to someone about it and there are parts of the film that irritate me, like the "go out and start a fight" sequence which should have been left on the cutting room floor, but my biggest problem is the awful Dust Brothers soundtrack...

Speilberg is hit and miss I agree, but among his later films I would say Schindler's List and Munich are near masterpieces...

I'm a huge Michael Mann fan, and while a lot of people stick the knife in Miami Vice (I loved it), I really didn't care for The Public Enemy...

[Gojirosan]

I didn't rate Schindler's List at all, but have never seen Munich. I was interested in seeing it, but was put off by Schindler's List (and Amistad) funnily enough: I feared how he might address another serious issue by forcing unnecessary aritficial "EPIC!" status upon it.

It's a personal thing I know, but I felt all my criticisms of Schindler's List were confirmed when The Pianist came out a few years later and showed (to my way of thinking) exactly how a film should address the Holocaust era: with tasteful dignity, free of schmaltz and lacking in frippery and gimmick. Just honest, powerful story-telling.

I will have to catch up with Munich at some point though.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

LHOTL is just rubbish - a badly made and mean spirited farrago. No amount of tacked on murmurings about Vietnam can add any depth to it.

Couldn't agree more!