Most overhyped movies.

First time a girlfriend and I went to rent a movie I chose Eraserhead explaining to her it was one of the most fascinating uplifting  films I had seen commenting on relationships, the human condition etc. etc. She was an honours student at Queen's University and was a very serious girl. If her GPA fell below 90 % she would enter into deep depression.  At about the part where the chickens start dancing she turned to me and said, " This is a joke right?" I said " No, it's my favourite movie of all time".

We ended up watching Uncle Buck instead. The relationship didn't last much longer after that. She wrote me a dear John letter saying that we were too many philisophical differences between us.  

OH Now I remember seeing some of Eraserhead. I pretty much watched it all on fast forward, I was watching it On Demand or something and I was really tired. I gotta watch that again at some point.

gottagetintogetout wrote: I actually thought Eraserhead was a pretty cool movie. I'm probably going to get killed for this, but one very acclaimed movie I didn't enjoy was "Dr. Strangelove."  I found the movie to be painfully unfunny and uninteresting, which is a shame because I enjoyed many of Stanley Kubrick's other films ("Paths of Glory," "Spartacus," "2001," "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining.")  I can understand it's importance in the time it was made, and I thought that some parts were mild amusing.  Maybe I will understand the humor when I get older. Okay now.  *puts up flame shield from Equality and BaldJean.*

Dr. Strangelove was hilarious, but I can see why someone might not like it. It is a specific kind of humor, I think.

The strange thing is that when my Mom came in when I was watching it, she laughed a lot during the scene with the president calling "Dimitri" on the phone.  I was sitting there, thinking, "Why don't I think this movie is funny!"  I could appreciate the artistic direction of some scenes, but there is nothing worse than watching a comedy movie when you could not utter one honest-to-goodness laugh.

Most New Movies

Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Bitterblogger wrote: Xanthous wrote: Most New Movies All Superhero Movies All Super Villain Movies Most Childrens movies Most Scary Movies Most movies that don't have a psychological, psychedelic, or sci-fi theme. Overall I hate movies. I've seen way too many of the things listed above. Scary movies are usually cliched and all the others listed are just dreadful. I'll take books, music, or most other forms of entertainment for that matter over movies. One wonders why you chose this thread to vent on movies in general.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Across the Universe" yet.  Basically, that film was just "let's see how many Beatles songs we can put in one movie, and add in faux-surrealistic that looks like they were from the 60's to go with it."  It amazes me how many people were convinced that was some kind of "art" film.

I can't really comment on Harry Potter, I only saw the first one but it was a while ago. I don't remember anything about it, which means that it couldn't have been too great.

^ whoops my mistake