Highly rated movies that disappoint you

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<p>I’m in the camp of hating Avatar - all special effects that didn’t impress me and a mediocre script. I actually fell asleep during the movie. I woke up a the beginning of the final battle scene and thought, “Oh good, only another 20 minutes!” 45 or so minutes later, we were finally exiting the theater. What a waste of 3 hours of my life.</p>

<p>Gravity was OK, but I gained a greater appreciation once I read about the filming process.</p>

<p>Recent movies that I really liked: Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska, and Philomena.</p>

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<p>I did not like Anchorman. By definition, I would probably dislike Anchorman 2 too.</p>

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<p>Anchorman cracked me up, but I have a very sophomoric sense of humor … for that reason I think Animal House is a masterpiece!</p>

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<p>“Captain Phillips” with Tom Hanks (the Somali pirate story) was a stupid movie with no story and no acting. And wasn’t like anything unexpected was ever going to happen.</p>

<p>Lucky I get to watch movies on long flights, so I didn’t pay anything to see it.</p>

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<p>Cast Away, I had pretty high expectations for, but I thought the script was a bit cliched.</p>

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<p>I really liked Captain Phillips… thought it was one of the best movies I saw this year. Not their fault that they took a real life incident so you knew how it ended. I thought there was still plenty of suspense, I could not see how they were going to shoot the pirates given the closed lifeboat.</p>

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The first good reason I’ve heard to see it!</p>

<p>The Pocohantas/Avatar connection was brilliantly illustrated here: <a href=“'Avatar' = 'Pocahontas' In Space (PICTURE) | HuffPost Entertainment”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost; I enjoyed it anyway because the 3D worked so well with it. One of the prettiest movies I’ve ever seen, who needs a plot? </p>

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<p>YEARS AGO, went to see All That Jazz on the basis of its best picture Oscar–2 hours we will never get back.</p>

<p>Brother in law raved about Pulp Fiction, lent us the movie, now I can say that by watching it, I am now immune and NEVER HAVE TO WATCH IT AGAIN!!</p>

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<p>Magnolia (1999). It was 2 vhs tapes, and we continued to slog through the 2nd tape thinking “surely it will get better or less confusing”. Nope. </p>

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<p>I also hated All That Jazz.</p>

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<p>Avitar was wonderful: just after Snowmagedon, in the middle of the worst winter ever, my husband and I saw Avatar in IMAX 3-D at a weekday matinee. It was everything we needed to take us away from ice jams in the gutters, 7 foot snow banks along the road, a single lane plowed on the side streets, and an ice rink on our driveway. It was blue, warm and magical, and we didn’t care about plot or Pocahontas similarities! </p>

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<p>Confession time - I’ve never seen a 3-D movie.</p>

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<p>Worst movie we ever spent money to see was “Out of Africa”.</p>

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<p>Ohhh… that used to be my favorite movie (finally usurped by Lincoln).</p>

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<p>I loved Avatar except the tail twisting love scene. I was lucky that my kids did not ask what they were doing.</p>

<p>I think Robert Redford was good in “Out of Africa”.</p>

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<p>Anchorman. </p>

<p>I like stupid funny but I couldn’t even make it through this one. </p>

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<p>“Wolf of Wall Street”<br>
It seemed to me a recycling of “Casino,” right down to the voiceovers. </p>

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<p>It’s been over 30 years, and my husband and I will both say Terms of Endearment is the worst movie we ever paid to see. We were dating and went with another couple. At the end of the movie, people all around us were crying, and then a man in front of us who was sobbing took out a handkerchief and did one of those loud honking nose blow. That was all it took. The four of us were trying our best to muzzle our laughter, but it was a lost cause. We couldn’t get out of that theater fast enough. </p>

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<p>Another mvie I didnt like was Mystic River.
So much overacting, although I often like Sean Penn.
But my husband liked it ( although he also liked Forest Gump).
The Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey jr & Jude Law are hilariously bad, as is any Star Wars movie with Jar Jar.
I dont have a big list because I rarely go to movies, so I have to dig deep to find one I really didnt like.</p>

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<p>I’m wondering if any of those who disliked Gravity saw it in a theater in 3-D. (I haven’t seen it in any format.) I think movies that are intended to be seen in 3-D inevitably disappoint in 2-D at a theater and are even worse on the TV screen. I was dazzled by the effects of Avatar in 3-D, but I can see how watching the movie without the distraction of the beautiful visuals would expose the dopey plot and bad acting.</p>

<p>I’m also a “small” movie fan, and often find myself let down by the blockbusters. The film that disappointed me most in recent years was Lincoln. I’m a bit of a Civil War buff, but I thought the movie was way too impressed with itself and never held together as a well crafted story of Lincoln’s presidency during that period. And I found Daniel Day Lewis’ performance to be terribly overdone. (My son and I are apparently the only people on the planet who felt that way about the movie, but I can live with that.) </p>

<p>H and I started to watch Skyfall in a hotel last year–he fell asleep after 20 minutes and I flipped off the TV. When a movie starts out that stupid, you know there’s no hope. </p>

<p>At D’s insistence that they were great, I watched the first X-men movie, the first Iron Man movie, and the first Spiderman re-boot. I have to remember never to listen to her. The whole action/superhero genre is not for me. I get bored, my mind wanders, I snap back realizing I have no idea what’s happening–and then I realize I don’t care.</p>