<p>I saw Gravity in the Cinerama theatre in 3-d.
We had the best seats in the whole theatre, but I thought the 3-d effect was put ti better use fir the most part in the previews, especially How to train your Dragon.
The illogical science in Gravity was distracting as was George Clooney playing himself.
I didn’t see Lincoln, although I really like Daniel Day Lewis, but I haven’t seen him in anything since Last of the Mohicans.
( I watch Game of Thrones, but that much violence on a big screen is not appealing. Plus I watch it on my laptop with headphones and I take them out until the blood spurting is finished)</p>
<p>We went out of our way to see Avatar in 3D. It’s part of why it rates as THE top movie I regret wasting my time on other than knowing what everyone is talking about. Our whole family of 5 (three teen boys at the time) went to see it and NONE of us liked it, so at least we could commiserate together later in the car.</p>
<p>The latest movie we saw that I consider vastly overrated is Frozen. Two of my teens like that one though, so perhaps I’m just getting too old.</p>
<p>Agree that the Holmes movies with Robert Downey are horrible. As D2 said, they made them into action moves and Holmes is not smart in them. 
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<p>“Rachel Getting Married” was adored by the critics, but I saw it with 2 of my friends and none of us got it.</p>
<p>I saw Gravity in 3D. I didn’t think the 3D no gravity look was nearly as effective in it as in the first 3D Space movie I saw which I think was filmed on the International Space Station. (Saw it a long time ago in a science museum.) I just thought it was boring - a lot of heavy breathing a squealing from Bullock, some cute dialog from Clooney. </p>
<p>I can enjoy the Downey/Law Holmes movies, but you can’t pretend they are Sherlock Holmes movies. </p>
<p>Avatar was a love or hate movie–I loved it --3D I’MAX.<br>
Castaway was a total bomb for me–a soccer ball as love interest just didn’t cut it. Boring to the max.
I liked All That Jazz but I saw it on a cruise ship not realizing that all the cursing got cut out–told my parents it was great and then heard how much they hated it because of the language (of which I was unaware)…</p>
<p>@eastcoastcrazy - Come to think of it, I hated Out of Africa too, but I’ve never been big on Meryl Streep. I saw it with a co-worker who thought it was just wonderful. I didn’t get it at all.
ETA: Another one I just thought of was Steel Magnolias … soooo over the eccentric-but-sweet Southern belle characterization! </p>
<p>“Private Ryan” had a ridiculous, inaccurate premise. WWII vets tell me that missions like that were never done. Too much manpower to save one guy when they had armies of Nazis to defeat. </p>
<p>I hated, hated, “Silence of the Lambs” and “Fargo”. Just grisly, bloodbaths dressed up. Horrible.</p>
<p>I agree that some of these movies are not all that, but none of them is anywhere near the worst movie I have ever seen, or even the worst highly-rated movie I have ever seen.</p>
<p>My candidates for worst highly-rated movie would be:</p>
<p>Last Tango In Paris (one good shot in the entire movie, maybe, and Bertolucci has two films in my all-time top ten; the bottom of the barrel for both him and Brando)
Wings of Desire (utterly boring, pretentious crap except for one scene with Peter Falk playing Columbo)
Dressed To Kill (ripping off Hitchcock didn’t make it less patently offensive)</p>
<p>Les Miz might make the list if I thought it were actually highly rated. But I don’t think I have ever seen a positive review of it. Anyway, there was almost nothing I liked about that movie, starting with the score and the utterly plodding lyrics translations, proceeding through who ever thought Russell Crowe could sing?, and focusing on how you could have a three-hour movie repeating the same five shots over and over and over and over . . . . </p>
<p>For sheer offensive awfulness, however, I would nominate The Princess Diaries and Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. (Note that The Wild Bunch is also on my all-time list.)
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I don’t understand the hate for All That Jazz. It’s a mixed bag, to be sure, and it hasn’t aged all that well. But it still has a bunch of treats, including Ann Reinking, Gwen Verdon, and Chita Rivera playing themselves, the dance scene with Reinking and Erzebet Foldi, the Air Rotica number, Ben Vereen . . . . I guess you had to be there and to like Bob Fosse.</p>
<p>I DO understand the hate for Pulp Fiction. But disagree with it, strongly.</p>
<p>Saving Private Ryan – however unrealistic it was after its first 30 minutes, those 30 minutes got my father-in-law to talk about the day he spent on Omaha Beach for the first time since June 6, 1944. As far as I am concerned, that makes it great.</p>
<p>Russell Crowe actually has a rock band, plus he looks like Eddie Vedder when he parties too hard. ( which should be a warning to you, Eddie)
<a href=“http://www.rockadia.com/randomness/top-five-part-time-rock-stars/1357”>http://www.rockadia.com/randomness/top-five-part-time-rock-stars/1357</a></p>
<p>My husband doesnt like Meryl Streep either, I dont know why.
He did like " Its Complicated" though, with Streep, Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin.
Comedies I have a lower bar for.
But not so low that I will go see a Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler movie.
But I did watch Ferrell in his drum- off on Jimmy Fallon.
Although I remember seeing something with Catherine Zeta Jones that I didnt have high hopes for, & it was great!
( Mask of Zorro )
Its actually a pain being so picky. But so many scripts have holes you could fly a Dreamliner through.
I wish John Sayles would make more movies. With David Straithairn and Joe Morton please.</p>
<p>I saw Gravity in 3D in theaters. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I honestly don’t remember what the plot was and I have no interest in seeing it again.
As a HUGE fan of both the Brick and the musical, I found Les Mis The Movie to be a HUGE disappointment. It was just a huge shlep. The only thing I really enjoyed was having the battle scenes done so vividly in a way that obviously can’t be done on stage- those were great. The rest- not so much. </p>
<p>I know Crowe actually has a rock band, not that I have ever listened to it. I think it’s super-easy to have a rock band if you are a famous actor, judging from the number of mediocre rock bands with actors in them. Lots of people have rock bands and can’t sing, too. (There are also any number of actors who can also sing, or play, very credibly in a rock band, or rock musicians who can act.)</p>
<p>In any event, it’s pretty clear from Les Miz that Russell Crowe can’t sing at all. I don’t know why they hired him, and I really don’t know why having hired him they left him dangling there through most of that movie just being awful every time he opened his mouth. I get that they were going for the actors’ authentic voices, but his authentic voice undercut everything that the movie was trying to achieve. (It was not alone in that, of course.) And I really, really don’t understand how Russell Crowe let them do that to him. He should have demanded a "playback singer " the first time he heard what he sounded like.</p>
<p>I dont usually go see " big" movies like LesMis or Avatar.
I find my time is better spent with smaller movies like The three burials of melquiades Estrada.
With so many previews and trailers online, you can often tell what the movie is going to be like &/ or that all the good bits are in the trailer!</p>
<p>Forrest Gump, Captain Phillips, Cloud Atlas, Castaway, Skyfall (Actually any James Bond movie. My H disgrees with me as he is a big fan.)</p>
<p>I enjoyed watching Avatar at Imax 3D. I liked it better than Hurt Locker. I used to like Les Miserables, the broadway musical. I have watched the broadway musical a few times and the Les Mis anniversary concert DVDs. I did not like the musical movie. I only liked the actress playing Eponine. </p>
<p>Loved American Hustle.
Bored by Gravity. </p>
<p>Didn’t like Grand Budapest Hotel, would have walked out if folks I know weren’t a few rows behind me. Daughter and I didn’t like Heaven is for Real. Didn’t like Skyfall- I missed the wonder of the older Bond films. There are films I do like. I do tend to read a lot of the reviews on Rottentomatoes first. </p>
<p>Meryl Streep has a way of nodding her head sideways that drives me nuts. Almost like a tic.</p>
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<p>I admit, I have “Testify” by Russell Crowe & the Ordinary Fear of God on my iTouch, and it is part of my regular playlist. :)</p>
<p>I didn’t like There Will Be Blood,Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing or the Amazing Spiderman 1 & 2.</p>
<p>I agree with JHS that Last Tango was a real stinker. But my top two for highly praised horrible movies would be Walkabout (Peter Weir) and The Damned (Visconti). It was nominated for an Oscar! :eek: Visconti’s Death in Venice was pretty awful too.</p>
<p>I kind of liked Wings of Desire - it was definitely weird though. I thought Pulp Fiction was brilliant and both funny and horrific. I did not love All that Jazz when I saw it, but it’s one of those movies that has stayed with me. I’d love to see it again. " It’s show time, folks!"</p>
<p>I’ll be the dissenter and say that we loved Les Mis… adults and teens included in the love. I like how they got up close and personal (close ups) to try to show the nitty gritty. That can’t be done on stage. I also like that the singing was part of the actual content rather than done off screen and added.</p>
<p>But then again, aside from high school presentations, I’ve never seen a version of Les Mis I haven’t liked - perhaps it’s just the story I like.</p>