<p>Love Nick Parks, Wallace and Gromit. Um, not so much Chicken Run. Secondhand Lions is a keeper. 
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<p>I really liked Moonrise Kingdom. Something about the very dry humor, the almost cut-out look of the sets, and the all-star cast. It was completely unlike any other movie I have seen. Admit, reviews put me off from seeing Grand Budapest Hotel, it didn’t sound very good.</p>
<p>Loved Midnight in Paris.</p>
<p>I like well-done sophomoric movies, if that’s even a thing, but Anchorman didn’t achieve that for me. And I guess I’m the only person of my generation who didn’t like Blazing Saddles.</p>
<p>After Annie Hall, I couldn’t wait to see Interiors. Yawn. Ditto Hannah and Her Sisters. </p>
<p>Didn’t care for these Academy Award winners
- Lord of the Rings
- Ordinary People (should have been Raging Bull)
- Chariots of Fire</p>
<p>I walked out of Pulp Fiction.</p>
<p>I loved Ordinary People. Chariots of Fire was OK, but I didn’t think it was anything special. I didn’t walk out of Pulp Fiction but I agree it was very offensive and I have no desire to see it again. </p>
<p>Wes Anderson is an interesting mixed bag for me. I loved Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, but was not overwhelmed by Royal Tannenbaums, Life Aquatic, or Darjeeling Express. We haven’t seen Grand Budapest Hotel, but we will.</p>
<p>My wife does not like to see movies twice. She has a very, very, very short list of movies she will watch more than once, but those she watches repeatedly. In the 35+ years I have known her, only five movies have been added to the list, and Moonrise Kingdom is the most recent of them. She liked it so much she had the poster mounted and hung it in our bathroom. Somehow it caught perfectly what she felt like at 12, and it got all the details just right for people our age. (This trait of hers is a source of friction in our marriage. If I really like a movie, I re-watch it repeatedly.)</p>
<p>Which brings up another possible thread topic: Movies generally considered terrible that you love. My wife’s short list of re-watchable movies includes both Woody Allen’s musical – for most critics, Woody Allen’s incomprehensible, failed musical – Everyone Says I Love You, and Robert Altman’s Pret-a-Porter. I don’t know that there are widely panned movies I really love (although I like Everyone Says I Love You plenty).</p>
<p>Citizen Kane always appears near the top of best movies of all time, but for me, there are plenty of movies of that era which are better.</p>
<p>I rarely watch any movie twice - at least - without some significant years in between as I have shared many movies I like with my offspring.</p>
<p>One I recall that I watched twice without regret in my youth (high school days) was The Killing Fields.</p>
<p>I’m not sure there have been others - esp not twice in a theater.</p>
<p>Secondhand Lions I’ve seen the most as it’s my “Go To” movie when I need one at school (not often, but there are days…)</p>
<p>I took a film class in high school, taught by a Jesuit priest who was also a film buff. To him, Citizen Kane was the supreme achievement of American cinema and our final was based on it. I probably didn’t like it as much as I would have otherwise because I didn’t care for this teacher, and he hated me … but that’s another thread. </p>
<p>I have only seen Citizen Kane a couple of times, and I will confess that I don’t understand what’s so great about it. I think it gets lots of points for having serious artistic ambitions and not pandering to the audience at a time when neither quality was common in American film, but there are plenty of movies I would rather watch. On the other hand, it would be a stretch to call it a bad film. Overrated is not the same thing as bad. Far from it.</p>
<p>Maybe Citizen Kane was so important in its time.<br>
For low and easy, I did like the Chevy Chase movies, have re-watched them when they came up on TV . </p>
<p>Didn’t like Blue Orchid. Nor the Madness of King George. People going nuts…don’t need it.</p>
<p>I found The Lord of the Rings trilogy incredibly tedious, largely because Frodo Baggins is the most annoying character of all time. Hated all the Baz Luhrmann movies except Strictly Ballroom, which is one of my all time favorites. Never saw a Will Ferrell movie I liked. Couldn’t get through The Hangover. </p>
<p>You all seem to be picking some of my favorite movies of all times. I love Pulp Fiction and other QT movies. Same for Lord of the Rings, American Beauty and The Hangover. I have a really low bar for what I can watch and enjoy, everything from Borat and Bad Grandpa to Casablanca and Pride and Prejudice, but there are a few that give me trouble.</p>
<p>Titanic was one. Gone with the Wind was another. The Piano. The Color of Money (Oscar for Paul Newman) made me never want to see another Tom Cruise movie, though I did watch one of the Mission Impossible with the kids. </p>
<p>GWTW??? >-) </p>
<p>Nope, didn’t get Hangover’s popularity. GWTW- didn’t get it when I was in hs. After (good) experiences in the south, understood it. </p>
<p>It’s so funny the way people’s tastes vary, like Rubik’s Cube arrangements.</p>
<p>Just looking at Magnetron’s post: I love Pulp Fiction, too, and most (not all) Tarantino movies (some are kind of phoned in). Hated Fellowship of the Ring, and didn’t even bother watching the others. (And I am a lifelong fan of the books: A Elbereth, Githoniel / silivren penna miriel / O menel algar elenath / Githoniel, a Elbereth.) So-so on America Beauty, thought The Hangover and Borat were pretty funny, nope to Bad Grandpa, big ups to Casablanca, depends which version of P&P (not counting Bridget Jones), Titanic enjoyable but far from great, GWTW enjoyable and almost great (I would probably like it more if my sister hadn’t been obsessed with it while we were growing up). I liked The Piano but have never watched it again. No to The Color Of Money and Yes (but without a lot of enthusiasm) to Mission(s):Impossible.</p>
<p>Some others discussed herein: Gravity (fine, entertaining, beautiful on the big screen in 3D, no interest in seeing it again), Skyfall (very enjoyable, did watch it again, but not a fave), The Lunchbox (I’ve plugged it a lot here), Forrest Gump (no), Captain Phillips (nothing wrong with it, but I didn’t have high expectations, either), Lincoln (liked it a lot), Judd Apatow movies (Yay!), Will Ferrell movies (Boo!), Mel Brooks movies (roughly the status of Torah in my family, but quoted more often).</p>
<p>Comic book movies: I generally dislike them, but there have been some fine Batmans. I also love Unbreakable (the M. Night Shyamalan pseudo-comic-book movie), Sin City (a graphic novel movie), Ghost World (ditto), and Blue Is The Warmest Color (ditto).</p>
<p>I loved GWTW in junior high and high school, but can easily see how some would be highly offended by it now - I just take it for what it is in the context of the times. I LMAO at Borat, but was embarrased for myself at the same time … like “Why am I laughing at this? This should be beneath me!” </p>
<p>I cannot watch most nominated movies and the ones that actually received awards. I have only one exception. So, on a positive note, I CAN only watch “The Blind Side” and I cannot watch any others at all (as far as I rmember, but maybe there are other exceptions, that I simply do not remember). So, whenever movie is highly rated, I usually try to avoid watching it. </p>