Classic films you hate

[burntcopper]

everyone knows that list of classic films. the critical *and* popular darlings. The ones everyone is supposed to have on their rack of filmic Desert Island Discs. However, not everyone's tastes are the same. One person's squee is another's bored to tears

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[xenaclone]

Titanic - big overdone pile of poo

Gigi - the irrepressible Maurice Chevalier aside, this is 'a fella can sleep around but his eventual wife must be a pure virgin' set to music. GAH!

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2001 - love. Okay, it's seriously weird shit conceived on LSD and we all know Kubrick was as mad as a bucket of frogs, but I love the enigmatic nature of it. Plus, realistic space scenes.

Clockwork Orange - Forget 'Fight club'; this is that film set in the 70's and laden with satire and violence

[sbp]

"It's A Wonderful Life" and "Forrest Gump". Maybe I don't go for everyman uplifting type movies, but I really don't want to see either of these films, no matter how much anyone says "but it's great". Jimmy Stewart I like in a bunch of other stuff though, and '80s Tom Hank is fine, just nothing since Philadelphia.

Dunno if they're classics, but two films that I loved when I was growing up were Blazing Saddles and The Life Of Brian. We used to watch one or the other when there was a wet games afternoon.

[alysscarlet]

I totally agree that 'It's A Wonderful Life' and 'Forrest Gump' are over-rated. People look at me as if I've grown another head when I tell them I don't like 'It's A Wonderful Life'.

Films I love that aren't really rated:

Excalibur - I always got the impression it was admired when it came out, but has become a laughing stock since. Perhaps with the more pro-80s nostalgia we now have it will come back into fashion.
The Object of My Affection - a faghag romance by Nicholas Hytner. Lovely performances by Paul Rudd and Nigel Hawthorne and a bittersweet ending. It probably rings more true with those of us women who have been in love with a gay man. :-)

[silly_swordsman]

Interesting to see what some people consider 'classics' - I'd reserve that for films older than, well, 25-30 years?

Bambi
Didn't see this until I was an adult already, and Disney started to release their animated classics on VHS (but at the time it was made, they didn't yet aim fully at kids, but at families). What's the point of this film? To make kids feel bad about hunters shooting deer? Inane songs and characters, patronisingly cardboard cutout characters, and twee anthropomorphication. The animation is excellent, I'll give it that, but that's never going to be enough.

Bullit
I don't care about these characters. The longest I've lasted is, I think, twenty minutes, after which I've become bored. Oh, and the chase scene. Sorry, was that supposed to be exciting?

I love: Rocky and Streets of Fire.

[genarti]

I don't know that it's a classic, at least yet, but it's something lots of people seem to adore: The Dark Crystal.

It may be that I didn't see it when I was young enough to imprint, but I tried watching it on a college vacation because I'd heard it raved about and quoted so much. Boring, boring, boring. The pace is glacial, and the main character spends 90% of his time being annoying and inept. (The other 10% he's just inept and boring.) There are a lot of interesting ideas in the worldbuilding, but they're totally ruined by the execution IMO. I was literally fighting off sleep, and I hadn't been tired when I sat down to watch. I was the only person in my family who stuck it out to the end, and that was sheer stubbornness on my part.

[andromakie]

I'm going to have to go with The Godfather as well. Ick.
Also Rocky (all of them if we can stretch it that far) - as far as I'm concerned there is nothing redeeming about these films.

Classics I love: The Philadelphia Story and Brigadoon