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Posted: 12/31/2017 4:19:01 PM EDT

The Dunkirk thread made me think of this. There are some movies that you either love or hate, some people call them masterpieces and classics, others, steaming piles of shit. There are also the undeniably horrible movies that no one liked (or even heard of) but the critics raved about and won shit tons of awards.

What are your best of the worst?

No Country For Old Men: Incredibly slow plot and no end. By the time the snooze fest actually started to get interesting it was over, and it just ended apruptly with no actual conclusion. A movie should have a beginning, middle, and an end, but this one forgot the end, and it didn’t have much of a middle either. I also found it very weird and hard to follow, it was way to artsie fartsie to me. Don’t even get me started on the silenced shotgun.

House of 1,000 Corpses: Just fucking weird. Killer pscho clowns would be the easiest way to describe this one. Was there a discerns me plot? Not that I can recall. It was just a crappy “art film.” I rate that one as one of the worst movies I have ever seen, yet it launched Rob Zombie’s career as a director. It was so bad though that I swore I would never watch another Rob Zombie movie again, because he cannot possibly make a good movie, and I haven’t.

Slum Dog Millionaire: I never saw it, and still haven’t, and until the awards I had never even heard of it, and that’s the problem, if it was so good, why was it unknown? This is not the only movie like this, I’m just using this one as an example. I see this as an indicator of an “art film” that is popular with hipsters at film festivals, and that is all, no general appeal.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:20:44 PM EDT

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Anything related to The Fast and Furious.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:22:03 PM EDT

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The first one was OKAY for what it was

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:22:27 PM EDT

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No Country for Old Men is in my top 5!

Avatar is the kind of movie that came to my mind when I read your thread title.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:22:40 PM EDT

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avatar and titanic immediately spring to mind.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:22:42 PM EDT

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Anything related to The Fast and Furious.

The first one was OKAY for what it was

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Posted: 12/31/2017 4:23:39 PM EDT

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Both Red Dawns.

Lets get this party started!

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:24:44 PM EDT

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Star Wars

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:25:40 PM EDT

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Titanic - damn boat sank at the end.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:25:41 PM EDT

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Pearl harbor. I dont understand how so many people enjoyed that movie.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:25:52 PM EDT

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Every PG-13 action movie blockbuster.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:27:43 PM EDT

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Pearl harbor. I dont understand how so many people enjoyed that movie.

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Team America - The End of the Act (Pearl Harbour sucked)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3GJiZqDCI

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:27:48 PM EDT

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Avatar was highly overrated. Very lazy remaking of westerns with the bad old white man being the root of all evil.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:28:24 PM EDT

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Pearl harbor. I dont understand how so many people enjoyed that movie.

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It was decent but it had the same problem as Enemy At The Gates, the love story sub plot. It’s a war movie. Love stories and war movies do not mix, they distract from each other.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:29:38 PM EDT

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Heat. Boring as hell with few exceptions it was slow.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:30:19 PM EDT

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John Wick, and John Wick II. If I want to watch a video game being played out, I'll tune into that pooter guy's YouTube channel.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:32:41 PM EDT

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Pearl harbor. I dont understand how so many people enjoyed that movie.

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Because it had Kate in it!!!!!

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:33:24 PM EDT

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Heat. Boring as hell with few exceptions it was slow.

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I agree with this...also seemed LONG as fuck with only the armored truck heist and street shootout being the only cool scenes

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:34:08 PM EDT

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I think that both Casablanca and Citizen Kane were nowhere as good as most people claim they are.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:34:13 PM EDT

[#19]

Red Dawn

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Posted: 12/31/2017 4:34:24 PM EDT

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Avatar
Titanic
Fast and Furious (ALL)

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:34:25 PM EDT

[#21]

99.9999% of every movie nominated for an Oscar in the past 30+ years.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:35:31 PM EDT

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If you're talking Popular just here on ARFCOM, I'd say the top two were Pacific Rim and 13 Hours.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:36:36 PM EDT

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The Dunkirk thread made me think of this. There are some movies that you either love or hate, some people call them masterpieces and classics, others, steaming piles of shit. There are also the undeniably horrible movies that no one liked (or even heard of) but the critics raved about and won shit tons of awards.

What are your best of the worst?

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The Blair Witch Project - horror movie with a first person point-of-view camcorder feel. Interest concept/idea. Had a lot of positive press. It started out interesting, but the ending sucked.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:39:00 PM EDT

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The Blair Witch Project - horror movie with a first person point-of-view camcorder feel. Interest concept/idea. Had a lot of positive press. It started out interesting, but the ending sucked.

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Cost about $250 to make and grossed many millions. Sucky movie; great investment.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:40:05 PM EDT

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The Road. Biggest pile of steaming shit I've ever tried to watch. We were praying for the death of the main characters in the first 10 min.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:40:34 PM EDT

[#26]

Team America!

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:40:57 PM EDT

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Both Red Dawns.

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First one is pure 80’s at it’s best

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:41:08 PM EDT

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Troll post

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:41:34 PM EDT

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Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers 1 and 2
Spider-Man homecoming
The first 2 iron man movie(didn't see the 3rd)
Fight club

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:41:57 PM EDT

[#30]

Big Lebowski

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:43:12 PM EDT

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First two I thought of too.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:44:15 PM EDT

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Big Lebowski

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Choke yourself, that's a classic

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:44:27 PM EDT

[#33]

Every Starwas since Disney took over!

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:45:10 PM EDT

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People raved about The Departed
"If you liked Goodfellas and Casino you'll love it" they said.

I waited a couple of years and finally watched it.

Meh.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:45:26 PM EDT

[#35]

Inception...

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:45:39 PM EDT

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99.9999% of every movie nominated for an Oscar in the past 30+ years.

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People in Hollywood only vote for those inside their tribe to win. Talent is meaningless.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:45:43 PM EDT

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Anything related to The Fast and Furious.

The first one was OKAY for what it was

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Posted: 12/31/2017 4:45:56 PM EDT

[#38]

Deliverance

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:46:30 PM EDT

[#39]

@DK-Prof

Stand by.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:46:50 PM EDT

[#40]

All of Ironman,except the first one.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:49:05 PM EDT

[#41]

Slumdog is worth watching.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:51:00 PM EDT

[#42]

American History X

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:52:53 PM EDT

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10-4

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:54:18 PM EDT

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Watched about 45 minutes of the hateful eight last night... horrible

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:55:52 PM EDT

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The Deer Hunter. Art house shit that some people were duped into believing was a good war movie, or just a good movie in general. Absolutely suck fest.

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:57:22 PM EDT

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Platoon

Just rewatched it this weekend and while a lot of faces became big stars, it tried to hard to be artsy while showing the atrocities and hardships of Vietnam.

I hope I never see it again

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:57:58 PM EDT

[#47]

The latest StarWars. Rouge One kicked ass though

Posted: 12/31/2017 4:58:04 PM EDT

[#48]

Pulp Fiction

Posted: 12/31/2017 5:02:28 PM EDT

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Avatar was highly overrated. Very lazy remaking of westerns with the bad old white man being the root of all evil.

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No. It was “Dances with Wolves” meets “Jurassic Park” meets “The Lion King”.

Posted: 12/31/2017 5:03:01 PM EDT

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Platoon

Just rewatched it this weekend and while a lot of faces became big stars, it tried to hard to be artsy while showing the atrocities and hardships of Vietnam.

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I don't know, Platoon is overrated, but it's entertaining

"It ain't dere, it's dear, and Sarah ain't got no two r's King, Damn you dumb!"

"That's all right, she know what I mean, she don't read to good no how!"

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