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Thread: Movies that you can't understand why they are classics

post 1521094461 09-30-2017, 09:08 PM
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Off the top of my head:

2001 Space Odyssey - Was just bored out of my mind, didn't even finish it.

The French Connection - Movie did not age well at all.
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post 1521094521 09-30-2017, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted By SmithMachineGuy⏩
Lawrence of Arabia is an epic, beautifully filmed masterpiece.
This. GOAT of the GOATs cinematography. Apocalypse Now is the only other movie in its league IMO.
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post 1521094661 09-30-2017, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
List movies that are "classics" but you can't seem to see them as anything but feckless, abymal turds.

Bridge over the river Kwai (and I like war pics)
West side story
Lawrence of Arabia
Once upon a time in the west
The 3rd man
Bullit (and I love Steve McQueen)
Rebel without a cause

Just to name a few
Tempted to neg for West Side Story. It's got music, dancing, a great story line for the events of the time, and a classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
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post 1521094741 09-30-2017, 09:11 PM
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Lol’d @ people not getting Pulp Fiction.

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post 1521094881 09-30-2017, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted By WorldClassDBag⏩
Not a classic but everyone loved Avatar when it first came out. It was chit
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Avatar

That movie was raved all over about being an all time classic etc.

Thought it was chit.
And Cameron is currently working on four, yesfoursequels.

Here's the first cast photo for Avatar 2, dead srs.

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post 1521094981 09-30-2017, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted By Clinos⏩
Tempted to neg for West Side Story. It's got music, dancing, a great story line for the events of the time, and a classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
I'm a fan of old classic movies but I absolutely hated West Side Story LOL...
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post 1521095321 09-30-2017, 09:20 PM
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post 1521095441 09-30-2017, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted By kimm4⏩
I'm a fan of old classic movies but I absolutely hated West Side Story LOL...
Kimm after that the only thing keeping me loving you is that you're a PATS fan.
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post 1521095541 09-30-2017, 09:23 PM
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post 1521095601 09-30-2017, 09:24 PM
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Pretty much every Martin Scorsese movie.

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post 1521095791 09-30-2017, 09:26 PM
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post 1521096021 09-30-2017, 09:30 PM
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I feel as though some people are confusing "classic" with "overrated." Or, perhaps it's just me having trouble differentiating the two.

For example, I find a movie like "Citizen Kane" highly overrated but I understand and consider it a classic for what it did and represented at the time. I don't know, I'm a rather dumb person lmao.

Anyway, my list:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Godfather movies
3. Apocalypse Now
4. 2001 Space Odyssey
5. Shawshank Redemption
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post 1521096201 09-30-2017, 09:33 PM
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agree with everything here.

I reluctantly agree with pulp fiction because I loved it for so long when it was a fresh movie, but we have become desensitized to these movies now and they don't hold the same effect they did for the decade following their release.
Just like 2001 a space odyssey, it was a classic for so long because of its special effects and overall uniqueness but NOW, it is **** special effects and a storyline that has become very very boring in comparison to the last 20 years of film.
With fight club the whole "im an antisocial protagonist who wants to fight the system and I am actually a badass but no one in society knows it" is played out over and over and over and its lost its appeal. But bringing yourself back to that time and the creativeness of the director and the acting and the storyline for the time, its great.


Anyway I am REALLY going to stick my neck out but Shawshank redemption has always been my most overrated classic movie I thought was "meh" to "**** waste of time"

The storyline is literally a guy is wrongfully imprisoned, he meets a wise old black man with a fatherly voice, he breaks out of prison, some old man kills himself, the main character and the wise old black man(Samuel l Jackson) live happily every after and free.

Why that 1 sentence needed to be drug on into 2.5 hours of film is beyond me and why everyone thinks its the greatest most original story ever is even more perplexing.
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post 1521096241 09-30-2017, 09:33 PM
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I think Christopher Nolan films, in general, suck pretty bad. There is no life to any of them, they're dull and empty. It's a complete chore to sit through them. And his sh!tty Batman movies helped blast open the doors to constant, never-ending superhero sh!t.

The Matrix movies are pretty mediocre. They should have kept it to one film, the sequels actually ruined the first one, which itself was pretty overrated.
post 1521096711 09-30-2017, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted By proudmanlet⏩
2001- special effects amazing for the time but story is so slow and doesn't make sense, ppl saying they understand it imo r just bullchitting tryna sound smart
This. Add The Shining to that list, and most of Kubrick films I've seen with the exception of Full Metal Jacket.
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Casablanca - Meh.
2001 - Yawn.
Apocalypse Now - Allegorical yawn.
Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman in drag. No thanks Jeff.
American Graffiti - Didn't grow up in 50's, don't care what they did in 50's.
Easy Rider - Hippies. 'nuff said.
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I get the premise of how the movie was supposed to depict society/life at that time but couldnt help but fell underwhelmed by it all, especially with all the high ratings its got.
I mean 99% on rotten tomatoes, its really a perfect movie?
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turned off Casablanca about 20 min into it. top secret spies and diplomats all hanging out at the same bar. brb gonna sit close to that guy to spy on him. lol naw
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Forrest Gump - good but not great
The Exorcist - was a comedy to me, supposedly the scariest movie of all time
All of the new Star Wars - won't even watch them
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Shawshank feels like a rehash of other prison movies like The Freat Escape, Alcatraz, Papion, Cool hand Luke etc
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The Wolf on Wall Street was extremely overrated. It was alright, but it wasn't great.
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I liked it, but I don't understand why it's considered such a great movie.
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Originally Posted By Clinos⏩
Kimm after that the only thing keeping me loving you is that you're a PATS fan.
I'm sorry

Too many to list but some of my favs...

12 Angry Men
A Street Car Named Desire
Touch of Evil
Judgment at Nuremberg
On the Waterfront
Anatomy of a Murder
Limelight
Rebecca
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Dirty Harry
Saving Private Ryan
Titanic
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Originally Posted By quadfecta⏩
Dirty Harry
Saving Private Ryan
Titanic
Seriously, you can't understand how Saving Private Ryan is a classic?

It has the best war action scenes ever filmed.
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Originally Posted By Deenur⏩
List movies that are "classics" but you can't seem to see them as anything but feckless, abymal turds.

Bridge over the river Kwai (and I like war pics)
West side story
Lawrence of Arabia
Once upon a time in the west
The 3rd man
Bullit (and I love Steve McQueen)
Rebel without a cause

Just to name a few
Lawrence of Arabia? are you kidding me?


Inception and Shutter Island were not great movies
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Dunno if its considered a classic but not a fan of the Hunger Games
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