I know it's going to be controversial especially after all the awards and such, and particularly after how well the original did. Yes it's a masterpiece of story telling, with deep and complex characters. Yes, the cinematography is second to none (and let's not forget the superb sound design). But I really just couldn't get into "Dumb & Dumber To".

I have to say, I love how this comment section has proven that every movie in existence will have some detractors

The kings speech felt like it had been placed through a oscar bait generator and it felt like it would have been more interesting as a documentary

The start of the exorcist in iraq is one of the most atmospheric starts to a movie ever .

Dunkirk. Loved the cinematography and found its look very convincing, but it just seemed to say nothing about an event we all know very well. Just felt like 2 hours of scenes of ships sinking.

Baby driver for me. I was really looking forward to it and I left thinking that I've just watched a number of music videos that were very loosely connected, dunno if it was my expectations or the hype machine but disappointment is the only emotion I have for that one.

The Deer Hunter for me, I understand the power of its message and that so many love it for that but I just couldn't wait for it to be over.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s one of those films you always hear about. Eventually I got round to watching it and was like..... really???

I find 90% of Disney's library to be boring, dull, watered down material.

I'm not a film nerd but only saw Citizen Kane about a year ago. I thought it was brilliant. It was a terrific story and every single scene looked like it had been crafted to perfection. I can see why people think it's the greatest film

I loved Citizen Kane. Endlessly inventive and so oddly moving.

Films are such a product of the time, when you saw them in relation to the time, and your age and experience, at first and later viewing.

For me a lot of people are misunderstanding the premise of the question. What film do you know is good but you personally don't connect with? Some people seem to think the question is what popular film is there that you personally hate?

I don't think Samurai cop is as amazing as people say though it is a fine film

Forrest Gump for me - It's undeniably a great film but it always has this feeling of false sentimentality that it really doesn't earn in my eyes.

On the flip side. I think films: Toy Story (1995) & Memento (2000) will be even more highly regarded (move up the rankings) as film-making craftsmanship will plateau and films will be graded on execution of concepts.

Todd Haynes Carol is the one which perplexes me. All of my friends love it and I do admire it but that’s it with me. Kyle chandler is awesome though.

Yeah, fury road left me pretty cold.

The Exorcist is total genius!

I think Moonlight is masterfully made but I wouldn't watch it again.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Great cast. And that's about it. A mind numbing, bum numbing borefest.

I'd like to mention Quentin Tarantino. I've found that with the more freedom he got the more he ended up directing great scenes instead of great films, I've really found most of his films a lot less than the sum of its parts, even though still enjoyable. He seems to make every bit as intense and grand as he can without much of notion of how it would fit in the rest of the film.

This just reminds us that experience is something that you can never really pin down.

The Shining. There's so much I can appreciate about the movie in terms of visual craft and atmosphere building, but Jack Nicholson is basically doing an over-the-top Jack Nicholson impression, and knowing everything that Kubrick put Shelley Duvall through really sours the experience for me.

a midnight in paris is a huge one for me. i honestly don’t get a single thing out of the film and it astonishes me how it has a 3.7 on letterboxd

I think it’s because these films are very hyped, so when you watch them you kinda except more

Am I picking up a theme here: Feeling vs thinking and feeling is winning. I'm hearing "I'll decide it's not great because I don't like how it makes me feel".

i love the phoenix cinema - nice to see mark wearing the t shirt

The Shining. Like I get it, you're losing it Jack, writing the same sentence over and over, and the hotel has some cool visuals for ghosts. Great. Didn't put me on the edge of my seat like it did for others and when he literally froze to death in the end I just had to sit there and go "what are we doing here, this is it?".

I wasn't particularly keen on Dunkirk when it came out. The different time frames were confusing, the characters were undeveloped, and it felt like it was dumbing down the real life horror of WWII to appeal to wider audience. Maybe it's just Christopher Nolan, as I also didn't like Inception, which I thought was a boring and incomprehensible film based on a promising idea. The Revenant, on the other hand, I genuinely hated. Poorly developed characters and completely unintelligible dialogue (which left me clueless as to what was happening) ruined it for me. What I saw on screen was a couple of hours of Leonardo DiCaprio trudging through snow and occasionally going "NNNNNNGH!" Even the cinematography couldn't save it -- the beautiful shots of the American wilderness would be far better served in a nature documentary. And then, after everything has (apparently) been resolved, it sort of just... ends.

I’d say Fargo. Everything about it is good but I feel it’s a bit of a stretch with critics saying it’s one of the best ever made

For me it’s another DDL film - There Will Be Blood. Lovely cinematography, great acting...and yet I have absolutely no yearning to see it again. If someone asked me what it was about, I’m not sure I’d be able to give a reply, let alone one that might encourage someone else to watch it.

Without the Godfather there would be NO Goodfellas! Goodfellas is a great film but the Godfather is a MASTERPIECE.

There’s a whole pile of reasons why I think this tends to happen. 1) Overhype. People go in an genuinely see that these films are masterpieces. Then they go and tell everyone they know. Whether they be critics or friends. So then you go into it either with very high expectations and get let down... or you go in just to hate the movie to be contrarian or because you are genuinely sick of hearing about it. For me it was Grease (it’s a musical?), and the Rocky Horror Picture Show (it’s a musical, too?). 2) Accessibility. Lots of these great movies are cerebral. They don’t have excessive expositional dialogue and deal with very complex characters, emotions, and situations. You aren’t going to just sit down and watch the Godfather as a guilty pleasure like any Scorsese mob movie. Even Casino which has the same running time and lots of character development still has witty dialogue, expositional monologues, and that captivatingly fluid Scorsese cinematography sprinkled with a health dose of sex and violence to keep things moving. No, you have to plan to watch these. Like sipping an 18 year old Scotch or listening to Coltrane on vinyl. You want a darkened room, no interruptions, and no stray thoughts to take away from your experience. But in today’s time poor society it takes real effort. It’s just easier to drink Jack Daniels, stream a bunch of non-offensive bands you don’t care about on Spotify, or watch the latest movie with Will Ferrel or Jamie Foxx while barely looking up from your phone. 3) Ruined expectations. Mad Max was a B movie made on a laughably small budget. The Road Warrior was more ambitious but still had that same feel. Beyond Thunderdome brought it to its logical conclusion. What made them so awesome were the long periods of quiet. For long stretches.. no music, no dialogue. But it built tension and enhanced the forlorn nature of a post-apocalyptic word. It let the viewer fill in the blanks with their own thoughts and feelings. It had the same qualities that made Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns or David Lean’s historical epics so good. Fury Road had none of that. It was a Star Wars prequel in the Outback. You can’t think or feel because you can’t even process everything you are seeing and hearing. Other movies that ruined expectations were of course the Star Wars prequels and sequels, the Hobbit, the Matrix sequels, The Last Airbender, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull among others.

From the comments, some I agree with are 2001, Shawshank Redemption, Chinatown, Dances With Wolves, Bergman films, Blade Runner and Boyhood. Most of these I liked at the time but can't imagine ever seeing them again. Surprised to see Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove and The Godfather getting mentions. They hold up well to repeat viewing for me.

What about the opposite? Bad films that we love!

Apocalypse Now is mine. I have seen it three times to see whether I was missing something and just couldn't click with it. Shame to be honest, I never want to dislike a film.

I actually feel this way about 'Vertigo' and love 'Citizen Kane' (though 'The Trial' and 'Touch of Evil' mean more to me personally).

Brilliant! I greatly prefer the remakes of Breathless and Solaris too - glad I’m no longer alone! 👍

The Dark Knight anyone? I'm actually a fan of a number of other Nolan films especially Interstellar, but I thought this was just okay

Big Lebowski and Taxi Driver spring to mind

I thought the godfather was overrated the first time I see it and preferred number 2. I've watched the godfather half a dozen times now and adore it, some films take more than one viewing for some

This is the heart of an issue that I am constantly fighting for: that "I liked it" is not the same thing as "it was good" and vice-versa. It's okay to like a bad film and to not like a good one. It really is.

I pretty much agree with the examples mentioned, except Vertigo (though I can understand why some would find it boring)

I'll have to go with Dunkirk and I'm a huge Nolan fan. It just didn't work for me. Maybe cause most of his movies are intricately plotted that this just felt like one long action scene in comparison. The interwoven "storylines" we're not as impressive as everyone else thinks. The threat of the enemy Germans never feels real or urgent. I watched it three times and it never grew on me.

Shawshank Redemption for me. I honestly think it's cliché. However, I watched The Shawshank Redemption multiple times as a small child, so it occurs to me that my conceptions of what a cliché prison drama is may have been forged by my experiences with the movie.

*all of Christopher Nolan’s filmography*

I loved The Piano. But I've only seen it once. At the theater. Loved Citizen Kane. I got to the point where The Exorcist is just funny.

Blade Runner - but I only watched it once. I hope I like it better the second time like I did with There Will Be Blood.

For me that has always been There will be blood. Hard to explain why.

Fellini's 8 1/2. I'm familiar with it mostly through the musical version of it, Nine, but I still can't find a way to grasp this film maker's work.

I always think of Jane Campion as like thirty years old for some reason, it always blows my mind to hear that she's been working for thirty plus years.

The Goodfellas over Godfather movie, I was like that too. I preferred Goodfellas way over Godfather. But as I grew up, especially past 30 and having watched the movies multiple times that opinion changed completely. Godfather tops Goodfellas no question.

Bladerunner. Yes it's amazing visually. It changed scifi for the better. The soundtrack is amazing. The characters are amazing. But, i get bored watching it. I feel like i should love it. I'm glad it was made because scifi is better because of it. But sorry, it doesn't float my boat when i watch it. I'll get my coat.

It occurred to while watching this video that I've never seen The Piano. Now I have and I quite enjoyed it. Would really like to know why you don't like it though.

I don’t know how anyone can’t be absolutely engrossed by Citizen Kane from the very first second.

Tarkovsky is my all-time favorite filmmaker but I can definitely understand someone not getting into his work; it does ask a lot of its viewers. However, those who dismiss his work as “pretentious” “meaningless” and mostly “boring” need to understand that they are not giving his films the time of day. There is so much love and care put into his films to just dismiss. I’d much rather hear criticism about his form and what may not work about it, than someone writing it off because they got nothing else better to do.

I've seen *There Will Be Blood.* The end.

I can think of a lot of films i think are amazing on so many levels that i don't love but still regard highly

I am amazed Eraser Head by David Lynch, didn't get a mention. Fantastic movie. One of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen, but I love it.

2001: A Space Odyssey. I love Kubrick, but (HAL aside) it's one of the most ponderous, self-indulgent and tedious films I've ever seen. Was incredible to watch in the cinema, mind.

Fight Club I think. Well made, beautiful performances and great visual flair. Unfortunately its underlying nihilism makes my skin crawl. It has also become the touchstone for a generation of toxic manchildren which isn’t its fault but still...

Rules of the Game. I've been meaning to rewatch it but it didn't do it for me the first time I saw it. Love the grand illusion though. And I COMPLETELY agree with the commenter about Brazil.

There are 2 films that I have tried to view on over 3 or more occasions each and cannot prevent myself from falling asleep, they are Citizen Kane and Naked Lunch!.

Dunkirk. I didn't have much interest in watching, but saw Tarantino going on and on about how it was a masterpiece and gave it a watch. Love or hate Tarantino, but he knows movies. About 1/4 of the way I was thinking this has GOT to pickup. At the half way point, I realized I was watching a brilliantly made movie that was boring me to tears and doing absolutely nothing for me emotionally. I would watch Insomnia again before I watched Dunkirk

Fargo: I recently rewatched it, and it just didn't do it for me whereas Oh Brother Where Art Thou completely enthralled and amused me. Fahrenheit 451 again recently rewatched it and it was not nearly as good as remembered it - the fact that Oskar Werner and Francois Truffaut famously did not get on may well be the cause of why the film does not entirely work although I think Oskar's performance is entirely appropriate for the story

Coming in here very late to this, but Fellini's "8 1/2" for me. I watched it, and the look and feel of it was incredible - a beautiful, beautiful movie. But it just felt like a chore to get through, and while I'm not averse to the surreal, it just didn't land with me at all. I think the fact that the dubbing sync with the actors' lips (I know the reason why, btw) also just threw me off a lot. I'm glad I watched it, and I recognise the massive influence it's had on cinema... but I'd never go near it again.

Stalker, The English patient, Eraserhead, The Last Jedi, It follows and many more

the big lebowski; i just don't get it watched it 3 times have it on blu ray; what am i missing?

High Rise. It’s stunning, the soundtrack is amazing and the editing is phenomenal, but half way though it all goes crazy, for no real reason.

Roma is a beautiful and emotional film but I just couldn't get into it and ngl I was counting the minutes until it was over in the last half hour

The original Solaris is actually a 1968 black and white film. Tarkovsky's was the second version.

Picnic at Hanging Rock. It has that Antonioni thing going for it whom I love, but I could hardly stay awake. Maybe I had a bad day.

I never got Boyhood had an interesting idea behind it, of shooting a film over 11 years to show the actors actually growing up in the roles, but the story was boring, the characters were uninteresting and I believe if the film hadn't been filmed over such a long period people wouldn't have been as impressed by it. Also The Deer Hunter, Gone With The Wind and Apocalypse Now are films I found were a slog to get through, I was actually more interested in how those films were made and their troubled production history like the documentary on Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness was brilliant.

More recent examples for me are Lady Bird, Moonlight, The Handmaiden, and Mad Max: Fury Road. All films that I feel are very well made, but all fail to grab me that much on an emotional, visceral, or intellectual level, at least not on the level as most critics were it seems.

Also really like the new Solaris. Not with you on 'a bout de souffle' though.

green mile? r u kidding me ????

I agree with the statement about Shawshank Redemption - I feel the same way. It is a good film, good story and good acting, but I don't have the same love that so many people (in recent years) appear to have for it. I feel the same way about Forrest Gump also. 🎥🎬👊☀️❤

I came at Citizen Kane through film studies. I read so much about it before the course started that I felt I knew it back to front before I even saw it. So I suppose my reaction to it is framed and preconditioned by that hype, albeit an academic kind of hype. Even so, I loved it and still do. I guess it's a film studies favourite because there's so much to look at and think about, whether it's film making technique, storytelling technique, genre or the role of 'auteur' (Welles was given carte blanche to do what he wanted. No one got that in Hollywood studios, and he never would again). Amid all that noise, does the emotional heart of the film get smothered? I don't think so, but can see why some think it does.

Absolutely ANYTHING by David Lean with the single exception of Hobson's Choice.

The best film of all time has yet to be made.

Tarkovsky is amazing. The Mirror is one of my all time favorite films.

I absolutely agree with the Lincoln opinion. I saw it once in theaters, and once at home, and I remember liking it a lot more when I first saw it. I could barely sit through the whole thing the second time.

Just putting a vote in to say I absolutely love Citizen Kane, but I know taste is involved as well as just admiration

I Love The Shawshank Redemption.

I feel the opposite way about Shawshank Redemption - I think it's very enjoyable to watch but I wouldn't call it a great film.

A film I never got into was Trainspotting. I think it is very stylish and uses music to great effect but in the end I didn’t care about what happened to the characters.

Has to be bladerunner for me

The Deer Hunter for me. Watched it for the first time recently and wanted to tear my hair out. Blimey charlie what a drag of a film...

2001 for me. Looked incredible, the part with HAL was really interesting, but I never got the hype.

2001 A Space Odyssey . Saw it twice fell asleep both times.

The shining

I can’t love 2001. I can admire it, I can appreciate it and I understand why others love it, I just can’t feel it.

Steven Soderburg's version is actually so pretentious and acts all deep and profound like the original but with barely a handful of substance

The Shape of Water. I admire Del Toro’s work from The Devil’s Backbone to Pan’s Labyrinth to Pinocchio but I never understood why The Shape of Water out bested Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me by your Name, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, and Blade Runner 2049 back in 2017.

The Big Lebowski is beyond horrible and beyond redemption. There, I said it.

Inception and Interstellar. Christopher Nolan seems to specialise in making films even longer and duller than his previous ones, no matter how interesting the initial concept. For me, he’s turned into a really boring director.

'Withnail And I'. I don't understand its cult status. I just don't like it, I don't particularly think Paul Mcgann is that good in it (I like him in other things). As for the story, I thought it could build to something interesting but the two layabouts going on holiday and Grant telling a lie that almost sees McGann buggered by Griffiths, isn't that compelling.

the revenant

Annie Hall bored me to tears. But enough people, many of them more learned than myself, love it, so I understand that I must be missing something.