The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Movie Thread....Films you liked or disliked.

[red dog 1]

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This is one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies:

This one, imo, was terrible, despite having first-rate actors Johnny Depp, Leo DiCaprio and John C. Reilly:

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Movies i loved: Weapons, Wicked, Godzilla Minus one

I liked 'Superman' 2025

[catbyte]

2. A recent movie I liked:

I can't handle "serious" movies these days. Reality sucks enough.

And I don't know why this movie ticked me off so much but I hated it:

[red dog 1]

4. The Fall Guy looks very good.

Hook, not so much.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. Hook is a great movie! Dustin Hoffman totally takes over the movie as Hook nt

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Liked: Too Numerous To List

Disliked: Gone With The Wind & Titanic. I find both absolutle awful.

[LogDog75]

5. Any of the Godfather movies

[Morbius]

11. Well...

The Godfather was about power.
The Godfather Part II was about the price of power.
The Godfather Part III was about three hours long.

The first two are in my top ten best movies ever made. The third one was by comparison awful, and even without comparing it to the first two it was mediocre.

I loathe Mrs. Doubtfire.

[3catwoman3]

6. I really, really disliked Forrest Gump - too unrealistic.

I hated Terms of Endearment.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. I hated The English Patient, The Exorcist.

There are too many that I really liked ....

[red dog 1]

9. I couldn't stand The English Patient

The Exorcist I liked.

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. I hated TEP too

Even though I love Ralph Fiennes. I'm not a fan of films that glorify adultery. She's married to Colin Firth and fancies a shag with Ralph Fiennes? Sew your wild oats when you're single. Geesh!

I felt the same way about Bridges of Madison County.

I didn't find The Exorcist scary because I don't believe in demons, possession and all that nonsense. Good special effects for the time though.

[CTyankee]

36. what did you not like about "Bridges of Madison County"?

I thought it was a rather tender story about two people who were thrown together by fate and fell into a burning desire to be together forever. But they knew it was an impossible relationship and had to give up what they most desired in their lives. It was such a humanistic approach to a love story. Giving up what you most desire in your life is the most difficult decision a person can make.

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. I just believe in sowing your wild oats

when you're single. She'd been married to her husband for almost 20 years. I don't think it would be romantic for her to leave her husband for a traveling photographer she's known for a few days and I don't think it was especially tragic that she didn't.

[CTyankee]

42. She was a war bride, escaping the horrors of war and ending up in a remote farm in Iowa.

She knew nobody and was viewed as an outsider. She was lonely and never really loved her husband, altho she was grateful and stayed with him at the end. I view her as a tragic person, unhappy in her marriage but unable to just leave what she had as a family. I think it is a sad situation for everyone. Her husband is vaguely aware of her sadness and wants to help her but can't. Eastwood wants her to just up and go, and that is just insensitive on his part.

I think the film shows the tragic nature of the situation and highlights the kindness of her husband (he wants her to be happy).

Streep is such a fine actress she can play Francesca as a tragic, but basically a good and caring person who finds herself in an impossible situation. I felt sad for her. And for Eastwood's character and for her husband.

The movie is not romantic IMO. It simply shows that life is complicated and difficult. The tragedy is implicit in the situation these people faced and how they chose to deal with it.

[Paladin]

23. Well, it wouldn't be a DU movie critique site---

---without a good, solid trashing of "The English Patient." Never fails; been happening for years.

Not my favorite movie, but I thought it was pretty solid. The novel is worth a look, as well.

[red dog 1]

10. I liked Flag Day.....Did not like The Station Agent

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Flag Day is a 2021 drama based on Jennifer Vogel's 2004 memoir, Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History.
It's directed by and stars Sean Penn.
His daughter, Dylan Penn, plays Jennifer Vogel.
It's an excellent film.

[LeftInTX]

12. Disliked

The Last Days of Disco
The Conversation
The Godfather
Glenngarry Glen Ross

Liked
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Blues Brothers
Selena

[red dog 1]

13. Steven Spielberg

"The Post" is one of the best films I've ever seen.

I did not like this one.

[electric_blue68]

18. Ooooo, The Post was real good!

[mwmisses4289]

14. Wow. where to start?

Absolutely hate Gone with the wind. While I admire the tech that was amazing for it's time, the movie was based on one of the few books that I feel should be banned/burned because it was so awful- poorly written, too long, awful characters, especially the main character, scarlet, scarletta, whatever her name is.

Current favorite movies are Coco and Encanto.

[chouchou]

15. Didn't care for "Weapons" Rather boring and convoluted.

On the other hand, "Nobody2" was fun, just because the proverbial ignorant Hillbillies/Rednecks got their asses beat.

[Upthevibe]

16. red dog 1.........

I have many that I love and watch over and over again! Some that I have on my DVR are:
Pulp Fiction
The Fugitive
Casino
Goodfellas
Casablanca
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
All the President's Men
The Wizard of Oz
And many, many more.

Movies are my thing! I always have something playing on my T.V. in the background.

I don't like the action or adventure movies..........

[red dog 1]

17. Since you liked "All the President's Men" you might also like "The Post"

(See reply # 13)

It stars Meryl Streep & Tom Hanks and was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg.

[Upthevibe]

20. red dog 1..........

I LOVED The Post. It was the first and only time Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks were in the same movie...

[Emile]

19. "Chariots of Fire" was boring as hell.

[Upthevibe]

21. Emile.......

I know! OMG............

[Ritabert]

26. Liked "L.A. Confidential" and any Bogie movie

Disliked "Titanic" and"The English Patient".

[Jim__]

27. I liked Blue Velvet

[rsdsharp]

28. Liked From Here To Eternity.

Hated The Thin Red Line.

I don’t think they made Whistle into a movie.

[Xolodno]

29. Going to catch some heat from this...

...but oh well.

I actually liked Showgirls and disliked Pulp Fiction.

In the hatred category, The Last Jedi. As for the Rise of Skywalker, sure, I didn't like it. But after Rian Johnsons, if you can even call it a movie, that was probably the best they could do to salvage things. Should have done the Dallas swerve and Luke just wakes up from a bad dream and restart the saga.

Lord of the Rings trilogy was great, the Hobbit, they should have just paid Peter Jackson what he wanted.

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. I didn't like Pulp Fiction, either.

I think it's terribly overrated.

No comment on Showgirls.

[red dog 1]

31. Two Quentin Tarantino movies:

I Loved This Quentin Tarantino Movie!

I did not like this one.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

32. The one I like:

Three Days of the Condor
Runaway Jury
The Big Easy
Lord of War

Almost anything with Sam Jackson, Denzel or Stallone...kind of a Bruce Willis fan and like Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson.

[Paladin]

33. None of Wes Anderson's movies work for me.

Same goes for Robert Altman (with the exception of "MASH&quot .

[red dog 1]

34. Charlie Plummer movies

This is a very good movie.

IMHO this is not a good movie

[CTyankee]

35. "The Bridges of Madison County." I loved it so much.

But it does break my heart at the end.

[GreatGazoo]

37. Liked: Amelie, Amadeus, Parasite, Shoplifters (Japan), A Complete Unknown

Cocaine Bear (surprisingly funny), Licorice Pizza, Three Billboards, Wonka, Nope

Phoenician Scheme -- beautiful and fun

Shoplifters (2018) was one of the films that catalyzed the popular "found family" subgenre. I give extra points for degree of difficulty. There were so many ways this film could have gone wrong yet it didn't. Masterful tone:

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Did not like:

Hateful Eight - Tarantino
Forrest Gump
1917
Fabelmans

[some_of_us_are_sane]

38. Loved "The Lion In Winter", "Becket" and "Glory"

Hated ............. well, I just don't watch subjects or actors I don't care for. TOPICS I ignore are -car racing and teen movies.

[VGNonly]

39. Local Hero

on the other hand any Michael Bay film. Hard for me decide which is the biggest crap fest; Armageddon or Pearl Harbor?

[dalton99a]

41. Right now:

[red dog 1]

43. Two John Frankenheimer films

Path to War (2002) was the final film directed by John Frankenheimer, who died seven weeks after it debuted on HBO. It's a very good movie, imo.

The Year of the Gun (1991) starred Sharon Stone, Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, and was not a very good movie, IMHO.

[LudwigPastorius]

44. I rarely walk out of movies.

But, Independence Day was one, and Darkman was another.

As for movies I actively hate, Happiness by Todd Solondz is at the top of the list, despite Philip Seymour Hoffman being in it.