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I can understand most of these, but dammit if The Queen isn't a fantastic and wonderfully understated piece of film making. It seems unfairly saddled with the drawn-out period pieces that dominate the rest of the list.

Plus, Helen Mirren is such a GILF.

I mostly can't blame you.

I have tried watching The English Patient a couple of times, and I just cannot do it. Nor can I manage Out of Africa, Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart...I think I see a theme.

I never have and never will watch Titanic. I so desperately need those 11 hours of my life to be on Pajiba and on Facebook, looking at the pictures of all of the Pajiba people. I remember when this came out how everyone was saying it sucked...then somehow it won an Oscar...I don't get it..

On a boat...

On a boat....

(four hours later)

On a boat.....

(two days later)

The boat sinks (God, I hope I didn't ruin the ending for anyone...it was after all an historical event of some note). In between, a poor guy gets some cooter from a rich woman. Let me guess, she has a snobby boyfriend who runs down the scrappy but lovable hero who snuck on, but Scrappy shows that money doesn't buy courage
or romance and the woman gets the deep dicking of a lifetime, which is why she still talks about it 70 years later.

Pass. I'd rather watch Zorro, the Gay Blade, at least that had George Hamilton in multiple roles....did Titanic? No? Then fuck it sideways.

Notes on how to make Titanic better...

- multiple roles for George Hamilton, including (but not limited to) Captain, Jack, Rose, Mr. Andrews, All of Steerage Class, Cal, Rose's Mom, Bill Paxton's Dirk Pitt Wannabe, James Cameron.
- make the film a real time account of the sinking, with a love story people can actually GIVE A SHIT ABOUT
- Zombies.
- David Tennant and Kylie Minogue

Fuck.

This is going to infuriate everyone, but...

Shawshank Redemption.

Absolutely everyone I know screams at me when they learn that I haven't seen it. Which just makes me dig my heels in, shake my head and squinch my eyes shut even more. I may well never see it, unless my friends shut the fuck up about it.

I love "Chariots of Fire." My dad loves it and he got me into loving it. And I love my dad. He also loves "Tender Mercies", and tries to shove it down everyone's throats. I hated it. At least the parts I didn't sleep through.

TK, just watch it. I understand you're a man of principles...but just watch it.

Brokeback Mountain. I just can't do it. It isn't due to the subject matter or the characters but ever since the South Park Film Festival which, according to Cartman's prognostications, is "just a bunch of gay cowboys standing around eating pudding," I laugh my ass off every time someone mentions it.

Rubble44, plus it features the dulcet tones of Celine Dion.

I liked Into the Wild, but I won't argue against that.
Now...Sense & Sensibility, really? I love that movie, but, you know, I am female. With an English degree.

I gasped when I saw "Sense and Sensibility" and "The Piano" on that list. They're two of my favorites. Ah, well. I guess not everything can be perfect.

But I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of that list. Fuck Chariots of Fire and Lawrence of Arabia. I tried to sit through both of them and fell asleep before the first hours were done. Jeebus. They're so fucking LONG! I tried to sit through a horrible 'great movie' with Citizen Kane, and all I got was an almost irresistible urge to stab myself in the eye with a pencil. Repeatedly. Because holy SHIT that was painful. Don't want to relive the experience.

I'll never watch 'The Seven Samurai'. Big huge no for me.

Is it bad that I didn't know Shawshank Redemption was a book?

Why does bathtub sex hurt? You can make it work. I've heard.

becks, Elaine Benes knows what she's talking about, and I'm inclined to take her word on anything!

I absolutely REFUSE to watch Into the Wild...but my reason is a little more logical, at least to me.

I boycotted this film from the beginning because it took what was a fantastic and tragic story by Jon Krakauer and it turned it into some coming-of-age-adventures-in-the-great-outdoors grandiose bullshit. When I read the book it meant something to me but after watching the trailers it looks like Penn has changed it into a saccharine, manipulative and overly-romanticized feature.

That's just my opinion anyways.

Jay, I'll e-mail Sarina the blueprints and then you two crazy kids can try it out. I'll make a believer out of you.

figgy, I picture you screaming at the TV and then exasperatedly giving us that explanation Elaine- Benes-style.

Thanks, TeaKettle, It's good to know I'm not the only one that hasn't seen Shawshank. My roommate for a Year even owned it. I just never got to it.

Into the Wild is worth seeing, if only for the amazing soundtrack and cinematography. BUT, that being said, I hear ya. I will never watch Castaway because too many people have told me I need to watch it.

Optimus, Mon Savage, we'll watch Shawshank together. It's in my Top 10.

I'm firmly convinced that my abortive attempt to watch "Rocky Horror" has spoiled me on all musicals for all time with the exception of "Streets of Fire." Of course, that was a rock-and-roll musical so it may not count. In any event, holy shit balls, "Rocky Horror" was awful.

Jimbob is right on the money re: Prince of Tides. Wonderful book, piece of crap movie.

Tracer Bullett - I have three words for you West Side Story. You can't give up on musical movies based on Rocky Horror!

Hmmm...RE #s 4, 6, 8 and 9. I think I see a decidedly anti-period Brit flick bias. Let me guess. You also haven't seen A Passage to India, The Remains of the Day, Atonement (OK, maybe you have seen this one), Wings of the Dove, etc.?

What can I say? You're only depriving yourself (though I'm sure you don't give a shit, busy as you are with repeated viewings of Kevin Smith movies [who I'll admit is great, if a bit one-note]).

Oh, and Shakespeare in Love DESERVED to beat Saving Private Ryan. One-and-a-half admittedly awesome battle scenes do not a great movie make.

There's some alleged classics I haven't seen and am waiting to (namely a bunch of Hitchcocks and Bogarts), then there's the so-called greats I'm avoiding like the plague:
Gone With The Wind - frankly my dear, I think you're retarded;
The Wizard of Oz - reading the book was a bad enough waste of time, thanks;
Citizen Kane - some rich guy dreams of his sled while kicking the bucket, whoop-de-shit;
Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, The English Patient, etc - some of these I've read, none of these hold any interest for me as film genres. Saccharine weepy melodramatic shit! Either the story's so good that any flaw in the execution will kill my high hopes (and thus be best avoided) or the story was average enough that reading it or just knowing the basic plot is enough to avoid wasting another few hours of my life in front of a screen.

I shit you not, Pa Helmet fell asleep in the opening credits of 2001 (not hard to do, considering how long they were) and I only stayed awake by turning on a hockey game on the radio at the same time. Good lord, I've seen more riveting baseball games! For that reason alone, Kubrick's films are on my moviespoilers list. Add the travesty of AI to the equation, and he's gone right out the window - I'm sure I'm not missing anything much.

I wouldn't even know where to start, honestly. If I have no desire to see a movie I just, I dunno, ignore that movie. That would include just about every Merchant-Ivory film ever.

On the other hand, I love Gone with the Wind so fiercely that it borders on fanaticism. Actually, it is.

jM I don't know! it's just...so not my kind of movie.

Nicole HA! Me too! I love that movie so much it's scary.

Ooh ooh...2001 Space Odyssey is another HUGE no for me. Good lord that shit looks awful.

I have never seen Titantic, nor have I ever seen The Godfather.

At this point, though, it's mostly to be ornery. Lord knows I'll watch just about everything else.

You nihilist.

I am soooooooooo very with you on this list!!
I have to add Star Wars though (i just fucking hate it) and Gone With The Wind. I watched it once as a six year old and that much film is TOO MUCH for a child with a way more expansive imagition than is healthy. I ended up trying to escape by pretending it was some sort of prison and i was being punished for being the rebellious prisoner so if i stuck it out i'd be the hero of the prison.

Also literally anything Kiera Knightley has ever done. Except for one i started watching before i knew she was in it,that turned out to be okay, not great, but okay.

But she was just as shit and wall eyed in it as she is in everyfuckingthing else ohmyGOD can we have a list where we list everything we hate about her?!

Flags of our fathers is one i'd love to actually sit down and watch because i adore most of the cast but at the same time its one i probably never will.
The Queen too

I dunno, becks. You'd probably have to see the end for the complete irony.

And keeping up the string of dates (noted by Paddy), tomorrow is the 33rd anniversary of the day Rocky starts!

DON'T DO IT, TK.

Fight the good fight.

Mine is Life is Beautiful...just on general principle.

Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies all time. Yes, it is a long historical epic, and a lot of long historical epics suck, but that's like boycotting the Cohen brothers just because The Man Who Wasn't There blew.

The best way to watch it would be to pop it in and tell yourself you're only going to watch it until O'Toole says the line "nothing is written" and then you will turn it off. If you aren't hooked by then you never will be, but if you are, you will re-arrange your life to see the rest.

Lawrence Of Arabia?

Lawrence Of Arabia??

Lawrence Of Arabia?!?

The other stuff on your list? Fine. You can be a perfectly respectable cinephile without watching any of that.

But LAWRENCE OF ARABIA?!?!?

Seriously, dude. Required viewing. Preferably on a huge theater screen in 70mm. (If you are ever going to give in, you might as well wait until you have that glorious visual opportunity. DVD will not do it justice.)

Have you seen any of David Lean's other films? Did you enjoy them? (And if you Bridge On The River Kwai is something else you refuse to watch, that's a whole separate rant.)

Frankly, I'm shocked I'm the first person in this thread to have this reaction. A lot of you seem to think it's "boring."

Anyway, per your statement above, I guess you can start hating me now.

Haven't watched Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers, eh?

That doesn't surprise me at all... comrade.

Additionally, this thread reads like a bunch of kids who won't eat their vegetables. Did y'all read Green Eggs And Ham? There's a good lesson in there.

I'm enough of a movie fan that I'll give almost anything a chance. That doesn't mean there aren't movies that I don't put off watching for various reasons, but there's nothing widely acknowledged as a great film that would elicit this sort of stubborn refusal.

Films that are obvious crap (e.g., Twilight) are a different story.

Dirty Dancing and that one with Kevin Bacon that they are remaking.

The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and anything else with Molly Ringwald from the 80s (I think she did one other one...don't remember what it was called).

I HATE 80s movies. The dialogue, the costumes, the shitty dancing and shittastic music. I got suckered into watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off and literally kicked my sister afterward (i was 10, she was 12).

And speaking of movies everyone likes that I don't: The Princess Bride. That movie is beyond unfunny. I've seen it twice on occasions when I was forced to and I just don't get it. I really don't.

Ooh, yes. The Piano is one of the most erotic movies of all time. It's hard to explain. But it's not just any movie that makes Harvey Keitel be that...weirdly, bizarrely attractive. It's such a weird movie, but I love it.

I've got a system,

Won't watch anything with either of the following:

1.Heigl aka Skank-cancer
2."Rachel"
3.Any actor rocking "stupid hair" for the film (see: Da Vinci Code)
4.Paltrow (unless a superior actor/actress is on lead)
5. "Sassy" african-american women, especially if they are fat assed.
6. Annoying children
7. Will Smith's fucking kid
8. Comedies with De Niro
9. Comedies with Ford
10.Tea Leoni

Hehehehehehe ....early Eloquence entry?

I agree with every entry, all of which I have successfully avoided seeing. To add:

1. Dances With Wolves...BWeaves said it best.

2. The Godfather...it started because my father loves it and it pissed him off that I refused to watch it. Now I refuse just to be a brat.

3. Scarface...I couldn't get through 10 minutes of it. Al Pachino is the worst actor I have ever tried to watch. Meh. Just Meh.

I can't bring myself to watch these:

10. Amadeus (boooring)

9. The Matrix (Johnny Moronic and Whatshername)

8. Chicago (overrated as hell)

7. Girl, Interrupted (Fishlips)

6. Forrest Gump (Sorry Tom!)

5. Cold Mountain (Scrunchy)

4. Erin Brockovich (Horseface)

3. Coming Home (Fuck you, Jane Fonda)

2. The Sound of Mucus, er, Music (barf)

1. Titanic (Fuggedaboudit!)

Chariots of Fire!? Well...

Mine are: The English Patient, Clockwork Orange, Chinatown.

I can't believe people are venturing stentorian opinions on any film they've never seen. It's like being told you're ugly by someone who is blind.

I also can't understand wanting to deprive yourself of something to which a lot of people have ascribed value. What was that Rilke quote from Kissing Jessica Stein again?

Curses.

1. Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ten Things I Hate About You, etc. etc. etc. (high school has no positive or negative mystique for me)

2. The Crying Game (heavy-handed)

3. Life is Beautiful (not offensive, exactly, just really stupid)

4. Rain Man (still hurting the autism community after all these years)

5. Forrest Gump (sentimental pap)

6. Titanic (see above)

7. Sideways (boring)

8. Those movies where nothing happens but extremely subtle social and romantic things (The Squid and the Whale, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf...)

9. E.T. (dreadful)

10. Dunces With Wolves

Jay, if it hurts you are doing it wrong. It can work. I did feel a certain kinship with Elaine going off on TEP though.

The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and anything else with Molly Ringwald from the 80s... Blasphemy!

Al Pachino is the worst actor I have ever tried to watch. This makes me want to cry.

I sometimes want to like Pajiba, but other times it just seems dumb. This thread feels dumb. Let me get this straight: you haven't seen these movies but you somehow anticipate that you wouldn't like them and you therefore "refuse" to watch them? Um...okay then.

As for the long, long list of idiots here who dismiss movies like Citizen Kane or Lawrence of Arabia because they don't have explosions every two minutes (or whatever), I don't understand your nervous antipathy. In case you haven't noticed, "your side" (the side that insists that movies be intellectually barren, photographically predictable, and full of "action") has won. Most movies are exactly the crap that you seem to crave. What, exactly, is the problem?

Also, people seem to be making two different kinds of lists here. Some of you are noting films that are considered great that you found to be awful based on some amount of viewing, but the original conceit was to list great films you outright refuse to give a chance. That's a substantial difference.

Darth,

I agree with you on most things about Lawrence of Arabia, except the history part. I had read Lawrence's autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" before I watched the movie, and I must admit that I was rather disappointed with the movie. Characters and events that had never been mentioned in the book popped out of nowhere in the movie. But then, may be I should not compare the book with the movie, which are two different media, and historical accuracy was probably not the movie's aim in the first place. If you happen to read the book (it's long), you will realize that Lawrence was as powerful an author as the other Lawrence of the early-20th century England - D.H.

most of these are sensible choices. but if you are a professional critic, and haven't seen on of the movies on AFI's top 10...
you really just need to suck it up, donate a few hours, and check lawrence of arabia off your list

Oh Dustin I am with you on Prince of Tides. Run from it like the plague. A lot weepy bullshit and Babs running around bra-less. Do. Not. Like.

I have this aversion to the Harry Potter series. Never read the books nor seen the movies. Never gonna. Because they are so bleedin' popular and I'm that kind of snotty bitch.

Brokeback Mountain-because I can't sympathize with or enjoy a movie where the protagonist, gay or straight, cheats on his wife for years. Fuckwad.

Also, to everyone who talks about how they can't sit through long historical epics, if you are every hospitalized, you'll eat that shit up like candy. I got sucked into Dr. Zhivago AND Ghandi. Nothing eats the time away like a good historical fiction epic. Plus, it made me curious enough to read up on the actual events.

Emran>> Yeah, I understand what you're saying and am with you. I haven't read Seven Pillars, although a friend of mine - who is a much bigger fan of Lawrence Of Arabia than I am - has read it and discussed some of the differences with me.

What I meant by my second point wasn't that the film is a down-to-the-detail accurate portrayal of history, although I do think with its broad strokes it does a pretty good job of teaching viewers who don't have much knowledge about Lawrence and the history of the region. It doesn't surprise me that someone who had read the book first would have your reservations about the film.

Rather, I think the film is such an effective piece of historical fiction that it inspires viewers to want to learn more about the facts. Yes, there is dramatic license as there is in any film of this genre. So as long as viewers are clever enough not to take films at complete face value, I have no problem with that.

There was this series on The History Channel that would examine films like Lawrence and compare them to the facts, and I always found that fascinating. If you showed Bridge On The River Kwai to the real POWs in that camp, they might be a little offended at how easy the cinema makes it seem that they had it, but that doesn't mean it isn't a great film.

Braveheart? Mel Gibson glazed over the fact that the Battle of Stirling was actually the Battle of Stirling Bridge, and William Wallace - after goading the British army into crossing the bridge to meet them properly on the field of battle - took the opportunity to burn the bridge while the army was crossing, thus winning the day. That battle scene was still mighty impressive, though.

Anyway, my point was that Lawrence Of Arabia invigorates the study of history and more specifically the Middle East, and generally I think that is a good thing.

I can't believe people are venturing stentorian opinions on any film they've never seen. It's like being told you're ugly by someone who is blind.

Posted by: Ginginho at November 24, 2008 7:47 PM

This thread feels dumb. Let me get this straight: you haven't seen these movies but you somehow anticipate that you wouldn't like them and you therefore "refuse" to watch them? Um...okay then.

Posted by: Kikuchiyo at November 24, 2008 8:29 PM

My outrage at this thread was rising into a bilious crescendo, and then I came upon these two late entries. Now I got nothing -- defused by having to look up "stentorian" (all I could come up with on first glance was the protozoan from Biology class which made no sense at all) and dismantled by steely cold logic surgically applied.

Well, nothing except this: airing one's uninformed prejudice proudly is not a characteristic I usually associate with this place. I really can't imagine proclaiming that there's a movie I absolutely would not watch; even if I thought I would hate it, I would probably be motivated at that point by a desire to test my resolve. There are plenty of movies I'll never seek out, but that doesn't mean I won't at least sample enough of it to form my own opinion if the opportunity presents itself. Starting a movie is not a mandate to finish it, but refusing to start it on "principle" is a mandate to revel in ignorance.

Seconded, Che.

I used to be stubborn about films, but then, when I finally watched The Princess Bride and Edward Scissorhands, they were pretty great. And now I'm not a stubborn jackass.

Well, I'm not stubborn anyway.

after reading Into the wild like ten years ago, sean penn, eddie vedder and any other psuedo-intellectual-ecological nutjob will only deter me further from going back down that rabbit vaginer; of course aint nothin ever good come to me from askin "why"

HOLY FUCKING BEJEESUS...here we go!

OK, to begin, The Prince of Tides is a brilliant movie, my undying love for Barbra Streisand aside. Case in point: Nick Nolte's hair. Blythe Danner's hair. George Carlin playing a gay. BRILLIANT.

Which brings me to my next point:

It is SUCH a hipster, ridiculous fucking mindset to dislike Streisand. She is an amazing actress, a talented director, a visual trailblazer (if not for her, there would be no Sarah Jessica Parker), and one of the most unbelievably powerful singers of a generation. So the hatred people have for this woman eludes me. It is something I can only attribute to a tendency of 20-somethings to agree with everything Trey Parker and Matt Stone tell them to think or like. And before you argue with me, name one Streisand film or cd you have ACTUALLY watched or listened to without just getting your opinions of them from someone else. Every time I hear someone criticizing Streisand, I always ask them why. Interestingly enough, they usually just tend to turn back to their Camels, Stella Artois, and scarf-wearing friends, and adjust their thick-framed glasses without being able to answer the question. It's either that, or they're just too fucking afraid that someone will think that they are gay for admitting to appreciating her talent.

Liking Barbra Streisand DOES NOT MAKE YOU GAY.

Well, it made me a little gay. But that's not the point.

As for the other movies on the list, meh. They are all long and boring, like Wes Anderson movies, another hipster thing I fucking hate. The only reason people say they love Wes Anderson is because they think it makes them sound cool and intellectual. Newsflash: getting an education makes you cool and intellectual. Intellectual masturbation to a Bill Murray film does not.

Unless it's Groundhog Day, because that shit is funny. Even though I hate Andie McDowell. She is NOT pretty.

OK, I need to go now. I think my meds are all screwed up. I need to just sit down and watch Funny Girl and try not to cut people...

name one Streisand film or cd you have ACTUALLY watched or listened to without just getting your opinions of them from someone else.

Meet the Parents & Meet the Fockers.

We're done here.

Pardon me. Only Meet the Fockers. I can't quite tell when one ends and the other begins. To me its all one long coiling turd.

I agree. The entire Meet the... series sucks ass. But then, isn't that like trying to judge Ryan Reynolds on the merits of Blade Trinity?

And popejenn...in today's society that is dominated by magazine covers and E! exclusives on the rich and skinny and ridiculously modelesque, I appreciate a woman who chooses to keep her nose and look exactly as she was intended.

"A Star is Born"

Streisand blows.

I have my reasons.

I never say never, unless it was to that docudrama about Central Asian yak herdsmen. In the trailer, when one herdsman says "come, my lovely little yak"? That broke me.

Can we have an end to one-word comments, like "boring"? They make you sound age twelve. How is it boring, darling?

Well, an opinion's an opinion, but I saw "Bottle Rocket" when it was still pretty obscure and "Rushmore" four times (might've been five actually) in rapid succession before I thought it might be hip to do so. So I definitely don't pose for Wes.

I don't have a dog in the Streisand fight though, the rest of you can settle that amongst yourselves.

"...(if not for her, there would be no Sarah Jessica Parker),..."

THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING!!! *bangs head against desk*

Be Adequite: FLETCH???

Holy crap. We got so few good Chevy Chase movies, it is a shame to discount the ones that are genuinely funny.

I'm with the others questioning why someone would refuse to watch a movie just to be obstinate. I can see not doing it because of a hatred of a particular actor/actress, director, not caring about the plot, etc, but refusing just to refuse is pretty ridiculous.

Add Master and Commander to the list. Fuck that movie.

I think there's a difference between refusing to see a relatively insignificant movie everybody tells you you really, really have to see (Garden State, Knocked Up, Shakespeare in Love) because you know damn well you won't like it and refusing to see a confirmed classic (Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, The Godfather, etc.). Engaging in the former isn't that big a deal - life's too short. Engaging in the latter is strikes me as anti-intellectual.

Sure, sure - we can have a whole threat devoted to what constitutes a "confirmed classic", but I think there's an enormous gulf between Lawrence of Arabia and Into the Wild as far as cinematic and historical importance is concerned. And I liked Into the Wild very much.

I'm a total slut for movies, so none of this craziness really applies to me, but...

I just wanted to throw this out there: Harvey Keitel's wang has a cameo in The Piano. Depending on the person, this could tip the scale either way, but I think everyone should have the chance to make an informed decision.

The Pink Hulk, I've got nothing against SJP's looks in general. I was referring mostly to her acting abilities which are limited to playing annoying overly-neurotic characters. Except in Footloose. She was good there.

Far be it from me to take that away from you, The Pink Hulk. Consider it an early xmas gift that I refrain from sending my ninja schnauzer puppy after her.

The English Patient - GAH! I hate, hate, hate, hate this movie. I tried. SOoooooo dull....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....I'm sorry what were we talking about?

Movies I don't want to see because of love of the source material or general annoyance at the idea:

Brokeback Mountain - cheating asshatery is not cool.
Into the Wild - read the book and have a dislike of Sean Penn.
Michael Moore movies - all of them. I find him to the be the opposite wing version of Rush Limbaugh and thus, inherently repulsive and nausea-inducing. As an Independent, I can hate both equally with political prejudice.

John Wayne, whatever your feelings are about the politics, made some very good westerns. I happen to love The Quiet Man.

I agree, Soto, that ITW is unfairly criticized. The books exceeds the movie, for sure, but the movie is fine.

Citizen Kane SUCKED - classic, no....THE best example of over hyped crap.

I'd rather watch Twilight.

Firefly/Serenity > Star Wars(respect/props to the animated(2D!!!) Clone Wars).
Star Trek > Star Wars

Twilight > Star Wars likely...

Though, I refuse to watch Twilight.

After seeing Indy IV, I refuse to watch anything with George Lucas taint. I have a copy of THX 1138 special edition new sealed somewhere. I refuse to watch it. If I knew where it was I'd offer it up for cost of shipping.

I refuse to watch Inconvenient Truth because it's all lies.

Well ok, rocky, maybe I'll try that approach. I think it'll be a bottle, though, not just a glass! And possibly with a side of whiskey.

I can take fictional angst aplenty, no problem. But that subject.... man...

Macafee, I've seen all of Wes Anderson's films and there are some that aren't that annoying, but that's about all I can say. If he comes out with anything else I'm not watching. I've had enough.

I tried twice to watch the English Patient then decided life is just too short to torture myself. I have no interest in seeing Titanic and also think Shakespeare in Love was an overrated piece of crap. But I loved Lawrence of Arabia (although my sister has never forgiven me for making her watch it with me).

movies i won't see

5.rocky horror picture show
4.stanly kubric films
3.stevn seagal movies
2.shekespere in love
1.twilight

movie way to hyped
i am legend( 3 time and the all suck)

what is the common denominator that determined this list? as a reviewer, there is an obligation to see movies that attain a certain stature, deserved or not. you cheat only yourself when you eschew " the queen " and " into the wild "...