I liked 'Superman' 2025

Hook, not so much.

What a talented actor!

But I think people who don't can't suspend disbelief. Just my opinion though. Same with "Pan".

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

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.

I hated Terms of Endearment.

pure schlock

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

The Exorcist I liked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

---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.

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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.

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

Liked
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Blues Brothers
Selena

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

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.

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

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..........

(See reply # 13)

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

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

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

Disliked "Titanic" and"The English Patient".

Hated The Thin Red Line.

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

...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.

I think it's terribly overrated.

No comment on Showgirls.

I Loved This Quentin Tarantino Movie!

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.

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

This is a very good movie.

But it does break my heart at the end.

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

Phoenician Scheme -- beautiful and fun

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

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

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.

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.

I loved the remake of True Grit (2010) -- directed by the Coen Brothers, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, with Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon playing Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney, and Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross.
It's a superb western IMHO and I highly recommend it.

As an actor, I have always said that I will honor the performers and never leave a film no matter how bad it may be. I paid for it and this is my lesson, so to speak. (As a performer, I learn just as much from a bad one as from a good one.) So, with that in mind, here is one of my all time favorite movies. (Defined as one that I have watched many times and will do so whenever I get the chance)

The wanna be singer in front of the giant American flag singing "It Don't Worry Me" after country queen Barbara Jean is assassinated is as relevant today, maybe even more so, than 50 years ago.

When the "This isn't Dallas, this is Nashville" line was uttered, the whole crowd let out a groan of disappointment and sadness. That was back when Dallas was being directly and constantly blamed for the JFK shooting. Pretty hard to forget...

I loved this Steve Martin comedy with John Candy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... wouldn't that include EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE? There needs to be some kind of differentiation here to narrow this down. Unless it's about one specific Clint Eastwood spaghetti western movie from the 1960s.

— Ron

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is just a play on words.

This thread is for posting films you either liked or disliked.

My name is Ron. You apparently have me confused with somebody else.

And I repeat, if this thread is for posting films you either "liked or disliked", that would include literally EVERY FILM YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. That's WAY too broad of a topic. The topic needs some kind of specificity, otherwise it is meaningless.

— Ron

A pretty funny movie called "Stripes". I do not know what point the poster was making by quoting this film. Also, this is indeed a meaningless topic, which is why it appears in The DU Lounge. Nearly every discussion here is pointless, existing solely to provide recreation or solace to the group.

I suppose there may be meaning in that, now that I think about it.

It's so fucking depressing & knowing it's real makes it even more so.

Surprisingly, "The Hunt for Red October" is one of my all time fave movies. I can watch it anytime & have probably memorized most of the dialog. "The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." "I think when it gets confused, it kind of runs home to mama". "One ping only, Vasily." And I love the anthem the Russian soldiers sing before the sub goes silent. I read that the underwater scenes were actually filmed in a smokey room. They tried filming underwater but couldn't get the right affect & someone came up with the idea of a smokey room.

and she will cook them for me."

It's one of my favorite movies...I've watched it at least 25 times.

One dumb line in the movie.
Near the beginning, Alec Baldwin is on an airplane, and the stewardess suggests that he might want to take a nap.
He replies that he can't sleep because of "turbulence"
And she doesn't know what turbulence is......a stewardess who doesn't know what turbulence is?

Wonderful music. Horrible movie, very depressing. Then they made a sequel with crappy music and story.

Cabinboy.

One movie that really moved me as a child was Seán Ó Fearna's Cheyenne Autumn. Sixty years later I still find it powerful.

Generally my favorite genre is sci-fi, especially Star Trek.

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It was a Sneak Preview, and the San Francisco theater was packed.
I got up and left as soon as I saw that Barbra Streisand was in it.
On my way out, I got several WTF looks from men in suits who may have been from Columbia Pictures, there to gauge the audience's reaction to the movie.
(I didn't much care for Barbra at the time, but I like her now)

Great space travel movie presented in documentary style.

Hated - Star Wars Episode 1 - The Travesty of Jar Jar Binks

Liked alot ST: The Voyage Home, and The Undiscovered Country.

Not sure I've ever hated a movie. Nothing jumps up at me.
I could say I'd never watch I Am Legend again. Terrifying!

Some were just too silly, like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Saturday the 14th, and Night of the Lepus (whose production costs were measured in carrots instead of dollars )

Any remake of a '60s cartoon or TV show (Bullwinkle, The Flintstones, Batman, The Wild Wild West, The Beverly Hillbillies, Alvin, etc)

Any movie that resembles a snuff film

And any movie where the bad guy wins. That includes a movie I really hated called Swordfish. The John Travolta character was annoying af, and letting him get away with stolen money when he should have been blown up in the helicopter was too much.

It's supposedly a comedy starring Paul Rudd, who's getting married and discovers he doesn't have a best man because he has no guy friends. So he sets out to find some guy friends and the movie frames this like it's some kind of problem except he leads an idyllic life and has no real problems. Paul Rudd's basically the friendliest guy who ever lived and the movie was stupid so I stopped watching it.