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kingsrings:
I wanted to start a thread about disliking critically-acclaimed entertainment. You know, like a movie, show, book, song that everyone else just raves about, but that you can't stand. So what are yours?

I'll start: Good Will Hunting. It won several Oscars and has a four-star movie rating. Couldn't stand it. Maybe I just need to watch it again, but the one time I did see it years ago, I was so bored I fell asleep halfway through. Minnie Driver was horrible and annoying. The plot and dialogue was jumbled and went nowhere.

Suze:
OK here are a few in no particular order --

Logan's Run - the movie, The book is good, the movie has nothing much in common with it.  And Farrah Faucet was only on screen for about five min.

The Exorcist - the book was the most boring I have read.  I've only seen the movie on TV, so I don't know how well it was "interrupted" by commercials.

and here is the biggie---

The DaVinci Code -- It was a pretty good murder mystery. (didn't see the movie) and why is everyone making such a big deal out of it?  (no - don't answer that - I have heard enough about it already)

and one of Dan Brown's other books - Angels and Demons - is almost the same plot page by page.

Xanthia, Maker of fine Tin-foil hats since 2007:
The English Patient, Fargo, Titanic, The Notebook, the Clint Eastwood one with the cheating (forget the name).

FoxPaws:
Catcher in the Rye. I know there is a place in literary hell reserved just for me because I thought One Of The Greatest Books Of All Time was a total snore, but honestly, it sucked. I did finish it, mainly because I thought something that had been so lauded and applauded had to get better at some point. It didn't.


--- Quote from: Xanthia, the insane wedding planner on January 09, 2007, 04:54:26 PM ---.....the Clint Eastwood one with the cheating (forget the name).
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The Bridges of Madison County??

Yawn. It was a goopy romance novel, but it was written by a man, so that made it art. :P

Lisbeth:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Moonstruck.

The Bridges of Madison County.

Some of the later John Grisham books.  (I loved most of them up to The Partner, but after that the legal thrillers turned into B movie screenplays.)

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