Films/franchises you never quite "got"

[brendy]

After the top 5 movies thread, how about listing the films or series of films which you never quite understood why the made the money they did.

Ill start.
Harry Potter: Grown men wanting to watch this????
Lord of the rings: Again, grown men?
Shawshank Redemption: Was never able to make myself watch the whole film.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Harry Potter: Grown men wanting to watch this????

this, don't get it...

 

[haplesshacker]

Star Trek. I never 'got it'.

All the Rocky films. Twilight is it. Kids and vampire thing. Chick flicks.

That'll do.

 

[HughJars]

Harry Potter: Grown men wanting to watch this????
Lord of the rings: Again, grown men?

Yup, these two for me, never watched them and never had any inclination to.

 

[GB72]

Agree on the whole Twilight thing, whne I see a vampire film I have certain expectations and 'chick flick' is not on of them.

 

[Macster]

Shawshank Redemption: Was never able to make myself watch the whole film.

*shakes head* Certainly one of THE most watchable films of all times !

 

[Macster]

Harry Potter. - Tosh for kids.
LOTR - Impressive cinematography, but apart from that, once you have seen one, you've seen all 3.
Die Hard series. - Mindless drivel for those without brains.
Terminator series - " " " "
Bond,....James Bond. " " " "
- although it was good in a quirky kind of way back in the Connery/Moore days.

 

[JT77]

bond? really? Hmmm, I like the new bond, but love the classic ones too!

Dont get the twilight thing, but thats the youth of today.
and dance type film, boys prancing like girls etc! not for me! lol

 

[Ken_A]

My list from the above -

LOTR - what pants!
Starwars? Poop!
Star Trek I miss the point!
Rocky????
Shreck - (I know everyone loves it but why?)


Probably many more, just cant think of them now.

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Twilight(a load of sh*t)
Star Trek(boring)
Inception(very confusing film)
Borat(hate it when they try and be funny)
Bruno(same as above)

 

[freddielong]

Bond

Harry Potter

Star Trek

 

[jammydodger]

I agree on the Harry Potter stuff . for kids and i'm not one anymore

Star Wars . load of old tosh

Rocky films . utter drivel

Any martial arts films

James Bond . utter drivel too ,the ones I watched that is

Cant watch anything with Nicolas Cage (can never understand what hes saying)

Stupid , daft things like Mr Bean or Borat etc etc complete waste of time and sooo glad i've not wasted 2 hours watching them

Police Academy series , how did they get away with making so many when the first was @rse

 

[drawboy]

Twilight basically appeals to the teenagers need to never be like their parents,old. They long to be young forever something we have all lived through and at some stage we were drawn to this also. Lotr appeals to our sense of high adventure man against beast. Evil against good, the thought that whatever bad is in the world goodness will always prevail. Star trek calls to our sense of the unknown, the not knowing if we are alone in this universe and what we would do upon finding out we are not. God I'm good.

 

[RGDave]

I can't be doing with any of the early James Bond stuff. However, I did enjoy Casino Royale.

Harry Potter makes total sense if you're 8-12 years old.

Never went for the Rocky films.

The Twilight films get utterly slated on imdb. Films that score 7-8 on imdb are usually *disappointing* so scores of 4 or 5 must be unimaginably bad.

 

[madandra]

Twilight ::::


A teenage girls battle to chose between beastiality or necrophilia .....

I don't get it.


Otheres in my 'Why Bother' list are:

Monty Python ????
LOTR ?????
Harry Potter ???

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Another that never bought into Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings and agree that Die Hards weren't great. I disagree about the Bonds though particularly with Roger Moore. They always seemed to have a feeling that were in on the joke and that they were playing a lot of it almost for laughs. SOme great lines and chases in them too

 

[USER1999]

Bond for definite.

Any musical.

Any thing with Jim Carrey in it. He is just not funny. At all. Ever.

2001 space odessey. Wtf was going on. I have never seen it all, as I got bored with nothing happening. Marginally better than the pelican brief, which 3 times has sent me to sleep. My mate fell asleep in the cinema in front of it. Defo cure for insomnia.

 

[Iaing]

Anything written by, directed by or starring Woody Allen.

 

[daymond]

All of the foregoing plus:-
El Cid
Dr Zvado (or something)
Hours of turgid boredom

 

[AuburnWarrior]

Star Trek.
The fast and the furious. They just filmed Sutton on a Saturday night!
The Matrix. The first one was a good idea but the second and third were poor.
Me, myself and Irene. The worst film in the world, ever!
School of Rock. The second worst film in the world, ever!
King Kong. The third worst film in the world, ever!