Here are some great films I don't rate

Apart from music and radio the other genuine passion I have in life is film. I'm the type of person who would disregard a Saturday night out on the town in order to stay in and watch a movie. That may be a testament to my somewhat boring personality but the fact still remains, I just fucking love films. Classic films mostly though, I like to watch a film that has been around for years and kind of challenge it in my own mind and every now and then I'll give a new film a try although many of them let me down. This is what motivated me to write this blog entry, you see many'o times I have been let down by films in the sense that they don't live up to expectations or I find that they are all hype. An example of this would be Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" which I thought at the time would be a thrilling horror about a crazed machine in space, what I got was hour long surreal cinematic sequences. Although I would never include that film in my list because it was a complete game changer, it still proves my point. Films can let you down despite the hype, and the following have let me down in the past and certainly did not live up to my expectations.

Beetlejuice 
I like Tim Burton, I enjoy his films and it took me a while to get round to watch what was called by many "His finest work" but when I ended up watching it I thought was a pile of shit. I enjoyed the zany humour,  the complete sense of surrealism throughout the film and and younger, thinner Alec Baldwin but to me it seemed like it was trying too hard to be "out there". Despite this it is arguably Tim's most creative film to date  but it just wasn't for me.

Ice Age
Everybody loves Raymond, but I don't like him in this film. I don't enjoy the Ice Age franchise and to this day I can't really understand why. Its your standard animated family film and I like most films in its genre but just not this one. I felt the squirrel detracted from the main story too much that it became more annoying than funny. The only good thing about the film is the fact that everybody knows somebody that looks like Sid the Sloth (pictured above) and it can fill you with endless hours of entertainment.

Signs
I love a good film about Alien invasions and I also like M.Night Shyamalan films but I hated this film with a passion. It had a slow build up, which I don't mind as long as there is some kind of climax towards the end of the film but there wasn't. Turns out the Alien didn't like water, The End. I thought it was a genuine insult to films from the same genre and I really felt that M.Night should have took a second glimpse at Mel Gibson's original script, which was essentially the same thing just with Jews instead of visitors.

Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppala is a fantastic director, Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen were both brilliant so what's the problem here? Not a lot really but I just felt like the film was really long winded especially after such a strong start. I didn't feel that the end result was worth the length of the film. This is the case with a lot of films.

The Birds
So you're going to shred an Alfred Hitchcock film are you? Yes I am. I paid a fair amount for this classic film and I was thoroughly disappointed. I can appreciate how innovative the techniques used were back in the 1960s but the overall story-line/lack of story-line left me completely bewildered. It made me wonder how such a poor film became so iconic and if you think about it Birds aren't really that great of an antagonist for a film are they?

Nightmare before Christmas
Tim Burton fans are really going to hate me after this but I must stress at this point that I do in fact like Tim Burton and his films, I just didn't like BeetleJuice and this film right here. I found one song to be rather catchy  but overall that was about it. The story failed to hook me in and I just generally wasn't interested.  I don't think its the worst film ever made, I can see why people like it. It just did not appeal to me.

Superbad
Again, I can see why people may like this I just don't see how it lives up to its hype. All I heard consistently was "You have to see Superbad man!" and I saw it and I barely chuckled which is a bad thing because it doesn't take much to make me laugh. My interpretation of the film was that it was just Micheal Cera being awkward (Surprise) and Jonah Hill was swearing a lot for about 90 minutes. It's certainly worth a £1.50 buy from Play.com  to add to your collection but its not worthy of any top ten list, says this observer.

Reservoir Dogs
Again, I like Quentin Tarantino and I like both Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth but there was just something missing...Oh yeah! Like real suspense. It just didn't engage me and I'm admittedly easily reeled in. Like the other day parent was watching "Cash in the attic" and I just thought to myself "Boy this would be a real treat" and I genuinely sat down and watched the entire programme. Not to say that this film doesn't top Cash in the attic but it just didn't grip me like it has so many other people.

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