Unpopular movie opinions...

[jamespowers]

A "classic" is something everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read.

I always used to argue with my high school teachers about who determines what a classic is supposed to be. Some of that stuff is just junk.

 

[HepKitty]

Agreed. The Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame

 

[jamespowers]

Agreed. The Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame

That whole one long sentence thing was gimmickry at its worst.:eusa_doh:

 

[Wally_Hood]

A "classic" is something everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read.

And a library consists of all the books someone thinks they ought to read. (not original with me...)

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Agreed. The Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame

That whole one long sentence thing was gimmickry at its worst.:eusa_doh:

You guys are just a bunch of phonies... (I loved the book, and wish I'd read it when I was much younger).

 

[1961MJS]

Well there was War and Peace before that too. Now there is a book that I have never gotten through. The whole thing is just cumbersome and the print on my copies was infinitesimally small. I should sue the Tolstoy family for having to wear glasses and I still didn't get through the whole thing. :eusa_doh:
I want to see someone make a movie out of that and have it go over big. Modern readers do not have the patience to read it much less sit there for hours and hours staring at it.

Hi, I've read the Three Muskteers, 20 years after, and lots of books with LARGE numbers of pages. I read about 100-150 pages of War and Peace and I began hoping that they'd all die off quickly. I didn't like any of the characters enough to finish the book. I've made the decision not to finish reading a book only 5-6 times in my lifetime and that was one of them.

Later

 

[jamespowers]

Hi, I've read the Three Muskteers, 20 years after, and lots of books with LARGE numbers of pages. I read about 100-150 pages of War and Peace and I began hoping that they'd all die off quickly. I didn't like any of the characters enough to finish the book. I've made the decision not to finish reading a book only 5-6 times in my lifetime and that was one of them.

Later

You had the same experience I did with War and Peace-----win or lose, die or live---just get it over with already!:eusa_doh:

 

[jamespowers]

You guys are just a bunch of phonies... (I loved the book, and wish I'd read it when I was much younger).

I read it forcibly when I was in high school. It wasn't any better then than it is now.

 

[HepKitty]

I read it forcibly when I was in high school. It wasn't any better then than it is now.

I read it by choice in high school, not realizing until too late how weak it was. Still is.

Nathan I'm unbelievably happy for you that you like the book, but remember this thread is for "unpopular opinions"

 

[LizzieMaine]

I wanted to choke Holden Caulfield to death with a rope woven out of his own superciliousness, but I finished the book. However, I tossed "Atlas Shrugged" and "Ulysses" into the corner after failing to come up with any good reason why I should finish them.

To bring it back to Unpopular Movie Opinions, I couldn't get thru the entire "Godfather" saga either.

 

[lolly_loisides]

I wanted to choke Holden Caulfield to death with a rope woven out of his own superciliousness, but I finished the book. However, I tossed "Atlas Shrugged" and "Ulysses" into the corner after failing to come up with any good reason why I should finish them.

I *hate* Ayn Rand. I didn't like The Fountainhead & I suppose that's why I thought the movie adaptation was rubbish.
Ulysses is really patchy, parts are wonderful, but most of it's unreadable (like the Rossini quote about Wagner, some wonderful moments but perfectly dreadful half hours).

 

[Edward]

Ulysses I've yet to attempt, though I loved what else I read of Joyce. Ayn Rand, on the other hand, seemed to me a nasty, selfish creature that peddled a nasty, selfish and pretentious attempt to justify being nasty and selfish. But for a name check in Mad Men, that nonsense would have been rightly forgotten.

 

[rue]

I'll probably get virtual tomatoes thrown at me for this, but after GWTW was trashed here I can't help but give my opinion

I couldn't stand 'The Women'. Trust me, I wanted to love it so badly, but my husband and I sat down to watch it, after I told him that it's supposed to be oh-so-funny and one of the best movies.... blah blah blah..... I guess men cheating on women and the women trying to get them back just isn't funny to us. Plus it's hard for me to like Joan in anything after seeing Mommy Dearest.... "No More Wire Hangers!".... although I quite agree with that statement lol

An actress I don't get.... Jean Harlow. To me she looks like a bulldog with blonde hair. Great body though.

Oh and if I have to watch Top Gun one more time, I'll pull my hair out. Once was fine, maybe even twice, but for whatever reason all the men I have known watch it every time it's on TV and God forbid they have it on DVD, because it plays over and over and over.....shakeshead

 

[Nathan Dodge]

I read it by choice in high school, not realizing until too late how weak it was. Still is.

Nathan I'm unbelievably happy for you that you like the book, but remember this thread is for "unpopular opinions"

I remember. I've never been one to be offended by a differing opinion. In fact, I revel in being alone in my enjoyment of anything! The "phonies" reference is from the novel itself, which is what Holden Caulfield calls most everyone in the book.

 

[Sam Craig]

I'll probably get virtual tomatoes thrown at me for this, but after GWTW was trashed here I can't help but give my opinion

I couldn't stand 'The Women'. Trust me, I wanted to love it so badly, but my husband and I sat down to watch it, after I told him that it's supposed to be oh-so-funny and one of the best movies.... blah blah blah..... I guess men cheating on women and the women trying to get them back just isn't funny to us. Plus it's hard for me to like Joan in anything after seeing Mommy Dearest.... "No More Wire Hangers!".... although I quite agree with that statement lol

An actress I don't get.... Jean Harlow. To me she looks like a bulldog with blonde hair. Great body though.

Oh and if I have to watch Top Gun one more time, I'll pull my hair out. Once was fine, maybe even twice, but for whatever reason all the men I have known watch it every time it's on TV and God forbid they have it on DVD, because it plays over and over and over.....shakeshead

Wow!
Your husband is a lucky man, because you are dead on
The Women ... over rated
Joan ... creepy
I laughed my head off when Betty Davis gave her the tray with the dead rat on it in Baby Jane
Harlow was quite an actress, but she WAS weird looking
Babara Stanwyck ... now there's a dish!
Keep up the great observations.
Oh, yeah, GWTW is just terrible!
What a waste of Gable!

Sam

 

[Edward]

Oh and if I have to watch Top Gun one more time, I'll pull my hair out. Once was fine, maybe even twice, but for whatever reason all the men I have known watch it every time it's on TV and God forbid they have it on DVD, because it plays over and over and over.....shakeshead

With you on that - I've probably seen it twice, but I wish I'd never seen it. Nasty, nasty little piece of Hollywood vileness.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

With you on that [Top Gun] - I've probably seen it twice, but I wish I'd never seen it. Nasty, nasty little piece of Hollywood vileness.

What's worse is how Navy recruiters set up shop in the lobby in anticipation of those who came out of the theater in the "afterglow" of the movie's jingoistic "message."

I would have to post this on Veteran's Day, wouldn't I?

 

[rue]

Wow!
Your husband is a lucky man, because you are dead on
The Women ... over rated
Joan ... creepy
I laughed my head off when Betty Davis gave her the tray with the dead rat on it in Baby Jane
Harlow was quite an actress, but she WAS weird looking
Babara Stanwyck ... now there's a dish!
Keep up the great observations.
Oh, yeah, GWTW is just terrible!
What a waste of Gable!

Sam

Barbara Stanwyk was hot! I didn't know that until I started watching older movies of hers. Before that, all I knew of her was from Falcon crest.

Okay I have to ask... what is it about GWTW that everyone hates? I love that movie and the book, but only know a hand full of people that feel the same. Although I loved Gable in It Happened On Night even better than in GWTW

With you on that - I've probably seen it twice, but I wish I'd never seen it. Nasty, nasty little piece of Hollywood vileness.

Thank you! :arated:

 

[rue]

What's worse is how Navy recruiters set up shop in the lobby in anticipation of those who came out of the theater in the "afterglow" of the movie's jingoistic "message."

I would have to post this on Veteran's Day, wouldn't I?

lol
I understand, but just so you know, it's not their decision. They're told to do obnoxious things like that by the higher ups and have no choice.

 

[rue]

One big time love.... Citizen Kane. No one seems to love that movie like I do. It's why I fell for Orson <3 .... "Rosebud"......