33 Hilly bad reviews of classic movies

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Movie Critics can do or break a new versionpotential success. And while choosing the DUDs, it's easy, which requires more skills to identify when you look at what will eventually become classic. In fact, even the most famous cinema critics may have difficulty recognizing greatness. To takeStanley Kauffmann ofThe new republic, for example. Inhis exam ofStanley Kubrick's 2001: a spatial odysseyHe described the movie like "so boring, it even abyes our interest in technical ingenuity for the good of knowing that Kubrick has made it boring." Or what would you sayJoseph McBride, aVariety criticism that thought they hit the nail on her head when helicensed Martin Scorsese Goodfellas, one of the best gangster films ever made, like "unsatisfactory dramatically". Here are 33 hilariously bad reviews about what would become beloved, timeless cinematic classics.

1
The Empire Counter-Attack (1980)

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IMDB / LUCASFILM

"The more we see the main characters, the less attractive they are. Luke Skywalker is a Winner,Han solo A sarcastic boiler, Princess Leia a Nag and C-3PO just a drone. "

-People

2
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

the wizard of oz
IMDB / 1939 Video Home Warner Home

"He has dwarves, music, technicolores, monster characters andJudy Garland. It can not be expected that humor also has a sense of humor and that, as for the mild touch of fantasy, it weighs a wet fruit cake book. "

-Otis Ferguson,The new republic

3
Ben Hur(1959)

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IMDB / Warner Bros.

"If you can keep both eyes open throughout its three-hour length, you are a better man I'm."

-Dave Kehr,Chicago Reader

4
Jaws (1975)

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MCA Video / Universal Home

"This is a measure of how the film operates not once, we feel a particular sympathy for one of the victims of the shark ... he puts good actors to the test. They must work very hard just for appear alive. "

-Vincent Canby,The New York Times

5
The sponsor: Part II (1974)

Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part II
Immediate / Primordial Photos

"All of any interest was completely covered in the original movie, but like many people who have nothing to say,Part II Do not shut up. "

-Vincent Canby,The New York Times

6
A star is born (1976)

a star is born
IMDB / Warner Bros.

"[Barbra] Streisand's The notion of agency is a bulldozer at one end of one line to another regardless of anyone or anything; You can literally feel his impatience for the other artist to stop talking so that she can resume recovery. "

-John Simon,New York magazine

7
Apocalypse now (1979)

apocalypse now
IMDB Studios / Zoetrope

"A mute movie that could have been done solely by a smart and talented man."

-Richard T. Jameson,Weekly

8
Royal casino (1967)

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IMDB / Productions of Famous Artists

"I can not think of a folkloric hero in human history with fewer qualities redeeming that James Bond. He is not even a human being, but just a big store of Bang-Bang mannequin ... Of course, This criticism is too wise in the way of brainwashing to believe that one of his readers believe it. So see it for yourself, but do not blame me. "

-Andrew Sarris,Village voice

9
Disapparative (1995)

Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash in Clueless (1995)
Immediate / Primordial Photos

"Disapparative Has a winding plot that has something to do with dear to do beautiful things for people - if they wear the good clothes, it's like ... it's like biting in a tamale and find it filled with puff marshmallow. "

-Owen Gleiberman,Weekly entertainment

10
Extraterrestrial (1979)

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Fox IMDB / twentieth century

"For the most part, things simply jump and go 'boo!'"

-Dave Kehr,Chicago Reader

11
A pretty woman (1990)

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Images IMDB / Touchstone

"Nobody has yet made a romantic comedy in which, for example, a popes of toxic waste falls for a terrorist hacking. (They meet cute in a registration line of the airport, and she has a bomb in her Luggage.) ButA pretty woman Approves the search for the least admirable characters to build a good movie. "

-Richard Corliss,Time

12
The Redemption of Shawshank (1994)

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IMDB / Castle Rock Entertainment

"I do not want to be cynical, but is it not supposed to be a little more nostalgic than this one?"

-Ed Gonzalez,Tilt

13
The exorcist (1973)

the exorcist still frame
Warner Bros. Pictures

"A piece of elegant claptrap occult ... The devil, it seems, for all his supposed powers, can not break and enter without resembling like Laurel and Hardy trying to move a piano."

-Vincent Canby,The New York Times

14
Forrest Gump(1994)

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Paramount Pictures

"To judge by the popularity of the film, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what many Americans want to hear."

-Jonathan Rosenbaum,Chicago Reader

15
Laurence of Arabia (1962)

Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, and Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Immediate IMDB / Horizon

"Rarely said so little summer in so many words."

-Bosley Crowther,The New York Times

16
Fighter club (1999)

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IMDB / Fox 2000 Images

"Fighter clubis a walk of chills that are as philosophy - the kind of turn where some people vomited and other people can not wait to withdraw. "

-Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times

17
The matrix (1999)

the matrix
IMDB / Warner Bros.

"If anyone always wanted to see[Keanu] Reeves Shaved naked and covered with mud, it's lucky. He plays a computer hacker who falls into a vague awareness that this world is only the low reflection of a Cyberworld controlling "on there" ... we know it is puzzled on what reality it currently occupies because 'He escapes into his eyebrows. "

-Bob Graham,The chronicle of San Francisco

18
E.T. The extraterrestrial (1982)

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IMDB / Universal Images

"Obviously, it's (E.T.) is one of those types of autistic genius that Hollywood loves - able to create aInterstellar communicator On toys and cutlers, but completely inept with basic social skills. "

-Don McKellar,Movie scope

19
Gladiator(2000)

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IMDB / Universal Images

"He employs depression as a substitute for personality and belief that if the characters are sufficiently bitter and morose, we will not notice how dull they are."

-Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times

20
Sixth Sense (1999)

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IMDB / Buena Vista Images

"I was not only surprised by the final of the film, I did not even try one. I just thought I was looking at a bad movie."

-Jack Mathews,New York daily news

21
Halloween (1978)

halloween still frame
IMDB / Falcon International Productions

"With attractive tracking and repetitive music, the movie stops and starts so many times before anything happens.The Bogeyman Lighting becomes just a nuisance. "

-Pauline Kael,The New Yorker

22
Dogs tanks (1992)

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Alamy

"This is the ideal date movie, assuming that you meet a psychopathic sadist with a high tolerance for dillydallying."

-People

23
Titanic (1997)

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Immediate / Primordial Photos

"[James Cameron has never been known for his dialogue butTitanic door of the pukers who would not make the final project of aDays of our lives scenario. "

-David Edelstein,Slate

24
Black Swan (2010)

natalie portman in black swan
Immediate IMDB / Fox

"Not just a kind of basket, it's a peak basket, a kind of" when tuccon over psycho "that plays a hysteria on mental health that is worth saying when his characters are hallucinating and when they do not are not. "

-Kenneth Turan,Los Angeles Times

25
Shiny (1980)

The Shining
Alamy

"With everything to work with, directorStanley Kubrick Team with nervousJack Nicholson destroy everything that was so terrifying aboutStephen King Bestseller ... The Crazier Nicholson gets, the more he looks silly. "

-Variety

26
Psycho (1960)

Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)
IMDB / Shamley Productions

"The only thing we note with disappointment is that among the stuffed birds that adorn the motel office of[Anthony] PerkinsThere are no significant bats. "

-Bosley Crowther,The New York Times

27
Se7en (1995)

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IMDB / New Line Cinema

"So chic, studied and dark, it looks like a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad polish art film ... Located in a rainy, adorn a burg (the city of Dread?) Where the lighting was still invented,Sevenseems to believe that if you drop enough references toDante andChadurt You got serious. "

-David Ansen,Newsweek

28
Fear and Must in Las Vegas (1998)

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IMDB / Universal Images

"This film inspires no fear in me, but hate? Yes. Oh yes."

-Barbara Shullgasser,Examiner

29
There is no country for old men (2007)

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IMDB / Paramnont Vantage

"Exasperative and self-defeating experience, rather like listening to extolate nymphomania the virtues of celibacy."

-Ryan Gilbey,New state states

30
Vertigo (1958)

James Stewart and Kim Novak in Vertigo (1958)
Immediate / Primordial Photos

"The former master revealed another history Hitchcock-And-Bull in which the mystery is not so much that did it like being worried."

-Time

31
Creation (2010)

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IMDB / Warner Bros.

"A way to save a little fun with this Blunderbuss would fall asleep while watching and dreaming a better movie yourself. Try it. You will avoid a headache."

-Kelly Vance,East Bay Express

32
dusk (2008)

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IMDB / Summit Entertument

"I had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, not written and quite a little unnecessary thing of the pseudo-romantic on" Romeo and Juliet "."

-Marc Salov,The Austin Chronicle

33
Blue velvet(1986)

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IMDB / Laurentis Entertainment Group

"Blue velvetIs like the guy who leads you walnuts by lighting horrible news and saying. 'No matter.'"

-Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times

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