What's a critically acclaimed movie you fail to enjoy?

Disclaimer: enjoy, not understand. I feel like this is a common criticism when you don't like a movie a lot of people love. "You just don't get it" or "it's not really for you to get". I get the movie and the symbolism and themes under it, I just didn't enjoy the movie.

To me it has to be Tree of Life. I kept waiting and waiting for the longest time to have any sort of narrative sense or at least some good performance out of the leads and I just kept waiting and then the credits came up. I don't know what to make out of it.

Another one like that was Boyhood. It just felt very gimicky to me and didn't have a good enough script to stand on its own. Then Awards season came and that was the front-runner to win and I remember being very confused.

Submitted September 05, 2018 at 08:47PM by calebfitz https://ift.tt/2wNWQGK