Films that make you go "Meh..."

[moviedoors]

Sherlock Holmes

That's a perfect example of a meh movie. The actors are having fun, the whole team behind it are professionals ten times over, the set work and effects are great, and I forgot that I'd seen it within the time it took me to walk to my car and drive home.

 

[Rocketman]

You know, I couldn't ultimately think of a single movie that makes me go "Meh," but as a whole, almost all recent movies have done it to me. Between 2009 and 2011, to be specific. The past two years have basically sucked. I'm not sure if it's because The Dark Knight spoiled me so much in 2008, but I definitely feel like I'm living in a Post-Dark-Knight Era. The only exception to this, ironically, is Inception.

Really, the movies that truly blew me away between 2009 and today are:

Inception
Watchmen
Insidious
Up
Toy Story 3
Paranormal Activity 1, 2, 3

Everything else between 2009 and 2011 has been largely mediocre and borderline AWFUL.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

Star Wars...twilight...transformers

 

[Superhero 101]

Avatar
omg i don't know what the craze was about this film i thought it wasn't all that great

 

[kaypain]

Dragonball Evolution...................

................ (crickets)

 

[BH/HHH]

Hancock
The Matrix
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Silence of the Lambs

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Thought of some more:

The Tree of Life
The Hurt Locker
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Public Enemies
500 days of summer
Iron Man 2
Edward Scissorhands

 

[Art_of_Crime]

American Beauty
Juno
Ghost World
did I already say Gosford Park?
Grease
The Matrix Tril

 

[Schlosser85]

Twilight
Transformers
Titanic
Maid in Manhattan
The Haunting
The Matrix sequels
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Kingdom of Heaven

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Matrix II and III - I liked the first one...
Superman IV - The Quest for peace - I wanted to like it so much

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Shrek
Pirates of the Caribbean (I liked the first one a lot, the rest were all meh)
Interview with a Vampire

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

James Bond - Die Another Day

 

[Elevator Man]

LOTR trilogy

Ducks under table quickly!

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I actually fell asleep about 25 minutes into the the first LOTR, woke up about an hour later and didn't feel like I had missed any of the film!

 

[ALP]

Anything that ends or begins with "directed by Michael Bay"

 

[Spider-Who?]

The first 2/3 of Inception was good. But once they get into the dream at the end, it just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags. Come to think of it, The Dark Knight had that same problem. Nolan sucks at doing the third act. Hopefully TDKR’s third act won’t be like that.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Rock N Rolla
The Wolf Man
Men in Black I & II

 

[HallowShield]

Twatlight Saggers - makes me fear for the sake of tweens in the future that go batty over the utter trash.
Avatar - this and 'Aliens' are simply two films of Cameron's that I just find highly overrated and have no real engaging plot/storyline... all visual flash and no gripping characters/action.
The Dark Knight - I just couldn't get into it, and found it too jumbled on the action/characters involved. I enjoyed 'Begins' and so I had high hopes, but atleast B3 will have a stellar cast and of course Nolan returning next year after the astounding 'Inception', so I'll keep out hope that it's better/more interesting (not to mention I think 'DK' is highly overrated).
Fight Club
LotR trilogy - more like makes me go ZzzzZZzz...
Star Wars
E.T.
The Matrix - only have seen the first, but have been told a few times before that 2 & 3 especially are not worth the time... Reeves is just a death note to a film usually for me.

...also The Godfather trilogy; now I haven't seen any of them but I have a 'meh' attitude towards them in the sense that, as great as their suppose to be, I have no desire what so ever to want to watch them.

I couldn't agree more. They're always on the Top 10 lists of films, but they just never looked remotely intriguing/engaging for me to actually sit down and watch one. Of course... it doesn't help that I'm just not into most mobster movies.

 

[HallowShield]

A few others that I just remembered...
The Hangover - talk about one of the biggest overrated films of the past decade. I counted like twice when I laughed during it, and I simply thought the storyline was average and nothing special leading up to the wedding. I also loathed the baby *********ion joke (but then again, maybe it's because Galifinakis is like Seth Rogen to me -- unfunny/pompous lardos that think every line they say is hi-lair-e-us).
Psycho
Signs
Gone with the Wind - talk about 4 hours of a snoozefest, let's just leave it at that.
Grease
Juno
And... nearly any film that Depp/Burton are in. I liked 'Sleepy Hollow' as a kid, but as I got older it just wasn't anything extremely cool/engaging like I thought back then. Scissorhands was barely funny and was overly sappy; Sweeney Todd is a pure musical (not a fan of most musicals) with just blood baths galore from neck gashes. {Every main one dies, great ending there... not}; Corpse Bride is a one-time watch. Overall, I think that Burton needs to get over his secret lust of Depp and each both do their own projects.

 

[Spider-Who?]

I greatly enjoyed Signs. I certainly understand people's issue with the ending of it, but Signs has always been a good one in my book.

 

[HallowShield]

I greatly enjoyed Signs. I certainly understand people's issue with the ending of it, but Signs has always been a good one in my book.

It was suspenseful and at times chilling, until you get to the point of where the aliens start dying off because they can't be around H2O and you just start going "wtfudgepop!?" to it from then on... and as you mentioned, the ending wasn't a pleaser to say the least.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Lord Of The Rings - never read the books and I don't care for all the praises and awards it's received if it doesn't interest me I call it crap.

Harry Potter - the books came out when I was out of high school so I simply view them as children's books that wouldn't interest me.

Pirates Of The Caribbean - never went on the Disney rides, don't care for pirate movies and don't care for Kiera Knightly.

Shreck - not one iota interested in computer animated films.

 

[moviedoors]

Pirates 2 and 3. I liked the first one well enough. It was too long for its own good, but it's fun. The sequels are bloated, convoluted, and they didn't seem to understand what made Jack Sparrow work in the first one. He was the smartest character in that movie and everyone under-estimated him. In the sequels, he's a bumbling idiot who lucks out every time. And how do you show an entire British armada and a fleet of pirates facing each other down, and then only have two ships actually engage in combat?

Never saw the fourth one.

 

[HallowShield]

Harry Potter - the books came out when I was out of high school so I simply view them as children's books that wouldn't interest me.

Shrek - not one iota interested in computer animated films.

The first two HP books can be classified as children's literature, but 3-onward really get darker and the last two HP novels themselves are surely not children-appropriate. It progresses from if you're 7 years old then you can read the first few, but after the fifth book, if you're under 14 it's not particularly appropriate.

As for animated films, it's a shame that 80% of DreamWorks' animated/CGI films they've done are pure crap/non-creative (Shrek being in that category, imo) but I do have to say that you're missing out on some great film-making with some of Pixar's works....

 

[Liam_H]

Its kind of strange to classify something as Meh when you haven't given it a chance.