39 Beloved Movies That People Think Are Actually Quite Terrible

Lights! Camera! Meh. Since the beginning of cinema, there have always been critics. Even when critics and audiences agree a movie is great, there is always one person who disagrees, and sometimes, that person is YOU.

2. "Frozen 2 (2019). The songs were annoying, and the story made no sense. Why would ice be another element? Why undermine the point of the first movie by having Elsa ignore her sister and her responsibilities and be rewarded for it?"

—u/Stock-Collection9106

3. "The Joker (2019). I've tried several times to watch it, but I just can't do it."

—u/Bigntallnerd

5. "Marty Supreme (2025). So there’s this asshole who plays table tennis. He ruins multiple people’s lives in his attempts to be competitive in this sport that very few people care about. I’m pretty sure he kidnaps a dog at one point (memory is fuzzy on that part). He definitely gets a married woman pregnant and seduces another married woman because she’s rich and he wants her to give him money for table tennis expenses. He never shows remorse for any of the terrible things he does."

—u/omninode

7. "K-pop: Demon Hunters (2025). The visuals and soundtrack are great, but the writing and pacing felt so odd to me that I couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. It felt like the epitome of 'tell, don't show' when it came to all the character conflict. The best way I can describe it is that it felt like the movie was cut into 50 different TikTok clips rather than a single movie. Plus, I felt a bit put off by the way the movie kept glorifying how much K-pop stars do everything for the fans, knowing how parasocial those fandoms can get irl."

—u/BananaSnapper

8. "Tenet (2020). I like Nolan's movies usually. I liked Interstellar, Inception, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer. They've got their flaws, but I like them just the same. (Especially Interstellar, which I watch at least annually), but Tenet just felt like there wasn't much in it. Hm, reverse time, neat. Like it just felt complicated for the sake of it, like Predestination or Coherence or whatever."

—u/sol_runner

9. "The Blair Witch Project (1999). I just hate the shaky camera and everything being dark. Can't see or understand anything in 90 percent of the movie. I think it only worked back in the day, when people didn't use the internet as prolifically, and the movie's marketing (pretending the actors were actually dead and missing) was believed because it was novel. These days, it's just a boring watch. It didn't age well, unlike a lot of horror movies, because it heavily relied on people believing it's real."

—u/princess22cake

10. "Anora (2024). I didn’t watch it until after it had won Best Picture at the Oscars, but I watched it three times to try to understand why it won, and I still didn’t get it. Could it literally just be chalked up to a Jersey Stripper-ella story with a Russian mafia element gone wrong? The plot was honestly very predictable. Maybe someone here could explain to me why it deserved all the awards it got."

—u/tasha2701

11. "Midsommar (2019). Most people act like it is some horror masterpiece, but it's the only movie I have ever wanted to walk out of because it was aggressively stupid. I would have if my wife wasn't with me."

—u/Corgi_Koala

12. "Step Brothers (2008). I physically recoil if I walk into a situation where it's on. Even thinking about it kind of makes me angry. Also, pretty much every Will Ferrell movie. I just find him obnoxious."

—u/DesiresQuiet

13. "Caddyshack (1980). It’s just not that funny. Maybe it was funnier back when it came out, and if you were a white dude and got your handle of Coke with your popcorn. I enjoyed the scenes with Bill Murray and the gopher."

—u/DeliciousRegular7

14. "Any Terrifier movie, all 3 are horrible, no story, no horror, just gore, it's just nasty. I regret wasting money going to the cinema to watch the third one."

—u/Background-Bat6871

15. "I didn't watch Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) until my 30s (thus no nostalgia), and it is an incredibly bleak film by my estimation. Daniel is a deeply selfish person and learns nothing at any point in the film."

—u/NidoKingpin

16. "Inception (2010). Dreams are wild but this film decides to go with car chases and people skiing down a mountain. It's like Christopher Nolan saw the epic 1984 film Dreamscape and thought I want to make a film about dreams as well, but in my film, the dreams will be incredibly dull."

—u/rangerquiet

17. "The Fast and the Furious franchise. When I watched the first one, I thought that they had just taken the script for Point Break and recast it. All of the subsequent movies are the same script over and over."

—u/ChrisRiley_42

18. The majority of the Marvel movies. Just the same story, retold multiple times. So formulaic."

—u/ConsciouslyIncomplet

19. "The English Patient (1997). Sack Lunch was way better."

—u/AJH05004

20. "I feel like everyone who watched Poor Things (2023) and gave it a positive review watched a completely different movie than I did. I hated that movie so much."

—u/ShadowMerlyn

21. "Definitely not terrible, but I didn't think Black Panther (2018) deserved an Oscar nomination for Best Picture."

—u/Alternative-Young655

23. "Uncut Gems (2019). Two hours of pretentiousness and shouting set against a bland plot."

—u/annoyedgrunt

29. "There Will be Blood (2007). Tried to watch it twice and quit both times. And I’ve seen Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."

—u/Sports-ingAround

31. "Easy answer. Sinners (2025). I enjoyed it, but it's a 5/10 at best."

—u/Drutarg

32. "Forrest Gump (1994). I didn't like it. Pretty terrible might be an overstatement, though."

—u/Humungous_Fart

33. "Elf (2003). The entire 'comedy' is based on people ridiculing/finding laughable the exploits of someone who is innocent and doesn't know any better."

—u/LittleOwl91

34. "The Shape of Water (2017). DO NOT watch this movie on an in-flight entertainment system."

—u/Koellanor

36. "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), I can respect it for its innovation, but I was sleeping throughout the entire movie."

—u/Horaciow14

37. "The Princess Bride (1987). I heard a ton of hype from a lot of people in my life, and it just did not resonate with me"

—u/Kitchen_Novel6393

38. "La la land (2016). It's just the smug Hollywood establishment j*rking themselves off. Insufferable."

—u/whistleandrun

39. And finally, "A Christmas Story (1983)! I can't stand this movie, and when I mention that, everyone looks at me like I'm crazy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

—u/parisi2274

What is a beloved movie that you have always hated, disliked, or never understood the hype about? Comment below and tell me all about it!