21 "Classic" Movies Everyone Loves That Are Actually Inappropriate, Boring, Or Just Plain Bad

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“The misogyny in Saturday Night Fever has not aged well…at all."

Here are some of the top-voted responses:

1. The Breakfast Club (1985)

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"Didn't get it and couldn't get into it. Seemed like a bunch of whiney teens giving sh*t to a teacher for no reason...then they just smoke weed and start dancing. I have never in my life been able to do anything like that after getting blitzed out of my brain."

u/Empty-Refrigerator

2. The Notebook (2004)

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"I can name, like, a hundred movies that are way sadder. I didn’t find it all that tragic because it seemed pretty obvious what was going on the whole time."

u/traws06

3. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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"As much as I love Audrey Hepburn, this movie was just a snooze from beginning to end."

u/Luchalma89

4. Mamma Mia! (2008)

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5. Pretty Woman (1990)

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"I understand it has some classic scenes in it, but Gere's character is just a d*ck, and the whole story is a bit meh."

u/seanye-

6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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"I'm not wild about this movie. It's kind of fun, but the characters just don't seem like real or relatable teenagers. Maybe that's part of the point, but it doesn't really resonate with me."

u/kcknuckles

7. Love Actually (2003)

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"This movie is just a bunch of unhealthy relationships intertwined together."

u/insane__knight

"I've tried to watch it several times and can't get all the way through it."

u/dinosaurgasm-

8. A Christmas Story (1983)

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"It's deeply unfunny, every character sucks, and in no way whatsoever does it resemble any normal person's Christmas experience. It's less of a Christmas movie and more of a growing-up-in-the-late-'30s movie."

u/Intelligent-Badger15

9. Fight Club (1999)

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"When it first came out, I loved it. All these years later…it’s just boring violence."

u/gtbuzzed

"Fight Club is a great movie, but it’s not as legendary as everybody who quotes it all the time thinks."

u/evilmonkey9361

10. Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

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"It's not a terrible movie, but Nightmare Before Christmas is a meh movie with bad music. If it wasn't for the fan club it has, I would have quickly forgotten about it and probably never considered having any real opinion about it — but because of the fans, I can't stand it. I really don't understand the hype."

u/HeroinBob138

11. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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"I don't know if I just didn't get it, but it was so boooooorrrring."

u/throwingplaydoh

12. A Chorus Line (1985)

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"It's a bunch of good-looking twentysomethings whining about their first-world problems, set to music."

u/CapnFang

13. Grease (1978)

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"The worst movie I have ever seen is Grease. What the heck even happened? I feel like they just wrote catchy songs and then realized they needed to stick them in the middle of a story — and then wrote the story after being awake for 48 hours straight."

u/ava_dirnt

14. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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"Kate Capshaw was funny when you’re a kid, but unbearably annoying when you’re an adult."

u/GoFUself-Tony889

15. Gone With the Wind (1939)

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"That was four hours of the whiniest, most unlikeable, most entitled main character in the history of cinema."

u/gunnathrowitaway

16. The National Lampoon's Vacation movies

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"People swear up and down about them. I can't stand to watch any of them for more than five minutes. Especially if he's interacting with whatever random kids are playing with his kids in any given movie."

u/Interesting_Arrival5

17. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

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"The music is great, but it is a masterpiece of misogyny that has not aged well at all."

u/SuchLovelyLilacs

18. My Fair Lady (1964)

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“'Oh, this talk-singing thing Rex Harrison is doing is interesting, I guess… Wait, he does this the entire movie? And he has SEVEN SONGS?' Awful."

u/DblePlusUngood

19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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"I get that it was groundbreaking for its time and was reasonably scientifically accurate, but man, did it bore me something fierce!"

u/a-jm93

20. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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"The movie itself, god-awful. My fiancé and I watched it 'cause she'd never seen it, and she was right when she said it was just a bunch of randomness. However, the music is amazing, so I'll still watch it from start to finish and sing along to every song."

u/moslof_flosom

21. And finally: Titanic (1997)

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"Titanic isn't terrible, but it’s definitely not as incredible as everyone makes it out to be."

u/Sebbo104

"They took a tragic historical event and turned it into a three-hour movie. Ew."

u/Daughterofthemoooon

Do you agree with this list? What other classic movies are actually terrible? Let us know in the comments below!

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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