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Acclaimed (or maybe only pretentious) movies I dislike. Ignore the ratings.

	Revelations's Rating	My Rating
1	The Deer Hunter (1978, R)
2	Ratatouille (2007, G) Ratatouille just gave me a sense of indifference. The film wasn't fun. For me, at least. Most people like or even love it. I found it rather boring at times. My least favorite Pixar movie so far, though it is a better production than Cars or A Bug's Life. The character development and story just weren't up to Brad Bird's previous standard. The Iron Giant & The Incredibles are fantastic. In the end, I would say it's decent, but I would also say that it's over-hyped.
3	Driving Miss Daisy (1989, PG)
4	Magnolia (1999, R)
5	Legends of the Fall (1994, R)
6	Million Dollar Baby (2004, PG-13)
7	Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988, R)
8	Terms of Endearment (1983, PG)
9	Gandhi (1982, PG)
10	The Pursuit of Happyness (2006, PG-13)
11	The Sixth Sense (1999, PG-13)
12	Crash (2004, R) Racism is not good. Neither is this movie. It is such a manipulative and cliched message movie. I scoffed a lot at how shallow the writing could be. I did like a few of the scenes (the Dillon rescue, the two car thieves bickering) Yes, I know the movie had good intentions. Racial issues are important and should be discussed. But the finished product here is just so contrived. It seems like the goal of the filmmakers was to hammer home that we all can be a racist ("You think you know who you are. You have no idea."). I just never felt like they were focused on making a good movie.
13	Man on Wire (2008, PG-13)
14	Coming Home (1978, R)