8 Inherently Annoying Movies That Everyone You Know Seems To Love

1. Dead Poets Society

"Seize the day, boys - make your lives extraordinary!" These are endlessly quotable words made famous by a man that Dead Poets Society wants you to believe is the most inspiring teacher ever rendered in a motion picture. Robin Williams stars as the free-thinking John Keating, of course, an English professor who goes against convention and tries to push his students into - wait for it - thinking for themselves. With such an inherently annoying premise, is it really all that surprising that Dead Poets Society is so insufferable from start to finish? Plus, it started a super irksome trend that still continues to this day, in which normal people who don't speak a word of Latin can be heard saying "Carpe Diem" like it's their personal mantra. And those people are just the worst. Dead Poets Society is often branded about as one of the most inspiring movies ever; to claim that it's dull and actually kind of uninteresting (not to mention that Keating is a terrible teacher) makes you a target for destruction. "You just don't get it," they say. "It's brilliant." But they're wrong. Dead Poets Society is a misguided and actually rather run of the mill snoozefest that somehow manages to even make Robin Williams a bit boring. And all that standing on the table stuff? Really grating, that.