9 Movies That Everyone Has Been Tricked Into Believing They Love

5. The Once A Year Trick - The Sound Of Music

There are a whole bunch of movies that, for some reason, society collectively agreed we should all re-watch once a year, almost exclusively at Christmas. You know the ones: The Great Escape, It's a Wonderful Life... The Sound of Music. But whereas there's a point to re-watching the first two movies I mentioned, The Sound of Music seems like it's just stuffed its way into there on the back of several exhausting, bellowing vocal performances that nobody can be bothered to try and talk over.

That's right: I'm saying that The Sound of Music is a rather poorly made picture. The "trick" I'm referring to here, then, is that The Sound of Music has been overexposed on account of its "re-watchability," and has successfully managed to dupe the world at large into thinking it's a classic movie - one worthy of being watched over and over again, until the day the Earth is sucked into a void and disappears forever and ever, amen.

The problem is the construction of the film itself: the camera work is - at times - terrible, and it runs at... 174 minutes?! Spare me! And yet, it's a movie we're all apparently willing to "love" on an endless loop.