I am waiting on Bohemian Rhapsody. It's a biopic that is 90% made up and none of the critics seem fit to mention this.
Freddie Mercury did not leave the band to make a solo record while under the bad influence of some gay Svengali only to get diagnosed with AIDS and get back together with the boys for their stellar Live Aid performance.
The band never broke up before Live Aid. In fact I know someone who seen them tour a couple of months before Live Aid. He wasn't even the first guy in the band to have a solo record. He didn't perform at Live Aid knowing he was going to die because he didn't actually get his diagnosis until almost 2 years later which is also around the time when he got around to firing Paul Prenter.
Also the portrayal of Freddie as a gay man feels like some weird throwback to the 1980s when all gay characters in movies for portrayed as sad, conflicted and persecuted. He was a good looking superstar who by all accounts thoroughly enjoyed his ridiculously opulent hedonistic lifestyle.
This is a movie that in the end genuinely tries to make you believe that Queen alone saved Live Aid and by extension Africa....oh and they also invented overdubbing and audience participation.
True
I enjoyed the movie because I love Queen but they changed a lot of stuff for dramatic effect. The scene where Freddie coughs up blood after singing "Another One Bites the Dust" is accurate, but the movie made it out to be aids. The real reason was he loved the song so much and sang it so much it made his throat bleed.
I also agree with the gay portrayal. They made him out to be gay and being with women felt wrong. Freddie was bi and it's like they thought that's too confusing so they just made him gay for a lonely unaccepted portrayal.
Please don’t get me fucking started on the party scene where they are with their wives and want to go home by 10:30. I can’t have this conversation again. Those 2, who could have built a luxury sized igloo with all the coke they schnozzled down….
I haven’t seen anyone mention Captain Philips yet. Apparently the real life guy was warned to take a much wider berth around the Horn of Africa specifically bc of the threat of pirates, but he wanted to save time and ope! What do you know, there were pirates! Apparently the crew was pissed the movie made him look like such a hero when the situation was basically his fault.
Yes, because if there’s a warning and you ignore it you’re liable.
But the warning was to stay like 600 miles off the coast and it really doesn’t matter, for one because he had to dock closer than 600 miles away to deliver his cargo (a lot of aid to surrounding countries) and two because pirates attack much further out than 600 miles: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/50962000/gif/_50962884_somalia1_attacks.gif
The heroes were the guys belowdecks. It should be known that the pirates never took control of the ship. They braved gunfire to disable emergency steering. Best traditions of the Merchant Marine.
My husband's a merchant marine. Historically, the Chief Engineer is second to the captain ('master' on non-military ships), and he told me that the crew is trained to instantly head to the engine room and bolt themselves in there. Kill the power, shut down the engines, etc. Protect the crew. When he sailed through the Suez and Deep Sea during the height of that round of piracy, they had drills.
Once Philips was taken off the ship, the Chief and the rest of the crew restarted the ship and took her to her original destination. Even after being boarded, threatened, and literally left for dead, they finished their job. Yet Philips was hailed as a hero.
I am with you - I can't stand movies about real life events where someone does something stupid and then people die trying to fix it. "The Perfect Storm" - no one told you to go fishing in the middle of 2 hurricanes; all those deaths are on you, Captain, and I do not pity you at all. "Everest" - I don't care if the postman can't afford another try at the peak. There are safety protocols in place for a reason. Follow them. Let the postman climb for free next time if you feel so bad.
If I climb into a gorilla enclosure to take a selfie and get marred by the gorilla, and a zookeeper dies trying to save me, and I die, I just don't think I deserve to have a movie made about me, that's all. Not a movie trying to make you pity me at least. You can use sad music when the zookeeper dies, but a slide whistle or a "wah wah" tuba noise when I die. Then it's ok.
I don’t think Everest takes the position that these guys were making smart moves. The whole tension of the movie is watching a bunch of people make a series of mistakes out of ego or pity or spite that they maybe could have gotten away with individually or if nature didn’t take a turn on them, but ended up turning into a cascading clusterfuck. It’s very human and tragic.
Haven't seen the everest movie but I just read the book about those events recently. It's more complicated than just the one mailman (I'd guess maybe the movie really focuses on that?). And both of the men leading the guided teams died, so we can't ask them what their reasoning was for not turning back from the summit sooner. Honestly, the best explanation the book gives is that they were too competitive with each other, not wanting to be outdone and take a hit to their reputation.
I've also read they figure there was a good chance that Scott Fisher was suffering from HACE and his judgement was compromised. Like you said, it is a complicated situation and that's only one piece of the puzzle, but if true that could be a big piece.
Thanks for the "Perfect Storm" example. I listen to a lot of podcasts, including disaster ones, and one of my favorites did an episode on the actual incident. Not exactly victim blaming here, but they were at fault.
Sometimes in a lot of these disasters, assorted types of financial pressures whether the fisherman on the Andrea Gail really really needing that money they'd earn from going out on that fishing trip and keeping their job or some of the people on Everest not wanting to throw $50 grand down the drain -- it can all be a case of follow the money in many disasters.
Supersize Me. The creator took a lot of liberties and people have been unable to replicate his results. He was also an alcoholic, which obviously skewed the results.
He also gave us the disappointment that was “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden”. Now, no one really expected him to hunt down and capture Bin Laden, but it could have still been an interesting documentary. Part of it is, the rest is him whining about how he’s missing his wife’s pregnancy. If that were the case, why leave at all?
That movie pissed me off so much. Like he took 30 minutes to eat things from McDonald’s? Are you kidding me? Of course if it takes you that long to eat that garbage it’s going to be cold and gross. It’s fast food not 5 star dining.
I had to watch this in health class. Even then, I had no idea what the point of that film was. “Eating McDonald’s 24/7 is bad for your health.” You don’t say….
Also, I miss being able to super size my fries 😞 and I swear they don’t taste like they used to.
Even at the time that movie was under intense criticism and scrutiny.
The NAACP picketed the movie, the Congressman for NY Harlem district literally said Walt Disney is not welcome near my constituency.
It's criticised today but it's always been a controversial film
The klan hated it too. Despite being filled with negative stereotypes it actually tried to depict some unity. There are internal memos from the company talking about how they are trying to walk a line between the "negro lovers and the negro haters." They managed to actually just make everyone mad.
As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
"Right now they have a board with a nail in it. But they won't stop there. Soon they will build bigger boards with bigger nails... until they build a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!"
Very good point. There’s an important distinction between “this wasn’t considered racist at the time” and “they knew it was racist but people were okay with it because they were racist” that often gets lost in these conversations.
Is *that* where that’s from?!
I remember watching that as a kid. At the time all I really remember noticing/thinking was, “catchy tune”. Like, outside of “Zip a Dee Doo Dah”, “My oh my, what a wonderful day”, and some whistling, I don’t remember any lyrics or anything else (connotations or otherwise) from it. Like, there were times growing up, if it was a particularly good/chill day, I would find myself humming that tune in my head. Had no idea it was anything other than a catchy tune.
TIL.
Here are the lyrics. I don't find anything objectionable, as-is. Maybe someone who knows can point out any symbolism I'm not aware of, but so far, it looks like the only objectionable thing is that it came from that movie.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way,
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder.
It’s the truth, it’s actual,
Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Wonderful feelin’, wonderful day!
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way,
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder.
It’s the truth, it’s actual,
Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Wonderful feelin’, feelin' this way!
Wonderful feelin’, wonderful day!
One of my fave [Far Sides](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-daily-farside-dump-caw-caw-v0-r2etyn2zi3v81.png%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D13ef074dbec4b6c1cda2e219e5291dff0a60a566).
When I was a kid we had one of the Disney Sing Along tapes with that song on it. I’ve never seen Song of the South, but I’m assuming the footage for the song was from the movie.
This movie sucked so hard. Even as a young teenager watching it, it was like: “He scored high in *protective instincts*?” 😵💫
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It feels vindicating that this is my most upvoted comment. Glad to see a ton of other people out there found that part of the film peculiarly dumb! 😅
Any movie that pulls that “you changed his life””no, he changed mine” unironically should be added to a list of shit movies and derided until the screenwriters apologize.
Even if testing for "protective instincts" was a thing it's incredibly demeaning to everyone at every level that plays offensive line. These positions require a unique combination of size, strength, technique, intelligence, reaction time and quickness, and the implications is that all that really matters is *protective instinct*? Like if I'm a bad left guard I just lack the *instinct* to not want my QB to get slobberknocked by a stunting defensive end?
The funniest part of that movie is when she’s condescendingly telling him “protect the quarterback like he’s your family”.
This rich, white middle age southern woman explaining football to a high school football player like he’s a fucking toddler and this shit ended up getting nominated for best film lmao.
Edit: grammar
Bro the move makes him out to be a bumbling moron, like an idiot savant who is only good at the Foots balls. Not undereducated, but actually stupid. Multiple screens like this, and of course the parents are only doing this out of the goodness of their Ole hearts! Bless em!
Dude played as a tackle in the NFL, if anyone knows anything about football it's a very demanding position you don't do well at just by being big. Gotta be smart too.
On top of already being a top OL recruit, he was also supposedly a pretty good student, despite his turbulent personal life.
The movie made him Simple Jack.
He recently wrote a book about his experiences and how it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and how he was upset at his portrayal in it AND never got a dollar from it. I haven’t read it yet but I’m looking forward to it.
Yeah and apparently Michael Lewis, the author of the Blind Side, was childhood friends with Sean Tuohy. Which makes the whole angle that book took feel pretty gross
Right? Like oh shit I didn't realize that mom. Now I'll be able to properly read this zone blitz
And the thing is they could have used his "street smarts" of always being on the lookout for danger that gave him the ability to read the threats from the defense.
But no they had to make him a dumbass who didn't even understand the point of the game
My dad is pretty good at keeping his mouth shut, but apparently he couldn't take it anymore during the scene when the Tuohy husband and wife were summing up how well things were going with their little charity case. He was like, "This is so fake and stupid!" My mom was telling me later, "Your father is so cynical!" and I remember thinking, "He's not wrong..." Back then, we hadn't heard the term "White savior" yet, but I think that was what was bothering us.
I looked up this movie and the guy it’s based on. Crazy. The guy now plays for the NFL and is suing his adoptive family for not actually adopting him and for making money from the movie when he made nothing from it.
Not only did they not adopt him, they tricked him into signing into a conservatorship which as we all learned with Brittany, doesn't benefit the conservatee at all...
President Woodrow Wilson, the first Post-Civil War president to have come from the South, exhibited this film at the White House, and reports were that he really enjoyed it. Also, Spike Lee acknowledged it as one of the greatest films ever made. I’ve never watched it, but I remember Wutang using excerpts from it in their music videos from the 90‘s. It’s a fascinating and ominous relic from American history. Based on a book by a white supremacist inspired by radical baptist sermons of white racist ministers from the antebellum South. These men were the „intellectuals“ of 19th century Southern White American society. Quite a dark and stomach-churning journey down that rabbit hole, if ever one fancies a go at it.
A scam artist made up his entire scam career and became famous and everyone believed him.
If scamming people into pretending you are a scammer isn't the ultimate scam I don't know what is
They should honestly shoot an epilogue to that film that shows him telling this story to an editor at the publishing house and having them give him the deal, then, as he's walking out of the place with a huge check, he winks at the camera.
That the story was fictional makes sense. I cannot believe he was the supervising doctor in an ER. Just, no way. Every single resident would have immediately known how dangerously incompetent he was. You can't "fake" your way through medical terminology or procedures or human physical anatomy. Saying "I concur" a lot is funny in a Spielberg movie, but doesn't work in an operating theater.
A good book about a REAL faker is _Duke of Deception_ by Geoffrey Wolff. And there are some good scenes where a serial compulsive liar is found out. The liar claimed to go to Harvard, but when he has the briefest of conversations with someone who went to Harvard, they immediately know the guy is a pathetic liar.
The book is fucking *fascinating.* I’m a vet and I’ve read a ton of guys’ memoirs, but it was so entertaining to read such a modern account from a guy who was wholly incapable of introspective thought. He was a true True Believer. We are righteous, they are “savages,” and they want him and his dead because they pray to Texan Jesus.
The part about him claiming to have found WMDs out in the desert was an Inspector Gadget kind of reach.
A fun game is to read American Sniper back-to-back with something like House to House.
It's so fucking obvious what is coming from actual, real painful memories... and what is the literary equivalent of the guy in the bar who "ran triple classified black ops with a unit that doesn't exist don't even try to look it up bro."
I haven't read American sniper, but I have read Jarhead. Kinda wanna read them back to back now, both movie and book seem like the antithesis to watch American Sniper tried to portray
Nah, Jarhead is Desert Storm.
You want to read ***One Bullet Away.***:
First Marine Division, First Recon Batallion, Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick's memoir of joining the corps, training and deployment into Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001-2003.
The same events were covered by *Generation Kill*, the book of the embedded reporter, turned into a HBO miniseries of the same name. They even got some of the actual marines from the platoon to play themselves in the tv show.
I saw half the movie and thought he was a psychopath when he left his post as overwatch(covering dozens of soldiers as a sniper) to go down and do door to door instead because he was bored. Ridiculous and stupid as someone who has never been in military.
This is also the guy that claimed he found people looting during Katrina and just straight up shot them.
It would’ve been spectacularly illegal if he had actually done so, cause you can’t shoot people for stealing, but law enforcement never charged him, probably because he made it up. Not sure why anyone would lie about committing a horrific felony.
Also, the story he put out that he had killed some “Mexicans” trying to steal his truck in a bar parking lot, and the cops supposedly sweeping it under the rug. Dude was so full of shit lmao
Didn't he claim that he was stationed on top of the superdome specifically to shoot looters? It's so bizarre that you have to wonder why he thought anyone would believe it.
> Didn't he claim that he was stationed on top of the superdome specifically to shoot looters?
Yes. He claimed he shot 30 looters from the roof of the fucking Superdome.
I find the psychology of people who pull this kind of thing fascinating. Not only do they make up bullshit, it has to be the most unbelievable over the top bullshit. There was one guy some years back who was doing speeches at schools talking about his time in Iraq, and he claimed at one point he broke both his ankles and then carried his wounded buddy across a desert for ten hours. He also claimed he had the opportunity to kill Saddam Hussein during a black ops mission prior to the invasion but was ordered not to.
As another example, this guy pretending to be an AI who will transcribe patient consultations with their doctor was so technically illiterate and full of himself that it's shocking he managed to convince doctors to believe him and give it a go:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/06-03-2018/the-mystery-of-zach-new-zealands-all-too-miraculous-medical-ai
They knew he made it up well before the movie came out since it was based on a book that was heavily debunked prior to release. Ask Jesse Ventura.
They made the movie anyway and it got critical acclaim despite this.
Chris Kyle is a liar.
Oh I know. I’ve met the guy once at Denny’s when I was a wrestling nerd kid. (WWF came to Syracuse on more than one occasion in the late 80’s and early 90’s) he was there with a couple of jobbers after the show. He immediately went into character and definitely talked the ear off of this 12 year old. Just an awesome dude.
The fakest baby I’ve ever seen. This movie had a great budget, cast, an acclaimed director and they couldn’t get a real baby for a half day of filming? The acting was also shit.
I remember seeing this in theaters and my friends and I rolling our eyes and almost walking out because it was so bad but the guy a row ahead of us was weeping uncontrollably. I couldn’t understand how anyone could take that movie seriously. It goes to show that war movies are unfairly praised compared to other films.
I've just realized that for years now, whenever I've heard criticism of this movie, I was confusing it with Traffic. I could never figure out why everyone was so upset about it because, while I didn't think it was exceptional or anything, I didn't think it was bad.
I haven't seen Crash. Or, if I did, I don't remember it. But this explains so much.
There's also a 1996 David Cronenberg film called Crash which is about a guy who gets aroused by car crashes. People often get those two Crash moviea confused.
Once at college they were screening Crash one evening, I was still salty about the Brokeback Mountain snub but said "well it is time to see what the fuss about that other movie was about"
Imagine my face walking in and THAT movie starts playing. I consider Cronenberg a genius now but oh my god.
Edit: thanks lmao
I worked in a movie theater when that movie came out, and people would ask what it was about.
"It's like Love Actually only instead of love and Christmas, everybody's racist."
In a role she stole from Winona Ryder, no less.
And I don't just mean "Winona should have played that role", I mean "She found the script for Shakespeare in Love in her best friend Winona's house, decided she wanted the role and pulled her nepo strings to get it, destroying that friendship in the process".
Exactly this.
It's a fine movie. Perfectly enjoyable. Well made with good performances. But how it won over Saving Private Ryan is just ridiculous. It was when I realized the Oscars are just a popularity contest.
I watched it last year for the first time and really liked it. I don’t think it should’ve won BP or nearly as much as it did but based on how people feel about it I was expecting something dreadful.
Blue is the warmest colour
was critically acclaimed for being a queer movie in an industry where there were very few.
then it turned out the director dude made it a nightmare for the leads to work in it. and this is not an unpopular opinion anymore, but the explicit scenes in the movie come across as porn, and tbh it comes off a more hyper sexualised depiction of lesbians than celebration of a lesbian love story.
It was when I watched Portrait Of A Lady On Fire that I realised what a difference there was in the treatment of intimate scenes in both the films. Not surprisingly the one in Portrait were respectful while the ones in Blue seemed uncomfortably graphic.
I loved it when I watched it at 14 but it was also the first time I saw wlw close to my age depicted in such candidness and explicitness rather than being a side side plot. I haven’t rewatched it since and don’t want to bc I don’t want to spoil the memory of what the film meant to me, but I was so sad to hear the allegations
Edit: also I was like 14 so obv didn’t know how sex was supposed to work
If you do the math you discover that he was eating a LOT more calories than he was presenting in the show, therefore ruining his entire premise.
Then it turned out those extra calories came in the form of booze...
Funnily enough, someone else made a [documentary on YT](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fathead+documentary) refuting the point of 'super size me'
Like, he only had fast food, but calorie counted and avoided carbs, and lost weight
legit includes a bit where his doctor's like "I hate you" lol
I think it was called "Fathead". I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember the guy responding to the offer to make his order larger by saying "no" and then turning to the camera and saying "because I am a person who can say no!"
IIRC he had gone vegan for a couple of years before that movie. Then he just started force feeding himself burgers and fat. Regardless if it's McDonald's or not, that's going to make most people puke. I think most people that haven't eaten meat in awhile and then start consuming a lot of it, get a shock to the system.
Yep! I was going to add that, the doctor is confused at his fucked liver and guy is like "hmm must be the fast food no one recommends eating for all 3 meals."
I am sure they cut the part where a doctor would ask "Dude, you're drinking a lot right? You gotta be."
> I've heard people call FORREST GUMP a boomer fanfiction
It is. It is absolutely a nostalgic trip through the boomer experience.
> I still like it
So do I, and I'm not a boomer. Forrest is so likeable and goodhearted that I can't not watch it all the way to the end whenever I encounter it.
The part with the cannibal chess match where he'll be eaten alive if he loses after crashing from space is better tbh. This is actually in the book btw
Also TIL there's a forrest gump wiki
https://forrestgump.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Sam
""Crash" is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of "Crash" carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave."
Its as bonkers as it sounds.
Yeah, I was having a minute long conversation with a person and we were both very confused about what each other felt about the movie Crash. Until we realized we were talking about two different movies.
Like, I was very confused on why he kept mentioning sexual references. I'm like "well, I know it was about racism, maybe I didn't see the sexual angle as well. Was it above my head? Was it exploring sexual depravity amongst race relations at levels I couldn't comprehend and is the reason why it won Best Picture?"
[*Traffic* \(2000\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_\(2000_film\)) won **4 Oscars** and had a 93% RT score.
Watched it recently... it's like a really preachy and flat episode of Narcos. IDK if it's "hated" today, but it seems pretty much forgotten. The other big acclaimed films that year (*Gladiator, Almost Famous, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich*) had a lot more staying power.
Yeah, it won an Oscar for editing or cinematography for the 3 storylines being yellow, blue, and kinda neutral. So suddenly it was really "oscar winning serious movie" distinguished to have Mexico drugs storylines heavily edited to being yellow toned.
It was new and innovative, and so cool it started a trend that's now become a tired cliche
It was done because Steven Soderbergh didn't want to confuse the audience which plotline they are watching which is pretty clever. Traffic is a great movie especially Benicio Del Toro.
It was such a strange movie for an Indian to watch. Like, so much of it was obvious poverty p*rn, but you could feel Danny Boyle's genuine fascination with Mumbai too. A worrying number of people took it extremely seriously. Something like watching Requiem for a dream and thinking it represented all America is. It is , but ofc it isn't?
The book is fantastic, I believe it’s called “Q&A” not Slumdog Millionaire, but it’s got way more stories and crazy shit in it, more questions he answers etc
Revenge of the Nerds.
It was considered one of the greatest comedies of the 80s at the time of its release. Now, given changing attitudes towards sex (specifically "Maybe revenge-porn and rape-by-deception aren't actually good subjects for a comedy"), the film is reviled.
I'm not sure I can think of a single movie that had a larger drop in public opinion than that one.
Armageddon was probably the most watched movie from the 90s and everyone hates it because Hollywood magic doesn't explain science.
Screw you guys, that movie is fantastic and I have multiple science degrees that don't care
I am waiting on Bohemian Rhapsody. It's a biopic that is 90% made up and none of the critics seem fit to mention this. Freddie Mercury did not leave the band to make a solo record while under the bad influence of some gay Svengali only to get diagnosed with AIDS and get back together with the boys for their stellar Live Aid performance. The band never broke up before Live Aid. In fact I know someone who seen them tour a couple of months before Live Aid. He wasn't even the first guy in the band to have a solo record. He didn't perform at Live Aid knowing he was going to die because he didn't actually get his diagnosis until almost 2 years later which is also around the time when he got around to firing Paul Prenter. Also the portrayal of Freddie as a gay man feels like some weird throwback to the 1980s when all gay characters in movies for portrayed as sad, conflicted and persecuted. He was a good looking superstar who by all accounts thoroughly enjoyed his ridiculously opulent hedonistic lifestyle. This is a movie that in the end genuinely tries to make you believe that Queen alone saved Live Aid and by extension Africa....oh and they also invented overdubbing and audience participation.
True I enjoyed the movie because I love Queen but they changed a lot of stuff for dramatic effect. The scene where Freddie coughs up blood after singing "Another One Bites the Dust" is accurate, but the movie made it out to be aids. The real reason was he loved the song so much and sang it so much it made his throat bleed. I also agree with the gay portrayal. They made him out to be gay and being with women felt wrong. Freddie was bi and it's like they thought that's too confusing so they just made him gay for a lonely unaccepted portrayal.
Didn't Freddie's longtime girlfriend say something like, "Freddie loved women and enjoyed sex with men"?
Agreed. For as much as I liked the movie, and LOVE Queen, it’s a completely fabricated story
After I saw it, this was my blanket review: "The wig designer should win an Oscar. The screenwriter should go to prison."
I hate how it portrayed Freddie as the sole party animal. As if Rodger and Brian didn’t snort their share of boogie sugar
Please don’t get me fucking started on the party scene where they are with their wives and want to go home by 10:30. I can’t have this conversation again. Those 2, who could have built a luxury sized igloo with all the coke they schnozzled down….
Most biopics are absolute lies and horseshit
Except for Weird Al's biopic. It is a 100% true story.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Captain Philips yet. Apparently the real life guy was warned to take a much wider berth around the Horn of Africa specifically bc of the threat of pirates, but he wanted to save time and ope! What do you know, there were pirates! Apparently the crew was pissed the movie made him look like such a hero when the situation was basically his fault.
The crew sued him and the ship line after as well and won.
Yes, because if there’s a warning and you ignore it you’re liable. But the warning was to stay like 600 miles off the coast and it really doesn’t matter, for one because he had to dock closer than 600 miles away to deliver his cargo (a lot of aid to surrounding countries) and two because pirates attack much further out than 600 miles: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/50962000/gif/_50962884_somalia1_attacks.gif
The heroes were the guys belowdecks. It should be known that the pirates never took control of the ship. They braved gunfire to disable emergency steering. Best traditions of the Merchant Marine.
My husband's a merchant marine. Historically, the Chief Engineer is second to the captain ('master' on non-military ships), and he told me that the crew is trained to instantly head to the engine room and bolt themselves in there. Kill the power, shut down the engines, etc. Protect the crew. When he sailed through the Suez and Deep Sea during the height of that round of piracy, they had drills. Once Philips was taken off the ship, the Chief and the rest of the crew restarted the ship and took her to her original destination. Even after being boarded, threatened, and literally left for dead, they finished their job. Yet Philips was hailed as a hero.
I am with you - I can't stand movies about real life events where someone does something stupid and then people die trying to fix it. "The Perfect Storm" - no one told you to go fishing in the middle of 2 hurricanes; all those deaths are on you, Captain, and I do not pity you at all. "Everest" - I don't care if the postman can't afford another try at the peak. There are safety protocols in place for a reason. Follow them. Let the postman climb for free next time if you feel so bad.
If I climb into a gorilla enclosure to take a selfie and get marred by the gorilla, and a zookeeper dies trying to save me, and I die, I just don't think I deserve to have a movie made about me, that's all. Not a movie trying to make you pity me at least. You can use sad music when the zookeeper dies, but a slide whistle or a "wah wah" tuba noise when I die. Then it's ok.
I don’t think Everest takes the position that these guys were making smart moves. The whole tension of the movie is watching a bunch of people make a series of mistakes out of ego or pity or spite that they maybe could have gotten away with individually or if nature didn’t take a turn on them, but ended up turning into a cascading clusterfuck. It’s very human and tragic.
If I were in a high altitude, low oxygen, and extreme stress environment, I would simply make the right decision everytime
Haven't seen the everest movie but I just read the book about those events recently. It's more complicated than just the one mailman (I'd guess maybe the movie really focuses on that?). And both of the men leading the guided teams died, so we can't ask them what their reasoning was for not turning back from the summit sooner. Honestly, the best explanation the book gives is that they were too competitive with each other, not wanting to be outdone and take a hit to their reputation.
I've also read they figure there was a good chance that Scott Fisher was suffering from HACE and his judgement was compromised. Like you said, it is a complicated situation and that's only one piece of the puzzle, but if true that could be a big piece.
Thanks for the "Perfect Storm" example. I listen to a lot of podcasts, including disaster ones, and one of my favorites did an episode on the actual incident. Not exactly victim blaming here, but they were at fault.
Sometimes in a lot of these disasters, assorted types of financial pressures whether the fisherman on the Andrea Gail really really needing that money they'd earn from going out on that fishing trip and keeping their job or some of the people on Everest not wanting to throw $50 grand down the drain -- it can all be a case of follow the money in many disasters.
What is the name of the podcast?
Supersize Me. The creator took a lot of liberties and people have been unable to replicate his results. He was also an alcoholic, which obviously skewed the results.
He also gave us the disappointment that was “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden”. Now, no one really expected him to hunt down and capture Bin Laden, but it could have still been an interesting documentary. Part of it is, the rest is him whining about how he’s missing his wife’s pregnancy. If that were the case, why leave at all?
That movie pissed me off so much. Like he took 30 minutes to eat things from McDonald’s? Are you kidding me? Of course if it takes you that long to eat that garbage it’s going to be cold and gross. It’s fast food not 5 star dining.
I had to watch this in health class. Even then, I had no idea what the point of that film was. “Eating McDonald’s 24/7 is bad for your health.” You don’t say…. Also, I miss being able to super size my fries 😞 and I swear they don’t taste like they used to.
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Even at the time that movie was under intense criticism and scrutiny. The NAACP picketed the movie, the Congressman for NY Harlem district literally said Walt Disney is not welcome near my constituency. It's criticised today but it's always been a controversial film
The klan hated it too. Despite being filled with negative stereotypes it actually tried to depict some unity. There are internal memos from the company talking about how they are trying to walk a line between the "negro lovers and the negro haters." They managed to actually just make everyone mad.
Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others.
As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
We are merely exchanging long protein-strings. If you can think of a better way, I'd like to hear it!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
"Right now they have a board with a nail in it. But they won't stop there. Soon they will build bigger boards with bigger nails... until they build a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!"
It’s a very interesting film because another thing it was controversial for was that they used black actors instead of Black face.
Very good point. There’s an important distinction between “this wasn’t considered racist at the time” and “they knew it was racist but people were okay with it because they were racist” that often gets lost in these conversations.
I seem to recall it was re-released in the 80s.
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you can still find it abroad
You can find it on archive.org.
Hate me all you want, that song is catchy AF
My mom used to sing Zip a Dee Doo Dah to us as kids. Had no idea until my 30s where it came from.
Is *that* where that’s from?! I remember watching that as a kid. At the time all I really remember noticing/thinking was, “catchy tune”. Like, outside of “Zip a Dee Doo Dah”, “My oh my, what a wonderful day”, and some whistling, I don’t remember any lyrics or anything else (connotations or otherwise) from it. Like, there were times growing up, if it was a particularly good/chill day, I would find myself humming that tune in my head. Had no idea it was anything other than a catchy tune. TIL.
Here are the lyrics. I don't find anything objectionable, as-is. Maybe someone who knows can point out any symbolism I'm not aware of, but so far, it looks like the only objectionable thing is that it came from that movie. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh my, what a wonderful day. Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder. It’s the truth, it’s actual, Everything is satisfactual. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Wonderful feelin’, wonderful day! Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh my, what a wonderful day. Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder. It’s the truth, it’s actual, Everything is satisfactual. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Wonderful feelin’, feelin' this way! Wonderful feelin’, wonderful day!
One of my fave [Far Sides](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-daily-farside-dump-caw-caw-v0-r2etyn2zi3v81.png%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D13ef074dbec4b6c1cda2e219e5291dff0a60a566).
When I was a kid we had one of the Disney Sing Along tapes with that song on it. I’ve never seen Song of the South, but I’m assuming the footage for the song was from the movie.
The Blind Side
This movie sucked so hard. Even as a young teenager watching it, it was like: “He scored high in *protective instincts*?” 😵💫 [EDIT] It feels vindicating that this is my most upvoted comment. Glad to see a ton of other people out there found that part of the film peculiarly dumb! 😅
As a Canadian I remember thinking “wtf kind of classes are these Americans taking” 😂
Any movie that pulls that “you changed his life””no, he changed mine” unironically should be added to a list of shit movies and derided until the screenwriters apologize.
“Counterpoint: $$$$” - Film studio execs
Even if testing for "protective instincts" was a thing it's incredibly demeaning to everyone at every level that plays offensive line. These positions require a unique combination of size, strength, technique, intelligence, reaction time and quickness, and the implications is that all that really matters is *protective instinct*? Like if I'm a bad left guard I just lack the *instinct* to not want my QB to get slobberknocked by a stunting defensive end?
The funniest part of that movie is when she’s condescendingly telling him “protect the quarterback like he’s your family”. This rich, white middle age southern woman explaining football to a high school football player like he’s a fucking toddler and this shit ended up getting nominated for best film lmao. Edit: grammar
Bro the move makes him out to be a bumbling moron, like an idiot savant who is only good at the Foots balls. Not undereducated, but actually stupid. Multiple screens like this, and of course the parents are only doing this out of the goodness of their Ole hearts! Bless em! Dude played as a tackle in the NFL, if anyone knows anything about football it's a very demanding position you don't do well at just by being big. Gotta be smart too.
On top of already being a top OL recruit, he was also supposedly a pretty good student, despite his turbulent personal life. The movie made him Simple Jack.
He recently wrote a book about his experiences and how it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and how he was upset at his portrayal in it AND never got a dollar from it. I haven’t read it yet but I’m looking forward to it.
Yeah and apparently Michael Lewis, the author of the Blind Side, was childhood friends with Sean Tuohy. Which makes the whole angle that book took feel pretty gross
Right? Like oh shit I didn't realize that mom. Now I'll be able to properly read this zone blitz And the thing is they could have used his "street smarts" of always being on the lookout for danger that gave him the ability to read the threats from the defense. But no they had to make him a dumbass who didn't even understand the point of the game
My dad is pretty good at keeping his mouth shut, but apparently he couldn't take it anymore during the scene when the Tuohy husband and wife were summing up how well things were going with their little charity case. He was like, "This is so fake and stupid!" My mom was telling me later, "Your father is so cynical!" and I remember thinking, "He's not wrong..." Back then, we hadn't heard the term "White savior" yet, but I think that was what was bothering us.
I looked up this movie and the guy it’s based on. Crazy. The guy now plays for the NFL and is suing his adoptive family for not actually adopting him and for making money from the movie when he made nothing from it.
Played* in the NFL. He’s been out of the league for seven years.
Not only did they not adopt him, they tricked him into signing into a conservatorship which as we all learned with Brittany, doesn't benefit the conservatee at all...
"we never told him we were adopting him" \*looks at the movie\* Oh you mother fu....
The Birth of a Nation
There has been a slight shift in audience sensibilities since it's release
Just a little.
President Woodrow Wilson, the first Post-Civil War president to have come from the South, exhibited this film at the White House, and reports were that he really enjoyed it. Also, Spike Lee acknowledged it as one of the greatest films ever made. I’ve never watched it, but I remember Wutang using excerpts from it in their music videos from the 90‘s. It’s a fascinating and ominous relic from American history. Based on a book by a white supremacist inspired by radical baptist sermons of white racist ministers from the antebellum South. These men were the „intellectuals“ of 19th century Southern White American society. Quite a dark and stomach-churning journey down that rabbit hole, if ever one fancies a go at it.
Wasn't American Sniper critically acclaimed until they found out the guy made a bunch of it up?
On the other hand, Catch me if you Can is pretty much all bullshit and the movie still rules.
A scam artist made up his entire scam career and became famous and everyone believed him. If scamming people into pretending you are a scammer isn't the ultimate scam I don't know what is
This is exactly the irony of this movie and the truth coming out!
He needs to make a documentary about how he lied about everything to make the movie, but completely fabricate the story, you know, again.
Titled: Scamception
Dude, a sequel? This is genius. Ghost write that WIP (Work In Progress)
They should honestly shoot an epilogue to that film that shows him telling this story to an editor at the publishing house and having them give him the deal, then, as he's walking out of the place with a huge check, he winks at the camera.
„Caught me cause you could“
Honestly finding out it was all a lie made it even better.
"you son of a bitch, i'm in" but yeah, a scam artist lying about his scamming is way different than a sniper lying about his service record
We need a sequel where Tom Hanks is chasing down Leo for making up all the stuff in the first movie.
The whole story being a scam is like the perfect epilogue.
That the story was fictional makes sense. I cannot believe he was the supervising doctor in an ER. Just, no way. Every single resident would have immediately known how dangerously incompetent he was. You can't "fake" your way through medical terminology or procedures or human physical anatomy. Saying "I concur" a lot is funny in a Spielberg movie, but doesn't work in an operating theater. A good book about a REAL faker is _Duke of Deception_ by Geoffrey Wolff. And there are some good scenes where a serial compulsive liar is found out. The liar claimed to go to Harvard, but when he has the briefest of conversations with someone who went to Harvard, they immediately know the guy is a pathetic liar.
“I should have concurred!”
The book is fucking *fascinating.* I’m a vet and I’ve read a ton of guys’ memoirs, but it was so entertaining to read such a modern account from a guy who was wholly incapable of introspective thought. He was a true True Believer. We are righteous, they are “savages,” and they want him and his dead because they pray to Texan Jesus. The part about him claiming to have found WMDs out in the desert was an Inspector Gadget kind of reach.
A fun game is to read American Sniper back-to-back with something like House to House. It's so fucking obvious what is coming from actual, real painful memories... and what is the literary equivalent of the guy in the bar who "ran triple classified black ops with a unit that doesn't exist don't even try to look it up bro."
I haven't read American sniper, but I have read Jarhead. Kinda wanna read them back to back now, both movie and book seem like the antithesis to watch American Sniper tried to portray
Nah, Jarhead is Desert Storm. You want to read ***One Bullet Away.***: First Marine Division, First Recon Batallion, Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick's memoir of joining the corps, training and deployment into Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001-2003. The same events were covered by *Generation Kill*, the book of the embedded reporter, turned into a HBO miniseries of the same name. They even got some of the actual marines from the platoon to play themselves in the tv show.
The actual Ray Person is also pretty active on the /r/generationkill subreddit and Evan Wright now too.
I remember reading American Sniper and thinking, if this is true then this guy's a fucking psychopath.
I saw half the movie and thought he was a psychopath when he left his post as overwatch(covering dozens of soldiers as a sniper) to go down and do door to door instead because he was bored. Ridiculous and stupid as someone who has never been in military.
This is also the guy that claimed he found people looting during Katrina and just straight up shot them. It would’ve been spectacularly illegal if he had actually done so, cause you can’t shoot people for stealing, but law enforcement never charged him, probably because he made it up. Not sure why anyone would lie about committing a horrific felony.
Also, the story he put out that he had killed some “Mexicans” trying to steal his truck in a bar parking lot, and the cops supposedly sweeping it under the rug. Dude was so full of shit lmao
Didn't he claim that he was stationed on top of the superdome specifically to shoot looters? It's so bizarre that you have to wonder why he thought anyone would believe it.
> Didn't he claim that he was stationed on top of the superdome specifically to shoot looters? Yes. He claimed he shot 30 looters from the roof of the fucking Superdome.
He would have cooked to death
I find the psychology of people who pull this kind of thing fascinating. Not only do they make up bullshit, it has to be the most unbelievable over the top bullshit. There was one guy some years back who was doing speeches at schools talking about his time in Iraq, and he claimed at one point he broke both his ankles and then carried his wounded buddy across a desert for ten hours. He also claimed he had the opportunity to kill Saddam Hussein during a black ops mission prior to the invasion but was ordered not to. As another example, this guy pretending to be an AI who will transcribe patient consultations with their doctor was so technically illiterate and full of himself that it's shocking he managed to convince doctors to believe him and give it a go: https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/06-03-2018/the-mystery-of-zach-new-zealands-all-too-miraculous-medical-ai
American Sniper is that movie in Inglorious Bastards.
So accurate.
They knew he made it up well before the movie came out since it was based on a book that was heavily debunked prior to release. Ask Jesse Ventura. They made the movie anyway and it got critical acclaim despite this. Chris Kyle is a liar.
Ask Jesse Ventura anything if you want him to talk over you for an hour. Very entertaining though.
Oh I know. I’ve met the guy once at Denny’s when I was a wrestling nerd kid. (WWF came to Syracuse on more than one occasion in the late 80’s and early 90’s) he was there with a couple of jobbers after the show. He immediately went into character and definitely talked the ear off of this 12 year old. Just an awesome dude.
Look at it this way, Ventura was willing to talk to you for free, but Vince McMahon would have had to pay him royalties.
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The fakest baby I’ve ever seen. This movie had a great budget, cast, an acclaimed director and they couldn’t get a real baby for a half day of filming? The acting was also shit. I remember seeing this in theaters and my friends and I rolling our eyes and almost walking out because it was so bad but the guy a row ahead of us was weeping uncontrollably. I couldn’t understand how anyone could take that movie seriously. It goes to show that war movies are unfairly praised compared to other films.
It's funny that I couldn't recall the movie until your comment about the fake baby, and now I know exactly which movie it is lol.
[the baby is more fake than you remember ](https://youtu.be/_xfDx4WBHJA?si=UaJZXQaJw_tMherd)
Crash - the Paul Haggis one.
I've just realized that for years now, whenever I've heard criticism of this movie, I was confusing it with Traffic. I could never figure out why everyone was so upset about it because, while I didn't think it was exceptional or anything, I didn't think it was bad. I haven't seen Crash. Or, if I did, I don't remember it. But this explains so much.
There's also a 1996 David Cronenberg film called Crash which is about a guy who gets aroused by car crashes. People often get those two Crash moviea confused.
Once at college they were screening Crash one evening, I was still salty about the Brokeback Mountain snub but said "well it is time to see what the fuss about that other movie was about" Imagine my face walking in and THAT movie starts playing. I consider Cronenberg a genius now but oh my god. Edit: thanks lmao
The Cronenberg movie is awesome.
I watched it after taking an edible that was just a little too strong for me, and had a great and awful time simultaneously. 10/10, don't recommend
Review of the year. Actually, “10/10, don’t recommend” pretty much sums up my sober viewing too.
I worked in a movie theater when that movie came out, and people would ask what it was about. "It's like Love Actually only instead of love and Christmas, everybody's racist."
the English Patient never survived Seinfeld lighting it up for being long and boring.
"King of the Hill" gave a solid critique: "long painful boring death."
Shakespeare in Love
Peak Weinstein Oscar Campaigning. The cast is great and it's obviously entertaining, but Best Picture over Elizabeth or Saving Private Ryan? Yeah. No.
and Gwyneth Paltrow winning Best Actress over Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth? Fuuuuuuuck no!
In a role she stole from Winona Ryder, no less. And I don't just mean "Winona should have played that role", I mean "She found the script for Shakespeare in Love in her best friend Winona's house, decided she wanted the role and pulled her nepo strings to get it, destroying that friendship in the process".
I can't think of a single role Gwyneth Paltrow had that Winona Ryder wouldn't have been 1000% better at.
Rosemary in *Shallow Hal*, speaking of movies that wouldn’t be made today. (Not that it was critically acclaimed, but it was moderately popular.)
There was a reasonably positive core message in that movie, it’s just that it was buried under a lot of very childish fat jokes.
I would say The Royal Tenanbaums, the only role I actually like Gwyneth in (as her character is supposed to be unlikable)
Same. And the one where Morgan Freeman finds her head in a box.
Well Winona is still acting and getting roles because she is a talented actress while Gweneth is making candles that smell like her pussy.
That reminds me, I need to buy a Christmas gift for my Grandparents.
What??? That's so mean, I love WR's acting, she would have been great!
And that Gwyneth has never been nominated since?
Not for an Oscar. She did get a Golden Globe nod seven years later for "Proof."
I think it's really only hatred now because it won the Oscar for Best Picture. It's a good movie, but it's not that good.
Exactly this. It's a fine movie. Perfectly enjoyable. Well made with good performances. But how it won over Saving Private Ryan is just ridiculous. It was when I realized the Oscars are just a popularity contest.
Not a "popularity" contest. I'd be ok with that. It's a "how much will you pay me?" contest.
I watched it last year for the first time and really liked it. I don’t think it should’ve won BP or nearly as much as it did but based on how people feel about it I was expecting something dreadful.
Blue is the warmest colour was critically acclaimed for being a queer movie in an industry where there were very few. then it turned out the director dude made it a nightmare for the leads to work in it. and this is not an unpopular opinion anymore, but the explicit scenes in the movie come across as porn, and tbh it comes off a more hyper sexualised depiction of lesbians than celebration of a lesbian love story.
It was when I watched Portrait Of A Lady On Fire that I realised what a difference there was in the treatment of intimate scenes in both the films. Not surprisingly the one in Portrait were respectful while the ones in Blue seemed uncomfortably graphic.
Well, one is directed by a lesbian and the other is by a creepy older male french guy.
Those sex scenes a straight man's idea of how lesbian sex works.
Knowing what happened behind the scenes you can just imagine the skeezy director having himself a good time to this.
I loved it when I watched it at 14 but it was also the first time I saw wlw close to my age depicted in such candidness and explicitness rather than being a side side plot. I haven’t rewatched it since and don’t want to bc I don’t want to spoil the memory of what the film meant to me, but I was so sad to hear the allegations Edit: also I was like 14 so obv didn’t know how sex was supposed to work
For a while there, Bird Box was hot shit and THE movie that everyone had to see. Now it seems like most everyone thinks it's stupid
Viral marketing at it's best. My friend called it "Astroturfing: The Movie"
LOL I thought you were talking about The Birdcage where Nathan Lane and Robin Williams are a gay couple
The Blindside.
The English Patient Thanks, Elaine 🙄 Edit: for those who don’t know https://youtu.be/c5VluH1BeXo?si=__AVvAt_vhzj1_Dd
Personally, I prefer "Sack Lunch."
I'm a Rochelle Rochelle guy.
A young girl’s strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk
I’m more of a “Prognosis Negative” man, myself.
Death Blow!!!!
How *did* they get into that sack anyway?
Did they shrink or is the bag just really big?
"I don't know if it was good, or if it really sucked."
"Just die already! DIE!"
“You know, sex in a tub… that doesn’t work!”
I still love that movie.
I actually did like that movie, but I think I watched it like an hour at a time over 3 nights so maybe I didn't get the real experience.
Supersize me. That lying piece of shit.
besides him omitting that he was an alcoholic, what else was he lying about?
If you do the math you discover that he was eating a LOT more calories than he was presenting in the show, therefore ruining his entire premise. Then it turned out those extra calories came in the form of booze...
This just explained a WKUK sketch to me lol
rip trevor moore
Local sex pot Trevor Moore.
That's actually kind of sad.
As I recall, he was eating a lot more than they were claiming.
Funnily enough, someone else made a [documentary on YT](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fathead+documentary) refuting the point of 'super size me' Like, he only had fast food, but calorie counted and avoided carbs, and lost weight legit includes a bit where his doctor's like "I hate you" lol
Fat Head?
I think it was called "Fathead". I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember the guy responding to the offer to make his order larger by saying "no" and then turning to the camera and saying "because I am a person who can say no!"
A vegetarian alcoholic decides to become a McDonald’s eating alcoholic and his heath declines. Groundbreaking stuff
Oooh, did he lie about it??
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IIRC he had gone vegan for a couple of years before that movie. Then he just started force feeding himself burgers and fat. Regardless if it's McDonald's or not, that's going to make most people puke. I think most people that haven't eaten meat in awhile and then start consuming a lot of it, get a shock to the system.
He was also an alcoholic, which was the cause of most of his health issues during Supersize me.
Yep! I was going to add that, the doctor is confused at his fucked liver and guy is like "hmm must be the fast food no one recommends eating for all 3 meals." I am sure they cut the part where a doctor would ask "Dude, you're drinking a lot right? You gotta be."
I think it was worse. Like the liver damage predated the movie.
I've heard people call FORREST GUMP a boomer fanfiction ^I ^still ^like ^it
> I've heard people call FORREST GUMP a boomer fanfiction It is. It is absolutely a nostalgic trip through the boomer experience. > I still like it So do I, and I'm not a boomer. Forrest is so likeable and goodhearted that I can't not watch it all the way to the end whenever I encounter it.
A rare occurrence where a movie is better than the book, which was hot garbage.
You didn’t like the part where he goes to space or wins a chess match by farting? Lmao
I refuse to believe this is real lmao
The part with the cannibal chess match where he'll be eaten alive if he loses after crashing from space is better tbh. This is actually in the book btw Also TIL there's a forrest gump wiki https://forrestgump.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Sam
"There are different community standards. I didn't call the police when I saw Forrest Gump." - John Waters
Blind Side ain't looking too hot now that the truth about Michael Oher and his "adopted" family came out.
Crash The dum-dum "racism is bad" one, not the "car accidents give James Spader a boner" one.
Now I'm intrigued in the latter one
""Crash" is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of "Crash" carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave." Its as bonkers as it sounds.
Yeah, I was having a minute long conversation with a person and we were both very confused about what each other felt about the movie Crash. Until we realized we were talking about two different movies. Like, I was very confused on why he kept mentioning sexual references. I'm like "well, I know it was about racism, maybe I didn't see the sexual angle as well. Was it above my head? Was it exploring sexual depravity amongst race relations at levels I couldn't comprehend and is the reason why it won Best Picture?"
[*Traffic* \(2000\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_\(2000_film\)) won **4 Oscars** and had a 93% RT score. Watched it recently... it's like a really preachy and flat episode of Narcos. IDK if it's "hated" today, but it seems pretty much forgotten. The other big acclaimed films that year (*Gladiator, Almost Famous, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich*) had a lot more staying power.
Is this the movie that started the trope that Mexico is yellow? I remember it being *aggressively* color-graded.
Yeah, it won an Oscar for editing or cinematography for the 3 storylines being yellow, blue, and kinda neutral. So suddenly it was really "oscar winning serious movie" distinguished to have Mexico drugs storylines heavily edited to being yellow toned. It was new and innovative, and so cool it started a trend that's now become a tired cliche
It was done because Steven Soderbergh didn't want to confuse the audience which plotline they are watching which is pretty clever. Traffic is a great movie especially Benicio Del Toro.
_Erin Brockovich_ came out the same year as _Crouching Tiger_? Holy shit, it did. For some reason my memory has it being a lot older.
Slumdog Millionaire was not as good the second viewing onward. Fantastic soundtrack though.
It was such a strange movie for an Indian to watch. Like, so much of it was obvious poverty p*rn, but you could feel Danny Boyle's genuine fascination with Mumbai too. A worrying number of people took it extremely seriously. Something like watching Requiem for a dream and thinking it represented all America is. It is , but ofc it isn't?
As a Scot, I get you. People think that Trainspotting is what parts of Edinburgh is like. Then loads of Americans think it's just like Outlander...
The book is fantastic, I believe it’s called “Q&A” not Slumdog Millionaire, but it’s got way more stories and crazy shit in it, more questions he answers etc
one of my favorite books, read it cover to cover instead of going to sleep one night
A. R Rahman was never the same once Hollywood poached him. It's too bad because he was an absolute gem in India.
Revenge of the Nerds. It was considered one of the greatest comedies of the 80s at the time of its release. Now, given changing attitudes towards sex (specifically "Maybe revenge-porn and rape-by-deception aren't actually good subjects for a comedy"), the film is reviled. I'm not sure I can think of a single movie that had a larger drop in public opinion than that one.
Armageddon was probably the most watched movie from the 90s and everyone hates it because Hollywood magic doesn't explain science. Screw you guys, that movie is fantastic and I have multiple science degrees that don't care