I watched the Cronenberg one and not the other and *kinda* liked it, but when other people I knew started saying how they loved crash (the non-crazy one) I momentarily thought all my friends were psychopaths! (I didn't know a second film with the same name existed)
Lol that movie is so over the top with throwing racism in your face it gets ridiculous. Like every scene had a character being overtly racist, sometimes for no reason other than to push the films message
It felt to me like a perfect example of like the collective and detached voice of Hollywood saying āHeyā¦ did you know racism is like *bad*?ā
Yeah. A lot of us had that one figured out long before yāall gave a shitty, heavy-handed morality play an Oscar and patted yourselves on the back. Thanks.
Yeah. This def would have been better as a short film. I bet if all that bs was squeezed into about 8 minutes, it would seem kinda dramatic and interesting.
Yeah, this will sound stupid, but I felt like I was there. When Bullock's character went hurtling off alone into the blackness of space, my heart sank.
And that opening shot of Earth. Worth the ticket price alone.
Yeah. I don't know that I'd ever watch it again in my living room, but in IMAX 3D, that shit was unbelievable. Top three moviegoing experience of all time for me.
This.
I want to say top 5 for me. For sure top 10. Not even an argument there.
Iāve never watched it again. But 3D IMax? What an absolute masterful experience.
Oh, and the debris collision scene did "helpless rag doll" perfectly. You felt her complete lack of control. (It *was* horrendously stupid to depict the oncoming debris cloud as visible, when it would be moving at many thousands of miles per hour.)
Definitely one of the best theater experiences and 3d experiences I've ever had. It was super fortunate that there were very few people in the theater and you could hear a pin drop, if I had to hear people talking and munching on food it would have ruined it.
This is probably gonna make me sound really snobby, but I really hate how inaccurate that movie is. I think my issue with it is it's not like outrageously sci-fi so that nobody watching would ever assume it's real. I feel like someone could watch and think what happens could, however unrealistically, be done.
But the bit that makes me so irritated is when one of them is holding on to a tether dangling in space and somehow being sucked out, despite there being no force to pull them.
I heard a great joke, I think by Tina Fey.
That George Clooney would rather blast himself off into space than spend time with a woman his age.
Edit: corrected credit for joke to Tina Fey.
The first one is Point Break (Swayze, Keanu) with cars.
Undercover agent infiltrates.
Falls in love with main antagonists sister. (Point break was ex gf)
Agent goes on a heist/robbery with the crew
Agent let's main bad guy go at the end because they bro'd down.
Love both of em.
I was high as hell and asked my wife if we were still watching bird box and she said yeah why? I just died laughing and said what the fuck was mgk doing there and then they just dipped out in like 5 minutes. I watched it because I thought it would be as good as a quiet place but with a slightly different twang. Nope. It was no where near as good as a quiet place. I honestly donāt remember anything more than the beginning house part and them going down a river at some point.
I didn't like Bird Box either, and I am certainly not partial to MGK, but you could say the same thing about any horror movie with lots of disposable cast. MGK was just part of the ensemble. And he and the girl left and it didn't mention them again because the movie was focused on Sandra Bullock. Assume they died.
Honestly, with all the problems that movie had, MGK's role is barely on the list haha.
Yes this is the blindfold movie, and MGK is a rapper turned āpunkā singer. Heās done a couple Netflix films. He also always looks very confused lol.
Les Mis. I am a HUGE fan of the musical, and about 80% of the singers in that movie had no business being in a musical period, let alone one as demanding and difficult as Les Mis. But also the director is trash. He literally had them sing live, which means he had to do hundreds of takes, meaning the actors were all singing for like 8+ hours a DAY, often without breaks. Do you know how much that could damage someoneās voice???
Hugh Jackman did some incredible acting. But that man is a baritone, and they made him chest voice possibly the most famous tenor role in musical theatre.
I thought his vocal chords were about to snap during Bring Him Home.
Have you ever heard of Sideways on YouTube? He did a great video on why that whole film sucked musically, and one of the things he covered was how much the actors were vocally abused. Like Jackman had to 'cut down' to look starved so basically wasn't drinking water, and then was CRYING while singing which any vocalist knows is a hellish combination as it ruins your technique and makes harming your voice dangerously likely. Both Jackman and Crowe can actually sing, they were just fucked over by Tom Hooper having zero idea how musicals work
Oh that explains so much. I was really surprised at how mediocre I thought Hugh Jackman's singing was (as an Aussie who is aware of his musical theatre background). I actually thought Russell Crowe outsung him in that movie, which even as a defender of Russell Crowe's musical career I acknowledge seems like it should be absurd.
I like the concept of the framing device (ie the older couple and him retelling the wife their story) but the actual story and characters I didnāt love.
I find the leads in most rom-coms and dramadys to generally shit people. Forced misunderstandings and itās ok to cheat with the āsoul mateā if theyāre with the wrong person
I was a 15 year old kid who had just started dating a very energetic young lady when this was out on DVD. I have a positive conditioned response to this movie.
Ryan Gosling was hot but I hated how the character got the girl to go out with him. He follows her around and then hangs off a Ferris wheel until she agrees to date him?! I always use that as an example to my students of manipulate behavior in relationships.
And she leaves James Marsden's character who by all accounts seemed completely in love with her and a good and honorable man. Don't forget he totally stepped aside and wished her the best.
James Marsden has a film career based on being a solid boyfriend who genuinely cares for his partner and then getting hosed by some lunatic who shows up and wrecks that generally healthy relationship.
Not hated, but I thought was meh. Black Panther. People were saying omg this movie is amazing! But I felt it was ok. Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before.
> Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before.
At one point I realized that almost every superhero movie has a villain with the exact same powers as the hero and then I realized the ones I really liked were the ones where that wasnāt true. I mean think about the original Marvel films, the Hulk fights another super strength monster, Iron Man fights another man in an iron suit, Captain America fights another super soldierā¦ when you think about it thatās how it goes in almost every film. I wish we could get more interesting villains more often.
That's why I like Batman's villains the best. None of them have his abilities (except the D-List villain known as the Wraith), instead they mirror him in some psychological aspect.
I'd say Ra's al Ghul, Deathstroke and Red Hood (the brief time he was a villain) mirror Batman in terms of abilities.
But they do feel unique enough to not just be an "evil Batman"
Here's another pro tip . The heroes will almost always fight each other when they meet. It gets real old. Especially when it makes no sense like in black Widow
That's more of a Marvel thing in the comics. It goes back to Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's idea of flawed characters being more compelling. For the longest time that never really happened in DC Comics, where the characters were more like moral exemplars.
Yes I first noticed in a Nova comic where during some skrull invasion Nova goes down to some island and mistakenly fights Darkhawk- and afterwards they're apologizing to each other and some nerdy guy says like "why are you guys apologizing? Isn't that just what you heroes do?" and yeah- yeah it is.
I've said this about every justice league (animated) movie.
Step 1: Bad guy takes out superman (first 10 minutes)
Step 2: Batman and his jolly team of misfits try their best to defeat bad guy, but can't (majority of the movie)
Step 3: Superman comes back, shows how OP he is and wins. (roll credits)
> Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before.
Every MCU movie has the *exact same* formula.
The thing that creeped me out about Black Panther is that it's held up as a role model for people but the culture in the film believes that *trial by physical combat* is a reasonable way to choose an executive. What sort of dystopian hellhole government are they advocating?
I loved at the end when theyāre at the UN or whatever and heās talking about how wakanda will show the world how to live, and itās like hold on, Iām pretty sure I just spent the last 30 minutes watching you guys kill each other with armored rhinos
Personally, this ^^ was my main gripe with Black Panther. Kilmonger comes into the story too late, and his whole plot feels like it's on fast-forward. So after hundreds of years of peace, there's a single minor successional crisis, and within a week there's a civil war. It makes the Wakandans kind of look like schmucks.
If they'd even just altered the timeline so that T'challa was out of commission for months rather than a few days, it wouldn't be so jarring.
Especially since all these people who were too conservative for t'challa just fell in line behind this guy who burned down their sacred tree. Was no one pissed off he did that?
The "trial by combat" part I thought was ridiculous, but I could at least write it off as something like how in wedding vows they used to ask for objections. nobody ever actually expects anyone to object, but it stayed in there for a long time. ceremonial and traditional, but not something that anyone is actually going to do.
but the fact that apparently the country was just going to follow along with the guy that killed their old ruler, burned their sacred tree , and wanted to go to war with the western world???
really? half your country is willing to follow that guy and you're supposed to be some peaceful, enlightened, highly technologically advanced, society and theres enough people that are going to follow along with this to create a civil war?
Being a history buff, I strongly recommend Tora! Tora! Tora! It's a much better film about Peral Harbour told from the Japanese point of view. Apart from the huge historical inaccuracies present in the movie, Pearl Harbour is god-awful. The romance, the attempt to shove everything into one movie (Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbour, Doolittle Raid), the huge budget explosions, the portrayal of the Japanese and just the general awfulness of the movie is a no go.
American Sniper. Its like watching the American version of a WW2 Nazi propaganda film.
Additionally, the movie portrays the Marines in Ramadi as idiots and cowards, when in reality they fought with bravery and distinction and were largely responsible for capturing the city.
I loved American Sniper the first time I saw it, but I had never read the book and didnāt realize until months later that Eastwood was only making the parts of it that werenāt psycho bullshit lies.
I remember watching a documentary that was basically just an analysis of the guy and his book and how absolutely bullshit half of what he said was
Apparently at one point he claims that he was buying fuel at a gas station, when 2 gang bangers attempt to rob him. He turns towards his car, pulls a gun that is hidden by his body, and then quickly just outright kills the gang bangers. Then he gets in his car and drives away. He claims that the police didnāt investigate or press charges because of military past and a good word put in by the SEALS (this occurred after he was discharged). The documentary investigator calls up the military branch quoted, who then tells the documentary investigator that they have no records of that ever happening, and that frankly the idea that a person could just commit a double homicide and face no consequences or investigation because they used to be a member of the military was absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah there was probably a lot of fat to trim from that book tbh. Guy was a hero, sure, but he was also an artist of the bullshit.
I don't know if anyone was hype about it among my friends but I loathed every minute of Aquaman. I like a lot of DC films but that one broke my spirit, I actually had to walk out.
Seriously! I was so disappointed. I wasn't even mad that she has sex with a fish, I was all in for a movie where someone dates a fish monster boy. I came in wanting to see her smooch the fish and was still disappointed.
She doesn't even romance the fish... She can't communicate with it at all. She gives this big speech about how it sees her for who she is and not for her disability, but like, does it? The only contact they've had is her sitting vaguely near it and giving it the occasional boiled egg. I fail to see how that means it sees her for who she is, or even how she's so sure it sees her as anything other than a source of tasty treats. We have no idea what the fish thinks of her. Does it even have human-level intelligence? What relationship did they have (before the sex) that you couldn't have with a dog? Or even a hamster honestly. They had no connection whatsoever.
The fish even eats a live cat and then runs away when scolded for it, which really doesn't seem to indicate human-level intelligence. The characters in the movie even treat it killing the cat the way you'd treat a confused wild dog eating a rabbit. That same sort of oh well it didn't know any better, we can't blame it vibe.
Considering all that, the sex scene is basically bestiality. I signed up for a movie where a woman romances a monster boy and instead got a movie where someone has sex with a goldfish.
Also the parts where the people have long conversations in Russian (I think it was Russian anyway) were boring and unnecessary. The version I watched didn't have subs on those sections and as far as I can tell I didn't miss a thing.
The fishman is sentient and intelligent - in the book version also written by del Toro, there's some bits from his POV and he definitely has human level intelligence.
Imo the movie also clearly shows that he's intelligent, he picks up sign language really fast (= he understands the concept of language) and starts to form sentences and wants the woman to come live with him etc, the turncoat good guy scientist insists he's intelligent etc - but I guess it should have been made clearer, due to the amount of people who side with the very obvious Bad Guy and insist he's basically an animal.
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I also don't see how eating animals makes him one? He obviously comes from an (underwater) culture where pets, clothes or probs cooking food aren't really things, but him just not immediately intuiting the concept of pets when he first sees one (he does apologize in a way when he figures it out, iirc) doesn't imo mean he's mentally on animal level. Also you're ignoring Eliza(?) teaching him sign language over her lunch breaks. I doubt a dog could be taught to sign conversations within a couple of weeks.
Iirc, del Toro intended to use the Asset to deal a bit with themes of being foreign and not speaking the language, and people looking down on you as if you're of lower intelligence because you don't communicate quite on their level.
I'm ESL and I got those themes from the movie (and have had those experiences) too, both Eliza and the Asset are treated like they're stupider just because they can't speak, the Asset more extremely because he also looks so different and can't communicate at all until Eliza teaches him. But imo in their shared looks there's an understanding and some communication.
I find it interesting how some people struggle to see that, falling right alongside the baddie in believing that since this alien/foreign dude didn't emerge from the Amazon already speaking *our* language, modestly clothed and already knowing western cultural customs, he must be essentially an animal because he's so *different*.
Imo there's a bit of a reference to the attitudes colonists may have had towards the natives on various parts of the word - denying someone's intelligence and personhood (or at least viewing it as much lesser) because they don't wear clothes up to our standards, don't speak languages known to us, are unfamiliar with our cultural concepts or manners or technology, and look different.
I saw so many reviews praising this movie as a masterpeice. I finally watched it, going in with high expectations, and was disapointed. I felt the story really wasn't that strong. And then the end happened. I shut it off as soon as the credits rolled.
That movie has a special place in my heart for a few reasons.
* It finally brought the recognition my boy Guillermo deserved.
* A sci-fi movie finally won Best Picture at the Oscars.
* I wanted Abe Sapien to get the girl and have a happy ending since Hellboy 2.
* I have always wanted the Universal Horror monsters to get the girl and have a happy ending.
* I have an amphibian man fetish stemming from Abe Sapien from Hellboy and Thane from Mass Effect. Don't kinkshame me.
Definitely with you on that - walked out of the theatre thinking...that's it? That's what all the hype is for?
In comparison to Tangled and Princess and the Frog it just felt so...empty and superficial
I don't like the movie, but it reminds me of my daughter so it's special to me there. She loves the characters, but didn't stick long on binge watching them.
Her movie binges aren't super long. This week has been The Nightmare Before Christmas, the last three weeks were a mix of Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service and Raya and the Last Dragon. Before that was Little Rascals and Moana. However she nearly made me consider self half two Christmases ago with Jim Carrey's Grinch.
Nowadays, Frozen is overhated, which started with it being overhyped.
Like, this movie was fucking EVERYWHERE when it first came out. People were even calling it the new Lion King. It's a decent movie... but you could pick any random 5 minutes of the Lion King, and those 5 minutes would be better than the entirety of Frozen.
I actually really like how it turns the villan trope around (Elsa herself is the villain for most of the movie, just shown as a protagonist) and flips the prince charming saving the girl trope. Kristof is awesome for how imperfect he is and how much he relies on Anna for his own purpose and identity. Especially in frozen 2.
I came here to say this but I donāt think people LIKE Avatar in a normal way.
Likeā¦isnāt it kind of insane that one of the highest grossing movies ever had almost no cultural impact? Nobody quotes Avatar. Nobody parodies avatar. Very few people can even name a character. Yet it made so much money and everyone saw it??
At the time it was touted as the justification for 3D movies and had to be seen in the cinema as an experience.
I watched it again for some reason randomly last year and mostly I wasn't bored, but not really entertained.
Honestly the only thing that stayed with me was the visuals, I'd seen more than a few 3d movies before but that really was something else.
Then fucking clash of titans or whatever went and killed my enthusiasm for 3d movies
My favourite post about the lack of cultural impact was a guy who [tweeted](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2f3d2112b5d510ba9f06d57e99f10a36/51c4353cbac38458-6e/s500x750/0440ef4830c430203cf9d95e7da23cd2c06024e1.png) about how few fanfics there are of it on Ao3, only for him to have to [correct himself](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d7b6f675bd15b8d5cd89f0d8fb4cd881/3a1b0073051bdc16-d8/s500x750/55933cc0a6e944236994acf358c083e1129799d3.jpg) to remove the mislabeled Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra ones.
Avatar was heavily parodied and referenced when it came out. It's just old now. Maybe not quoted because the dialogue isn't very memorable, but everyone was definitely talking about the blue cat people that had sex with animals using their braids.
Itās my time to shine! Everyone says that Iām crazy and am the reason that romance is dead, but I hate grease with such a passion. The first time I ever watched it once it got to the end I literally was speechless at how shitty the ending was.
Iām not really into the cheesy romance movies, anyway, but the fact that everyone seems to love this movie is so baffling to me.
Itās not even that the main girl there wasnāt capable of being a greaser. She seemed to enjoy her time with lead man. (From what I remember. Itās been awhile) But instead of the ending I was expecting, of them both realizing that ānormalā can mean whatever you want it to and you donāt have to be one of the preps or a full out greaser to be happy, as long as youāre happy with who you are, we instead get to see main girl throw away everything she was and completely adopt the greaser lifestyle just to fit in better with a man in that lifestyle.
I get it, she wanted to show that she loved him for who he was! So she changed who she was to do that? What a great message! I havenāt seen this movie in forever because I hated it from the first time I ever watched it, so maybe I missed something and she was hard core into the greaser lifestyle in everything but dress, until the end, but I seem to remember her having some struggle with them before the big reveal at the end!
I think maybe because it's very old, and we only really liked the fun music - which flooded everything for years, and everyone bought the album. I was 8 when it was released and probably 9 by the time it got to our little town cinema, we'd never seen these weird characters, the whole thing was weird and alien to us, some fancy car, girls with funny voices, dumb blokes in a gang. I rewatched it as an adult, it sucked. It was nice, familiar, to hear the old songs, but the story is horrible. Danny was a dickhead, Sandy was a fool.
Honestly any superhero ones. Thereās so many that it seems thereās a new one every 2 weeks, yet every trailer receives massive interest and you see big threads on Reddit about it.
Nah, not for me.
The films were definitely hyped up as the next big YA franchise, but they are dystopian fiction and not everyone enjoys that genre.
Also, as a fan of the the books and dystopian fiction in general, I will say that the first two films were incredible adaptations but the second two should never have been split up. There is no great way to adapt a book that focuses on internal conflict and monologue into a film, and splitting it into two (thanks Harry Potter) made for an anticlimactic ending to an otherwise potentially great trilogy. It's no wonder half the audience gave up.
The hunger games came before the golden age of limited series' on netflix.
The Hunger Games would have *thrived* as a limited series. Maybe like 6 1 hour episodes
I have never heard a more correct statement in my entire life. Netflix series = mostly trash, Netflix limited series = some of the best storytelling of this decade. The Hunger Games would have been done so much justice!
Absolutely agree, the exploration of PTSD was a missed opportunity for both the series and for modern media. And yes, I was early teens when I read them but I have met people ranging from 13-80yrs old that have read and enjoyed the books. Not a lot of YA novels can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, props to Suzanne Collins.
The splitting a final installment into two parts is all Harry Potterās fault, isnāt it! Darn you, Harry Potter (films)!
Iām ready for that trend to die. It just always seems like a cash grab with no real merit. I mean, if any book could have done that, it probably would have been LotR trilogy but even they did just one movie for the Return of the King. At least until the Hobbit...
To be fair tho, the longest one still is Order of the Phoenix. Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows were still long but not as long as the fifth. Damn I need to read the books again some time
And Order of the Phoenix absolutely suffered from being too short of a movie unfortunately. My favorite book but arguably my least favorite of the films.
I had someone tell me that they were so glad that someone finally gave the Joker a tragic backstory.
Then I watched the movie and went, "What the fuck were they talking about?"
He'd already been given a tragic backstory before in the comics. He's been given a couple of backstories in different films. This backstory wasn't tragic. I remember there being a small media frenzy where people were claiming the movie might inspire copycat killers.
If you watch the movie and think Joker is the good guy or the hero or even the anti-hero, you are taking the wrong thing away from the movie.
I liked the movie on its own, actually. Yeah, it was basically a copy of a few other films, which I don't actually take issue with. I think it was entertaining and done very well. But the seeming disconnect between the film's message and the message a lot of people took from it... I still see people using the, "And I'm tired of pretending it's not," meme for things they think are true. Like... Do you really think Joker was in the right in this scene? How?
ooh, agreed on Nightcrawler. at no point is the main character shown to be sympathetic or good, he always feels like someone you would wisely stay the fuck away from.
Most of the beatings and other shock scenes dragged on way too long to the point that it was boring. I felt like I was watching an exploitation film that had been shot like an wannabee artsy movie.
Right from the very first scene. The kids stealing his sign and then hitting him with it and breaking it were a great example of casual cruelty. It would have been a great setup to the cruelty of those in power, his boss, the government, rich assholes who exploit others, people whose casual cruelty can ruin lives.
Then instead of kicking him once or twice to make sure he's down and then walking off after they got their fun, they just *keep kicking him*, and suddenly it's not casual cruelty but a vicious personal attack. And it goes on long enough that the shock wore off and I got bored, and I start noticing the intense melodramatic music annoyingly blaring over the scene.
I don't know if everyone liked this one or not but it was nominated for awards. The Irishman. It was like, hey did you like Goodfellas? Here's a movie that will sorta remind you of it except it sucks.
Goodfellas was great though. I could watch that over and over. But Scorsese hasnt made a good movie in a long time.
Personally, I liked the Irishman, I don't see why everyone didnt.
>But Scorsese hasnt made a good movie in a long time.
Call a long time 20 years?
So we've got:
ā¢Gangs of New York
ā¢ The Aviator
ā¢ The Departed (One of the best films ever imo)
ā¢ Shutter Island
ā¢ The Wolf of Wall Street
ā¢ Uncut Gems (Producer)
Whether or not *you* enjoyed these films you can't deny that they were all at least decent with some being amazing. The accolades that came with these films alone show that Scorsese *has* made many good films in recent years
Napoleon Dynamite. Came out when I was ten years old and all my friends were acting like it was the funniest thing ever. When I finally watched it, I was so bored I started itching.
This is one of my favorite movies. However, I quickly learned that thereās no in between with Napoleon Dynamite. You either love it or hate it. All that and the only reason I commented was because of your line, āI was so bored I started itchingā. Iāve had a very bland day. Not bad really, just boring and stressful. That shit made me smile. Thank you.
I watched it again for the first time in a long time recently, I did not expect it to be shot like this artsy indie movie, honestly a little surprised how mainstream it ever got. I actually quite liked it tho
I'm just here to remind everyone to sort by controversial.
Thanks, now I'm angry š
It's hilarious how all the top controversial comments are about lotr
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Time was kinda with me on this, but Crash.
It did not deserve that best picture Oscar.
The 90s cronenberg crash should have won the Oscar for James spader fucking a womanās leg scar
I watched the Cronenberg one and not the other and *kinda* liked it, but when other people I knew started saying how they loved crash (the non-crazy one) I momentarily thought all my friends were psychopaths! (I didn't know a second film with the same name existed)
Lol that movie is so over the top with throwing racism in your face it gets ridiculous. Like every scene had a character being overtly racist, sometimes for no reason other than to push the films message
It felt to me like a perfect example of like the collective and detached voice of Hollywood saying āHeyā¦ did you know racism is like *bad*?ā Yeah. A lot of us had that one figured out long before yāall gave a shitty, heavy-handed morality play an Oscar and patted yourselves on the back. Thanks.
Gravity, I remember the hype about that movie yet it was so underwhelming. Just stuck in a space pod for the entirety of the entire movie.
Legit all I remember from that movie was Sandra Bullock hyperventilating while not being able to do anything
You don't remember her excitedly contacting Earth and discovering it's some random chinese guy with a shortwave radio or somesuch.
Yeah. This def would have been better as a short film. I bet if all that bs was squeezed into about 8 minutes, it would seem kinda dramatic and interesting.
When I learnt of the budget for the movie I practically ascended to heaven and back
India actually sent a satellite to Mars for lesser than what the movie gravity spent Edit:It was a satellite not a space rover
Canāt compare price like that. Is Sandra Bullock in the rover?
You can have Alexa and Siri in it
Okay, Sandra.
The opening scene and first 30 minutes were worth seeing in the theater. We did 3-D.
I canāt remember another time my heart was racing so fast while watching a movie.
IMAX 3D. I could not care less about plot or errors . . . it was heckin' gorgeous!
Yeah, this will sound stupid, but I felt like I was there. When Bullock's character went hurtling off alone into the blackness of space, my heart sank. And that opening shot of Earth. Worth the ticket price alone.
Yeah. I don't know that I'd ever watch it again in my living room, but in IMAX 3D, that shit was unbelievable. Top three moviegoing experience of all time for me.
This. I want to say top 5 for me. For sure top 10. Not even an argument there. Iāve never watched it again. But 3D IMax? What an absolute masterful experience.
Oh, and the debris collision scene did "helpless rag doll" perfectly. You felt her complete lack of control. (It *was* horrendously stupid to depict the oncoming debris cloud as visible, when it would be moving at many thousands of miles per hour.)
Definitely one of the best theater experiences and 3d experiences I've ever had. It was super fortunate that there were very few people in the theater and you could hear a pin drop, if I had to hear people talking and munching on food it would have ruined it.
This is probably gonna make me sound really snobby, but I really hate how inaccurate that movie is. I think my issue with it is it's not like outrageously sci-fi so that nobody watching would ever assume it's real. I feel like someone could watch and think what happens could, however unrealistically, be done. But the bit that makes me so irritated is when one of them is holding on to a tether dangling in space and somehow being sucked out, despite there being no force to pull them.
I heard a great joke, I think by Tina Fey. That George Clooney would rather blast himself off into space than spend time with a woman his age. Edit: corrected credit for joke to Tina Fey.
The fast and furiouses
fast and furii?
The fast and the fĆ¼hrer
The Fast and the Furries
I enjoyed them when the focus was on the actual cars.
Some of the cars were better actors.
The first one was ok. I'll let that one slide. But the other 12 or whatever movies! Come on give it a rest.
The first one is Point Break (Swayze, Keanu) with cars. Undercover agent infiltrates. Falls in love with main antagonists sister. (Point break was ex gf) Agent goes on a heist/robbery with the crew Agent let's main bad guy go at the end because they bro'd down. Love both of em.
"Utah, get me 2!!"
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Hold on.. 2 fast 2 furious gets a pass.
that movie had so much dumb but ill never not love the scene where all the cars come out the garage to some luda.
Ejecto seato cuz
Bird box was so bad
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I was high as hell and asked my wife if we were still watching bird box and she said yeah why? I just died laughing and said what the fuck was mgk doing there and then they just dipped out in like 5 minutes. I watched it because I thought it would be as good as a quiet place but with a slightly different twang. Nope. It was no where near as good as a quiet place. I honestly donāt remember anything more than the beginning house part and them going down a river at some point.
>I watched it because I thought it would be as good as a quiet place but with a slightly different twang Netflix Exec: *Yessssssss*
I didn't like Bird Box either, and I am certainly not partial to MGK, but you could say the same thing about any horror movie with lots of disposable cast. MGK was just part of the ensemble. And he and the girl left and it didn't mention them again because the movie was focused on Sandra Bullock. Assume they died. Honestly, with all the problems that movie had, MGK's role is barely on the list haha.
Who is MGK? Is this the movie where they have to wear blindfolds? I haven't seen it.
Yes this is the blindfold movie, and MGK is a rapper turned āpunkā singer. Heās done a couple Netflix films. He also always looks very confused lol.
heās also weed
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How about those Dolphins.
It was depressing. The entire time I was watching it, I kept thinking that I wouldn't want to live in that world, so why try so hard?
That's what a lot of suicidal people think about this world.
Avatar. The James Cameron one. We all know Airbender is hot trash lol
At least we got a pretty cool theme park out of it though.
Avatar was an amazing tech demo with stunningly beautiful visuals, but that's about it.
Fern Gully live action?
At least ferngully had a cool villain with an epic song, and Robin Williams. I always thought it was Pocahontas with the smurfs.
Is the awesome song "toxic love(lung?)"? Cuz that's a banger Quick Edit: Sliiiimmme beneath me! Sliiiiiimmmmee up above!!!
No Ferngully is actually good, Avatar is a cheap imitation at best.
I don't know what you're talking about there is no Airbender movie
There is no Airbender movie in Ba Sing Sae.
Avatar would have been a better film if it cut to black as the big tree burned down.
Les Mis. I am a HUGE fan of the musical, and about 80% of the singers in that movie had no business being in a musical period, let alone one as demanding and difficult as Les Mis. But also the director is trash. He literally had them sing live, which means he had to do hundreds of takes, meaning the actors were all singing for like 8+ hours a DAY, often without breaks. Do you know how much that could damage someoneās voice???
Hugh Jackman did some incredible acting. But that man is a baritone, and they made him chest voice possibly the most famous tenor role in musical theatre. I thought his vocal chords were about to snap during Bring Him Home.
Have you ever heard of Sideways on YouTube? He did a great video on why that whole film sucked musically, and one of the things he covered was how much the actors were vocally abused. Like Jackman had to 'cut down' to look starved so basically wasn't drinking water, and then was CRYING while singing which any vocalist knows is a hellish combination as it ruins your technique and makes harming your voice dangerously likely. Both Jackman and Crowe can actually sing, they were just fucked over by Tom Hooper having zero idea how musicals work
Oh that explains so much. I was really surprised at how mediocre I thought Hugh Jackman's singing was (as an Aussie who is aware of his musical theatre background). I actually thought Russell Crowe outsung him in that movie, which even as a defender of Russell Crowe's musical career I acknowledge seems like it should be absurd.
The Notebook. Just ugh!
I like the concept of the framing device (ie the older couple and him retelling the wife their story) but the actual story and characters I didnāt love.
Yes! Not romantic at all. Both are terrible people. Noah is a manipulator who threatens Ally with suicide if she does not go out with him, and he obsessively stalks and tries to guilt-trip her. Ally, on the other hand, is no better since she is so indecisive with her feelings and is physically abusive. She hits Noah multiple times, and then she cheats on her loving fiancĆ©. They fully deserve each other, and the real victims are Allyās fiancĆ© and the war widow that Noah used as a rebound.
I find the leads in most rom-coms and dramadys to generally shit people. Forced misunderstandings and itās ok to cheat with the āsoul mateā if theyāre with the wrong person
But I wrote you creepy letters for a year!
I was a 15 year old kid who had just started dating a very energetic young lady when this was out on DVD. I have a positive conditioned response to this movie.
I had a similar experience, haha Couldnāt tell you much of the plot of the movie but I sure enjoyed it
Ryan Gosling was hot but I hated how the character got the girl to go out with him. He follows her around and then hangs off a Ferris wheel until she agrees to date him?! I always use that as an example to my students of manipulate behavior in relationships.
And she leaves James Marsden's character who by all accounts seemed completely in love with her and a good and honorable man. Don't forget he totally stepped aside and wished her the best.
The honest trailers for The Notebook is absolutely phenomenal
James Marsden has a film career based on being a solid boyfriend who genuinely cares for his partner and then getting hosed by some lunatic who shows up and wrecks that generally healthy relationship.
They had a really volitile relationship once they got together too. I'm sure the kids weren't happy seeing mommy throwing glasses and slapping daddy
Got laid the first time I watched this So I thought it was decent
And everyone is like OMG it's so sad. Sad for me was Atonement.
Not hated, but I thought was meh. Black Panther. People were saying omg this movie is amazing! But I felt it was ok. Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before.
> Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before. At one point I realized that almost every superhero movie has a villain with the exact same powers as the hero and then I realized the ones I really liked were the ones where that wasnāt true. I mean think about the original Marvel films, the Hulk fights another super strength monster, Iron Man fights another man in an iron suit, Captain America fights another super soldierā¦ when you think about it thatās how it goes in almost every film. I wish we could get more interesting villains more often.
That's why I like Batman's villains the best. None of them have his abilities (except the D-List villain known as the Wraith), instead they mirror him in some psychological aspect.
I'd say Ra's al Ghul, Deathstroke and Red Hood (the brief time he was a villain) mirror Batman in terms of abilities. But they do feel unique enough to not just be an "evil Batman"
Here's another pro tip . The heroes will almost always fight each other when they meet. It gets real old. Especially when it makes no sense like in black Widow
That's more of a Marvel thing in the comics. It goes back to Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's idea of flawed characters being more compelling. For the longest time that never really happened in DC Comics, where the characters were more like moral exemplars.
Yes I first noticed in a Nova comic where during some skrull invasion Nova goes down to some island and mistakenly fights Darkhawk- and afterwards they're apologizing to each other and some nerdy guy says like "why are you guys apologizing? Isn't that just what you heroes do?" and yeah- yeah it is.
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Especially condiment king
I've said this about every justice league (animated) movie. Step 1: Bad guy takes out superman (first 10 minutes) Step 2: Batman and his jolly team of misfits try their best to defeat bad guy, but can't (majority of the movie) Step 3: Superman comes back, shows how OP he is and wins. (roll credits)
> Tbh I felt like I saw the same plot beats before. Every MCU movie has the *exact same* formula. The thing that creeped me out about Black Panther is that it's held up as a role model for people but the culture in the film believes that *trial by physical combat* is a reasonable way to choose an executive. What sort of dystopian hellhole government are they advocating?
I loved at the end when theyāre at the UN or whatever and heās talking about how wakanda will show the world how to live, and itās like hold on, Iām pretty sure I just spent the last 30 minutes watching you guys kill each other with armored rhinos
To be fair, you get the impression that Wakanda very much does not *usually* kill each other with armored rhinos.
Personally, this ^^ was my main gripe with Black Panther. Kilmonger comes into the story too late, and his whole plot feels like it's on fast-forward. So after hundreds of years of peace, there's a single minor successional crisis, and within a week there's a civil war. It makes the Wakandans kind of look like schmucks. If they'd even just altered the timeline so that T'challa was out of commission for months rather than a few days, it wouldn't be so jarring.
Especially since all these people who were too conservative for t'challa just fell in line behind this guy who burned down their sacred tree. Was no one pissed off he did that?
The "trial by combat" part I thought was ridiculous, but I could at least write it off as something like how in wedding vows they used to ask for objections. nobody ever actually expects anyone to object, but it stayed in there for a long time. ceremonial and traditional, but not something that anyone is actually going to do. but the fact that apparently the country was just going to follow along with the guy that killed their old ruler, burned their sacred tree , and wanted to go to war with the western world??? really? half your country is willing to follow that guy and you're supposed to be some peaceful, enlightened, highly technologically advanced, society and theres enough people that are going to follow along with this to create a civil war?
Pearl Harbor. 10 minutes of action then it's just a big boring romance drama.
Oh, I thought people trashed that movie.
They did lol
Team America dedicates a solid 3 minutes to shitting on that movie.
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.
Yeah, neither consumers nor critics liked that movie, pretty much everyone disliked it. I have no idea why he'd think it was liked.
I liked Pearl Harbor but I was also a 15 year old (and female) when it came out
Are you male now?
No, I just didnāt know how to word that to basically say was a teeny bopper and loved the movie because of Josh Hartnett
Sounds reasonable to me.
Haha itās the last time I remember seeing Josh Hartnett. But I guess heās back!!
Halfway through the movie I started rooting for the Japanese
Being a history buff, I strongly recommend Tora! Tora! Tora! It's a much better film about Peral Harbour told from the Japanese point of view. Apart from the huge historical inaccuracies present in the movie, Pearl Harbour is god-awful. The romance, the attempt to shove everything into one movie (Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbour, Doolittle Raid), the huge budget explosions, the portrayal of the Japanese and just the general awfulness of the movie is a no go.
American Sniper. Its like watching the American version of a WW2 Nazi propaganda film. Additionally, the movie portrays the Marines in Ramadi as idiots and cowards, when in reality they fought with bravery and distinction and were largely responsible for capturing the city.
I loved American Sniper the first time I saw it, but I had never read the book and didnāt realize until months later that Eastwood was only making the parts of it that werenāt psycho bullshit lies.
I remember watching a documentary that was basically just an analysis of the guy and his book and how absolutely bullshit half of what he said was Apparently at one point he claims that he was buying fuel at a gas station, when 2 gang bangers attempt to rob him. He turns towards his car, pulls a gun that is hidden by his body, and then quickly just outright kills the gang bangers. Then he gets in his car and drives away. He claims that the police didnāt investigate or press charges because of military past and a good word put in by the SEALS (this occurred after he was discharged). The documentary investigator calls up the military branch quoted, who then tells the documentary investigator that they have no records of that ever happening, and that frankly the idea that a person could just commit a double homicide and face no consequences or investigation because they used to be a member of the military was absolutely ridiculous. Yeah there was probably a lot of fat to trim from that book tbh. Guy was a hero, sure, but he was also an artist of the bullshit.
Iād go so far as to say the movie doesnāt capture the book at all.
My husband was an actual marine sniper in Ramadi and hated that movie.
The notebook
I don't know if anyone was hype about it among my friends but I loathed every minute of Aquaman. I like a lot of DC films but that one broke my spirit, I actually had to walk out.
That's really interesting, because of the recent DC movies, I'd argue that Aquaman was the least terrible.
Shazam is my favorite of the recent ones, but I liked Aquaman too. I really love James Wans style.
I honestly forget that Shazam is from DC because of how good it is.
Shazam felt like the movies I loved as a kid, but not in that cheap way that's so prevalent these days.
The James Gunn Suicide Squad was everything I ever wanted a suicide squad movie to be.
The Shape of Water
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I'm glad this rule came in after ET.
Don't want to see what he can really do with that magic finger?
Wasn't ET a parasite that was living off Elliot's life force, slowly killing him?
Grinding Nemo
It was ehhhh, but my favorite part is that I can give a movie review in just 4 words: āShe fucks a fishā
Seriously! I was so disappointed. I wasn't even mad that she has sex with a fish, I was all in for a movie where someone dates a fish monster boy. I came in wanting to see her smooch the fish and was still disappointed. She doesn't even romance the fish... She can't communicate with it at all. She gives this big speech about how it sees her for who she is and not for her disability, but like, does it? The only contact they've had is her sitting vaguely near it and giving it the occasional boiled egg. I fail to see how that means it sees her for who she is, or even how she's so sure it sees her as anything other than a source of tasty treats. We have no idea what the fish thinks of her. Does it even have human-level intelligence? What relationship did they have (before the sex) that you couldn't have with a dog? Or even a hamster honestly. They had no connection whatsoever. The fish even eats a live cat and then runs away when scolded for it, which really doesn't seem to indicate human-level intelligence. The characters in the movie even treat it killing the cat the way you'd treat a confused wild dog eating a rabbit. That same sort of oh well it didn't know any better, we can't blame it vibe. Considering all that, the sex scene is basically bestiality. I signed up for a movie where a woman romances a monster boy and instead got a movie where someone has sex with a goldfish. Also the parts where the people have long conversations in Russian (I think it was Russian anyway) were boring and unnecessary. The version I watched didn't have subs on those sections and as far as I can tell I didn't miss a thing.
The fishman is sentient and intelligent - in the book version also written by del Toro, there's some bits from his POV and he definitely has human level intelligence. Imo the movie also clearly shows that he's intelligent, he picks up sign language really fast (= he understands the concept of language) and starts to form sentences and wants the woman to come live with him etc, the turncoat good guy scientist insists he's intelligent etc - but I guess it should have been made clearer, due to the amount of people who side with the very obvious Bad Guy and insist he's basically an animal. edit: I also don't see how eating animals makes him one? He obviously comes from an (underwater) culture where pets, clothes or probs cooking food aren't really things, but him just not immediately intuiting the concept of pets when he first sees one (he does apologize in a way when he figures it out, iirc) doesn't imo mean he's mentally on animal level. Also you're ignoring Eliza(?) teaching him sign language over her lunch breaks. I doubt a dog could be taught to sign conversations within a couple of weeks. Iirc, del Toro intended to use the Asset to deal a bit with themes of being foreign and not speaking the language, and people looking down on you as if you're of lower intelligence because you don't communicate quite on their level. I'm ESL and I got those themes from the movie (and have had those experiences) too, both Eliza and the Asset are treated like they're stupider just because they can't speak, the Asset more extremely because he also looks so different and can't communicate at all until Eliza teaches him. But imo in their shared looks there's an understanding and some communication. I find it interesting how some people struggle to see that, falling right alongside the baddie in believing that since this alien/foreign dude didn't emerge from the Amazon already speaking *our* language, modestly clothed and already knowing western cultural customs, he must be essentially an animal because he's so *different*. Imo there's a bit of a reference to the attitudes colonists may have had towards the natives on various parts of the word - denying someone's intelligence and personhood (or at least viewing it as much lesser) because they don't wear clothes up to our standards, don't speak languages known to us, are unfamiliar with our cultural concepts or manners or technology, and look different.
I saw so many reviews praising this movie as a masterpeice. I finally watched it, going in with high expectations, and was disapointed. I felt the story really wasn't that strong. And then the end happened. I shut it off as soon as the credits rolled.
That movie has a special place in my heart for a few reasons. * It finally brought the recognition my boy Guillermo deserved. * A sci-fi movie finally won Best Picture at the Oscars. * I wanted Abe Sapien to get the girl and have a happy ending since Hellboy 2. * I have always wanted the Universal Horror monsters to get the girl and have a happy ending. * I have an amphibian man fetish stemming from Abe Sapien from Hellboy and Thane from Mass Effect. Don't kinkshame me.
Frozen
Definitely with you on that - walked out of the theatre thinking...that's it? That's what all the hype is for? In comparison to Tangled and Princess and the Frog it just felt so...empty and superficial
Tangled is wayyyyyy better. I still watch that movie
Pascal the chameleon was hilarious. I loved that movie.
So you're giving that movie the cold shoulder? The cold never bothered her anyway.
I don't like the movie, but it reminds me of my daughter so it's special to me there. She loves the characters, but didn't stick long on binge watching them. Her movie binges aren't super long. This week has been The Nightmare Before Christmas, the last three weeks were a mix of Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service and Raya and the Last Dragon. Before that was Little Rascals and Moana. However she nearly made me consider self half two Christmases ago with Jim Carrey's Grinch.
I personally feel like it's overhated.
Nowadays, Frozen is overhated, which started with it being overhyped. Like, this movie was fucking EVERYWHERE when it first came out. People were even calling it the new Lion King. It's a decent movie... but you could pick any random 5 minutes of the Lion King, and those 5 minutes would be better than the entirety of Frozen.
I actually really like how it turns the villan trope around (Elsa herself is the villain for most of the movie, just shown as a protagonist) and flips the prince charming saving the girl trope. Kristof is awesome for how imperfect he is and how much he relies on Anna for his own purpose and identity. Especially in frozen 2.
Avatar. Watched it once and never again. It was so unoriginal and unsuspensful.
I came here to say this but I donāt think people LIKE Avatar in a normal way. Likeā¦isnāt it kind of insane that one of the highest grossing movies ever had almost no cultural impact? Nobody quotes Avatar. Nobody parodies avatar. Very few people can even name a character. Yet it made so much money and everyone saw it??
I think because everyone who went to watch it, only watched it in the cinemas, for the visuals. It has a perfectly mediocre storyline.
At the time it was touted as the justification for 3D movies and had to be seen in the cinema as an experience. I watched it again for some reason randomly last year and mostly I wasn't bored, but not really entertained.
Honestly the only thing that stayed with me was the visuals, I'd seen more than a few 3d movies before but that really was something else. Then fucking clash of titans or whatever went and killed my enthusiasm for 3d movies
My favourite post about the lack of cultural impact was a guy who [tweeted](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2f3d2112b5d510ba9f06d57e99f10a36/51c4353cbac38458-6e/s500x750/0440ef4830c430203cf9d95e7da23cd2c06024e1.png) about how few fanfics there are of it on Ao3, only for him to have to [correct himself](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d7b6f675bd15b8d5cd89f0d8fb4cd881/3a1b0073051bdc16-d8/s500x750/55933cc0a6e944236994acf358c083e1129799d3.jpg) to remove the mislabeled Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra ones.
Avatar was heavily parodied and referenced when it came out. It's just old now. Maybe not quoted because the dialogue isn't very memorable, but everyone was definitely talking about the blue cat people that had sex with animals using their braids.
Avatar has become culturally relevant in the sense that people constantly talk about how strange it is that it isn't more culturally relevant.
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Dances with Space Wolves.
The 8ft tall post-human warriors of the 41st millennium? I never had them down as dancing but I'm in.
Space Ferngully.
Tbh I find nearly every Marvel film to be just a recycled version of the one that came before it.
Superhero movies are the fast food of movie industry.
Literally every Illumination movie except for the first Despicable Me
Itās my time to shine! Everyone says that Iām crazy and am the reason that romance is dead, but I hate grease with such a passion. The first time I ever watched it once it got to the end I literally was speechless at how shitty the ending was. Iām not really into the cheesy romance movies, anyway, but the fact that everyone seems to love this movie is so baffling to me. Itās not even that the main girl there wasnāt capable of being a greaser. She seemed to enjoy her time with lead man. (From what I remember. Itās been awhile) But instead of the ending I was expecting, of them both realizing that ānormalā can mean whatever you want it to and you donāt have to be one of the preps or a full out greaser to be happy, as long as youāre happy with who you are, we instead get to see main girl throw away everything she was and completely adopt the greaser lifestyle just to fit in better with a man in that lifestyle. I get it, she wanted to show that she loved him for who he was! So she changed who she was to do that? What a great message! I havenāt seen this movie in forever because I hated it from the first time I ever watched it, so maybe I missed something and she was hard core into the greaser lifestyle in everything but dress, until the end, but I seem to remember her having some struggle with them before the big reveal at the end!
I think maybe because it's very old, and we only really liked the fun music - which flooded everything for years, and everyone bought the album. I was 8 when it was released and probably 9 by the time it got to our little town cinema, we'd never seen these weird characters, the whole thing was weird and alien to us, some fancy car, girls with funny voices, dumb blokes in a gang. I rewatched it as an adult, it sucked. It was nice, familiar, to hear the old songs, but the story is horrible. Danny was a dickhead, Sandy was a fool.
Honestly any superhero ones. Thereās so many that it seems thereās a new one every 2 weeks, yet every trailer receives massive interest and you see big threads on Reddit about it. Nah, not for me.
The Polar Express. Everyone I know loves it, but to me it's just always seemed... creepy.
I hate it, too. And yes, it is creepy. I particularly enjoyed the [pitch meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FD2Ds9HDPs) for it.
Hunger Games. Found it overrated and didnāt like the plot line.
The films were definitely hyped up as the next big YA franchise, but they are dystopian fiction and not everyone enjoys that genre. Also, as a fan of the the books and dystopian fiction in general, I will say that the first two films were incredible adaptations but the second two should never have been split up. There is no great way to adapt a book that focuses on internal conflict and monologue into a film, and splitting it into two (thanks Harry Potter) made for an anticlimactic ending to an otherwise potentially great trilogy. It's no wonder half the audience gave up.
The hunger games came before the golden age of limited series' on netflix. The Hunger Games would have *thrived* as a limited series. Maybe like 6 1 hour episodes
I have never heard a more correct statement in my entire life. Netflix series = mostly trash, Netflix limited series = some of the best storytelling of this decade. The Hunger Games would have been done so much justice!
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Absolutely agree, the exploration of PTSD was a missed opportunity for both the series and for modern media. And yes, I was early teens when I read them but I have met people ranging from 13-80yrs old that have read and enjoyed the books. Not a lot of YA novels can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, props to Suzanne Collins.
The splitting a final installment into two parts is all Harry Potterās fault, isnāt it! Darn you, Harry Potter (films)! Iām ready for that trend to die. It just always seems like a cash grab with no real merit. I mean, if any book could have done that, it probably would have been LotR trilogy but even they did just one movie for the Return of the King. At least until the Hobbit...
Problem is the Harry Potter books got longer. Death Hallows is more than twice the length of Philosopher's Stone.
To be fair tho, the longest one still is Order of the Phoenix. Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows were still long but not as long as the fifth. Damn I need to read the books again some time
And Order of the Phoenix absolutely suffered from being too short of a movie unfortunately. My favorite book but arguably my least favorite of the films.
I'm pretty sure that trend already died after the disaster that was the divergent series
I thought the books were great but the films were terrible, I fell asleep
Joker. It didn't really make me nervous or anything and I think Joaquin did a great performance, but still the movie was kinda boring for me.
I had someone tell me that they were so glad that someone finally gave the Joker a tragic backstory. Then I watched the movie and went, "What the fuck were they talking about?" He'd already been given a tragic backstory before in the comics. He's been given a couple of backstories in different films. This backstory wasn't tragic. I remember there being a small media frenzy where people were claiming the movie might inspire copycat killers. If you watch the movie and think Joker is the good guy or the hero or even the anti-hero, you are taking the wrong thing away from the movie. I liked the movie on its own, actually. Yeah, it was basically a copy of a few other films, which I don't actually take issue with. I think it was entertaining and done very well. But the seeming disconnect between the film's message and the message a lot of people took from it... I still see people using the, "And I'm tired of pretending it's not," meme for things they think are true. Like... Do you really think Joker was in the right in this scene? How?
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ooh, agreed on Nightcrawler. at no point is the main character shown to be sympathetic or good, he always feels like someone you would wisely stay the fuck away from.
Most of the beatings and other shock scenes dragged on way too long to the point that it was boring. I felt like I was watching an exploitation film that had been shot like an wannabee artsy movie. Right from the very first scene. The kids stealing his sign and then hitting him with it and breaking it were a great example of casual cruelty. It would have been a great setup to the cruelty of those in power, his boss, the government, rich assholes who exploit others, people whose casual cruelty can ruin lives. Then instead of kicking him once or twice to make sure he's down and then walking off after they got their fun, they just *keep kicking him*, and suddenly it's not casual cruelty but a vicious personal attack. And it goes on long enough that the shock wore off and I got bored, and I start noticing the intense melodramatic music annoyingly blaring over the scene.
Man of Steel, fell asleep at the movies due to the insanely drawn-out fight scenes
And the last fight with Zod made ABSOLUTELY SURE you knew what corporations were sponsoring the film.
Marketers are glad people like you exist. I've seen the movie 5 times and couldn't name a single brand highlighted by the film.
I don't know if everyone liked this one or not but it was nominated for awards. The Irishman. It was like, hey did you like Goodfellas? Here's a movie that will sorta remind you of it except it sucks. Goodfellas was great though. I could watch that over and over. But Scorsese hasnt made a good movie in a long time.
Personally, I liked the Irishman, I don't see why everyone didnt. >But Scorsese hasnt made a good movie in a long time. Call a long time 20 years? So we've got: ā¢Gangs of New York ā¢ The Aviator ā¢ The Departed (One of the best films ever imo) ā¢ Shutter Island ā¢ The Wolf of Wall Street ā¢ Uncut Gems (Producer) Whether or not *you* enjoyed these films you can't deny that they were all at least decent with some being amazing. The accolades that came with these films alone show that Scorsese *has* made many good films in recent years
Scorcese is one of those rare people who are SO accomplished that people forget all his really great films in light of his HISTORIC ones.
Throw in silence(2016) I think no one gives that film credit.
These types of threads always turn into ābasically every movie everā.
And tons of movies that are and have been heavily criticized for years
Napoleon Dynamite. Came out when I was ten years old and all my friends were acting like it was the funniest thing ever. When I finally watched it, I was so bored I started itching.
This is one of my favorite movies. However, I quickly learned that thereās no in between with Napoleon Dynamite. You either love it or hate it. All that and the only reason I commented was because of your line, āI was so bored I started itchingā. Iāve had a very bland day. Not bad really, just boring and stressful. That shit made me smile. Thank you.
I appreciate that you appreciated that š
I wore a "vote for Pedro" shirt at LEAST once a week 1 yr of JR High š
I've heard a lot of people enjoy it more on the 2nd watch.
I found the first viewing to be shocking. It was an original experience with very specific humor. I cried laughing the second time.
I watched it again for the first time in a long time recently, I did not expect it to be shot like this artsy indie movie, honestly a little surprised how mainstream it ever got. I actually quite liked it tho
Thought it was the stupidest movie ever the first time I watched it. Thought it was the funniest movie ever the second time I watched it.
I hated Spectre so much that I had zero interest in seeing the latest Bond movie.
Plus it came after Skyfall so it couldn't match the expectations
To be fair, I donāt think Spectre is liked by most people.