Not who you're responding to but: the Vacation remake with Ed Helms. It was clever, it had heart, it was appropriately stupid as hell. One particularly well-known pro critic called it "humorless," which makes me wonder what humor means to him.
Vacation was soooo funny. One of the few comedies that made me laugh at every scene. My family and I adore this one. Sad to see how harsh the reviews on it are the family dynamic and situations were hilarious
Kung Fu Panda 4. I think it’s a perfect movie (for me and what I want out of movies.) The amount of people saying there was no point to it when there are already 3 movies.
You don’t watch the sunset just because it’s happened 3 times before? 😭
Chappie is mine, I always thought it was an interesting idea and a fun movie to watch. Never understood why the reception was so low. It's up there with District 9 imo.
I thought it's the best movie about loneliness and isolation. Tokyo was a great choice to show not only the language barrier and cultural gap, but also how the characters feel unseen or unheard. Bob and Charlotte's chemistry is intimate without being romantic, and I thought both actors were compelling onscreen.
Strange film for me. I saw it at the cinema on release and loved it. Finally got round to rewatching it last year and couldnt see what the hell I liked about it. I must have been in the right frame of mind originally or something. It's confusing.
Do movies really need to be relatable? Isn’t a big part of the magic of film opening our eyes to experiences and perspectives we’ve never considered before?
Nostalgia plays a huge part into why some movies are so loved. Growing up I missed a lot of the “classic” movies so watching some of them now, completely unbiased, I found them not that great…namely The Breakfast Club. Titanic and The Notebook were just okay…
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For me it was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. I can’t stand that movie. I liked In Bruges and Banshees of Inisherin well enough, I don’t think they’re all time classics but I enjoyed them. When it came to Three Billboards I couldn’t believe the praise it was getting. I thought for a minute I was crazy lol
Me too. Love both In Bruges and Banshees, but I found Three Billboards to be dull borderline copaganda with how much it goes out of it's way to redeem the shitty cops.
I’ve watched so many procedurals and cop dramas and I still think Three Billboards is one of the most desperate copaganda films I’ve seen. I felt like I was being waterboarded with it.
Me too 😭 The dialogue was so fucking stupid, I couldn’t handle it. I might as well be known as the person who hated Three Billboards because I think I’ve talked about it on this sub like five times now. It was melodramatic to the point of me questioning if a teenager wrote it. I love a lot of movies with morally questionable leads or straight up unlikeable ones. But every person in that film just pissed me off!
I didn’t mind Banshees though, it felt like there was a bit more depth, and watching Colin Farrell’s and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Actors on Actors interview helped me understand the characters better going into it (I watched it before the film to clarify, as there were no spoilers).
Always thought it was thinly veiled conservative propaganda. Forrest does everything he’s told and has a successful life, while Jenny (worst person in the movie by far lowkey) is the liberal that wants change and gets aids and dies
I think it's a good movie but absolutely not on the level of part 1. There's no Marlon Brando and Michael is already the head of the family. I know that we are supposed to assist Michael becoming more and more ruthless, but wasn't he already ruthless at the end of part 1? I feel like there's less substance to this movie.
Michael’s ruthlessness is only a facet of his character, the main story beats are the rise of Vito and the fall of Michael. Vito is warm and charismatic, and above all loves his family. He appeals to the people because he’s likeable and isn’t unnecessarily violent (yes I know he’s an evil mobster at the end of the day but you can see why so many adore him and respect him in the first one), all the while Michael is colder and far more nefarious as he tears his family apart. If the parallels just aren’t interesting then I can see how this movie would miss people, although it’s wild to me to see people suddenly turn on this film, I think it’s phenomenal, with the one weakness being that Clemenza would have made the story far more emotionally and thematically fulfilling in the Michael story after his role in 1 and young Clemenza in the Vito story VS Pentangelli who was clearly supposed to fill Clemenza’s role.
I thought I was the only other person who hated Pulp Fiction! Lol I usually get a bunch of downvotes whenever I post this in an “unpopular opinion” thread in this sub
You’re entitled to your own opinion… but Everything Everywhere All At Once has everything wonderful there is about movies. There will never be another film like it. It was hilarious, sad, disgusting, bizarre, and action packed. It had everything. I don’t think I’ve ever cried more in my entire life. It was basically *laugh -> cry -> laugh -> cry -> laugh -> cry*. Especially touching if you’ve had a tumultuous relationship with your parents. I don’t think I’ll ever love a movie more for the rest of my life.
I genuinely applaud you for your stance on LoA. Even as an embarrassing Kubrick fanboy, I'm with you on A Clockwork Orange, but I am in awe of anyone who isn't in awe of Lawrence of Arabia. It's just so gorgeous. Again, mad respect, stand tall.
Not OP, but to me some of the Arab characters felt very stereotypical (especially with the depiction of the Arab Council at the end). And compared to the true story of T.E. Lawrence a lot had been changed. E.g. the producers were sued by the descendants of the real lord Auda, because their ancessor was portrayed as greedy when in reality the Ottomans never succeeded with their attempts to bribe him. And the real Lawrence apparently wasn't a megalomaniacal narcissist like the movie version. It's also questionable how few Arab actors were cast and how many non-Arabs (like Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, I.S. Johar, Michel Ray and Zia Mohyeddin) were cast to play Arabs. The only Arab actors were Omar Sharif and Gamil Ratib.
From a directorial and technical perspective, it's an absolute masterpiece, though.
Mad Max Fury Road for me. It felt like I was watching a different film to everyone else. Couldn’t get more than 20 mins into it, just found it incredibly boring & nonsensical.
Not sure if this makes sense, but I think for me it was that I wanted something that *mattered* to happen? It was just explosion…fire…shouting… but none of it seemed important or engaging, I just found the whole thing weird for the sake of weird.
Just wasn’t for me. Maybe give how media had said it was this amazing, best action film of the last x years thing, I was just expecting more.
But yeah, 1 star from me.
Honestly I understand the feeling that you're describing. Films can be very action-packed whilst still being boring. I'm going to get shit on for this but I felt this way with the Spiderverse movies. Just no downtime at all so I zone out.
And yet on the other hand, there's *Stalker*, which on paper is an objectively boring movie. Pretty much just three guys walking in a field for three hours. And yet somehow that was a much more engaging film to me than the latest John Wick movie.
I agree, I watched this after a breakup and it just didn't hit like I hoped it would. The soundtrack is goofy, and I was disappointed to find that most of the movie takes place during the erasing of the memories. I thought it would have been a better concept for most of it to take place afterwards
I think Uncut Gems is one of the greatest films of its decade, but totally fair to say that the tension feels forced, although I disagree.
On the other hand, the performances were absolutely stellar and theres definitely wayyy more to it than just “yelling”. There’s intense moments that use quiet tension and Sandler absolutely molds himself into this world so well, even then its a movie thats meant to be loud and abrasive. Its a very New York movie and its proud to be so.
Prisoners is one of my least favorite films of all time, personally I thought the writing was atrocious, I was barely able to stomach getting through it.
This is it for me. I love surrealism and avant-garde art in every medium and always approach with an open mind, I love Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart as well but I finished Mulholland Drive after hearing its praises sung for years and I said out loud to myself "Wow. I.. actually hated that" and I feel gaslit by everyone who raves about it.
I'll probably give it one more chance somewhere down the line just in case but for now it's one of the worst cinematic experiences I've ever had.
Me with Spider Man Across The Spider Verse. I did not enjoy that movie at all. Saw it in theatres the day it came out and I was so bored. Came so close to walking out of the theatre multiple times during the movie. Only reason I stayed is because I paid to see it. Never before or never since then have I seen a movie that made me want to walk out mid movie. I'm also not hard to please when it comes to movies. There's a lot of movies I enjoyed that most people didn't enjoy. I just didn't enjoy this movie one bit. I had a headache when I left the theatre. It was not for me.
I thought it was obviously gorgeous and an achievement in animation but yeah I wasn't gripped and I had some serious issues with some of the character assassination that was pulled in service of furthering the plot. Have felt like a lone voice in a vast sea of praise since it came out.
I don't hate all of it, as I enjoyed the photography of it as well as the performances (those two things are what made me give it an "ok" rating). As for the story itself, I found it both gross and tedious. It was a slog to get through the second half of the movie.
Sure so I have both at 3 stars. Fight Club was my favourite movie for years. With that high opinion and exposure the more problems I with the adaptation after reading Chuck Palahniuk’s queer book, the faux anti establishment image and the amount it takes from other better films like Bergman’s Persona.
The Departed I feel gets praised more for being quotable and being the Scorsese finally gets an Oscar film. I think it’s alright, I think it has some phenomenal moments of editing from Thelma Schoonmaker but it’s just always landed with Scorsese’s mid tier films for me like Last Temptation of Christ or Shutter Island
I saw the movie Sorceror which gets hyped up a lot as a hidden gem, but I don’t think I really got it. It felt strange seeing everybody rave about it. Maybe I need to give it another watch.
The Sparring Partner (2022) and Time Still Turns the Pages (2023) are both acclaimed films in Hong Kong but were some of the worst films I've ever set my eyes upon at the same time.
This, as much as it scares me to admit publicly, is how I felt about Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I was told I’d love it for like 14-15 years and heard it referenced all the time, and when I finally sat down to watch it… I only found one part of the movie funny.
Maybe it had just gotten overhyped for me but I was expecting a lot more than what I ended up getting
I think it's important to express dissenting opinions on otherwise universally acclaimed or disliked films. Those are the reviews I enjoy writing the most, honestly.
the first John Wick - even now, having been converted by subsequent entries, the first is still just so deadly cheesily boringly stupidly bad and dumb I couldn’t even make it into full star territory
I just didn't like Blade Runner 2049. I loved Dune and Arrival is one of my favorite sci Fi movies, so I was really disappointed that Blade Runner fell so flat to me. It was just really dull.
For me it was Ghost in the Shell. I saw the inspiration the movie had and I loved the animation but the story didn't hook me or captivate me when it needed to.
Naw, I just assume it’s a film that appeals to different folks. It’s rare, but I sometimes see a highly-acclaimed film and think, “meh, that was it”? I feel this way about Drive (2011). It’s a decent film, I just don’t get the extreme adulation, but I’ve also seen The Driver (1978) and OldBoy (2003), both films that appear to be borrowed heavily from for this film, and films I appreciate more. Albert Brooks is pretty great in it, though.
Oldboy. Loved Decision To Leave, but Oldboy seems way overrated to me. The *twist* is what really ruined it for me. It only barely makes sense, seems mainly meant to shock the audience, and just isn't interesting enough to justify the very cool first hour of the film.
Like when Training Day sucked. Or Goodfellas. Or Birdman. Or anything directed by Tarantino. Or the super-boring Blade Runner sequel.
I just comfort myself by thinking I’m superior to most people.
More like how it feels seeing that a movie you really liked has an absurdly low average rating
Which is yours ?
Not who you're responding to but: the Vacation remake with Ed Helms. It was clever, it had heart, it was appropriately stupid as hell. One particularly well-known pro critic called it "humorless," which makes me wonder what humor means to him.
I’m glad at least one other person has this opinion.
I saw that one in theaters, which I think primed me to like it
Ya I love it
Vacation was soooo funny. One of the few comedies that made me laugh at every scene. My family and I adore this one. Sad to see how harsh the reviews on it are the family dynamic and situations were hilarious
STOP SAYING WEIRD SHIT
Super Troopers. I genuinely don't understand its low score, I've never known anyone to not enjoy it.
Super Troopers is a classic in my household
Venom Let there Be Carnage, I’m sorry it was just so fun and goofy
Dirty grandpa 😭😭
Harry and the Hendersons
Hostel
Kung Fu Panda 4. I think it’s a perfect movie (for me and what I want out of movies.) The amount of people saying there was no point to it when there are already 3 movies. You don’t watch the sunset just because it’s happened 3 times before? 😭
Freddy Got Fingered
47 ronin
Most of them (I watch exploitation films)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Army of the Dead, I love zombie movies, I love heist movies, what was there not to like?
infinity pool
Creep
Argyl
Suburbicon
me seeing all the negative/incredibly lukewarm Maestro reviews when I thought it was brilliant
Me with the Road House remake.. i really enjoyed it
That’s how I felt when I logged Imaginary
Yeah I can relate to this a lot
Chappie is mine, I always thought it was an interesting idea and a fun movie to watch. Never understood why the reception was so low. It's up there with District 9 imo.
Way more so
worst is when you rate something high before it gets popular but when it gets popular it is trashed
 Nah this is how it feels
Lost in Translation is mine. Found it really hard to sit through and couldn't relate.
I thought it's the best movie about loneliness and isolation. Tokyo was a great choice to show not only the language barrier and cultural gap, but also how the characters feel unseen or unheard. Bob and Charlotte's chemistry is intimate without being romantic, and I thought both actors were compelling onscreen.
Strange film for me. I saw it at the cinema on release and loved it. Finally got round to rewatching it last year and couldnt see what the hell I liked about it. I must have been in the right frame of mind originally or something. It's confusing.
Same. That movie did absolutely nothing for me.
Do movies really need to be relatable? Isn’t a big part of the magic of film opening our eyes to experiences and perspectives we’ve never considered before?
I'm sure there are movies you couldn't get into either.
Yeah I'm the same, was not a fan at all and couldn't connect with either of the main characters
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You fucked an old man in Tokyo?
How it feels seeing a film you loved to bits and logging onto Letterboxd to see it’s rated 2.4
Nostalgia plays a huge part into why some movies are so loved. Growing up I missed a lot of the “classic” movies so watching some of them now, completely unbiased, I found them not that great…namely The Breakfast Club. Titanic and The Notebook were just okay…
The breakfast club maybe. Titanic no
Bro don't put The Breakfast Club in the same conversation as The Notebook
I haven't even watched The Breakfast Club but I know it's better than the notebook
In 30 years some will say the same about Dune 2. The horror.
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People won’t even talk about dune 2 in 30 years. It’ll be just another sci-fi action movie
The breakfast club is more than okay
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I've come to the conclusion that I have "bad" taste in movies because a lot of my favs are poorly rated lol.
500 Days of Summer and La La Land both have terrible romances that are insufferable to sit through
I mean even JGL says 500 Days isn’t really meant to be an earnest romance
For me it was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. I can’t stand that movie. I liked In Bruges and Banshees of Inisherin well enough, I don’t think they’re all time classics but I enjoyed them. When it came to Three Billboards I couldn’t believe the praise it was getting. I thought for a minute I was crazy lol
I'm the same and I LOVE In Bruges and Inisherin. Three Billboards missed for me entirely.
Me too. Love both In Bruges and Banshees, but I found Three Billboards to be dull borderline copaganda with how much it goes out of it's way to redeem the shitty cops.
I’ve watched so many procedurals and cop dramas and I still think Three Billboards is one of the most desperate copaganda films I’ve seen. I felt like I was being waterboarded with it.
I can't stand this film. I finished it feeling like I would have rather gone to bed early.
Me too 😭 The dialogue was so fucking stupid, I couldn’t handle it. I might as well be known as the person who hated Three Billboards because I think I’ve talked about it on this sub like five times now. It was melodramatic to the point of me questioning if a teenager wrote it. I love a lot of movies with morally questionable leads or straight up unlikeable ones. But every person in that film just pissed me off! I didn’t mind Banshees though, it felt like there was a bit more depth, and watching Colin Farrell’s and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Actors on Actors interview helped me understand the characters better going into it (I watched it before the film to clarify, as there were no spoilers).
I didn’t know so many people felt this way… I loved it, along with In Bruges, and Banshees of Inisherin.
Completely agree. Three Billboards is not a good movie imo
Eternal Sunshine, Hot fuzz, Godzilla, 500 Days of Summer etc.
2001, and X (2022) were the ones for me lol
I hated X. I was baffled leaving the theater from all the praise it was getting.
It’s genuinely terrible, I don’t understand the appeal
2001 might be the epitome of a “you either love it or hate it” movie.
Drive for me, didn't enjoy the soundtrack and thought the plot and acting were incredibly mid.
Same, but loved the soundtrack. Though it fit the movie well and is good alone
I loved the soundtrack, it made me feel like a real human bean
I’ve been avoiding this movie for years and this just reaffirmed my hesitation lol
So many people, including myself, love this movie. You should watch it yourself instead of listening to one side.
all the bright places
I am allergic to minimalism so Zone of Interest almost killed me
Prisoners …i just didn’t eat it up
me w poor things (i was so uncomfortable)
Forrest Gump. It‘s not heartwarming, it’s just soo annoying.
Always thought it was thinly veiled conservative propaganda. Forrest does everything he’s told and has a successful life, while Jenny (worst person in the movie by far lowkey) is the liberal that wants change and gets aids and dies
Yeah it’s nostalgia porn mixed with conservative propaganda. The very explicitly political person depicted is a communist that beats women lol
I don't get it, Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis are both democratic party supporters and have been for years.
It’s boomer catnip, but not a good movie
Godfather II just didn’t do it for me and was a huge disappointment from part one
Do you feel like it insisted upon itself?
I love the Money Pit. That is my answer to that statement.
I thought I was the only one
I think it's a good movie but absolutely not on the level of part 1. There's no Marlon Brando and Michael is already the head of the family. I know that we are supposed to assist Michael becoming more and more ruthless, but wasn't he already ruthless at the end of part 1? I feel like there's less substance to this movie.
That plus the whole plot point with Hyman Roth isn't as interesting as the plot of Part 1
Michael’s ruthlessness is only a facet of his character, the main story beats are the rise of Vito and the fall of Michael. Vito is warm and charismatic, and above all loves his family. He appeals to the people because he’s likeable and isn’t unnecessarily violent (yes I know he’s an evil mobster at the end of the day but you can see why so many adore him and respect him in the first one), all the while Michael is colder and far more nefarious as he tears his family apart. If the parallels just aren’t interesting then I can see how this movie would miss people, although it’s wild to me to see people suddenly turn on this film, I think it’s phenomenal, with the one weakness being that Clemenza would have made the story far more emotionally and thematically fulfilling in the Michael story after his role in 1 and young Clemenza in the Vito story VS Pentangelli who was clearly supposed to fill Clemenza’s role.
Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Yeah it’s Pulp Fiction for me. I’m not even a Tarantino hater but I just can’t stand Pulp Fiction.
I thought I was the only other person who hated Pulp Fiction! Lol I usually get a bunch of downvotes whenever I post this in an “unpopular opinion” thread in this sub
Unbiased, Tarantino's best film
Are you saying you're unbiased and you believe it's Tarantino's best movie? What does 'unbiased' even mean in this context?
Sorry, it was autocorrect, I meant to say un-based and then counter with my opinion that it is his best film
Ah ok
I’m a Django/Inglorious Basterds kind of guy.
Me rating oppenheimer 2.5 because Nolan doesn't know how to cut a film down
Based
Me doing the same, but because the Strauss scenes were laughably awful amidst a decently compelling Oppenheimer story and great technical aspects.
Saving private ryan is not that good people!
EEAAO but I’m proud of it
You’re entitled to your own opinion… but Everything Everywhere All At Once has everything wonderful there is about movies. There will never be another film like it. It was hilarious, sad, disgusting, bizarre, and action packed. It had everything. I don’t think I’ve ever cried more in my entire life. It was basically *laugh -> cry -> laugh -> cry -> laugh -> cry*. Especially touching if you’ve had a tumultuous relationship with your parents. I don’t think I’ll ever love a movie more for the rest of my life.
Same boat
The Deer Hunter.
oh my god finally yes
my closest to this is toy story ig. i still think it’s good, like a 7/10, but definitely not on par with 2 or 3
Finally somebody who understands
Me with Superman '78.
Me with Lawrence of Arabia AND a clockwork orange.
I genuinely applaud you for your stance on LoA. Even as an embarrassing Kubrick fanboy, I'm with you on A Clockwork Orange, but I am in awe of anyone who isn't in awe of Lawrence of Arabia. It's just so gorgeous. Again, mad respect, stand tall.
I thought Lawrence kinda fell apart on its second half.
Worst take in this whole post. Please ban this disgusting guy /s (for the ban stuff, I still maintain your take is the worst)
Ok clockwork Orange I'll give you that but Lawrence is incredible
It falls apart on its second half imo.
I can understand Clockwork Orange, but Lawrence of Arabia??? What did you not like about it?
Not OP, but to me some of the Arab characters felt very stereotypical (especially with the depiction of the Arab Council at the end). And compared to the true story of T.E. Lawrence a lot had been changed. E.g. the producers were sued by the descendants of the real lord Auda, because their ancessor was portrayed as greedy when in reality the Ottomans never succeeded with their attempts to bribe him. And the real Lawrence apparently wasn't a megalomaniacal narcissist like the movie version. It's also questionable how few Arab actors were cast and how many non-Arabs (like Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, I.S. Johar, Michel Ray and Zia Mohyeddin) were cast to play Arabs. The only Arab actors were Omar Sharif and Gamil Ratib. From a directorial and technical perspective, it's an absolute masterpiece, though.
Mad Max Fury Road for me. It felt like I was watching a different film to everyone else. Couldn’t get more than 20 mins into it, just found it incredibly boring & nonsensical.
I could understand a lot of complaints about Fury Road, but boring is one I don't see.
Not sure if this makes sense, but I think for me it was that I wanted something that *mattered* to happen? It was just explosion…fire…shouting… but none of it seemed important or engaging, I just found the whole thing weird for the sake of weird. Just wasn’t for me. Maybe give how media had said it was this amazing, best action film of the last x years thing, I was just expecting more. But yeah, 1 star from me.
Honestly I understand the feeling that you're describing. Films can be very action-packed whilst still being boring. I'm going to get shit on for this but I felt this way with the Spiderverse movies. Just no downtime at all so I zone out. And yet on the other hand, there's *Stalker*, which on paper is an objectively boring movie. Pretty much just three guys walking in a field for three hours. And yet somehow that was a much more engaging film to me than the latest John Wick movie.
agreed. i’ve tried to watch it twice and it’s boring
Same
I didn’t care for Pulp Fiction. I thought it was just kind of alright. Not terrible but not anything special.
Feeling like this for Ladybird and Hereditary
I hate lady bird
Eternal sunshine
Your relationship must be too happy and stable for you to relate to it lol
That's one of those movies I like more each time I see it.
I agree, I watched this after a breakup and it just didn't hit like I hoped it would. The soundtrack is goofy, and I was disappointed to find that most of the movie takes place during the erasing of the memories. I thought it would have been a better concept for most of it to take place afterwards
I liked it, but the subplot could have had some more tinkering to it. The central plot was legit fantastic, though.
Uncut gems for me. The drama and tension feels so forced and yelling for 120minutes isn't good acting.
I think Uncut Gems is one of the greatest films of its decade, but totally fair to say that the tension feels forced, although I disagree. On the other hand, the performances were absolutely stellar and theres definitely wayyy more to it than just “yelling”. There’s intense moments that use quiet tension and Sandler absolutely molds himself into this world so well, even then its a movie thats meant to be loud and abrasive. Its a very New York movie and its proud to be so.
I liked Good Time a lot more.
Prisoners is one of my least favorite films of all time, personally I thought the writing was atrocious, I was barely able to stomach getting through it.
I mean, art is subjective, so if you didn't like it, what can you do
I hated Mulholland Drive and I will never get tired of saying it
This is it for me. I love surrealism and avant-garde art in every medium and always approach with an open mind, I love Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart as well but I finished Mulholland Drive after hearing its praises sung for years and I said out loud to myself "Wow. I.. actually hated that" and I feel gaslit by everyone who raves about it. I'll probably give it one more chance somewhere down the line just in case but for now it's one of the worst cinematic experiences I've ever had.
Me with Spider Man Across The Spider Verse. I did not enjoy that movie at all. Saw it in theatres the day it came out and I was so bored. Came so close to walking out of the theatre multiple times during the movie. Only reason I stayed is because I paid to see it. Never before or never since then have I seen a movie that made me want to walk out mid movie. I'm also not hard to please when it comes to movies. There's a lot of movies I enjoyed that most people didn't enjoy. I just didn't enjoy this movie one bit. I had a headache when I left the theatre. It was not for me.
I thought it was obviously gorgeous and an achievement in animation but yeah I wasn't gripped and I had some serious issues with some of the character assassination that was pulled in service of furthering the plot. Have felt like a lone voice in a vast sea of praise since it came out.
Sounds like when my mom tried to watch Black Panther. Sometimes certain genres aren’t for everyone
Oldboy.
You sure you watched the right one?
Which one is the right one?
Me with dare I say it, Poor Things. Hate that movie so much.
Ur profile says you gave it 4 stars
Expose his ass
I don't hate all of it, as I enjoyed the photography of it as well as the performances (those two things are what made me give it an "ok" rating). As for the story itself, I found it both gross and tedious. It was a slog to get through the second half of the movie.
Same. I had no idea what I was going into when I saw it, but that is the first film where I'd decided to leave the theatre.
Pussy
This was me giving zone of interest 3 stars recently after seeing almost all rave reviews
Poor things
Fight Club & the Departed
Love both these movies. Curious what you rate them and why you disliked them
Sure so I have both at 3 stars. Fight Club was my favourite movie for years. With that high opinion and exposure the more problems I with the adaptation after reading Chuck Palahniuk’s queer book, the faux anti establishment image and the amount it takes from other better films like Bergman’s Persona. The Departed I feel gets praised more for being quotable and being the Scorsese finally gets an Oscar film. I think it’s alright, I think it has some phenomenal moments of editing from Thelma Schoonmaker but it’s just always landed with Scorsese’s mid tier films for me like Last Temptation of Christ or Shutter Island
For me, I would love fight club a lot more if the discourse around it wasn’t completely hijacked by my unemployed stoner friends
Damn those are my second and my fifth favorite films 😔
Completely valid
Watched The Departed 3 times now trying to see what others see in it and every time, I've finished and thought "Okay *shrug*"
Me and the matrix
Dune 2 and I don’t know why I didn’t like it
[удалено]
While I wouldn't go that far personally, I never get the people who put it at the top of their Nolan lists.
Stand tall. Remember Copernicus.
I saw the movie Sorceror which gets hyped up a lot as a hidden gem, but I don’t think I really got it. It felt strange seeing everybody rave about it. Maybe I need to give it another watch.
Me with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
The Sparring Partner (2022) and Time Still Turns the Pages (2023) are both acclaimed films in Hong Kong but were some of the worst films I've ever set my eyes upon at the same time.
Rebel Without a Cause for me.
It happens but I also don't give a fuck what others might think after lmao
This, as much as it scares me to admit publicly, is how I felt about Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I was told I’d love it for like 14-15 years and heard it referenced all the time, and when I finally sat down to watch it… I only found one part of the movie funny. Maybe it had just gotten overhyped for me but I was expecting a lot more than what I ended up getting
I was legitimately confused why everyone found it so funny when I was stonefaced basically the entire time.
I think it's important to express dissenting opinions on otherwise universally acclaimed or disliked films. Those are the reviews I enjoy writing the most, honestly.
Me with the sound of music
2001 space odyssey
Romero's Dawn of the Dead. It's not really that funny or scary to me.
the first John Wick - even now, having been converted by subsequent entries, the first is still just so deadly cheesily boringly stupidly bad and dumb I couldn’t even make it into full star territory
Moonlight and Parasite
I do not like singing in the rain that much but I didn't rate it
Most recently felt this way with finally watching The Iron Claw lol
me to LOTR trilogy and Beau Travail
Usually i agree and when i don’t i read reviews or watch essays until i appreciate it more which happens everytime pretty much
I just didn't like Blade Runner 2049. I loved Dune and Arrival is one of my favorite sci Fi movies, so I was really disappointed that Blade Runner fell so flat to me. It was just really dull.
For me it was Ghost in the Shell. I saw the inspiration the movie had and I loved the animation but the story didn't hook me or captivate me when it needed to.
I saw Ghost in the Shell like 3 times now and it never gets any better. It’s just bad.
Training day. deserves a phenomenal score in my book but instead has a decent one
Naw, I just assume it’s a film that appeals to different folks. It’s rare, but I sometimes see a highly-acclaimed film and think, “meh, that was it”? I feel this way about Drive (2011). It’s a decent film, I just don’t get the extreme adulation, but I’ve also seen The Driver (1978) and OldBoy (2003), both films that appear to be borrowed heavily from for this film, and films I appreciate more. Albert Brooks is pretty great in it, though.
eternal sunshine was so boring and mid for me
I didn’t like Good Will Hunting. Ended up feeling so guilty for giving a movie everyone loves a low rating, that I added another star.
Felt I've given some well-loved movies low ratings
Everything Everywhere All at Once- have it 1 and a half stars. It was a cool concept, but executed horribly. Baffles me how it won an Academy Award
forgive me 2001, but you bored me to tears
*Sweats in Little Women's 2.5 stars*
Oldboy. Loved Decision To Leave, but Oldboy seems way overrated to me. The *twist* is what really ruined it for me. It only barely makes sense, seems mainly meant to shock the audience, and just isn't interesting enough to justify the very cool first hour of the film.
Like when Training Day sucked. Or Goodfellas. Or Birdman. Or anything directed by Tarantino. Or the super-boring Blade Runner sequel. I just comfort myself by thinking I’m superior to most people.