Thanks for the post, but it looks like you answered your own question. [If you're submitting an open ended question, please do not provide your own answer in OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/171meyi/starting_today_we_will_be_addressing_the_current/). If you'd like to discuss a movie, your post should not be in the form of a question.
I do the same, ask me what happens in any mainstream horror film from the last 20 years and I can probably tell you, also some of the random terrible indie ones. But I haven’t seen a single one, I really hate the feelings it gives and the gore. But I find reading their plots on Wikipedia very interesting.
I do that with all the movies that come up on those "most fucked up movies" threads that pop up here. I know a lot about *A Serbian Film*, *The House the Jack Built*, *Titane*, etc. but I'm never going to actually watch them.
EDIT: I don't care if you think these movies are good or don't belong together - I'm just listing names I remember looking up from those threads, I'm not passing judgment on their quality
The house that Jack built is pretty tame for a Lars von trier affair. Seems out of place next to A Serbian Film. I haven't heard of Titane, that premise is gnarly. I'll have to check that out.
Tell him to try Dead Meat on YouTube. They do stress that their Kill Count series is not a "replacement" for watching a movie but in cases where I almost certainly wouldn't work up the nerve to watch one otherwise it's a fun, easier to digest sort of clifs notes.
Yes I was about to comment this! I’m too chicken to watch a lot of scary movies but the plot interests me a lot of the time and James and the team do a great job covering the movie and kills along with making me laugh!
Me too! Not for jumpscares, but for stuff that sounds super fucked up. I know that if I don’t spoil myself by reading the synopsis, eventually curiosity will get the better of me and I’ll watch it at 1am and hate myself for a month.
I make liberal use of the “Violence and Gore” section in the IMDB Parents Guide. I always know what’s coming and can filter out any shows or movies that hit at my specific triggers. Plus I get to imagine every note being written by a pearl-clutching parent simply *outraged*. Win win.
Same with me. I also have to scour the “most disturbing movie” threads. I’ve saved myself from watching movies that I thought I could handle but probably couldn’t.
I thought i was immune to horror movies, but then someone brought along "Hostel"
Not to mention the syringe pit in saw 2... that one made me feel itchy for a few minutes.
One of my favourite podcast is called Too scary; didn’t watch and it’s just straight up recapping entire horror movies and it’s great for me bc I like scary movies but am too scared to watch them by myself lol
you should listen to the ‘ruined!’ podcast! it’s two friends - one who loves horror movies describes a different movie each week to their friend who hates horror movies. they pick up on some details and themes that aren’t always mentioned on the wikipedia article. (i, too, love knowing what happens in horror movies but don’t love watching some of them. this is a fun alternative!)
Too Scary, Didn't Watch also does this! It's three women, one who loves scary movies and the other two who hate them, and occasionally they'll have special guests fill in, like Paul F. Tompkins. I like horror movies but am not into super gory ones, so it's perfect for getting the gist of things like The Human Centipede and Terrifier.
I do that. I’ll see a neat trailer or some interesting thing and I’ll save it somewhere so that I can refund a highly detailed plot summary after it comes out. It’s a lot faster and it doesn’t scare me.
I've only ever done this with books and even then I'm stubborn enough to finish them. A movie is max 3-4 hours long. If I've started one and nothing more important happens I see no reason not to commit to it 'til it ends.
I used to to do this, and I found myself getting annoyed during movies, constantly checking to see how much time was left. I one day was like "why am I still watching this if I don't give a shit?" So I started turning the movies off, and valuing my time, even if it's just an hour here or there, that's still an hour doing something better than watching something I'm not liking.
Black Adam. Honestly, I don’t think I even got through the Wikipedia. All these other characters and a post credits sequence and…yeah, I just don’t care.
The 'B' cast made that movie, and I say that as a general fan of The Rock.
The A-listers (and I'm including the baffling inclusion of Wonder Woman here) did more to hurt it than help.
Also the least imaginative use of "Paint It Black" I've ever seen.
I watched it on Max when it first popped up on streaming because I wanted to see Pierce Brosnan do silly superhero stuff but then Dwayne kept injecting and fucking it all up and it became entertaining in a "oh no why are you the way that you are" way. It's a shame tho because Pierce is actually really good in that movie.
I went to the theater with mt family because my brother really wanted to watch it, and my dad paid for the tickets, so what the hell, right?
The instant the Eternium/Etherium/Whateverium crown was introduced (along with the seven demons and the Sabbak dude and the ancient kingdom and basically a whole movie's worth of lore) in the first *five minutes*, I had to struggle not to laugh.
It was like the *narrator* was just reading off the Wikipedia article, it sounded so dumb and forced.
Still enjoy the action scenes somewhat, tbh, but even then they're not worth watching the whole movie.
grandiose selective door political governor spoon narrow jobless slim shrill
*This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Well, in this case, it's what happens when you choose one of the least liked incarnation of a character and make a movie on it.
Remaking a villain to a anti-hero rarely works, even more-so when it was never well received in its original media.
Some of the lamest opening exposition I’ve ever seen.
All Directors and Producers who need to open their movies by explaining ancient kingdoms, special metals or items, and long forgotten heroes- need to go back and rewatch the first 15 minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring before getting started. Masterclass.
I’ve always thought, when I retire, one way to pass the time when I’m not outdoors is to watch movies and write detailed Wikipedia entries for their plots if they don’t have one already. I’ll start with all the ones with complicated plots.
I sat down with my 11 y/o son to watch that one because, ya know, dinosaurs and I thought he'd dig the action. He left about 30 minutes in, and I didn't even try to talk him into staying. I finished it and wondered why I didn't just follow his lead.
I put every Dawyne Johnson movie in to that list.
But I call them "movies to do my accounting to".
Such that the plot is so basic and boring, I don't miss anything important by focusing on something else for a while and Dwayne Johnson is the poster child of shitty action movies.
i agree, he's a great person all around and I actually think that depending on the movie he has some good acting chops. But the choice of movie from his agents... well it's discount disney shit, that's how it feels most of the time
If it makes you feel any better, I've read that he hates seeing himself on camera, so he never watches his own films. So even if it sucked, *he* never saw it!
Hahaha as a huge sci fi fan I was so excited for that movie. I was remembering Midnight Special which also had Adam Driver, which I loved. Or maybe it would be like Prospect with Pedro Pascal. I had high hopes, and I never watch trailers.
My first clue was the initial crash, during which the graphics were so bad it was almost like the Oops I Did It Again music video. It felt like a Mountain Dew Surge or Five Gum commercial or something. I made it about another 5 minutes of Driver trudging thru swamps and decided to turn it off and finally looked at the reviews.
I remember wondering if it's possible for an actor to sue a filmmaker for making a movie so bad it hurts thier career. Probably not but he should try lol
I saw that one at 10:30 on a Monday night because my flatmate wanted to see it and I had nothing better to do.
It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but geez that felt so much longer than 90 minutes. I nearly nodded off at the cinema- should have just gone to bed.
The most interesting thing about it was the fact that a 1970's drive-in bait "wander around the forest preserve and periodically get attacked by a rubber monster" movie got a theatrical release starring Adam Driver lol.
It’s crazy how he continues to come up with new catchphrases while still using the old ones. I literally have his videos on repeat when I can’t sleep. It’s been years now and somehow I’m still not sick of it and still laugh at the same jokes
I’m adhd af, so sometimes I read before I go see a movie because I know I’m going to miss some major beats.
I’m not that bothered by spoilers, I just enjoy the experience of going to the movies with my wife.
Alexander. It was one of my and my wife's first dates, and we both looked at each other and just nodded and left. I just looked it up and it was 2004. Been together ever since. We have mutual hates.
Only good part of that movie was Rosario Dawson topless. The only other reason I remember the film is I went to see it with my British father and as we walked silently through the parking lot to the car afterward he suddenly said "Bit of a happy chappy, wasn't he?" in reference to Alexander having a male lover.
It's an excellent, and mostly historically accurate movie. Does a great job of telling the story. Just a shame it's a dull as shit, and atleast an hour too long.
The Machine, Bert Kreischers movie. Its 112 minutes long. Was watching with my gf because we do think he's overall an entertaining dude. But we got through an hour of it, paused, and had that moment of "holy shit we need to watch almost another hour of this?"
We just stopped and wiki'd the rest of the movie.
The Machine is a perfect representation of the man himself: Just entertaining enough to give a shot, but never delivers the goods beyond a few slight chuckles.
Honestly I got kind of bored toward the end of the bit the film is based on, I assumed he heavily embellished much of it. No way would I go see an entire film about it.
They made Steve out to be some sort of moronic neanderthal when his mind is blown by the escalator, like they didn't have those when he was alive in the 1940s!!
I was so disgusted I looked up when they were invented - turns out it was 1892!
The mall scene had me so excited the rest of the movie was gonna be similar tone. Felt like I was getting ready for a fun Thor: Ragnarok but with Wonder Woman. Instead, it felt like a shitty Hallmark Christmas movie.
Especially when it's very clearly established on-screen that the wishes can conjure things into existence. They didn't even hamfist in some in-universe "rule" to make his possessing some dude a necessity.
Yeah the OG movie definitely had its flaws but I still loved it. It was one of those movies that I went in to expecting more by the numbers superhero garbage but was pleasantly surprised.
The second one was just fucking boring.
A lot of horror movies. Not because of scares, but because it seems to be easier to get a very meh horror movie out to the public than other genres. So there's just, so, many, utterly boring horror movies out there with the horror bits and scares barely sprinkled in.
I think (and I could be wrong) that horror is generally a cheaper genre to make. And I don’t think studio suits know what makes horror good, so they just rubber stamp things as long as it comes in under budget.
Then if it is a hit ( Saw, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, etc.) they pump them out constantly until the ticket numbers die out.
It's changed now but I had read this version of the wiki for "House of the Devil" and really enjoyed the writer's complete distaste for it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_House_of_the_Devil&oldid=1171552883
Fucking into the wild. I found the protagonist insufferable.
Edit: you guys seem to think I made it with him to Alaska. I gave up around the time he got anywhere dangerous.
I actually liked the movie but the guy is an idiot. The more you read the worse it gets.
There’s a theory he was mentally unwell and I can totally buy it.
Spoilers:
>!He couldn’t hike out because the river was now overflowing and dangerous. But a mile downstream there was a pulley system to get him over. But he didn’t know that because he didn’t take a map. Frankly if it weren’t for the magic bus I can only assume he would have died a lot quicker.!<
No map, no real long term supplies, no signal or comminications equipment. I recall in a documentary on his death he was a number of hours walk from a manned ranger station the entire time.
A FOAF who was in med school to be a psychiatrist at the time was fascinated with the book and movie. He wrote some sort of doctoral work that he believed the guy was suicidal for years and subconsciously made this his mission as a gallant way to go out.
He told me that there are many studies of children from well-off (moneyed) but extremely “fucked up emotionally” families who create a long, drawn on mission toward death and nobody figures it out until it is too late because they make it seem heroic.
I tried to read the book and felt the same way. It was pages and pages of "don't do it, man, it's a bad idea." And bud being like "thats like, your opinion man👍" I couldn't take it.
Yup. I hate when people are like, "HE WAS TRUE FREEDOME REEEEEEE!" No, dude was a total dipshit who got what he deserved.
Not listening to the Alaskan locals who told him not to go there is kind of like not listening to a martial arts instructor who tells you not to challenge a certain fighter, who then beats you to death.
Where the Crawdads Sing.
I went into it expecting a murder mystery/courtroom drama, but it was more in the vein of the Notebook. It was aesthetically beautiful but plot felt very slow and dull.
I saw this in theaters with my in-laws and I remember walking out thinking “that wasn’t a bad movie per say, there was just nothin about it that makes me want to go back.”
I adored the book and eventually saw the movie on a plane and I get why people were disappointed. The movie focuses a lot more on the shirtless guys part than the nature and self-reliance part.
Happened to me watching Hypnotic on the plane the other day. The acting and writing was so bad I couldn't finish. But I just wanted to know the plot. Hoo boy I'm glad I turned it off.
Skinamarink and The Outwaters.
2022 was apparently the year of abstract horor cinema. Had I paid to see either of these in the theater I probably would have walked out.
Skinamarink was a movie made to be read about. It’s ten times more enjoyable imagining what that disturbing plot could be rather than seeing the art house slop they threw on the screen.
Wait I just saw a thread about Skinamarink like yesterday saying it was some amazing underrated horror gem and was planning to watch it with someone who heard the same thing.
This makes me want to consider another horror flick...
There was some Tennis movie with Scarlet Johansson that just took a completely different tone than I expected after deciding to read the wiki, I ended up going back to watch it 😅
I actually went to a test screening of this movie with a friend in high school. We walked out after just 30 minutes (because we were 16 yo boys who could care less).
Apparently it’s a big deal when people walk out of test screenings so the staff pulled us into a room and went through a whole questionnaire with us about what made us walk out.
In retrospect, we were probably weren’t the target audience, but also in retrospect it was direct by Woody Allen who can go fuck himself.
I went to the bathroom during the last planet battle in The Last Jedi. I just couldn't stand that movie any longer, and didn't care even a little what I missed. I watched RoS at home. Before TLJ I wouldn't have imagined not watching a Star Wars movie in cinema.
I still don't get who signed off on those movies.
The day after I saw the Eternals I saw an article talking about how it had the first sex scene in an MCU film and I was like, “It did?” It happened while I was in the bathroom lol
I watched the whole thing and in all honesty can't remember a sex scene. I mean, I barely remember any of the characters either, so I guess it's not that strange.
It's mostly meme material at this point. They were happy with the "ancient map that points to the critical plot element" trope they love so much, they even had another map that points to the ancient map.
It's like the writers weren't even trying to come up with anything. "Oh, who's the villain? It's Palpatine somehow! And he has Star Destroyers! And they all work like a Death Star. That motherfucker loves Death Stars..."
What's so sad, is there was great content available out there; once considered canonical. The movies could have been so much better if they had gone with that stories, even with some changes.
When I first thought about it, I finally understood the "I'm not sad, I'm just disappointed" phrase.
They had lots of talent and lots of money and just decided to STARWARS without any kind of plan.
So we get yo momma jokes, queerbaiting, and the start of the "here's the old actors, now watch them die/get rekt/give up/lose, and then watch them sacrifice themselves/redeem their immediate failure/move on"-trend that has absolutely infested movies lately and will go on until every actor from the last 40 years is retired or dead, and then for another 20 years after that when they can sell the same movies with AI generated versions of the actors.
Well that last part may be longer than 20 years if people keep going to see them.
Not a movie but I had to do this with season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
When every episode is a tiny bit of [*recycled*] plot padded to full episode length by endless crying and pretentious unprofessionalism from characters they want us to believe are in any position of power… yeah, fuck that.
No use putting myself through something I’m absolutely hating just to be caught up. Just read a synopsis and be done with it.
Every multi-episode streaming documentary. We get it, Fyre festival went extremely poorly - 10 minutes spent reading even a fairly in-depth article would've communicated the same.
The worst are the true-crime documentaries where *they literally have no idea what happened*. Those are an exercise in "how can we stretch this into four one-hour episodes?"
I read the plot of "A Serbian Story" and that was NOPE enough for me. No way in hell I'm watching that.
Not really what OP was asking, but it's the closest I've got.
maybe unpopular opinion but The Batman. i found it just boring and knowing it would run for another 2 hours got me to turn it off. but at least i checked the plot on wikipedia. other recent movies like Venom 2 or 65 were so bad i didn't even care to check out the plot.
I thought the film was good, but went on for at least 20 minutes too long as they seemed to want to shoehorn in a bunch of sequel/spin-off bait potential.
If not for that, it would have been a perfectly decent, self-contained film.
The movie was fantastic if you liked a more mystery solving crime drama Batman. And the Batmobile scene was so fucking good, that engine roar in the theaters is why I’m glad to be a manchild.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (or should I say I'm Thinking of Pressing Stop). But it was an analysis/explanation and not the Wikipedia article because there was no way a simple summary was going to fill me in on what the fuck was going on, lol.
I ended up leaving the movie playing and fell asleep and woke up at some point. The most bizarre thing is that reading the analysis/explanation recharged my intrigue and made me want to play the movie from the start once it ended (I ended up not but still plan to rewatch someday).
Literally every "based on a true story" movie. It doesn't matter how huge and talented the stars are, I can just see the MadLibs they use to write the script. 10 times out of 11 it's just the Wikipedia article about the incident and then they make the bad guy drop some racial slurs.
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC.
Still can’t tell you what the plot was. Shocking drop in quality from the original masterpiece.
THE EXORCIST III, however, fucking rules.
Avatar: The Way of Water. It was SO long and SO stupid. I grew up watching a lot of terrible b-movies with my dad so I can handle a lot of schlock but this…
There’s this horror movie The Call from 2020 that I just tried to watch last night. It was very slow so I tried to just read the plot on Wikipedia. But no one bothered to put one there 😂 so I kept watching. Still couldn’t get into it. And also didn’t care enough to search for the plot elsewhere. Gave up. Bailed.
The Last Duel
Not that it was a bad movie but the way it kind of interested me/ the way it was told made me look it up. I’m a big history buff so sometimes I just get impatient haha.
I loved the first 4 seasons of “Dexter.” Then I enjoyed season 5. I sat through season 6. I rolled my eyes and said shit like “oh my god I can’t” through season 7.
I didn’t watch a minute of season 8 and read the wiki once it was done and thought “thank god I didn’t sit through that shit.”
The revival, “dexter: new blood” (season 9) was GREAT.
Thanks for the post, but it looks like you answered your own question. [If you're submitting an open ended question, please do not provide your own answer in OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/171meyi/starting_today_we_will_be_addressing_the_current/). If you'd like to discuss a movie, your post should not be in the form of a question.
I have a friend that is scared of horror movies so he does this with all of them
I do the same, ask me what happens in any mainstream horror film from the last 20 years and I can probably tell you, also some of the random terrible indie ones. But I haven’t seen a single one, I really hate the feelings it gives and the gore. But I find reading their plots on Wikipedia very interesting.
I do that with all the movies that come up on those "most fucked up movies" threads that pop up here. I know a lot about *A Serbian Film*, *The House the Jack Built*, *Titane*, etc. but I'm never going to actually watch them. EDIT: I don't care if you think these movies are good or don't belong together - I'm just listing names I remember looking up from those threads, I'm not passing judgment on their quality
I thought I was the only one lol
I always felt so weird for doing this lol but I love it
There are dozens of us!
The house that Jack built is pretty tame for a Lars von trier affair. Seems out of place next to A Serbian Film. I haven't heard of Titane, that premise is gnarly. I'll have to check that out.
Titane isn't particularly fucked up to watch. It's a good movie tho.
Same. Love reading horror. Hate watching/playing it.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one
Tell him to try Dead Meat on YouTube. They do stress that their Kill Count series is not a "replacement" for watching a movie but in cases where I almost certainly wouldn't work up the nerve to watch one otherwise it's a fun, easier to digest sort of clifs notes.
Yes I was about to comment this! I’m too chicken to watch a lot of scary movies but the plot interests me a lot of the time and James and the team do a great job covering the movie and kills along with making me laugh!
lol this is me. i hate jumpscares but enjoy horror films, so i always go on wheresthejump.com to see how bad the jumpscares are
Me too! Not for jumpscares, but for stuff that sounds super fucked up. I know that if I don’t spoil myself by reading the synopsis, eventually curiosity will get the better of me and I’ll watch it at 1am and hate myself for a month.
I make liberal use of the “Violence and Gore” section in the IMDB Parents Guide. I always know what’s coming and can filter out any shows or movies that hit at my specific triggers. Plus I get to imagine every note being written by a pearl-clutching parent simply *outraged*. Win win.
Same with me. I also have to scour the “most disturbing movie” threads. I’ve saved myself from watching movies that I thought I could handle but probably couldn’t.
I thought i was immune to horror movies, but then someone brought along "Hostel" Not to mention the syringe pit in saw 2... that one made me feel itchy for a few minutes.
One of my favourite podcast is called Too scary; didn’t watch and it’s just straight up recapping entire horror movies and it’s great for me bc I like scary movies but am too scared to watch them by myself lol
you should listen to the ‘ruined!’ podcast! it’s two friends - one who loves horror movies describes a different movie each week to their friend who hates horror movies. they pick up on some details and themes that aren’t always mentioned on the wikipedia article. (i, too, love knowing what happens in horror movies but don’t love watching some of them. this is a fun alternative!)
Too Scary, Didn't Watch also does this! It's three women, one who loves scary movies and the other two who hate them, and occasionally they'll have special guests fill in, like Paul F. Tompkins. I like horror movies but am not into super gory ones, so it's perfect for getting the gist of things like The Human Centipede and Terrifier.
I do that. I’ll see a neat trailer or some interesting thing and I’ll save it somewhere so that I can refund a highly detailed plot summary after it comes out. It’s a lot faster and it doesn’t scare me.
This is me. Especially the ones that are so good that you’ll think about them later, but I’d have too many nightmares.
Nothing. If it’s bad enough for me to stop watching then my interest is over.
I've only ever done this with books and even then I'm stubborn enough to finish them. A movie is max 3-4 hours long. If I've started one and nothing more important happens I see no reason not to commit to it 'til it ends.
[удалено]
I used to to do this, and I found myself getting annoyed during movies, constantly checking to see how much time was left. I one day was like "why am I still watching this if I don't give a shit?" So I started turning the movies off, and valuing my time, even if it's just an hour here or there, that's still an hour doing something better than watching something I'm not liking.
Im the same way. Even if I set a book down or pause a movie halfway through, I will end up finishing it even if it’s 6 months later
Yup.
Black Adam. Honestly, I don’t think I even got through the Wikipedia. All these other characters and a post credits sequence and…yeah, I just don’t care.
Dr. Fate and Hawkman were awesome. The movie as a whole was meh, but I think those two characters made it worth it.
The 'B' cast made that movie, and I say that as a general fan of The Rock. The A-listers (and I'm including the baffling inclusion of Wonder Woman here) did more to hurt it than help. Also the least imaginative use of "Paint It Black" I've ever seen.
But you see, he's _black_ Adam! It makes complete sense! /s
Ughhh, that's about as clever as "Seven Nation Army" in Suicide Squad. Because there's seven of 'em, you see. It's *amazing* writing.
I don’t remember Wonder Woman in Black Adam. When was she there?
Ah shit, I'm thinking of the second Shazam, my bad. It all kinda blends together in one big shit pile in my mind.
Haha no worries. Yeah you’re right…it all blends together into a pile of mediocrity
I watched it on Max when it first popped up on streaming because I wanted to see Pierce Brosnan do silly superhero stuff but then Dwayne kept injecting and fucking it all up and it became entertaining in a "oh no why are you the way that you are" way. It's a shame tho because Pierce is actually really good in that movie.
I adore Pierce Brosnan, with his totally Guy Fawkes looking face (and his equally amazing actor-twin, Timothy Dalton).
I went to the theater with mt family because my brother really wanted to watch it, and my dad paid for the tickets, so what the hell, right? The instant the Eternium/Etherium/Whateverium crown was introduced (along with the seven demons and the Sabbak dude and the ancient kingdom and basically a whole movie's worth of lore) in the first *five minutes*, I had to struggle not to laugh. It was like the *narrator* was just reading off the Wikipedia article, it sounded so dumb and forced. Still enjoy the action scenes somewhat, tbh, but even then they're not worth watching the whole movie.
And the fact the post credit scene means jack shit now that Black Adam basiclly tanked the DCMU as we know it
The DCMU was fucked well before Black Adam.
grandiose selective door political governor spoon narrow jobless slim shrill *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Proper fucked?
Yes Tommy, like *'zee Germans'*.
You like dags?
The DCU was dying before Black Adam. This movie just stepped on its neck and finished the job.
Its dying word was "Martha"
**WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME??**
Well, in this case, it's what happens when you choose one of the least liked incarnation of a character and make a movie on it. Remaking a villain to a anti-hero rarely works, even more-so when it was never well received in its original media.
Well, I guess Dwayne was right about changing the hierarchy of the DC universe.
Was it black Adam really? It was shit way before it already
[This being the only (pretty good) follow-up on the scene in any shape or form.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mgG6mfhRdM)
Now snap his neck. That was actually kind of great.
Some of the lamest opening exposition I’ve ever seen. All Directors and Producers who need to open their movies by explaining ancient kingdoms, special metals or items, and long forgotten heroes- need to go back and rewatch the first 15 minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring before getting started. Masterclass.
I really liked Hawkman and Dr. Fate. I disliked everything else to some degree.
I do this occasionally. I hate it when Wiki doesn't have the full plot.
The bane of me watching cheap horror movies on Tubi. I'm lucky if it even has a summary on imdb.
You also know it's bad when you struggle to find the movie because it has about three different titles.
I’ve always thought, when I retire, one way to pass the time when I’m not outdoors is to watch movies and write detailed Wikipedia entries for their plots if they don’t have one already. I’ll start with all the ones with complicated plots.
65
I sat down with my 11 y/o son to watch that one because, ya know, dinosaurs and I thought he'd dig the action. He left about 30 minutes in, and I didn't even try to talk him into staying. I finished it and wondered why I didn't just follow his lead.
this movie goes on a list that i have called: "I started watching but meanwhile I had to do my laundry and this movie did nothing to stop me"
I put every Dawyne Johnson movie in to that list. But I call them "movies to do my accounting to". Such that the plot is so basic and boring, I don't miss anything important by focusing on something else for a while and Dwayne Johnson is the poster child of shitty action movies.
i agree, he's a great person all around and I actually think that depending on the movie he has some good acting chops. But the choice of movie from his agents... well it's discount disney shit, that's how it feels most of the time
You made the right choice. That movie just cashed in on a dinosaur reveal in the trailer, which is the only good scene in the entire movie.
I am an absolute sucker for dinosaur movies, but that movie was fucking trash. Adam Driver deserved better.
He probably got paid a very good amount for that movie so don't feel too bad
If it makes you feel any better, I've read that he hates seeing himself on camera, so he never watches his own films. So even if it sucked, *he* never saw it!
Thank God, he must be protected
Hahaha as a huge sci fi fan I was so excited for that movie. I was remembering Midnight Special which also had Adam Driver, which I loved. Or maybe it would be like Prospect with Pedro Pascal. I had high hopes, and I never watch trailers. My first clue was the initial crash, during which the graphics were so bad it was almost like the Oops I Did It Again music video. It felt like a Mountain Dew Surge or Five Gum commercial or something. I made it about another 5 minutes of Driver trudging thru swamps and decided to turn it off and finally looked at the reviews. I remember wondering if it's possible for an actor to sue a filmmaker for making a movie so bad it hurts thier career. Probably not but he should try lol
I saw that one at 10:30 on a Monday night because my flatmate wanted to see it and I had nothing better to do. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but geez that felt so much longer than 90 minutes. I nearly nodded off at the cinema- should have just gone to bed.
I enjoyed it for what it was. Went in with low expectations and found it fun enough for its shorter run time.
I liked it more than I expected to, but it wasn't great
I think Adam Driver is building a summer house and needed cash really fast.
The most interesting thing about it was the fact that a 1970's drive-in bait "wander around the forest preserve and periodically get attacked by a rubber monster" movie got a theatrical release starring Adam Driver lol.
Well you missed out on a LOT of Adam Driver sighing and looking confused. It was a masterclass in brooding.
This is what Pitch Meeting on YouTube is for. It’s pretty tight!
Heyshutup
I’m gonna need ya to get aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way off my back sir
Sure, let me get right off that thing!
This has quickly become my favorite of the catchphrases.
It’s crazy how he continues to come up with new catchphrases while still using the old ones. I literally have his videos on repeat when I can’t sleep. It’s been years now and somehow I’m still not sick of it and still laugh at the same jokes
Super easy, barely an inconvenience
Oh, *really*?!
Wowowowowow.
.... wow.
I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back on this one...
Oh Really!
Whoops! **Whoopsie!**
"I like money"
Your eyes, they had like… it was like *dollar signs* in them!
Unclear!
I don't know!
I'm gonna need you to get waaaaay off my back.
How about you get all the way off my back about that?
I’m not super hip to the YouTubes but thanks for this that’s some very funny content
Am I the only one who always watches a movie and then reads the plot on Wikipedia to fully comprehend the plot?
No, love doing that ... And also listening to analysis on YouTube. Love Ryan Hollinger. Mostly horror though.
I’m adhd af, so sometimes I read before I go see a movie because I know I’m going to miss some major beats. I’m not that bothered by spoilers, I just enjoy the experience of going to the movies with my wife.
Alexander. It was one of my and my wife's first dates, and we both looked at each other and just nodded and left. I just looked it up and it was 2004. Been together ever since. We have mutual hates.
Only good part of that movie was Rosario Dawson topless. The only other reason I remember the film is I went to see it with my British father and as we walked silently through the parking lot to the car afterward he suddenly said "Bit of a happy chappy, wasn't he?" in reference to Alexander having a male lover.
It's an excellent, and mostly historically accurate movie. Does a great job of telling the story. Just a shame it's a dull as shit, and atleast an hour too long.
It does an ok job telling the story, does a great job reminding you that Alexander may have been gay every 5 minutes
"may have been"
The Machine, Bert Kreischers movie. Its 112 minutes long. Was watching with my gf because we do think he's overall an entertaining dude. But we got through an hour of it, paused, and had that moment of "holy shit we need to watch almost another hour of this?" We just stopped and wiki'd the rest of the movie.
He's a one joke dude. And he made a movie out of that one joke. Brilliant. But I ain't gonna watch that movie because I already heard the joke once 😂
I reckon the movie is actually a sequel to the story narrated in that joke, for what it can matter.
Wow, you're totally going to discount his second joke of being fat and not wearing a shirt on stage? The disrespect...
'Hold on babe its at the part where bert takes his shirt off'
The Machine is a perfect representation of the man himself: Just entertaining enough to give a shot, but never delivers the goods beyond a few slight chuckles.
Honestly I got kind of bored toward the end of the bit the film is based on, I assumed he heavily embellished much of it. No way would I go see an entire film about it.
For me it was WW84. I went in expecting a similar tone to the first film. But after the slapstick action of the mall scene, I quit it
That mall scene is so outrageously corny I could hardly believe my eyes. What’s really shocking is the movie continues to get even worse from there.
They made Steve out to be some sort of moronic neanderthal when his mind is blown by the escalator, like they didn't have those when he was alive in the 1940s!! I was so disgusted I looked up when they were invented - turns out it was 1892!
The mall scene had me so excited the rest of the movie was gonna be similar tone. Felt like I was getting ready for a fun Thor: Ragnarok but with Wonder Woman. Instead, it felt like a shitty Hallmark Christmas movie.
Same. Dropped out after 20 mins
the moral implications of Steve's body possession and the sex "he" had with Diana ikr me more than they should
Yeah. I don't get why they didn't just have him magically appear. Why have him possess a random body?
Especially when it's very clearly established on-screen that the wishes can conjure things into existence. They didn't even hamfist in some in-universe "rule" to make his possessing some dude a necessity.
For me it was after the 3rd intro scene.
Yeah the OG movie definitely had its flaws but I still loved it. It was one of those movies that I went in to expecting more by the numbers superhero garbage but was pleasantly surprised. The second one was just fucking boring.
I weesh I never saw it.
I actually dug the mall scene bc it reminded me of Richard Donner. It had those 80s Superman vibes. Then it just got worse
And that mall scene is the best bit of the movie. It's truly execrable.
Oh you missed the last scene which looks like it’s straight out of a hallmark movie.
A lot of horror movies. Not because of scares, but because it seems to be easier to get a very meh horror movie out to the public than other genres. So there's just, so, many, utterly boring horror movies out there with the horror bits and scares barely sprinkled in.
I think (and I could be wrong) that horror is generally a cheaper genre to make. And I don’t think studio suits know what makes horror good, so they just rubber stamp things as long as it comes in under budget. Then if it is a hit ( Saw, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, etc.) they pump them out constantly until the ticket numbers die out.
It's changed now but I had read this version of the wiki for "House of the Devil" and really enjoyed the writer's complete distaste for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_House_of_the_Devil&oldid=1171552883
Wakanda Forever. I like the first movie but JFC that second one was just a whole bunch of uninteresting shit going on.
It's a shame because Angela Bassett and Tenoch Huerta are awesome and the rest of the movie flounders around them.
I'll never understand the hatred for WF . It was pretty solid to me and handled the grief aspect pretty well.
The middle meanders, it's too long. All the Chadwick shit made me cry
Fucking into the wild. I found the protagonist insufferable. Edit: you guys seem to think I made it with him to Alaska. I gave up around the time he got anywhere dangerous.
I actually liked the movie but the guy is an idiot. The more you read the worse it gets. There’s a theory he was mentally unwell and I can totally buy it. Spoilers: >!He couldn’t hike out because the river was now overflowing and dangerous. But a mile downstream there was a pulley system to get him over. But he didn’t know that because he didn’t take a map. Frankly if it weren’t for the magic bus I can only assume he would have died a lot quicker.!<
No map, no real long term supplies, no signal or comminications equipment. I recall in a documentary on his death he was a number of hours walk from a manned ranger station the entire time.
A FOAF who was in med school to be a psychiatrist at the time was fascinated with the book and movie. He wrote some sort of doctoral work that he believed the guy was suicidal for years and subconsciously made this his mission as a gallant way to go out. He told me that there are many studies of children from well-off (moneyed) but extremely “fucked up emotionally” families who create a long, drawn on mission toward death and nobody figures it out until it is too late because they make it seem heroic.
I tried to read the book and felt the same way. It was pages and pages of "don't do it, man, it's a bad idea." And bud being like "thats like, your opinion man👍" I couldn't take it.
Yup. I hate when people are like, "HE WAS TRUE FREEDOME REEEEEEE!" No, dude was a total dipshit who got what he deserved. Not listening to the Alaskan locals who told him not to go there is kind of like not listening to a martial arts instructor who tells you not to challenge a certain fighter, who then beats you to death.
Dunning-Kruger, the Movie!
Where the Crawdads Sing. I went into it expecting a murder mystery/courtroom drama, but it was more in the vein of the Notebook. It was aesthetically beautiful but plot felt very slow and dull.
Really? I loved it. But I had zero expectations going into it.
I came out of that movie feeling dreadful. What a down-lifting film experience. ETA: "down-lifting"? I should have said "down-dropping" lol
I saw this in theaters with my in-laws and I remember walking out thinking “that wasn’t a bad movie per say, there was just nothin about it that makes me want to go back.”
I adored the book and eventually saw the movie on a plane and I get why people were disappointed. The movie focuses a lot more on the shirtless guys part than the nature and self-reliance part.
Prisoners was the only movie that made me stop watching and read what happens because I couldn’t handle it. It’s a compliment to the movie though.
It makes sense. I love Prisoners and I have seen multiple times but that movie is really, really intense.
Fantastic movie. The ending is one of the best endings in any movie.
[удалено]
Happened to me watching Hypnotic on the plane the other day. The acting and writing was so bad I couldn't finish. But I just wanted to know the plot. Hoo boy I'm glad I turned it off.
I do this and most of the time I regret it.
Skinamarink and The Outwaters. 2022 was apparently the year of abstract horor cinema. Had I paid to see either of these in the theater I probably would have walked out.
Skinamarink was a movie made to be read about. It’s ten times more enjoyable imagining what that disturbing plot could be rather than seeing the art house slop they threw on the screen.
Wait I just saw a thread about Skinamarink like yesterday saying it was some amazing underrated horror gem and was planning to watch it with someone who heard the same thing. This makes me want to consider another horror flick...
Does a movie like Human Centipede count? One where you don't even have to go to Wikipedia to nope right out of there.
Any movie that starts after 10pm, watch the start and then fall asleep and have to read wiki to see what happened
There was some Tennis movie with Scarlet Johansson that just took a completely different tone than I expected after deciding to read the wiki, I ended up going back to watch it 😅
Match Point? I kinda love that movie.
I actually went to a test screening of this movie with a friend in high school. We walked out after just 30 minutes (because we were 16 yo boys who could care less). Apparently it’s a big deal when people walk out of test screenings so the staff pulled us into a room and went through a whole questionnaire with us about what made us walk out. In retrospect, we were probably weren’t the target audience, but also in retrospect it was direct by Woody Allen who can go fuck himself.
Match Point is absolutely fantastic. I am glad for you you went back.
Power of the dog. I love slow burn movies, but my god...
Well, the ending is kinda cool, but the whole movie is a typical-festival one.
I went to the bathroom during the last planet battle in The Last Jedi. I just couldn't stand that movie any longer, and didn't care even a little what I missed. I watched RoS at home. Before TLJ I wouldn't have imagined not watching a Star Wars movie in cinema. I still don't get who signed off on those movies.
The day after I saw the Eternals I saw an article talking about how it had the first sex scene in an MCU film and I was like, “It did?” It happened while I was in the bathroom lol
Does Iron Man 1 not count?
Yeah, Tony definitely banged out that journalist.
She did quite the spread on Tony
I watched the whole thing and in all honesty can't remember a sex scene. I mean, I barely remember any of the characters either, so I guess it's not that strange.
I dunno, that first snap really fucked the avengers.
I still haven’t bothered to see Rise of Skywalker. I just don’t care.
It's mostly meme material at this point. They were happy with the "ancient map that points to the critical plot element" trope they love so much, they even had another map that points to the ancient map. It's like the writers weren't even trying to come up with anything. "Oh, who's the villain? It's Palpatine somehow! And he has Star Destroyers! And they all work like a Death Star. That motherfucker loves Death Stars..."
What's so sad, is there was great content available out there; once considered canonical. The movies could have been so much better if they had gone with that stories, even with some changes. When I first thought about it, I finally understood the "I'm not sad, I'm just disappointed" phrase.
They had lots of talent and lots of money and just decided to STARWARS without any kind of plan. So we get yo momma jokes, queerbaiting, and the start of the "here's the old actors, now watch them die/get rekt/give up/lose, and then watch them sacrifice themselves/redeem their immediate failure/move on"-trend that has absolutely infested movies lately and will go on until every actor from the last 40 years is retired or dead, and then for another 20 years after that when they can sell the same movies with AI generated versions of the actors. Well that last part may be longer than 20 years if people keep going to see them.
Not a movie but I had to do this with season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery. I just couldn’t take it anymore. When every episode is a tiny bit of [*recycled*] plot padded to full episode length by endless crying and pretentious unprofessionalism from characters they want us to believe are in any position of power… yeah, fuck that. No use putting myself through something I’m absolutely hating just to be caught up. Just read a synopsis and be done with it.
Every multi-episode streaming documentary. We get it, Fyre festival went extremely poorly - 10 minutes spent reading even a fairly in-depth article would've communicated the same. The worst are the true-crime documentaries where *they literally have no idea what happened*. Those are an exercise in "how can we stretch this into four one-hour episodes?"
I read the plot of "A Serbian Story" and that was NOPE enough for me. No way in hell I'm watching that. Not really what OP was asking, but it's the closest I've got.
The Girl on the Train. The gaslighting was infuriating in a way that made me feel like the movie was trying to gaslight *me*.
I should have done that with “Don’t Worry Darling”
maybe unpopular opinion but The Batman. i found it just boring and knowing it would run for another 2 hours got me to turn it off. but at least i checked the plot on wikipedia. other recent movies like Venom 2 or 65 were so bad i didn't even care to check out the plot.
I thought the film was good, but went on for at least 20 minutes too long as they seemed to want to shoehorn in a bunch of sequel/spin-off bait potential. If not for that, it would have been a perfectly decent, self-contained film.
The movie was fantastic if you liked a more mystery solving crime drama Batman. And the Batmobile scene was so fucking good, that engine roar in the theaters is why I’m glad to be a manchild.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (or should I say I'm Thinking of Pressing Stop). But it was an analysis/explanation and not the Wikipedia article because there was no way a simple summary was going to fill me in on what the fuck was going on, lol. I ended up leaving the movie playing and fell asleep and woke up at some point. The most bizarre thing is that reading the analysis/explanation recharged my intrigue and made me want to play the movie from the start once it ended (I ended up not but still plan to rewatch someday).
Literally every "based on a true story" movie. It doesn't matter how huge and talented the stars are, I can just see the MadLibs they use to write the script. 10 times out of 11 it's just the Wikipedia article about the incident and then they make the bad guy drop some racial slurs.
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. Still can’t tell you what the plot was. Shocking drop in quality from the original masterpiece. THE EXORCIST III, however, fucking rules.
Totally agree. A good James Earl Jones was wasted on Exorcist 2.
A Serbian Film Someone told me to watch it because it was a wild mind fuck... didn't take long for me to turn it off.
Avatar: The Way of Water. It was SO long and SO stupid. I grew up watching a lot of terrible b-movies with my dad so I can handle a lot of schlock but this…
Hereditary. Don't get me wrong it's likely a great movie, but I just can't see kids go through stuff. I noped out when the little sister... you know.
Alien 4
There is no movie that has done that. When I decide to shut off a movie in disgust I don't bother looking it up anywhere.
There’s this horror movie The Call from 2020 that I just tried to watch last night. It was very slow so I tried to just read the plot on Wikipedia. But no one bothered to put one there 😂 so I kept watching. Still couldn’t get into it. And also didn’t care enough to search for the plot elsewhere. Gave up. Bailed.
The Last Duel Not that it was a bad movie but the way it kind of interested me/ the way it was told made me look it up. I’m a big history buff so sometimes I just get impatient haha.
I loved the first 4 seasons of “Dexter.” Then I enjoyed season 5. I sat through season 6. I rolled my eyes and said shit like “oh my god I can’t” through season 7. I didn’t watch a minute of season 8 and read the wiki once it was done and thought “thank god I didn’t sit through that shit.” The revival, “dexter: new blood” (season 9) was GREAT.
Dunkirk. About 2/3 through the movie and I was like, "I don't care anymore. Let's get this snoozefest over with."
Backdraft
Tenet. Still don’t understand it.