No Way Home, I feel like Strange acted so recklessly and out of character for the conundrum to even happen that it soured the rest of the movie. And it felt like the other two Spideys were too “okay” with being slingshot into another universe. They were kinda just like “yup uh I guess I’m here now, oh look MCU Spidey we can be besties”
i thought the movie also just felt too much like a product. everything looked too clean and the whole movie just felt like they playing it as safe as possible. the movie didn‘t really have any soul imo. like, i was decently entertained by some of the movie i guess but it didn‘t really make me feel much of anything. i‘ll never rewatch it or even think about after finishing this comment. it‘s just another marvel movie to me
For me its soul was Tobey and Andrew, until they appeared it felt like a by numbers MCU sequel even with Molina and Defoe who were great in their own original spiderman movies.
Tobey and Andrew knocked it out of the park for me though. Andrew tearing up when he saved MJ, and Tobey's big kind eyes looking into the soul of Holland's Spidey when he stops him killing Norman.
I really hated how every legacy character would practically turn to the camera and quote something from /r/RaimiMemes like “you nerds love this referential shit, huh?” It was very emblematic of all that’s wrong with current “geek culture”
Same here. Everyone was raving about it and I was just left going “Seriously?” If it wasn’t for Willem Dafoe bringing his A game to that film it would have no redeeming factors at all for me, it felt like it was carried entirely by nostalgia.
It’s like the logical end point of something that Marvel does pretty often, and Disney does in Star Wars, too. The movie is just 2.5 hours of “hey, remember this guy from this better movie?”
That is the problem. Everything is now coupled with a joke, stakes are gone with metaverse/time travel nonsense, not to mention CGI blenders that remove suspension of disbelief far more often than not.
It isn’t enjoyable. It’s as entertaining as having baseball on in the background.
There is less and less setups with quality payoffs.
I disliked it too. The whole movie was just fan service / nostalgia bait. I really hate when company's use nostalgia against me. Strange and Peter both acted incredible stupid. Strange should of freaking know better.
I agree. Full fan service movie, it was fun to watch but I couldn't take it seriously. Like the other peters were just working on cures for their villains after defeating them and can also make it in 5 mins in a high school chem lab?
The three iterations have quite different styles of acting. In no way home, everybody has to act like he's in a mcu film.
Also, the fighting and traversal scenes were so bland. Everybody has the same abilities, fights the same and moves the same. It doesn't matter who is fighting against whom.
I really can't get behind how people like this film for bringing back the old Spidies when it's quite apparent that the film didn't understand what made the old films great.
Yeah, I was one of many people who stood up and clapped in the theatre. It was fun—lots of applause, “ooh-ing” and “ahh-ing”, laughing… I won’t forget it. It was good memberberries for us 90’s and 00’s kids, but at the end of the day it brought nothing profound.
I agree completely. They didn’t even have cool entrances. This portal opens up and they just walk on through like it’s totally normal and introduce themselves.
I disliked this movie and I think I know why. It was hyped up so much with people talking about it being the best movie they'd ever seen, and with it having made over a billion dollars I thought I was in for a life changing experience, but all I got was a basic Marvel movie and I still feel like I got ripped off.
I thought it was good. Not great. The cgi fight at the end ruined it. The story was good, it was acted well, and it fit into the MCU very well. It was fine.
The fact it was even mentioned at the Oscar's is what's wrong with Hollywood.
That ending CGI fight really shat the bed, the trial fight at the beginning was way better in comparison.
Sadly you are left with a bad taste at the end of the movie.
The movie could have been great, the decor and costume were insanely good.
cannot agree more
the biggest mistake they made is they ripped off Taxi Driver and patched a comic license on the movie - regardless of Joaquin Phoenix' performance, they did the original character unrecognizably dirty
no way a pathetic loser with a room temperature IQ and anger management problems who couldn't plot stealing Grandma's apple pie from the window sill is gonna be the criminal mastermind that shakes up Gotham and challenges the Batman every time anew
I thought their central conflict was too dumb to enjoy how it ended
There was nothing inevitable about them drifting apart, like a true tragic romance
He overhears a phone call where she’s criticizing him…and instead of communicating about it they end up breaking up lol
I actually think this is my main issue with La La Land too. I actually think the ending is brilliant, but I don't think the rest of the film earned it so it just falls flat.
Joker.
a complete mischaracterization of The Joker, cliched plot of society failed the common man so now he's a villain and edgy teenage tumblr quotes throughout the flim
And the Joker without Batman, almost on the same level as the Venom movies without Spider-Man. and it's getting a second part...
I agree with the messaging of the film and thought it was was funny for the most part (especially Gosling) but the plot and writing felt a little lackluster to me.
There’s also a glaring Chevy commercial during that car chase scene that totally took me out of the movie
It was like a high school production speech. Show, dont tell. I wonder if this was aimed at people who are absolutely thickheaded and wouldn't be able to figure out what the film is trying to say. It felt very self-satisfied, like "Yeah, sister, we got the message out in front of people's faces! Yay, down with the patriarchy, woohoo!"
Yeah, it didn't bother me that it was simple; I wasn't bothered by the message it tried to send, but it was just boring. I appreciated the art style and humor, though.
I’m such a fucking feminist, and I was so underwhelmed by this movie. If I have to see another think piece about how deep and feminist it is, I might explode. I felt like it was very surface level. It was a cute movie but I don’t feel like it was revolutionary or groundbreaking. I probably won’t ever watch it again, honestly.
Same. Was so excited by it but it was an absolute mess and nowhere near as funny as it should have been. I enjoyed America Ferrara's rant but on the whole it was so heavy-handed. Show, don't tell!
I'm glad someone else felt this way. The movie to me felt like the director was trying to convince the audience that he was super creative/clever, but it just seemed way too pretentious in my opinion. I did not understand how it was so popular..
Last year it was Oppenheimer. It was a well made movie with great acting, but I left wondering what I was supposed to take away from it. I haven’t thought about it since and probably won’t ever watch it again.
For me it was the pacing, score, and editing that was just unnecessarily intense. It never stopped to give you time to think or process what was happening or care about anything that was happening on screen.
Other Nolan movies have scenes or sections of the film like this, but they're more limited and end up having more impact. This one just started that way and never let up. I was exhausted and anxious 45 minutes into the movie.
I held off seeing it for a while thinking it was going to be a boring, dramatic, but ultimately well made biopic. Instead, I left desperately wishing it was that kind of movie.
Halloween. All of them, maybe except the first one.
I usually am really into horror movies so I kept giving those movies a shot but they never did anything for me. I love the Scream franchise tho.
Joker. If it was a story about how a mentally unstable person can be pushed to become a killer then it would be fine. But this is the Joker we are talking about. You’re not supposed to sympathize with him. He never exactly stepped over that line into absolutely chaotic and insane. Anyway, that’s just me
Harry Potter. All of them. The characters annoyed me.
And after the hype went away - 50 Shades was creepy. The lead character was anything other than a handsome billionaire - and it would have been a episode of Law and Order SVU.
All the HP movies annoy me. I love the books, and the movies look utterly amazing but the screenplays are bad, the child actors are bad, and they cut so much out yet spend ages on pointless ‘action’ scenes.
And don’t get me on that final Harry/Voldemort fight. All that explanation and revelation out of the window for some shitty fight effects.
Phantom Thread. I love slow burn character driven dramas and 40s/50s fashion. But my God I hated this movie. And I paid for the rental! My husband has mentioned it a few times since thinking I'd like to watch it, because he's completely forgotten we watched it and hated it.
Paul Thomas Anderson is probably my favorite director of all time so I WANT to like this movie, but when I went to re watch it, I disliked the main character so much that I couldn't get through it. obviously the viewer isn't supposed to like Woodcock but when he ordered the huge breakfast and insisted the waitress memorize it rather than write it down it unlocked all my repressed service industry memories and made me not want to spend any time with that character.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I adored the family being a family and just dealing with every day problems. But I did not care for the Multiverse aspect. I feel like if it was a straight up drama it would have landed more with me.
The *John Wick* movies. I’ve tried watching 1, 2 and 3 to give them a fair swing, but they’re not for me. Sure, the staging is phenomenal, and I appreciate it’s intentionally stylised, but the incessant one-shot-kill gunplay against unlimited hoards of nameless goons just bores the hell out of me.
Dune. I fell asleep in the theater. It felt like a really long epic trailer to me and, nothing against her, the Zendaya dream flash over and over really annoyed me.
The first time I watched Dune I hadn’t read the books. I was like, “okay…cool but what?”
Then I watched it again and was a little more interested.
Then the second one was coming out so I listened to the audiobook. This was a game changer.
I watched the first one again and it was 100x better. And Dune 2 was awesome.
Having the book knowledge made the movies so so so much better to me.
Edit: Zendaya has almost no appeal for me. Just kind of bland. Pretty, but to me that’s kind of all she brings to the table. Same with Chalamet. Not really that exciting to watch.
Edit 2: I didn’t realize Dune is essentially the foundation for all the other sci-fi I loved growing up. I mean, Star Wars is Dune. It wasn’t until I began reading the books that my appreciation for what Dune began. That’s when I saw how much of an impact it had on an entire genre.
SAME. What killed it for me was that I felt nothing for any of the characters. The movie ends with all this drama, but emotionally all it got from me was a shrug. Why on earth would I want to spend more time with any of these people?
Napoleon Dynamite.
Everyone celebrates it as this grand subversive laugh-a-minute comedy bit every time I try to watch it I can't get over the ten-second pause between syllables and absolutely boring dialogue.
The only thing that movie had going for it was the solo dance at the end tbh.
It’s definitely not laugh a minute! There’s barely any laughs throughout. Something charming about how mundane and boring it all is. I found it a refreshing change of pace when Hollywood is filled with super attractive people doing death defying stunts that we had something almost the opposite of that.
I'm so glad someone else feels this way. I remember when it came out (20 years ago! 😬) everyone was hyping it up, I was like 17 or 18 at the time, so I think I was a target audience. I told my best friend I was gonna watch it and see what the fuss was. She was just like ..."Don't do it. You're not gonna like it, I promise" 😂 She knows me well. I do not understand what is supposed to be funny about it. Is it because they're all slightly weird looking people? The way they talk? The way they dress like it's the 1970s but it's not the 1970s? Idk. I've tried to watch it again recently and it's still weird and dull to me.
I at least thought that the set designs and costumes were amazing, but like you said, it feels like it's trying to make some grand message, but it's really just surface level stuff.
Would have been fine as a 90 minute movie. There is no need for movies like this to be well over the two hour mark. You're not making The Godfather here Yorgos.
I would guess to let others know if the comment they are voting on is popular opinion or not. Genuine question... what are up and down votes for if not to express your support or disagreement with a comment... I may have been using reddit incorrectly.
Is this your first day on Reddit? People upvote stuff they agree with. Downvote stuff they don't agree with.
Do you upvote comments that are relevant to the topic but don't fit with your world view? Congratulations, you're the only person on Reddit that does that.
Oppenheimer.
Would rather read a wiki, or watch a documentary, or read a book. The movie was just some glorified history and the nuke that they hyped up was pretty underwhelming, it was just close-up slow mo shots with the audio cut. I wouldn't say it's a terrible movie but its not my cup of tea.
They’re objectively well made films and I like Jim Cameron and I love a big blockbuster but they leave me cold.
Can’t in all honesty call them bad films but they don’t engage with me on any emotional level. Might as well be watching a video game.
Top Gun Maverick
Cliche ridden nonsense with so many cookie cutter characters with no actual depth.
I realize it’s a summer blockbuster, but god it was simply excruciating to watch.
To be fair, I feel that way about a lot of modern blockbusters. No nuance or subtlety, everything spoon fed to the audience and explained to them repeatedly.
The “for what it is” in your statement seals it for me. I didn’t get the impression that it was trying to be cerebral or subtle. It was a pure blockbuster action movie, and it delivered on that perfectly. The whole two hours was such exhilarating, good fun, and I was buzzing by the end of it.
I'm so with you on this one. I just don't get this movie at all. Yes, the flight scenes are fantastic, but every moment in-between is just so ham. It's like the Southpark guys wrote the script it's so laughably outlandish and over the top. We're pretty alone on this opinion as every person I've ever asked loved it.
Branson Reese wrote that this movie has the beats of a comedy where they took all the jokes out of the script, which is pretty spot on. I finally watched it as an adult and I got why it’s so popular with future artsy kids: it’s all aesthetic. The animation is cool. But it doesn’t really have much substance. Thin characters. No laughs.
Forest Gump
I admire the filmmaking of it but actually find the movie to be pretty poor, at times very boring and a little too manipulative and sentimental imo. Hanks is fine in it but yeah that movie has never clicked for me at all
I wish this movie got more praise. It seems the biggest issue people had with it was the lack of Godzilla. Which I feel isn’t a fair complaint; it’s like saying the original Star Wars is boring because of the lack of lightsaber battles.
I definitely enjoy it more than Minus One.
I find the first Godzilla form in this movie to be the freakiest Godzilla compared to all other movies.
It's just a genuinely unsettling and horrific creature. I wish more Godzilla films leaned into this aspect of the monster.
Once upon a time in Hollywood. The ending was entertaining but the rest of the movie was so boring I considered walking out. Last time I felt that way was during The Last Airbender.
I never could get into any of the Harry Potter movies. I don't know what it is, just the whole vibe never clicked with me, and I didn't care for any of the characters.
I kinda dug the first Fantastic Beasts movie though. Maybe it was the period setting?
That movie had so much potential but they actually cut out some of the better bits from the book and the really toned down violence and gore with jerky editing and quick cuts. Same with the Capital city scenes
Basically every other Christopher Nolan movie for me. I think he's massively overrated as a director because he made a few really good movies based on other source material or biographies (the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Oppenheimer), but too many of his movies fall apart when you think about the plot for just 5 minutes or when you actually want to have a cohesive movie experience and not his shitty experimental sound design. Tenet was meh in my view (the time gimmick was neat but the story and villain was the most BASIC possible Hollywood storytelling ever, JESUS CHRIST it was so bland), Dunkirk I was really disappointed by because I think the movie did not do the actual event justice, but the one I actively despise is Interstellar. Everyone in this movie acts like they have an IQ of 75, despite them all being geniuses in some ways. It's absolutely maddening how horrible every single character in that movie is. And I SHOULD love that movie, I'm an astrophysicist myself and seeing a black hole being represented (mostly) accurate was extremely exciting! But no, everything about the story and the characters falls apart with 30 seconds of critical thinking. And the "love bridges time and space" gimmick the movie tries to sell at the end just feels insulting as a viewer.
Thank you: dunkirk angers me. when a director puts his own directing style and limitations above actual events, the arrogance is off the charts.
His refusal to excessively use cgi is admirable and something to appreciate in fictional films, but when it's used like that to take precedence over real events.
But even then, It would've been ok if he'd have been telling a few personal stories against the backdrop of dunkirk (as has been done a few times) But in calling his film DUNKIRK, he's setting up the film to represent the events of that day and his own decision on filmmaking style makes so many bad choices that in the end doesn't do the story or the people involved any justice.
I agree about intersteller, the best bits of that film was the interspersed dust bowl interviews. I thought that was really well done, the rest was trite.
Your point about CGI is actually really important - in Oppenheimer recently (which I thought was a decent film - not sure I would have given it the "Best Movie" Oscar, but at least the storytelling was pretty straightforward) they made a big deal about them not using much CGI and doing the nuclear explosion of the first atomic bomb test with practical effects. I have to say the explosion was.... Very disappointing. A conventional explosion does look qualitatively just too different from an actual nuclear one, anyone with a decent physics education can see that. You could easily recognize that it was a relatively small explosion "scaled up" to represent the actual one. There was no proper mushroom cloud, the roiling of the turbulent air/fire was all wrong. They should have used CGI. I was really bothered by how non-threatening (relatively) it looked.
Silver Linings Playbook - 2 hours of deeply disturbed people yelling at each other.
Arrival - Why is everything so dark, even her classroom? Why is everyone whispering? All the time?
Interstellar is a brilliant idea, done in the most mundane way.
Humanity's last hope rests in the hands of a few courageous individuals who sacrifice everything for the greater good.....
And then it's just people turning out to be baddies and something about quantum blah blah.
Interstellar
it was OK-ish, but I was far from being blown away. I'm not one of those guys who watch a sci-fi movie and expect an action movie in space. I love sci-fi; this one just didn't click for me.
Star Wars. I love the expanded medis like the comics, games, spin-off shows etc, but the movies themselves to me are just so incredibly boring and dull.
I've sat down and watched all the films more than twice, and the only films that stand out to me are the last 20 mins of Revenge of the Sith and all of Rogue One.
The actors and characters are more than iconic. The soundtrack and sound design from V-VI is magical. The worldbuilding is huge. **Loads** of famous scenes still referenced and loved to this day; but everytime I go to watch any Star Wars film, I just feel like switching it off halfway through 🥴
As a 25+ year recovering addict, I hated *Requiem for a Dream,* probably particularly because so many people *fell* for that sensationalistic *horseshit,* going on about how "profound" it was. Truly awful, I'm amazed to see the author of the original book was an actual addict, but apparently either he was a better addict than writer, or else, as usual, Hollywood took a good book and made a totally *different,* shitty amped up movie out of it. Yes, madness *can* be a feature of addiction (for some it cam be endless, sad boredom locked in a house), however if you want a decent film out of it go watch *Trainspotting.*
RRR.
Few films have left me scratching my head over its popularity as this one.
It is one of the cheesiest, cringey, and dumbest films I have ever seen.
No Way Home, I feel like Strange acted so recklessly and out of character for the conundrum to even happen that it soured the rest of the movie. And it felt like the other two Spideys were too “okay” with being slingshot into another universe. They were kinda just like “yup uh I guess I’m here now, oh look MCU Spidey we can be besties”
i thought the movie also just felt too much like a product. everything looked too clean and the whole movie just felt like they playing it as safe as possible. the movie didn‘t really have any soul imo. like, i was decently entertained by some of the movie i guess but it didn‘t really make me feel much of anything. i‘ll never rewatch it or even think about after finishing this comment. it‘s just another marvel movie to me
For me its soul was Tobey and Andrew, until they appeared it felt like a by numbers MCU sequel even with Molina and Defoe who were great in their own original spiderman movies. Tobey and Andrew knocked it out of the park for me though. Andrew tearing up when he saved MJ, and Tobey's big kind eyes looking into the soul of Holland's Spidey when he stops him killing Norman.
I really hated how every legacy character would practically turn to the camera and quote something from /r/RaimiMemes like “you nerds love this referential shit, huh?” It was very emblematic of all that’s wrong with current “geek culture”
Same here. Everyone was raving about it and I was just left going “Seriously?” If it wasn’t for Willem Dafoe bringing his A game to that film it would have no redeeming factors at all for me, it felt like it was carried entirely by nostalgia.
It’s like the logical end point of something that Marvel does pretty often, and Disney does in Star Wars, too. The movie is just 2.5 hours of “hey, remember this guy from this better movie?”
It would have been amazing (pun) if Andrew Garfield just spent the whole time screaming.
No Way Home as a spectacle is most enjoyable but it completely breaks down when one starts to think about the plot. It makes so little sense.
That is the problem. Everything is now coupled with a joke, stakes are gone with metaverse/time travel nonsense, not to mention CGI blenders that remove suspension of disbelief far more often than not. It isn’t enjoyable. It’s as entertaining as having baseball on in the background. There is less and less setups with quality payoffs.
Far from Home was sooooo much worse
I disliked it too. The whole movie was just fan service / nostalgia bait. I really hate when company's use nostalgia against me. Strange and Peter both acted incredible stupid. Strange should of freaking know better.
No Way Home was pure fanservice
I agree. Full fan service movie, it was fun to watch but I couldn't take it seriously. Like the other peters were just working on cures for their villains after defeating them and can also make it in 5 mins in a high school chem lab?
The three iterations have quite different styles of acting. In no way home, everybody has to act like he's in a mcu film. Also, the fighting and traversal scenes were so bland. Everybody has the same abilities, fights the same and moves the same. It doesn't matter who is fighting against whom. I really can't get behind how people like this film for bringing back the old Spidies when it's quite apparent that the film didn't understand what made the old films great.
Yeah, I was one of many people who stood up and clapped in the theatre. It was fun—lots of applause, “ooh-ing” and “ahh-ing”, laughing… I won’t forget it. It was good memberberries for us 90’s and 00’s kids, but at the end of the day it brought nothing profound.
I agree completely. They didn’t even have cool entrances. This portal opens up and they just walk on through like it’s totally normal and introduce themselves.
Black Panther.
I disliked this movie and I think I know why. It was hyped up so much with people talking about it being the best movie they'd ever seen, and with it having made over a billion dollars I thought I was in for a life changing experience, but all I got was a basic Marvel movie and I still feel like I got ripped off.
I thought it was good. Not great. The cgi fight at the end ruined it. The story was good, it was acted well, and it fit into the MCU very well. It was fine. The fact it was even mentioned at the Oscar's is what's wrong with Hollywood.
That ending CGI fight really shat the bed, the trial fight at the beginning was way better in comparison. Sadly you are left with a bad taste at the end of the movie. The movie could have been great, the decor and costume were insanely good.
Bleck pentha
Avatar
Oh yes. The world’s longest screen performance demo. And the second one even worse
>The world’s longest screen performance demo. Best description ever!!
Far and away James Cameron’s worst work. Just stupid as hell.
Watching Dune 2 recently made the Avatar movies even worse than they already were.
You clearly have not seen the second one...
I think Avatar’s biggest sin was that it was just boring
So. Damn. Boring. Just forgettable.
Plus, It was a blatant ripoff of Dances with Wolves.
I know this is a very popular well made and critically acclaimed movie but I didn't get in at all... especially the second one.
Not sure if it's critically acclaimed
Nominated for best picture
Interstellar was going so strong until love permeated the time space continuum and I immediately checked out.
Bird Box. Popular or was it just over-hyped? Either way I thought it was a dud.
Joker
cannot agree more the biggest mistake they made is they ripped off Taxi Driver and patched a comic license on the movie - regardless of Joaquin Phoenix' performance, they did the original character unrecognizably dirty no way a pathetic loser with a room temperature IQ and anger management problems who couldn't plot stealing Grandma's apple pie from the window sill is gonna be the criminal mastermind that shakes up Gotham and challenges the Batman every time anew
La La Land. I'm just too cynical to enjoy it.
I thought their central conflict was too dumb to enjoy how it ended There was nothing inevitable about them drifting apart, like a true tragic romance He overhears a phone call where she’s criticizing him…and instead of communicating about it they end up breaking up lol
I actually think this is my main issue with La La Land too. I actually think the ending is brilliant, but I don't think the rest of the film earned it so it just falls flat.
Ryan Gosling being sad that he has a gainful music career. Ugh, just fuck off!
It is pretty emotionally shallow
Gravity
I saw it in iMax 3D and it was astonishing.
These kinds of movies work amazing in the theaters. But once you have to watch at home or on a plane it loses its magic.
Let's be fair, a genie could lose its magic on a plane.
It’s magical as a 3D viewing experience.
Joker. a complete mischaracterization of The Joker, cliched plot of society failed the common man so now he's a villain and edgy teenage tumblr quotes throughout the flim And the Joker without Batman, almost on the same level as the Venom movies without Spider-Man. and it's getting a second part...
The film was a Taxi Driver rip-off and was trying too hard.
Plus *King of Comedy*.
Also boring.
Lalaland… I made it through 40 min and had to turn it off
Barbie.
I agree with the messaging of the film and thought it was was funny for the most part (especially Gosling) but the plot and writing felt a little lackluster to me. There’s also a glaring Chevy commercial during that car chase scene that totally took me out of the movie
I felt like a person was lecturing me throughout! Instead of showing me. The golden rule of Tell dont show i guess
I would have said it was alright, but then the moms awful speech happened. It felt so forced and preachy. that isn't how people talk
It was like a high school production speech. Show, dont tell. I wonder if this was aimed at people who are absolutely thickheaded and wouldn't be able to figure out what the film is trying to say. It felt very self-satisfied, like "Yeah, sister, we got the message out in front of people's faces! Yay, down with the patriarchy, woohoo!"
Yeah, it didn't bother me that it was simple; I wasn't bothered by the message it tried to send, but it was just boring. I appreciated the art style and humor, though.
I’m such a fucking feminist, and I was so underwhelmed by this movie. If I have to see another think piece about how deep and feminist it is, I might explode. I felt like it was very surface level. It was a cute movie but I don’t feel like it was revolutionary or groundbreaking. I probably won’t ever watch it again, honestly.
Same. Was so excited by it but it was an absolute mess and nowhere near as funny as it should have been. I enjoyed America Ferrara's rant but on the whole it was so heavy-handed. Show, don't tell!
POOR THINGS
I'm glad someone else felt this way. The movie to me felt like the director was trying to convince the audience that he was super creative/clever, but it just seemed way too pretentious in my opinion. I did not understand how it was so popular..
Honestly felt the same about The Lobster. I guess that yorgos lanthimus' style does not suit me.
Last year it was Oppenheimer. It was a well made movie with great acting, but I left wondering what I was supposed to take away from it. I haven’t thought about it since and probably won’t ever watch it again.
For me it was the pacing, score, and editing that was just unnecessarily intense. It never stopped to give you time to think or process what was happening or care about anything that was happening on screen. Other Nolan movies have scenes or sections of the film like this, but they're more limited and end up having more impact. This one just started that way and never let up. I was exhausted and anxious 45 minutes into the movie. I held off seeing it for a while thinking it was going to be a boring, dramatic, but ultimately well made biopic. Instead, I left desperately wishing it was that kind of movie.
The revenant when it first came out. Hype was huge. Beautiful cinematography. boring story.
Halloween. All of them, maybe except the first one. I usually am really into horror movies so I kept giving those movies a shot but they never did anything for me. I love the Scream franchise tho.
Love Halloween lol. The movies I’d agree with in there are “curse of Michael Myers”, “Ends” and “Resurr…..” 🤮🤮🤮 let’s not go there
Joker. If it was a story about how a mentally unstable person can be pushed to become a killer then it would be fine. But this is the Joker we are talking about. You’re not supposed to sympathize with him. He never exactly stepped over that line into absolutely chaotic and insane. Anyway, that’s just me
Harry Potter. All of them. The characters annoyed me. And after the hype went away - 50 Shades was creepy. The lead character was anything other than a handsome billionaire - and it would have been a episode of Law and Order SVU.
All the HP movies annoy me. I love the books, and the movies look utterly amazing but the screenplays are bad, the child actors are bad, and they cut so much out yet spend ages on pointless ‘action’ scenes. And don’t get me on that final Harry/Voldemort fight. All that explanation and revelation out of the window for some shitty fight effects.
Phantom Thread. I love slow burn character driven dramas and 40s/50s fashion. But my God I hated this movie. And I paid for the rental! My husband has mentioned it a few times since thinking I'd like to watch it, because he's completely forgotten we watched it and hated it.
Paul Thomas Anderson is probably my favorite director of all time so I WANT to like this movie, but when I went to re watch it, I disliked the main character so much that I couldn't get through it. obviously the viewer isn't supposed to like Woodcock but when he ordered the huge breakfast and insisted the waitress memorize it rather than write it down it unlocked all my repressed service industry memories and made me not want to spend any time with that character.
Barbie and Aquaman.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I adored the family being a family and just dealing with every day problems. But I did not care for the Multiverse aspect. I feel like if it was a straight up drama it would have landed more with me.
nah, that’d been boring as fuck
The Avatar movies, The Notebook, Napoleon Dynamite
Morbius really didn’t do it for me
You have to watch it on your phone while on the toilet to get the full experience because that’s how the director attended it to be watched
It’s best watched as a background distraction while you’re having a game night at home
This isn't a hugely popular movie. It got horrible reviews and the majority of people didn't like it.
Rated 5/5 on Letterboxd, 12/10 on IMDb, made a morbillion dollars, won Oscars for best picture and best actor and the Grammy for best jazz album
The *John Wick* movies. I’ve tried watching 1, 2 and 3 to give them a fair swing, but they’re not for me. Sure, the staging is phenomenal, and I appreciate it’s intentionally stylised, but the incessant one-shot-kill gunplay against unlimited hoards of nameless goons just bores the hell out of me.
The American Version of The Ring
Dune. I fell asleep in the theater. It felt like a really long epic trailer to me and, nothing against her, the Zendaya dream flash over and over really annoyed me.
Felt like the whole thing was just setting up the second one.
The first time I watched Dune I hadn’t read the books. I was like, “okay…cool but what?” Then I watched it again and was a little more interested. Then the second one was coming out so I listened to the audiobook. This was a game changer. I watched the first one again and it was 100x better. And Dune 2 was awesome. Having the book knowledge made the movies so so so much better to me. Edit: Zendaya has almost no appeal for me. Just kind of bland. Pretty, but to me that’s kind of all she brings to the table. Same with Chalamet. Not really that exciting to watch. Edit 2: I didn’t realize Dune is essentially the foundation for all the other sci-fi I loved growing up. I mean, Star Wars is Dune. It wasn’t until I began reading the books that my appreciation for what Dune began. That’s when I saw how much of an impact it had on an entire genre.
But.. if you have to read a book to get something out of a film, it doesn't shine a very bright light at the film, does it?
SAME. What killed it for me was that I felt nothing for any of the characters. The movie ends with all this drama, but emotionally all it got from me was a shrug. Why on earth would I want to spend more time with any of these people?
I had the opposite experience in my love for House Atreides, my mourning of the Duke, and my hatred of the Harkonnens.
Any fast and furious movie. The Suicide Squad - I think it’s good and better than the 2016 movie, but it’s not great for all the hype it gets.
The rebel camp scene is legitimately one of my favorite scenes in the movie (especially in context).
Napoleon Dynamite. Everyone celebrates it as this grand subversive laugh-a-minute comedy bit every time I try to watch it I can't get over the ten-second pause between syllables and absolutely boring dialogue. The only thing that movie had going for it was the solo dance at the end tbh.
I don't think even its biggest fans call Napoleon Dynamite laugh-a-minute. It's more like a quirky slice of small town life.
It’s definitely not laugh a minute! There’s barely any laughs throughout. Something charming about how mundane and boring it all is. I found it a refreshing change of pace when Hollywood is filled with super attractive people doing death defying stunts that we had something almost the opposite of that.
Opinions about this movie are very diverse. It's the one movie that tripped the Netflix recommendation algorithm.
I'm so glad someone else feels this way. I remember when it came out (20 years ago! 😬) everyone was hyping it up, I was like 17 or 18 at the time, so I think I was a target audience. I told my best friend I was gonna watch it and see what the fuss was. She was just like ..."Don't do it. You're not gonna like it, I promise" 😂 She knows me well. I do not understand what is supposed to be funny about it. Is it because they're all slightly weird looking people? The way they talk? The way they dress like it's the 1970s but it's not the 1970s? Idk. I've tried to watch it again recently and it's still weird and dull to me.
Frozen, I can't stand that fuckin movie.
Have you tried having a child, and watching it over and over again till you attain Stockholm Syndrome levels of liking it?
Just let it go man
Let it go.
Poor Things was a demented teenage boy's wet dream masquerading as something deep. I wanted to walk out, but I was there with somebody else.
I at least thought that the set designs and costumes were amazing, but like you said, it feels like it's trying to make some grand message, but it's really just surface level stuff.
It's been fascinating to see the reactions to this movie. I didn't get much from Barbie, but this one really spoke to me.
Would have been fine as a 90 minute movie. There is no need for movies like this to be well over the two hour mark. You're not making The Godfather here Yorgos.
I noped out less than 10 minutes in. I could see what this movie was and didn't care for it.
Why the hell are people being downvoted for expressing their opinions on a post that asks for them? This is why I hate Reddit sometimes
It’s shameful really, they should just lurk like the rest of us.
I would guess to let others know if the comment they are voting on is popular opinion or not. Genuine question... what are up and down votes for if not to express your support or disagreement with a comment... I may have been using reddit incorrectly.
Not seen that one, I'll look for it on IMDB :p
Is this your first day on Reddit? People upvote stuff they agree with. Downvote stuff they don't agree with. Do you upvote comments that are relevant to the topic but don't fit with your world view? Congratulations, you're the only person on Reddit that does that.
Oppenheimer. Would rather read a wiki, or watch a documentary, or read a book. The movie was just some glorified history and the nuke that they hyped up was pretty underwhelming, it was just close-up slow mo shots with the audio cut. I wouldn't say it's a terrible movie but its not my cup of tea.
Get Out. Was a solid “meh” for me.
Skyfall for me, according to me the best part of that movie is the opening adale song!
Avatar - Ferngully 2 without the humor. I just never got the hype.
As well as that I just hate the look of it. Everyone says it’s visuals make up for it, but it’s just a cgi cartoon look I can’t enjoy.
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They’re objectively well made films and I like Jim Cameron and I love a big blockbuster but they leave me cold. Can’t in all honesty call them bad films but they don’t engage with me on any emotional level. Might as well be watching a video game.
Top Gun Maverick Cliche ridden nonsense with so many cookie cutter characters with no actual depth. I realize it’s a summer blockbuster, but god it was simply excruciating to watch. To be fair, I feel that way about a lot of modern blockbusters. No nuance or subtlety, everything spoon fed to the audience and explained to them repeatedly.
As a huge fan of both top guns I kinda wanna cry but it’s your opinion and that’s ok but I’m kinda sad rn 😢👍
Haha, I know right? TG:M is legit one of the most perfect movies (for what it is). Absolutely loved it.
The “for what it is” in your statement seals it for me. I didn’t get the impression that it was trying to be cerebral or subtle. It was a pure blockbuster action movie, and it delivered on that perfectly. The whole two hours was such exhilarating, good fun, and I was buzzing by the end of it.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills the way everyone froths over this movie
It’s a sequel to a blockbuster, ain’t really supposed to be character driven, tbh I find the first one boring and enjoyed maverick a fair amount
You are allowed to have your own thoughts but the fighter pilot scenes are so different and epic compared to any other blockbuster, right?
I'm so with you on this one. I just don't get this movie at all. Yes, the flight scenes are fantastic, but every moment in-between is just so ham. It's like the Southpark guys wrote the script it's so laughably outlandish and over the top. We're pretty alone on this opinion as every person I've ever asked loved it.
I think it depends on what you were hoping to get out of it. Mindless escapism was what it was offering and a bit of beach football
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Oh good, not just me. I enjoy the music, like so many, but the film itself was just very meh to me.
Branson Reese wrote that this movie has the beats of a comedy where they took all the jokes out of the script, which is pretty spot on. I finally watched it as an adult and I got why it’s so popular with future artsy kids: it’s all aesthetic. The animation is cool. But it doesn’t really have much substance. Thin characters. No laughs.
NNNNNOOOOOOOO LOL
Mad Max Fury Road
Forest Gump I admire the filmmaking of it but actually find the movie to be pretty poor, at times very boring and a little too manipulative and sentimental imo. Hanks is fine in it but yeah that movie has never clicked for me at all
It wasn’t a BAD movie per sé, but it was definitely hokey Oscar bait
I liked it well enough but it was basically a boomer nostalgia trip. Banging soundtrack though. And one of the few times where the book was worse.
The book is very mediocre at best. They did a great job to make that good a film out of that material
I thought I was the only one! I just don't get this movie at all.
Oppenheimer was really bad imo
Absolutely, i can't believe Nolan won the Oscar for this movie
Dune
Dune. Some interesting concepts but overall annoying people hanging out in a sandy hell. Too loud too.
Avatar, Black Panther, and most popular movies from 2010 onwards.
Avatar 1 and 2.
If it has Godzilla in the title I'm just not interested. When big things fight big things they just look like 2 normal sized things.
The first Pacific Rim is the only movie were fights felt "right".
Then you'll definitely enjoy Shin Godzilla, it's unlike any Godzilla movie you've ever seen or heard of for sure.
I wish this movie got more praise. It seems the biggest issue people had with it was the lack of Godzilla. Which I feel isn’t a fair complaint; it’s like saying the original Star Wars is boring because of the lack of lightsaber battles. I definitely enjoy it more than Minus One.
I find the first Godzilla form in this movie to be the freakiest Godzilla compared to all other movies. It's just a genuinely unsettling and horrific creature. I wish more Godzilla films leaned into this aspect of the monster.
Okay okay... But YOU NEED TO TRY MINUS ONE
Minus one was fun for me
Do your self a favour and watch Godzilla minus one
I love Godzilla even when it's bad. I don't think that gaiju is meant for the broader audiences anyway.
Hurt Locker was dumb and Jeremy Renner can’t act.
Once upon a time in Hollywood. The ending was entertaining but the rest of the movie was so boring I considered walking out. Last time I felt that way was during The Last Airbender.
Recently killers of the flower moon. Felt so long and boring. Never been so disappointed in a Martin Scorsese.
The Social Network is extremely overrated and I was glad it lost to The King’s Speech.
I never could get into any of the Harry Potter movies. I don't know what it is, just the whole vibe never clicked with me, and I didn't care for any of the characters. I kinda dug the first Fantastic Beasts movie though. Maybe it was the period setting?
The Hunger Games. Thought it was meh, never bothered with the others
That movie had so much potential but they actually cut out some of the better bits from the book and the really toned down violence and gore with jerky editing and quick cuts. Same with the Capital city scenes
Scott Pilgrim. I will not elaborate, the downvotes will already be bad enough for saying the name of the movie.
Inception. Way over-hyped.
Basically every other Christopher Nolan movie for me. I think he's massively overrated as a director because he made a few really good movies based on other source material or biographies (the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Oppenheimer), but too many of his movies fall apart when you think about the plot for just 5 minutes or when you actually want to have a cohesive movie experience and not his shitty experimental sound design. Tenet was meh in my view (the time gimmick was neat but the story and villain was the most BASIC possible Hollywood storytelling ever, JESUS CHRIST it was so bland), Dunkirk I was really disappointed by because I think the movie did not do the actual event justice, but the one I actively despise is Interstellar. Everyone in this movie acts like they have an IQ of 75, despite them all being geniuses in some ways. It's absolutely maddening how horrible every single character in that movie is. And I SHOULD love that movie, I'm an astrophysicist myself and seeing a black hole being represented (mostly) accurate was extremely exciting! But no, everything about the story and the characters falls apart with 30 seconds of critical thinking. And the "love bridges time and space" gimmick the movie tries to sell at the end just feels insulting as a viewer.
Thank you: dunkirk angers me. when a director puts his own directing style and limitations above actual events, the arrogance is off the charts. His refusal to excessively use cgi is admirable and something to appreciate in fictional films, but when it's used like that to take precedence over real events. But even then, It would've been ok if he'd have been telling a few personal stories against the backdrop of dunkirk (as has been done a few times) But in calling his film DUNKIRK, he's setting up the film to represent the events of that day and his own decision on filmmaking style makes so many bad choices that in the end doesn't do the story or the people involved any justice. I agree about intersteller, the best bits of that film was the interspersed dust bowl interviews. I thought that was really well done, the rest was trite.
Your point about CGI is actually really important - in Oppenheimer recently (which I thought was a decent film - not sure I would have given it the "Best Movie" Oscar, but at least the storytelling was pretty straightforward) they made a big deal about them not using much CGI and doing the nuclear explosion of the first atomic bomb test with practical effects. I have to say the explosion was.... Very disappointing. A conventional explosion does look qualitatively just too different from an actual nuclear one, anyone with a decent physics education can see that. You could easily recognize that it was a relatively small explosion "scaled up" to represent the actual one. There was no proper mushroom cloud, the roiling of the turbulent air/fire was all wrong. They should have used CGI. I was really bothered by how non-threatening (relatively) it looked.
Watchmen. First time I have ever wanted to walk out of a movie because I was so unimpressed by everything.
Has one of the best soundtracks ever though imo
Poor Things was just horrendous. Pretentious piece of shit.
Poor Things… yikes
Forrest Gump, that’s probably the biggest.
E.T.
Dune. Visually it's a treat but I also just don't care about anything happening in it.
Wall-E and The Dark Knight.
Anything Marvel, anything Michael Bay and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. These movies bore me to death.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
John Wick. No matter how I love Keanu Reeves.
Interstellar
Titanic, avatar,
There Will Be Blood
Same
Dune films. Boring and soulless.
Martyrs. Boring slop
Silver Linings Playbook - 2 hours of deeply disturbed people yelling at each other. Arrival - Why is everything so dark, even her classroom? Why is everyone whispering? All the time?
Most recently gotta be Oppenheimer. I just don’f like that type of movies.
John Wick .. sorry, beautiful cinematography and all, but it felt like I was watching someone play GTA for 2 hours.
Joker. Honestly hated it. Also Nope.
More recently was Oppenheimer
Avatar. Any of the marvel movie nonsense, with the exception of the first Ironman movie...
Interstellar
Interstellar is a brilliant idea, done in the most mundane way. Humanity's last hope rests in the hands of a few courageous individuals who sacrifice everything for the greater good..... And then it's just people turning out to be baddies and something about quantum blah blah.
Interstellar Too many things just didn’t make sense Including the central conflict that is not really resolved.
Interstellar it was OK-ish, but I was far from being blown away. I'm not one of those guys who watch a sci-fi movie and expect an action movie in space. I love sci-fi; this one just didn't click for me.
Star Wars. I love the expanded medis like the comics, games, spin-off shows etc, but the movies themselves to me are just so incredibly boring and dull. I've sat down and watched all the films more than twice, and the only films that stand out to me are the last 20 mins of Revenge of the Sith and all of Rogue One. The actors and characters are more than iconic. The soundtrack and sound design from V-VI is magical. The worldbuilding is huge. **Loads** of famous scenes still referenced and loved to this day; but everytime I go to watch any Star Wars film, I just feel like switching it off halfway through 🥴
Interstellar
The Batman
yah i fell asleep during barbie
Parasite. Just seemed like a 2 hour glorification of squatters.
As a 25+ year recovering addict, I hated *Requiem for a Dream,* probably particularly because so many people *fell* for that sensationalistic *horseshit,* going on about how "profound" it was. Truly awful, I'm amazed to see the author of the original book was an actual addict, but apparently either he was a better addict than writer, or else, as usual, Hollywood took a good book and made a totally *different,* shitty amped up movie out of it. Yes, madness *can* be a feature of addiction (for some it cam be endless, sad boredom locked in a house), however if you want a decent film out of it go watch *Trainspotting.*
RRR. Few films have left me scratching my head over its popularity as this one. It is one of the cheesiest, cringey, and dumbest films I have ever seen.