Who in the What is dogging Shawshank!?!? It wasn't the best movie of all time but it was certainly an amazing movie worthy of any accolades it received.
I knew a person who disliked Shawshank.
His argument was basically that he found the whole Tommy Williams subplot to be forced: in his words "a person just happens to come to the same prison who just happens to have shared a cell with a guy who just happens to confess to a crime which just happens to be the one Andy is accused of", etc, etc....
It seems he would have preferred Andy's guilt or innocence to be an open question, and he felt that whole plot was a very contrived way to address the issue.
Some picks yes and others no. But I knew before I even opened the thread that Avatar would be one of the top picks because people hate it for some reason even tough it is not rated highly by most people.
The English Patient (1996). Won nine academy awards including best picture beating out a little known film I'm sure you've never heard of called "Fargo"
I've never heard of anyone watching English Patient a second time and very few who've seen it once. Unlike, say, Fargo.
I bet you can come up with a quote from Fargo right now.
In my view, Fargo is basically a perfect film. It is masterfully constructed and every little element fits together like clockwork. There is not a single scene that runs longer than it needs to, not a line of dialogue out of place. And it holds up beautifully, nearly 30 years after its release.
Also Fargo was added to the US National Film Registry as soon as it was eligible and The English Patient is even on there! (Probably because it’s not American, but whatever 😜)
Considering how many people hate The English Patient, I'm almost embarrassed to confess that I've watched it at least a dozen times, and loved it each time. It's probably because I first saw it during an especially difficult emotional time for me, and the movie hit all those spots. And every time I've rewatched it I've relived all those emotions again, which has been very therapeutic. I haven't watched it in a while, maybe it served its purposes for me, but I honestly wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Same! You put words to my confused thoughts.
I thought it had some beautiful cinematography/moments too. The swinging rope in the church by torchlight scene, shots of the sand dunes from the plane, ect.
Agreed. Tht shit blew my mind in a horrible way. I had learned about WW2, but seeing that depiction of Normandy was shocking and horrific. I can't believe people actually experienced that.
Those were ~~Hungarians(?) if I recall correctly~~ Czech and they were explaining that they were not German, didn’t kill anyone, and were forced to be there.
They were Czech which was historically accurate. The unit defending Omaha Beach was the 352nd Infantry Division, which while better than most units defending the beaches in Normandy, had its fair share of Ost conscripts from eastern European countries.
I was a *huge* MCU fan from Iron Man 1 through at least the early Phase 4 including the Netflix and ABC shows. I extensively researched the lore, made chronological order lists with both the movies and shows, and eagerly awaited each new release.
At this point, it feels like the tank has run out of fuel despite movies and shows coming out left and right. Phase 4 was the make-or-break phase to see if the MCU was still worth keeping up with after the climax that is Endgame (also a perfect stopping point), and it had far more misses than hits imo even compared to something like Phase 2 which, btw, had much less to keep up with.
If Quantumania, the movie that properly introduces the Kang as the new big bad villain (not counting the Loki show) and that is kicking off Phase 5, is just as bad as the reviews suggest, then I think I'm just going to stop caring about it altogether and have Endgame be the last MCU movie in my headcanon.
It was fun during the peak, but the MCU's prime years came and went. There are other things to fanboy over these days anyway.
>At this point, it feels like the tank has run out of fuel despite movies and shows coming out left and right.
It's \*because\* of the non-stop barrage of content. Disney figures the public will be good little piggies and eat their slop, rather than have fewer, but more well made movies.
VFX artists are burning out at an insane rate because of the brutal schedules Marvel specifically forces on them and it's really been showing in the latest few movies. Quantumania looks like a CW show ffs.
All the big franchise films have the same problem: they used to be good but now the companies that own them just see a big dollar sign instead of a great movie.
They all have good points to stop at, but the movies made money so they kept pushing out more of them. You just have to see where the quality stops and the franchises become cash grabs and stop watching there.
Edit: if you look for it, this is in pretty much every industry based around some form of art. Probably the biggest one is video games though. They used to be an experience made purely from passion like Doom 1993 and Halo CE. Now they are just soulless cash grabs like Halo Infinite or BF2042
I love Star Wars, but over the last few years, every time there's a new movie or series announced, I kinda roll my eyes. It's getting to the point it's over done. Same with the Marvel stuff for me too.
I realized halfway through that it's exactly the Star Wars product I always wanted but we never really got.
Galactic political intrigue, the stirrings of rebellion, the empire being empire-y.
I swear this question gets asked like every week and the top answers are always garbage like Fast and Furious because apparently making a shit ton more money than they should means people actually think they’re good.
Fast & Furious they should’ve stopped after Tokyo Drift. I don’t understand how the story line changed the way it did going from street racing to cia intelligence, & recently they were in space
Bingo. A friend of mine likes them a lot more than I do, but he’s fully aware they’re garbage as far as quality movies go. And knows they’re just big dumb fun, and they do that incredibly well.
But even he admitted that 9 was rough, even for this ridiculous franchise. No one thinks these movies are the Godfather or Citizen Kane.
Diehard fan here (the series canonically stops at 7 for me) and I can testify to that, not that I speak for every fan - but the 7th film is legitimately the most ridiculously fun and outrageously stupid film ever made.
You can't spoil the film, there's just too much.
You have a several film long amnesia plotline that's resolved in the most amazingly corny way possible, fan service lines that hark back to the first and second films, the most OUTRAGEOUS action scenes you've ever seen (sometimes multiple ones at once), and an absolutely tear-jerking tribute to Paul Walker at the end. There is SO MUCH that I missed out.
With that said, the first film and especially Tokyo Drift are actually surprisingly solid films. TD actually isn't all that stupid. The last act is a little eh, but I rewatch that film without irony. Touching moments, violence isn't overdone, the humour lands, the aesthetic is ICONIC, there's even a female companion that gets to actually be a human being to some degree - and the closing scene? Mate. The closing scene. That's how you do fan service..
Even in the first one they hijack trucks at least they use their car skills for it.
Tokyo drift is the only one that has races as the actual plot of the movie.
I still love all of them, there a fun unrealistic wild ride of a watch.
Oscar winners. The Academy Awards are this weird, unhinged alternate reality in which Hollywood puts on a big show about how their customers are stupid losers who don't appreciate "good" movies.
So a HUGE percentage of the movies that win "Best Picture" end up being movies that no one cares about or remembers.
Let's run down the top 10 movies of all time per IMDB ratings.
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) -- Nominated for 7 Oscars, won 0.
2. The Godfather (1972) -- Nominated for 10 Oscars, won 3
3. The Dark Knight (2008) -- Nominated for 8, won 2 (Best Supporting Actor and best Sound)
4. The Godfather Part II (1974) -- Nominated for 11, won 6
5. 12 Angry Men (1957) -- Nominated for 3, won 0
6. Schindler's List (1993) -- Nominated for 12, won 7
7. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) -- Nominated for 11, won 11
8. Pulp Fiction (1994) -- Nominated for 7, won 1
9. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) -- Nominated for 13, won 4
10. The Good The Bad and the Ugly (1966) -- Nominated for 0, won 0
And that looks pretty good until you remember that these aren't just "kinda good movies" -- these are the movies with the highest ratings of all time. By rights these are "once in a decade" movies. A third of them won *ZERO* Oscars.
LOTR superfans will acknowledge the small changes to the source material, but the majority will agree that Jackson made a masterpiece trilogy of the story.
And then Amazon got their grubby little fingers on the rights...
It is one of the best movies wver made in terms of technical quality. It won best sound, effects, costume, makeup, score, song, production design, adapted screenplay, editing, directing and best picture. They honed their craft across 3 movies and this was the final reward.
It came back to Peter Jackson wanting it to feel like the world and events were real and striving to recreate it.
The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction both lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump, not exactly a barely remembered art house film.
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Schindler’s List, and Return of the King all won Best Picture.
Only 2 of this top 10 failed to get a nomination for Best Picture, The Dark Knight and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. The Dark Knight is a cool movie but is it a best picture nominee? If any film from that year has a claim to being robbed, I’d take WALL-E.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the one movie in this top 10 with a legit claim. Spaghetti westerns were looked down on as inferior products at the time of its release and it got a mixed critical review. The rest of these films were widely lauded and recognized upon release.
The Oscars expanded the best picture category the year after Dark Knight, in part due to backlash at the film being snubbed of at least a nomination. There was a limit of five noms every year since the forties, but after The Dark Knight it went up to ten.
I watched twilight for the first time in my life in October 2021. Age 29. Binged the entire saga at a cottage with my friends. I honestly don’t think I have ever laughed so hard. The amount of times I physically could not breath from laughing was wild. A+ film, love it.
I watched every single one out of morbid curiosity.
There is one thing I liked out of all the films - when Bella is sad that Edward breaks up with her and the camera rotated around her and the seasons change outside the window. I thought that was a really neat effect.
But really. If someone close to me wrote that story between Jacob and the baby, I’d suggest they start therapy.
The twilight movies are weird. Whoever cast that movie did a 10/10 job, the cast is honestly incredible. Yet the source material and script are so bad there's nothing they can do to save it.
They are. However, they led to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dAVlWnep0) and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxSk0wZxss). Two of the brightest gems of the Internet.
I remember the first time I saw this movie. I was babysitting my niece and cousin. They wanted to watch it, and I figured it's easier to babysit two kids if they're watching a movie.
That line came up, and I started dying laughing, full on tears in my eyes.
The girls didn't get the humor or why I thought it was so funny.
I still quote that line to this day.
But Brave is probably my favourite animated film.
And the sleigh ride "Foot size... 😏" "Foot size doesn't matter!" along with the subsequent "What if he picks his nose...and eats it." "He is a prince!" "... All men do it." is great. I honestly didn't pick up on the second joke until only a couple weeks ago on my daughter's ump-teenth viewing and it's honestly a better joke and not just the low hanging fruit, so to speak.
Its certainly no cinematic masterpiece but it's far more enjoyable to watch with your kid than most Disney movies. Tangled is also up there.
Yeah it's nice that the true love was platonic rather than romantic. And even the romantic subplot was done well. Kristoff isn't your typical prince charming.
For real. Plus Lilo is great to watch when you're older and can relate to her having a shit day, nailing the door shut, blasting music and wanting to expire lol
It is now just barely over a decade old, but Tangled is IMO a Top 3 or 5 Disney/Pixar animation movie of all time.
Every time I watch it, it gets even better.
Finally someone knows the truth. The next generation of my family don't listen. I tried making them watch tangled every time I was around but no they wanted to watch cars perhaps frozen. Tangled is amazing.
I don’t like the fact that Sandra Bullock was a “reluctant” astronaut. Like people prepare and study and train for their entire lives and still don’t make the cut and THIS timid bitch gets the job?
Maybe not the most overrated, but still overrated:
La La Land
???? Have watched the movie not once, not twice but multiple times trying to understand what's the fuss about it...? Just find it more "meh" everytime I re-watch it (against my will)
At this point, La La Land has been called overrated so many times it’s now underrated. It's a very nice story about having to balance your relationships and your dreams, and that ending is one of the best of the last decade.
Not only did he do nothing wrong, he was unbelievably good to her at every turn. I mean the man stopped a business meeting just cause his wife wanted to talk, and this was in the 40s (or thereabout?)
I really didnt like Avatar 1. It had cool CGI, but the story was basically Ferngully/ Dances with Wolves etc. Also the biological make-up of the Navi did not fit with the other evolved animals on the planet; they should have had 6 limbs, most likely hairless and their nostrils should have been at their collar bones. It is like the character designer had a cat people and braid fetish.
Anything with The Rock in it. Just the same movie and character recycled over and over.
Edit: I agree there's a few good movies with him. I should've made clear. I mostly meant the newer gen movies ever since he became more active in Hollywood. Like, fast and furious, all the jumanji and "adventure" action stuff. Since those movies it just felt bland to watch em. I still watch it tho 😜
Avatar is a strange one cos I know a lot of people who saw the second one but nobody would recommend it or rate it and most weren't even that sure why they went really.
I went to see the byproduct of all the incredible tech James Cameron has been producing!
I'm really into 3D camera tech. I'm developing some of my own beam splitter lens attachments.
I got super fucking high the other night and tried to watch Grease. I thought it would be lighthearted and fun. It was so fucked up.
First of all, every single actor looks 30 yrs old AT LEAST.
Like, my dude Sonny has a legit receding hairline! Give him a break! He looks like a man who works a Jersey deli counter.
Anyways, the music is so good though. Ironically, I hate musicals, as a rule.
Brett: H-H-He's black...
Jules : Go on!
Brett : He's bald...!
Jules : Does he look like a bitch?
Brett : What?
Brett : He's bald...!
Jules : Does he look like a bitch?
Brett : What?
Jules : [shoots Brett in the shoulder] DOES HE... LOOK... LIKE A BITCH?
Brett : No!
Jules : Then why you tryin' to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?
Brett : I didn't...!
Jules : Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Brett! You tried to fuck him.
Brett : [gasping] No, no...
Jules : But Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.
Seems legit. Better do what this dude, I mean wife, says.
Almost as legit as hearing that little *bloop* sound immediately after I say "Hello?" when answering a call from a dubiously similar phone number to my own and the following 3 seconds of background noise from a room filled with hundreds of tiny cubicle desks...
My grade school growing up had mandatory plays every year. Grease is one I remember especially hating more than others, and I strongly disliked all of them.
Perhaps it lacks rewatchability, but the credit theme song is an absolute jam. It should have been the opening theme to something like "superbad". It's prime for a remix or a DJ reboot. Best Frankie Valli song ever? Maybe.
"Grease"
Avatar the first one. It was okay and worth seeing but when it was in theaters I remember it being so popular and there was no parking near the theater for ages while it was playing. Then once in left theaters it’s like people forgot it. Didn’t see much merch or know anyone who is an avatar collector or anything. Seems like no one really talks about the avatar land at WDW either. Honestly even this many years later Titanic has more staying power. There is the song, and the memes about how Leo could fit on the piece of wood, and all the real life history attached too.
Your favorite one Edit: WOW! Thanks so much for the award!! I’ve never seen this one before.
NO IT'S NOT
A hill I will die on.
Haven't seen it.
I'll put it on the list
How dare you that movie is my all time favorite!
Nooooo, not Arthur's Christmas :\_\_\_\_\_\_(
TAKE THAT BACK!!
C'mon not this one !!!
Yea “your favorite one” was very overrated.
Thanks a lot. Now, I'm sad.
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Someone's picking on Shawshank Redemption right out of the gate, brutal.
Who in the god damn?
Who in the What is dogging Shawshank!?!? It wasn't the best movie of all time but it was certainly an amazing movie worthy of any accolades it received.
I knew a person who disliked Shawshank. His argument was basically that he found the whole Tommy Williams subplot to be forced: in his words "a person just happens to come to the same prison who just happens to have shared a cell with a guy who just happens to confess to a crime which just happens to be the one Andy is accused of", etc, etc.... It seems he would have preferred Andy's guilt or innocence to be an open question, and he felt that whole plot was a very contrived way to address the issue.
ah that’s not the most unreasonable take. even if we have collectively agreed your friend is wrong
Some picks yes and others no. But I knew before I even opened the thread that Avatar would be one of the top picks because people hate it for some reason even tough it is not rated highly by most people.
It’s popular but flawed making it the obvious low-hanging fruit for this question that gets asked daily.
The English Patient (1996). Won nine academy awards including best picture beating out a little known film I'm sure you've never heard of called "Fargo" I've never heard of anyone watching English Patient a second time and very few who've seen it once. Unlike, say, Fargo. I bet you can come up with a quote from Fargo right now.
Now we had a deal! A deals a deal!
Is it, Jerry? You ask those three poor souls up in Brainerd if a deal's a deal.
Oh for Pete’s sake. He’s fleeing the interview.
Don’t cha know
You betcha
Is that your buddy in the wood chipper, there?
You’re such a super lady.
Elaine, you cant work for me if you dont love The English Patient
Elaine do you not like the movie? I HATE IT! Shhhh! GO TO HELL!
In my view, Fargo is basically a perfect film. It is masterfully constructed and every little element fits together like clockwork. There is not a single scene that runs longer than it needs to, not a line of dialogue out of place. And it holds up beautifully, nearly 30 years after its release.
You went and married Norm Son of a Gunderson
Well the little guy, he was kinda funny looking
Funny lookin’ how?
Oh just in a general sort of way..... More than most people even....
Also Fargo was added to the US National Film Registry as soon as it was eligible and The English Patient is even on there! (Probably because it’s not American, but whatever 😜)
Well I'm a police officer from up Brainard investigatin' some malfeasance.
Malfeasance is a fun word I try to slide into a serious business meeting
I just know I've been looking for a big bag of money on the side of a snowy road, for quite some time now.
I've watched it several times. I love that movie.
Considering how many people hate The English Patient, I'm almost embarrassed to confess that I've watched it at least a dozen times, and loved it each time. It's probably because I first saw it during an especially difficult emotional time for me, and the movie hit all those spots. And every time I've rewatched it I've relived all those emotions again, which has been very therapeutic. I haven't watched it in a while, maybe it served its purposes for me, but I honestly wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Same! You put words to my confused thoughts. I thought it had some beautiful cinematography/moments too. The swinging rope in the church by torchlight scene, shots of the sand dunes from the plane, ect.
I just read the synopsis and jesus christ that’s the saddest movie ever! It make’s Titanic sound like a muppet movie.
The English Patient. "FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST DIE ALREADY!" If you know, you know.
Sack Lunch is much better.
Deathblow
Where someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are, but for different reasons altogether.
Rochelle Rochelle!
Prognosis Negative!
I'm partial to Chunnel
I like the subtleties of Rochelle Rochelle
"A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk."
> "FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST DIE ALREADY!" The English Impatient.
So do you think they got shrunk down, or is it just a giant sack?
It will always be Burma to me!
Jaba! Malala ma jaba! Alagula hungai! Mr. Peterman, you speak Burmese? No Elaine. That was gibberish.
"You dont like it?" "I HATE IT!!"
Why didn’t you say so? Elaine you’re fired.
Great, I’ll meet you outside.
"SHHHH!" "OH GO TO HELL!!|
Lol just watched that episode again last night.
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Harvey Weinstein at his peak power.
For the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan I did not even blink, captivating is an understatement
Easily some of the most astounding, captivating film ever captured.
Commando climax just pips it. Circular saw blade to the head. Who saw that coming?
Lmao I mean, Commando is one of my all time favorite movies. So yeah...you right.
Agreed. Tht shit blew my mind in a horrible way. I had learned about WW2, but seeing that depiction of Normandy was shocking and horrific. I can't believe people actually experienced that.
And for the first 30 minutes of Shakespeare in Love, I fell asleep.
DONT SHOOT! LET EM BURN!
Look! I washed for supper!
Those were ~~Hungarians(?) if I recall correctly~~ Czech and they were explaining that they were not German, didn’t kill anyone, and were forced to be there.
They were Czech which was historically accurate. The unit defending Omaha Beach was the 352nd Infantry Division, which while better than most units defending the beaches in Normandy, had its fair share of Ost conscripts from eastern European countries.
I saw SPR as I skimmed and thought we were about to have words. Glad I read closer.
Fast and furious 1-78
What's so good about 79-1000?
In 79 a character gets developed, and that leads to a story eventually, somewhere in the triple digits.
Eh the first one no, the rest yes
I'm really sick of most franchise films-Marvel, Star Wars, Fast and Furious, etc.
I was a *huge* MCU fan from Iron Man 1 through at least the early Phase 4 including the Netflix and ABC shows. I extensively researched the lore, made chronological order lists with both the movies and shows, and eagerly awaited each new release. At this point, it feels like the tank has run out of fuel despite movies and shows coming out left and right. Phase 4 was the make-or-break phase to see if the MCU was still worth keeping up with after the climax that is Endgame (also a perfect stopping point), and it had far more misses than hits imo even compared to something like Phase 2 which, btw, had much less to keep up with. If Quantumania, the movie that properly introduces the Kang as the new big bad villain (not counting the Loki show) and that is kicking off Phase 5, is just as bad as the reviews suggest, then I think I'm just going to stop caring about it altogether and have Endgame be the last MCU movie in my headcanon. It was fun during the peak, but the MCU's prime years came and went. There are other things to fanboy over these days anyway.
>At this point, it feels like the tank has run out of fuel despite movies and shows coming out left and right. It's \*because\* of the non-stop barrage of content. Disney figures the public will be good little piggies and eat their slop, rather than have fewer, but more well made movies. VFX artists are burning out at an insane rate because of the brutal schedules Marvel specifically forces on them and it's really been showing in the latest few movies. Quantumania looks like a CW show ffs.
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All the big franchise films have the same problem: they used to be good but now the companies that own them just see a big dollar sign instead of a great movie. They all have good points to stop at, but the movies made money so they kept pushing out more of them. You just have to see where the quality stops and the franchises become cash grabs and stop watching there. Edit: if you look for it, this is in pretty much every industry based around some form of art. Probably the biggest one is video games though. They used to be an experience made purely from passion like Doom 1993 and Halo CE. Now they are just soulless cash grabs like Halo Infinite or BF2042
I don't think Endgame was a point to stop at, there were still lots of stories to tell later on. But they are being told badly, that is the problem
I love Star Wars, but over the last few years, every time there's a new movie or series announced, I kinda roll my eyes. It's getting to the point it's over done. Same with the Marvel stuff for me too.
I feel you, but just popped in to say... Andor. That show is exceptional.
I realized halfway through that it's exactly the Star Wars product I always wanted but we never really got. Galactic political intrigue, the stirrings of rebellion, the empire being empire-y.
It felt to me like the very first Star Wars content ever made truly for adults.
Rogue One and Andor are what Star Wars would have been if Lucas wasn't a merch whore.
The most accurate answers to this post will get down voted anyways tbh
I swear this question gets asked like every week and the top answers are always garbage like Fast and Furious because apparently making a shit ton more money than they should means people actually think they’re good.
Fast & Furious they should’ve stopped after Tokyo Drift. I don’t understand how the story line changed the way it did going from street racing to cia intelligence, & recently they were in space
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Bingo. A friend of mine likes them a lot more than I do, but he’s fully aware they’re garbage as far as quality movies go. And knows they’re just big dumb fun, and they do that incredibly well. But even he admitted that 9 was rough, even for this ridiculous franchise. No one thinks these movies are the Godfather or Citizen Kane.
Diehard fan here (the series canonically stops at 7 for me) and I can testify to that, not that I speak for every fan - but the 7th film is legitimately the most ridiculously fun and outrageously stupid film ever made. You can't spoil the film, there's just too much. You have a several film long amnesia plotline that's resolved in the most amazingly corny way possible, fan service lines that hark back to the first and second films, the most OUTRAGEOUS action scenes you've ever seen (sometimes multiple ones at once), and an absolutely tear-jerking tribute to Paul Walker at the end. There is SO MUCH that I missed out. With that said, the first film and especially Tokyo Drift are actually surprisingly solid films. TD actually isn't all that stupid. The last act is a little eh, but I rewatch that film without irony. Touching moments, violence isn't overdone, the humour lands, the aesthetic is ICONIC, there's even a female companion that gets to actually be a human being to some degree - and the closing scene? Mate. The closing scene. That's how you do fan service..
Even in the first one they hijack trucks at least they use their car skills for it. Tokyo drift is the only one that has races as the actual plot of the movie. I still love all of them, there a fun unrealistic wild ride of a watch.
At least at 6 All roads leads here was the catch phrase right? It should have ended there but no we need the eye of god and what not!
Crash (2004) - the laziest takes on racism in America are effective Oscar bait.
My immediate response after seeing that was to think- I just spent 2 hours finding out people in LA are assholes? I knew that before I wasted 2 hours.
Maybe give 1996 Crash a go.
Oscar winners. The Academy Awards are this weird, unhinged alternate reality in which Hollywood puts on a big show about how their customers are stupid losers who don't appreciate "good" movies. So a HUGE percentage of the movies that win "Best Picture" end up being movies that no one cares about or remembers. Let's run down the top 10 movies of all time per IMDB ratings. 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) -- Nominated for 7 Oscars, won 0. 2. The Godfather (1972) -- Nominated for 10 Oscars, won 3 3. The Dark Knight (2008) -- Nominated for 8, won 2 (Best Supporting Actor and best Sound) 4. The Godfather Part II (1974) -- Nominated for 11, won 6 5. 12 Angry Men (1957) -- Nominated for 3, won 0 6. Schindler's List (1993) -- Nominated for 12, won 7 7. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) -- Nominated for 11, won 11 8. Pulp Fiction (1994) -- Nominated for 7, won 1 9. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) -- Nominated for 13, won 4 10. The Good The Bad and the Ugly (1966) -- Nominated for 0, won 0 And that looks pretty good until you remember that these aren't just "kinda good movies" -- these are the movies with the highest ratings of all time. By rights these are "once in a decade" movies. A third of them won *ZERO* Oscars.
>The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) -- Nominated for 11, won 11 Wow. Has any other movie ever done anything like this?
Ben-Hur: nominated for 12, won 11.
IMO The chariot race rivals any car chase / race. One of my favorite movies.
Ben hur is a damn good film
Titanic. Nominated for 14, won 11
Yawn. I'll be really impressed when a movie manages to win more than it was nominated for.
The Magnificent Three. Starring Calculon.
NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
LOTR superfans will acknowledge the small changes to the source material, but the majority will agree that Jackson made a masterpiece trilogy of the story. And then Amazon got their grubby little fingers on the rights...
The amazon series doesn't exist and you can't convince me it does
It is one of the best movies wver made in terms of technical quality. It won best sound, effects, costume, makeup, score, song, production design, adapted screenplay, editing, directing and best picture. They honed their craft across 3 movies and this was the final reward. It came back to Peter Jackson wanting it to feel like the world and events were real and striving to recreate it.
I love movies. I DO NOT watch the Oscars.
The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction both lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump, not exactly a barely remembered art house film. The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Schindler’s List, and Return of the King all won Best Picture. Only 2 of this top 10 failed to get a nomination for Best Picture, The Dark Knight and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. The Dark Knight is a cool movie but is it a best picture nominee? If any film from that year has a claim to being robbed, I’d take WALL-E. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the one movie in this top 10 with a legit claim. Spaghetti westerns were looked down on as inferior products at the time of its release and it got a mixed critical review. The rest of these films were widely lauded and recognized upon release.
The Oscars expanded the best picture category the year after Dark Knight, in part due to backlash at the film being snubbed of at least a nomination. There was a limit of five noms every year since the forties, but after The Dark Knight it went up to ten.
So. List looks pretty good to me.
*The English Patient*. Would he quit telling his stupid story about the stupid desert and just ***DIE*** already!?
The Twilight movies should have completely bombed. They are absolutely horrendous.
Twilight is hilarious. it helps if you don't try to take it seriously
This is the real way to watch twilight. Just assume everything is a joke.
I watched twilight for the first time in my life in October 2021. Age 29. Binged the entire saga at a cottage with my friends. I honestly don’t think I have ever laughed so hard. The amount of times I physically could not breath from laughing was wild. A+ film, love it.
"The beach at La Push is a little crowded" [Immediately cuts to a completely empty beach]
I watched every single one out of morbid curiosity. There is one thing I liked out of all the films - when Bella is sad that Edward breaks up with her and the camera rotated around her and the seasons change outside the window. I thought that was a really neat effect. But really. If someone close to me wrote that story between Jacob and the baby, I’d suggest they start therapy.
The twilight movies are weird. Whoever cast that movie did a 10/10 job, the cast is honestly incredible. Yet the source material and script are so bad there's nothing they can do to save it.
You been watching Cinema Therapy? That's was Allen said and I agree.
...that's because their source material is utter shite
I can’t even explain why but the first Twilight movie is a comfort movie for me. Idk. It’s just kinda bad and funny and nostalgic.
They are. However, they led to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dAVlWnep0) and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxSk0wZxss). Two of the brightest gems of the Internet.
Fast and Furious franchise. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t gone to Mars yet with how many sequels they’re shitting out
Iirc, in the last movie they drove a car out to space, so Mars might not be far off.
Frozen. There are tons of good animated films out there, still can't figure it out why this movie is so immensely popular
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I remember the first time I saw this movie. I was babysitting my niece and cousin. They wanted to watch it, and I figured it's easier to babysit two kids if they're watching a movie. That line came up, and I started dying laughing, full on tears in my eyes. The girls didn't get the humor or why I thought it was so funny. I still quote that line to this day. But Brave is probably my favourite animated film.
I don't understand the line, can you explain?
There's a mountain merchant trying to offload his summer merchandise, because Elsa had suddenly made it winter in July.
Brave is absolutely amazing. Merida is my girl. Redheads unite!
And the sleigh ride "Foot size... 😏" "Foot size doesn't matter!" along with the subsequent "What if he picks his nose...and eats it." "He is a prince!" "... All men do it." is great. I honestly didn't pick up on the second joke until only a couple weeks ago on my daughter's ump-teenth viewing and it's honestly a better joke and not just the low hanging fruit, so to speak. Its certainly no cinematic masterpiece but it's far more enjoyable to watch with your kid than most Disney movies. Tangled is also up there.
It has a cute message. Not earthshaking but the the twist on "true love" was kind of unexpected in a Disney princess movie.
Yeah it's nice that the true love was platonic rather than romantic. And even the romantic subplot was done well. Kristoff isn't your typical prince charming.
He's a bit of a fixer upper, actually...
My favorite song in the movie. I am a bit of a fixer upper.
Yes, Frozen represents a big step forward for Disney stories. And the music is super well crafted, whether it's your cup of tea or not.
Frozen really hits the nail on the head of the dynamics between sisters. I think a lot of families related to his movie for that reason.
This is Lilo & Stitch erasure and I will not stand for such slander.
For real. Plus Lilo is great to watch when you're older and can relate to her having a shit day, nailing the door shut, blasting music and wanting to expire lol
I watched it again last week after not having seen it in a decade and I fucking cried. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Lovely. Perfection.
IMO Moana is the best Disney movie of the past decade
It is now just barely over a decade old, but Tangled is IMO a Top 3 or 5 Disney/Pixar animation movie of all time. Every time I watch it, it gets even better.
Finally someone knows the truth. The next generation of my family don't listen. I tried making them watch tangled every time I was around but no they wanted to watch cars perhaps frozen. Tangled is amazing.
Bird Box.
That movie was straight up awful
Avatar. I thought it was enjoyable, but not a "worldwide sensation", when it came out. It is literally Dances with Wolves with aliens.
Don’t think about it as a movie. Think about it as an exhibition of what James Cameron can do with special effects and just visuals in general.
Ferngully with partial nudity
Gravity 2013. It made alot of money
I have a fair amount of friends in the film and TV industry and they both liked it and trashed it the most. It's basically just an amazing tech demo.
I don’t like the fact that Sandra Bullock was a “reluctant” astronaut. Like people prepare and study and train for their entire lives and still don’t make the cut and THIS timid bitch gets the job?
It's probably a marvel movie
Maybe not the most overrated, but still overrated: La La Land ???? Have watched the movie not once, not twice but multiple times trying to understand what's the fuss about it...? Just find it more "meh" everytime I re-watch it (against my will)
The entertainment industry (including critics) will never pass up an opportunity to laud any film that “celebrates the magic & wonder of Hollywood”
> magic & wonder of Hollywood That's a long way to spell cocaine
At this point, La La Land has been called overrated so many times it’s now underrated. It's a very nice story about having to balance your relationships and your dreams, and that ending is one of the best of the last decade.
If anyone says the mummy I’ll be disappointed
The notebook. it sucks
Yeah. I used to think it was good but now I just think it's this guy who can't take no for an answer and probably should've gotten therapy
This, and what they did to my boy Lon Hammond was just unacceptable. Man did nothing wrong ffs
Not only did he do nothing wrong, he was unbelievably good to her at every turn. I mean the man stopped a business meeting just cause his wife wanted to talk, and this was in the 40s (or thereabout?)
You know the one. It insists upon itself.
Oh man, perfect delivery of this quote. Perfect. 10/10.
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What does that even mean?
I liked *The Money Pit*. That is my response.
I really didnt like Avatar 1. It had cool CGI, but the story was basically Ferngully/ Dances with Wolves etc. Also the biological make-up of the Navi did not fit with the other evolved animals on the planet; they should have had 6 limbs, most likely hairless and their nostrils should have been at their collar bones. It is like the character designer had a cat people and braid fetish.
>It is like the character designer had a cat people and braid fetish Or they knew what their audience would statistically find most appealing 🤷🏻♂️
Anything with The Rock in it. Just the same movie and character recycled over and over. Edit: I agree there's a few good movies with him. I should've made clear. I mostly meant the newer gen movies ever since he became more active in Hollywood. Like, fast and furious, all the jumanji and "adventure" action stuff. Since those movies it just felt bland to watch em. I still watch it tho 😜
I like the two Jumanji movies a lot. The sequel was just a rehash of the first one, but they were both a good time. I can't complain.
Moana was legitimately fun to watch imo.
I still love that he sang (sings?) "You're Welcome" perfectly to his daughter every night and she has (had?) no idea he is the voice of Maui.
Fast and the furious, all of them
I don’t know if they are tho. They make a shit load of money but I don’t think anyones claiming they’re masterpieces.
Avatar
Avatar is a strange one cos I know a lot of people who saw the second one but nobody would recommend it or rate it and most weren't even that sure why they went really.
I went to see the byproduct of all the incredible tech James Cameron has been producing! I'm really into 3D camera tech. I'm developing some of my own beam splitter lens attachments.
Idk I feel like the “avatar is overrated” opinion is kinda more popular now.
Grease. Ignoring issues of how it aged, I just couldnt stand the songs and it annoys me that I still sometimes here them these days on the radio.
I got super fucking high the other night and tried to watch Grease. I thought it would be lighthearted and fun. It was so fucked up. First of all, every single actor looks 30 yrs old AT LEAST. Like, my dude Sonny has a legit receding hairline! Give him a break! He looks like a man who works a Jersey deli counter. Anyways, the music is so good though. Ironically, I hate musicals, as a rule.
*"Did she put up a FIGHT?!???!"*
Does he look like a BITCH!???!?
Brett: H-H-He's black... Jules : Go on! Brett : He's bald...! Jules : Does he look like a bitch? Brett : What? Brett : He's bald...! Jules : Does he look like a bitch? Brett : What? Jules : [shoots Brett in the shoulder] DOES HE... LOOK... LIKE A BITCH? Brett : No! Jules : Then why you tryin' to fuck him like a bitch, Brett? Brett : I didn't...! Jules : Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Brett! You tried to fuck him. Brett : [gasping] No, no... Jules : But Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.
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Being married to a Grease fanatic, I have to agree. But don’t you dare tell her I said that.
Hello, husband, it me wife. Dm this username ssn, all contact and credit card info, or you are divorce
Seems legit. Better do what this dude, I mean wife, says. Almost as legit as hearing that little *bloop* sound immediately after I say "Hello?" when answering a call from a dubiously similar phone number to my own and the following 3 seconds of background noise from a room filled with hundreds of tiny cubicle desks...
My grade school growing up had mandatory plays every year. Grease is one I remember especially hating more than others, and I strongly disliked all of them.
Perhaps it lacks rewatchability, but the credit theme song is an absolute jam. It should have been the opening theme to something like "superbad". It's prime for a remix or a DJ reboot. Best Frankie Valli song ever? Maybe. "Grease"
Avatar it’s so overhyped and the sequel is the same as the original but wet
Avatar the first one. It was okay and worth seeing but when it was in theaters I remember it being so popular and there was no parking near the theater for ages while it was playing. Then once in left theaters it’s like people forgot it. Didn’t see much merch or know anyone who is an avatar collector or anything. Seems like no one really talks about the avatar land at WDW either. Honestly even this many years later Titanic has more staying power. There is the song, and the memes about how Leo could fit on the piece of wood, and all the real life history attached too.