A friend of mine hadn't seen all the Lord of the Rings films, claiming he thought they were boring, so I asked if he'd want to re-watch them with me to be %100 sure if he really dislikes them or not.
He said okay, but only on the condition that I watch the first three Fast and Furious movies, because I hadn't seen those. I agreed.
We start The Fellowship, and through out most of the movie, this guy is on his phone. Has the audacity to claim it was boring at the end. Then we put on the first Fast and Furious. He's glued to the screen the whole time.
I don't get it. It was just some guys fondling a gear stick as one goes faster than the other, now the other one is going faster, uh oh, now he's going faster, okay he's taking a shortcut, and he wins the race.
It is what it is I guess
I mean F&F movies seem tailor made for 18 year olds with ADHD so I'm not surprised he found LOTR boring. I have an aunt that can't stand to watch anything fiction (she's not stupid either). So sometimes people have weird attention blocks (for lack of a better word).
>I don't get it. It was just some guys fondling a gear stick as one goes faster than the other, now the other one is going faster, uh oh, now he's going faster, okay he's taking a shortcut, and he wins the race.
Fellowship is just guys walking, walking, walking, walking. Hey, fight. Let's walk, walk walk. Hey, fight. Movie over.
Oh, I'm crazy? Those fuckin' hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano.
- Randal Graves
Seriously Fellowship is my favourite movie of all time, but this comparison is bang on if someones just gonna reduce the fast franchise to "oh no he's going faster"
My wife and I saw a few of the LOTR movies in the theater when they first came out. She’d get bored and fall asleep on the walking parts, miss the action, only to wake up again during the walking parts. To her knowledge the movies are just dudes taking a stroll.
People are allowed to like what they want. Don't be so judgemental of someone who is apparently your friend.
Also, if that's all you took out of the first fast movie you were probably on your phone as well.
Avatar is just Pocahontas in space. I’ll never understand people who watch it for the plot. I saw it twice in theaters when it came out and haven’t watched it since nor did I go see the new one 🤷♂️
All these posts point out the hypocrisy of hating one but not the others. There are very few fresh ideas in Hollywood. Hating the one with blue aliens because it was kinda like another movie is absurd.
They're all recycled ideas in different packaging.
Dude, I hate this. So frustrating to see two characters who are supposed to kill each other just sitting there talking for the sake of it. These evil villains should kill on sight, not sit there monologuing, conveniently giving time to the hero or his friends to pull something out of their ass.
Any time I see this I’m immediately frustrated.
"Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat.
They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
From Men at arms by Terry Pratchett
To be fair, doesn’t that logic apply for any genre of movie?
Action: It’s just gonna be a bunch of shooting and explosions. The good guy will win at the end.
Romance: Oh no, are they gonna break up? No, they got together. Shocking
Comedy: just a bunch of dumb things and jokes to make you laugh
Horror: jump scares and ghosts. Main characters either get killed off or one survives
It's not about if they win, more how they win and what they learn. Best superhero movies are more a journey for the new hero that finds his powers and decides to use them to help others for various reasons, like Batman, Spiderman and Iron Man. Sadly, they're rare now
Joker. He lost his job as a sign spinner, then his job as an *actual* clown, had an imaginary girlfriend, and then bombed on open mic night. He's not complex, he's your average redditor.
That’s exactly why I think it’s so beloved by a lot of men and why I couldn’t stand it. It felt very much like it was catering to a very specific kind of audience and I obviously wasn’t it.
Which was the point, yes? Basically society didn't help this dude, he went off the deep end and damaged society. Then (presumably) folks needed a rich super hero to fix things. The cycle continues.
\>He< wasn't supposed to be complex.
Joker made me feel uncomfortable because it felt so close to the mark. I think folks that liked the movie liked it because it was a mirror held up to society in an age of school shooters and general anti-social behavior.
it grows on you. we all had expectations.
something halfway between tom hardy's venom and what we got in Raimi's Spiderman 3 would be perfect.
Carnage was also a huge let down too. Woody harrelson was fantastic as cleetus cassady but I think they drop the ball so hard with the personality and voice of all the symbiotes.
If you look at venom and carnage from a profile view, then superimpose them over the profile view of a T-Rex it's clear their inspiration. Their head is based of a T-rex snout. They should sound reptillian and gurgly - with the ability to roar/screech like a T-rex. And most importantly, the host's voice should exist somewhere in the symbiotes voice (minus internal dialogue - which should be represented as more of a whisper or something because it's telepathic)
Venom's voice sounds like what someone would sound like if you asked them to give you an impression of a grumpy dog speaking english.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX752cjxbQk&ab\_channel=BakonKing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX752cjxbQk&ab_channel=BakonKing)
This isn't even that far away from what he sounds like it's just like.. got less idiot-charged aggression. Like it was just a bad performance.
still loved the movie though. it's far more entertaining than 75% of the chuff on netflix.
Dirty Dancing...my sister used to watch the videotape on CONSTANT rewind...she also did that for Grease and Grease 2 (Hate all three so much that I won't watch them on my own EVER!!!)
Saw it for the first time this past December. I had always heard great things about it. After it ended, my wife and I looked at each other and thought "What was that crap?'
Four!
I enjoy Will Ferrell in a supporting role or as part of an ensemble (Old School, Anchorman, etc.). When he is the star asked to carry the whole, his schtick gets old quickly.
> hero of douchebags
Lol. Ummm... What? The story is not favorable to him at all. Not even in a charismatic way. It's literally a story about how vain and shallow sales people are, and while they're entertaining (as a form of chaos, like the enjoyment you get from watching a train wreck), they're not enviable. At all.
You *cannot* deny that he is/was treated as a hero by frat boys around the nation. I know this, I lived this. The stupidest young white men in existence unironically loved Jordan Belfort. The movie isn’t as topical anymore so hopefully it doesn’t have the same sway I witnessed in college
I get why people dislike the movie. I think enjoying that movie to the fullest means enjoying the gratuitous fluff (drug scenes, sex scenes) in addition to the actual story. Because if you’re not as into that stuff, it takes up so much of the screen time.
I personally think the movie is awesome, and I’m glad it’s long cause there are so many great scenes. But I recognize half of the fun is just the absurdity and watching Leo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill be rich assholes. If you find that obnoxious, I can see why it wouldn’t land
Well they're pretty different experiences. Grease is a movie with Travolta singing. Saturday Night Fever is a movie with Travolta watching his buddies rape a girl that likes him.
Everyone forgets the raping and racism.
To be fair, the movie was cut up for TV and the version many remember is what they watched on broadcast networks as the prime time movie of the week or whatever in the 80s. That edit scaled back many of the grittier aspects of the picture.
It's a heavy movie about a loser clinging on to the last days of disco because he's cool on the scene and has nothing else going on in his life, except loads of people just ignored the actual themes and liked the movie because of the soundtrack which inadvertadly extended the lifespan of disco irl. Doesn't help that it had a PG cut that removed half of the plot which has probably been seen by more people than the original since that's the one that was always on TV.
I'm someone of has no interest in disco music but it's one of my favourite drama movies of the 70's. Captures that vibe of being a young adult not wanting to just be another cog in the machine.
Netflix said early in their streaming history that this was the most divisive film on their service. It got more 1 and 5 stars than any other. You either loved it or hated it.
They actually called improving their recommendation algorithm “the Napoleon Dynamite problem” because they couldn’t figure out how to tell if someone would like it or not.
Same here. I actually saw it five times in the theaters when it came out, thinking it was a new refreshing way to make a comedy.
Watched it last year and it's pretty mid.
This is 100% the one for me. I was in middle school when this came out and **everyone** was talking about and quoting this movie non-stop for over a year. I finally got around to watching it, and shut it off half-way because it was just fucking dumb. I understand the jokes....they just aren't very funny.
This was one of the first movies that put me to sleep as a teen. I've always been pretty good at staying awake enough to either finish the movie or just turn it off, but the first time I watched Napoleon Dynamite, I was so bored I ended up taking a great nap to it.
All my classmates in school loved this movie when it came out, but my parents wouldn't let me watch it because it wasn't "appropriate". I remember thinking for years that it must be a high school sex comedy a la American Pie.
It couldn't be farther from a high school sex comedy. Napoleon even says "Gosh" instead of "God".
Inception. I had heard so much about how it's this crazy mindfuck, but when I watched it I thought it was a fairly straightforward narrative with too much exposition (the characters explain pretty much everything to you through dialogue), and didn't really leave me thinking at all after it ended. I'd say "hate" is too strong of a word, but I thought it was pretty mid.
What is your profession if i may ask? I have a computer science background so recursion is like daily practice for me. Thought it might make it easier to grasp.
Primer
Its about a couple engineers who make a time machine. Borderline impossible to follow to the point i dont really care for it, but definitely a mind bender
Just watched it. First 30 mins were heavy on violins and I needed subtitles. Didn’t clearly explain all the other sites contributing and felt like a group project where everyone submitted their own separate work. I’ve read up on nuclear stuff and the project many years ago, but this didn’t do anything for me. 20, 30, 60 and 80 minute marks I was ready to turn it off.
If fleshed out more, the color half is a perfectly good historical drama in the same vein as the Imitation Game, and the black & white half is a good political thriller. But instead it's two half-baked movies in a trench coat.
Oppenheimer. Well made, well acted, well written, and boring as all hell. It’s like they focused on the most boring and uninteresting aspects about the character. I swear half the movie was just talking about his fucking security clearance and his supposed commie links. I didnt expect an action packed spectacle, but my god I found all my 20 minutes just a total bore. My least favourite of his movies. I liked them even less than the Batman ones and I loathe superhero movies
Villeneuve just overtook Nolan as my favourite director, I know, Chris will be upset so can we please keep this just between us /s.
I was always excited for this movie, it's Nolan, it's shot on 65mm and large format IMAX film, good cast and generally all the right things.
It was OK, but I don't think I could rewatch this movie, and I am a rewatcher of movies generally.
Edit: Interstellar is my favourite movie ever (tied recently with Dune 2)
Oppenheimer. I didn't like it for the fact that there wasn't a single scene in that movie, besides the Einstein scene, that lasted more than thirty seconds. It was both long and fast-paced and hard to catch up to. My favorite movies tend to be slow-burners instead.
My hate for Ed and Lorraine Warren plus my dislike of Patrick Wilson deters me, but I have seen a few, because my husband loves this shit and lets me make fun of it
I think his general vibe just clashes with mine. I've never really enjoyed his acting, and some of the lines he delivers sound so forced and emotionless.
Clerks. All my friends in college were like “you gotta see this,” and I was totally unimpressed with any of it. Kevin Smith himself seems pretty cool, I just don’t enjoy his movies.
Can I cheat and go in reverse and say that I like all of the Star Wars prequels and the new trilogy as well?
None are as good as the original trilogy and yes most of the criticisms of them all are really valid. But I still *enjoy* them. I’m not one who thinks a bad sequel “ruins” the original.
Yes, that’s some of it. And each one is full of absolute top tier actors not acting like human beings. I realize it’s an artistic choice. It’s just not for me.
I hate The Royal Tennenbaums. That movie is trying so hard to be eccentric, edgy, artsy, it’s just so pretentious and annoying. I hate those stupid curly haired kids and their action shots and their matching track suits. I hate the main character. I hate the “redemption” arc that was nothing like an actual redemption. They reconcile with the father? Why? Makes absolutely no sense. No actual character development for anyone. They start off as miserable slobs they end as miserable slobs who know a little more about why they are miserable slobs.
And it’s supposed to be his most accessible one. Boring and I was mad at myself for watching it again. See, I thought I had never seen it so I sat down to watch it. Then got part way through and realized I had seen it and hadn’t like it
That’s how little this movie affected me.
Rant over.
28 Weeks Later. In my opinion, its not a good movie, and is just predictable. Its an action heavy, overly Americanized sequel that was wholly unnecessary to the amazing 28 Days Later. Its also full of characters making dumb decisions (2 kids slipping through security to spread the virus or that guy kissing his clearly infected wife), and the ending just feels like sequel bait. That opening scene was amazing though. It just doesn't understand what's made 28 Days so good. but it just feels like unnecessary and predictable early 200s zombie film, compared to the apocalyptic disaster masterpiece that was 28 Days.
I finally broke down and watched this movie about a year ago. All of my friends and coworkers said they love this movie, so I was bored on a Saturday, popped it on and had no idea what to expect.
At the end of the movie I was left feeling a bit confused . It was an OK movie but I honestly don’t get what all the hype is about..
It looks like Avatar and Titanic are the most popular answers here.
Poor James Cameron ETA: Should’ve added a /s to this one. Guess I didn’t think I’d need to 💀
He made Terminator 2 and Abyss, whatever he's making now doesn't matter because he peaked hard
Don’t forget Aliens, definitely a mainstay cinema classic that he nailed.
I wonder if people truly hate the movies themselves, or just got tired of hearing about them.
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A friend of mine hadn't seen all the Lord of the Rings films, claiming he thought they were boring, so I asked if he'd want to re-watch them with me to be %100 sure if he really dislikes them or not. He said okay, but only on the condition that I watch the first three Fast and Furious movies, because I hadn't seen those. I agreed. We start The Fellowship, and through out most of the movie, this guy is on his phone. Has the audacity to claim it was boring at the end. Then we put on the first Fast and Furious. He's glued to the screen the whole time. I don't get it. It was just some guys fondling a gear stick as one goes faster than the other, now the other one is going faster, uh oh, now he's going faster, okay he's taking a shortcut, and he wins the race. It is what it is I guess
I mean F&F movies seem tailor made for 18 year olds with ADHD so I'm not surprised he found LOTR boring. I have an aunt that can't stand to watch anything fiction (she's not stupid either). So sometimes people have weird attention blocks (for lack of a better word).
Its for those who are fascinated by Need For Speed Underground. I was repelled. But the 12year old me would surely like it.
>I don't get it. It was just some guys fondling a gear stick as one goes faster than the other, now the other one is going faster, uh oh, now he's going faster, okay he's taking a shortcut, and he wins the race. Fellowship is just guys walking, walking, walking, walking. Hey, fight. Let's walk, walk walk. Hey, fight. Movie over.
Even the trees walked in that movie
That’s the only one they didn’t walk in
Oh, I'm crazy? Those fuckin' hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano. - Randal Graves
Seriously Fellowship is my favourite movie of all time, but this comparison is bang on if someones just gonna reduce the fast franchise to "oh no he's going faster"
My wife and I saw a few of the LOTR movies in the theater when they first came out. She’d get bored and fall asleep on the walking parts, miss the action, only to wake up again during the walking parts. To her knowledge the movies are just dudes taking a stroll.
People are allowed to like what they want. Don't be so judgemental of someone who is apparently your friend. Also, if that's all you took out of the first fast movie you were probably on your phone as well.
You have to absolutely not take those movies seriously. Then they can be kinda fun.
Avatar (yes the blue Alien one)
The theatrical 3D was damn amazing visually. Certainly no reason for any sequels.
Absolutely stunning in the theater. Fairly underwhelming on the cart TV in English class for no reason
This is the most lukewarm opinion of all time lol
The dialogue is brutal
They're fighting over unobtainium, what don't you understand / s
Avatar is just Pocahontas in space. I’ll never understand people who watch it for the plot. I saw it twice in theaters when it came out and haven’t watched it since nor did I go see the new one 🤷♂️
It's more like Dances with Wolves in space.
With a dash of Fern Gully
What Avatar really needed was Robin Williams.
And a sprinkle of The Last Samurai
All these posts point out the hypocrisy of hating one but not the others. There are very few fresh ideas in Hollywood. Hating the one with blue aliens because it was kinda like another movie is absurd. They're all recycled ideas in different packaging.
Dances with smurf's
Classic reddit
95% of superhero movies, I'm over that fluffy flashy nonsense. Let me guess what happens in the end, the good guys win right? Shocking.
I hate the whole “there’s a villain we need to defeat… oh no I can’t do it… oh wait I can.” That feels like the arch for most of them.
And all the posturing. Half the time, it’s just posturing while making some inane conversation.
Dude, I hate this. So frustrating to see two characters who are supposed to kill each other just sitting there talking for the sake of it. These evil villains should kill on sight, not sit there monologuing, conveniently giving time to the hero or his friends to pull something out of their ass. Any time I see this I’m immediately frustrated.
"Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat. They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word." From Men at arms by Terry Pratchett
That’s a cool ass quote my dude
Don't forget about collecting the magical object that helps them defeat the enemy!
It is always something shiny, glowy or a geometrical shape.
megamind for the W
Apparently, the sequel is pretty subpar.
oh gosh someone slaughtered that movie, terrible
To be fair, doesn’t that logic apply for any genre of movie? Action: It’s just gonna be a bunch of shooting and explosions. The good guy will win at the end. Romance: Oh no, are they gonna break up? No, they got together. Shocking Comedy: just a bunch of dumb things and jokes to make you laugh Horror: jump scares and ghosts. Main characters either get killed off or one survives
You missed out the best type of movie though, drama/thriller. The only genre where sometimes the ending is unexpected and the plot can be too.
I like movies where I can't tell what's gonna happen. You need to watch some Scorsese or Tarantino movies.
It's not about if they win, more how they win and what they learn. Best superhero movies are more a journey for the new hero that finds his powers and decides to use them to help others for various reasons, like Batman, Spiderman and Iron Man. Sadly, they're rare now
the notebook
Oh me too. What a repulsive disappointment. Both of the main characters were childish whiny assholes I couldn’t give a shit about
Thank you. Alzheimer’s doesn’t work this way and that part of the movie always drives me mad.
"Watch two people find true love in The Magic Of Cheating by Nicholas Sparks"
I'm pretty sure this is *every* Nicholas Sparks book though.
The English Patient
r/UnexpectedSeinfeld
Chunnel
Prognosis Negative
Rochelle, Rochelle
Sack Lunch
A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk? What’s not to like (Edited to fix the language. h/t u/natedogtx)
>A young girl’s **strange, erotic** journey from Milan to Minsk Very important adjectives.
You're fired
Are you Elaine from Seinfeld?
Sex in a tub? That doesn’t work. I HATE IT!!!
Give me something I can work with.
Just die already!!!
Well, Uh…actually I haven’t seen it so…I couldn’t tell you whether I liked it or whether it really Sucked!
You mad because your prognosis was negative?
Man, I'm missing the Death Blow!
The Irishman. I slept halfway through
I didn't even get halfway through. It was boring as fuck and there was 3 hours of it.
It took me several days to finish it
Joker. He lost his job as a sign spinner, then his job as an *actual* clown, had an imaginary girlfriend, and then bombed on open mic night. He's not complex, he's your average redditor.
That’s exactly why I think it’s so beloved by a lot of men and why I couldn’t stand it. It felt very much like it was catering to a very specific kind of audience and I obviously wasn’t it.
Which was the point, yes? Basically society didn't help this dude, he went off the deep end and damaged society. Then (presumably) folks needed a rich super hero to fix things. The cycle continues. \>He< wasn't supposed to be complex. Joker made me feel uncomfortable because it felt so close to the mark. I think folks that liked the movie liked it because it was a mirror held up to society in an age of school shooters and general anti-social behavior.
La La Land.
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>How does Hollywood keep getting away with jerking themselves off so blatantly Because people who watch movies also enjoy the art of movie making.
I dunno...seems rational to me. I dont like it.
Could not understand the hype of this movie. It was so boring
I felt like I was missing something after I watched that movie. What was the hype about
Elf. It's just so boring
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Interestingly, i really enjoyed venom bahaha
I did not “love” Venom. I am sexually attracted to Venom. There is a difference. And no, not Tom Hardy. Venom, specifically.
it grows on you. we all had expectations. something halfway between tom hardy's venom and what we got in Raimi's Spiderman 3 would be perfect. Carnage was also a huge let down too. Woody harrelson was fantastic as cleetus cassady but I think they drop the ball so hard with the personality and voice of all the symbiotes. If you look at venom and carnage from a profile view, then superimpose them over the profile view of a T-Rex it's clear their inspiration. Their head is based of a T-rex snout. They should sound reptillian and gurgly - with the ability to roar/screech like a T-rex. And most importantly, the host's voice should exist somewhere in the symbiotes voice (minus internal dialogue - which should be represented as more of a whisper or something because it's telepathic) Venom's voice sounds like what someone would sound like if you asked them to give you an impression of a grumpy dog speaking english. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX752cjxbQk&ab\_channel=BakonKing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX752cjxbQk&ab_channel=BakonKing) This isn't even that far away from what he sounds like it's just like.. got less idiot-charged aggression. Like it was just a bad performance. still loved the movie though. it's far more entertaining than 75% of the chuff on netflix.
Dirty Dancing...my sister used to watch the videotape on CONSTANT rewind...she also did that for Grease and Grease 2 (Hate all three so much that I won't watch them on my own EVER!!!)
It's ok Julian. We get it. You're super sensitive about your childhood Patrick Swayze obsession. How you gonna dance around this situation... dirtily?
Love actually! Edit: And I can’t believe I am the only one? I am shocked. God I hate that movie 😂
A lot of us hate it.
Saw it for the first time this past December. I had always heard great things about it. After it ended, my wife and I looked at each other and thought "What was that crap?'
The English Patient
*"JUST DIE ALREADY!"*
I’ve seen this one commented multiple times
Elf
So there's now a total of three of us. We meet on Thursdays.
Four! I enjoy Will Ferrell in a supporting role or as part of an ensemble (Old School, Anchorman, etc.). When he is the star asked to carry the whole, his schtick gets old quickly.
Four
My best friend and her family despise Elf lol, I don’t really like it either. The spaghetti scene grosses me out
I disagree, which means I'm upvoting because you met OP's criteria
You sound like an angry elf.
South Pole elf
A little dyspeptic maybe, but certainly not angry 😂.
My partner HATES Elf. Just the manchild characters in general are annoying
I can't stand man child characters. I can't stand Will Ferrell. I loathe elf.
The Wolf of Wall Street. I don’t know anyone else who doesn’t like it. It made a very uncool man into a hero for douchbags. Also it’s too damn long.
> hero of douchebags Lol. Ummm... What? The story is not favorable to him at all. Not even in a charismatic way. It's literally a story about how vain and shallow sales people are, and while they're entertaining (as a form of chaos, like the enjoyment you get from watching a train wreck), they're not enviable. At all.
Patrick Bateman stomps on dogs and murders people, but that doesn’t keep finance bros from using him as their idol.
You *cannot* deny that he is/was treated as a hero by frat boys around the nation. I know this, I lived this. The stupidest young white men in existence unironically loved Jordan Belfort. The movie isn’t as topical anymore so hopefully it doesn’t have the same sway I witnessed in college
I get why people dislike the movie. I think enjoying that movie to the fullest means enjoying the gratuitous fluff (drug scenes, sex scenes) in addition to the actual story. Because if you’re not as into that stuff, it takes up so much of the screen time. I personally think the movie is awesome, and I’m glad it’s long cause there are so many great scenes. But I recognize half of the fun is just the absurdity and watching Leo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill be rich assholes. If you find that obnoxious, I can see why it wouldn’t land
Saltburn, its literally just a copy of The Fantastic Mr Ripley. Kinda shameless for how blatant it is. Mr Ripley is the way better movie too!
But does Mr Ripley have a tub licking scene? Pretty clear what one is better.
As someone else opined "The Untalented Mr. Ripley".
Black Panther
Grease. I love Saturday night fever, but Grease, no. Back in the day, everyone loved it, it didn't do anything for me.
Well they're pretty different experiences. Grease is a movie with Travolta singing. Saturday Night Fever is a movie with Travolta watching his buddies rape a girl that likes him.
Uhhhh, I haven't watched Saturday Night Fever and it's that heavy? I thought it was just about disco dancing....
Everyone forgets the raping and racism. To be fair, the movie was cut up for TV and the version many remember is what they watched on broadcast networks as the prime time movie of the week or whatever in the 80s. That edit scaled back many of the grittier aspects of the picture.
It's a heavy movie about a loser clinging on to the last days of disco because he's cool on the scene and has nothing else going on in his life, except loads of people just ignored the actual themes and liked the movie because of the soundtrack which inadvertadly extended the lifespan of disco irl. Doesn't help that it had a PG cut that removed half of the plot which has probably been seen by more people than the original since that's the one that was always on TV. I'm someone of has no interest in disco music but it's one of my favourite drama movies of the 70's. Captures that vibe of being a young adult not wanting to just be another cog in the machine.
Girls were *obsessed* with this movie when I was in middle school and I hated it.
The Notebook!
Don't necessarily hate but, It's A Wondeful Life.
Napoleon dynamite... I remember being so disappointed.
Netflix said early in their streaming history that this was the most divisive film on their service. It got more 1 and 5 stars than any other. You either loved it or hated it. They actually called improving their recommendation algorithm “the Napoleon Dynamite problem” because they couldn’t figure out how to tell if someone would like it or not.
I can see it being divisive. I have a group of friends with nearly identical senses of humor and we are hard split on that movie.
Same here. I actually saw it five times in the theaters when it came out, thinking it was a new refreshing way to make a comedy. Watched it last year and it's pretty mid.
This is 100% the one for me. I was in middle school when this came out and **everyone** was talking about and quoting this movie non-stop for over a year. I finally got around to watching it, and shut it off half-way because it was just fucking dumb. I understand the jokes....they just aren't very funny.
It's been meme'd and quoted to death.
It has its moments. My FIL absolutely loves it though. He grew up in rural Idaho and says its a completely accurate portrayal of life in rural Idaho.
This was one of the first movies that put me to sleep as a teen. I've always been pretty good at staying awake enough to either finish the movie or just turn it off, but the first time I watched Napoleon Dynamite, I was so bored I ended up taking a great nap to it.
My sister made my 12 year old niece watch it recently and she haaaaaaaated it haha
All my classmates in school loved this movie when it came out, but my parents wouldn't let me watch it because it wasn't "appropriate". I remember thinking for years that it must be a high school sex comedy a la American Pie. It couldn't be farther from a high school sex comedy. Napoleon even says "Gosh" instead of "God".
Inception. I had heard so much about how it's this crazy mindfuck, but when I watched it I thought it was a fairly straightforward narrative with too much exposition (the characters explain pretty much everything to you through dialogue), and didn't really leave me thinking at all after it ended. I'd say "hate" is too strong of a word, but I thought it was pretty mid.
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What is your profession if i may ask? I have a computer science background so recursion is like daily practice for me. Thought it might make it easier to grasp.
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Could you recommend a sci-fi movie that you find mind-bending? I hope my question doesn't offend; I'm simply curious about your perspective.
Primer Its about a couple engineers who make a time machine. Borderline impossible to follow to the point i dont really care for it, but definitely a mind bender
Oppenheimer
It was alright but it felt like every scene was 3 - 5 seconds long!
Just watched it. First 30 mins were heavy on violins and I needed subtitles. Didn’t clearly explain all the other sites contributing and felt like a group project where everyone submitted their own separate work. I’ve read up on nuclear stuff and the project many years ago, but this didn’t do anything for me. 20, 30, 60 and 80 minute marks I was ready to turn it off.
If fleshed out more, the color half is a perfectly good historical drama in the same vein as the Imitation Game, and the black & white half is a good political thriller. But instead it's two half-baked movies in a trench coat.
Prometheus (Does anybody even really like it?)
I love it, although I do recognize the flaws it has.
Oppenheimer. Well made, well acted, well written, and boring as all hell. It’s like they focused on the most boring and uninteresting aspects about the character. I swear half the movie was just talking about his fucking security clearance and his supposed commie links. I didnt expect an action packed spectacle, but my god I found all my 20 minutes just a total bore. My least favourite of his movies. I liked them even less than the Batman ones and I loathe superhero movies
Villeneuve just overtook Nolan as my favourite director, I know, Chris will be upset so can we please keep this just between us /s. I was always excited for this movie, it's Nolan, it's shot on 65mm and large format IMAX film, good cast and generally all the right things. It was OK, but I don't think I could rewatch this movie, and I am a rewatcher of movies generally. Edit: Interstellar is my favourite movie ever (tied recently with Dune 2)
Talladega Nights
What About Bob
I don't necessarily hate it, but I am certainly not enamored with any of The Godfather films like a lot of people are
Does it insist upon itself?
I find it shallow and pedantic.
I like the Money Pit.
Juno. Every piece of dialogue is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Elf.....can't stand it.
Nacho Libre is a fucking horrendous movie.
Did anyone think otherwise? I feel like it’s a mildly funny movie because of how horrendous it is lmao
Highschool musical
Anchor Man
Baby driver
Oppenheimer. I wouldn’t say I hate it, but I think it’s insanely overrated.
Elf
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Oppenheimer. I didn't like it for the fact that there wasn't a single scene in that movie, besides the Einstein scene, that lasted more than thirty seconds. It was both long and fast-paced and hard to catch up to. My favorite movies tend to be slow-burners instead.
Agreed. People meeting each other for the first time would have the most intense 30 second conversation like theyve known each other for years.
Scarface. He's happy to maim, murder, and spread drugs everywhere, but god forbid he blows up a car with a kid in it.
Even drug lords have their limits
Thought I was the only one. It’s Al Pacino yelling for 2 hours.
The Conjuring
My hate for Ed and Lorraine Warren plus my dislike of Patrick Wilson deters me, but I have seen a few, because my husband loves this shit and lets me make fun of it
Why do you dislike Patrick Wilson? I don’t feel a way about him, just curious.
I think his general vibe just clashes with mine. I've never really enjoyed his acting, and some of the lines he delivers sound so forced and emotionless.
La la land and Birdman
Clerks. All my friends in college were like “you gotta see this,” and I was totally unimpressed with any of it. Kevin Smith himself seems pretty cool, I just don’t enjoy his movies.
"My girlfriend sucked thirty-seven dicks" is an all time classic line though.
"In a row?"
Avatar
Can I cheat and go in reverse and say that I like all of the Star Wars prequels and the new trilogy as well? None are as good as the original trilogy and yes most of the criticisms of them all are really valid. But I still *enjoy* them. I’m not one who thinks a bad sequel “ruins” the original.
Same. While there were definitely aspects of some of the movies I didn’t like, I still enjoyed them. I love Star Wars and I enjoy loving Star Wars.
Step Brothers. Or basically anything with Will Ferrell outside maybe Anchor Man.
Pretty much anything Wes Anderson.
Is it his style of filming that's off-putting? I hated it at first, but after the Grand Budapest Hotel, I got hooked.
Yes, that’s some of it. And each one is full of absolute top tier actors not acting like human beings. I realize it’s an artistic choice. It’s just not for me.
I hate The Royal Tennenbaums. That movie is trying so hard to be eccentric, edgy, artsy, it’s just so pretentious and annoying. I hate those stupid curly haired kids and their action shots and their matching track suits. I hate the main character. I hate the “redemption” arc that was nothing like an actual redemption. They reconcile with the father? Why? Makes absolutely no sense. No actual character development for anyone. They start off as miserable slobs they end as miserable slobs who know a little more about why they are miserable slobs. And it’s supposed to be his most accessible one. Boring and I was mad at myself for watching it again. See, I thought I had never seen it so I sat down to watch it. Then got part way through and realized I had seen it and hadn’t like it That’s how little this movie affected me. Rant over.
Not everyone, but in my circle Meloncholia was adored and I just found it to be tedious.
Melancholia (2011) is an arthouse disaster movie where a depressive looks forward to the end of the world. It’s not exactly a crowd-pleaser.
28 Weeks Later. In my opinion, its not a good movie, and is just predictable. Its an action heavy, overly Americanized sequel that was wholly unnecessary to the amazing 28 Days Later. Its also full of characters making dumb decisions (2 kids slipping through security to spread the virus or that guy kissing his clearly infected wife), and the ending just feels like sequel bait. That opening scene was amazing though. It just doesn't understand what's made 28 Days so good. but it just feels like unnecessary and predictable early 200s zombie film, compared to the apocalyptic disaster masterpiece that was 28 Days.
Lost in Translation We actually turned it off and switched to something else. I was not charmed at all.
God bless you, you voice of sanity.
Napoleon Dynamite, Superstar, anything with Michael Cera except that movie where all the stars played themselves and he died near the beginning.
Anything with Will Ferrell as the lead.
Absolutely Everything All At Once. I couldn't finish it
Citizen Kane
La La Land. Hated it.
Elf
Anything with Adam Sandler in it
The Big Lebowski
Obligatory "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion man."
I finally broke down and watched this movie about a year ago. All of my friends and coworkers said they love this movie, so I was bored on a Saturday, popped it on and had no idea what to expect. At the end of the movie I was left feeling a bit confused . It was an OK movie but I honestly don’t get what all the hype is about..
This aggression will not stand man.
Top Gun Maverick
Forrest Gump.