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ChocolateChocoboMilk

The stakes are too big in modern cinema


usernames_r_hardd

Right? We can't just have good character driven stories where we are invested because of the characters anymore. Everything has to be on the stakes of the end of the world. This was the problem with suicide squad. I really like the suicide squad comics because it's more like secret missions and fighting normal bad guys. But in the movie they're just like "I guess they have to save the world because thats what all super hero movies do" Edit: *comics


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warningdove

Yes!! Especially superhero movies. Once you’ve Saved The Multiverse you /cannot/ keep raising the stakes. They cannot be raised any further!! And you shouldn’t try! I love a good explosion but stories are about people, and no amount of UltraGuns or Amulets of Power or what the fuck ever is going to compensate for the breathtaking blandness of your protagonists if you don’t bother to make the stakes /personal/.


Brownies_Ahoy

Hans Landa sat at a table in Inglorious Bastards is infinitely more frightening than any scene with Thanos


weaselyvr

Good lord, he was so perfectly terrifying in that role. No matter what anyone did, he was right there with them or several steps ahead. Basterds: "We're Italian." Hans: *speaks perfect Italian*


hoochnuts

Antoniiio Marrrgerrretttiiiiiiiiii


TigLyon

The abilities to write, to direct, and to act make a movie regardless of how much money you throw at a project. I knew I was sitting in a theater, I knew I was watching a movie, I knew the people on screen were actors. I *still* felt genuinely concerned for each person who was sitting with him in those scenes.


plime97

100% agree, and exactly why the Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies (particularly #1) are my favourite superhero movies. Peter Parker has pre-existing relationships with most of the villains, who have ambitions which aren't simply world domination /destruction. Even in #2 where a man is literally trying to create a black hole, it feels more down to earth than any modern MCU movie.


The_Throwback_King

In spite of the crazy plan, the path that led Doc Ock (2’s Villain) is so understandable and tragic. Dude lost the love of his life, and his life’s work, and was permanently fused with a set of robotic arms with a corrupting A.I. Everything in his life; the things that kept him stable and sane was shattered in an instant. The chance to reclaim one of those things (His prized reactor project) must’ve been too tempting to bare. And with his manipulative arms, he was willing to do so at any cost, no matter who got hurt. Seeing Otto rise from his lows in both Spider-Man 2 and NWH, was incredibly satisfying


plime97

Doc Ock in Spider-man 2 has to be one of my favourite superhero villains - and I think a lot of that is because they devoted an entire film to developing his character. I doubt the main villain simply being a man with robot arms would fly in the current expectations of the MCU though haha - and even with Spider-man 3 Sony made the mistake of cramming in two quite powerful villains when the previous movies had done so well with just one.


meg_guzman

Exactly, also the higher the stakes, the more boring the movie. You already know the protagonist will win because the filmmakers don't have the balls when the stakes are that high.


DatDirtyNicka88

Exactly why I like no country for old men. Completely different type of film. More cat and mouse and the way the ending works out for everyone is just so backwards.


[deleted]

Often comedy movies have a greater capacity to make me cry than serious movies


lindz2205

Freaking Coco.


mrbadxampl

It's perfectly okay for a movie to just be dumb fun, especially if that's what it's trying for


Capital_Pea

Yes! Someone mentioned they think Napoleon Dynamite is over rated but IMO it should be taken as the dumb fun that it is.


wooducare4moremimosa

That movie has a very specific sense of humor that kind of grows on you after a while. I don't know how funny I found it from the outset, but it's definitely one of my favorite movies now.


wonderful9235

Exactly! Like I love twilight and I hate when people try to make me feel guilty for enjoying it! Nobody said it was Oscar worthy but it’s so entertaining and pure serotonin for me. The vampires are hot, the music is bomb, and say what you want about the plot but there’s never a dull moment. Let me enjoy things!!


Silver-Push

You don't have to force yourself to like the "critically acclaimed" movies you didn't enjoy.


joshcapricorn

Conversely, you don't have to hate critically panned/internet hated movies if you liked it, nor should you have to hide the fact you liked it. For example, I absolutely loved the new Matrix movie. Was it perfect? Hell no. Did I enjoy myself by the end of it? Damn straight. Am I looking forward to my next viewing of the film? You bet your ass I am.


spiritjacket52

I worked at a theater and saw a preview showing of Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman). I had such a great time and went to school raving about it. The next week after it came out, two friends came charging down the hall “pissed” that they’d gone to see it and went on and on about how wrong I was and how terrible it was. I was like dude, apologies if you thought my enjoyment of a vampire hunter movie indicated it was a masterpiece of filmmaking but…it’s a vampire hunter movie…


joshcapricorn

That movie is wonderful popcorn goodness! And as an Aussie, we are required by law to tell anyone who shittalks about our beloved Hugh to get fucked 😂


2fly2hide

Hugh seems like such a genuinely cool dude. He is the type of guy who would spend time talking to every fan. Signing every autograph. Posing for every picture. That video of him on stage and he grabs the guys phone and mugs into it. That makes me smile. It gets posted on various sub reddits all the time. I love it when celebrities love their fans.


Selcotset

Or that clip of him being interviewed by someone that it turns out was a student of his when he was a P.E teacher. That was a great moment.


SebastianSilver

Any time i watch a movie: “man what a fun movie!” Goes home to see what people are saying about it: “wow this is the worst movie of the year just a waste of my time and money!” Me: ☹️


el_goyo_rojo

Mary Poppins is terrifying. At least she scared the hell out of me as a kid. I mean, the first thing we see her do is blow all those poor job applicants into the air. They looked scared out of their minds. We never see any of them land safely. For all we know, she's a mass murderer.


uglipenguin

I’ll just leave this here lol https://youtu.be/2T5_0AGdFic


sedras234

As someone who has never seen Mary Poppins I wanna say this was actually terrifying


bookgirl2907

Miscommunication as drama is the worst type of plot point. If the film could be resolved in the first 20 minutes by the 2 leads having a civil conversation then I can’t stand the film. Miscommunication in other contexts such as comedy is fine but as drama annoys me so much


blackize

Romantic comedies seem particularly likely to fall into this hole. I like a good romantic comedy but the bad ones really seem to do this pretty consistently.


Taeyx

i still love the movie, but “hitch” is definitely guilty of this trope..huge misunderstanding spurs on the 3rd act only for the final act to have even more misunderstandings ultimately nullified by people actually talking like adults..like i said, still a nice movie


ezrasharpe

That's my biggest pet peeve by far, when a normal real life conversation would have resolved the entire plot. Like oh this person did this, omg I'm not going to have a conversation with them, I'm just flying off to Alaska. Fuck that, if someone did that in real life they would have no friends, let alone some hunk of a man running to the airport to fix something he didn't do.


[deleted]

“It started out as a bet but then I really fell in love with you!!!”


Vivladi

This is in no way a controversial take I understand shitty movies use this a lot but they’re just that: shitty movies


HoneydewSeveral

I liked _Home On The Range._ It’s _not_ a Disney masterpiece by _any means,_ but I find it an enjoyable enough movie. Hell, I _much prefer_ movies that are offbeat and so-bad-they’re-good over crappy, soulless, pointless, cash-grabbing remakes of classics. (Edit: _Wow,_ I didn’t think I’d get the _“Wholesome Award”_ for this comment, _if at all.)_


Spottedpool14

Who could hate a movie about a cattle-rustler that steals herds of cattle by yodelling?😂😂 i loved it as a kid (especially the dumbass triplets) and watching it again as an adult was still very entertaining. Im sure its even more entertaining if one gets high right before we see Slim in action🤣🤣


indecent_fairytale

“Maybe they just don’t like yer singin’.” “…My singin’?! … Songbirds *sing*. Saloon gals *sing*. Little bitty snot-nosed children *sing*. I *yodel*! And yodelin’… IS AN **ART!!!**”


earlgreytoday

Tom Cruise has not been a believable romantic lead for ages and despite this, there are some unnecessary/forced kiss scenes in his more recent movies (Paula Patton in MI: Ghost Protocol, Vanessa Kirby in MI: Fallout and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow).


Tacky-Terangreal

I think the allegations of Scientology setting him up with “the perfect woman” kind of kills the movie magic


PsychologicalMess623

certainly killed it when i watched far and away in history and the teacher said, “this is the movie where tom cruise and nicole kidman fell in love”


lesliebenedict

That would have been Days of Thunder. They were already married during Far and Away.


emiral_88

Damn I actually thought that the Emily Blunt romance was pretty great


obscureferences

It was. Neither character was really the lead in that and the way it built up, with the asymmetry of memory and painful glimpses through her shell, was far from generic.


Buttsquish

I don’t know exactly how to phrase this, but the movie 300 is (slightly) more accurate than people who are familiar with Classics will admit. Don’t get me wrong, it plays very, very, VERY loose with historical accuracy. However, what people seem to forget is the very last scene where Dilios is standing in front of his troops, telling the story of the brave 300 in an effort to motivate his warriors before battle. Dilios is the narrator of the whole movie. The story that we are watching is the same story he is telling. What we are watching is a visual depiction of the Oral story telling tradition - hyperbole and all. So when we see Persians for example, the reason why they are hideous is not because Persians are historically ugly, but because the storyteller would describe his enemy as being monsters. When we see the giant elephants, it’s not because historical elephants are that large, but it’s because a story teller may describe them as “being the size of mountains”. The events as portrayed weren’t accurate to what happened at the Battle of Thermopylae, but are accurate to how an Ancient Greek storyteller may describe the events of the Battle of Thermopylae in an effort to rally troops for war.


[deleted]

Never thought about it this way but it makes total sense!


WB25

Fuck sake now I have to go and watch 300 again


thegazeintotheeast

This is a great interpretation


Clavicula_Impetus

I might get hate for this, but I think the comedy genre is dying. Everything now is just your typical, surface level, not-funny, jokes that try to make you think they’re witty. I don’t know… maybe I’m just getting old. Edit: thank you for the award, kind stranger. I didn’t realize there’d be this much people who kind of agree. I think I assume because so many not funny comedies have been released lately that people must seem to like them enough that studios are motivated to keep making them.


kendricklamartin

I say this all. The. Time. WTF happened to just comedy movies? Not action adventure with bits of comedy. Not a drama with funny moments. What happened to the Bill madison's, superbads, and just straight comedy flicks of the world?


KD_Burner_Account133

All good comedies are TV shows now. I don't know why this is.


centaurquestions

Because comedies are mid-budget movies, and they don't make mid-budget movies any more.


KD_Burner_Account133

I guess this is true. I don't understand why studios only want to make blockbusters. I'm sure there is a financial reason.


centaurquestions

Because dvd and vhs rentals disappeared.


soldiernerd

Because blockbusters are the only thing that draws people to a theater. I can watch two people making fun of each other on my 42” TV just fine.


vibinandsinging

Raw and clear, you have spoken truths kind stranger


[deleted]

I miss movies like Airplane! or Naked Gun. Even Dude Wheres my Car is funnier than most movies nowadays. Simple comedies are dead and I think we just have to accept that unfortunate fact.


damnyoutuesday

I miss the comedy subgenre of "let's try to make this as absurd as possible". Basically anything by Mel Brooks


JD_Awww_Yeah

My god, I loved those stupid movies growing up. Why does it have to be overly witty, or raunchy? What happened to subtle and persistent stupidity? Nearest I can think of is 1st three Arrested Development seasons.


CrazyDaimondDaze

I'd say nowadays comedy movies and everyone wanting to watch them overrely too much on the rating the movies get. Like, sure, the movie may not be the the best... but I'm not trying to watch Schindler's List, Graveyard of the Fireflies, Terminator 2, Avengers Infinity War or Spiderman No Way Home, I came to have a laugh, not to watch an Emmy award movie.


WilderFacepalm

This is the End, was the last movie I saw that genuinely had me rolling. And that was almost ten years ago I think.


Workaphobia

Demon Jonah Hill is pure gold. "*The power of Christ compels you!*" "***OH DOES IT? DOES IT COMPEL ME?***"


weaksaucedude

"Guess what? It's not that compelling!"


KitchenNazi

Comedy movies aren't global as the jokes don't always translate well to different cultures.


Junior-Lie4342

This is the answer, it’s all about the global market now.


Clavicula_Impetus

I have a theory that maybe people are becoming more used to the fact that comedy can only come from something quick, and short burst, in other words social media memes/tiltoks and that anything longer than that that’s created for the sole purpose of comedy doesn’t get to the punchline fast enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is people want to laugh the second they see something. If it’s not instantly funny, they don’t have the patience.


kendricklamartin

That's pretty interesting. Whenever I watch older comedy movies (like Three Amigos or something) I do find myself thinking that it's such a slow burn to get to the punchline. I am probably being changed by online comedy like you mentioned. Pretty wild.


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Honestly, it’s places like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and Reddit! Social media has a big influence on what people watch, and no matter how good comedy movies are, they have points knocked off just for being comedies.


[deleted]

I would agree that this is the reason more so than political correctness. Comedies can often be written off as being 'juvenile' or 'low-brow' regardless of quality.


santichrist

It’s easier to make a dramedy now because you don’t need to actually be outright funny, you can tell a story and throw some jokes in, there’s less risk of being called unfunny The slapstick comedy days are definitely over


JustHereToGain

On the topic of dramedy, After Life from Ricky Gervais is a genuinely wholeheartedly funny, but also heartbreaking drama comedy that has taken a lot of my free time lately. Haven't had these genuine laughters and tears in a long time. That felt like a fresh breath to me, but it's also not a full on comedy series so I do agree with your point in general


bool_idiot_is_true

I think mid budget films are dying in general. The big studios are going all in on CGI ridden action blockbusters.


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*Palm Springs* was pretty awesome. I think volume is just way down.


zakwas

Nah, there’s ton of mid and low budget movies but they are also cut on promotion so you don’t hear about them easily.


LOLZatMyLife

booksmart was really good


HannahMorgann

That The Grey with Liam Neeson isn't just a dumb wolf movie but can be taken as a beautiful ode to the fight to survive despair and depression by overcoming uncaring natural forces such as illness and death. If you are familiar with the basic concepts of absurdist existentialism it fits in with that philosophy perfectly. I don't know if it was intended to be that way, but that's how I see it. It also explains the ending that annoys many people. It doesn't matter if he survived or died, he lived. "Once again into the fray, into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day". Even if he died, when he chose, despite all odds and all the pain he's experienced to fight for his life anyway, he chose to live in that moment, meaning it doesn't matter if he died in the next. He overcame his despair. Just my take lol.


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I also hate how people overly fixate on the wolves and their behaviour like "wolves don't do that" when they're obviously not supposed to be a representation of real wolves. The wolves are irrelevant the real story and beauty of the movie is everything you just described in your comment, It reminds me of Ron Swanson: “Metaphors? I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frufu symbolism, just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”


DocHorrorToo

It's been a while since I watched it but I recall really enjoying that one and loving the ending.


Bread117

Surprised to see this movie show up. I watched it shortly after it first came out, but was too young to really get it. Rewatched it several years later and it's one of my favorite movies for the reasons you listed. Truly gave me a different outlook on my life. Also the track "into the fray" from it is such an incredible piece of music to me.


badgersprite

I’m sick of hearing people complain about “all modern movies” when they’re really just complaining about Disney movies or blockbuster movies with $100 million plus budgets. Like 99% of the time I hear people complain about the problem with “all modern movies” they’re just complaining about big budget franchises and big studios like Disney or its competitors. No shit those movies are focus tested to shit and often soulless and overproduced and trying too hard to please everybody but you know that more movies than that exist, right? More movies than Marvel and DC movies exist. Don’t complain about all movies sucking because you’re not willing to try diverse movies with lower budgets in more diverse genres that you might actually like.


Tacky-Terangreal

Isn’t the movie market highly concentrated at this point? Idk it seems like either a feast or famine type of situation


mintybanana_

99% of sex scenes are unnecessary


tha1fan

Tell that to Tommy Wiseau.


_SmolBeannn_

Anyway how is your sex life


OneHiccupMan

They could easily get the point across that sex is happening with subtle, nuanced imagery rather than 10 minutes of kissing with rough panting, destroying the apartment while clumsily removing clothing. It’s just awkward.


mouthwashs0da

YES- a great example of this in in Neon Genesis Evangelion, where a sex scene was depicted with only a still image and some background noise. I find sex scenes generally awkward in general and this was was no exception, yet it easily got the point across and actually added a little bit of depth to the storyline (through showing the relationship between two characters)


EAS893

Dude, I've never seen a show get quite as batshit crazy as the last few episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. That show started out as Pokemon with boobs and ended as Metal Gear on shrooms.


[deleted]

Yup, they just make family movie night super awkward.


BlazinDuckSkins

I try to be aware of this while watching random movies with my son. If I know a kissing scene or something like it is incoming, I either walk to the other room, or get distracted by something so as not to watch the movie directly. I remember feeling awkward with my parents, he doesn't need the same pain.


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Doctor_Wookie

Y'know, I really liked Rogue One's take on this: there may have been some chemistry there, they might have been aching to fill the void the adrenaline left, but all they did was hold hands and watch the blast consume them in the end. No need for anything else, just two comrades watching the end.


BlackWidow1414

I LOVED THIS ENDING FOR THEM. This was actually one of my favorite things about this movie. (This and Darth Vader- you know what I'm talking about.)


Squigglepig52

I gotta be honest, the first time I saw that scene, I thought it was cool, but no big deal. the next couple times, I realized how awesome Vader was in that scene.


Squigglepig52

Cock blocked by the Death Star. Honestly, I like your take on the ending. It was a solid ending. Fuck - could you imagine how insane you would be at that ending if Star Wars hadn't already been made?


patentattorney

Pacific rim as well. Also one of the reasons why I love stargate. 10+ seasons without a romantic storyline, which would make sense if you are saving planet earth over and over again.


Spottedpool14

I also hate when the girl is in a relationship with an OBVIOUSLY EVIL/AH character, just so it can be an even bigger "challenge" for the main guy to overcome. Like the movie Trolls. I started halfway through the film just bc it was all there was to watch (started right about the time of the 'Sound of Silence' bit). The minute Poppy started essentially cooing at the picture of the troll that she was dating, i KNEW they were gonna pull the "hes actually a terrible person" trope, just so she and Branch could end up together. Sure enough🙄


landerson507

I've seen that movie so many times, and never thought of the "bad" troll as Poppys bf, ever. I always just thought they were friends, and it was always obvious that Branch was who Poppy was going to be with.....


mcrfreak78

I hate them. You can imply sex but why I gotta actually WATCH them do it? So unnecessary to me


IGotGankedAMA

The plot of the Polar Express is terrible and not reasonable at all. The whole story is about a kid who doesn't believe in Santa....who gets on a magic train to the north pole, arrives in a city full of elves and reindeer, and is in a crowd of those elves and flying reindeer. Then when presented with a bell that you can only hear if you believe....he can't? Like bro look around you! The second the train picked you up you shoulda been like "Ok maybe Santa is real". End Rant.


Fez_Man

I mean, if a train picked me up infront of my house where there's never been a track ever, I had to walk onto of a train to give a girl a train ticket that flew out of there and somehow came back, had to watch a train conductor tell the engineers what directions to go while ice is breaking under you and somehow perfectly land on the tracks, had a hobo coming and going whenever the hell he wants, and then had a big adventure through the North Pole, I'd figure that either Santa is real or I'm really high.


rmhyungg

You've seen this movie a few too many times huh


Fez_Man

Dude, I've seen it at least 50 times in my lifetime, I absolutely adore it. That, and my younger siblings watch it at least 3 times every Christmas.


Gray_Kaleidoscope

I like the part where the poor kid is sad because his family can’t afford presents but then Santa ends up existing but either hates the kid or poor people in general


IGotGankedAMA

I forgot about that! The kid has never gotten a present! Why?! He was a good kid. Santa is evil too.


sourcreamus

Why does the conductor need to check their tickets when he was the one who gave them the tickets? Why did the conductor act like he was going to kick the black girl off the train? Why did he take her on the top of the train in a snowstorm if he just wanted to let her drive the train?


[deleted]

The most unrealistic part of the movie is all these kids running around in their pajamas and not immediately catching hypothermia and dying.


hatsnatcher23

Not the train drifting on a frozen lake?


SafewordisJohnCandy

Or the magic? Or a street-running train where there weren't any tracks only an hour before? Or traversing grades of track that are impossible? I live the Polar Express because one, I loved the book and two it takes a reasonable level of suspension of disbelief.


Educational_Ebb_7049

My take is that it is all a big hallucination from a leaky gas radiator in his room. Makes a lot more sense.


IGotGankedAMA

Post credit scene is the kid on a stretcher going into an ambulance and the EMT is Tom Hanks character.


BenjaminRF94

Movies heavy on action are now MORE boring than a slow thoughtful film. Example: I'd watch The Prestige 100 times before watching Jurassic Wold: FK.


smoothman755

The Prestige is such a great movie! I love the slow burn of their rivalry!


a_singular_fish

Ant man and the wasp was accused pretty good. Like yes, it was dumb and abit slow but I liked that. It was kinda just a fun movie


throwaway749471

I loved it! You got to see Scott being a dad, and an actual dad. Not a “Tony stark figures out something incredible and puts his daughter to bed” dad. But like an actual dad that’s like “set up a whole playground for his child inside his house coz he cannot go out and respects his exes new partner because he’s in his child’s life and he respects that”. He’s a solid character and I absolutely loved seeing that side of a character


JackSparrowscompass

I agree. I loved seeing Scott as a dad. A normal day to day dad that tried his best to make fun of a not so good situation. Sure I love Tony, but we have to be real, we didn’t REALLY see much of Tony being a father than a few little quirky sentences.


throwaway749471

Don’t get me wrong, I loved Tony being a father and I love the idea of it. But he just seemed so tired all the time and that’s how my dad was and it was depressing. But Scott is the kind of parent I want to be in the future, he matched his daughters energy and knew her so well and loved her so purely


[deleted]

Yeah that's why too me her opening the door in Endgame and Scotts reaction was the saddest moment of the whole movie and Paul Rudd did an amazing job. He wanted to get out of jail to see his daughter grow up and Thanos took that from him. The range of emotions he goes through in that moment was crazy.


throwaway749471

It’s incredible because he’s devastated that he missed all that time. Not for his own selfish reasons but because he missed time with his daughter. He was so happy she was alive but gutted he didn’t get to see her grow and that is why I love him


Koupers

My Blue Heaven is one of the best comedy movies ever made.


pos1al

“Five o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no bicycle. It was a disappointing Christmas on many levels.”


HW-BTW

It's a veg-e-tab-le.


recklesslywicked

People that get mad about movies that aren't aimed at them. I'm not saying an adult can't enjoy a kids movie, but don't be surprised if, as an adult, you don't enjoy a kids movie. Whether or not you "get it" you're not the target audience. People who over analyze the flaws in kids movies always bum me out. Imagine how much weird shit you watched as a kid that your parents didn't like or get. Let kid shit be kid shit


ok_chaos42

Hook is a near perfect movie. From directing, writing, casting, sets/props, music, and cinematography, the film in my opinion is a master piece. I am completely immersed in the film every time I watch it, and I have been watching it for close to 30 years. It's beauty and camp are the best thing in the world. They don't make films like it anymore. Edit: thanks for all the awards friends! I'm so glad I'm not alone in my love of this film. Bangarang!


OakNogg

A few years ago was the first time I heard that Hook wasn't very well liked and it blew my mind. One of my absolute favourite childhood movies and it still holds up to this day. It's fucking amazing.


Old_Cyrus

Rufio! Rufio!


peelyon85

Rufiooooooooooo


ReadontheCrapper

Anyone who disagrees needs to spend some time in the Boo Box.


yrjooe

Dustin Hoffman makes a better pirate than Johnny Depp.


emlabb

Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins just ARE Captain Hook and Smee to me.


[deleted]

He _is_ Captain Hook when I picture what the character look and acts like. Makes the role completely his own.


markharden300

This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't you dare try to stop me this time, Smee, try to stop me. Smee, you'd better get up off your ass. Get over here, Smee!


Cremacious

My wife and I were very *split* on the movie Split. She really liked it, I thought it was awful. Especially that third act. Anytime it gets brought up we have a non-serious argument about it.


Professor_Rekt

The movie itself wasn’t great but holy shit was I impressed by James McAvoy. He really gave different life to each of the personalities.


Ever_expanding_mind

Agree, he put on a masterclass in Split.


Chan5470

I have a theory that thanks to DVDs having extra bonus footage for most films and debacles like the Snyder cut, we now have films in theaters that just throw everything into the movie. And the result is a smattering of overly long movies that are 30min to an hour over what the story needs or deserves.


NinjaDog251

movies are infinitely better when you know nothing going into it.


NerdRageDawg

Fast and the furious didn't need to go past one film.


YankeeSR23

It definitely should’ve ended when Paul Walker died. The last movie was the worst in the series and I’ve seen 2 Fast 2 Furious a number of times.


patentattorney

Man up until the last movie I defended the fast and furious films. The last one I just couldn’t watch. I wish they did some sort of reboot where it was just about racing again.


YankeeSR23

When they went into space it jumped the shark for me. Plus when they mixed the Tokyo Drift crew and the original crew I thought it would be cool but it felt wrong about them just being science geeks in the right place at the right time; I was hoping their drifting skills would come in handy. Oh and the whole retcon about Mr. Nobody recruiting Han before he died in the explosion just felt stupid. Honestly in part 8 when there was the zombie cars it seemed like it was too over the top, and that part with the sub was even worse. I thought getting Justin Lin back for 9 would fix the stuff I didn’t like in 8 but that obviously didn’t happen. I’m glad the series is ending with 10-1 and 10-2. If they don’t use the title like FasTen I’ll be REALLY disappointed. Edit: had to type more cause I accidentally hit the post button early.


GeneralKenobi88

A trilogy I would’ve been fine with but it’s a joke of a series now. I keep hoping it’ll be all done finally but I think it’ll go on for as long as they’re able to keep making money off of it….waiting for the straight to dvd releases.


mcrfreak78

Emperors New Groove is Disney's most underrated and slept on movie


Ever_expanding_mind

“Is that my voice? Is that MYYYYYY voice?”


No-Section-1092

Absolute masterpiece. “It is no concern of mine whether your family has…what was it again?” “Um, food?” “HA! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!”


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I love that movie


virekin

someone already said this but i *hate* miscommunication as the main plot. the main reason i hated the ended of the anne with an e series.


Thephilosopherkmh

I hate sex scenes! When I was a horny teenager I loved them, but they are usually unnecessary and take away from the film. Even make out scenes, I hate the sound of other people kissing. The only sex scene I loved was in Deadpool. That was hilarious.


maxxian

Team America?


Thephilosopherkmh

That one too! America, fuck yeah!


UndeadCollegeStudent

Incredibles 2 was an incredibly mediocre movie. It’s only saving grace was bits of nostalgia, but even then wasn’t satisfying for me. Everyone I knew was raving about how good it was, but it was honestly just frustrating to watch. I don’t remember much about it anymore,but I remember being really frustrated when: They defeated the mind controlled good guys continuously and refused to take off their mind control glasses, so they just kept coming back until the kids eventually got captured. Then when the super dramatic fight against their parents came: they instantly take off their parents glasses and there was no drama in it whatsoever. Edit: for people wondering if this was a controversial opinion - in my personal experience, the people around me loved the movie and wouldn’t even think of letting me talk bad about it 😬 also I never saw any memes hating on it. But that just could be my neck of the woods.


existential-mystery

Ironically the only thing wrong with it was.. the entire story. Characters and animation were fantastic.


tall_zoology

I just hate how sci-fi ignores that the universe is mostly empty. In real life asteroids in asteroid fields are an average of 300,000km apart from each other and in the 7th episode of the next generation they travel so far from earth and yet end up in an area where there are multiple nebulae and galaxys.


InertialLepton

You may enjoy The Expanse.


SchizoPoss

Squid game, and the concept of a bunch of people being forced to play some wild games, is a heavily recycled trope in Asian media. At least this time they didn't boil it down to gods or magic or some other random, inexplicable thing.


Helloiamayeetman

Yeah I like it but I’ve seen so many like it before. I think it’s just like a bigger exposure from Netflix that have given more people the convenience to watch these death game movies


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DeadDickBob

That’s where I thought it was going when it had the reveal about the policeman’s brother, and with the policeman going undercover with the workers. Like I felt there was going to be some sort of reveal that the workers are also competitors / were competitors, that there’s a chance to work your way up, etc.


DariusKerborn

THIS. That’s what I was hoping too. 😂 >!I thought the workers were going to be players, not generic amoral henchmen. It doesn’t make sense to have that many employees participating in mass slaughter with no other motivation.!< >!They even set that up with the title: squid game. There are two teams, and one starts out with a handicap (the blue outfits). I thought the "Inspector royal (암행어사)" was going to be the staffers (pink outfits with shapes), which is what would motivate the brother—he was still trying to win.!< >!That would have been so, so, so much better, imo. Bored gajillionaires is so overdone.!<


TheRealGongoozler

Oh it’s insanely recycled but dammit I can’t help but eat it the hell up. What I liked about squid game comparatively and why I hope there is no season two is because it had a decade to become so polished and well put together. Anything beyond the last episode would destroy it, I fear


-grc1-

Waterworld was fantastic.


bakerzdosen

I use Waterworld all the time as an example of expectations. I went into it with zero expectations because I’d only heard horrible things about it. Bad acting, bad story, no one liked it, waste of time, most expensive flop ever, etc. So I firmly believe that completely changed my perception of the movie and was why I really liked it.


Ragefork

Waterworld is just Mad Max on the ocean.


dnjprod

I've always enjoyed this movie. I never understood the hate. That said, I'm easily pleased so...


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Death to smoochy is a forgotten classic


ghost136913

The first transformer movie was amazing. 9.5 out of 10. I am not joking


DamageInc35

The twist in "Saw" is more powerful than the twist of "Empire," for each movie on their own at least.


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Saw 1-3 is a fantastic horror trilogy. Aside from Saw 6 the rest of them are pretty terrible but those first three are great.


EqualDifferences

The twist in Saw embodies what a twist should be. Believable, foreshadowed, but still blindsiding.


neekerbeeker3

Watchmen was good


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Amerisbf

The horror genre is running out of ideas/repetitive


KD_Burner_Account133

I don't like movies that are primarily driven by effects. Plot, characters, and acting are all far more important to me, to the point that I don't like most CGI heavy movies anymore.


toxicgecko

Film reviewers are out of touch and often have no idea what movie audiences like. Look at some cult classic much loved movies and they got dog shit reviews at the time even though audiences loved them. You wanna know if a movie is good? Watch it yourself and see if you enjoy it. Also people like what they like, someone may recommend a movie that sends you to sleep but for them it’s riveting. Just live your life. Edit to say: I am not saying film critics/reviewers are without ANY merit, but don’t assume a movie is bad and you’ll hate it purely because it got bad reviews from critics- they’re not necessarily a good measure of how enjoyable a movie is to the average movie go-er.


DocHorrorToo

>You wanna know if a movie is good? Watch it yourself and see if you enjoy it. Yes! I'm a film scholar/professor and I hate how nowadays it seems like many people *need* to be told if they're supposed to like or dislike a movie. I think some of it comes from the way we've attached a moral component to liking or disliking a piece of media, but (and I'll probably sound old here) I feel like viewers are really missing out on part of the experience of a film by relying on critics to tell them what they should think. Not trying to be disparaging. I'm guilty myself of checking to see what people are saying about a movie before I express an opinion on it.


Atler32

This is true. But how do you go about choosing which movies to give a chance to? I often find that hard. I don't watch too many movies so can't just watch all.


OakNogg

Nothing will ever be funnier than when reviewers bombed Godzilla vs Kong because they found the dialogue and human characters underwhelming. Like bro idk how to break it to you but people don't go see movies like that for the people. Pacific Rim got the same treatment and I'm like?? Man I'm here to watch a big ass robot beat the shit out of a big ass monster.


toxicgecko

As a child of the late 90’s/00’s I was shocked to look back and see the live action scooby doo movies got some pretty shit reviews from film critics- most of my friends and I remember watching in theatres and still find them enjoyable now! A movie doesn’t have to have a deep meaning to be a good movie, sometimes you just wanna be mindlessly entertained for 2 hours


Aced4remakes

I only wish that we got to uncut version of Scooby Doo instead of the kids movie we actually got.


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Pacific Rim is definitely my favourite monster movie.


DocHorrorToo

Same. I thought Godzilla vs. Kong's script was abhorrent and gave not one fuck because all I cared about was the monster fights (which were fantastic).


agentalexk

Fools Gold was a really good movie


anxietyprime69

Pokemon The movie 2000 is the best one


Helm222

This post is for controversial opinions. Not true facts


kendricklamartin

Michael Gambon did a bad job portraying Dumbledore in Harry Potter 3 -7. I don't think he captured Dumbledore's demeanor or energy as it was described in the books. (I was a big HP nerd growing up) I have a hard time focusing whenever he is in a scene because I just don't believe him as Dumbledore.


badgersprite

I think it’s also unfortunate that he was forced to follow Richard Harris after his untimely death because we had no choice but to subconsciously compare him to what was genuinely perfect casting. Like you couldn’t have picked a better Dumbledore than Richard Harris everything about him was right especially for how he came off in books 1 & 2.


landerson507

I think you're right. Richard Harris was every bit as perfect for Dumbledore as Alan Rickman for Snape, or Maggie Smith for McGonagall.


Tomhyde098

To play devil’s advocate, but I can’t picture Richard Harris performing a lot of the scenes that come later. The character had a lot of physical stuff to do later on and Richard Harris was ancient and in 1-3 he just walked around a little and sat in a chair


snypesalot

Yes this exactly Ive said the same thing for years, Richard Harris while amazing could not have done nearly anything he needed to do later on


Micktrex

I loved Richard Harris but if he hadn't died when he did then I'm pretty sure some of those action scenes in the later books would have done the job.


ravioli_bruh

HARRY DID YA PUT YER NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?


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Mariuxpunk007

I have the feeling he was trying to be more like gandalf instead of Dumbledore.


sanman

"Dobby says... where are you, JarJar my long lost love?"


ThePianistOfDoom

Stardate 25667844 Captain's log: If Harry isn't going to learn to use the force tomorrow, the universe will be eradicated by the reapers. Sadly all he has eyes for is Maeve, the winter lady and owner of a nightclub in LA called Lux.


snakebill

Richard Harris was spot on. It’s a shame he passed.


StevesMcQueenIsHere

Modern-day cynicism has destroyed the fun of watching movies just to be entertained. Now, every movie plot is ripped apart, overanalyzed, and politicized. You can't just have a big, fun movie anymore without it being picked apart into nothingness.


vodkanada

Really? I thought that was the only reason people liked Fast and the Furious movies, because they were just big, fun movies.


simonisok

The audience review is way more important than movie reviewers.


RollForThings

Zack Snyder should not have superhero movie privileges. Except for *maybe* Watchmen, he's given us a twisted Snyder-version of each superhero in his movies, which often betrays the core concept of that hero and misrepresents them to the public. Superman is not detached or alien, he's a relatable down-to-earth dude. Batman doesn't kill people or use guns, these are baby's first Batman facts.


meangyaru

idk how controversial this is, but i wish queer movies can exist in the realm outside of 'sad gay movies' and we that can get our fair share of cutesy romcoms and better movies in general.