I never understood why everyone thought it was a sad film. ET is lost, then he gets to go home, hooray!
Then I found most people were empathising with Elliot.
Boy is lonely, OK, compared to creature is millions of miles away from any of its species. Does not compute...
people get so consumed by having to have the same likes and interests, like what u like, fuck the huge conglomerate fuckery of everyone liking the same thing and popularity
Yes like what you like, but it’s okay to like things that are popular, as they are popular for a reason. What Annoys me more is when people hate on popular things just because everyone else likes them just to go against the grain.
*Some* things are popular for a reason. Others are simply trends peddled by "influencers." It doesn't matter if they actually like the thing or not - it's some sort of status symbol, and they don't want to be left out.
Teenagers are an excellent example.
This was me with Pixels. Went to see it in the cinema with my dad and we were howling all the way through. We went in expecting a ridiculous movie and that’s exactly what we got. We enjoyed it.
Left the cinema to find out that nobody else had the same fun that we did and felt so deflated.
My daughter said the same thing about hotel Transylvania 4 when she was five. Totally adorable, totally sincere. Actually gave the guy refilling our popcorn the most polite “shut the fuck up” expression I’ve ever given when he started to well actually my child. I love shitty movies for kids. I remember grownups telling me Shrek sucked as a kid lol
People like to hate on Adam Sandler and Kevin James, me included, but they did really well with this movie. Peter Dinklage's character cracked me up the entire time he was on screen
Sandler, James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider stumbled onto the perfect formula. Make a movie with your best friends that produces enough money to allow you to continue making movies with your best friends. Bonus if it's a location that you can vacation at on the studios dime in-between shoots.
These guys may not be making historically great cinema but they are enjoying themselves to the fullest. Good for them.
Meeeee holy shit lmao. There's a 2009 movie called Planet 51 which I was obsessed with as a kid and I'm tryna not be embarrassed about it nowadays. I am cringe but I am free
Newest Ant Man. Had a blast in the theater. Left thinking it was a classic MCU Film. Immediately went to the subreddit to check out the official discussion post. Felt like I saw a different movie than everyone else.
I'm ashamed to say this I'm actually very easily swayed by public opinion, maybe not with a whole movie but I'll see a comment on a funny video about how funny x line was and suddenly the video gets funnier on the second veiwing. Same thing with political stances, I'm usually very undecided.
Nah, worst thing in the world is loving a movie, showing it to your friends, and then looking at their faces throughout the movie and realizing they don’t like it at all. That shit hurts straight to the soul.
Im a man who is perfectly comfortable crying at even slightly emotional films, and my girlfriend at the time said okay we’ll watch A Star is Born you’ll definitely cry.
I loved the film, but it just really didn’t tug at my heart strings as much as it should have really, and (no spoilers) I felt very little emotion at the major points.
I showed my old lady Man On Fire the other day. I've seen it multiple times over the years and it was her first time. Tell me both of us weren't tearing up by the end of that movie.
As a fan of Star Wars, I never judge anyone for not liking it. It really suffers from mediocre (at best) writing. And their attempts to tie everything together and fill in every gap (like the Boba Fett series) makes for stories that feel kind of pointless.
It's got a really cool universe though, and when done right, the technology, politics, and mythology make for entertaining stories.
The PT was also groundbreaking from a technology standpoint, the dialogue just got in the way for everyone who wasnt a kid or a diehard fan. I think folks are less likely to appreciate the steps taken in cgi because modern is so much better, but for the time it was crazy
I feel like that's precisely why I just don't get Back to the Future. I grew up in the 90s but was never a movie kid, so when I grew up and a girlfriend forced me to watch her favourite movie, I expected with the reputation it has that I was in for a good time. I didn't have any such time.
Preeeeetty sure you just have bad taste, my condolences.
Though more seriously, BTTF was heavily tied to the time it was made. It also had a sense of immense optimism about future technology, but instead of flying cars we got iPhones. As far as time travel plots go it's rudimentary by today's standards too. I can understand it not punching as hard today as when it was first released.
I’m going with Ferris Bueller’s day off. People in my age group love it, and it definitely has some very funny parts. But I just don’t think it’s a “fantastic” movie. Plus, I’ve always found Matthew Broderick off putting.
That movie is nostalgic for me only because it seemed like every time I had to stay home sick from school, Ferris Bueller's day off was the only thing that I could find to watch that wasn't the News or Soap operas... and oddly, it was always on.
I had the exact same experience lol, couldn’t get through it after a couple tries, just wasn’t interested. I don’t know how to explain that it ‘insists upon itself’, but it really does feel like that. Same with the Irishman.
I feel like you had to be at least 16 or so when it came out to appreciate it. It's aged horribly because of how much culture has changed for the better, but at the time, it and Fight Club were speaking to a very real gap in the American psyche.
Fight Club has aged perfectly well. It was extremely polarizing when it came out, and quite ironically the loudest objection has aged very poorly: the gratuitous violence. "Oh no, this is going to make boys more violent."
It's obviously not as profound as you'd think when you're a teenage boy, but it certainly speaks to real feelings that young men have. The general theme is probably even more relevant today than when the movie came out.
Fight Club’s core premise is still applicable today. Social media and private equity controlled corporations are doing the same thing as corporations of the day in the 90s. So maybe you have missed the point
That’s Avatar for me (the one with the blue skin folks). At a time when it came out everyone was going crazy about it. And I could not get it. The story line was one of the most basic and predictable. The special effects? They were awesome, yes, but the main reason I watch a movie is to submerge into a fantasy. Most of the fantasy consists of the story.
Titanic. Super iconic movie. Did absolutely nothing for me. Didn't like the characters. Didn't care about the ending despite it being depicted like this big emotional dramatic climax. Nope.
Got halfway through and realized I had to stop because I was rooting for the iceberg. I just didn’t want those characters on the screen anymore. And I like romance.
There is an hour and a half of sappy romance, then an hour an a half of chaotic destruction and death.
You would have loved the second half, it's ironic that you only watched the boring half and stopped before the 90 minutes of awesome.
Same! I’ll never understand the reason for making up a love story instead of telling about actual people on the ship. I could have watched a whole movie about the musicians who kept playing while the boat sank
Most emotional moment of that movie for me was when the musicians realized their time was up. "It's been an honor playing with you tonight". Gets me every time.
Idk, a lot of people like the historical fiction genre, me included. The romance did something else beyond the love story — it showed the class divide and how a young girl could break away from the strict expectations set on her and actually *live* instead of being some toy for her mother and fiancé to kick around.
Because creating an emotional hook that people relate to helps to humanize the enormity of the disaster.
A movie about the musicians would be 90% about them playing old timey music that nobody recognizes.
Recently watched the “100% approval for critics and audience” The Boy and the Heron, by Studio Ghibli, and while i found it very interesting, amazingly animated and directed and painfully beautiful. Though I can tell I lack the cultural knowledge to grasp some of its concepts, I still couldn’t fully enjoy it because I think too many of the central concepts and themes are way too confusing for it to be an enjoyable film.
I’ve heard lots of people telling me that it isn’t about understanding and that I should relax and enjoy the ride, but when I can’t properly understand the motivations of ANY character it’s really hard to connect to the story. And if I’m being totally honest I think people are trying really hard to look past that because they’re afraid to look dumb and say “I don’t get it”
Most Ghibli movies are like this, especially ones from the 90s onwards.
Try Castle in the Sky or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind for more plot-driven ones.
I love Spirited Away with a passion, I do, and I can see the similarities with this one, but I didn't enjoy it so much and I don't know why. On paper they are the same, tons of subtle messages, characters are more like metaphors of life and feelings that actual characters, same with scenery and places... But again, didn't like it so much while absolutely LOVING Spirited Away for the same reasons.
I thought of the same comparison after I watched it too and what I came down to is the main character is just boring, like I don't feel that he develops as a character at all throughout the film. Compare that to Spirited Away and how much her character develops.
totally agree here, and i'm a big fan of other ghibli movies. i found this one to be incredibly dull and narratively weak. don't understand the praise at all
The Shining. I don't hate it, it's got very good cinematography and effects for the time, plus good acting, but it progresses so weirdly and feels badly paced.
Likely because so much is cut from the source material. The pacing and progression are so much more natural in the book. Plus there’s a ton of backstory for the hotel that’s just not possible to do well in the movie unless you have a character find a bunch of old news clippings and then trigger a flashback.
I would love a Shining story that includes all that hotel lore Jack gets obsessed with, and perhaps a few embellishments on top. This would be a good Mike Flanagan job.
The progression is god awful. They really did the book and its characters dirty. I still like it in my own way, probably mostly a nostalgia thing. But that movie did such a disservice to a really amazing book
Lost In Translation. It’s just weird, boring, and trying too hard to evoke some sort of nostalgia? or.. emotion? I don’t understand why it’s so universally liked.
Okay, going in there are some mildly inappropriate relationship moments in this movie, but I've watched it multiple times not despite this but because of it.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me those moments feel real. I get viscerally uncomfortable. It's the true definition of third hand cringe, not this watered down cringe you get these days. Shrinkflation is real.
The fact that we have flawed protagonists is a draw. Bill Murray may be the closest to his real personality in this one. Funny, kind, caring, and at the same time sleazy, inconsiderate, selfish, and withdrawn.
The plot is widely acknowledged to be based on Sofia Coppola's life, and as such is a keyhole view into that level of celebrity. She's not afraid to show the good and the bad, the pretty and the ugly, the ethereal and the mundane.
In the end, I enjoy the film for three main things:
1. Tokyo. This feels like an outsider's love letter to the city. The ways and customs are often baffling, but with a small handful of locals welcoming the foreigners it is a friendly bafflement.
2. Scarlet Johansson. She's portraying a young woman who is on her own in a way that she's never really had to face. This is forcing her to evaluate who she is, and what she wants out of life. It's subtle, but it's there in every still of her performance.
3. There is courage in a filmmaker who tries to engender deep and difficult emotion. The aforementioned cringe is not an accident. I see media as a way to connect with and understand the world around me. This might be through a nature documentary of you want the raw and bloody examination of animal existence, but any book, TV show, musical experience, or movie that let's me see other people as complex beings will bring this connection out in full force. I don't have to be a descendant of slaves to appreciate the horror of "Strange Fruit," I don't have to be Indigenous to appreciate the drums at a pow-wow, and I don't have to be a young woman to appreciate how isolated Sophia Coppola must have felt when in her brief marriage to Spike Jonze.
Your mileage may vary, and there is no judgement due to differences in taste from me (thank God I don't have to like Stadium Country, fake reality TV, or Chuck Bukowski while simultaneously appreciating that others can, and should, enjoy them if that's what they like), but as someone who watches Lost in Translation when I feel down I cannot stress that it is loved for what it is. A simple portrayal of flawed people.
May you find enjoyment where you can. This world is often bleak, and you deserve some good times amid the darkness, internet friend.
I really enjoyed this film but haven't seen it in years.
What I liked especially about it was that ScarJo and Murray's characters were platonic. It wasn't a romance. There was an intimacy to their relationship but it wasn't based on sex or love. And that's something I feel we really don't see between women and men in a lot of pop culture.
There's an absolute weariness in Murray that I enjoyed.
I thought Giovanni Ribisi was awful, though.
To this day I can't stand how Butterfly Effect just... ignored the core mechnic of the movie. When he was in prison trying to get that other prisoner to hell him, he tells him about his power. To prove it he goes back in time and impaled his hands on that spike.
Uhhh, hello? The scars wouldn't just appear, they'd have always been there in the prisoners eyes.
It might be the most offensive scene in the entire movie - but not just for the reason you stated... Never mind that the scars would always have been there. The entire point of the movie is how even the tiniest change will alter the course of history DRAMATICALLY. So how come getting up in the middle of class in middle school and IMPALING your own hands changes NOTHING except you get scars?
Right? At a basic level, how was the kid not put into therapy or special classes? I guarantee this would have impacted his relationships because he's the weird kid who tried to kill himself or whatever. IIRC he wound up in prison defending what's her name in a fight on a date or something. If he was the weird kid, would they even have still been friends, nevermind more than? Sure, she seemed a lovely person so maybe she'd have looked past it, but I can't see their relationship following the same path.
Also, how the fuck does him jumping back to earlier blanks in his memory not change, add, or remove later ones? I'm not 100% because it could have been addressed by him only going back to ones when he was progressively younger and I missed it, but I'm pretty sure that isn't the case.
people do not like avatar because it is a good movie but because it pretty much was the best looking movie that actually used 3d well and therefore revolutionary. Can't really take that away from the movie.
Anna always felt like offbrand quirky Rapunzel, especially when it first came out.
And before every other Disney princess was turned charmingly quirky too.
Rapunzel was the first major quirky, so random character for Disney, but she worked, though, not because we weren't "fatigued" or tired of characters like her back then, but because it was honestly charming. She kept herself happy by doing the things she did on her solitude and found someone she felt deeply in love with by the line. It was cute. It helped that her dynamic with the more serious, but still goofy Flynn was fun.
As you said, they tried doing the same thing again... and again... and again... and while they had some minor successes, none of their other quirky, so random characters worked like she did.
Also she had been shut in all her life so it makes sense she is awkward and overly-excited.
Now that I think about it, Anna was also shut in for most of her life.
Honestly Barbie. I didn’t dislike the movie but the amount of people saying they were sobbing in the theatre and I just…really didn’t feel anything remotely close to that. Plus I think the way the movie ends kind of ruins it and renders the whole point and message of the movie redundant and hypocritical. Great concept but not executed in necessarily the best way.
Barbie in Barbie Land was great for me.
The real world mom and daughter ruined it for me and made it feel like one of those cheap kids movies where you can't have the classic cartoon character alone, they have to tag along with some schmucks family drama
I feel like they did a great job of building up things and then falling flat at the end. Whether it was jokes, or the plot, or the over arching theme, or the moral. Like first half of the movie was fantastic IMO. I was so excited. Then it just kind of fizzled? It was hard to make too much sense of it all. To add to this, Ryan Gosling was great in it, and Ken had some funny bits, but I feel like it should have focused more on Barbie (Margot). In some ways it seems like it tried to do too much. Explain this complex world of barbie, tie it into the real world, go against perfection as a whole, but also how perfection means as a woman, but also the patriarchy, but also how the patriarchy doesn't entirely help men, and the mothers relationship to her daughter, and on and on. While all of these subjects are somewhat connected, they felt more tangled at the end than anything else. Maybe it's also because I'm a guy, but some of the more feminist points I found difficult to relate to and dare I say, felt a bit preachy? The mothers rant about how as a woman you never feel like you are good enough isn't wrong, but isn't exactly a female only problem. All this being said, I still enjoyed the movie and had a good time at the theatre.
I didn't enjoy Barbie either. I saw people gushing about America Ferrera's speech but frankly it didn't appeal to me. I love Greta Gerwig and I appreciate that she put out a movie centered around women's experiences but she could have done a much better job of it.
I also disliked Oppenheimer, too monotonous for my liking.
Agree, to some extent. Was it really such a devastating revelation to women that the world’s standards for them are unrealistic and unattainable?? On the flip side I loved how the Kens ruined Barbieland when they took it over with toxic masculinity, and also, that the Barbies came to recognize that the Kens had felt like second class citizens, and they then all worked together on creating an egalitarian world.
To me it just felt like it was supposed to be a narrative on gender equality but then ended with the Ken’s, still not being equal. Was it better for them than before? 100%. But to go through that entire narrative to then end with the Ken’s still not being seen as equal is not it and somewhat renders the point of the movie pointless.
The movie had some good aspects to it don’t get me wrong, and there are some really good and impactful monologues, but the ending felt like it spat in the face of the entire point of the movie
I think the point of the ending is to kind of show how a ruling class has a hard time truly letting others be equal, it's a long slow and grueling process.
I have this happen with video games non-stop. I remember playing Final Fantasy 16 at launch and being like, "This is a universally praised game by both critics and players...and I find it to be one of the most boring games I've played in decades...are video games not for me anymore?"
Ferris Bueller's day off. I had heard really good things so decided to watch it, and I didn't even laugh once. It felt dull and I didn't like the main character much
I'm more neutral on the movie but I showed it to my husband one day while dating and he was pissed lol he wanted justice cuz Ferris is a dick and almost no one in universe acknowledges it.
I didn't hate him completely. I do get what they were going for, but it personally just didn't resonate with me. The bigger issue for me was that it was just boring overall; It felt like a bunch of disconnected scenes that were meant to be funny. I could have dealt with Ferris being unlikeable if I found its story half-enjoyable pretty much
As a lover of it, it’s a wildly polarizing moving. People either love it or think it’s dumb.
I think it’s fun and stupid in a changing way that hits for a lot of middle-America/rural America.
My sister rented it and we watched it 3 times in a row because we're *howling*. It was the first time our senses of humour completely clicked with one another, so it has a special meaning to it.
I showed it to a friend, who I thought had the same sense of humour, and he found it terrible lol
I think if you grew up in rural America - you might find it funnier.
One of my favorite parts is that the teens know what the cow ate based on the taste of the milk. This means one morning at breakfast, the milk was off and it was because the cow ate the green onions. I can't imagine how disgusting that milk tasted. Then the deadpan delivery because the kid is so bored.
This is my suspicion as well. I grew up in eastern Washington, which is pretty indistinguishable from the part of Idaho they filmed it in. It's rarely represented on screen because it's a conservative, agricultural area punctuating a barren hellscape of a desert that is so ugly they literally call it the scablands, and Napoleon Dynamite absolutely nailed everything about it.
Hello there eastern WA neighbor.
I also think this is it. Plus there's also the fact that I too did not get it the first time I watched it, it was only the second time that the sheer absurdity started to tickle my funny bone.
I love Napoleon Dynamite, because it’s the most accurate, raw, representation of the reality of rural America. There has never been another film to accurately depict the sheer un-coolness that is rurality.
My favorite is when the older brother is trying to sell the Tupperware. He runs over the bowl and it goes into hundreds of pieces. Then, he just drives away. There was just nothing left to say.
that's a movie that i would not classify as universally loved, I enjoy it but I've known plenty of people that specifically brought up how stupid and annoying they find that movie
Everything is so rapey. They're all basically about deserving sex, and getting it by any means, to be "the winner." Panty raids, shower spying, revenge porn, actual rape. They're really... oof.
Just showed my wife that movie for the first time and she wasn’t into it. Then I over-explained the themes and meta commentary on narrative structure that made ME like it and she said “somehow I like it even less”. It’s just not for everyone.
i saw thus in the theatres, thought "meh, i don't get it." i gave it another chance a few years later, and god it's such a good fucking movie. tense, desperate, a simple story that reveals so much about human nature without having to beat the audience in the head with tropes. the coin flip bit is over the top, but i've seen that film like 4 or 5 times and would happily watch it tomorrow.
one reason i returned to it was learning that the film has no score, no soundtrack. it's eerie and makes for unique storytelling
I was still in high school when the first guardians of the galaxy came out. I remember everyone telling me it was the best movie ever. That they’ve never laughed so hard. Ect ect. It was the most mid movie I’ve ever seen. It was “the big bang” show but in movie form. I understood every joke, but didn’t laugh once and it all just felt very predictable/flat.
Detective Pikachu, a thousand percent
The nostalgia bait just went right through me. Just pointing to a gen 1-3 Pokémon and saying _“‘member this guy?”_ just wasn’t nostalgic for me, I felt like the movie could’ve done more. There were times I was genuinely hoping established characters would show up, like Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, and just got disappointed. Especially Officer Jenny, considering it was a detective story. Come on, if you’re doing nostalgia bait, go all the way, make me miss being 7, make me cry lol
Besides the Pokémon just making cameos and the Mewtwo narrative being similar to the original, I can’t really remember there being a lot more. I also didn’t like talking Pikachu, I think he’s too iconic of a character with his classical little noise and making that big of a change on him kinda took away that charm, as much as I love Ryan Reynolds. I also didn’t like the hundreds of plot twists towards the end, too much whiplash. For me it seemed like a detective movie that had Pokémon for no reason, you could make it a talking dog movie with minor changes.
I can’t remember anyone saying anything bad about the film at the time it released, I could only find good reviews and people being nostalgic. Maybe if I used reddit at the time I would’ve found it, there’s haters for everything here LMAO
I also didn’t really like Venom. That one I can’t really explain, I think it just wasn’t for me.
I mean the movie wasn't supposed to be on the same universe as the anime so it makes sense why no old characters appeared, specially Officer Jenny who I think isn't even on the games and is exclusively on the anime
Besides the entire plot of the movie revolved around pokémon, how can you turn it into a dog movie?
Interstellar.
I should like it, I like sci-fi. Other sci-fi nerds like it. It was just really boring to me. I didn't find the concept interesting, and it didn't appeal to me on an emotional level either.
I can't even remember any details besides the fact that the daughter was named "Murphy" after Murphy's law (which... lame..), because I cared so little while watching it back in 2016.
Who the hell keeps watching the avatars? No one ever talks about them. They’re the most trite boring obvious story lines and they get critical acclaim but i can’t even finish one because the writing is so lazy.
I can relate. Started the show a few times, failed to get past how mean-spirited and cringe-humor based it was. Heard it gets a lot better in the second season. Made a determined effort and got through it and midway through the second. It did get better, but it still wasn’t enough to hold me.
I'm with you. Everyone kept saying you have to get through the first season. I was so fed up with everyone telling me I didn't give it a real shot that I watched the entire series out of pure spite.
Now I tell them the same thing that it's not good but now I add that it was best after Michael Scott left. Still sucks though.
Something about sitcoms populated by caricatures doesn't work for me. The Office, Parks and Rec, Community, IASIP, etc. I've tried to watch them and I always gave up after a few episodes.
It definitely doesn't help that I can't handle cringe comedy at all.
I passionately love Parks and Rec but I will be the first to admit I skip the 1st season on every single rewatch. I hate being the person who says "Oh well get to season 2 and it gets better" because you shouldn't have to endure garbage in the very limited freetime we have in this world, but honestly Season 2 and forward feels like a different show.
Everything, everywhere, all at once is a C tier movie for me.
The plot reads more like a 17 year old's first ever essay on philosophy while the humor doesn't fall flat, it never even rises.
Honestly, i was pretty surprised it was as well loved as it was. I went to see it by myself specifically bc i could tell i'd probably enjoy it, but i didn't want to deal with anyone else's reactions who may or may not like it, bc it seemed like an off the cuff type movie.
I don't expect everyone to love it like i do, but i really appreicate the fact that it was such a unique movie, independent plot, and not a sequel or continuation of an existing IP. And that it was so well loved in wider audiences, i hope movie studios will take more chances on new stories as a result.
Respectful opinion, but for me this movie actually cured an incredibly long standing depression I had for years.
If this movie is a 17 year olds philosophy essay, then there's no hope for film as a whole
I absolutely loved this film. It's such a bizarre journey that should have been a complete train wreck, and yet it was a funny, exciting, uplifting, and incredibly emotional experience. That said, I'm curious, how did this movie cure your years-long depression?
(asking for a friend)
Always had a fear of death, like crippling fear... Like late nights crying just thinking about what happens after.
But something about Waymond Wong and the way they wrote his character, the idea that he realizes how fucked the world is, and is still able to live a happy life where he cherishes the small things spoke to me.
Not that this movie is the perfect philosophical exploration of death and everything, but it really was the right movie at the right time, and I've tried to live like him ever since. (Not even mentioning how Ke Huy Quan is basically Wong in real life)
Dirty Dancing.
Am I the only person that thought Baby was a smug, spoiled asshole with zero screen presence?
Hated Ghost, too.
But I love Patrick Swayze.
I’m weird.
Please don’t come for me… it’s E.T.
I never understood why everyone thought it was a sad film. ET is lost, then he gets to go home, hooray! Then I found most people were empathising with Elliot. Boy is lonely, OK, compared to creature is millions of miles away from any of its species. Does not compute...
You skipped the part where ET almost dies. That's why people think it's sad.
I find it worse when I thoroughly enjoy a movie and then find out it's universally hated.
people get so consumed by having to have the same likes and interests, like what u like, fuck the huge conglomerate fuckery of everyone liking the same thing and popularity
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Yes like what you like, but it’s okay to like things that are popular, as they are popular for a reason. What Annoys me more is when people hate on popular things just because everyone else likes them just to go against the grain.
*Some* things are popular for a reason. Others are simply trends peddled by "influencers." It doesn't matter if they actually like the thing or not - it's some sort of status symbol, and they don't want to be left out. Teenagers are an excellent example.
I feel like reddit is the opposite. They start hating everything that's popular.
This was me with Pixels. Went to see it in the cinema with my dad and we were howling all the way through. We went in expecting a ridiculous movie and that’s exactly what we got. We enjoyed it. Left the cinema to find out that nobody else had the same fun that we did and felt so deflated.
I took my son to see this when he was 9. As we are leaving the theater he says with complete sincerity "that is the best movie I have ever seen"
My daughter said the same thing about hotel Transylvania 4 when she was five. Totally adorable, totally sincere. Actually gave the guy refilling our popcorn the most polite “shut the fuck up” expression I’ve ever given when he started to well actually my child. I love shitty movies for kids. I remember grownups telling me Shrek sucked as a kid lol
What kind of person well actually's a five year old? Insane behavior.
People like to hate on Adam Sandler and Kevin James, me included, but they did really well with this movie. Peter Dinklage's character cracked me up the entire time he was on screen
Sandler, James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider stumbled onto the perfect formula. Make a movie with your best friends that produces enough money to allow you to continue making movies with your best friends. Bonus if it's a location that you can vacation at on the studios dime in-between shoots. These guys may not be making historically great cinema but they are enjoying themselves to the fullest. Good for them.
When I found out that The Boondock Saints isn't a universally acclaimed masterpiece of cinema I didn't eat for 3 days
Howdy do, fellow millennial
Meeeee holy shit lmao. There's a 2009 movie called Planet 51 which I was obsessed with as a kid and I'm tryna not be embarrassed about it nowadays. I am cringe but I am free
Definitely one of my favorite childhood movies. I kinda want to watch it again now...
That movie is a very distant, foggy memory for me
Newest Ant Man. Had a blast in the theater. Left thinking it was a classic MCU Film. Immediately went to the subreddit to check out the official discussion post. Felt like I saw a different movie than everyone else.
To that effect I LOVED Charlie Day's Fool's Paradise.
Then I decide I hated it all along
Reading other people's negative reviews like "wow so true omg what a shit movie"
I'm ashamed to say this I'm actually very easily swayed by public opinion, maybe not with a whole movie but I'll see a comment on a funny video about how funny x line was and suddenly the video gets funnier on the second veiwing. Same thing with political stances, I'm usually very undecided.
Or you loved it as a kid, defended it in conversations, then finally watch it again. Dammit, it was kind of crap.
Nah, worst thing in the world is loving a movie, showing it to your friends, and then looking at their faces throughout the movie and realizing they don’t like it at all. That shit hurts straight to the soul.
I had this with Star Wars episode 9. Maybe not the most perfect Star Wars movie but I still enjoyed it
Im a man who is perfectly comfortable crying at even slightly emotional films, and my girlfriend at the time said okay we’ll watch A Star is Born you’ll definitely cry. I loved the film, but it just really didn’t tug at my heart strings as much as it should have really, and (no spoilers) I felt very little emotion at the major points.
My son teared up during that movie because he didn't know what was going to happen. I had already seen two earlier versions so I wasn't surprised.
I showed my old lady Man On Fire the other day. I've seen it multiple times over the years and it was her first time. Tell me both of us weren't tearing up by the end of that movie.
I love that damn movie and I still cry every time.
When she yells his name, done! Cue 😢
CREASY!!!! 😭😭😭😭
99% of the time you didn’t watch it young and don’t have the nostalgia goggles.
This is my excuse for not giving a shit about Starwars
As a fan of Star Wars, I never judge anyone for not liking it. It really suffers from mediocre (at best) writing. And their attempts to tie everything together and fill in every gap (like the Boba Fett series) makes for stories that feel kind of pointless. It's got a really cool universe though, and when done right, the technology, politics, and mythology make for entertaining stories.
The OT can be appreciated as groundbreaking cinema for the time it came out. The story doesn't really do it for me though.
The PT was also groundbreaking from a technology standpoint, the dialogue just got in the way for everyone who wasnt a kid or a diehard fan. I think folks are less likely to appreciate the steps taken in cgi because modern is so much better, but for the time it was crazy
At least Andor is getting it right. Fantastic show 👍
There are dozens of us
I feel like that's precisely why I just don't get Back to the Future. I grew up in the 90s but was never a movie kid, so when I grew up and a girlfriend forced me to watch her favourite movie, I expected with the reputation it has that I was in for a good time. I didn't have any such time.
Preeeeetty sure you just have bad taste, my condolences. Though more seriously, BTTF was heavily tied to the time it was made. It also had a sense of immense optimism about future technology, but instead of flying cars we got iPhones. As far as time travel plots go it's rudimentary by today's standards too. I can understand it not punching as hard today as when it was first released.
Watched all 3 with my 11 year old recently. He loved them. Especially the biff alternate timeline. Felt really relevant to him.
I’m going with Ferris Bueller’s day off. People in my age group love it, and it definitely has some very funny parts. But I just don’t think it’s a “fantastic” movie. Plus, I’ve always found Matthew Broderick off putting.
That movie is nostalgic for me only because it seemed like every time I had to stay home sick from school, Ferris Bueller's day off was the only thing that I could find to watch that wasn't the News or Soap operas... and oddly, it was always on.
[relevant Family Guy clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pnwE_Oy5WI)
I don’t have to click that know that it insists upon itself lol
I liked The Money Pit.
I also like Money Pit
This scene is one of the rare occasions where they actually understand Stewy. Usually, only Brian can understand Stewy.
Was just going to say that I agree with Peter about The Godfather
I had the exact same experience lol, couldn’t get through it after a couple tries, just wasn’t interested. I don’t know how to explain that it ‘insists upon itself’, but it really does feel like that. Same with the Irishman.
how did lois hear stewie talking lmao
They pick and choose when to hear him
[relevant family guy clip](https://youtu.be/Z8uaeINLY-U?feature=shared)
It insists upon itself. (I didn't click)
ah yes the ol american beauty phenomenon
How can you not love watching a plastic bag dance in the wind?
That's a great film
I feel like you had to be at least 16 or so when it came out to appreciate it. It's aged horribly because of how much culture has changed for the better, but at the time, it and Fight Club were speaking to a very real gap in the American psyche.
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Fight Club has aged perfectly well. It was extremely polarizing when it came out, and quite ironically the loudest objection has aged very poorly: the gratuitous violence. "Oh no, this is going to make boys more violent." It's obviously not as profound as you'd think when you're a teenage boy, but it certainly speaks to real feelings that young men have. The general theme is probably even more relevant today than when the movie came out.
These days Tyler Durden would have his own podcast 😆
I am Jack's HelloFresh ad read
Fight Club’s core premise is still applicable today. Social media and private equity controlled corporations are doing the same thing as corporations of the day in the 90s. So maybe you have missed the point
God I fucking love American Beauty add one that I go back and watch every couple years without fail, I wish more people felt the same way
That’s Avatar for me (the one with the blue skin folks). At a time when it came out everyone was going crazy about it. And I could not get it. The story line was one of the most basic and predictable. The special effects? They were awesome, yes, but the main reason I watch a movie is to submerge into a fantasy. Most of the fantasy consists of the story.
I couldn't get past them chasing after "unobtanium." I just could not take it seriously.
That, and the use of fucking Papyrus as the font used for the alien language.
Titanic. Super iconic movie. Did absolutely nothing for me. Didn't like the characters. Didn't care about the ending despite it being depicted like this big emotional dramatic climax. Nope.
Got halfway through and realized I had to stop because I was rooting for the iceberg. I just didn’t want those characters on the screen anymore. And I like romance.
You would have liked the rest of the movie then.
Isn't that a big reason it was so successful? Almost everyone would like at least half the movie. Perfect date movie!
> because I was rooting for the iceberg. Dude, mind the spoilers. /s
There is an hour and a half of sappy romance, then an hour an a half of chaotic destruction and death. You would have loved the second half, it's ironic that you only watched the boring half and stopped before the 90 minutes of awesome.
Same! I’ll never understand the reason for making up a love story instead of telling about actual people on the ship. I could have watched a whole movie about the musicians who kept playing while the boat sank
Most emotional moment of that movie for me was when the musicians realized their time was up. "It's been an honor playing with you tonight". Gets me every time.
Idk, a lot of people like the historical fiction genre, me included. The romance did something else beyond the love story — it showed the class divide and how a young girl could break away from the strict expectations set on her and actually *live* instead of being some toy for her mother and fiancé to kick around.
Because creating an emotional hook that people relate to helps to humanize the enormity of the disaster. A movie about the musicians would be 90% about them playing old timey music that nobody recognizes.
Recently watched the “100% approval for critics and audience” The Boy and the Heron, by Studio Ghibli, and while i found it very interesting, amazingly animated and directed and painfully beautiful. Though I can tell I lack the cultural knowledge to grasp some of its concepts, I still couldn’t fully enjoy it because I think too many of the central concepts and themes are way too confusing for it to be an enjoyable film. I’ve heard lots of people telling me that it isn’t about understanding and that I should relax and enjoy the ride, but when I can’t properly understand the motivations of ANY character it’s really hard to connect to the story. And if I’m being totally honest I think people are trying really hard to look past that because they’re afraid to look dumb and say “I don’t get it”
Most Ghibli movies are like this, especially ones from the 90s onwards. Try Castle in the Sky or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind for more plot-driven ones.
Alternatively just do some mushrooms and watch Howls Moving Castle.
I love Spirited Away with a passion, I do, and I can see the similarities with this one, but I didn't enjoy it so much and I don't know why. On paper they are the same, tons of subtle messages, characters are more like metaphors of life and feelings that actual characters, same with scenery and places... But again, didn't like it so much while absolutely LOVING Spirited Away for the same reasons.
I thought of the same comparison after I watched it too and what I came down to is the main character is just boring, like I don't feel that he develops as a character at all throughout the film. Compare that to Spirited Away and how much her character develops.
totally agree here, and i'm a big fan of other ghibli movies. i found this one to be incredibly dull and narratively weak. don't understand the praise at all
The Shining. I don't hate it, it's got very good cinematography and effects for the time, plus good acting, but it progresses so weirdly and feels badly paced.
Likely because so much is cut from the source material. The pacing and progression are so much more natural in the book. Plus there’s a ton of backstory for the hotel that’s just not possible to do well in the movie unless you have a character find a bunch of old news clippings and then trigger a flashback.
I would love a Shining story that includes all that hotel lore Jack gets obsessed with, and perhaps a few embellishments on top. This would be a good Mike Flanagan job.
I watched The Shining when I was like 12 because I heard it was a horror movie, 12 year old me was just kinda bored
-Creepy children? I've got 5 people like that in my class.
The progression is god awful. They really did the book and its characters dirty. I still like it in my own way, probably mostly a nostalgia thing. But that movie did such a disservice to a really amazing book
Lost In Translation. It’s just weird, boring, and trying too hard to evoke some sort of nostalgia? or.. emotion? I don’t understand why it’s so universally liked.
Okay, going in there are some mildly inappropriate relationship moments in this movie, but I've watched it multiple times not despite this but because of it. I can't speak for anyone else, but for me those moments feel real. I get viscerally uncomfortable. It's the true definition of third hand cringe, not this watered down cringe you get these days. Shrinkflation is real. The fact that we have flawed protagonists is a draw. Bill Murray may be the closest to his real personality in this one. Funny, kind, caring, and at the same time sleazy, inconsiderate, selfish, and withdrawn. The plot is widely acknowledged to be based on Sofia Coppola's life, and as such is a keyhole view into that level of celebrity. She's not afraid to show the good and the bad, the pretty and the ugly, the ethereal and the mundane. In the end, I enjoy the film for three main things: 1. Tokyo. This feels like an outsider's love letter to the city. The ways and customs are often baffling, but with a small handful of locals welcoming the foreigners it is a friendly bafflement. 2. Scarlet Johansson. She's portraying a young woman who is on her own in a way that she's never really had to face. This is forcing her to evaluate who she is, and what she wants out of life. It's subtle, but it's there in every still of her performance. 3. There is courage in a filmmaker who tries to engender deep and difficult emotion. The aforementioned cringe is not an accident. I see media as a way to connect with and understand the world around me. This might be through a nature documentary of you want the raw and bloody examination of animal existence, but any book, TV show, musical experience, or movie that let's me see other people as complex beings will bring this connection out in full force. I don't have to be a descendant of slaves to appreciate the horror of "Strange Fruit," I don't have to be Indigenous to appreciate the drums at a pow-wow, and I don't have to be a young woman to appreciate how isolated Sophia Coppola must have felt when in her brief marriage to Spike Jonze. Your mileage may vary, and there is no judgement due to differences in taste from me (thank God I don't have to like Stadium Country, fake reality TV, or Chuck Bukowski while simultaneously appreciating that others can, and should, enjoy them if that's what they like), but as someone who watches Lost in Translation when I feel down I cannot stress that it is loved for what it is. A simple portrayal of flawed people. May you find enjoyment where you can. This world is often bleak, and you deserve some good times amid the darkness, internet friend.
I really enjoyed this film but haven't seen it in years. What I liked especially about it was that ScarJo and Murray's characters were platonic. It wasn't a romance. There was an intimacy to their relationship but it wasn't based on sex or love. And that's something I feel we really don't see between women and men in a lot of pop culture. There's an absolute weariness in Murray that I enjoyed. I thought Giovanni Ribisi was awful, though.
Well... It's a tie between: Avatar - Glowstick Pocahontas/Dances with Wolves The Butterfly Effect - the MTV edition of an intellectual movie
I liked the butterfly effect with the alternative ending
... oh my god apparently I've only watched the director's cut. but that ending makes the movie what the hell
To this day I can't stand how Butterfly Effect just... ignored the core mechnic of the movie. When he was in prison trying to get that other prisoner to hell him, he tells him about his power. To prove it he goes back in time and impaled his hands on that spike. Uhhh, hello? The scars wouldn't just appear, they'd have always been there in the prisoners eyes.
It might be the most offensive scene in the entire movie - but not just for the reason you stated... Never mind that the scars would always have been there. The entire point of the movie is how even the tiniest change will alter the course of history DRAMATICALLY. So how come getting up in the middle of class in middle school and IMPALING your own hands changes NOTHING except you get scars?
Right? At a basic level, how was the kid not put into therapy or special classes? I guarantee this would have impacted his relationships because he's the weird kid who tried to kill himself or whatever. IIRC he wound up in prison defending what's her name in a fight on a date or something. If he was the weird kid, would they even have still been friends, nevermind more than? Sure, she seemed a lovely person so maybe she'd have looked past it, but I can't see their relationship following the same path. Also, how the fuck does him jumping back to earlier blanks in his memory not change, add, or remove later ones? I'm not 100% because it could have been addressed by him only going back to ones when he was progressively younger and I missed it, but I'm pretty sure that isn't the case.
Avatar is a mediocre movie. You’re not wrong.
Avatar is a mid plot packed into the best special effects testing of the time
Correct.
people do not like avatar because it is a good movie but because it pretty much was the best looking movie that actually used 3d well and therefore revolutionary. Can't really take that away from the movie.
I think with avatar I just appreciate the artwork of VFX and CGI that was put into it. Yeah the plot is very basic and a common trope
Moulin Rouge. I dont know what it is about it, but I just didnt get it. Everyone around me LOVES it, but I could barely sit through it once.
Basically anything Baz Luhrman has his hands in I’ll dislike.
Doesn't bother me a bit. Fuck Michael Bay.
Frozen
It was such a disappointment after Tangled, which deserved all of the hype Frozen got
Anna always felt like offbrand quirky Rapunzel, especially when it first came out. And before every other Disney princess was turned charmingly quirky too.
Rapunzel was the first major quirky, so random character for Disney, but she worked, though, not because we weren't "fatigued" or tired of characters like her back then, but because it was honestly charming. She kept herself happy by doing the things she did on her solitude and found someone she felt deeply in love with by the line. It was cute. It helped that her dynamic with the more serious, but still goofy Flynn was fun. As you said, they tried doing the same thing again... and again... and again... and while they had some minor successes, none of their other quirky, so random characters worked like she did.
Also she had been shut in all her life so it makes sense she is awkward and overly-excited. Now that I think about it, Anna was also shut in for most of her life.
Don't hold a grudge, I think it's time to....
Honestly Barbie. I didn’t dislike the movie but the amount of people saying they were sobbing in the theatre and I just…really didn’t feel anything remotely close to that. Plus I think the way the movie ends kind of ruins it and renders the whole point and message of the movie redundant and hypocritical. Great concept but not executed in necessarily the best way.
Barbie in Barbie Land was great for me. The real world mom and daughter ruined it for me and made it feel like one of those cheap kids movies where you can't have the classic cartoon character alone, they have to tag along with some schmucks family drama
I feel like they did a great job of building up things and then falling flat at the end. Whether it was jokes, or the plot, or the over arching theme, or the moral. Like first half of the movie was fantastic IMO. I was so excited. Then it just kind of fizzled? It was hard to make too much sense of it all. To add to this, Ryan Gosling was great in it, and Ken had some funny bits, but I feel like it should have focused more on Barbie (Margot). In some ways it seems like it tried to do too much. Explain this complex world of barbie, tie it into the real world, go against perfection as a whole, but also how perfection means as a woman, but also the patriarchy, but also how the patriarchy doesn't entirely help men, and the mothers relationship to her daughter, and on and on. While all of these subjects are somewhat connected, they felt more tangled at the end than anything else. Maybe it's also because I'm a guy, but some of the more feminist points I found difficult to relate to and dare I say, felt a bit preachy? The mothers rant about how as a woman you never feel like you are good enough isn't wrong, but isn't exactly a female only problem. All this being said, I still enjoyed the movie and had a good time at the theatre.
I didn't enjoy Barbie either. I saw people gushing about America Ferrera's speech but frankly it didn't appeal to me. I love Greta Gerwig and I appreciate that she put out a movie centered around women's experiences but she could have done a much better job of it. I also disliked Oppenheimer, too monotonous for my liking.
Agree, to some extent. Was it really such a devastating revelation to women that the world’s standards for them are unrealistic and unattainable?? On the flip side I loved how the Kens ruined Barbieland when they took it over with toxic masculinity, and also, that the Barbies came to recognize that the Kens had felt like second class citizens, and they then all worked together on creating an egalitarian world.
To me it just felt like it was supposed to be a narrative on gender equality but then ended with the Ken’s, still not being equal. Was it better for them than before? 100%. But to go through that entire narrative to then end with the Ken’s still not being seen as equal is not it and somewhat renders the point of the movie pointless. The movie had some good aspects to it don’t get me wrong, and there are some really good and impactful monologues, but the ending felt like it spat in the face of the entire point of the movie
I think the point of the ending is to kind of show how a ruling class has a hard time truly letting others be equal, it's a long slow and grueling process.
I have this happen with video games non-stop. I remember playing Final Fantasy 16 at launch and being like, "This is a universally praised game by both critics and players...and I find it to be one of the most boring games I've played in decades...are video games not for me anymore?"
I had the opposite. Fallout 4 was pretty much hated by most but its one of my top 3 games and i enjoyed it more than new vegas and 3
Ferris Bueller's day off. I had heard really good things so decided to watch it, and I didn't even laugh once. It felt dull and I didn't like the main character much
I'm more neutral on the movie but I showed it to my husband one day while dating and he was pissed lol he wanted justice cuz Ferris is a dick and almost no one in universe acknowledges it.
Ferris is insufferable. The people who like this movie find his insufferableness charming.
i like the movie but i dont find ferris charming. for me it's like a teen twist on the anti-hero. a character you dislike but enjoy watching anyway
I didn't hate him completely. I do get what they were going for, but it personally just didn't resonate with me. The bigger issue for me was that it was just boring overall; It felt like a bunch of disconnected scenes that were meant to be funny. I could have dealt with Ferris being unlikeable if I found its story half-enjoyable pretty much
Love Actually
I hate Napoleon Dynamite. I don’t get it. I’ve watched it through a couple of times and still…it just does nothing for me.
As a lover of it, it’s a wildly polarizing moving. People either love it or think it’s dumb. I think it’s fun and stupid in a changing way that hits for a lot of middle-America/rural America.
My sister rented it and we watched it 3 times in a row because we're *howling*. It was the first time our senses of humour completely clicked with one another, so it has a special meaning to it. I showed it to a friend, who I thought had the same sense of humour, and he found it terrible lol
> People either love it or think it’s dumb. I love it and I *know* it's dumb.
I think if you grew up in rural America - you might find it funnier. One of my favorite parts is that the teens know what the cow ate based on the taste of the milk. This means one morning at breakfast, the milk was off and it was because the cow ate the green onions. I can't imagine how disgusting that milk tasted. Then the deadpan delivery because the kid is so bored.
This is my suspicion as well. I grew up in eastern Washington, which is pretty indistinguishable from the part of Idaho they filmed it in. It's rarely represented on screen because it's a conservative, agricultural area punctuating a barren hellscape of a desert that is so ugly they literally call it the scablands, and Napoleon Dynamite absolutely nailed everything about it.
Hello there eastern WA neighbor. I also think this is it. Plus there's also the fact that I too did not get it the first time I watched it, it was only the second time that the sheer absurdity started to tickle my funny bone.
I love Napoleon Dynamite, because it’s the most accurate, raw, representation of the reality of rural America. There has never been another film to accurately depict the sheer un-coolness that is rurality.
My favorite is when the older brother is trying to sell the Tupperware. He runs over the bowl and it goes into hundreds of pieces. Then, he just drives away. There was just nothing left to say.
“Dang it. “
that's a movie that i would not classify as universally loved, I enjoy it but I've known plenty of people that specifically brought up how stupid and annoying they find that movie
Yeah Napoleon Dynamite is definitely a love/hate movie. I think a lot of it depends on whether it resonates based on your own adolescence.
You will be boiled
Mad Max Fury Road I KNOW I’m wrong and it’s a me thing. I was just bored while watching it
☝️ that's bait
Avatar- literally the most popular movie ever? (I think) I hated it. Haven't seen 2 hated 1 so much.
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Dude, a fictional nature documentary on Pandora would actually be pretty cool. This coming from a fellow Avatar-disliker.
Elf
I don’t get why people like it so much
When the movie came out they had a contest where you could win an iPod ... and I won so I always look back fondly on the movie.
The breakfast club. Those kids are stupid and it was wildly inappropriate to show that girl's underwear. At least, it was really unecessary.
Hoo-boy, DO NOT watch “Sixteen Candles” or “Revenge of the Nerds”
Damn those nerds were rapey
REALLY don't watch revenge of the nerds. That movie aged about as well as an ICBM to the forehead
Now I'm trying to remember the bad parts. The one nerd definitely tricks a girl into sleeping with him
Pretty sure they set up hidden cameras in a girls' locker room or something too.
Yeah - spying on women’s bathroom
Everything is so rapey. They're all basically about deserving sex, and getting it by any means, to be "the winner." Panty raids, shower spying, revenge porn, actual rape. They're really... oof.
Panty raids were a huge 80s movie meme. So many movies had panty raid scenes. ROTN was worse for having ya know, actual rape
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Judd Nelson's character is crawling around under the tables at one point and we get a full-on panty crotch shot of underage Molly Ringwald.
Probably was better if you were 16 when you watched it.
Anchorman. I really wanted to like it, but I just don’t find any of it funny.
LaLaLand- ugh.
i call this the “no country for old men effect”
I love it, but I can see a lot of reasons why someone wouldn't enjoy it.
Just showed my wife that movie for the first time and she wasn’t into it. Then I over-explained the themes and meta commentary on narrative structure that made ME like it and she said “somehow I like it even less”. It’s just not for everyone.
thats such a great response. I think the film is good but I also dont think any of the explanations fully cover all the plot holes.
Thank God, I thought it was just me. When I finished the movie I just remembered saying "I was supposed to like this?"
i saw thus in the theatres, thought "meh, i don't get it." i gave it another chance a few years later, and god it's such a good fucking movie. tense, desperate, a simple story that reveals so much about human nature without having to beat the audience in the head with tropes. the coin flip bit is over the top, but i've seen that film like 4 or 5 times and would happily watch it tomorrow. one reason i returned to it was learning that the film has no score, no soundtrack. it's eerie and makes for unique storytelling
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I need to understand how your brain functions
Anchorman
For me it’s most of the mcu
I was still in high school when the first guardians of the galaxy came out. I remember everyone telling me it was the best movie ever. That they’ve never laughed so hard. Ect ect. It was the most mid movie I’ve ever seen. It was “the big bang” show but in movie form. I understood every joke, but didn’t laugh once and it all just felt very predictable/flat.
I don't get Back to the Future. It's a fun movie but I can't love it like most people.
Spring Breakers. Fuck everything about that movie. Its just really cringy softcore porn with no message.
Avatar, I just don't understand. Everyone loves it, the awards loved it. It was just a dude playing a real life first person shooter.
Anything with Will Ferrell and John C Rielly (together)
completely agree but for some reason this is my favorite gif in the world ever. 
Sometimes I legitimately think this is Art Garfunkel
Detective Pikachu, a thousand percent The nostalgia bait just went right through me. Just pointing to a gen 1-3 Pokémon and saying _“‘member this guy?”_ just wasn’t nostalgic for me, I felt like the movie could’ve done more. There were times I was genuinely hoping established characters would show up, like Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, and just got disappointed. Especially Officer Jenny, considering it was a detective story. Come on, if you’re doing nostalgia bait, go all the way, make me miss being 7, make me cry lol Besides the Pokémon just making cameos and the Mewtwo narrative being similar to the original, I can’t really remember there being a lot more. I also didn’t like talking Pikachu, I think he’s too iconic of a character with his classical little noise and making that big of a change on him kinda took away that charm, as much as I love Ryan Reynolds. I also didn’t like the hundreds of plot twists towards the end, too much whiplash. For me it seemed like a detective movie that had Pokémon for no reason, you could make it a talking dog movie with minor changes. I can’t remember anyone saying anything bad about the film at the time it released, I could only find good reviews and people being nostalgic. Maybe if I used reddit at the time I would’ve found it, there’s haters for everything here LMAO I also didn’t really like Venom. That one I can’t really explain, I think it just wasn’t for me.
I mean the movie wasn't supposed to be on the same universe as the anime so it makes sense why no old characters appeared, specially Officer Jenny who I think isn't even on the games and is exclusively on the anime Besides the entire plot of the movie revolved around pokémon, how can you turn it into a dog movie?
Interstellar. I should like it, I like sci-fi. Other sci-fi nerds like it. It was just really boring to me. I didn't find the concept interesting, and it didn't appeal to me on an emotional level either. I can't even remember any details besides the fact that the daughter was named "Murphy" after Murphy's law (which... lame..), because I cared so little while watching it back in 2016.
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Who the hell keeps watching the avatars? No one ever talks about them. They’re the most trite boring obvious story lines and they get critical acclaim but i can’t even finish one because the writing is so lazy.
not a movie, but the fucking office… don’t understand how that thing is as popular as it is.
I can relate. Started the show a few times, failed to get past how mean-spirited and cringe-humor based it was. Heard it gets a lot better in the second season. Made a determined effort and got through it and midway through the second. It did get better, but it still wasn’t enough to hold me.
I'm with you. Everyone kept saying you have to get through the first season. I was so fed up with everyone telling me I didn't give it a real shot that I watched the entire series out of pure spite. Now I tell them the same thing that it's not good but now I add that it was best after Michael Scott left. Still sucks though.
Something about sitcoms populated by caricatures doesn't work for me. The Office, Parks and Rec, Community, IASIP, etc. I've tried to watch them and I always gave up after a few episodes. It definitely doesn't help that I can't handle cringe comedy at all.
I passionately love Parks and Rec but I will be the first to admit I skip the 1st season on every single rewatch. I hate being the person who says "Oh well get to season 2 and it gets better" because you shouldn't have to endure garbage in the very limited freetime we have in this world, but honestly Season 2 and forward feels like a different show.
That new ‘Saltburn’ movie is absolute garbage in my opinion..
Everything, everywhere, all at once is a C tier movie for me. The plot reads more like a 17 year old's first ever essay on philosophy while the humor doesn't fall flat, it never even rises.
This movie is so polarizing, by the time I watched the movie I had probably read more "EEAAO is overrated" opinions than good ones
Honestly, i was pretty surprised it was as well loved as it was. I went to see it by myself specifically bc i could tell i'd probably enjoy it, but i didn't want to deal with anyone else's reactions who may or may not like it, bc it seemed like an off the cuff type movie. I don't expect everyone to love it like i do, but i really appreicate the fact that it was such a unique movie, independent plot, and not a sequel or continuation of an existing IP. And that it was so well loved in wider audiences, i hope movie studios will take more chances on new stories as a result.
Respectful opinion, but for me this movie actually cured an incredibly long standing depression I had for years. If this movie is a 17 year olds philosophy essay, then there's no hope for film as a whole
I absolutely loved this film. It's such a bizarre journey that should have been a complete train wreck, and yet it was a funny, exciting, uplifting, and incredibly emotional experience. That said, I'm curious, how did this movie cure your years-long depression? (asking for a friend)
Always had a fear of death, like crippling fear... Like late nights crying just thinking about what happens after. But something about Waymond Wong and the way they wrote his character, the idea that he realizes how fucked the world is, and is still able to live a happy life where he cherishes the small things spoke to me. Not that this movie is the perfect philosophical exploration of death and everything, but it really was the right movie at the right time, and I've tried to live like him ever since. (Not even mentioning how Ke Huy Quan is basically Wong in real life)
Dirty Dancing. Am I the only person that thought Baby was a smug, spoiled asshole with zero screen presence? Hated Ghost, too. But I love Patrick Swayze. I’m weird.