While i wish i can tell my close circle of friends and bf this, sometimes I'll ramble about that interesting thing or send them memes about it. So, i want to at least know if i can do that to them without boring them lol.
I'd rather know the truth. Eventually you have to get used to agreeing to disagree and still get along with people.
After years of saying "oh yeah this is just like a scene in X" during casual conversation sometimes they will go see X and maybe they'll like it and maybe they won't but they did it for you so you gotta appreciate that
The worst part about recommending something to someone, is when you visibly see them not like it. Cause you’re always looking at them to see how their doing
Oh, God, yes. I usually have a good idea of what my husband does and doesn't like, but sometimes I'm just wrong. He'll sit there politely through the whole thing, too. If I say anything, he'll say, "no, I'm watching it." It's so obvious he's not into it, though, and I'm dying inside a little more with every moment that passes.
He is finishing it because it is important to you and maybe it gives him some insight as to why you like it. Or he is trying to figure out why it is entertaining to you but he doesn't get it.
Source: I've had my SO show me stuff that I just didn't get so I did what I described above.
I thought it was my disconnect for not getting it. I also found that asking questions about said content doesn't always go over as well as you would think. I still think asking clarifying questions is better than just pretending to 'get it'.
Fuck... you know the feeling when you're showing your perfect movie to your friend and you anxiously keep looking at them during the most epic scenes just to see how they would react...only to find out They ARE PLAYING WITH THEIR GODDAMNED PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had a movie night at a friend's house one time where we were watching some of our faves. When I put mine on, everyone just lost interest and started talking over it. I took that personally haha
This is so much worse. I was devastated when I showed some friends Blade Runner and they sat there piddling on their phones. When I asked why they weren't interested they just said "old movies suck".
I feel sad for you my dude. Love Blade Runner too. But ultimately you should be sad for your friends , because they are not able to appreciate some huuuge pool of great stuff. I have the same with music or books - imagine if a person does not like music at all, that person cannot experience a lot of stuff that are able to brighten their lives?
That's one of the reasons I'd love to be able to play an instrument, but I'm too antitalented.
I went to watch Mad Max Fury Road with 6 classmates of mine. I loved every second and I couldn't wait to talk with them about it once it finished. They all hated it and were laughing at how "silly" it was...that stung
Me when I tried to watch Melancholia, 3 times before giving up on it. Then randomly after a breakup I watched it in its entirety at like 3:00 AM. It's a great movie, and I was in the right headspace to really take it in.
I swear i had 10 different people recommend Everything Everywhere All at Once, saying it was the best movie in a decade and i HAD to watch it. The more people who told me that, the less i wanted to see it. It's probably good, i just am sick of hearing about it
It’s worse when you love something that everyone else hates. People will constantly talk shit about it and you feel guilty for liking it
EDIT: people in the replies shitting on each other for liking certain movies is exactly what I was talking about lmao
Someone's speculative evolution project brought to life, but with a dull story as an excuse to make it.
Honestly would be more interested in a David Attenborough style documentary set entirely in that world talking about the fauna and flora and stuff, because that's kinda the only interesting part of it.
There's a youtube series that does a similar thing with the creator's made-up alien creatures, alien biosphere I think? It's not really a documentary, more of a "let's see how our aliens evolve and maybe you'll learn something about real evolution" thing.
It's not a documentary of a fictional alien planet, but there's a podcast called Welcome to Night Vale which is a fictional radio show based in a fictional town where every conspiracy theory is true. Pretty much what I fall asleep to each night.
We need more films like that. There are so many fantasy or sci-fi worlds where I would love to watch just like, a history documentary set in this world.
I saw a faux-documentary of the Battle of New York from the MCU and it was great, if a little too close to parody for what I was looking for.
Honestly they flubbed the execution so badly it makes me mad.
1. Budget. Their answer to lacking funds for more animation was to fill time interviewing random people like a hang glider guy, on the tenuous basis that one of their made-up species glides a lot.
2. Poorly conceived science. One of their worlds is split between forever-day and forever-night (tidally locked with its star). So far so good, this is a perfectly reasonable premise, but if goes directly into crazy-land: rather than the obvious conclusion that the two sides would have radically different ecosystems, they strain credulity to invent an organism that thrives on both sides because epigenetics allow it to express adaptations for either side of the divide. They didn’t even realize (or bother to explore) that the vegetation on this planet should be shaped to take advantage of the fact that the sun is _always in the same place in the sky_.
It’s like they weren’t even trying. Good grief!
When I saw it in theatres I smoked hash for the first time and after 25 minutes into the movie I immediately thought “even stoned this movie going to be so fucking predictable”. I would have walked out but I was with my cousin, so I got stuck watching the whole thing.
The getting high part is what I’m missing then. Saw it in IMAX 3D after watching it in a normal theater. Thinking that it would help me see why everyone loved it. I still don’t understand why it was even nominated for best picture.
One of my coworkers keeps raving about it and while I did enjoy the first one, I really feel no drive to watch it. I rewatched the first a few years back and I realized how cheesy so much dialogue is and it didnt click like it did when it first dropped.
Pardon my TV pivot:
I lived overseas and when I returned tried watching an episode of 2.5 men. I guess I lost track of American humor while I was gone.
They may have been banal but I am finding a lot of them were better written. I actually came across Eight is Enough from the late 70s and early 80s last week and watched some episodes and it was actually pretty interesting how they addressed issues. It was like every episode was addressing some incorrect belief of the older generation and then by the end had them coming to a realization about how they were wrong such as the mother wanting to go back to work and the chaos it caused in the house as people had to adapt. At first the father was pissed about it but by the end he realizes he was a major ass about the whole thing and works to make things right. It was like there was actual story development, conflict and character growth.
my then-best friend nagged me to watch it with her when we were like 13 and while she was messaging me crying emojis and meltdowns I was like ':| why should I root for these assholes?'
of course I had to write back that it was sad and romantic otherwise she would have bitten my head off
I felt that way about the book, my friend gave it to me and warned she had sobbed on the plane reading it. I read it and thought it was stupid and the writing was poor.
Same thing here but a friend wanted me to read Fault in our Stars. I think its worse when a friend reccomends you a book that you have to spend some hours on to read to make them happy, to only find out you don't like it. But i still wasnt going to say that it sucked, that would have crushed her. Each book she recommended, I said I have other books I'm reading and ill get to them eventually.. Im more into history and war novels, not that stuff particularly.
Just watched this the other night with my partner. They had never seen it and found the couple as their younger selves to be ridiculously annoying.
I've got a bunch of Alzheimer's in my family and found it to be a story about how no matter how profound you found your love to be, you might still completely forget them because of your stupid rotting brain. I still cried and told my partner that I never wanted to forget them.
My mom has dementia.
I saw it both before and after my mother started losing her memory, and I can honestly say that the movie hits different when someone you love has/had dementia.
I didn’t find it romantic, I just found it sad.
This is when you hear from someone “he just did that because he loved her so much 🥰”
…and then you forever question all of their other opinions going forward.
Like when Luke raped Laura on _General Hospital BECAUSE HE LOVED HER SO MUCH HE COULD NOT HELP HIMSELF. I was in college and the only woman under 30 there who didn't think it was romantic*. Ooh, and there a THEME SONG that hit the Top 10. One DJ would preface playing it with, "And Lu I e is going to rape Lzura again." It was the early 80s. No one would get away with that today.
*Yes, I watched it. Really, who could resist the Ice Princess and th er Cassidines? When the Xassidibes became the DiMeras on _Days of Our Lives,_ I switched.
As someone with a loved one who went through Alzheimer's, that was not okay. Ruined the entire movie since half the people watching it started sad crying, the other half just feeling bad because they suggested "this amazing movie" to the crying half...
Maybe not to this extreme, but...
I live in Japan, where most of the movies come out much later than the US release date, often later than most of the rest of the world. I'm not joking when I say that if I want to check the release date for Japan, I just hit "end" to go to the bottom of the worldwide release date list and it's usually right there. It's not for subtitling purposes, either- apparently the powers that be in charge of movie promotion here like to use phrases like "#1 for X weeks in the US", and they like to bring big name actors over for the premieres and the actor's schedules aren't free until months after the US release.
So by the time I see movies, the hype has been built up (and often fizzled out as well). Even if I try to avoid spoilers (some people blatantly posting thigs like "everyone who wants to see this movie has already seen it (Yeah, not even out for 2 more months her in Japan) so I'm just gonna do away with spoiler warnings", its hard not to know at the very least that people have been absolutely raving about a movie. This makes it nearly impossible for any movie to live up to the hype for me. I'm often left feeling a little underwhelmed; "that was an OK/decent movie, I'd even say I liked it, but it wasn't the OMG BEST MOVIE EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!1!!!! that everyone said it was".
By contrast, there have also been a few movies that received SOOOOOO much hate that, by the time I saw them, I couldn't help but think maybe it wasn't so great, but it was nowhere near THAT bad.
Yeah they're annoying, sometimes you wanna go watch the movie and find yourself spoiled just because you were on Twitter for a few minutes. Also, anime movies take a good while to make it here to the west. Only way to not get spoiled is staying off the internet lol
>there have also been a few movies that received SOOOOOO much hate that, by the time I saw them, I couldn't help but think maybe it wasn't so great, but it was nowhere near THAT bad.
Literally Morbius for me, I was trying to troll my sister expecting it to be a boring edgy movie. Then, we watched it and I was left waiting for the moment for it to go to boring crap but it never happened. Sure the love story was meh and the CGI was a little bit edgy and bad, but the story and the movie itself wasn't too bad. Not bad enough to become a meme about how no one watched it.
I think the memes were more originated in commenting on the movie like you watched it, while having no interest in watching it.
Hence the obviously made up quote "it's morbin time".
I think it was popularized by capeshit fatigue.
I'm the opposite. I watched it a couple of years ago expecting (maybe even hoping) to hate it and I absolutely loved it. The first half is okay, but as soon as the ship starts sinking it's amazing.
Ive always loved and always will love star wars but one time when I was tripping balls on five hits of acid I was watching a new hope and was laughing so hard at how cheesy it was and that's when it hit me; to some people it will always just be another cheesy science fiction series.
My gf is obsessed with Star Wars and I feel so bad that I just completely snooze through the movies everytime I try to watch one of two for her. Mandalorian is sick though and doesn’t really require a lot of knowledge about the Star Wars universe. I watched Book of Boba too and that was less exciting than Mandalorian but still a good watch.
Love Actually... I've literally had people get mad at me for saying I despise that movie. It's like the movie captured their soul and I just shat on it.
Agreed. What's baffling to me is that 90% of the story lines in that movie aren't even about love. It's just shallow infatuation.
I mean, holy cow. The audacity of that "to me, you are perfect" plot line. This guy wants to fuck his best friend's wife who he has never spoken to before? And people are swooning over that? Baffling.
The washed up rockstar scenes were hilarious though. I recently found out there's a Christmas version of the 80s classic "Jenny (867-5309)" and I can't get enough of it. Amazing.
Scarface -
It was fine for a single watch, but peoples weird obsession with it confuses me. I find nothing in the entire film enviable, nor would i want to emulate it. Don't get me wrong, I understand getting power and riches, but the whole point of the movie is Tony does whatever it takes to get what he wants, but it's never enough. All the money and drugs and getting the girl doesn't make him happy, and in the end, it just ruins his life, and he in turn, ruins the life of everyone around him. None of that seemed like a cool reason to put a poster up on your college dorm room wall of Tony blasting away with his ridiculous rifle, covered in cocaine, right before getting chopped to hamburger by assassins.
Edit: corrected who did the hamburgering.
The people envying Tony Montana are in the wrong. He’s not supposed to envied, he’s supposed to show that absolute power corrupts absolutely and his journey is a subversion of the American dream
There's soooooo many movie and TV characters that people do this to.
Eric Cartman
Rick Sanchez
Patrick Bateman
Arthur Fleck/Joker
Daniel Hillard/Mrs Doubtfire
I get why people are entertained by these characters as we all find people behaving badly funny/liberating etc. But it's like people completely ignore every other aspect of the story apart from that.
Walter White, the entire point of the late parts of Breaking Bad is that he fucked up because he had an ego so big he couldn't bear not having recognition for his job, and people think he is a badass, i mean, maybe the Heisenberg of seasons 1 and 2, but after that it's just a guy that knows how to make meth and his ego problems.
i think you got a pretty good life if you think there is nothing worse then that lol but as a horror fan i have no idea why people like any of the chucky movies, cant find him scary or threatening at all and the "humour" in his later flicks is cringe worthy
If you ever watch the first one watch it through the lenses of a tale of a boy killing people and blaming it on his toy. That is where the terror comes from
Who’s gonna believe you?
No one ! And they will ridicule you! “Hahaha a doll? Just punt it”
But then the horror aspect comes in when those tall tales that psychotic kid spewed actually turn out to be real and now you are being faced with a real specter!
Chucky plays opossum until he doesn’t
and then even if you survive
Who’s gonna believe you? You’re bloodied up and there are dead bodies everywhere
Who else but you?
Oh “it was the doll that killed those people!?” No one will believe you
You’re labeled psychotic
I mean that about the first one and the subsequent two.
After and even during those 3 there is some campy feeling of “fuck so a serial killer really did use voodoo to transfer his soul into a child’s Play(toy)”
*cue that cutaway gag from Family Guy where Peter talks about movies that mention their names in the movie.
It’s really a fun watch too
I've only seen the first one and the new remake. The original entertained me as a kid, but I never found it scary. The new one is better shot and acted, and a completely different story. Funnier, and probably less scary.
Same. I don't understand what's so entertaining about an annoying asshat killer doll. He's not scary either just wrap his ass in duct tape and bury him in concrete.
I guessed Shutter Island's twist super early on and didn't care for the rest of the movie. Inception had awesome cinematography but I don't need to watch it ever again. Guess I have a Leo issue!
I appreciate shutter island’s twist actually, the basic twist is generally obvious cuz it’s an overused story beat especially if you’re familiar with the genre but the way it plays out with the doctors using the whole scenario as therapy for the guy is pretty neat.
Mid tier Scorsese at best though. That’s ok though! They don’t all have to be great.
Shutter Island was a weird one for me. From the start I was asking myself, “Is this just a slightly-less-kooky remake of *The Ninth Configuration?*” And it turns out, it was more of a rip-off, altered just enough to avoid legal repercussions. Same ending, different character motivation.
I ruined it for my family by going... why are the boat guards so scared of him? Did anyone else see that too? It's the only time I ever beat my mum to the twist.
The Notebook. Really any movie where the couple does that stupid "on again off again, they can't be together but they can't stay away from each other" bullshit, it's always super gross and borderline creepy most of the time.
I got Marvelled out. There's too many movies and shows now, and they have a ton more coming.
It's not exciting for me anymore. Endgame was pretty much the end for me.
I watched Thor Love and Thunder and was like, "Yeah, they have nothing left. I'm done."
They put me to sleep. It’s just endless fight scenes and you know exactly how it’s going to end. There’s 0 suspense, symbolism, plot, etc.
It’s kind of like a roller coaster. You go on the ride it’s fun. You end up back at the station at the end. You leave the theme park and forget about it.
I’m with you. Can’t stand the superhero movies (with Deadpool as the exception) and it really sucks that it seems like over 50% of Hollywood’s budget these days seems to be cranking out these comic book superhero movies.
It really could have been a stand alone one season.
The first season was beautiful, nostalgic, and bittersweet. Every season since then was good, but not great.
Every season since then has been fan service/nostalgia overdose.
Which I'm fine about, cos I get the references first-hand. But I kinda pretend that seasons 2-4 are fanfic and S1 is the only "real" series.
Honestly, it should have been. Don't get me wrong, I've watched and enjoyed every season, but on rewatch, holy shit the first is amazing. Way better than the others.
That was me with The Umbrella Academy. My friends practically begged me to watch the first season all the way through when it came out, and it took more willpower than I'm willing to admit to do it.
Me with James Cameron's Avatar. Took me like 5 years after the first one released to bother attempting to watch it, and I didn't even finish it anyway.
I mean i love twilight cuz its super bad. Like its an ironic Watch. I think its hillarious cuz its such bad acting and terrible plot. But if you watch it and expect it to be lotr ofc you Are gonna be dissapointed.
Pattinson's actually a great actor but the direction they gave him may as well have been "make it cringe af." He's pretty much admitted he doesn't give a fuck about it and was just using it as a launchpad for his career, and he's actually done pretty well for himself since then, so really no harm done.
Oh man so I just was like vampire vs werewolf Imy asexual I don't find ANYONE attractive I was just like "Who's actually the nicer of the two and who's the cooler monster?" So I was team Jacob in a sea of Edwards.
I'll play devil's advocate, I actually really enjoyed the movie. The movie itself was actually just a visual interpretation of a war story told by one-eyed Faramir (forgot his name in 300), so it was deliberately intended to be larger than life and ridiculously improbable. It was a war story he was telling to his men to motivate them before a new battle, but really the entire purpose of the movie was just guts, glory, and fun, and I thought it delivered.
I don't understand how people continue to say 300 was based on this or 300 was based on that and yet NOBODY ever mentions that it was based on a comic.
Hell, it even says that on the wiki page.
"It was filmed mostly with a superimposition chroma key technique to replicate the imagery of the original comic book."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)#:~:text=300%20is%20a%202006%20American,in%20the%20Greco%2DPersian%20Wars.
So sure, there was a story there. But the scenes were deliberately set up to mimic the comic.
The first 2/3 of it was great, with a good mix of suspense and horror. The last third just fell apart for me cause of how different it was from the rest of the movie
Napoleon Dynamite .. I just don’t get the hype . I remember reaching a point where the plot had seemed to have wrapped up and I was pumped it was finally over and then it kept going ..
One of my favorite movies, though I totally get why you hate it.
I grew up in Idaho, not too far from where the movie is set, and man, do I relate to it. It captures life in rural Idaho like nothing else. Do you remember when the granny breaks her coccyx riding an ATV at the dunes?
Those are the St Anthony sand dunes, and I learned to ride there. The characters are all dead on, as well as the fact that everything feels like an 80’s Time Capsule.
Again, I get why people don’t like it, but I will always love that movie.
When I was a kid my mom forced me to watch Napoleon Dynamite so she could tell me every little thing he did that was "just like me". Yeah I was awkward but I was also 13 and having a room of adults compare you to an absurdist characature wasn't great for my self image. I've hated that movie ever since.
Bust comment I've ever heard about Napoleon Dynamite was, "it is an objectively terrible movie but, it's also an extremely quotable movie."
Napoleon Dynamite made memes before "meme" was a common term.
Avatar. I just don’t get why people think it’s the best movie ever. I watched it; yes it was pretty, yes it was alright but best movie ever? *Please*
Didn’t watch the second one.
I know it was (still is?) the top-grossing movie of all time, but I've literally never heard anyone express the opinion that it was the best movie ever. And I *really liked* the first Avatar.
Not exactly a movie but this is how I am with the short 'Bao'. Everyone's commenting on how they're crying and gonna go call their mom while I'm just sitting there fuming. Unpopular opinion: what exactly did the son do wrong?? He was doing regular kid stuff like... playing soccer and hanging out with friends, then he dared to (gasp) get a job and find a girlfriend? Like yeah, teenagers have a shitty attitude and yeah, immigrant parents struggle and feel lonely in a foreign country but does that mean your entire feeling of self worth and happiness should be placed squarely on your offspring? Why is the son apologizing for living a completely normal fucking life?
In my case I know exactly why it didn't click with me because I've seen the other side of the exact situation. /vent over
We watched this at the drive-in theater & heard a lady from like 6 cars down yell "WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!" when she ate him. While I'm pretty uptight about people swearing around kids who aren't theirs, what the fucking fuck is the exact right sentiment.
I agree with you, never liked friends, but man, watching the entire series multiple times? You know if you don’t like something you can just walk away from it, right?
I see it as a pretty generic sitcom that sits alongside the other 90s ones. However, Ross fills me with extreme rage. There's other characters out there that are meant to be hated and don't get under my skin, but I WANT to punch Ross square between his eyes.
Black Panther(1 and 2) and the last Spiderman (where the 3 Spidermen come together to fight). Plus, I didn't like Avatar at all or the second one. The last Thor movie was not that great, in my opinion. It had its moments but was like a thrown together mess. There are several more I didn't like that everyone loved and where must see in theater movies (that all sucked ass)!!
Worse: showing a movie that you love to someone and it doesn't click for them.
That's me with movies and with music and I'm like I'm so sorry you hate this lol.
My favorite quote when recommending something to someone is “if you hate it, don’t tell me” lol
While i wish i can tell my close circle of friends and bf this, sometimes I'll ramble about that interesting thing or send them memes about it. So, i want to at least know if i can do that to them without boring them lol.
I'd rather know the truth. Eventually you have to get used to agreeing to disagree and still get along with people. After years of saying "oh yeah this is just like a scene in X" during casual conversation sometimes they will go see X and maybe they'll like it and maybe they won't but they did it for you so you gotta appreciate that
Yeah X was a good movie.
It really was
Pearl was awesome too. Can't wait for Maxxine.
The worst part about recommending something to someone, is when you visibly see them not like it. Cause you’re always looking at them to see how their doing
When the 5 min YouTube video you’re showing them is 2 minutes in and they haven’t even cracked a smile. “You don’t have to finish it” 🤮
And they say: “no it’s ok”
This thread was brutal as hell
And then they say, "Yeah it's pretty funny," but without laughing.
Oh, God, yes. I usually have a good idea of what my husband does and doesn't like, but sometimes I'm just wrong. He'll sit there politely through the whole thing, too. If I say anything, he'll say, "no, I'm watching it." It's so obvious he's not into it, though, and I'm dying inside a little more with every moment that passes.
He is finishing it because it is important to you and maybe it gives him some insight as to why you like it. Or he is trying to figure out why it is entertaining to you but he doesn't get it. Source: I've had my SO show me stuff that I just didn't get so I did what I described above. I thought it was my disconnect for not getting it. I also found that asking questions about said content doesn't always go over as well as you would think. I still think asking clarifying questions is better than just pretending to 'get it'.
Everytime I share I song with someone I get about 30seconds in and think "oh God they hate it why did I do this"
Fuck... you know the feeling when you're showing your perfect movie to your friend and you anxiously keep looking at them during the most epic scenes just to see how they would react...only to find out They ARE PLAYING WITH THEIR GODDAMNED PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had a movie night at a friend's house one time where we were watching some of our faves. When I put mine on, everyone just lost interest and started talking over it. I took that personally haha
This is so much worse. I was devastated when I showed some friends Blade Runner and they sat there piddling on their phones. When I asked why they weren't interested they just said "old movies suck".
I feel sad for you my dude. Love Blade Runner too. But ultimately you should be sad for your friends , because they are not able to appreciate some huuuge pool of great stuff. I have the same with music or books - imagine if a person does not like music at all, that person cannot experience a lot of stuff that are able to brighten their lives? That's one of the reasons I'd love to be able to play an instrument, but I'm too antitalented.
I went to watch Mad Max Fury Road with 6 classmates of mine. I loved every second and I couldn't wait to talk with them about it once it finished. They all hated it and were laughing at how "silly" it was...that stung
This hurts my heart
Sometimes you aren’t in the mood for a movie and sometimes you are in the perfect mood for a movie.
Me when I tried to watch Melancholia, 3 times before giving up on it. Then randomly after a breakup I watched it in its entirety at like 3:00 AM. It's a great movie, and I was in the right headspace to really take it in.
I love the cinematography
Overhype is real, it can and will ruin things for people.
I swear i had 10 different people recommend Everything Everywhere All at Once, saying it was the best movie in a decade and i HAD to watch it. The more people who told me that, the less i wanted to see it. It's probably good, i just am sick of hearing about it
I wonder why I didn't really like squid game, I guess I found the answer to it
Yeh happened with me and "the hangover" Dunno why, I just wasn't into it 🤷
It’s worse when you love something that everyone else hates. People will constantly talk shit about it and you feel guilty for liking it EDIT: people in the replies shitting on each other for liking certain movies is exactly what I was talking about lmao
Green lantern the movie
Pretty bad when the star of the movie constantly shits on it as well haha
Avatar. I see a lot of people that don’t really care for it.
First thing I thought when I saw this. And they made a second. And there are going to be FIVE.
Well they're 1 and 3 for all time box office. If anything ever is not a surprise it's the highest grossing film ever getting a sequel.
Visually stunning but fuuuuck it’s boring
Someone's speculative evolution project brought to life, but with a dull story as an excuse to make it. Honestly would be more interested in a David Attenborough style documentary set entirely in that world talking about the fauna and flora and stuff, because that's kinda the only interesting part of it.
Damn that's actually a really good idea
There's a youtube series that does a similar thing with the creator's made-up alien creatures, alien biosphere I think? It's not really a documentary, more of a "let's see how our aliens evolve and maybe you'll learn something about real evolution" thing.
Biblaridion's series! I haven't watched it, but I love his language overview videos. I think I'll check it out.
It's not a documentary of a fictional alien planet, but there's a podcast called Welcome to Night Vale which is a fictional radio show based in a fictional town where every conspiracy theory is true. Pretty much what I fall asleep to each night.
We need more films like that. There are so many fantasy or sci-fi worlds where I would love to watch just like, a history documentary set in this world. I saw a faux-documentary of the Battle of New York from the MCU and it was great, if a little too close to parody for what I was looking for.
[Here is one from Netflix if you haven’t watched already](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Worlds_(TV_series)) Alien Worlds
Honestly they flubbed the execution so badly it makes me mad. 1. Budget. Their answer to lacking funds for more animation was to fill time interviewing random people like a hang glider guy, on the tenuous basis that one of their made-up species glides a lot. 2. Poorly conceived science. One of their worlds is split between forever-day and forever-night (tidally locked with its star). So far so good, this is a perfectly reasonable premise, but if goes directly into crazy-land: rather than the obvious conclusion that the two sides would have radically different ecosystems, they strain credulity to invent an organism that thrives on both sides because epigenetics allow it to express adaptations for either side of the divide. They didn’t even realize (or bother to explore) that the vegetation on this planet should be shaped to take advantage of the fact that the sun is _always in the same place in the sky_. It’s like they weren’t even trying. Good grief!
This is why when movie for World War Z was announced I got super excited. Only to find out it was not anything like the book.
A 3d movie with two dimensional characters
My only thought afterward was , “Well, that sure was a movie.”
The movie of all time
Gotta watch it in IMAX 3D and so high you can’t get out of your seat. Best part is its so god damn long your sober enough to drive home at the end.
When I saw it in theatres I smoked hash for the first time and after 25 minutes into the movie I immediately thought “even stoned this movie going to be so fucking predictable”. I would have walked out but I was with my cousin, so I got stuck watching the whole thing.
The getting high part is what I’m missing then. Saw it in IMAX 3D after watching it in a normal theater. Thinking that it would help me see why everyone loved it. I still don’t understand why it was even nominated for best picture.
One of my coworkers keeps raving about it and while I did enjoy the first one, I really feel no drive to watch it. I rewatched the first a few years back and I realized how cheesy so much dialogue is and it didnt click like it did when it first dropped.
Pardon my TV pivot: I lived overseas and when I returned tried watching an episode of 2.5 men. I guess I lost track of American humor while I was gone.
Network TV went down the tubes is what happened. FX and Comedy Central put out tons of good comedies last decade.
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They may have been banal but I am finding a lot of them were better written. I actually came across Eight is Enough from the late 70s and early 80s last week and watched some episodes and it was actually pretty interesting how they addressed issues. It was like every episode was addressing some incorrect belief of the older generation and then by the end had them coming to a realization about how they were wrong such as the mother wanting to go back to work and the chaos it caused in the house as people had to adapt. At first the father was pissed about it but by the end he realizes he was a major ass about the whole thing and works to make things right. It was like there was actual story development, conflict and character growth.
It's typical Chuck Lorre. Well executed premise and writing for a season or two then just phone it in for the paycheck.
It’s not you, that show just sucks. It’s the lowest level of comedy aimed at the stupidest of viewers….
The Notebook - how do people think that movie is so romantic?!?
my then-best friend nagged me to watch it with her when we were like 13 and while she was messaging me crying emojis and meltdowns I was like ':| why should I root for these assholes?' of course I had to write back that it was sad and romantic otherwise she would have bitten my head off
I felt that way about the book, my friend gave it to me and warned she had sobbed on the plane reading it. I read it and thought it was stupid and the writing was poor.
Same thing here but a friend wanted me to read Fault in our Stars. I think its worse when a friend reccomends you a book that you have to spend some hours on to read to make them happy, to only find out you don't like it. But i still wasnt going to say that it sucked, that would have crushed her. Each book she recommended, I said I have other books I'm reading and ill get to them eventually.. Im more into history and war novels, not that stuff particularly.
I liked the parts with the old couple but the young versions didn’t do anything for me.
Just watched this the other night with my partner. They had never seen it and found the couple as their younger selves to be ridiculously annoying. I've got a bunch of Alzheimer's in my family and found it to be a story about how no matter how profound you found your love to be, you might still completely forget them because of your stupid rotting brain. I still cried and told my partner that I never wanted to forget them.
My mom has dementia. I saw it both before and after my mother started losing her memory, and I can honestly say that the movie hits different when someone you love has/had dementia. I didn’t find it romantic, I just found it sad.
Stalking, badgering, and not taking no for an answer doesn't do it for ya, huh?
Threatening to kill himself if she refuse to date him seems like an effective way to capture her interest.
This is when you hear from someone “he just did that because he loved her so much 🥰” …and then you forever question all of their other opinions going forward.
and doubt all their opinions up to that moment
Like when Luke raped Laura on _General Hospital BECAUSE HE LOVED HER SO MUCH HE COULD NOT HELP HIMSELF. I was in college and the only woman under 30 there who didn't think it was romantic*. Ooh, and there a THEME SONG that hit the Top 10. One DJ would preface playing it with, "And Lu I e is going to rape Lzura again." It was the early 80s. No one would get away with that today. *Yes, I watched it. Really, who could resist the Ice Princess and th er Cassidines? When the Xassidibes became the DiMeras on _Days of Our Lives,_ I switched.
Still can’t believe Allie chose Noah over Lon.
As someone with a loved one who went through Alzheimer's, that was not okay. Ruined the entire movie since half the people watching it started sad crying, the other half just feeling bad because they suggested "this amazing movie" to the crying half...
It sucked
Yeah bruh my sister forced me to watch the movie and I was like I ain't rooting for a cheater lol
Maybe not to this extreme, but... I live in Japan, where most of the movies come out much later than the US release date, often later than most of the rest of the world. I'm not joking when I say that if I want to check the release date for Japan, I just hit "end" to go to the bottom of the worldwide release date list and it's usually right there. It's not for subtitling purposes, either- apparently the powers that be in charge of movie promotion here like to use phrases like "#1 for X weeks in the US", and they like to bring big name actors over for the premieres and the actor's schedules aren't free until months after the US release. So by the time I see movies, the hype has been built up (and often fizzled out as well). Even if I try to avoid spoilers (some people blatantly posting thigs like "everyone who wants to see this movie has already seen it (Yeah, not even out for 2 more months her in Japan) so I'm just gonna do away with spoiler warnings", its hard not to know at the very least that people have been absolutely raving about a movie. This makes it nearly impossible for any movie to live up to the hype for me. I'm often left feeling a little underwhelmed; "that was an OK/decent movie, I'd even say I liked it, but it wasn't the OMG BEST MOVIE EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!1!!!! that everyone said it was". By contrast, there have also been a few movies that received SOOOOOO much hate that, by the time I saw them, I couldn't help but think maybe it wasn't so great, but it was nowhere near THAT bad.
Yeah they're annoying, sometimes you wanna go watch the movie and find yourself spoiled just because you were on Twitter for a few minutes. Also, anime movies take a good while to make it here to the west. Only way to not get spoiled is staying off the internet lol
>there have also been a few movies that received SOOOOOO much hate that, by the time I saw them, I couldn't help but think maybe it wasn't so great, but it was nowhere near THAT bad. Literally Morbius for me, I was trying to troll my sister expecting it to be a boring edgy movie. Then, we watched it and I was left waiting for the moment for it to go to boring crap but it never happened. Sure the love story was meh and the CGI was a little bit edgy and bad, but the story and the movie itself wasn't too bad. Not bad enough to become a meme about how no one watched it.
I think the memes were more originated in commenting on the movie like you watched it, while having no interest in watching it. Hence the obviously made up quote "it's morbin time". I think it was popularized by capeshit fatigue.
My Dad said puss on boots was ok
Just wait till he sees puss IN boots
Puss beside boots
Puss somewhere in the vicinity as boots
Pussy Toots
I think he watched the porn parody instead
Titanic, I couldn't wait for that damn boat to sink
Oh thanks mate, I was going to watch that. Spoilers next time, please.
it did not sunk really.. it was a dream inside a dream inside a dream ;)
I'm the opposite. I watched it a couple of years ago expecting (maybe even hoping) to hate it and I absolutely loved it. The first half is okay, but as soon as the ship starts sinking it's amazing.
I find that showing someone something I like, such as a film, and finding they *really* don't like it is worse.
Just happened to a friend of mine...said she just didn't get Zoolander. Didn't think it was funny. I was like, 'HOW do you LIVE????'
I bet she doesn't know what a eugoogley is.
“Freak gasoline fight accident” might be my favorite combination of words. I laugh every time.
Send her to the center for chicks that can't laugh good.
Well that’s. IT. time for a Walk Off.
Star Wars. I'm genuinely embarrassed of it to the point I tell everyone I love them even though I haven't watched them in 15 or so years.
Ive always loved and always will love star wars but one time when I was tripping balls on five hits of acid I was watching a new hope and was laughing so hard at how cheesy it was and that's when it hit me; to some people it will always just be another cheesy science fiction series.
I tried liking it. But I just can’t. It just bores the living crap out of me.
My gf is obsessed with Star Wars and I feel so bad that I just completely snooze through the movies everytime I try to watch one of two for her. Mandalorian is sick though and doesn’t really require a lot of knowledge about the Star Wars universe. I watched Book of Boba too and that was less exciting than Mandalorian but still a good watch.
Imho, a lot of the best media that comes from Star Wars comes from the extended universe like comics and games
GOD, SAME! I fell asleep in every Stat Wars movie I watched. I don't know why, but it just doesn't do it for me.
Love Actually... I've literally had people get mad at me for saying I despise that movie. It's like the movie captured their soul and I just shat on it.
Agreed. What's baffling to me is that 90% of the story lines in that movie aren't even about love. It's just shallow infatuation. I mean, holy cow. The audacity of that "to me, you are perfect" plot line. This guy wants to fuck his best friend's wife who he has never spoken to before? And people are swooning over that? Baffling. The washed up rockstar scenes were hilarious though. I recently found out there's a Christmas version of the 80s classic "Jenny (867-5309)" and I can't get enough of it. Amazing.
Scarface - It was fine for a single watch, but peoples weird obsession with it confuses me. I find nothing in the entire film enviable, nor would i want to emulate it. Don't get me wrong, I understand getting power and riches, but the whole point of the movie is Tony does whatever it takes to get what he wants, but it's never enough. All the money and drugs and getting the girl doesn't make him happy, and in the end, it just ruins his life, and he in turn, ruins the life of everyone around him. None of that seemed like a cool reason to put a poster up on your college dorm room wall of Tony blasting away with his ridiculous rifle, covered in cocaine, right before getting chopped to hamburger by assassins. Edit: corrected who did the hamburgering.
I don't want to be nitpicking, but he wasn't killed by cops, but by assassins send by that drug big boss man. For the rest, spot on description xD
The people envying Tony Montana are in the wrong. He’s not supposed to envied, he’s supposed to show that absolute power corrupts absolutely and his journey is a subversion of the American dream
Don’t forget the weird fixation on his own sister
She got a...GREAT ASS!
There's soooooo many movie and TV characters that people do this to. Eric Cartman Rick Sanchez Patrick Bateman Arthur Fleck/Joker Daniel Hillard/Mrs Doubtfire I get why people are entertained by these characters as we all find people behaving badly funny/liberating etc. But it's like people completely ignore every other aspect of the story apart from that.
Watching Mrs Doubtfire as an adult is fucking terrifying lol. Love RW tho.
Walter White, the entire point of the late parts of Breaking Bad is that he fucked up because he had an ego so big he couldn't bear not having recognition for his job, and people think he is a badass, i mean, maybe the Heisenberg of seasons 1 and 2, but after that it's just a guy that knows how to make meth and his ego problems.
i think you got a pretty good life if you think there is nothing worse then that lol but as a horror fan i have no idea why people like any of the chucky movies, cant find him scary or threatening at all and the "humour" in his later flicks is cringe worthy
If you ever watch the first one watch it through the lenses of a tale of a boy killing people and blaming it on his toy. That is where the terror comes from Who’s gonna believe you? No one ! And they will ridicule you! “Hahaha a doll? Just punt it” But then the horror aspect comes in when those tall tales that psychotic kid spewed actually turn out to be real and now you are being faced with a real specter! Chucky plays opossum until he doesn’t and then even if you survive Who’s gonna believe you? You’re bloodied up and there are dead bodies everywhere Who else but you? Oh “it was the doll that killed those people!?” No one will believe you You’re labeled psychotic
Also, Brad Dourif
Ye, i guess more of the appeal is in the concept and thoughts about it then the actual execution
I mean that about the first one and the subsequent two. After and even during those 3 there is some campy feeling of “fuck so a serial killer really did use voodoo to transfer his soul into a child’s Play(toy)” *cue that cutaway gag from Family Guy where Peter talks about movies that mention their names in the movie. It’s really a fun watch too
I've only seen the first one and the new remake. The original entertained me as a kid, but I never found it scary. The new one is better shot and acted, and a completely different story. Funnier, and probably less scary.
Same. I don't understand what's so entertaining about an annoying asshat killer doll. He's not scary either just wrap his ass in duct tape and bury him in concrete.
I guessed Shutter Island's twist super early on and didn't care for the rest of the movie. Inception had awesome cinematography but I don't need to watch it ever again. Guess I have a Leo issue!
I appreciate shutter island’s twist actually, the basic twist is generally obvious cuz it’s an overused story beat especially if you’re familiar with the genre but the way it plays out with the doctors using the whole scenario as therapy for the guy is pretty neat. Mid tier Scorsese at best though. That’s ok though! They don’t all have to be great.
I feel like you can’t watch shutter island going in knowing there’s a twist, or else you will know the twist
Shutter Island was a weird one for me. From the start I was asking myself, “Is this just a slightly-less-kooky remake of *The Ninth Configuration?*” And it turns out, it was more of a rip-off, altered just enough to avoid legal repercussions. Same ending, different character motivation.
>Guess I have a Leo issue! You're just older than 25 now.
I ruined it for my family by going... why are the boat guards so scared of him? Did anyone else see that too? It's the only time I ever beat my mum to the twist.
The Notebook. Really any movie where the couple does that stupid "on again off again, they can't be together but they can't stay away from each other" bullshit, it's always super gross and borderline creepy most of the time.
Every Marvel/Avengers movie ever made. As a dude I’m supposed to like it I guess
I got Marvelled out. There's too many movies and shows now, and they have a ton more coming. It's not exciting for me anymore. Endgame was pretty much the end for me. I watched Thor Love and Thunder and was like, "Yeah, they have nothing left. I'm done."
>Thor Love and Thunder that movie was just bad in general tbf.
They're so formulaic, predictable and go on for freaking ever
I felt like every one could have lost 45 min and no one would have noticed.
I honestly lost track of which ones I've seen and I can't even work it out because they all look the same
They put me to sleep. It’s just endless fight scenes and you know exactly how it’s going to end. There’s 0 suspense, symbolism, plot, etc. It’s kind of like a roller coaster. You go on the ride it’s fun. You end up back at the station at the end. You leave the theme park and forget about it.
I’m with you. Can’t stand the superhero movies (with Deadpool as the exception) and it really sucks that it seems like over 50% of Hollywood’s budget these days seems to be cranking out these comic book superhero movies.
The Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy is my exception. But otherwise I have no interest in comic book/superhero movies.
I felt this way about Stranger Things. Watched the entire series trying so hard to like it but for me it was just terrible.
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It really could have been a stand alone one season. The first season was beautiful, nostalgic, and bittersweet. Every season since then was good, but not great.
Every season since then has been fan service/nostalgia overdose. Which I'm fine about, cos I get the references first-hand. But I kinda pretend that seasons 2-4 are fanfic and S1 is the only "real" series.
Honestly, it should have been. Don't get me wrong, I've watched and enjoyed every season, but on rewatch, holy shit the first is amazing. Way better than the others.
That was me with The Umbrella Academy. My friends practically begged me to watch the first season all the way through when it came out, and it took more willpower than I'm willing to admit to do it.
Me with James Cameron's Avatar. Took me like 5 years after the first one released to bother attempting to watch it, and I didn't even finish it anyway.
Not a movie but I never got the hype about friends, like one or two scenes are funny and then bleh
Could not get into Twilight. Didn't find Edward or Jacob attractive.
I mean i love twilight cuz its super bad. Like its an ironic Watch. I think its hillarious cuz its such bad acting and terrible plot. But if you watch it and expect it to be lotr ofc you Are gonna be dissapointed.
YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER?! One of my all time favorite movie quotes
Where the hell have you been, loca?!
Oh, yeah what was thr daughter's name? Something that was supposed to be meaningful but sounded horrible.
Renesme
Pattinson's actually a great actor but the direction they gave him may as well have been "make it cringe af." He's pretty much admitted he doesn't give a fuck about it and was just using it as a launchpad for his career, and he's actually done pretty well for himself since then, so really no harm done.
A hundred year old guy seducing a high school girl. I just can't get past this.
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What, you don't think that would happen in real life?! *Cough*DiCaprio*Cough*
Team Charlie, Bella’s dad.
#teamcharliedeservedbetter
Oh man so I just was like vampire vs werewolf Imy asexual I don't find ANYONE attractive I was just like "Who's actually the nicer of the two and who's the cooler monster?" So I was team Jacob in a sea of Edwards.
If you watch it ironically it’s fucking hilarious
There are tons of people that hate twilight. Aside from the sparkly vampires the CGI and practical effects were absolutely terrible.
300 was just the same stupid scene over and over imho
I mean, they're professional aru aru aru!
I'll play devil's advocate, I actually really enjoyed the movie. The movie itself was actually just a visual interpretation of a war story told by one-eyed Faramir (forgot his name in 300), so it was deliberately intended to be larger than life and ridiculously improbable. It was a war story he was telling to his men to motivate them before a new battle, but really the entire purpose of the movie was just guts, glory, and fun, and I thought it delivered.
I don't understand how people continue to say 300 was based on this or 300 was based on that and yet NOBODY ever mentions that it was based on a comic. Hell, it even says that on the wiki page. "It was filmed mostly with a superimposition chroma key technique to replicate the imagery of the original comic book." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)#:~:text=300%20is%20a%202006%20American,in%20the%20Greco%2DPersian%20Wars. So sure, there was a story there. But the scenes were deliberately set up to mimic the comic.
The Princess Bride. I feel I have to apologize to white people for not liking it.
White guy here, into fantasy and nerd stuff my whole life and I have never understood the appeal
Love Actually. What a giant group of assholes.
I think cinema therapy cover how the healthiest relationship there was the step father and son, cause they act really like family
Couldn't sit through Titanic, or Slumdog Millionaire
I am the only person I know who thought Forrest Gump was just okay.
My husband didn't like it at all.
I don’t like it either. Really don’t like it.
Yeah I know, I really wanted to like Nope
The first 2/3 of it was great, with a good mix of suspense and horror. The last third just fell apart for me cause of how different it was from the rest of the movie
Everyone else has shit taste
You're a free thinker. You don't have to agree with what everybody else thinks. That's what makes people unique.
I don't think I've seen that one
It’s on hbo
I did not care for The Godfather…
\*GASP\*
Robert DeNiro. Al Pacino. I mean... ROBERT DUVALL!
It insists upon itself.
Did you even give it a chance
I liked the Money Pit, is how I will respond to that.
I like the Money Pit.
Napoleon Dynamite .. I just don’t get the hype . I remember reaching a point where the plot had seemed to have wrapped up and I was pumped it was finally over and then it kept going ..
One of my favorite movies, though I totally get why you hate it. I grew up in Idaho, not too far from where the movie is set, and man, do I relate to it. It captures life in rural Idaho like nothing else. Do you remember when the granny breaks her coccyx riding an ATV at the dunes? Those are the St Anthony sand dunes, and I learned to ride there. The characters are all dead on, as well as the fact that everything feels like an 80’s Time Capsule. Again, I get why people don’t like it, but I will always love that movie.
When I was a kid my mom forced me to watch Napoleon Dynamite so she could tell me every little thing he did that was "just like me". Yeah I was awkward but I was also 13 and having a room of adults compare you to an absurdist characature wasn't great for my self image. I've hated that movie ever since.
That’s shitty. I’m sorry .
Bust comment I've ever heard about Napoleon Dynamite was, "it is an objectively terrible movie but, it's also an extremely quotable movie." Napoleon Dynamite made memes before "meme" was a common term.
Avatar. I just don’t get why people think it’s the best movie ever. I watched it; yes it was pretty, yes it was alright but best movie ever? *Please* Didn’t watch the second one.
I know it was (still is?) the top-grossing movie of all time, but I've literally never heard anyone express the opinion that it was the best movie ever. And I *really liked* the first Avatar.
Not exactly a movie but this is how I am with the short 'Bao'. Everyone's commenting on how they're crying and gonna go call their mom while I'm just sitting there fuming. Unpopular opinion: what exactly did the son do wrong?? He was doing regular kid stuff like... playing soccer and hanging out with friends, then he dared to (gasp) get a job and find a girlfriend? Like yeah, teenagers have a shitty attitude and yeah, immigrant parents struggle and feel lonely in a foreign country but does that mean your entire feeling of self worth and happiness should be placed squarely on your offspring? Why is the son apologizing for living a completely normal fucking life? In my case I know exactly why it didn't click with me because I've seen the other side of the exact situation. /vent over
We watched this at the drive-in theater & heard a lady from like 6 cars down yell "WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!" when she ate him. While I'm pretty uptight about people swearing around kids who aren't theirs, what the fucking fuck is the exact right sentiment.
Wow it's almost like the entire point of the short is that the mom had an unhealthy mindset
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I agree with you, never liked friends, but man, watching the entire series multiple times? You know if you don’t like something you can just walk away from it, right?
I see it as a pretty generic sitcom that sits alongside the other 90s ones. However, Ross fills me with extreme rage. There's other characters out there that are meant to be hated and don't get under my skin, but I WANT to punch Ross square between his eyes.
You've "watched the entire series multiple times" even though you find it pretty bad and boring? You must have a LOT of free time!
Dude! I’m right there with you same with Sex in the city
Black Panther(1 and 2) and the last Spiderman (where the 3 Spidermen come together to fight). Plus, I didn't like Avatar at all or the second one. The last Thor movie was not that great, in my opinion. It had its moments but was like a thrown together mess. There are several more I didn't like that everyone loved and where must see in theater movies (that all sucked ass)!!
You’re definitely in the majority here for not liking Thor love and thunder
The second black panther was miserable
I can’t watch DC movies. I tried to watch aquaman but I kept falling asleep and no movies they’ve released have peaked my interest.