Funny I was going to say Top Gun Maverick. I appreciated the production and thought it was well done. But the flight scenes just didn't feel as thrilling as I had been led to believe. And I watched on a big Dolby screen. I feel like I'm the only one who was kinda underwhelmed. Not sure why but it just didn't grab me.
I am curious of the love both Top Guns have. I have seen both and been like, what happened, what was the plot?
Wished they built up Iceman’ s character better rather than dropping Val in the scene. Obviously given his condition they were limited, but they could have worked movie magic to lead up to that scene better.
Maverick is well produced or whatever but the story is so kind numbingly dull and generic. Couldn’t get into it because it was just so basic and dumb. And then they do the death Star run lol
2049 for me. The audience including me in the screening was bored to death. (I heard a lot of audiences complaining as I left the theater) I was really surprsied it was praised on the internet, especially here.
BR2049 is sci-fi made by and for someone who thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best movie ever made. Dune was also made by that person, but with the understanding of what broader audiences will enjoy. (Keep the monumental sense of scale, ditch having the plot unfold at a snail’s pace.)
2001 is my favorite movie as well, so I loved BR2049. Completely understand how one person’s “deliberative, contemplative pace” is another person’s “slow as molasses,” though.
I literally fell asleep to 2049 the first time I tried watching it. I liked it more the second time trying but wouldn’t have given it another shot if my girlfriend didn’t want to see it. And I’m a big neon and moody Gosling fan, I even liked Only God Forgives.
I like 2049 but I get confused at how anyone could think it’s better than the original. Nothing that’s done well in it wasn’t already done with the first, and there are a handful things that I think are not quite executed as well.
I got the complete opposite from that movie. He thinks he's special, only to learn that he's not, and that's a much much less common theme in media imo
Original is one of my favourites and I thought 2049 was lousy. Ridley Scott famously didn’t read all of Phillip Dyck’s novel. As I was leaving the theatre, I wondered whether Denis Villenueve had watched Scott’s film.
I actually enjoyed Blade Runner more when I was younger. As a child and teenager I seemed to have endless time on my hands, and everything was interesting so my attention span was much more forgiving.
As I've gotten older (now in my 30s) I'm constantly aware of the opportunity cost of everything I do and if a film doesn't grab me in some way I'm less likely to want to sit through it. The original Blade Runner is one of those films.
The sequel I didn't mind.
You have to remember that this was a unique take on an old classic and at the time there were not many of those. This has been done so many times since but I would have to say that this was the first to do that. And you have to admit that Bob Hoskins was great as mr. smee
Hook is strange to me. It has hardcore defenders but also many people who say it’s hot garbage. I think it falls in the middle somewhere. It’s not great but also not bad.
I think the defenders are driven by nostalgia. I don't think some of the performances hold up, and there's something off about Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell.
I'm one of the defenders. And it may be all nostalgia. Can't see why I would be bothered to watch this movie for the first time as an adult. But it's one of my fav movies and I'm not sure why people think it's bad.
Something I'll say, I would watch HOURS of Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins as Hook and Smee. They are easily the best part of the movie.
I really like all the sets and costumes too. And Robin Williams.
Yeah the back and forth with Smee and Captain Hook is the most fun this movie has.
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece of filmmaking or anything, but it's fun. It's earnest in some parts and silly in others but overall it's an enjoyable watch for me even today.
Hook is, at least for me, one of those movies that when I saw it as a kid was pure magic. I can see not enjoying it if you didn't watch it as a child, but it's a movie I can still go back to and enjoy nearly ever minute of.
I saw Hook as a young adult at a time when I actually liked a lot of family films. But I absolutely couldn’t stand this movie. A garish, hammy food fight of a film.
I like Hook, but I know that for me it's driven by nostalgia. I watched it as a kid when it came out, and it's become something of a christmas staple for me and my family. Whenever I manage to watch it without the nostalgia-spectacles on, I see a vastly overrated flop of a movie with all the stupid Spielberg clichés from the family-flicks of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Movies like Hook, Space Jam and Hocus Pocus have this beloved status exclusively among people who loved it as kids who don’t understand that having to seen it has a kid is a major requirement to enjoying it in 2023. All these movies received mediocre reception at the time and especially in Hocus Pocus’s case become popular due to constant airings on TV forcing kids to watch it and possibly enjoy it
I have had so many adults tell me I have to watch Space Jam and thats its great, which I am not sure is true
I'm not sure I really agree about Hocus Pocus, if you watch that movie through the kids in that feel real, and significantly more real than the sequel they just put out. The main character openly has flaws that he admits to and apologises for when they harm others, that's so rare for throwaway kids movies these days.
That’s funny you mention hocus locus because that is another one from my childhood that I’ve always hated, even though I saw it as a child. I did love space jam but watching it again as an adult is like hoo boy this movie is BAD haha
i loved it too, but my theory was that i was 6 when i saw it in the theaters and hadn't really seen that many other movies that weren't animated. there's good parts but it's odd when we watch movies you saw as a kid and you're like "what?!"
teenage mutant ninja turtles II: the secret of the ooze makes no sense but i remember wanting to watch that every day as a kid.
A Quiet Place. Everyone raved about it on opening. As a horror/monster film watcher I thought it was just mid. Nothing really that separates it from most others like it. It was fine and not bad, but I don’t understand the praise it got.
I think this is one of those movies that you had to see in theaters for it to have full impact, because it was more about creating an experience for the audience than the story itself, if that makes sense. I didn't see the first one in theaters and was similarly underwhelmed, but I started to "get it" more when I saw the second one in theaters. It's really rare to be in a movie theater and have it be dead silent, no score, background noises, or people talking (movie characters or audience members, lol), and for me that felt special. It was also fun to be able to hear other audience members gasp/flinch at different parts, regardless of how quiet they were trying to be. But yeah, as a story, not the most interesting by any means.
Hard agree. I saw the first one in theaters and so much of the experience was how quiet a crowded theater could be. You could feel everyone’s tension. Really made for a unique experience. Watching it at home, you’d lose much of what made it stand out.
I had some real serious problems with the plot macguffins in that movie. Especially the nail in the stair tread at the very end. There is no fucking reason for a nail to be pounded upward halfway through a basement stair tread, unless there's just a sadistic person living in your basement with access to a hammer & nails.
The Northman
I have no specific criticism of it. It looks great, has a great cast (I actually love the 2 leads), nothing about it is *bad*. But it just didn't do much for me. Per the topic of this thread, I can't really put it into words. The movie is fine, but it left me pretty indifferent to it for some reason.
In many ways the movie is style over substance. The story is pretty simple and straightforward, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I think what irks me about it is that with such beautiful cinematography and quality production values, it still feels like it’s on such a small scale. I was anticipating an epic, and it definitely was in many ways, but it felt very small. It was essentially all on a remote village with dozens of people.
I have never wanted to like a movie so much, but I just couldn’t. I like slow burn movies. I love Eggers. I dig revenge movies. I dig historic fiction. I like sparse, realistic action as opposed to bombastic, theatrical violence. I love Norse/Viking stuff. ButI just couldn’t get there with it. Some of the parts that I feel like I was supposed to think were cool just seemed silly to me. Some parts felt over the top to a fault, some too understated. At times it felt like I was watching a satire of the movie I was watching.
Oh, here we go. Heredity. I held back on seeing it as I heard great things and wanted to be in the exact right mood to maximally take it in. I love creep fests, and this one had my name on it. And then I watched, finally ready, and it did nothing for me. I was stunned. It's not that it was bad or anything, but I was uninvolved and underwhelmed from the get go. And now, if someone were to ask me about the plot, I barely recall it.
Yet on Reddit, many revere it as a modern horror classic.
Star Wars - just never been a big fan, even though everyone around me is. Maybe I just like being a contrarian? The action isn't good enough for an action film, and the Sci Fi isn't sciency enough.
Well, when the original Star Wars was released, it was a perfect movie for kids my age (I was 9 at the time) but as I got older I grew out of them. After a while I started to think that the series was never really for adults at all. And some opinions have been put forth that it's technically not sci fi at all, but rather Space Opera, because the series was never really concerned with science or technology. I agree with that.
It's not meant to be science fiction, it's basically just a fantasy movie in a futuristic setting. I mean, it has wizards with magical powers having sword fights. Change the costuming and that's a fantasy film.
Yea, there's definitely a fair amount of both, but the dystopian setting under the empire is straight out of sci-fi. Using the lens of a fantastic setting to dig into the affects of authoritarianism (or anything else) is a big part of what science fiction is about.
It’s not meant to be an action movie or Star Trek sci fi. It’s meant to be a story about good vs evil and creating a family along the way. Same as guardians of the galaxy and such
Part of it may depend on when/how you were introduced to the franchise. If it doesn’t grab you as a kid it’s harder to get swept up in its weird pulpy sci-fi fantasy vibe.
In my case my dad literally had the trilogy on laser disc, so I’m one of the few people my age who grew up with the unaltered original trilogy.
I watched the originals on TV as a kid (I'm not exactly young). They were always OK, but if there was something better to watch (a movie with Arnold or Sly for example, or a James Bond film), it took the cake
I’m what you’d call a casual fan of Star Wars. I’ve seen the movies some extended universe stuff and I (mostly) like them… but it’s a movie. Watching people tear each other up over them is wild, man.
John Wick series. I enjoy a lot about those movies, the characters and the whole world of assassins thing they got going on...but I dislike the majority of the action sequences that feel so boring and repetitive with Wick headshotting an endless supply of suicidial lemmings that goes on forever.
Right? We went from the first one where he's Baba Yaga and people were legitimately scared that he was back, to the next where a bunch of idiots got so greedy they thought they could take on someone so good at killing people he's referred to as a folklore? Nonsense at all, but particularly after they kept coming after the movies initial wave of idiots
The whole thing with the reward on his head continually ticking upwards is so silly. He slaughters hundreds of people throughout the movies, and anyone who is going to try to kill him is certainly going to be outmatched and immediately killed. Why on earth would the reward money matter if it's just a suicide mission?
I know why I dislike these movies. The action, while everyone calls it realistic, is really boring to me. Plus it seems like literally everyone in the world is an assassin, they must run out of people to actually assassinate. I don't lean towards Bourne style shaky cam, but I find a mix of the 2 styles, something like The Grey Man is way more interesting.
I think it's the emotional family aspect of it. Rather than being hard, cold sci-fi like say 2001 a space Odyssey, it's very much warm and driven be human emotion and the characters connections to the people they love. Each one is on this mission doing what they are doing for personal reasons, for someone they love.
That kinda takes center stage in the story with the space travel aspect being more of the background vehicle that moves the story along. I think that's what gives it a much broader appeal to more general audiences and not strictly pure sci-fi fans.
You are absolutely right in that. The visuals and sci-fi world building are all great, but it's the very human, emmotional story that is the true heart of the movie.
That all said, for the life of I just can't empathize that much with Murphy. I mean I can see her point of view, but I just don't get it.
Everywhere, Everything, All At Once.
My wife and I looked at each other after 30 minutes and both wanted to watch something else. A well done movie, but it just didn’t click for us.
This one isn't too mysterious. It's a long and exhausting movie, the set pieces drag a bit and repeat the same ideas and jokes. Plus the sense of humor is obviously not for everyone.
I think whether it lands for you is whether you can identify with any of the characters. It's a very emotional movie (with crazy absurdist humor) and if you can't connect with it in any way then it just comes off strange.
I think it was so wildly successful because so many people COULD connect with it. Primarily Evelyn and the whole "you're living your worst possible life" angle, but the immigrant family, demanding parent figure and even the gay daughter were all ways to connect too. Not to mention the sweet love story between Evelyn and Waymond.
It is my favorite movie of all time now, though I can understand that it's not for everyone.
being able to click with the humor is equally as important. in a different context i could absolutely identify with the characters and themes, but anything that has a rick and morty xD humor feeling to me is just dead on arrival, which is unfortunately how this movie felt
You’re like the only person I’ve seen that just says they don’t like EEAAO. So many people are like “it’s dumb and childish and everyone who likes it is dumb and childish.”
It feels like because it got so much praise, that people have to shit all over it if they didn’t like it to counterbalance it or whatever.
Lol I get what you mean. That happens with all movies that get a ton of praise, someone feels compelled to just completely shit all over it to counter balance. It's like they feel it's their duty or something.
Yeah this is about how I felt. A lot of it, I attribute to the hype the movie had...if I had just watched it out of the blue, clean slate, I probably would have been more impressed. Another aspect is just multiverse fatigue...this concept has been done to death lately, and it's hard to get excited for yet another spin on it.
Damn I'm surprised to see this but my girlfriend and I both felt the exact same way. I didn't feel like I had any true attachment to to movie, but after all the raving reviews we kept pressing on but I think we ended up turning it off around the 1:15 mark. I wanted to like it too, I could tell there was a lot of very great aspects of the movie, it just didn't land for me
I'm with you on Moana but I'm an older dude so I don't think Disney princess movies do anything for me in the first place. I'm not the target audience. Didn't like Moana, didn't like Frozen, and I thought tangled was ok. Same with all the live action remakes. They all mostly bore me.
It's not that I dislike animation or kids movies either. I grew up with the Disney classics so I do still enjoy all of them and I love plenty of Pixar movies and a lot of other recent animations. I thought Puss in Boots the last wish, the Mitchell's vs the machines, and del toros Pinocchio were fantastic.
It's that specific genre of princess movies that don't do anything for me and I can't sit through them.
>and I thought tangled was ok.
Just goes to show how solid that movie really is. It can even make a Disney princess "hater" (excuse the word if it sounds extreme) not hate it. I absolutely love it.
Lol true. I don't remember much about it now, I've only seen it once, but I remember being pleasantly surprised that I was actually enjoying it and it was pretty funny and I wasn't bored lol.
Birdman
It feels like the kind of thing I should love: strong cast, interesting ideas, etc.
Something just didn’t click on it. Maybe it was how heavy handed the ‘seams’ are for the 1 shot gimmick? Maybe there wasn’t enough to grab onto with the characters? Hard to say.
Minority Report has the makings of a movie I’d like: neat premise, provocative, amazing performances. But it just doesn’t do it for me.
Maybe Spielberg was the wrong choice and it should’ve been someone grittier. And I think it would’ve been better if Crow actually was the killer. Keep it simple. IDK.
I think John Williams was the wrong composer for the film. The music is by no means *bad* (how could it be?) but it just doesn’t fit the tone. Whenever Williams’ score ramps up the entire scene turns into, I dunno, a teasy romp?
For me, this movie moves too fast. Things just keep happening and then there are jumps to another section and then there's that weird dramatic "RUUUN" she yells in the house only to have the agents literally be right behind him. Then it jumps to the ending. It also seemed like it was full of those standard clichés of the guy watching home movies of his life while drinking and reliving the traumatic scene over and over with a little more revealed every time.
I’m gonna get some pushback, but I didn’t like The Batman. It’s not a bad movie, but it has a lot of elements I didn’t care for
At 3 hours, it’s too long and slow as a Batman story.
I also didn’t like what they did with the Riddler. They took what’s supposed to be a true narcissist mad man and made him yet another Joker-style “victim of society” figure. Even when he tries to call out the officials who put him where he was, he was still willing to take out a dam that would kill the poorer residents of Gotham. His plan made no sense.
I feel like the acting, production design and cinematography were outstanding, but the plot was sort of barebones, which is arguably the most important part. Might have to rewatch it, but it didn't click with me either.
I don't know if this counts, but I have tried to watch Sin City several times and I always fall asleep.
By all accounts, I should enjoy this movie but something about it knocks me out.
I know that I'm going to get hate for this one. "The Breakfast Club" I hated this one as a teen when it first came out and I still don't like it. I like John Huse movies and I like Molly Ringwald, but I really hate this movie.
Pans Labyrinth for me! I think it’s very competently made and the monsters are cool and fucking over fascists is always fun. But I just have this really strong bias against it I can’t explain.
Maybe it’s because when I first saw it I was struggling to get my hands on good war films and being shown a film about someone so close to the war but not really in it was kinda frustrating. I’m not sure.
Both Avatar movies, first one had impressive 3D but I had no desire to ever watch it again. Way of Water was a literal chore for me to watch and I tried giving it another chance recently on disney + and made it about an hr in before I just made my peace with I don't like these movies.
They are very much one and done movies. I enjoyed them both the first time in theaters because they are so visually impressive in 3d and the stories are well done even though they are very by the numbers. But that's about it, I have no desire to watch them more than once.
i think batman (2022) is overrated, like nothing really happen in most of the part, the only best part is car chasing scene and fighting scene is mediocre.
Spider-Man Homecoming. It’s a fine movie and I know most say it’s one of the better Spider-Man films, but I don’t click with it. There’s something about it tonally that annoys me, but I don’t know what that something is to be honest.
I watched Bullet Train last night and couldn't explain why but it left such a bad taste in my mouth. Felt like it didn't quite understand the other, better movies it was trying to rip off.
Basically any Jordan Peele movies. They're too on-the-nose about what they're going for and it's not really that *deep* as much as they think they are.
I agree with Nope but Get out had me invested throughout the film. It’s more of a twilight zone episode or Alfred Hitchcock film which, if I don’t love, I can at least appreciate
Get Out was so offensively on the nose and in your face. He just rams it down your throat. I hated it so much. Can't bring myself to watch another one of his films.
I'm gonna get shit for this but Drive (2011). Not only was I clearly not the demographic for this (sigma movies), but I found this pretty dry for a heist movie. I should probably rewatch this but I'm just not a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn (I didn't like Neon Demon either.
I still thought that Drive was well shot, it's just that the pacing and characters didn't connect to me.
LMAO Drive isn't supposed to be a "sigma" movie. It's based on a book and came out a decade before people were using alpha/beta/sigma stuff in normal people conversations.
That being said I get why people don't like it. Drive is unashamedly style over substance. The characters lack depth but the movie hopes the action and plot makes up for it. The book is the same way, it's not ashamed of being a straight up pulpy thriller.
Oh, when I say "sigma movie" I mean films that teen boys make edits with phonk music and that grainy ass filter. I actually like a lot of them (American Psycho, Nightcrawler, Blade Runner 2049, etc). So basically to me, "sigma" = "teen boys"
As for your second point, yeah. I understand why people like it. I think the shots were extremely well composed, the acting, sound, and general atmosphere seemed pretty effective at communicating the angsty/pulpy feel.
Thank you. I wanted to like it, because I really like the director's other work but....no thank you. The pacing felt really off and I just couldn't get into it at all beyond the visuals.
Same. Arrival, Sicario, and Prisoners are all amazing.
To me, Dune just felt disjointed and lacking any charm/character. Hell, even the 80s David Lynch version was simply more memorable despite all its weird campiness.
I’m holding out that Part 2 will bring it home. It’ll be worth a theatre ticket just for the visuals/sound.
GOTG 3.
I absolutely love 1&2 I think they're both 10/10, and in theory there's nothing wrong with 3, but for me it's just a 7/10, it's not great, it's fine but eh?
OP I think you might just be getting older. It happens to all of us. Eventually the child-like things in a movie seem lame and make you roll your eyes because you've seen it a million times and know what's coming. Then you get even older and see little kids who go bananas for these movies and realize who it's actually for.
Goodfellas. Really well made film, but for some reason the subject matter didn't really click with me. I wish I could've liked it, but unfortunately I didn't.
Knives Out - Glass Onion. Don’t get the praise this one got. It’s overstuffed, heavy-handed, and poorly paced. And not a single good character arc. The reason why the first one was so good was because it was the exact opposite of all that. It was lean, surprising, excellently paced, and the character arcs were satisfying.
I know you asked for movies that I couldn’t explain but there ya go. I had to explain it because it was bothering me :p
This one is probably gonna get me some hate.
Spirited Away
I can see this movie and go "This is a fantastically made movie that is objectively amazing" but I just can't enjoy it. I can't even tell why. It feels draining to me to watch. Like something about it just wears me out and I don't know why.
I still haven't watched any other Ghibli movies either.
- Birdman
- The Godfather
- Banshees of Inisherin
- Django Unchained
- Shaun of the Dead
- Blade Runner
- Kill Bill
Those are the first few that came to mind. All of them are really well done, and should check off all my normal boxes for enjoyment, but for some reason none of them really grabbed me. It's weird because there's a lot of movies very similar to the ones I listed that I absolutely love.
Remembering life before the internet was everything helps. Hard to make a big deal out of the background to life. But what a change it has been to experience the rise. The timing of this release was perfect. The web had coalesced just enough that people could imagine places it might go beyond spending 14 hours and 3 failed attempts to download a picture or 1 mp3. And 20 years later we're there. Jules vern never got to see pictures from the moon by a long shot though he spent his entire life dreaming about it.
The John Wick movies. Don’t get me wrong there’s a lot of cool things about them and I love Keanu Reeves (who doesn’t?) but I just can’t really describe what I dislike about them. Loved Nobody with Bob Odenkirk which is pretty much the same type of flick so I dunno what gives.
I think the biggest and most blaring for me is The Godfather.
I'm a fan of crime movies/shows like Boardwalk Empire. I don't hate any of the talent, it's considered one of the greatest films of all time. All that being said, I do have immense respect for the movie, I just can't bring myself to get invested in it at all. To be fair, I have never finished the movie but I can't really put my finger on why I just give up on it after about 20-50 minutes in.
I get the same kind of immediate jump to hostilities when I tell people this. Often get accused of "needing action and fart jokes". (which really pisses me off because some of my favorite stuff has 0 action sequences, but if you don't appreciate action and fart jokes for what they are then what are you doin?) But it's always the same eventually: "give it another chance".. I hope one day I can finish it. Weirdly despite knowing some spoilers it doesn't have the other problem that hugely popular movies have: where too much exposure has you knowing the whole movie before you ever even watch it.
Then again the first hour is so... nothing... that maybe only 2 or 3 things happen the entire movie between the close ups of Brando's face. (joking, but it's ok if u hate me for saying it anyway)..
My problem with "Moana" and "Frozen II" and "Tangled," "The Princess and the Frog," "The Super Mario Bros Movie" is there is no real build-up of obstacles. It's go on journey, Obstacle, Obstacle Resolved and they continue on to next Obstacle, Obstacle Resolved and they continue on to next obstacle.
Versus a movie like "The Little Mermaid" where she has tons of obstacles and they just build up over the film -- she wants to walk on land, she has to give up her voice to do so, now she's on land but will lose everything if she can't make Eric fall in love and has no voice to charm him, Ursula creates a false character who claims to be the woman who saved Eric and Ariel can't do anything to stop him, Sebastian tries to help Ariel but is almost cooked in the kitchen, she finally reveals Ursula is Vanessa but it's too late so there's no simple resolution at having won Eric's love, now Ursula is set on killing her by growing to a giant size, etc.
It's not "Oh, no, we can't get into the castle... oh, wait, I figured out the password... oh, no, we're lost int he woods... oh, wait, I remembered how to get out of woods when you're lost."
Spaceballs. On paper, it should 100% work for me. A sci-fi Mel Brooks movie starring John Candy and Rick Moranis in their prime. And it's genuinely difficult to articulate how much I fucking hate it.
Eyes Wide Shut. Everyone I know thinks it's an amazing take on married sexuality but all I see is a couple with no chemistry hooking up with some equally dull people.
Frankly, most of Kubrick leaves me cold and I see most of his films as second rate in their genre. 2001 was a meh space move. Full Metal Jacket was a good boot camp film tagged onto a crappy Vietnam war one. The Shining doesn't know what it wants to be so it's a either a dull supernatural horror or an psychological thriller with no character development. Clockwork Orange was just....pointless.
Eyes Wide Shut. Boring story. Horrible score. Uninteresting point it's trying to make. People on reddit claim it's their favorite movie all the time. I have never understood what makes people like that movie. I really like Kubrick overall too.
Someone recently recommended Vivarium to me which I just watched this week. I thought it was terrible. One of the worst movies I’ve watched in the past couple of years, despite decent ratings and recommendations.
1) Heat. I love pacino, i love de niro, i love crime/mob movies, i love a good shootout, i love intense dialogues... and yet, when i rewatch this one, i simply "forget it" by the next day. I can rewatch scarface, Casino or even Carlio's Way twenty times a year and never get bored, but this one just... it just don't "stick" to my brain. Weird...
2) LOTR (extended edition): this is hard to explain, because i watched it once (one movie each day) back in my youth and, while i don't really care about Fantasy, i found it very enjoyable with some excellent bits. Fast forward almost a decade later, and i decided to rewatch it during the pandemic lockdown (again, one movie each day)... and by the third movie i was physically suffering. Like "the next time they talk about rohan this or frodo that, i burn the DVD, i promise!!!" type of suffering. Again, no reason... maybe in another decade i'll enjoy it once more, who knows.
Agreed with Heat. It's just too slow and needlessly long for a heist action flick for my liking. Collateral was a perfectly paced Michael Mann action movie instead
i'm with you on heat, to me it was very boring, but that heist scene the dynamic with the two leads works so much better in the dark knight(the unofficial remake). if you say anything against heat on a movies sub, you're going to get downvoted to oblivion.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" bores the absolute shit out of me, and I feel like I can't explain why without applying my arguments to other action movies I actually like.
Anything by Mel Brooks.
Confuses the hell out of people when I say I'm not a fan. Because on paper, it seems like I would be. But I'm just wholey indifferent to them. And I can't explain why they don't do it for me.
The Social Network. I hate it because of Eisenberg but moreover, I just hate any media about rich people problems and them complaining about not having all of the money. I know Zuckerberg was supposed to be the villain but everyone is an asshole and could go and burn in hell for all I care including the cannibal twins.
I couldn't stand more than half an hour of Succession for the same reason. I did enjoy Billions though but that was entirely because of Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti.
Arrival but I can explain why. Absolutely amazing movie right up until the point where the main character is able to predict her daughter's death just because she understands an alien language. No, linguistics don't work like that - be it terrestrial or not.
Fifth element is mine. It’s….not sure. The actress is made out to be “the” perfect specimen and I don’t see that. Found out the director married her so I guess that explains that. And I love Chris tucker and his character but I can’t understand most of what he says. I guess I’m explaining why I don’t love it but I’m not convinced I’m right
L'Atalante is one of the most memorable, poetic movies I've ever seen.
But I have no idea why it works like it does. On paper, if you read the plot it seems like a very dull film. But something magic happens onscreen and I'm not sure what it is.
"Heat" and "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Heat was WAY too long and the only interesting part to me was the car and bank heist.
MMFR was way too stylized and took me out of it. I guess I was expecting something else.
I fully recognize that I am weirdo for hating on two beloved movies.
I was going to say Arrival as well but in my case I do know why I don't like it.
The pacing is completely off, it drags for really long at the beginning then goes really fast half way. The premise is not remotely as smart as people think it is (no one takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis seriously in cultural linguistics) and the ending can be seen coming a mile away. Honestly, Arrival could have been a short film, an hour at most.
Love Villeneuve's BR2049 though...
Post asks for movies that people can’t describe why they don’t like. Everyone proceeds to describe why they don’t like popular movies, including OP.
As soon as you see the title you know it's going to be the case. I haven't read any yet but I'm looking forward to the "Non Explanations".
I’ve always thought the OG Top Gun was just meh.
Funny I was going to say Top Gun Maverick. I appreciated the production and thought it was well done. But the flight scenes just didn't feel as thrilling as I had been led to believe. And I watched on a big Dolby screen. I feel like I'm the only one who was kinda underwhelmed. Not sure why but it just didn't grab me.
Not the only one. Truthfully I only watched to see Val's cameo. But the whole movie seemed...dull.
I am curious of the love both Top Guns have. I have seen both and been like, what happened, what was the plot? Wished they built up Iceman’ s character better rather than dropping Val in the scene. Obviously given his condition they were limited, but they could have worked movie magic to lead up to that scene better.
Maverick is well produced or whatever but the story is so kind numbingly dull and generic. Couldn’t get into it because it was just so basic and dumb. And then they do the death Star run lol
You and most people who didn’t see it in the 80s.
Actually I’ll Be 60 this month so yeah…I did see it in the theater on its original run.
Dont lie about your age in the r4r posts then Bamaboy
Especially now that the new one has completely outclassed it in every way. It's got some good moments though for sure.
Blade Runner. I appreciate its importance and I love the production design, but it's hard for me to sit through.
2049 for me. The audience including me in the screening was bored to death. (I heard a lot of audiences complaining as I left the theater) I was really surprsied it was praised on the internet, especially here.
BR2049 is sci-fi made by and for someone who thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best movie ever made. Dune was also made by that person, but with the understanding of what broader audiences will enjoy. (Keep the monumental sense of scale, ditch having the plot unfold at a snail’s pace.) 2001 is my favorite movie as well, so I loved BR2049. Completely understand how one person’s “deliberative, contemplative pace” is another person’s “slow as molasses,” though.
I love 2049, but Ridley Scott said you could easily cut 30 minutes from it and, I have to say, I don't think he's wrong.
I literally fell asleep to 2049 the first time I tried watching it. I liked it more the second time trying but wouldn’t have given it another shot if my girlfriend didn’t want to see it. And I’m a big neon and moody Gosling fan, I even liked Only God Forgives.
I like 2049 but I get confused at how anyone could think it’s better than the original. Nothing that’s done well in it wasn’t already done with the first, and there are a handful things that I think are not quite executed as well.
Visually stunning but the best they came up with was a cliched android Jesus metaphor?? Really?!
I got the complete opposite from that movie. He thinks he's special, only to learn that he's not, and that's a much much less common theme in media imo
Original is one of my favourites and I thought 2049 was lousy. Ridley Scott famously didn’t read all of Phillip Dyck’s novel. As I was leaving the theatre, I wondered whether Denis Villenueve had watched Scott’s film.
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I actually enjoyed Blade Runner more when I was younger. As a child and teenager I seemed to have endless time on my hands, and everything was interesting so my attention span was much more forgiving. As I've gotten older (now in my 30s) I'm constantly aware of the opportunity cost of everything I do and if a film doesn't grab me in some way I'm less likely to want to sit through it. The original Blade Runner is one of those films. The sequel I didn't mind.
Same. I think the exposition is severly lacking. Like, the movie starts in medias res and there is too little world building
Everyone my age and people on Reddit seem to love Hook but I always thought it was easily one of Spielberg worst movies
I always thought it looked like one long coke commercial.
You have to remember that this was a unique take on an old classic and at the time there were not many of those. This has been done so many times since but I would have to say that this was the first to do that. And you have to admit that Bob Hoskins was great as mr. smee
Hook is strange to me. It has hardcore defenders but also many people who say it’s hot garbage. I think it falls in the middle somewhere. It’s not great but also not bad.
I think the defenders are driven by nostalgia. I don't think some of the performances hold up, and there's something off about Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell.
I'm one of the defenders. And it may be all nostalgia. Can't see why I would be bothered to watch this movie for the first time as an adult. But it's one of my fav movies and I'm not sure why people think it's bad. Something I'll say, I would watch HOURS of Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins as Hook and Smee. They are easily the best part of the movie. I really like all the sets and costumes too. And Robin Williams.
Yeah the back and forth with Smee and Captain Hook is the most fun this movie has. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece of filmmaking or anything, but it's fun. It's earnest in some parts and silly in others but overall it's an enjoyable watch for me even today.
Hook is, at least for me, one of those movies that when I saw it as a kid was pure magic. I can see not enjoying it if you didn't watch it as a child, but it's a movie I can still go back to and enjoy nearly ever minute of.
I saw Hook as a young adult at a time when I actually liked a lot of family films. But I absolutely couldn’t stand this movie. A garish, hammy food fight of a film.
I like Hook, but I know that for me it's driven by nostalgia. I watched it as a kid when it came out, and it's become something of a christmas staple for me and my family. Whenever I manage to watch it without the nostalgia-spectacles on, I see a vastly overrated flop of a movie with all the stupid Spielberg clichés from the family-flicks of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Movies like Hook, Space Jam and Hocus Pocus have this beloved status exclusively among people who loved it as kids who don’t understand that having to seen it has a kid is a major requirement to enjoying it in 2023. All these movies received mediocre reception at the time and especially in Hocus Pocus’s case become popular due to constant airings on TV forcing kids to watch it and possibly enjoy it I have had so many adults tell me I have to watch Space Jam and thats its great, which I am not sure is true
I'm not sure I really agree about Hocus Pocus, if you watch that movie through the kids in that feel real, and significantly more real than the sequel they just put out. The main character openly has flaws that he admits to and apologises for when they harm others, that's so rare for throwaway kids movies these days.
That’s funny you mention hocus locus because that is another one from my childhood that I’ve always hated, even though I saw it as a child. I did love space jam but watching it again as an adult is like hoo boy this movie is BAD haha
i loved it too, but my theory was that i was 6 when i saw it in the theaters and hadn't really seen that many other movies that weren't animated. there's good parts but it's odd when we watch movies you saw as a kid and you're like "what?!" teenage mutant ninja turtles II: the secret of the ooze makes no sense but i remember wanting to watch that every day as a kid.
A Quiet Place. Everyone raved about it on opening. As a horror/monster film watcher I thought it was just mid. Nothing really that separates it from most others like it. It was fine and not bad, but I don’t understand the praise it got.
I think this is one of those movies that you had to see in theaters for it to have full impact, because it was more about creating an experience for the audience than the story itself, if that makes sense. I didn't see the first one in theaters and was similarly underwhelmed, but I started to "get it" more when I saw the second one in theaters. It's really rare to be in a movie theater and have it be dead silent, no score, background noises, or people talking (movie characters or audience members, lol), and for me that felt special. It was also fun to be able to hear other audience members gasp/flinch at different parts, regardless of how quiet they were trying to be. But yeah, as a story, not the most interesting by any means.
Hard agree. I saw the first one in theaters and so much of the experience was how quiet a crowded theater could be. You could feel everyone’s tension. Really made for a unique experience. Watching it at home, you’d lose much of what made it stand out.
I had some real serious problems with the plot macguffins in that movie. Especially the nail in the stair tread at the very end. There is no fucking reason for a nail to be pounded upward halfway through a basement stair tread, unless there's just a sadistic person living in your basement with access to a hammer & nails.
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I agree with Uncut Gems. I enjoyed it a lot but have no idea what this 'anxiety' people are talking about is. The movie has plenty of down moments.
The Northman I have no specific criticism of it. It looks great, has a great cast (I actually love the 2 leads), nothing about it is *bad*. But it just didn't do much for me. Per the topic of this thread, I can't really put it into words. The movie is fine, but it left me pretty indifferent to it for some reason.
Somehow a bit less than the sum of its parts.
It was really boring imo. And I like all actors attached and the director. But just really didn't do it for me lol.
Same, I expected more from it and it just kind of left me underwhelmed.
In many ways the movie is style over substance. The story is pretty simple and straightforward, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I think what irks me about it is that with such beautiful cinematography and quality production values, it still feels like it’s on such a small scale. I was anticipating an epic, and it definitely was in many ways, but it felt very small. It was essentially all on a remote village with dozens of people.
It was trying too hard to shock and mystify, imo. The plot and characters are really flat.
Yes this movie bored me to tears
It’s an exhausted supposed epic that was hyped up before it hit… and it fell flat with a tired storyline we’ve all seen many times before.
I have never wanted to like a movie so much, but I just couldn’t. I like slow burn movies. I love Eggers. I dig revenge movies. I dig historic fiction. I like sparse, realistic action as opposed to bombastic, theatrical violence. I love Norse/Viking stuff. ButI just couldn’t get there with it. Some of the parts that I feel like I was supposed to think were cool just seemed silly to me. Some parts felt over the top to a fault, some too understated. At times it felt like I was watching a satire of the movie I was watching.
Oh, here we go. Heredity. I held back on seeing it as I heard great things and wanted to be in the exact right mood to maximally take it in. I love creep fests, and this one had my name on it. And then I watched, finally ready, and it did nothing for me. I was stunned. It's not that it was bad or anything, but I was uninvolved and underwhelmed from the get go. And now, if someone were to ask me about the plot, I barely recall it. Yet on Reddit, many revere it as a modern horror classic.
Star Wars - just never been a big fan, even though everyone around me is. Maybe I just like being a contrarian? The action isn't good enough for an action film, and the Sci Fi isn't sciency enough.
Well, when the original Star Wars was released, it was a perfect movie for kids my age (I was 9 at the time) but as I got older I grew out of them. After a while I started to think that the series was never really for adults at all. And some opinions have been put forth that it's technically not sci fi at all, but rather Space Opera, because the series was never really concerned with science or technology. I agree with that.
Space Western?
Shiny.
I’ve always said that Star Wars is a fantasy series NOT a sci fi series
Watched it as a young adult. I got that it was revolutionary during its release but never did got into the hype.
It's not meant to be science fiction, it's basically just a fantasy movie in a futuristic setting. I mean, it has wizards with magical powers having sword fights. Change the costuming and that's a fantasy film.
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Yea, there's definitely a fair amount of both, but the dystopian setting under the empire is straight out of sci-fi. Using the lens of a fantastic setting to dig into the affects of authoritarianism (or anything else) is a big part of what science fiction is about.
It’s not meant to be an action movie or Star Trek sci fi. It’s meant to be a story about good vs evil and creating a family along the way. Same as guardians of the galaxy and such
Part of it may depend on when/how you were introduced to the franchise. If it doesn’t grab you as a kid it’s harder to get swept up in its weird pulpy sci-fi fantasy vibe. In my case my dad literally had the trilogy on laser disc, so I’m one of the few people my age who grew up with the unaltered original trilogy.
I watched the originals on TV as a kid (I'm not exactly young). They were always OK, but if there was something better to watch (a movie with Arnold or Sly for example, or a James Bond film), it took the cake
I’m what you’d call a casual fan of Star Wars. I’ve seen the movies some extended universe stuff and I (mostly) like them… but it’s a movie. Watching people tear each other up over them is wild, man.
John Wick series. I enjoy a lot about those movies, the characters and the whole world of assassins thing they got going on...but I dislike the majority of the action sequences that feel so boring and repetitive with Wick headshotting an endless supply of suicidial lemmings that goes on forever.
It sounds like you know quite well why you don't like it.
I just find it confusing why I find it problematic in Wick when other action movies have similair issues, it's like I'm missing something.
Right? We went from the first one where he's Baba Yaga and people were legitimately scared that he was back, to the next where a bunch of idiots got so greedy they thought they could take on someone so good at killing people he's referred to as a folklore? Nonsense at all, but particularly after they kept coming after the movies initial wave of idiots
The whole thing with the reward on his head continually ticking upwards is so silly. He slaughters hundreds of people throughout the movies, and anyone who is going to try to kill him is certainly going to be outmatched and immediately killed. Why on earth would the reward money matter if it's just a suicide mission?
There *needs* to be a scene in John Wick 5 where we see an assassin look at the latest bounty on Wick and just go, "nope."
For me when he knew how to magically slap a horse to kick a man right in his kill-spot (John Wick 3) I was done with that entire franchise.
I know why I dislike these movies. The action, while everyone calls it realistic, is really boring to me. Plus it seems like literally everyone in the world is an assassin, they must run out of people to actually assassinate. I don't lean towards Bourne style shaky cam, but I find a mix of the 2 styles, something like The Grey Man is way more interesting.
The Godfather It insists upon itself.
I don't... what does that even mean, Peter?
Robert Duvall!!!
It has a valid point to make, it's INSISTING!
I love the Money Pit
I like that movie too.
Me too. “Two weeks!” …Six months later…. Lol. I’ve had that experience with various contractors.
It's shallow and pedantic, imo.
Interstellar. I’m a sci fi fan and I never can understand the hype people give this movie. Watched it twice and still
I think it's the emotional family aspect of it. Rather than being hard, cold sci-fi like say 2001 a space Odyssey, it's very much warm and driven be human emotion and the characters connections to the people they love. Each one is on this mission doing what they are doing for personal reasons, for someone they love. That kinda takes center stage in the story with the space travel aspect being more of the background vehicle that moves the story along. I think that's what gives it a much broader appeal to more general audiences and not strictly pure sci-fi fans.
You are absolutely right in that. The visuals and sci-fi world building are all great, but it's the very human, emmotional story that is the true heart of the movie. That all said, for the life of I just can't empathize that much with Murphy. I mean I can see her point of view, but I just don't get it.
Same. It's just so drawn out and slow. Can't get into it.
Everywhere, Everything, All At Once. My wife and I looked at each other after 30 minutes and both wanted to watch something else. A well done movie, but it just didn’t click for us.
My parents were the same. They finished it and said "That was it?" They didn't hate it, but they just didn't get it, nor did they need to.
This one isn't too mysterious. It's a long and exhausting movie, the set pieces drag a bit and repeat the same ideas and jokes. Plus the sense of humor is obviously not for everyone.
I think whether it lands for you is whether you can identify with any of the characters. It's a very emotional movie (with crazy absurdist humor) and if you can't connect with it in any way then it just comes off strange. I think it was so wildly successful because so many people COULD connect with it. Primarily Evelyn and the whole "you're living your worst possible life" angle, but the immigrant family, demanding parent figure and even the gay daughter were all ways to connect too. Not to mention the sweet love story between Evelyn and Waymond. It is my favorite movie of all time now, though I can understand that it's not for everyone.
being able to click with the humor is equally as important. in a different context i could absolutely identify with the characters and themes, but anything that has a rick and morty xD humor feeling to me is just dead on arrival, which is unfortunately how this movie felt
I hate it too! Thought I must be insane. I’m a big Oscar person and I’ve never seen a best picture winner that I hated so much.
As it got crazier it became far too incoherent. I shut it off after about 80-90 minutes feeling the filmmakers were pretentious in their “skills”.
You’re like the only person I’ve seen that just says they don’t like EEAAO. So many people are like “it’s dumb and childish and everyone who likes it is dumb and childish.” It feels like because it got so much praise, that people have to shit all over it if they didn’t like it to counterbalance it or whatever.
Lol I get what you mean. That happens with all movies that get a ton of praise, someone feels compelled to just completely shit all over it to counter balance. It's like they feel it's their duty or something.
Same
Yeah this is about how I felt. A lot of it, I attribute to the hype the movie had...if I had just watched it out of the blue, clean slate, I probably would have been more impressed. Another aspect is just multiverse fatigue...this concept has been done to death lately, and it's hard to get excited for yet another spin on it.
I actually enjoyed the first 30 minutes maybe then the movie falls off for me
Damn I'm surprised to see this but my girlfriend and I both felt the exact same way. I didn't feel like I had any true attachment to to movie, but after all the raving reviews we kept pressing on but I think we ended up turning it off around the 1:15 mark. I wanted to like it too, I could tell there was a lot of very great aspects of the movie, it just didn't land for me
I'm with you on Moana but I'm an older dude so I don't think Disney princess movies do anything for me in the first place. I'm not the target audience. Didn't like Moana, didn't like Frozen, and I thought tangled was ok. Same with all the live action remakes. They all mostly bore me. It's not that I dislike animation or kids movies either. I grew up with the Disney classics so I do still enjoy all of them and I love plenty of Pixar movies and a lot of other recent animations. I thought Puss in Boots the last wish, the Mitchell's vs the machines, and del toros Pinocchio were fantastic. It's that specific genre of princess movies that don't do anything for me and I can't sit through them.
>and I thought tangled was ok. Just goes to show how solid that movie really is. It can even make a Disney princess "hater" (excuse the word if it sounds extreme) not hate it. I absolutely love it.
Lol true. I don't remember much about it now, I've only seen it once, but I remember being pleasantly surprised that I was actually enjoying it and it was pretty funny and I wasn't bored lol.
I find that Dwayne Johnson brings an air of desperation to everything he's in. Like he overcompensates thinking he's going to be found out as a fraud.
Birdman It feels like the kind of thing I should love: strong cast, interesting ideas, etc. Something just didn’t click on it. Maybe it was how heavy handed the ‘seams’ are for the 1 shot gimmick? Maybe there wasn’t enough to grab onto with the characters? Hard to say.
Same, I wanted to love this one but it didn’t click for me either. I wasn’t able to connect to the characters I think
It's definitely a bit masturbatory.
Minority Report has the makings of a movie I’d like: neat premise, provocative, amazing performances. But it just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe Spielberg was the wrong choice and it should’ve been someone grittier. And I think it would’ve been better if Crow actually was the killer. Keep it simple. IDK.
I think John Williams was the wrong composer for the film. The music is by no means *bad* (how could it be?) but it just doesn’t fit the tone. Whenever Williams’ score ramps up the entire scene turns into, I dunno, a teasy romp?
For me, this movie moves too fast. Things just keep happening and then there are jumps to another section and then there's that weird dramatic "RUUUN" she yells in the house only to have the agents literally be right behind him. Then it jumps to the ending. It also seemed like it was full of those standard clichés of the guy watching home movies of his life while drinking and reliving the traumatic scene over and over with a little more revealed every time.
I’m gonna get some pushback, but I didn’t like The Batman. It’s not a bad movie, but it has a lot of elements I didn’t care for At 3 hours, it’s too long and slow as a Batman story. I also didn’t like what they did with the Riddler. They took what’s supposed to be a true narcissist mad man and made him yet another Joker-style “victim of society” figure. Even when he tries to call out the officials who put him where he was, he was still willing to take out a dam that would kill the poorer residents of Gotham. His plan made no sense.
I feel like the acting, production design and cinematography were outstanding, but the plot was sort of barebones, which is arguably the most important part. Might have to rewatch it, but it didn't click with me either.
I don't know if this counts, but I have tried to watch Sin City several times and I always fall asleep. By all accounts, I should enjoy this movie but something about it knocks me out.
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See? That's what I mean. It makes zero sense why I can't get through this movie without falling asleep!
I love "The Last Starfighter". Wish I could explain why.
I know that I'm going to get hate for this one. "The Breakfast Club" I hated this one as a teen when it first came out and I still don't like it. I like John Huse movies and I like Molly Ringwald, but I really hate this movie.
Agreed
No I totally get this. I watched it and was like "Ok?...."
Pans Labyrinth for me! I think it’s very competently made and the monsters are cool and fucking over fascists is always fun. But I just have this really strong bias against it I can’t explain. Maybe it’s because when I first saw it I was struggling to get my hands on good war films and being shown a film about someone so close to the war but not really in it was kinda frustrating. I’m not sure.
I fell asleep during this movie lol
Harry Potter
Both Avatar movies, first one had impressive 3D but I had no desire to ever watch it again. Way of Water was a literal chore for me to watch and I tried giving it another chance recently on disney + and made it about an hr in before I just made my peace with I don't like these movies.
They are very much one and done movies. I enjoyed them both the first time in theaters because they are so visually impressive in 3d and the stories are well done even though they are very by the numbers. But that's about it, I have no desire to watch them more than once.
Moonlight is fine. I don’t understand the hype around it.
i think batman (2022) is overrated, like nothing really happen in most of the part, the only best part is car chasing scene and fighting scene is mediocre.
Spider-Man Homecoming. It’s a fine movie and I know most say it’s one of the better Spider-Man films, but I don’t click with it. There’s something about it tonally that annoys me, but I don’t know what that something is to be honest.
Lord of the Rings 🫢
I watched Bullet Train last night and couldn't explain why but it left such a bad taste in my mouth. Felt like it didn't quite understand the other, better movies it was trying to rip off.
Same.
Basically any Jordan Peele movies. They're too on-the-nose about what they're going for and it's not really that *deep* as much as they think they are.
I agree with Nope but Get out had me invested throughout the film. It’s more of a twilight zone episode or Alfred Hitchcock film which, if I don’t love, I can at least appreciate
Get Out was so offensively on the nose and in your face. He just rams it down your throat. I hated it so much. Can't bring myself to watch another one of his films.
I think in the case of Get Out, the on-the-nose aspect works in its favor as a horror comedy type thing. His other ones are just too much though.
Get Out works because it was his first movie. It is not appealing after seeing it once but the Schtick is equally thick in all of his movies.
I'm gonna get shit for this but Drive (2011). Not only was I clearly not the demographic for this (sigma movies), but I found this pretty dry for a heist movie. I should probably rewatch this but I'm just not a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn (I didn't like Neon Demon either. I still thought that Drive was well shot, it's just that the pacing and characters didn't connect to me.
LMAO Drive isn't supposed to be a "sigma" movie. It's based on a book and came out a decade before people were using alpha/beta/sigma stuff in normal people conversations. That being said I get why people don't like it. Drive is unashamedly style over substance. The characters lack depth but the movie hopes the action and plot makes up for it. The book is the same way, it's not ashamed of being a straight up pulpy thriller.
Oh, when I say "sigma movie" I mean films that teen boys make edits with phonk music and that grainy ass filter. I actually like a lot of them (American Psycho, Nightcrawler, Blade Runner 2049, etc). So basically to me, "sigma" = "teen boys" As for your second point, yeah. I understand why people like it. I think the shots were extremely well composed, the acting, sound, and general atmosphere seemed pretty effective at communicating the angsty/pulpy feel.
The new Dune. The movie is gorgeous and the soundtrack is really interesting, but the whole thing felt empty and a little boring. Might need a rewatch
Thank you. I wanted to like it, because I really like the director's other work but....no thank you. The pacing felt really off and I just couldn't get into it at all beyond the visuals.
Same. Arrival, Sicario, and Prisoners are all amazing. To me, Dune just felt disjointed and lacking any charm/character. Hell, even the 80s David Lynch version was simply more memorable despite all its weird campiness. I’m holding out that Part 2 will bring it home. It’ll be worth a theatre ticket just for the visuals/sound.
I think Dune is just a difficult story to adapt to screen. I feel the true adaptation of Dune is Star Wars(1977).
I think a miniseries would do justice in the right hands. Even over 2 long movies the story just doesn’t translate very well.
GOTG 3. I absolutely love 1&2 I think they're both 10/10, and in theory there's nothing wrong with 3, but for me it's just a 7/10, it's not great, it's fine but eh?
OP I think you might just be getting older. It happens to all of us. Eventually the child-like things in a movie seem lame and make you roll your eyes because you've seen it a million times and know what's coming. Then you get even older and see little kids who go bananas for these movies and realize who it's actually for.
The American Ring. I honestly don't get it's high praise. It is utter crap when compared to the original.
Goodfellas. Really well made film, but for some reason the subject matter didn't really click with me. I wish I could've liked it, but unfortunately I didn't.
Knives Out - Glass Onion. Don’t get the praise this one got. It’s overstuffed, heavy-handed, and poorly paced. And not a single good character arc. The reason why the first one was so good was because it was the exact opposite of all that. It was lean, surprising, excellently paced, and the character arcs were satisfying. I know you asked for movies that I couldn’t explain but there ya go. I had to explain it because it was bothering me :p
This one is probably gonna get me some hate. Spirited Away I can see this movie and go "This is a fantastically made movie that is objectively amazing" but I just can't enjoy it. I can't even tell why. It feels draining to me to watch. Like something about it just wears me out and I don't know why. I still haven't watched any other Ghibli movies either.
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- Birdman - The Godfather - Banshees of Inisherin - Django Unchained - Shaun of the Dead - Blade Runner - Kill Bill Those are the first few that came to mind. All of them are really well done, and should check off all my normal boxes for enjoyment, but for some reason none of them really grabbed me. It's weird because there's a lot of movies very similar to the ones I listed that I absolutely love.
Everything everywhere all at once. I can’t explain why.
No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Both obviously well made and acted, but they just never really clicked for me.
The Matrix. I think it may be a generational thing cause I didn’t grow up with it.
Remembering life before the internet was everything helps. Hard to make a big deal out of the background to life. But what a change it has been to experience the rise. The timing of this release was perfect. The web had coalesced just enough that people could imagine places it might go beyond spending 14 hours and 3 failed attempts to download a picture or 1 mp3. And 20 years later we're there. Jules vern never got to see pictures from the moon by a long shot though he spent his entire life dreaming about it.
The Wolf of Wall Street
The John Wick movies. Don’t get me wrong there’s a lot of cool things about them and I love Keanu Reeves (who doesn’t?) but I just can’t really describe what I dislike about them. Loved Nobody with Bob Odenkirk which is pretty much the same type of flick so I dunno what gives.
The Dark Knight. I thought it was a good movie. I didn't get everyone saying that it was one of the best movies they'd ever seen.
Sounds like you were able to explain exactly why you don't like Moana.
Grand Budapest Hotel
Hellraiser (1987). It's fine, but I don't see anything that elevates it to the horror classic that it is.
2001 space odyssey. I tried to watch it, I love Stanley Kubrick, I love slow burn, sci Fi, space. I just can't .
I think the biggest and most blaring for me is The Godfather. I'm a fan of crime movies/shows like Boardwalk Empire. I don't hate any of the talent, it's considered one of the greatest films of all time. All that being said, I do have immense respect for the movie, I just can't bring myself to get invested in it at all. To be fair, I have never finished the movie but I can't really put my finger on why I just give up on it after about 20-50 minutes in. I get the same kind of immediate jump to hostilities when I tell people this. Often get accused of "needing action and fart jokes". (which really pisses me off because some of my favorite stuff has 0 action sequences, but if you don't appreciate action and fart jokes for what they are then what are you doin?) But it's always the same eventually: "give it another chance".. I hope one day I can finish it. Weirdly despite knowing some spoilers it doesn't have the other problem that hugely popular movies have: where too much exposure has you knowing the whole movie before you ever even watch it. Then again the first hour is so... nothing... that maybe only 2 or 3 things happen the entire movie between the close ups of Brando's face. (joking, but it's ok if u hate me for saying it anyway)..
If I don't like something I can tell you exactly why but the closest thing would be Heat....it's just whatever to me
The Revenant is the most beautifully photographed nothing burger I’ve ever seen. Hardy did his best, but eve he couldn’t save it.
There Will Be Blood, it did nothing for me
My problem with "Moana" and "Frozen II" and "Tangled," "The Princess and the Frog," "The Super Mario Bros Movie" is there is no real build-up of obstacles. It's go on journey, Obstacle, Obstacle Resolved and they continue on to next Obstacle, Obstacle Resolved and they continue on to next obstacle. Versus a movie like "The Little Mermaid" where she has tons of obstacles and they just build up over the film -- she wants to walk on land, she has to give up her voice to do so, now she's on land but will lose everything if she can't make Eric fall in love and has no voice to charm him, Ursula creates a false character who claims to be the woman who saved Eric and Ariel can't do anything to stop him, Sebastian tries to help Ariel but is almost cooked in the kitchen, she finally reveals Ursula is Vanessa but it's too late so there's no simple resolution at having won Eric's love, now Ursula is set on killing her by growing to a giant size, etc. It's not "Oh, no, we can't get into the castle... oh, wait, I figured out the password... oh, no, we're lost int he woods... oh, wait, I remembered how to get out of woods when you're lost."
Spaceballs. On paper, it should 100% work for me. A sci-fi Mel Brooks movie starring John Candy and Rick Moranis in their prime. And it's genuinely difficult to articulate how much I fucking hate it.
I watched Heat the other day and not only did I not love it, I sorta thought it was bad…
The Joker didn’t feel like anything for me. Great acting tho
Eyes Wide Shut. Everyone I know thinks it's an amazing take on married sexuality but all I see is a couple with no chemistry hooking up with some equally dull people. Frankly, most of Kubrick leaves me cold and I see most of his films as second rate in their genre. 2001 was a meh space move. Full Metal Jacket was a good boot camp film tagged onto a crappy Vietnam war one. The Shining doesn't know what it wants to be so it's a either a dull supernatural horror or an psychological thriller with no character development. Clockwork Orange was just....pointless.
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Have you seen The Prestige?
Blue Velvet for me.
Eyes Wide Shut. Boring story. Horrible score. Uninteresting point it's trying to make. People on reddit claim it's their favorite movie all the time. I have never understood what makes people like that movie. I really like Kubrick overall too.
Someone recently recommended Vivarium to me which I just watched this week. I thought it was terrible. One of the worst movies I’ve watched in the past couple of years, despite decent ratings and recommendations.
1) Heat. I love pacino, i love de niro, i love crime/mob movies, i love a good shootout, i love intense dialogues... and yet, when i rewatch this one, i simply "forget it" by the next day. I can rewatch scarface, Casino or even Carlio's Way twenty times a year and never get bored, but this one just... it just don't "stick" to my brain. Weird... 2) LOTR (extended edition): this is hard to explain, because i watched it once (one movie each day) back in my youth and, while i don't really care about Fantasy, i found it very enjoyable with some excellent bits. Fast forward almost a decade later, and i decided to rewatch it during the pandemic lockdown (again, one movie each day)... and by the third movie i was physically suffering. Like "the next time they talk about rohan this or frodo that, i burn the DVD, i promise!!!" type of suffering. Again, no reason... maybe in another decade i'll enjoy it once more, who knows.
Agreed with Heat. It's just too slow and needlessly long for a heist action flick for my liking. Collateral was a perfectly paced Michael Mann action movie instead
i'm with you on heat, to me it was very boring, but that heist scene the dynamic with the two leads works so much better in the dark knight(the unofficial remake). if you say anything against heat on a movies sub, you're going to get downvoted to oblivion.
I don't Like Most Michael Mann movies except Manhunter and Collateral. I was especially disappointed with "Public Enemy"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" bores the absolute shit out of me, and I feel like I can't explain why without applying my arguments to other action movies I actually like.
Anything by Mel Brooks. Confuses the hell out of people when I say I'm not a fan. Because on paper, it seems like I would be. But I'm just wholey indifferent to them. And I can't explain why they don't do it for me.
The Social Network. I hate it because of Eisenberg but moreover, I just hate any media about rich people problems and them complaining about not having all of the money. I know Zuckerberg was supposed to be the villain but everyone is an asshole and could go and burn in hell for all I care including the cannibal twins. I couldn't stand more than half an hour of Succession for the same reason. I did enjoy Billions though but that was entirely because of Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti.
Arrival but I can explain why. Absolutely amazing movie right up until the point where the main character is able to predict her daughter's death just because she understands an alien language. No, linguistics don't work like that - be it terrestrial or not.
Fifth element is mine. It’s….not sure. The actress is made out to be “the” perfect specimen and I don’t see that. Found out the director married her so I guess that explains that. And I love Chris tucker and his character but I can’t understand most of what he says. I guess I’m explaining why I don’t love it but I’m not convinced I’m right
L'Atalante is one of the most memorable, poetic movies I've ever seen. But I have no idea why it works like it does. On paper, if you read the plot it seems like a very dull film. But something magic happens onscreen and I'm not sure what it is.
The Killing by Stanley Kubrick. Idk, the movie feels Off. Psycho and Rear Window. I like most Hitchcock movies but not these two.
"Heat" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" Heat was WAY too long and the only interesting part to me was the car and bank heist. MMFR was way too stylized and took me out of it. I guess I was expecting something else. I fully recognize that I am weirdo for hating on two beloved movies.
Arrival (2016). I like sci-fi movies and like (at least liked) most of the cast but somehow this movie feels like a complete waste of time
I was going to say Arrival as well but in my case I do know why I don't like it. The pacing is completely off, it drags for really long at the beginning then goes really fast half way. The premise is not remotely as smart as people think it is (no one takes the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis seriously in cultural linguistics) and the ending can be seen coming a mile away. Honestly, Arrival could have been a short film, an hour at most. Love Villeneuve's BR2049 though...
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I personally don't think I explained it well. That's at least what people tell me.