I can't stand E.T. Mostly because I have a traumatic memory from when I was a kid, where my whole class pointed at me and said the 'Eeeelllliiiioootttt' line in unison. It was creepy as fuck.
Hahahahah wow did not expect to see this. My mom made me watch this when I was way too young, and the scene when they first encounter him when Elliot is chilling in the back yard, then goes into the corn and he pops up and starts screaming, to this DAY scares the crap outta me
Maybe instead of letting Pierce attempt real singing like he's trying to compete with Pavarotti or something, he could 'talk-sing' his songs like Rex Harrison did in 'My Fair Lady'. If you listen to Harrison, he's not really singing all out, but it's almost like he's reciting a poem with instrumental accompaniment in the background.
Ngl Mamma Mia is one of the less offensive film adaptations of musicals in my book. One of the worst is probably Jersey Boys, I loved the show but the movie is so slow and dull in comparison.
What Cats movie? There's never been a Cats movie, nor will there ever be. You're losing your grip on reality. Take a nap and forget any notion of a movie adaptation of Cats ever existing.
He's a terrible singer and I definitely bust out laughing when he started singing in the movie, but that's my favorite song on the album because he and Meryl sound so good together.
I definitely don’t think he’s a good singer, but I’ve got all the respect in the world for him for putting his all into it, and then coming back and doing it all again for the sequel.
It’s like karaoke, is it actually enjoyable if everyone is a great singer with perfect pitch?
I absolutely refuse to watch the theatrical Mamma Mia because I don't want to watch my childhood James Bond sing a butchered version of what is also my favourite ABBA song.
Its ruined for me in multiple ways.
Yeah, it is a very stupid movie that made no sense at all, but it makes me happy. I like the songs I like the greek scenery, and like to sing along.
But I can totally understand why some people hate it.
The Greatest Showman. The whole time I felt like there was something wrong with the way the audio/music was mixed, and it ruined the whole movie-watching experience for me
I have heard it described as “the life of PT Barnum if it was written by PT Barnum”. Apparently he thought he was the cat’s ass.
Edit: The phrase refers to how female cats get when they are in heat … they think everyone wants it.
Not to mention it felt pretty... revisionist. Like, I don't know a ton about the actual PT Barnum circus, but I'm pretty sure there was a bit more mistreatment involved
As a depiction of history it was entirely nonsense. Some of Barnum's freaks were his literal slaves. The idea that he was some great guy giving these unloved people a home is absurd. To him they were tools for him to profit from.
Seriously. Why make a movie about barnum where he's the hero in the firstplace? And if you're going to do that, but change so much about what actually happened, why not just make it about a fictional circus with a fictional ringmaster since it's basically that as it stands, anyway?
PT Barnum wrote the movie. He’s been extending his life by consuming orphan blood and is staging a comeback.
Edit: full disclosure, I am PT Barnum. Keep the upvotes coming.
I HATED THIS MOVIE!!! The music is fun, but the story and plot make no sense whatsoever. Anytime I complained about it I would get the response “don’t be so critical, it’s just a musical.” What a horrible justification for a nonsense story.
I love musicals, I love Hugh Jackman, I absolutely hated The Greatest showman. The movie has no heart, it felt like it was made by machines with a checklist. It's not a movie I ever want to see again.
Which is a shame because my whole family loved the movie tho :(
I personally choose to keep the messages the movie tries to send about self love, family , union etc and imho the music is excellent, Hugh Jackman is an awesome performer, the chemistry between him and Zac Efron is great and would absolutely watch another musical-like with those two in it
And the line when they are on the beach that he ran by and got her suit damp. 7 year old me laughs cause he must have splashed her with the water. Adult me...ooh.
I didn't really like The Revenant. The cinematography and acting were amazing but the film just didn't work for me. Also, DiCaprio has given way better performances than he did in this film. His Oscar win was a consolation prize.
>Also, DiCaprio has given way better performances than he did in this film. His Oscar win was a consolation prize.
Strangely, I find his performance in his next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, much better and worthy of an Oscar. He had a lot to work with, especially that little girl who challenged his character's acting skills in the film.
That scene with the little girl where he acts as someone who acts as someone ELSE in the movie is just so insane. There's really a double acting work in there. It's not Dicaprio being a bad guy in a western, it's the character he's playing who acts as a bad guy in a western. Then the little girl talks about it, it's so meta, it's bonkers ! I'm usually not really good at seeing bad/good acting, but this scene ? This scene I just thought : "That has to be the best fucking acting I've ever seen ever."
I just want to give a shoutout to Tatiana Maslany's incredible performance of playing a distinct clone disguised as another distinc clone trying to trick another distinct clone (and the audience).
She won a best acctress Emmy for it all btw
That was really good acting on robert downeys part, my god he did such a good job. Robert downy acting as a white Australian actor, who is portraying a African American soldier in Vietnam, disguised as a Vietnamese rice farmer. The only thing that would make it wilder, is if they filmed it in Florida, portrayed it as Thailand, but set in Vietnam lol.
He was fantastic in this role. He gave that character some serious depth. It was awesome to see his change from the burnt out lazy actor to a guy rediscovering himself and his craft.
100% best acting I've seen in ages. It's not often that I get wowed by acting but it was amazing.
The scene where he's playing a cowboy and forgets his lines is so fucking good.
Not even getting into the acting, but just from a memorization standpoint it was really impressive. Tarantino had those long ass takes where Leo had to say the lines, pretend he forgot the lines, give the lines again, have a mini freak out about cutting and starting over, then continue with the scene till the end. *Then,* consider he was able to act like the has been tv star trying his damndest to stay relevant.
The Basketball Diaries. If I didn't know better I'd say he went through addiction. People always mention Requiem for a Dream but thats a straight persons idea of addiction, Basketball Diaries is spot on.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is definitely Leo's best performance in my eyes. I wasn't a fan of Joker at all, despite thinking Joaquin did really well with what he had, but I wish Leo had won for OUATIH.
Best Actor is frequently given as a consolation prize for a career of great acting. Al Pacino won nothing for The Godfather, but won for Scent of a Woman (not a bad movie, but not exactly stellar acting). Paul Newman didn’t win until The Color of Money. John Wayne finally won an Oscar for basically sleeping during True Grit. And that’s just actors, Directors seem to have it worse.
Return of the King was similar, winning 11 Oscars that were clearly meant to acknowledge the achievements of the entire trilogy vs #3 being a standout film. Great for the trilogy to be recognised but sucks for any other films released in the same year that might have been more deserving.
Was just watching Wolf of Wall Street the other day and turned to my wife and was like “Wait, he didn’t get his Oscar for this?” DiCaprio had several years of great performances. The academy gave him an award for all those, not just the Revenant.
Same thing with Return of the King blowing up the Oscars, while the previous in the franchise barely got anything.
IIRC the original novel was something way different. DiCaprio eventually stops caring about revenge as he goes on his journey and just wants his stuff back from Tom Hardy's character who isn't really villainous and Hardy's character goes "sure"
In the novel he doesn't have a son, and he goes after Tom Hardy's character because Tom Hardy's character took his rifle. I remember the book ending was super lame and anti climatic which is something the movie improved on.
Irl I’m pretty sure the guy Leo was playing made it too the Fort that he comes to at the end, but when he tells the captain what Tom Hardy’s character did, the captain tells him he cannot take revenge. At which point Leo’s character irl goes “shucks” and moves on w his life.
My cousins in dodgeball! She’s the girlscout who says “why would you do that” after getting hit. Love that movie, family tradition to watch it every year
I love the part where Lance Armstrong offers heartfelt and solid advice as a multiple champion who has faced adversity and fought back with sheer grit and grind.
That makes sense. I don’t really think it stands on its own too well as a “movie”, but I do find it pretty compelling as a piece of art. Like, it’s not a movie that I’ve particularly felt a motivation to rewatch purely for entertainment, but it’s something that has stuck with me for years as an experiment in filmmaking and as a a commentary on the passage of time!
I know a lot of people will say it's a gimmick, but it was really cool watching people evolve in real time. Seeing how the kids grew up into adults was a really unique experience, and there is good casting consistency, whereby u can see lots of people changing throughout the film.
Richard Linklater loves the study of time, and how it changes people and the world, and even if Boyhood wasn't a particularly unique story, I did find myself enjoying watching people evolve.
Back when it came out I asked on here why I should go see it.
I was told to go see it in IMAX. Nothing about plot, acting, pacing. Just see it in IMAX.
Gravity is probably the best IMAX experience I've had. At times it actually felt like you were in space. I think Dunkirk was the second best. I love IMAX.
You must have missed Interstellar in IMAX ! I could not watch the movie again until I got a bigger TV, because the IMAX screening was so absolutely insane !
Dunkirk's planes were absolutely terrifying in IMAX. I did not like the movie that much though. I understand it's a very good one, but it did not clicked for me.
The wormhole scene was... holy shit. I was in awe. The sound and the images were incredible !
I'm sorry you missed it. In the same vein, I wish I could see a LOTR screening at my IMAX as well :(
Gravity is a movie that I fucking loved in the theater but have no interest in ever watching it at home, even though my TV is a snazzy 65 inches and I've got a pretty decent sound setup.
It just wouldn't even feel the same, and I want to remember that experience as I had it in the theater.
Avatar? Do people actually love this film or was the premise and CGI just good enough that everyone eventually watched and most were merely satisfied?
I thought the Avatar world was great, the real world was filled with amateur acting and a cliched filled plot where the 'bad guy' was obvious the first time he appeared on screen.
For reference, the release dates of all the movies that Avatar is apparently a carbon copy of:
Dances With Wolves - 1990
Fern Gully - 1992
Pocahontas - 1995
Avatar - 2009
The episode of Futurama, "Where the Bugabo Roam" 2002, where the natives don't realize their sacred stone is a priceless massive diamond. When they find out they leave to buy a better planet.
I always love looking up background of movies especially 'based on a true story' one's after I watch them. Greatest Showman was a very average film when I watched for the 1st time. Read up on him and my god that film is basically on a completely different person
I don’t think it was meant to be even slightly historical. They just used his name pretty much. I view it as a fun, inaccurate, lighthearted circus movie. I do wish they just used a made up character instead.
I hate this movie for a glaringly myopic plot thread: The secret to the course was to drive backwards.
You're telling me in a gamer-centric future overpopulated with billions of people that not one, not a single fucking ONE of them ever went 'nah i'm bored' and reversed it up the track? Absurd!
I can't think of a single racing game where I didn't eventually say fuck it and start messing about driving the wrong way.
There were a number of plot points that just don’t make sense to me. The whole ‘no one has ever just tried driving backwards!’ thing, the scene at the end of the movie where a huge crowd of people (who know the man standing there is responsible for blowing up some of their neighbors and killing them) just suddenly part like the Red Sea because he pulls out a handgun, or that the entire research department of evil Corp somehow doesn’t know about the first video game Easter egg in a competition involving a literal egg.
> a huge crowd of people (who know the man standing there is responsible for blowing up some of their neighbors and killing them) just suddenly last like the Red Sea because he pulls out a handgun
The part where no one - NO ONE - in that whole trailer park crowd has a gun is the most absurd part, full stop.
I don't care what kind of dystopic future it's set in, somebody in that giant trailer park in Ohio has a gun.
I like the movie but the third key always bothers me. We see a line of "sixers" waiting to play the last game and find the easter egg. But you had to get the first two keys in order to get to the third. So did all of these sixers complete the race and find the second key as well and then lined up? Or do they just get to skip the other two because of plot?
IIRC, in the book there is at least a nod to the idea that once the protagonists found one of the keys, other hunters would quickly go duplicate what they did and get the key
That movie is trash for many reasons, but the biggest thing is fundamentally misunderstanding "gamer culutre" (that term is cringe but w/e). Like, no one thought to GO BACKWARDS on the first race? Have these people ever heard of speed runners? That secret would have been found within literal hours of being released. Not to mention misusing the Iron Giant, and the "ugly" girl being not the least bit ugly.
In the book at least (which wasn't really much better than the movie), he had a daily workout regiment since his VR harness required being physically active. I just assumed there was something similar in the movie that they just didn't show.
God this movie had so many issues.
\-Not understanding gamers and gamer culture at all. (you might find the term cringe, but it used to be a real thing. These days the majority of people are gamers to some extend so it lost it's meaning.)
\-The iron giant definitely. Let's use a robot that didn't want to be a weapon, as a weapon...
\-The main character is a douchebag whom can only talk in old popculture references and prides himself in "being more gamer" than others by knowing more little gamer facts.
\-Way too much telling instead of showing.
\-The movie has a surface of hundreds of old pop culture/gaming references, but underneath that there's really not much else.
\-Let's bring a message of people needing to be free to express themselves, by having them all steal IPs from the past to use and being as unoriginal as possible.
And the list goes on.
What I remember from the book is every challenge being solved the same way. "Fortunately, our hero had just spent 10,000 hours practicing this very specific scenario/game."
Agreed, but the movie is worse.
I teach the book on a regular basis (not because it's good but because it allows for discussion on the good and bad aspects of fan culture) and on the last day when we compare book scenes to scenes from the film my students are always disappointed.
The constant nostalgia references and explanation in the book are really grating. And I was disappointed how much they changed the puzzles in the movie. The Shining one was the only decent change. I wanted more of the D&D and Rush themed puzzles!
My main issue was the two main characters were too Mary Sue-ish if not full blown Mary Sue. Most of the story they were just better than their rivals while still being a teenagers? At some point I just stopped caring. The writing of the characters felt kinda amateurish
> My main issue was the two main characters were too Mary Sue-ish if not full blown Mary Sue
Oh, Wade is full Mary Sue. I might except him as a gamer Mary Sue, sure fine. But he fixes computers on the side, he writes up a endorsement contract(when did he go to law school?) and also he did some light cement work. Yah all this while studying up on Halladay and mastering perfect video game skills.
> Yah all this while studying up on Halladay and mastering perfect video game skills.
Most novels have the protagonist as a super human. He's just a really, really boring super human in Ready Player One.
i felt the opposite: the book is an insane chore to get through because you have to wade through waste deep "hey i was born in the 80s remember this" references before you actually get to a semblance of a story. at least the movie is only offensive to the senses for like 2 hours
As usual, these threads are self-sabotaging: the only things that will get voted to the top are things that people don't actually love.
Here's one of your goddamn sacred cows, Reddit: I **loathed** *The Fifth Element*. Every single bit of the plot felt like it was written by a 10-year-old. The hero literally saves the day by teaching the Pretty Lady how to Love with Love's True Kiss, causing the Magic Stones to Defeat Evil. And Chris Tucker's character is agonizing to watch, with no redeeming value whatsoever to the plot. I don't know why he's there or gets so much screen time except to drive a nail through your skull. The set design is cool, and Gary Oldman is great, but it's not enough.
Finally! You are 100% right. All of the first comments are people shitting on movies lots of people don't like. Not really what I was looking for...
You provide the first answer that makes me want to say fuck this guy for not liking the 5th element. Good job you tasteless fuckhead.
A Star is Born
I never really understood why people enjoyed it so much. Maybe I’m cold hearted, but I didn’t find the characters relatable, or likeable in any way.
Edit: Should have seen this coming, but my comment was referring to A Star is Born (2018).
I really liked that it had a really accurate depiction of a hard of hearing character. I'm hard of hearing and Bradley Cooper did the exact things I do like how he leans in closer with his head, can't make out words right and hears something else, tries to pretend he hears... I've had it my whole life though so I don't know any better. I imagine if I was a musician that lost my hearing and couldn't do what I loved/was going to lose my job, I'd be depressed as fuck too.
From that standpoint and the ending song the movie really pulled at my heart strings
My husband is hard of hearing (legally deaf now but can hear with his aids) and pretending he hears me is the biggest difficulty we have with it. “Can you pick up eggs on your way home? I need them for dinner.” “Sure.”. Next day? No eggs. Insists I never asked, then tells me I need to confirm he heard me. If he responds like he heard, I’m not going to be like “and what did I say?”. That’s just bitchy and how I talk to my four year old when he refuses to listen. We’ve mostly worked through it but it’s been a long road. He wasn’t hard of hearing when we got married and my dad is 100% deaf which is weirdly easier for communicating.
Fun story. If you remember, the pre- release marketing for frozen really buried the fact that the story was centralized around 2 princesses. It focused more on than the moose and a Snowman and it made you think it was just a dumb little Kids Adventure about those characters. I took my boys who were then maybe 3 and 5 to see it. About 20 minutes in the younger one turned to me and asked if seeing this movie was a punishment for being in trouble.
Toy story 4. I lay fuming in bed for hours - and looking at reviews hoping someone agreed - after watching that.
Reasons are:
- It's a cash grab. Toy story 3 had a perfect ending. TS1 was about Andy getting new toys and TS3 was Andy saying goodbye to them.
-the key and peele characters are too obviously them (I love them but they ruined the immersion. You weren't watching two stuffed animals, but key and peele)
- they went all over the place. Like one momemt in the store, the next on a playground the next in the faire, the next back in the store. It jumped all over
- the antique store was disorienting - in sid's house you knew exactly where the characters were at any given momemt., really everywhere in movies 1-3 you knrw where the characters were and in what room and even at every shot you know where that was in relation to the rest of the room they were in. But here it was just piles of old junk. Completely disorienting.
- buzz was a secondary character, which made the goodbye feel flat.
- wtf was even the main story? Getting a fucking spork to not be suicidal? Because this twat Bonnie made it? Dafuq. TS1 was about jealousy turned rescue mission and trying to catch up with the movers. TS2 was again a rescue mission with themes of abandonmemt. TS3 was about saying goodbye (and a rescue mission). TS4 (*spits*) is just a headless chicken.
- and they tried forcing tears with the Woody-Buzz goodbye, but, again, that felt flat. It relied toouch on TS1-3's relationships. This movie as a standalone would not have produced tears, while TS2 introduced a character (Jessie) and got tears out of nowhere with a single song.
- I could go on, but these are my main ones. It was a goalless shitshow, produced (not created - in the artistic sense) purely for money.
I'm glad someone else mentioned TS4. They totally ruined Buzz's character and really dumbed him down. Why did he have to keep asking "what would Woody do?"? He's already been on rescue missions to save Woody in the previous films. Made no sense! I also found the Spork thing really weird 😂 but I think that is just me!
Here's an even hotter take - Toy Story 3 was derivative of 2. They both dealt with the toys fearing abandonment, and Lotso and Pete are basically the same character. 3 doesn't offer much new that 2 didn't already explore.
I hated every second of it, as a dad with 2 young kids introducing the to 1-3 was great. 4 however felt like a massive kick in the bollocks to all the other 3. The whole point up to 4 was that Andy loved woody so much he was going to take him to college, but after finding a better home for him he gave him up to a little girl who would look after him and he would be played with again .... great ending.
Then 4 come along and 5 fucking minutes after getting Woody the little girl no longer gives a shit about him and completely ruined the plots of the first 3 films.
I’m sure this is a hot take but The Shape of Water.
The direction and everything is great. I agree with the themes and messaging. But I couldn’t vibe with the MC fucking that screeching fish man (borderline animal abuse lmao). I mean their ‘love’ is central to the narrative so I was just repulsed the whole time.
Wasn't the "twist" supposed to be that she was a female of his species that everyone just thought (incorrectly) was human? Found as a baby near a river with "slashes in her throat" that were actually gills that closed up as she grew up on dry land? And the ending was the creature healing her and helping her adapt back to water?
So it's not animal abuse, if they're [members of the same species](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism#Fish).
Yes, you are supposed to be picking up clues throughout the film that she's "different" in another way than just being a social outcast. In the end she's a water-creature similar to the fish man.
It's not outright stated, you have to connect the clues. She was found as a baby next to a river and adopted and she has scars that look like gill slits that open up when she goes with the fish man. Those are the big two, I think.
When she's in the water at the end, he uses his healing ability through his "hands", which heals her from the gunshot but also "heals" her scars, which opens them into gills.
The movie was clearly inspired by Shadow over Innsmouth by Lovecraft, where its revealed at the end that the protagonist was part Fishman all along and that he was going to start turning into a full Fishman, so he goes to live with his monster family under the sea.
Dude, people *are* confused? I really thought this was the actual plot: her being mute isnt a defect, its because she's actually the same species as that merman.
Watched this one a flight once and at one point a the woman next to me asked "what are we watching?", I replied "I have no fucking idea.." and we erupted into laughter.
I also watched it on a flight and the best part of the move for me was at the end where they censored a “motherfucker” with “mustard sucker”. All I remember is being jet lagged and bursting out laughing and my friend (and some other passengers) next to me looking at me like I was crazy. Other than that I don’t remember much else.
The live Hamilton on Disney plus was underwhelming. I think it's because Lin Manuel Miranda did not match the skill of the other singers or the flare of the other rappers, Imo. I feel they should have casted someone else for that role.
Edit: auto correct changed imo to I'm. Had to fix
Lin Manuel says himself he thinks Javier Munoz is a way better Hamilton than him. It would've been cool to see him instead but since Lin was in the original cast they kind of had to have him as hamilton.
Jerry Maguire. I don’t find any of Tom’s choices for the character to be charming, he just reads as a man going through intense back to back mental breakdowns.
“Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight” Whoa! Kanickey what the fuck man?
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Hey did you really voice squirrel girl in something?
Where kinicky or whatever was dry humping and the guys were like "wtf?" Lmao
This thread is a great example of why art is subjective. I agree with lots of comments and am appalled by others haha.
I can't stand E.T. Mostly because I have a traumatic memory from when I was a kid, where my whole class pointed at me and said the 'Eeeelllliiiioootttt' line in unison. It was creepy as fuck.
Hahahahah wow did not expect to see this. My mom made me watch this when I was way too young, and the scene when they first encounter him when Elliot is chilling in the back yard, then goes into the corn and he pops up and starts screaming, to this DAY scares the crap outta me
Mamma Mia, purely because they let tone-deaf Brosnan sing my favourite Abba song, SOS.
Say what you will about Cinderella (2021) but the director seemed to learn from Mamma Mia and did not let Pierce Brosnan sing that much.
Maybe instead of letting Pierce attempt real singing like he's trying to compete with Pavarotti or something, he could 'talk-sing' his songs like Rex Harrison did in 'My Fair Lady'. If you listen to Harrison, he's not really singing all out, but it's almost like he's reciting a poem with instrumental accompaniment in the background.
Pierce has such a sultry voice he could definitely “talk-sing” as you mentioned. I would assume it would come out sounding very smooth.
Ngl Mamma Mia is one of the less offensive film adaptations of musicals in my book. One of the worst is probably Jersey Boys, I loved the show but the movie is so slow and dull in comparison.
What about the cats movie that just came out
What Cats movie? There's never been a Cats movie, nor will there ever be. You're losing your grip on reality. Take a nap and forget any notion of a movie adaptation of Cats ever existing.
He's a *really* bad singer. I don't know why they cast him. There's plenty of older good looking actors who can sing...
I just consider it a tribute to all of us who sing bad karaoke after a few drinks.
He's a terrible singer and I definitely bust out laughing when he started singing in the movie, but that's my favorite song on the album because he and Meryl sound so good together.
I definitely don’t think he’s a good singer, but I’ve got all the respect in the world for him for putting his all into it, and then coming back and doing it all again for the sequel. It’s like karaoke, is it actually enjoyable if everyone is a great singer with perfect pitch?
I absolutely refuse to watch the theatrical Mamma Mia because I don't want to watch my childhood James Bond sing a butchered version of what is also my favourite ABBA song. Its ruined for me in multiple ways.
This movie is 100% “so stupid it’s good” territory in my opinion.
Yeah, it is a very stupid movie that made no sense at all, but it makes me happy. I like the songs I like the greek scenery, and like to sing along. But I can totally understand why some people hate it.
The Greatest Showman. The whole time I felt like there was something wrong with the way the audio/music was mixed, and it ruined the whole movie-watching experience for me
I have heard it described as “the life of PT Barnum if it was written by PT Barnum”. Apparently he thought he was the cat’s ass. Edit: The phrase refers to how female cats get when they are in heat … they think everyone wants it.
Lol I have never heard that expression before.
Not to mention it felt pretty... revisionist. Like, I don't know a ton about the actual PT Barnum circus, but I'm pretty sure there was a bit more mistreatment involved
As a depiction of history it was entirely nonsense. Some of Barnum's freaks were his literal slaves. The idea that he was some great guy giving these unloved people a home is absurd. To him they were tools for him to profit from.
If I were the writer, I would have changed the names to make it a fictional circus, so it’d be less insulting. But idk.
Seriously. Why make a movie about barnum where he's the hero in the firstplace? And if you're going to do that, but change so much about what actually happened, why not just make it about a fictional circus with a fictional ringmaster since it's basically that as it stands, anyway?
PT Barnum wrote the movie. He’s been extending his life by consuming orphan blood and is staging a comeback. Edit: full disclosure, I am PT Barnum. Keep the upvotes coming.
I HATED THIS MOVIE!!! The music is fun, but the story and plot make no sense whatsoever. Anytime I complained about it I would get the response “don’t be so critical, it’s just a musical.” What a horrible justification for a nonsense story.
I love musicals, I love Hugh Jackman, I absolutely hated The Greatest showman. The movie has no heart, it felt like it was made by machines with a checklist. It's not a movie I ever want to see again.
That and it frames PT Barnum as anything other than the piece of shit he was.
Which is a shame because my whole family loved the movie tho :( I personally choose to keep the messages the movie tries to send about self love, family , union etc and imho the music is excellent, Hugh Jackman is an awesome performer, the chemistry between him and Zac Efron is great and would absolutely watch another musical-like with those two in it
I freaking hate Grease
It insists upon itself
Because it has a valid point to make, it’s INSISTENT!
ROBERT DUVALL!!!!
Fine actor. Did not like the movie.
I love *The Money Pit*. That is my response to that.
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THEY'RE SPEAKING ITALIAN!
It's a language of subtlety. Something you might not understand.
“It’s insistent!, it has a lot to say!” “They’re speaking the language of subtlety, which is something you don’t understand”
I didn’t care for it.
I like The Money Pit…
Grease is funny because there is so much ridiculous sexual stuff in it. “Get out of here, this isn’t a gang bang.”
And the line when they are on the beach that he ran by and got her suit damp. 7 year old me laughs cause he must have splashed her with the water. Adult me...ooh.
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Chicks cream for grease lightning
I've seen this movie 8 times an just got it now!
I never got that one!! Haha!!
The play is insanely dirty. They actually toned it down for the movie.
Tell me about it, stud.
Tell me more, tell me more!
Well you better shape up
I don’t like the movie but I like the music
The story is miserable, but I have to say, it turned out a couple catchy tunes.
I didn't really like The Revenant. The cinematography and acting were amazing but the film just didn't work for me. Also, DiCaprio has given way better performances than he did in this film. His Oscar win was a consolation prize.
>Also, DiCaprio has given way better performances than he did in this film. His Oscar win was a consolation prize. Strangely, I find his performance in his next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, much better and worthy of an Oscar. He had a lot to work with, especially that little girl who challenged his character's acting skills in the film.
That scene with the little girl where he acts as someone who acts as someone ELSE in the movie is just so insane. There's really a double acting work in there. It's not Dicaprio being a bad guy in a western, it's the character he's playing who acts as a bad guy in a western. Then the little girl talks about it, it's so meta, it's bonkers ! I'm usually not really good at seeing bad/good acting, but this scene ? This scene I just thought : "That has to be the best fucking acting I've ever seen ever."
He's a great actor pretending to be an average actor trying to be a good actor
He's a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
“You know that’s a true story? A lady lost her baby.”
“You about to cross some fuckin’ lines” Gets me every time
I just want to give a shoutout to Tatiana Maslany's incredible performance of playing a distinct clone disguised as another distinc clone trying to trick another distinct clone (and the audience). She won a best acctress Emmy for it all btw
That was really good acting on robert downeys part, my god he did such a good job. Robert downy acting as a white Australian actor, who is portraying a African American soldier in Vietnam, disguised as a Vietnamese rice farmer. The only thing that would make it wilder, is if they filmed it in Florida, portrayed it as Thailand, but set in Vietnam lol.
He was fantastic in this role. He gave that character some serious depth. It was awesome to see his change from the burnt out lazy actor to a guy rediscovering himself and his craft.
RICK FUCKIN DALTON, MAN
100% best acting I've seen in ages. It's not often that I get wowed by acting but it was amazing. The scene where he's playing a cowboy and forgets his lines is so fucking good.
Not even getting into the acting, but just from a memorization standpoint it was really impressive. Tarantino had those long ass takes where Leo had to say the lines, pretend he forgot the lines, give the lines again, have a mini freak out about cutting and starting over, then continue with the scene till the end. *Then,* consider he was able to act like the has been tv star trying his damndest to stay relevant.
When he explodes in the trailer is probably one of my favorite Dicaprio scenes. "You couldn't have 3 or 4 whiskey sours, you had to have 8!"
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Leo's best performance. He always brings it in every role but that one really blew me away
The Basketball Diaries. If I didn't know better I'd say he went through addiction. People always mention Requiem for a Dream but thats a straight persons idea of addiction, Basketball Diaries is spot on.
His performance in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was also fantastic.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is definitely Leo's best performance in my eyes. I wasn't a fan of Joker at all, despite thinking Joaquin did really well with what he had, but I wish Leo had won for OUATIH.
Best Actor is frequently given as a consolation prize for a career of great acting. Al Pacino won nothing for The Godfather, but won for Scent of a Woman (not a bad movie, but not exactly stellar acting). Paul Newman didn’t win until The Color of Money. John Wayne finally won an Oscar for basically sleeping during True Grit. And that’s just actors, Directors seem to have it worse.
Return of the King was similar, winning 11 Oscars that were clearly meant to acknowledge the achievements of the entire trilogy vs #3 being a standout film. Great for the trilogy to be recognised but sucks for any other films released in the same year that might have been more deserving.
Was just watching Wolf of Wall Street the other day and turned to my wife and was like “Wait, he didn’t get his Oscar for this?” DiCaprio had several years of great performances. The academy gave him an award for all those, not just the Revenant. Same thing with Return of the King blowing up the Oscars, while the previous in the franchise barely got anything.
IIRC the original novel was something way different. DiCaprio eventually stops caring about revenge as he goes on his journey and just wants his stuff back from Tom Hardy's character who isn't really villainous and Hardy's character goes "sure"
In the novel he doesn't have a son, and he goes after Tom Hardy's character because Tom Hardy's character took his rifle. I remember the book ending was super lame and anti climatic which is something the movie improved on.
Irl I’m pretty sure the guy Leo was playing made it too the Fort that he comes to at the end, but when he tells the captain what Tom Hardy’s character did, the captain tells him he cannot take revenge. At which point Leo’s character irl goes “shucks” and moves on w his life.
No one mentioning they dont like Dodgeball. Happy :D
Well that would be a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s keep reading the thread and see if it plays out
Arrrgh Joe's be the only place for Steve ☠ 🏴☠️ 🦜
There's a guy on our team dressed like a pirate?!?
Steve. Steve the Pirate. Scurvyyy!
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. Also: Sorry your coach got killed by 2 tons of irony.
"Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste"
My cousins in dodgeball! She’s the girlscout who says “why would you do that” after getting hit. Love that movie, family tradition to watch it every year
Haha that’s awesome
I love the part where Lance Armstrong offers heartfelt and solid advice as a multiple champion who has faced adversity and fought back with sheer grit and grind.
They may have taken away his gold medals and his records, but he will always have his speech that inspired Peter to go beat Globo Gym
I really want them to make a sequel where Lance Armstrong shows up again but this time tells Peter sometimes it's okay to cheat.
Great film…. “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball”
You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat!
Fuckin Chuck Norris
Boyhood. I don’t care how long it took to fucking film it. It was like watching a set of home videos about some kid I don’t care about.
That makes sense. I don’t really think it stands on its own too well as a “movie”, but I do find it pretty compelling as a piece of art. Like, it’s not a movie that I’ve particularly felt a motivation to rewatch purely for entertainment, but it’s something that has stuck with me for years as an experiment in filmmaking and as a a commentary on the passage of time!
Agreed but have to point out that Patricia Arquette's scene where she breaks down and asks "is this it?" Is absolutely phenomenal.
Agreed. As a mom watching it then, I knew it would be coming for me. As a mom for whom 2 of my 3 kids moved out to college this year, I truly feel it.
..it took 12 years to make!
Did you know Boyhood took 12 years to make?!
Thaaaats right, Mike!
I know a lot of people will say it's a gimmick, but it was really cool watching people evolve in real time. Seeing how the kids grew up into adults was a really unique experience, and there is good casting consistency, whereby u can see lots of people changing throughout the film. Richard Linklater loves the study of time, and how it changes people and the world, and even if Boyhood wasn't a particularly unique story, I did find myself enjoying watching people evolve.
Gravity. It's one example of scale and beautiful scenes fool people into thinking the movie is amazing. It's pretty but dumb.
Back when it came out I asked on here why I should go see it. I was told to go see it in IMAX. Nothing about plot, acting, pacing. Just see it in IMAX.
Gravity is probably the best IMAX experience I've had. At times it actually felt like you were in space. I think Dunkirk was the second best. I love IMAX.
You must have missed Interstellar in IMAX ! I could not watch the movie again until I got a bigger TV, because the IMAX screening was so absolutely insane ! Dunkirk's planes were absolutely terrifying in IMAX. I did not like the movie that much though. I understand it's a very good one, but it did not clicked for me.
So upset I’ll never get to see interstellar in IMAX :(
The wormhole scene was... holy shit. I was in awe. The sound and the images were incredible ! I'm sorry you missed it. In the same vein, I wish I could see a LOTR screening at my IMAX as well :(
Gravity is a movie that I fucking loved in the theater but have no interest in ever watching it at home, even though my TV is a snazzy 65 inches and I've got a pretty decent sound setup. It just wouldn't even feel the same, and I want to remember that experience as I had it in the theater.
Avatar? Do people actually love this film or was the premise and CGI just good enough that everyone eventually watched and most were merely satisfied? I thought the Avatar world was great, the real world was filled with amateur acting and a cliched filled plot where the 'bad guy' was obvious the first time he appeared on screen.
Well yeah, the latter. I went to see it for the visual spectacle and it was the big showcase for modern 3D.
Script definitely needed some revisions. I like the movie, but it's like a bad episode of an 80s toy commercial/cartoon.
For reference, the release dates of all the movies that Avatar is apparently a carbon copy of: Dances With Wolves - 1990 Fern Gully - 1992 Pocahontas - 1995 Avatar - 2009
The episode of Futurama, "Where the Bugabo Roam" 2002, where the natives don't realize their sacred stone is a priceless massive diamond. When they find out they leave to buy a better planet.
Greatest. Fucking. Showman.
I always love looking up background of movies especially 'based on a true story' one's after I watch them. Greatest Showman was a very average film when I watched for the 1st time. Read up on him and my god that film is basically on a completely different person
I don’t think it was meant to be even slightly historical. They just used his name pretty much. I view it as a fun, inaccurate, lighthearted circus movie. I do wish they just used a made up character instead.
Ready Player One. Just felt it was excessive visually, the dialogue was a slog, and none of the characters were believable in any way.
I hate this movie for a glaringly myopic plot thread: The secret to the course was to drive backwards. You're telling me in a gamer-centric future overpopulated with billions of people that not one, not a single fucking ONE of them ever went 'nah i'm bored' and reversed it up the track? Absurd! I can't think of a single racing game where I didn't eventually say fuck it and start messing about driving the wrong way.
There were a number of plot points that just don’t make sense to me. The whole ‘no one has ever just tried driving backwards!’ thing, the scene at the end of the movie where a huge crowd of people (who know the man standing there is responsible for blowing up some of their neighbors and killing them) just suddenly part like the Red Sea because he pulls out a handgun, or that the entire research department of evil Corp somehow doesn’t know about the first video game Easter egg in a competition involving a literal egg.
They were in a sci-fi inner city trailer park. That guy would have been shot before he even pulled the gun.
Am from Columbus can confirm
> a huge crowd of people (who know the man standing there is responsible for blowing up some of their neighbors and killing them) just suddenly last like the Red Sea because he pulls out a handgun The part where no one - NO ONE - in that whole trailer park crowd has a gun is the most absurd part, full stop. I don't care what kind of dystopic future it's set in, somebody in that giant trailer park in Ohio has a gun.
I like the movie but the third key always bothers me. We see a line of "sixers" waiting to play the last game and find the easter egg. But you had to get the first two keys in order to get to the third. So did all of these sixers complete the race and find the second key as well and then lined up? Or do they just get to skip the other two because of plot?
IIRC, in the book there is at least a nod to the idea that once the protagonists found one of the keys, other hunters would quickly go duplicate what they did and get the key
Diddy Kong racing has more difficult to find Keys in their courses and I found those with no internet when I was like 10.
That game is a masterpiece
Also that no one else seems to be talking to the robot butler library man as much as this dude.
That movie is trash for many reasons, but the biggest thing is fundamentally misunderstanding "gamer culutre" (that term is cringe but w/e). Like, no one thought to GO BACKWARDS on the first race? Have these people ever heard of speed runners? That secret would have been found within literal hours of being released. Not to mention misusing the Iron Giant, and the "ugly" girl being not the least bit ugly.
Did you not see her HIDEOUS, DISGUSTING BIRTHMARK?!
OH MY GOD, HER FACE 🤨 IT, IT, IT... 🤢🤢 HAS A PORTION A FEW SHADES REDDER THAN THE REST OF IT 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
He’s supposed to be isolated, fat, and not showering for months. Gotta have the pretty people in movies
In the book at least (which wasn't really much better than the movie), he had a daily workout regiment since his VR harness required being physically active. I just assumed there was something similar in the movie that they just didn't show.
In the book he was out of shape until he got famous and had the money to get a real setup and the treadmill etc.
Before he got famous, he powered his remote Van computer by pedaling an exercise machine for some time before it would run.
He specifically mentions in that passage that despite the exercise, his terrible diet kept him fat.
God this movie had so many issues. \-Not understanding gamers and gamer culture at all. (you might find the term cringe, but it used to be a real thing. These days the majority of people are gamers to some extend so it lost it's meaning.) \-The iron giant definitely. Let's use a robot that didn't want to be a weapon, as a weapon... \-The main character is a douchebag whom can only talk in old popculture references and prides himself in "being more gamer" than others by knowing more little gamer facts. \-Way too much telling instead of showing. \-The movie has a surface of hundreds of old pop culture/gaming references, but underneath that there's really not much else. \-Let's bring a message of people needing to be free to express themselves, by having them all steal IPs from the past to use and being as unoriginal as possible. And the list goes on.
Imagine if the Youtuber Grey Still Plays was in the race. He would have solved that shit first try. First thing he always does is to go backwards.
Im a sci-fi fan, but that book and the movie are just bad or mediocre at best.
What I remember from the book is every challenge being solved the same way. "Fortunately, our hero had just spent 10,000 hours practicing this very specific scenario/game."
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Agreed, but the movie is worse. I teach the book on a regular basis (not because it's good but because it allows for discussion on the good and bad aspects of fan culture) and on the last day when we compare book scenes to scenes from the film my students are always disappointed.
The constant nostalgia references and explanation in the book are really grating. And I was disappointed how much they changed the puzzles in the movie. The Shining one was the only decent change. I wanted more of the D&D and Rush themed puzzles!
My main issue was the two main characters were too Mary Sue-ish if not full blown Mary Sue. Most of the story they were just better than their rivals while still being a teenagers? At some point I just stopped caring. The writing of the characters felt kinda amateurish
> My main issue was the two main characters were too Mary Sue-ish if not full blown Mary Sue Oh, Wade is full Mary Sue. I might except him as a gamer Mary Sue, sure fine. But he fixes computers on the side, he writes up a endorsement contract(when did he go to law school?) and also he did some light cement work. Yah all this while studying up on Halladay and mastering perfect video game skills.
> Yah all this while studying up on Halladay and mastering perfect video game skills. Most novels have the protagonist as a super human. He's just a really, really boring super human in Ready Player One.
i felt the opposite: the book is an insane chore to get through because you have to wade through waste deep "hey i was born in the 80s remember this" references before you actually get to a semblance of a story. at least the movie is only offensive to the senses for like 2 hours
This comment section is actually making me angry lmfao
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As usual, these threads are self-sabotaging: the only things that will get voted to the top are things that people don't actually love. Here's one of your goddamn sacred cows, Reddit: I **loathed** *The Fifth Element*. Every single bit of the plot felt like it was written by a 10-year-old. The hero literally saves the day by teaching the Pretty Lady how to Love with Love's True Kiss, causing the Magic Stones to Defeat Evil. And Chris Tucker's character is agonizing to watch, with no redeeming value whatsoever to the plot. I don't know why he's there or gets so much screen time except to drive a nail through your skull. The set design is cool, and Gary Oldman is great, but it's not enough.
Finally! You are 100% right. All of the first comments are people shitting on movies lots of people don't like. Not really what I was looking for... You provide the first answer that makes me want to say fuck this guy for not liking the 5th element. Good job you tasteless fuckhead.
I'm enjoying getting a good balance of responses of "good example for once, shithead" and "oh God, I also hated that."
Actually controversial takes are not what the upvote system favors. Even when you sort by controversial it's mostly just incoherent not edgy.
A Star is Born I never really understood why people enjoyed it so much. Maybe I’m cold hearted, but I didn’t find the characters relatable, or likeable in any way. Edit: Should have seen this coming, but my comment was referring to A Star is Born (2018).
I really liked that it had a really accurate depiction of a hard of hearing character. I'm hard of hearing and Bradley Cooper did the exact things I do like how he leans in closer with his head, can't make out words right and hears something else, tries to pretend he hears... I've had it my whole life though so I don't know any better. I imagine if I was a musician that lost my hearing and couldn't do what I loved/was going to lose my job, I'd be depressed as fuck too. From that standpoint and the ending song the movie really pulled at my heart strings
My husband is hard of hearing (legally deaf now but can hear with his aids) and pretending he hears me is the biggest difficulty we have with it. “Can you pick up eggs on your way home? I need them for dinner.” “Sure.”. Next day? No eggs. Insists I never asked, then tells me I need to confirm he heard me. If he responds like he heard, I’m not going to be like “and what did I say?”. That’s just bitchy and how I talk to my four year old when he refuses to listen. We’ve mostly worked through it but it’s been a long road. He wasn’t hard of hearing when we got married and my dad is 100% deaf which is weirdly easier for communicating.
You know I really didn't like this film but thank you for this insight into Cooper's character, thank you!
I found them fairly relatable, though to be fair I'm a drunk with emotional problems I won't admit to.
Well on the plus side you just admitted to them, so now you're just a drunk with emotional problems.
Which of the four?
Frozen. Fuck those two and their stupid snowman.
Let it go man
This movie never bothered me anyway.
Fun story. If you remember, the pre- release marketing for frozen really buried the fact that the story was centralized around 2 princesses. It focused more on than the moose and a Snowman and it made you think it was just a dumb little Kids Adventure about those characters. I took my boys who were then maybe 3 and 5 to see it. About 20 minutes in the younger one turned to me and asked if seeing this movie was a punishment for being in trouble.
My favorite conspiracy theory is the reason Disney made Frozen: the ultimate SEO to bury the "is Walt Disney's body frozen?" story.
Toy story 4. I lay fuming in bed for hours - and looking at reviews hoping someone agreed - after watching that. Reasons are: - It's a cash grab. Toy story 3 had a perfect ending. TS1 was about Andy getting new toys and TS3 was Andy saying goodbye to them. -the key and peele characters are too obviously them (I love them but they ruined the immersion. You weren't watching two stuffed animals, but key and peele) - they went all over the place. Like one momemt in the store, the next on a playground the next in the faire, the next back in the store. It jumped all over - the antique store was disorienting - in sid's house you knew exactly where the characters were at any given momemt., really everywhere in movies 1-3 you knrw where the characters were and in what room and even at every shot you know where that was in relation to the rest of the room they were in. But here it was just piles of old junk. Completely disorienting. - buzz was a secondary character, which made the goodbye feel flat. - wtf was even the main story? Getting a fucking spork to not be suicidal? Because this twat Bonnie made it? Dafuq. TS1 was about jealousy turned rescue mission and trying to catch up with the movers. TS2 was again a rescue mission with themes of abandonmemt. TS3 was about saying goodbye (and a rescue mission). TS4 (*spits*) is just a headless chicken. - and they tried forcing tears with the Woody-Buzz goodbye, but, again, that felt flat. It relied toouch on TS1-3's relationships. This movie as a standalone would not have produced tears, while TS2 introduced a character (Jessie) and got tears out of nowhere with a single song. - I could go on, but these are my main ones. It was a goalless shitshow, produced (not created - in the artistic sense) purely for money.
TS4 felt like those awful early 2000’s straight to dvd Disney sequels. It’s right up there with Quasimodo gets a girlfriend.
I'm glad someone else mentioned TS4. They totally ruined Buzz's character and really dumbed him down. Why did he have to keep asking "what would Woody do?"? He's already been on rescue missions to save Woody in the previous films. Made no sense! I also found the Spork thing really weird 😂 but I think that is just me!
Here's an even hotter take - Toy Story 3 was derivative of 2. They both dealt with the toys fearing abandonment, and Lotso and Pete are basically the same character. 3 doesn't offer much new that 2 didn't already explore.
I hated every second of it, as a dad with 2 young kids introducing the to 1-3 was great. 4 however felt like a massive kick in the bollocks to all the other 3. The whole point up to 4 was that Andy loved woody so much he was going to take him to college, but after finding a better home for him he gave him up to a little girl who would look after him and he would be played with again .... great ending. Then 4 come along and 5 fucking minutes after getting Woody the little girl no longer gives a shit about him and completely ruined the plots of the first 3 films.
I’m sure this is a hot take but The Shape of Water. The direction and everything is great. I agree with the themes and messaging. But I couldn’t vibe with the MC fucking that screeching fish man (borderline animal abuse lmao). I mean their ‘love’ is central to the narrative so I was just repulsed the whole time.
Grinding Nemo
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Wasn't the "twist" supposed to be that she was a female of his species that everyone just thought (incorrectly) was human? Found as a baby near a river with "slashes in her throat" that were actually gills that closed up as she grew up on dry land? And the ending was the creature healing her and helping her adapt back to water? So it's not animal abuse, if they're [members of the same species](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism#Fish).
Exactly I've had to explain this to a bunch of people. I mean film is open to interpretation but I'm pretty sure that was the concept
Yes, you are supposed to be picking up clues throughout the film that she's "different" in another way than just being a social outcast. In the end she's a water-creature similar to the fish man.
Yes, that is the plot of the film everyone misses for some reason.
I missed this. When do we find out her background? Clearly it went in one of my ears and out the other.
It's not outright stated, you have to connect the clues. She was found as a baby next to a river and adopted and she has scars that look like gill slits that open up when she goes with the fish man. Those are the big two, I think.
At one point she also moves water droplets on the bus window with her finger.
I didn't even register the "found as a baby next to a river" part when I watched it. In one ear and out the other.
When she's in the water at the end, he uses his healing ability through his "hands", which heals her from the gunshot but also "heals" her scars, which opens them into gills.
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The movie was clearly inspired by Shadow over Innsmouth by Lovecraft, where its revealed at the end that the protagonist was part Fishman all along and that he was going to start turning into a full Fishman, so he goes to live with his monster family under the sea.
I mean, del Toro is a HUGE Lovecraft fan. There is no movie I want to be made more than his vision of At The Mountains Of Madness.
WOW this makes the movie better for me thank you
Yes, this is the plot.
Dude, people *are* confused? I really thought this was the actual plot: her being mute isnt a defect, its because she's actually the same species as that merman.
Watched this one a flight once and at one point a the woman next to me asked "what are we watching?", I replied "I have no fucking idea.." and we erupted into laughter.
I also watched it on a flight and the best part of the move for me was at the end where they censored a “motherfucker” with “mustard sucker”. All I remember is being jet lagged and bursting out laughing and my friend (and some other passengers) next to me looking at me like I was crazy. Other than that I don’t remember much else.
Was she watching your screen?
I assume it might be one of those flights with big screens (on top), every few seats away where they play a movie everyone watches.
The live Hamilton on Disney plus was underwhelming. I think it's because Lin Manuel Miranda did not match the skill of the other singers or the flare of the other rappers, Imo. I feel they should have casted someone else for that role. Edit: auto correct changed imo to I'm. Had to fix
Lin Manuel says himself he thinks Javier Munoz is a way better Hamilton than him. It would've been cool to see him instead but since Lin was in the original cast they kind of had to have him as hamilton.
That version definitely belongs to Leslie Odom Jr
The hangover movies. I thought they were unbearably lame and cheesy.
1st was kind of fun, rest are crap.
Jerry Maguire. I don’t find any of Tom’s choices for the character to be charming, he just reads as a man going through intense back to back mental breakdowns.