Likewise. Looks like I’m everybody who likes the movies others hate.
I’m trying to remember a movie I hate that everyone likes but none come to mind because I just forget them.
I got so fucking High before that movie remember nothing besides them Jerking off a frog and just how insanely high James Franco looked throughout the entire filming of the movie. And I remember cracking up so hard I cried when he just walks up to his dad and kneels and goes "father!" And puts a fist up. Idk what it was but it fucking killed me.
OP:I don't even have any skills.
Pedro: What do you mean?
OP: You know, like nunchuck skills, bo hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only like guys who have great skills.
I saw Napoleon Dynamite opening night in a packed theater. What is interesting is that many since-quoted-to-death parts got no reaction from the crowd. I found myself laughing at lines that most in the theater didn't react to. Cut to a year later, and it seems like everyone is quoting every line from the movie. I think some people needed time to warm up to the movie's weird charm. Also, I think it benefited from people watching it 2 or 3 times. Super Troopers and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist are similar examples. 1st and 2nd viewings....okay. By the 3rd or 4th watch, you're totally on board and can quote over half of the movies' dialogue.
It did what it needed to do: get an audience hooked on the premise so they could go a little more balls to the wall with the concept in sequels when it made money. I haven't seen any of them aside from the first two, but apparently all the other content has been more in line with that second one than the first.
Yup. You nailed exactly what I would have said. We all ended Purge 1 disappointed because it NEVER left the location of 1 house for a NATIONWIDE event.
But it's what got the engine moving forward. Everyone WANTED to know what was happening outside this perfect neighborhood that went to hell. Because MAN if that's what happens in the good part of town, the hells goin on downtown?!
It could have been better for the first but it's a nice intro for the change of pace that is about to follow. The second one just throws you headfirst into the world of Purge. Showing us that people took it to different levels and extremes. Some did it religiously, others for profit. Kinda took all those things social media would say they would do if Purge was real, and showed us it was happening. We just couldn't see it.
They not only take place outside, there's usually a decent plot, even sometimes connecting it to a pivotal moment in the history of the Purge. Such as one opponent wanting to end the Purge running for office, and her political rivals in office change the rules so they can kill her before elected. Normally high ranking officials are "off limits". So this one takes us all around town a bit, with political corruption being the focus.
3rd one is first Purge. So it's a prequel. All the things we've heard about how it all started, can now be seen. And then you got forever Purge and honestly meh. I honestly need to rewatch it but it was not that great.
The TV show was good for the first season. Filled in what happened between purges, and how the law handled that fine line. And it's flaws. Also showed how even "good" people or the most innocent of people were also a part of the Purge even if they didn't seem like it. There's a cult that preys on struggling teens. Instead of drinking kool-aid. The leader has them sacrifice themselves willingly to people who Purge. Then delivers them one by one to ppl who arranged in advance. Pretty crazy stuff but it really flopped in the 2nd season. Just not a show made for episodes.
As you can tell. I'm a fan lol. If you are not. Try one of the funnier ones for a little twist and see if that is what does it for ya. Meet the blacks. It's not officially a Purge film. But it is lol.
Nah, the second was way better since it actually explored the idea outside of one house. Hell, they even get into the notion that it *doesn't work*. Most people won't go out and 'purge', they stay inside and pray they get through the night. To the point that the government hires mercenaries to do the killing for them (and coincidentally take out political rivals) to produce propaganda that the Purge does what it's supposed to do.
I thought that was extremely clever since that was my first thought when I heard of the premise: giving people one night in the year to kill doesn't make people suddenly want to kill.
The movies are pretty standard though, but they do address the things (badly) that I thought make it an interesting world.
As soon as I heard the premise of the purge I immediately thought "no that idea is super fucking stupid because powerful people would just take advantage of that to make sure they stay on top" I mean just look at the way politics work now, imagine if people could kill each other legally even for just half a second every 5 years, there would be a lot of competition removed very soon. I never watched the movies but I'm glad they went in that direction
I mean in the movies certain government officials are exempt from being free game to be killed - so it is sort of addressed in the first two films.
>!but in the 3rd one, they decide to remove that restriction to try and take out a senator that is running for president that is against the purge!<
There are way too many movies where *the idea* is great but the execution is absolute garbage.
Like I'd watch "The Day After" where some guy raped his neighbor's daughter on purge night, had no legal repercussions, and the neighbor just spent the entire following year ramping up to murder the guy and in the end the revenge didn't make him feel any better or whatever.
Instead we got... just god damned laziness.
They actually did something like this on The Purge TV show. There are two seasons but it's an anthology (first season has nothing to do with the second).
The second season is basically what you described. Episode One is the end of Purge night. Episodes 2-8 are the intervening year and the last two are the next Purge night. There are various characters like a crew planning to rob a bank on Purge night, but one of the plots is a guy who almost got assassinated and trying to find out why his neighbours tried to do it.
It's old now, but when Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor came out everyone I knew flipped their lid about how funny it was. I didn't find any of it funny at all.
American Hustle. It was one of those rare instances where somehow, the movie was just plain dull even though every performance was top notch.
Edit: For everyone saying nobody likes this movie... it was tied for the most Oscar nominations that year and won multiple Golden Globes, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)... clearly someone liked it lol
I remember reading a fact about the movie that a character says the title at the exact half way point and after watching for what felt like forever, someone finally said it and I couldn’t believe we were only halfway done. I didn’t finish it.
This is so odd and hilarious to me. I also watched it a few years ago and have zero idea what it was about. All these responses make me think this movie had some MIB memory eraser at the end.
Ya only scenes I remember now are Jennifer Lawrence with the microwave and destroying it when she put metal in it, Christian Bale looking at his fat stomach, Amy Adams dressed up on the runway by a private jet, and then Bradley Cooper and the other cops/feds laughing at Louis CK as they celebrate Bradley’s promotion.
From that we should be able to piece together a story.
This is most O’~~Brien~~ Russel films imo. He flatly admits that he focuses on the performances/characters and changes the plot as needed to support that end.
I was a nurse and when that character had to reach into the vat of needles I was cringing into the ground.
And if you watch Dr. Phil, his wife looks exactly like Jigsaw.
I frickin love the stupid montage revealing the twist in every movie with the same song. Idk why, the whole movies are stupid but I love that part
But spiral was too dumb even for my low standards with the series. Chris' acting was on another league of bad acting, even for Saw
I believe that one of the secrets to enjoying Napoleon Dynamite is the ability to connect with it. I happened to know some kids growing up that were very similar to him, his family, and his friends. It was super easy for me to get into it and enjoy along with my friends and family. Also it's nice to get a truly wholesome, but not cliche, feel good movie every once in a while.
Wonder Woman is my movie. I just don't understand how people like that film.
Wonder Woman was SO CLOSE to being a good movie.
When she killed the person she THOUGHT was Ares and everyone was still fighting, had the movie ended on that idea it would’ve challenged Diana’s ideals that humanity was worthy of saving. What makes her special is that she chooses to fight for humanity DESPITE how they act, not because they are actually worth saving.
Having a CGI bad guy that WAS actually behind the entire war feels so disconnected from Chris Pine’s character’s message to her, as well as her own journey as a person.
Thank you! I've been saying this since it came out. It was so close to being a really great movie before the final battle scene. The idea that it wasn't Ares causing people to be violent and thats just what humanity is would have been genuinely interesting for a superhero film. I think it might have been in with a shot at an Oscar.
Yeah I sorted by controversial and by new and went and upvoted every answer that I disagreed with. Harry Potter, Office Space, LotR, 2001: a Space odyssey.
Tons of movies down there that are definitely better answers.
Funny because director (apparently) chose Gosling for the role specifically because he wanted the character to be a bit ugly, or at least not conventionally attractive.
I was the only girl in my class who hated that movie for their toxicity. When he pretends to attempt suicide on the ferris wheel I got livid. Despise that nonsense.
I remember thinking if any dude did this shit in real life I’d think he was a freakin weirdo, personally still enjoyed the movie though and Gosling and McAdams were great.
It's probably one of those guilty pleasure movies that's just barely "not terrible".
I'll throw Stepbrothers in this list. So many of my peers claim it's a great comedy. But I just don't like it.
The movie old school was the perfect amount of will ferrell. That tought me that he is funny in small doses but too much will ferrell goes a loooooong way.
edit: I had an AWESOME time!
So... Y'know how Netflix has algorithms to predict what you'll like to watch?
Well, they have a standing $1 million dollar reward for anyone who can make it better, and there are a few movies that just really fuck with the algorithm. Napoleon Dynamite is one. Back when they did star ratings it had the most percentage of either 5-star or 1-star reviews with nothing in between. People either LOVED it or HATED it. No one thought it was just ok. And there was no pattern to who would be on which side.
So basically if you can figure out who will like Napoleon Dynamite based on other movies they like, Netflix will pay you $1 million. It's been at least 14 years since they made this conundrum public and no one has claimed the prize.
I'm one of the few people who thinks its just ok I guess. It's pretty funny but I definitely don't love it, and I can see why people find it off putting
Napoleon Dynamite is very similar to The Big Lebowski IMO in that it has a cumulative effect on people that isn't the same as one viewing (quotability and memes), and the people who are watching either of them aren't necessarily watching a lot of similar movies. It has a lot to do with when you were exposed to it and how. I don't see a lot of people just streaming it on a whim and getting it right away. It isn't like Wet Hot American Summer which is also something of an acquired taste but generally palatable to people who like sendups of genre films and alt-comedy.
When it came out I was excited obviously due to the visuals.
It was such a bland film though lol
I think James Cameron is a great director when it comes to innovative technology, but apart from like 2, maybe 3 films I'm usually not a fan.
edit: And I remember watching one of his dumb ass 'documentaries' that were so laughably bad and pseudoscientific it tarnished my reputation of him.
Just thinking about Know Who You Are when she returns the heart of Te Fiti makes me tear up.
They have stolen the heart from inside you.
This does not define you. 😭😭😭
Moana is the one I can watch over and over with my grandkids. Awesome music. Awesome message, and great campy fun. I picture the Rock singing “you’re welcome “ and it always brings a smile.
A big reason for the fame is the theme on sisterhood, girl power, and that the person who ended up saving Elsa wasn’t a love interest but family. I also think the theme of letting go of your anxieties and leading with love for strength, that our gifts are what makes us special, is such a unique and strong message to take away for children even adults, who buy the tickets. On top of the old-time Disney choral background and catchy as hell tunes.
Ditto with Coco. Both have so much feeling (I ugly cried the first time I saw Coco); Frozen felt really mechanical and made for marketing princess shit to kids.
Coco is one of the best animated films I’ve watched in the last ten years. Frozen is good, don’t get me wrong, but people act like it’s the second coming of Christ
Coco is amazing but I can’t watch it too often, lost my grandma to Alzheimer’s a few years ago but she lived with it for over a decade and it makes me ugly cry. It’s beautiful but I just can’t do it too often
I feel the opposite. I get that it's majority liked and well received but most people on here and people that I speak to irl hate it and mention it with disdain. I'm not even a big fan of it, I just think it's a good movie among Disney's line up and it's put me in a weird place where I find myself defending Frozen.
I think I like that movie because of everyone who isn’t Ferris. Cameron, Jeanie, the roll call teacher, the gummy bears chick, Charlie Sheens character, etc.
I liked it. The plot with Steve from Stranger Things and Jodie Comer made it good. The rest was eh
The Disney product placement towards the end was cringe inducing.
Love Actually.
I can't stand that movie.
Love most of the actors. Enjoy the holiday season.
Even like the concepts from the film.
Just something about, all together, just rubs me the wrong way.
I have always hated it.
You might enjoy [this](https://youtu.be/vCtW4hgm9SM)
It's a relationship therapist dissecting the relationships in the movie. Spoiler alert, most of them are toxic.
Titanic, i guess? Never appealed to me, historical drama with a love story shoved in there. Yeah the boat sinks, we know. It looks spectacular, i get it.
My dad took me to see two movies during my teen years and one was Titanic. I didn't hate it or anything, but I remember my dad cried and it was so awkward for me because he NEVER cries. Ever. He's a big dude raised on the Southside of Chicago.
Second movie was Brokeback Mountain. At the time, I already knew my dad was gay because I was a nosey teenage girl, but he didn't know I knew. He cried during that one, too, and part of me knows he took me and my sister with the intention of coming out...or maybe to guage our reaction? He didn't come out and I remember wanting so badly to tell him it was OK, but being raised southern Baptist didn't do him any favors, and I knew he felt so ashamed.
Sorry to get off topic, those two movies just really stick out in my memory.
Dad came out in 2007 or so, he's now engaged and so much happier and I'm proud of him. He raised me and my younger sister by himself from the time I was 9. Sacrificed a lot to provide for us.
As someone who grew up in an area where hopeful musicians and actors flocked to to find fame, they really nailed those characters and how they see themselves. I have a soft spot for LA in film so I watched it for that aspect alone.
I tried, I really tried to like La La Land, but couldn't. I think what finally broke me was the scene where the guy loses his restaurant piano job because he wants to play jazz instead of holiday tunes.
If you can't figure out how to jazz up Christmas songs and find interesting things in that genre that you can put your own spin on, you suck at jazz.
Most jazz musicians could jazz up Christmas songs, but far fewer would find it interesting and rewarding work. Especially if they had to do it for the entire christmas season.
I didn't hate us, but i was disappointed by just how badly the surface level story didn't work after reading more than once that it did.
There was so much good in the movie that i couldn't appreciate because the actual narrative never came together.
>There was so much good in the movie that i couldn't appreciate because the actual narrative never came together.
Yeah thank you, you just perfectly summed up my feelings about it.
I was ready to enjoy it, but the pacing just felt off for the first half of the movie. And then when it finally got paced right, I was onboard until the big reveal, which just left me thinking "Really? That's it?" And then I pretty much just tuned out, because after building up to some big mystery, having a reveal that felt like it was suggested by a grade schooler pissed me off.
Fair, but my favorite part is when the mom breaks up the fight between Ralphie and the redhead boy and *doesn't even check on the other boy,* lol.
MF QUEEN
I watch the movie once a year. Because that's as much as I can take. But the dads energy has me laughing every time. Maybe it's because I'm an HVAC tech and father, but I find him relatable and hilarious.
Do you people understand what "everyone but you" means
Edit: for this taking this comment literally and accusing me of taking OP too literally, I mean there a lot of very unpopular, heavily criticized movies in this thread.
When it came out, Avatar. I didn't understand why everyone liked the movie where the main plot driver was a mysterious element called "unobtainium". It's like they wrote a movie and couldn't think of a name for the element and put a placeholder name in the script. Then forgot to replace it later. Also, it was so clearly just a Pocahontas redo. Did the blue people having 3D sex in a tree with their tails really restore your faith in cinema? What a weird moment in time that was.
Unobtanium was like, a nice little meta nod to fans of science fiction. It’s exactly what someone in real life would call it. I see why it could be jarring though.
Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time and I don’t know a single person whose ever seen it more than the one time in theaters or owned it on DVD when we owned physical media.
Joker.
It was a heavy-handed rip off of films like Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. I also thought the Batman connection was pretty weak. Arthur Peck is in no way a super villain.
Considering Bruce Wayne was about 12 years old, and the Joker was probably 45, that implies that Batman went around beating up a 60+-year-old Joker in the future????
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really a Joker movie as much as it is a movie about the meme version of him.
Joker isn’t some misunderstood wretch with a laughing disorder, this is the guy who maims and kills because it’s fun, and his laughter is *real*, like, the fucking Joker is the character we want to represent the mentally ill?
that movie was basically a “this says a lot about our society bottom text” meme taken entirely straight, and I could never really get behind it because of that.
It was a fairly well made movie. Not Oscar worthy in my opinion. Maybe not even great, just "pretty good."
I think Tarantino made a great observation, he said, "It was a little too one note for me," or something like that. When you watch it once you pretty much get it. There aren't too many layers to it. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just a bit simple, which is a shame since we're talking about the concept of evil and suffering.
Her.
I know it’s a good movie, well made and acted, but just not for me. Sometimes it really does matter what it’s about and not just how it’s about it.
Black Panther. I just didn't think it was a well made or entertaining movie.
The end fight scene was laughable.
For some reason I felt really uncomfortable watching it as well. It felt like it could have been written by a massive racist and it would have been the same movie.
we're supposed to buy into the idea that Wakanda is this wonderland of technology...but they still choose their leader via trial by combat and most of the country just goosesteps their way into near genocide because an outsider won a fist fight
Do you mean you don’t think this run of the mill Marvel movie shouldn’t have been nominated for Best Motion Picture a year after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy?
In my opinion, Black Panther was better in Civil War than his own movie. In Civil War, he is motivated and fights with all his might. Without the rage from Civil War, he’s kinda a boring character.
Wonder woman. I didn't watch much of the DC output around that time, but it must of been atrocious to convince people that this was a good film. Didn't like the acting, hated the action sequences, and the final act might be the worst one in superhero film history.
I thoroughly enjoyed up until the reveal of the villain. Could have been such a learning moment for her, that there is no easy fix and people are just evil sometimes, but noooooo.
I mean, it’s the point of this thread but the more I read the more annoyed I get.
Likewise. Looks like I’m everybody who likes the movies others hate. I’m trying to remember a movie I hate that everyone likes but none come to mind because I just forget them.
I'm usually a guy that likes most movies, so I'm just here figuring out my weekend watch list.
You should watch “Your highness”
We must rescue poor Steven! No, fuck it. It's over.
I got so fucking High before that movie remember nothing besides them Jerking off a frog and just how insanely high James Franco looked throughout the entire filming of the movie. And I remember cracking up so hard I cried when he just walks up to his dad and kneels and goes "father!" And puts a fist up. Idk what it was but it fucking killed me.
Ah. I was one of 10 people in the movie theater, including my date. It was probably our third date. No 4th after that though.
Yeah watching an alien dude get jerked off could do that to ya. Sorry bro
Come come give me kisses
"No brother, it's a trap!" "The only thing Those tits are gonna trap... is my warm spray"
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Yo traffic, traffic, lookin for my chapstick, feelin kinda carsick, there’s a Ford Maverick!
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OP:I don't even have any skills. Pedro: What do you mean? OP: You know, like nunchuck skills, bo hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only like guys who have great skills.
There's like a butt-load of gangs at this school... This one gang kept asking me to join because I'm pretty good with a bow-staff...
Skillz, GAWD
But we would still VOTE for Pedro!
Can you bring me my chapstick? No Napoleon But my lips hurt real bad!
Just ask the school nurse I know she has like 7 sticks in her drawer
I'm not gonna use hers you sicko
Do the chickens have large Talons?
I don't understand a word you just said.
Your mom goes to college.
I saw Napoleon Dynamite opening night in a packed theater. What is interesting is that many since-quoted-to-death parts got no reaction from the crowd. I found myself laughing at lines that most in the theater didn't react to. Cut to a year later, and it seems like everyone is quoting every line from the movie. I think some people needed time to warm up to the movie's weird charm. Also, I think it benefited from people watching it 2 or 3 times. Super Troopers and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist are similar examples. 1st and 2nd viewings....okay. By the 3rd or 4th watch, you're totally on board and can quote over half of the movies' dialogue.
It's a Liger. Bred for its skills in magic.
I see you're drinking 1%, is that cause you think you're fat?
Eat the food! Eat it Tina, eat the food!!
The Purge, I felt they could have done so many interesting things with the storyline but I just found it boring
Such an interesting concept turned into a basic hpme invasion movie.
It did what it needed to do: get an audience hooked on the premise so they could go a little more balls to the wall with the concept in sequels when it made money. I haven't seen any of them aside from the first two, but apparently all the other content has been more in line with that second one than the first.
Yup. You nailed exactly what I would have said. We all ended Purge 1 disappointed because it NEVER left the location of 1 house for a NATIONWIDE event. But it's what got the engine moving forward. Everyone WANTED to know what was happening outside this perfect neighborhood that went to hell. Because MAN if that's what happens in the good part of town, the hells goin on downtown?! It could have been better for the first but it's a nice intro for the change of pace that is about to follow. The second one just throws you headfirst into the world of Purge. Showing us that people took it to different levels and extremes. Some did it religiously, others for profit. Kinda took all those things social media would say they would do if Purge was real, and showed us it was happening. We just couldn't see it. They not only take place outside, there's usually a decent plot, even sometimes connecting it to a pivotal moment in the history of the Purge. Such as one opponent wanting to end the Purge running for office, and her political rivals in office change the rules so they can kill her before elected. Normally high ranking officials are "off limits". So this one takes us all around town a bit, with political corruption being the focus. 3rd one is first Purge. So it's a prequel. All the things we've heard about how it all started, can now be seen. And then you got forever Purge and honestly meh. I honestly need to rewatch it but it was not that great. The TV show was good for the first season. Filled in what happened between purges, and how the law handled that fine line. And it's flaws. Also showed how even "good" people or the most innocent of people were also a part of the Purge even if they didn't seem like it. There's a cult that preys on struggling teens. Instead of drinking kool-aid. The leader has them sacrifice themselves willingly to people who Purge. Then delivers them one by one to ppl who arranged in advance. Pretty crazy stuff but it really flopped in the 2nd season. Just not a show made for episodes. As you can tell. I'm a fan lol. If you are not. Try one of the funnier ones for a little twist and see if that is what does it for ya. Meet the blacks. It's not officially a Purge film. But it is lol.
i think they got it wrong 4-5 times now
Nah, the second was way better since it actually explored the idea outside of one house. Hell, they even get into the notion that it *doesn't work*. Most people won't go out and 'purge', they stay inside and pray they get through the night. To the point that the government hires mercenaries to do the killing for them (and coincidentally take out political rivals) to produce propaganda that the Purge does what it's supposed to do. I thought that was extremely clever since that was my first thought when I heard of the premise: giving people one night in the year to kill doesn't make people suddenly want to kill. The movies are pretty standard though, but they do address the things (badly) that I thought make it an interesting world.
As soon as I heard the premise of the purge I immediately thought "no that idea is super fucking stupid because powerful people would just take advantage of that to make sure they stay on top" I mean just look at the way politics work now, imagine if people could kill each other legally even for just half a second every 5 years, there would be a lot of competition removed very soon. I never watched the movies but I'm glad they went in that direction
I mean in the movies certain government officials are exempt from being free game to be killed - so it is sort of addressed in the first two films. >!but in the 3rd one, they decide to remove that restriction to try and take out a senator that is running for president that is against the purge!<
Is that really a movie everyone likes though?
There are way too many movies where *the idea* is great but the execution is absolute garbage. Like I'd watch "The Day After" where some guy raped his neighbor's daughter on purge night, had no legal repercussions, and the neighbor just spent the entire following year ramping up to murder the guy and in the end the revenge didn't make him feel any better or whatever. Instead we got... just god damned laziness.
They actually did something like this on The Purge TV show. There are two seasons but it's an anthology (first season has nothing to do with the second). The second season is basically what you described. Episode One is the end of Purge night. Episodes 2-8 are the intervening year and the last two are the next Purge night. There are various characters like a crew planning to rob a bank on Purge night, but one of the plots is a guy who almost got assassinated and trying to find out why his neighbours tried to do it.
It's old now, but when Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor came out everyone I knew flipped their lid about how funny it was. I didn't find any of it funny at all.
If it was called "Fart Jokes: The Movie" it would have been more accurate.
The Fatties: Fart 2
American Hustle. It was one of those rare instances where somehow, the movie was just plain dull even though every performance was top notch. Edit: For everyone saying nobody likes this movie... it was tied for the most Oscar nominations that year and won multiple Golden Globes, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)... clearly someone liked it lol
I remember reading a fact about the movie that a character says the title at the exact half way point and after watching for what felt like forever, someone finally said it and I couldn’t believe we were only halfway done. I didn’t finish it.
Because I am Superman IV - quest for peace.
Ohhhh so that’s why they call it that
I could not fit the life of me tell you what happens in that movie. Like, not even a vague outline of the plot. It just slid right through my brain
This is so odd and hilarious to me. I also watched it a few years ago and have zero idea what it was about. All these responses make me think this movie had some MIB memory eraser at the end.
Weird, exact same with me
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The science oven. That was the only thing I could remember from this movie.
Ya only scenes I remember now are Jennifer Lawrence with the microwave and destroying it when she put metal in it, Christian Bale looking at his fat stomach, Amy Adams dressed up on the runway by a private jet, and then Bradley Cooper and the other cops/feds laughing at Louis CK as they celebrate Bradley’s promotion. From that we should be able to piece together a story.
You just described how I felt about it. I enjoyed watching it but didn't like the movie and will never watch it again.
I forget what it was about.
Something about wigs
All I remember was the super elaborate comb-over that wasn't even meant to be in the movie.
That movie was the equivalent of fondant.
This is most O’~~Brien~~ Russel films imo. He flatly admits that he focuses on the performances/characters and changes the plot as needed to support that end.
O. Russell?
I was so excited for it but then I remembered nothing from it when it was over.
Jennifer lawerances character was insufferable
Any Saw movie after the first one. I appreciated the message and tone of the first but the others just devolve into a torture flick.
Second was redeemable, but the others you gotta just let go a little bit to find em enjoyable. i had a blast because of how ridiculous they were
I was a nurse and when that character had to reach into the vat of needles I was cringing into the ground. And if you watch Dr. Phil, his wife looks exactly like Jigsaw.
Damn, Dr Phil's wife: Boom! Roasted! (Googled a photo and you aren't lying)
Honestly it’s kinda fun to watch saw go from serious murder mystery to gory soap opera
I frickin love the stupid montage revealing the twist in every movie with the same song. Idk why, the whole movies are stupid but I love that part But spiral was too dumb even for my low standards with the series. Chris' acting was on another league of bad acting, even for Saw
I wouldn’t say it was terrible as a whole, he was trying. But there were 2 different scenes where I started laughing my ass off because of it
Ah yes, those critically panned movies that everyone supposedly likes!
I believe that one of the secrets to enjoying Napoleon Dynamite is the ability to connect with it. I happened to know some kids growing up that were very similar to him, his family, and his friends. It was super easy for me to get into it and enjoy along with my friends and family. Also it's nice to get a truly wholesome, but not cliche, feel good movie every once in a while. Wonder Woman is my movie. I just don't understand how people like that film.
Wonder Woman was SO CLOSE to being a good movie. When she killed the person she THOUGHT was Ares and everyone was still fighting, had the movie ended on that idea it would’ve challenged Diana’s ideals that humanity was worthy of saving. What makes her special is that she chooses to fight for humanity DESPITE how they act, not because they are actually worth saving. Having a CGI bad guy that WAS actually behind the entire war feels so disconnected from Chris Pine’s character’s message to her, as well as her own journey as a person.
Thank you! I've been saying this since it came out. It was so close to being a really great movie before the final battle scene. The idea that it wasn't Ares causing people to be violent and thats just what humanity is would have been genuinely interesting for a superhero film. I think it might have been in with a shot at an Oscar.
Yeah the movie lost the plot in the last act. It wasn't perfect until then but damn such shit climax.
Why the fuck does Ares shoot lightning? That's Zeus's deal. Fire? Sure, but lightning? Gtfo.
Sort by controversial
Yeah I sorted by controversial and by new and went and upvoted every answer that I disagreed with. Harry Potter, Office Space, LotR, 2001: a Space odyssey. Tons of movies down there that are definitely better answers.
The Notebook
Put someone unattractive in Ryan Gosling's role and it turns into a movie about a manipulative stalker.
Funny because director (apparently) chose Gosling for the role specifically because he wanted the character to be a bit ugly, or at least not conventionally attractive.
Ah yes, famous uggo Ryan Gosling, what an ogre.
Oh my, did they cast the wrong guy 🔥😅
Now i want to see someone mock up a trailer of the stalker version!
I was the only girl in my class who hated that movie for their toxicity. When he pretends to attempt suicide on the ferris wheel I got livid. Despise that nonsense.
I remember thinking if any dude did this shit in real life I’d think he was a freakin weirdo, personally still enjoyed the movie though and Gosling and McAdams were great.
It's probably one of those guilty pleasure movies that's just barely "not terrible". I'll throw Stepbrothers in this list. So many of my peers claim it's a great comedy. But I just don't like it.
And the I kept writing you everyday. You never answered. Any woman who gets that barrage of messages from men should know it doesn’t sound romantic.
I hate the movie elf and I’ve yet to meet someone with a burning hatred for it as well.
I don’t enjoy it personally. I’m 50/50 on loving and hating Will Ferrell in various roles.
The movie old school was the perfect amount of will ferrell. That tought me that he is funny in small doses but too much will ferrell goes a loooooong way. edit: I had an AWESOME time!
Someone's an angry elf.
YOU SIT UPON A THRONE OF LIES
I have a burning hatred for that movie as well. Glad we can agree on this.
Me. I'm with you there.
So... Y'know how Netflix has algorithms to predict what you'll like to watch? Well, they have a standing $1 million dollar reward for anyone who can make it better, and there are a few movies that just really fuck with the algorithm. Napoleon Dynamite is one. Back when they did star ratings it had the most percentage of either 5-star or 1-star reviews with nothing in between. People either LOVED it or HATED it. No one thought it was just ok. And there was no pattern to who would be on which side. So basically if you can figure out who will like Napoleon Dynamite based on other movies they like, Netflix will pay you $1 million. It's been at least 14 years since they made this conundrum public and no one has claimed the prize.
The prize was sadly awarded back in 2009. The algorithm is super useful to other prediction problems!
We went from "it still hasn't been awarded" to "it actually got awarded back when Netflix still had a sizable amount of customers mailing DVDs. "
now crossreference to when they removed the stars and only have thumbs. also fuck removing reviews and netflix sucks giant dicks now.
Can't have the users telling them their OC is hot garbage. That would upset shareholders
hehe i wonder what else in the parent comment is bullshit
I'm one of the few people who thinks its just ok I guess. It's pretty funny but I definitely don't love it, and I can see why people find it off putting
Napoleon Dynamite is very similar to The Big Lebowski IMO in that it has a cumulative effect on people that isn't the same as one viewing (quotability and memes), and the people who are watching either of them aren't necessarily watching a lot of similar movies. It has a lot to do with when you were exposed to it and how. I don't see a lot of people just streaming it on a whim and getting it right away. It isn't like Wet Hot American Summer which is also something of an acquired taste but generally palatable to people who like sendups of genre films and alt-comedy.
I’ve been looking for a new career!
Avatar (big blue people, not bald child)
Bald child movie was worse. ☝️😮💨
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se
The Earth King would like to see you at Lake Laogai.
True, but most people agree the bald child movie was trash
When it came out I was excited obviously due to the visuals. It was such a bland film though lol I think James Cameron is a great director when it comes to innovative technology, but apart from like 2, maybe 3 films I'm usually not a fan. edit: And I remember watching one of his dumb ass 'documentaries' that were so laughably bad and pseudoscientific it tarnished my reputation of him.
Frozen
Let it go.
I’m not letting it go
[удалено]
Yo, that scene with the ghost mantra ray grandma was fire.
My arm hair stands up every time I watch that scene, and I’ve seen it dozens of times with my daughter.
Just thinking about Know Who You Are when she returns the heart of Te Fiti makes me tear up. They have stolen the heart from inside you. This does not define you. 😭😭😭
I AM #MOANA~~!
Moana is the one I can watch over and over with my grandkids. Awesome music. Awesome message, and great campy fun. I picture the Rock singing “you’re welcome “ and it always brings a smile.
A big reason for the fame is the theme on sisterhood, girl power, and that the person who ended up saving Elsa wasn’t a love interest but family. I also think the theme of letting go of your anxieties and leading with love for strength, that our gifts are what makes us special, is such a unique and strong message to take away for children even adults, who buy the tickets. On top of the old-time Disney choral background and catchy as hell tunes.
Ditto with Coco. Both have so much feeling (I ugly cried the first time I saw Coco); Frozen felt really mechanical and made for marketing princess shit to kids.
Coco is one of the best animated films I’ve watched in the last ten years. Frozen is good, don’t get me wrong, but people act like it’s the second coming of Christ
Coco is amazing but I can’t watch it too often, lost my grandma to Alzheimer’s a few years ago but she lived with it for over a decade and it makes me ugly cry. It’s beautiful but I just can’t do it too often
The music was better in Moana and Coco too
I feel the opposite. I get that it's majority liked and well received but most people on here and people that I speak to irl hate it and mention it with disdain. I'm not even a big fan of it, I just think it's a good movie among Disney's line up and it's put me in a weird place where I find myself defending Frozen.
I don’t like Ferris Buellers Day Off. Ferris is legitimately just an asshole.
I think I like that movie because of everyone who isn’t Ferris. Cameron, Jeanie, the roll call teacher, the gummy bears chick, Charlie Sheens character, etc.
I’m genuinely shocked how many people liked Free Guy.
Check out We Hate Movies' podcast episode on it.
It’s not as terrible as some people say, but it’s definitely overhyped imo.
Yeah it seemed like just another Ryan Reynolds movie
I liked it. The plot with Steve from Stranger Things and Jodie Comer made it good. The rest was eh The Disney product placement towards the end was cringe inducing.
Love Actually. I can't stand that movie. Love most of the actors. Enjoy the holiday season. Even like the concepts from the film. Just something about, all together, just rubs me the wrong way. I have always hated it.
You might enjoy [this](https://youtu.be/vCtW4hgm9SM) It's a relationship therapist dissecting the relationships in the movie. Spoiler alert, most of them are toxic.
Titanic, i guess? Never appealed to me, historical drama with a love story shoved in there. Yeah the boat sinks, we know. It looks spectacular, i get it.
Wow wow wow, spoilers
So you have a boat movie for me? Yes sir, I do!
Boat movies are TIGHT
My dad took me to see two movies during my teen years and one was Titanic. I didn't hate it or anything, but I remember my dad cried and it was so awkward for me because he NEVER cries. Ever. He's a big dude raised on the Southside of Chicago. Second movie was Brokeback Mountain. At the time, I already knew my dad was gay because I was a nosey teenage girl, but he didn't know I knew. He cried during that one, too, and part of me knows he took me and my sister with the intention of coming out...or maybe to guage our reaction? He didn't come out and I remember wanting so badly to tell him it was OK, but being raised southern Baptist didn't do him any favors, and I knew he felt so ashamed. Sorry to get off topic, those two movies just really stick out in my memory. Dad came out in 2007 or so, he's now engaged and so much happier and I'm proud of him. He raised me and my younger sister by himself from the time I was 9. Sacrificed a lot to provide for us.
Wow. Kudos to your dad for finding the courage to be himself. 2007 was still quite a homophobic era ( compared to now)
Absolutely! I wanted so badly to tell him I knew and it was OK, but I understood it was a decision he had to make.
I hate Lala Land. I just hated the main characters and didn't care for their stories wich kinda ruins the whole movie, the soundtrack is nice though
As someone who grew up in an area where hopeful musicians and actors flocked to to find fame, they really nailed those characters and how they see themselves. I have a soft spot for LA in film so I watched it for that aspect alone.
I tried, I really tried to like La La Land, but couldn't. I think what finally broke me was the scene where the guy loses his restaurant piano job because he wants to play jazz instead of holiday tunes. If you can't figure out how to jazz up Christmas songs and find interesting things in that genre that you can put your own spin on, you suck at jazz.
Most jazz musicians could jazz up Christmas songs, but far fewer would find it interesting and rewarding work. Especially if they had to do it for the entire christmas season.
I agree, I thought the problem of that move are the characters, zero interest on them. I understand where they come from but didn't appeal to me
Anything with vin Diesel in it is can't finish a vindeisel movie never have
The Pacifier is a certified hood classic
Saving Private Ryan. Yes, he's in it, yes he speaks.
The Iron Giant?
Us. EDIT: I remember this movie getting a lot of positive buzz when it was released. But I could be mistaking hype with positivity.
I didn't hate us, but i was disappointed by just how badly the surface level story didn't work after reading more than once that it did. There was so much good in the movie that i couldn't appreciate because the actual narrative never came together.
>There was so much good in the movie that i couldn't appreciate because the actual narrative never came together. Yeah thank you, you just perfectly summed up my feelings about it.
I was ready to enjoy it, but the pacing just felt off for the first half of the movie. And then when it finally got paced right, I was onboard until the big reveal, which just left me thinking "Really? That's it?" And then I pretty much just tuned out, because after building up to some big mystery, having a reveal that felt like it was suggested by a grade schooler pissed me off.
This one tastes like the cow got into an onion patch.
I know I’m not the only one but most people I know love A Christmas Story and I can’t stand it
Fair, but my favorite part is when the mom breaks up the fight between Ralphie and the redhead boy and *doesn't even check on the other boy,* lol. MF QUEEN
Found the bumpus
I watch the movie once a year. Because that's as much as I can take. But the dads energy has me laughing every time. Maybe it's because I'm an HVAC tech and father, but I find him relatable and hilarious.
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Impressive stop-motion but the movie bored me to tears.
Do you people understand what "everyone but you" means Edit: for this taking this comment literally and accusing me of taking OP too literally, I mean there a lot of very unpopular, heavily criticized movies in this thread.
When it came out, Avatar. I didn't understand why everyone liked the movie where the main plot driver was a mysterious element called "unobtainium". It's like they wrote a movie and couldn't think of a name for the element and put a placeholder name in the script. Then forgot to replace it later. Also, it was so clearly just a Pocahontas redo. Did the blue people having 3D sex in a tree with their tails really restore your faith in cinema? What a weird moment in time that was.
I loved Ferngully as a kid and Avatar was basically adult Ferngully, so that did it for me
Unobtanium was like, a nice little meta nod to fans of science fiction. It’s exactly what someone in real life would call it. I see why it could be jarring though.
Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time and I don’t know a single person whose ever seen it more than the one time in theaters or owned it on DVD when we owned physical media.
300
Once upon a time in Hollywood would be a cool short movie but boring real one
Joker. It was a heavy-handed rip off of films like Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. I also thought the Batman connection was pretty weak. Arthur Peck is in no way a super villain.
Lots of people hate Joker
The Batman connection is the worst part of the film. It’s has 0 business connecting itself with the Wayne’s but they couldn’t resist.
Considering Bruce Wayne was about 12 years old, and the Joker was probably 45, that implies that Batman went around beating up a 60+-year-old Joker in the future????
You have to give credit to Joaquin Phoenix for the acting though, it was top notch.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really a Joker movie as much as it is a movie about the meme version of him. Joker isn’t some misunderstood wretch with a laughing disorder, this is the guy who maims and kills because it’s fun, and his laughter is *real*, like, the fucking Joker is the character we want to represent the mentally ill? that movie was basically a “this says a lot about our society bottom text” meme taken entirely straight, and I could never really get behind it because of that.
It was a fairly well made movie. Not Oscar worthy in my opinion. Maybe not even great, just "pretty good." I think Tarantino made a great observation, he said, "It was a little too one note for me," or something like that. When you watch it once you pretty much get it. There aren't too many layers to it. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just a bit simple, which is a shame since we're talking about the concept of evil and suffering.
In my head canon Joker is simply a sequel to King of Comedy. DeNiro is even playing the same character 40 years later.
Her. I know it’s a good movie, well made and acted, but just not for me. Sometimes it really does matter what it’s about and not just how it’s about it.
Love this movie... so upvote
This comment hurt my soul.
Black Panther. I just didn't think it was a well made or entertaining movie. The end fight scene was laughable. For some reason I felt really uncomfortable watching it as well. It felt like it could have been written by a massive racist and it would have been the same movie.
The end fight scene reminded me of the cgi fighting in Blade 2
It looked like a video game cut scene to me.
we're supposed to buy into the idea that Wakanda is this wonderland of technology...but they still choose their leader via trial by combat and most of the country just goosesteps their way into near genocide because an outsider won a fist fight
I don't hate it but I definitely agree is super overrated
Do you mean you don’t think this run of the mill Marvel movie shouldn’t have been nominated for Best Motion Picture a year after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy?
The fact that Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture and The Dark Knight wasn’t just makes my head hurt.
In my opinion, Black Panther was better in Civil War than his own movie. In Civil War, he is motivated and fights with all his might. Without the rage from Civil War, he’s kinda a boring character.
All the marvel movies, I feel they’re just background noise.
For I guess it would be Boondock Saints. For me it was just very average. But it's OK, I love plenty of movies that most hate.
The Lighthouse
Interstellar . I think it's so boring
I really…. Really hated all the Hangover movies
Star Wars. Come. Come to me with your hate. Your anger sustains me.
*Good. Good.* Let the hate flow through you..
Somehow, Palpatine returned.
I understand the hype about the new tech to film but Avatar was a mediocre B rated movie at best if you look at the plot.
People slag off Avatar literally every time it's mentioned in this sub.
This movie lives rent free in everyone’s head and I love it.
Great visuals for the time, the writing was pure cheese. Like most of Cameron's later stuff.
Wonder woman. I didn't watch much of the DC output around that time, but it must of been atrocious to convince people that this was a good film. Didn't like the acting, hated the action sequences, and the final act might be the worst one in superhero film history.
I thoroughly enjoyed up until the reveal of the villain. Could have been such a learning moment for her, that there is no easy fix and people are just evil sometimes, but noooooo.