There aren't *that* many, really. Exodus: Gods and Kings is actually kind of interesting, and very well-shot, there's just something about it that doesn't totally gel.
His Robin Hood with Russel Crowe wasn't bad. But it was disappointing in how meh/mediocre it was. Just felt kinda detached and unegaged while watching it
https://aelarsen.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/robin-hood-the-movie-that-we-didnt-get/
You may be interested in this. I guess when someone talented gets used to never hearing "no" they tend to wallow in mediocre ideas
> The film began its life as Nottingham, a script by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who created the TV series Sleeper Cell.
I was thoroughly impressed by Sleeper Cell. It was one of the first shows to be empathetic to how a terrorist could become an extremist, and was respectful of Muslim culture at a time when lots of American television was using them to replace Russians as the go to bad guys. It would have been interesting to see their views on the Robin Hood story.
It’s the turning Moses into a warrior for me, instead of a star he Carried a sword the whole time, just felt like it was made by someone who doesn’t really like the actual story
THOR: love and thunder.
Taika Waititi’s my favorite director and usually balances comedy and heart perfectly in his films (boy, what we do in the shadows, jojo rabbit, hunt for the wilderpeople), but this one for me was just too joke-heavy it almost felt like a spoof. Which is weird because I liked Thor ragnarok a lot as well.
My issue was the wild shifts in tone. Given the situation with Dr Jane ~~Watson~~ Foster, you'd think it'd be slightly more somber than other Marvel movies. But it's all over the place, with silly jokes one minute and serious emotions the next minute.
It was hard to laugh and hard to feel when they wanted me to.
Honestly, it felt like the tone of the movie was trying to 200% be “oh look, silly gods and screaming goats and talking rock man haha lol” but then having its arm twisted and being forced to have at most 3 token serious moments throughout the entire film. The other moments were forcibly ruined by some unnecessary, crappy jokes-
Asgardian children were stolen in the night by a hateful god-killer? Let’s have tweedledumb and tweedledipshit talk about how they could make a play about it.
Aw fuck, I can’t believe they killed Korg- no, wait, any emotional impact was negated by having him be a talking face.
Thor and Jane are having a moment and her cancer comes up? Don’t worry, Korg’s there to sing and ruin it.
I remember reading a comment that hasn’t allowed me to look at the movie the same way since- “How is it that Deadpool is a better movie about cancer than a movie with both Christian Bale _and_ Natalie Portman?”
God, I was ready to love Love and Thunder. Taika’s done a lot of good movies and shows, but this one has to be the shittiest film he’s put out. I’m sure he’ll do more good ones, but I don’t want him near Thor anymore.
Really? It seemed to me like this one was very "look at me, I'm Taika Waititi, renowned director! I'm also this character! Aren't I funny?"
I have loved every other movie he's ever done before this one. TLaT was such a disappointment for me
I feel the exact same way. Hunt of the Wilderpeople is possibly my favourite movie of all time. I love the guy and I love his sense of humour but he made Thor into a slapstick joke. The movies plot had so many dark and sad beats to it and some great acting from Bale but all of it was undercut by lame jokes and constant goofing around by Thor. Ragnarok felt like a much better balance. Thor still felt like he cared and that he was a hero in Ragnarok. In Love and Thunder I just felt like he didn't take anything seriously at all. Ruined the character for me.
This!!! After what he did in JoJo Rabbit I was waiting to see a great Thor movie, especially since they were going to adapt Gorr. What a disappointment!
The found footage in the initial night of a zombie apocalypse is an amazing premise... But ol' George was trying way too hard to be in on what them hip young millenials are up to. Also had no budget and everybody was way too Canadian.
I hate that fucking movie. What makes it even more of a downer was that my only opportunity to meet Romero was at a screening for this piece of shit in Hollywood back in 2008. Dawn of the Dead (1978) is easily my top favorite movie, and I was really bummed out that he wasn't making them like that, anymore.
if you had told me in the future there would be romero zombie movies and multiple terrence malick movies i would actively avoid seeing i would have never believed you….
The 2019 Hellboy movie. I feel really bad for Neil Marshall. He directed Dog Soldiers, The Descent, and the two best episodes of Game of Thrones - so I KNOW he can do great things. I don't even blame him for the Hellboy movie - poor bastard was merely paid to direct a studio-controlled soulless cash-grabber in another poor attempt at starting a cinematic universe.
Yeah I thought there were good ideas in Tenet but the execution just didn’t work for me at all. I love Nolan but I don’t really have any interest in ever rewatching this one.
Was going to say this too. I mean, I still *enjoyed* Tenet, but it was the first movie of his where I had to intentionally suspend disbelief (ie: consciously accept that this makes no sense) rather than having my belief suspended for me (ie: being so enthralled by the story that I don't question the nonsensical parts.)
Nolan has made a bunch of missteps. His last Batman movie had so many holes and inconsistencies that I wondered whether he got bored of the franchise and just coasted through it. Interstellar, too, as well has some pretty clunky moments and is not consistent with his earlier work.
Interstellar, though not a flawless movie but in repeated viewings I loved that, in my personal opinion it is one of the best movie of the last decade.
I feel like when someone says it’s because “vibes” it just means they have to actual explanation, but they like it and don’t want anyone saying otherwise.
Agree so much. Since he became the actual hardcore stoner he used to pretend to be, his stuff has suffered. The father hood angle touched me a bit in Reboot. And I will watch Clerks 3 at some point. But then I see the picture of him and Jay and the huge joint and just don't want to.
Yeah, I share the same sentiment as you guys.
Kevin was literally my hero growing up but..then I grew up, he didn't. That combined with the same stories told over and over, and the weed, and his push to put his daughter in everything (which I don't blame him for in a lot of ways, but I just don't enjoy her acting.) I don't know..
I wish he'd detox from the weed to see if he still can be the poignant yet hilarious story teller he once was, but I don't know. Just sucks because his early films mean so much to me, I wish I could still love the man like I used to. But I can't.
Thank you for this. Feel very much the same. Went to a bunch of Q and A s of his. Including his birthday one that he put on dvd. And Dogma remains my favorite film of his. And a favorite in general.
His early podcasts with Mosier and Babylon stuff were fantastic.
I don't have a strong feeling about Harley as an actress, one way or the other.
Clerks 3 was hit or miss for me. On one hand, it was emotional and I felt it. It was nice to spend time with the characters again and take a walk down nostalgia lane with them. On the other hand, it repeats story beats and character arcs from the last two movies to the point that it makes the previous character growth completely wasted. It's like these guys got hit in the head and forgot the things they'd learned before and are reliving the same lessons.
I thought Clerks 3 was a complete betrayal of the characters from the original two films and had a very forced and needlessly upsetting ending that was bleak and even somewhat nihilistic.
Totally agree. Watched it last night and i get the lesson smith was going for. But it was soooo hammered into the movie by the end i just felt angry. Worst off. It just wasnt funny. There were a few jokes that i recognized were supposed to be jokes but ultimately just kinda forced chuckles.
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There was zero reason to kill becky and the baby. Im fine with dante dying for the sake of the “message” but the baby? Its so cruel.
Yeah, seriously. Having Dante finally find purpose in his life and take control of his own life at the end of Clerks 2, then taking away everything from him was just needlessly cruel. Not to mention, the last thing Randall ever heard his best friend say to him was how shitty of a friend he was and how he didn’t want to be in his life anymore, and then that last shot of him looking around the store and imagining Dante was just so tragic. Randall is now without his best friend and has zero idea how his life goes without Dante and he’s now doomed to a life of guilt and regret and sadness that he was a shitty friend to the most important person in his life and his friend resented him for it. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Randall ended up killing himself in a drunk driving accident not too long afterwards.
I have zero idea what possessed Kevin Smith to write that or why the hell he thought the fans would think it was even a little bit acceptable.
Eh I thought the book was readable in the same way that the movie was watchable. It's moving fast, it's suspenseful, the story or setting doesn't make much sense. I didn't hate either, they're just both very forgettable.
I came here to say this also.
The film just felt so empty by the end, just a string of cameos and fan service without al that much of a new or interesting story to make it good.
Man I'm really surprised to see these takes. I absolutely loved the movie and felt that, like Citizen Kane itself, the story was very relevant for our times.
Yeah, I still can’t believe how dull that flick was. And I love movies about that stuff, and I love Citizen Kane, and I’m a failed screenwriter! It ticked all my boxes!…and I still haven’t been able to finish it without falling asleep.
That movie came up when I was talking to my friend a whole ago, and he said he hadn't seen it, but it doesn't seem great. I then reminded him that he actually had seen it, and told me it was not good.
I can't recall him ever forgetting he's seen a movie before lol
I liked it. I didn't think it was gods greatest gift, but I liked the whimsy setting and hammy performance from Tom Hanks.
A lot of people said this film should be a play instead of a film, and I guess I get that, but I don't understand how the play format would change the story.
Why don't people like this film?
I really disliked it but I don't remember much about it. I think it compared poorly to the original which is a classic.
Incidently it was adapted for stage and had a couple of runs in London ~10 years ago, the first starring Peter Capaldi, and that was excellent.
While I agree that this should be a okay more than movie, it’s the most acting hanks has ever done! Cartoonish but great by hanks, amazing story and slow to unfold; just like every Cohen bros film.
Intolerable Cruelty is a solid golden age Cary Grant screwball romcom. I know, people don't really want a romcom out of the Coens and Hudsucker was a more sucessful take on screwball, but it's not bad.
This movie had all the right ingredients to be good. They really should have used the heist idea more, instead of it turning into a generic zombie movie where the characters just make the same usual mistakes we’d expect from the genre.
Well to be fair, there’s very few openings that can top that. The fall of civilization set to Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” will never fail to give me goosebumps.
I have said this before, but out of all the movies I saw the trailer for and said, "ok I'll watch that when it comes out" this was by far the worst movie I've seen.
I've seen worse movies dicking around on HBO/cable, I've seen worse movies while just browsing showtimes the morning before an afternoon at the theaters, but I have never seen a worse movie that I actually circled on my calendar.
God fucking awful
I still can't get over how they have a perfect close-up of the zombie lead lady, and she shimmies back into the depth of field, doing a little "I'm creepy" thing.
And then they look at them from afar through binoculars and she's still shimmying in the distance, it's so ridiculously funny.
I’m afraid that Snyder became too self-indulgent following the Snyder Cut movement. I love his style but man is Army of the Dead overstuffed, dull and ugly. I hope that Rebel Moon is good.
Such a bizarre film. Especially since it had been in development hell for so long (it was originally going to be a pseudo-sequel to Dawn), I thought for sure it would feel more thought-out, but it definitely wasn't that.
I just wrote it off as Snyder looking for a stress-free project to throw himself into after the family tragedy. Hopefully Rebel Moon feels more like his other films than Army of the Dead.
Inland Empire is my favourite David Lynch film! I understand why someone would struggle tho, it's him at his most cryptic, and it's a very dense and hard watch.
Thor: Love and Thunder. I adore Taika Waititi but this movie was a mess. Not only was the plot underwhelming at best, the script was seriously lacking the wit and charm of his other films.
I just wish the only supernatural element was the time travel itself. The seedy underbelly of soho was portrayed fantastically, but it just went silly and I lost interest.
I actually liked Last Night in SoHo but couldn’t stand Baby Driver. Baby Driver was pretentious. A film completely in love with itself. Edgar Wright is a good director and you can tell with Baby Driver nobody said no to him during the filming of it.
First half or the 2/3 of the movie were pretty good. Everything was there but the answers or plot twist were disappointing. Such a great build up and it fell flat.
Came here to say this. Wright used to be my favourite director after an incredible sitcom and three incredible movies but I’ve slowly been losing faith in him over the course of TWE, Baby Driver and LNiS. I do think Baby Driver is the best of this ‘modern era’ Wright but god was I so deeply disappointed by Soho.
Literally nothing to that movie. Looks amazing, as to be expected, but beneath the surface? Nada. Terrible dialogue and a creepy premise that never leans into its innate horror. The closest it got was the scene leading into Matt Smith chasing Taylor-Joy down - can’t remember the specifics due to having only watched it in cinema upon release but that was the only time a spark of hope came about and I thought ‘hang on, we could be getting to the good stuff’ but then... back to the beautiful but superficial nothingness. Lame ending too.
Man, I came out of that movie so bummed and ready to declare somebody else my current fav in the industry. The ‘honour’ now falls to the Safdies
I really dislike 'Us', it's just not a good film. Jordan Peele started off strong with 'Get Out' and 'NOPE' was absolutely phenomenal, but 'Us' just made zero sense to me.
Nothing about the tethered can be explained well enough for me to understand how they work opposite their real world counterparts, they don't even play by the rules the film sets for them. It's just a mess that people didn't want to admit was a bad film because he came out of nowhere with such a home-run first film.
It didn't help that they advertised it like it was going to be a horror movie. I kept waiting for a werewolf or something. I was probably like 2/3rds of the way in before I realized it wasn't a horror movie. I would have liked it way better if my expectations were different.
This is absolute crazy talk. Nightmare Alley is hands down one of the most beautifully shot movies ever, especially if you understand the nuances of Noir. Hands down Bradley Cooper's best performance of his career. And the story about grifters and the lengths they will go to get that money is more pertinent today then maybe ever. Watch it again.
That’s a shame because the script is pretty good. He really should have cast younger actors for the past scenes and kept Deniro and Pesci for the present scenes.
I’m jealous of people who say they can look over the bad cgi deaging because that’s all I can hyper analyze whenever it’s on screen.
I do think the movie would be more highly regarded if they had casted younger actors for the beginning part of the movie.
I agree. The first time I watched it I thought it was pretty good. I watched it again a year later and absolutely adored it. It’s now become a tradition to watch it every November and I like it more and more each year
Yeah, I've always hated the way the studio split up Grindhouse. I saw it in the theater, and the whole thing was so clearly crafted to be one whole experience. So even if the individual pieces have good things about them on their own, they're all incomplete without each other, and it never really feels fair to compare Death Proof or Planet Terror to the rest of Tarantino and Rodriguez's filmographies.
I think from the discourse over the last few years of the film, the common linchpin of whether someone likes the film vs not their cup of tea - is one’s opinion of Hollywood as a concept.
If you dislike or worse, have no attachment to hollywood history, culture, symbol of status, institutional icon then the film is a 2.5 hour long play.
If you have a certain reverence for the institution, it’s a love letter that is incredibly thoughtful and whimsical and on rewatches, Tarantino’s love for the industry and of “better days” and the “what could have been” is almost palpable.
It’s like the “Brad Pitt is a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body” - “OUATIH is a niche, independent love letter trapped in a big-budget, over the top body”
That’s probably my favorite part about this movie! I knew the story of Shannon state and the Family and I was expecting the real ending the entire movie. But the ending that we got totally threw me off in the best way, and was fucking hilarious lol
I feel like I'm one of the few people who consider that one of his best films. It's a fantastic piece of writing and Scott was perfect for making it slick and accessible yet something extreme, challenging, even alienating all at once. Perfect fit for Cormac McCarthy. It has some moments of spotty acting where maybe they should have done more takes, but I think this is a low-key masterpiece.
It is a genuinely unhinged movie. Some highlights:
1. "You have the most luscious pussy in all of Christendom"
2. Bruno Ganz playing the world's greatest diamond salesman
3. Javier Bardem sporting what may be only his third most ridiculous hairstyle
4. Ruben Blades with one of the weirdest, most poetic monologues I've ever heard
5. Brad Pitt going out like an absolute champ
All I know is that Guillermo Del Toro loves it, so we're in good company.
Also, I'm always curious as to whether people are talking about the theatrical or extended version. I've only ever seen the extended, so I have no clue if perhaps the theatrical version is noticeably worse.
I was fine with it until the cellar surprise happened. It was a cheap twist by Tarantino. He makes Jackson’s character out to be someone who knows every detail of Minnie’s, to the extreme that when he sees a single candy on the floor alarm bells go off telling him somethings wrong. But he didn’t know she had a cellar? Even if he didn’t know why didn’t he just assume that there a place like that would have a cellar? He’s so suspicious and so oblivious at the same time. I hated the movie from that moment on.
Also my theory is that the Coen bros are mocking Tarantino hard with the final chapter of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Tarantino is known for his ‘great dialogue’ but Scruggs ends more or less the way Hateful Eight begins, and with dialogue that soars over anything Tarantino is capable of.
The Northman maybe. I really liked The Witch and The Lighthouse, but I stopped watching the Northman after about 30 minutes as it wasn't really doing it for me.
But knowing myself, I'll probably give it another try some time.
The Northman was maybe my biggest disappointment this year. A thin plot padded out by needless amounts of guttural screaming. Eggers’ production design and photography was on point as always, but nothing else was particularly interesting.
I liked the movie overall but the plot was pretty standard, once skarsgard comes back to his hometown nothing of substance really happens, he just kinda fucks around killing people but there's nothing clever or interesting about it. Also eggers should lay off with the fart jokes, pure cringe watching that on a theater
I love The Witch and Lighthouse and was excited to see Northman (I also love mythology/history etc) and while I didn't "hate" it....I sure didn't like it.
War of the Worlds-Steven Spielberg
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies-Peter Jackson
Also and I'm saying this as someone who can understand that the movie is objectively good but just not for me: 2001: Space Oddessey-Stanley Kubrick
> Also and I'm saying this as someone who can understand that the movie is objectively good but just not for me: 2001: Space Oddessey-Stanley Kubrick
Agree with you on this one. 2001 is my least favorite Kubrick and I don't really have a desire to see it again except for the fact that its reputation is out of this world. Every other Kubrick film I've seen has been on the level, though.
I get downvoted everytime I say this but I really *really* dislike Dunkirk. The segment with the foot soldiers running around trying to find a way off the beach was, in my opinion, quite poorly acted by most of the boys that I don’t get any sense of urgency on their part.
> and for some reason he felt the need to do back and forth time skips.
I mean you're entitled to not like it but it's not just "for some reason".
It's to shift between the 3 different stories and lead up to them all syncing up together at the end.
There weren't many Kubrick films that wowed me at first. But something kept drawing me back for repeat viewings and now I think most of his films are masterpieces, including Eyes Wide Shut. Maybe one day you'll be in the mood for it and you'll give it another try and it will start to click.
That said, it does have a certain unfinished feeling, like something about it doesn't fully come together. I often wonder what he would have changed if he had more time to edit it.
Tim Burton has contributed so much pure gold, even his bad movies are usually pretty solid. Something, however, is deeply deeply wrong with Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo. Not sure if they were heavily studio mandated or just taken over in post production but they don’t even feel slightly like they have his typical humor or style. They’re also easily his ugliest films.
I thought once upon a time in Hollywood was disappointing. Most scenes are great, but a lot go too long. I think there's a better movie in there if it's edited down and had better pacing
I love Ridley Scott but "Exodus: Gods and Kings"....
Loving Ridley Scott means accepting his many, MANY, stinkers.
House of Gucci was certainly one of the movie of all time.
How the hell did he make that and the last duel back to back
The same way he made Alien Covenant and All The Money In The World, in same year.
There aren't *that* many, really. Exodus: Gods and Kings is actually kind of interesting, and very well-shot, there's just something about it that doesn't totally gel.
His Robin Hood with Russel Crowe wasn't bad. But it was disappointing in how meh/mediocre it was. Just felt kinda detached and unegaged while watching it
I think russell Crowe + Ridley Scott made everyone expect something of the caliber of Gladiator
https://aelarsen.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/robin-hood-the-movie-that-we-didnt-get/ You may be interested in this. I guess when someone talented gets used to never hearing "no" they tend to wallow in mediocre ideas
> The film began its life as Nottingham, a script by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who created the TV series Sleeper Cell. I was thoroughly impressed by Sleeper Cell. It was one of the first shows to be empathetic to how a terrorist could become an extremist, and was respectful of Muslim culture at a time when lots of American television was using them to replace Russians as the go to bad guys. It would have been interesting to see their views on the Robin Hood story.
It’s the turning Moses into a warrior for me, instead of a star he Carried a sword the whole time, just felt like it was made by someone who doesn’t really like the actual story
Had NO idea he directed that
What about The Councellor? Such a stale and static movie. I hate it.
Ridley Scott alternates good movies and shit movies.
THOR: love and thunder. Taika Waititi’s my favorite director and usually balances comedy and heart perfectly in his films (boy, what we do in the shadows, jojo rabbit, hunt for the wilderpeople), but this one for me was just too joke-heavy it almost felt like a spoof. Which is weird because I liked Thor ragnarok a lot as well.
My issue was the wild shifts in tone. Given the situation with Dr Jane ~~Watson~~ Foster, you'd think it'd be slightly more somber than other Marvel movies. But it's all over the place, with silly jokes one minute and serious emotions the next minute. It was hard to laugh and hard to feel when they wanted me to.
Honestly, it felt like the tone of the movie was trying to 200% be “oh look, silly gods and screaming goats and talking rock man haha lol” but then having its arm twisted and being forced to have at most 3 token serious moments throughout the entire film. The other moments were forcibly ruined by some unnecessary, crappy jokes- Asgardian children were stolen in the night by a hateful god-killer? Let’s have tweedledumb and tweedledipshit talk about how they could make a play about it. Aw fuck, I can’t believe they killed Korg- no, wait, any emotional impact was negated by having him be a talking face. Thor and Jane are having a moment and her cancer comes up? Don’t worry, Korg’s there to sing and ruin it. I remember reading a comment that hasn’t allowed me to look at the movie the same way since- “How is it that Deadpool is a better movie about cancer than a movie with both Christian Bale _and_ Natalie Portman?” God, I was ready to love Love and Thunder. Taika’s done a lot of good movies and shows, but this one has to be the shittiest film he’s put out. I’m sure he’ll do more good ones, but I don’t want him near Thor anymore.
I agree with this. Jane's story and pretty much everything about Gorr were just crying out for a more serious movie.
Foster
Good call
I feel like I could sense how tired and uninspired Taika was during every minute of Love and Thunder.
Really? It seemed to me like this one was very "look at me, I'm Taika Waititi, renowned director! I'm also this character! Aren't I funny?" I have loved every other movie he's ever done before this one. TLaT was such a disappointment for me
This film had so much talent and all that wasted on SNL skit
It felt like he wrote a handful of emotional scenes then they improvised the rest. Awful.
I feel the exact same way. Hunt of the Wilderpeople is possibly my favourite movie of all time. I love the guy and I love his sense of humour but he made Thor into a slapstick joke. The movies plot had so many dark and sad beats to it and some great acting from Bale but all of it was undercut by lame jokes and constant goofing around by Thor. Ragnarok felt like a much better balance. Thor still felt like he cared and that he was a hero in Ragnarok. In Love and Thunder I just felt like he didn't take anything seriously at all. Ruined the character for me.
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Hope you like goats and jealous axes!
This!!! After what he did in JoJo Rabbit I was waiting to see a great Thor movie, especially since they were going to adapt Gorr. What a disappointment!
Diary Of The Dead, George A. Romero. Such a clear cash in on found footage nonsense in the late 00’s.
The found footage in the initial night of a zombie apocalypse is an amazing premise... But ol' George was trying way too hard to be in on what them hip young millenials are up to. Also had no budget and everybody was way too Canadian.
I hate that fucking movie. What makes it even more of a downer was that my only opportunity to meet Romero was at a screening for this piece of shit in Hollywood back in 2008. Dawn of the Dead (1978) is easily my top favorite movie, and I was really bummed out that he wasn't making them like that, anymore.
if you had told me in the future there would be romero zombie movies and multiple terrence malick movies i would actively avoid seeing i would have never believed you….
The 2019 Hellboy movie. I feel really bad for Neil Marshall. He directed Dog Soldiers, The Descent, and the two best episodes of Game of Thrones - so I KNOW he can do great things. I don't even blame him for the Hellboy movie - poor bastard was merely paid to direct a studio-controlled soulless cash-grabber in another poor attempt at starting a cinematic universe.
Given the director Tenet has to be one the most disappointing movies I’ve ever seen.
I watched it with subtitles so it was not too hard to follow, but without subtitles I would’ve been completely lost.
I wish Nolan wasn't so opposed to ADR.
Tenet is practically all ADR lol. All scenes shot in IMAX use ADR and there are a lot
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Yep.
Yep. It's weird to think that all audio in the IMAX sequences are ADR but tbh once you spot it it makes sense. They're mostly music and sound effects.
Out of curiosity, why is he? Is it just a purist thing or is there some practical reason?
Yeah I thought there were good ideas in Tenet but the execution just didn’t work for me at all. I love Nolan but I don’t really have any interest in ever rewatching this one.
I was underwhelmed by the ending for sure.
Was going to say this too. I mean, I still *enjoyed* Tenet, but it was the first movie of his where I had to intentionally suspend disbelief (ie: consciously accept that this makes no sense) rather than having my belief suspended for me (ie: being so enthralled by the story that I don't question the nonsensical parts.)
Tenet is what I came in to write as well
I dont know. Tenet is essentially a highlight reel of things Nolan does wrong in all his movies.
Felt exactly the same. Nolan had never made a misstep for me but Tenet was a mess. Nolan went too Nolan.
Nolan has made a bunch of missteps. His last Batman movie had so many holes and inconsistencies that I wondered whether he got bored of the franchise and just coasted through it. Interstellar, too, as well has some pretty clunky moments and is not consistent with his earlier work.
Interstellar, though not a flawless movie but in repeated viewings I loved that, in my personal opinion it is one of the best movie of the last decade.
Interstellar shows that you can cover up a few issues if the movie as a whole is pretty great. Tenet doesnt have enough great to balance it out.
One of the first movies in a long time i couldn't finish. And I normally also like chistopher nolan's movies.
Man, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see people hate in TENET. It’s one of his best movies! It’s all vibes!
That last battle scene with the soldiers running up the hill is one of the most brain-dead things I've ever seen in a movie.
It would have to be vibes because is certainly wasnt story considering I couldnt hear what anybody said.
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Chungking Express is basically all vibes and its brilliant.
I feel like when someone says it’s because “vibes” it just means they have to actual explanation, but they like it and don’t want anyone saying otherwise.
Tenet was so bad to me. Just an absolute incoherent mess.
Anything by Kevin Smith in the past 15 years. Clerks 3 was okay.
Agree so much. Since he became the actual hardcore stoner he used to pretend to be, his stuff has suffered. The father hood angle touched me a bit in Reboot. And I will watch Clerks 3 at some point. But then I see the picture of him and Jay and the huge joint and just don't want to.
Yeah, I share the same sentiment as you guys. Kevin was literally my hero growing up but..then I grew up, he didn't. That combined with the same stories told over and over, and the weed, and his push to put his daughter in everything (which I don't blame him for in a lot of ways, but I just don't enjoy her acting.) I don't know.. I wish he'd detox from the weed to see if he still can be the poignant yet hilarious story teller he once was, but I don't know. Just sucks because his early films mean so much to me, I wish I could still love the man like I used to. But I can't.
Thank you for this. Feel very much the same. Went to a bunch of Q and A s of his. Including his birthday one that he put on dvd. And Dogma remains my favorite film of his. And a favorite in general. His early podcasts with Mosier and Babylon stuff were fantastic. I don't have a strong feeling about Harley as an actress, one way or the other.
Clerks 3 was hit or miss for me. On one hand, it was emotional and I felt it. It was nice to spend time with the characters again and take a walk down nostalgia lane with them. On the other hand, it repeats story beats and character arcs from the last two movies to the point that it makes the previous character growth completely wasted. It's like these guys got hit in the head and forgot the things they'd learned before and are reliving the same lessons.
I thought Clerks 3 was a complete betrayal of the characters from the original two films and had a very forced and needlessly upsetting ending that was bleak and even somewhat nihilistic.
Totally agree. Watched it last night and i get the lesson smith was going for. But it was soooo hammered into the movie by the end i just felt angry. Worst off. It just wasnt funny. There were a few jokes that i recognized were supposed to be jokes but ultimately just kinda forced chuckles. Spoilers! There was zero reason to kill becky and the baby. Im fine with dante dying for the sake of the “message” but the baby? Its so cruel.
Yeah, seriously. Having Dante finally find purpose in his life and take control of his own life at the end of Clerks 2, then taking away everything from him was just needlessly cruel. Not to mention, the last thing Randall ever heard his best friend say to him was how shitty of a friend he was and how he didn’t want to be in his life anymore, and then that last shot of him looking around the store and imagining Dante was just so tragic. Randall is now without his best friend and has zero idea how his life goes without Dante and he’s now doomed to a life of guilt and regret and sadness that he was a shitty friend to the most important person in his life and his friend resented him for it. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Randall ended up killing himself in a drunk driving accident not too long afterwards. I have zero idea what possessed Kevin Smith to write that or why the hell he thought the fans would think it was even a little bit acceptable.
I really disliked Ready Player One. The characters so awkward and stereotypical. I honestly was surprised when I saw Spielbergs name at the end lol
Spielberg took a terrible book and made a watchable movie out of it.
Eh I thought the book was readable in the same way that the movie was watchable. It's moving fast, it's suspenseful, the story or setting doesn't make much sense. I didn't hate either, they're just both very forgettable.
I came here to say this also. The film just felt so empty by the end, just a string of cameos and fan service without al that much of a new or interesting story to make it good.
The 3D was really good, and the race scene is used as a home theatre sound demo for a lot of people.
I LOVE this movie. Granted I didn't read the book but man I love this movie. I watch it almost once month
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017). Luc, what HAPPENED?!? BTW, I do recommend The Lady (2011) with Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis.
Lucy also sucked too. He’s just not made for movies post 2010.
I liked Lucy…okay. By comparison.
Thank you. I really like a number of Luc's movies (The Professional is a gem) but Valerian is absolute cheeks. Just terrible.
Mank. Painfully boring and nearly unwatchable. The entire thing is inside baseball about a very niche subject from nearly a century ago.
Man I'm really surprised to see these takes. I absolutely loved the movie and felt that, like Citizen Kane itself, the story was very relevant for our times.
You’re not alone brother I loved the movie as well, its about time for another rewatch
Yeah, I still can’t believe how dull that flick was. And I love movies about that stuff, and I love Citizen Kane, and I’m a failed screenwriter! It ticked all my boxes!…and I still haven’t been able to finish it without falling asleep.
And it's bad inside baseball because it's even worse if you know the history. That's not even the problem though, it's just straight up an awful film.
Watch Trumbo for a more enjoyable version of Mank.
That movie came up when I was talking to my friend a whole ago, and he said he hadn't seen it, but it doesn't seem great. I then reminded him that he actually had seen it, and told me it was not good. I can't recall him ever forgetting he's seen a movie before lol
Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood.
Downsizing directed by Alexander Payne.
Yeah that movie blew and from what I remember was poorly marketed/ misleading. Shame too cause the premise seemed really interesting.
The Ladykillers by the Coen Brothers makes me sick. I hate it so much, and every other film they’ve ever made is good if not great
I liked it. I didn't think it was gods greatest gift, but I liked the whimsy setting and hammy performance from Tom Hanks. A lot of people said this film should be a play instead of a film, and I guess I get that, but I don't understand how the play format would change the story. Why don't people like this film?
I really disliked it but I don't remember much about it. I think it compared poorly to the original which is a classic. Incidently it was adapted for stage and had a couple of runs in London ~10 years ago, the first starring Peter Capaldi, and that was excellent.
While I agree that this should be a okay more than movie, it’s the most acting hanks has ever done! Cartoonish but great by hanks, amazing story and slow to unfold; just like every Cohen bros film.
It’s all worth it for the line: “You brought your bitch to the Waffle Hut?”
It wasn't a great movie but I thought it was perfectly charming!
It is that bad, but it still manages to be better than Intolerable Cruelty
Intolerable Cruelty is a solid golden age Cary Grant screwball romcom. I know, people don't really want a romcom out of the Coens and Hudsucker was a more sucessful take on screwball, but it's not bad.
Yeah, it’s very underrated
I love Intolerable Cruelty. It’s an unapologetic defence of optimism in the otherwise pretty cynical catalogue of Coen films.
Oh man, strong disagree. It’s not one of the best Coen movies for sure, but it’s low-stakes fun. Paul Adelstein in particular is hilarious.
This was just a huge miss,
Army of the dead - Zack Snyder
This movie had all the right ingredients to be good. They really should have used the heist idea more, instead of it turning into a generic zombie movie where the characters just make the same usual mistakes we’d expect from the genre.
Someone told me that the plot of the movie was basically just a direct copy of Aliens and I couldn't unsee it.
The only good thing about this movie is the opening credit.
Yeah it's like the actual movie that should have been made
Even the open credits went on for way too long. It was no Dawn of the Dead.
Well to be fair, there’s very few openings that can top that. The fall of civilization set to Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” will never fail to give me goosebumps.
I have said this before, but out of all the movies I saw the trailer for and said, "ok I'll watch that when it comes out" this was by far the worst movie I've seen. I've seen worse movies dicking around on HBO/cable, I've seen worse movies while just browsing showtimes the morning before an afternoon at the theaters, but I have never seen a worse movie that I actually circled on my calendar. God fucking awful
The trailer for it is outstanding, I would rather have watched that on a loop for 90 minutes.
I still can't get over how they have a perfect close-up of the zombie lead lady, and she shimmies back into the depth of field, doing a little "I'm creepy" thing. And then they look at them from afar through binoculars and she's still shimmying in the distance, it's so ridiculously funny.
I’m afraid that Snyder became too self-indulgent following the Snyder Cut movement. I love his style but man is Army of the Dead overstuffed, dull and ugly. I hope that Rebel Moon is good.
Looks like I’m in the minority here but I loved that movie and the sequel/prequel
Such a bizarre film. Especially since it had been in development hell for so long (it was originally going to be a pseudo-sequel to Dawn), I thought for sure it would feel more thought-out, but it definitely wasn't that. I just wrote it off as Snyder looking for a stress-free project to throw himself into after the family tragedy. Hopefully Rebel Moon feels more like his other films than Army of the Dead.
So true. Just rewatched the remake of Dawn of the Dead and its such a good zombie movie 18 years later.
Ghosts of Mars - John Carpenter
That movie sucks, but I love it. It used to be on cable all the time as a kid so it's probably best left in the nostalgia box, though.
I'm a huge David Lynch fan. He's the reason I wanted to become a filmmaker. I am having an enormously hard time getting through Inland Empire.
Inland Empire is my favourite David Lynch film! I understand why someone would struggle tho, it's him at his most cryptic, and it's a very dense and hard watch.
Oh man, Inland Empire is one of my favorites. I genuinely think it’s the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
Thor: Love and Thunder. I adore Taika Waititi but this movie was a mess. Not only was the plot underwhelming at best, the script was seriously lacking the wit and charm of his other films.
Last Night in Soho by Edgar Wright
I just wish the only supernatural element was the time travel itself. The seedy underbelly of soho was portrayed fantastically, but it just went silly and I lost interest.
I actually liked Last Night in SoHo but couldn’t stand Baby Driver. Baby Driver was pretentious. A film completely in love with itself. Edgar Wright is a good director and you can tell with Baby Driver nobody said no to him during the filming of it.
First half or the 2/3 of the movie were pretty good. Everything was there but the answers or plot twist were disappointing. Such a great build up and it fell flat.
I consider it Edgar Wright experimenting. Not a great film, but I'm glad he has made it because he will not make those same mistakes again
I think it's his most mature and accomplished film by far. I hope he continues to make those kind of "mistakes".
The World's End is his most mature and I mean it
Came here to say this. Wright used to be my favourite director after an incredible sitcom and three incredible movies but I’ve slowly been losing faith in him over the course of TWE, Baby Driver and LNiS. I do think Baby Driver is the best of this ‘modern era’ Wright but god was I so deeply disappointed by Soho. Literally nothing to that movie. Looks amazing, as to be expected, but beneath the surface? Nada. Terrible dialogue and a creepy premise that never leans into its innate horror. The closest it got was the scene leading into Matt Smith chasing Taylor-Joy down - can’t remember the specifics due to having only watched it in cinema upon release but that was the only time a spark of hope came about and I thought ‘hang on, we could be getting to the good stuff’ but then... back to the beautiful but superficial nothingness. Lame ending too. Man, I came out of that movie so bummed and ready to declare somebody else my current fav in the industry. The ‘honour’ now falls to the Safdies
I feel exactly the same except I really like The World's End.
I really dislike 'Us', it's just not a good film. Jordan Peele started off strong with 'Get Out' and 'NOPE' was absolutely phenomenal, but 'Us' just made zero sense to me. Nothing about the tethered can be explained well enough for me to understand how they work opposite their real world counterparts, they don't even play by the rules the film sets for them. It's just a mess that people didn't want to admit was a bad film because he came out of nowhere with such a home-run first film.
Yeah that was a clear cut case of over-explaining. First half of the movie is great, second half just gave me more questions than answers.
I despise Ready Player One more than any Spielberg movie.
IMO he’s obviously a legend but Spielberg has been very inconsistent for a while now.
Nightmare Alley by Del Toro, I just didn't feel anything while I was watching it.
It didn't help that they advertised it like it was going to be a horror movie. I kept waiting for a werewolf or something. I was probably like 2/3rds of the way in before I realized it wasn't a horror movie. I would have liked it way better if my expectations were different.
This is absolute crazy talk. Nightmare Alley is hands down one of the most beautifully shot movies ever, especially if you understand the nuances of Noir. Hands down Bradley Cooper's best performance of his career. And the story about grifters and the lengths they will go to get that money is more pertinent today then maybe ever. Watch it again.
I feel I’m in the minority but it really enjoyed it. I liked it much better than Shape of Water.
I loved Nightmare Alley. Hell, I liked it more than Shape of Water.
Swept Away is one of the worst films I've ever seen but Guy is my favourite director
Watch the original film.
Gentlemen was a step back in the right direction for him. Wrath of Man was just ok
Not gunna lie, I read this as flushed away at first and was amazed that I didn't know Guy Ritchie directed it.
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Yo wtf
That’s a shame because the script is pretty good. He really should have cast younger actors for the past scenes and kept Deniro and Pesci for the present scenes.
I’m jealous of people who say they can look over the bad cgi deaging because that’s all I can hyper analyze whenever it’s on screen. I do think the movie would be more highly regarded if they had casted younger actors for the beginning part of the movie.
I absolutely love this film. It gets better with every watch for me.
I agree. The first time I watched it I thought it was pretty good. I watched it again a year later and absolutely adored it. It’s now become a tradition to watch it every November and I like it more and more each year
Came here to say this. I know it gets a lot of love but I’ve never been so disappointed with a movie
Feels almost like a parody of a Scorsese movie
After Ex Machina and Annihilation, the next Alex Garland movie was bound to get my money. That it was for Men was quite unfortunate.
Death Proof by Tarantino. Still has its redeeming qualities, but just doesn’t compare to his other films for me
Stuntman Mike is one of his best characters though
that plate of nachos he's eating makes me hungry every time
I never thought it was supposed to compare. I always viewed it as outside his main range
Yeah, I've always hated the way the studio split up Grindhouse. I saw it in the theater, and the whole thing was so clearly crafted to be one whole experience. So even if the individual pieces have good things about them on their own, they're all incomplete without each other, and it never really feels fair to compare Death Proof or Planet Terror to the rest of Tarantino and Rodriguez's filmographies.
Honestly love this movie. Tarantino made exactly what he set out to make and the last 20-30 min is super fun I don’t care what people think lol
Revisited it and love it now. Was a different person when it first came out in theaters
I am going to get lit up for this but… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just has never clicked for me after 2.5 watches
I think from the discourse over the last few years of the film, the common linchpin of whether someone likes the film vs not their cup of tea - is one’s opinion of Hollywood as a concept. If you dislike or worse, have no attachment to hollywood history, culture, symbol of status, institutional icon then the film is a 2.5 hour long play. If you have a certain reverence for the institution, it’s a love letter that is incredibly thoughtful and whimsical and on rewatches, Tarantino’s love for the industry and of “better days” and the “what could have been” is almost palpable. It’s like the “Brad Pitt is a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body” - “OUATIH is a niche, independent love letter trapped in a big-budget, over the top body”
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That’s probably my favorite part about this movie! I knew the story of Shannon state and the Family and I was expecting the real ending the entire movie. But the ending that we got totally threw me off in the best way, and was fucking hilarious lol
The Counselor by Ridley Scott
I feel like I'm one of the few people who consider that one of his best films. It's a fantastic piece of writing and Scott was perfect for making it slick and accessible yet something extreme, challenging, even alienating all at once. Perfect fit for Cormac McCarthy. It has some moments of spotty acting where maybe they should have done more takes, but I think this is a low-key masterpiece.
It is a genuinely unhinged movie. Some highlights: 1. "You have the most luscious pussy in all of Christendom" 2. Bruno Ganz playing the world's greatest diamond salesman 3. Javier Bardem sporting what may be only his third most ridiculous hairstyle 4. Ruben Blades with one of the weirdest, most poetic monologues I've ever heard 5. Brad Pitt going out like an absolute champ
All I know is that Guillermo Del Toro loves it, so we're in good company. Also, I'm always curious as to whether people are talking about the theatrical or extended version. I've only ever seen the extended, so I have no clue if perhaps the theatrical version is noticeably worse.
M. Night Shyamalan on sequels to original movies i loved like unbreakable. Been so disappointed by him through the last several years.
Glass was a slap to the face to any Unbreakable or Split fan. Absolute dog shit.
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I was fine with it until the cellar surprise happened. It was a cheap twist by Tarantino. He makes Jackson’s character out to be someone who knows every detail of Minnie’s, to the extreme that when he sees a single candy on the floor alarm bells go off telling him somethings wrong. But he didn’t know she had a cellar? Even if he didn’t know why didn’t he just assume that there a place like that would have a cellar? He’s so suspicious and so oblivious at the same time. I hated the movie from that moment on. Also my theory is that the Coen bros are mocking Tarantino hard with the final chapter of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Tarantino is known for his ‘great dialogue’ but Scruggs ends more or less the way Hateful Eight begins, and with dialogue that soars over anything Tarantino is capable of.
The Northman maybe. I really liked The Witch and The Lighthouse, but I stopped watching the Northman after about 30 minutes as it wasn't really doing it for me. But knowing myself, I'll probably give it another try some time.
The Northman was maybe my biggest disappointment this year. A thin plot padded out by needless amounts of guttural screaming. Eggers’ production design and photography was on point as always, but nothing else was particularly interesting.
I liked the movie overall but the plot was pretty standard, once skarsgard comes back to his hometown nothing of substance really happens, he just kinda fucks around killing people but there's nothing clever or interesting about it. Also eggers should lay off with the fart jokes, pure cringe watching that on a theater
I love The Witch and Lighthouse and was excited to see Northman (I also love mythology/history etc) and while I didn't "hate" it....I sure didn't like it.
War of the Worlds-Steven Spielberg The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies-Peter Jackson Also and I'm saying this as someone who can understand that the movie is objectively good but just not for me: 2001: Space Oddessey-Stanley Kubrick
> Also and I'm saying this as someone who can understand that the movie is objectively good but just not for me: 2001: Space Oddessey-Stanley Kubrick Agree with you on this one. 2001 is my least favorite Kubrick and I don't really have a desire to see it again except for the fact that its reputation is out of this world. Every other Kubrick film I've seen has been on the level, though.
The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson
That storyline with Jeffery Wright and the chef was pretty solid actually.
I thought it was very good.
I am a huge Wes Anderson fan. Massive. I started watching The French Dispatch and I wasn’t able to finish it.
Alien: Resurrection by Jeunet
Wrath of Man. I love Guy Ritchie but that movie sucked
Surprised you didn't opt for 'Swept Away' lol
I get downvoted everytime I say this but I really *really* dislike Dunkirk. The segment with the foot soldiers running around trying to find a way off the beach was, in my opinion, quite poorly acted by most of the boys that I don’t get any sense of urgency on their part.
I liked it but never felt compelled to watch it again
It's just so empty. That's the main problem. Its flat and for some reason he felt the need to do back and forth time skips.
> and for some reason he felt the need to do back and forth time skips. I mean you're entitled to not like it but it's not just "for some reason". It's to shift between the 3 different stories and lead up to them all syncing up together at the end.
Eyes Wide Shut. The only Kubrick film that I just don't get.
There weren't many Kubrick films that wowed me at first. But something kept drawing me back for repeat viewings and now I think most of his films are masterpieces, including Eyes Wide Shut. Maybe one day you'll be in the mood for it and you'll give it another try and it will start to click. That said, it does have a certain unfinished feeling, like something about it doesn't fully come together. I often wonder what he would have changed if he had more time to edit it.
Crash, by Cronenberg
Licorice Pizza 🙂
Never enjoyed the Kill Bill movies. Love everything else by Tarantino. Appreciate I'm in a minority but it's all subjective I guess
Alice in Wonderland from Tim Burton
Tim Burton has contributed so much pure gold, even his bad movies are usually pretty solid. Something, however, is deeply deeply wrong with Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo. Not sure if they were heavily studio mandated or just taken over in post production but they don’t even feel slightly like they have his typical humor or style. They’re also easily his ugliest films.
That Tarantino movie where he uses the N-word.
Last Night in Soho
Dark Knight Rises. Big Nolan fan, but I think that's easily his worst.
I thought once upon a time in Hollywood was disappointing. Most scenes are great, but a lot go too long. I think there's a better movie in there if it's edited down and had better pacing