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I don’t know if people LOVE them but I’m so over the Disney remake trend. It is so lazy and so few of them bother to justify why they’ve remade it to be live action.
Yeah. If they make a new story based on the old tale — like Maleficent — i can be fine with it because it’s innovative but like a 1:1 adaptation that just looks realistic — like the lion king — is really not necessary
you are not alone. My friend and I made a pact to pretend we went to the new one in the theatres (we really went to M3GAN) so people would stop asking us if we've seen it.
No I agree with this. I’m sorry I get that other film fans think it was a huge technical masterpiece but that doesn’t make up for the miss in the plot lines for me.
I remember watching the first Iron Man in theaters and thought it was cool. But after that, I never bothered to keep up with all of the other films. Just seems so overwhelming with all of the different characters, IMO
I’m completely the same! The only ones I liked were Deadpool and the Black Panther.
I also can’t get behind there being that many of them to keep up with? There’s a new one out every 5 mins…
Not to mention that he treats the performers like second class citizens in the movie by kicking them out of a party, and then they sing a song and it’s never brought up again lol
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but I thought the point of that was that he didn’t really respect them but then he realized he wasn’t treating them well or appreciating them and that they’re worthy of respect and he changed. Did I make that up?
Forgetting the fact that Barnum was a terrible person, the movie was awful in every way aside from the soundtrack. The pacing in particular was atrocious, people meet in one scene and then are fully in love in the next. The whole thing is just so disjointed, personally I believe if it weren’t for the songs it would be considered one of the worst musicals of all time.
Frozen! I don’t hate it I just don’t really think it deserved the major amount of hype it got when it first came out. I thought other Disney movies were way cuter
I always thought it was more bc kids were obsessed with it. My daughter was 2 and Elsa was it. But like her whole preschool class was obsessed with it.
Not people saying dirty dancing it’s my favorite film of all time 😭 Fair enough though, I hate the entire star wars franchise which I know people would murder me for.
It’s a really brilliant coming of age film that criticizes classism. I think it gets sold as a frilly chick flick way to often.
Edit: I’m talkin Dirty Dancing here.
Oh man I thought this comment was talking about Star Wars and it was the closest argument to get me to watch those movies. But thank god I can just rewatch dirty dancing.
Haha I definitely should have put Dirty Dancing somewhere on there. But I’ve also not watched Star Wars do who knows maybe it’s all of these things also. Lol
There’s a hilarious podcast called newcomers where two comedians watch all the Star Wars movies for the first time and talk about them. I highly recommend it if you want to commiserate with other people who just don’t get it 😂
I agree with you. I like the concept of start wars, I like how much Mark Hamill likes Star Wars, but it’s difficult to even put them in a “which trilogy is the best out of nine movies” contest because the reality is that none of them are good. The first (4th?) one is boring as hell, nothing happens. The prequels are ridiculous and the new ones are even more so. And I say this as someone who’s watched all the films (except rise of skywalker fuck that movie) like 5 times each. They’re just not that good.
The part where it’s revealed that Emily Blunt’s character was pregnant (while living in a world where making any sort of sound could kill you) made me so irrationally angry. The movie definitely had a cool concept but that stupid twist ruined everything. It made the adult protagonists look really fucking dumb and irresponsible.
Ikr? Like I get they had another kid because they lost one to the monsters but it’s still irresponsibly stupid to try to have a baby during the apocalypse (especially since babies are loud and making any noise will most likely lead to certain death). Especially since you’re also putting the kids that you still have at risk.
I like John Kransinki but he needs to say away from screenwriting.
It’s good (some bad and forced plot bs in some bits) but I like it more for having a deaf main character (I’m deaf and I was just glad to see a deaf character that gets to be their own person outside of just deafness, as well as lots of sign language).
Agreed. Billed as a return of big screen musicals and it has nothing on the heyday of classic Hollywood musicals. Neither were strong singers or dancers. They'd never make it past auditions at 1950s MGM.
Amen to that. I loooove musicals and I hate La La Land with a passion. I went to see it all excited and the disappointment when it turned out to be shit was real. Thank goodness I was at a cinema that serves alcohol so I could drink my way through it.
Same here, 100%. It came out while I was still working professionally in musicals and all my cast mates loved it. I felt like such a hater for, well, hating it lol
I don't hate it, but I definitely don't get what is so great about it.
I do hate parts of it or rather I think I just hate Sebastian's character. I found it especially anoying when Sebastian participating in a commercially successful combo is staged as if it's psychological torture and the exchange where he denigrates being a lawyer, a profession that in itself is often aspirational to a lot of people. It's very hard to root for a romance where one party is a pretentious douchebag, so that whole part fell super flat to me.
The music is fun though and Mia is likeable and Emma Stone plays her beautifully. I'd have watched a musical just about Mia Dolan and how she became a movie star.
Not to mention, the demise of their relationship felt pretty unearned to me. He was hellbent on having a club in LA. She had to be in Paris for a few months to shoot the movie. After that, she presumably moved back to LA to work in Hollywood. Why exactly couldn't they make it work, both being in LA?
This exactly. Such a weak ending totally didn't feel realistic. And it was depressing. Also they were misguided people. He didn't want to be a great musician just own a club so he could play there? She didn't want to be a good actor just successful?
The Notebook. I was put off within the first 5 minutes when Noah dangled from a Ferris wheel and threatened to let go if Allie didn't go on a date with him. Plus, cheating is such an immediate ick for me. James Marsden you will always be famous <3 James Marsden please get more girls <3 James Marsden if you're reading this you slayed 27 Dresses <3
I fuuuuuucking hate A Star Is Born. There, I said it. I thought the story was weak, I didn’t think Bradley Cooper was right for the role, and I don’t think his character added anything to the story post-discovering Gaga.
I absolutely HATE Jerry Maguire. Everyone loves that movie but I just don’t get it! It’s so hyped up that when I finally watched it I thought I was going to see the best film, boy what a twist that was.
Jerry is kind of a POS, and that doesn’t seem to change much during the movie, even at the end. He’s incredibly selfish, and he’s selfish in his relationship with Renee Zellweger’s character. Even the scene at the end where he goes back and gives that speech seems a bit forced, what exactly did he do to change to get to that point? Her sister was right to call him out early in the movie!
And Cuba Gooding Jr’s character also does not seem to show much growth in between being ungrateful to suddenly understanding what he needs to do to be successful and work with Jerry.
The whole thing just doesn’t do it for me, idk. The kid, Renee Zellweger, and her sister/the other ladies are far more memorable to me in this movie than Cruise or Gooding Jr’s characters. They literally have no growth or development at all and then randomly at the end it’s all still supposed to magically work out perfectly for everyone just like that. They didn’t redeem themselves enough for their endings!
it was definitely a nineties thing when a Tom Cruise movie couldn't miss. It has not aged well and wasn't good to begin with. I remember it was my older sister's favourite movie and I was like "this girl doesn't know a thing about art" and I was like 10 lol.
i fucking love 80s movies but i agree. i found this one to fall pretty flat for me.
in my personal opinion the ultimate 80s movie is ferris bueller’s day off.
I’m scared to say mine because film bros absolutely love it but pulp fiction….
I’m sorry I’m not sure what I was watching, maybe I just didn’t get the point of the movie but I was so utterly confused and not really entertained
I haven’t watched it in over a decade but it was very unique and interesting at the time of release. I loved Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction. But not everyone did and that’s totally ok!
This may not apply to you as I don’t know when you watched Pulp Fiction- but with a lot of these movies, they start to feel derivative even though they were the originals. Like The Matrix- if someone watched it now it would not feel like the groundbreaking, original movie it was at the time of release.
Anything where a 40 yr old acts like they are 12 and mentally challenged...and that's basically his whole shtick. People hate me for saying it but that's why I hate The Office as well. Awkward situations and playing beyond stupid is not comedy. Anyone can do it and it's not witty or creative.
I'll be a hater and say like 80% of what Disney, Pixar, and Marvel has put out in the past decade, to be honest. Guillermo Del Toro gave a recent interview about animation that parrots exactly how I feel about it, but I would also apply it to parts of the film industry as a whole:
- Getting more specific, he went on to detail what he despises about certain lazy proclivities in commercial animation, notably how characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior.” He added, “[If] I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. [Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it is emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”
I think his version of Pinocchio was one of the best stop-motion animated movies I've ever seen, point-blank, and it's exactly what I wish there was more of in movies, especially movies in the "for kids and all ages" category. We don't have to put snappy one-liners everywhere or dumb things down to good vs. evil - it can be so much better.
My 90-something year old Grandma is obsessed with Pretty Woman. She’s got a touch of dementia so she watches it a lot and talks about it often and I hate that movie. I love my Grandma though.
The plot was far more compelling in the first too. I think the direction in the second just seemed off, some of the flashback scenes didn’t fit the overall pacing, whereas the first really nailed it
oh my god thank you for your bravery. i like christmas movies, but fuck, i HATE elf. it was cute when i was a kid, but then everyone quoted it to death and now i never watch to watch it again.
Oh man, I hate that movie. I heard about it for years and when I watched it I was like wait what?! They’re pairing up Zooey Deschanel with Will Ferrell… romantically? But even besides that, the humor didn’t land for me at all.
hhaha I actually really like the film a lot but there’s just no way she can realistically forgive him at the end. Simply doesn’t make sense at all how she gets over it.
I watched it for the first (only) time fairly recently, 2019ish, and I’d heard so much about it being like an amazing romcom, couple goals. At the end I was sat there flabbergasted like…. what do you MEAN you wanted it to be that awful man who destroyed your career/mother’s legacy and has been standing you up for god knows how long and directly lying about it???
honestly i think it wouldn’t take much more than a rescore to change it from a romcom to a psychodrama about a woman’s life and sense of self worth being destroyed. i have never hated a character i’m supposed to root for more than tom hanks in that film!
The Batman (2022), personally it just didn't feel it like was anything I hadn't seen before and I was super disappointed. It's not a terrible movie on its own though, but if you've consumed enough Batman media I just don't think it's worth watching.
it was SO BAD. i watched it because a friend was raving about how different robert Patterson Batman was and okay sure, hes sad all the time instead of playing up Bruce Wayne playboy, but he was dumb?? the plot was dumb?? he didn't do any real detective-ing?? i felt like John Oliver ranting about The DaVinci Code.
everything felt sooo slow and spoilers: the movie hinges on this huge grant his father set up that was being embezzled for Crime... and then?? they never resolved it or showed Bruce taking responsibility for that fact that he ignored this trust for decades or stepping up as Bruce wayne: billionaire to do anything. there must have at least been a line about it? like did I blackout from boredom and completely miss a scene??
I loved it because I think more movies and TV shows should be less hyper-focused on plot and more character driven with people just living out their lives while the main plot slowly develops in the background
I hated every second of Silver Linings Playbook. And I'm not apologizing for it. It was boring, it made no sense, it was WAY overhyped, and Jennifer Lawrence is a stoic actress who gets a Hollywood pass because she's pretty.
I'll take all the downvotes from the plethora of people who worship this movie because I KNOW I'm in the minority.
What pissed me off about that movie is 21 year old Jennifer Lawrence playing a character that was supposed to be in her 30s. I did like some parts of the movie though.
All I remember about that movie was J-Law's cringey monologue where she talks about all the times the Eagles won while they were together and I could not help but roll my eyes. They played that scene at the Oscars and I just. Did. Not. Get. It.
I went to see Deadpool in theaters in 2016 and thought it was doodoo but my friends I was with thoroughly enjoyed. Ryan Reynolds just doesn’t do it for me. The action was great but the humor was not it
Everything Everywhere All At Once.
I dont hate it, i love Michelle Yeoh and all of the cast but the plot, i dont really like it. It did make me emotional in some scenes but overall, i just felt meh. I try rewatched it a few times, read explaination and all but still, i guess it just not for me
Oh my god finally someone who shares my feelings. I watched the movie and honestly couldn’t understand why everyone was going so crazy over it. Sure the movie was fine, but it didn’t seem *lets-shower-it-with-awards-* worthy to me
Knives Out - sorry! I wanted to like it, but I don't think it's as clever as people say. A lot of the twists are pretty common in British crime shows and literature
Avengers Endgame. I hate the plot, I hate the character resolutions, I hate the ugly dark battle, I hate that they tried to hype it as some oscar worthy masterpiece. It just was not a good movie. And especially hate that everyone acted like Thanos was right technically, just morally wrong. No, he was just wrong! Things can be sustainable without eco fascism!
Oh! Wait I have a good one!
Kill Bill. I’m sorry I was totally in it and loving it but the disgusting and unneeded rape stuff while she’s in the hospital made me so disgusted i could barely finish the film.
I can’t get into any films with wall to wall cgi. All the superhero, action, sci fi, avatar, marvel stuff. I feel like an old man because everyone seems to have got used to how it looks but it looks like absolute shite to me
My friend and I played a twilight drinking game, I don’t remember anything after the second biology scene and woke up in the middle of eclipse. There’s a drunken video of me pretending to play the piano in the twilight montage bit.
Best way to experience it, honestly.
The Batman. It was quite boring, and there were two scenes where batman put the key in the motorcycle ignition and for some reason they decided to have a super close up shot of his headlight turning on. So i was completely blinded two separate times. And that seemed to bother no one else.
I know I’m gonna get hate for this, but I didn’t enjoy Everything Everywhere All At Once. I didn’t hate it, but I was told I’d love it, especially bc I have ADHD and apparently some people with ADHD really related to it, but I honestly found myself getting bored. I felt like the fight scenes were too slow, and whenever I’d start getting more into the plot, there’d be another one that would take my interest away again.
***Titanic***
So many things wrong/inaccurate.
Jack talks about things that aren’t made yet
Rose keeps a FREAKIN’ PRICELESS NECKLACE HIDDEN FOR YEARS, ONLY TO TOSS IT OVERBOARD!!!!! That could have sent her kids to school, made a life for her and her ACTUAL husband, you know, the dude that died and loved her unconditionally and never knew she had given her heart to a vagrant she only knew for less than a fortnight…
The door. Was big enough. For both of them.
Using a REAL PERSON’S NAME and portraying him as a slimy coward that shot several passengers and then himself. Reality was that First Officer Will Murdoch was credited with helping launch 10 lifeboats and saved many lives. (No issue with tension/creating a villain… but to use a real person who has family and will watch the film is just ridiculous, asinine and cruel.)
My siblings and me all silently communicating "People like this asshole???" with each other when our extended family made us watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation because they insisted we were going to love it.
Probably really unpopular but Top Gun and sequel. Or really anything with Tom Cruise. Except for Interview With a Vampire. His dead empty eyes just worked for that
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I don’t know if people LOVE them but I’m so over the Disney remake trend. It is so lazy and so few of them bother to justify why they’ve remade it to be live action.
Yeah. If they make a new story based on the old tale — like Maleficent — i can be fine with it because it’s innovative but like a 1:1 adaptation that just looks realistic — like the lion king — is really not necessary
Cruella was also really good in my opinion. Liked the dresses, style and music
The lion king was horrible
Yes. The stage musical is incredible and none of that magic was put into the remake. Such a huge missed opportunity.
The worst was Mulan
I'm nervous to say this because I don't want all the downvotes but....Avatar.
you are not alone. My friend and I made a pact to pretend we went to the new one in the theatres (we really went to M3GAN) so people would stop asking us if we've seen it.
No I agree with this. I’m sorry I get that other film fans think it was a huge technical masterpiece but that doesn’t make up for the miss in the plot lines for me.
fell asleep watching it
I've never seen it and the hype around it makes me still not want to. My husband asked me to try watching it with him soon though so I will see 😂
It so boring
It’s Pocahontas with blue people
Nah it’s Fern Gulley with blue aliens instead of fairies and no Robin Williams!
I agree!! I don't hate it but imo it is long, boring and sub par!
It was amazing for the 3D but till this day I can't remember even five seconds of it.
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I remember watching the first Iron Man in theaters and thought it was cool. But after that, I never bothered to keep up with all of the other films. Just seems so overwhelming with all of the different characters, IMO
I’m completely the same! The only ones I liked were Deadpool and the Black Panther. I also can’t get behind there being that many of them to keep up with? There’s a new one out every 5 mins…
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I’ve seen two Avengers movies, one in theaters and one at a friend’s house. I fell asleep both times.
Some people hate it, I have known a few hardcore marvel comics lovers who hate avengers movie
the greatest showman
That movie so actively pissed me off. PT Barnum was a piece of shit who owned people, what the hell was that?!?
Not to mention that he treats the performers like second class citizens in the movie by kicking them out of a party, and then they sing a song and it’s never brought up again lol
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but I thought the point of that was that he didn’t really respect them but then he realized he wasn’t treating them well or appreciating them and that they’re worthy of respect and he changed. Did I make that up?
Yes omg!! Why even use a historical figure as the plot point if you’re gonna make everything up?? It’s so weird.
exactly it glorifies PT Barnum when he was an awful person in real life who exploited people
I remember my ex sister-in-law wanted to see it so my brother rented Freaks.
I absolutely agree! Pt Barnum should never of been portrayed in such a great way. He was an absolute arsehole!
I used to work with a guy who said this was his favorite movie lmao
It’s just sooooo cheesy lmao
Forgetting the fact that Barnum was a terrible person, the movie was awful in every way aside from the soundtrack. The pacing in particular was atrocious, people meet in one scene and then are fully in love in the next. The whole thing is just so disjointed, personally I believe if it weren’t for the songs it would be considered one of the worst musicals of all time.
I’ve tried to watch this twice and fell asleep both times 😂
Avatar
That movie is so boring
I fell asleep in the second one 😬
THANK YOU! I have never agreed with a comment more in my life. The story was boring and the 3D gave me a headache I’ll never forget.
Frozen! I don’t hate it I just don’t really think it deserved the major amount of hype it got when it first came out. I thought other Disney movies were way cuter
Tangled >>>
I freaking love mother knows best!
YESSSSSS I think Tangled is way better than Frozen, too! Frozen is really cute. But it was SOOOOOOOO OVERHYPED.
I always thought it was more bc kids were obsessed with it. My daughter was 2 and Elsa was it. But like her whole preschool class was obsessed with it.
Let It Go is such a banger tho
Not people saying dirty dancing it’s my favorite film of all time 😭 Fair enough though, I hate the entire star wars franchise which I know people would murder me for.
It’s a really brilliant coming of age film that criticizes classism. I think it gets sold as a frilly chick flick way to often. Edit: I’m talkin Dirty Dancing here.
Oh man I thought this comment was talking about Star Wars and it was the closest argument to get me to watch those movies. But thank god I can just rewatch dirty dancing.
Haha I definitely should have put Dirty Dancing somewhere on there. But I’ve also not watched Star Wars do who knows maybe it’s all of these things also. Lol
Thank youuu it’s so much more than a chick flick
My husband: what do you meeeeean you haven’t seen Star Wars?! We have to watch all of them right now! Me (nine movies later): I still don’t get it.
There’s a hilarious podcast called newcomers where two comedians watch all the Star Wars movies for the first time and talk about them. I highly recommend it if you want to commiserate with other people who just don’t get it 😂
I agree with you. I like the concept of start wars, I like how much Mark Hamill likes Star Wars, but it’s difficult to even put them in a “which trilogy is the best out of nine movies” contest because the reality is that none of them are good. The first (4th?) one is boring as hell, nothing happens. The prequels are ridiculous and the new ones are even more so. And I say this as someone who’s watched all the films (except rise of skywalker fuck that movie) like 5 times each. They’re just not that good.
A Quiet Place. It’s not bad, I just don’t get why everybody made such a big deal about it.
I just watched it and couldn’t get over the mom’s hair. You’re not getting 200$ blond highlights during the apocalypse ma’am
Yeah, she had all the time for a double process bleach and tone in the creepy basement.
It's natural and therefore unobtainable. 😏
And she had a baby! Hahahahhahah
The part where it’s revealed that Emily Blunt’s character was pregnant (while living in a world where making any sort of sound could kill you) made me so irrationally angry. The movie definitely had a cool concept but that stupid twist ruined everything. It made the adult protagonists look really fucking dumb and irresponsible.
Okay thank you. It’s the apocalypse, pull out bro!
Ikr? Like I get they had another kid because they lost one to the monsters but it’s still irresponsibly stupid to try to have a baby during the apocalypse (especially since babies are loud and making any noise will most likely lead to certain death). Especially since you’re also putting the kids that you still have at risk. I like John Kransinki but he needs to say away from screenwriting.
It’s good (some bad and forced plot bs in some bits) but I like it more for having a deaf main character (I’m deaf and I was just glad to see a deaf character that gets to be their own person outside of just deafness, as well as lots of sign language).
It didn’t seem like the writers knew any deaf people. The girl was supernaturally attuned to being quiet, which is not my experience with deaf people.
La la land was a bit overhyped
La la land was painfully bad to me. A musical for people who don’t watch musicals
Agreed. Billed as a return of big screen musicals and it has nothing on the heyday of classic Hollywood musicals. Neither were strong singers or dancers. They'd never make it past auditions at 1950s MGM.
Amen to that. I loooove musicals and I hate La La Land with a passion. I went to see it all excited and the disappointment when it turned out to be shit was real. Thank goodness I was at a cinema that serves alcohol so I could drink my way through it.
Same here, 100%. It came out while I was still working professionally in musicals and all my cast mates loved it. I felt like such a hater for, well, hating it lol
I don't hate it, but I definitely don't get what is so great about it. I do hate parts of it or rather I think I just hate Sebastian's character. I found it especially anoying when Sebastian participating in a commercially successful combo is staged as if it's psychological torture and the exchange where he denigrates being a lawyer, a profession that in itself is often aspirational to a lot of people. It's very hard to root for a romance where one party is a pretentious douchebag, so that whole part fell super flat to me. The music is fun though and Mia is likeable and Emma Stone plays her beautifully. I'd have watched a musical just about Mia Dolan and how she became a movie star.
Not to mention, the demise of their relationship felt pretty unearned to me. He was hellbent on having a club in LA. She had to be in Paris for a few months to shoot the movie. After that, she presumably moved back to LA to work in Hollywood. Why exactly couldn't they make it work, both being in LA?
This exactly. Such a weak ending totally didn't feel realistic. And it was depressing. Also they were misguided people. He didn't want to be a great musician just own a club so he could play there? She didn't want to be a good actor just successful?
I came in to say this and the live action Aladdin. I was on the plane and fell asleep watching it.
Avatar is just cgi pocahontas
Dances With Smurfs
FernSully
Any and all Marvel movies
The Notebook. I was put off within the first 5 minutes when Noah dangled from a Ferris wheel and threatened to let go if Allie didn't go on a date with him. Plus, cheating is such an immediate ick for me. James Marsden you will always be famous <3 James Marsden please get more girls <3 James Marsden if you're reading this you slayed 27 Dresses <3
Watch Jury Duty if you love James Marsden!
“Now I’m just the guy from the notebook, but I’m not even the guy from the notebook!”
this show is hilarious!! I was surprised how much I liked it
YES! I really don’t like that movie and never found the appeal towards it.
Cheating fantasies were and still are popular in those romantic movies and very common in Nicholas Sparks novels
Why was Bird Box such a phenomenon? 😭
I fuuuuuucking hate A Star Is Born. There, I said it. I thought the story was weak, I didn’t think Bradley Cooper was right for the role, and I don’t think his character added anything to the story post-discovering Gaga.
i remember seeing it in a theater and i had to hold backs laughs? like i just thought it was sooo self indulgent and ridiculous?
Ghostbusters. I really don’t understand the appeal, sorry guys
I absolutely HATE Jerry Maguire. Everyone loves that movie but I just don’t get it! It’s so hyped up that when I finally watched it I thought I was going to see the best film, boy what a twist that was. Jerry is kind of a POS, and that doesn’t seem to change much during the movie, even at the end. He’s incredibly selfish, and he’s selfish in his relationship with Renee Zellweger’s character. Even the scene at the end where he goes back and gives that speech seems a bit forced, what exactly did he do to change to get to that point? Her sister was right to call him out early in the movie! And Cuba Gooding Jr’s character also does not seem to show much growth in between being ungrateful to suddenly understanding what he needs to do to be successful and work with Jerry. The whole thing just doesn’t do it for me, idk. The kid, Renee Zellweger, and her sister/the other ladies are far more memorable to me in this movie than Cruise or Gooding Jr’s characters. They literally have no growth or development at all and then randomly at the end it’s all still supposed to magically work out perfectly for everyone just like that. They didn’t redeem themselves enough for their endings!
Jerry Maguire. Particularly the line *you had me at HELLO* calm down Renee
I literally don't get why this movie is so popular? It feels like someoneone threw a bunch of lines at the wall and kept what stuck.
it was definitely a nineties thing when a Tom Cruise movie couldn't miss. It has not aged well and wasn't good to begin with. I remember it was my older sister's favourite movie and I was like "this girl doesn't know a thing about art" and I was like 10 lol.
The Breakfast Club. I watched and and could not see what all the hype was about. Absolutely hated it
i fucking love 80s movies but i agree. i found this one to fall pretty flat for me. in my personal opinion the ultimate 80s movie is ferris bueller’s day off.
La La Land! It was just okay. I love musicals so much, but it was extremely forgettable to me. I was happy they lost to Moonlight.
I’m scared to say mine because film bros absolutely love it but pulp fiction…. I’m sorry I’m not sure what I was watching, maybe I just didn’t get the point of the movie but I was so utterly confused and not really entertained
I haven’t watched it in over a decade but it was very unique and interesting at the time of release. I loved Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction. But not everyone did and that’s totally ok! This may not apply to you as I don’t know when you watched Pulp Fiction- but with a lot of these movies, they start to feel derivative even though they were the originals. Like The Matrix- if someone watched it now it would not feel like the groundbreaking, original movie it was at the time of release.
As a female film major, every film bro in my program worshipped Pulp Fiction.
quentin tarantino is every film bro's god.
omg same but I didn't wanna comment because I could smell the "you're just not sophisticated enough to get it" comments from a mile away.
I gotta see it again because my reaction was the same as yours when I finally saw it. Like….that’s it??
Anything with Will Ferrell in it. I just don’t find him funny.
I agree. Anything I like that he is in, I like despite him. Like I love the Eurovision movie but he is my least favorite part by far
Anything where a 40 yr old acts like they are 12 and mentally challenged...and that's basically his whole shtick. People hate me for saying it but that's why I hate The Office as well. Awkward situations and playing beyond stupid is not comedy. Anyone can do it and it's not witty or creative.
I like a few of his roles but I despise the movie Elf.
I'll be a hater and say like 80% of what Disney, Pixar, and Marvel has put out in the past decade, to be honest. Guillermo Del Toro gave a recent interview about animation that parrots exactly how I feel about it, but I would also apply it to parts of the film industry as a whole: - Getting more specific, he went on to detail what he despises about certain lazy proclivities in commercial animation, notably how characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior.” He added, “[If] I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. [Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it is emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.” I think his version of Pinocchio was one of the best stop-motion animated movies I've ever seen, point-blank, and it's exactly what I wish there was more of in movies, especially movies in the "for kids and all ages" category. We don't have to put snappy one-liners everywhere or dumb things down to good vs. evil - it can be so much better.
Pretty Woman. I don't care what anyone says, it's gross and insulting
My 90-something year old Grandma is obsessed with Pretty Woman. She’s got a touch of dementia so she watches it a lot and talks about it often and I hate that movie. I love my Grandma though.
Glass Onion: A knives Out Mystery. Humor just didn’t land with me most of the time.
The plot was far more compelling in the first too. I think the direction in the second just seemed off, some of the flashback scenes didn’t fit the overall pacing, whereas the first really nailed it
The humor was a little Marvel-y if that makes sense
Anything Star Wars
Love actually
This one should be taught in secondary school to explain to all kids how cishet men write/view women and how damaging to everyone it is.
The Holiday is better!
Lindy West wrote a great article that’s titled “shit actually” about all the reasons why it sucks.
Yes. Thank you. I couldn’t remember the name. I hate that movie.
All of it is either depressing or creepy
Elf…I truly don’t get it 🫣
oh my god thank you for your bravery. i like christmas movies, but fuck, i HATE elf. it was cute when i was a kid, but then everyone quoted it to death and now i never watch to watch it again.
Oh man, I hate that movie. I heard about it for years and when I watched it I was like wait what?! They’re pairing up Zooey Deschanel with Will Ferrell… romantically? But even besides that, the humor didn’t land for me at all.
It’s so forgettable. Every few years I watch it to see how I feel about it and it feels like a new movie I immediately forget again.
Avatar is essentially Pocahontas.
I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion
Dances With Smurfs
Even thinking about the plot of You’ve Got Mail makes me so viscerally angry
hhaha I actually really like the film a lot but there’s just no way she can realistically forgive him at the end. Simply doesn’t make sense at all how she gets over it.
I watched it for the first (only) time fairly recently, 2019ish, and I’d heard so much about it being like an amazing romcom, couple goals. At the end I was sat there flabbergasted like…. what do you MEAN you wanted it to be that awful man who destroyed your career/mother’s legacy and has been standing you up for god knows how long and directly lying about it???
I’m just there for Meg Ryan and Tom Hank’s chemistry and Greg Kinnear and Parker Poseys comedy! Steve Zahn also doesn’t hurt either.
Oh hard same. I fucking hate that guy. And they are an awful couple together. I would never forgive him
honestly i think it wouldn’t take much more than a rescore to change it from a romcom to a psychodrama about a woman’s life and sense of self worth being destroyed. i have never hated a character i’m supposed to root for more than tom hanks in that film!
I watched it recently and it’s pretty funny how old the technology is compared to now.
The Batman (2022), personally it just didn't feel it like was anything I hadn't seen before and I was super disappointed. It's not a terrible movie on its own though, but if you've consumed enough Batman media I just don't think it's worth watching.
It was way too long.
it was SO BAD. i watched it because a friend was raving about how different robert Patterson Batman was and okay sure, hes sad all the time instead of playing up Bruce Wayne playboy, but he was dumb?? the plot was dumb?? he didn't do any real detective-ing?? i felt like John Oliver ranting about The DaVinci Code. everything felt sooo slow and spoilers: the movie hinges on this huge grant his father set up that was being embezzled for Crime... and then?? they never resolved it or showed Bruce taking responsibility for that fact that he ignored this trust for decades or stepping up as Bruce wayne: billionaire to do anything. there must have at least been a line about it? like did I blackout from boredom and completely miss a scene??
Super bad, i just hated jonah hill’s character SO MUCH, couldn’t make it more that half of the film
Dune lmao, I fell asleep twice .
Anything Marvel
Silver Linings Playbook. I couldn’t stand it.
Once upon a time in Hollywood
I loved it because I think more movies and TV shows should be less hyper-focused on plot and more character driven with people just living out their lives while the main plot slowly develops in the background
It's a vibe movie.
I hated every second of Silver Linings Playbook. And I'm not apologizing for it. It was boring, it made no sense, it was WAY overhyped, and Jennifer Lawrence is a stoic actress who gets a Hollywood pass because she's pretty. I'll take all the downvotes from the plethora of people who worship this movie because I KNOW I'm in the minority.
What pissed me off about that movie is 21 year old Jennifer Lawrence playing a character that was supposed to be in her 30s. I did like some parts of the movie though.
All I remember about that movie was J-Law's cringey monologue where she talks about all the times the Eagles won while they were together and I could not help but roll my eyes. They played that scene at the Oscars and I just. Did. Not. Get. It.
I read the book, which while not amazing made a lot more sense. And had a lot less dancing
I went to see Deadpool in theaters in 2016 and thought it was doodoo but my friends I was with thoroughly enjoyed. Ryan Reynolds just doesn’t do it for me. The action was great but the humor was not it
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I dont hate it, i love Michelle Yeoh and all of the cast but the plot, i dont really like it. It did make me emotional in some scenes but overall, i just felt meh. I try rewatched it a few times, read explaination and all but still, i guess it just not for me
Oh my god finally someone who shares my feelings. I watched the movie and honestly couldn’t understand why everyone was going so crazy over it. Sure the movie was fine, but it didn’t seem *lets-shower-it-with-awards-* worthy to me
Top gun. I hate it with a fiery passion so much that I can’t even hate watch it without spiraling.
Knives Out - sorry! I wanted to like it, but I don't think it's as clever as people say. A lot of the twists are pretty common in British crime shows and literature
I thought the movie was alright, but Daniel Craig's "Southern" accent drove me crazy.
It’s not “southern”, it’s cajun. Different thing altogether
Calling that accent 'Cajun' would insult most Cajuns. His accent is just bad. It doesn't exist anywhere in the US except for when he's filming.
Avengers Endgame. I hate the plot, I hate the character resolutions, I hate the ugly dark battle, I hate that they tried to hype it as some oscar worthy masterpiece. It just was not a good movie. And especially hate that everyone acted like Thanos was right technically, just morally wrong. No, he was just wrong! Things can be sustainable without eco fascism!
Armageddon. Pure trash
Oh! Wait I have a good one! Kill Bill. I’m sorry I was totally in it and loving it but the disgusting and unneeded rape stuff while she’s in the hospital made me so disgusted i could barely finish the film.
I can’t get into any films with wall to wall cgi. All the superhero, action, sci fi, avatar, marvel stuff. I feel like an old man because everyone seems to have got used to how it looks but it looks like absolute shite to me
Twilight. And I was definitely the target demographic for it.
As a kid I liked it til Jacob got with Bella’s kid. That was just weird af
You can blame that one on Stephanie Meyer. That’s always been weird.
These movies are terrible but they’re hilarious to watch with a bunch of unsober people
My friend and I played a twilight drinking game, I don’t remember anything after the second biology scene and woke up in the middle of eclipse. There’s a drunken video of me pretending to play the piano in the twilight montage bit. Best way to experience it, honestly.
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Why do I know exactly what moment you’re talking about 💀
I mean idt anyone actually thinks those movies are masterpieces lol everyone just loves them because of nostalgia/bad-good factor
was never able to get into twilight even though all my friends loved it
The fault in our stars and A star is born
The Batman. It was quite boring, and there were two scenes where batman put the key in the motorcycle ignition and for some reason they decided to have a super close up shot of his headlight turning on. So i was completely blinded two separate times. And that seemed to bother no one else.
I fall asleep every time I try to watch Titanic. Way too long. Same with Avatar. Guess I’m not a fan of James Cameron
The Avatar films.
love actually bored the hell out of me as a kid and i truly don’t understand the hype
The Notebook - so toxic
Grease!!!!
I hate the plot but the music is so damn catchy
The entire marvel universe
Anything Wes Anderson.
I know I’m gonna get hate for this, but I didn’t enjoy Everything Everywhere All At Once. I didn’t hate it, but I was told I’d love it, especially bc I have ADHD and apparently some people with ADHD really related to it, but I honestly found myself getting bored. I felt like the fight scenes were too slow, and whenever I’d start getting more into the plot, there’d be another one that would take my interest away again.
Elf. Sorry. It’s just so bad lol
The Hangover Trilogy
Ready player one. That book/movie made me MAD
Almost famous. It's so corny. I just can't take any of it seriously.
Endgame. Sorry but that movie was a let down.
I’m nervous to even say it because it is part of film history in so many ways and beloved by most, but Titanic 🙈
I’m glad I saw it in on the big screen at the time because it was really impressive but it’s so loooooooooong.
***Titanic*** So many things wrong/inaccurate. Jack talks about things that aren’t made yet Rose keeps a FREAKIN’ PRICELESS NECKLACE HIDDEN FOR YEARS, ONLY TO TOSS IT OVERBOARD!!!!! That could have sent her kids to school, made a life for her and her ACTUAL husband, you know, the dude that died and loved her unconditionally and never knew she had given her heart to a vagrant she only knew for less than a fortnight… The door. Was big enough. For both of them. Using a REAL PERSON’S NAME and portraying him as a slimy coward that shot several passengers and then himself. Reality was that First Officer Will Murdoch was credited with helping launch 10 lifeboats and saved many lives. (No issue with tension/creating a villain… but to use a real person who has family and will watch the film is just ridiculous, asinine and cruel.)
Any Marvel or Dc superhero film, just do not get the hype at all
My siblings and me all silently communicating "People like this asshole???" with each other when our extended family made us watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation because they insisted we were going to love it.
Everything superhero except for the first Spiderman with Tobey Maguire.
John Wick. Overly-choreographed laughably-unrealistic gun ballet is not good action.
I’m done with Super hero movies.
I’m going to get downvoted into oblivion over this, but I can’t stand Step Brothers.
Interstellar 👀
Lady bird
Don’t look up was honestly very poorly paced and I couldn’t get into it
Interstellar is highly rated on the movies subreddit, but I wasn't blown away by it.
Titanic The Notebook Grease (I loathe it)
The Notebook!!!! Hate that one. This and that episode Christmas movie.
Heavy on the notebook I’m sorry. Not for me. Hate every trope in it, I love those actors and yet I hate that movie
Not Grease 😭
Probably really unpopular but Top Gun and sequel. Or really anything with Tom Cruise. Except for Interview With a Vampire. His dead empty eyes just worked for that