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This is me but with Shawshank Redemption. I get what it was trying to go for but I just didn't vibe with it. I can appreciate the fact that so many people saw something in it that I didn't. To me it was decent but by no means one of the best films ever
I reckon I could think of something worse.
if i lived life thinking there was something wrong with me just because i don't like something it seems like everyone else likes, then that would be one miserable existence--no thanks. anyway, for me it was the big lebowski--probably the most boring pointless movie i ever sat through
Well that just like, your opinion man..
Shut the fuck up Donny
The one saving grace of lebowski is that when you bring up not liking it the people who do like it are too busy quoting it to argue with you.
Agreed on both philosophical ground and impression of Lebowski!
Any of those boring-ass superhero movies. What is so appealing about hour-long GCI fight scenes and no plot?
I think they just forgot the lessons from the earlier movies. They had action but there was a lot of build up so it meant something.
Now you're just straight into a boring fight scene with no stakes. And somehow the bigger the stakes the less there are because you know they can't fail.
And now even the rare consequences can be undone through time travel and multiverse bullshit.
Avatar. Technically the 3D was fun, but I can't understand any of the rabid fandom.
i don't think I've ever seen a rabbid Fandom around it.
it was just an easy approachable pretty movie for the masses. with a massive budget and a very well known director it brought people in to see the best visuals hollywood sfx had at the time. that's basically how it was marketed, as a tech demo.
I've never once seen anyone fanboy about it. it sold well, but didn't excite many.
on three other hand, avatar the last air bender has a massive and rabid fandom.
It's very true that "it was just Dances With Wolves in space," but Dances With Wolves is a good story. A good story + decent directing + pretty visuals = a movie that's at least decent, if not mind-blowing or whatever.
Avatar 2, on the other hand, definitely suffered story-wise.
What movie is it for you? For me, The Princess Bride.
inconceivable!!!\
I can see not liking that movie. It's very specific. Endearing for a shitload of people, myself included, but it's a very particular brand of comedy.
Movie? Oh god there are so fucking many. One that comes to mind at the moment is Whiplash. Ive seen it 3 times because a dude I cared about deeply loved it. Everytime I saw it I got it less and less. I don't see why people like it at all.
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I had heard about Gone with The Wind all my life and I knew it was incredibly racist. It finally came on basic cable and I decided to see what all the fuss was about.
I found myself watching and liking a movie I knew was complete and utter bullshit.
Well, as a movie, it's a good movie. Great directing, incredible acting (for the era), with a dynamic and well paced story. It holds up in technical terms despite the shifts in style and performance that have happened over the years.
If you hum really hard during the racist parts, you could still call it one of the greats. And it isn't like it's "birth of a nation" bad in that regard. There's way worse movies out there from the era, and the era before that was horrible on average.
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Watch an Peter O'Toole movie, 'The Stunt Man.' Great movie; funny, scary, exciting, romantic, plus a bunch of great plot twists.
There's a scene where a kinda schubby screen writer talks about how he paid $1,000.00 to fly to Guatemala to have sex with a 14 year old virgin.
That line was considered only mildly off-color when the movie came out.
I thought Black Panther was mid at best but it made me sound like a racist whenever I mentioned that.
Ironically, this movie is pretty racist. The opening scene is a cliche basketball scene, and Wakanda, despite being a futuristic society, still uses tribal law and decides its leaders by fighting half naked to the death.
It insists upon itself.
Any of the mission impossible/fast and furious films. That shit is boring.
It really depends on the movie, but I think most movies that people see as "universally loved" are children's movies, and the people who love them the most are those who watched them when they were kids. Sometimes, they're not very good if you see them outside of their intended demographic.
On top of that, everybody has their own tastes. I know a person who doesn't like Shawshank Redemption because she feels uncomfortable with enclosed spaces. And I'm personally not fond of movies with people who act like gangsters, so I've never felt particularly affectionate towards Godfather movies.
Top Gun 2 sucked ass.
To be honest, so did Top Gun 1...
It was just high budget military propaganda.
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Oppenheimer
And even to an extent interstellar
I just find recent Nolan massively overrated
Which is ironic because The Prestige, Memento and even Dunkirk are great
It’s Top Gun for me. It’s just Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise in a flight jacket.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I found it utterly boring, yet everyone seemd to love it, especially my fellow ADHD crowd. I never even bothered finishing the film which is bloody rare for me.
Yet I like mind-bending films like Primer, and chaotic films like Crank, and heck, I even like Battleship as a guilty pleasure that I can turn my brain off to... But this film? Bleh.
I was a huge Star Wars fan before Disney took over, and haven't liked anything they've done with it. Most people agree, with 2 exceptions: Andor, which I admittedly haven't watched yet, and...Rogue One
I don't think Rogue One is much better than the other Disney Star Wars drivel, but I'm apparently the only person in the universe who thinks that. I've watched it three times and just don't get why people think it's good.
This is me with any movie starring Will Farrell, but especially Talladega Nights. He can be good in supporting roles (Zoolander springs to mind), but all the movies he leads just don't land with me.
Out of all the Will Farrell movies you could have picked you went and used the best one as your example?
For me, Star Wars and Lord of the Ring (the books, as well.)
The best part? I publish SF and fantasy for a living.
counterpoint colon there are worse things than this
The Deadpool Movies, just don't get them for some reason.
Feel like there's no real plot, nothing really matters, the humor is family guy level cameos and 4th wall breaks that are only funny when used sparingly.
It's like eating an Oreo but we took out the cookie so now you're just OD'ing on stuffing and not in a good way.
The "humor" is just Ryan being Ryan. He is a mean guy. It's funny on screen but IRL he is just that rude and gross to everyone without discrimination. I had to work with him twice and I dislike him. His wife is the same way. They are just objectively cruel for no reason. Which is funny when you're acting on screen only.
Anything from Quentin Tarantino, his writing style just bugs the fuck out of me, he is so far up his own ass and it shows with every stupid pretentious monologue.
So much sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I just can't get into The Big Lebowski. I've tried several times and can never seem to finish it.
For TV, it's Seinfeld. I don't find it funny at all.
The Big Lebowski has a very specific style of humor and if you don't appreciate it for that, then there's not really anything left lol. The plot meanders around aimlessly as a joke and then the film just ends abruptly with almost no real satisfying resolution.
Don't look up was that movie for me. Almost everyone praised it to high heavens, with me smirking at maybe 2 lines / scenes throughout that entire slog.
Each to his own, I guess...
Breakfast Club
multiple hours of horrible teenagers and some horrible adults learning no valuable lessons and their actions being glorified
also the two love interest characters fall for each other despite having zero chemistry, cuz fuck you can't have a teen movie without a romance i guess