For me, it's Scott Pilgrim
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Yeah never got that one sure there are funny things in it like people dropping video game coins when they get defeated, but Scott is a bit of an asshole and the girl he fights for is an insufferable entitled bitch. There is no believable reason why the exes would want to fight him either.
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Young Frankenstein. I'm a fan of Gene Wilder and a huge fan of Mel Brooks, but somehow the comedy in that particular movie had me going "hmm, yes, I can see how people would find that funny" rather than actually laughing.
Finished severance s02 this weekend. Very disappointing ending to me (that I will not spoil), even though it seems like it's all anyone could talk about a couple months back.
Maybe it's because I just played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and we were spoiled with incredible writing that does foreshadowing excellently with deep and nuanced themes, but while Severance's execution is great in the details the overarching plot left me severely disappointed. As if they got great directors, actors, set designers, dialogue, but just wrote the s01e01 hook and then kind of just made up the plot as an afterthought. Keeping up mystery for its own sake because once the curtain is pulled back, we realize the stage pieces are not that impressive.
It's still good TV but it ain't that deep and IDK why everybody's raving on about it. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Never liked Star Wars. The original trilogy. I watched it and nothing no sense of adventure no tension just blah. The new ones are worse, watched all of those too but they fail even harder for what feels like the same reasons. To be clear I fucking love Sci-Fi books/movies/tv shows doesn't matter. Some of the starwars books are ok like anything with Kerra Holt in it
First off, Star Wars isn't scifi. It's a space western/opera. Its the same story told a thousand times before but in a different setting. It doesnt offer any philosophical quanderies or insights that actual sci fi does .
It has always been about being a great cinematic achievement for it's time. Theaters have great sound systems because of Star Wars. If you werent of the age to experience it at a time when the biggest movies were 'Kramer vs Kramer' and 'Harry And Tonto', it really isnt very good.
It's totally okay to not like it. I was a HUGE fan when it came out but I understand that it doesnt keep up with the cinema tech that it inspired.
My wife and friends think I'm a Star Wars nerd and keep giving me gifts and swag. I have never liked any of it past the original trilogy and I outgrew that a long, long time ago. In fact, all the other trilogies just downright pissed me off for how awful they were...just horrible dialogue, acting and storytelling.
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When you find mediocrity unacceptable, popular shit doesn't usually suit your palate. This isn't a bug, it's a feature.
I am Legend.
I think the alternative ending (that follows the book) makes it a much better film.
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I absolutely hated both Dune Movies... Such a boring and in my opinion incoherent mess. My jaw dropped when i found out it was So universally highly rated. It still makes me angry when i think about it.
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I'm like this with a shitton of movies because I just find drama boring and most of the big, popular films are dramas.
I like stupid action movies (Commando, Last Action Hero, Predator, etc), stupid comedies (Adam Sandler's old shit, Grandma's Boy, Dude Where's My Car, etc), and sci-fi. Sci-fi is also very much like drama, but at least it has lasers.
Whiplash
I gave the exact same movie elsewhere in this thread. You're not alone
I DONT GET IT. It really feels like it celebrates abuse.
Full warning, I like that movie.
I don't think it celebrates abuse so much as it does point to the nature of abuse and self abuse between artists and their art, both from those that hold the keys to the kingdom of your success and from within as you bend yourself to meet those needs entirely of your own free choosing and obsession.
The protagonist gets everything going for him. His family does love him, but can't connect with his musical obsession even though they're proud of him. He meets a girl he really likes, wants to get serious about, but to do that would mean to choose between her and his obsession. J. K. Simmons character has churned out success by holding himself, and by extension his band, to an extreme standard that requires that obsession to keep up with. He sees the potential in the protagonist, pushes him to reach those heights but also demands in very plain language that he be subservient to the craft. And every time the movie makes it clear that the protagonist is given a choice between regular, healthy life and the rigors imposed by his dedication, he chooses art every time.
The reason I don't think it celebrates abuse is because he isn't 'winning' at the end of the story. He's doggedly pursuing his dream and giving his all to the band, the music. He's sweating profusely, his relationship with his parents is estranged, the girl of his dreams left him, and he's just told his idol of an instructor that he'll cue the instructor in and with that he gives in and gives the ultimate solo. It cost him everything, but it did pay into incredible music and the culmination of his efforts. Give it your all and you can have what you sought but if you give it your all and you'll have nothing left.
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Thor Ragnarok for me. I don't think there's something wrong with me for not liking it though. I have the objectively correct opinion about that movie and everyone who disagrees is wrong.
I mean... It's not high art, it's just effective at being stupid and fun. It's not really trying to be traditionally "good" and I think that's why people liked it.
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Everyone around me said i should watch Napoleon Dynamite because it was sooooo funny. It was just an autistic kid doing and saying cringey things.
I also hate Donnie darko, Requiem for a dream, 90 % of David Lynch (especially Mulholland drive), citizen Kain, etc. Too many to mention.
Citizen Kane is so celebrated because of how revolutionary it was and how much it influenced pretty much every movie made after, with then-novel techniques in things like cinematography and non linear story telling. Just tons of stuff that had never been done before. Of course if you compare it to later films it won't be all that remarkable. Everything it did first is now everywhere and we kinda take it for granted.
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Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.
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Anything by the Coen brothers. Especially the Big Lebowski. I just don’t get it. But I’m probably not the target audience, either…
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