I find it helps to avoid the hype trains surrounding new media releases, as well as anything after the teaser trailer.
Getting one’s expectations up usually results in the said media failing to live up.
Best to go in blind and make your own mind up afterwards!
When you find mediocrity unacceptable, popular shit doesn’t usually suit your palate. This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
for me it’s more anger, like “why the fuck did i even waste my time on this and what’s wrong with all these people”
i wish breaking bad was a movie because at least the only time I wasted would’ve been around 2 hours. bring your fucking downvotes i don’t care if you don’t mind pointless plot points that keep going nowhere, and repeatedly underlined things are either dropped unceremoniously, or meet very unsatisfying and unbelievable ends. breaking bad was badly written and entirely carried by its phenomenal actors.
I want to down vote you but everytime I think I want to rewatch breaking bad I just…don’t. And I rewatch other stuff all the time. I do love the cinematography though.
The Godfather. Despite several attempts I’ve never made it through, it just can’t hold my attention.
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.
I get that. But as innovative as it was, it is severely dated in pretty much all ways now. I went to a pretty pretentious university and was surrounded by people who glossed over the fact that all of the things you’ve mentioned have been used more efficiently since then and would try to force their friends to watch it with them multiple times.
Yeah, I’ve also encountered some weird snobs who said they loved it, almost certainly because they thought they were supposed to. You probably understand better what’s special about it than those who pretend to just find it enjoyable from a modern point of view. To summarize what I think: it’s a stellar, incredible picture, it’s just not all that entertaining because its inventions have since been further developed and we have more enjoyable stuff now.
I really enjoy citizen Kane for the same reason I really enjoy reading classic literature or seeing old art. It sparks joy to see art and try to imagine the environment it was produced. Noone reads War of the Worlds, The Time Machine or anything by Jules Verne or Asimov and expects a The Expanse or similar modern scifi
I like Napoleon dynamite, but i don’t think i’ll ever rewatch it. I watched it a couple of times when it came out with friends. And it’s almost more the experience than the movie. When i watched it the first time i thought there is some massive plot twist, like some of these people are aliens or something. Then the movie was over, and nothing really happened. I don’t think any of us really liked the movie, but then we just randomly quoted some lines and we re watched it, and we just always had a great time.
I saw it in theaters and thought it was pretty goddamned stupid. Then, for various reasons, I ended up watching it multiple times with friends and somehow it just kept getting funnier.
Great movie? I don’t think so. But it’s definitely something of a cultural touchstone for me.
I waited years before I watched it, long after the hype had died down. I went in with no expectations and I quite enjoyed it.
It’s just a day-in-the-life film where nothing really happens and there’s no big revelation or pay-off at the end, but the journey had some memorable moments and was fun nonetheless.
I think its got some great scenes in it. Not really put together as whole movie though. Like a fever dream.
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.
Jim Harry’s best role was the mask. Because his normal stupid Jim carry shit fits well with the character. Other than that he annoys the shit out of me.
Jim Larry’s best role was the Truman Show, I think. One of my favorites.
My highschool English teacher agreed with you. We spent half the semester watching and rewatching it and analysing the religious symbolism and discussing the films commentary on celebrity culture and fanaticism. I’m forever scarred by the experience.
Plenty to digest with the movie, especially given when it came out. Survivor was just getting big in the States, things like Road Rules had been on for a bit. Voyeur TV was big.
Feels like great fodder for long form YouTube essays, but I’m not so sure about high schoolers studying it, lol
I like Jim Barry but I can see why if you don’t click then his antics would get annoying very quickly.
Jim Parry as Eggman is great though
Saving Private Ryan for me. And I fucking love the genre and the actors.
Genuinely surprising. I know not every movie is loved by everyone, but I thought Saving Private Ryan was generally regarded as one of the better efforts. What other movies do you enjoy from the genre?
So my favorite mini series of all time is Band of Brothers, I watch it yearly. I’ve tried several times to make sense of why I don’t like saving private Ryan, and The closest I’ve ever come is some of the casting decisions I just felt were a little bit off, the performances a bit stilted.
Again, not shitting on the movie just trying to explain why it never did it for me.
Oppenheimer Barbie Place Beyond the Pines
Didn’t get the hype for any of them at all. Oppenheimer was just fucking stupid and entirely too long for no reason, plus the Florence pugh scene where shes just sitting with her tits out for no reason was just wildly out of place
Barbie was just generic trash, and everyone knew or should have known it was a money grab. I dont think it was feminist at all, it was basically Marvel but for girls, and I generally think most marvel movies are bad
Place beyond the pines was just boring. And the plot was horrid.
Im a 40yo man and the Barbie movie didnt seem like a cash grab to me purely because Barbie has been a commercial property its entire life. There was a germ of love and creativity at its inception but its been decades of it being sold that the movie, if anything felt overdue.
It was Marvel for women, it was a big budget flashy stupid movie (marvel) for women. It was definitely a good moment for feminists because they put big cash behind a movie that was almost repellent to men. They had to finance a movie based on the assumption that 50% of people would object to seeing it strongly.
As a guy I like to say “It was great for a movie that I didnt like.” It was well executed, fun, set design, practical effects and all were fantastic. But absolutely not meant for me and thats ok.
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’ll always like pulp fiction, because back then it kind of redefined for me what a movie is. And i was then excited to watch more of his stuff and it just seemed to get worse and worse. I was shocked when i watched death proof, because it was just garbage.
Quentin Tarantino is just a teenage edgelord with a foot fetish.
No mention of his foot fetish?
Dude, I don’t want to downvote an opinion, but this one is fucking hard.
I apologize for nothing.
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.
I liked the visuals / cinematography of the 2021 version, but I haven’t gotten around to watching part 2 because I’m not really invested in the story.
It felt like a lore dump that didn’t really build much connection to the characters, followed by a bit of action and some heavy sequel-baiting.
Parasite for me… I know I’m wrong but I don’t know why.
Same. I mean, it wasn’t a bad movie, but I didn’t walk out of the movie theater and think about it a lot after, either. Even though it’s supposed to be a movie you think about. I like all sorts of foreign films, so it’s not that.
Inception
This and The Joker are the two movies that come to mind when this type of question comes up. Inception is not particularly bad, just so… correct. I was expecting something really mindbinding, that would make me rethink about it long after the movie was over. It was just a pretty scenery with mid acting. No amount of practical effect can carry a movie on his own. The Joker on the other hand was just a waste of my time and left me infuriated.
This one for me too. I watched after hearing all the hype, and I just thought it was subpar at best and actively bad at worst.
I figured it was because those who hyped it had never been exposed to the ideas in the movie and thought it was special. While my old ass had seen these ideas hashed and rehashed a dozen times over the years.
It felt like a new Brat Pack phoning in a pay check.
It was the whole time in dreams goes by exactly 10 times faster than reality that lost me on that one.
This is why I consume zero hype for any movie. Ive ruined so many movies by having a set of expectations going in.
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.
Personally i find star wars to be fine but not great. It has interesting lore and whatnot but on the whole it mostly just feels ok. The exception (to me) is the mandalorian. Where the main star wars films are (sort of) a soap opera in space (space opera), the mandalorian is a space western, and a pretty well done one. It takes 2 episodes or so to pick up the pace, but i found it to be really enjoyable.
Andor/Rogue One are very, very good. All else is cold day old dogshit unless you grew up with it and have nostalgia.
I fell asleep during:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2
- Dune
- Dune 2
Though for Dune I was already of the opinion that the book was a dogshit plot set in an interesting universe, so I was already biased.
Am I doing this for Big Mouth or is it really that awful? Seems like the only humour is shock stuff but the shock has long worn off. I can’t even tell who it’s meant for, kids who ignore the rating that might still learn something from it?
Yeah I liked it at first and then it turned into just trying to one-up themselves on grossness
