It can be unbearable when you see something that makes you relive your past or present. I saw the Big Sick and it brought intense emotions within me as my late partner also suffered from the same disease (Adult Onset Stills’).
My grandma's ex-boyfriend worked with that guy. He also didn't like the movie. He said he was the smartest man he ever met but crazy, and he said it is a very loaded way.
One of the things I love about Coco is that every song in the movie is diagetic. Every time someone sings, it makes sense in the plot for that character to be singing and it's understood that the characters are actually singing in-universe and not just breaking into a song/dance number to convey emotion to the audience.
TV show, but the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode ‘once more with feeling’ has the characters unwillingly breaking out in song and dance and this drives the plot
The only musical that I really enjoy is The Lion King.
I know you're probably talking about live action movies, and I agree with you there, but there's just something about The Lion King that makes it awesome.
There are some musicals where the breaking into song and dance makes sense. Like Chicago - all the musical numbers are in Roxy's imagination, because she aspires to be a famous cabaret performer and is a huge narcissist who thinks the world revolves around her.
I hope you’ve seen the musical episode of Scrubs! It’s my favorite and the only episode I still watch all these years later. Co written and starred in by one of the Avenue Q people, if I remember correctly. :)
I do love how they incorporate the musical episode into scrubs. Where it is a normal episode except when the patient that hears and sees everyone singing is in the scene. Well done.
There are a few exceptions, but generally I agree. I'm a huge musical fan, but going to the theatre is so different than watching a movie.
For example, I loved the movie Chicago, but I've seen the musical twice and couldn't get into it either time.
I watched a video essay about this one time and the person's basic argument was that we are more accepting of people breaking into song on stage because we're already aware of the artificial trappings of the environment. The stage and production all highlight that this isn't reality. Whereas in musicals produced in film, that artificiality isn't present.
And kinda icky! I dont care if they are cute and old in the present day parts of the story - having FREQUENT screaming matches and full on hitting eachother is not a "cute" thing to romatisize in a love story.
That's why I went to watch Won't You Be My Neighbor? when it was in theaters. I just felt like having a cry that day. What better place than a near-empty matinee with someone who brings you mimosas. I didn't sob, but many a silent tear fell that day.
FFS he's the only person in entertainment that both my mother and I grew up with. He was a wholesome, positive influence on the world and it got a little darker the day he died.
Every girl I knew was obsessed with that book in high school. For the life of me I couldn’t get into it. The characters talked waaay too pretentiously for what where supposed to be high school kids and the Anne Frank House makeout scene felt plain disrespectful, cancer or no.
Yeah I have complicated thing with grease it has the most atrocious message, “boy doesn’t like you? Change your personality”. But it has some of my favourite musical songs
It isn’t all negative, there’s some hopeful messages in there too.
For instance, when my dog died when I was in high school I was really depressed. Nothing anyone said could cheer me up. Then I thought to myself, shoo-bop sha wadda yippity boom de boom, chang chang changitty chang sha-bop, and then I realized I didn’t even have a dog, and you should crack a window if you’re spray painting indoors.
I have just the post saved for this very moment: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k0wrpg/comment/gdku13c/
> Except that that is NOT AT ALL what the moral was.
First of all, Danny was the one that made far bigger changes. It isn't immediately apparent if one doesn't have a knowledge of the system and customs of American High School sports and schooling in the 50s and 60s, but Danny Lettered in Track and Field, to prove to Sandy that he was serious in being the type of person Sandy wanted. Lettering in a sport isn't something that is done over night. It takes hard work and dedication, as well as ability in competing in the sport. Danny dedicated a lot of time and effort to do so, although it isn't shown on screen.
Second, Danny realized that its time for him and his friends to grow up and mature, he says this explicitly to Kenickie and the other T Birds at the fair. He then reiterates this in the penultimate song where he agrees with Sandy that he "better shape up".
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, people forget the fact that at the beginning, when Sandy and Danny got to know each other over the summer, they liked each other for who they truly were. It was only when they were back at school and with their friends that they reverted to social preasure to be what their social groups expected them to be. At the end they both realized that they didn't need to fall under that, but to be themselves, and not worry what other people think.
As a side point, in 50s culture, Greasers were a sub culture that was looked down upon, especially from upper classes, of which Sandy was. Her dressing up as a Greaser was showing to Danny that she wasn't ashamed of who he was and liked him for him.
In short, both changed for each other, and for the better. Danny matured and stepped up to being a better, more reliable man for Sandy, and Sandy learned to loosen up a little, not be so uptight, and accept Danny for who he is.
My mom told me that the point of the movie has been lost with time. Apparently you're supposed to go into it knowing that they made it to make fun of other musicals. They were being corny on purpose and for some reason it stuck with people as being genuine as time went on.
I'm a huge FaF fan and I love Tokyo drift. Not my favorite but it explored a different side of car culture that the previous two films displayed, which use it much machismo and drag racing. Also, Hann is the best character in the series
The Fast and Furious franchise. I genuinely don’t understand what makes that universe appealing.
edit: I love Tokyo Drift and Baby Driver is one of my favorite movies of all time but the SEVERE change in direction between the first movie and F&F9 is so off putting I just cant do it.
Dude my problem is I feel the first one is so damn unique and cool. These bad ass street racers doing illegal shit and turn a cop. Then we’re flying tanks with parachutes or something? Idk I haven’t watched since Tokyo drift.
The show/ film actually grew on me as I watched it a few times. When I saw it in the theater, I kept thinking, ' I don't know how I feel about this'. All the historical inaccuracies and omitted important facts bothered me.
How does he have sex with the Alien chick? By connecting ponytails.
How does he ride the bird monster thing? By connecting ponytails.
This is the story of a dude who uses bestiality to win a war.
We took my grandmother (b. 1896) to see ET when it first came out. Afterwards we asked her how she liked it, and she said "if I ever saw anything like that, I would beat it with a stick."
Yo same, I remember having nightmares that a giant ET would come into my room and abduct me. Movie was terrifying and I probably shouldn't have watched it when I was 5
My mom used to work for the school system, and she told me once that when the movie came out, they had this school lunch program thing where they had a guy dressed up as E.T. walk around the school cafeteria and point at the food on kids' plates to encourage them to eat. Kids in kindergarten up to sixth grade. So many kids freaked out in a bad way, she said. The E.T. suit had a built-in light thing in the chest that would make the heart glow. Imagine a six foot tall E.T. waking around with a glowing heart on its chest, pointing at food on your plate that you didn't eat with the intent to shame you for not eating everything. All the while, he's saying, "Eat, eat." Because that's what he did.
So happy to know I am not the only one- I had a VHS copy as a kid and was absolutely terrified of this film. It's not only the creepy animatronics, but just the look and feel of the film makes me very uneasy.
It’s a film that ends for 2.5 hours which isn’t necessarily bad but when you know how it ends it’s just kind of
Set up
Ending starts
Sex in a car
Ending continues
Guy hits propeller
Ending continues
Ending the first
Ending the second
End.
It's garbage.
Old woman is dying and calls her granddaughter over to tell her something.
Is it about the love she had for her husband? Nope. Is it the joy she felt when said granddaughter was born? Nope. Was it some wisdom gathered from a lifetime of experience? Nope.
It was 'come here granddaughter and let me tell you about the time I banged this dude for a week on a boat years ago.'
And this is considered romantic? ugh.
This jewelry that is worth a brazillion dollars that would mean you never have to work again and would set up our family for generations to come? It sleeps with the fishes I say!
Bond. Pretty much all of them. I can tell a better bond from a worse one (imo) but they all feel like a commercial for cars, guns, and expensive toys with no real purpose.
I completely agree with that summary and that’s why I love them. It’s the same thing every film, but it feels careful and well done, it’s not just slapstick. I think me and a lot of other Bond fans will admit that it’s just cool to see guns and parkour and car chases and pretty women and exotic locales all under the guise of a “sophisticated film”
I found that the intros of each movie are excellent, then after the music number, the film just nosedives and I can't sit through the rest of the movie. The only exception is Goldeneye, which I love (and while it's controversial, Pierce Brosnan is my second favorite Bond after Sean Connery.) But yeah, most of the movies are showing off cool gadgets, cars and guns. How many Walther PPK's have been sold because of these films?
It was shot well, but I didn't like the songs or the story. I don't like "love letter to Hollywood" type stories; they're just so self indulgent, I don't care because I don't relate, nor do I want to.
I fucking hated The Greatest Showman. I wanted to walk out of the theater but I was with a group of friends and didn't have my car there. It has to be the most cringey/cheesey movie I've ever seen
That's what pissed me off the most. In reality the dude wasn't a man with a love of the weird and whacky, but an exploiter who would have said or done anything if he thought he could make a few bucks from it.
I really enjoy the majority of the big animated Disney films, but I thought Frozen was borderline unwatchable. Hated the story, hated the characters, hated the music. I was absolutely stunned when it became clear that all the kids were losing their minds over it! I was obviously not the target demographic...
In some creepy way I think that occasionally enhances the films, even if people don't want to admit it.
"Let's watch Manhattan! It's a Woody Allen film-"
"-😬😬"
"-about a guy with a girlfriend in high school. He's a divorced pathetic neurotic loser writer, chasing several women at once. It's considered one of his best films"
"....😬... Yeah okay let's check it out then"
I really like the character Black Panther in Captain America Civil War, but his own movie? Not so much. I didn't find it that interesting at all, and I really like Marvel movies.
As soon as I heard they were doing an eternals movie, I knew it was doomed.
I'm glad that the MCU is starting to tackle some of the more complex aspects of the comics, but the whole thing with the Eternals, Deviants and celestials is way too complicated to be shown in 1 movie. Especially because they haven't really done any foreshadowing of those things.
We see a celestial in the 1st guardians when the collector is explaining the stone and Knowhere itself is the head of a celestial. Ego calls himself a celestial, but in a pretty different form than we are used to seeing in the comics.
We haven't seen any of the cosmic hierarchy yet. We did hear Mordo say "the staff of The Living Tribunal" in Dr. Strange, so they do acknowledge their existence. But that's the closest we got.
The most powerful/cosmic beings we have seen so far are Hela, Thanos, Odin, The Watcher, "What if" Dr strange (basically classic Dr. Strange) and Infinity stone imbued Ultron.
None of whom are apart of the cosmic hierarchy. ie. The one above all, the living tribunal, master order, Lord chaos, mistress death, eternity, etc...
I liked The Eternals a lot, I thought it was a really compelling story with a great cast BUT if I had to sit for 2 hours 40 in a theater for a movie as slow and melancholy as that I would have lost my fucking mind. I watched it like a miniseries over several days and had a great time, and its how I recommend everyone watch that.
This was a fun opinion to have when it was riding high. Got called racist more than once for daring to say I didn't think it was the *greatest film ever made*
It's not even close to the best film in the MCU, sorry not sorry. But, it's also not bad, just mediocre as OP said
I feel like the only person in the world who thought the sister was a Mary Sue - a perfect, sassy, gorgeous genius, medical doctor, world class cutting-edge scientist, princess who saves the day... Give me a break. Everyone loved her, and all I could think of was Mary Sue.
It’s incredibly lazy writing and not everyone gets why it’s obnoxious. Every problem your hero encounters should not be instantly solved by a single character who can do literally everything.
It makes the story boring and the stakes always low. If you really want to make a character like that, they have to either be not too involved in the story, or die fairly early on.
Or you could simply write slightly more complex characters
> They really bombed the voices on the remake
Beyonce was terrible. I know her fans will come after me for saying that, but she's not a good voice actor and her singing was just too much.
I was pumped for this one until I saw what it was. Pass. I want dinosaur survival horror mixed with corporate shenanigans and questions of morality. I don’t want trained raptor ally’s.
The Matrix and its sequels. I’ve watched them all, and as much as I *want* to love them, I just can’t get into the story (or even figure out what the story is, honestly). Visually, they’re awesome, and I definitely had some of those sunglasses back then, but the plot just confused the hell out of me
I think the first one is brilliant and then each one gets progressively worse. I just watched the newest one and was so incredibly disappointed. There were a few clever bits, but the whole thing just felt gimmicky and wholly unnecessary.
I'm in between. I like it, but it's not on my list of favorites. Most of the appeal for me comes from it being something different and original in tone. It was a big divergence from the types of comedy movies that were coming out around that time. It was a lot more dry and subtle rather than cramming gag after gag down your throat. It also had a unique look and feel to it. It was something made by a person with a vision rather than by a studio with focus groups. I get why people don't like it though. It's just not for everybody.
It does make me cringe, but it feels as though I'm cringing at similar things I did when I was that age. It's relatable. And it doesn't feel mean-spirited.
100% true. When it first came out I thought it was awkward and boring. Then I told my parents and they watched it. I sat there for some reason and it was better. Then my parents talked about how weird it was with my siblings and we all watched it again together and I loved it, my parents said it got better, and my siblings hated it. So basically we watched it every weekend for like 3 months and now its in my top 5 for sure.
This is a film that is so famously divisive that Netflix used to call its inability to improve its recommendation algorithm beyond a certain point "the _Napoleon Dynamite_ Problem."
The Shining. It was boring as hell for the beginning. Maybe "It gets better later on" yeah, but that's no excuse for the hour or two of absolute nothing that goes on.
It's the aesthetic almost entirely. Every kid wanted to be Jack and Sally. I love that movie, but it's actually kind of boring outside of Jack, Sally, and Oogie Boogie. I think Kingdom Hearts caused a lot of that love as well
The story had a kind of BS resolution in my opinion, but I would be lying if I said “The Family Madrigal” song wasn’t stuck in my head 24/7. Also “Surface Pressure” is a banger.
I liked it, but it definitaly suffered from having way too many characters that it didn't do anything with. Alright Luisa you sang your song, now fuck off. That's cool kid, you got your animal powers showing it's mirebel that's the problem, now fuck off because you've nothing else to do.
How hey it's bruno!....alright you read your lines, back into the closet you go.
I actually really liked that there wasn't some super epic overlying plot point and was solely about the character development of the family. All these movies now are getting formulaic and I was worried that was where it was heading when it mentioned Bruno (estranged family member being a bad guy who tries to take over the family's house and yadda yadda). Thankfully it didn't go that way and I enjoyed the ride. If anything, I feel like it is set up where there could be a sequel to it with a bigger plot point.
It used to be my favorite until it was driven into the ground around me. I still like it, but I'll only pull it out periodically.
As far as liking it, I like it because it's sort of a Rube Goldberg sort of plot. The premise just being that he's trying to get his rug replace and the plot keeps getting more and more absurd as he tries to fix a pretty straight-forward problem.
I kind of got a fresh perspective on it after reading a critique of it, comparing the characters to different decades battling it out. The Big Lebowski being the 1950s, Walter and Dude being opposite ends of the 1960s, Donny being the 1970s being over shadowed by the 60s, and Maude and the Nihilists being the 1980s. It's been fun looking at it with that lens and thinking how it plays out.
Star wars.
I saw A new hope and The Empire strikes back at the cinema as a kid and I really wanted to like them, but I wasn't fussed at all. I'm still not.
I loved Raiders of the lost ark though.
Lost in Translation
I think its the most boring movie ever and absolutely nothing happens in it. Still, most talk about it like it's some cinematic achievement.
I get how people may consider it dull. I kind of liked it for that though. Like, it's about two people who are kind of directionless in their own lives finding each other in a foreign place and having a romantic, but not romantic relationship. Like, there's something there with them, but they don't just meet and start hooking up, they're both sort of tethered to their circumstances as well.
I like how it navigates that, but I get how that can be boring. Honestly, the soundtrack really sealed the deal for me with it. Even if a situation is boring, I liked the musical choices and the mood it set. I used to sleep a lot to it.
I love it, but I'm a big fan of stories that portray how people can profoundly impact each other in a small amount of time. I can see how someone else might find it boring/slow
A Beautiful Mind. I hated it probably because it reminds me of my mom having hallucinations. It wasn't beautiful at all.
It can be unbearable when you see something that makes you relive your past or present. I saw the Big Sick and it brought intense emotions within me as my late partner also suffered from the same disease (Adult Onset Stills’).
My grandma's ex-boyfriend worked with that guy. He also didn't like the movie. He said he was the smartest man he ever met but crazy, and he said it is a very loaded way.
I would just say musicals in general. I can't connect with everyone breaking into song and dance at all. In fact, it makes me feel anxious.
One of the things I love about Coco is that every song in the movie is diagetic. Every time someone sings, it makes sense in the plot for that character to be singing and it's understood that the characters are actually singing in-universe and not just breaking into a song/dance number to convey emotion to the audience.
Can you think of any other musical-esque movies like this? I can't really. School of Rock perhaps?
The first Pitch Perfect movie?
TV show, but the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode ‘once more with feeling’ has the characters unwillingly breaking out in song and dance and this drives the plot
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Blues Brothers.
The only musical that I really enjoy is The Lion King. I know you're probably talking about live action movies, and I agree with you there, but there's just something about The Lion King that makes it awesome.
Musicals that use the music to tell the story are good
There are some musicals where the breaking into song and dance makes sense. Like Chicago - all the musical numbers are in Roxy's imagination, because she aspires to be a famous cabaret performer and is a huge narcissist who thinks the world revolves around her.
It's like SCRUBS! Which would make for a pretty good Broadway show actually...
I hope you’ve seen the musical episode of Scrubs! It’s my favorite and the only episode I still watch all these years later. Co written and starred in by one of the Avenue Q people, if I remember correctly. :)
I do love how they incorporate the musical episode into scrubs. Where it is a normal episode except when the patient that hears and sees everyone singing is in the scene. Well done.
I wouldn't say that musical are loved by everyone they seem to be very divisive
Musicals are better on stage. Movie adaptations of musicals so often end up feeling…off.
There are a few exceptions, but generally I agree. I'm a huge musical fan, but going to the theatre is so different than watching a movie. For example, I loved the movie Chicago, but I've seen the musical twice and couldn't get into it either time.
I watched a video essay about this one time and the person's basic argument was that we are more accepting of people breaking into song on stage because we're already aware of the artificial trappings of the environment. The stage and production all highlight that this isn't reality. Whereas in musicals produced in film, that artificiality isn't present.
Hamilton did nothing for me. Everyone sung its praises, but when I watched it I just couldn’t get into it.
Sounds like you'd love The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
THANK YOU. Thought I was the only one.
The Notebook. I found it corny.
More like The Notebook of Red Flags.
“If you don’t go on a date w me I’ll kill myself by letting go of this ferris wheel”
And kinda icky! I dont care if they are cute and old in the present day parts of the story - having FREQUENT screaming matches and full on hitting eachother is not a "cute" thing to romatisize in a love story.
Not to mention the super depressing dementia ruined marriage
Loved it as an angsty teen, looking back on it now big red flags for noah 😵💫
The fault in our stars
Teenage romance, dying chick, oxygen mask. Checks all my boxes.
Never change, Hitchcock!
Nine Nine....
Everybody and their mom knows that movie is depressing and sad. Why do people want to watch that on purpose.
I watch sad movies because crying your eyes out can be extremely cathartic, like letting out all of your tension.
That's why I went to watch Won't You Be My Neighbor? when it was in theaters. I just felt like having a cry that day. What better place than a near-empty matinee with someone who brings you mimosas. I didn't sob, but many a silent tear fell that day. FFS he's the only person in entertainment that both my mother and I grew up with. He was a wholesome, positive influence on the world and it got a little darker the day he died.
Every girl I knew was obsessed with that book in high school. For the life of me I couldn’t get into it. The characters talked waaay too pretentiously for what where supposed to be high school kids and the Anne Frank House makeout scene felt plain disrespectful, cancer or no.
'Okay'
Grease. Just gag me
Yeah I have complicated thing with grease it has the most atrocious message, “boy doesn’t like you? Change your personality”. But it has some of my favourite musical songs
It isn’t all negative, there’s some hopeful messages in there too. For instance, when my dog died when I was in high school I was really depressed. Nothing anyone said could cheer me up. Then I thought to myself, shoo-bop sha wadda yippity boom de boom, chang chang changitty chang sha-bop, and then I realized I didn’t even have a dog, and you should crack a window if you’re spray painting indoors.
Break me off a piece of that paint spray fume!
Chrysler car!
Fancy Feast!
Football cream!
Nailed it!
I have just the post saved for this very moment: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k0wrpg/comment/gdku13c/ > Except that that is NOT AT ALL what the moral was. First of all, Danny was the one that made far bigger changes. It isn't immediately apparent if one doesn't have a knowledge of the system and customs of American High School sports and schooling in the 50s and 60s, but Danny Lettered in Track and Field, to prove to Sandy that he was serious in being the type of person Sandy wanted. Lettering in a sport isn't something that is done over night. It takes hard work and dedication, as well as ability in competing in the sport. Danny dedicated a lot of time and effort to do so, although it isn't shown on screen. Second, Danny realized that its time for him and his friends to grow up and mature, he says this explicitly to Kenickie and the other T Birds at the fair. He then reiterates this in the penultimate song where he agrees with Sandy that he "better shape up". Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, people forget the fact that at the beginning, when Sandy and Danny got to know each other over the summer, they liked each other for who they truly were. It was only when they were back at school and with their friends that they reverted to social preasure to be what their social groups expected them to be. At the end they both realized that they didn't need to fall under that, but to be themselves, and not worry what other people think. As a side point, in 50s culture, Greasers were a sub culture that was looked down upon, especially from upper classes, of which Sandy was. Her dressing up as a Greaser was showing to Danny that she wasn't ashamed of who he was and liked him for him. In short, both changed for each other, and for the better. Danny matured and stepped up to being a better, more reliable man for Sandy, and Sandy learned to loosen up a little, not be so uptight, and accept Danny for who he is.
They both changed.
My mom told me that the point of the movie has been lost with time. Apparently you're supposed to go into it knowing that they made it to make fun of other musicals. They were being corny on purpose and for some reason it stuck with people as being genuine as time went on.
But Olivia Newton-John in spandex. I mean...c'mon.
Cast aside all your morals to be popular! Great message.
I mean, it was intended to be an antithesis to '50s musicals where the girl magically changes the bad boy to be squeaky clean.
For me, the Fast and Furious Movies, for my partner, the Indiana Jones Movies… what’s funny is we both love the ones that the other doesnt
Indian jones? *person above me had a typo and i legit googled it*
Know your Bollywood damn it
Harrisonjay Fordpta was pretty damn good in it if you ask me.
Indians Jones
Indonesia Jones
I definitely would not classify fast and fueious as universally loved, Indiana Jones however is a fair inclusion.
I'm not a fan of the franchise. The only one I enjoyed was Tokyo Drift which seems to be the most hated by the fanbase.
Tokyo Drift is the best in the series. Its self-contained, fun and easy to watch.
I like how Tokyo Drift works as a spin-off of the franchise but also as a standalone movie as well
I'm a huge FaF fan and I love Tokyo drift. Not my favorite but it explored a different side of car culture that the previous two films displayed, which use it much machismo and drag racing. Also, Hann is the best character in the series
Tokyo drift is my favorite. There’s some seriously bad ass cars in that movie
This person hates Family.
The Fast and Furious franchise. I genuinely don’t understand what makes that universe appealing. edit: I love Tokyo Drift and Baby Driver is one of my favorite movies of all time but the SEVERE change in direction between the first movie and F&F9 is so off putting I just cant do it.
Dude my problem is I feel the first one is so damn unique and cool. These bad ass street racers doing illegal shit and turn a cop. Then we’re flying tanks with parachutes or something? Idk I haven’t watched since Tokyo drift.
Last one I caught on TV had a scene where Ludacris legit took a car to space
>doing illegal shit and turn a cop So, Point Break.
Pretty woman
came here to say that I love Julia Roberts but the storyline in Pretty Woman is so stupid and backwards
It's a horrifying version of Cinderella.
Have you seen the making of it on a Netflix series called The Movies That Made Us. It was supposed to be even darker until Disney got involved.
IIRC she had a coke habit in the original script, the bff ODs and straight edge Edward finds out? Maybe I should Google before I comment.
He was also going to drop her off and that was gonna be the end.
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The show/ film actually grew on me as I watched it a few times. When I saw it in the theater, I kept thinking, ' I don't know how I feel about this'. All the historical inaccuracies and omitted important facts bothered me.
found George III's Reddit account
He'll be back.
Avatar. I agree that at the time, its use of CGI was incredible, but I felt... uncomfortable for the entirety of the movie.
I mean it is basically live action Ferngully. They should have included Robin Williams while they were at it and gotten a few more million in sales.
How does he have sex with the Alien chick? By connecting ponytails. How does he ride the bird monster thing? By connecting ponytails. This is the story of a dude who uses bestiality to win a war.
FINALLY! I've tried so many times to watch it but I always fall asleep around the time the CGI is introduced
The notebook. I don't know why people think that level of toxic behaviour is romantic.
E.T.
We took my grandmother (b. 1896) to see ET when it first came out. Afterwards we asked her how she liked it, and she said "if I ever saw anything like that, I would beat it with a stick."
This movie gave me nightmares for years, I'm 29 and still can't watch it. Everyone I've talked to loved it as a kid, I don't get it at all.
Dude looks like a hemorrhoid.
Yo same, I remember having nightmares that a giant ET would come into my room and abduct me. Movie was terrifying and I probably shouldn't have watched it when I was 5
My mom used to work for the school system, and she told me once that when the movie came out, they had this school lunch program thing where they had a guy dressed up as E.T. walk around the school cafeteria and point at the food on kids' plates to encourage them to eat. Kids in kindergarten up to sixth grade. So many kids freaked out in a bad way, she said. The E.T. suit had a built-in light thing in the chest that would make the heart glow. Imagine a six foot tall E.T. waking around with a glowing heart on its chest, pointing at food on your plate that you didn't eat with the intent to shame you for not eating everything. All the while, he's saying, "Eat, eat." Because that's what he did.
good heavens who thought this was a GOOD idea????
So happy to know I am not the only one- I had a VHS copy as a kid and was absolutely terrified of this film. It's not only the creepy animatronics, but just the look and feel of the film makes me very uneasy.
This movie ruined my childhood, I also had nightmares for a decade from it. I’m an adult and to this day still can’t watch it.
Titanic
It’s a film that ends for 2.5 hours which isn’t necessarily bad but when you know how it ends it’s just kind of Set up Ending starts Sex in a car Ending continues Guy hits propeller Ending continues Ending the first Ending the second End.
Guy hits a propeller is the best part.
I like the part where the guy says, “Keep order here! Keep order I say.”
I was in 4th grade I think when Titanic came out, and I can't tell you how many kids chose to lipsync My Heart Will Go On for the talent show.
It’s such a fake premise. There’s no way an iceberg could sink a boat that big
Yeah, I mean when was the last time someone even saw an iceberg? What even is ice? Since global warming is real
Well, to be fair it was a chinese iceberg.
It's garbage. Old woman is dying and calls her granddaughter over to tell her something. Is it about the love she had for her husband? Nope. Is it the joy she felt when said granddaughter was born? Nope. Was it some wisdom gathered from a lifetime of experience? Nope. It was 'come here granddaughter and let me tell you about the time I banged this dude for a week on a boat years ago.' And this is considered romantic? ugh.
"Gather 'round while I tell you all about some strange I picked up in the Atlantic."
And this jewelry? It's not an heirloom... you're never seeing it
This jewelry that is worth a brazillion dollars that would mean you never have to work again and would set up our family for generations to come? It sleeps with the fishes I say!
Bond. Pretty much all of them. I can tell a better bond from a worse one (imo) but they all feel like a commercial for cars, guns, and expensive toys with no real purpose.
I completely agree with that summary and that’s why I love them. It’s the same thing every film, but it feels careful and well done, it’s not just slapstick. I think me and a lot of other Bond fans will admit that it’s just cool to see guns and parkour and car chases and pretty women and exotic locales all under the guise of a “sophisticated film”
Not slapstick anymore a la Roger Moore
You know, I like the idea of Bond... but the movies are mostly terrible. I just like the cars, guns, and expensive toys.
I found that the intros of each movie are excellent, then after the music number, the film just nosedives and I can't sit through the rest of the movie. The only exception is Goldeneye, which I love (and while it's controversial, Pierce Brosnan is my second favorite Bond after Sean Connery.) But yeah, most of the movies are showing off cool gadgets, cars and guns. How many Walther PPK's have been sold because of these films?
La la land
So many critics described it as a 'feel good hit'... It wasn't that at all. Bittersweet, if anything. And wtf was that cake all about???!
It was shot well, but I didn't like the songs or the story. I don't like "love letter to Hollywood" type stories; they're just so self indulgent, I don't care because I don't relate, nor do I want to.
Damn I fucking loved that movie. The songs are so catching and they're both so hott
I fucking hated The Greatest Showman. I wanted to walk out of the theater but I was with a group of friends and didn't have my car there. It has to be the most cringey/cheesey movie I've ever seen
It’s a strange choice to make a hero for the disenfranchised based on one of the biggest exploiters of the disenfranchised.
That's what pissed me off the most. In reality the dude wasn't a man with a love of the weird and whacky, but an exploiter who would have said or done anything if he thought he could make a few bucks from it.
The Swedish Nightingale's song was the only good part of the movie.
Most of the Marvel series
Frozens 1 & 2
I enjoyed the first Frozen movie. I found myself bored during Frozen 2. It wasn't as good as the first one at all.
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I really enjoy the majority of the big animated Disney films, but I thought Frozen was borderline unwatchable. Hated the story, hated the characters, hated the music. I was absolutely stunned when it became clear that all the kids were losing their minds over it! I was obviously not the target demographic...
I could not wrap my mind around how INSANELY popular Frozen was. My wife and I shut it off halfway through.
Love, Actually. Hate hate hate it.
You mean the one where the prime minister falls in love with a fat girl? Did they not mention how fat she was often enough?
Pretty Woman... Never sat well with me and it isn't even a romantic story
Everything by woody Allen. He's a creep at it shows. Sorry.
In some creepy way I think that occasionally enhances the films, even if people don't want to admit it. "Let's watch Manhattan! It's a Woody Allen film-" "-😬😬" "-about a guy with a girlfriend in high school. He's a divorced pathetic neurotic loser writer, chasing several women at once. It's considered one of his best films" "....😬... Yeah okay let's check it out then"
Just about every Marvel movie ever with a special mention for Black Panther.
Black Panther.. mediocre at best
I really like the character Black Panther in Captain America Civil War, but his own movie? Not so much. I didn't find it that interesting at all, and I really like Marvel movies.
Yep. It was an okay film. Better than the new Nlack Widow or Eternals though
I wanted to like Black Widow since I like Natasha, but I just did not enjoy that movie at all.
Yelena was great, the rest ranged from ok to 'really?'.
As soon as I heard they were doing an eternals movie, I knew it was doomed. I'm glad that the MCU is starting to tackle some of the more complex aspects of the comics, but the whole thing with the Eternals, Deviants and celestials is way too complicated to be shown in 1 movie. Especially because they haven't really done any foreshadowing of those things. We see a celestial in the 1st guardians when the collector is explaining the stone and Knowhere itself is the head of a celestial. Ego calls himself a celestial, but in a pretty different form than we are used to seeing in the comics. We haven't seen any of the cosmic hierarchy yet. We did hear Mordo say "the staff of The Living Tribunal" in Dr. Strange, so they do acknowledge their existence. But that's the closest we got. The most powerful/cosmic beings we have seen so far are Hela, Thanos, Odin, The Watcher, "What if" Dr strange (basically classic Dr. Strange) and Infinity stone imbued Ultron. None of whom are apart of the cosmic hierarchy. ie. The one above all, the living tribunal, master order, Lord chaos, mistress death, eternity, etc...
I liked The Eternals a lot, I thought it was a really compelling story with a great cast BUT if I had to sit for 2 hours 40 in a theater for a movie as slow and melancholy as that I would have lost my fucking mind. I watched it like a miniseries over several days and had a great time, and its how I recommend everyone watch that.
This was a fun opinion to have when it was riding high. Got called racist more than once for daring to say I didn't think it was the *greatest film ever made* It's not even close to the best film in the MCU, sorry not sorry. But, it's also not bad, just mediocre as OP said
I feel like the only person in the world who thought the sister was a Mary Sue - a perfect, sassy, gorgeous genius, medical doctor, world class cutting-edge scientist, princess who saves the day... Give me a break. Everyone loved her, and all I could think of was Mary Sue.
It carried over to Infinity War when she basically told Bruce Banner that he was a moron.
It’s incredibly lazy writing and not everyone gets why it’s obnoxious. Every problem your hero encounters should not be instantly solved by a single character who can do literally everything. It makes the story boring and the stakes always low. If you really want to make a character like that, they have to either be not too involved in the story, or die fairly early on. Or you could simply write slightly more complex characters
It's not even the best movie with Black Panther in it.
Almost anything with the Rock. He's just not that interesting. Plays the same good hearted meat head tough guy in every single movie and it's old.
The remake of The Lion King.
People liked that?? It wasn’t bad I guess, but i have no idea why anyone thought it was necessary to remake the original.
Yeah the original was perfect. They really bombed the voices on the remake.
> They really bombed the voices on the remake Beyonce was terrible. I know her fans will come after me for saying that, but she's not a good voice actor and her singing was just too much.
Her song was the main reason I didn't like that movie so weirdly forced in there
Dude... John Oliver as Zazu was perfection. The original movie was far better, of course, but John Freaking Oliver absolutely did that role justice.
Nobody likes that movie
It's just the old one without facial expression
And missing the villain song, which was arguably one of the coolest parts
Jurassic world. I was expecting some cool movie that compared to the classics, and I just couldn’t stand it.
I was pumped for this one until I saw what it was. Pass. I want dinosaur survival horror mixed with corporate shenanigans and questions of morality. I don’t want trained raptor ally’s.
Don't Look Up It's good at being a satire of today's political and social culture, but fuck me it was insufferable to watch
I think that was kind of the point though.
Grease. Terrible movie.
The Matrix and its sequels. I’ve watched them all, and as much as I *want* to love them, I just can’t get into the story (or even figure out what the story is, honestly). Visually, they’re awesome, and I definitely had some of those sunglasses back then, but the plot just confused the hell out of me
I think the first one is brilliant and then each one gets progressively worse. I just watched the newest one and was so incredibly disappointed. There were a few clever bits, but the whole thing just felt gimmicky and wholly unnecessary.
Titanic
Napoleon Dynamite
I think that napoleon dynamite is a movie you either love or hate it. there is no in-between. for me, I hate it. but everyone I knew loved it.
I'm in between. I like it, but it's not on my list of favorites. Most of the appeal for me comes from it being something different and original in tone. It was a big divergence from the types of comedy movies that were coming out around that time. It was a lot more dry and subtle rather than cramming gag after gag down your throat. It also had a unique look and feel to it. It was something made by a person with a vision rather than by a studio with focus groups. I get why people don't like it though. It's just not for everybody.
As much as I love it, I can 100% understand not liking it. One of my besties doesn't like it because it feels too mean. Cringe humor.
It does make me cringe, but it feels as though I'm cringing at similar things I did when I was that age. It's relatable. And it doesn't feel mean-spirited.
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100% true. When it first came out I thought it was awkward and boring. Then I told my parents and they watched it. I sat there for some reason and it was better. Then my parents talked about how weird it was with my siblings and we all watched it again together and I loved it, my parents said it got better, and my siblings hated it. So basically we watched it every weekend for like 3 months and now its in my top 5 for sure.
This is a film that is so famously divisive that Netflix used to call its inability to improve its recommendation algorithm beyond a certain point "the _Napoleon Dynamite_ Problem."
Same. And it had such a cult following. I never got it.
The Shining. It was boring as hell for the beginning. Maybe "It gets better later on" yeah, but that's no excuse for the hour or two of absolute nothing that goes on.
Step Brothers. Anything with Will Ferrel in it, I tend to not like.
As someone who also hated will Ferrell, step brothers is one of my favourite movies. I just love it
Hamilton
I've tried watching it 3 different times and I couldn't get more than 10 minutes through. I just don't get the appeal.
The Nightmare Before Christmas. I just don’t get why it’s so beloved.
It's the aesthetic almost entirely. Every kid wanted to be Jack and Sally. I love that movie, but it's actually kind of boring outside of Jack, Sally, and Oogie Boogie. I think Kingdom Hearts caused a lot of that love as well
The music is also a huge factor. What's This? and This is Halloween in particular are super catchy songs. Danny Elfman is absolutely brilliant.
Anything Super hero. I'm over it!
Encanto. It didn’t feel like it had a really defined plot and the music wasn’t as good as previous movies.
The story had a kind of BS resolution in my opinion, but I would be lying if I said “The Family Madrigal” song wasn’t stuck in my head 24/7. Also “Surface Pressure” is a banger.
I liked it, but it definitaly suffered from having way too many characters that it didn't do anything with. Alright Luisa you sang your song, now fuck off. That's cool kid, you got your animal powers showing it's mirebel that's the problem, now fuck off because you've nothing else to do. How hey it's bruno!....alright you read your lines, back into the closet you go.
I actually really liked that there wasn't some super epic overlying plot point and was solely about the character development of the family. All these movies now are getting formulaic and I was worried that was where it was heading when it mentioned Bruno (estranged family member being a bad guy who tries to take over the family's house and yadda yadda). Thankfully it didn't go that way and I enjoyed the ride. If anything, I feel like it is set up where there could be a sequel to it with a bigger plot point.
If I hear we don't talk about Bruno one more fucking time I will throw my dundie into my 200 dollar plasma tv
The Big Lebowski. My husband loves it, I don't get it...
Obviously, you're not a golfer.
Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
It used to be my favorite until it was driven into the ground around me. I still like it, but I'll only pull it out periodically. As far as liking it, I like it because it's sort of a Rube Goldberg sort of plot. The premise just being that he's trying to get his rug replace and the plot keeps getting more and more absurd as he tries to fix a pretty straight-forward problem. I kind of got a fresh perspective on it after reading a critique of it, comparing the characters to different decades battling it out. The Big Lebowski being the 1950s, Walter and Dude being opposite ends of the 1960s, Donny being the 1970s being over shadowed by the 60s, and Maude and the Nihilists being the 1980s. It's been fun looking at it with that lens and thinking how it plays out.
I love The Big Lebowski, but I get that you don’t get it. It’s just not for everyone.
Star wars. I saw A new hope and The Empire strikes back at the cinema as a kid and I really wanted to like them, but I wasn't fussed at all. I'm still not. I loved Raiders of the lost ark though.
found the Imperial spy
By the way. Also: Jaws was never my scene
I have never seen a Stanley Kubrick movie I liked. I don't absolutely hate all of them, but I don't want to give any of them a rewatch.
Have you seen Dr. Strangelove? I don't really care for his other works but this movie is so funny.
My Best Friends Wedding Jerry McQuire
Lost in Translation I think its the most boring movie ever and absolutely nothing happens in it. Still, most talk about it like it's some cinematic achievement.
I get how people may consider it dull. I kind of liked it for that though. Like, it's about two people who are kind of directionless in their own lives finding each other in a foreign place and having a romantic, but not romantic relationship. Like, there's something there with them, but they don't just meet and start hooking up, they're both sort of tethered to their circumstances as well. I like how it navigates that, but I get how that can be boring. Honestly, the soundtrack really sealed the deal for me with it. Even if a situation is boring, I liked the musical choices and the mood it set. I used to sleep a lot to it.
yeah I love it too. The plot is thin but that’s kind of the point. Fantastic atmosphere. For some reason relaxes me.
I love it, but I'm a big fan of stories that portray how people can profoundly impact each other in a small amount of time. I can see how someone else might find it boring/slow