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Ready player one.
That has to be one of the cringiest movies I’ve seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it’s “WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU’RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE” message and the whole “corporation bad, the people good” narrative seems written for toddlers… The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.
Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is “ugly”… Like wtf?
Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.
I learned, back in the 1990s, how to spot a movie I won’t like. So for me it’s The Edge (about a thoroughly dislikable protagonist who we’re supposed to admire just because he’s played sympathetically by Anthony Hopkins) and Accidental Hero (aka Hero, a satire so brimming with sickly earnestness that it fails completely at satire).
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. What a stupidly overrated movie.
The princess bride, mostly because everyone my age won’t shut up about it. By the time I saw the movie (I think I was 16?) it was like watching a string of cheesy memes.
Also, it’s a wonderful life is so frustrating and depressing, the “happy ending” just doesn’t cut it.
Twister.
The movie is like a big turkey dinner meal and Ambien to me. I have fell asleep trying to watch it at least 3x… now I own the movie and if I am super restless I will put it on to sleep.
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The French Dispatch.
God what a boring piece of crap, and people seem to think it’s all the rage.
The John Wick series
Watched them all over the course of a weekend - its the same fucking moving over and over and over and over again. The amount of disbelief I needed to suspend got exponentially larger so by the time I got to the last movie I just couldn’t take it anymore. There is no real plot or any development of characters, it’s just implausible fight scene after implausible fight scene.
I think if I put a few months between each movie I wouldn’t have this opinion - on their own the movies can be mindlessly entertaining but all together was too much for me.
The English Patient. Sex in a tub? That doesn’t work!
Napoleon dynamite was fucking garbage and don’t think it should have ever existed. No humor and barley anything. Honestly feel like the movie rubber was better
I tried to watch it a couple of times and never finished it. Apparently, it’s a fairly divisive and hard-to-predict pick for recommendation systems as well.
Hey, Rubber was a phenomenal movie.
Rubber is a masterclass in film making. We watched a fucking tire and it was entertaining as fuck.
Quentin Dupieux is a genius, IMO, musically and behind the lens. His works tend to be an acquired taste for sure, but I’m into it.
Dude made a tire have an amazing performance. Just shows how important the art is behind making a film vs what name is on the screen. Poor film making could make the best actor suck but if you’re truly talented you can make any actor, no matter how shitty, seem amazing. It’s def an acquired taste but I’d argue whether you like it or not you can’t deny the genius.
It really was popular because its humor was so “fresh.” This was just before internet/youtube culture took off and most Americans hadn’t seen such a dry, peculiar film about their own culture. I fucking love it but it’s certainly not for everyone, that’s for sure.
Hard disagree, lol. That’s a classic.
100% respect your opinion. This isn’t me telling you you’re wrong, just sharing my experience with the movie.
When my wife and I first watched it, after we finished, we looked at each other and were like, “what the fuck did we just watch?”. We thought it was awful.
The next morning we were quoting it and laughing our asses off at the utter absurdity of the movie. We now both love the movie.
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As an older millennial, that movie was a work of art. I was about 20 when I seen it, stoned, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Same. But I re-watched it recently and it just aged terribly for some reason.
Fellow elder millennial that also never understood the appeal of Napoleon Dynamite, still don’t and I’ve watched it stoned as hell
I got that it’s a movie that subverts expectations, or cheekily thumbs its nose at norms, in a delightful way. It clearly derives its delight from the contrast with… something. I have no idea what those expectations or norms are, so the contrast (and the delight) is lost on me.
Only other Idaho movie is gay af Keanu. Vote for Summer, because she’s hottest girl in Idaho, and a good dairy cow should have 4 nipples tops, and sharp talons.
Also elder millennial. I watched half the movie and turned it off. It was horrid.
I just don’t get it. I absolutely loved every second of it. From the opening scene to the credits it was one of my favorite movies ever made and still is.
What about it was so good though? It was incredibly slow. Little to no character plot humor wasn’t even there. It felt like it was just “funny meme haha” kinda movie. Honestly curious, I do enjoy being proven wrong. And no hate on what you enjoy, I just don’t understand why people enjoy it.
Whenever I see a mountain range Uncle Rico pops into my head.
how many dollars would you like to wager that I can hurl this pig skin overtop of that mountain range?
I wonder… is it because you have little/no experience with small town America? I loved Napoleon Dynamite partly because it’s somewhat nostalgic for me. The movie appeals to people who grew up in the sticks and knew people like Napoleon Dynamite.
I grew up small town America, older Millinial, I’m the demographic for that movie.
I couldn’t finish the movie.
I did not like Chernobyl one bit. Well while it was good at some points, the scientific inaccuracy was just too much to bear.
That little cut in the shoe? Yeah, it’s impossible to die from that.
Mean girls.
Diehard. What boring, macho-worshiping crap. Can’t even watch it ironically.
Ready player 1 - oh yeah, I agree with you. Garbage film. Just an excuse to do fan service. I viewed it like a music video or clip compilation. It was neat to see all the random franchise together on the big screen but worthless as a narrative. I enjoyed it like I enjoy godzilla films, turn brain off, watch the spectacle.
I hate Avatar (blue cat people). Dances with Wolves but Halo. It was pretty! However people seem to act like it was an actual film and not a tech demo. They literally called the mineral unobtanium. It’s a meme. Smh.
Lord of the Rings.
I understand and respect the seminal role LotR (Book) has as a fantasy work. I have to, as a fantasy nerd myself.
I also believe that those three movies that everyone loves could be edited down into one and not much would be lost.
God DAMN do those films drag ON and ON and ON.
The books, too, drag on like Tolkien was being paid by the individual word. Thankfully with books I can set the pace at which things go.
My wife and I are huge fans of the Ready Player One book and we could not watch the movie. Literally stopped it. I tried a few more times to resume it but I kept having to stop. I finally finished it on my eight or ninth session.
if you think that movie was bad, you have no idea how painful it is for someone who loved the book.
I’ve heard the book it’s even worse 🤷🏽♂️
I saw that comment and find it suspect. If they didn’t like the book, it seems masochistic to watch the movie. If they didn’t like the movie, why read the book? It has always been popular to hate on the book because it is definitely a Gen-X nostalgia circle jerk, regardless of what else it brings to the table.
My point was that if you hated the movie, you likely would have hated it triple if you liked the book.
