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Added 2022-04-05 20:57:00 +0000 UTCLet's reverse it. Name a movie you hate that everyone else loves and why.
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Oh my god I so agree. I wouldn’t say everyone loves it though. Especially critics
Jackson Littlewood
2022-04-11 18:06:05 +0000 UTC"Don't Look Up". Truly awful! It was WAY too long, horribly edited, and very pretentious as it was "preaching to the saved" when it comes to climate change. If Adam McCay wanted to do a satire about climate change, he failed miserably. I had high hopes for this film because David Sirota co-wrote the script. Sirota is an excellent journalist, but he needs to stay away from screenwriting. I'm absolutely baffled why this train wreck was so popular and set records with Netflix.
Brian Wright
2022-04-09 01:45:12 +0000 UTCI really did not get the Shape of Water. The characters seemed so laughably two dimensional and anything interesting about the central concept seemed to be avoided to make it as mainstream as possible. “She’s mute so she’s extra sensual” seems like the sort of lazy cliche that we’d moved away from and the plot just rumbles along like the laziest of comic book movies, relying on pointless, if sometimes inventive inserts to fill the run time.
Alan Graham
2022-04-08 07:39:37 +0000 UTCWonder Woman (2017) How was this movie even talked about for Best Picture and Best Director of 2017? Was the rising #MeToo movement that intent on giving a mediocre superhero film the industry’s highest honor in order to make a statement? I don’t hate the film itself—it’s too unremarkable for me to do so—but rather the industry adulation surrounding it. It’s part of a larger problem in Hollywood where message trumps merit, and a film is held to the gold standard simply because it has a Strong Female Character. Gal Gadot is serviceable and appealing in the part—and she gets some nice chemistry going with Chris Pine—but at this point, when we’ve come from Ellen Ripley, Clarice Starling, Sarah Conner, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lara Croft…all the way up to Furiosa (now THERE’s someone worthy of Oscar consideration), it is not enough to be serviceable and appealing, not for anything more than a decent opening weekend and a high streaming viewership. I’ll concede that the ratio of male to female action heroes is way too lopsided, but misguided feminism elevating a movie through campaign and rhetoric into something it’s not doesn’t do anyone any favors. Besides, the villain sucked and the third act was lackluster.
Bennett Oliver
2022-04-06 16:19:25 +0000 UTCI so agree with this. I felt legitimately depressed leaving the theater after that movie being the only one of my group who didn’t like it
Jackson Littlewood
2022-04-06 08:00:21 +0000 UTCAmerican Beauty (1999) just doesn't do anything for me, even though I don't have anything bad to say about it. The screenplay is really well-written, the characters are really well-performed, and the look and sound are really well-made. Everything about it is Really Well-Done™️. The trouble is, I just don't care. I don't care about Lester and Carolyn's mid-life crises; they mostly just strike me as crappy people. I don't care about Janie and all of her drama. I must not be in the target demographic, because I don't find anything about the story particularly compelling, relatable, or interesting, no matter how Really Well-Done it is.
Derek H.
2022-04-06 06:43:55 +0000 UTCSpiderman: No Way Home Initially the concept of completing the Tom Holland Spider-Man trilogy by doing a somewhat live action version of Spider-Man:Into the Spiderverse might seem like a fun idea given that it would mean previous Spider-men like Maguire and Garfield would be returning along with previous villains like Dafoe and Molina. Unfortunately though, we live in a time where nostalgia and fan service is being overly celebrated and therefore this idea is capitalized on by structuring the entire movie around inside jokes and call backs to the previous movies to the point that its nauseating. Several of the characters returning feel like dolls being wound up to say famous lines from their movies ("You know I'm something of a scientist myself" - Dafoe) regardless if it makes sense in the given scene while clearly looking like they've aged a decade or two after supposedly being plucked straight from their universes. Almost every scene in the movie felt so calculated to the point that I never forgot I was watching a corporate product.
Stephen
2022-04-06 02:30:09 +0000 UTCBladerunner. It is hailed as a sci-fi classic but I find it to be completely unremarkable. What people like about the movie amounts to three core elements: the set design, the soundtrack, and the handful of scenes with Deckard traversing the future skyline/Tyrell industries. While those scenes are certainly iconic and I do like the soundtrack — the movie itself is meandering, impersonal, and dull. I would've never thought a so-called classic of sci-fi would predominantly take place in a rundown toy factory featuring one of the worst fight sequences I have ever seen. My biggest pet peeve is the love for the line "all those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain." I do not understand how people take these words as so meaningful and deep. The audience has no connection to this antagonist. This line is effectively a non-sequitor not unlike what you might read in the diary of a kid in middle school. I've given the film multiple attempts, including watching several of its 9 different versions (a ludicrous hurdle to an already bad movie) but have never come close to appreciating it in the same way it is revered. That said, I did like Blade Runner 2049. I would say it is as good as people remember Bladerunner being.
Arthur Augustyn
2022-04-06 01:45:44 +0000 UTCI saw The Mummy in the cinema and I was not a fan at the time - but also I did not immediately hate it, however I've seen it a couple of times since and it has grown on me. I only ever saw The Mummy 2 once and I recall vaguely disliking it, never saw the third one so don't know about that. Should probably rewatch the trilogy at some point for nostalgia and for the full knowledge of Brendan Frasier who seems to have now evolved into a bit of a cult figure. Thanks to your comment I looked Stephen Sommers up and now I know that there are 5 Scorpion King Movies - so that's a thing. You are right, there is definitely a lesson in there somewhere.
Ross Skilton
2022-04-05 23:46:17 +0000 UTCI enjoyed The Mummy. They then gave Stephen Sommers double the budget for the sequel but it turned out half as good. They then doubled THAT budget for Van Helsing and it was half as good as the Mummy Returns. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Steven Aguilera
2022-04-05 23:12:09 +0000 UTCVan Helsing (2004) - I've never been a fan of films that use coincidence to drive the plot, but I think this film really takes the biscuit when it comes to that (The Rise of Skywalker is potentially comparable,) not only is the entire plot driven by coincidence but the Dracula portrayal is just so stupidly hammy it really makes the whole film a joke - and not a funny one. On paper it has a fairly decent cast too but this nonsense has a rating of 6.0 on IMDB - how even! I saw this rubbish in the cinema and I still do not understand why people like this film. Absolute Shite!
Ross Skilton
2022-04-05 23:04:35 +0000 UTCMidsommar! I really loved those fleeting moments where a death is shown. As a horror fan, these were sublime. But first off, it draws too many parallels with The Wicker Man. Beyond that, the characters, I hated. Their choices, I hated. Their emotional states, I HATED! No exaggeration, I had to get up every 5 to 15 minutes and walk around the room, psyching myself up enough to suffer through the rest. But with that, this tedious, funless, two-and-a-half-hour abortion of a film was drawn out into four! No other movie has proved such an endurance test. Watching reviews afterwards, I expected similar responses. But nope! Nothing but songs of praise and admiration for Ari Aster and his visionary work. Die! Die!! Die!!!
Steven Aguilera
2022-04-05 23:03:55 +0000 UTCThe Graduate sucks!! The protagonist is so insufferable that I can’t connect with the comedic or satirical elements. I think the way you feel about Ferris Bueller is the way I feel about Benjamin lol There are some nice shots in the movie, and I have nothing against Simon & Garfunkel or Anne Bancroft, but overall, I find the movie to be boring in terms of its cinematic expression and shallow in terms of the content in its script. That flavor of existential dread unique to 1967-1979 Hollywood is expressed much more eloquently in Bonnie & Clyde and Cool Hand Luke, so I don’t need The Graduate at all.
Jared Angcanan
2022-04-05 23:03:49 +0000 UTCI would have to say Pig. A solid performance from Nic Cage. However, to me it's the definition of pretentious. The director was going for something deep and completely missed the mark. The 'Fight Club' scene was absolutely ridiculous.
Jmas85
2022-04-05 22:02:33 +0000 UTCJurassic Park. While it's nowhere near as badly directed as it's sequels, I think it's just as badly written as them. The special effects are still good but like it's sequels, the characters are just as dumb and cartoony as your typical slasher movie teenagers. Stupid moments include the kids in the Jeep messing with the flashlight with the T-Rex right next to them and Wayne Knight falling in the rain like a cartoon. Hard to feel any suspense in a thriller when your characters are dumber than the audience.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-04-05 21:34:42 +0000 UTCI don’t hate it, but I really dislike CODA. It’s just Oscarbait fluff that doesn’t do justice to its subject matter. Everything about it is very on the nose from the cinematography, to the soundtrack, to the coming of age story clichés. It never once challenged me and it barely touched on what the actual deaf people were feeling. The lead character says she loves singing, that it’s her whole life. Yet she seemingly signed up for choir because of a boy she liked and she needed to be coaxed into staying by the teacher. Yeah she clearly loves music because it’s her escape from her difficult life, but the movie did nothing to make me feel like she needs to dedicate her life to music. It’s not awful, like I obviously sympathize with their situation and there are a couple of scenes that are kind of interesting, but it comes off like it’s trying to get me to cry rather than naturally making me feel something.
Jackson Littlewood
2022-04-05 21:26:57 +0000 UTCLala Land It’s derivative and uninspired in every way. The struggling coffee shop waitress trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. The “White” jazz musican who wants to play “real” jazz! The dream sequence at the end that’s all in someone’s head. The faux “this is harkens back to classic musicals” Oh boy. I would kind of sort of forgive all the corny cliches if the film actually embraced being a big spectacle musical. But the song numbers are not only weak and not memorable at all imo, but they are few and far between. Also Gosling and Emma Stones “amazing chemistry” did I see the same movie as everyone one else?!!! Just whack!
jared Clarke
2022-04-05 21:13:43 +0000 UTCI have no idea why The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) is hailed as "one of the good ones" when it comes to remakes. To me it embodies everything that was dull and pointless about 2000s horror in both its style and content. It takes one of the most unique and surprisingly visually beautiful horror movies and makes it look hideous by sucking any color out of it and covering the set in this artificial grit and grime that doesn't even begin to feel as authenticly down and dirty as the original film. I just can't figure out what substance the people that praise this remake get from it. I found it soul sucking.
Tyler Shobe
2022-04-05 21:05:20 +0000 UTC
