This is me but with Shawshank Redemption. I get what it was trying to go for but I just didn’t vibe with it. I can appreciate the fact that so many people saw something in it that I didn’t. To me it was decent but by no means one of the best films ever
I reckon I could think of something worse.
When you find mediocrity unacceptable, popular shit doesn’t usually suit your palate. This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
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.
Any of those boring-ass superhero movies. What is so appealing about hour-long GCI fight scenes and no plot?
I think they just forgot the lessons from the earlier movies. They had action but there was a lot of build up so it meant something.
Now you’re just straight into a boring fight scene with no stakes. And somehow the bigger the stakes the less there are because you know they can’t fail.
And now even the rare consequences can be undone through time travel and multiverse bullshit.
That’s the whole thing with Infinity War, they failed hard and that made it a wild story.
I think they fucked up having Endgame the year after infinity War. Should have left it five years or so, and had things happening in between. I feel we missed out on a gritty R-rated, Punisher style, Hawkeye there. It should have had consequences that were left to feel for a bit, rather than instantly going “magic bullshit go” and reversing it all.
But they fucked that by having Spidey get dusted, so they had to bring it back quick otherwise how would they explain how Tom Holland had gone from looking about 14 to being a man.
I do agree we missed a bit of ronin Hawkeye action, and such. They don’t really have an interest in comitting to going that dark.
The colors! it’s so many. Plus there is a plot it’s just not very deep like in a comic book. The whole source material like 20 pages. It’s not novels.
This is very true, but id like to point out its a us comic thing. I’d invite you to read european comics, belgian ones in specific.
The thorgal series, aria, joko tsuno, or hell even the suske & wiske reboot called amoras. They are teen/adult comics that are a lot darker and more flushed out story wise than us hero comicsI will check those out thank you. We have some more advanced ones here as well they just don’t seem to make movies about it unfortunately.
Thats sad because some real adult/darker themed comics that dont follow the superhero theme are real gems. Got some us recommendations?
Never forget the golden rule: DC;RtRR, or
Disregard capeshit; rewatch The Raid Redemption
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.
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!
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.
Quentin Tarantino is just a teenage edgelord with a foot fetish.
Dude, I don’t want to downvote an opinion, but this one is fucking hard.
I apologize for 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.
I hate to be that guy, but wasn’t Death Proof kind of intentionally fucking stupid? Same as Planet Terror which it was bundled with. I always assumed that was the point.
No mention of his foot fetish?
I thought Black Panther was mid at best but it made me sound like a racist whenever I mentioned that.
Ironically, this movie is pretty racist. The opening scene is a cliche basketball scene, and Wakanda, despite being a futuristic society, still uses tribal law and decides its leaders by fighting half naked to the death.
I mean I’m confident they were to fight have naked due to eye candy. That 100% worked on me despite the bland writing.
Aquaman too.
Dudes are out there celebrating some aggressively average movies.
Aquaman
I agree with you in general, but I don’t think you can pin this one on the dudes… or at least not the ones below 3 on the Kinsey scale 😆
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I found it utterly boring, yet everyone seemd to love it, especially my fellow ADHD crowd. I never even bothered finishing the film which is bloody rare for me.
Yet I like mind-bending films like Primer, and chaotic films like Crank, and heck, I even like Battleship as a guilty pleasure that I can turn my brain off to… But this film? Bleh.
I felt mostly the same way watching it, but I also think the ending of the movie is important to understand the soul of it. I wasn’t crazy about the humor or the whole look-how-random-LOL vibe it had, but I do think there was something more beneath that. The performances were also very good.
I didn’t get the hype when I watched it the first time shortly after it was released. But when I rewatched it recently it hit differently. There was less need to try to keep up with all the random things that are happening so fast and instead I focused on the deeper message about the meaning of and the appreciation for our lives with all the good and bad going on.
This is the exact film I came to comment. It tried way too hard to be quirky and rAnDoM.
I liked it, but a lot of it seemed like reddit fan fiction. What if butt plug fight. Imagine they have carrots… Not saussages as fingers. Someone give this man gold.
if i lived life thinking there was something wrong with me just because i don’t like something it seems like everyone else likes, then that would be one miserable existence–no thanks. anyway, for me it was the big lebowski–probably the most boring pointless movie i ever sat through
Well that just like, your opinion man…
The one saving grace of lebowski is that when you bring up not liking it the people who do like it are too busy quoting it to argue with you.
Everything’s a fucking travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about!?
Shut the fuck up Donny
Agreed on both philosophical ground and impression of Lebowski!
You know I feel that way about most David Lynch stuff. It is weird for the sake of weird. It does seem to go anywhere for me. He always has a underlying mythology for his movies that must be dug into just to come away with a basic understanding of the plot.
Thank you. Plus his “best friend” (John Goodman) was a complete dick that did nothing of benefit for him the entire movie.
Haven’t watched it in years though, so I was planning to re-watch and see if my opinion changes.
Parasite for me… I know I’m wrong but I don’t know why.
I almost forgot about this one. I think that’s telling…
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.
The Deadpool Movies, just don’t get them for some reason.
Feel like there’s no real plot, nothing really matters, the humor is family guy level cameos and 4th wall breaks that are only funny when used sparingly.
It’s like eating an Oreo but we took out the cookie so now you’re just OD’ing on stuffing and not in a good way.
The “humor” is just Ryan being Ryan. He is a mean guy. It’s funny on screen but IRL he is just that rude and gross to everyone without discrimination. I had to work with him twice and I dislike him. His wife is the same way. They are just objectively cruel for no reason. Which is funny when you’re acting on screen only.
Deadpool the character is an asshole, so it makes sense he’d be good at playing him.
Avatar. Technically the 3D was fun, but I can’t understand any of the rabid fandom.
i don’t think I’ve ever seen a rabbid Fandom around it.
it was just an easy approachable pretty movie for the masses. with a massive budget and a very well known director it brought people in to see the best visuals hollywood sfx had at the time. that’s basically how it was marketed, as a tech demo.
I’ve never once seen anyone fanboy about it. it sold well, but didn’t excite many.
on three other hand, avatar the last air bender has a massive and rabid fandom.
don’t think I’ve ever seen a rabbid Fandom around it.
were you around when the movie was just released?
There was an insane weird fandom around it. From people just loving it to full on navi otherkin-ing. People getting depressed and suicidal to not live in that world. And I’m not talking about a handfull of people but quite a large group.
i was around then, I’ve just never met anyone who cared about that movie.
if there were clips going around of people dressing up like that I’d chalk that up to being a marketing campaign.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rabbid Fandom around it.
Avatar is the second-highest-grossing movie of all time, folk can’t seem to get enough of the science fiction epic and are going back for repeat viewings.
it sold well, but didn’t excite many.
Which is why I list it here.
It’s the second highest grossing movie of all time, yet no one who has watched it can quote a single line from it, or recall the name of any character.
Avatar: The Way of Water is 3rd highest grossing (Ignoring inflation) so it’s not just the 3D part.
And people cosplay it frequently.
I really don’t get it.
Huh, I certainly can’t. The only name that I can recall is “unobtanium” because it’s so stupid. “Big dumb movie that has good visuals” has always been my estimation of it.
It was a pretty awesome experience to see in theaters at the time. The story was ass even then but the affects were amazing enough to carry it. My GF at the time and I went back twice to see it. Watching it on a regular screen these days it’s completely forgettable.
Nobody actually liked that (Either the Kevin Costner one or the blue remake).
It’s very true that “it was just Dances With Wolves in space,” but Dances With Wolves is a good story. A good story + decent directing + pretty visuals = a movie that’s at least decent, if not mind-blowing or whatever.
Avatar 2, on the other hand, definitely suffered story-wise.
“Dances With Smurfs,” as South Park put it.
I thought it was Fern Gully.
None of yall know how to spell Pocahontas right.
Hard agree. Just generic sci-fi with obvious themes and plot.
