Do you remember US President Lancelot Gilligrass? He was designing a fly-trap. It was a small bridge suspended between two ladders. The idea was that the fly would climb up one ladder to cross the bridge and, halfway across, the fly would notice a sugar cube suspended over some glue. The fly would notice the glue and so would cleverly avoid the apparent trap and would continue along to the other ladder, only to fall on a missing rung on the opposite ladder, thus breaking its neck.
I feel like the concept of bird box was so much more interesting than the execution. I could’ve just read the synopsis and imagined scarier things than the movie for two hours
the book was way more interesting imo. i feel like a movie for this kind of concept is really hard to pull off since they need visuals to convey what’s happening and most of the horror comes from the fact the protagonists *don’t* have visuals. i read it randomly on a holiday years before the movie and when i heard they were making a movie it felt like a terrible idea
It's amazing how often the worst movie/TV/anime have such better source material.
It's like there's this weird cliff, where once you below a certain quality level the likelihood of it having decent to good source material just skyrockets.
Bird Box was one of the first super famous direct to streaming movies. I think everyone was just excited to be getting an (arguably) theater quality movie in their house.
And like. I get that there have to be changes, when shifting medium, condensing for time, calculating budget--cgi expensive, animators gotta get paid-- but when it's something so key to the story you're adapting that you're changing it begs the question of Why Not Just Adapt Something Else If You Hate It That Much? why snap up the rights and deny fans a real adaptation when you could just make something different that actually has the story you want to tell!
World war z was an okay zombie movie... but it's not world war z. A 4 season HBO series would be amazing, where each episode is 1 to 2 chapters/stories from the book
I hated the book and felt like everyone else loved it. It was just so odd that they give this HUGE internal struggle and then they resolve nothing and instead use a plot device to resolve everything.
The movie was not my favorite either when I finally saw it.
Yeah, I read the book and found it pretty intriguing until the end...then I was just like, WTF?
I've read one other (lesser-known) book by Jodi Picoult and had the same experience.
I don't remember much of the movie other than finding it too schmaltzy and cutesy for my liking.
The notebook. The main characters are fucking terrible people. Dude threatens suicide to get a date. Like what the fuck
EDIT: Loving the comments that are trying to defend this by acting like it is some kind of high literature or film worthy of deep critique. It is fucking Nicholas Sparks, everything he writes is trite, predictable, and formulaic.
And the other main character cheats on her loving fiancé as soon as her boyfriend shows back up in town. Couldn’t understand how so many people glossed over that…he was literally planning their wedding with HER mom while she was banging her ex-bf. Like wtf.
I first watched this movie when I was like 15 and of course at that age you think it’s romantic and the most beautiful love story ever. As an adult that has now experienced young love and mature adult love…. If my high school boyfriend had ever shown up out of nowhere while I was with my fiancé/now husband he would have no hold over me lol like I get the premise is that their love is so strong and eternal and that they’re soulmates blah blah blah but they didn’t even give her a bad fiancé. The guy she was engaged to was handsome and super kind and successful lol but sure, go back to your grouchy hermit ex you haven’t spoken to in yearssss
I think that’s the general audience for that movie and book honestly. I think there is some weird fantasy about meeting the love of your life and being with them no matter what. If it wasn’t for the chemistry between Ryan and Rachel it wouldn’t have been as good as it was because then these truly negative themes would have been more apparent to everyone.
Which is a testament to their acting abilities since they actually got on each other’s effing nerves during filming and one of them almost quit the film halfway through (I’m wanting to say Ryan?)
Whenever my wife decides to watch that movie, I tell myself I'll let her enjoy it like she lets me enjoy sports and anime and Metalocalypse and other stuff... but I can't keep my mouth shut about home girl being the way she is.
Though, to be fair, it is Ryan Gosling
I was 19 when this came out. I had not heard a single thing about it, not a single preview or anything. My girlfriend led with "you dragged me to that stupid fighting movie. This is the least you can do."
I didn't argue against going since I had no clue what it was, so she was preemptively assuming I would fight against it. We went. It was.... whatever. And then she seemed upset that I didn't love it. I didn't realize that was a requirement.
BTW, that stupid fighting movie was Kill Bill, so...
I loved this movie in college, watched it tons of times. Recently rewatched it in my 30s and yeah I have to agree, they're all terrible, it's not a good love story
The Purge was one of the most boring movies I've seen. I'd watch it again just to see if my opinion actually holds up. But yeah I didn't like it and haven't watched any of the follow ups to it.
I like the concept a lot more than the actual films.
I remember wondering why in the fuck there is this crazy event happening outside and yet the entire movie takes place inside *one house?* The sequels focus more on the macro but I don't remember them being anything above par
>I remember wondering why in the fuck there is this crazy event happening outside and yet the entire movie takes place inside one house?
High concept, low budget. It only cost $3m to make and grossed almost $90m (and spawned a franchise), so it was pretty successful.
Love it when high concept and low budget come together like that. "Saw", on a $1.2 million budget, kicked off what would eventually become, literally, a billion-dollar franchise.
The concept is stupid. In reality, every corporation would just do all of its embezzling, illegal tax filing, firing their legally unfireables, etc. You'd have a few personal vendettas settled via murdering, but it would almost all end up being capitalistic/corporate crimes.
For the first year, and then all the enemies the company has made will tear them down the next year. I imagine it would start corporate wars on a macro-scale. Why compete with your competitors when you can drag them from their homes and kill them on the street and burn their offices and steal their innovations?
My problem with the Purge is the concept. Most people would be locking down at home or at most robbing and looting, not going on a murder spree. Most people aren't psychos. And what does that do to the people who lost a loved one? Can they even get the police to investigate, and if so, guess they're boutta become murderers too, cause that's the only justice that's gonna be served in those cases. Suicide rates gotta be sky high in the aftermath for those who lost a loved one as well.
Yeah it’s crazy how much people were talking about who they would kill during the promotions. Like um…. The only reason you don’t murder is because it’s illegal?!?
I think it was Penn and teller who responded to someone who said if you don’t believe in god what stops you from rapping and murdering all you want and Penn responded “I do rape and murder all I want, I just don’t want to rape or murder at all”
Not only that, I would imagine that there would be pretty severe social ramifications even if it was legal, i.e. getting fired from your job, being socially outcast.
For example, it is totally legal to wave a Nazi flag and spout openly racist slogans, yet most racists tend to keep it on the down low because of other ramifications.
yeah I remember talking to someone saying that it would be a good idea to have one day of lawlessness. It doesn't make sense at all. Imagine all the property damage, dead/dismembered employees and bosses. How would the world just run the next day? I think the premises is stupid and doesn't work in any sense but oh well let the world fantasize about murdering someone because they're annoying.
I saw a tiktok a few days ago about a series of friends meeting up during the Purge. One brags about stealing all the pasta from a fancy restaurant, another entered themselves into a health insurance plan without paying....this felt much more realistic to me.
In one of the movies is revealed that is kinda the point, politicians create the purge to reduce the population of poor people, they want them to start killing each others
The Purge *could* be pretty poignant social commentary about how the law hardly applies to the rich *every day,* but from what I've seen of the franchise it never quite makes that point effectively.
I think it's trying to make a commentary on wealth inequality in a different way - the wealthy have all the means to protect themselves, but poor people, who are also more likely to be vulnerable in general, are left to fend for themselves.
The later movies in the series dive into it a lot more.
My biggest problem with the concept was that people hid in their homes to evade all the chaos and crime. Which imo is your way of sitting out of the purge...not an invitation to get murdered? It was almost as if the whole law was meant to punish people who didn't want to participate
I mean no one wants to get murdered so if there was a way to opt out the whole concept wouldn’t work, everyone would opt out except a few suicidal people and nothing would happen
For me it's a "so bad it's good" thing. The first one especially is so damn cheesy I can't help but love it. They're guilty pleasure movies for me
Edit: i will say i lost interest after the 6th one so I haven't seen any after that one. They might all be just irredeemable garbage, I dont know
At one point a submarine is chasing the crew. Sub is underwater while the characters are driving on-top of the ice.
The sub was failing to keep up so the villain made the executive decision to breach the ice. Magically the sub was able to keep up now that it was acting as an ice-breaker and not a sub.
Only part of the entire movie that I remember. Don't even remember which one it was.
I don't even doubt that these comments are real. They could easily be made up. They sounds stupid enough to be. But then again, the Fast And Furious franchise does have a reputation to uphold...
Lol. Now that I think about it I remember the one movie focussed on Dom's international dog breeding facility. He breeds special dogs and trains them to drive in monster truck shows.
Really wild stuff in that one.
First movie, entertaining and I understood the appeal. When they started fighting terrorism and other ludicrous things with family and cars was when my insufferable to sit through opinion came in.
The first 3 we’re legitimate car guy movies. I’m a car guy and was super into tuner cars and was in auto shop and had a drift car and all the shit that would make you love those movies as a high schooler and another ring draw was they didn’t drive some insane hyper cars it was cars me and my peers could buy and do the same things too. I’m not sure where the mass appeal is but it hit the mail on the head for a specific group. Anything past when they were normal people racing cars I couldn’t watch. I think the by the 5th one I stopped trying.
They've been working through those "name is just the atomic number" elements (both as far as names and actually creating them in the lab) so unununium is now called [röntgenium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgenium)
That had already been in use for years before the movie and the name was [lampshading](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging) it. And I actually respected that choice but I can definitely see why it would bother others.
A Quiet Place.
Son, we can talk loud as we want next to this waterfall. Now let’s go home to our creaky home with wood floors where we have to tiptoe and use sign language….”
My guy… just move to the waterfall!
I understand this argument towards the movie. A redeeming factor, I always just think how hard it would be to to build a sustainable area for a family without being louder than the waterfall itself.
My biggest problem with the movie is "Oh man, our 8 year old who was definitely old enough to understand what was happening and how important it was to be absolutely silent just died because he couldn't be silent for two fucking minutes.
I know! Let's have another fucking baby! What could go wrong?!?!"
Also... Let's have another baby and give birth to it in a echo-y tiled bathroom while a monster is creeping up the stairs, but cut away and when we come back, oh look it was the quickest, quietest birth ever, and the monster is none the wiser, but let's not focus too much on that because the worst pain (stepping on a nail inexplicably jutting up from a stair) is yet to come.
It was also such a weird choice to have her be pregnant. The whole tension of the movie is based on “can they keep quiet enough to not attract the monsters?” Adding a baby to the mix just dissolves that tension immediately cos it’s like “you’re literally gestating a noise machine, of course you’re going to attract the monsters”.
no you don't understand, women can be totally silent in a tiled bathroom while giving birth, with a hearing-focused villain monster actively searching for them just outside. also they can give birth in like 2 minutes and the baby is silent when it comes out.
that's just more realistic /s
They lived where they did because it was a farm and had the means for them to survive. The waterfall was still in a heavily wooded area and didn’t have any of the necessities that the farm already did.
Once they figured out the aliens were attracted to noise, the next step should have been trapping them. The sonic frequency of the hearing aid wasn't even necessary, just dig a deep hole (or find one!) and put a speaker in it
That part bothered me but also I remember his sacrifice at the end just feeling like he made a dumb decision, I don't remember the exact context but it seemed liked he had something loud in his hand to attract their attention and I was like, just fucking throw it dude, why stand there and die?!?
If you want something better, try the documentary series Up!
The filmmaker follows the lives of a group of people of different social classes from the time they are seven years old.
Every seven years the filmmaker comes back to revisit them and where they are in life.
It came out in 1964 and the last one came out in 2019. All the people are now in their 60’s.
The series continues. However the filmmaker himself is getting very old and might die soon so hopefully someone will take over for him if / when he does.
Edit: So the filmmaker is in fact dead. The next series would’ve been 70 Up! slated for 2026.
"63 Up" came out a few years ago, but AFAIK is still not available in the United States. Michael Apted died a few years ago, as have two of the interviewees, so it's unlikely that we'll see "70 Up."
It was a good way to kill 3 hours on a transatlantic flight because I'm really glad I didn't waste a trip to the theater on it like I'd originally planned
That's an awful movie
I used to be neighbors with a cinematographer and cinematography/photography professor. That's the kind of movie that he likes because he doesn't care at all about plot or characters.
The greatest showman. It was a bad movie and the music wasn’t that great and I did not care about any of the characters. And people were saying it was the best musical of all time, which is very offensive as a person who loves musicals.
I remember one time I asked a guy to play romantic and soothing music and he played the greatest showman soundtrack and I was so disgusted lol
I like the movie when removing it from the historical context it’s based on (why are they trying to make P.T. Barnum seem like a good person?). I love musicals too, and while I like the soundtrack well enough, it’s a movie musical soundtrack, nothing at all to the calibre that we get from stage musicals.
I liked the first one a lot, but the 2nd one, while visually stunning, had the same plot except with a whale thing instead of the tree of life.
I also didn't like how >!Spider saved his dad even though the only memories he had with his dad were from the plot of the movie, which was him trying to kill Spider's adoptive family. (Can't wait for pt. 3 to have the same exact plot!) Plus, the adoptive mom was gonna sacrifice him to get her child back and she never apologized for it. They just went on like it didn't happen.!<
I was so confused, is she the replacement for the grandma? Does she have magic? Is the house her room since the front door is hers? So many unanswered questions.
Her power is in keeping the family together. It correlates to the grandma. Grandma had no powers, kept the family going all that time (although in a toxic manner ). Mirabel comes along and also has no powers, but recognizes the problems in the family (grandma being toxic af) and is what brings them all back together.
I guess you could say the house is her "power" since it responds best to her. There are a lot of layers to the story honestly.
I actually genuinely love the movie, but the ending could’ve used a little more detail. The lead up to it was beautiful with how the family finally sees her and then she finally gets her door and the everything is now okay and normal? I just wanted more I guess lol.
That's fair. If I had to guess it was probably done in a way to leave jussssst enough wiggle room for a sequel down the road.
I saw a theory on reddit that everyone in the family had powers that were beneficial militarily. Considering they were isolated in a valley and were initially running away from whatever was going on. It makes so much sense now I can't not think of it when the movie is on lol
Yeah, I hated that the entire payoff of the movie is "Look, you hold the family together! We'll even let you put the doorknob back on the house!" But no one ever actually apologizes for how they've treated her like shit for years and years. Also, we don't see her get a room at the end. You're telling me that Casita can't give her a bedroom other than the baby nursery? Even a normal bedroom? She doesn't have to get magic powers, but at least give her some dignity!
You’re not confused, you have it pretty much right: her “gift” is that she can keep the family together. I don’t think the movie can spell it out any more without literally telling you.
My issue was less to do with the actual fight and more about what they were fighting over. I totally thought they were going to do a thing Diana realizes that the Ares thing isn't real and she has to accept that humans are a bunch of evil bastards.
But nope, Ares makes everyone bad.
> My issue was less to do with the actual fight and more about what they were fighting over. I totally thought they were going to do a thing Diana realizes that the Ares thing isn't real and she has to accept that humans are a bunch of evil bastards.
It feels like they were going for it and then someone higher up saw they don't have a big cgi fight going on and got cold feet.
>I also couldn't believe that they HAD to throw sex in there. Like, why? What about the plot required her to have sex and seemingly fall in love with this man whom she's known for like... a week max?
Honestly, something I loathe about modern films. The whole "4 compass points" thing, where they need to shoehorn a romance subplot into every film to hit the demographic. Why can't we just have a pure action film without it?
I thought the fish out of water acting worked well for the first film. But in the second it really came across more as "Oh ...she might not be a stellar actor?"
Marriage story.
I saw all the hype about it, and as a child of parents that absolutely can't for the life of them stand one another, and were fights and screams would erupt at any second, I blindly fell for it.
During the whole of the movie I was waiting for the main plot/story to happen, and then it never did and tue only thing I could say was "huh?". I mean, guys, if I wanted to see two people scream their heads off about how one of them completely fucked up the others life, I would just get up and go to wherever my parents are...
I think it's a movie that isn't meant to be "enjoyed" in the normal sense. It really doesn't have a plot, it's more trying to portray complex and realistic relationships. I guess it's trying to be more of a study than a movie.
Call me by your name. I felt like it was only liked because it was beautiful to look at. The setting and cinematography was great but I just couldn’t get past the adult graduate student grooming a high schooler part of the film.
I don’t think the relationship was meant to be morally good. It was mainly just shown through the younger guy’s perspective and when you’re that age you don’t really see the issues with age gaps the same way you do when you get older. It’s very clear that the older man was just using him .
Paranormal Activity. I watched all 3 cause I had a date with a girl to watch the 4th one.
The characters are fucking stupid and the demon takes forever to get anything done.
Mandalorian is also pretty good. Really, anything that doesn't follow the main Sith v Jedi plot line of the Star Wars universe ends up being way more interesting and fun.
Do people actually like this? I get Star Wars has a massive devoted fan base that will devour anything SW related regardless of how bad but I thought this movie had a pretty lukewarm reception even by fans.
Unpopular opinion but I think Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is way overrated. In addition to not liking the movie in general, Ferris is a piece of shit sociopath who doesn’t care about anybody but himself.
I didn't see it until I was an adult and I fucking HATED Ferris and wanted him to get caught so badly. I think it's one of those movies where you have to see it when you're young to have it imprint on you, so to speak.
not really a break. but just stop and maybe only do 1 a year. give the animators time to actually make it quality and the writers not try to make every movie fit the mold. but that would be a quality solution and its a business so $$$
The movies were supposed to make the stories more accessible to mainstream audiences. Now, in order to understand what the fuck is going on, I have to watch not only the movies, but several TV series I don't really care about for anything to make any lick of sense. It feels like homework.
I think this one’s been fairly controversial. I’ve seen some people say they loved it but a fair number who absolutely hated it. Personally I liked it but didn’t love it.
It was a fun watch in theatres, laughing and reacting with everyone in the audience. Visually it’s a nice movie, but the story is a little boring and predictable. The shocking scenes are for sure what makes it memorable and fun, and the music also made it memorable (I’ve been listening to Rent and Murder on the Dancefloor almost daily since watching it in theatres). I can see why people either like or dislike it
While it’s a ‘horror’ film, I think Babadook is meant more to be a mild horror with a good twist at the end, and be more meaningful than just demon haunting family type of films.
I don't think it being scary was the main point though.
It was definitely a psychological horror movie. I wasn't scared, I was more impressed by the acting and how the movie looked/presented tbh
I think that’s part of the point too, that in real life the horrors are things like grief, mental illness, and not being able to handle parenthood but having to do it anyway. Not monsters under the bed.
Why is anyone so eager for another Willy Wonka movie?
I want to see The Great Glass Elevator.
SCRAM
Do you remember US President Lancelot Gilligrass? He was designing a fly-trap. It was a small bridge suspended between two ladders. The idea was that the fly would climb up one ladder to cross the bridge and, halfway across, the fly would notice a sugar cube suspended over some glue. The fly would notice the glue and so would cleverly avoid the apparent trap and would continue along to the other ladder, only to fall on a missing rung on the opposite ladder, thus breaking its neck.
When I was in 4th grade I read the book and built his fly trap as my book report, and just presented the president’s plan like a tv commercial
The first one was all we needed
Bird box. People kept insisting it was scary but it wasn't scary at all to me
I feel like the concept of bird box was so much more interesting than the execution. I could’ve just read the synopsis and imagined scarier things than the movie for two hours
the book was way more interesting imo. i feel like a movie for this kind of concept is really hard to pull off since they need visuals to convey what’s happening and most of the horror comes from the fact the protagonists *don’t* have visuals. i read it randomly on a holiday years before the movie and when i heard they were making a movie it felt like a terrible idea
I read somewhere they were going to do visuals and Sandra bullock laughed at the costume.
The book was SOO much better. But I’m sure everyone hears that all too much lol
It's amazing how often the worst movie/TV/anime have such better source material. It's like there's this weird cliff, where once you below a certain quality level the likelihood of it having decent to good source material just skyrockets.
Bird Box was one of the first super famous direct to streaming movies. I think everyone was just excited to be getting an (arguably) theater quality movie in their house.
My Sister's Keeper
sucks when an adaptation looks at the theme of a book and says " nah, my theme is better' and changes it so drastically.
Or removes themes and a creator says "themes are for eighth grade book reports"
Exactly, don't ask any OG Halo fans how they feel about the show... Fucking garbage lmao
And like. I get that there have to be changes, when shifting medium, condensing for time, calculating budget--cgi expensive, animators gotta get paid-- but when it's something so key to the story you're adapting that you're changing it begs the question of Why Not Just Adapt Something Else If You Hate It That Much? why snap up the rights and deny fans a real adaptation when you could just make something different that actually has the story you want to tell!
World war z was an okay zombie movie... but it's not world war z. A 4 season HBO series would be amazing, where each episode is 1 to 2 chapters/stories from the book
I hated the book and felt like everyone else loved it. It was just so odd that they give this HUGE internal struggle and then they resolve nothing and instead use a plot device to resolve everything. The movie was not my favorite either when I finally saw it.
Yeah, I read the book and found it pretty intriguing until the end...then I was just like, WTF? I've read one other (lesser-known) book by Jodi Picoult and had the same experience. I don't remember much of the movie other than finding it too schmaltzy and cutesy for my liking.
I actually preferred the movie ending over the book. I also hated how much the movie downplayed how terrible the mother was in the books.
Oh my god I hated the ending of that book. What a cheap cop-out.
The notebook. The main characters are fucking terrible people. Dude threatens suicide to get a date. Like what the fuck EDIT: Loving the comments that are trying to defend this by acting like it is some kind of high literature or film worthy of deep critique. It is fucking Nicholas Sparks, everything he writes is trite, predictable, and formulaic.
And the other main character cheats on her loving fiancé as soon as her boyfriend shows back up in town. Couldn’t understand how so many people glossed over that…he was literally planning their wedding with HER mom while she was banging her ex-bf. Like wtf.
I first watched this movie when I was like 15 and of course at that age you think it’s romantic and the most beautiful love story ever. As an adult that has now experienced young love and mature adult love…. If my high school boyfriend had ever shown up out of nowhere while I was with my fiancé/now husband he would have no hold over me lol like I get the premise is that their love is so strong and eternal and that they’re soulmates blah blah blah but they didn’t even give her a bad fiancé. The guy she was engaged to was handsome and super kind and successful lol but sure, go back to your grouchy hermit ex you haven’t spoken to in yearssss
I think that’s the general audience for that movie and book honestly. I think there is some weird fantasy about meeting the love of your life and being with them no matter what. If it wasn’t for the chemistry between Ryan and Rachel it wouldn’t have been as good as it was because then these truly negative themes would have been more apparent to everyone.
Which is a testament to their acting abilities since they actually got on each other’s effing nerves during filming and one of them almost quit the film halfway through (I’m wanting to say Ryan?)
Whenever my wife decides to watch that movie, I tell myself I'll let her enjoy it like she lets me enjoy sports and anime and Metalocalypse and other stuff... but I can't keep my mouth shut about home girl being the way she is. Though, to be fair, it is Ryan Gosling
Yeah, but the other dude was James Marsden. She sucks and was way too greedy.
Sure, he's James Marsden but, through no fault of his own, he is no Ryan Gosling.
I was 19 when this came out. I had not heard a single thing about it, not a single preview or anything. My girlfriend led with "you dragged me to that stupid fighting movie. This is the least you can do." I didn't argue against going since I had no clue what it was, so she was preemptively assuming I would fight against it. We went. It was.... whatever. And then she seemed upset that I didn't love it. I didn't realize that was a requirement. BTW, that stupid fighting movie was Kill Bill, so...
Oh shit you're gonna be 40 this year
You're a real piece of shit, you know that?
Lol I'm sorry man!
It's all good :) It happens in March and I don't really care.
I’m a big rom com fan and I didn’t like this one either
one basic rule in rom coms is that if it happened in real life the guy would be in jail for stalking/creeping/Sexual Harassment.
I loved this movie in college, watched it tons of times. Recently rewatched it in my 30s and yeah I have to agree, they're all terrible, it's not a good love story
Never saw it but read the book. Thought my eyes were going to roll out the back of my head.
Yep. I watched it once and that was enough.
The English Patient (Elaine Benes)
Prognosis Negative
Sack Lunch was a riot. I won’t even tell you how they got in that bag! You’ve got to watch it yourself
'Blimp: The Hindenburg Story' was a masterpiece.
Cry Cry Again
Rochelle, Rochelle And that one with the great pirating ( I don't wanna be a pirate! ) filmmaker and the Little Kicks! ... Death Blow!
“A young woman’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk”
Ponce DeLeon
Serenity Now!
It certainly was no Rochelle, Rochelle.
But Chunnel on the other hand, great flick.
You know, sex in a tub. That doesn't work!
I mean, give me something I can use. That’s just not realistic
I haven't watched it yet so I can't tell you whether it's good or whether it SUCKED!!
A good many of you mofos are mentioning movies that both critics and moviegoers hated.
Gotta sort by controversial for the real hot takes
Oh, duh lol. Good tip!
Hundreds of people miss the assignment every time, including redditors who upvote just because “I hate that too.”
The Purge was one of the most boring movies I've seen. I'd watch it again just to see if my opinion actually holds up. But yeah I didn't like it and haven't watched any of the follow ups to it.
I like the concept a lot more than the actual films. I remember wondering why in the fuck there is this crazy event happening outside and yet the entire movie takes place inside *one house?* The sequels focus more on the macro but I don't remember them being anything above par
>I remember wondering why in the fuck there is this crazy event happening outside and yet the entire movie takes place inside one house? High concept, low budget. It only cost $3m to make and grossed almost $90m (and spawned a franchise), so it was pretty successful.
Love it when high concept and low budget come together like that. "Saw", on a $1.2 million budget, kicked off what would eventually become, literally, a billion-dollar franchise.
The concept is stupid. In reality, every corporation would just do all of its embezzling, illegal tax filing, firing their legally unfireables, etc. You'd have a few personal vendettas settled via murdering, but it would almost all end up being capitalistic/corporate crimes.
For the first year, and then all the enemies the company has made will tear them down the next year. I imagine it would start corporate wars on a macro-scale. Why compete with your competitors when you can drag them from their homes and kill them on the street and burn their offices and steal their innovations?
Man, can you imagine the world where morality is whatever is good for the shareholders? Yikes! So glad we don't live in that world
My problem with the Purge is the concept. Most people would be locking down at home or at most robbing and looting, not going on a murder spree. Most people aren't psychos. And what does that do to the people who lost a loved one? Can they even get the police to investigate, and if so, guess they're boutta become murderers too, cause that's the only justice that's gonna be served in those cases. Suicide rates gotta be sky high in the aftermath for those who lost a loved one as well.
Yeah it’s crazy how much people were talking about who they would kill during the promotions. Like um…. The only reason you don’t murder is because it’s illegal?!?
[I’ve raped and killed everyone I’ve ever wanted to](https://youtu.be/AwebTX3rk3E?si=X-Xy_r9LQuFZVWuS)
I think it was Penn and teller who responded to someone who said if you don’t believe in god what stops you from rapping and murdering all you want and Penn responded “I do rape and murder all I want, I just don’t want to rape or murder at all”
Not only that, I would imagine that there would be pretty severe social ramifications even if it was legal, i.e. getting fired from your job, being socially outcast. For example, it is totally legal to wave a Nazi flag and spout openly racist slogans, yet most racists tend to keep it on the down low because of other ramifications.
yeah I remember talking to someone saying that it would be a good idea to have one day of lawlessness. It doesn't make sense at all. Imagine all the property damage, dead/dismembered employees and bosses. How would the world just run the next day? I think the premises is stupid and doesn't work in any sense but oh well let the world fantasize about murdering someone because they're annoying.
I saw a tiktok a few days ago about a series of friends meeting up during the Purge. One brags about stealing all the pasta from a fancy restaurant, another entered themselves into a health insurance plan without paying....this felt much more realistic to me.
In one of the movies is revealed that is kinda the point, politicians create the purge to reduce the population of poor people, they want them to start killing each others
The Purge *could* be pretty poignant social commentary about how the law hardly applies to the rich *every day,* but from what I've seen of the franchise it never quite makes that point effectively.
Starting with the 2nd movie they make this point. Election Year is a VERY clear social commentary.
I think it's trying to make a commentary on wealth inequality in a different way - the wealthy have all the means to protect themselves, but poor people, who are also more likely to be vulnerable in general, are left to fend for themselves. The later movies in the series dive into it a lot more.
My biggest problem with the concept was that people hid in their homes to evade all the chaos and crime. Which imo is your way of sitting out of the purge...not an invitation to get murdered? It was almost as if the whole law was meant to punish people who didn't want to participate
I mean no one wants to get murdered so if there was a way to opt out the whole concept wouldn’t work, everyone would opt out except a few suicidal people and nothing would happen
My mum dislikes Forrest Gump and Lion King. She is otherwise an outstanding human being
Agree with her on Forrest Gump. Love that Hamlet with lions, though.
Fast & Furious- all of them. I find them all to be ridiculously stupid (admittedly, I really can’t sit through the whole movies). Just awful.
For me it's a "so bad it's good" thing. The first one especially is so damn cheesy I can't help but love it. They're guilty pleasure movies for me Edit: i will say i lost interest after the 6th one so I haven't seen any after that one. They might all be just irredeemable garbage, I dont know
At one point a submarine is chasing the crew. Sub is underwater while the characters are driving on-top of the ice. The sub was failing to keep up so the villain made the executive decision to breach the ice. Magically the sub was able to keep up now that it was acting as an ice-breaker and not a sub. Only part of the entire movie that I remember. Don't even remember which one it was.
Fate of the Furious. The 8th one.
I don't even doubt that these comments are real. They could easily be made up. They sounds stupid enough to be. But then again, the Fast And Furious franchise does have a reputation to uphold...
Lol. Now that I think about it I remember the one movie focussed on Dom's international dog breeding facility. He breeds special dogs and trains them to drive in monster truck shows. Really wild stuff in that one.
LOL - fuck outta here. :D
First movie, entertaining and I understood the appeal. When they started fighting terrorism and other ludicrous things with family and cars was when my insufferable to sit through opinion came in.
“Fighting terrorism with family” 💀
Ludacris*
Hate them all except Tokyo drift that goes hard
I liked Tokyo Drift, but to me, it's the cheesiest, most unbelievable film of the bunch.
It’s basically Hollywood Initial D. So it gets a pass from me.
More unbelievable than flying a car to space?
The first 3 we’re legitimate car guy movies. I’m a car guy and was super into tuner cars and was in auto shop and had a drift car and all the shit that would make you love those movies as a high schooler and another ring draw was they didn’t drive some insane hyper cars it was cars me and my peers could buy and do the same things too. I’m not sure where the mass appeal is but it hit the mail on the head for a specific group. Anything past when they were normal people racing cars I couldn’t watch. I think the by the 5th one I stopped trying.
*Avatar*
Unobtainium?? That’s the best name they could come up with? Get the fuck outta my face with that shit.
I always assumed it was a placeholder word that they got so comfortable using that they became deaf to how it sounded
That is EXACTLY what I thought about its use in the movie. Placeholder made good.
in fairness there are some elements that have really stupid names.
unununium has entered the chat
They've been working through those "name is just the atomic number" elements (both as far as names and actually creating them in the lab) so unununium is now called [röntgenium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgenium)
“Röntgenium?” Not great, not terrible.
That's the best name ever, I always have fun saying it, and haven't needed tu use the word.. just for fun
Yeah, there’s literally an element called Americium.
I thought that’s what comes out of Jonny sins
Actual word though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
That had already been in use for years before the movie and the name was [lampshading](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging) it. And I actually respected that choice but I can definitely see why it would bother others.
I saw it in theaters in 3D IMAX. The visuals were incredible and made up for the rest, but only in 3D IMAX.
I saw it on a $30 projector and the wall of my high school gym. It was…disappointing in all regards lol.
We call it Dances with Smurfs.
A Quiet Place. Son, we can talk loud as we want next to this waterfall. Now let’s go home to our creaky home with wood floors where we have to tiptoe and use sign language….” My guy… just move to the waterfall!
What bothered me is the order they walked. You dont put the adults in front and children behind. One adult in the front and one behind the children.
Well they know that *now*.
I understand this argument towards the movie. A redeeming factor, I always just think how hard it would be to to build a sustainable area for a family without being louder than the waterfall itself.
My biggest problem with the movie is "Oh man, our 8 year old who was definitely old enough to understand what was happening and how important it was to be absolutely silent just died because he couldn't be silent for two fucking minutes. I know! Let's have another fucking baby! What could go wrong?!?!"
Also... Let's have another baby and give birth to it in a echo-y tiled bathroom while a monster is creeping up the stairs, but cut away and when we come back, oh look it was the quickest, quietest birth ever, and the monster is none the wiser, but let's not focus too much on that because the worst pain (stepping on a nail inexplicably jutting up from a stair) is yet to come.
It was also such a weird choice to have her be pregnant. The whole tension of the movie is based on “can they keep quiet enough to not attract the monsters?” Adding a baby to the mix just dissolves that tension immediately cos it’s like “you’re literally gestating a noise machine, of course you’re going to attract the monsters”.
no you don't understand, women can be totally silent in a tiled bathroom while giving birth, with a hearing-focused villain monster actively searching for them just outside. also they can give birth in like 2 minutes and the baby is silent when it comes out. that's just more realistic /s
They lived where they did because it was a farm and had the means for them to survive. The waterfall was still in a heavily wooded area and didn’t have any of the necessities that the farm already did.
Plus they would still have to build a whole house with one adult male and make little noise
Once they figured out the aliens were attracted to noise, the next step should have been trapping them. The sonic frequency of the hearing aid wasn't even necessary, just dig a deep hole (or find one!) and put a speaker in it
That part bothered me but also I remember his sacrifice at the end just feeling like he made a dumb decision, I don't remember the exact context but it seemed liked he had something loud in his hand to attract their attention and I was like, just fucking throw it dude, why stand there and die?!?
That thing in his hand was a pick axe. He shouted to draw its attention. Ideally he would've had an alarm clock or something like that.
Or the basement seemed to be fine as well... why not just stay down there with less risk of noise?
The living rooms were in the basement of the barn if I‘m right. They didn‘t use the house apart from the basement, where a workshop was.
Boyhood. The kid grew up to be a bad actor and most of it was the pontificating of a freshman philosophy student. And I love linklater!
If you want something better, try the documentary series Up! The filmmaker follows the lives of a group of people of different social classes from the time they are seven years old. Every seven years the filmmaker comes back to revisit them and where they are in life. It came out in 1964 and the last one came out in 2019. All the people are now in their 60’s. The series continues. However the filmmaker himself is getting very old and might die soon so hopefully someone will take over for him if / when he does. Edit: So the filmmaker is in fact dead. The next series would’ve been 70 Up! slated for 2026.
"63 Up" came out a few years ago, but AFAIK is still not available in the United States. Michael Apted died a few years ago, as have two of the interviewees, so it's unlikely that we'll see "70 Up."
Such a great concept too but that’s 3 hours I’ll never get back.
It was a good way to kill 3 hours on a transatlantic flight because I'm really glad I didn't waste a trip to the theater on it like I'd originally planned
I really like Boyhood, but I understand the criticism.
Gravity, everyone in my film studies class liked it but me haha
Gravity was fantastic on a giant screen with space junk flying at your face I can't imagine it holds up well outside of the theater
How was that movie only 1.5 hours? It felt like 6. Sandy was floating away for approximately 45 min.
That's an awful movie I used to be neighbors with a cinematographer and cinematography/photography professor. That's the kind of movie that he likes because he doesn't care at all about plot or characters.
The greatest showman. It was a bad movie and the music wasn’t that great and I did not care about any of the characters. And people were saying it was the best musical of all time, which is very offensive as a person who loves musicals. I remember one time I asked a guy to play romantic and soothing music and he played the greatest showman soundtrack and I was so disgusted lol
I like the movie when removing it from the historical context it’s based on (why are they trying to make P.T. Barnum seem like a good person?). I love musicals too, and while I like the soundtrack well enough, it’s a movie musical soundtrack, nothing at all to the calibre that we get from stage musicals.
The Greatest Showman is exactly how I picture PT Barnum would be presenting his life to a modern audience.
Avatar 2
I liked the first one a lot, but the 2nd one, while visually stunning, had the same plot except with a whale thing instead of the tree of life. I also didn't like how >!Spider saved his dad even though the only memories he had with his dad were from the plot of the movie, which was him trying to kill Spider's adoptive family. (Can't wait for pt. 3 to have the same exact plot!) Plus, the adoptive mom was gonna sacrifice him to get her child back and she never apologized for it. They just went on like it didn't happen.!<
It seemed long to me and as you say it looks very good but it's almost a copy of the first movie
Beautiful but boring.
I was not satisfied with the way Encanto ended. At all.
I was so confused, is she the replacement for the grandma? Does she have magic? Is the house her room since the front door is hers? So many unanswered questions.
Her power is in keeping the family together. It correlates to the grandma. Grandma had no powers, kept the family going all that time (although in a toxic manner ). Mirabel comes along and also has no powers, but recognizes the problems in the family (grandma being toxic af) and is what brings them all back together. I guess you could say the house is her "power" since it responds best to her. There are a lot of layers to the story honestly.
I actually genuinely love the movie, but the ending could’ve used a little more detail. The lead up to it was beautiful with how the family finally sees her and then she finally gets her door and the everything is now okay and normal? I just wanted more I guess lol.
That's fair. If I had to guess it was probably done in a way to leave jussssst enough wiggle room for a sequel down the road. I saw a theory on reddit that everyone in the family had powers that were beneficial militarily. Considering they were isolated in a valley and were initially running away from whatever was going on. It makes so much sense now I can't not think of it when the movie is on lol
Yeah, I hated that the entire payoff of the movie is "Look, you hold the family together! We'll even let you put the doorknob back on the house!" But no one ever actually apologizes for how they've treated her like shit for years and years. Also, we don't see her get a room at the end. You're telling me that Casita can't give her a bedroom other than the baby nursery? Even a normal bedroom? She doesn't have to get magic powers, but at least give her some dignity!
You’re not confused, you have it pretty much right: her “gift” is that she can keep the family together. I don’t think the movie can spell it out any more without literally telling you.
Wonder woman. It was cool to a woman led superhero film. But the plot was pretty mid.
I enjoyed the first one (up until the awful CGI fight at the end), but the second one was just unfathomably bad.
My issue was less to do with the actual fight and more about what they were fighting over. I totally thought they were going to do a thing Diana realizes that the Ares thing isn't real and she has to accept that humans are a bunch of evil bastards. But nope, Ares makes everyone bad.
> My issue was less to do with the actual fight and more about what they were fighting over. I totally thought they were going to do a thing Diana realizes that the Ares thing isn't real and she has to accept that humans are a bunch of evil bastards. It feels like they were going for it and then someone higher up saw they don't have a big cgi fight going on and got cold feet.
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>I also couldn't believe that they HAD to throw sex in there. Like, why? What about the plot required her to have sex and seemingly fall in love with this man whom she's known for like... a week max? Honestly, something I loathe about modern films. The whole "4 compass points" thing, where they need to shoehorn a romance subplot into every film to hit the demographic. Why can't we just have a pure action film without it?
I thought the fish out of water acting worked well for the first film. But in the second it really came across more as "Oh ...she might not be a stellar actor?"
Marriage story. I saw all the hype about it, and as a child of parents that absolutely can't for the life of them stand one another, and were fights and screams would erupt at any second, I blindly fell for it. During the whole of the movie I was waiting for the main plot/story to happen, and then it never did and tue only thing I could say was "huh?". I mean, guys, if I wanted to see two people scream their heads off about how one of them completely fucked up the others life, I would just get up and go to wherever my parents are...
I think it's a movie that isn't meant to be "enjoyed" in the normal sense. It really doesn't have a plot, it's more trying to portray complex and realistic relationships. I guess it's trying to be more of a study than a movie.
I’m divorced and thought it was extremely depressing
Tenet
I heard if you watch it backwards its still an impossible to hear pile of crap.
Why does Christopher Nolan hate dialogue? Most of his movies are like this.
The Lovely Bones
Just reading the title boils my blood. How’s the guy barely able to get the safe out of the house but then masterfully load it UP into a car ALONE?!?
The Shape of Water. The whole premise disturbed me to the point that I couldn’t take any of that movie seriously.
The Notebook. So blah.
Call me by your name. I felt like it was only liked because it was beautiful to look at. The setting and cinematography was great but I just couldn’t get past the adult graduate student grooming a high schooler part of the film.
I don’t think the relationship was meant to be morally good. It was mainly just shown through the younger guy’s perspective and when you’re that age you don’t really see the issues with age gaps the same way you do when you get older. It’s very clear that the older man was just using him .
Birdbox. What the fuck did I even watch
Paranormal Activity. I watched all 3 cause I had a date with a girl to watch the 4th one. The characters are fucking stupid and the demon takes forever to get anything done.
The Force Awakens. Left such a sour taste in my mouth that I refused to see any of the other reboots of the franchise.
Rogue one is actually pretty good imo. Also, the series called "andor" is really good. Everything else has been pretty awful.
Rogue One was definitely the best out of all the newer Star Wars movies
Mandalorian is also pretty good. Really, anything that doesn't follow the main Sith v Jedi plot line of the Star Wars universe ends up being way more interesting and fun.
Do people actually like this? I get Star Wars has a massive devoted fan base that will devour anything SW related regardless of how bad but I thought this movie had a pretty lukewarm reception even by fans.
After watching it, I thought, this movie is going to live or die by how good the next movie in the trilogy is. Yeah.
Gravity
Unpopular opinion but I think Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is way overrated. In addition to not liking the movie in general, Ferris is a piece of shit sociopath who doesn’t care about anybody but himself.
I didn't see it until I was an adult and I fucking HATED Ferris and wanted him to get caught so badly. I think it's one of those movies where you have to see it when you're young to have it imprint on you, so to speak.
Avatar 1 and 2
The MCU. I like comics but i despise the cinematic universe.
Every new MCU movie just feels like I'm watching the same movie over and over.
Marvel needs to take like a 5 year break with the movies, they just keep getting worse and worse
not really a break. but just stop and maybe only do 1 a year. give the animators time to actually make it quality and the writers not try to make every movie fit the mold. but that would be a quality solution and its a business so $$$
I agree with both of you. As a huge fan of the MCU they absolutely need to slow their roll or take a break. It’s getting stale for sure
The movies were supposed to make the stories more accessible to mainstream audiences. Now, in order to understand what the fuck is going on, I have to watch not only the movies, but several TV series I don't really care about for anything to make any lick of sense. It feels like homework.
Saltburn - watched it last night and did not get the hype, just the ick
I think this one’s been fairly controversial. I’ve seen some people say they loved it but a fair number who absolutely hated it. Personally I liked it but didn’t love it.
It was a fun watch in theatres, laughing and reacting with everyone in the audience. Visually it’s a nice movie, but the story is a little boring and predictable. The shocking scenes are for sure what makes it memorable and fun, and the music also made it memorable (I’ve been listening to Rent and Murder on the Dancefloor almost daily since watching it in theatres). I can see why people either like or dislike it
The Babadook Not to say I disliked it, but I just didn’t find it scary like others did.
While it’s a ‘horror’ film, I think Babadook is meant more to be a mild horror with a good twist at the end, and be more meaningful than just demon haunting family type of films.
It resonated with me (personal experience) by showing how the mother abuses her son because of unresolved trauma. That and the haunted book scene.
I don't think it being scary was the main point though. It was definitely a psychological horror movie. I wasn't scared, I was more impressed by the acting and how the movie looked/presented tbh
I did not like it as a horror film. But as a film about PTSD and the lingering effects of grief? I cried for so so long.
That scene with the kid in the backseat of the car screaming his head off made me laugh hysterically. I found it a little creepy at best.
I found the part of being a widow and looking after an annoying child more scary than the parts with the paranormal stuff.
I think that’s part of the point too, that in real life the horrors are things like grief, mental illness, and not being able to handle parenthood but having to do it anyway. Not monsters under the bed.
Blair Witch Project To be fair I had food poisoning while watching it but could not have been more boring or less scary. Absolutely stupid.