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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

How about one that will actually piss people off: The Shawshank Redemption

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I hate 20th Century Classic that has been so impactful on film making that it suffers from the Seinfeld effect. Every aspect that it pioneered is just so cliched now in retrospect - how dumb were people back then to have been entertained by something pop culture has completely imbibed over the past XX years.

I found the special effects to be laughable; especially the practical ones. How could you watch anything made before CGI matured to a decent level?

Don't even get me started on the actors. None of them went method and abused their fellow cast and crew in the name of art. Additionally the script did not past the Bechdel test which completely ruined any sense of realism that the characters might have been attempting to portray.

20th Century Classic is just one example. There are hundreds of films that don't even have colour cinematography. Pretentious people try to tell us black and white cinematography is "more dreamlike", pul-lease! Why would you want to watch something that doesn't look like real life? You might as well be reading a novel at that point - and the whole point of movies is to completely replace novels so we can consume stories more efficiently.

Don't @ me on any of this. Just hop on your penny farthing bicycle and ride off into the sunset to your hipster neigbourhood.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Pulp Fiction πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Talented Mr. Ripley. Awful, truly awful!

Poor Things. I turned it off after~30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Poor things gave me a headache, genuinely pissed that Emma stone won the oscar

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

any of the new MCU movies post-endgame. they were so generic, and it was clear some of the movies ran out of money on cgi or animation.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

The Princess Bride

... Sorry. It's just not good.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (13 children)

Airplane. Dodgeball.

I am prepared for your animosity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I guess I can convince myself by rewatching if it actually is good, but:

Cabin in the Woods.

Tap for spoilerI understand they were going for meta-horror, but it was so in your face, so mediocre, so shallow.

Scream series is far better meta horror imo.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't really get the hype for Citizen Kane.

Though, I kinda think it might be because growing up, this movie was spoiled in almost every cartoon I ever saw ("Rosebud" was the punchline of so many jokes) and maybe not knowing the ending would have made it better. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

A lot of things that were once creative experiences have been redone to death to the point that it can be difficult to understand what the whole hubbub was with the original.
So, yes, you have to think of it in the context of the era, which may require looking up what was made at the time, what had come before and what came after. It's a bit like paintings or other pieces of art, some of them are interesting beyond what they just represent, but for what they introduced in the world as a statement when they were made (which, admittedly can sometimes be a bit obscure). There too, a little work on the public's part is required to understand why one piece and not another is usually held in high regard (you're then totally free to disagree, or not enjoy it, but context matters quite a bit).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

That right there is the millennial experience.

So many culturally defining movies came out before the 1980s that by the time you're being raised in the 90's, they're making children's media that references it. I knew the plot of Star Wars long before I saw it.

My favorite example is The Mask of Zorro, which...not an old film, but it came out when I was slightly young for it. A few years go by, I'm in high school, and Shrek comes out. Then it's sequel, with a swashbuckling orange cat voiced by Antonio Banderas. And then I eventually catch Mask of Zorro, and laugh through the entire thing because holy shit the main character sounds exactly like Puss In Boots.

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