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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 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] 2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The Talented Mr. Ripley. Awful, truly awful!

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day 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] 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Anything that comes from Marvel. Overrated CGI tripe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Even something like Iron Man 1 and 2?
I don't like Iron Man 3 but 1 and 2 are quite enjoyable to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I liked the original tobey maguire spidermans, but that was 20 years ago when they came out (and I was a teenager). I like them now for the nostalgia, not so much for the movie it is. And after those nothing really spoke to me. I went to see quite a bit of newer movies because my gf and friends do like them, so occasionally I give in and tag along for the company (I distinctly remember age of ultron and infinity war pt I for how bad it was, but the memory of some others I've seen faded the minute we got in the car home)

For me these movies all feel the same and formulaic. The stories are predictable, the characters flat and the edit is just too much focused on extreme visuals, spectacle for the sake of spectacle. I find many storylines very forgettable, to the point I even forgot that I've seen some movies before. In the edit, they are trying very, very hard to evoke emotions from the audience using tricks and tropes; but in the end it's all a hollow shell, a cash grab without authenticity. At least, it feels that way for me. I understand many people love these movies, they're just not my thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

And that's totally valid.
Thank you for elaborating :)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.

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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 23 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] 14 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Dark Knight Rises. Not only is it a bad Batman movie, it oddly has a pro cop message. Also, I can't take Bane seriously at all with that ridiculous voice.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All of Nolan’s Batman movies were heavily pro-cop. Watch TDK again: the day is saved by illegal surveillance, and Batman faces no consequences for using it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Prior to Rises, most of the Gotham cops were depicted as extremely corrupt, though. Gordon was something of an exception, although even he looked the other way for his corrupt co-workers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's a valid point. I just remembered the pro-cop messaging feeling more overt in Rises, though it has been a while since I've seen them all.

I also have a soft spot for The Dark Knight because of Ledger's performance.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Avatar. Highest grossing movie in the world. Blue shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The movie was forgettable and not that special. Going to the IMAX with my uncle and three cousins and watching our first ever (and only ever) 3d movie together and squealing the whole 3 hour car ride home about how much fun we had as a family is one of my best memories.

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

Best critique I ever heard about Avatar: "Eh, Fern Gully did it better."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it’s just Dances with Wolves in spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Mad Max: Fury Road. I thought that was dumbest, most caveman pleasing trash that has ever received that much acclaim. Truly, the entire movie is designed to make a caveman go, "OOhhhH!.... WwAaHh!... FFIIRE!.... DwWoOah!..... HaHhh!..... OOhhhH! LaDy!!...HhaHh!... MAD!!.....WoOoHhh!"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I enjoyed it. Great cinematography and practical effects. My wife? Not so much. She broke it down as.. "oh look! They drove away! Then the drove back! The end! That was the whole movie!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Wasn't there some water at one point? apart from that, fair summary.

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