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.
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.
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.
Citizen Kane is so celebrated because of how revolutionary it was and how much it influenced pretty much every movie made after, with then-novel techniques in things like cinematography and non linear story telling. Just tons of stuff that had never been done before. Of course if you compare it to later films it won't be all that remarkable. Everything it did first is now everywhere and we kinda take it for granted.
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.
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.
Shut the fuck up Donny
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. I walked away thinking wow that was boring and I really hate Jim carry.
Jim Harry's best role was the mask. Because his normal stupid Jim carry shit fits well with the character. Other than that he annoys the shit out of me.
I like Jim Barry but I can see why if you don't click then his antics would get annoying very quickly.
Jim Parry as Eggman is great though
Jim Larry's best role was the Truman Show, I think. One of my favorites.
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.
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 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!
Avatar. Technically the 3D was fun, but I can't understand any of the rabid fandom.
Parasite for me.. I know I'm wrong but I don't know why.
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.
Inception
It’s Top Gun for me. It’s just Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise in a flight jacket.
What movie is it for you? For me, The Princess Bride.
inconceivable!!!\
Never liked Star Wars. The original trilogy. I watched it and nothing no sense of adventure no tension just blah. The new ones are worse, watched all of those too but they fail even harder for what feels like the same reasons. To be clear I fucking love Sci-Fi books/movies/tv shows doesn't matter. Some of the starwars books are ok like anything with Kerra Holt in it
First off, Star Wars isn't scifi. It's a space western/opera. Its the same story told a thousand times before but in a different setting. It doesnt offer any philosophical quanderies or insights that actual sci fi does .
It has always been about being a great cinematic achievement for it's time. Theaters have great sound systems because of Star Wars. If you werent of the age to experience it at a time when the biggest movies were 'Kramer vs Kramer' and 'Harry And Tonto', it really isnt very good.
It's totally okay to not like it. I was a HUGE fan when it came out but I understand that it doesnt keep up with the cinema tech that it inspired.
My wife and friends think I'm a Star Wars nerd and keep giving me gifts and swag. I have never liked any of it past the original trilogy and I outgrew that a long, long time ago. In fact, all the other trilogies just downright pissed me off for how awful they were...just horrible dialogue, acting and storytelling.
Oppenheimer
And even to an extent interstellar
I just find recent Nolan massively overrated
Which is ironic because The Prestige, Memento and even Dunkirk are great
What I'm getting from the comments is that these days I'm just a credulous fool and I like everything.
What I used to do when I didn't like something, was I would subconsciously sour grapes it into believing it wasn't that good and give myself an undeserved sense of superiority.
Like when I saw Sin City while in a bad mood, or felt like my subculture was being popularized in Tron Legacy. In those cases it really was just me.
I absolutely hated both Dune Movies... Such a boring and in my opinion incoherent mess. My jaw dropped when i found out it was So universally highly rated. It still makes me angry when i think about it.
counterpoint: there are worse things than this
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I had heard about Gone with The Wind all my life and I knew it was incredibly racist. It finally came on basic cable and I decided to see what all the fuss was about.
I found myself watching and liking a movie I knew was complete and utter bullshit.
Don't look up was that movie for me. Almost everyone praised it to high heavens, with me smirking at maybe 2 lines / scenes throughout that entire slog.
Each to his own, I guess...
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