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Avatar. Highest grossing movie in the world. Blue shit.
The Big Lebowsky
That’s a rough one. Everyone ever loves it… I completely do not get it.
Chappie. I had to leave the theater early to prevent any more brain damage.
Yeah it really sucked
I agree. It was Short Circuit meets District 9.
citizen kane. I mean I get it. If you geek out on cinematography history and the first of doing stuff but its just plain boring.
IT (2017).
I’m rereading the book right now and just watched the movie. While I agree it’s… not good and certainly not faithful to the source material, I think the kids were all fantastic. They acted their little hearts out and - in my opinion - really nailed the characters.
True, I have no problem with the actors
Probably getting some hate for saying this, but…. The Dune movies are some of the worst big budget movies I’ve seen. They look nice and the cinematography is awesome but that movie feels so damn empty.
Yeah, I’d rather watch the Lynch version anytime, the new ones are like 6 hours of bland, boring choices and wooden performances.
“Wooden performances” is the only way to describe the acting in Lynch’s. That movie is a confuding mess and painful to watch if you don’t know the story. A movie can’t simply assume you’ve read the book to understand it. People can only truly prefer Lynch to Villeneuve ironically. You can’t honestly think it’s better film.
Even the three part TV movies from around 2000 are better.
lol, true. At least Lynch‘s version is a entertaining fever dream.
Titanic
Titanic is better if you interpret it differently:
Jack never existed. He was a coping mechanism for Rose to get away from crippling depression and self harm.
The whole movie can be interpreted that way, and it makes it much more interesting. There is no direct evidence for Jack’s existence, and everything we hear about him interacting with others is from interviews with Old Rose.
In fact, some parts of the film make more sense when watching this way. Rose’s near-miraculous ax hit to free Jack from handcuffs? Never happened. Not getting caught in cargo storage despite having a very involved tail who apparently just gave up? Never happened – or at least, the part where Jack and Rose have sex in the car never happened.
There is a nude drawing of Rose which she says was done by Jack; however, it is actually signed “JD”, so technically could have been any commissioned artist with those initials. In fact, Cal could even have set it up himself – again, you only ever get Old Rose’s version of events. Though we see Rose given the Heart of the Ocean diamond while on board Titanic (and she is wearing it in the drawing), there is once again no reason that must be the case, and since the drawing isn’t dated, it could even predate her voyage. Still, if it were explicitly signed “Jack Dawson” and dated, then this interpretation would probably break down here.
And, note that a “Jackdaw” is a type of bird with various connections in lore – one of which being that Jackdaws appear as a precursor to death or an omen of death. Rose claims she met Jack Dawson when he saved her from a suicide attempt.
The godfather movies.
I understand they influenced many other movies but they are just so fucking boring.
New Dune.
I was gonna ask why so I could provide a counter argument, but then the question specifically asks for a movie you will never be convinced is good. So I won’t bother lol.
I gave them an updoot for answering the question even though my personal opinion is that the two new Dune movies are top 10 movies of all time.
Nothing appeals to everyone, and I dislike a lot of critically acclaimed movies and other media because while they just don’t resonate with me. Top Gun Maverick was a mediocre retread of so many movies that came before it that while it was well executed from a technical perspective, I found it forgettable and don’t understand the hype.
Not the person you’re replying to, but for my own POV:
I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I’m glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they’ve also convinced me that Dune just isn’t a franchise I’ll ever be interested in. I’m not sure if I’d bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.
Lucas directed Star Wars. Any. He’s an awful director in almost every aspect. Some of the worst acting from extremely talented people I’ve ever seen because he doesn’t know how to direct them.
Take the same cast, story, massage the script, and have ANYONE else direct, and it’d be great. I just can’t with Lucas.
Poor Things. Watched it in the cinema and it was just disgusting, I don’t care how critically acclaimed it is.
What was disgusting about it? (I absolutely loved it)
A mix of half the movie being porn, the plot centering around a child in an adult woman’s body doing nothing but having sex, the overall message being “women having sex with everyone makes them grow as a person”.
Fair points!
The Godfather. The characters are empty and hard to attach to, the sound is terrible, there’s so much filler in the editting it becomes a chore as I watch yet another seemingly pointlessly extended shot or micro-scenes—Why?! What was the point?!—And yet I’m meant to feel something when this character I hardly know since about 10 mins ago gets killed?
If a film had an inflated ego…
Thank you, absolutely. So slow and boring.
Jupiter Ascending
That was a pretty roundly panned movie.
And yet… I know someone who loved it, sadly
Probably the same people up there that prefer Lynch’s Dune to Villeneuve’s.
Gravity.
Literally the only movie I’ve ever turned off part way through. Youd think that the producers would have, i don’t know, accurately depicted the force the movie is named after.
Pi and Requiem for a Dream as a one-two punch.
“Being smart is such a curse I’d rather get a lobotomy” is boring, self-serving and trite, but the Reefer Madness-level “drugs bad” thing in Requiem is unbearable and requires every character to be entirely nonsensical.
Trainspotting was four years old by that point. How critics let Aronofsky get away with it is beyond me. To this day the closest I’ve been from walking out of a movie theatre. The only reason I stuck around was it was in a festival and I was there with other people.
