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Tuesday_is_Cool_7B

Idk if it does get alot of praise but birdbox had a very shit ending


ElFloppaGrande

The first half is dawn of the dead, and the second half is the road. Both movies do a better job.


Mitsu-Zen

Fuck. I've been trying to figure out how to explain it to an over obsessed friend of mine. Thank you. Maybe they'll get it now.


bryman19

The Road with Viggo? That movie has been on my radar for a while and I've never watched it


Infamous-Dare6792

Once was enough for me. It was good but fucked up.


Rush7en

As a fan of post-apocalyptic themed media, I too feel that once was enough.


stanfordfan85

It was nothing like the book. In the book, the people had their eyes removed. It wasn't a sanctuary as seen in the movie


3rdandfinalwife

Loved the book. So thankful I read it before seeing the movie. It would've ruined the book for me picturing Sandra Bullock as Mallory. The book was so suspenseful and the double birth in the attic while the monsters are there too, so fucked up and my favorite part of the book.


stevebobeeve

I hated Birdbox too. John Malkovich was a great surprise, but not enough to save the movie.


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My great surprise was Tom Hollander. If I knew my boy was gonna show up just to deceive people and get them killed, I would have seen it earlier (and be disappointed sooner hahaha).


[deleted]

Imagine being successful English actor Tom Hollander and the one day some gymnast with pretty much the same name comes along and does everything you do but cooler.


BC052301

I fucking hated that movie, everyone was saying it was so scary and it was good. It was so boring, I just wanted to see the monster


arbitrageME

I liked not seeing the monster. No monster ever became more scary by being seen. It's about how they tantalize your deepest fears


well_known_bastard

Had shit beginning and middle too


DangersVengeance

*sorts by controversial*


Deako87

What do you mean? You don't want to read Marvel movies, the Notebook and Avatar a dozen times?


saberline152

I like those movies and hype them up for myself, I know full well they are formulaic and not always the best cinema can offer, but I enjoy them none the less


Tw2ntyTwo

More like “sorts by Sandra Bullock.”


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Thank you for reminding me, let me grab my popcorn real fast!


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Paranormal Activity. I've seen scarier crap in a public toilet.


jonahvsthewhale

Is that the one where it’s all night vision footage of like a person sleeping for two minutes and then their closet door opens? Yeah, I saw that on Netflix several years ago. Most boring movie I’ve ever seen and a great example of the power of marketing


CheetahOfDeath

I’d have to agree with Elaine. The English Patient.


lacks_imagination

The book is an awesome story about an Indian bomb disposal expert named Kip, and the title character is just a background mystery. Hollywood being Hollywood, switched it around and made the focus a love story about the patient, and made Kip a background character. I hated the movie and yet it went on to win the Oscar for best picture. All I can say is, if you hate the movie, go read the book.


TK421raw

Rochelle, Rochelle is way under rated imho.


Mobius207

A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk!


Beezle_Maestro

Nice Seinfeld ref.


conch56

Ad Astra, I was ready to walk out near the end, daddy issues? Really?


gongerandcookie

Someone on Reddit once called it “Sad Dadstra” and I think that comment is the only reason I even remember that movie.


roboticleopold

It's definitely a slow burner of a film, except there's not really any burn in it. I watched it about two weeks ago and I'm not sure I can remember anything happening in it. For a movie that leaned on the depth of the dialogue it was remarkably quiet.


DontBeThatGuyFieri

Space monkey tho


BiggerNate91

Super misleading trailer, and I almost fell asleep in the theatre


Lyoko_warrior95

That’s an understatement.. loud ass epic trailer for a boring ass movie just to have his dad tell him to fuck off. Plot ends there.


--------rook

The movie was boring, but my theatre watching experience was relaxing. I had a shit week and I popped into a matinee, just me in the hall, at one point I dozed off and woke up to scenes of space and giant planets in front of me. It was oddly therapeutic. One thing I like about the movie is its space scenes, it captured how big and distant space is. And then I mentioned it in my review in a discussion thread and someone told me you don't need a movie to make you think about how vast space is. Ah. Reddit.


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Crash, won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing awards. Received six Academy Award nominations. I thought it sucked.


blackjesus

I would have loved to swap it with the cronenberg flick “crash”. Have everyone really wondering what dialog on racism would be started by that film.


ArtSchnurple

I just thought it needed more people having sex in car accidents.


xogil

Crash is universally derided as being a horrible racist white knight piece of trash with the awards and nominations now pretty much laughed at. It pandered to some out of touch judges and won a lot of awards but it is not 'praised' at this point.


hungry4pie

If we’re discussing awful White Saviour flicks, let’s not forget Blindside.


DaniTheLovebug

which has so god damn many inaccuracies


SpiffyPaige143

The Northman Why is it called an epic viking movie? There were many "What the fuck am I watching" moments. My friends said it'd be a great movie to watch high.


bmyers123

Gravity. Yea, sure, it's Sandy Bullock, but the entire movie is just her going to space and coming back while trying to be suspenseful when you know very well they won't kill off the only character they show.


GChan129

George Clooney died.


therapy_works

My favorite part of George Clooney's role in that movie was the joke that Tina Fey made about it at the Golden Globes. "Gravity is a movie about how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age."


ArtSchnurple

I've watched all the Tina and Amy Golden Globes jokes dozens of times. Every single joke is incredible. "I haven't really been following the controversy around Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron."


palexander_6

“Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.”


Suitable-Isopod

Their joke about Amal was my favourite: >“Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person U.N. panel commission investigating rules-of-war violations in the Gaza strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award."


Yebbafan12

Best one. Amal’s reaction to it was funny too


MrLongJeans

"Meryl Streep cannot make it this evening, she has the flu. And I hear she's AMAZING in it."


VegasAdventurer

I would love to see a panel show with Tina and Amy as the cohosts. I could watch them banter for hours


MrLongJeans

"I don't think Ann Hathaway has any plans to do porn Amy."


Lupus_Noir

"None of us have PLANS to do porn"


SirThatsCuba

You're right. Should've cast DiCaprio


therapy_works

The joke would work equally as well. And you just reminded me of another joke from Tina and Amy. "And now, like a supermodel's vagina, let's give a warm welcome to Leonardo DiCaprio."


dsmitherson

Gravity was amazing in 3d, and is still the only movie I've ever seen in 3d that was truly worth it - I straight up ducked when those fragments came around the first time, and at no point was any object in view made to be blurry or otherwise shown weird due to the film being in 3d. The 3d also made every single shot of space and the earth absolutely breathtaking. But without that, it would have just been a mediocre movie.


PhirebirdSunSon

Yeah, I watched it in 3D with D-Box seats (the kind that are motorized and move with the motion in the movie) so it was fucking intense. One of the coolest experiences I've ever had in the theater.


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I actually liked this one. Yes it was ridiculously inaccurate in terms of actual space walking. But when I watched in theaters 3D I was feeling the tension. I'm a fan of Alfonso Cuarón so maybe I'm biased


pancakespanky

I found 1.5 hours of her panic breathing to be almost intolerable. Not to mention it was scientific garbage and the physics made no sense. The praise for that movie is completely unfounded


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The Notebook.


Capital-War-8723

I have somehow managed to never see it


CharismaticAlbino

Me too! We should keep not watching it together!


Capital-War-8723

Im definitely fine with not watching it


WordsMatter2Me

Can I join the not watch party?


deepaksn

[It’s formulaic Nicolas Sparks writing.](https://imgur.io/mDXNBYA)


Zerole00

The movie poster design always gets a laugh out of me


[deleted]

It romanticized some of the most toxic shit I've ever seen, I can go on for hours about that crap


Revolution_West

I liked it when I first saw it but watching it now after being married for a decade, it’s so toxic I can’t even think it’s romantic at all


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I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA

So many people encouraged me to watch it and the first time I did my first thought was, “Are you fucking kidding me?”


adorableoddity

Right? Both of the main characters are super shitty people. Also, cheating is never OK or romantic. I don't care if they are cheating with the "soul mate" or whatever.


exhale358

I was in high school when this movie came out and my girlfriend, and seemingly all of my friends girlfriends, absolutely loved this movie. I knew it was going to suck and held out on watching it with her for months until I finally caved. Guess what? I was right! Dude dangles himself from a Ferris wheel and threatens suicide unless she goes out with him. How romantic!


slavelabor52

It might have something to do with the fact that it was Ryan Gosling doing the hanging in the movie.


Zerole00

Imagine if it was Steve Buscemi instead [Total sploosh]


toweringpine

My wife loved this movie but she had no experience with dementia. She put it on one day when my mother (who has way too much experience with dementia after caring for her grandmother and both parents as they went down one after another) suggested she pick a flick for the evening. It wasn't long before my wife realized what a mistake it was.


carcigenicate

As someone who has never seen it and knows nothing about it, what was the issue? Is it a bad portrayal of dementia?


turtlescanfly7

Major Spoilers: The basic plot is >! an elderly husband reading a story to his wife (who doesn’t remember who he is) of their love story/ how they met etc. he reads their story to her to help her remember. She briefly remembers him and then forgets him again. The majority of the movie is about them being young, falling in love, breaking up and reconnecting !<


AggravatingDriver559

Tip: you can add a spoiler tag in your messages, >!like this!<. Ad a > and a ! without spaces, then end with ! and a < without spaces.


toweringpine

It's sweet and sad and heartwarming. There is nothing heartwarming about Alzheimer's. After 25 years of dealing with it non stop mom was just not having it. Her grandma lost her mind and lingered on in her body for nearly a decade then her dad went. Right after he finally passed her mom started to slip and we helplessly watched her lose her mind just like the others and again she just kept living but without any life in her head. My mom's getting pretty old and so far it hasn't hit her but I suspect if she finds it does, she will head out back with a shotgun. Or since she now can, she'll sign up for euthanasia.


sometimesiteach

My mom is the third generation in her family to have dementia. Her grandmother had it in her 90s, her mom in her 80s, my mom in her 70s. Your description is so accurate it actually hurts. Reading your story, I’m sick to my stomach and in tears…for you, your mom, and all of us who have such similar genetic experiences. I have yet to read a more perfect description than, “living but without any life in her head” I have absolutely nothing to add to your points but I want to share that your family is in my thoughts. 💕


Amara_Undone

The English Patient


DamnIHateThat

Elaine: "Just DIE already"


PhinsPhan89

You don’t like The English Patient?


Jrebeclee

You made out during Schindler’s List?!


SnuggleBunni69

You ever tried sex in a bathtub....it doesn't work!


Hbella456

What about Sack Lunch? How’d they get in that bag?


EternalZeitge1st

Elaine Benes, is that you?


FanboyXXX

No, it's Susie


FixTheGrammar

_I’m_ Susie. Susie is _me!_


berripluscream

Frozen. Sorry not sorry, it completely overshadowed the release of Big Hero Six, which deserves a *lot* more attention than it got.


fromageDegoutant

Frozen became more popular than BH6 because of the catchy music. That said though, Tangled never got the recognition it deserved and it was also full of pretty awesome musical numbers.


notyurmamma

As a grown ass adult, Tangled is my favorite movie.


ihategeometry

I'm a less fully grown adult, and I watched my tangled DVD so much I wore it out and my mom had to buy me a new one. And then I wore that one out. I struggle to tell people what my favorite show or song or even color is, because it's always changing for me. But tangled has been my favorite movie since it came out.... 12 YEARS AGO? WHAT?? It cant have been 12 freaking years already. Oh my god I feel old. I was seven years old when that movie came out. I was gonna make a joke about what my favorite movie might have been before tangled, but now I don't even know since it was so long ago. That was before I even adopted my dog, so Bolt, I guess? Chicken little? Nothing funny about that, other than the fact that I like those movies. I guess the jokes on me? Jesus. No wonder my sister never let me have the TV remote. Her favorite movies were clearly the better choice from ages 0-7.


hoginlly

Tangled is infinitely better than Frozen, in music, story, everything


An_Incognito_Owl

Seven A.M., the usual morning lineup


hoginlly

Start on the chores and sweep til the floors all cleeeeeean


SMKnightly

I liked Big Hero Six but was frustrated by the fact that the creation was not actually used to save lives as the brother dreamed.


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Rewatched yesterday, Tadashi said he wanted to help people, he never said directly he wanted to save lives, just help them out


jbiehler

Thats what the Baymax series on Disney is more about.


Mysterious-Garlic-23

FINALLY a post that’s not asking what’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed in you whole sex life sexy sexes


ga30022

You posted a sex related question 1 day ago.


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they became the very thing they swore to destroy


hybridfrost

What’s the first sexy sex you’ve sexed up before?


camilo_84

Sex.


Neph_The_Deaf

The Notebook. Went out with this girl a while ago who made me watch it and called me heartless at the end. They died, I get it.


Moundfreek

I mean, the whole romance starts with a guy coercing a girl to date him by threatening suicide. Cute?


Matador09

Yeah, but he's really attractive...


LowMight3065

Fast and furious...all of them


TheCivilJerk

Why do you hate family?


SisterDeadImNext

Because family is made up of assholes.


SirThatsCuba

And assholes means no one gets left behind, at 0-60 in 1.2 seconds


TinnieTa21

Lmao this perfectly exemplifies the corniness of that franchise.


Fart__

You owe me a 10 second asshole, Brain.


solojetpack

The first one was alright, especially for the time it came out. For me its the same as the Gone in 60 Seconds remake; I feel like it's the closest we'll ever come to a proper Need for Speed movie. I still enjoy Tokyo Drift to this day because of how campy and ridiculous it is, plus I grew up in the tuner scene so it holds some nice nostalgia. Objectively both of those movies suck by today's standards, but I can't bring myself to hate them. The rest of them suck ass though, I'll agree with you on that one.


dcbluestar

I'm with you. I liked the first one, and the second was OK. But after that they basically became a cartoon.


thomasvector

Yeah, it started out with an undercover FBI agent investigating some street racers and then turned into an international crime family that can survive anything. I'd say Paul Walkers fairwell scene in the 7th one is the only scene I remember from anything after the first one.


ForayIntoFillyloo

My buddies and I wanted to go to space so we got high and built a rocket car like we saw in F&F 9. We could only ever get it up to the lower Mesosphere.


mezz7778

And to think they got their start hijacking TVs and VCRs


[deleted]

Nah the soundtrack for Tokyo drift was so good tho. It makes the movie. The tokyo drift song is legendary


laserdollars420

Do these movies get a lot of praise though? People watch them because they're just ridiculous, over-the-top action movies with cars and have a fun ensemble cast. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they're cinematic masterpieces or anything.


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I unironically love all of them because of how stupid they are. I'd never say they're amazing movies, I just think they're fucking dumb and it's fun to watch them lol


jaycuboss

Meet the Parents. It’s just two hours of being vicariously stressed out and embarrassed for Ben Stiller.


jagua_haku

I hate those type of movies, they’re painful to watch because it’s nonstop social awkwardness that is somehow stress inducing for the viewer but it’s supposed to be funny


redfoot62

There is an original independent version from 1992 that Universal bought out just so it can never be released after their own remake in 2000. You practically have to email the original filmmaker just for him to send you a copy to download. He's just glad you're interested. It's arguably darker than the remake. It ends with Greg's fiancé's sister having him judge her singing because she thinks he has an in with the music industry people. Everyone in the family praises her singing but she asks Greg in particular for any criticism, any criticism at all. After pressing, Greg finally gives her some light criticism after giving her a heaping mountain of praise. She quietly goes upstairs while everyone yells at Greg for being so cruel. After a while they go upstairs and find she's hanged herself with a note taped to her chest reading: "Greg killed me!" Greg runs out the door as the father grabs his shotgun. ​ Apparently it was written in just a couple of days as the filmmaker's writing exercise to himself: "What's the worst/most humiliating things that could happen when meeting your fiancé's parents for the first time?" And everything else was meant to bridge a story for those scenarios. And thus that explains why Meet the Parents is a darker than average dark comedy for Hollywood. I got strangely into seeking out this semi-lost film last year. It's definitely shot on 90s Walmart video cameras, but I personally admire it's spirit. It became the stand out hit in the film festival he sent it to. Dude sold copies of it himself out of his trunk in just the city of Chicago until word of mouth gave Universal studios wind of it and so they wrote him a check for the rights. Can't blame him, we probably all would have taken that deal. He still makes little indie films to this day, pretty down to earth dude.


polskiftw

Found it https://archive.org/details/takealook


adeelf

Not that this movie was an Oscar winner or anything, but *Wonder Woman*. I felt that it's popularity came down to two things: a) considering how self-serious and boring the DC movies till that point had been, this one comparatively was a lot better; and b) after many years of male-dominated superhero movies, critics were overreacting to the first major superhero movie centered around a female lead (and female-directed, to boot).


pgp555

I liked Wonderwoman but honestly, the movie couldve been so much better if they didnt stuff evil man at the end


agent_raconteur

I agree. I think it would have been much more enjoyable if they left it at "humans were the real Ares* all along". The final fight was so bad it became one of the only parts I remembered when we left the theater


NativeMasshole

Totally agree. Diana works best when she's at odds with modern society and how it clashes with Amazon culture, especially when trying to lead into a Justice League team up. Instead we got 15 minutes of her running at a bunch of explosions to punch a god for starting wars. It's like nobody working on the DCEU understands how much morality plays into the stories.


guttengroot

And then we have 1984 were her resurrected boyfriend is at odds with modern society... For some reason. If resurrecting him was her wish, why did he take over a random body? I swear that movie was written by five different people who weren't allowed to speak to each other


Hsgavwua899615

To me that stinks to high heaven of "changed the ending at the last minute because focus groups didn't want a downer".


XXPapaZombieXX

WW84 Sucked way harder... IMO. I mean, the final showdown climaxed with a heartfelt speech.


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No one praised WW84


CrudelyAnimated

This comment has more upvotes than the movie.


Antmon666

I feel like I needed my money back and I watched a pirated copy


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Luckily, wonder woman was able to give a short speech that convinced 7 billion people to *absolutely unanimously* give up their greatest desire. Even the grieving mothers who had to lose their children a second time, but this time on purpose. "Okay, sorry little Timmy, I renounce my wish that you survived cancer. Byyyyeee!" Hooray, wonder woman wins.


Lingering_Dorkness

And then WW went off and hid herself for the following 3 decades, ignoring every single horrific act being committed until Batman and Superman get it on.


ritchie70

I though WW was ok, not amazing but I didn’t feel like I’d wasted time watching it. I barely made it through WW84. Horrible.


LionTamer619

“Horrible” is being way too generous lol. WW84 was an abomination


Icantbethereforyou

Dc movies fell into two categories for me at that time Bad Not bad Wonder woman fell into the "not bad". It was passable and entertaining. But I don't think it ever made it into the third category Good


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

Did you ever see Catwoman? Because that one gets its own category. I came out if the theater with the second-worst headache of my life.


wisezombiekiller

i appreciate how she was turned into a weird half-cat person instead of just like "what if a cat burglar had a dumb sense of humor and too much leather on her hands"


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LightBlade12

The New Jurassic Movies. I get all the hype around the “cool” dinosaurs, but for real man. The plot is just very bare and the wow factor is just the dinosaur peaking out at every corner. Edit: The NEW ones, old one’s can’t be beat ;)


TheNameIsWiggles

Nobody is praising them lol


Gulstads

They get praise?


OkSnow9309

Birdbox was dumb


TheChainLink2

I don’t think Lady Bird is shit by any means, but I don’t understand everyone calling it a masterpiece. I just have no idea how to judge it as a movie.


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I enjoyed it. It’s no masterpiece, but I liked it.


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Hum it’s a masterpiece if you have mommy issues. I’m not insulting the movie, i saw it, it’s one of my favourite movie … just because i have mommy issues and it hit HARD But i can understand why some ppl didnt liked it


buffalotrace

I don’t think you have to have mommy issues at all. I think it is about spending your whole life looking forward and not seeing what you actually have around you. she is very aspirational, but doesn’t actually know what she wants.


Moonlit0wl

The Shape of Water Its all over the place and the message it gives is a mess


bladnoch16

My wife refers to this as “that movie with the fish fucker?” Yeah, that’s the one.


UlrichZauber

Grinding Nemo


E_Baker33

You're wrong for this 🤣😂


SirGametheSecond

The Hunger Games. The movie, not the books.


dual290x

Paranormal Activity. Everyone said "oh it is so scary and frightening" I laughed through the whole movie at how stupid it was. The only "scary" part was at the end. The parody of that movie wasn't too bad.


InuitOverIt

I don't think it's some grand achievement in horror or anything, but it is a good study in anticipation as it relates to fear. You kind of have to buy in and pay attention, even when nothing happens for 20 minutes, for it to work though. Those long boring stretches set your baseline, so when something just a little outside that baseline happens, you're on edge. Then you start anticipating that one time of night (was it 3am?) when something always happens, and it always ramps up, and aw fuck what is it gonna be this time? And then the filmmaker has you and can subvert your expectations - something happening in the day time maybe - and that catches you off guard. I think we can learn a lot from the slow burn low budget horror films that scared a ton of people, and modern studio horror films are missing that element. The Black Phone has pretty much no tension for example, because they set the rules as "the kid is safe if he doesn't try to escape" and "the ghosts are only here to help".


Mission-Run-7474

This is the reason i get agitated showing anyone a new movie if theyre the type to get distracted easily. Dont look at your phone and dont talk or you break the gravity and the flow and now youre unimpressed when the payoff comes because you werent invested.


SnottyTash

Yeah I feel like it's been years since I've bothered showing anyone movies I like for that exact reason, lol


m_o_o_n_m_a_n_

One time I did a table-reading of a play I wrote and the entire time most of the cast was on their phones unless they were in the scene. At the end they said they didn't get it.


Hsgavwua899615

Oof


m_o_o_n_m_a_n_

to be fair my play wasnt very good


llllmaverickllll

My wife will browse for a movie for an hour and then be on her phone 5 minutes into it.


SnottyTash

Think you nailed it, I'm no horror movie connoisseur but when this came out I did like how much of a slow burn it was. Made the ending with the screaming terrifying as shit


FourSharpTwigs

I think supernatural scary movies are only ever actually scary if you accept the idea of it before you see the movie. If you think it’s bullshit going in - movie is going to suck for you. And I’d be more curious to wonder why you’d even watch a supernatural horror movie if you don’t get bothered by it. The people who get terrified by it have like really bad sp before going to the movie. They’re maybe religious as well. Those people are not gonna be able to sleep well for a while.


AbsolutelyNuclear

Interesting. Im the exact opposite, I thought most of the movie (the first one anyway) was very scary but the ending was dumb. Supernatural horror is the specific niche that gets to me the most though.


Uncle480

Can you believe that the original budget for it was only $15K, then they said "C'mon, we gotta at least put *a little* more effort into it!" and raised it to $215K post-production? It made $193.4 million at the box office.


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Avatar. It’s brutal


Thefirstofherkind

I thought you meant as in ‘the last air bender’ and I was getting ready to fight anyone who claimed that was a good movie lmao


Silvervirage

I say this whenever I see that movie mentioned, and just have to share: Seeing that in a mostly full theater with exclusively people that knew it was gonna be garbage was absolutely amazing. A 50 person MST3K kinda thing. I suppose it was probably similar to the antics that happen at showings of The Room.


Lamprocapnos1324

I think it was so bad because the original show is so, so, so fucking good. The source material they had to work with is just next level…and then it was such a complete disappointment. Like I was actually so angry walking out of that movie, it was an insult to the original show which has a forever spot in my heart.


Karl_Marx_

The story was meh, but it was a beautiful movie.


FappyDilmore

Avatar wasn't a movie, it was a theater going experience. Like those IMAX demonstrations. It should be remembered as such.


bmyers123

Avatar was only good when it came out because it was the first movie to do the big budget 3D movie thing. The story is poor, but the effects are why it was so well received at release. Nowadays, and surely forever into the future, it won't hold up.


myanrueller

It's a good showcase of interesting tech wrapped in a much worse version of Dances With Wolves. It proves how 3D films can work when the entire production is built around 3D, but the history of the film post release and its life on home video/streaming kind of proves 3D is impractical to do right and loses longevity because of lack of access to 3D screens at home. That and all of the quick 3D conversions done in its wake didn't help.


navit47

was I just 3D? I thought it also helped pushed the boundaries of motion capture and IMAX


red-sed

Les miserables. LOVE Les Mis. Hated the movie.


kilkenny99

Look up the Sideways youtube channel's video on it. He really tears into it for all of it's terrible musical choices the director made, and how shitty those decisions were on the actors etc. It's like the director didn't understand music & musicals at all. He later made Cats, so I guess Sideways dude was right.


MysteryGirlWhite

That Fault in Our Stars, and really any film that romanticizes chronic/terminal illnesses. It's disgusting and needs to stop.


brodyf

Admittedly, I don't remember the movie very well, but the book was very blatantly opposed to the clichés surrounding young people with terminal illness. It tried to normalize them as regular people that deal with the same hopes, fears, and disappointments as everyone else. It didn't try to pretend that being a dying kid makes you wise beyond your years or anything like that. It clearly showed exactly the opposite.


SuperFluffyVulpix

It‘s loosely based [on a real person](https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/fault-in-our-stars/)


SuperPipouchu

Yes, John Green very much wanted to basically show that sometimes shit happens to people, and it doesn't have some big mystical meaning. Sometimes stuff just sucks and isn't okay. (I'm paraphrasing, please correct me if I'm wrong.)


Sashimiak

The entire point is the opposite of romanticizing. He wrote the book to show the harsh realities of dying of cancer basically


cheddarbomb81

The answer will forever and always be CRASH


Frolicking_Trex

The Notebook. A garbage movie about garbage people


God-Of-knifehits

Haha, I feel like I saw the notebook at least four times on this thread.


treadwells_gone

It’s part of Reddits identity to hate the Notebook. They’re very proud of it


ElliotPlaysGuitar

My girlfriend insists Paranormal Activity is a well made, scary horror movie. I'm a total pussy with horror and yet I saw it as a child and laughed at it


cheese_hotdog

I see a lot of people saying they laughed at this movie. What exactly was funny about it? Lol. I mean don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily think it's especially scary, but being not scary doesn't equal funny.


octopussylipgloss

Every version that exists of “A Star is Born”.


Throwawaybbeg7333

All my friends think Love, Actually is amazing. I really hate it.


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It's really a product of its time, isn't it? I love watching it just because of the heartbreaking ending for Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, and then Joni Mitchell comes singing the orchestra/sadder version of "Both Sides Now". I think I never expected such a sad, realistic ending for characters in a silly romcom that has a Rowan Atkinson cameo.


Ok_Manufacturer3332

Omg it was soul crushing!!! And I couldn't even hate him (the character) because I love Alan Rickman to dead.


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Right??? And honestly, I didn't really expect that ending because even the affair going on was kinda played for laughs? So I thought maybe he'd do the right thing and in the end it will be the usual rainbows and butterflies of romcoms.


Squigglepig52

I just enjoy watching some of my favourite actors act.


grizznuggets

Bill Nighy was fantastic, the rest can bugger off.


LaPetiteGrenade

Crazy Rich Asians. All the he had to do was communicate! Nothing about what he did was romantic in any way and, for me, just raised red flags. I understand wanting someone to love you outside of wealth, but at least a heads up about his mom would have been nice. The mahjong scene was great however.


laridance24

This is a great “put it on the background while you’re cleaning” movie. Also all the eating/food scenes really made me want to go to Singapore.