Crap movies that are critically acclaimed or loved by others

In reply to RX Reven' :

You should do that. 

z31maniac said:

Tangentially related, I'm getting really tired of that trope. I recently saw a sponsored ad for Rage Against The Machine merchandise on my Facebook feed and couldn't get past the blatant hypocrisy. Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello both individually have net worths approaching $30 million. 

They continue to scream "berkeley Capitalism" while at the same time asking you to BUY their $30/each T-shirts. 

I still love their music, but I'm getting tired of people who are rich telling me the system that made them rich is terrible. 

Price a ticket to one of their shows lately?

Mr. Peabody said:

STM317 said:

Not that I've seen very many, but I've never been impressed by a Tarantino movie.

I liked Reservoir dogs. I recently saw Pulp fiction for the second time and thought, what a stupid movie. I don't think it aged well.

I still don't understand why Winston Wolf doesn't drink black coffee. 

Someone said Tenet's plot is like it was written by a bot that was forced to read all of Nolan's scripts. Hard to argue 

Mr. Peabody said:

z31maniac said:

Tangentially related, I'm getting really tired of that trope. I recently saw a sponsored ad for Rage Against The Machine merchandise on my Facebook feed and couldn't get past the blatant hypocrisy. Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello both individually have net worths approaching $30 million. 

They continue to scream "berkeley Capitalism" while at the same time asking you to BUY their $30/each T-shirts. 

I still love their music, but I'm getting tired of people who are rich telling me the system that made them rich is terrible. 

Price a ticket to one of their shows lately?

I haven't because they never come anywhere close. But I do remember seeing something about one of their shows a few years ago where tickets were like $250+ each or something. 

stroker said:

I went to Wikipedia to look up the Best Picture winners and the only one I've seen in the last 20 years is Birdman.  I couldn't get halfway through....

I actually watched the whole thing.  For the last scene, I literally said "oh F you"

Some movies are basically made to appeal to Hollywood types.  Guess which ones are more likely to get nominated.  It's not that hard to understand though, it's what they know.  How many stories have you seen that are about writers?  A lot.

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Mr. Peabody said:

STM317 said:

Not that I've seen very many, but I've never been impressed by a Tarantino movie.

I liked Reservoir dogs. I recently saw Pulp fiction for the second time and thought, what a stupid movie. I don't think it aged well.

I still don't understand why Winston Wolf doesn't drink black coffee. 

To show that he is secure enough that he can like what he likes without putting on airs to act macho. You're supposed to think a badass tough guy drinks his coffee black. Winston Wolf doesn't care how you think he's supposed to take his coffee.

In reply to Duke :

Any movie where Adam Sandler uses some stupid voice the whole time although I enjoyed the recent one where he was a gambling jeweler.   

z31maniac said:

Mr. Peabody said:

z31maniac said:

Tangentially related, I'm getting really tired of that trope. I recently saw a sponsored ad for Rage Against The Machine merchandise on my Facebook feed and couldn't get past the blatant hypocrisy. Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello both individually have net worths approaching $30 million. 

They continue to scream "berkeley Capitalism" while at the same time asking you to BUY their $30/each T-shirts. 

I still love their music, but I'm getting tired of people who are rich telling me the system that made them rich is terrible. 

Price a ticket to one of their shows lately?

I haven't because they never come anywhere close. But I do remember seeing something about one of their shows a few years ago where tickets were like $250+ each or something. 

Yep, I lost a lot of respect for them when I saw those ticket prices. Way to help the little guy and make your concerts only for the rich. 

Duke said:

In reply to KyAllroad :

If you didn't grow up watching the original Monty Python's Flying Circus shows in their first American run on late-night PBS, after your parents told you to go to bed, and hoping for a quick glimpse of naked boob, then I can understand your position.

But if you did grow up watching the shows, Holy Grail is just 2 or 3 MPFC episodes back to back, with all the skits having a common theme of medieval England.

 

Some of my earliest memories are watching Monty Python with my mom on the 13" black and white TV in the kitchen.

Way too young to understand what was going on, but I remember the opening credits.

aircooled said:

stroker said:

I went to Wikipedia to look up the Best Picture winners and the only one I've seen in the last 20 years is Birdman.  I couldn't get halfway through....

I actually watched the whole thing.  For the last scene, I literally said "oh F you"

Some movies are basically made to appeal to Hollywood types.  Guess which ones are more likely to get nominated.  It's not that hard to understand though, it's what they know.  How many stories have you seen that are about writers?  A lot.

THANK YOU. My wife and I use it as the premiere example of a terrible film. Saw it in theaters thanks to good reviews and couldn't believe how bad it was. The whole thing was like watching the film industry berkeley itself, but like in a bad way. 

I also didn't like Snowpiercer. It was so blatantly about class struggle. Oh look, this poor guy lives in the back of a train and literally has to walk forward through richer and richer people to get to the front. And what's there? THE TRAIN RUNS ON THE POORS?! How clever.

In reply to thatsnowinnebago :

Never saw Birdman, but I completely agree about Snowpiercer.

Duke said:

NickD said:

Appleseed said:

In reply to Duke :

The only part of Dunkirk I enjoyed were the aerial scenes. 

There was no sense of dread or defeat, just a bunch of soldiers on a beach looking out to the sea.

And once again, Nolan goes out of his way to try and make what should be a simple plot be as confusing as possible to follow

I didn't find Dunkirk hard to follow.  Nolan gave you the time key right in the opening credits.  On the contrary, I found it made an otherwise simple (albeit heroic) story even more interesting.

Without the layers, you're stuck either with a condensed documentary of the defeat and withdrawal of the BEF, or with a short, no-context slice of personal story, like FURY.  Having the multiple time scales allowed you to have both and more in Dunkirk.

 

The problem I have with that is by trying to show the big picture,  and the personal scope, you focus on nothing.

The only emotion I felt was where the Spitfire pilot had to make a choice: home or stay and fight and run out of fuel. Dead stickingvthe bird onto the beach and lighting her ablaze was the only sense of defeat and failure I felt in a movie about defeat. I ended up not giving a crap about anyone else.

And I wanted, wanted, wanted to like that movie.

Rocky Horror, Easy Rider and Napoleon Dynamite.are horrible in every way possible.

A movie I just cannot watch is Lawrence of Arabia.  Yes.  We know the desert is big.  Stop showing a camel train walking across the vast desert and get the berkeley on with your 30 minute story.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. 

No need for name calling because other people like something you don't. 

Appleseed said:

slantvaliant (Forum Supporter) said:

Avatar was just a relocated and CGI'd Dances With Wolves.  I didn't care for either.

 

Ferngully in space.

Avatar is a crapped up and stretched out version of "Call Me Joe"

Beer Baron said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Mr. Peabody said:

STM317 said:

Not that I've seen very many, but I've never been impressed by a Tarantino movie.

I liked Reservoir dogs. I recently saw Pulp fiction for the second time and thought, what a stupid movie. I don't think it aged well.

I still don't understand why Winston Wolf doesn't drink black coffee. 

To show that he is secure enough that he can like what he likes without putting on airs to act macho. You're supposed to think a badass tough guy drinks his coffee black. Winston Wolf doesn't care how you think he's supposed to take his coffee.

It's not about image, it's about time. Black coffee is quicker and more efficient to prepare than lotsa cream lotsa sugar. 

z31maniac said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. 

No need for name calling because other people like something you don't. 

Yeah, I shouldn't have said that, but it really is an expression of just how much I hate that movie.  Sorry.

The weird thing about Avatar is that as much money as it generated, it had exactly zero impact on culture. Seriously, ask someone to name a character or quote a line from the movie. I have a friend who saw it like 3 or 4 times in theaters, he can't remember a single detail from that film. And then James Cameron is off filming 2 sequels back-to-back, with a 3rd planned. It's been over a decade since the first one came out and it's popularity dropped like a rock, maybe you ought to just film one sequel and release that and see if the interest is still even there.

Birdman was horrible. Like someone else said, we turned it off before half way. We had to watch it because of Michael Keaton.

Fun fact. Michael Keaton is from Pittsburgh. If you mention the name Michael Keaton anywhere near the greater Pittsburgh area, someone will emerge to shout "he's from Pittsburgh you know!!!" 

The Goonies. I liked it as a kid. I tried to rewatch it a couple years ago, it's just two hours of kids screaming. Constant god damn screaming. I had to turn it off. 

NickD said:

Someone said Tenet's plot is like it was written by a bot that was forced to read all of Nolan's scripts. Hard to argue 

I'm not sure what the freaking plot of Tenet was as I couldn't hear the dialogue.  WTF.  Spend untold hundreds of millions then edit the sound so no one can hear a word in a movie that's already hard to follow.  I might try and watch it again with subtitles or something.

Bullit.

Lemans.

I said what I said.

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Beer Baron said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Mr. Peabody said:

STM317 said:

Not that I've seen very many, but I've never been impressed by a Tarantino movie.

I liked Reservoir dogs. I recently saw Pulp fiction for the second time and thought, what a stupid movie. I don't think it aged well.

I still don't understand why Winston Wolf doesn't drink black coffee. 

To show that he is secure enough that he can like what he likes without putting on airs to act macho. You're supposed to think a badass tough guy drinks his coffee black. Winston Wolf doesn't care how you think he's supposed to take his coffee.

It's not about image, it's about time. Black coffee is quicker and more efficient to prepare than lotsa cream lotsa sugar. 

Time is a factor for Jules and Vincent. Jimmy and the Wolf aren't cleaning anything. How long it takes Jimmy to make the coffee is irrelevant.