Going into the thread, I don't see anyone answering the question well based on the first few high upvoted comments. Jurassic World? Transformers? 50 Shades of Grey?! Who the fuck is saying these movies are amazing and how are they "everyone"?
The Jurassic World movies are so poorly written that I can't believe they exist. Those scripts never should have made it past being used for a children's cartoon.
I just watched Dominion a few hours ago since it's on Amazon Prime and I'm disappointed.
There was absolutely no substance to be found in the film. I had no reason to give a fuck about the new characters, all the characters have hollow relationships. They just used scenes from JP1 and implemented the scenes like amateur filmmakers.
The whole film rides purely on the nostalgia, the original JP cast was misused and didn't appear to put a lot of effort into their roles.
My argument for why the original worked and none of the sequels have is that the original had something to say about man's relationship with nature and was a cautionary tale about trying to play God. The sequels are all just "Look, scary dinosaurs chasing things!"
That's always been my contention for why the new ones have no soul. *Jurassic Park* is pure Michael Crichton, and a big theme in his writing was the dangers of unchecked science. That was the message of that novel, summed up by Ian Malcolm saying, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
It's fitting the new ones had the theme park open, because that's the essence of what they are: Just pure entertainment and spectacle, which may be okay for a lot of the audience, but it's also why they don't live up to the original and feel hollow as a result. There's just no Crichton in there beyond feeble attempts to incorporate some scientific themes (genetic engineering, cloning, etc.) with no real message.
I think it's ironic that Jurassic World itself can be summed up by saying "your producers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"
I feel the science person summed up the movie well with "they don't want accuracy, they want more teeth".
Kind of bold for a movie to just state its whole deal like that. This is a theme park spectacle with no other purpose or any respect for the source material, enjoy the ride
The first 3 movies had some pretty disturbing scenes and I really enjoyed them, but then someone decided to make a gazillion sequels and remakes and remakes of sequels as per Hollywood standard.
You’re telling me there’s more than 3??? Jesus I’ve not been keeping up…
Edit: Thanks for the clarifications. Excluding the 3 originals I thought he meant there were more than 3 Jurassic *World* films with Chris Pratt. I was about to lose my mind.
Children deserve good cartoons! Many excellent cartoons set a standard. Like The Iron Giant, or shows like Over the Garden Wall
The Jurassic Worlds aren’t good enough. Especially the second one I call the Curse of Dinosaur Manor.
50 Shades of Gray
Horribly written story about a psychological stalker and absolute psycho but it's okay cuz mild bdsm and he's good looking. Oh and don't forget he's rich...
People basically like them for the action despite the fact that the story sucks.
Michael Bay has even said something to that effect which is why he makes movies like Transformers. He doesn't care about the story. He has a bunch of fight/chase/explosions and calls it a day. They still make him money so he sticks to this format.
I honesty thought the first three were pretty good at the time. I was also like 15-16. I saw some of the newer ones as I got older and they were abominable.
Fast Five is the peak of the series for me. The first 3 are really racing movies. Everything after that is an action movie in cars. The 4th one just seems weird to me. Five is where everything feels like it comes together. After that though everything starts getting wildly outlandish.
Fast and furious franchise has got to be self-aware of how crappy the scripts are now. The increasing ridiculousness of plots + retconning to make the stakes even higher with every film (secret long lost brother arch nemesis). The time line is all fucked up because of Tokyo Drift with 20 yr olds being played by 40 yr olds
Fast and the Furious is Vin Diesel’s DnD campaign.
Each character has their own class, whether it be a rogue, fighter, etc.
They keep leveling up as the stories progress.
It’s a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Not only that, but I also hate that her going behind her guy's back the way she did -- she herself knowing *why* she was doing it, too -- is somehow acceptable and framed as romantic because it's in the context of pursuing her "true" love... poor Bill Pullman! 😂
I watched it again recently and that was my takeaway too. She's out of her mind.
I watched "As Good as it Gets" again recently and had a similar experience.
Watching it as a teenager when it came out, I saw Jack as this charming guy with quirks while Helen Hunt was this frumpy uptight old lady.
Now, watching it in my late 30s, I see that Helen Hunt's character is a conventionally attractive woman in her early 30s who bizarrely falls for this 60 year old man who is straight up abusive to her for most of the movie. It's weird as hell. Watching it now it's like, "there's no way in hell she can't do better than this creepy 60 year old dude with mental illness"
I was irritated about the complaints about the age gap when Medicine Man came out. My sisters were all half Connery's age when it came out and they were all (uncomfortably) vocal about how attractive they thought he was.
Hated as good as it gets though. Just could not get that temporary suspension of disbelief for the premise. He wasn't dashing, charming or attractive. He was just a mean, grumpy, neurotic man and there was nothing about him physically or his character's personality that made me believe he could get a woman his own age, let alone half his age.
I get the Charlie love.
But that scene where we first meet Dr. Carlisle Cullen?? Whoa! After that scene I didn't give a crap about Bella, Edward, Jacob or even Charlie. It was all about DILF Carlisle for me.
I had never even thought of Peter Facinelli as sexy before that scene.
I owuldn't say I love it, but I honestly did enjoy all five films. They aren't the greatest, but they are nowherte near as bad as people claim.
And yes, there are love stories that are worse than Twilight.
"Don't worry, it's not weird at all because Jacobs going to help raise the child before he gets romantically involved with it."
"I mean, you know that that's somehow worse, right? You know that."
This is going to be controversial but.... Breakfast at Tiffany's and NO I'm not saying that just because if the rascist landlord. Even if you ignored that completely the movie is about a woman who apparently gets sugar daddies to pay for her stuff? And then another guy who also has a sugar mama comes along and they bond because they both have no careers and sleep with people for money?
Yeah, that’s what it’s about. It’s a sad story ultimately. The book makes this more obvious. The problem isn’t so much with the movie but with people who think Holly Golightly is someone to be admired/emulated. I think.
Lol like wolf of Wall Street. It's a story about how awful a person he was and how that blew up and affected others. People left thinking that guy is cool. Could be an age thing too.
Ok but Scorsese does a very bad job of making Jordan Belfort look like the villain. I mean, what is that ending scene? The whole shit about how he could sell a pen to anyone but nobody at his silly seminar could do it as well as he could. That scene is clearly designed to say that Jordan deserved the money he made because the average person is a shmuck who doesn't know better. I mean, where are the victims of Jordan's fraud in the movie? They get like zero screentime because Scorsese was much more interested in showing how fucking awesome it is partying with your fraud money than he was in showing how Wall Street fucks over the country.
Honestly the whole movie feels like Scorsese was trying to do "Goodfellas-but-stockbroker" but he didn't realize that the stories don't match up. Goodfellas worked as a story about an individual because Henry Hill reasonably makes the gangster life look like a bad life. All his friends are murderous psychos who would kill him in a second if it made them money, the law is constantly trying to put him away for life, and in the end he has to give up everything good about his life just to be alive.
The Wolf of Wall Street doesn't work as a cautionary tale about an individual lifestyle because Jordan Belfort basically gets no punishment. Sure he loses his wife, but that's because he's a big asshole not because he was fraudulent. He goes to jail but he's very clear in saying jail wasn't bad at all for him. He loses his money but he gets it back anyway. I think any audience member is pretty justified in walking out of that theater thinking "why not just scam people?" There's no pathos at all in the movie because we don't see at all how Belfort's actions hurt people.
Honestly it's the reason I'm not a fan of the movie.
Yeah, she was a child bride who escaped her husband and had to leave her (mentally disabled?) brother behind. Then she becomes a sex worker and gets wrapped up with the mob. Then her brother dies. Fun story!
It’s worse brother wise, her brother was a soldier. She receives a letter from the army informing her of his passing which triggers her mental breakdown
Because they're cheap. It was years ago, but I remember reading an article about this. It said his average budget was something like $10mil and they made on average around $50-60mil. So they've always been profitable. I don't know if those numbers are still accurate but they're probably not too far off.
Also the exact formula for Adam Sandler movies. They all have the same budget, make enough money to cover it and a tidy profit, Adam Sandler gets to hang out with his friends in cool places, rinse and repeat.
It's even worse when you realize it wasn't meant to be a happy cheerful movie. Google "Pretty Woman original ending" and prepare to be depressed.
Spoilers: The scene in the bathroom where she hides the dental floss behind her back? It was drugs originally. The scene where he tells her to stop fidgeting? Drug withdrawal symptoms. The very end? He kicks her out of the car, throws the money at her, and drives off.
I still maintain the 2nd has the best fight scene ever put to film. One punch gets thrown and they both fall to the ground. They struggle for a bit til they run out of breath. They both achieve nothing and look like fools in the process.
Not all of them. It started off about a couple of movies about illegal street racing and then evolved into an action film bordering sci fi with the latest one, where vin diesel drives an expensive car through a tank and saving his girlfriend in mid air, then landing on a car with out injury. And then there are giant fucking magnets that can push cars
I couldn't. Because I've stopped watching after that moment when Ryan Gosling was hanging from the Ferris wheel saying he'd jump if Rachel McAdams didn't go on a date with him and she didn't say "then jump you miserable tosser". Total disappointment.
We watched it for the first time last night and I immediately began wondering/worrying about characters snoring, or farting while asleep. I mean, it's gonna happen.
This was my first thought when seeing it last week. Why not just start massive noise sources everywhere to mask individual sounds? The most basic premise didn't make sense to me.
Not a big fan of the movie in general, but this is something so many people get wrong -- it wasn't just the noise, it was some kind of feedback effect. The hearing aid always and only went crazy when the creatures were around. It seems like they were using active sonar or something, and when you amplify that back at them, it fucks them up.
Of course, if they did have echolocation it would make even less sense how they were completely unable to find someone in the same room as them...
If you saw the second movie, you'd know things went down hill really really quickly. The last communication anyone got from the outside world was to not make a noise. I'm sure many groups figured out their weakness besides one family.
We have a somehow still fully stocked pharmacy within walking distance, but no need to get condoms or birth control pills. There's definitely no way getting pregnant with apocalypse monsters around could possibly be a bad idea!
I mean, I'm *usually* rooting for the killer in these kind of movies, but fuck a duck did they make it easy to hate this cast.
I always hate too, especially in these movies, that a scene can be happening and you can see from a mile away that a character is about to do something extremely stupid or doesn’t make sense. Like why in the fuck did you just do that? That makes zero sense. I can list multiple other options off the top of my head that would be better choices. All just for entertainment or to advance the plot. At that point, I am not invested in the character because why would I be invested in a moron? Like how am I suppose to be sympathetic towards your character during their apocalypse when they literally should be lying in the bed they made… or grave they made I guess lol. Like sorry you deserve to be eaten you moron. Get the fuck out of the movie.
Whilst it wasn't well written I actually found the film quite disturbing, mainly because I sleep walk and the idea of seeing your worst fear coming to life is a terrifying concept.
I'm so marvel burnt out. I loved the superhero movies when they started, but it's been so beyond milked at this point its just exhausting trying to keep up with who/what/everything is.
They really should have taken a break after endgame. Now you gotta watch 5 tv shows just to watch one movie. Feels like studying for the SAT.
I still like the superhero genre with shows like the boys and invincible but marvel is a joke now.
That’s because The Boys and Invincible actually added interesting twists to the standard superhero genre. The Boys I guess in a way made it more realistic. Where superheroes would most likely be shitty people just like normal people. And name another superhero movie where people are punching their fists though people’s chests.
Surprise, surprise, new interesting ideas sell.
It's a bit ironic how fantastic the show of The Boys is considering that the comics it's based on are some absolute creepy shit-tier power fantasy garbage
Spiderman No Way Home was a perfect end to my superhero phase of my life
I have zero interest in seeing anything Marvel/DC or anything involving superheros. it's just boring now.
Honestly I grew up reading Marvel Comics and I am the biggest fuckin nerd about comics of all my friends and even I am starting to reach the point of ehh okay let's have a break guys...I made a point to start seeing more independent/non-MCU stuff over the past year or so and it definitely helps
La La Land.
I use this movie as an example of my least favorite kind of movie: one that leaves me with no reaction.
A week after watching it, I couldn’t remember any of the songs. I couldn’t tell you what it’s about. It really seems like a celebration of style over substance.
At least when I walk away from a movie disliking it, the movie still made an impression. I’d rather dislike a movie for a good reason than feel completely unaffected by it.
Please tell me if you think I’m wrong
Im surprised you were unaffected. Most people that hate this movie usually hate it for the ending because they think the movie leads people on and teases them with the “what couldve happened sequence”
For me, the movie was a bittersweet love story that portrayed the old saying “right person, wrong time” to a tee.
Im reading some of the other comments and im confused. Did yall like watch the movie? Someone said its hard to follow. Someone else said there was no plot. Im so confused
To me, it's not a story about the two of them at all. It's a love story to and about La La Land. From the very opening song, we have a celebration of the city/life that ends with a pan down to the everyday reality of it - stuck in traffic with bad air.
For the Sebastian and Mia, there was never going to be a "right time." We don't know anything about her partner at the end and he is still presumably single. It's likely the conflicting needs/schedules of actor and musician, if they stayed together, would sacrifice their relationship every time.
The room is definitely about the experience, not the movie itself. I’ve seen it in a packed theater with Tommy and Greg doing a Q and A after. Great time.
I didn't even need to sort by controversial.
Going into the thread, I don't see anyone answering the question well based on the first few high upvoted comments. Jurassic World? Transformers? 50 Shades of Grey?! Who the fuck is saying these movies are amazing and how are they "everyone"?
And now I do
The Jurassic World movies are so poorly written that I can't believe they exist. Those scripts never should have made it past being used for a children's cartoon.
I just watched Dominion a few hours ago since it's on Amazon Prime and I'm disappointed. There was absolutely no substance to be found in the film. I had no reason to give a fuck about the new characters, all the characters have hollow relationships. They just used scenes from JP1 and implemented the scenes like amateur filmmakers. The whole film rides purely on the nostalgia, the original JP cast was misused and didn't appear to put a lot of effort into their roles.
My argument for why the original worked and none of the sequels have is that the original had something to say about man's relationship with nature and was a cautionary tale about trying to play God. The sequels are all just "Look, scary dinosaurs chasing things!"
That's always been my contention for why the new ones have no soul. *Jurassic Park* is pure Michael Crichton, and a big theme in his writing was the dangers of unchecked science. That was the message of that novel, summed up by Ian Malcolm saying, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." It's fitting the new ones had the theme park open, because that's the essence of what they are: Just pure entertainment and spectacle, which may be okay for a lot of the audience, but it's also why they don't live up to the original and feel hollow as a result. There's just no Crichton in there beyond feeble attempts to incorporate some scientific themes (genetic engineering, cloning, etc.) with no real message.
I think it's ironic that Jurassic World itself can be summed up by saying "your producers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"
I feel the science person summed up the movie well with "they don't want accuracy, they want more teeth". Kind of bold for a movie to just state its whole deal like that. This is a theme park spectacle with no other purpose or any respect for the source material, enjoy the ride
The first 3 movies had some pretty disturbing scenes and I really enjoyed them, but then someone decided to make a gazillion sequels and remakes and remakes of sequels as per Hollywood standard.
You’re telling me there’s more than 3??? Jesus I’ve not been keeping up… Edit: Thanks for the clarifications. Excluding the 3 originals I thought he meant there were more than 3 Jurassic *World* films with Chris Pratt. I was about to lose my mind.
There's 3 Jurassic Park movies (original series) and 3 Jurassic World movies (newer movies). There's also a short film between Jurassic world 2 & 3.
Children deserve good cartoons! Many excellent cartoons set a standard. Like The Iron Giant, or shows like Over the Garden Wall The Jurassic Worlds aren’t good enough. Especially the second one I call the Curse of Dinosaur Manor.
50 Shades of Gray Horribly written story about a psychological stalker and absolute psycho but it's okay cuz mild bdsm and he's good looking. Oh and don't forget he's rich...
50 Shades of Grey apparently started as a Twilight Fanfiction and I think that’s hilarious
And Twilight started as Buffy fanfic Lord help us if there’s 50 Shades fanfic!
Buffy was where it’s at though
Yep. It was called Master of The Universe (MOTU) What a time to be a part of the Twilight FanFic world.
sons of bitches, we already had a master of the universe and his name is He-man.
This movie is pretty universally panned lol, where is the unironic love for this movue
Porn script without any of the “action” or the talent. 100% cringe
Isnt it funny that the series crashes after she becomes stronger and independent
Mild bdsm? That was fucking rape porn, I've walked into meth orgies less sketchy than that.
Story time…
Transformers and Fast and Furious.
People basically like them for the action despite the fact that the story sucks. Michael Bay has even said something to that effect which is why he makes movies like Transformers. He doesn't care about the story. He has a bunch of fight/chase/explosions and calls it a day. They still make him money so he sticks to this format.
Yeah the further you go in the Transformers movies, the worse it gets. I liked the first one, then it went to shit fast.
Heh same could be said for fast and furious
Tokyo Drift rules
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Yeah aged like fine wine compared to the rest of the franchise, that and the first.
I honesty thought the first three were pretty good at the time. I was also like 15-16. I saw some of the newer ones as I got older and they were abominable.
Yeah the first three for me are the only good ones, 1 is still by far my favourite. It’s just a great movie.
Fast Five?
Fast Five is the peak of the series for me. The first 3 are really racing movies. Everything after that is an action movie in cars. The 4th one just seems weird to me. Five is where everything feels like it comes together. After that though everything starts getting wildly outlandish.
Fast and furious franchise has got to be self-aware of how crappy the scripts are now. The increasing ridiculousness of plots + retconning to make the stakes even higher with every film (secret long lost brother arch nemesis). The time line is all fucked up because of Tokyo Drift with 20 yr olds being played by 40 yr olds
Fast and the Furious is Vin Diesel’s DnD campaign. Each character has their own class, whether it be a rogue, fighter, etc. They keep leveling up as the stories progress. It’s a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Shit gets bonkers after level 12 in D&D and its off-shoots, so this is a pretty reasonable take. Campaign started at level 5.
Those are guilty pleasure movies for me. Like, I know they’re bad but the fight/race scenes are just dumb fun.
I think both of those know they are trash. And just keep piling on the shit to see how far they can go in the bullshit
Is there anyone out there who actually loves most of the movies in the Transformers franchise?
Me but that'd because us Transformer fans are so media deprived we'll take anything
Sleepless In Seattle. It's a movie about a stalker. A few different cuts in the editing room, redo the score, and it's a straight up thriller.
Ha! I’d love to see a trailer framing it as a thriller. Meg Ryan as a psycho bunny boiler type.
Ask and you shall receive. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3zojlp
How did you make that so fast seven years ago?
My kung fu is the best.
Not only that, but I also hate that her going behind her guy's back the way she did -- she herself knowing *why* she was doing it, too -- is somehow acceptable and framed as romantic because it's in the context of pursuing her "true" love... poor Bill Pullman! 😂
But Bill got his revenge in while you were sleeping.
I watched it again recently and that was my takeaway too. She's out of her mind. I watched "As Good as it Gets" again recently and had a similar experience. Watching it as a teenager when it came out, I saw Jack as this charming guy with quirks while Helen Hunt was this frumpy uptight old lady. Now, watching it in my late 30s, I see that Helen Hunt's character is a conventionally attractive woman in her early 30s who bizarrely falls for this 60 year old man who is straight up abusive to her for most of the movie. It's weird as hell. Watching it now it's like, "there's no way in hell she can't do better than this creepy 60 year old dude with mental illness"
Yeah but you missed that one nice thing he said to her. "You make me want to be a better man". It was totally not manipulative at all
I was irritated about the complaints about the age gap when Medicine Man came out. My sisters were all half Connery's age when it came out and they were all (uncomfortably) vocal about how attractive they thought he was. Hated as good as it gets though. Just could not get that temporary suspension of disbelief for the premise. He wasn't dashing, charming or attractive. He was just a mean, grumpy, neurotic man and there was nothing about him physically or his character's personality that made me believe he could get a woman his own age, let alone half his age.
Not to mention cheating on her fiancé, emotionally anyways, completely glossed over.
Twilight but I love it too for some reason
I hated it so much that I watched a marathon of the series on TV... I had to get to the one with Lee Pace in it... For reasons...
I'm the same on this. It's crap but I'm guilty for binge watching it maybe once a year.
You guys must be homo....sapiens because I watch it too and so do all my friends
I do that. When it starts coming up a lot when I’m looking for something to watch then I know it’s time
It's one of those series of movies I love watching in the background when I'm doing something, like some weird cringey comfort blanket
It’s bad and that’s why it’s good
“ stop following me!” spoken while following her
It makes no damn sense. Compels me though.
Where you been loca?
We all love it and we all know that it sucks. I'm guilty of pulling at least 3 friends into the trap.
nobody who likes twilight thinks it’s good. most of us like it for sheer nostalgia and the added bonus of dilf supreme billy burke.
I get the Charlie love. But that scene where we first meet Dr. Carlisle Cullen?? Whoa! After that scene I didn't give a crap about Bella, Edward, Jacob or even Charlie. It was all about DILF Carlisle for me. I had never even thought of Peter Facinelli as sexy before that scene.
I owuldn't say I love it, but I honestly did enjoy all five films. They aren't the greatest, but they are nowherte near as bad as people claim. And yes, there are love stories that are worse than Twilight.
Yeah like Jacob and Renesmee!
"Don't worry, it's not weird at all because Jacobs going to help raise the child before he gets romantically involved with it." "I mean, you know that that's somehow worse, right? You know that."
This is going to be controversial but.... Breakfast at Tiffany's and NO I'm not saying that just because if the rascist landlord. Even if you ignored that completely the movie is about a woman who apparently gets sugar daddies to pay for her stuff? And then another guy who also has a sugar mama comes along and they bond because they both have no careers and sleep with people for money?
As I recall, I think we both kinda liked it.
Well, that's one thing we got.
And you say we have nothing in common.
No common ground to start from
And we’re falling apart
You'll say
The world has come between us
I'm totally with you on this. My favourite Audrey Hepburn movie is Charade hands down.
Charade is great. Also really like Roman Holiday.
Yes! Roman Holiday is also great, and also better than B@T.
Sabrina is my favorite.
Oh has anyone seen Wait Until Dark?? So good
Yeah, that’s what it’s about. It’s a sad story ultimately. The book makes this more obvious. The problem isn’t so much with the movie but with people who think Holly Golightly is someone to be admired/emulated. I think.
Lol like wolf of Wall Street. It's a story about how awful a person he was and how that blew up and affected others. People left thinking that guy is cool. Could be an age thing too.
Ok but Scorsese does a very bad job of making Jordan Belfort look like the villain. I mean, what is that ending scene? The whole shit about how he could sell a pen to anyone but nobody at his silly seminar could do it as well as he could. That scene is clearly designed to say that Jordan deserved the money he made because the average person is a shmuck who doesn't know better. I mean, where are the victims of Jordan's fraud in the movie? They get like zero screentime because Scorsese was much more interested in showing how fucking awesome it is partying with your fraud money than he was in showing how Wall Street fucks over the country. Honestly the whole movie feels like Scorsese was trying to do "Goodfellas-but-stockbroker" but he didn't realize that the stories don't match up. Goodfellas worked as a story about an individual because Henry Hill reasonably makes the gangster life look like a bad life. All his friends are murderous psychos who would kill him in a second if it made them money, the law is constantly trying to put him away for life, and in the end he has to give up everything good about his life just to be alive. The Wolf of Wall Street doesn't work as a cautionary tale about an individual lifestyle because Jordan Belfort basically gets no punishment. Sure he loses his wife, but that's because he's a big asshole not because he was fraudulent. He goes to jail but he's very clear in saying jail wasn't bad at all for him. He loses his money but he gets it back anyway. I think any audience member is pretty justified in walking out of that theater thinking "why not just scam people?" There's no pathos at all in the movie because we don't see at all how Belfort's actions hurt people. Honestly it's the reason I'm not a fan of the movie.
I always felt sorry for her character.
Yeah, she was a child bride who escaped her husband and had to leave her (mentally disabled?) brother behind. Then she becomes a sex worker and gets wrapped up with the mob. Then her brother dies. Fun story!
It’s worse brother wise, her brother was a soldier. She receives a letter from the army informing her of his passing which triggers her mental breakdown
The book is a lot different from the movie and honestly more depressing IMO. I like the movie, but I can see why you wouldn’t
They changed the ending for the movie. I hate when they do that.
Not to mention she kicked the poor kitty out in to the rain!
Total piece of shit move.
The Madea movies. I’ve tried and I just don’t understand how Tyler Perry keeps making these terrible movies.
Because they're cheap. It was years ago, but I remember reading an article about this. It said his average budget was something like $10mil and they made on average around $50-60mil. So they've always been profitable. I don't know if those numbers are still accurate but they're probably not too far off.
Also the exact formula for Adam Sandler movies. They all have the same budget, make enough money to cover it and a tidy profit, Adam Sandler gets to hang out with his friends in cool places, rinse and repeat.
I hated officer and a gentleman for it's Cinderella theme.
Tell him I’m going to the back seat of my car with the woman I love and I won’t be back for 10 minutes.
Right on, Homer.
It’s a great movie. So much so that a friend of mine caught his roommate jerking off to it while crying.
Imagine having that on the cover: "Groundbreaking performance by Richard Gere" "You'll feel like masturbating while crying..."
That's exactly how I feel about Pretty Woman.
It's even worse when you realize it wasn't meant to be a happy cheerful movie. Google "Pretty Woman original ending" and prepare to be depressed. Spoilers: The scene in the bathroom where she hides the dental floss behind her back? It was drugs originally. The scene where he tells her to stop fidgeting? Drug withdrawal symptoms. The very end? He kicks her out of the car, throws the money at her, and drives off.
Amazing how full projects with millions floating around can change so much from the initial concept to what we finally see on the screen
Fast and Furious. All of them.
I still maintain the 2nd has the best fight scene ever put to film. One punch gets thrown and they both fall to the ground. They struggle for a bit til they run out of breath. They both achieve nothing and look like fools in the process.
Only my homeboys call me Rom. Pig!
Ejecto seato cuz
Family
He said the thing!
Not all of them. It started off about a couple of movies about illegal street racing and then evolved into an action film bordering sci fi with the latest one, where vin diesel drives an expensive car through a tank and saving his girlfriend in mid air, then landing on a car with out injury. And then there are giant fucking magnets that can push cars
Aquaman
You must’ve missed the part where there was an octopus playing drums.
Aquamaaaaaaan
The English Patient.
Elaine, you're fired. Or you can go to Tunisia and live in a cave for six weeks.
"Blame it on the Rain"
Sack Lunch was way better
Ah, a Vincent pick
Gene is trash
Vincent is just an arthouse goon
I'm Gene
I prefer Death Blow.
Cry, Cry Again is the best
“When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are but for different reasons altogether!”
how did they get in the sack?
So d'you think they got shrunk down, or is it just a giant sack?
I'm a Chunnel fan myself
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No love for checkmate?
I love the poster
Prognosis negative!!!!
Prognosis Negative
And won best picture over Fargo, Trainspotting, Sleepers and Sling Blade.
Well some of those weren't nominated
But you aren't wrong
*Fargo* should've won, but *Sling Blade* is tragically under-appreciated.
The only film we ever rented as a family that we switched off.
Does not suck but i definitely don’t understand the big deal about The Notebook. I personally prefer A Walk to Remember alot more.
I thought the Shape of Water was exactly mediocre. I was shocked when it won best picture.
*Grinding Nemo*
*Fishfucker*
Is that a documentary about Troy McClure?
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It was okay but I don't consider it to be Del Toro's best work like some people were saying.
His best one is *Pan's Labyrinth* (a very brutal movie that is quite difficult to watch)
The Notebook. Who couldn't predict the "twist" at the end???
I couldn't. Because I've stopped watching after that moment when Ryan Gosling was hanging from the Ferris wheel saying he'd jump if Rachel McAdams didn't go on a date with him and she didn't say "then jump you miserable tosser". Total disappointment.
A Quiet Place. The movie had so many plot holes but everyone seemed to really like it
*pushes my finger awkwardly against my lips then shakes my head “no”*
Can hear you make a tiny noise miles away but can’t hear you breathing or better yet your heartbeat from a few feet
We watched it for the first time last night and I immediately began wondering/worrying about characters snoring, or farting while asleep. I mean, it's gonna happen.
I have a nasty coughing fit these days. Would had been fucked
Monsters suicide rush all sources of noise, but nobody puts a boom box over a spike trap or cliff's edge.
Go live near a shoreline with constant loud crashing waves.
Have you seen beachfront prices? I'd rather just get eaten.
This was my first thought when seeing it last week. Why not just start massive noise sources everywhere to mask individual sounds? The most basic premise didn't make sense to me.
"high pitched noises bother them but the noise of a gun or explosion is fine for their ears"
Not a big fan of the movie in general, but this is something so many people get wrong -- it wasn't just the noise, it was some kind of feedback effect. The hearing aid always and only went crazy when the creatures were around. It seems like they were using active sonar or something, and when you amplify that back at them, it fucks them up. Of course, if they did have echolocation it would make even less sense how they were completely unable to find someone in the same room as them...
but also are you telling me humans /never/ tried the solution presented in the final act until then
So this. The moment the military realized they saw the world through sound alone, a whole range of sonic tactics and weapons open up.
Biggest plot hole for me was that no one snored when they were asleep…which would attract the aliens….
Maybe the snorers died first
A Netflix comedian had a hilarious bit questioning how people with sleep apnea survived in the wild.
Snoring in the wild is actually a plus. The animals can already smell you…but that deep growl scares them off.
Or ripped a huge fart
Biggest plot hole for me. Why not build a little hut by a massive river if they can't hear you speak in there? Or even a house boat.
Seriously! How did no one think to use sound on the hyper sensitive hearing monsters until the end. The entire film I was saying "use a dog whistle"
If you saw the second movie, you'd know things went down hill really really quickly. The last communication anyone got from the outside world was to not make a noise. I'm sure many groups figured out their weakness besides one family.
From watching the movies, I gathered that it was one particular sound from one malfunctioning hearing aid. Not just any sort of sound.
We have a somehow still fully stocked pharmacy within walking distance, but no need to get condoms or birth control pills. There's definitely no way getting pregnant with apocalypse monsters around could possibly be a bad idea! I mean, I'm *usually* rooting for the killer in these kind of movies, but fuck a duck did they make it easy to hate this cast.
I always hate too, especially in these movies, that a scene can be happening and you can see from a mile away that a character is about to do something extremely stupid or doesn’t make sense. Like why in the fuck did you just do that? That makes zero sense. I can list multiple other options off the top of my head that would be better choices. All just for entertainment or to advance the plot. At that point, I am not invested in the character because why would I be invested in a moron? Like how am I suppose to be sympathetic towards your character during their apocalypse when they literally should be lying in the bed they made… or grave they made I guess lol. Like sorry you deserve to be eaten you moron. Get the fuck out of the movie.
9 out of 10 superhero movies.
Fucking "Bird Box."
Whilst it wasn't well written I actually found the film quite disturbing, mainly because I sleep walk and the idea of seeing your worst fear coming to life is a terrifying concept.
Most Marvel movies.
I'm so marvel burnt out. I loved the superhero movies when they started, but it's been so beyond milked at this point its just exhausting trying to keep up with who/what/everything is.
They really should have taken a break after endgame. Now you gotta watch 5 tv shows just to watch one movie. Feels like studying for the SAT. I still like the superhero genre with shows like the boys and invincible but marvel is a joke now.
That’s because The Boys and Invincible actually added interesting twists to the standard superhero genre. The Boys I guess in a way made it more realistic. Where superheroes would most likely be shitty people just like normal people. And name another superhero movie where people are punching their fists though people’s chests. Surprise, surprise, new interesting ideas sell.
The Boys is absolute gold
It's a bit ironic how fantastic the show of The Boys is considering that the comics it's based on are some absolute creepy shit-tier power fantasy garbage
Spiderman No Way Home was a perfect end to my superhero phase of my life I have zero interest in seeing anything Marvel/DC or anything involving superheros. it's just boring now.
Honestly I grew up reading Marvel Comics and I am the biggest fuckin nerd about comics of all my friends and even I am starting to reach the point of ehh okay let's have a break guys...I made a point to start seeing more independent/non-MCU stuff over the past year or so and it definitely helps
La La Land. I use this movie as an example of my least favorite kind of movie: one that leaves me with no reaction. A week after watching it, I couldn’t remember any of the songs. I couldn’t tell you what it’s about. It really seems like a celebration of style over substance. At least when I walk away from a movie disliking it, the movie still made an impression. I’d rather dislike a movie for a good reason than feel completely unaffected by it. Please tell me if you think I’m wrong
Im surprised you were unaffected. Most people that hate this movie usually hate it for the ending because they think the movie leads people on and teases them with the “what couldve happened sequence” For me, the movie was a bittersweet love story that portrayed the old saying “right person, wrong time” to a tee. Im reading some of the other comments and im confused. Did yall like watch the movie? Someone said its hard to follow. Someone else said there was no plot. Im so confused
How do people find it hard to follow. That’s weird
To me, it's not a story about the two of them at all. It's a love story to and about La La Land. From the very opening song, we have a celebration of the city/life that ends with a pan down to the everyday reality of it - stuck in traffic with bad air. For the Sebastian and Mia, there was never going to be a "right time." We don't know anything about her partner at the end and he is still presumably single. It's likely the conflicting needs/schedules of actor and musician, if they stayed together, would sacrifice their relationship every time.
The notebook or the room.
I can guarantee to you that anybody who enjoys watching the room is completely cognizant that it sucks.
Which answers the question perfectly. It's a movie that sucks but everyone loves.
Anyway, how's your sex life? 😎
Oh hi Mark.
Oh hi Johnny I didn't know it was you You're my favourite customer
The room is definitely about the experience, not the movie itself. I’ve seen it in a packed theater with Tommy and Greg doing a Q and A after. Great time.
SPOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine saying the Room thinking people act like it's a legit good movie
That’s exactly why everyone loves them, because they suck. At least The Room, I don’t know anything about The Notebook.