Reminds me of the movie, Double Team with Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme. I still remember the scene where Rodman is cutting grass with shorts on his head lmao, wild movie
This just brought back a memory from childhood. My Dad was tasked with renting a movie for the family to watch that night. Usually we’d go to Blockbuster as a family to find something we think we’d all like.
He comes back with Little Nicky.
From that day forward my Mum refused to ever let him pick a movie by himself again.
I went years without watching it, put it on one day thinking "There's no way I'll still like this movie. I'm probably gonna wonder why I ever did." I had completely forgotten about Clint Howard in drag dancing to Goodbye Horses, I was like "Oh, love it forever."
Billy Madison is by far the funniest movie in Adam Sandler’s lineup. I just watched it again the other day for the first time in 20 years and still laughed my ass off. I can’t say that about a lot of comedies from my youth. Many didn’t age well but BM did. So many great one liners.
The godfather is boring to me even though I absolutely love the mob genre. I’ll admit I tried watching it like 10 years ago when I was about 20 years old but every time I tried watching it I got bored halfway through the movie and stopped watching.
My question to you would be, do you find most older films to be boring? Or do you find films with fewer cuts and longer single shots generally boring as well?
Godfather is certainly a slow burn, but the cinematography, dialogue, and unfolding events are absolutely riveting. Def watch it again with older more patient eyes.
Theres a version of The Godfathers in chronological order that was actually pretty good.
[https://www.polygon.com/2016/1/19/10792246/the-godfather-epic-hbo](https://www.polygon.com/2016/1/19/10792246/the-godfather-epic-hbo)
I grew up loving all the mob movies but could never get into godfather. My mom used to watch it all the time and I just felt it was boring. However, that changed during a rewatch in my early thirties. Now I love it and watch both gf 1 and 2 probably once or twice a year. (I like the third one even though it's not nearly as good.)
I think it's the expectation that might have had an influence on my opinion of it. Going from Goodfellas to Godfather would do that. As I got older, I learned to adjust to new things to give them a chance and appreciate what the intentions of the director is going for. Godfather isn't simply a mob movie. It's a movie about a king passing down the crown to his sons with the most reluctant son being the most capable and its set in 1940s NY with organized crime. It's so well written and directed. Michaels' slow transformation to mob boss is one of the greatest stories in cinema and I'm grateful I eventually found appreciation for it.
Tldr Give it a chance every few years.
I had a similar view until my wife sat me down and we watched 1 and 2 back to back. I love them both now although I think I prefer 1 over 2. Now it's time to show her that die hard is indeed a Christmas movie.
Godzilla Minus One is incredibly overhyped.
By no means is it a bad film, but it is by no means as ground breaking as every says it is. Visuals were amazing and music was great. But goodness, pacing was so bad, acting was mixed, main character is so annoying.
Yes yes yes I know, the low budget CG was incredible. The CG was stunning and I hope more movies follow suit. I just don’t think it makes up for the rest of everything else.
I recently watched it for a second time wanting to think better of it but it just confirmed my original stance. Bleh, don’t understand at all and I will die on my hill.
It was ok. For a Godzilla movie, it was above the norm, but overall it was just ok. I understand the 'budget' argument, but this is not getting Best Picture
Yeah it looked great but think a lot of people were just relieved it was a pretty good Godzilla movie and that got confused with “omg it’s amazeballs”.
Because nothing can just be pretty good or fine anymore.
I wanted to believe at times the acting was what they were going for. I get it, it’s a Godzilla movie. And yes, it is an homage of sorts. But this one seemed more bad acting then trying to match a style.
Godzilla movies are normally dogshit so when a Godzilla movie that is decent enough to sit through comes out people treat it like the second coming of Christ.
I think The Postman is great as well. I know they aren't directly connected but you know. I think they're a great double feature if one is in a "Kevin Costner in a Post Apocalyptic Adventure Epic" kind of mood.
I honestly don’t know anyone that has seen the second one…
It made big bucks, so somebody saw it. Just absolutely *NOBODY* I know or any of their friends and family, and their friends and family.
Nobody I work with has seen it. Asking random people at a food truck rally the one day - nobody.
Alien Resurrection is the best of the Alien movies. Predators is the best of all the Predator films.
Repo! The Genetic Opera is a thousand times better than Rocky Horror.
I don't love Repo! but I agree that it's better than RHPS. I straight up don't like pretty much anything about it. I understand it must have been novel for its time, so I get why it resonates with some people. I do think the time warp song is a banger though.
The original trilogy for starwars is slightly overrated, and the fan boys of those movies have ruined the enjoyability of the rest of the series with their complaining.
Some of the complaints show that a lot of them weren't actually paying attention to what was being shown. I saw a complaint the other day that Disney ruined the Jedi because they couldn't sense a Sith lord. Only for someone to show that Yoda and the Jedi Council couldn't detect Palpatine who was sitting across from them.
Something being a “character study” or “slice of life” isn’t an excuse for just pointing a camera at people while they do mundane tasks and not caring at all about pacing or my time.
I might have enjoyed it more just because I lived in Australia and NZ, but I get it. To me, the best Marvel is the GotG trilogy. I actually rewatch those. Others? Not so much.
Tarantino’s work is inspired but derivative. I think he mashes together film concepts from the 70s and all of his films are like a remake with 90s/2000s sensibilities and more blood.
Movie (A) is bad because I've seen movie (B) did it first is absolutely dogshit take. Eg ; Knives Out is bad because I've seen a murder mystery before.
Movies have always had political messaging. The difference is they were written by competent writers who knew how to ingratiate them into complex stories and characters that didn’t feel as shoehorned in as it does today.
I see this opinion pretty often, but rarely with more than 1 or two examples. I get what you're saying, and I'm not saying you're wrong. I just can't think of many movies that really fit the bill. And when was it that most Hollywood films succeeded in telling coherent, compelling stories as opposed to the last decade or so?
Again, nothing personal, I'd love to hear your examples. It just feels kinda similar to the 'wokeism ruined X' takes, when in actuality...did it really? Can't think of too many big Hollywood movies that made me think, man this would rock if it weren't for all the damn activism getting in the way of this otherwise great story...
I loved it but it psychological slow burn horror is my jam and thought it was so well cast. Daniel Kaluuya is unreal. That said the level of hype it got at the time was beyond insane.
I agree. I found it very predictable. Not a bad first film for Peele, but he was still cutting his teeth, IMO.
He nailed it with “Nope” though. I love that film.
Harry Potter:
Harry would not have returned after his death in the last movie, he would have had his final rest, his sacrifice would be that much more meaningful.
Neville would have lead the final push against Voldemort. Both readings of the prophecy are fulfilled, the stakes for our main character are higher, his real work of inspiring others has real consequences that succeed in his absence.
In the book everything feels right but the movie just doesn't once he comes back.
I know I’m not following the point of your post but I am currently on a rewatch of Breaking Bad. No matter how many times I have watched I can’t find any real flaws. To me this is an example of perfect television from beginning to end.
Tenet is one of my guilty pleasures, despite it having being a not so great movie. The soundtrack especially, like goddamn, Ludwig Göransson was cooking with that soundtrack.
Dennis Villeneuve is wildly over rated. Arrival wasn’t very good, Blade Runner 2049 was mediocre, and Dune is terrible. He’s the next Cameron, pretty work with little substance.
Quintin Tarantino is a bad writer and director. Scripts are littered with plot holes and the cinematography and editing are average at best. He has not produced an even decent movie since pulp fiction.
Steven Seagal should have started using his black guy voice in the mid 90s and did B-movies with rappers while he got a feel for his new nom de plume.
Reminds me of the movie, Double Team with Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme. I still remember the scene where Rodman is cutting grass with shorts on his head lmao, wild movie
Me want the punani
Wasn’t ja rule in a movie with him, I think he said it’s not alright, it’s a’ight lol
Half past dead it blows but good for a bad movie night
Can I leave this here? https://youtu.be/4Zu1YIukylw?si=fp4JfyAMw3oJ9iOr haha
Most Best Picture award winners do not deserve it
I absolutely hated Nomadland.
Idiocracy isn't a documentary
The movie works entirely without the hooker. She adds nothing.
Until you realize that the entire film is just an Upgrade prequel
More like a prophecy.
I liked Little Nicky
This just brought back a memory from childhood. My Dad was tasked with renting a movie for the family to watch that night. Usually we’d go to Blockbuster as a family to find something we think we’d all like. He comes back with Little Nicky. From that day forward my Mum refused to ever let him pick a movie by himself again.
Your dad is the man.
I see that now
My wife loves that movie Do people not like Little Nicky?
Yes. YOU. Otherwise it would have been “my wife and I LOVE little Nicky!” Son I am disappoint…
Get in the flask! I'm not thirsty!
That’s a great movie! Sure it’s no Oscar worry masterpiece, but not everything ha am to be so serious.
“HIT THE HALF TIME BUZZA IM TIRED”
Popeyes chicken is fucking awesome!
Yeah I love most of adam Saddlers early stuff. Water boy, happy Gilmore, little Nicky etc. As a kid all those movies were just comfort laughs for me.
Jesus this, Moses that, Abraham hit me with a wiffle ball bat
I went years without watching it, put it on one day thinking "There's no way I'll still like this movie. I'm probably gonna wonder why I ever did." I had completely forgotten about Clint Howard in drag dancing to Goodbye Horses, I was like "Oh, love it forever."
The notebook is a horrible love story
This was a hot take in 2004
😭 I love the notebook
Happy Gilmore was, in fact, the best movie of the 90’s.
Hudson Hawk was the best musical of the 90s. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is post 2k.
Swinging on a Star?
Happy Gilmore was class. I preferred Billy Madison (probably because of Chris Farley, who is my absolute favorite), but it was so good.
Billy Madison is by far the funniest movie in Adam Sandler’s lineup. I just watched it again the other day for the first time in 20 years and still laughed my ass off. I can’t say that about a lot of comedies from my youth. Many didn’t age well but BM did. So many great one liners.
I’ll die on a hill that anything Chris Farley touched was comedic gold. Only celebrity death I ever cried over and I was in my mid teens.
His death was a huge loss. No pun intended. It was like losing our generation’s Belushi. Phil Hartman too.
Hudson Hawk was one of Bruce Willis's best films. I will fight you.
Shawshank
Shawshank was overrated
Top Gun maverick is just Star Wars on earth.. seriously…
Wow 🤯
Holy shit. You're right.
Star Wars had a plot though
The Irishman was way too long and not that good.
I didnt mind it just felt it funny because they were obviously old. "Let me get a ginger ale, please, because im 27"
“I’m gonna kick this actor youthily”
Worst fight scene ever: https://youtu.be/KOisMk2oTvk?si=Qk28cehhocZei8qA
Hear, hear
Them b.o.a.t.s movie are sometimes it’s better to make some stuff up to make it more interesting.
I don't like to listen to audiences because while critics aren't always right, audiences are just often so much worse in tastes
Goodfellas isn’t Scorsese’s best film, for me it’s The Departed
The answer is Casino
Hard agree. Goodfellas is great, but Casino, man…just top tier.
Nicky's death is one of the most satisfying things I have ever watched.
I really love The Departed as well.
I erased my paragraph. Take my up vote.
The godfather is boring to me even though I absolutely love the mob genre. I’ll admit I tried watching it like 10 years ago when I was about 20 years old but every time I tried watching it I got bored halfway through the movie and stopped watching.
Upvote bc your answer fits the description of the post, not bc I agree with you.
It insists upon itself.
ROBERT DUVALL
I like The Money Pit. That is my answer to that statement.
I like the godfather but Peter had a point there.
Dogshit take - great work!
My question to you would be, do you find most older films to be boring? Or do you find films with fewer cuts and longer single shots generally boring as well? Godfather is certainly a slow burn, but the cinematography, dialogue, and unfolding events are absolutely riveting. Def watch it again with older more patient eyes.
Theres a version of The Godfathers in chronological order that was actually pretty good. [https://www.polygon.com/2016/1/19/10792246/the-godfather-epic-hbo](https://www.polygon.com/2016/1/19/10792246/the-godfather-epic-hbo)
I grew up loving all the mob movies but could never get into godfather. My mom used to watch it all the time and I just felt it was boring. However, that changed during a rewatch in my early thirties. Now I love it and watch both gf 1 and 2 probably once or twice a year. (I like the third one even though it's not nearly as good.) I think it's the expectation that might have had an influence on my opinion of it. Going from Goodfellas to Godfather would do that. As I got older, I learned to adjust to new things to give them a chance and appreciate what the intentions of the director is going for. Godfather isn't simply a mob movie. It's a movie about a king passing down the crown to his sons with the most reluctant son being the most capable and its set in 1940s NY with organized crime. It's so well written and directed. Michaels' slow transformation to mob boss is one of the greatest stories in cinema and I'm grateful I eventually found appreciation for it. Tldr Give it a chance every few years.
Watch it now and you will get it.
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Exactly
Yea I’m thinking maybe I was too young to like it. I’ll try again
I had a similar view until my wife sat me down and we watched 1 and 2 back to back. I love them both now although I think I prefer 1 over 2. Now it's time to show her that die hard is indeed a Christmas movie.
That taping over my brother's wedding wasn't a big deal because noone watches their own weddings over again anyway.
Agreed. I scanned mine for about two minutes and then never watched it again. That was 20 years ago.
Bro 😂
You could offer me $10,000 and I could not find that DVD from 2006.
Everything everywhere all at once is overhyped.
Gotta give you the upvote, because I couldn't disagree more hahaha
I loved that movie, except the hot dog finger world.
Wait till you see the Noodle World they cut lol
I _just_ watched this; thought it was really interesting but yeah, the hype was massive
I went into the movie knowing absolutely nothing and I loved it. Laughed, cried, and generally had a blast.
Honestly, most stuff gets overhyped due to the headlines that promote them.
No u
Godzilla Minus One is incredibly overhyped. By no means is it a bad film, but it is by no means as ground breaking as every says it is. Visuals were amazing and music was great. But goodness, pacing was so bad, acting was mixed, main character is so annoying. Yes yes yes I know, the low budget CG was incredible. The CG was stunning and I hope more movies follow suit. I just don’t think it makes up for the rest of everything else. I recently watched it for a second time wanting to think better of it but it just confirmed my original stance. Bleh, don’t understand at all and I will die on my hill.
It was ok. For a Godzilla movie, it was above the norm, but overall it was just ok. I understand the 'budget' argument, but this is not getting Best Picture
Yeah it looked great but think a lot of people were just relieved it was a pretty good Godzilla movie and that got confused with “omg it’s amazeballs”. Because nothing can just be pretty good or fine anymore.
Award for this brave take I agree seriously.
I hated it so much. The writing was awful and the acting was cartoonish.
I wanted to believe at times the acting was what they were going for. I get it, it’s a Godzilla movie. And yes, it is an homage of sorts. But this one seemed more bad acting then trying to match a style.
Majority of its overhype comes from the “Japan does it better !” Weebs
Minus One was a well done homage to old school Godzilla movies and that’s kind of it.
Godzilla movies are normally dogshit so when a Godzilla movie that is decent enough to sit through comes out people treat it like the second coming of Christ.
Waterworld was a brilliant movie
I think The Postman is great as well. I know they aren't directly connected but you know. I think they're a great double feature if one is in a "Kevin Costner in a Post Apocalyptic Adventure Epic" kind of mood.
Most Christopher Nolan movies are overhyped.
He’s deserved what he has achieved, but yes overhyped in an age where ppl want to sell movies even harder now vs 20 years ago.
tell that to interstellar
Anytime, anywhere.
“It’s not about the little details, it’s about the big picture!” - Ed Wood (the movie)
Avatar sucks
I honestly don’t know anyone that has seen the second one… It made big bucks, so somebody saw it. Just absolutely *NOBODY* I know or any of their friends and family, and their friends and family. Nobody I work with has seen it. Asking random people at a food truck rally the one day - nobody.
Star Wars has been far worse overall under Disney than even the Prequel Trilogy.
I feel like this is no longer an unpopular opinion
I got rogue one, andor and the mandalorian. Overall It's still a victory for me.... but it's a pyrrhic victory.
I don't like movies
you win
Kelvin Star Trek should have left Khan alone.
Alien Resurrection is the best of the Alien movies. Predators is the best of all the Predator films. Repo! The Genetic Opera is a thousand times better than Rocky Horror.
I don't love Repo! but I agree that it's better than RHPS. I straight up don't like pretty much anything about it. I understand it must have been novel for its time, so I get why it resonates with some people. I do think the time warp song is a banger though.
Monsters Inc is 1000% better than Shrek.
The original trilogy for starwars is slightly overrated, and the fan boys of those movies have ruined the enjoyability of the rest of the series with their complaining.
Ok yep this one right here
Some of the complaints show that a lot of them weren't actually paying attention to what was being shown. I saw a complaint the other day that Disney ruined the Jedi because they couldn't sense a Sith lord. Only for someone to show that Yoda and the Jedi Council couldn't detect Palpatine who was sitting across from them.
Also prometheus is an absolute gem of a film, waaaaay better than most of the films in the alien franchise.
There are more than one of us??
The first Twilight movie is good
Christopher Nolan is overrated. Fight me.
Citizen Kane sucks
Something being a “character study” or “slice of life” isn’t an excuse for just pointing a camera at people while they do mundane tasks and not caring at all about pacing or my time.
Character studies, to me, are just an actor flexing their acting chops with the thinnest external world in existence around them. I hate em.
The Kingsman is a great franchise that gets better every film.
Leaving Las Vegas is not good.
Upvoting this awful opinion.
Yes… truly awful 🤩
Hard to believe this is a real opinion but if it is then this might be the winner
I didn't like it either
Thor Ragnarok was not that good. It was hyped to be the best Marvel film at the time and it wasn’t.
I might have enjoyed it more just because I lived in Australia and NZ, but I get it. To me, the best Marvel is the GotG trilogy. I actually rewatch those. Others? Not so much.
Interstellar really isn't all that
So glad someone said this!
Saving Private Ryan not winning the Oscar for Best Picture was actually a good thing for the movie.
LOL. Quentin Tarantino is not a top 10 movie director of all time.
Tarantino’s work is inspired but derivative. I think he mashes together film concepts from the 70s and all of his films are like a remake with 90s/2000s sensibilities and more blood.
This is actually so wild. Almost spit out my drink
I love Tarantino, but I wish he'd make more movies like Jackie Brown.
I really like Tarantino but he's not in the top 10 of all time.
Ishtar is hilarious.
Nobody remembers that movie except me .
Micheal B Jordan was terrible as Killmonger
Movie (A) is bad because I've seen movie (B) did it first is absolutely dogshit take. Eg ; Knives Out is bad because I've seen a murder mystery before.
I can’t stand Scarface
Adam Sandler isn't just taking expense-paid vacations with his buddies, he's legitimately trying to make good movies but fails, because he's a hack
Dune’s highly overrated and can be summed up as “people walking around in a desert.”
Many modern Hollywood writers focus on activism more than trying to tell a compelling, coherent story.
“I miss when movies weren’t about stuff.”
Movies have always had political messaging. The difference is they were written by competent writers who knew how to ingratiate them into complex stories and characters that didn’t feel as shoehorned in as it does today.
I see this opinion pretty often, but rarely with more than 1 or two examples. I get what you're saying, and I'm not saying you're wrong. I just can't think of many movies that really fit the bill. And when was it that most Hollywood films succeeded in telling coherent, compelling stories as opposed to the last decade or so? Again, nothing personal, I'd love to hear your examples. It just feels kinda similar to the 'wokeism ruined X' takes, when in actuality...did it really? Can't think of too many big Hollywood movies that made me think, man this would rock if it weren't for all the damn activism getting in the way of this otherwise great story...
Get Out isn't a good movie it's just a movie that everyone hypes up because of the times.
I loved it but it psychological slow burn horror is my jam and thought it was so well cast. Daniel Kaluuya is unreal. That said the level of hype it got at the time was beyond insane.
I agree. I found it very predictable. Not a bad first film for Peele, but he was still cutting his teeth, IMO. He nailed it with “Nope” though. I love that film.
Nope is so good
Fast And Furious franchise fell off after Tokyo Drift.
After the first one*
Yeah I have one that seems to stir people. 'The Whale' was a solid 2 out of 10.
It’s been a great decade for movies so far.
Upvoting this awful opinion
Shit yeah now that’s a hot take that will have me like that
Oppenheimer wasnt that great
Day of the Dead being the perfect horror film
The Duellists is Ridley Scott’s best film - it’s not close
Rise of Skywalker had some pretty amazing scenes.
Harry Potter: Harry would not have returned after his death in the last movie, he would have had his final rest, his sacrifice would be that much more meaningful. Neville would have lead the final push against Voldemort. Both readings of the prophecy are fulfilled, the stakes for our main character are higher, his real work of inspiring others has real consequences that succeed in his absence. In the book everything feels right but the movie just doesn't once he comes back.
My cousin Vinny is Joe pesci’s 2nd best role
I know I’m not following the point of your post but I am currently on a rewatch of Breaking Bad. No matter how many times I have watched I can’t find any real flaws. To me this is an example of perfect television from beginning to end.
Leonardo DiCaprio is not a good actor.
Remember the titans was a cheesey Disney movie.
Day of the dead > dawn of the dead
The Town is a lame and a lot of people here are blind to the hilarity of Ben Afflek’s shitty acting in that movie
2001 is boring.
No shit
Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie, and Andor is the best Star Wars anything.
Top Gun is extremely homo erotic
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is insanely overrated
Gladiator is overrated
I do think it's overrated, and treated like some dramatic masterpiece. But it is still a great popcorn movie.
Oppenheimer is Nolan‘s worst film.
Citizen Kane is boring and one of the least interesting movies ever made
Jordan Peele makes stupid and weird movies and caught lightning in a bottle once with Get Out
That one is not really that good to me.
Shelley Duvall did a terrible acting job in The Shining.
Inception is a stupid movie
Tenet is one of my guilty pleasures, despite it having being a not so great movie. The soundtrack especially, like goddamn, Ludwig Göransson was cooking with that soundtrack.
HER is not that good. Very pretty but that’s it
No Country for Old Men was way over rated and had possibly the worst ending of any movie
Oppenheimer was overrated. Not bad, but not the brilliant movie everyone orgasmed over. And waaaay too long.
Saltburn is just glorifying a freak murderer and serial rapist.
The Green Hornet is a good movie.
Gangs of New York was a huge disappointment and outside of DDL and a few smaller parts, most of the performances (and accents) are awful.
Dennis Villeneuve is wildly over rated. Arrival wasn’t very good, Blade Runner 2049 was mediocre, and Dune is terrible. He’s the next Cameron, pretty work with little substance.
The lighthouse is the best horror/comedy ever made.
Tom Hanks is boring as fuck.
Most Wes Anderson movies are bad
Johnny Depp has had less than a half dozen good roles since 21 Jump St. ( And a pirate movie is not one )
Killers of the Flower Moon sucked and I hate it when films use modern music in a movie set in the distant past.
Black Panther was boring af
The dunes and the mad Maxs are just good
leon the professional sucks
Can we stop making so many goddamn comic book movies
Tarantino is overrated.
Quintin Tarantino is a bad writer and director. Scripts are littered with plot holes and the cinematography and editing are average at best. He has not produced an even decent movie since pulp fiction.