Unpopular Movie Opinions

[sabitsuki]

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Snatch and Lock Stock are better films than Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

Edited January 11 by sabitsuki

[AkshayKumar]

I found Heat underwhelming

I didn't buy the romance between De Niros character and his love interest, as I remember things felt like they were moving too fast despite the movie being nearly three hours and the last heist and shootout felt somewhat cartoony to me. 

 

I did not find it bad but underwhelming. I've only watched once and a while ago so maybe I should rewatch. 

[Badman_]

Rocky is a better film than Taxi Driver and it deserved 1976's Oscar.

[Mister Pink]

I've expressed this already on the forums.  I'm not holding back.. so be warned.. lol

 

I think most superhero films are absolute boring trash. They are cash cow films, paying fan-service no originality. All the CGI and over-the-top action is just masturbatory nonsense. The humour is corny as hell and actively subvert any investment I could have bled out of the 1 dimensional characters that poison the awful scripts. People will look back on this generation like we do the monster films in the 50's: very badly aged, no real contribution to cinema or the culture. Just bad humour, corny and bad-CGI-ridden man-child films made on over-inflated budgets that absolutely need to appeal to widest demographic to justify their insane budgets. I actually find these movies offensively bad. They won't be timeless, just of the moment commercialised pop-films.

 

I agree with 3 of my favourite directors; Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve, and Marty Scorsese when they say that Superhero films are "Boring as sh*t" and are "cut and paste" and "Marvel movies aren't cinema" respectively. 

 

And when you looks at the posters of all of them together they start to look obnoxiously the same. My brain just kind of filters them all out. But it's hard to avoid them as they're plastered everywhere.

 

 

There are the same amount of Marvel movies in 15 years as Bond movies in 60 years! 27! 

 

SORRY, not sorry.

 

 

Edited January 12 by Mister Pink

[Is this The Guy?]

Training Day was terrible

Godfather 2 was too boring, I never finished it

Once upon a time in Hollywood was boring

The newer Jumanji movies are way better than the original

I prefer the Star Wars prequels to the rest of the live series

Into the Spider-verse is the greatest super hero movie of all time

 

[sabitsuki]

16 hours ago, Is this The Guy? said:

Once upon a time in Hollywood

I always thought this movie felt like a total circlejerk of late 60s Hollywood tbh

 

The cinematography and set design were good though

[AkshayKumar]

Spiderman 2 was my least favorite of the Sam Raimi trilogy

[TwistOfLime21]

Chris Nolan movies are extremely overhyped. He can make an impressive scene, no doubt about that, but its usually done to hide the rest of his average movie.

 

[sabitsuki]

I actually don't like a lot of gangster movies and shows, mostly because they feel predictable, overly obtuse and exploitative at times. I personally can't enjoy the sopranos, boardwalk empire, the godfather, narcos and most of scorcese's films.

 

The exceptions to the rule are typically black comedies like the aforementioned tarantino and guy ritchie films, absurd/arthouse/surreal gangster films by kitano, seijun suzuki, lynch, miike and the like and new hollywood era outlaw gangster films like bonnie and clyde, badlands and dillinger. I also really enjoyed The Wire.

Edited January 14 by sabitsuki

[Mindshower]

Miami Vice is the best film Mann ever made, and one of the best of the 2000s. 

[Mister Pink]

I can't stand the  Kill Bill films. I know it's a tribute to old martial arts films but done in a "modern" American fashion is like taking a nice old vintage American car from the 20's and painting it Burberry for me. It just doesn't sit right. I can't enjoy those films at all. 

 

Also, agree with Chris Nolan. He values high-concepts over characters. What is a film without decent characters? It's almost a meme at this stage but Nolan can't write characters. 

[Is this The Guy?]

Dunkirk got a lot of praise for being so meh, and I normally love WW and WW2 movies.

I was waiting for some sort of pay off but I just found myself not caring at all towards the end.

Never really thought of any of the Nolan films as great films and that includes the Batman ones.  Although I did enjoy the prestige and I heard Memento is good but never seen it.

Edited January 15 by Is this The Guy?

[Donald Lov]

The post-Jackie Brown Tarantino is mediocre.(strokes of genius here and there, but overall very far from being serious cinema)

 

The postmillennial Scorsese is a mere shadow of his former self. Out of everything he's done in the 21st century, I think I only like The Irishman. I thought it was a sublime take on an all too familiar genre. The rest is, while engaging, strikes me as rather insignificant.

 

PTA is by far the greatest American director to emerge after the New Hollywood era.

 

Edited January 16 by Notorious_Jack

[sabitsuki]

On 1/15/2022 at 10:53 PM, Mister Pink said:

I can't stand the  Kill Bill films. I know it's a tribute to old martial arts films but done in a "modern" American fashion is like taking a nice old vintage American car from the 20's and painting it Burberry for me. It just doesn't sit right. I can't enjoy those films at all. 

Yeah, that film felt overly kitschy with all the homages.

[Is this The Guy?]

Snyder League was the same meh movie as the theater release just 4 hours long.

Edited January 19 by Is this The Guy?

[Big Molio]

On 1/16/2022 at 11:38 AM, Notorious_Jack said:

The postmillennial Scorsese is a mere shadow of his former self. Out of everything he's done in the 21st century, I think I only like The Irishman. I thought it was a sublime take on an all too familiar genre. The rest is, while engaging, strikes me as rather insignificant.

 

 

I have The Wolf of Wall Street up there with Goodfellas and Casino, I think it is excellent.

[Mexicola9302]

On 1/12/2022 at 10:55 PM, Mister Pink said:

I've expressed this already on the forums.  I'm not holding back.. so be warned.. lol

 

I think most superhero films are absolute boring trash. They are cash cow films, paying fan-service no originality. All the CGI and over-the-top action is just masturbatory nonsense. The humour is corny as hell and actively subvert any investment I could have bled out of the 1 dimensional characters that poison the awful scripts. People will look back on this generation like we do the monster films in the 50's: very badly aged, no real contribution to cinema or the culture. Just bad humour, corny and bad-CGI-ridden man-child films made on over-inflated budgets that absolutely need to appeal to widest demographic to justify their insane budgets. I actually find these movies offensively bad. They won't be timeless, just of the moment commercialised pop-films.

 

I agree with 3 of my favourite directors; Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve, and Marty Scorsese when they say that Superhero films are "Boring as sh*t" and are "cut and paste" and "Marvel movies aren't cinema" respectively. 

 

And when you looks at the posters of all of them together they start to look obnoxiously the same. My brain just kind of filters them all out. But it's hard to avoid them as they're plastered everywhere.

 

 

There are the same amount of Marvel movies in 15 years as Bond movies in 60 years! 27! 

 

SORRY, not sorry.

 

 

Now they even go the ultimate diversity route with that one, wich makes it even worse.

 

I mean just look at them.

 

Marvel's Eternals.

 

Edited January 23 by Mexicola9302

[Big Molio]

On 1/12/2022 at 9:55 PM, Mister Pink said:

I've expressed this already on the forums.  I'm not holding back.. so be warned.. lol

 

I think most superhero films are absolute boring trash.

 

 

 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to be really popular, but I'm with you, my eyes glaze over at the thought of watching them. I wouldn't be able to tell you one film from the other, and the fact that they are all in their own films, then together in those Avengers films, then appearing in each other's films, or appearing in their movies' post-credits scenes just confuses the heck out of me. It's a complete head mash.

 

My son loves them, but for me these films just feel really soulless and empty. I never feel like there is any jeopardy for the characters, because they are superheroes, right? As soon as all the CGI buildings exploding and other onslaught of effects starts my brain literally switches off. 

[Darth Absentis]

I hate the horror movie 'hereditary' for being mess in regards of overall story and just the ridiculous ending making it almost comical.

What even is that film ? 

Really, they had a buildup, but did not where to go and ended up with THAT silly ending.

 

Also the shape of water is great in regards of effects and decent at character development, but it is nothing legendary and it is just bad when considering it a horror.

It really is never scary.

Also the only reason it actually became so famous is for the o look we support minority cheapshot promo BS.

 

'E.T.' is a boring feel good movie that needs plot twists and things never really explained, aka space magic, for it to get past half of the movie.

Every single character is also boring, one dimensional and bland, even for something intended for kids.

The movies copies should have been burried along with the copies of the infamously bad ET videogame.

 

'the hateful 8' is actualy better then inglorious bastards.

It at least starts up slow and comes to quite some epic plot twists and a really memorable conclusion. 

 

'IT 2' might actually be better then the end of the novel and part 1

There are a lot of extra traits given to certain characters making them even more interesting, while it might actually be skipping on things that are just outright weird, yet found in the novel.

 

'2001 a space odyssey' is a movie that is so obviously made by a perfectionist ego tripper caring way to much about graphics that it is almost funny, if it was not so boring.

I might actually be capable falling asleep faster watching that movie then without. If i ever would be gifted a copy of it, i will make sure to try to use it either for falling asleep faster, or something keep some furniture stable.

 

Even though i like 'Thor Ragnarok', it being so filled with jokes kinda ruins the more serious parts of the movie.

I even wonder if it would have been better if it toned down the jokes.

 

Infinity war was better then endgame.

The overall plot of endgame is kinda a cheap shot.

Barely any meaningful sacrifices, except of character that were actually used up dry and milked out.

 

'Requiem for a dream' is a laugh fest.

Do i really need to feel sorry for a bunch of people so much responsible for their own demise in the movie ?

I swear, how do people even manage to do this ?

There is not a single moment that i am thinking like: My god, this is terrible, this person did not deserve such a cruel fate at all, they did not do anything to deserve this.

You know, in some movies, there are actual innocent people suffering, not here.

 

'Blow' only seemed to have happened in an attempt to get some person out of jail that ruined part of the world.

Sure, he is harmless and old and if he did not do it, someone else would have brought drugs into the rest of the world sooner or later, but i just do not feel that releasing him would be the right signal and this movie obviously takes sides.

 

'girl' is just a sad sad movie with a sad sad character.

I feel for the struggles of the character yes, but the only part where i feel she is actually being brave is near the end.

Besides that, the character is again so one dimensional it is painful to watch

Except for suffering and dancing, having a few struggles that are so stereotypical they are actually feeling mundane, there is nothing unique brought on the table.

 

The pirates of the Caribbean movies are all good. Sure the base concept is the same, but i all find them fun to watch and there are enough twists and legend lore to keep the thing going.

The problem with them is not to much Depp in them, but rather the fact that they should try to put more plot twists in those movies.

Besides that the villains are awesome, the decorative settings always just that tad different enough to be invested in and the same is true for the side characters.

 

'annihilation' is an underrated gem and one of the very few instances where someone brought cosmic horror in a good manner over to a visual story.

It brings up enough philosophical concepts and engaging, yet mysterious effects that i actually watched it multiple times already and would not mind watching it even more.

 

'gone with the wind'....i really really hate the main character and hate she never got what should have gotten her way.

She is not strong, brave or unique, she is just an awful bitch of a character the movie would have been better without or should at least have been killed off 20 minutes into the movie.

 

'star wars rogue one' might actually be the best star wars movie since 'return of the jedi'.

Sure it is plot filler, but it is also fan service without trying to be overly optimistic about things or being afraid to step on some toes. 

It really took more risks then people give it credit for.

 

The MCU in general is actually amazing for it's long and effective buildup towards infinity war and after so many movies, having few true inconsistencies and plot holes left. 

Most franchises would have crashed and burned even before the first avenger movie in such a way the movies after it would have been unwatchable. 

 

Titanic is actually kinda great, not only for its effects, but also for it's original characters, especially considering the movie is rather a romantic movie. 

You'd expect all happy endings and few struggles, but this movie really does not give you that.

 

Frozen 2 has better music then frozen 1 and both are semi trash movies when compared with movies like 'up', 'inside out' and even a movie like 'coco'.

The plot twist of movie 1, was that what made it so famous ? the animation ? Sure the last one is epic and there is some slightly deeper meaning in the movie then just average kid stuff, but how did it became THAT big ?

 

Not religious by any means, but 'prince of egypt' just takes a huge dump on 'The lion king' 

Better story, animation, characters and even more original in certazin context, it is a miracle this movie is semi-forgotten while the lion king became a household name.

 

Edited January 23 by Darth Absentis

[Funktipus]

Gone With the Wind - a steaming pile of sh*t that presents a warped view of history and romanticizes the confederacy (like the "Lost Cause" crowd).

[Is this The Guy?]

Matthew Broderick Godzilla movie was way better than the newer ones that came out.

[-l-]

There's just nothing surprising about the Argo film. I found it melodramatic and boring. 

[sabitsuki]

I understand Fight Club is intended to be critical of hypermasculinity and blind conformity, but Tyler isn't 100% wrong. He brings up pretty valid points about media and consumption and I find his suave and charisma very inspiring.

 

Some people get mad at others for misunderstanding the satirical elements of the movie, while others see Tyler as the messianic poster child against progressiveism, corporatism, feminism etc. But personally my views on the film lie somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.

Edited February 27 by sabitsuki

[-l-]

13th Warrior wasn't great, but it was entertaining.

[sabitsuki]

The Idiocracy fanbase is pretty insufferable tbh. Just go to any clip from the movie on Youtube and look at the comments.

Edited March 7 by sabitsuki

[-l-]

Raising Arizona is the Coen Brothers' worst movie.

[Algonquin Assassin]

-I didn’t mind the Assassin’s Creed movie. In fact I like it more than some the games.

 

-I only remember Avatar for its visuals. Nothing about the story, characters etc is remotely memorable.

 

-Con Air is Nicholas Cage’s best movie.

 

-Suicide Squad (2016) is great. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn…. *wipes chin*.
 

 

 

[-l-]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is actually good.

Edited April 16 by -l-

[Donald Lov]

On 4/16/2022 at 5:16 PM, MiamiViceCity1986 said:

 

 

-I only remember Avatar for its visuals. Nothing about the story, characters etc is remotely memorable.

 

 

 

 

I don't think it's an unpopular opinion. Nobody remembers this movie. I can't see how Cameron can justify 4 f*cking sequels. He needs to do something with the story or it's going to be a disaster.

[-l-]

The first Matrix movie is a classic, but the sequels are too good.

Edited April 18 by -l-