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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

any of the new MCU movies post-endgame. they were so generic, and it was clear some of the movies ran out of money on cgi or animation.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

the irishman

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don't really get the hype for Citizen Kane.

Though, I kinda think it might be because growing up, this movie was spoiled in almost every cartoon I ever saw ("Rosebud" was the punchline of so many jokes) and maybe not knowing the ending would have made it better. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Mad Max: Fury Road. I thought that was dumbest, most caveman pleasing trash that has ever received that much acclaim. Truly, the entire movie is designed to make a caveman go, "OOhhhH!.... WwAaHh!... FFIIRE!.... DwWoOah!..... HaHhh!..... OOhhhH! LaDy!!...HhaHh!... MAD!!.....WoOoHhh!"

[–] SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

I enjoyed it. Great cinematography and practical effects. My wife? Not so much. She broke it down as.. "oh look! They drove away! Then the drove back! The end! That was the whole movie!"

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Good Lord some of the answers in this thread. I first thought this was like an unpopular opinion community. Is this all just Edge Lords trying to say the most popular and well regarded movies they can?

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it's pretty funny. Most of these are just "it's overrated" complaints, which is not the same as a film being iredeemably bad. Feels like a lot of these people just hate being exposed to opinions that differ from their own, so over time these overrated films have morphed into a 1/10 atrocity in their head despite none of their issues with them actually reflecting that level of hatred. You could definitely make a compelling argument for many of these films being good, and the only reason these people wouldn't be convinced is because of their aforementioned personality flaw.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

This thread is crazy, so many hot takes in here!

One of the worst I've ever seen is the Korean film 'Stray Dogs' (2014). There is so much unnecessary sexual violence towards women in this film and almost none of it has any relevance to the story. It's not like a rape revenge thing either where the victim eventually comes out on top - in this film the victim is a blind woman who cannot even defend herself with a knife she is given. The supposed protagonist of the film rapes his wife at the beginning and then engages in voyeurism for much of the film while this poor blind woman is raped every single night by the entire town. When he finally decides to do something about it he is absolutely fucking hopeless, as are the townspeople attempting to stop him. It is so misogynistic and poorly written, I have no idea why anyone agreed to be in it. Anyone who enjoyed this film should go on some kind of watch list.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I was trying to think of one and was thinking I haven't really experienced intensely hating a movie that other people loved. Then I saw someone comment Avatar... that was one of the most overhyped events I've ever experienced. I don't care about the entire Marvel franchise, but I'm sure someone could convince me of their merits. No one's going to make me see Avatar as anything but rehashing an old story with annoying 3D gimmicky visuals.

Event Horizon.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

More of a genre than a particular movie, but any and all video game movies that aren't the 90s shitshow Mβ€’rio movie or the 3 live action Sonic films. I'm talking live action because there have clearly been good video games based animated films like... well I can't think of any right off hand, but they surely exist.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I really liked the newest DnD film. It was fun and got a lot right

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes! It’s just cowboys vs Indians over valuable rocks in the ground on a alien planet.

[–] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Anything that comes from Marvel. Overrated CGI tripe.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.

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[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Princess Bride. The narrative framework of some shitkid not appreciating that his grandpa is Columbo ruins the whole thing. Those two characters should be cut out and then it can be good. ...Okay, Peter Falk can stay.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Remove Savage and all the other characters, and just have Falk tell the audience the story without any kind of "imaginary" scenes. It's just Peter Falk talking into a camera. Preferably wearing Columbo's signature trench coat.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Snowpiercer. It was highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes and from the poster I thought it stared U2's The Edge, so I took a chance. That was the dumbest shit I've ever seen.

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