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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (4 children)
[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Titanic would’ve been a better movie if they’d cast someone other than DiCaprio. But it probably wouldn’t have been as big of a hit.

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[–] SomGye@dormi.zone 11 points 20 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] simple@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Poor Things. Watched it in the cinema and it was just disgusting, I don't care how critically acclaimed it is.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What was disgusting about it? (I absolutely loved it)

[–] simple@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

A mix of half the movie being porn, the plot centering around a child in an adult woman's body doing nothing but having sex, the overall message being "women having sex with everyone makes them grow as a person".

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Fair points!

[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That was my thoughts too, by the time she gets to the brothel, I thought okay she's going to get bored and move on with her story. But nope, she stays there for most of the movie. Like what was the message here?

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[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works -2 points 15 hours ago

Is it also possible that you missed the actual message? Does your username check out?

[–] expect_nothing@leminal.space 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm rereading the book right now and just watched the movie. While I agree it's... not good and certainly not faithful to the source material, I think the kids were all fantastic. They acted their little hearts out and - in my opinion - really nailed the characters.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago

True, I have no problem with the actors

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[–] Foni@lemm.ee 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

La la land. I hate that shit, I was happy when he lost the Oscar and I hadn't even seen the one he won.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I never got the hype for it being an oscar contender.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 16 hours ago

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago
[–] MudMan@fedia.io 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Pi and Requiem for a Dream as a one-two punch.

"Being smart is such a curse I'd rather get a lobotomy" is boring, self-serving and trite, but the Reefer Madness-level "drugs bad" thing in Requiem is unbearable and requires every character to be entirely nonsensical.

Trainspotting was four years old by that point. How critics let Aronofsky get away with it is beyond me. To this day the closest I've been from walking out of a movie theatre. The only reason I stuck around was it was in a festival and I was there with other people.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Right there with you on these two. So overhyped.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

The 2005 Elektra movie. It nearly killed Jennifer Garner's career! There's so much of that movie where I just have to wonder "What the fuck were they thinking?"

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Event horizon. It has a big following but I don't get the big horror. And the gore in the director's cut is more annoying than shocking. Maybe if it was the first space horror movie you watched

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Thank you!! I'm a big horror buff, and the amount of praise this movie gets is utterly baffling to me.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago

Here are a few I could just never get into.

Brazil, Godfather, Fight Club, Wizard of Oz, and Gone With The Wind

[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

"There Will be Blood" was one of the most drab, boring, washed out, and damn near unwatchable movies of all time, yet everyone claims it's a masterpiece. It's just a story of a man becoming richer than god, and going off the deep-end, culminating in a scene where his adopted kid tells him how much they hate him, and him murdering someone in a misguided fit of rage. None of the characters are relatable, redeeming or interesting. The script has like a grand total of 1000 words across the entire 2.5 hour run time, and none of it is particularly compelling. What a snooze fest.

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[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PoscoBumbleroot@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'll give you Teen Wolf, but Goonies?! Man, what an adventure

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

when's the last time you watched it?

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[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

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[–] deadkennedy@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

Slumdog Millionaire

[–] DampSquid@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wanted to like it, but both my partner and myself were bored out of our minds watching it. Also what was that line… “I’m a BIPOC pangender”? Nobody has ever fucking talked like that.

End scene was fucking dope. That brought it up to a 6/10 for me.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Mothman prophecies

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

While I like the movie overall, I don't get the hype about the diner scene with the jump scare. Even watched a couple video essays explaining it and don't understand how it does what people say it does.

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