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[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 5 points 23 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

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

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 23 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 4 points 23 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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[–] deadkennedy@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours ago

Slumdog Millionaire

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago

Here are a few I could just never get into.

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

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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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Mothman prophecies

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 23 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.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Raising Arizona

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