Napoleon Dynamite. The main thing I got from the movie was that know I know where a meme comes from.
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I've never understood the fascination people had/have with this movie.
When this came out I went to the ends of the world to get a copy after missing out on all of the references... And then it was fine. I think it's kinda funny know but I don't understand how it blew up the way it did
The first Mad Max movie, just feels like a slog at times to get through and when you finally finish it there's no resolution it's just a cliffhanger into the next movie.
I tried twice to watch The Godfather and fell asleep both times. Nothing about it caught me at all.
It bored me. Tried the second one, didn't get better.
So i'm not the only one.
I may get a lot of hate for this, and I wouldn't say it was a huge disappointment because I actually really liked most of the movies but, Star Wars.
I thought they were great moviees, but when watching them after years of everyone telling me to and all the hype I was kind of disappointed even though I enjoyed watching them all. For me they just didn't live up to the hype I guess.
The Big Lebowski is extremely boring and nonsensical.
Synecdoche New York. Every one of my friends whoβve seen it think itβs brilliant. I tried watching it and felt like I was losing my mind. I know thatβs the point, but that doesnβt make it a good movie!
I fucking love that movie. It's like my number 1 of all time. But I'm glad other people don't like it because that gives me hope for humanity lol
The inglorious bastards. It treats a very serious subject matter with too much quirky humor.
Also the Nazi slaughter group is basically like an Einsatz Gruppe, but for slaughtering German soldiers. Literally locking people in a building (often a church) and then setting it ablaze was a technique used against Jews.
Just reversing the roles doesn't make it an act that's worth cheering for, like people did in the cinema when I saw it. I couldn't detach myself from that, hence why I did personally not enjoy it.
Inglorious Bastards ain't your average war flick or history lesson, it's Tarantino doing his offbeat thing. The humor's not mocking the war, but poking at the villains. The Basterds are soldiers, not a hit squad against innocents. The cinema cheers? That's just folks enjoying seeing the Nazis get some comeuppance. If you didn't dig it, cool. But remember, Tarantino's all about pushing buttons and sparking chatter. If it got under your skin, maybe it hit the mark.
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"German soldiers"
Listen. It is one of the hardest cases to discern guilt in wartime situations. Membership of the nazi parti or being a german soldier is not per se a sign of guilt. Just like just being a jew is no reason to be killed, too. I'm all for sentencing war criminals, but the soldier killed by bear jew nor the people sitting in the cinema (aside from Hitlers direct circle) have been proven to be guilty of war crimes.
If you applaud them burning, you're basicly using the same system of dehumanising a group of people as the nazi party and the SS used for making people belief sloughtering jews, gypsies, gay people is ok. That is very, very wrong.
Nope. Itβs always based and cool to kill a Nazi. Not gonna let people like you equate a group of fascists who kill everyone but themselves to the groups that just want to exist.
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Airplane! It's okay just not my cup of tea
Not a cult classic. It's a mainstream hit.
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..."
Mean Girls is ok. It has some good meme quotes, but it isn't really a good movie.
Heathers is better for that kind of movie
I'm afraid to watch the Princess Bride because everyone I know loves it and begs me to watch it and I'm afraid it will be terrible and when they ask me how it was I'll have to lie
Donnie Darko.
Not a terrible movie, just an extremely odd film of which I have never understood the cult following.
No way. Maybe it depends on when you see it. Saw it early teens and was my favorite movie.
Nah, it was at least a little terrible.
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I'll be honest. WarGames. I'm a big fan of 80s movies, but when I saw WarGames, it was very much meh.
Rocky Horror has one of the weakest 3rd acts I've ever seen.
Ive never seen the live show so it might just be pains trying to fit a 2 act musical into a traditional 3 act movie
The whole move goes downhill after they serve meatloaf for dinner.
Big Lebowski .. I mean I enjoyed it but not enough to join the cult
Came here to comment this. I wanted to enjoy it but I just didn't. I can see myself having good fun with it if I watched it 10-15 years ago but when I did it just didn't hit where it should've
Second this. Did not enjoy watching that
Give it another try, I was also confused during my first watch, but now itβs one of my favorite movies
βThatβs just, likeβ¦ your opinion, man.
No country for old men. I get that it's supposed to be bleak and not resolve at the end. I still hate that it's bleak and doesn't resolve at the end. I didn't really get the "amazingness" of the coin flip scene either.
I also thought Blade Runner was ok, but the whole "tears in the rain" monologue is so hyped on the internet that it was a bit meh when it actually happened.
No country for old men. I get that it's supposed to be bleak and not resolve at the end. I still hate that it's bleak and doesn't resolve at the end.
Yes! I was expecting more, and was left feeling cheated at the end with no resolution. It felt like wasted time.
Pulp Fiction
Princess Bride
So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature
I can't stand the Fifth Element. On paper, it should be perfect for me but I just find it really obnoxious.
lmao, I just recently realised I've seen that movie so many times and have no idea what it's about.
Almost all of them when I had read the book first.
The Hobbit
The latest (The Hobbit) I got my son to read the book, then watch the movies and he's like 'Whaaaaaa???' because they tried to amplify it into a blockbuster.
So yes, Great movie - but sucked after reading the book.
I had friends who actually preferred the Hobbit to LOTR because of more action (according to them) But then I slowly told them all the shit that they just added for no reason and now they hate me
I had a little personal crisis when I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time and just hated it. I was so bored.
I'll have to give it another go and hope I get it .
Maybe not a cult classic but the highly praised adaptation of Little Women (2019). It did not have the positive flow and feel compared to the 1994 version. Also, having a 22 year old actress playing the young version of Amy was not a good choice, her sitting between the other girls at school looked ridiculous.
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