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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months 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 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 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".

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rai 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s a rough one. Everyone ever loves it… I completely do not get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It had to grow on me, kinda like a fungus. I didn’t like it the first time. For some reason I was convinced to watch it twice more. Now it’s solidly alright for me.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Everything Disney did with Star Wars

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

citizen kane. I mean I get it. If you geek out on cinematography history and the first of doing stuff but its just plain boring.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oppenheimer.

3 hrs of nausea-inducing quick cuts

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months 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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Uwe Boll's "Alone in the dark"

I rented that movie, and it was so bad that half way through it I turned it off. When I went back to the rental store they offered me my money back.

I said no. Because some lessons have to be painful in order to learn from them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I couldn't get into any of the LOTR movies. I like fantasy, I like adventure, I like fighting, but those films are boring as hell to me.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (16 children)

No Country For Old Men.

I was actually really enjoying the whole cat and mouse thing until the main fucking character died off-screen.

How does nobody ever talk about how shitty that "plot twist" is? It's not clever. It's not entertaining. It's just bad storytelling. They don't even show you a good shot of him to convey what actually happened. My girlfriend and I had to rewind it twice because it was so fucking stupid and made so little sense.

That's actually how I feel about most of the Coen Brothers' movies. The classical narrative structure exists for a reason. It's a good framework for telling a story that makes sense.

Sometimes there's a good artistic reason for diverting from that and telling the story in an unconventional way. Other times it's just pretentious auteur garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The godfather movies.

I understand they influenced many other movies but they are just so fucking boring.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Absolute snoozefest with possibly the worst cast leads in modern history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

This was universally panned, so I don't think you hit the prompt.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months 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.

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