The Dark Knight Rises. Not only is it a bad Batman movie, it oddly has a pro cop message. Also, I can’t take Bane seriously at all with that ridiculous voice.
What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good?
Submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@feddit.org to movies@lemm.ee
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Vesker@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 months ago
All of Nolan’s Batman movies were heavily pro-cop. Watch TDK again: the day is saved by illegal surveillance, and Batman faces no consequences for using it.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Prior to Rises, most of the Gotham cops were depicted as extremely corrupt, though. Gordon was something of an exception, although even he looked the other way for his corrupt co-workers
Vesker@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s a valid point. I just remembered the pro-cop messaging feeling more overt in Rises, though it has been a while since I’ve seen them all.
I also have a soft spot for The Dark Knight because of Ledger’s performance.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This is how I felt about all the Nolan Batman movies, except it was Batman himself I couldn’t take seriously because of Bale’s ridiculous Cookie Monster voice. I think I burst out laughing in the theatre when I first heard it.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m reminded of this video:
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
Any superhero movie since 2008.
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 months ago
into the Spider-Verse has redifined what studios are willing to do in animated movies.
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
I guess it was a pretty broad stroke and there is some collateral damage. I might look into it.
FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Probably getting some hate for saying this, but…. The Dune movies are some of the worst big budget movies I’ve seen. They look nice and the cinematography is awesome but that movie feels so damn empty.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah, I’d rather watch the Lynch version anytime, the new ones are like 6 hours of bland, *boring *choices and wooden performances.
FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lol, true. At least Lynch‘s version is a entertaining fever dream.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Wooden performances” is the only way to describe the acting in Lynch’s. That movie is a confuding mess and painful to watch if you don’t know the story. A movie can’t simply assume you’ve read the book to understand it. People can only truly prefer Lynch to Villeneuve ironically. You can’t honestly think it’s better film.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Even the three part TV movies from around 2000 are better.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I will say, the first one is the most to-the-letter book adaptations i have ever seen.
esc27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve only watched the first one. Visually it was great, but the scenes over shadowed the plot to such a degree that, even having read the source , it was still hard to follow.
FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lol, yes. The first avatar was mostly goosebumps to this day but avatar 2 was „wow, that looks nice. When does the plot start?“
Regarding the fountain, I always wanted to see that movie because it looks interesting. But I heard a few times now that it’s not really good.
kepix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ive told my friend that its a brutalist screensaver, and he got so mad.
FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lmao, what a perfect insult.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I watched the first one in the theater and thought it was dry but okay. I tried rewarding it when the second one was coming out and I turned it off like 1/3 of the way through. I watched the second one but it couldn’t hold my attention at all.
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I agree with the Dune movies and in particular; I think I don’t like Denis Villeneuve; He takes a cute sci fi short story like “stories of your life” and turns it into a very self important dull thing. Then he takes a Novel about flying through space with drugs and doing terrorism warfare while riding sand worms and it all feels so somber and rigid. Man has no fun in him.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damn this one hard for me. I absolutely hated the casting and screenplay. But it really redefined how i see the universe in my head when i read the books.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Guardians 3 was still good, I see it as the post credits scene of the MCU
The rest is boring to awful
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
introducing new content helps, rather than just promoting the next characther movie or show.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even Shang-Chi?
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
The way I feel about the MCU is like an old relationship where there’s not much love left and you can’t seem to break it off. Some days you have vain hopes, other days you hate yourself for being too coward to leave.
That’s where the comparison ends, because in a relationship you can talk things over together and try to work things out.
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Almost all of Will Ferrell’s movies, but especially Talladega Nights, a stupid movie about stupid people doing stupid things according to a stupid script. It’s one of two movies I’ve ever walked out on (the other being Split, which is just gross). Stranger Than Fiction is the only good movie with Will Ferrell in a starring roll.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Give Stranger Than Fiction try. It is by far Ferrell’s best work, because it’s the only film of his where he doesn’t act like an insufferable man-child.
I wish he would play it straight in more films. He’s actually a decent actor when he doesn’t act like a fucking idiot.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Such a wonderful, weird and heartfelt film. I absolutely love it.
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Zoolander?
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zoolander is a great movie.
Mugatu isn’t a starring role and Will Ferrell plays the part well. If he was playing Zoolander the movie wouldn’t be anywhere near as good.
alcibiades@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But that’s the point of Talladega Nights, no? It’s meant to be stupid, silly, and absurd. It’s not a drama, it’s a comedy about race car drivers.
Like if that’s your opinion, fine, im not trying to change your mind. But walking out on a comedy cause you thought it was too stupid is like closing a book because it had too many words.
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IMO good comedy is more than stupid people acting silly, that’s an incredibly reductive view of the genre. Comedy should be clever and play to more than just the basest impulses. Even a comedy about stupid people can be smartly written. An example brought up in this thread is Zoolander. It’s silly and absurd, but it’s also smart, even though the characters are stupid. Talladega Nights is just stupid.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The only Will Ferrell movie I’ll watch again is Anchorman. Because yeah, in most cases the humor in a Will Ferrell movie is just screaming inappropriate things.
I’ve got a similar problem with Ben Stiller. He is by far the worst part of Night in the Museum. We get a bunch of cool and funny stuff happening only to have it slam to a halt so we can have some “Excuse me, Mister sir, but you, shouldn’t um.” May god damn Ben Stiller to work in an obscure plumbing fittings retailer followed by retirement in obscurity.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Have you seen zoolander? I pretty much agree with you but zoolander is great. Didn’t even like anchorman
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I suppose a movie in which they spend half of the time running through sleeper cars wouldn’t have conveyed the same message about classism.
Time to fight the army of goon in an empty car that seemingly serves no purpose than to host a large violent brawl, now it’s time to walk through the sleeper car for all the goons you fought, now it’s time to walk through the kitchen car for the goons, not it’s time to walk through the laundry car for the goons. Oh look, it’s a rich person party car, what a weird thing to have at all in any context, are they aware the world has ended? Now time to go through the partier’s sleeper car, then the partier’s kitchen car, then the partier’s laundry car…
mj_marathon@programming.dev 2 months ago
Gravity.
Literally the only movie I’ve ever turned off part way through. Youd think that the producers would have, i don’t know, accurately depicted the force the movie is named after.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Mind to elaborate?
mj_marathon@programming.dev 2 months ago
Sure thing!
The scene where George Clooney dies is just stupid wrong. youtu.be/9La4T6GBsLA?si=3TaChBLOqGRSzX5n
Once Sandra catches his broken teather he comes to a complete stop. The line is taught, so effectively they’re both moving in roughly the same orbit as the station they’re attached to. That means they’re also moving at the same speed as the station. The net forces at that point for Clooney’s character are effectively zero (not exactly zero as there is still a bit of atmosphere causing drag at iss heights).
In real life, he’s “safe” in that scenario. In the movie, some magical force continues to be applied to him which ends up overpowering his grip, which was totally fine seconds before, and he falls to his death.
I dont know if the science gets better after that, never watched past it.
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did you think The Martian was similarly problematic?
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Avatar. Good Lord what bad acting and visual dynamics will do for a movie.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You mean ‘Pocahontas with blue people’?
I never understood why people liked it so much…
Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I feel like I’ll wait for the next one to come out then watch both in a row
goober@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uncut Gems
A stressful two hours of screaming and bad decisions
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
That’s the point… We’re watching the spiral of a gambling addict. Its pure anxiety, and it’s done so well.
goober@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I get that but you are not convincing me that this is good
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
First answer I’ve taken offense to. IMO one of the best films I’ve ever seen, and hands down the best thing Sandler has ever done.
Sektor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New Dune.
scytale@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was gonna ask why so I could provide a counter argument, but then the question specifically asks for a movie you will never be convinced is good. So I won’t bother lol.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I gave them an updoot for answering the question even though my personal opinion is that the two new Dune movies are top 10 movies of all time.
Nothing appeals to everyone, and I dislike a lot of critically acclaimed movies and other media because while they just don’t resonate with me. Top Gun Maverick was a mediocre retread of so many movies that came before it that while it was well executed from a technical perspective, I found it forgettable and don’t understand the hype.
Panron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but for my own POV:
I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I’m glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they’ve also convinced me that Dune just isn’t a franchise I’ll ever be interested in. I’m not sure if I’d bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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 executed to make a caveman go, “OOhhhH!.. WwAaHh!.. FFIIRE!.. DwWoOah!.. HaHhh!”
SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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!”
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasn’t there some water at one point? apart from that, fair summary.
Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Pulp Fiction 🤷♀️
uberdroog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Titanic
Ixoid@lemm.ee 2 months ago
BladeRunner - is like they wrote the screenplay based on the excellent source novel, then cut most of the ideas out, leaving only things that make no sense. Rick Deckard is a terrible detective, and only wins the final confrontation because Roy Batty… just gives up? I recently decided that my teenage self might have been wrong and rewatched it… nah, still terrible.
CluelessCalls@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If The Sopranos was boring, what you’d get is The Godfather. It’s boring. And it insists upon itself.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lucas directed Star Wars. Any. He’s an awful director in almost every aspect. Some of the worst acting from extremely talented people I’ve ever seen because he doesn’t know how to direct them.
Take the same cast, story, massage the script, and have ANYONE else direct, and it’d be great. I just can’t with Lucas.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Godfather. The characters are empty and hard to attach to, the sound is terrible, there’s so much filler in the editting it becomes a chore as I watch yet another seemingly pointlessly extended shit or micro-scenes. And yet I’m meant to feel something when this character I hardly know about since 10 mins ago gets killed?
If a film had an inflated ego…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months 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 and maybe not knowing the ending would have made it better. 🤷🏻♂️
meathorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Closely followed by anything that’s self-jerking Hollywood’s ego. I’m looking at you too La La Land!
Subtracty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eternal Sunshine if a Spotless Mind has such good reviews and people speak fondly of it online. I hated it, just thought both characters were insufferable, and there was nothing remotely romantic about it. Felt like I was trapped in the bad relationship with them.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Chappie. I had to leave the theater early to prevent any more brain damage.
normalexit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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?
Foni@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
SomGye@dormi.zone 2 months ago
Jupiter Ascending
simple@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Poor Things. Watched it in the cinema and it was just disgusting, I don’t care how critically acclaimed it is.
Jumi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everything Disney did with Star Wars
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know this is heresy but any Godfather movie, or the Sopranos, or anything that romanticizes the fucking mafia. To me organized crime characters are pieces of shit I can’t admire or relate to. The only movie that ever made me root for gangster types was Pulp Fiction, which is a masterpiece.
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Anything that comes from Marvel. Overrated CGI tripe.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d argue that those are Sony movies, not Marvel.
Back when Marvel was financially struggling, they started selling off rights to various characters. Sony bought Spider-Man (and a handful of other characters), and that’s where the Tobey Maguire movies came from. It’s also why the X-men will likely never be a part of the MCU, because Sony owns the movie rights to (most of) the mutants.
The Spiderverse movies are basically Sony riding the wake of the Tom Holland hype. To be clear, they’re phenomenal movies. But they’re only tangentially related to Marvel.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 months ago
The only Marvel movies I like and they are not even made by Marvel.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Even something like Iron Man 1 and 2?
I don’t like Iron Man 3 but 1 and 2 are quite enjoyable to me.
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I liked the original tobey maguire spidermans, but that was 20 years ago when they came out (and I was a teenager). I like them now for the nostalgia, not so much for the movie it is. And after those nothing really spoke to me. I went to see quite a bit of newer movies because my gf and friends do like them, so occasionally I give in and tag along for the company (I distinctly remember age of ultron for how bad it was, but the memory of some others I’ve seen faded the minute we got in the car home)
For me these movies all feel the same and formulaic. The stories are predictable, the characters flat and the edit is just too much focused on extreme visuals, spectacle for the sake of spectacle. I find many storylines very forgettable, to the point I even forgot that I’ve seen some movies before. In the edit, they are trying very, very hard to evoke emotions from the audience using tricks and tropes; but in the end it’s all a hollow shell, a cash grab without authenticity. At least, it feels that way for me. I understand many people love these movies, they’re just not my thing.
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hey, tripe doesn’t deserve that
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not even Xmen animated series?