Anything that comes from Marvel. Overrated CGI tripe.
What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good?
Submitted 10 hours ago by Blaze@feddit.org to movies@lemm.ee
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scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 56 minutes 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 1 hour ago
The only Marvel movies I like and they are not even made by Marvel.
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Hey, tripe doesn’t deserve that
moakley@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
This might come off as pretensions, but you should trust the writers more. The movie, and book, are very well written, and if something doesn’t make sense, you should consider that you missed something.
I’ll say this, Llewelyn Moss is not the main character. The movie doesn’t start or end on him. He doesn’t change or evolve as a character. How he died isn’t the point.
It helps to focus on what Anton Chigurh said about rules, and what the Sheriff says about what he is willing to die for.
If you want me to just spell out the theme, I can do that to, but I think you would enjoy it more if you trust the movie.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 hours 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 hours 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…
goober@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Uncut Gems
A stressful two hours of screaming and bad decisions
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 hours 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 3 hours ago
I get that but you are not convincing me that this is good
Glytch@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Zoolander?
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
Vesker@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
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.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca 3 hours 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.
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I’m reminded of this video:
remon@ani.social 9 hours ago
Any superhero movie since 2008.
mj_marathon@programming.dev 7 hours 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.
expect_nothing@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Gladiator.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Were you not entertained?
Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 hours 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.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think George Lucas would agree with you.
While he directed the first film, Empire and Jedi had other directors. When it came to the prequel series Lucas really tried to get someone else to direct, but everyone turned him down as the project was “too daunting”.
Lucas is best as the idea guy.
Trex202@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Take the same cast, story, massage the script, and have ANYONE else direct, and it’d be great.>
Not true, they did this already with Ep7.
FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 9 hours 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.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I will say, the first one is the most to-the-letter book adaptations i have ever seen.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
lol, true. At least Lynch‘s version is a entertaining fever dream.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 7 hours ago
Even the three part TV movies from around 2000 are better.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The godfather movies.
I understand they influenced many other movies but they are just so fucking boring.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Chappie. I had to leave the theater early to prevent any more brain damage.
Trex202@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I agree. It was Short Circuit meets District 9.
Occultist0178@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah it really sucked
Sektor@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
New Dune.
scytale@lemm.ee 10 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours 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.
noxypaws@pawb.social 6 hours ago
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
saltesc@lemmy.world 9 hours 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…
supernight52@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“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.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
I get where you’re coming from. There will be Blood is based on an Upton Sinclair novel, Upton Sinclair was a staunch socialist and this could be felt in his writing. The film is a send-up of American exceptionalism. Daniel Plainview literally pulls himself up by his bootstraps. In my opinion it’s an amazing comedy
supernight52@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I appreciate the perspective! Gotta say though, Jesus that’s some deep-level dark comedy that I just don’t understand. I was watching it as more of an art piece, and less of a commentary. I still don’t like it, but I never thought of it in this light.
uberdroog@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Titanic
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
Titanic is better if you interpret it differently:
Jack never existed. He was a coping mechanism for Rose to get away from crippling depression and self harm.
The whole movie can be interpreted that way, and it makes it much more interesting. There is no direct evidence for Jack’s existence, and everything we hear about him interacting with others is from interviews with Old Rose.
uberdroog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I am not convinced
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 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.
Foni@lemm.ee 10 hours 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.
scytale@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Yeah I never got the hype for it being an oscar contender.
Glytch@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hollywood is self-centered and loves movies about Hollywood. That’s really the only reason La La Land was in the running.
SomGye@dormi.zone 10 hours ago
Jupiter Ascending
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
That was a pretty roundly panned movie.
SomGye@dormi.zone 8 hours ago
And yet… I know someone who loved it, sadly
simple@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
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 6 hours ago
What was disgusting about it? (I absolutely loved it)
simple@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
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”.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Braveheart
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
2012
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
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 8 hours ago
Thank you!! I’m a big horror buff, and the amount of praise this movie gets is utterly baffling to me.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 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?”
deadkennedy@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Slumdog Millionaire
Vaggumon@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
Here are a few I could just never get into.
Brazil, Godfather, Fight Club, Wizard of Oz, and Gone With The Wind
khannie@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Mulholland Drive.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 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.
DampSquid@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Tar. Just, so boring.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
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.
portlandiawhorebag@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Unfortunately people do talk like that, lol.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 43 minutes ago
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 will be good. …Okay, Peter Falk can stay.