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What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Blaze@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨movies@lemm.ee⁩

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oppenheimer.

    3 hrs of nausea-inducing quick cuts

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I didn’t finish it haha

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The godfather movies.

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

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

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

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    • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Princess Bride

    … Sorry. It’s just not good.

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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    • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whoa there. This was a hard one not to down vote, well done.

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    • Comtief@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      damn, coming out swinging with these fighting words

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    • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I get why people like it, but I dont.

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I guess I can convince myself by rewatching if it actually is good, but:

    Cabin in the Woods.

    Tap for spoiler

    I understand they were going for meta-horror, but it was so in your face, so mediocre, so shallow. Scream series is far better meta horror imo.

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I also found cabin in the woods to be meh. Like it wasn’t bad but didn’t live up to the hype.

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I never liked Hunter S Thompson’s writing style but I like that his work exists.

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  • supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How about one that will actually piss people off: The Shawshank Redemption

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    • Subtracty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This movie is fine. I don’t understand why it tops so many peoples lists for greatest movie though.

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      • comrade_frosty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nostalgia, mostly I’d guess. It was on all the time on TNT for years and I think we watched it so much that it became ingrained in us that it was great.

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      • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think it’s kind of schlock personally.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The princess Bride post is much more effective

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    • usernamefactory@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tom Hanks at his finest.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Braveheart

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I haven’t watched it since Mel Gibson was revealed to be a giant POS but King Steven is by one if my favorite characters of all time.

      Such a quotable movie

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2012

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  • Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Avengers. Any of them, probably.

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  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can it be a director?

    The dark Knight is the only good Nolan movie. And Heath carried all of the weight

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    • Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d put memento ahead of the dark knight, but agree Nolan is enormously overrated.

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      • some_dude@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Mmm I don’t know; while I thought Tenet as a whole was overwrought the Opera sequence was an amazingly tight bit of storytelling.

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    • wake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hmm, I sort of agree about Ledger. I rewatch Inception, Interstellar, and The Prestige regularly though. The IMAX shots in Interstellar are amazing in 4k HDR and I do enjoy the plot for the other two.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I also think Nolan is overrated but The Prestige is a good movie.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      See I think Dark Knight might be his worst movie.

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    • FUBAR@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I will never understand why/how people can watch dunkirk.

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  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Remove Savage and all the other characters, and just have Falk tell the audience the story without any kind of “imaginary” scenes. It’s just Peter Falk talking into a camera. Preferably wearing Columbia’s signature trench coat.

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      • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And he should narrate the whole story like this:
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  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • deadkennedy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Slumdog Millionaire

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  • colderr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Super Mario Bros (1993) - it is just horrible, the only good thing about the movie is that it has a practical Yoshi puppet.

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    • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      LOL no over ever tries to claim this movie is actually good

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  • 1hitsong@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Talented Mr. Ripley. Awful, truly awful!

    Poor Things. I turned it off after~30 minutes.

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    • straightjorkin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Poor things gave me a headache, genuinely pissed that Emma stone won the oscar

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    • some_dude@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I slogged through Poor Things just to say I finished it. It was a spite watch.

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    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wife and I walked out of Poor Things. So bad

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  • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Airplane. Dodgeball.

    I am prepared for your animosity.

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    • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      With you on airplane. I can’t stand Leslie Neilson.

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      • davepleasebehave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Surely you can’t be serious?

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      • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What generation are you btw? I was horrified to discover that a lot of zoomers hate Bill Murray’s comedy/acting so wonder if it’s an age thing.

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      • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Honest question because I’m curious. Why can’t you can’t stand him?

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  • expect_nothing@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gladiator.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Were you not entertained?

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  • DampSquid@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tar. Just, so boring.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • portlandiawhorebag@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unfortunately people do talk like that, lol.

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  • bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the irishman

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  • Ilandar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This thread is crazy, so many hot takes in here!

    One of the worst I’ve ever seen is the Korean film ‘Stray Dogs’ (2014). There is so much unnecessary sexual violence towards women in this film and almost none of it has any relevance to the story. It’s not like a rape revenge thing either where the victim eventually comes out on top - in this film the victim is a blind woman who cannot even defend herself with a knife she is given. The supposed protagonist of the film rapes his wife at the beginning and then engages in voyeurism for much of the film while this poor blind woman is raped every single night by the entire town. When he finally decides to do something about it he is absolutely fucking hopeless, as are the townspeople attempting to stop him. It is so misogynistic and poorly written, I have no idea why anyone agreed to be in it. Anyone who enjoyed this film should go on some kind of watch list.

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    • some_dude@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m sold, I’m gonna watch it.

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sometimes people make movies where there is no winner, I like those movies because it mixes things up from the normal formula, another one that is very bleak is “the road”

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Sadness is another Korean movie which is fucked up beyond belief

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  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?”

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All the Presidents Men. I can see why its a classic, but every time I try to sit down and watch it, i wake up at the end with the typewriter going.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Event Horizon.

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  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here are a few I could just never get into.

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

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  • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mulholland Drive.

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  • astro_ray@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Almost every live action adaptation of any classic animated movie.

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly, any of the Monty Python movies. I know people love them, and they have a few funny jokes. But man are they ever drab, I just can’t get into them.

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