for me Godfather II (1974)
the original had the punchline of Mikey becoming the Don.. the journey and character development were (among a lot of other things) simply amazing.
part two just turned everything into a cheap origin story i didn't care for.
and f*** deNiro .. he looks too comical for badass Vito.
Platoon
shareWhy do you dislike it?
shareI find it incredibly boring. And I saw it again a second time to give it another chance but I was bored again.
shareYep, everyone likes different types of films.
shareYeah, I didn't like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. I think I jut like my war movies more war like.
share100% agreed. People are shocked that I don't like Platoon. I think it achieved that level of popularity that the love snowballed.
sharei sort of enjoyed it.. but the scene with the dude getting gunned down near the end was TOO LONG and too sappy.
share^ this.
sharebooksmart has an 84 metacritic score. people could barely contain their praise over its greatness. it was probably my least favourite film of 2019 and maybe the closest i've ever come to walking out of a theatre.
the leopard is probably the highest ranked film on the sight and sound 2012 poll that i truly dislike (it's at 57). i found it dreary and hopelessly long.
Saving Private Ryan 8.6 IMDB If Hanks suffered a shoulder wound it would be different. There are very few movies I like when they kill off the hero.
shareBoth overrated.
sharewell, i'm always happy to resort to saying 'i didn't get it.' if people love those movies and get something out of them, i'm certainly going to make any effort in trying to prove them wrong or anything. there's lots of things that i love that other people find silly or terrible, i'm sure.
this will probably sound trite, but i've always loved this quote from steve albini. he's talking about music, but it could be about anything...& i've always tried to apply this way of thinking to many areas of life.
How is it not difficult though to listen to - let's be honest, to listen to lousy bands? Having to work with them day after day after day and not want to make suggestions? Other than recording suggestions.share
Well, I think I've been in enough situations to realize that every band has an aesthetic. It may not be an aesthetic that I find particularly laudable or whatever, but it might just be that I don't get it. Before he died, John Peel said something that I thought was really profound. He said when he gets a record from somebody and he doesn't like it, he assumes that it's his problem and that the band would not have made that record if there wasn't something valuable about it. And I kinda feel like that's an appropriate perspective. Like this band wants to make this record - for some reason, they really want to do this - and they can get a lot of satisfaction out of it. And I get to witness their satisfaction, and how fucking cool is that? It's like being there on Christmas morning watching kids open their presents. It's like you get to see somebody having the time of his life, satisfying some deep ambition of his, and bringing something into existence from his own creative impulse. Seeing the satisfaction in other people and getting to be a part of it and helping that happen - regardless of what it is, it could be a fucking nursery rhyme, you know? But that it happens at all is immensely rewarding
It's easy for me to tell if I just don't get something or if something is actually bad. I don't like "Singin' in the Rain", but I get why people do. However, I don't like Twilight and I know I'm definitely not alone.
shareRaging Bull
shareX 100
shareI think we are the only two.
I mentioned #24 Raging Bull today in the best 1000 film thread, a hard to watch again movie of a totally unlikable a-hole.
shareExactly! I dont want to spend any more time with these people.
Edit; but I do love Goodfellas....and Casino.
Sometimes though the bad guy has a personality that wins you over like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, I can't remember a movie scene that so shocked me as when he got whacked in Goodfellas.
sharethat would rule out a lot movies.
shareThe Matrix.
It felt like something that could have been done in The Twilight Zone much more effectively and it got tiresome hearing 13 year olds chanting "If you didn't like The Matrix it's because you didn't understand The Matrix." Please. Your mediocre sci-fi plot and the Intro to Westernized Zen lesson wasn't much to babble on about. Some neat effects but far from revolutionary.
Sci-fi babble, westernized zen... that's understandable if you don't like the movie. But the neat effects far from revolutionary? That's a factually incorrect statement. The Matrix single handedly REVOLUTIONISED how Hollywood make action movies ever since.
From Ecks vs Sever to Charlie's Angels, basically ALL Hollywood action movies were inspired by The Matrix at the time. I recently rewatched Watchmen, a 2009 movie, 10 whole years away yet it's still very clear to me that it was styled after The Matrix.
"styled after The Matrix."
In what way?
That bullet time thing was fresh new and inventive , but the novelty wore off pretty quick - its not "standard" today is it?
What else did the movie have? kung fu? gothy clothes? it didnt invent those.
In effects way, fight choreography, camera movements, color grading, even sound design. The Matrix didn't invent any of those, (just like any movie for that matter except for maybe early pioneering movies from the 1800s,) but the combination of all those little things in a specific way was very much de facto The Matrix's look n feel.
I didn't notice this fact when I first watched Watchmen in 2009 too, but when I revisited it a few days ago, it's crystal clear that it had The Matrix's influences in almost every facets of it's stylisation. If you watch action movies from prior to 1999 they don't do it like that.
Bullet time had been used in commercial productions since the mid-80s. It was nicely refined in The Matrix but it wasn't new.
shareThe goddamned Shawshank Refuckindemption! It's tripe.
To Kill A Mockingfuckingbird.
All the Batman movies.
Any film by that prat whose name starts with Q. I won't dignify him by writing it out.
WOW
share"Any film by that prat whose name starts with Q. I won't dignify him by writing it out."
I see you're keeping this person's name on the "QT" (cough, cough). I also find this person a wanker and a prat, so that's two of us. Should be sent to San Quentin (cough, cough) for crimes against cinema and good taste. Damn, can't seem to shake this cough.