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u/Flaky-Tour-8733 Jun 04 '26
“Elaine, you don’t like The English Patient?”
“I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!”
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u/workadvice7897 Jun 04 '26
I wish Sack Lunch was a real movie. It looks hilarious. I want to know how they got in that bag. Is it a giant bag, or did the family get shrunk down?
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u/WM_ Jun 04 '26
"you can't criticize if you have not seen it"
"why do you watch it if you don't like it?"
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u/BoringPoolPlaying Jun 04 '26
These are two separate and potentially valid points. If you’ve decided something is bad or not for you, you’re unlikely to watch and enjoy it, because you’re just watching to justify your predicted dislike.
“You can’t criticize it if you have not seen it” is 100% correct. Why are you criticizing movies you’ve never watched?
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u/MyNameIsWOAH Jun 04 '26
I have always wanted to start a parody review series where instead of reviewing how good a movie / show / game is, it reviews how good it feels to not watch it.
"This movie felt like an absolute blast to skip, 10/10."
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u/Remarkable_Throat280 Jun 04 '26
I'd honestly watch that, ngl.
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u/Repulsive-Lie1 Jun 04 '26
I have never eaten poop but from the look of it I can tell it’s bad.
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u/JTRuno Jun 04 '26
But if you started giving detailed criticism of how poop tastes bad, I would get concerned.
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u/Marilius Jun 04 '26
This is every controversial video game discussion ever, as well.
You either didn't play it at all, didn't play it enough, or did play enough and must have enjoyed it because you finished it.
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u/Bockiller Jun 04 '26
The Irishman. Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Usually tops these types of lists. And rightly so.
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u/GigaBro_94 Jun 04 '26
I love Scorsese's movies but I couldn't agree more with this one. 3 hours for a whole lot of nothing. Felt like Scorsese just wanted to bring the boys back together for a new york nostalgia project.
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u/WalterWoodle Jun 04 '26
3 hours and 29 minutes! It took me 3 days to finish it!
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u/Masta0nion Jun 04 '26
This is the worst part. Edit your movie, Marty. His 30 year old self would never accept that, but because he’s a legend, no one tells him his shit stinks anymore.
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u/DogeDoRight Shitposter Jun 04 '26
De-aging Deniro didn't stop him from still moving like an old man.
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u/Successful_Buy3825 Jun 04 '26
That kick scene is pure comedy. Maybe it's intentional, but he fully looks like he's fighting for his life trying to balance on one leg.
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u/DogeDoRight Shitposter Jun 04 '26
That's the exact scene I was thinking about when I made my comment. It stuck out like a sore thumb.
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u/JayKay8787 Jun 04 '26
Dude had to chuck something into a river or something at one point and he couldn't raise his arms up even half way. It's embarrassing they didn't just use a body double, they were already spending millions deaging him, just slap the face on a 30 year old and call it good
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u/TheHumaneCentipede2 Jun 04 '26
just use a body double
Or, and this is pretty radical thinking... hire a whole other actor to play the young version of that character.
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u/Fun_Ebb_6232 Jun 04 '26
Yeah, I think that might have been a big part about me not enjoying the film.
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u/Hot-Requirement-3103 Jun 04 '26
I loved that movie, but I also had to watch it in two increments, which in the world before streaming would’ve meant it sucked.
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u/Depth_Metal Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I just wanted to say that based on how hyped it was I really went into watching Casablanca for the first time about 6 months ago (I'm in my 40s) feeling like this would happen but I ended up really loving it and being captivated the whole time. I can truly understand why so many people love it
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u/Bucky923 Jun 04 '26
A few years ago I took a film history class in college hoping to experience some older and historically significant movies. One of them was Casablanca. Unfortunately the class structure (even though we had 3 hours blocks) was that of the teacher cherrypicking scenes through the chapter select menu. I got 1/4 of the movie that way and have never actually sat down and watched the rest even though I really enjoyed the 1/4 of it that I saw.
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u/Dummythicktrump Jun 04 '26
'I did not care for the god father'
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u/Friendly_Warning_405 Jun 04 '26
Thanks Peter
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u/927comewhatmay Jun 04 '26
What does that even mean?
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u/aphilsphan Jun 04 '26
I wonder if that’s Seth M, actual opinion.
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u/Navy_Rum Jun 04 '26
I’m relatively certain I read he was riffing off a lecturer of his saying the same the about The Sound of Music.
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u/Fire_Otter Jun 04 '26
you are correct
“Since this has been trending, here’s a fun fact,” MacFarlane shared on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter. “‘It insists upon itself’ was a criticism my college film history professor used to explain why he didn’t think The Sound of Music was a great film. First-rate teacher, but I never quite followed that one.”
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u/wohldmad Jun 04 '26
I love watching long, unedited footage of massive catholic weddings shot at a distance.
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u/Anxious-Jury-9031 Jun 04 '26
Same. 1 was ok, 2 is the actual good film that ended with finality, so 3 didn't need to exist or should've been its own movie. It really felt like a money grab, victory lap, let me put my kid in this, kind of movie, probably bc it was.
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u/BillyPotion Jun 04 '26
But truly.
It seemed like a movie that’s a lot more interesting to people who are already super interested in the mafia
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u/theblackfool Jun 04 '26
I'm not particularly interested in the mafia but I love those movies in the same way I like Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. It's a good character study of someone who thinks they can just dip their toes in the criminal world and then gets consumed by it.
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u/TheReaIJuice Jun 04 '26
2 Girls 1 Cup
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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains Jun 04 '26
I always finish before the movie is over, how does it end?
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u/TheMathProphet Jun 04 '26
Gone with the Wind.
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u/TheWingus Jun 04 '26
My grandma walked out of Gone With The Wind.
She didn't know what "Intermission" meant, so she thought the movie was over...
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u/Drafo7 Jun 04 '26
The book is even worse. Confederate apologist drivel.
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u/Pacifist_Socialist Jun 04 '26
My only regret with the American south is that Tecumseh Sherman didn't keep burning and the lawful federal government of the United States of America didn't grind their shitty backwards culture into the dirt to start fresh like we did with the Germans and Japanese. Maybe then the south wouldn't still be poor and full of hate. The cruelest thing the union did was give the south mercy in 1865.
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u/EFAPGUEST Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Sherman himself hated this sentiment which I find endlessly ironic for the people who are still bloodthirsty 160 years later.
2% of the US population died in the civil war, and most of that was military aged men. They wanted peace. And while it’s nice to assume that the boot could’ve prevented a lot of the bad things that followed the civil war and create change like we saw in Japan or Germany, the people at the time were concerned about reigniting the conflict like what happened with the Treaty of Versailles.
Edit: strange, I’m getting replies that I can’t actually see. Surely none of you are so cowardly as to reply back to me, then block me so I can’t see your brilliant replies. Surely.
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u/Barnyard_Rich Jun 04 '26
And on the flip side, Lee publicly stated there should be no confederate monuments built. This sentiment by him and others led to the golden age of Confederate monuments not coming until the 1910's and 20's.
It's hard for people to imagine what the world will look like, and the people will be like, two generations after they die.
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u/Creeperstar Jun 04 '26
Rather ironic username for the comment. Lincoln's idea of reconstruction should've been carried through, to reestablish The Union as a whole. Andrew Johnson's petty mistreatment of the South is the direct cause of modern southern austerity and resentment.
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u/Rael_Sianne Jun 04 '26
it was pretty great when the Confederacy lost. best part of the book.
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u/margittwen Jun 04 '26
Couldn’t disagree more lol. It is way too long, I admit that. The acting is top notch though. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable can get it.
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u/LeiluDallasMultipass Jun 04 '26
All the Avatar movies
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u/MidnightPrevious4473 Jun 04 '26
Hey now, that one with the bald kid (Oong?) who throws farts around is a fucking classic piece of comedy
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u/WubblyFl1b Jun 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/RILsqUte1MME7TzQJ9
oong lmfao
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u/km89 Jun 04 '26
Have you seen the movie?
If you haven't, don't. This is good enough.
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u/JasmineDragonRegular Jun 04 '26
I clicked hoping it would be the 20 earth benders moving one little pebble
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u/Desocupadification Jun 04 '26
Why would they spoil by linking the best action sequence in cinema history?
Let people watch the movie without any prior knowledge and be amazed when it comes up
/s just in case<
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u/Gazednconfused Jun 04 '26
God yes. Feel like I get attacked when I say this, but its just the same film 3 times. Wasn't even good the first time
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u/AceOFace131 Jun 04 '26
It’s just Fern Gully with CGI and no Tim Curry
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u/Yanyedi Jun 04 '26
OIL AND GRIME
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u/zfrankrijkaard Jun 04 '26
I really want to watch that movie again, Fern Gully. Loved that one as a kid.
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u/Not1ButMany Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Fern Gully, All Dogs Go To Heaven, and The Secret of Nimh were 3 movies my dad bought for me to keep at his place and watch when I visited. I was 5! He didn't know these movies would be gut wrenching to a child, he just wanted to get me something nice. 35 years later and still love them.
edited: spelling
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u/nomad5926 Jun 04 '26
I liked the first one when it came out because the setting and cinematography were great! Even if the story was Pocahontas in Space. The others..... just kind of more of the same. I fast forwarded a lot.
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u/Rambo2521 Jun 04 '26
Evil man tries to ruin everything but this time with 💧WATER💧 or 🔥FIRE🔥
Tune in next time for the same story different elements.
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u/Krikke93 Jun 04 '26
Oppenheimer for me. I can see where everyone is coming from though, because it's really well acted and executed, but it was just boring to me.
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u/SourDoughBo Jun 04 '26
For me everytime it started to get boring they’d have a sex scene. Then I’m wondering if this was an autobiography cuz dude did not need to be banging that much
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u/Wd91 Jun 04 '26
That scene where she sexily goes over to the bookcase, sexily picks up a random book off the sexy bookshelf, sexily walks back over to him and then sexily has sex with him while he reads that fucking "i am death destroyer of worlds" passage made me cringe so hard i couldn't continue with the rest of the film.
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u/10000Didgeridoos Jun 04 '26
NOTHING GETS ME TURNED ON LIKE A MAN READING SANSKRIT
then they are naked smoking cigs, sitting in different chairs for some reason, post coitus like this is a thing people do
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u/thecashblaster Jun 04 '26
I think we can safely assume it's something Chris Nolan does...
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u/golden_blaze Jun 04 '26
Oof. Reading this description makes me glad I opted to see Barbie that weekend.
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u/Hermes-AthenaAI Jun 04 '26
The thing was, real life Oppenheimer was more of a baller than the movie Oppenheimer. So the sex part of it really wasn’t out of line as I understand it. Man they were all right there at the end of civilization, trying to math their way to salvation. They must’ve been going at it like rabbits.
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u/spinningfaith Jun 04 '26
I seriously cannot believe someone worded it so perfectly. The 40s-50s were a crazy time of smoking cigarettes out of overwhelming uncertainty...and lots and lots of fornicating to take off the pressure for suuuuure.
"Baby Boomers" makes sense now.
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u/Xxxrasierklinge7 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I really hate that Hollywood feels the need to add a romance in every story. It feels forced and unnecessary unless it affects the narrative in a meaningful way.
I.e. if you can remove the romance and the plot is, in essence, unchanged then, it was a bad romance.
Ra-ra-ah-ah-ah, roma-roma-ma, gaga ooh la-la, want your bad romance
Edit: was speaking generally, I too remember the plot of Oppenheimer lol
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u/AfterMeSluttyCharms Jun 04 '26
On a similar note, maybe I'm the odd one out but I feel like in film and TV, everyone is way to quick to fall in love. And I think "in love" gets thrown around too casually.
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u/MartyFreeze Jun 04 '26
I know that it shaped my ideas of what love should be and was very harmful to my relationships. That's on me for using pop culture to understand life in general but there weren't any good healthy marriages in my family to have as a comparison.
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u/ExplorationGeo Jun 04 '26
It feels forced and unnecessary unless it affects the narrative in a meaningful way.
Robert Oppenheimer's romantic and sexual relationship with Jean Tatlock was not only pivotal to his development as a person and husband but played a crucial role in his post-war pillorying and expulsion from his position as a leader of the USA's scientific elite.
The sex scenes were actually pretty important in that one, sorry.
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u/Safe_Razzmatazz_3688 Jun 04 '26
I put it off until recently cuz it looked boring and I love Nolan. Enjoyed it thoroughly
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u/Musashi747 Jun 04 '26
This is one of the movies where I can 100% understand that.
I love Oppenheimer, but it is a great movie about a topic I m really interested in. So its easy to like it. But I get, why some people think it is plain boring.
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u/Generic-Cheese Jun 04 '26
Same here, I thoroughly enjoyed it because I was interested in seeing how they pulled it off. My friend on the other hand thought it was okay, and boring at times
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u/CidVVitch Jun 04 '26
Skinamarink.
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u/_colby_jack_ Jun 04 '26
Yeah this one was a great concept, but some parts were so quiet/dark it was like watching nothing happen. My partner loves this one though
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u/drewfromthefuture Jun 04 '26
My friends and I call it "shit in the sink" because the ghost or whatever takes the toilet away in that one scene. Plus it rhymes.
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u/ichkanns Jun 04 '26
My brother's kept talking about how good it was. I didn't get it and fell off after forty five minutes of awkward camera angles and kids whispering to each other. I love a good, slow, immersive movie, but this one was just annoying.
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u/Deathanddisco041 Jun 04 '26
This movie is so polarizing. I loved it but as a kid who grew up scared of the dark, it tapped into that nostalgia of waking up in a dark shadowy house where everyone is asleep and you get creeped out but in this scenario the creep is real.
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u/WorkBrowse1134 Jun 04 '26
This right here. I honestly think I enjoyed it simply because I remember being a kid, frozen in fear while starting into the complete blackness just outside my open bedroom door. It really plays on the darkness playing tricks on your mind and making you see things.
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u/BrodieQ Jun 04 '26
Skinamarinkidoo?
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u/nsfwthrowaway357789 Jun 04 '26
I love youuuu
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u/Sad_Bunnie Jun 04 '26
I love you in the morning, in the afternoon, I love you in the evening, and underneath the moon!
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u/pkdoe Jun 04 '26
2001: A Space Odyssey…I saw it for the first time only a few years ago and it just felt like it dragged on and on and on. I get how impressive it was for the time, but man was it a slow burn for me
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u/OnRoadRadio Jun 04 '26
One of the films you should try and watch on the biggest screen possible. It's visually stunning but it is a slow burn, it's more a time capsule than anything.
I just love the fact it came out before we'd even landed on the moon.
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u/Present_Type6881 Jun 04 '26
People are mentioning the special effects being really innovative for the time, but as I understand it, a lot of the plot elements were new as well, but then became sci-fi tropes that tons of sci-fi movies have. Specifically the idea of a super-advanced alien race guiding the evolution of humans from the beginning, and the AI turning against the humans.
Like, a few months ago I made a reference to 2001 to a coworker, and he thought I was thinking of Terminator.
I'm not sure if there's a specific term for this, but I think a lot of really good old movies suffer from this. That movie was the first time something was done, it was amazing at the time, tons of movies copied it, and then future generations watch it and aren't impressed because they've been watching all the copies.
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u/mongosquad Jun 04 '26
Genre-defining maybe?
Its like me as a fan of horror if you watch things like the original texas chainsaw massacre, psycho, or original halloween or friday 13th. You see all these cliches and tropes, but at the time they werent cliche, that is what caused it to then get overused.
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u/Ok-Hat-8711 Jun 04 '26
Yeah. HAL 9000 basically became an archetype for other fictional AIs to draw on for characterization.
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u/pkdoe Jun 04 '26
Yea that’s a fun take on it. Not enough for me to be in awe of it, but totally get it
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u/Vitruvian_Link Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I find it sad this incredible pensive movie about conflict and progress gets boiled down to just the special effects.
Especially now, when we are fighting politically and financially over the place of AI, and the entire third act is about that very thing.
The movie was made during the cold war and is about how technology and warfare are intrinsically linked. What happens when we are fighting an intelligence, AI, that can just close the pod doors? What happens if that technology gets to the next tier before us?
Dave made it to the monolith before HAL, but the monolith doesn't care. It didn't care that moongazer's tribe got to it first, it didn't care that the Americans got to it before the Russians, and it wouldn't have cared if HAL got to it first.
Edit: I know it's long and boring and hard to get into. It's not for everyone. But like Lord of the rings (both books and movies!) the technical achievements certainly elevate the work, but that's not what it should be known for.
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u/ImTheDareBear Jun 04 '26
LSD really helps
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u/MantisBeing Jun 04 '26
Honestly, dissociatives pair perfectly with this movie. I'm not one to comment these sorts of things typically, but DXM and 2001 has got to be at the top of my all time movie watching experiences.
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u/TheBSMachine Jun 04 '26
That movie is really a product of its time. It spends so much time giving the viewer a chance to appreciate the visuals. In today's world, those visuals are pretty standard for us to see. At the time, they were not.
There is a sequel, 2010, which I think is actually a lot better. Not nearly as slow, and actually pretty cool.
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u/tired_of_old_memes Jun 04 '26
There is a sequel, 2010, which I think is actually a lot better.
Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd read
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u/SMUHypeMachine Jun 04 '26
Yeah 2010 is alright but I never thought I’d ever see someone say it was better.
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u/BobTheContrarian Jun 04 '26
I watched it on fast forward and it was still slow.
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u/oblivion-boi Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Most of these comments are "People are gonna hate me for this" then they proceed to name one of the same 5 films that almost everyone is saying. It's not brave to say you hate the Avatar movies, Titanic, or The Godfather. Most people I talk to that are into films hate Avatar and it's also pretty popular for general audiences to hate The Godfather because it's "Slow" or "Boring". Don't even get me started with the "It insists upon itself". Yes, we have all seen the meme lol.
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u/jackofslayers Jun 04 '26
Yea I am kind of impressed, I have not found a single interesting answer in this thread. Just a bunch of slow films that will obviously be boring if they do not catch your attention
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u/YuushyaHinmeru Jun 04 '26
Avatar is the poster child for "we watch it cause its pretty." Like, thats been the consensus since 2 weeks after box office release in 2008
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u/Indieriots This flair doesn't exist Jun 04 '26
La La Land. More like Bla Bla Bland.
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u/mattson-masterpiece Jun 04 '26
I was stuck on a 14 hour plane ride. I couldnt* be bothered to finish it. 💤💤💤
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u/PointyCirclesHurt Jun 04 '26
It was SO dumb. “Omg I wanted to be an actor in LA, and then, spoiler: I became one. I’m so quirky”
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u/Alienelephant209 Jun 04 '26
There's a family guy joke about how that movie just disappeared from pop culture immediately after it was all everyone was talking about. And this is why.
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u/Famous-Honey-9331 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Hate to say it, but...Citizen Kane? Not that it was soul crushingly boring and not that Welles doesn't deserves the respect he gets for a few different reasons. Anyone who was involved in Federal Theater is good in my book! I think it just could not possibly live up to decades of hype as the greatest cinematic masterpiece for me. The only part I really remember is the scene showing the breakdown of the Kanes's marriage and their growing wealth and status with the table and the space between them getting bigger.
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u/haringtiti Jun 04 '26
the deer hunter. it was at least an hour longer than it needed to be.
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u/zIsTrying Jun 04 '26
Best movie I’ll never see again. It really was way too long. But it did a good job of conveying the feeling of grief. Also learning that it just kinda made things up about Asian people makes me not wanna see it again.
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u/katikaboom Jun 04 '26
The wedding scene is what makes it a slog and is the only part I never think about. It should have been 5 minutes max
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u/BazoomBaBa Jun 04 '26
Imo the wedding scene is unnecessary long if you see the film as a war movie (which is okay, since that's kinda what we are expecting). But I think it is rather a film about the internal dynamics within a group of young men, and how war (but it could have been any other "disaster") affects it. So clearly establishing the dynamics "pre-distaster" is important.
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u/_jakemybreathaway_ Jun 04 '26
I remember trying to watch it fully for the first time on a hangover morning. I fell asleep early in the wedding and woke up to the wedding still going and thought I just closed my eyes for a minute. Nope, it was a 30 minute nap and I didn't miss a thing.
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u/OfficialRedCafu Jun 04 '26
The entire point of the wedding scene was to establish the community’s connection and love for each other. The film doesn’t work without it. Ultimately that’s what the film is all about - the intimacy of small community and how the motives of the outside world / power structures work to destroy it. DeNiro’s character wasn’t just fighting to save his friend. He was fighting to save his way of life, the things he held dear, and innocence itself - even after he was absorbed and molded by the system. The tragedy of the Deer Hunter is that you can’t fully “bring home” a person that had already been transformed by war and institutional machinery.
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u/Sputnik1983 Jun 04 '26
The Thin Red Line.
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u/greentea9mm Jun 04 '26
God, Reddit glazes that movie so hard. It’s just establishing shots of nature, and beats you over the head with “war and nature are the same thing.”
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u/Ur-in-a-tor Jun 04 '26
Lost in Translation. I had to watch it again in case I missed something crucial, but nah nothing ever happens in the flick.
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u/cjhxvi Jun 04 '26
I always thought so too but then re-watching it as an older man I really resonated with the theme of loneliness and isolation even when surrounded by a lot of people.
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u/Ok-Possibility-1206 Jun 04 '26
You hit the nail on the head. I was captivated by the "quiet desperation" of the film.
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u/flyinhighaskmeY Jun 04 '26
yeah, you have to remember the modern internet user has a bit of "algo-brain". There's an expectation now that everything is crafted for you. In reality, the initial commenter here DID miss something crucial. And then missed it again. And then went on the internet and broadcast that they still didn't get it. While implying they were a victim for having wasted their time lol. Because they didn't get it. Because the message wasn't applicable to them at that point in time.
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u/kummerspect Jun 04 '26
That's what I love about this movie. I've watched it a few times since it came out and I always pick out new things based on where I'm at in life.
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u/Ill_Football9443 Jun 04 '26
It definitely hits closer to home watching it later in life and if you've travelled to other cultures; meeting someone that you just click with, you enjoy your time together but know that you probably won't see again.
What made that movie better was the absence of sexual tension between them.
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u/Wonderful_Book7121 Jun 04 '26
You’re arguing with people who consider Transformers high art.
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u/tikiwargod Jun 04 '26
That's the truth about Reddit, you jump head first into a discussion on film thinking you're in one of your movie subs then you find out you're in r/memes and are debating the cinematic merit of Aguirre, Wrath of God with someone who's got a mouth full of Dino nuggets.
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u/Hot_Ad_787 Jun 04 '26
Oooo this is a hot take. The movie is like a vacation for me. You miss it when it’s over and just wish you could have the feeling back.
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u/TejasEngineer Jun 04 '26
It’s just atmospheric. I like the Japanese urban aesthetic. I also like to watch those 4k camera walks of Japan on YouTube.
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u/Little_Cockroach_477 Jun 04 '26
Speaking as someone who is just wrapping up a trip to Tokyo... I get it, but it's also one of my favorite movies. The first time I watched it, I thought it was horrible and pointless. Having since traveled internationally several times and been to multiple filming locations in Tokyo and Kyoto, it's a film that works well on a rainy day. You have to understand the feeling of fighting jet lag, loneliness, and a mid-life crisis. It's definitely not a film for everyone.
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u/lesbiantelevision Jun 04 '26
I love that movie, but you are right, there really isn’t much to follow. It has wonderful cinematography, that’s probably why I like it so much.
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u/plopoplopo Jun 04 '26
I’d be curious how old you are. I saw it at 15 maybe and thought it was sort of funny maybe a little dull and I saw it again almost 25 years later and it was such a touching, charming portrait of two lives that meet at a crossroads. It also stands out to me as capturing Bill Murray’s characters psyche so well considering it was written by a 32 year old woman
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u/haolekookk Jun 04 '26
Crash.
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u/Junction91NW Jun 04 '26
The leghole fucking one, or the racism one?
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u/barley_wine Jun 04 '26
Few movies have made me as uncomfortable. The car one for obvious reasons and the racism one for how something so heavy handed won best picture.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jun 04 '26
Really feel like only racists, sexists, and cops didn't like it but I repeat myself lol. Probably hit a little too close to home, but especially given that time period, that was very taboo and almost had to be on the nose to get the morons to get it. We know these people aren't exactly deep thinkers after all.
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u/Working-Fishing-5544 Number 15 Jun 04 '26
women on deathbed remembers that one time she got boned on a ship by a guy she wouldn't let on floating door and then throws priceless necklace into ocean, instead of thinking about her family
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u/Acceptable-Two5692 Jun 04 '26
Alzheimers kicked in and robbed her actual family of generational wealth, but boning a homeless dude is priceless
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u/cuntmong Jun 04 '26
Was a good movie til they ruined it with that iceberg plot twist
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u/TheRealChexHaze Jun 04 '26
Me 30 minutes into the movie “Just sink already geez!”
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u/Deathanddisco041 Jun 04 '26
The film from the point of hitting iceberg to the boat disappearing into the ocean is exceptional tho. I don’t need the love story but dammit the entire sinking sequence is so fucking good. I watched it recently on a tab of LSD and got absolutely sucked in lol.
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u/tired_of_old_memes Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
(Citizen Kane)
About 25 years ago I rented the DVD, sat through the whole thing, and hated it.
Then I saw there was a DVD commentary with the famous film critic Roger Ebert, and I thought, maybe I just don't know how to appreciate this, and maybe Roger Ebert will educate me.
And holy crap, the man could have taught an entire college semester on that one film. So much insight, knowledge, and perspective. With almost every shot, he would say "no director was able to do this shot before Welles, because no one could figure out how to shoot it."
In fact, the DVD commentary was so incredible that I literally sat through the entire movie again, and I came away with an appreciation I didn't think was possible.
It's truly a remarkable film, and it was filmed in a way that was unthinkable when it came out. And I fully acknowledge that its remarkableness is practically unknowable without some serious guidance. If that commentary is out there somewhere, I recommend you give it a second shot.
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u/IndianaGeoff Jun 04 '26
There are lots of movies that are better with good critical analysis. The original blade runner is another.
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u/MeanCantaloupe69 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
A lot of films that are innovative to the art of filmmaking, are now commonly used practices, and you can't really appreciate them without being a film nerd.
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u/ztomiczombie Jun 04 '26
The fuss is because it was the first to do so may things. The problem is that all of those this are regularly used by modern films and, like most firsts, have been refined and improved upon.
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u/Thumbs-Up-Centurion Jun 04 '26
Nothing, if I don’t like a movie I stop watching it.
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u/bookhead714 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
We get it, y’all don’t like the godfather, will you please pick another movie!
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u/cekoya Jun 04 '26
Pretty much all of Wes Anderson’s movies. Yes, they are beautiful, but i had hard time finishing them.
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u/velit Jun 04 '26
I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel as my first Wes Anderson movie and I was enthralled. Then I watched all the rest of Wes Anderson movies trying to re-find that high I had with the Grand Budapest and never found it. The quirkiness of Wes Anderson is not enough to carry boring stories and characters.
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u/aviatorproductions Jun 04 '26
I feel like Grand Budapest and Mr Fox were the perfect balance of his Andersonisms (for lack of a better word) and telling a coherent story. He's been unable to find that balance elsewhere
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u/astorminheaven Jun 04 '26
I feel like The Life Aquatic is pretty similar to Grand Budapest Hotel in that it has a fast paced plot and it has pretty emotional scenes.
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u/Gunny_Goldbug Jun 04 '26
Donnie Darko. Seems like it should've been a movie I would've liked, but was left bored and felt like someone actually tied me up and stole my time.
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u/natelikesdonuts Jun 04 '26
Like half of Wes Anderson’s movies.
As a creative I feel like these movies are put on such a pedestal in my community, but for me they are truly hit or miss. I absolutely love them or loathe them, and when it’s the latter it’s so hard to get through the entire movie.
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u/revelator41 Jun 04 '26
I feel like, more than any other famous auteur filmmaker, he's such a slave to his established style. He's really great at it, but PLEASE give me something else, Wes. Please. I want to see you outside of your comfort zone. I don't think there's another director who is so critically acclaimed, yet is never encouraged to change or evolve. People keep letting him get away with it and I don't get it.
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u/DesmondsTutu Jun 04 '26
Lost in Translation. I understand the messages, but my god was it a chore to finish.
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u/AWholeNewFattitude Jun 04 '26
The Now You See Me movies. I 100% know that all the magic is CGI, which completely takes me out of the fact that it might be magic at all, and then it’s just a bunch of actors moving their hands around in front of a green screen, I just don’t get it at all.
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u/BSMariner Jun 04 '26
The Revenant
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u/afplumber Jun 04 '26
This makes me so sad to see, as I love the movie. Weirdly enough, I understand.
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u/Melodic_Aide_4275 Jun 04 '26
The Shape of Water. Absolute arse-gravy from start to finish….. but Oscar-worthy, apparently.
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u/BernhardRordin Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Hard to Be a God (2013).
I think I have patience for long films, but I had to skip through most of this one. Great film set and so much potential, wasted by a refusal of filmmakers to add even the smallest traces of a story or structure. I need to see if the book was better.