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I think they just forgot the lessons from the earlier movies. They had action but there was a lot of build up so it meant something.
Now you’re just straight into a boring fight scene with no stakes. And somehow the bigger the stakes the less there are because you know they can’t fail.
And now even the rare consequences can be undone through time travel and multiverse bullshit.
That’s the whole thing with Infinity War, they failed hard and that made it a wild story.
I think they fucked up having Endgame the year after infinity War. Should have left it five years or so, and had things happening in between. I feel we missed out on a gritty R-rated, Punisher style, Hawkeye there. It should have had consequences that were left to feel for a bit, rather than instantly going “magic bullshit go” and reversing it all.
But they fucked that by having Spidey get dusted, so they had to bring it back quick otherwise how would they explain how Tom Holland had gone from looking about 14 to being a man.
Oppenheimer
And even to an extent interstellar
I just find recent Nolan massively overrated
Which is ironic because The Prestige, Memento and even Dunkirk are great
Finished severance s02 this weekend. Very disappointing ending to me (that I will not spoil), even though it seems like it’s all anyone could talk about a couple months back.
Maybe it’s because I just played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and we were spoiled with incredible writing that does foreshadowing excellently with deep and nuanced themes, but while Severance’s execution is great in the details the overarching plot left me severely disappointed. As if they got great directors, actors, set designers, dialogue, but just wrote the s01e01 hook and then kind of just made up the plot as an afterthought. Keeping up mystery for its own sake because once the curtain is pulled back, we realize the stage pieces are not that impressive.
It’s still good TV but it ain’t that deep and IDK why everybody’s raving on about it. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.
I thought Black Panther was mid at best but it made me sound like a racist whenever I mentioned that.
Aquaman too.
Dudes are out there celebrating some aggressively average movies.
Interstellar for me. Great soundtrack though.
It’s Top Gun for me. It’s just Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise in a flight jacket.
This is me with any movie starring Will Farrell, but especially Talladega Nights. He can be good in supporting roles (Zoolander springs to mind), but all the movies he leads just don’t land with me.
Don’t look up was that movie for me. Almost everyone praised it to high heavens, with me smirking at maybe 2 lines / scenes throughout that entire slog.
Each to his own, I guess…
I haven’t seen it since we watched it in a high school class, but I remember the movie Elf being irritating and cringey. Apparently a lot of people adore that movie, but I just don’t get it.
Ditto with pretty much everything I’ve ever seen by Adam Sandler. Though, at least I’ve heard people dislike Sandler’s work before. I’ve never heard anyone say they don’t like Elf.
Inception
This one for me too. I watched after hearing all the hype, and I just thought it was subpar at best and actively bad at worst.
I figured it was because those who hyped it had never been exposed to the ideas in the movie and thought it was special. While my old ass had seen these ideas hashed and rehashed a dozen times over the years.
It felt like a new Brat Pack phoning in a pay check.
Oppenheimer Barbie Place Beyond the Pines
Didn’t get the hype for any of them at all. Oppenheimer was just fucking stupid and entirely too long for no reason, plus the Florence pugh scene where shes just sitting with her tits out for no reason was just wildly out of place
Barbie was just generic trash, and everyone knew or should have known it was a money grab. I dont think it was feminist at all, it was basically Marvel but for girls, and I generally think most marvel movies are bad
Place beyond the pines was just boring. And the plot was horrid.
Top Gun 2 sucked ass.
To be honest, so did Top Gun 1…
It was just high budget military propaganda.
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Any of the mission impossible/fast and furious films. That shit is boring.
Whiplash
I gave the exact same movie elsewhere in this thread. You’re not alone
I DONT GET IT. It really feels like it celebrates abuse.
Full warning, I like that movie.
I don’t think it celebrates abuse so much as it does point to the nature of abuse and self abuse between artists and their art, both from those that hold the keys to the kingdom of your success and from within as you bend yourself to meet those needs entirely of your own free choosing and obsession.
The protagonist gets everything going for him. His family does love him, but can’t connect with his musical obsession even though they’re proud of him. He meets a girl he really likes, wants to get serious about, but to do that would mean to choose between her and his obsession. J. K. Simmons character has churned out success by holding himself, and by extension his band, to an extreme standard that requires that obsession to keep up with. He sees the potential in the protagonist, pushes him to reach those heights but also demands in very plain language that he be subservient to the craft. And every time the movie makes it clear that the protagonist is given a choice between regular, healthy life and the rigors imposed by his dedication, he chooses art every time.
The reason I don’t think it celebrates abuse is because he isn’t ‘winning’ at the end of the story. He’s doggedly pursuing his dream and giving his all to the band, the music. He’s sweating profusely, his relationship with his parents is estranged, the girl of his dreams left him, and he’s just told his idol of an instructor that he’ll cue the instructor in and with that he gives in and gives the ultimate solo. It cost him everything, but it did pay into incredible music and the culmination of his efforts. Give it your all and you can have what you sought but if you give it your all and you’ll have nothing left.
Young Frankenstein. I’m a fan of Gene Wilder and a huge fan of Mel Brooks, but somehow the comedy in that particular movie had me going “hmm, yes, I can see how people would find that funny” rather than actually laughing.
