Avatar. Good Lord what bad acting and visual dynamics will do for a movie.
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You mean 'Pocahontas with blue people'?
I never understood why people liked it so much...
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Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Closely followed by anything that's self-jerking Hollywood's ego. I'm looking at you too La La Land!
Almost every live action adaptation of any classic animated movie.
any of the new MCU movies post-endgame. they were so generic, and it was clear some of the movies ran out of money on cgi or animation.
Even Shang-Chi?
If The Sopranos was boring, what youβd get is The Godfather. Itβs boring. And it insists upon itself.
I kinda liked your comment, but it insists upon itself.
I know this is heresy but any Godfather movie, or the Sopranos, or anything that romanticizes the fucking mafia. To me organized crime characters are pieces of shit I can't admire or relate to. The only movie that ever made me root for gangster types was Pulp Fiction, which is a masterpiece.
Eternal Sunshine if a Spotless Mind has such good reviews and people speak fondly of it online. I hated it, just thought both characters were insufferable, and there was nothing remotely romantic about it. Felt like I was trapped in the bad relationship with them.
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BladeRunner - is like they wrote the screenplay based on the excellent source novel, then cut most of the ideas out, leaving only things that make no sense. Rick Deckard is a terrible detective, and only wins the final confrontation because Roy Batty... just gives up? I recently decided that my teenage self might have been wrong and rewatched it... nah, still terrible.
The directors cut/final cut does improve the plot line but admittedly the original movie is more vibes than substance. I think a lot of the "neo-tokyo" cyberpunk aesthetic we take for granted had tropes which originated in this film.
I'm pretty sure my recent rewatch was the director's cut. The theatrical release must have been indecipherable. I hear what you're saying about the cyberpunk aesthetic - the visuals were the best thing about this movie. I would thoroughly recommend scifi buffs reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick - it's an excellent (and not overly long) dystopian novella that has so many layers and themes (that Blade Runner largely omitted).
(that Blade Runner largely omitted).
I know we're dunking on a beloved classic, but it would be fair to state this even more harshly.
I felt like there's really barely even a scrap of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in BladeRunner.
I think BladeRunner is cool, and I'm thankful BladeRunner 2049 actually at least has some ideas from the book.
But I can't help but regret that BladeRunner has kept us from ever getting a proper Electric Sheep movie.
Honestly, I really just want more people to get all the amazing Turtle-on-its-back jokes done with Bender in Futurama.
Edit: And how does a movie skip over the
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The electric spider?!
That would have made a fantastic movie ending to roll credits on.
I think the best way to experience a blend between the two is either the graphic novel of "Do Androids Dream [...]" or the Blade Runner PC adventure game, which fleshes out the story.
Oooh, there's an Androids graphic novel?!
There is!
I couldn't get into any of the LOTR movies. I like fantasy, I like adventure, I like fighting, but those films are boring as hell to me.
I upvote you for being brave enough to voice your opinion on this.
I like the movies but hey everyone doesn't like everything
Now that is an unpopular opinion.
This is like an opinion some Easterling would have. /j ;)
What if i told you its got a frypan wielding, tater tasting, gardener?
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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.
Avengers. Any of them, probably.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Absolute snoozefest with possibly the worst cast leads in modern history.
This was universally panned, so I don't think you hit the prompt.
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