Movies You Hate That Everyone Else Loves (II)
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I think it shows how absolutely amazing of a filmmaker David Lynch is that his version of Dune got screwed by the studio and hacked up all to hell but yet the style and voice of Lynch is still absolutely there. Great video
i watched it recently and found it to be grossly over rated... it's nostalgia i think more than actual excellence
Forrest Gump is one for me. Good things happen to him while disaster befalls others around him, and we're expected to feel good about it
That film is pure garbage.
"My friends, you bow to no one" is a pretty cool line
I thought I was the only person who liked the original Dune? The kitschiness and campiness of it gives it an insane edge I think that I love. It's dark, it's perverse, it's gross, dangerous, the soundtrack rocks and it's hilarious. How can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach! The new effort was, 'alright' and it owes more to the original than it might care to admit.
‘Forrest Gump’ by a country mile for me.
Even though I have enjoyed most of Villeneuve's films, I never wanted him to Dune. I wanted Jodorowsky's Dune because that would've been the opposite of avoiding creative risks. Jodorowsky is nothing but a creative risk and thats why he is so powerful!
So you don’t value the story ? Jodorowsky would’ve thrown the book out the window and made his own pretentious visually stunning but empty movie
For being powerful, he sure did seem excited to hob nob with with celebrities. Also that movie was never actually going to happen.
Appreciate your take. But Villeneuve really made nice movie with Dune. Zimmer reached there magnus opus. Just sad is there are some omitted narratives that hurt Paul, Jessica and Leto relationship's. Same goes in hand with Gweis betrayal. Those points should be more strong. And some exposition scenes are too much really.
Mine opinion is that Warner should approve trilogy with parallel development. Movies and team would have more movie time to go fully into Dune universe and character study of Paul. Now we have 2 parted witch in hindsight is too short for whole Dune universe and books. Parallels are drawn with Lotr development witch had support. They dropped ball. Still movie is awesome and its not for everyone because of that flaws.
Completely agree, Jodorowsky's take would have been an instant classic. Watch the making of doc, it's amazing.
I've come around a bit on Villeneuwe's take, disliked it initially but like it better now.
Love your channel. Such insightful reviews. Keep up the good work.
The Kingsman is pure headache material for me.
Those movies are all trash.
Kingsman are not cinema. Those are movies
I feel the exact same way about Dune 84'; VERY flawed, yet there are numerous scenes and moments that are etched in my memory ( in the best way ), the visual aspect alone is pretty brilliant, and the new version tries to ape quite a bit of Lynch's visual motif.
Congrats on the uptick in subs. Love your channel. You got me into De Palma 😁
ALL MARVEL AND DISNEY MOVIES.
Let me agree with "many of them"... Some....
I fucking hated Disney Star Wars. At least the last two episodes, especially Rise of Skywalker. One of 4 movies, I could never finish watching. Even though I tried several times....
wow, so friggin' brave! And ALL CAPS too
@@helvete_ingres4717 Wow so triggered.
Shit opinion lol
I disagree on the aspect of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. I don't think the film is making us feel bad for the Nazi family. We feel bad for the Jewish boy and the Nazi boy. They created a beautiful friendship and the horror came from watching what happened at the end. It was done very well
The novel and the film also portray lies that everyday Germans were innocent and ignorant of the Holocaust.
That was an interesting side-bar about The Great Escape. I saw that film for the first time recently, and found it rather interesting. Tonally, the film was a lot lighter than I expected, considering the subject matter, but there was a turning point in the film where there's a death, and that changes the tone of the remainder of the film. I took issue with that approach, although it did make the film more palatable, I wasn't sure that it should've been. I give The Great Escape a lot of credit for its historical accuracy - a lot of the specifics of the event happened as they did in the film. I'd be interested to hear you deconstruct The Great Escape in its own video!
Whenever anyone says the LoTR movies(especially the first) aren’t good, I always question if they’ve seen the theatrical editions, or the extended ones. The extended versions fix so many details, and add incredibly important scenes that would have really enhanced the theatrical releases. The extended version of RoTK included the deaths of Sarumon and Wormtongue, for example .
The theatrical versions of all 3 are still great. There are 2 extended versions of all 3 btw. The DVD extended cut adds about 30 mins to each of them and the Blu-ray adds another 20 mins on top of that to each of them.
I love the extended versions of Fellowship and The Two Towers. Not so keen on ROTK which included too many unnecessary scenes which I feel ruined the pacing of the story.
the first one was the greatest cinematic experience of my childhood. Then the story becoming fragmented into strands of separate characters (how interesting are merry and pippin, really?) and an ever-growing emphasis on large-scale spectacle, mostly CGI battles, kind of killed it for me
As someone who loved the books, they got more annoying as they went on. One thing that struck me was how much Peter Jackson disliked the humans. Nearly every human character was less noble, nastier or less competent. Every achievement done by men in the books such as Helm's Deep or Pelennor Fields was undermined in some way.
I have to admit that I think the theatrical versions are the better "films" while the extended cuts are obviously the better adaptations and the definitive versions for all the Tolkien fans.
The editing in the theatrical cuts is just masterful and although the extended cuts add a lot of amazing scenes, they also add a lot of filler that hurts the overall pacing.
With regards to Bradley Cooper's performance in A Star is Born, I find it crazy that so few people can see that he's just doing an imitation of Kris Kristofferson...in A Star is Born. Watch the two back to back, and it's clear as day.
That movie was a snoozefest and seems to have been fuelled by the constant hype.
One of the Best Film Critics!
💯👍
That “Star Is Born” was so hyped up. And then the reviews were never ending. Some great music came out of that project! The characters were a tidy bow for a train wreck. I know nothing of acting, but closing scene in “Nightmare Alley.”
The Prestige (or most films by Christopher Nolan basically). It feels like M. Night Shayamalan schlock, but more depressing and edgy.
Off topic but do you plan on checking out the Daniels 's new film Everything Everywhere All at Once??? Would love to hear your opinion on it.
IT WAS SO GOOD
Who's Daniel?
Good Will Hunting, will never waste my potential for any girl, one of the worst or dissatisfying ending for me (Late Great Elliott Smith music was one of the greatest ost tho), the whole movie is sort of a slow burn to a guy finally realising he is genius and can become a historical figure, just to end it with him throwing everything away in the end just for a girl. The girl didn't throw her life away for him when she could have just so that they don't breakup but that douchebag will really took the extra mile. Maybe in the extended cut he would have found her only to be banging some other guy from bar. It simply makes Cinderella story look more realistic, and Will Hunting is made to look like some bad ass, a genius, a depressed guy, a construction worker and what not, the guy is literally made to look like he knows every other book in the history of mankind while doing construction work and hanging out with his homies or mopping in uni. That is just totally unrealistic for me. People saying he was genius, the difference is geniuses like Ramanujan and Albert Einstein worked their asses off to prove something, while this guy just happened to know everything.
I’m fascinated by the same elbow on bookshelf/fingers-on-side-of-head pose that is consistent in all your videos, lol. It doesn’t look like a naturally comfortable position to me but it must be for you, haha.
100% agree with you on Lynch’s Dune. It doesn’t all work but the scenes that do work, work *really* well. Furthermore, the scenes that work well in Lynch are much better than the equivalent scene in Villeneuve's boring film. For example, the 'hand in the box' scene is so much better in the Lynch film. It’s genuinely disturbing. The modern reworking simply doesn’t have any real power.
Wow what an honour for you to have read my silly opinions. Yeah,I agree with your take about Dune, really intresting insight, thank you
titanic, back to the future, beverly hills cop, ET, harry potter
As far as LOTR goes, I’m just grateful there isn’t 30 minutes of Tom Bombadil singing.
This topic is easy, there are many to choose from. They are mostly films that claim some sort of moral standpoint but actually don't have one, or at least present a skewed morality. Better not to claim a moral position. The Third Man, The Searchers, Bonnie and Clyde, Raging Bull, Hannah and Her Sisters, Titanic (1997), Chicken Run, Avatar
Batman Returns, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, Last House on the Left (original) and Waking Life
I enjoyed dune "21" read the books but 5years from now don't think I will want to revisit like I've done dune "84" since it came out
The Dark Knight. I watch this movie many times just for Heath Ledger performance and I think this movie would be the most worst without Heath Performance. I don't disrespect the other actors, all the actors did well, especially Gary Oldman did an amazing job, but this movie is nothing without the Joker character. And in my opinion, people are watching this movie only for Heath Ledger performance. This is only my opinion.
And it gets too convoluted (and long) at the end. I was enjoying the movie until it overstayed its welcome.
So you don’t believe anything you said are actual problems with the movie
Just you
@@Galvatronover What?
@@PAWANKALYAN_21 it’s all your opinion.
So you don’t believe anything you said are external problems with the movie ?
I've the same answer, I never understood the hype for the movie or even Ledger's performance.
"'4 hours of hobbits and Gandalf laughing in the bedroom'"? Golly. Gandalf sure has an appetite. | Kudos for liking Lynch's Dune better than that recent snorefest.
Great and interesting video Maggie and take care and stay safe 👍.
Completely disagree about ROTK. It was still epic and emotional, extended cut was great fun. My pick will probably be... Anything with Julia Roberts/Sandra Bullock...
That's a really perceptive parallel with Game of Thrones. I didn't see that coming but it's exactly what happened. They went full Peter Jackson.
Love it. Love it all.
Everything Everywhere All At Once review coming soon? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
I like your dad's old Sublime shirt from 30 years ago.
I really liked Peter Jackson's King Kong. However it could have been much better if he had edited out about 40 minutes. As you said , self indulgent. I still preferred the 1937 version of A Star Is Born. Mostly because Fredric March was so brilliant in it. Although I also loved Judy Garland's performance in the 1954 version. I just wish I could have seen it before the studios chopped it up.
Son of Saul is a wonderfully crafted, strong holocaust film, in terms of perspective.
Midsommar, Avatar and The Shape of Water are the ones that immediately come to mind for me.
Watch midsommar again it’ll change everything
@@Njbear7453 No it won't.
I really don`t understand all the praises for The Shape of water and Avatar. Those films are lame and sentimental and... boring.
Fight Club and O Brother Where Art Thou? are 2 movies I can't stand that everyone else seems to love
Inception . I don’t think it’s a bad movie , I just don’t think it’s particularly good . Lord of this rings return of the king . Again not a bad movie just not the great one it’s perceived to be imo I actually consider the weakest in the trilogy to be honest . Many more I could name but those to]wi really stick out particularly amongst recent so called classics
I don't know if 'too clean' would be how I'd describe Dune but I think for the most part it just didn't have the same visual potency and atmosphere Villeneuve's other work has, I say mostly because about 40% or so does have it, but for the most part I honestly wouldn't say it was that impressive. I loved watching it in Imax but after seeing the film at home it doesn't really peak my interest in the same without the impressive scope.
yeah iirc deepfocuslens review put it as 'lack of texture'; I felt the same. Just didn't leave much if an impression on the senses
Very interesting conversation about Return of the King. I'm an unapologetic ultra-fan of this trilogy, first saw them at the cinema as a kid and loved them ever since; my last watch was a year ago and it was almost transcendental, I love them even more withc each new viewing (and unlike Star Wars and other trilogies, I do watch them sparingly, like I'd enjoy a proper meal). When it comes to Return of the King, I have to admit that the first third (from the end of the flashback to the Rohirrim reaching Dunharrow, I'd say) is probably the weakest segment of the trilogy, there's too much going on and not enough room for the characters. Legolas and Gimli suffer a lot from this, but so do Eomer and even Gandalf; as much as a badass as Gandalf the White is, I have to agree with Sir Ian McKellen, his "Grey" version is more interesting. Speaking of which: yes, the Sarum scene is... not good. Christopher Lee is magnificent and it's suitably epic in scope, but it's not well written and edited (Why would Theoden forgive Grima? Why would a simple "enough" from Gimli break the effects of Saruman's voice on Gandalf?etc). The rift between Frodo and Sam is weird too, it negates the ending of the previous film. But I think all is forgiven and gets back on the right track once the stakes are upped around the halfway mark, and I for one do not mind the multiple endings, au contraire :D
Any Spielbergian schmaltz. He's quite emotionally manipulative when he gets into full flow. I know, it's a director's job to manipulate the emotions, but there's something about his particular brand of saccharine string-pulling that verges on the insidious.
This could really use timestamps. Good video 👍
Anything by Godard. Watching two people talk about Mao and smoking cigarettes for 90 min. Is just pretentious new wave prattle imo. Great episode as always!
I don't remember them talking about Mao in Breathless?
@@crobeastness Me either. I was referring to his films in general. I also hate Breathless but different strokes right?
"Alphaville" is a lot of fun.
If you don't understand Godard you don't understand cinema.
@@sandorx4Art is subjective.
Definitely the dark knight.
Scarface is amazing, I ignore the Rappers that use Tony as a role model and most of them were never really in the gang life. I think Scarface is one of the best anti-crime/ anti-drug movies of all time, Crime pays but Tony and Elvira were never happy people. Everyone's life is destroyed one way or another at the end. My answer to this question is easily The Dark Knight, I never got the hype and Ledger was good but I don't think he gives the greatest performance ever put on film like the Nolan fanboys make it out to be.
Completely agree. Although what’s funny is that the heavily flawed, stubborn tony Montana who never attempts to find something in life truly fulfilling was also really likeable at the same time. You can’t help but like the guy for not giving a damn about authority, nor playing the superficial “corporate” game in the rich drug lord life. But at the end of the day, the movie is a tragedy of a pretty bad person who never learns what’s important and how to truly progress in life beyond materialism.
Those rappers who idolise Scarface always seemed very immature. The lesson is about the quick rise to power with all the associated consequences. Tony lost his brother and best friend, even his sister and wife. His Mum too... Doesn't sound too glamorous.
any chance you can do a hate review on new fantastic beasts? havent seen it but everyone is ripping it and i would enjoy your take on it :)
Thor Ragnarok: It doesnt respect previously established characters, especially Thor. From being akward and out of his element, suddenly he is cracking one-liners, like wtf!? Also got Tessa Thompson in it that plays yet another insufferable character that constantly shits on our hero without ever being schooled. No doubt that the female Thor movie is gonna be pure garbage.
Oh no, I missed this. I had so many examples. Bergman, Fellini, Lanthimos, Sciamma etc, etc. :(
Totally agree about Scarface. I LOVE every other de Palma film I've seen but I just never got into Scarface.
5:30 - cinema (or anything, really) works best when unapologetically highbrow or unapologetically lowbrow (the whole artifice of sensibility being implicit). No director ever rocked a lowbrow sensibility like de Palma
How is de Palma lowbrow? I'm not saying hes high brow, bit how is he low?
@@crobeastness I'm not sure how to answer that; it's kind of like asking how Duke Ellington is jazz.I don't know what jass 'is' in words, but it's obvious when I hear it. I don't know what kind of understanding of high vs low brow you have (what to you is an example of each?), but de Palama is clearly (and crucially: proudly!) the latter. He makes or is known for well-directed yet lurid and ultraviolent genre pieces (gangster, horror, that 'erotic thriller' thing from the '80s and '90s) fairly superficial in being surface-level expositions of style/aesthetic. His work always has this self-aware pastiche element to it. I guess he's most similar to tarantino in that regard (whom he was obvs a huge influence on). I mean, Scarface is lowbrow (and postmodern about it - read, I do not use lowbrow to mean DUMB, something imo more applicable to the 'middlebrow', surely you can see that?
@@helvete_ingres4717 i was just about to say people like Tarantino definitely is lowbrow. I'd say de Palma is higher than that.hes not all surface level.
@@crobeastness and what d you mean by 'higher', exactly?
@@helvete_ingres4717 like a middle ground between low and high. I feel like a lot of de Palma's movies have a second layer to them. 'Blow Out' and 'Body Double' come to mind.
Dune 2021 is good, I really enjoy it. But I prefer the Lynch Dune. Again like you said. It is very flawed, but it is more interesting and the score is better.
Love the frumpy Sublime shirt. I have one of my own. LOL
All the Star Wars movies. There for little kids and they ruined cinema forever. Now Hollywood only cares about how much they make on opening weekend. Fight Club. Just a sophomoric take on anarchy.
Awesome tee; what is it?
Sublime's 40 Oz. To Freedom
The Dark Knight... I watch it 4 times didn't like it , great performance by Heath Ledger but that's not enough... as a movie not very interesting, when I ask people why they like it ... they say great acting by Heath Ledger or everybody likes it...
Great acting by Heath Ledger and solid performances overall (Gary Oldman is very underrated), solid action scenes with the opening bit in the bank being a standout, great use of editing and score to create a sense of momentum that never lets up all the way to the end. Those are the reasons why I like it.
Btw, good on you for giving the movie 4 chances, don't think I'd ever be as patient with a movie that I don't like.
I like it but its not a good Batman film
Christian bale was horrible in all three Nolan Batmans. His voice ruined it along with the movies feeling like pretentious overemotional dramas. They pushed way too much elements into each movie resulting in cutting from scene to scene at too quick pace without giving the viewer time to settle in emotionally with the characters, they all seem like bipolar drama queens as a result. It feels like watching three hour long trailers of movies that would have needed 4-5 hours each to tell their story.
It's a bloated pretentious mess of a movie with no focus ... Batman Begins was way better
Midsommar. Felt pretentious and could not get into it
same
I feel the exact way about
Good Will Hunting
@@PulseRELOADED I can get behind that. I mean, I personally love it, but you could make the argument, that the direction and pretty much every performance is designed to force some very specific emotions onto the viewers....
@deepfocuslens I thought you liked Midsommar?
@@apollo1493 I also thought she liked it lol was surprised to see her agreeing
With ya on Dune. I just seemed to be missing something, I like the David lynch one better
You’re great.
“Birdman.” It’s petulant, whiny drivel that uses Chivo’s sweeping cinematography and its avant-garde drum score to distract from the naval-gazing fairytale at its core, and it suggests that you need to be as narcissistic and self-righteous as its characters to maintain your artistic integrity. Just thinking about it makes me tremble with rage.
Loved it!but im a sucker for"naval gazing fairytales",full disclosure I haven't seen my naval in years!
Came here to say Birdman, the performances are fine but it's the definition of 'white elephant art'.
CJ we peasants like our arty films neat and tidy I want my cinematic gravitas cheap and tacky
@@NothingHumanisAlientoMe This is honestly a fair point.
Sounds like you're not a great artist, sorry pal, it's not for everyone
I’m afraid I’m not crazy about and don’t marvel over the “Marvel” series.
I’m more “Ordinary People.” But don’t mess with my “Scarface!”
I'm in Love
The Artist. I thought it was so overrated. The problem is that the film is made entirely of homages to better films. Tarantino is great at homaging other films because he does it for a lot of lesser known films, not some of the most famous films ever made like Citizen Kane, Singin’ in the Rain, Vertigo, A Star is Born, Sunset Blvd, etc. It’s like “yeah, I know what that’s from, this is boring.”
Surprisingly, I really liked the director’s more recent film, Godard mon amour, that isn’t well loved and I liked it for very similar reasons that I hated The Artist, simply because the references are a little more esoteric. Also, because I had recently watched every Godard movie and felt he needed to get knocked down a peg. There are some very funny scenes like showing an audience sleeping or bored to death while watching La Chinoise.
Dune 2021 told half of the story and managed to keep out the Emperor, the Princess, the Navigators! (which are the real point of the story if you think about it), someone as good as Stellan Skarsgard wasted as the Baron... David Lynch at least packed a whole story and a lot of cool stuff in his flawed movie. Dune 2021 was a two and half hours intro.
the navigators are only mentioned in passing in the book and they're hardly 'the real point' of the story, no idea what you could mean by that
You say that like it's a bad thing. I predict the second half will justify the wait.
Also The streamlining was necessary.
@@helvete_ingres4717 What's the spice for?
@@StephenYuan There was no certainty that a second part would have been greenlighted. Also, the streamlining was necessary to tell only a quarter of the tale, I agree.
@@vincenzoberetta1085 to justify everyone being on Arrakis and to drive the plot, that's what it's for. You must be one of those people who think Macbeth is about witches
I wish you'd review some Elvis films, Mz DeepFocusLens.
But what do I know??
Agree completely with your take on Dune. Huge disappointment with the anticipation of one of my favorite stories adapted by one of my favorite current directors to get a plodding, bland film that is well produced but boring as hell. As you said, Lynch's version had many flaws, but was more entertaining than this update.
Always hated the Bourne films, except oceans and GWH never cared for Matt Damon, also when you started talking about scareface I thought of mtv cribs and all the rappers too! You stole my thought!
😬 Oh boy.....Okay.
Well, for me, I wanted to get more into Hitchcock. I like Psycho. So I started with Vertigo because everyone else seems to love it.
I thought it was alright. I mean, I'm not saying it's bad- but my exact impression was that it wasn't made for me. I kept thinking how much better the movie would have been if I knew what the colors meant, and what that one camera angle/technique was called. I only liked one character really, and got sick of everyone else. The ending came out of nowhere and pissed me off.
I'd like to see more Hitchcock just to see what all the fuss is, but I probably will never see that one movie again.
Avatar. I don't see any redeeming quality in that movie. It was a predictable, boring, uninspired, garbage-tier, yawn-inducing piece of a movie that I cannot, for the life of me, understand how it received 82% (critics and audience) on RT.
Is Avatar actually that well liked though? It was one of the most finically successful movies but it has almost no fan base.
A lot of people really loved it - not me. I guess the special effects are very good (I never saw it in the theater) but the plot is vapid. It's like a 2-1/2 hour long sequence of tired Hollywood cliches and threadbare memes. Oh, the military is sooo Bad! Oh, corporations are sooo Evil! The indeginous people (Native Americans) are sooo Noble! Give me a break.
5:00 idk why people say this. Noone idolizes him people just think he's cool
For me it is ‘The Lost Boys’ .
Maggie if you can. Please see The Northman when it comes out! I have a feeling you will like it. The cinematography is incredible and the story is breathtaking.
Lol every rapper had a Scarface poster where the magic happens
Where do I begin? 😂…
The Dark Knight
Inception
The Usual Suspects
Forrest Gump
Tommy Boy
The Princess Bride
Star Wars
Slumdog Millionaire
The Boondock Saints
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
The Matrix
and so many others!
😳.....😶......🤫🤫🤫🤫.....
I haven't seen all of these movies, but I think the only movie, I can _kinda_ agree on is Billy Madison. Very overrated....
For the record no one likes billy Madison because it’s a good movie. It’s stupid as hell and somehow enjoyable.
@@petergriffin355 Yeah, but almost all Adam Sandler movies that came after were better. The female lead was hot. I think she was Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat and in House of Haunted Hill. But that musical number was annoying and out of place and the rest of the plot overrated, but yeah, as you said, somewhat enjoyable!
@@chanceneck8072 I don't think there is any Adam Sandler movie I actually like. When I was a teenager I thought Little Nicky was cool but the "unintelligent" companion movie to Dogma which was the deeper religious comedy of the time.
How do you feel about life is beautiful?
Scarface is great. Anyone that says otherwise is a fool
Damn right. It’s over the top, but it’s a gem.
Its too silly
@@estudos6156 Only because its reputation has been hijacked by gangsta/thug culture.
ROTK is a rough one.
Before Sunrise. None of the conversations between the main characters actually feel natural, they just try to make the characters talk deep and meaningful all time when real life isn't like that
I mean I’d say it is. Can’t even count on my fingers how many times I had a (as cliche as it sounds) philosophical conversation with my friend while just wandering through a park or a plaza. Not everything they say is meaningful, but that’s what makes it natural, they’re not philosophers after all. But I respect your opinion.
@@marylevina5117 Maybe your just a lot smarter than me and maybe the characters are too. I think maybe if they had, had more general conversation mixed in. I wouldn't of disliked the film so much.
I only saw the film once though and it was a couple of years ago now, maybe it deserves a rewatch
Ugh do people actually like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas? I always thought that was one of those films that everyone recognized was manipulative bullshit.
Critics certainly didn't like it haha but yeah maybe a lot of general moviegoers found it profound? I certainly did not
you talk as if critics don't like garbage
I don't think they added enough to that movie
Oh, I have another one: A Quiet Place!
God, that movie was SOO fucking stupid..... I rolled my eyes multiple times throughout it....
Lol I liked that one. One of my favorite horror movies of the past few years actually
@@sprawlz6466 Watch the YMS review (YourMovieSucksDOTorg) for that movie. Although I often disagree with him, he PERFECTLY sums up, what I felt about A Quiet Place, only that he gives it a bit more credit than I did and he wasn´t as annoyed by some of the horrible character decisions, inconsistencies and cringey framing and overacting of certain scenes. If you watch that and still say, you liked the movie, I´m genuinely happy for you!
and a monster hunting by sound had already been done-
Tremors. The Descent. Pitch Black...
Inception is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen
Thank you
It’s incredibly overrated
Watched it once and I don't think I could tell you 5 things that happened in the movie because it was just so empty and forgettable.
Have you seen Tenet? Nolan takes it to a whole new level.
I would like you to discuss the lord of the rings with EFAP
Why would anybody want to hear a discussion where EFAP is involved?
@@marcogianesello6083 why not?
Villeneuve made me appreciate Lynch’s Dune even more.
Pickpocket by Robert Bresson comes to mind. Many called it a masterpiece but it was the longest 75 mins of my life.
It had a couple good things like a couple sequences and the character Jeanne was engaging. However, Michel (the lead) was so lifeless and not engaging.
You have a scene like his mother being sick but you wouldn’t know from his face and eyes.
It's a masterpiece. One of Bresson's top 5, for sure.
@@sandorx4 believe me I know this is just my opinion on it as everyone else says the same thing. I just didn’t really feel anything while watching it and worst of all, It hasn’t stayed with me.
@@Fed804 Since when is art about "feeling" things?
You (evidently) don't know how funny it is that you made the complaint against a Bresson film that the lead actor is 'lifeless and not engaging'. It's like the first person to see a car asked 'but where's the horse??' Tbh it reads some someone trolling some 'kino' message board with a pleb-tier take designed to irritate cinephiles. You obviously watched it as you would any typical hollywood film and evaluated it on the terms you would those instead of being open to the idea you were seeing something that was made entirely outside of that language. Bresson had one of the most singular philosophies on film of anyone to ever make films (the fruits of which are the source of your criticisms against it for essentially not BEING a hollywood movie - lacking 'acting' as you have come to understand it). He's pretty much the farthest you get from the Hollywood paradigm in the 'canon' of cinema - the auteurs that Letterboxd types regularly namedrop as metonymy for some imagined anti-Hollywood European sophistication (Bergman, Tarkovsky most commonly) are actually, compared to Bresson, extremely 'Hollywood'. Yet he is possibly *the* most revered film-maker among 'cinephiles' (I don't like this word, but I don't have a better one). So, either you saw how bad his film was which everyone else was so dumb they missed, or you simply weren't up to appreciating this one. And I'm not saying that b/c you didn't like it and no one has to like anything, it's just obvious from the criticisms you made. It's not like you lacked some kind of intellectual framework for understanding as they're not made to appeal to the intellect primarily - you just weren't open-minded and defaulted to your usual mode of criticism centred on 'acting' etc. and were too lazy to see it as something new and challenging to your complacent sensibilities.
@@sandorx4 it’s always been a part of why we watch movies. Whether it be excitement, sadness, joy, longing or horror.
With Pickpocket, I appreciate it and see good things in it but I want an emotional response to a movie. I want to care about how it plays out. If it isn’t engaging, then what’s the point.
Hereditary. I still feel like I’m in the twilight zone when people talk about this movie, because it’s so different from my opinion on it. When it first came out the marketing was saying “this generations exorcist” and reviews were saying “greatest horror movie of all time.” To me, it doesn’t even feel like horror. It’s more of like a bathos family drama. There’s so much tension to it and there’s never a payoff to any of it. There are tons of moments in the film that are so dumb to me as well, for example, the mothers eulogy in the beginning where she’s talking about her mom and she’s like, “My mother was a very secretive and private woman, she had private rituals, private friends, private anxieties… she’d be suspicious of all of the strange faces here” like, what?! C’mon, even if you hated the woman nobody is about to say that! And the fact that this little girl has one of the most deadly food allergies known to us and absolutely nobody in the family carries an epipen on them or has one around. I love movies like The Lighthouse, The Witch & even Midsommer which is by the same director so I enjoy movies like Hereditary, but for some reason I just hate it. I bought it on blu ray just to attempt to rewatch it to see what it is I’m missing that everyone else likes about it, but it still doesn’t do anything for me. I think I hate it so much is due to the fact that I see so much potential in it.
The Witch/The Lighthouse >>>>>>>>>> Hereditary/Midsommer. I do think Hereditary very much clearly is a horror movie. I don't even think you can argue otherwise but ya the movie is pretty bad.
@@crobeastness wasn’t arguing it’s not horror, it just doesn’t feel like it when you’re watching it. Horror just tends to have a lot of payoff to the tension built and I just never got any of that from Hereditary. I’m all about subverting expectations and slow builds, but god damn. The characters were all terrible too. By definition it certainly is horror though. The Lighthouse & The Witch are definitely way better, I agree. Really stoked for The Northman by the director who made those.
So you share Mark Kermode's view. For once, I agree with him.
@@sandorx4 I hadn’t heard of him before, but I just watched him review it and I definitely agree with him. One thing he said that resonated with me was “the problem with Hereditary is the things that it gets right, it gets so right, that when it gets things wrong the comedown is much worse.”
There is a video here on YT where Kermode discusses the film with Robbie Colin, who loves it.
Thankfully, I "hate" very few films. A very good American-produced counterpoint to "The Great Escape," which you reference as having a dubious approach to the subject matter, is "King Rat" (1965). Perhaps it's worth a review? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Most Oscar bait 9/11 pornography films are unbearably hard to sit through. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is by far the worst offender in this category.
I don't know! ?
Recently, Uncut Gems. I loved Good Time and I was really hyped for it but it just annoyed the s*** out of me and gave me a headache.
Lol. I hated Good Time. So fucking boring...
What?
Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, Lord of The Rings, The Deer Hunter (though I used to love it), The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Braveheart, Amelie, Forrest Gump, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Hahaha, yeah Braveheart. I remember watching it and thinking "this is supposed to be good? Like, very good even?" I don't think it's that highly regarded now as it used to be, but still.
Hahaha, Braveheart.
I totally disagree with Wild Bunch but Amelie… yes, I agree with you. I hate Amelie, so much so that I wish Gaspar Noe makes a remake.
Oh my. What an excellent idea. Let people vent their spleen over Movies that were hugely Popular and Financially successful. And not just the Usual Michael Bay Crap, but actual respected, Oscar noteworthy Films. I honestly thought that "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" was intended as a Comedy. It was such a farcical representation of the horrors of the Shoah. I half expected Jerry Lewis to make a Clown Cameo in recognition of how disrespectful the Movie was to the Holocaust Victims. Thank you deepfocuslens.
I don't understand the hate towards good movies in here. People in here are actually bashing Titanic, and Midsommar. Okay, agreed, Titanic was not as good as people say, but Midsommar??? Come on. There is nothing to dislike about that movie. And if you ask most of the people here why they dislike a very popular movie, they would go like - "Oh the story is weak", or that "I couldn't get into it", or even this one- "the character was not likeable". Hot air without any substantial explanation. Tell me what was bad about writing, discuss how it could have been better, why the character did not work, or why the environment did not feel real enough. Put some thought into it. I swear in one of these videos, I would see someone bashing Roman Polanski too. And that's when I would get the hell out of here.
@@appleipadcrazy Are you serious? You do not like the fact that there are people out there who do not like the things you like. What an interesting person you must be.
@@tomsenior7405 Anybody can like or dislike what they want. But they have to back up their likes and dislikes with logical argument that have some substance to it. If they can do, maybe I will learn something new and begin liking that stuff, or not liking it because I have a new viewpoint. But if they can't, then they are criticising a work or its director just for being different and getting noticed. And yeah, they are stupid.
@@appleipadcrazy Sea Kelp
ANY AND ALL BATMAN MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2001: A space odesy. I didn't like the concept that humans are depends on some monoliths. Same goes to Marvel's Eternal.
It’s my favorite movie of all time, even if it seems to be rooted in a humanistic/techno-uptopian worldview I reject.
Moulin Rouge. Blech. The incessant caterwauling is not to my taste.😂
One of the few movies I ever gave up on and refuse to complete. Didn't make it 20 minutes.
4:30 I don’t know if other’s agree with this, but I’ve found the same thing is happening right now with Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. At least people at my school and online seem to be in love with him. So I really do find people don’t get the full experience of the film by looking at it in such an immature way.
that's how I felt about Fight Club when I saw it for the first time recently ...
It's actually frightening that people would be idolizing the Patrick Bateman character, because he is, at best (depending on how one interprets the novel and/or the movie), highly unstable and delusional, and, at worst, an actual, vicious, remorseless, serial killer! Some people are attracted to serial killers though. Some women even want to marry them! I've seen it, and I don't get it.
@@christianman73 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some people in my school proclaim their attraction to Ted Bundy.
@@ryanrudolph5667 I was a teenager in the '80s, and I vividly remember when the truth about Bundy and his rapes and murders came to light. People were utterly horrified by what he did, and that was the healthy, understandable reaction. I love horror movies, including some slasher films, but I truly can't imagine idolizing an actual serial killer! We are in a *seriously messed-up* place, as a culture, when more than just a few people are idolizing someone like Ted Bundy and what he did to other human beings.
In no particular order:
Batman (1989), Batman Returns, Superman I & II, Edward Scissorhands, The Goonies, The Blues Brothers, Bonnie and Clyde, Some Like it Hot, Hereditary, Midsommer, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, West Side Story (both), Being John Malkovich, Marnie, Trainspotting, A Fish Called Wanda, Bumblebee, Life of Brian, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Poppins, Roma, First Reformed, The Truman Show (this one isn't particularly bad, the premise just gives me nightmares), Breakfast at Tiffany's, Too Gun, Spaceballs, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Coming to America, The Cable Guy, The Princess Diaries, The Guest, Nomadland, War Horse, Hugo, Chicago, Moulin Rouge!, Free Guy, The Power of the Dog.
The worst movie of all is Vanilla Sky.
Bro, you went to town with that one 😂
@@benfenton8603 i even left out some.
Bonnie and Clyde is amazing wtf
Your list sucks lol
@@helvete_ingres4717 to be fair to me, i probably do like that one the most in the list i wrote. Between that and Batman (1989) are the 2 i wouldn't have minded leaving out of the list.
Inception. It is a convoluted mess.
wasn't big on it either or Tenet... god damn couldn't get passed the first hour of
Tenet... all exposition... literally...
Not as big a convoluted mess as Interstellar imo. But yeah, Inception is very overrated imo too.
I thought I was going to dislike Tenet like I dislike most of Nolan's movies, but surprisingly enough I quite enjoyed it.
@@mabusestestament yeah I don't think Nolan is even that good a director let alone a great one. I remember thinking the internet's younger generation came up with that idea back then that he was a great director first and I never agreed. He eventually became one I guess. But I never thought so. I'll give him Dunkirk. I haven't seen Tenet yet.
It is not really that convoluted, it is pretty easy to understand.
@@maplestreetpictures7454 not at all. It's not meant to be easy to follow. And they even mess that up. But I was talking structurally anyways. Not even from a non linear point of view. It's not done well at all.
Everyone praises the lotr extended editions. It's just prolonged boredom and torture by exposition, personally.
A magical adventure like none other. Masterpieces for sure.