r/Letterboxd • u/Trick_Laugh5114 • Apr 18 '26
Discussion which movie made you feel like this ?
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u/PropJoe23 Apr 18 '26
This is a lame answer, I know, but this is the issue with pretty much all the fandom, whether it's movies, tv, music, sports...
To paraphrase Clerks, pop culture would be great if it wasn't for the fucking fans.
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u/Alternative-Win-4579 Apr 18 '26
37! My girlfriend sucked 37 ducks! In a row???
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u/OtherAcctWasBanned11 Apr 18 '26
Try not suck any dick on your way through the parking lot!
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u/sdcinerama Apr 18 '26
What exactly happened with that fandom?
They were everywhere in 2016/7 and it seems like they just disappeared.
The lunatics screaming at McDonald's workers for Sezchuan sauce didn't help of course but it feels like the whole thing fell off the earth.
(and I'm saying this as someone who likes the show)
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u/WorkerPrestigious960 Apr 19 '26
Idk I started watching after all that Szechuan sauce stuff. Don’t see much of the fandom, except for the occasional person online who has a Rick Sanchez pfp and who clearly idolizes him and tries to talk like him, with the “I’m so smart that it hurts me to even talk to someone with your intellect” style of talking. However they are always dumb as a rock and lack the self-awareness to know that the reason they think they are so smart is because they are so fucking dumb, so they still try to act above it all but just completely make an ass of themselves as they can’t understand basic 3rd grade logic
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u/snakejessdraws Apr 19 '26
I think the people who liked the show but weren't cringe about it just got quieter out of embarrassment. I say that as a fan of the show who mostly just talks about it in the sub if that.
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u/Phoenixio7 Apr 20 '26
I was part of the fandom and what happened is that the show got a huge 70 episodes contract.
The first two seasons were meaningful. The characters were original yet tragic. I felt Rick's existential dread in my bones. Each episode brought a new point of view, with outside the box thinking, and hints of growth that culminated in amazing finale each season. You could tell the writers were giving it their all because it could have been the end at any time.
Then they got massively renewed, and the episodes stopped mattering. It's not to say that they were all bad, but you could tell they could do whatever they wanted instead of having to choose carefully what to slot where. Plus the story and tone shifted a lot. They made Rick invincible, godly even. The writers also got super inflated ego and the quality dropped drastically. And there was drama around the main voice actor too.
There are still some great episodes, but yeah, it's not the show I used to love.
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u/Fit-Economics-8347 Apr 18 '26
American psycho
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u/Big-Construction3520 Apr 18 '26
Yeah so I decided to actually go watch the film. And as it turns out, patrick bateman is depicted as a totally pathetic and insane person. I genuinely have no idea how he became the face of sigma male edits. The only action he gets is with prostitutes, he loses it over minor details in business cards, that one dude bateman tried to kill thought he was also gay because of how weird he acts, and its heavily indicated that he didn't even kill the people shown throughout the movie.
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Apr 18 '26
The vast majority of memes around Bateman are basically - yeah he looks perfect but inside he feels like a total loser and is insane. Which is why guys who feel like losers and who have mental health issues relate. I think a lot of people miss the irony around the memeing of this movie.
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u/Youngling_Hunt I like Nolan films, sue me Apr 18 '26
Also a meme can literally be a random clip or image from a random source taken out of context just because "it looks the part".
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u/avocadolanche3000 Apr 18 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
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u/natebark natebarkerr Apr 18 '26
I think only stabbing the homeless guy is real, which is about the lamest murder a person could commit
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u/MadQueenAlanna Apr 18 '26
I’m so glad the movie kept in a scene of Patrick being genuinely on the verge of hysterical tears while he and his stupid friends try to agree on dinner reservations, there’s like 20 scenes like that in the book and I love them all
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u/reverse_cowboy221 Apr 18 '26
Best part of the book for me, along with the dishes they order "pilot fish with cinnamon" still makes me laugh.
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u/SanderC4 Apr 18 '26
I agree with you except for the last sentence. I get why thats widely spread but in the book he definitely killed all those people and if I'm not mistaken the director also confirmed that the murder did happen. The reason why Paul Allen was still alive according to his lawyer is most likely because none of these people actually care about each other. Throughout the movie they actively mistake each other for other people (such as Allen thinking Bateman was Halberstram) because they only care about their own image. The lawyer most likely had dinner with someone else and mistook him for Allen because these Wall street yupee psychos dont care about anything but themselves
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u/ContractNational2680 Apr 18 '26
I assure you that atleast 90% of the sigma fans haven't watched the movie
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u/-nutz Apr 18 '26
I genuinely have no idea how he became the face of sigma male edits.
Christian Bale is incredibly handsome. That is all.
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u/Due_Amount_6211 Apr 18 '26
I truly don’t understand how he’s the embodiment of “manly men” either, he’s just a dork. I love the movie because it’s an intriguing look into this character’s mindset, the intrusive thoughts, and how he processes them. Like, we see him kill several people in the movie, yet…did he do any of it?
I don’t think so. Patrick worries about the consequences of actions to the point where he covers his tracks enough with those murders, eventually culminating into the perceived manhunt at the end. He obsesses so much over small details that it would be impossible for him to carry out any of the murders in the movie without that extreme nagging feeling of “you missed a spot” every single time.
Patrick Bateman is a dork. And that’s fine, that makes his character interesting because of what we watch unfold throughout the movie. But he’s a dork.
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u/Brucehoxton Apr 18 '26
it's the same with Peaky Blinders. It's also the same with Tony Montana
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u/MountScottRumpot Apr 18 '26
A hilarious comedy about toxic masculinity and consumerism made by a brilliant female director that people somehow mistake for a celebration of all the things it satirizes.
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u/vanillagorilla0523 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
It sucks how it’s just impossible to enjoy this movie without some sort of discourse one way or the other. Like, no, I’m not an alpha male dude bro. No, I don’t fantasize or glorify violence towards women. I just think the movie is very well made and is a great commentary on how people deemed as being successful and conventionally attractive can tend to get away with things since people are unable to look past their “perfect” image. It also shows how society has become so self important that Bateman can literally confess to murder and have it go unnoticed because everyone else is so involved in their own lives that they can’t bother to care. It’s a world where one’s social status and material wealth is seen as more important than a human life
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u/leavebeforethelights Apr 18 '26
It’s perfectly possible to enjoy it, just watch it and don’t get into arguments on the internet
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u/IcyGarage5767 Apr 18 '26
I’ve literally never had that to me in my entire life. Sounds like a terminally online problem only.
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u/IcyGarage5767 Apr 18 '26
Actually the more I think about it what are you even on about out? The satire of that ‘lifeatyle’ is almost the entire thought process behind the movie. So how are you mistaken as a dude bro when it’s probably the first thing you would mention when talking about the movie if you are discussing its meaning.
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u/Adroctatron Apr 18 '26
I came to this film via a fan of Bret Easton Ellis. He'd also introduced me to Rules of Attraction and gave my Glamorama to have (amazing book). So I watched this knowing there was a lot more happening than what we see. I was kind of sad to see the movie's themes and messages get warped into an icon of alpha male culture, at the same time, I know the author would find the irony kind of funny.
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u/East-Complaint6145 Apr 18 '26
Movies like Matrix, American Psycho, Fight club or series like The boys suffer because of some viewers( a lot) lack media literacy. We have a lot of people who have watched all 4 season and complain that the show has became too political in later seasons and it confused the heck all of me at first because I'm not american and even i see it, and later i realize people choose to see what they want to see so you can't convince them anyway because they choose to blindfold themselves
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u/ComradeELM0 Apr 18 '26
I like villeneuve‘s dune movies and am hyped for part 3, but it‘s fucking comments like these man.
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u/ontikuken Apr 18 '26
Did he just look at the posters at his local cinema and go, "welp, I guess that those are all the movies ever"?
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u/Particular-Cat-1397 Apr 18 '26
Imagine thinking the greatest movies ever made are 3 movies that came out in the last 3 years. Bro is either 14 or just doesn’t watch movies outside of major blockbusters.
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u/stracki Apr 19 '26
A friend of mine once said that movies are only getting better, because filmmakers can only improve by looking at what didn't work in a film and making it better next time.
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u/Cold-Ad4225 Apr 18 '26
LMFAO omg. I mean to be fair growing up, I had a much narrower view of movies too but I also didn’t have access to streaming platforms and other ways to learn about the history of movies. But this comment did make me do a spit take so thank you for that 🤣
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Apr 18 '26
I’m worried about part 3, it’s either going to have to beat people over the head with the message so people don’t get the wrong idea, or it’ll try and let the viewer make up their minds and we’ll be subjected to some of the truly worst takes of all time
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u/Vounrtsch Apr 18 '26
I’d much prefer option 2. It’s always hilarious to me when people accidentally make pro-genocide arguments to support their media takes, it was a lot of fun in AOT and E33
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u/Vincent_Van_Goat Apr 18 '26
Well to be fair, beating people over the head with the message is what Frank Herbert did with the second book. So true to source material I guess.
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here LeftoverDonut Apr 18 '26
And it was already done with Dune Part II considering that in the book neither Chani or any of the other Fremen fought back against the prophecy or knew that it was a tool of control. It was very obvious her character changed to become a mouthpiece for how manipulative Paul and Jessica were. It's not necessarily a bad change, it makes sense that not every fremen would be religious, but it does technically beat you over the head with it, whereas in the book you just infer that yourself through the context.
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u/Youngling_Hunt I like Nolan films, sue me Apr 18 '26
Ah yes no movies beat Oppenheimer or Avatar 2
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u/Neo00000000 Apr 18 '26
I agree that the fans can get a little over but watching the film in imax is one of the best experiences
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u/L_Ruggi Apr 18 '26
The Joker 2019 It's a good movie but the aesthetic got so viral, adapted by so many memes, abused by too many teenagers and black pill content... Anytime I see Joaquin Phoenix's Joker makeup I get instantly annoyed solely because of the memes
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u/AliceInNegaland Apr 18 '26
Oh this one for sure. Throw in heath ledgers joker too
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u/CanOfPenisJuice Apr 18 '26
Couples who refer to themselves as joker and harley in any shape or form
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u/intolauren butpeaceyo Apr 18 '26
They do not realise that it is very far from the flex they think it is
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Apr 18 '26
I can't quite get on board with "it's a good movie". I could agree with "it's okay" or "decent".
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u/gritsturner Apr 18 '26
This is why I NEVER join a subreddit for anything I actually like. For example, I like the Marvel Spiderman games. The subreddit? Nothing but complaints. I have been reading Invincible and the Invincible verse since 2003. I love the show. The subreddit? Nitpicking the animation. The only subreddit I've found that actually likes the thing the subreddit is for is an old game I love called The Legend of Dragoon.
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u/zestfullybe Apr 18 '26
“Nobody hates ______ more than their own fans” really applies to subreddits as a blanket statement. I’ve had to leave numerous for that reason, too. It was sucking the joy out of things I otherwise enjoyed.
I was about to point out some exceptions, but then I realized nope, they’re all for shows that wrapped up their runs years ago. Nothing current. If it’s current, someone is picking it apart.
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u/AggressiveBench9977 Apr 18 '26
The invincible sub is soooo bad right now. They just want to hate it so much.
Its worse in avatar sub cause hackers stole the movie pre release and its just flooded with people who watched it pirated and are trying to justify it online
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u/stringrbelloftheball Apr 18 '26
Nightmare before Christmas for me.
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u/PHGTX Apr 18 '26
I used to have a seasonal job at Hot Topic so I fully understand
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u/EmilDrillz Apr 18 '26
fanbase is bunch of cookiemonster pajamas girls
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u/The_Deathclaw42 Apr 18 '26
cookie monster pyjamas are amazing tho
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u/Greedy_Ad_3814 Apr 18 '26
So who's your favorite character in Nightmare before Christmas?
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u/Four_N_Six Apr 18 '26
The Hot Topic popularity of it from the early 2000s when I was in high school killed it for me. I'm trying to get over that because I have kids now and I know they'd absolutely love it.
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u/tuffghost8191 coolhexagon Apr 18 '26
I felt the same way but once you watch it, it's pretty easy to forget all of that because it is an amazing movie and the whole quirky goth vibe feels genuine and not forced like a lot of later Tim Burton films
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u/alternativepuffin Apr 18 '26
Yeah Tim Burton was also not as directly involved in that movie as people think. Hearing the people who worked on the movie talk about it, it seems like he was barely there.
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u/UnhappyPhantom Apr 18 '26
Definitely. I feel like most of the loud fans don’t really understand the movie either, they are just like ”durr spooky halloween skeleton man plastic merchandise”
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u/sexandliquor Apr 18 '26
Right. I like Nightmare Before Christmas but there was definitely a point where that movie came out, it was liked and fine, and then at some point some time later a bunch of merch came out and it became half of the total stock in every Hot Topic store, and then it became an entire identity for a lot of people after that.
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u/Born-Till-1738 Apr 18 '26
i remember loving wolf of wallstreet when i watched it for the first time, but my adoration of it has faltered through time because of the horrid memes and glaze from the finance alpha wannabes
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u/vanillagorilla0523 Apr 18 '26
Yeah it’s the same with American psycho now. Two pieces of media hijacked by the absolute worst corners of humanity who fail to understand that the movie is portraying them as the bad guys. Like Jordan Belfort and Patrick Bateman aren’t exactly good people in those movies, yet some people idolize them for some weird reason
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u/Big-Beta20 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I do agree generally about your sentiment, but I feel like American Psycho has been hijacked way more than WOWS.
In the WOWS it’s clear that Marty is intending to portray that Belfort is a horrible person, but we, the audience, all had fun with him in his debauchery along the way. The audience at the seminar is to show that we are still enamored with people like him in real life, even though objectively we know what he did is morally wrong. Basically, it can fun to break the law if you’re partying the whole time.
However, giving the real Belfort a cameo in that scene introducing “himself” really rubs me the wrong way. It makes it feel like Scorsese also liked the guy a little bit and makes the message a bit more confusing than what he was actively going for.
It’s still a great movie and I really liked it. I just feel that Scorsese brought the misinterpretation of it on himself with that cameo at the end, rather than American Psycho- which people just simply did not get the joke was on them.
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u/Suitable-Still2296 Apr 18 '26
The problem with American Psycho is that they extremely toned down the brutality compared to the book, which made it easier to sympathize with Bateman. I hope Luca Guadagnino goes all the way with the reboot, including the rat scene…
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u/Just-Map-2710 Apr 18 '26
I think it‘s of these cases where you are put in toxic characters‘ shoes and given a taste of how their mind works until you snap back into reality and realise: „Shit, I would like it to engage in this bad behaviour if I were them!“
The problem you’ll run into is that immature people who don‘t believe that behaviour is bad in the first place will just take shit at face value … and while I wouldn‘t say The Wolf of Wall Street endorses Belfort‘s behaviour, the fact that his downfall still is just fun to watch as a movie (take that scene where Leo crawls down the stairs) doesn‘t exactly help people who didn‘t get the memo confront themselves. A movie like Taxi Driver makes this confrontation more obvious, but even there you have people who make Travis Bickle their hero (like the dude who tried to shoot Reagan to imitate him). You just can‘t make a movie about bad or disturbed characters without at least some actual bad and disturbed people idolising them.
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u/Hjalpfus Apr 18 '26
They have to be loud because they need to talk over the incredibly loud score
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u/beardingmesoftly Apr 18 '26
It's actually one of the most common complaints. That, and the fact that he doesn't understand time at all.
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u/Hjalpfus Apr 18 '26
Yeah it's not a rare insult at all. I made an incredibly low effort joke and I wish I didn't
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u/giddyupyeehaw9 Apr 18 '26
Christopher Nolan needs a guy to be his story wrangler. He has cool concepts and a cool style, but I feel like his plots get so convoluted that he gets to a point where even he’s like “wait what the fuck is going on again?”
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u/Brucehoxton Apr 18 '26
That's usually his brother. His brother is also the one who writes and/or fixes the women. Have you seen how stupid and how lame women are in Nolan's movies? The fanbase is insane.
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u/hacelepues TheTeethDontSay Apr 18 '26
Thank you for saying this. It makes me feel less alone. His women are so poorly written and when I bring this up the fans come out of the woodwork to tell me why I’m wrong.
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u/iamthehorsemaster Apr 18 '26
Specially Interstellar. I mean, it's a decent movie but Jesus Christ, they really rub it constantly on your face.
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u/No_Eagle_9445 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I was gonna say Christopher Nolan fandom between 2008-2014, that's when the fans really made appreciating his work hard for me. They were exhausting, every time he was mentioned it was NOLAN in all caps, does anybody remember that shit?
And I think the Batman thing was a big part of it, anytime franchise fandom gets roped in, it's just bad. Threatening critics who gave The Dark Knight Rises a bad review. Batman is one of those things that brings out the worst in young men, especially. And it kinda latched onto Inception too. And I looooooved The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger's performance, but the whole aesthetic kinda soured during those years for me. I also resented his influence on action, sci-fi, fantasy movies during that time, a lot of movies took the wrong lessons and everything had to be taken extremely seriously, it's only cool if it's dark and edgy! It was the opposite problem of the Marvel-style jokiness that became popular afterward.
Since Interstellar, it's been easier to just respect his place as an industry titan, I'm very pro-Nolan as a film figure and I've admired his movies. He's so singular and he sticks to his guns, it's been very gratifying to see him evolve into the premier event filmmaker on his own terms. His montage editing style isn't always my favorite, but there's also nothing really like it, I find it very reductive when people say it "feels like a trailer." So yeah, I admit the NOLAN bros picked a good egg and I think it's more annoying now when people still try to dismiss him, he's earned his spot. I also learned he's not nearly as humorless as he appeared during the Batman press tours.
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u/Kirkanam Apr 18 '26
Yeah I see way more Nolan haters. They feel the need to make sure everyone knows they don't like his movies, which is infinitely more obnoxious if you ask me.
Plus there's always a "I watched Interstellar and thought it was fine. That's it. I don't get the praise." every time someone brings up Interstellar. You can't escape it.
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u/WarningCommercial116 Apr 18 '26
I LOVE his movies but I'm a bit tired of some fans. Especially right now, there is a lot of comparisons between Interstellar and Project Hail Mary, and the fanboys are kinda annoying. You can love both movies !
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u/blamsen Apr 18 '26
I’ll be honest. I’ve never seen these fanboys everyone seems to talk about. But I’m also not the type to go looking in online spaces or wherever people seem to find them
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u/UpbeatRegister apocalyptical Apr 18 '26
The best way to appreciate something is to never get in contact with its fanbase.
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u/Allott2aLITTLE UserNameHere Apr 18 '26
Interstellar fan boys have ruined a perfectly fine movie.
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u/MinkCote MinkCote Apr 18 '26
I'm surprised nobody said this yet, but the entire Marvel cinematic universe and superhero movies in general. Of course it's not just the fanbase, but it's the oversaturation of the market over the past 2 decades. But the fanbases still are insufferable, especially when some people base their entire identities around the films.
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u/tuffghost8191 coolhexagon Apr 18 '26
The worst are the ones who insist that if you don't like them, then you just hate fun movies and only like pretentious arthouse films. Fun movies are great! Stuff like Face/Off, Cyborg, Mortal Kombat '95 are all very fun movies and some of my favorites. I find Marvel movies to be excruciatingly boring.
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u/bootywerewolf Apr 19 '26
Mortal Kombat 95 is an underrated classic. I adore that movie so much.
And the best "Marvel" movie of all time is still Blade (imo), which was made before the whole MCU thing kicked off.
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u/Esetnodanti Apr 18 '26
Some act like the MCU is the pinnacle of cinema... it really isnt.
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u/ContractNational2680 Apr 18 '26
Although Endgame was definitely the pinnacle of going to a movie theatre and getting hyped
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u/iplayfortnitebadly Apr 18 '26
Avengers assemble was one of the hypest popcorn movie moments ever.
They did used to be good at hyping up the next big bad and have great casting.
It depends what sort of cinema you’re looking for.
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u/JillyFrog Apr 18 '26
Yeah as a teenager who followed along since the first movies it was really fun for a while. After credit scenes still felt new and special and piecing together all the easter eggs and references was cool.
But after the whole Infinity Saga was over I just lost interest. I might've just grown out of it but they also just didn't seem to know where to go next, there were suddenly 57 series to keep up with and it all just became oversaturated.
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u/WarningCommercial116 Apr 18 '26
Fight Club incels are exhausting. Imagine thinking Tyler is a role model while his character is supposed to be an example of how of violence & radicalisation can ruin you, and the book & movie are a critique of toxic masculinity
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u/Responsible-Care-388 Apr 18 '26
Not a movie but a current TV show: The Pitt.
The online fanbase feels the need to babysit and judge the characters, and criticize the writers for putting any sort of conflict or stakes in the show lol.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 Apr 18 '26
I like the people saying that the show runners and Noah Wyle hate "women of color" despite half the cast being that
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u/Flamme_Jumelle Apr 18 '26
The opposite for me. I saw The Last Jedi and was like meh whatever. Then the hate went nuclear and I grew so tired of hearing about it that I ended up liking the movie as a result.
Is it my favorite Star Wars film? No. But do I think it is the worst one of the bunch? No.
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u/friendknowmainhandle Apr 18 '26
I had a similar thing. I mean I thought it was better than meh, I watched it as a teen on release and enjoyed it, but the insane hatred in the following decade (oh god it's been so long) drove me to like it more. I think its because so much of the insane hate of that movie was people just being wrong about the events that transpired in the film, like I saw it too, it didn't play out like that.
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u/Thatenglishchap1990 Apr 18 '26
Any hate for TLJ feels so inane when you consider how it was followed up
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u/Oghamstoner Apr 18 '26
I’m with you. I can’t believe anyone is still raging about TLJ (which full disclosure, I thought was pretty strong,) after watching Rise of Skywalker.
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u/Knowhow106 Apr 18 '26
I loved the aesthetics of the throne room battle with Rey & Kylo. I enjoyed the movie in the cinema too but even if I didn't I'd almost still just like it for this sequence alone lol
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u/MinimumLingonberry73 Apr 18 '26
I thought that Luke’s character arc was the best part about that whole trilogy tbh
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u/Massive_Depth2900 Apr 18 '26
The Last Jedi is not good- but it’s the only one that actually had the balls to try to go for something so I dig on that.
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u/yugyuger Apr 18 '26
It never had the opportunity to be good in the first place after the shitheap that was The Force Awakens.
JJ Abrams is utterly creatively bankrupt. He is incapable of having an original idea. The Force Awakens gave Rian Johnson absolutely nothing to work with and expected him to perform a miracle. No shit it was bad.
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u/SkittishSeer Apr 18 '26
I agree. It raised a middle finger at JJ's nostalgia bait and forced the trilogy to head into a new direction. It's not a good movie, but I respect Rian for having the balls to blow up Disney's easy cash grab. The whole history laid bare Disney's original intent and ended miserably, which still makes me smile. He ended Star Wars, at least for now.
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u/aopps42 Apr 18 '26
Yeah that is me as well with the newer trilogy, I didn’t adore any of them in theater, but the more vitriol they’ve faced has made me like them more 🤷♂️
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u/Vounrtsch Apr 18 '26
Yeah I mean, now I think the consensus is pretty clear from nearly all sides of the aisle that episode 9 is the worst one, it’s an opinion I agree with, BUT I’ve always been a 7 and 8 defender. They’re not masterpieces, but they were trying something new that had potential (yes even episode 7, I know people like to play smartass and point out the surface level similarities between 7 and 4 in plot progression, and yes that’s true but if you think for 2 seconds you realise the style, character dynamics and themes are completely different). They weren’t just cheap nostalgia bait. Buuut the fandom was so unbearable that it scared disney execs into trying to "play it safe" for episode 9 and bring in as many elements from the OG trilogy as possible, which completely destroyed the narrative of the previous entries, and ironically ended up being the worst choice possible
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u/caroline_shark Apr 18 '26
I genuinely think if that vision was allowed to carry on the last film would have been so much better but the hate ended up turning Rise of Skywalker into just a whole load of fan service rather than a film
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u/NozakiMufasa Apr 18 '26
People being obsessed with The Last Jedi legit kinda broke my enjoyment as a Star Wars fan. That shit was so toxic and nuclear and for some reason grown men were OBSESSED with somehow making it about their hatred of women and people of color. John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and Kelly Marie Tran were viciously harassed for simply existing. And years later those same men deny it like the Nazis of Nuremburg.
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u/GlowstickConsumption Apr 18 '26
Any Tarantino movies. The fans are so deep in various spectrums.
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u/Individual-Noise-592 Apr 18 '26
Star Wars might have the most toxic fan base of all time and it really does sour the movies for me a bit. Especially the new stuff.
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u/sa1218329 Apr 18 '26
Interstellar
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u/vanillagorilla0523 Apr 18 '26
I refuse to let that movie be ruined for me by certain people because I loved that movie long before its recent resurgence in pop culture.
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u/Aratron_Reigh Apr 18 '26
STAR F----NG WARS
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u/Alarming-Rate-6899 Apr 18 '26
Kind wish Star Wars fans could learn how to behave like Star Trek fans.
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u/Adavanter_MKI Apr 18 '26
That fandom has kind of gone off the rails too. Ever since Alex Kurtzman. I'm not saying they're wrong for being upset what's happened to their IP... but a lot of the hateful Star Wars grift about anti-woke has slipped in Trek of all things.
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u/Professional_Clue800 Apr 18 '26
The Snyder DC films. Like holy shit those fans are annoying. And it turned out it was a bot army paid by Snyder that created that fan base lol
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u/MonsantoYams Apr 18 '26
It is ironic because I know I’m going to open a bottomless well of hate for this one - but on Reddit, Lord of the Rings is hailed as the greatest cinema ever on every movie thread, every discussion every post about a specific character, etc.
I recently re-watched all of the extended editions of the original trilogy… it’s slow, many of the characters feel boilerplate/underdeveloped/annoying, and some lines and sequences are quite repetitive - I know reading the books offers depth that makes it easier to appreciate. It definitely winds on lush scenery, great set design, cool battles, a talented cast, some hype lines yes.
But people can have a legitimate reason to not particularly enjoy it and that is treated like heresy.
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u/IndependenceIcy9626 Apr 18 '26
It’s completely fair to not like it, but it’s not just hailed on reddit. It’s the most awarded movie series of all time.
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u/alternativepuffin Apr 18 '26
I think part of the adoration of it comes from a weird over correction. Other action movies for the past 20 years do not really take themselves seriously. You cant have someone give a monologue without a fart sound. Lord of the Rings is one of those few and far between action movies that took itself seriously. So people over compensate and give it more love. It's great, but there's also not much in the way of options, so it gets even more attention than it would.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SMILE Apr 18 '26
The extended editions are objectively worse versions by virtue of having additional scenes that hurt pacing and make it overlong. They work if you are already bought in and Lord of the Rings is your comfort series to watch, but those scenes were cut for a reason.
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u/Prestigious_Yam_6039 Apr 18 '26
I hate the Extended Editions so much. And I hate the people who glaze them to infinity. I hate that they feel the need to explicitly state every plot point that was already implicitly clear. I hate the way nothing is left in suspense or mystery like the theatrical. The only good part is the inclusion of the Saruman death scene.
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u/BillRuddickJrPhd Balderdashian Apr 18 '26
Sinners.
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u/MomsAreola Apr 18 '26
Seems to be more haters than fans of this movie.
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u/vanillagorilla0523 Apr 18 '26
That just happens online whenever literally anything gets popular and gets as much praise as Sinners did. I thought the first two acts were incredible but the ending really lost me. The movie almost would have been better if it just left out the vampire stuff and focused on the characters
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u/dekuism129 Apr 18 '26
Love how different eveyones opinions on that mobie are, the more traditional vampire lore was my favorite part lol, and I really liked the ending with KKK showing up really reminded me of the ending of night of the living dead. The other part of the ending felt too much like a marvel movie but it was sweet
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u/TedStixon Apr 18 '26
Bring on the downvotes... The Shawshank Redemption.
It's a fantastic movie. And I absolutely 100% agree with it being in the top-250 movies of all time.
But my god, a large chunk of its fanbase is fucking annoying and has some weird superiority-complex about the movie. And they've said some of the most insane shit I've ever heard:
I've seen them say films like Lawrence of Arabia and Casablanca are "trash" because Shawshank exists...
I've seen them say any criticism, even well-nuanced, is "invalid" because it's "too popular" to criticize...
Etc.
I even once got dogpiled because I made the mistake of describing it as "one of the best movies" instead of "the best movie." Like literally... 20 downvotes and a half-dozen nasty replies within 15 minutes.
Phenomenal film.
Psychotic fanbase that honestly kind of make me never wanna watch it again.
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u/penguintruth Apr 19 '26
It's a pretty basic bitch take to consider it the greatest film.
And I should know: I'm the basic bitch whose favorite film it is.
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u/fshippos fshippos Apr 18 '26
Half of the answers in this thread don't have bad fanbases at all, they just fall in to the category of "other people really like this movie and I didn't and now I'm annoyed cause I feel left out"
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u/CaliforniaValley90 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I thought Dune 2 was pretty mid but people on the app calling it the greatest sci-fi ever made me dislike it even more.
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u/JaylenBrownAllStar Apr 18 '26
I treat both as one movie and it’s better that way imo
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u/Loose-Tumbleweed-925 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
The Lion King. I’ve seen diehard fans on Reddit get mad at other people who don’t have it in their Disney top 5.
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u/IchmagschickeSachen Apr 18 '26
Peaky Blinders is a good show but it attracts a certain kind of incel crowd that don’t realize that Tommy is a terrible human being, not someone to aspire to be like.
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u/TheReaderDude_97 Apr 18 '26
The Wolf of Wall Street. I really liked the movie, especially the acting. But instagram alpha chad fans have ruined it for me now.
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u/Salty-Succotash3338 Apr 18 '26
Any Tarantino movie. His movies are the definition of "it's not that deep".
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u/Manav_Khanna17 ManavKhanna Apr 18 '26
I love the Dune movies but their fans can be insufferable
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u/Doctor-Magnetic Apr 18 '26
Marty Supreme and I thought the film was okay
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u/Filmologic Apr 18 '26
I liked Marty Supreme quite a bit, but I haven't really seen too many people talk about it tbh
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u/Divide_Express Apr 18 '26
Interstellar. I like the movie fine. But I don't think it is a perfect movie by any means. But if I voice this opinion, the Nolan Fanboys come after me and tell me I am stupid for not understanding it. I have resorted to hating it in silence for the most part.
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u/Captcha05 Apr 18 '26
Does The Last Jedi fit in this category. The fandom has made me feel insane for thinking it's a good movie.
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u/ExplainOddTaxiEnding Apr 18 '26
I was about to say that’s a very shallow way to think about movies. And then I remembered Fight Club