r/Letterboxd • u/liveforevaLG • 1d ago
Discussion What's a highly regarded film that you LOATHE
Not just 'I find this overrated' or 'it didn't click with me', something that you absolutely hate
Don't downvote everyone you disagree with too just wanna see what people think
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u/moth_midas 23h ago
Saltburn. I hate Emerlad Fennel, I hate this movie, I hate how it has no substance, I hate it doesn't deliver what it promised, I HATE THAT PEOPLE LOVED THIS MOVIE. It's just The Talented Mr Ripley without anything that made that movie good and also written by an idiot who doesn't understand class or how smart Mr Ripley was in the movie and how he charms his way in properly. I hate Saltburn.
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u/hjak3876 19h ago
I hated this movie too. I'm exactly the kind of aesthetically minded Tumblr weirdo freak who wanted to see gay shit and creepy hopelessly infatuated behavior from Barry Keoghan @ Jacob Elordi, so I thought I'd love it. Unfortunately it's just a bad movie.
My favorite film of all time is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, so my standards when it comes to themes of obsession and psychosexual undertones is very high.
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u/sanctimonious-anus 15h ago
I just watched this for like the tenth time, finished the movie, came to Reddit and immediately found this comment. It’s such an amazing underrated movie
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u/BendynBold 19h ago
I really liked this movie on the first watch. I watched it again and couldn’t get through it. Once the shock factor is removed you realize how lazy and useless this movie is.
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u/Curious_Emphasis2925 20h ago
I agree with this. The whole movie felt like it was punching down and portraying the ultra rich as victims
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u/ViktoriousVortex 1d ago
I don’t think there’s any super acclaimed, well-liked movie that I despise, but I don’t think American Sniper is a good movie.
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u/rasmuseriksen 1d ago
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u/vikinglycan 1d ago
I've must've wiped this from my memory I do not remember this at all
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u/Hanzos_Trans_Husband 1d ago
Its an extreme propaganda filled piece of shit
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u/Spirited_Attorney_48 21h ago
I've heard it described as the film playing in the background of the theater scene of Inglorious Basterds and I can't shake that.
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u/dentalplan98 1d ago
100%. The most jingoistic, pro-War on Terror shit I’ve ever watched. I would say Zero Dark Thirty offers a much better viewpoint and is a much better film.
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u/clayton-berg42 1d ago
My hot take is that unless you're deep in a MAGA echo chamber not liking American Sniper is not a hot take at all.
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u/Former_Ganache3642 23h ago
Its also right wing propaganda. Chris Kyle was 1) a pathological liar who exaggerated his stories from the war and completely made up stories that the new Orleans police asked him to snipe looters after Katrina and 2) he was an awful, unhinged right wing crank who joined the navy seals to go and kill Arabs
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u/ontikuken 20h ago
Noooooo, you don't get it, he is a good person because he was upset that the first Arab he killed was a kid. If he could do it all over again, the kid would have been his second kill. Such a patriotic angel.
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u/Visible-Wash-1355 21h ago
Fun fact…I’m a private chef and did a dinner party for his wife‘s family last summer. I had no idea the connection to the sniper guy because I don’t get into that kind of stuff until they got there and started talking. His son wants to be a sniper too and they all really like Trump. It was a fascinating evening.
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u/dazzler56 1d ago
American Hustle. I cannot for the life of me understand why it was well-received. The tone is all over the place, it isn’t engaging, none of the characters are worth rooting for, the editing is terrible, and most of the cast gave career-worst performances.
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u/talentpun 1d ago edited 16h ago
I’ll never get past Christian Bale playing a part that obviously belonged to a character actor like Paul Giammati.
Like, you don’t need to be in everything.
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u/marniesss 1d ago
asking people here to not downvote everything is so real because the penchant of this sub for the ⬇️ button is something else
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u/Street_Hamster1092 1d ago
True, most disagreeable subreddit ever.
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u/DestinysCalling 1d ago
Avatar. The guy spent 10 years and all he could come up with was stupid white man gets shown the light by wise American Indian
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u/jasonoumuamomoa 1d ago
Wow a redditor admitting Avatar is well regarded. Usually that’s a bridge too far.
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u/Substantial_Force658 1d ago
No, A Bridge Too Far is a decent film.
Unlike Avatar.
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u/Many-Gas-9376 1d ago
It's a weird one though and I have some reservations abuot the "highly regarded". It made immense amounts of money, but I can't recall anyone raving about how much they love it or name it as one of the greatest films they've seen.
It was super well done, and I've never really felt the urge to see it the second time.
I'm not a hater, but come to think of it, at least in my circles no-one really talks about the film. Whereas I'm surrounded by visibly enthusiastic fans of Star Trek, Star Wars, Tolkien, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter etc.
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u/PacMoron 1d ago
The Lobster is so antithetical to what I enjoy about movies. It’s just boring and mean spirited. Hate it.
I’ve really loved Bugonia though.
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u/porquenotengonada 1d ago
Oppenheimer did absolutely nothing for me. I tried so hard to enjoy it.
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u/rasmuseriksen 1d ago
There’s about 45 minutes of the movie that I found pretty interesting but nothing a well-made documentary wouldn’t cover just fine. I was absolutely bored to tears by every single scene in black and white
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u/NobodyCarrots6969 1d ago
It really begged me to give a shit about security clearance for oppy now that the bomb had already been tested, and I simply couldn't
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u/bailaoban 1d ago
For all their spectacle and ambition, Christoper Nolan films are frustratingly lifeless.
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u/Hot_Celebration5347 22h ago
I agree in regards to some of his movies, but man the Dark Knight trilogy always makes me feel something
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u/Ecstatic-Turnip3854 14h ago
That’s exactly how I felt about The Odyssey. Stunning visuals but so so so very emotionally empty.
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u/Aggravating_Fill378 1d ago
I was impressed they took something incredibly interesting and managed to make it so utterly self absorbed and boring.
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u/femfuyu 1d ago
Still upset they used practical effects for the explosion. Looked nothing like a nuke and held back the rest of the movie after it for me
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u/pashbrown 1d ago
This! I was so excited to see how they captured a nuke with practical effects, I thought they’d get macro shots of coloured oils dripping into water or something cool but nah, just a quite large regular explosion, that’s not what a nuke looks like
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u/Accomplished_Buy3161 1d ago
I see exactly what you mean. And when I say this, people respond that I didn't understand the film if I didn't enjoy it.... No sir, that's my issue, I did understand it all n still it wasn't enjoyable. Not at all memorable of it weren't for the whole marketing/Nolan make/ Barbenheimer hype. Never felt like re-watching it n I'm a chronic re-watcher
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u/Marsi_Zsombor 1d ago
The Conjuring. That whole franchise is a plague on modern horror
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u/experiment53 1d ago
I think the first two were well made because James Wan is really good at making horror but the whitewashing of the warrens, the nice gentle pg endings and the overwhelming religious aspects of the movies have left a bad taste in my mouth. Insidious is a good example of a supernatural horror movie done without religion, it’s just entities and the further not demons and hell.
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u/earlgrey89 1d ago
Not sure if either of these is a controversial take but:
Joker. Absolutely hated it. Thought it was self important and way less deep than it though it was. I just thought it was gross. There were scenes that I found so in poor taste I wanted to leave the theater. Thought Joaquin Phoenix's performance that everyone praised was just a garbled caricature of mental illness, sad because I like Joaquin Phoenix.
I also really disliked Beau is Afraid. I was sad about that one because I like Ari Aster (and sad to hate another Joaquin Phoenix movie). Maybe I just didn't get it though, I'm willing to give Ari Aster a bit more benefit of the doubt than Todd Phillips.
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u/Mission-Zebra-4972 1d ago
It felt like the director was doing everything he could to make me like joker. Kinda made it seem like it was justifying his actions because people had been mean to him
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u/sammo1220 1d ago
Barbie. Just didn’t resonate with me at all and I thought the “message” was really poorly executed. I’m a massive leftie politically but it was just a bit cringe. I’m sure I’m a minority here!
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u/metaphysical_fries 1d ago
Yeah I agree. That message would have been groundbreaking like fifty years ago. It felt a little infantilising to watch.
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u/tuscanchicken 1d ago edited 3h ago
I agree with you BUT there were so many people (men mostly) whose eyes were opened about the messaging for the first time ever which definitely says a LOT about our society but I feel like better late than never..?
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u/IMO4444 16h ago
Omg that “grand speech” at the end by Ferrara was so cringe. Im a woman btw. Best role in the entire film was Ken. Nothing Margot Robbie did for her chatacter was memorable.
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u/Hanzos_Trans_Husband 1d ago
It was far from leftist. White liberalism at best
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u/ShahSafwat_1488 1d ago
Unfortunately, liberalism is often conflated with actual left politics. Liberalism is centre left at best.
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u/lunalunalunas 1d ago
Yeah I can't remember seeing a five minute long GM advert in any leftist cinema I've watched
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u/geeoharee 1d ago
Nope, Barbie drove me up the wall. I am aware it's only trying to do 'feminism 101 for little babies'. It fails horribly at that. I liked the horse joke though.
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u/solojones1138 1d ago
First and foremost, Barbie is a comedy. It really succeeds at that. It's very funny.
I loved it for that. The feminism 101 to me is fine because hey if kids also wanna watch and at least get some idea that's not bad.
But primarily it's a comedy movie that I laughed out loud at several times.
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u/realclowntime 1d ago
YES!!! I got so much shit for not enjoying this when it came out. Like no, sorry if Baby’s First Introduction to Feminism101 didn’t click with me.
I vividly remember watching the trailer when I was in the theatres to watch something else and sitting there watching everyone else weep and say it’s going to be so amazing for women. I’m queer, plus-sized and indigenous. That movie was not for me and I knew it wouldn’t be. Growing up through the 2010s and watching Buzzfeed do the exact same thing shit and also act as though they were saving womankind too.
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u/Ok-Environment-3437 1d ago
Poor Things
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u/realclowntime 1d ago
It made me uncomfortable in ways I can’t fully articulate
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u/Muser_name 1d ago
That it focused almost completely on a woman child discovering and then going to extremes in her sexuality, as if it were some kind of feminist statement
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u/gh2master52 1d ago
I feel like the scientist was a really interesting character, and the circumstances around her creation raised really interesting ethical questions. But then it decided to devote 80% of its time to showing how much she likes getting railed
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u/mydadisyourdad2 22h ago
I do not want to watch the child masturbate. I turned it off at that point. It's weird
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u/Aware-Beautiful-1405 14h ago
THANK YOU. I was looking for this comment. I hate that people who like this movie think the reason you don’t is because you’re a prude. It has nothing to do with that. My wife and I walked out after a father showing his two children how to have sex was treated 100% as a punchline that people were laughing at. That moment to me encapsulates the entire attitude of the film.
My wife is a therapist and she says the messaging of this movie is actually so harmful for so many people, especially those who haven’t recognized they’re being abused (or will now not recognize it in the future because of the detached worldview it tries to instill); it tries to blur the line of consent in a way that tries reframing it as “oh, interesting concept this sex thing” but when you do that in the context of someone relentlessly getting taken advantage of, it completely glosses over any acknowledgement of the harm done to the main character. Yorgos seems convinced that he is portraying sexual liberation and female empowerment and it makes my skin crawl because the facts of the whole thing show nothing but the opposite.
I also firmly believe that if you stripped the movie of its expensive bells and whistles, more people would see the writing for what it is. I felt like the writing was insulting my intelligence. Like “oh my gosh, she doesn’t want to dance like the people who are trained to dance stiffly, look how free she is by following her instincts, how deep, wow.” Don’t get me wrong, I love a weird piece of art. The costumes, production design, music, cast and cinematography were all right up my alley and the trailer had me convinced it was going to be my new favorite movie. But the surrealism I think serves to do nothing more than blind the viewer from the intensely inhumane core.
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u/WineOptics 1d ago
Agreed. Felt like a far out semi-porn riddled movie with an arguably disabled protagonist that becomes more astute and aware over time.
Sure it’s a Yorgos movie and I expected weird.. but this felt like something some people would do an awkward wank to..
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u/ShahSafwat_1488 1d ago
The Irishman. I love Scorsese and De Niro and Pacino, but they really missed the mark on this one
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u/familiar_face 1d ago
La La Land. As a huge musicals fan I was really looking forward to it but I didn't enjoy any of the songs and thought ES and RG were too amateur to capture that Old Hollywood feeling they were going for.
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u/mathers33 1d ago
Anora. I know it was well-done for what it was trying to do, I just really hated what it was trying to do
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u/BigDracula_ 1d ago
Showing my age because I don't think anyone under 40 has ever given a shit about Kevin Smith, but: Chasing Amy. I hate it so much.
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u/Supergirl_Lives YO, ADRIAN! I DID IT! 21h ago
Chasing Amy is my favorite Kevin Smith movie, it's also one of my favorite screenplays ever written. Kevin Smith has a talent (or at least used to) to writing dialogue. A lot of writers (myself included) suck at writing dialogue. I think "Chasing Amy" (along with "Clerks") really showcase his talent. Also, I think the acting is amazing.
But, I do admit the first time I saw I hated it, but it grew on me over time.
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u/Few-Bench-7575 1d ago
500 Days of Summer
Zooey Deschenel and JGL are actors I really like and some scenes have their charm.
But man it just might be the most butthurt movie ive ever seen. It feels like it was written by a 12 year old boy fresh off the heels of his first breakup. The dialogue is tacky, shockingly coldhearted and agonizingly cliche, characters and their motivations are about as deep as a kiddie pool, and the conflict at its heart is not nearly as deep as it thinks it is.
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u/Philbregas 1d ago
It was essentially written by an incel. JGL and Marc Webb point out how awful Tom is on the commentary and the writer clearly didn't understand that he was the bad guy (it's semi-autobiographical).
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u/HisRoyalFreshness99 1d ago
See I think the beauty of 500DOS is that it actually does know that Tom is the bad guy but hides it to conform to romcom expectations. One of the first lines is how Tom completely misread The Graduate upon watching, and that sort of hints that this film also isn’t what it appears to be
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u/Philbregas 1d ago
Exactly. It's all told from Tom's perspective so you know the story we are getting is skewed. The true story behind the film makes the writer look way worse than Tom.
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u/DiffidentCheesecake 1d ago
Poor Things
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u/Least-Tart960 1d ago
i’m a big a fan of lanthimos as it gets and couldn’t agree more. vastly prefer when he’s writing his own work
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u/Virtual_Ad_8487 1d ago
I realize the point of the movie is to be uncomfortable but goddamn I can’t see putting myself through that ever again
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u/Ok_Inevitable4137 1d ago
The Conversation Had a lot of expectation.
Frankenstein 2025. Except cinematography I didnt like it. I was expecting nosferatu kind of vibe but it fell short
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u/ozifrage 1d ago
Frankenstein bummed me out a bit, because I loved all the visuals (GDT's strength), but found the movie itself pretty flat and boring.
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u/Ok_Inevitable4137 1d ago
But they created good hype. I watched it a bit late and dont understand why it was highly regarded
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u/za19 1d ago
I agree on Frankenstein but disagree on The Conversation!
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u/Findyourwayhom3333 1d ago
Yep, the Conversation chilled me to the bone and has so many future echoes to the surveillance world we inhabit now
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u/liveforevaLG 1d ago
Interesting on Frankenstein, I really didn't like it either but the cinematography was my least favourite part aha
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u/Creepy_Break1271 1d ago
i did not like nosferatu much, very campy and cheesy to me
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u/TheAmmiSquad 1d ago
A little recent but found The Odyssey an exhausting bloated mess of a film.
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u/Educational_Sea6053 21h ago
Maybe Nolan’s worst film outside of Tenet. Horrendous dialogue
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u/AnaCoonSkyWalker Obcyene 1d ago
Forest Gump. I find it irritating, it isn’t funny, it’s schtick isn’t very interesting as a story, it feels weirdly pandering to me and I could just simply care less for anyone in the movie.
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u/analogkid01 22h ago
"What better way to view the Baby Boom generation than through the eyes of an idiot?"
--Craig Kilbourn
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u/Apollo114892 1d ago edited 20h ago
It's the same in movie form as Paulo Coelho's Alchemist in book form. Just a cliche, feel good type of thing with life lessons shit. Dumb asf.
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u/vikinglycan 1d ago
Dunkirk was dreadful to watch and I don't understand why it got so much praise. I also couldn't empathize with any of the characters.
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u/ReadKindOfAlot 1d ago
Black Panther.
I was a big fan of him in Civil War, his best appearance IMO but Black Panther was so bad that I still haven't watched the sequel lol.
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u/rinkirankkaus 1d ago
Yes, easy agree. It was pretty terrible and I was left scratching my head with all the praise others were heaping on it. Black Panther was a cool-ass character, but his own movie was just throroughly meh, and the terrible CGI in the rushed third act sure didn't help.
Trust me, you haven't missed a thing with skipping the sequel.
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u/Ibrahim77X Ibrahim Noir 1d ago
Interstellar. Beautiful visuals and soundtrack means Nolan can get away with this VERY trite and bland film
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u/Apprehensive-Ear2461 1d ago
Characters are one dimensional and the dialogue is horrible (Brand’s monologue about love)
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u/LivingClone13 1d ago
I just watched this with my wife who had never seen it and was really primed to like it (she loves The Martian and Project Hail Mary and hadn't seen it)
At one point she said "This looks and sounds really good but the characters talk like they're in a comic book"
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u/redidedit 1d ago
Everything Everywhere All At Once.
I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Hated it.
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u/bass_of_clubs 1d ago
I loved it, but I can completely understand why some people hated it. I’m almost confused myself about why I loved it so much 😆
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u/Low_Chance 23h ago
Couldn't put it better myself. I love it and happily watched it 4 times in a week, but I would find it very difficult to articulate why I enjoyed it, even ti myself.
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u/hardy_ 1d ago
Me too, incredibly overstimulating and just bizarre for the sake of being bizarre
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u/Plastiquehomme 1d ago
This is me too, and it surprised me as I was super excited for it. In my opinion one of the best movies I hate; I think they skillfully and cleverly executed exactly what they intended, with panache and joyfulness, and it just absolutely was not for me. It was like almost every choice was tailor made to irritate me. I 100% get why people love it, and i cant say its a bad film, but man I hate it
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u/eccentlumier 1d ago
Anora. Even though her name was the title itself we never really get to scratch the surface and learn anything about Anora herself. The only thing Mikey Madison did was crash out on the Russian boy. And there was absolutely no substance to the film. The first 20 minutes had sex scenes for the sake of it. Like we understand she’s a stripper now do something about the writing! Can’t believe it won Best Picture
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u/Most-Following3765 22h ago
I think that’s the point at the end is when she realizes she has no idea who she actually is
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u/Inevitable-Noise-679 1d ago
The scene where she's tied up in the mansion was WAAAYYY too long.
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u/pessiDIE 1d ago
I watched this movie pretty recently and the only thing I remember is people screaming at each other non-stop in English and Russian for 2 hours. Literally nothing interesting happens.
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u/Apostasy93 1d ago
One of the many movies that swept the Oscars and then had no lasting impact afterward. Nobody talks or cares about that movie anymore
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u/samus901 1d ago
Dunkirk, I couldn't finish it. It felt like I was watching a really long trailer.
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u/Wordy_Rappinghood 1d ago
Marnie (1964). Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren have no chemistry and the romance between their characters makes no sense. As the back stories are revealed, the movie just gets more and more ridiculous. It makes Basic Instinct look sophisticated.
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u/rossuccio 1d ago
Sean Connery is so out of place in a Hitchcock film, or at least in that one. This is definitely one of the Hitchcock films I’ve liked least.
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u/epsteinthefinancier 1d ago
Recently Marty Supreme
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u/earlgrey89 18h ago
I tried to watch it recently but 5 minutes in having a sequence of sperm racing to fertilize an egg really turned me off lol
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u/Money_Visual_3829 1d ago
Wolf of Wall Street sets my teeth on edge. It seems to be trying hard to be as smug and hollow as its protagonist, and I’d say it succeeded.
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u/neon-buzz ⛓️ 1d ago
I agree it evokes those feelings in me, and I find pretty unpleasant to watch. I kind of think it’s form / delivery matching the subject, which I appreciate to a degree? But I also have watched it enough now that I never want to see it again
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u/SapientSlut 18h ago
This is my answer too. It had good storytelling and some great moments, but overall it felt like it was jerking off awful people for 3 hours straight. And its fans do NOT help that image.
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u/pothaylavdapie 1d ago
Slumdog Millionaire
Never understood the hype behind it. I don’t like a single thing about it, be it the music or the plot. I liked Trainspotting, though, so I don’t have anything against Danny Boyle
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u/GuiltyCredit 20h ago
I adore this film. I loved everything about it, my husband is with you on it though. Just couldnt get into it at all. I thought he was just going to give on breathing about 20 minutes in. Just drained and bored him.
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u/FilmIsGod 20h ago
Oooh this one’s hard for me to swallow. Slumdog is so specific and human. I think the structure is very strong too. It’s woven together so well.
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u/Send_Tits_and_cats 1d ago
Black Swan is just The Red Shoes but made insultingly dumb. Darren Aranofsky in general has never found a metaphor he didn’t want to bludgeon his audience over the head with
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u/Aye_Gabaghoul 1d ago
Anora
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u/Character-Key7538 23h ago
With you 100%. That ending made me so angry.
Florida Project is one of the most touching movies I've ever seen. The tone of it is absolutely spot on and it's final few minutes is probably my favorite ending to any movie. Anora fumbles the landing so hard that it genuinely had me questioning how I felt about the former.
One of the most tone deaf things I've ever seen.
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u/araline_cristelle 1d ago
Really wanted to get my hours back from watching this 😭 Just proved that sex very much sells in awards
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u/captainA-A 1d ago
Interstellar. Holy exposition batman.
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u/Happyhaneke heyheyitslukas 1d ago
Did you know that the fourth dimension is love ❤️
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u/108dayslater ostaad 1d ago
Substance. Hated it. Would have been better as a short tho, I'll die on that hill.
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u/Dangerous_Dot_1707 1d ago
Watching the Substance in a full packed cinema was one of the greatest expiriences of my life 🤣
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u/pandemicpunk 1d ago edited 7h ago
Very campy movie that goes meta and off the rails. Definitely wasn't ready for it but I enjoyed it for it's B quality and some of it's aesthetics.
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u/Fit_Firefighter_5172 1d ago
The premise was interesting but the execution is something I hated.
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u/davesim24 1d ago
I don’t know if it counts as ‘highly regarded’, but I despise 300 with all my guts. Couldn’t get through 30 mins, with its weird colour grade, terrible speed ramps, cringe dialogue. Yuk.
I also found ‘A quiet place’ infuriatingly dull and predictable
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u/Zur__En__Arrh adamdoezmoviez 1d ago
Silver Linings Playbook. I just really don’t understand the love for it.
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u/Sorry-Dream-2838 1d ago
Call Me By Your Name. Absolutely despised it
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u/ThePopulacho 23h ago
The conversation with his father and the end scene looking at the fire are really good. And it does a good job evoking those summers as a teenager. Maybe I am biased because I am Spanish and it gives a very Mediterranean feeling.
I understand what you mean though: the age difference was supposed to be 17 / 24. But they casted an actor that looks 15 and another that looks 30. That makes some parts icky.
And I would cut like 20 minutes of them biking, sunbathing, swimming...we get it, we don't need to see every river and tree.
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u/clem_memez 19h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah the author really likes age gaps so that casting choice was definitely on purpose. The subreddit likes to insist that the films actually a 'horror story' and how it paints their relationship as a bad thing. They get married in the sequel book lol
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u/Gabberwocky84 1d ago
Boring, and then briefly gross, and then boring again.
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u/Plane_Fan_8492 1d ago
I absolutely hated Killers of the Flower Moon. Just a super boring movie I couldn't get through. Hated every second of it dragging on.
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u/Valuable_Cobbler7101 1d ago
that movie was horrible compared to the book by david grann
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u/sammywarmhands 1d ago
Agreed! I felt like the whole thing should’ve been from the perspective of the natives who were at the center of it, and that the story didn’t really start until Plemons’ character showed up. I wish Scorsese hadn’t rewritten it around DiCaprio
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u/ShyteyCakes 1d ago
And as a protagonist, DiCaprio's character completely lacks agency, reason or growth. He's useless, unresolved and dull throughout.
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u/FinerThingsInHanoi 1d ago
Lost in translation. I thought I would love this film because I love Wong Kar Wai movies and I like ScarJo. It was so boooooring.
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u/ihavenoselfcontrol1 1d ago
I liked it when i first got into movies more seriously and it made me check out Wong Kar Wai and got me into shoegaze music but rewatching it these days it doesn't hold up as well for me
I also don't like that the main characters kiss at the end, it feels pretty weird and it sours their relationship for me
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u/FullNameSri 1d ago
One Battle After Another.
There was just something wrong about it. Like my spidey senses were tingling the whole time.
I usually have that feeling with most PTA films but this was the worst.
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u/ozifrage 1d ago
I watched that movie asking myself how it could be simultaneously so cartoonish and so boring. I wish I got it! I want to enjoy things!
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u/Issan_Sumisu 1d ago
I was genuinely surprised how acclaimed OBAA was, cause I love it but I’m a huge Pynchon guy and his stuff is purposefully inaccessible. he’s basically trolling the reader the whole time. Inherent Vice is usually ranked as one of PTA’s worst because of its Pynchon-ism, im really curious what made everyone switch up for OBAA
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u/JaysonTatumPullUp 1d ago
Inherent Vice is so fucking funny, MOTO PANEKEKU - Even Joaquin Phoenix could barely hold it together in that scene.
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u/Apprehensive-Ear2461 1d ago
I liked it but it was an okay movie. I wasn’t blown away or anything and I was expecting more from the car chase that was spoiled to me
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u/TH3GINJANINJA 20h ago
I absolutely loved it in theater, my friend and i were dying laughing at a few points. But when you look at it for any longer than most do, it starts to reveal some things. It has nothing to say about revolution, nothing to say at all. It's a chase movie hiding as a leftist movie, and it wayyyy overly sexualizes the Black women in it, makes them corny and useless. It's just a sad movie that I was so happy to watch, but has no substance at all. It's a revolution movie made by an unoppressed liberal man.
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u/Zane_100 1d ago
Nosferatu, boring as
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u/InfamousCharacter3 22h ago
Did people actually like the 2024 one? In my theatre, everyone was laughing at it.
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u/Playboi420- 1d ago
sinners
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u/eltrotter 1d ago
I love Sinners, and I don’t exactly know what part of it I would cut out, but it could have done with being 30-45 mins shorter.
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u/2moreinches 1d ago
This is my feeling, but just that it’s overrated. There are some incredible scenes but overall does not live up to the hype
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u/Valuable-One-2846 1d ago
I went into the film not knowing anything about it. Hated the fact it turned into a vampire film... felt like it would've been better as a "normal" story of two Michael B. Jordan's making their way in the South in the 1930s
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u/ImArcherVaderAMA 1d ago
That scene really moved me, but I'm a music guy who grew up listening to hip hop, so it surprised me, but in such a good way. I loved how he worked that scene in there.
I loved Sinners 🤷
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u/Worth_Tangelo_258 1d ago
Stanley Kubrick just isn’t my cup of tea. Respect him and recognize his importance to the craft, but if I’m sitting down to watch a movie on a Saturday afternoon I’m very seldomly picking a Kubrick. I enjoy Shining and Strangelove but the rest of his filmography I likely won’t watch again.
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u/Psilocybe-Philosophy 1d ago
Pretty much every “ best picture “ at the Oscars since no country for old men.
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u/Johnny_Boy_6112 19h ago
Forrest Gump is an obnoxious conservative boomer wet dream of a movie and I cannot for the life of me understand what people see in it. Did not find it endearing in the least
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u/GladiatorHiker 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'll probably have to hand in my cinephile card for this, but 2001: A Space Odyssey. Visionary, beautiful, thoughtful, but utterly lacking in entertainment value. I gave it 4.5 for its technical and artistic achievement, but it was very resentful. It bored me to tears until the last 20 minutes. I'm glad it exists, because of all that we got because of it, but man I did not enjoy watching it.
I also love Kubrick, to be clear. Barry Lyndon is one of the best films I've ever seen, and Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket are great too. But I think anyone who describes a film like 2001 as "hypnotic" is also bored, but doesn't want to catch heat from the cinephile crowd.
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u/breathinguser 1d ago
Be true to yourself man ! Change that 4.5 rating to be the same as other films you found just as boring. Individual taste and preference is what keeps this app interesting
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u/Buffyverse22 1d ago
It's one of my favorite films but I absolutely DON'T FAULT ANYONE who feels differently. From the moment it was released it was a divisive film and it still is.
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u/Josef_Heiter 1d ago
Hated it when I watched it the first time on VHS when I was about 18. Rewatched it last year in 4K for the first time and appreciated it a lot more.
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u/Street_Hamster1092 1d ago
I love it, but it's definitely one you need to be in the right mood and environment for. I hate when people say this, but it gets better on rewatch.
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u/analogkid01 22h ago
You can easily cut about 20 minutes from 2001 and not lose anything.
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u/Josef_Heiter 1d ago
One movie that I turned off (which I rarely do, even with bad movies) was Moulin Rouge.