What movie do you dislike but every else loves?

[mrthejoshmon]

I absolutely despise the Crank series.

 

Crank comes across as one of those "ironic" action films and is really more of a tryhard comedy, which can be fun but I can just never enjoy them.

 

Half the humour is either absurd violence or "S E X, laugh now", and the amount of nude women mixed with violence (and mainly the killing of said nude women) is painfully juvenile (and it absolutely is supposed to be).

 

I suppose I'm just not that much of an enjoyer of juvenile action films where people get shotguns shoved up their arse and strippers get their tits blown off, like the fun leech I am.

[Kwisior]

2 hours ago, mrthejoshmon said:

I absolutely despise the Crank series.

 

Crank comes across as one of those "ironic" action films and is really more of a tryhard comedy, which can be fun but I can just never enjoy them.

 

Half the humour is either absurd violence or "S E X, laugh now", and the amount of nude women mixed with violence (and mainly the killing of said nude women) is painfully juvenile (and it absolutely is supposed to be).

 

I suppose I'm just not that much of an enjoyer of juvenile action films where people get shotguns shoved up their arse and strippers get their tits blown off, like the fun leech I am.

Said the guy with a Duke Nukem pfp.

[taufan99]

4 minutes ago, Kwisior said:

Said the guy with a Duke Nukem pfp.

"Damn, those Gearbox bastards are gonna pay for sucking up the fun outta me all these years."

[jupiter_ex]

it's been so long ever since hollywood put something out there that I like that probably everything goes in the bag: MCU, star wars, latest horror, etc. I don't remember what's the last time I liked a film.

 

Somebody mentioned animated kids movies. Super agreed. Pixar needs to stop for a while. I can no longer tell their releases apart, it's just too much too often and too similar.

 

And somebody also mentioned Frozen. Frozen is not a good film or set of films, even Tangled is way better. Frozen was just PUSHED really hard to be a popular film and to be as relevant as possible (and this ties in with the paranoia about the film being made to displace results when you google "frozen Disney" and how they named a movie about Rapunzel "Tangled" only to justify the upcoming "Frozen" that's just really about Andersen's Ice Queen, and how they already tried this before with "Disney on Ice" and so on)

 

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

17 hours ago, lunchlunch said:

 

@TheMagicMushroomMan The Devils is top five for me, it's a perfect movie. Witchfinder General is pretty boring but if you're in the mood for a similar movie that's actually good, check out Witchhammer (1970). Alternatively, there is Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) which is based on the same historical event as The Devils.

I had the same exact thought after I finished The Devils: "this is in my top five movies of all time". Supposedly the original version was close to three hours long, I hope it surfaces some day, or that it at least gets a Criterion release, but the movie is so controversial I don't see that happening. It's not even available on Blu-ray, and you can't stream it anywhere. But I thought it was fucking great, Oliver Reed's performance is one of the most powerful I've ever seen. He is just so grand and majestic, but still humble and human. The only complaint I have is that some of the props in the first half hour are a little cheap (like the crocodile or the skeletons on the side of the road at the beginning of the movie). Did the version of the movie you watched have the ending where they show what happened to Grandier's bone? Or was it the version where they just show the bone and cut away?

 

I'll check out both of those movies, anything is better than Witchfinder. I just don't get the love for that movie.

[Naarok0fkor]

Jurrasic World...

[mrthejoshmon]

3 hours ago, Kwisior said:

Said the guy with a Duke Nukem pfp.

You mean the clearly shitpost profile picture from the wank evercade announcement?

 

That guy?

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

3 minutes ago, mrthejoshmon said:

That guy?

Yeah, Luke Fukem.

 

I don't like Crank either. They aren't even really fun, they're just stupid. It would be one thing if the action scenes were actually impressive, but they're not. The second one was embarrassing to watch. The only scene I found slightly amusing was the Godzilla fight - specifically when they zoom in on the Lego construction worker. I couldn't stand the rest of it.

[Tangra]

Oppenheimer! It's a good film but it drags for too long. The climax is the Trinity test, and i feel after it, the movie should've ended in 10-20 minutes, not an hour later. I guess if i was an American, i'd be more into the political details, except the only reason i was excited about the film, is the science behind the atomic bomb and details around the Manhattan Project, nothing else. I'm also getting quite fed up with some of Nolan's tropes... like why the hell do we need obnoxious music playing during the entire film? Even during dialogue, why? Is Nolan a fan of Hell's Kitchen or something?

 

 

[xdarkmasterx]

5 hours ago, Kwisior said:

Said the guy with a Duke Nukem pfp.

 

[lunchlunch]

@TheMagicMushroomMan The first time I saw The Devils was the censored version. Every time after that I've seen the uncut version, which adds the full Rape Of Christ sequence as well as the bone masturbation scene you're alluding to. It's definitely nowhere near three hours long though, if there ever was a cut around that length I imagine it was just a workprint. 

Ever since I first saw it like seven years ago I've wanted an official blu ray release but I don't think we'll ever get it. WB still owns the rights and they've wanted to bury it ever since it came out. I do have a decently wellmade bootleg Blu Ray copy of it though and that's good enough for me.

 

Edit- I actually like the cheap props. The campy outrageousness mixed with serious performances and heavy themes is a vibe that only exists to the same extent in one other movie, and it actually came out the same year: A Clockwork Orange

Edited September 12, 2023 by lunchlunch

[OniriA]

Star Wars series/franchise - never got the hype, never got into it. Still don't give a shit.

Harry Potter series

Disney anything 

Avatar 

Any animated movie (á la Finding Nemo, Monster's & Co. etc.)

[ReaperAA]

13 hours ago, Kwisior said:

Said the guy with a Duke Nukem pfp.

TBF, outside of DNF and LOTB, Duke is nowhere near that.

[Professor Hastig]

Aside from the usual (Marvel plotting-by-the-numbers, Disney corporate designed garbage) I hold a special contempt for almost anything Stanley Kubrick. I totally fail to see the genius in his movies, they mostly come across as pretentious crap. The only exception I am willing to make is Dr. Strangelove.

 

 

 

 

 

[Andromeda]

14 hours ago, Tangra said:

Oppenheimer!

I went out to watch it with my parents, my dad who's a movie buff fell asleep in the middle and my mum didn't like it. Out of the three of us I was the least interested in watching it and yet was the one who ended up liking it the most :P

[Sena]

I saw Oppenheimer with my parents not long ago as it so happens. My dad didn't like it (but he's so mad most the time I'm not sure if he likes anything that isn't football), my mum liked it, and I guess I rested somewhere in the middle. I liked most of it, but it was my first Nolan, and if he makes a regular habit of making the soundtrack seemingly play over the entire movie, then I'm certainly not going to try any more from him.

[SealSpace]

Inglorious Bastards. 

Get Out. 

 

Everything Everywhere All At Once* 

 

Fast and Furious series to an extent. 

 

*the underlying philosophical themes are pretty good, it's just the execution was too confusing and crap, I was really hoping the movie matched even my most baseline of expectations, but it turned out to be too silly it ultimately fell short

 

Will list more if I can think of any.

[Rudolph]

On 9/13/2023 at 11:14 AM, SealSpace said:

Everything Everywhere All At Once* 

 

*the underlying philosophical themes are pretty good, it's just the execution was too confusing and crap, I was really hoping the movie matched even my most baseline of expectations, but it turned out to be too silly it ultimately fell short

I have to agree there - to an extent. While I do not dislike the movie per se, I was not fan of the gross-out humor. As someone with a sensitive skin, watching someone deliberately cuts themself between his fingers with a piece of paper or swallow something that should not be normally edible made me quite uncomfortable.

 

On 9/11/2023 at 8:50 AM, mrthejoshmon said:

I absolutely despise the Crank series.

I do love Neveldine/Taylor's directing style (it is also why I like Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance), but yeah, fair enough. Most of the humor especially was pretty crass in the first place... Still, I commend Jason Statham for having been such a good sport there; not every action star would have been willing to take on the role of a guy who has to act like a complete dumbass just to keep himself alive. XD

Edited September 19, 2023 by Rudolph

[SealSpace]

4 hours ago, Rudolph said:

I have to agree there - to an extent. While I do not dislike the movie per se, I was not fan of the gross humor. As someone with a sensitive skin, watching someone deliberately cuts themself between his fingers with a piece of paper or swallow something that should not be normally edible made me quite uncomfortable.

 

This movie was just too goddamn crazy and cheesy as it was inconsistent and incoherent that it was hard for me to know where to begin.

 

The only positive aspects of this film were just its underlying existentialist and philosophical themes. And I only liked the scene where the girl Jobu Tupaku used her multiversal powers to turn a bullet wound into ketchup and a security guard's baton into a dildo. That was the peak of its humor for me there. But that was pretty much it when it came to the "gross-out" humor. Everything else about that character was just downright cringe and infuriating and was perhaps the biggest thing that ruined what could have been a remotely decent movie in hindsight. She tries way too hard to be like this more angsty and philosophical version of Deadpool or Eric Cartman or Meg Griffin in the body of an Asian-American person metaphorically representing her community as immigrants in this country and exisentialism from an Asian-American perspective (a perspective that I can relate to btw). She ended up being the lamest character in the entire story. 

 

And while having Jamie Lee Curtis in this movie as a white person in an asian-american's story sounded like an interesting idea on paper, especially seeing her role in Halloween Ends (which I both liked the ending yet felt disappointed by as well, since I'm a fan of the Halloween series and her role as Laurie Strode), I felt like the movie ended up going out of its way to make her character seem more silly and dumb than it should have been. Like I couldn't think of an absolutely greater step down for her from her Laurie Strode than this shit. 

 

Ultimately my biggest complaint about this movie, besides the character Jobu Tupaki herself, is that it just couldn't seem to decide what type of movie it should have been and wanted to be from the start. I had trouble discerning whether I was really watching some over-the-top Hong Kong martial arts comedy, some unofficial Shang-Chi sequel or the outtakes of some upcoming MCU film, or some Asian-American drama-comedy film like Crazy Rich Asians with blatantly corny and shitty attempts at Family Guy-tier humor disguised as some deep philosophical film with poignant musings on life and reality (and the scene where they were both rocks talking in text on screen couldn't have made me cringe harder). 

 

Even Crazy Rich Asians was a more compelling film with better writing, characterization, dialogue, and pacing than this film. 

[SealSpace]

How this film even won the Oscar's this year, outside of being just another film to add to the list of Asian representation in Hollywood with Michelle Yeoh as its posterwoman is beyond me. The more that I think about this film, it's actually overrated for my taste. 

 

Hell I would go even further to say that if I wanted absurdist comedy and jokes that are strings of pop culture references, I would rather watch an Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg film (you know the guys behind Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, and Starving Games) than this crap.

[Rudolph]

Yeah. Again, I did not dislike Everything, Everywhere, All At Once as much as you do, but I do not plan on ever rewatching it. I do not feel threatened by it and I am fine with it existing, especially given how utterly bizarre and chaotic the movie is.

 

I would rather have these flawed-but-earnest experiments get rewarded than by-the-numbers Marvel movies and "Great Men" biopics.

[Dreamskull]

Something I dislike, but everyone loves? For me, that movie has to be Goodfellas. I vastly prefer Casino, but for some reason its a second place tagalong.

[ColonelDuff]

How long have you got?!  Off the top of my head:

 

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• The Hangover
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• The Hangover Part II
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• The Hangover Part III
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• Titanic
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• Ferris Bueller's Day Off 

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• Avengers: Infinity War 

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• Twilight

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• La La Land