Pretty much every popular movie from the mid to late 1960s and basically all the 1970s.
The new Dune is so artificially slow and full of itself. The old one with Picard and Mr. Mayor is so much more watchable for me and I genuinely love it. The new Blade Runner did the same thing, being slow for the sake of being slow does not make it deep or philosophical it just makes it boring
I feel the same way, having just left Dune 2 an hour ago. It feels every bit a long as its four hour run time.
Oddly, I enjoy Lawrence of Arabia despite it also having long shots of desert.
Jesus. Part two is FOUR HOURS? That’s bonkers.
It’s 2 hours and 46 minutes.
Still, it did feel unnecessarily long, though.
No Country for Old Men. I was just bored through the whole movie.
My theory is that people who found No Country boring are only familiar with straight forward plots. It takes thoughtfulness to enjoy the film, and the people I know who disliked it lack that.
The movie doesn’t hold your hand. John Wick requires lots flashy action because the average viewer would benefit from a close caption that says “feel excited now,” while No Country is boring unless you’re brain is actively participating.
What are your thoughts on this generalization?
This sounds like the rick and morty copypasta.
Wiplash. Wiplash is to jazz what Grey’s Anatomy is to medicine.
A big book?
The book is “Gray’s”.
I do not give a shit about David Lynch. I respect some of what he’s going for, and the people who like his work, but it always feels like alien commentary on pop culture, for pop culture I wasn’t paying attention to in the first place. Gorlax really nails those Kardashians! Mulholland Drive… sure is a sequence of images!
Even twin peaks?
Haven’t seen it, probably won’t. I’ve heard enough to respect that he was taking a swing at high melodrama as overpriced soap operas, but I don’t want to watch a satire any more than I’d want to watch the real thing. I find it fascinating that Japan adored his comically heightened view of small-town Americana, but King Of The Hill has a similar distinction, and I don’t watch that either.
I liked Dune. Completely ridiculous, and an absolute tragedy we didn’t get Jodorowsky’s version, but he understood just how bizarre and uncomfortable the story got, and had a reasonable level of disrespect for his audience. I’ve had family express confusion over the Villienenneuuve version and unironically recommended the Lynch version as a low-intensity explainer with crazier character design.
he was taking a swing at high melodrama as overpriced soap operas
That’s not how I would describe it
And it’s not really a satire at all
Barbarian
I feel like it got so hyped up by the kind of people I usually agree with and the way everyone kept saying “Don’t look up anything, just go in blind” had my hopes up for something really unique and interesting with twists in all the right ways.
In the end I felt like it was just random and dumb… Good acting though.
I liked the idea of two people ending up in the same AirBnB in a bad neighborhood (and even the tunnels parts), but the actual execution and horror elements weren’t really great. When the fake boobs got whipped out, I actually giggled. Spoiler It boils down to a special needs person with a kink
Which kinda seems a bit…eh. Would have been better if it was some sort of carniverous fungus that the airbnb owner was experimenting with or tunneling spider the size of a large pumpkin or something.
Yes, I feel like the initial premise was interesting, and the atmosphere of discomfort at the start was really well done, then fake boob got whipped out and it just got more and more random.
The Dark Knight
You didn’t get it… It was about sending a message
WALL-E. I just found it boring. Nothing really happened.
A truly unpopular opinion.
Honestly for me I don’t think it’s necessarily about anything really happening in the movie, it’s just cute watching 2 robots fall in love n save the planet and everything. Also WALL-E is just a silly lil guy you can’t not root for him
Right. Plus I find it quite offensive on the fat people on the station
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Honestly this is pretty much every Christopher Nolan movie for me. I’ve seen most of them and they range from meh to okay. I’m extremely confused as to why he’s so popular and respected.
He tends to make the audience feel clever (even though you dont need to be) and he makes studios a ton of money.
Godzilla Minus One. A live action cartoon I’ll never watch again. Can’t believe we got sucked into thinking this was going to be a serious film.
