Movies that I feel get far too much praise (I don't really hate any movies)
Fight Club (even more than just people calling it a GOAT movie, I am profoundly annoyed when people call it deep and nuanced. It has about as much nuance as a hammer on a nail)
Gravity (it's visually very well done and has a good score, but people treat Gravity like it's some transcendental masterpiece. It's a survival based action movie with superior visual effects. Good movie but I really think it's cinematic value is massively overstated)
Pulp Fiction (and I'm a Tarantino fan. I just don't think it's brilliant for popularizing non linear narrative story telling. It has some good performances but ultimately I feel it's a rather shallow plot.)
American Beauty (sure it reaches its desired effect of unnerving the viewer and it has some good filmmaking devices throughout but I really never understood what makes this movie supposedly so special)
A Clockwork Orange (Having read the book before I watched the film I'm baffled at why this movie gets any praise. Especially by Kubrick's standards it's just an average adaptation of a good novel. I don't think there's anything special about it)
Avatar (I truly don't understand how there are still people out there who think this movie is among the greats. Separate revolutionary visuals and you have an absolute turd of a movie with the most hamfisted social commentary ever)
Movies I greatly enjoy but others ignore (quality isn't really gonna be important.)
Whiplash (feels kinda forgotten at this point but I think it was honestly very good)
Space balls (underrated as what is in my mind one of the best parodies of all time)
Blade Runner 2049 (I know some loved it but I feel the run time turned a lot of people off and I think that's a shame. I really enjoy every rewatch)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (bad box office and the fact that it really didn't need to be made doesn't really change that it was better than I ever expected and a fun ride of a movie.)
This was harder.
I don't get how Seth Rogen movies are popular. They aren't funny. Most times, they are rehashed stoner crap.
It has to end some day. Everything does. I just wish it was soon.
Take that back. Superbad is a classic. Also 50/50 was a very...decent movie.
Agreed on Spielberg. Despite immense talent, he kind of ruins virtually every movie he makes by including unnecessary manipulative crowd-pleasing sentimental schlock in there, often even doing everything right up until he decides to suddenly shoe-horn it into the very end.
Virtually everything James Cameron does is similarly mired by a few crucial flaws that he's almost always guilty of and that kind of ruins otherwise potentially impressive movies. I'm mostly okay with the Terminator movies, but the man cannot seem to speak in anything but cliches, stereotypes, and caricatures that are so blatantly obnoxious that you cannot ignore them if you tried. It frustrates me to no end that so many people think that "Aliens" is a comparable or better movie than Ridley Scott's "Alien" because of this. The way he parades that little girl around to gain the audiences sympathies/engagement was a shameless hack decision, IMO, and he seems to consistently pull that kind of **** in every movie without getting called out for it.
I think in some movies it works. So I wouldn't say every movie he makes. But my god was this cringeworthy in Bridge of Spies. It got on my nerves so much. Hanks' lines seemed hand crafted for the hero glorification the movie was going for.
Why does Clockwork Orange repulse you? The book kind of sucks, but the movie's fantastic. Killer soundtrack too.
Strongly disagree.
). Especially IC, since I love a well-executed rom-com.
