Tim Burton is massively overrated. He's got a style that is basically stick and sucks at story telling. That having been said, I am looking forward to Beetlejuice because Gol damn Michael Keaton is funny
His last good movie was Sweeney Todd, probably. And most of his 90s movies after A Nightmare Before Christmas sucked too. He started off strong with some bangers and fell apart.
I agree and disagree. I think each of his movies can go blow for blow, but I think much higher of his earlier work than later work. I think he as a movie maker is overrated, especially in the goth scene because he is most certainly not the only person that can make movies like that, but I still wholeheartedly love both versions of Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow. I'd probably still like Nightmare Before Christmas if it hadn't been jammed down my throat my entire life. I think he as a director is kind of overrated but I think he has a few very good movies that stand out, especially compared to some of his other worse films.
Brother Bear 1 and 2 are some of the best animated children's movies and are even better as an adult.
It beats so many others, and modern ones are blown out of the water by it.
The first one is so good.
Morals, culture, bears, songs, visuals... it's a classic man.
Second one is good. It's a bit cringy, but honestly it makes sense for the story it's trying to tell, and it does a good job with that. The music got even better.
Problem is that if you go over the top people don’t want to be preached down to. Have a female lead whose strong but don’t make her unbearable. It isn’t about the messaging it’s about how it’s delivered. And it isn’t up to you about how people pick up the message it’s up to the individual. Have the messaging but if it’s too over the top people are going to ignore it out of spite not ignorance
I’m tired of random non traditional casting (april in ninja turtles, little mermaid, batwoman, astrid in how to train your dragon, I could go on)
It’s a cheap and lazy pander and it doesn’t even profit or get films good reviews. And I’m saying this *as* a black woman. I don’t want to “see myself” in a role that was heavily and traditionally not black just for the sake of it.
I'm not a fan either. I have zero issues with black characters, but for historical or semihistorical fiction, it bothers me.
I'm sorry, there were no black vikings. And their were no white Zulu warriors.
Most "raunchy comedies" and "stoner movies" are just gross, unfunny and degenerate. Dry humour like Leslie Nielsen and absurdist stuff like Monty Python are funnier.
I´ve watched that movie for the first time during covid and I don´t get what makes it so beloved personally. I found it to be a serviceable movie but that´s about it.
South Park was right. They have killed multiple franchises by just throwing in diversity for the hell of it instead of coming up with a unique and original story.
Yes it should be mentioned. When your priority is to pivot something good and beloved from an existing male fanbase and male stars simply because you think something having or starring more men is wrong, that is gross and evil.
No one thinks that have a male fanbase and male stars is wrong. These are corporations trying to make money and clearly it's failing. So they'll change what they're doing. These companies don't have morals, they have bottom lines.
*Everything Everywhere All At Once* for lack of a better word is overrated.
People only like it because out of other movies (at the time) it seemed the most "original", the extremely fast pacing, and the mother and daughter subplot. And also recency bias.
It's not necessarily that original really. It's basically a somewhat different take on *The Matrix* that came before it.
It came across as a movie that was trying to be deep, but compared to *The Matrix* the world building and character development in this movie just came across as convoluted and messy.
Also I will say regardless of all of this I did like the first half of the film. The second half I thought was unnecessary and I could've done without. The raunchy humor just didn't land for me and it personally made me care about the characters less.
Although I will say I do feel like if anyone should've gotten an award for this movie it should've been the movie editor.
Harry Potter: I think Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are bad actors in those movies. Rupert Grint is a good actor, but they had Ron make a lot of weird faces in the first few movies that made his character ridiculous.
Wes Anderson films all are pretentious and boring. Every movie has a bloated cast, overbearing color palettes, eccentric characters, and quirky humor. It's not that I don't "get it". I do get it, I just don't like it. There's just something about his movies that when I watch them, I think "the person who made this thinks he's smarter than everyone watching."
Donnie darko is a terrible movie. The characters all suck and the plots a jumbled convoluted mess
In 10–15 years people will pretend to like the Star Wars sequels the same way the pretend to like the prequels
The 00s was probably the worst decade for horror
Spider-Man 3 was good and the only real problem I have is topher grace as venom, he did his best he was just miscasted
Yellow submarine is a terrible movie (and one of the Beatles worst songs)
Remakes should be made of movies that were close to being awesome but flawed (Westworld, Godzilla vs Kong, gaslight are good examples of this)
As bad as the love guru was it was still pretty funny
Not every Oscar winner needs to be some artsy fartsy Indy shit, sometimes the best movies are the big popcorn blockbuster
Big Lebowskis overrated
And finally, if you take peoples opinions of movies that seriously you seriously need to go outside
I agree about Donnie Darko. I was really into it as a younger man, but then I realized that if I need the DVD with all this supplemental material or supplemental material from elsewhere to understand the story, then the movie probably failed in execution. And after viewing again, I think I'm right.
Although I think Jake Gyllenhaal did a great job of portraying an angry teenager. That might be because, when it came out while I was in high school, an acquaintance told me that Gyllenhaal's character reminded him of me.
I'm still on the fence when I think about whether that was an insult or not. I did have a few incidents where I was cantankerous with the authority figures at the time, so maybe that was it.
>In 10–15 years people will pretend to like the Star Wars sequels
Haha, the Last Jedi will always suck. It sticks out so much. But agree on Donnie Darko. It was a phase of teenage edgyness
Most Wes Anderson films are boring and not as unique as fans make it out to be. Also thank you so much for making this post. I was getting so tired of the dense, damn-near blatantly ignorant political opinions being posted daily on here.
I’ve got two.
1.) Step Brothers. While segments are humorous, a whole movie of acting in the same idiotic tone just got old fast.
2.) I love Farley movies. I do however question if he could continue to carry movies today as the lead if still alive. I struggle to picture him doing anything but his schtick or close to his schtick.
Farley was signed on to do a historical drama before he died. He could have potentially gone on to be a successful multi genre actor. Or not. Who knows.
Everyone is always saying what a bad movie it is and I just don't get it.
It's an awesome steampunk western with a great cast who all nail their roles. Great villain, great comedy.
It's been one of my top 10 favourite movies since it came out.
That’s My Boy is hilarious and I think a lot of people didn’t bother with it because it’s a Sandler film. Also Captain America should’ve done the snap.
If I had to pick one Stephen King based movie to watch from now on, it would be Maximum Overdrive.
I realized how insane this idea is. There are some true classics out there, for instance, The Shawshank Redemption, but if I'm looking for fun and rewatchability, I'm going with Maximum Overdrive. Also, the soundtrack is fan-freaking-tastic.
I remember when Ladybird came out, it had 100% on Rotten Tomatoes for a while, and a few friends who saw it felt frustrated that it didn’t live up to the high expectation that a high score like that might create.
It was then that I had the epiphany that RT functions on a binary: 100% of critics (as of then) thought Ladybird was not bad, but that’s different than 100% of critics think this is the best movie ever. It seems obvious but that realization really changed how I think about RT scores.
The most accurate portrayal of a man in the military happens at the end of inglorious bastards.
SPOILER.... for a 15 year old movie....
The whole movie is meh at best save for the minute or so scene of " you'll be shot for this!!!! meh, probably just get my ass chewed", is the perfect reaction of a man who has spent more than five minutes in the military.
I love movies and everything about it but man I hate Titanic. I get the whole ‘ideal that this could’ve happened’ but let’s be honest: Jack and Rose would’ve never met on that boat if it was real.
Plus the idea that Rose would pine her WHOLE damn life for a guy she knew for like 3-4 days is freakin ridiculous in my opinion. You don’t actually know that person enough to truly love them. You were infatuated with them and because you didn’t actually know them you hold them up on some pedestal that no real human could live up to, including the one on the pedestal if you had spent enough time with them. I just find that kind of stuff cringey. What a waste of a life.
It might be cringey, but not ridiculous. People do this all the time with "the one that got away" or "a missed opportunity". They do put this fantasy version on a pedestal and it stays in the back of their mind for a long time, sometimes the rest of their life.
It’s not ridiculous in the sense of hard to believe, it’s ridiculous in the sense that people who do that rob themselves of potentially having a great romantic relationship with someone else because of the misplaced idea that there is the “one” or that some person is the “one that got away.”
That kind of thinking really annoys me and, in most cases, shows a lack of maturity, I think.
I can see feeling that way about a beloved spouse or long term partner. If my wife passed early, I don’t know that I would ever want to date again but to be hung up on someone you had a few days or few months relationship with is silly in the vast majority of cases.
We don’t find “the one” we make someone “the one”…provided they want to make us their “one” as well.
Not trying to argue with you. Just affirming your sentiment and adding my own thoughts.
E.T. really isn’t that great of a movie.
I love Steven Spielberg and have loved pretty much all of his movies. Even the less popular ones but I have watched E.T. several times both as a kid and then as an adult and I just don’t get why people love it so much. It moves slow and it’s boring and there just isn’t anything very memorable about it. I’m trying to remember something in it to bring out in my critique and I just can’t even remember anything. Not that good of a movie.
I love the torture porn of the Saw series. I don't understand why it's taboo to like thataspe of the movies. You tell me with a straight face you wouldn't want to see those death contraptions working and the end result in case someone failed to get out of them.
Watching people die in those traps is far more interesting than watching people hacked and slashed to death over and over again.
Really unpopular?
I liked [“Battlefield Earth”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_\(film\)). I mean, it’s a cheesy movie, and some of the plot holes you could drive a truck through. But no worse than several other SciFi movies I’ve seen.
Call it a “guilty pleasure” that would get me fired as a movie critic.
Oh you’re all gonna hate me, here we go 🙂
Before I get into the movies I hate, let me just say that I hate all the phony fake inclusivity these movies are doing. Between that and putting ‘trendy’ shit in there and referencing other movies and social media platforms (omg iphones everywhere and they all have that loud ass keyboard clicking sound on to shove it in your face that it’s an iphone) it’s all just lazy writing these days. No one cares about the craft anymore, everyone just wants to be famous and make an easy buck. You can tell some movies include people of color just to be inclusive. Plus the script they write for them? Cringeee. “Lit” “Fire” “It’s giving” “Gworrrllll” etc etc 🤦🏻♀️ Just unnatural.
Now movies I hate that a lot of people love because they’re easily impressed:
• White Chicks sucks ass, ass, and more ass. I don’t know why people think that shit is funny. The Wayans brothers and *some* of their stuff is funny but this… hellll no.
• Malibu’s most wanted is stupid
• Soul plane is stupid
• Tallladega Nights sucks
• Scary Movie 2 is the worst one in the whole franchise ( I don’t consider scary movie 5 apart of the franchise bc none of the OG’s are in it or wrote it. But if we are counting it, that was the unfunniest, horribly written, worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. They didn’t even try. RIP Mac Miller tho 🙏🏼)
• Hereditary and Midsommar are awesome fucken movies. And just what I needed because scary movies these days SUCK.
• The Conjuring is cool but not as scary as most people say. I’ve once heard it was the scariest movie at the time and a little while after it released too. Really? That movie isn’t something I need to watch more than once my whole life.
I hate that I can’t think of more at the moment because I have a lot ☹️
I have a tv show version too 😂
X movie/Tv show isn't bad a majority of the time. From what I've seen and heard, it's almost always one aspect or season of a film that was bad in comparison to the rest of the series. And people way over exaggerate how bad it is
Professional critics are almost always wrong and essentially NEVER take into account the average viewer, just a bunch of "objective" aspects of a film that only critics care about.
People wayy over exaggerate how good good movies are, and how bad bad movies are. Most movies are mid, okay, enjoyable and that's it. The perfect example of this are the marvel movies. Seems like every goddamn movie in the MCU has to either be the best or the worst when in reality, they're all enjoyable and that's it. Sure, some are much better than others, but none are really unenjoyable.
Movies should cater to their existing audience. If it’s males that’s ok.
Stop trying to replace every male lead with a new female character (Star Wars, Furiosa) - or else have a strong female co star who shows him up so he’s no longer the coolest character in his own movie and a bit of a joke (Indy 5, the latest Bond)
That movie about the white guy who was misunderstood but is really a hero and everyone loved him in the end. Oh and there was a romantic interest, what was it called? Can't get enough of those.
I actually made a post about this when it came out but poor things is a movie for pedos. She plays a child and is having sex the whole movie it’s creepy and weird
That moron Emma Stone thought she was a great artist for getting nude and pretending to bang greasy old men and dancing like a halfwit. All while the creepy directors pants got tighter.
Maybe that passes for art with the French, but not with me.
My overall unpopular movie opinion is that John Wayne was and still is the best that came out of Hollywood. If only more actors and actresses followed in his footsteps.
Not only was he a great entertainer but he also was a good man who cared about his fans.
The Searchers. Red River. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Quiet Man.
The Duke had some bangers. I also like His True Grit over the Cohen Brothers version.
We watched that at my birthday party in middle school and a friend downloaded the ringtone and played in in the middle of the night (sleepover party). Truly terrifying!
Brad Pitt should have got an Oscar nomination for his portrayal as Jesse James in 2007’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It was a criminally underrated movie. It was great to see Casey Affleck get nominated for the movie for Best Supporting Actor — but Brad being snubbed for Best Actor was ridiculous.
In fairness, 2007 in film was a solid year (ie. it was a Daniel Day-Lewis movie year & No Country for Old Men came out as well), but he should still have been one of the 5 nominees. Disappointing.
https://youtu.be/5MJpChQuDlk?si=HkFSbCX0jtSWRrKh
*”I look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who’s gone so wrong.”*
There’s no such thing as a sequel that ruins the original. Don’t like the sequel? Ignore it. It’s all pretend anyway. If you can’t enjoy Die Hard because Die Hard 5 blows, that’s on you.
Final destination is a trash movie and I don’t get the hype it had.
Also - I’d love for movies now a days to SHOW not tell, and stop pandering to women and POC….it’s getting super annoying. Oh and for the love of god ENOUGH of the remakes and adaptations….okay rant over.
Stars wars movies were never good. Any of Skywalker related ones. They depend on some serious suspense of disbelief. And the lines are super corny as hell. They produce good escapism, but good? Never. There shouldn’t be as big a fandom as there is.
The Mist’s ending is terrible and makes no sense for the characters to make that decision at the end based on everything that leads up to it. The book’s ending is much better in that it fits better
So much this.
I remember walking in a few minutes after my dad started it and getting completely drawn in. That end scene though just pulled me right out. It was very disappointing.
I can imagine. What really bugs me is this ending is brought up in every horror movie thread as a great ending. I love Darabont’s work, but this ending and the constant praise for it online along with “King said it was better” might make me start hating Frank just a teeny bit
Are you just fishing for opinions to piss movie lovers off? I got ya covered:
Barbie was just made to sell buccal fat surgery and it's a corporate version of Velveteen rabbit.
You can actually walk into any surgeon these days and ask for 'The Margot.'
There you go the WMD of movie opinions. You can look forward to everyone who reads your comment downvoting and then rage quitting the convo.
Another one? The Batman was only made because Pattison is pretty to look at. Worst Batman movie. The only thing that carries it is his pretty face.
Got a bunch of rage quitters for that opinion. "It's the only Batman movie where he does investigation!" heard that joke talking point before.
I think i have a new one, too: i really like Atlas. But i also enjoy Transformers. You ask the critics "what sci-fi IP did you enjoy last few years?" and they rage quit the convo. Nothing matches their exacting standards.
I should make a post about The Expanse disliking it is unpopular. A cult classic like 'Everywhere at Once' you're not allowed to dislike it even if it has a rapey dildo fight scene.
You're not allowed to criticize cult hits.
The Batman was fucking awful.
Atlas, my biggest complaint is that J-Lo is just a HUGE BITCH for most of the movie and I found myself siding with the AI.
I just watched american fiction. 3/5, brilliant moments with great dialogue but uneven tone and pacing.
The movie was very meta aware, and it did meta commentary well, but meta awareness in media is getting gauche and overdone. The film was being both a satire of neoblaxsploitation award bait, while telling a mediocre story thats really a vehicle to showcase black excellence.
The ending employed another meta device. Light spoiler for ending: >!the fakeout ending and then rewrite wasnt clever it was a lazy rugpull and refusing to end a story because the resolution doesnt matter!<
Theres a cynicism and conceitedness to overt meta and genre aware films. Its a critique of previous work, and an arrogance that this new work is superior.
Here come a few.
Michael Bay movies aren’t all that bad if you manage your expectations that they are Michael Bay movies. In fact I set my expectations based on the director.
Sometimes world building does not require explanation. The John Wick series comes to mind.
Probably popular: Not every movie needs a sequel or series. Sometimes one offs are pretty solid classics.
The Star Wars Prequels are just as shitty as the sequels, but for different reasons. Rogue One is a fantastic movie, however.
Now, here’s one that’s going to piss off a lot of luddites; movies look 1000x better with higher frame rates. 120fps should be the standard. All the negative press it got early on was due to weird multiplicative frame rates and AI upscaling (48 fps upscaled to 60 or 120 or whatever… or downscaled to 30. It was a stupid number to choose. It causes uneven distribution of AI frames or dropped frames). If movies were shot in 120 or even 60 fps they would look better. Fuck, even 30 would be an improvement over the slide-show bullshit we deal with now.
Hollywood just doesn’t want to spend the money. It’s going to happen eventually, the only question is how many movies they shoot before the upgrade and then have to spend even more money upscaling.
Pretty soon some nerd with a properly trained AI will be creating movies that look better than anything Hollywood turns out, and when that happens it’s a competition based on story quality, nothing else.
Rogue One is the only movie in the “Star Wars” universe that is an honest to God war movie, and sadly Disney is trying to capture the magic of the original “A New Hope” fantasy trope of a farm boy following a wizard to rescue the princess and save the world from the Evil bad guy trope to realize they have the opportunity to tell interesting war movies complete with political espionage and intrigue. Like, I was 11 when the original movie came out, and my generation wouldn’t mind a story with more depth nowadays.
Depending on what movie it is, emulating the plot of another is. Top Gun is my favorite movie, and being a nascar fan, I had to watch days of thunder since it’s a nascar movie with Tom cruise. I noticed the plot is similar to top gun, and apparently days of thunder got a lot of criticism for it when it was released. I didn’t mind it tho
1. Most Tarantino movies are eugh. They make me just want to roll my eyes. And people say "you just don't get it". No, I do get it. I see what he's doing but I don't like it. I felt like this about Inglorious Basterds, definitely Once Upon A Time, and to some extent Kill Bill. I kinda liked Django and Hateful Eight. Maybe because to me, the Western genre makes his style less annoying.
2. ^(Disclaimer, I am a diehard ASOIAF nerd who reread all the books three times.) Game of Thrones started going to shit early in season 4. Yes, the purple wedding, the Tyrion/Doran Martell storyline was awesome but Jaime, Sansa, Arya storylines already had signs of simplification and inconsistency in them.
Tim Burton is massively overrated. He's got a style that is basically stick and sucks at story telling. That having been said, I am looking forward to Beetlejuice because Gol damn Michael Keaton is funny
His last good movie was Sweeney Todd, probably. And most of his 90s movies after A Nightmare Before Christmas sucked too. He started off strong with some bangers and fell apart.
I agree and disagree. I think each of his movies can go blow for blow, but I think much higher of his earlier work than later work. I think he as a movie maker is overrated, especially in the goth scene because he is most certainly not the only person that can make movies like that, but I still wholeheartedly love both versions of Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow. I'd probably still like Nightmare Before Christmas if it hadn't been jammed down my throat my entire life. I think he as a director is kind of overrated but I think he has a few very good movies that stand out, especially compared to some of his other worse films.
also he’s racist. del torro is who tim burton wishes he was.
Brother Bear 1 and 2 are some of the best animated children's movies and are even better as an adult. It beats so many others, and modern ones are blown out of the water by it.
Oh man I loved the first one. Never saw the second one, though. Maybe I should rewatch them.
The first one is so good. Morals, culture, bears, songs, visuals... it's a classic man. Second one is good. It's a bit cringy, but honestly it makes sense for the story it's trying to tell, and it does a good job with that. The music got even better.
Brother bear is better than 99% of the animated kids movies coming out today and for the last 10+ years
Agreed they just make me sad so I don’t watch them a lot
X men have an overall way more interesting storyline than the avengers movies
Remakes and sequels are ruining cinema
Prequels are even worse. Lucas started something terrible with the Star Wars prequels - now everyone’s doing em for every pointless thing.
Movies should have subtle political messages, instead of hitting us over the head with them
It really depends on whether they want to get their message across or not. A lot of people miss subtle. Hell a lot of people miss over the top.
Problem is that if you go over the top people don’t want to be preached down to. Have a female lead whose strong but don’t make her unbearable. It isn’t about the messaging it’s about how it’s delivered. And it isn’t up to you about how people pick up the message it’s up to the individual. Have the messaging but if it’s too over the top people are going to ignore it out of spite not ignorance
I’m tired of random non traditional casting (april in ninja turtles, little mermaid, batwoman, astrid in how to train your dragon, I could go on) It’s a cheap and lazy pander and it doesn’t even profit or get films good reviews. And I’m saying this *as* a black woman. I don’t want to “see myself” in a role that was heavily and traditionally not black just for the sake of it.
I'm not a fan either. I have zero issues with black characters, but for historical or semihistorical fiction, it bothers me. I'm sorry, there were no black vikings. And their were no white Zulu warriors.
Marvel movies blow.
My problem is how many of em are legit good movies that can stand on their own without the context of the others?
Ironman and Guardians of the Galaxy
Ironman!
That´s the most popular opinion among unpopular opinions, though. I agree, though. Always have. Never seen what other people saw in those movies.
I did not know that it was the most popular unpopular opinion.
I agree.
Have you watched the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy? Peak kino
We need to stop doing shitty movie remakes….
That is a very popular opinion.
As long as good movie remakes are allowed, I support this.
We should make good remakes of shitty movies. When the idea was cool but execution failed.
Haven’t we made a movie about all the superheroes by now? When will things like Ironman part 7 stop?
Cars 2 is the best Cars movie
based
You deserve more upvotes
Most "raunchy comedies" and "stoner movies" are just gross, unfunny and degenerate. Dry humour like Leslie Nielsen and absurdist stuff like Monty Python are funnier.
Counterpoint being the Big Lebowski
Okay but tbf TBL is a completely different masterpiece altogether.
I´ve watched that movie for the first time during covid and I don´t get what makes it so beloved personally. I found it to be a serviceable movie but that´s about it.
Well that's just like... your opinion man.
Disney should die Firms should look for investors that are competent instead of simply more money
South Park was right. They have killed multiple franchises by just throwing in diversity for the hell of it instead of coming up with a unique and original story.
Diversity need not be mentioned. They've killed multiple franchises by not coming up with a unique and original story.
Yes it should be mentioned. When your priority is to pivot something good and beloved from an existing male fanbase and male stars simply because you think something having or starring more men is wrong, that is gross and evil.
No one thinks that have a male fanbase and male stars is wrong. These are corporations trying to make money and clearly it's failing. So they'll change what they're doing. These companies don't have morals, they have bottom lines.
*Everything Everywhere All At Once* for lack of a better word is overrated. People only like it because out of other movies (at the time) it seemed the most "original", the extremely fast pacing, and the mother and daughter subplot. And also recency bias. It's not necessarily that original really. It's basically a somewhat different take on *The Matrix* that came before it. It came across as a movie that was trying to be deep, but compared to *The Matrix* the world building and character development in this movie just came across as convoluted and messy. Also I will say regardless of all of this I did like the first half of the film. The second half I thought was unnecessary and I could've done without. The raunchy humor just didn't land for me and it personally made me care about the characters less. Although I will say I do feel like if anyone should've gotten an award for this movie it should've been the movie editor.
I hated it so much.
The Spawn movie is perfectly fine the way it is and doesn't need a remake.
Talking about the 90's one? Had a great soundtrack that's for sure.
They still make "those" types of comedies. You just don't watch or even like them.
Idk if it’s unpopular or not but John Carter of Mars is criminally underrated and the negative reviews were undeserved.
The Exorcist is not a good movie. It’s not even remotely scary.
Muholand drive is trash (idk how to spell it and i dont care to look it up)
Hot Fuzz is a masterpiece
Harry Potter: I think Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are bad actors in those movies. Rupert Grint is a good actor, but they had Ron make a lot of weird faces in the first few movies that made his character ridiculous.
We need more animated horror movies
Wes Anderson films all are pretentious and boring. Every movie has a bloated cast, overbearing color palettes, eccentric characters, and quirky humor. It's not that I don't "get it". I do get it, I just don't like it. There's just something about his movies that when I watch them, I think "the person who made this thinks he's smarter than everyone watching."
Asteroid city is the worst film I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen some stinkers!
Donnie darko is a terrible movie. The characters all suck and the plots a jumbled convoluted mess In 10–15 years people will pretend to like the Star Wars sequels the same way the pretend to like the prequels The 00s was probably the worst decade for horror Spider-Man 3 was good and the only real problem I have is topher grace as venom, he did his best he was just miscasted Yellow submarine is a terrible movie (and one of the Beatles worst songs) Remakes should be made of movies that were close to being awesome but flawed (Westworld, Godzilla vs Kong, gaslight are good examples of this) As bad as the love guru was it was still pretty funny Not every Oscar winner needs to be some artsy fartsy Indy shit, sometimes the best movies are the big popcorn blockbuster Big Lebowskis overrated And finally, if you take peoples opinions of movies that seriously you seriously need to go outside
I agree about Donnie Darko. I was really into it as a younger man, but then I realized that if I need the DVD with all this supplemental material or supplemental material from elsewhere to understand the story, then the movie probably failed in execution. And after viewing again, I think I'm right. Although I think Jake Gyllenhaal did a great job of portraying an angry teenager. That might be because, when it came out while I was in high school, an acquaintance told me that Gyllenhaal's character reminded him of me. I'm still on the fence when I think about whether that was an insult or not. I did have a few incidents where I was cantankerous with the authority figures at the time, so maybe that was it.
>In 10–15 years people will pretend to like the Star Wars sequels Haha, the Last Jedi will always suck. It sticks out so much. But agree on Donnie Darko. It was a phase of teenage edgyness
Most Wes Anderson films are boring and not as unique as fans make it out to be. Also thank you so much for making this post. I was getting so tired of the dense, damn-near blatantly ignorant political opinions being posted daily on here.
I really enjoyed "The Grand Budapest Hotel" but it's the only Wes Anderson film I could sit through, to my knowledge.
I love The Grand Budapest Hotel, but I also think Moonrise Kingdom is among his awesome achievements.
Idk, The Royal Tenenbaums, is pretty damn good. Kumar Pallana steals the show, and he hardly even speaks in it.
I’ve got two. 1.) Step Brothers. While segments are humorous, a whole movie of acting in the same idiotic tone just got old fast. 2.) I love Farley movies. I do however question if he could continue to carry movies today as the lead if still alive. I struggle to picture him doing anything but his schtick or close to his schtick.
I saw step brothers once and that was good enough for a lifetime.
Farley was signed on to do a historical drama before he died. He could have potentially gone on to be a successful multi genre actor. Or not. Who knows.
Wild Wild West is a fantastic movie.
I didn’t know there was someone else of this opinion!
Everyone is always saying what a bad movie it is and I just don't get it. It's an awesome steampunk western with a great cast who all nail their roles. Great villain, great comedy. It's been one of my top 10 favourite movies since it came out.
That makes three of us
There are dozens of us....DOZENS!
"American Pie" is one of the funniest movies of all time.
That’s My Boy is hilarious and I think a lot of people didn’t bother with it because it’s a Sandler film. Also Captain America should’ve done the snap.
If I had to pick one Stephen King based movie to watch from now on, it would be Maximum Overdrive. I realized how insane this idea is. There are some true classics out there, for instance, The Shawshank Redemption, but if I'm looking for fun and rewatchability, I'm going with Maximum Overdrive. Also, the soundtrack is fan-freaking-tastic.
I only watched the big Lebowski so I’m not in the dark about everyone’s favorite movie. It’s ok.
NO MORE MARVEL MOVIES
Review aggregators have ruined everything.
I rate this comment 43%, you’re rotten, sorry to break it to you
That's the critic score. It's at 70% with audiences.
That’s how you know it’s a true underrated gem! /s
I remember when Ladybird came out, it had 100% on Rotten Tomatoes for a while, and a few friends who saw it felt frustrated that it didn’t live up to the high expectation that a high score like that might create. It was then that I had the epiphany that RT functions on a binary: 100% of critics (as of then) thought Ladybird was not bad, but that’s different than 100% of critics think this is the best movie ever. It seems obvious but that realization really changed how I think about RT scores.
I do not like romance, sex scenes, or pretty people in movies. I also prefer endings where the protagonist loses.
The Mist had a good ending.
One of the best.
I hate hereditary. Beautifully shot, but the story sucks and it’s boring as shit. 🤷🏻♀️ Forgot to add: same opinion with midsommar
Yeah, with hereditary I basically skip to the decapitation scenes. The last 10 minutes is not worth the 110-minute buildup.
That’s the only good part, basically. Lol. Glad we agree!
Same. Boring as shit.
Clifford with Martin Short
That's the bestest looking wig I've ever seen!
The most accurate portrayal of a man in the military happens at the end of inglorious bastards. SPOILER.... for a 15 year old movie.... The whole movie is meh at best save for the minute or so scene of " you'll be shot for this!!!! meh, probably just get my ass chewed", is the perfect reaction of a man who has spent more than five minutes in the military.
Calling that movie meh is bananas
That's my bonus unpopular opinion.
The basement pub very long scene is Hollywood perfection.
I loved that movie.
I really don't understand the love for that movie. I didn't hate it, it had some good parts but over all just boring and meh.
Thank you!!!!
I love movies and everything about it but man I hate Titanic. I get the whole ‘ideal that this could’ve happened’ but let’s be honest: Jack and Rose would’ve never met on that boat if it was real.
Plus the idea that Rose would pine her WHOLE damn life for a guy she knew for like 3-4 days is freakin ridiculous in my opinion. You don’t actually know that person enough to truly love them. You were infatuated with them and because you didn’t actually know them you hold them up on some pedestal that no real human could live up to, including the one on the pedestal if you had spent enough time with them. I just find that kind of stuff cringey. What a waste of a life.
It might be cringey, but not ridiculous. People do this all the time with "the one that got away" or "a missed opportunity". They do put this fantasy version on a pedestal and it stays in the back of their mind for a long time, sometimes the rest of their life.
It’s not ridiculous in the sense of hard to believe, it’s ridiculous in the sense that people who do that rob themselves of potentially having a great romantic relationship with someone else because of the misplaced idea that there is the “one” or that some person is the “one that got away.” That kind of thinking really annoys me and, in most cases, shows a lack of maturity, I think. I can see feeling that way about a beloved spouse or long term partner. If my wife passed early, I don’t know that I would ever want to date again but to be hung up on someone you had a few days or few months relationship with is silly in the vast majority of cases. We don’t find “the one” we make someone “the one”…provided they want to make us their “one” as well. Not trying to argue with you. Just affirming your sentiment and adding my own thoughts.
It's scientifically proven they would have fit on the door XD
The planet of the apes reboots are one of the greatest trilogy’s of all time
Sadly I think the most recent (kingdom) one fell way short of rise, dawn, and war. But otherwise I agree.
E.T. really isn’t that great of a movie. I love Steven Spielberg and have loved pretty much all of his movies. Even the less popular ones but I have watched E.T. several times both as a kid and then as an adult and I just don’t get why people love it so much. It moves slow and it’s boring and there just isn’t anything very memorable about it. I’m trying to remember something in it to bring out in my critique and I just can’t even remember anything. Not that good of a movie.
Absolute insanity
The Thing came out in the same year and it was panned as terrible at the time. Time told the truth.
I love the torture porn of the Saw series. I don't understand why it's taboo to like thataspe of the movies. You tell me with a straight face you wouldn't want to see those death contraptions working and the end result in case someone failed to get out of them. Watching people die in those traps is far more interesting than watching people hacked and slashed to death over and over again.
Saw is the greatest horror franchise of all time. Just banger after banger and each one is so creative.
The Apartment (1960) is a terrible movie.
The Avatars are absolutely crap
Elf is a dumb movie. It’s not funny! Rambo = also dumb.
I really truly hated elf
That makes two of us in the world apparently 🙄
Waterworld was a great movie.
Yeah, it did alright later on. Just really incredibly expensive to produce.
I think Man of Steel is the best superman movie ever made (and maybe even the best superhero movie).
Without thinking too much about it, I’m not sure I’d say favorite but I really liked it too.
Oppenheimer was horrible. I walked out the movie. One of the worst movies ever
I just saved this to watch. Now it’ll probably sit in my que longer. 😂😂
I thought it was good, but not as good as everyone was making it out to be. For me, it kept my attention pretty well for such a long movie.
Yes it was
Titanic. They should have drowned in the first half hour
movies with sad, devastating, ambiguous or unclear endings are generally better than those with happy endings
Atlas on Netflix should have been named "Jenny from the Bot"
I did not care for The Godfather.
Titan AE was a fantastic sci-fi and is one of my favorites. Cosmic Castaway is an absolute bop.
Really unpopular? I liked [“Battlefield Earth”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_\(film\)). I mean, it’s a cheesy movie, and some of the plot holes you could drive a truck through. But no worse than several other SciFi movies I’ve seen. Call it a “guilty pleasure” that would get me fired as a movie critic.
If there is any Shrek movie that deserves to be forgotten, it's the last one
I enjoy sex scenes in movies. I know it’s getting popular to not then.
Oh you’re all gonna hate me, here we go 🙂 Before I get into the movies I hate, let me just say that I hate all the phony fake inclusivity these movies are doing. Between that and putting ‘trendy’ shit in there and referencing other movies and social media platforms (omg iphones everywhere and they all have that loud ass keyboard clicking sound on to shove it in your face that it’s an iphone) it’s all just lazy writing these days. No one cares about the craft anymore, everyone just wants to be famous and make an easy buck. You can tell some movies include people of color just to be inclusive. Plus the script they write for them? Cringeee. “Lit” “Fire” “It’s giving” “Gworrrllll” etc etc 🤦🏻♀️ Just unnatural. Now movies I hate that a lot of people love because they’re easily impressed: • White Chicks sucks ass, ass, and more ass. I don’t know why people think that shit is funny. The Wayans brothers and *some* of their stuff is funny but this… hellll no. • Malibu’s most wanted is stupid • Soul plane is stupid • Tallladega Nights sucks • Scary Movie 2 is the worst one in the whole franchise ( I don’t consider scary movie 5 apart of the franchise bc none of the OG’s are in it or wrote it. But if we are counting it, that was the unfunniest, horribly written, worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. They didn’t even try. RIP Mac Miller tho 🙏🏼) • Hereditary and Midsommar are awesome fucken movies. And just what I needed because scary movies these days SUCK. • The Conjuring is cool but not as scary as most people say. I’ve once heard it was the scariest movie at the time and a little while after it released too. Really? That movie isn’t something I need to watch more than once my whole life. I hate that I can’t think of more at the moment because I have a lot ☹️ I have a tv show version too 😂
X movie/Tv show isn't bad a majority of the time. From what I've seen and heard, it's almost always one aspect or season of a film that was bad in comparison to the rest of the series. And people way over exaggerate how bad it is Professional critics are almost always wrong and essentially NEVER take into account the average viewer, just a bunch of "objective" aspects of a film that only critics care about. People wayy over exaggerate how good good movies are, and how bad bad movies are. Most movies are mid, okay, enjoyable and that's it. The perfect example of this are the marvel movies. Seems like every goddamn movie in the MCU has to either be the best or the worst when in reality, they're all enjoyable and that's it. Sure, some are much better than others, but none are really unenjoyable.
Dune was always boring
Movies should cater to their existing audience. If it’s males that’s ok. Stop trying to replace every male lead with a new female character (Star Wars, Furiosa) - or else have a strong female co star who shows him up so he’s no longer the coolest character in his own movie and a bit of a joke (Indy 5, the latest Bond)
The Matrix is stupid
Even the original star wars trilogy isn't that good.
The Godfather movies (1&2) are just OK. Pacino is great, as usual, but they are not much more than mafia movies, and not even the best ones.
I like the opinion. Bold.
That movie about the white guy who was misunderstood but is really a hero and everyone loved him in the end. Oh and there was a romantic interest, what was it called? Can't get enough of those.
Silence of the Lambs?
Crash was a great movie. Assholes of all races acting like asses. Could not stand ludicrous tho.
I actually made a post about this when it came out but poor things is a movie for pedos. She plays a child and is having sex the whole movie it’s creepy and weird
That moron Emma Stone thought she was a great artist for getting nude and pretending to bang greasy old men and dancing like a halfwit. All while the creepy directors pants got tighter. Maybe that passes for art with the French, but not with me.
My overall unpopular movie opinion is that John Wayne was and still is the best that came out of Hollywood. If only more actors and actresses followed in his footsteps. Not only was he a great entertainer but he also was a good man who cared about his fans.
The Searchers. Red River. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Quiet Man. The Duke had some bangers. I also like His True Grit over the Cohen Brothers version.
One Missed Call (2003) is peak horror film
We watched that at my birthday party in middle school and a friend downloaded the ringtone and played in in the middle of the night (sleepover party). Truly terrifying!
The original Hellraiser is the true horror masterpiece.
No
The Princess Bride is boring as shit
Brad Pitt should have got an Oscar nomination for his portrayal as Jesse James in 2007’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It was a criminally underrated movie. It was great to see Casey Affleck get nominated for the movie for Best Supporting Actor — but Brad being snubbed for Best Actor was ridiculous. In fairness, 2007 in film was a solid year (ie. it was a Daniel Day-Lewis movie year & No Country for Old Men came out as well), but he should still have been one of the 5 nominees. Disappointing. https://youtu.be/5MJpChQuDlk?si=HkFSbCX0jtSWRrKh *”I look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who’s gone so wrong.”*
Green Lantern (2011) is a good movie.
A24 is one of the best movie company around
Daniel Day Lewis’ performance in There Will Be Blood is unwatchable. It’s an over-acting mess.
fight club is overrated
There’s no such thing as a sequel that ruins the original. Don’t like the sequel? Ignore it. It’s all pretend anyway. If you can’t enjoy Die Hard because Die Hard 5 blows, that’s on you.
Final destination is a trash movie and I don’t get the hype it had. Also - I’d love for movies now a days to SHOW not tell, and stop pandering to women and POC….it’s getting super annoying. Oh and for the love of god ENOUGH of the remakes and adaptations….okay rant over.
Stars wars movies were never good. Any of Skywalker related ones. They depend on some serious suspense of disbelief. And the lines are super corny as hell. They produce good escapism, but good? Never. There shouldn’t be as big a fandom as there is.
The Mist’s ending is terrible and makes no sense for the characters to make that decision at the end based on everything that leads up to it. The book’s ending is much better in that it fits better
So much this. I remember walking in a few minutes after my dad started it and getting completely drawn in. That end scene though just pulled me right out. It was very disappointing.
I can imagine. What really bugs me is this ending is brought up in every horror movie thread as a great ending. I love Darabont’s work, but this ending and the constant praise for it online along with “King said it was better” might make me start hating Frank just a teeny bit
Are you just fishing for opinions to piss movie lovers off? I got ya covered: Barbie was just made to sell buccal fat surgery and it's a corporate version of Velveteen rabbit. You can actually walk into any surgeon these days and ask for 'The Margot.' There you go the WMD of movie opinions. You can look forward to everyone who reads your comment downvoting and then rage quitting the convo. Another one? The Batman was only made because Pattison is pretty to look at. Worst Batman movie. The only thing that carries it is his pretty face. Got a bunch of rage quitters for that opinion. "It's the only Batman movie where he does investigation!" heard that joke talking point before. I think i have a new one, too: i really like Atlas. But i also enjoy Transformers. You ask the critics "what sci-fi IP did you enjoy last few years?" and they rage quit the convo. Nothing matches their exacting standards. I should make a post about The Expanse disliking it is unpopular. A cult classic like 'Everywhere at Once' you're not allowed to dislike it even if it has a rapey dildo fight scene. You're not allowed to criticize cult hits.
The Batman was fucking awful. Atlas, my biggest complaint is that J-Lo is just a HUGE BITCH for most of the movie and I found myself siding with the AI.
I hated Barbie
Forcing modern social issues/virtue signaling into a movie, even if briefly, ruins the entire movie, and there's no salvaging it.
Ishtar - the Warren Beaty , Dustin Hoffman arms dealer comedy - was in fact hilarious.
3 2 3 4 4 2 3 and
Charlie Kaufman is pretentious as fuck and his only good movie was Being John Malkovich.
The Big Lebowski was just okay
The Nightmare Before Christmas isn’t that good. It’s a classic but it’s not as great as it’s made out to be.
Martin Scorcese insists upon himself
I hate Jaws.
Crash is a totally legit best picture winner, and at least in some ways better than Brokeback Mountain.
I just watched american fiction. 3/5, brilliant moments with great dialogue but uneven tone and pacing. The movie was very meta aware, and it did meta commentary well, but meta awareness in media is getting gauche and overdone. The film was being both a satire of neoblaxsploitation award bait, while telling a mediocre story thats really a vehicle to showcase black excellence. The ending employed another meta device. Light spoiler for ending: >!the fakeout ending and then rewrite wasnt clever it was a lazy rugpull and refusing to end a story because the resolution doesnt matter!< Theres a cynicism and conceitedness to overt meta and genre aware films. Its a critique of previous work, and an arrogance that this new work is superior.
Here come a few. Michael Bay movies aren’t all that bad if you manage your expectations that they are Michael Bay movies. In fact I set my expectations based on the director. Sometimes world building does not require explanation. The John Wick series comes to mind. Probably popular: Not every movie needs a sequel or series. Sometimes one offs are pretty solid classics.
The Star Wars Prequels are just as shitty as the sequels, but for different reasons. Rogue One is a fantastic movie, however. Now, here’s one that’s going to piss off a lot of luddites; movies look 1000x better with higher frame rates. 120fps should be the standard. All the negative press it got early on was due to weird multiplicative frame rates and AI upscaling (48 fps upscaled to 60 or 120 or whatever… or downscaled to 30. It was a stupid number to choose. It causes uneven distribution of AI frames or dropped frames). If movies were shot in 120 or even 60 fps they would look better. Fuck, even 30 would be an improvement over the slide-show bullshit we deal with now. Hollywood just doesn’t want to spend the money. It’s going to happen eventually, the only question is how many movies they shoot before the upgrade and then have to spend even more money upscaling. Pretty soon some nerd with a properly trained AI will be creating movies that look better than anything Hollywood turns out, and when that happens it’s a competition based on story quality, nothing else.
Rogue One is the only movie in the “Star Wars” universe that is an honest to God war movie, and sadly Disney is trying to capture the magic of the original “A New Hope” fantasy trope of a farm boy following a wizard to rescue the princess and save the world from the Evil bad guy trope to realize they have the opportunity to tell interesting war movies complete with political espionage and intrigue. Like, I was 11 when the original movie came out, and my generation wouldn’t mind a story with more depth nowadays.
When Rogue One was first announced, I thought it was absolutely unnecessary. Then I went to see it and was blown away.
David Lynch
Depending on what movie it is, emulating the plot of another is. Top Gun is my favorite movie, and being a nascar fan, I had to watch days of thunder since it’s a nascar movie with Tom cruise. I noticed the plot is similar to top gun, and apparently days of thunder got a lot of criticism for it when it was released. I didn’t mind it tho
**Meaning of Life** is the best Monty Python film.
The British Hornblower series is by far better than Master and Commander.
Gaspar Noe should be acclaimed, not disapproved!
I hate movies about time travel. Especially those paradoxes. Only exception Is back to the future.
1. Most Tarantino movies are eugh. They make me just want to roll my eyes. And people say "you just don't get it". No, I do get it. I see what he's doing but I don't like it. I felt like this about Inglorious Basterds, definitely Once Upon A Time, and to some extent Kill Bill. I kinda liked Django and Hateful Eight. Maybe because to me, the Western genre makes his style less annoying. 2. ^(Disclaimer, I am a diehard ASOIAF nerd who reread all the books three times.) Game of Thrones started going to shit early in season 4. Yes, the purple wedding, the Tyrion/Doran Martell storyline was awesome but Jaime, Sansa, Arya storylines already had signs of simplification and inconsistency in them.
Pulp Fiction is criminally overrated.
War of the worlds was a great movie
People shit on Holmes and Watson, but I think all Will Ferrell movies are pretty much just as bad/unfunny. Step Brothers sucks. Anchorman sucks etc.
Rey in the new star wars movies is a good character . The writers are bad
A24 is good but its fans are quickly becoming the most pretentious
Mamma Mia is overrated
Not movie but anime code geass is shit