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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago

No Country For Old Men.

I was actually really enjoying the whole cat and mouse thing until the main fucking character died off-screen.

How does nobody ever talk about how shitty that "plot twist" is? It's not clever. It's not entertaining. It's just bad storytelling. They don't even show you a good shot of him to convey what actually happened. My girlfriend and I had to rewind it twice because it was so fucking stupid and made so little sense.

That's actually how I feel about most of the Coen Brothers' movies. The classical narrative structure exists for a reason. It's a good framework for telling a story that makes sense.

Sometimes there's a good artistic reason for diverting from that and telling the story in an unconventional way. Other times it's just pretentious auteur garbage.

[–] expect_nothing@leminal.space 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 minutes ago

Were you not entertained?

[–] scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Anything that comes from Marvel. Overrated CGI tripe.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Hey, tripe doesn't deserve that

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Snowpiercer. It was highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes and from the poster I thought it stared U2's The Edge, so I took a chance. That was the dumbest shit I've ever seen.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 20 minutes ago

I suppose a movie in which they spend half of the time running through sleeper cars wouldn't have conveyed the same message about classism.

Time to fight the army of goon in an empty car that seemingly serves no purpose than to host a large violent brawl, now it's time to walk through the sleeper car for all the goons you fought, now it's time to walk through the kitchen car for the goons, not it's time to walk through the laundry car for the goons. Oh look, it's a rich person party car, what a weird thing to have at all in any context, are they aware the world has ended? Now time to go through the partier's sleeper car, then the partier's kitchen car, then the partier's laundry car...

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Almost all of Will Ferrell's movies, but especially Talladega Nights, a stupid movie about stupid people doing stupid things according to a stupid script. It's one of two movies I've ever walked out on (the other being Split, which is just gross). Stranger Than Fiction is the only good movie with Will Ferrell in a starring roll.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

Zoolander is a great movie.

Mugatu isn't a starring role and Will Ferrell plays the part well. If he was playing Zoolander the movie wouldn't be anywhere near as good.

[–] Vesker@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The Dark Knight Rises. Not only is it a bad Batman movie, it oddly has a pro cop message. Also, I can't take Bane seriously at all with that ridiculous voice.

[–] kandykarter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

This is how I felt about all the Nolan Batman movies, except it was Batman himself I couldn't take seriously because of Bale's ridiculous Cookie Monster voice. I think I burst out laughing in the theatre when I first heard it.

[–] goober@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Uncut Gems

A stressful two hours of screaming and bad decisions

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's the point... We're watching the spiral of a gambling addict. Its pure anxiety, and it's done so well.

[–] goober@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I get that but you are not convincing me that this is good

citizen kane. I mean I get it. If you geek out on cinematography history and the first of doing stuff but its just plain boring.

[–] mj_marathon@programming.dev 10 points 5 hours ago

Gravity.

Literally the only movie I've ever turned off part way through. Youd think that the producers would have, i don't know, accurately depicted the force the movie is named after.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Lucas directed Star Wars. Any. He's an awful director in almost every aspect. Some of the worst acting from extremely talented people I've ever seen because he doesn't know how to direct them.

Take the same cast, story, massage the script, and have ANYONE else direct, and it'd be great. I just can't with Lucas.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

I think George Lucas would agree with you.

While he directed the first film, Empire and Jedi had other directors. When it came to the prequel series Lucas really tried to get someone else to direct, but everyone turned him down as the project was "too daunting".

Lucas is best as the idea guy.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Take the same cast, story, massage the script, and have ANYONE else direct, and it'd be great.>

Not true, they did this already with Ep7.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 34 points 8 hours ago

Avatar. Highest grossing movie in the world. Blue shit.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

The godfather movies.

I understand they influenced many other movies but they are just so fucking boring.

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Chappie. I had to leave the theater early to prevent any more brain damage.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I agree. It was Short Circuit meets District 9.

[–] Occultist0178@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it really sucked

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