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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I am not an irritable person, but the ending of the whale Made me get up from my seat and yell "OH COME ON!" To the screen; Frustrating, corny , manipulative misery porn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Uncut Gems

A stressful two hours of screaming and bad decisions

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (3 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 7 points 10 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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago

Any superhero movie since 2008.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I agree. It was Short Circuit meets District 9.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

The godfather movies.

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Probably getting some hate for saying this, but…. The Dune movies are some of the worst big budget movies I’ve seen. They look nice and the cinematography is awesome but that movie feels so damn empty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I will say, the first one is the most to-the-letter book adaptations i have ever seen.

[–] kandykarter 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (7 children)

Yeah, I'd rather watch the Lynch version anytime, the new ones are like 6 hours of bland, boring choices and wooden performances.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The Godfather. The characters are empty and hard to attach to, the sound is terrible, there's so much filler in the editting it becomes a chore as I watch yet another seemingly pointlessly extended shot or micro-scenes—Why?! What was the point?!—And yet I'm meant to feel something when this character I hardly know since about 10 mins ago gets killed?

If a film had an inflated ego...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
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