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99.9% of anime is overrated (Only decent are 80s Lions Voltron, Disgaea and Wolf's Rain)
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MEGAsoldier posted...
That Silent Hill movie was dope and season 4 of Arrested Development was actually pretty damn good.
I 100% agree on the Silent Hill movie, and I'm a huge Silent Hill fan in general.

I get that it was a bastardized version of SH2, but considering the state of video game movies at the time it was impressive that they captured the imagery and feel of Silent Hill as well as they did.
Christopher Nolan's movies don't do much for me. Ditto most stuff from Pixar. I usually don't find Will Ferrell funny. Not a fan of Tom Hanks or Sean Penn. Some popular shows I dislike: South Park, Friends, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show.

On a more positive note, I think Speed Racer (2008) is a masterpiece, although most people seem to hate it. The Last Jedi also gets dragged constantly, but it's one of my favorite Star Wars movies.
The owls are not what they seem.
Revenge of the Sith is a god-awful movie that it faceplants at every single major dramatic moment, all of which it badly needed to land in order to validate the prequels as a whole.
Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read.
Most Will Farrell movies were not that funny to begin with and have aged terribly
I dont like Schindlers List. Ive tried to watch it several times. I just get bored and turn it off.
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psideresider posted...
I dont like Schindlers List. Ive tried to watch it several times. I just get bored and turn it off.

This one guy I knew made out while the movie was playing
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Breaking bad is a great show.
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B18Champ posted...
2010 is way better than 2001
Kind of a crappy adaptation, though.
Alien 3 isn't that bad
Dorfmann_ posted...
Alien 3 isn't that bad
The biggest problem with it was that the director clearly wanted to make a sequel to something else. Which is why the first couple of minutes are full of plot holes, confusion, and just killing off characters in order to force the square peg into the round hole. After that's over with, though, I thought it was ok.
Babidi123 posted...
Most Will Farrell movies were not that funny to begin with and have aged terribly
Same with Adam Sandler movies.
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Film isn't art... yet. The thing it lacks is a high-budget Hollywood Mega Man movie. Then it will be art.
MarthGoomba posted...
The Rings of Power isn't bad
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The Usual Suspects is one of the most boring crime movies, and is relying on its ending to impress, but the ending is completely superfluous and tacked on with barely any relevance to the plot.

but it's kinda cool
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Disney's handling of Star Wars is on par with the course. The franchise was always inconsistent in quality.

Back in the day we got Empire Strikes Back and Holiday special, now we get Andor, Visions, Rogue One and Madolarian, but also The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, Episode IX and Mandalorian.

Particularly, The Last Jedi wasn't perfect but had something good going, and If episode IX had follow through, no one would be complaining
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cjsdowg posted...
This one guy I knew made out while the movie was playing
Get this, the postman ratted the guy out. To his mother!
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Boba Fett was just a henchman with cool armor who died like a bitch . Completely forgettable character. No idea why he became so popular.
Wow, I can agree with several posts so far!

pretzelcoatl posted...
I'll start: I thought Everything Everywhere All At Once was mediocre to bad at best

GregsMedley posted...
Taxi Driver is kind of meh

Baron_Ox posted...
... and The Irishman are meh movies

argonautweakend posted...
I've always thought that 2001: A Space Odyssey is painfully boring and slow
(I love other Kubrick films though, like Fullmetal Jacket)
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Rharyx211 posted...
Eternals is a good movie and so many people hating on it contributed to the MCU falling back on churning out less creative slop.
I agree with this.
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Also, Jason X is way too hated on and is one of my favorite movies in the Friday the 13th franchise. I also love (most) of the Final Destination films.
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I always get shit for this one, but Mad Max Fury Road is terrible start to finish.

I love action, sci-fi, I loved the OG Mad Max trilogy...I hated this movie and it had nothing to do with the clunky delivery of a garbled feminist message that I think I mostly agree with...

No, the whole tone of the movie was off. Silly and over-the-top while asking us to take it all very seriously. On top of that the whole plot is a U turn... and the solution to the big bad chasing them the whole way was just double back through them...okay?

That's worse than plots my friends and I came up with for playing with action figures.

Aren't we all just a series of tubes?
I enjoyed all 8 seasons of Game of Thrones. And Arya killing the Night King was an awesome moment.
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Torgo posted...
I always get shit for this one, but Mad Max Fury Road is terrible start to finish.

I love action, sci-fi, I loved the OG Mad Max trilogy...I hated this movie and it had nothing to do with the clunky delivery of a garbled feminist message that I think I mostly agree with...

No, the whole tone of the movie was off. Silly and over-the-top while asking us to take it all very seriously. On top of that the whole plot is a U turn... and the solution to the big bad chasing them the whole way was just double back through them...okay?

That's worse than plots my friends and I came up with for playing with action figures.
I agree. I didn't think it was good at all. It did have some cool action scenes but that was literally it.
Scintillant posted...
Most shonen anime is nothing special in terms of story (jjk/attack on titan as recent examples)

I was fully engaged in AoT, in its first episodes. Then at some point, the main hero gets eaten by a monster and he ends up inside his belly. When you think the situation is dire and hopeless, he then turns Super Saiyan, become super strong, magically recovers his lost limbs and saves everyone. That's the type of anime Deus Ex Machina I cannot stand.
JKwaffle posted...
Also, Jason X is way too hated on and is one of my favorite movies in the Friday the 13th franchise. I also love (most) of the Final Destination films.

Jason X is the greatest bad movie ever made
I actually quite enjoy Mortal Kombat annihilation
Aliens (the second movie) killed the franchise. The original was slow, methodical, a space horror unlike anything that had been seen before. Then the sequel turned the franchise into action and this is where it has been standing on ever since.

Lucy Liu gets hotter as she ages. There was a movie where she was playing an older woman having an affair with her best friend's son, and she was smoking hot still.
The Clone Wars 3d show is not very good. The Prequel movies themselves are much better takes on the characters.
The Rise of Skywalker isn't noticeably worse than the majority of other Star Wars media.
I don't believe in belts. There should be no ranking system for toughness.
Almost every film is worth watching, barring direct to streaming stuff made on a small budget, like all those garbage Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Dominic Purcell, John Travolta type films.
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ElGatoBravo posted...
Aliens (the second movie) killed the franchise. The original was slow, methodical, a space horror unlike anything that had been seen before. Then the sequel turned the franchise into action and this is where it has been standing on ever since.

Lucy Liu gets hotter as she ages. There was a movie where she was playing an older woman having an affair with her best friend's son, and she was smoking hot still.
Yeah Alien should have been the only movie, it was great and didn't need shitty sequels
21 Jump St (the movie) is absolute garbage.
trappedunderice posted...
Yeah Alien should have been the only movie, it was great and didn't need shitty sequels
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ElGatoBravo posted...
Aliens (the second movie) killed the franchise. The original was slow, methodical, a space horror unlike anything that had been seen before. Then the sequel turned the franchise into action and this is where it has been standing on ever since.

Lucy Liu gets hotter as she ages. There was a movie where she was playing an older woman having an affair with her best friend's son, and she was smoking hot still.
I know they are 10 years old now but I was watching Elementary. There is a scene where she's in a shirt and no pants. Sherlock is sitting down looking at pictures. The camera is leg level. And my thought was those are some nice legs. Then in later seasons she has blond hair. It works for her. I'm starting to think.I have a slight crush.
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Baron_Ox posted...
Moon Knight is a bad, "we have Mr. Robot at home" series

X-Men: Days of Future Past > Infinity War & Endgame, as comic book movie event stories go.
Moon Knight was the second-worst MCU show I watched after Secret Invasion (I didnt watch Echo). Moon Knight was bad with like 1.5 good episodes, which is at least more than Secret Invasion.
Most American film scripts aren't very deep or interesting compared to foreign films
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ElGatoBravo posted...
Aliens (the second movie) killed the franchise. The original was slow, methodical, a space horror unlike anything that had been seen before. Then the sequel turned the franchise into action and this is where it has been standing on ever since.
Nah I felt like 3 and beyond tended to shoot for a blend of Alien and Aliens. It's not like they were all just sorta-creepy action flicks.

That said, my Alien rewatch list ends at Aliens. Just a two-parter. I actually really liked how well the two worked together in terms of tone.
pretzelcoatl posted...
I can see this. JJK especially is falling apart in the manga currently. i think if I had seen most shonen as an adult instead of a preteen I would have hated it.

for example, i never watched one piece growing up, and I found it absolutely unwatchable when i tried to start it in my 20s

This is why you read One Piece and not watch it, unless you enjoy padding and filler.
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mario2000 posted...
This is why you read One Piece and not watch it, unless you enjoy padding and filler.
Agreed. The best way to experience One Piece is to read the manga and then watch the fight scenes from the anime after you finish an arc.
Less shows should be made that are rated M. Reduce the maturity rating on most televised streaming shows
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Star wars was never good
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Junthor posted...
Less shows should be made that are rated M. Reduce the maturity rating on most televised streaming shows
I dont have anything against a show that naturally has an M rating because of the subject matter it explores or its natural for the characters.
But something like Onyx Equinox where it pushed for an MA rating for no real reason and had meaningless gore and swearing felt far less mature than Maya and the Three, a show with a similar premise that had a Y-7 rating (and half the cast dies in Maya and the Three) .
"Why doesn't Hollywood take creative risks anymore and just do remakes all the time?"

Answer: Because unique ideas flop. It's too much of a risk, especially when theater attendance is so low, so they stick with familiarity. They have a greater audience through streaming, which is flourishing creatively (despite being understandably pricey).
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B18Champ posted...
2010 is way better than 2001

I honestly didnt know there was a sequel.

Babidi123 posted...
Most Will Farrell movies were not that funny to begin with and have aged terribly

You say most, so I have to ask which ones did you like or find funny? Not judging or anything I am just curious.
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
I agree. I didn't think it was good at all. It did have some cool action scenes but that was literally it.

Yes, and once you get past the practical stuntwork, I didn't even think it looked that good. The OG Mad Max movies world looked so gritty and dirty and worn down and lived in. This looked hot and sandy, but not as gritty and lived in.
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Hayame_Zero posted...
"Why doesn't Hollywood take creative risks anymore and just do remakes all the time?"

Answer: Because unique ideas flop. It's too much of a risk, especially when theater attendance is so low, so they stick with familiarity. They have a greater audience through streaming, which is flourishing creatively (despite being understandably pricey).

Actually no...or at least just part.

It's a series of reasons that include particular head of studios, the way we consume media, the end of the era of movie stars, international markets, and more.

It's not just one reason, but many.
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The first 'Mortal Kombat' movie was the only one that needed to be made, EVER.

This is the part where I fall down..Linden Ashby took the character Johnny Cage out of the game and immortalized him (which ironically Van Damme probably could have as well).

My still favorite moment was when Raiden told Sonya that she wouldn't be able to beat Shang Tsung , and I was in the movie theatre saying "did you see the same match against Kano that I did?"
The Hudsucker Proxy was the best movie from 1994 featuring Tim Robbins.
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pretzelcoatl posted...
No judgments.

I'll start: I thought Everything Everywhere All At Once was mediocre to bad at best

Kind of agree. I much rather Jet Lis "The One". Less goofy, but still got the idea of a multiverse over. I also think one of the most under rated films was "Along Came a Spider", which starred Morgan Freeman in a detective movie that went literally everywhere. Even at the end after they found the culprit I was asking myself "Are they really the culprit? Or are they just another plot twist?".

My hot take is that the best film in the Rings/Hobbit/Potter franchises are the 1st ones. The argument can be made for Chamber of Secrets, but after that the franchise goes downhill. It makes a case for the entire thing to be animated, if only to keep the entire thing consistent.

And I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of the funniest films ever created, meanwhile the Hangover was one of the worst comedy films I've ever seen.
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