Here are a few I could just never get into.
Brazil, Godfather, Fight Club, Wizard of Oz, and Gone With The Wind
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Chappie. I had to leave the theater early to prevent any more brain damage.
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IT (2017).
I'm rereading the book right now and just watched the movie. While I agree it's... not good and certainly not faithful to the source material, I think the kids were all fantastic. They acted their little hearts out and - in my opinion - really nailed the characters.
True, I have no problem with the actors
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Event horizon. It has a big following but I don't get the big horror. And the gore in the director's cut is more annoying than shocking. Maybe if it was the first space horror movie you watched
Thank you!! I'm a big horror buff, and the amount of praise this movie gets is utterly baffling to me.
Teen Wolf, Goonies, ET
"There Will be Blood" was one of the most drab, boring, washed out, and damn near unwatchable movies of all time, yet everyone claims it's a masterpiece. It's just a story of a man becoming richer than god, and going off the deep-end, culminating in a scene where his adopted kid tells him how much they hate him, and him murdering someone in a misguided fit of rage. None of the characters are relatable, redeeming or interesting. The script has like a grand total of 1000 words across the entire 2.5 hour run time, and none of it is particularly compelling. What a snooze fest.
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Probably getting some hate for saying this, butβ¦. The Dune movies are some of the worst big budget movies Iβve seen. They look nice and the cinematography is awesome but that movie feels so damn empty.
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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The 2005 Elektra movie. It nearly killed Jennifer Garner's career! There's so much of that movie where I just have to wonder "What the fuck were they thinking?"
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Pi and Requiem for a Dream as a one-two punch.
"Being smart is such a curse I'd rather get a lobotomy" is boring, self-serving and trite, but the Reefer Madness-level "drugs bad" thing in Requiem is unbearable and requires every character to be entirely nonsensical.
Trainspotting was four years old by that point. How critics let Aronofsky get away with it is beyond me. To this day the closest I've been from walking out of a movie theatre. The only reason I stuck around was it was in a festival and I was there with other people.
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Mulholland Drive.
While I like the movie overall, I don't get the hype about the diner scene with the jump scare. Even watched a couple video essays explaining it and don't understand how it does what people say it does.
Slumdog Millionaire
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-scenesβWhy?! What was the point?!βAnd 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...
Thank you, absolutely. So slow and boring.
La la land. I hate that shit, I was happy when he lost the Oscar and I hadn't even seen the one he won.
Jupiter Ascending
That was a pretty roundly panned movie.
Poor Things. Watched it in the cinema and it was just disgusting, I don't care how critically acclaimed it is.
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New Dune.
I was gonna ask why so I could provide a counter argument, but then the question specifically asks for a movie you will never be convinced is good. So I wonβt bother lol.
Not the person you're replying to, but for my own POV:
I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I'm glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they've also convinced me that Dune just isn't a franchise I'll ever be interested in. I'm not sure if I'd bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.
I gave them an updoot for answering the question even though my personal opinion is that the two new Dune movies are top 10 movies of all time.
Nothing appeals to everyone, and I dislike a lot of critically acclaimed movies and other media because while they just don't resonate with me. Top Gun Maverick was a mediocre retread of so many movies that came before it that while it was well executed from a technical perspective, I found it forgettable and don't understand the hype.
I have a hundred of top 10 movies, and I don't understand the hate for the new Dune movies. The actors are good, the movies stick to the script, the picture is pretty and the music is nice too. I was also pleasantly surprised that you could transpose all this world to a movie because it's kinda difficult. You can't please everyone though.
i think its that theres no investment in the characters unless youve read the books.
i didnt care about any of the characters in the movie. it feels though that if i had read the books, i might have.
just a hunch; from someone else who only mildly liked the movies and has not read the source material.
It's fair. I have read the books quite a few times in my childhood and the movies were almost like I have been thinking of the whole time.
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