I reckon I could think of something worse.
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I find it helps to avoid the hype trains surrounding new media releases, as well as anything after the teaser trailer.
Getting one’s expectations up usually results in the said media failing to live up.
Best to go in blind and make your own mind up afterwards!
I have never tried so hard to like an artist as Frank Ocean. He isnt for me, other than his Earl festures and when Three Stacks did a quick track on Blonde.
Its no disrespect, its me thats the problem
When you find mediocrity unacceptable, popular shit doesn't usually suit your palate. This isn't a bug, it's a feature.
I try to avoid a lot of discourse around movies/books I haven't seen yet as the expectation can ruin it for me. That said, Infinity War and Ready Player One (the book) still get me angry thinking back on them and the hype didn't help. (Public opinion seems to have flipped largely on the latter, but there was a point when it was held up)
for me it's more anger, like "why the fuck did i even waste my time on this and what's wrong with all these people"
i wish breaking bad was a movie because at least the only time I wasted would've been around 2 hours. bring your fucking downvotes i don't care if you don't mind pointless plot points that keep going nowhere, and repeatedly underlined things are either dropped unceremoniously, or meet very unsatisfying and unbelievable ends. breaking bad was badly written and entirely carried by its phenomenal actors.
I want to down vote you but everytime I think I want to rewatch breaking bad I just....don't. And I rewatch other stuff all the time. I do love the cinematography though.
The Godfather. Despite several attempts I've never made it through, it just can't hold my attention.
I liked it but agree with this sentiment
Everyone around me said i should watch Napoleon Dynamite because it was sooooo funny. It was just an autistic kid doing and saying cringey things.
I also hate Donnie darko, Requiem for a dream, 90 % of David Lynch (especially Mulholland drive), citizen Kain, etc. Too many to mention.
Citizen Kane is so celebrated because of how revolutionary it was and how much it influenced pretty much every movie made after, with then-novel techniques in things like cinematography and non linear story telling. Just tons of stuff that had never been done before. Of course if you compare it to later films it won't be all that remarkable. Everything it did first is now everywhere and we kinda take it for granted.
I get that. But as innovative as it was, it is severely dated in pretty much all ways now. I went to a pretty pretentious university and was surrounded by people who glossed over the fact that all of the things you've mentioned have been used more efficiently since then and would try to force their friends to watch it with them multiple times.
Yeah, I've also encountered some weird snobs who said they loved it, almost certainly because they thought they were supposed to. You probably understand better what's special about it than those who pretend to just find it enjoyable from a modern point of view. To summarize what I think: it's a stellar, incredible picture, it's just not all that entertaining because its inventions have since been further developed and we have more enjoyable stuff now.
I really enjoy citizen Kane for the same reason I really enjoy reading classic literature or seeing old art. It sparks joy to see art and try to imagine the environment it was produced. Noone reads War of the Worlds, The Time Machine or anything by Jules Verne or Asimov and expects a The Expanse or similar modern scifi
I like Napoleon dynamite, but i don't think i'll ever rewatch it. I watched it a couple of times when it came out with friends. And it's almost more the experience than the movie. When i watched it the first time i thought there is some massive plot twist, like some of these people are aliens or something. Then the movie was over, and nothing really happened. I don't think any of us really liked the movie, but then we just randomly quoted some lines and we re watched it, and we just always had a great time.
I saw it in theaters and thought it was pretty goddamned stupid. Then, for various reasons, I ended up watching it multiple times with friends and somehow it just kept getting funnier.
Great movie? I don't think so. But it's definitely something of a cultural touchstone for me.
I waited years before I watched it, long after the hype had died down. I went in with no expectations and I quite enjoyed it.
It's just a day-in-the-life film where nothing really happens and there's no big revelation or pay-off at the end, but the journey had some memorable moments and was fun nonetheless.
I think its got some great scenes in it. Not really put together as whole movie though. Like a fever dream.
Fever dream is a great way to describe it
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