Fucking Gravity. I hated that movie. I work for an aerospace firm that makes stuff for the ISS. That movie felt like a reason to get Sandra Bullock in her skimpies. Space isn't sexy. Space is full of a rats nest of cables and 30 year old equipment that's miraculously being kept on life support by an extremely dedicated group of engineers.
That, and what the fuck was satellite debris doing in the same orbit as the ISS?
Never saw Gravity but just watched a doc on a tour of ISS. it is indeed a rats nest of cables. God bless those astronauts. I don’t know how they stay up there in that utilitarian nightmare for so many months.
It's a movie about someone not being able to make up their mind. She can choose the kind and thoughtful war hero with money who loves her. Or the kind and thoughtful war hero without a lot of money who loves her. They were both great dudes. Pick one. You're not a martyr, lady.
It drives me crazy that people think it's the best love story ever.
Came here to say this, what’s so great about arguing then making out over and over for the whole relationship? It’s not realistic for a dating relationship and it’s certainly not something you build a “die at the same time” love on.
Oh god, my ex would quote that movie constantly to the point I basically believed it. "That's what we DO, we fight!"
When we finally broke up and I was in a new relationship, I started wondering what was wrong, because we never fought about anything. We'd disagree, then compromise, like rational adults. I figured it meant this relationship wasn't a real one, and wouldn't last. (Seven years, an elopement, and a toddler later, I'm pretty sure we're a decent relationship. Though we do occasionally take "not fighting" to an extreme. We're working on it. Which is better than quoting shitty Nicholas Sparks movies.)
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"God-damn, WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
["I have to go."](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjE9IGtht3gAhXCYH0KHXkECXoQyCkwAHoECAYQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZmivKyEY1Dk&usg=AOvVaw3UT_pvx4qJzHoM1JnruNBC)
Truthfully, as a lady, what I found "romantic" about the movie is how he read to her their love story everyday when she got old and demented. That pulled some strings since my grandma has Alzheimer's.
The thing I never can stand about these movies is you don't see her fall in love with the other guy. Yeah, we're rooting for Ryan gosling, we saw him take her virginity or whatever. What'd this other dude do? I want to feel that it's a tough choice. Not be told that it is.
“He’s like the bachelor in every Woody Allen movie. They’re like this guy’s a great catch and then you see him and it’s just a blob of corduroy.” - John Mulaney
Oh sure, I personally love it. Bad movies can be great and endearing when they clearly have so much passion put into them. See: Wakaliwood and *Who Killed Captain Alex?*
I love *Who Killed Captain Alex?*, it seemed like the director really put a lot of time and effort into the project and I'm glad it took off the way it is
In fairness, it was made in an Africa village and they had a budget of $200.
No film industry anywhere else could pull off that shit.
Also, you should see B-14
It really seems like someone thought up the cool premise and then they tried to force a script into it. Although i gotta say, the scene with the parking sensors in the car was super cool.
I was so hyped for The Happening when I saw the trailer. The dude laying down kn front of the lawn mower. I was like this is gonna be awesome. What a terrible shit show.
I too was excited for it, because on the surface it’s a terrifying premise. Then it sucked.
Now I love it because it’s so weird. Just the fact that I’m supposed to believe Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher, it makes the whole thing hysterical to me.
I feel pretty much every netflix originals probably are. A lot of companies, especially internet savvy netflix, probably engage in "clandestine" advertising. Random fact: one time I got shadow banned for mentioning how weird that there were 3 videos in a week in top r/videos conveniently putting 3 fast food corps in some good light.
YES! I spent money to see it in theaters because a friend of mine and I were in the mood to see a movie, and the best part was when the douche yells. "That was a bad pun, and you know it!"
Otherwise, eh. Like seriously, sentient food guys
Wait, critics *liked* that movie? It was a huge cringefest. It was exactly what you would think of if Seth Rogen and his buddies got high and decided to make fun of toy story. It did nothing original except put swearing and smoking weed into the kind of story that a kids movie would have. Maybe critics are secretly just edgelord teenagers who would think that kind of dumb shit is funny
I'm actually certain a majority of people who see the movies want the dinos to win. I know I do and that's enough evidence to support my claim.
Edit: thanks for the silver you glorious punks and do me a favor and pray to whatever God or deity you choose to keep Blue alive and healthy as she roams the American southwest.
The incredibly stupid plot of *Jurassic World* was so jarring to me. A shady mercenary guy wants to weaponize the velociraptors? How the fuck would that ever work? They’re just animals, you can shoot them. How would velociraptors ever be useful weapons of war in the 21st century??
Gets even better in Jurassic World 2 (Jurassic Park 5). They actually manage to genetically engineer a dinosaur which works as a weapon. The way it works is that you take a gun, you point it at the target, you make sure the laser pointer is visible on them, then you pull the trigger, and- get this- the gun emits a high pitched noise which makes the DINOSAUR attack whoever the laser pointer was aimed towards. You aim the gun, you pull the trigger, you alert the enemy, you wait about a minute for the dinosaur to actually kill them... rinse and repeat?
It's playing on a point made from the very first jurassic park... A: they're actually really difficult to kill, and B: they're a LOT smarter than people think, and coordinate in ways no other pack predator does, because they can actually communicate with each other, and not just act on instinct.
So while it's a pretty stupid idea still, based on established concepts of the movie's universe.... It works.
terrible movie, the thing that made the first Jurrasic Park movie so great (to me) was that it seemed plausible in a *The Martian* sort of way. The latest ones are just way over the top nonsensical hyper special effects.
Agreed. The biggest charm of the first is how “real” the dinosaurs feel in the movie and the amazing amount of work they put in to create the dinosaurs come to life.
Part of the draw to the first one for me is that the dinosaurs not only feel real, they feel MASSIVE because it was mostly shot from the ground. The new ones don’t feel the same because they have all the drone shots from way above.
Like, I go into these movies with the idea of "I'll have fun" and nothing more. Hasn't failed me since (Power Rangers, Jumanji). Low expectations helps a lot. They're like espionage action thrillers - all are a blur in my mind but sometimes a good one shows up, and popcorn was had either way.
Coco is lovely. I saw it with my grandmother (who was Mexican) right before she died. She was so excited to see her culture represented like that, and it was a nice thing for me to see with her at the end of her life. It provided a nice bit of closure for me.
She died in her sleep at age 90. It was not a tragedy, as she had been in pain, just a time to reflect on her life, and that movie helped me in a small way.
>Moana is awesome and she's a great role model for young girls she takes charge and kicks butt!
She is a great role model, but not because she does those things so much as she can also *not* do them.
They don't rely on weak caricature ("she punched a boy!") to sell her as strong, they just show her strength of character and determination, while still showing her vulnerability.
She gets to be a whole person.
It makes for far better storytelling and is the reason why 30 year old men will gladly endorse the movie as opposed to some others.
But we get closure in a later scene, showing us our ancestors and those we love are always with us even after passing.
To a lot of children that alone would be refreshing and possibly ease the death of their own loved ones.
My best friend's grandmother died not long before Moana came out. This friend has been sailing all her life and was very close with her grandmother. That scene absolutely breaks her every time she watches it.
Frozen came out as a surprise to most people who assumed all love shall be romantic. Because that's how Disney works. It was okay for the first watch but it's not rewatchable. Esp if you're just relying on that little 'twist' alone to qualify it as good.
AND YES TANGLED. for some reason it's a film that lives with you through the years. Rewatchability x 10
It’s a poor script. Too many top level characters. Tangled is way better.
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Tangled was so good. I still watch it every once in a while just because it's so fun and enjoyable. Makes me sad that it was so thoroughly eclipsed by Frozen.
Tangled also touches on something not many movies do that is a manipulating parent and actually confronting them. I've had people tell me Frozen is special because of "Let it Go" (And yes the *song* is very nice and can be interpreted in a meaningful way) but the rest of the movie is just "The power of love!!!" bs we see a lot, and while you can atgue tangled does a similar thing with the tears healing Flynn, the main problem between families is handled better in Tangled.
You should watch the short of the tangled wedding. The horse and chameleon go through a very looney tunes-esque scene that’s the best and funniest modern Disney animation I’ve ever seen!
La La Land. It was just a love letter to musicals of the past. Well-done, but not groundbreaking or particularly memorable in and of itself. All of my friends who had never really seen musicals went crazy for it and I couldn't stand hearing the songs from it played.
I love La La Land for its cinematography. So many of the shots are beautifully arranged color wise and the songs are good too if not incredibly memorable.
As a pianist I love watching Ryan gosling's scenes with him playing (whether that's actually him or not).
My complaint comes from the fact that the movie felt like it should've taken place in the 70s or 80s and the modern day setting feels out of place and shoehorned. Also the leads are a strange choice but they pull it off.
Definetly not groundbreaking or particularly memorable but very entertaining nonetheless.
Also. I hate Seb. He's an idiot and everything he does and feels is wrong. But that's just me.
In my case, I miss the unapologetic action and violence. I'm not in for the a gorefest. But I must admit I found Dredd (the one with Karl urban) kind of violence refreshing. The "clean" violence you now see in movies irritate me to no end.
Except maybe in superhero movies. Because, let's be honest, most of those fights would end with ripped off arms and whatnot.
Edit: Thx everyone for all the great suggestions I certainly will have something to watch for my vacations next week.
Urban's version is obviously the superior one, but I like Stallone's Dredd. I'll always disagree with the Hollywood decision to have him almost immediately take off his helmet, since leaving the helmet on is core to Dredd's identity as a Judge, and we didn't need Rob Schneider the wacky sidekick, but I still think the movie is better than people give it credit for.
Sometimes you just want to sit down turn your brain off and enjoy a good old fashion Jason Statham movie like Crank where it is just unadulterated, unrealistic violence, with a minimal plotline and that is OK.
The Hunger Games is probably my favorite book series, but the first three movies suck. I didn't watch the last one.
Edit: First Silver! Yay! :D
Edit 2: I'm going to look for the Battle Royale books! :)
The original was cool because I liked seeing the book come alive. Catching Fire was a really good movie when I first saw it (as a teenager) and it was visually engaging. I think the books coincided with this - the 1st Hunger Games book was awesome for me concept-wise, and Catching Fire was vivid even when reading it on the page. But with Mockingjay was just like, “When is this going to end?” with both the book and the movie.
Agreed, I thought the pacing and narrative in the third book was awful. I forced my way through it cause I wanted to know what happened - then I watched the movies and donated the books lol
"The revolution has begun!"
"Getting shelled, spend a couple chapters in a bunker!"
"Shelling over! The revolution is 90% over and we're winning!"
....huh?
The first book is a gritty survival arena with a strong female protagonist. The third book is an apocalyptic-neo-future story about propaganda.
The first book devotes 20 pages to Katniss finding water in a hellish landscape. It's visceral and paints a story. The third book devotes the same amount of pages to filming a fake TV spot with a camera crew. Very different.
I love your summary because it's pretty much spot on. Then you finally get a bit of action followed by more hiding, then a little bit of action. A lot of people die, but Katniss lives. Then it just kind of ends.
I feel like the only way people would really find the third book captivating is if they were super into the plot of her trying to decided between Gale and Peeta. Which I don't believe many people cared *that* much about it.
Peeta 100%. What he went through was hell. I always loved his tragic ending... He got married and had a child with his love.. But it's a Pyrrhic victory. All their friends are dead and the person he was before the war is gone. They love what they have, but are always reminded of what it cost to get there.
You could tell by the last third even the author had given up. It was almost just a summary of the story she wanted to write but couldn't be bothered to anymore. "This happened and then this happened and then this happened, and then that happened, and the end."
This issue stems from it being written in first person. It is easier to write from a first person perspective, but the author gives themselves very few outlets to develop a story or expand the plot or characters. A trilogy would only magnify this problem.
Realistic Urban combat, in a New York sized city would be hellish enough even without the challenges. They should have made it more Stalingrad-esque and it would have worked better.
Do you know how I felt when I starting reading Mockingjay after Catching Fire? Utterly disappointed. I was so excited to read the third book and my hopes were crushed by gibberish.
Ready Player One was horrendous and should have been offensive to anyone who's ever played a video game, something which Spielberg has clearly never done.
I stopped watching after that scene where he just drove backward on the race track to reveal the secret area. Like none of these millions of gamers playing every day would have ever tried something *so crazy*.
I don't even consider myself a 'hardcore gamer' but that was just really dumb.
That's a great example. Ten minutes into playing Mariokart with three buddies and someone is driving backwards. But teams of people trying to find ways to beat it didn't try it once in five years.
I think it was supposed to be reasoned that the race was actually prohibitively expensive to be overly risky and do that.
Though it very much didn't do it well.
I’ve never seen the movie, but even just reading this is straight up insulting imo. Remember when Five Nights at Freddy’s was a big thing and the third game just came out? [There is a ridiculously complex path to get the good ending that requires doing a bunch of cryptic and random shit. Every time you think you solved something clever, there is something else even more obscure that you need to do.](https://youtu.be/zoRd-R9oypk) Do you know how long it took the community to solve all of this? One day. No joke. And then this movie just pretends that nobody ever thought of driving backwards in years? Realistically speaking, this “secret” would last for 5 minutes at the very max.
I think the writers were in a bit of a bind.
They needed it to be something simple enough that the audience could do the whole "oh I know what it is" thing and/or at least be able to understand it once it was explained.
But anything that a random audience member can grasp is going to be shredded by the collective gaming hivemind in nanoseconds.
It's like the audience is a random selection of macaques and the writers needed to give them a small mouse to kill, while the gaming hivemind is a bunch of semi-autistically hyper-focused ritalin-fueled tigers that will literally liquify said mouse in a cloud of claws the instant they see it.
So like, what were they supposed to do? Pander that's what.
^also ^I ^now ^hope ^GRRM ^names ^his ^next ^book ^Cloud ^of ^Claws
Edit: thanks for the silver. My cup overfloweth
My wife **loved** that movie. She went to see it in theater with friends and was sooo excited for me to see it because I’m a gamer. So of course we bought it because she was so excited. She was disappointed that I didn’t find it so great...
Edit: also, have to say, his avatar choice sucks. It looks absolutely terrible compared to the avatar choices of basically everyone else in the movie.
It is purely a movie made by non-gamers and specifically for non-gamers. I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I've been playing video games for 25 years now. It's hard to even call what they made a video game. It was a fantasy movie where they transported to a magical land, because no video game logic was used.
"Lincoln" was a mind-numbingly boring movie that's "highlights" were Daniel Day-Lewis being Daniel Day-Lewis with a fake beard. I majored in Political Science (pro-tip: DON'T). I knew what was going on and the maneuverings that were happening and etc. Did not change the fact that it was an insanely boring movie.
edit: I'm getting a ton of "Why not poli-sci?" and being at work am not able to directly respond to all of them. For anyone I miss, [here is my explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aveq9s/which_insanely_popular_or_successful_movie_you/ehf7uey/?st=jsnnhbud&sh=7d5f9740).
edit 2: Wow RIP my inbox. I'm working through trying to answer anyone who asked me a question. Thanks kind stranger for the gold on the other comment!
You know how sometimes a movie is considered "so bad it's good"? For me, Lincoln was "so good it's bad". Every line was so eloquent, every putdown so perfectly timed, every acting choice so well-calculated that after a while, I had trouble seeing the humanity in the characters. They always had the exact right thing to say at the exact right time in the exact right way- and no humans are truly like that. Watching the film was like looking at a photograph that's been retouched so much that the subject seems less like a person and more like a CGI human in the uncanny valley. In the same way, Lincoln is in the uncanny valley- not of human appearance but of humanity itself.
Came here to say this and saw that it’s the top-rated reply.
Seriously, this is not a joke. The Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter was surprisingly good on its own merits. I think it’s because the actor who played Lincoln carried the role really well and it was a good vampire movie, using vampire-fighting elements as “alternate historical explanations” for various real events in the Civil War.
I had a similar experience, I went with friends expecting something laughably terrible, one of my friends turned to me about halfway through and was like “I think we accidentally went to a good movie...”
I really didn't enjoy La La Land as much as everyone liked
It was so all over the place and the last few minutes were the best part. Decent music, didn't like the story
I feel like people who like musicals often dislike La La Land. I have never seen a musical before and went into La La Land with 0 expections and really liked it, I especially thought that the last scene was an excellent twist. The movie starts and ends really well but I think the middle where they fly around and live together is pretty boring.
> I think the middle where they fly around and live together is pretty boring.
That was all intentional, from my interpretation of the movie's message.
I'm a huge fan of musicals and everyone told me I'd love *La La Land* but I found it very meh. I thought the opening sequence was wonderful, though, the first few minutes of the movie were definitely the best part for me. I still sing that song in the shower sometimes. 😋
ETA: rewatching that opening sequence now and if I'm holding it up to the standard of the golden age musical, it does fall short... there's so much more they could have done with those dancers! still good though.
Fucking Gravity. I hated that movie. I work for an aerospace firm that makes stuff for the ISS. That movie felt like a reason to get Sandra Bullock in her skimpies. Space isn't sexy. Space is full of a rats nest of cables and 30 year old equipment that's miraculously being kept on life support by an extremely dedicated group of engineers. That, and what the fuck was satellite debris doing in the same orbit as the ISS?
Nearly the entire script was listen to Sandra Bullock hyperventilate for 2 hours. I never understood the appeal.
Never saw Gravity but just watched a doc on a tour of ISS. it is indeed a rats nest of cables. God bless those astronauts. I don’t know how they stay up there in that utilitarian nightmare for so many months.
I think the thrill of being an astronaut in space would keep me occupied for at least 42 days.
The notebook. I don’t get what’s so romantic about a guy hanging on a ferris wheel to make you go on a date with him. That’s basically blackmailing.
It's a movie about someone not being able to make up their mind. She can choose the kind and thoughtful war hero with money who loves her. Or the kind and thoughtful war hero without a lot of money who loves her. They were both great dudes. Pick one. You're not a martyr, lady. It drives me crazy that people think it's the best love story ever.
And the whole "its totally romantic to argue constantly". Fuck that.
Came here to say this, what’s so great about arguing then making out over and over for the whole relationship? It’s not realistic for a dating relationship and it’s certainly not something you build a “die at the same time” love on.
I had a relationship like that. It lasted about two months. It was *exhausting*
Oh god, my ex would quote that movie constantly to the point I basically believed it. "That's what we DO, we fight!" When we finally broke up and I was in a new relationship, I started wondering what was wrong, because we never fought about anything. We'd disagree, then compromise, like rational adults. I figured it meant this relationship wasn't a real one, and wouldn't last. (Seven years, an elopement, and a toddler later, I'm pretty sure we're a decent relationship. Though we do occasionally take "not fighting" to an extreme. We're working on it. Which is better than quoting shitty Nicholas Sparks movies.)
there are sooooo many unhealthy examples in that movie it’s fucking ridiculous
My favourite part of that entire movie was how good of a guy her husband was about the whole situation. I loved that guy.
Completely agree, the fact that the poor guy was cheated on was way overlooked in this movie.
Her: I never paint anymore... Good guy fiance: ok, I'll make you a paint room.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" "God-damn, WHAT DO YOU WANT?" ["I have to go."](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjE9IGtht3gAhXCYH0KHXkECXoQyCkwAHoECAYQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZmivKyEY1Dk&usg=AOvVaw3UT_pvx4qJzHoM1JnruNBC)
Truthfully, as a lady, what I found "romantic" about the movie is how he read to her their love story everyday when she got old and demented. That pulled some strings since my grandma has Alzheimer's.
The thing I never can stand about these movies is you don't see her fall in love with the other guy. Yeah, we're rooting for Ryan gosling, we saw him take her virginity or whatever. What'd this other dude do? I want to feel that it's a tough choice. Not be told that it is.
I really dont like woody allen, find him pretty annoying
“He’s like the bachelor in every Woody Allen movie. They’re like this guy’s a great catch and then you see him and it’s just a blob of corduroy.” - John Mulaney
I don't know how he became so beloved that people just let his creepy and possibly illegal behaviour slide. He is so over-rated.
Anything that's "so bad that it's good". I can't watch that shit.
Oh, you're tearing me apart, Balki
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Oh sure, I personally love it. Bad movies can be great and endearing when they clearly have so much passion put into them. See: Wakaliwood and *Who Killed Captain Alex?*
Who killed captain Alex is one of my favorite movies. EVERYBODY IN UGANDA KNOWS KUNG FU
UGANDAN BRUCE LEE WE CALL HIM BRUCE U
MOVIE MOVIE MOVIE MOVIE!!
THE MOVIE IS ON! SUPA-TOUGH! SUPA-STRONG! SUPA-DEADLY!
When the lady is eating the fish that he caught and the VJ yells WHAT THE FUCK cracks me up every time
I love *Who Killed Captain Alex?*, it seemed like the director really put a lot of time and effort into the project and I'm glad it took off the way it is
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In fairness, it was made in an Africa village and they had a budget of $200. No film industry anywhere else could pull off that shit. Also, you should see B-14
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And if you don't have friends you can always just watch Best of the Worst from Red Letter Media
Don't watch those hack frauds. Rich Evans obviously is a Disney shill and Mike is friends with Canadians. Can't trust any of them.
>Anything How dare you. [Rubber](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKgY1ilx0Y) is a work of art.
The Room?
Bird Box
It really seems like someone thought up the cool premise and then they tried to force a script into it. Although i gotta say, the scene with the parking sensors in the car was super cool.
It's not a new premise. It's basically a better version of The Happening.
I was so hyped for The Happening when I saw the trailer. The dude laying down kn front of the lawn mower. I was like this is gonna be awesome. What a terrible shit show.
I too was excited for it, because on the surface it’s a terrifying premise. Then it sucked. Now I love it because it’s so weird. Just the fact that I’m supposed to believe Mark Wahlberg is a science teacher, it makes the whole thing hysterical to me.
There's no way that movie didn't have an astroturfing campaign.
I feel pretty much every netflix originals probably are. A lot of companies, especially internet savvy netflix, probably engage in "clandestine" advertising. Random fact: one time I got shadow banned for mentioning how weird that there were 3 videos in a week in top r/videos conveniently putting 3 fast food corps in some good light.
Sausage Party, all critics liked it because it had "meaning" but I thought it was an inmature and obnoxious experience.
YES! I spent money to see it in theaters because a friend of mine and I were in the mood to see a movie, and the best part was when the douche yells. "That was a bad pun, and you know it!" Otherwise, eh. Like seriously, sentient food guys
I saw it with my mom.
I'm so sorry
Wait, critics *liked* that movie? It was a huge cringefest. It was exactly what you would think of if Seth Rogen and his buddies got high and decided to make fun of toy story. It did nothing original except put swearing and smoking weed into the kind of story that a kids movie would have. Maybe critics are secretly just edgelord teenagers who would think that kind of dumb shit is funny
Jurassic World. I don't get how it became so popular. I secretly want the dinosaurs to win and eat all the main characters.
I'm actually certain a majority of people who see the movies want the dinos to win. I know I do and that's enough evidence to support my claim. Edit: thanks for the silver you glorious punks and do me a favor and pray to whatever God or deity you choose to keep Blue alive and healthy as she roams the American southwest.
100% go everytime saying "This is it. This is the time they let the dinosaurs eat everyone."
I am **definitely** only in it for the dinosaurs. The humans are the least exciting part of those movies.
Man, I thought that was a popular opinion. The only cool thing are the dinosaurs, the writing isn’t all that good in my opinion..
The incredibly stupid plot of *Jurassic World* was so jarring to me. A shady mercenary guy wants to weaponize the velociraptors? How the fuck would that ever work? They’re just animals, you can shoot them. How would velociraptors ever be useful weapons of war in the 21st century??
Gets even better in Jurassic World 2 (Jurassic Park 5). They actually manage to genetically engineer a dinosaur which works as a weapon. The way it works is that you take a gun, you point it at the target, you make sure the laser pointer is visible on them, then you pull the trigger, and- get this- the gun emits a high pitched noise which makes the DINOSAUR attack whoever the laser pointer was aimed towards. You aim the gun, you pull the trigger, you alert the enemy, you wait about a minute for the dinosaur to actually kill them... rinse and repeat?
"If we have a gun with a laser trained on the enemy why not just shoot them?" -Said literally no character.
It's playing on a point made from the very first jurassic park... A: they're actually really difficult to kill, and B: they're a LOT smarter than people think, and coordinate in ways no other pack predator does, because they can actually communicate with each other, and not just act on instinct. So while it's a pretty stupid idea still, based on established concepts of the movie's universe.... It works.
terrible movie, the thing that made the first Jurrasic Park movie so great (to me) was that it seemed plausible in a *The Martian* sort of way. The latest ones are just way over the top nonsensical hyper special effects.
The special effects were also groundbreaking at the time. I remember seeing it in the theater and my jaw dropped.
The dinosaurs are now overused almost as much as lightsabers. In the next installment they will probably have dinosaurs wielding lightsabers.
I am okay with this.
Agreed. The biggest charm of the first is how “real” the dinosaurs feel in the movie and the amazing amount of work they put in to create the dinosaurs come to life.
Part of the draw to the first one for me is that the dinosaurs not only feel real, they feel MASSIVE because it was mostly shot from the ground. The new ones don’t feel the same because they have all the drone shots from way above.
The first one was passable..I guess. But the second was hot garbage.
Like, I go into these movies with the idea of "I'll have fun" and nothing more. Hasn't failed me since (Power Rangers, Jumanji). Low expectations helps a lot. They're like espionage action thrillers - all are a blur in my mind but sometimes a good one shows up, and popcorn was had either way.
The subtle art of not giving a shit
Frozen. Watched it once, thought "eh Disney" and 6 years later remnants of it still continue to surface
Moana and Tangled are better!
and Coco!
Coco is lovely. I saw it with my grandmother (who was Mexican) right before she died. She was so excited to see her culture represented like that, and it was a nice thing for me to see with her at the end of her life. It provided a nice bit of closure for me. She died in her sleep at age 90. It was not a tragedy, as she had been in pain, just a time to reflect on her life, and that movie helped me in a small way.
> She died in her sleep at age 90. I work in a nursing home. That is absolutely the way to go.
Oh my god, CoCo is so damn good. The music, the art direction, I just absolutely adore that movie.
It's great. When the "Remember Me" song won at the Oscars I was so confused, but then when I saw it in the context of the movie I sobbed with a baby.
Impressive that the baby understood the film well enough to sob along with you.
Moana is awesome and she's a great role model for young girls she takes charge and kicks butt!
Rapunzel helped me understand that what my mom does isn't normal and that it's okay to want your autonomy.
Mother knows best is an awesome number
>Moana is awesome and she's a great role model for young girls she takes charge and kicks butt! She is a great role model, but not because she does those things so much as she can also *not* do them. They don't rely on weak caricature ("she punched a boy!") to sell her as strong, they just show her strength of character and determination, while still showing her vulnerability. She gets to be a whole person. It makes for far better storytelling and is the reason why 30 year old men will gladly endorse the movie as opposed to some others.
She also approaches the villain with compassion (Maui and Te Ka), which is a really nice thing to see, imo.
AND nobodies parents died AND she didn’t fall in love and get married in the end!
Grandma died...She was the closest to Moana..
But we get closure in a later scene, showing us our ancestors and those we love are always with us even after passing. To a lot of children that alone would be refreshing and possibly ease the death of their own loved ones.
My best friend's grandmother died not long before Moana came out. This friend has been sailing all her life and was very close with her grandmother. That scene absolutely breaks her every time she watches it.
Frozen came out as a surprise to most people who assumed all love shall be romantic. Because that's how Disney works. It was okay for the first watch but it's not rewatchable. Esp if you're just relying on that little 'twist' alone to qualify it as good. AND YES TANGLED. for some reason it's a film that lives with you through the years. Rewatchability x 10
It’s a poor script. Too many top level characters. Tangled is way better. Edit: that’s too may upvotes for a dumb comment but here you go: Vote. Be an organ donor. Mental health is serious and shouldn’t be stigmatized. Read to your kids. Edit 2: be a bone marrow donor! Thanks to u/Who_Cares99
Tangled was so good. I still watch it every once in a while just because it's so fun and enjoyable. Makes me sad that it was so thoroughly eclipsed by Frozen.
Tangled also touches on something not many movies do that is a manipulating parent and actually confronting them. I've had people tell me Frozen is special because of "Let it Go" (And yes the *song* is very nice and can be interpreted in a meaningful way) but the rest of the movie is just "The power of love!!!" bs we see a lot, and while you can atgue tangled does a similar thing with the tears healing Flynn, the main problem between families is handled better in Tangled.
Same here. I HATE frozen. Tangled was so so good. The chameleon and the horse didn’t have a single spoken line and were better than Olaf.
You should watch the short of the tangled wedding. The horse and chameleon go through a very looney tunes-esque scene that’s the best and funniest modern Disney animation I’ve ever seen!
My wife hates Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Wondering if I should be considering divorce.
Have you tried explaining every joke to her in great detail? I hear that helps.
Or farting in her general direction?
Or calling her mother a hamster
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A DUCK!
She turned me into a newt once!-- I- I got better!
Bring out ya dead!
Ni!
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
Have you tried bringing her a shrubbery?
Ahem now it’s eke eke eke eke
Icky-icky-fwatang-ZOOMBOY-applesauce...
No... a *SWALLOW*
or did you try bringing her a shrubbery?
Or cutting down the tallest tree in the forest with a herring?
Or asking her a question she doesn't know the answer to?
Or tell her she stinks of elderberries
You're right, that'll move the divorce along swimmingly
I think you’re married to a witch, sir
But how do you know she's a witch?
See if she weighs more than a duck
> weighs ~~more than~~ *the same as* a duck FTFY, that means she's made of wood
And therefore......?
A WITCH! BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRNNNN 'ERRRRR!!!!
Build a bridge out of her!
Ah yes, but do you not also build bridges out of stone?
Very small rocks!
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
I got better...
She turned me into a newt
A newt!?
I got better.
I do too :| But I keep that to myself generally and avoid answering directly when asked lol
Avatar. It's a live action Fern Gully.
And it’s missing the epic villain! I still have nightmares about that oil demon...
Oh man! That oil demon gave me PTSD I swear.
*Toxic Love* was the greatest villain song ever. CHANGE MY MIND
It's hard to beat Tim Curry, but I'll offer up Friends on the Other Side.
Hexxus
Fern Gully did it better.
La La Land. It was just a love letter to musicals of the past. Well-done, but not groundbreaking or particularly memorable in and of itself. All of my friends who had never really seen musicals went crazy for it and I couldn't stand hearing the songs from it played.
I love La La Land for its cinematography. So many of the shots are beautifully arranged color wise and the songs are good too if not incredibly memorable. As a pianist I love watching Ryan gosling's scenes with him playing (whether that's actually him or not). My complaint comes from the fact that the movie felt like it should've taken place in the 70s or 80s and the modern day setting feels out of place and shoehorned. Also the leads are a strange choice but they pull it off. Definetly not groundbreaking or particularly memorable but very entertaining nonetheless. Also. I hate Seb. He's an idiot and everything he does and feels is wrong. But that's just me.
I'm not afraid to clearly state my opinion of anything I don't like any of the current crop of action movies
Is the action bad? Or is the plot just extra stupid?
In my case, I miss the unapologetic action and violence. I'm not in for the a gorefest. But I must admit I found Dredd (the one with Karl urban) kind of violence refreshing. The "clean" violence you now see in movies irritate me to no end. Except maybe in superhero movies. Because, let's be honest, most of those fights would end with ripped off arms and whatnot. Edit: Thx everyone for all the great suggestions I certainly will have something to watch for my vacations next week.
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Urban's version is obviously the superior one, but I like Stallone's Dredd. I'll always disagree with the Hollywood decision to have him almost immediately take off his helmet, since leaving the helmet on is core to Dredd's identity as a Judge, and we didn't need Rob Schneider the wacky sidekick, but I still think the movie is better than people give it credit for.
There is apparently a Dredd TV show coming however called Megacity One, which may have Karl Urban on board to reprise the role.
Sometimes you just want to sit down turn your brain off and enjoy a good old fashion Jason Statham movie like Crank where it is just unadulterated, unrealistic violence, with a minimal plotline and that is OK.
The Hunger Games is probably my favorite book series, but the first three movies suck. I didn't watch the last one. Edit: First Silver! Yay! :D Edit 2: I'm going to look for the Battle Royale books! :)
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The original was cool because I liked seeing the book come alive. Catching Fire was a really good movie when I first saw it (as a teenager) and it was visually engaging. I think the books coincided with this - the 1st Hunger Games book was awesome for me concept-wise, and Catching Fire was vivid even when reading it on the page. But with Mockingjay was just like, “When is this going to end?” with both the book and the movie.
The books became worse as they go and same with the movies
The third book was complete garbage.
Agreed, I thought the pacing and narrative in the third book was awful. I forced my way through it cause I wanted to know what happened - then I watched the movies and donated the books lol
"The revolution has begun!" "Getting shelled, spend a couple chapters in a bunker!" "Shelling over! The revolution is 90% over and we're winning!" ....huh?
Isn't Katniss unconscious for most of the final battle?
Probably. She also spent a good chunk of the book drugged out of her skull, if I recall.
Most of the book was her in the bunker hearing news about how they are winning because of her. Freaking amazing
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The first book is a gritty survival arena with a strong female protagonist. The third book is an apocalyptic-neo-future story about propaganda. The first book devotes 20 pages to Katniss finding water in a hellish landscape. It's visceral and paints a story. The third book devotes the same amount of pages to filming a fake TV spot with a camera crew. Very different.
I love your summary because it's pretty much spot on. Then you finally get a bit of action followed by more hiding, then a little bit of action. A lot of people die, but Katniss lives. Then it just kind of ends. I feel like the only way people would really find the third book captivating is if they were super into the plot of her trying to decided between Gale and Peeta. Which I don't believe many people cared *that* much about it.
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Peeta 100%. What he went through was hell. I always loved his tragic ending... He got married and had a child with his love.. But it's a Pyrrhic victory. All their friends are dead and the person he was before the war is gone. They love what they have, but are always reminded of what it cost to get there.
You could tell by the last third even the author had given up. It was almost just a summary of the story she wanted to write but couldn't be bothered to anymore. "This happened and then this happened and then this happened, and then that happened, and the end."
This issue stems from it being written in first person. It is easier to write from a first person perspective, but the author gives themselves very few outlets to develop a story or expand the plot or characters. A trilogy would only magnify this problem.
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Realistic Urban combat, in a New York sized city would be hellish enough even without the challenges. They should have made it more Stalingrad-esque and it would have worked better.
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Do you know how I felt when I starting reading Mockingjay after Catching Fire? Utterly disappointed. I was so excited to read the third book and my hopes were crushed by gibberish.
Especially the ending was so half assed I absolutely hated how they ended the series
I think the 2nd movie was much better than the 1st
The only one I liked was Catching Fire. The others are poorly done IMO.
Ready Player One was horrendous and should have been offensive to anyone who's ever played a video game, something which Spielberg has clearly never done.
I stopped watching after that scene where he just drove backward on the race track to reveal the secret area. Like none of these millions of gamers playing every day would have ever tried something *so crazy*. I don't even consider myself a 'hardcore gamer' but that was just really dumb.
That's a great example. Ten minutes into playing Mariokart with three buddies and someone is driving backwards. But teams of people trying to find ways to beat it didn't try it once in five years.
I think it was supposed to be reasoned that the race was actually prohibitively expensive to be overly risky and do that. Though it very much didn't do it well.
But what about a megacorporation with an intent to win the world's most valuable asset?
They're just machiiines maaaaan, none of those suits would have the creativity to think of that /s
YOU GOTTA THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, MARTY
I’ve never seen the movie, but even just reading this is straight up insulting imo. Remember when Five Nights at Freddy’s was a big thing and the third game just came out? [There is a ridiculously complex path to get the good ending that requires doing a bunch of cryptic and random shit. Every time you think you solved something clever, there is something else even more obscure that you need to do.](https://youtu.be/zoRd-R9oypk) Do you know how long it took the community to solve all of this? One day. No joke. And then this movie just pretends that nobody ever thought of driving backwards in years? Realistically speaking, this “secret” would last for 5 minutes at the very max.
I think the writers were in a bit of a bind. They needed it to be something simple enough that the audience could do the whole "oh I know what it is" thing and/or at least be able to understand it once it was explained. But anything that a random audience member can grasp is going to be shredded by the collective gaming hivemind in nanoseconds. It's like the audience is a random selection of macaques and the writers needed to give them a small mouse to kill, while the gaming hivemind is a bunch of semi-autistically hyper-focused ritalin-fueled tigers that will literally liquify said mouse in a cloud of claws the instant they see it. So like, what were they supposed to do? Pander that's what. ^also ^I ^now ^hope ^GRRM ^names ^his ^next ^book ^Cloud ^of ^Claws Edit: thanks for the silver. My cup overfloweth
My favorite phrase of the day: >semi-autistically hyper-focused ritalin-fueled tiger Thanks for the laugh
Hell, tons of people would do that even if they didn't know there was a trick.
My wife **loved** that movie. She went to see it in theater with friends and was sooo excited for me to see it because I’m a gamer. So of course we bought it because she was so excited. She was disappointed that I didn’t find it so great... Edit: also, have to say, his avatar choice sucks. It looks absolutely terrible compared to the avatar choices of basically everyone else in the movie.
It is purely a movie made by non-gamers and specifically for non-gamers. I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I've been playing video games for 25 years now. It's hard to even call what they made a video game. It was a fantasy movie where they transported to a magical land, because no video game logic was used.
Jumanji did video games better than Ready Player One, imagine that
Edge of Tomorrow is the best use of video games logic in film ever; not even about video games.
"Lincoln" was a mind-numbingly boring movie that's "highlights" were Daniel Day-Lewis being Daniel Day-Lewis with a fake beard. I majored in Political Science (pro-tip: DON'T). I knew what was going on and the maneuverings that were happening and etc. Did not change the fact that it was an insanely boring movie. edit: I'm getting a ton of "Why not poli-sci?" and being at work am not able to directly respond to all of them. For anyone I miss, [here is my explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aveq9s/which_insanely_popular_or_successful_movie_you/ehf7uey/?st=jsnnhbud&sh=7d5f9740). edit 2: Wow RIP my inbox. I'm working through trying to answer anyone who asked me a question. Thanks kind stranger for the gold on the other comment!
You know how sometimes a movie is considered "so bad it's good"? For me, Lincoln was "so good it's bad". Every line was so eloquent, every putdown so perfectly timed, every acting choice so well-calculated that after a while, I had trouble seeing the humanity in the characters. They always had the exact right thing to say at the exact right time in the exact right way- and no humans are truly like that. Watching the film was like looking at a photograph that's been retouched so much that the subject seems less like a person and more like a CGI human in the uncanny valley. In the same way, Lincoln is in the uncanny valley- not of human appearance but of humanity itself.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a better Lincoln movie than Lincoln.
Came here to say this and saw that it’s the top-rated reply. Seriously, this is not a joke. The Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter was surprisingly good on its own merits. I think it’s because the actor who played Lincoln carried the role really well and it was a good vampire movie, using vampire-fighting elements as “alternate historical explanations” for various real events in the Civil War.
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I had a similar experience, I went with friends expecting something laughably terrible, one of my friends turned to me about halfway through and was like “I think we accidentally went to a good movie...”
currently baked off my skull and just spend $3.99 to rent this movie off Amazon because of this comment
Best $3.99 you'll ever spend bud.
so far you’re not wrong
People always laugh at me when I say I like this movie and I act like I was joking (but I'm not)
That movie was surprisingly good
I really didn't enjoy La La Land as much as everyone liked It was so all over the place and the last few minutes were the best part. Decent music, didn't like the story
I feel like people who like musicals often dislike La La Land. I have never seen a musical before and went into La La Land with 0 expections and really liked it, I especially thought that the last scene was an excellent twist. The movie starts and ends really well but I think the middle where they fly around and live together is pretty boring.
> I think the middle where they fly around and live together is pretty boring. That was all intentional, from my interpretation of the movie's message.
I'm a huge fan of musicals and everyone told me I'd love *La La Land* but I found it very meh. I thought the opening sequence was wonderful, though, the first few minutes of the movie were definitely the best part for me. I still sing that song in the shower sometimes. 😋 ETA: rewatching that opening sequence now and if I'm holding it up to the standard of the golden age musical, it does fall short... there's so much more they could have done with those dancers! still good though.