2001: A space odyssey. Boring, artsy movie that has maybe 30 minutes of story stretched to over 2 hours.
The funny thing is that it’s a 2.5 hour movie. Those 30 minutes of story are still only stretched out over the first 2 hours. The last half hour is just boring artsy effects flashing before your eyes.
Oh my god yes. I honestly tried, really hard, and I like a lot of fairly artsy films - but I just can’t enjoy 2001. Everyone says it’s so deep, so meaningful. And yes I’ve done the deep dives, I know about the star child and the evolutionary leaps and all of the meanings.
To me it just falls flat because it’s just trying so hard to be a deep and meaningful film. There’s no story to bridge it, there’s no nuance to me, it’s just beating you over the head with “Hey, look, look at how deep and meaningful this is, it’s so important you understand this is more than just a film”
Gravity. At the time I attended a “higher-tier” course in Physics (German schooling system), so I noticed an awful lot of ridiculous non-physics, which completely broke the movie for me.
Uncut Gems. We turned it off when it became apparent how it would end, when he pawned KG’s necklace to place a bet on him. There wasn’t any reason to care about a guy on a self inflicted downward spiral with no redeeming qualities. Would he win or lose? Would a bookie shoot him or would he make a fortune with that weird opal? Who cares? You’re not rooting for him to win, and he’s probably going to self destruct. Maybe they try to make some vapid point about addiction by having him win big and then immediately killing him so he dies happy, like the end of Sopranos only the character is mildly autistic and unlikeable.
Barbie. The movie ending with Barbie apologizing to Ken was so infuriating.
Maybe that was the point but goshdarn did it make me see red.
Also there ended up being no point to the Mattel board drama. It didn’t affect the plot at all and at the end it was still all men making decisions based on profit.
Perfect liberal movie, lip service without changing a thing.
Interesting, my zoomer sister says the message seemed obvious to her: she thinks it was a clear and intentional criticism of the useless “thoughts and prayers” mentality of lots of liberals. Acknowledging a problem does diddly squat without the next step of actually taking steps to fix it. That corporate DE&I initiatives are just a cash grab camouflaged by rainbows.
That didn’t happen in the movie though, there was no next step taken. America pitches the idea and the man in charge is about to say no until another man says it will make a lot of money. There’s no implication of her being promoted or anything. The Mattel leadership doesn’t change, the patriarchy doesn’t change, and Barbieland didn’t fundamentally change either. A couple characters changed their outlooks on themselves, which isn’t a bad thing but it’s also not that profound. The movie identifies some bigger problems but ends up just accepting them and moving on. And I think reading intention into that is probably giving the studio too much credit. Especially when you could replace the board with a literal roadblock and it wouldn’t change anything about the rest of the plot. To be clear, I thought it was a fun movie, I just don’t think it’s as groundbreaking as many make it out to be.
Uh, yeah. That’s what I said. It acknowledged issues and did nothing about them, or only did a thing when it was also pointed out it would make money. My sister believes it did this intentionally as a critique about modern, ineffective liberals.
In which case I would point to this part of my comment.
And I think reading intention into that is probably giving the studio too much credit. Especially when you could replace the board with a literal roadblock and it wouldn’t change anything about the rest of the plot.
That and (speculation) I’m pretty sure most of the people making this movie are liberals themselves.
Oppenheimer. Had to turn it off after 30 of trying.
Inception. I actually slept through it 2 times, so maybe I do have some connection with the movie :D I liked the visuals and the music, but I couldn’t get on with the story, it felt too complicated/boring to me.
The Star Wars movies are garbage.
One Hour Photo. I don’t know if it was Oscar bait or what, but I don’t understand how it has 80% on RT.
Shutter Island, the trailer gave away the whole movie and the trope has been done to death
Parasite
It didn’t feel as grounded as it seemed to want to be. A bit too indulgent with the family take over. And overall it was much more sympathetic to the wealthy family than to the poors, but that one is more of a moral critique than an artistic one.
Lord of the rings. I was furious. The effects were absolute cheese. And why were they so long. I can just about read it in the time it takes to watch
Seriously! It feels so stretched out. Froto journeys across the land and drops a ring in a volcano. The End
Rogue One. Walked out at “Yer a
wizardrebel now!”If you’re a SW fan at all, I recommend trying again. For me it goes Empire > Rogue One > everything else.
It took me 3 tries to get through Rogue One, it’s such a garbage movie.
No, don’t you understand? If you’re a fan you HAVE TO WATCH IT AGAIN UNTIL YOU LIKE IT
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I love martial arts films in general, but this one didn’t grab me.
Autistic? Like me?
