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Ferngully.... Dances With Wolves... The Last Samurai... Pocohantas.
But, Avatar did that story better than any of those movies ever did. Gotta give the devil his due.
Overrated movie you've ever seen?
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Ferngully.... Dances With Wolves... The Last Samurai... Pocohantas.
But, Avatar did that story better than any of those movies ever did. Gotta give the devil his due.
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I seriously didn't understand the praise.
I seriously didn't understand the praise.
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Days of Future Past and First Class are at the very top of the list for me. I think people overrated the shit out of these 2 because 1) We have yet to get an actual X-Men movie in 16 years and 8 trys, and D) People seem to have a tendency to ignore the overall worth of a film(CBMs at least) when there's exceptional performances from one or more of the actors. Dark Knight is a victim of the same offense. With First Class; Fassbender and Macavoy did great, but the rest of the cast/writing/everything was just mediocre to shit. Dark Knight; Ledger killed it as Joker with a groundbreaking/once in a lifetime(literally in this case) role, but the rest of it was just not that good. On that note; Christian Bale is the most overrated Batman we've had yet. People are blind to how horrible he was as Bruce/Bats because his supporting cast did such a great job that I think they're just rating him as a great Batman based on the merit of the one great aspect of the franchise: The villains.
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Bone Tomahawk and Drive got tons of praise here, but I was bored as shit. Both had good cinematography, and Drive also had an excellent soundtrack, but that's about it.
Been a long time since I saw it, but Requiem For A Dream is a movie I never understood the hype for. Last I saw it was before I touched hard drugs, and even then I thought it was heavy handed.
Funny story, back when I reviewed movies I remember writing in my review for Requiem, "I have never touched drugs and never plan too..."
Been a long time since I saw it, but Requiem For A Dream is a movie I never understood the hype for. Last I saw it was before I touched hard drugs, and even then I thought it was heavy handed.
Funny story, back when I reviewed movies I remember writing in my review for Requiem, "I have never touched drugs and never plan too..."
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I remember watching this when I was 16 and being so hyped to see this "classic" modern comedy, and then hating it.
Fast forward to this year (I'm 28 now), I rewatched it and loved it.
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Lol one of the dumbest fucking movies
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Birdman.
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well it has been probably 15 years since i watched it, so maybe i will give it another lookI remember watching this when I was 16 and being so hyped to see this "classic" modern comedy, and then hating it.
Fast forward to this year (I'm 28 now), I rewatched it and loved it.
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Just like pretty much every movie ever made? Also, that's not even true. There's been a consequential death. Do you really need to watch everyone die or something? Why do they have to die? Is your whole movie experience based around if characters die or not? They wouldn't be superheroes if they died so easily and there wouldn't be stories about them. Do you hate all movies where nobody of consequence dies or just limit it to Marvel?
It's a continuing, evolving universe that's set over a longer period of time, but you want a bunch of people to die within a couple of months into the MU? How in the hell would someone like Loki die on Earth, or pretty much anywhere for that matter? Nobody is at risk of dying? Wait for the IW movies...
Overrated Movie: E.T. - Stupid alien gets lost, stupid alien gets found. The end.
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Why so angry?
The consequences and tone in superhero movies tend not to match the stakes.
It's not just about characters dying. Nobody needs to die in Pretty Woman because that is beyond the stakes and tone of the film. Nobody needs to die in American Pie because that is beyond the stakes and tone of the film.
Hell, nobody even NEEDS to die in a superhero movie, but if I don't feel like anybody is actually at risk of dying when the entire city / country / world / universe is supposedly hanging in the balance, then it wasn't a completely effective film experience for me.
Civil War... Don Cheadle does a terminal velocity bellyflop from cruising altitude and slams into the earth. Don't worry guys, we have vitals. Cut to Don Cheadle in a hospital bed.
Chill out...
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Gran Torino - Not an awful premise, but my fuck, some of worst acting you'll ever see. Eastwood is alright in it, but the Asian cast is painful to watch.
Drive - I like it, but I never really understood the crazy devotion to this film some have.
Drive - I like it, but I never really understood the crazy devotion to this film some have.
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i recently watched evil dead and evil dead 2. felt meh as fuck watching them
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I wasn't aware that being curious and asking questions was a sign of anger. So what about there being high stakes? They need high stakes to overcome hence why they're superheroes. They're not run-of-the-mill heroes or barely heroes. They're basically larger than life heroes. And what do you mean nothing is at risk?
Cap went down with the ship and was encased in ice for decades, and awoke in an alien world where the woman he loved, Peggy Carter, was old, had a family, and ended up dying. QS died. Why do you think Black Panther was so pissed off in Civil War? No risk my ass. Thor was stripped of his power and booted out of Asgard for a time. Loki turned against Thor and became a villain. Hawkeye was mindraped into helping the other side. Groot sacrificed himself, but he has regen powers. Stark has nearly died a number of times. He's also pushed Pepper Potts away. Coulson 'died' in a movie. There's the Superhuman Registration Act which divided the team and caused them to come to blows. Bucky was brainwashed and turned into a villain and later disappeared for some time. Hulk is away. Thousands have died in the movies and it's caused hatred/mistrust of the superheroes. They've gone through hell and have had to make a number of sacrifices over the course of the movies.
It's an extended story told over a multitude of movies where the point isn't as much about whether they'll survive in the early movies as it about so many other things that you should actually be focusing on instead if half of the superheroes die at the beginning of their superhero career. To me, it's a strange thing to be so fixated on.
It's been well-established that Stark is super-genius that designs things very, very well. It's not some sort of rinky-dink armor. Regular humans have survived falls where they reached terminal velocity, but someone in a badass suit of armor can't?
