Airplane! It's okay just not my cup of tea
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Clerks. Couldn't get over the shitty forced acting.
The Shining. I've seen so many parodies and homages before seeing the original, that I just kept laughing and couldn't get into the horror part of it whatsoever.
goonies
Yeah, I guess you must have watched it when you were young to really get into it. Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time, because it is such a classic, and was so underwhelmed and bored.
A Clockwork Orange. I read the book first and was excited to see the movie but ultimately I found it really slow and boring. It's not a great adaptation in my opinion.
I don't understand this movie at all! Maybe I'm too dumb for it's high score on imdb lol.
Faces of Death (1978)
The first viewing was full of shock value.
After that it was not my cup of tea. Repulsive on many levels.
Now that subject matter is just a normal Tuesday on Reddit.
Princess Bride
So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature
Mulholland Drive
Was going to post this. I like weird, but it tried to be weird for weird's sake. Doesn't help that the first half started off as a pilot for a new TV series and was dusted off and turned into a movie years later.
2001 Space Odyssey.
It's just so bad. Objectively bad. And I rarely use that term, because movies and art are so subjective.
It feels like it was trying to be a showcase of 1960's film technology, and I've got nothing about that. It's shot well, and it's kinda cool seeing how they had to do things back then.
But the plot feels like it was written mostly during a bad acid trip that just wouldn't end. I'm fully convinced that its one of those things that people pretend to like so they can pretentiously chortle with their film buddies about "how the common man just doesn't have the attention span needed to appreciate it."
It's an hour too long and the plot is so basic yet so overly convoluted.
I always interpreted it as Kubrick trying to give you a feel for how vast even just the solar system is, and how long space travel takes. It's slow and not much happens for long periods, because travelling to Jupiter is slow and not much happens for long periods.
I agree that doesn't make it an easy watch, but if you get into the right frame of mind to watch it, it gives you a kind of uneasy existential dread at the vastness of the universe and our inconsequential smallness in it, that very little other sci-fi does.