Everyone has their own opinion about things in life and films are no exception. Every now and then I will be looking at a list of "best of (insert whatever here)" and come across an entry that just makes my eyes roll. These films that I am going to talk to now are basically lauded by everyone as being amazing and most of them were critical successes. Maybe I am just not cultured enough to "get it" but not only do I NOT think these are the "best of (insert whatever here)" but I feel as though they are boring.
The Breakfast Club
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Considered one of the most iconic movies of the 80's, this entire film is about 5 teens who all have to spend an entire day in detention together. The film is mostly dialogue and very little in the way of action. There is a message in there about how people from different walks of life can find common ground if they are stuck together long enough, but for me this film is about a bunch of people whining for 90 minutes straight.
We've got all the high-school stereotypes in one place: The jock, the brainiac, the freak, the outcast tough guy, and the princess.
On a side note I have never understood why Molly Ringwald was ever considered a hottie. Her career crashed and burned less than a decade later and not even getting her boobies out for "B" movies was able to change this.
Before anyone asks, I didn't just watch this last week and can't appreciate it because it is dated. I was alive when it was released and was subjected to everyone ooohing and aaaahing over this film when it was still in theaters.
Do The Right Thing
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This may have been Spike Lee's directorial debut, I'm not sure about that and I don't care enough to look it up. This is a film about racist stereotypes and how they are bad. It is also 90 minutes of mostly annoying dialogue that reaches its apex when a pizza place gets trashed and burned because the owner, who is an upstanding and caring member of the community screams the N word when he is faced with a bunch of annoying and shouting customers while he is trying to close his shop.
It is often listed as the number one movie of all of the 80's and when I read / hear that my eyes roll so far into my head that I can see what is behind me. I suffered through this movie once because I wanted to see what all the hooplah was about and found it difficult to make it through.
To attempt to be fair to the people who love this film, I saw it decades after it was released so perhaps time has taken its toll on this one.
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Scorsese and DiCaprio frequently team up to go and make a bunch of money together and I gotta be honest, I don't really like any of the movies they have formed a tag team for. This one is based on a true story, which is something that I normally enjoy, especially if I wasn't already familiar with the story and in this case I wasn't. There are a couple of reasons why I don't like this movie but one of the main reasons is that I don't think that Leo was the correct casting choice for the role of Jordan Belfort. He is entirely too "kiddish" for such a dominant role and his constant shouting isn't awe inspiring, it is annoying.
While this film does have it's fun moments, they are also incredibly sexist but whatever, that is probably what things were like back in the 80's anyway.
The Hurt Locker
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This movie was not boring but did it really deserve six Oscars including a Best Picture Oscar? There are a ton of war movies out there that are much better than this one and The Hurt Locker has the added "bonus" of being nausea-inducing with the free running camera style which is something I have always hated in films. There is a reason why we have those expensive tracks and dollies in most big-budget productions yet this one wins accolades for skipping it. For some, that is original way of shooting scenes, for me it hurt my eyes and gave me a headache.
The Revenant
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Yes, DiCaprio gets to make the list twice and I really feel as though he won "Best Actor" simply because of his ties to Hollywood and because it was his turn. If you want to see a film that Leo really deserves accolades for go and watch Blood Diamond - he was perfect in that role and was a believable con-man / smuggler but he is NOT a believable tough guy, which is what he plays in The Revenant.
The film is also too long and other than the part where the bear mauls the crap out of him, a lot of it is very boring.
The poster says "Inspired by True Events!" but historians have scoffed at this claim all over the place since very very little of this film can actually be traced back to actual events. I think the only real events was that Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) was a real person and there were people in the Dakotas that were trappers at that particular point in time. The rest of the film is made up.
Most people I meet say they love this film but to me, you would have to pay me to get me to watch it again.
Do you have any films that it seems everyone loves but you disagree about? Do you disagree with my choices? I'd love to hear about it in the comments if that is the case!
i have same opinion with the revenant, i don't really enjoy it. But wolf of wallstreet is awesome for me
Yeah, Leo probably got nominated for some awards because of Wolf, but didn't win them, as is tradition.
I love all these movies hahaha. I think they are excellent movies, but well, everyone has their own tastes. There are movies that are weird and I love them and most people don't like them.
The movies that everyone loves and I hate are all that Marvel crap, hey, I watch them and have fun, but I really hate those movies and all the series and inventions of the super hero franchise. Now everyone walks around like sheep watching Wandavision, subjected to the power of marketing. Other movies that everyone loves and I don't, are the last six star wars movies and all their spin offs, either movies or tv series.
Superhero films done by big studios piss me off and I know why they are doing them: It is because the Asian markets eat them up and the worldwide gross on the latest Marvel blockbuster is all but guaranteed to make a vast fortune, even if the movie is terrible.... and most of them are.
The only superhero films that I like are atypical ones such as the Christian Bale Batman films (just 1 and 2 - to a much lessor degree 3 is ok) and then something a bit different like Deadpool... Almost all of the other ones are garbage. But just like Mark Hammel said when he was drunk in an interview one day
" It doesn't matter if it is any good, it only matters if it makes money!"