Overrated movies.

[guest]

Silver Linings Playbook is actually terrible and really gay.

 

[Kim_Jong_Poon_]

Nick Mullen has a great bit about how in the film he doesn't even realize the guy at the mental home is his brother until he gets in his car, so he was just harassing a retard for no reason.

That was a banger, "Raymond, you read all these books? You fucking retard." I think the best part of that podcast is when Mullen starts describing movies. Chinatown, The Way Back, Steven Seagal movies, Of Mice and Men are all great bits

 

[analeggsalad]

There Will Be Blood
Scarface
Raging Bull
The Graduate
The Godfather I&II
Forrest Gump
Christopher Nolan
Magnolia
Almost Famous
Get Out
Robert Altman
The Matrix

 

[Stent]

Mulholland Dr.

It's a film graduate circle-jerk movie. I watched it, didn't see the appeal, had some people roll their eyes and do the "OMG you just didn't get it" routine. So I re-watched it. Read up about it. Learned a bunch of different opinions about it. Watched it again. Still think it's not worth the time. It has some interesting scenes etc but as a movie it's boring as shit. A movie about Hollywood and stupid women. No thanks.

 

[fenrir]

Post-Rushmore Wes Anderson can eat my ass. He's superficially arty with nothing interesting or funny to say. He should stick to making actual cartoons like Fantastic Mr. Fox instead of the live action ones he gets Oscars for.

Mulholland Dr.

It's a film graduate circle-jerk movie. I watched it, didn't see the appeal, had some people roll their eyes and do the "OMG you just didn't get it" routine. So I re-watched it. Read up about it. Learned a bunch of different opinions about it. Watched it again. Still think it's not worth the time. It has some interesting scenes etc but as a movie it's boring as shit. A movie about Hollywood and stupid women. No thanks.

I like Lynch's movies but that one is probably my least favorite. People tie themselves in knots trying to explain his movies when they're fever dreams at best. I like to imagine Lynch reading all those redditfag fan theories and cackling to himself:

"She's my mother's sister's girl!"

 

[guest]

I'll post the first controversial opinion for da sub. Dirty Work with Norm and Artie. I love Adam Sandlers films from the 90s (billy madison, happy gilmore, waterboy etc) and Dirty Work just felt like a "light" version of those.

 

[Snake]

What a hardass. My great grandfather was English and fought in North Africa in some tank battles but he died a few years after the war so what I know of his tour is all second or third hand.

Was able to find some stuff from a historian that did a write up about him and I didn't even know he had a brother who was over there too.

The brother was in H company and he was in F company, 82 Airborne the one that Joe wears a hat for. Fucking fat faggot.

His company was involved with three campaigns prior to Normandy and got promoted every time up to Staff Sergeant before going in on D-Day. He was the CO of his unit and got the Silver Star for defending a bridge from spaghetti niggers in 1943.

 

[Mr. Faggotry]

I’ll stand by the one and I’m not saying it’s a bad movie but it’s completely overrated:

 

[TehSamurai]

12 Angry Men. It's interpretation of the legal process and reasonable doubt is retarded. On top of that, Juror 8's actions were grounds for a mistrial.

 

[guest]

That movie, A Quiet Place, with the aliens with super hearing was a disappointment.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I could watch interviews with David Lynch all day. He's cool as fuck in a dying breed kind of way. I straight up don't get any of his movies. Every time I say that some fag jumps down my throat calling me a retarded dumbass. The only one I've seen that think I sort of understand is Eraserhead. They're all like my dreams, which don't make any sense either. Except Paul Weimer doesn't rape me in David Lynch movies.

 

[guest]

I could watch interviews with David Lynch all day. He's cool as fuck in a dying breed kind of way. I straight up don't get any of his movies. Every time I say that some fag jumps down my throat calling me a retarded dumbass. The only one I've seen that think I sort of understand is Eraserhead. They're all like my dreams, which don't make any sense either. Except Paul Weimer doesn't rape me in David Lynch movies.

I have never seen Inland Empire. I can't find it anywhere. It looks.... interesting. His best works are Twin Peaks and Eraserhead.

 

[Udders]

I could watch interviews with David Lynch all day. He's cool as fuck in a dying breed kind of way. I straight up don't get any of his movies. Every time I say that some fag jumps down my throat calling me a retarded dumbass. The only one I've seen that think I sort of understand is Eraserhead. They're all like my dreams, which don't make any sense either. Except Paul Weimer doesn't rape me in David Lynch movies.

They are out there for sure. I liked Lost Highway and it was probably the most straight ahead (for Lynch movies) to 'get.'

 

[Stent]

I could watch interviews with David Lynch all day. He's cool as fuck in a dying breed kind of way. I straight up don't get any of his movies. Every time I say that some fag jumps down my throat calling me a retarded dumbass. The only one I've seen that think I sort of understand is Eraserhead.

He coulda been a model to be honest witcha.

I liked Eraserhead up until the baby started crying. I can't listen to that at all.

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

Was able to find some stuff from a historian that did a write up about him and I didn't even know he had a brother who was over there too.

The brother was in H company and he was in F company, 82 Airborne the one that Joe wears a hat for. Fucking fat faggot.

His company was involved with three campaigns prior to Normandy and got promoted every time up to Staff Sergeant before going in on D-Day. He was the CO of his unit and got the Silver Star for defending a bridge from spaghetti niggers in 1943.

He sounds like a badass dude. I wish he was here today to slap Joe for cosplaying as a member of his unit.

 

[CuckQueen]

That was a banger, "Raymond, you read all these books? You fucking retard." I think the best part of that podcast is when Mullen starts describing movies. Chinatown, The Way Back, Steven Seagal movies, Of Mice and Men are all great bits

And he brings up the part where Tom Cruise finally realizes that "Rain Man" was Raymond. "So you remember some retard that lived with you, and couldn't connect Rain Man to Raymond? Who's the real retard?"

 

[analeggsalad]

I can't find it anywhere.

believable !

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

Tennet

Anyone ever seen this pos the backward thing was pure cringe and they probably spent a lot of time training/making it

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

Donnie Darko. Everyone I grew up with raved about it but outside of a couple memorable/weird scenes, it’s not very good.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Very boring to me. Bunch of try hard’s seemed to enjoy it in my circle as lart of their “I do drugs, maaaaaan” identities.

Saving Private Ryan. I loved this movie growing up. Has some amazing combat scenes. I’m a fan of Tom Sizemore and Giovanni Ribisi. Pedo Hanks is great in many films. Edward Burns is solid in it. But the plot is such unbelievable dreck and Spielberg’s depiction of the German’s as either faceless targets or conniving weasels was bothersome. In a movie that long there was plenty of time to give some perspective on the opponents. Perhaps he could have cut back that dogshit scene with Ted Danson and Paul Giamatti. I still like it but I severely overrated it for most of my life.

The original Star Wars trilogy is shit. I loved it as a kid, it’s campy fun, but they just suck. Empire is easily the best. A New Hope is hack garbage but novel for the time. Jedi is hilariously bad. Just a pile of shit.

Forrest Gump. Massive movie in it’s day, many of my friends speak highly of it still. I find it to be cloying garbage with the most infeasible plot of all time until they started making movies where they pretended Seth Rogen was funny.

The Departed. Enjoyable enough but Infernal Affairs was way better. I love Jack Nicholson but he phoned in his performance in this movie. Damon and DiCaprio aren’t great to me. DiCaprio either whispers or yells in every scene he’s ever in, and Damon just bores me I don’t know why.

Speaking of Matt Damon, the Bourne films suck dick too. Damon and Stiles are just awful.

Saw the Shining mentioned. I love that movie. For me it creates an uneasy tension/tone throughout the entire film that I find incredibly hard to achieve. Very elaborate sets that add to the tone. I love the performances by Nicholson and Duvall (even though she often gets shit on for it), and I think it’s a good mystery in the sense of trying to figure out what’s real, what’s a dream or hallucination. It used jump scares sparingly and mostly stayed away from slasher tropes and mostly went with creating a profound sense of unease in the viewer. I personally enjoy that a lot in a horror/thriller. Also, many people read into themes about the moon landing, Vietnam war, wealthy/influential people being pedophiles, corrupt old money in America or the massacre of Natives in the US. I find the lack of clear interpretation to be fun in movies rather than being spoonfed a plot.

I get why some people don’t like it though. The performances are over the top (by design apparently, but still), it doesn’t really fit into the horror genre all that neatly, the plot really makes no sense on the surface because Nicholson began the movie insane, pretty much, rather than being driven insane by the house like in the novel. It also isn’t particularly scary for a horror at all, it’s mostly just unsettling throughout. It’s one of my favs though.

Completely agree on the Dark Knight trilogy sucking and 100% agree on how badly they fucked up Ras Al Ghul. I generally hate superhero garbage anyway, but holy shit is Liam Neeson terrible. He just fucking sucks ass in everything. Wooden as hell. Ledger, as has been stated, carried that franchise on his back. The intro scene to the 3rd movie was a strong action scene with good actors but beyond that is was forgettable trash.

I was gonna say Donnie Darko too. Haven't heard about it since and would never watch it again but it was all the rage for a month. WTF is that shit even?

Fear and Loathing is great.

 

[UnPRePared]

Hmm, my kind of thread.

I've been shit on for disliking Altman's The Long Goodbye, but seriously, it doesn't work for me. Don't get me wrong, it has its moments - and anyone who's seen it knows the moments that stand out - but it feels lackadaisical at times, muddy visuals, and in moments, the oddest cinematography. I love the character of Phillip Marlowe, going all the way back to Dick Powell and Bogart (James Garner not so much, but big props to old-ass Robert Mitchum), but I think my biggest issue is Elliot Gould. I never bought him as Marlowe.

Godfather 1 & 2 are good, but feel so full of themselves. Something about the Director Revolution of the 70's makes a lot of those films retroactively feel up their own ass, like an artificial seriousness glazed over it and beating you over the head that "This is heavy maaaaaan, and if you don't see it, you're just not smart!" No, you're just not my kind of movie most of the time, asshole. I could name several and I know each one would piss someone here off, so I'll leave it as the biggest offender.

Anyone who wants to call a Marvel film "art" can get curb stomped by Ed Norton. They are purely disposable, like everything Disney makes - even before Disney bought them, it was obvious. The only minor exception I'll give you is "Winter Soldier", and that exception is still tenuous at best.

I have to second Star Wars here. I don't get how people take it so seriously when it's pure mindlessness. For all it ripped off from Kurosawa, and bloody hell, did it ever - "It's like 'The Hidden Fortress'... In SPACE!" - it took none of his cleverness, depth or heart. The people who live and die over that property should starve in a Soviet bread line.

AndI know it's blasphemy, but I can't stand Ben Hur. Just can never get through it.