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This is me with most Tarantino films. I watched Pulp Fiction and have no idea what actually happened in that movie.
That sounds like a you problem. It’s really not hard to follow.
Tarantino films are dense with dialogue and cultural references, but the plot and characters are usually very simple.
Feet and the n-word
Guy gets a watch.
Nothing much, really, at the end of the day.
Really? I understand not liking it, taste is personal and his movies are quirky to say the least… but not understanding the plot? were you on your phone all movie (my wife does this and then complains she got lost). I ask because the plot of pulp fiction could be written in half a page, the only thing complex about it is that it is shown async
“i can’t follow the plot”
bitch, put the fucking phone down for longer than 30s and maybe you will
My wife once asked if we could rewind two minutes, where I told her “Just this once. Will not happen next time you’re on the phone during a movie”. She never repeated it, but still has to look at her phone many times during movies.
In my experience, when people are on their phone throughout the movie, it’s usually a sign that they find the movie incredibly boring. Some people simply don’t like watching 2 hours of people talking.
“i can’t follow the plot”
bitch, put the fucking phone down for longer than 30s and maybe you will
I disagree… I have seen so many people, my wife included, not letting the phone down for a good 15-20 minutes after the movie starts, by then, they are already lost so the movie never had a chance
If you find a movie boring, stop it… why ruin it for yourself and all around you by being on the phone throughout the duration of the movie?
I CAME FOR ASPLOSIONS.
I find many of his movies enjoyable, but they definitely is a required taste. The last Tarantino movie I saw was the hateful 8 and I hated that movie so much, so I get where you’re coming from. Haven’t watched his movie about Hollywood because I cannot bring myself to care about Hollywood people making movies about life in Hollywood. The only Hollywood director who could get away with that was David Lynch, but he also had so much more to say and his Hollywood-focused films were so much deeper than the typical navel gazing bullshit in that specific niche genre. Under the Silver Lake is a movie I wish I could unsee. Ironically another film that people seem to love, but where I’m just over here like: okay Hollywood, don’t gas yourself to death with all that farthuffing.
Time in Hollywood is good, but then if you did like hateful 8 maybe his movies just arent for you
I don’t think you read what I wrote, my friend. Me hating one of his movies doesn’t mean his entire filmography isn’t for me. I have enjoyed the vast majority of his films, believe it or not. I just really hated that one.
And as for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, it’s not because he made it that I don’t care to watch it, it’s because I don’t like Hollywood movies about Hollywood. I find most of them to be pretentious, navel gazing and deeply uninteresting.
well, you might like Time in Hollywood then it’s more a critique/look behind the curtain kinda movie thing
I can give it a watch at some point, for sure.
It kinda is navel gazing though. Sort of like how Inglorious Basterds (which I would recommend) is alternate history about some violent dudes killing bad guys, the Hollywood movie is like that… except Hollywood.
So instead of Brad Pitt playing a bad ass that kills Hitler, it’s Brad Pitt playing a bad ass killing the Manson family cultists before they do those murders. Maybe the implication is that Roman Polanski wouldn’t have become a child rapist if that happened? There’s some kind of implication that 70s Hollywood was awesome until the Manson family ruined everything.
Anyway, it’s basically like Inglorious Basterds, but Hollywood. Definitely one of Tarantino’s weaker movies, maybe better than Hateful 8 (seemed more like a stage play to me) but not by much. Unless, like Tarantino, you get off on women showing off their dirty feet while watching 70s movies, you can probably give it a miss.
the feet are always clean, you animal
This was me with “One Battle after another”, it was not incomprehensible rather the opposite, it was very simple. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think the movie is bad or anything but for such hype created I was expecting it to be a bit more revolutionary. It also doesn’t help that you need to watch DeCaprio shouting Viva la revolución
I really like Bugonia, Code 3 and Roofman from the recent movies I watched. Bugonia is a little confusing but it’s still easy to get it’s message. The other two are quite simple but the opposite of boring.
How was Bugonia confusing in any way?
The end is a a lot to take in. Don’t you think? I’ve also seen a lot of people misunderstand the movie so I cane to that conclusion.
Paul Thomas Anderson has dug a hole for himself. He really can’t do better than his previous work so he necessarily has to do worse. Licorice Pizza was also not great. I haven’t seen One Battle yet but the vibe around it and trailers made me realize it’s probably a mess or at least marketed poorly.
I watched “Hugo” because it was so critically acclaimed. It had all the awards. Critics loved it…
Most boring, pretentious, film-school self-masturbatory slog I’ve ever watched.
The plot was either boring or incoherent. There a boy in a train station? And now there’s a steampunk robot who… draws movies or something? And some old dude in a shitty apartment has a bunch of obscure history films? What tf are we doing? And the robot is magic now?
The only reason it got high marks is so every critic to wax themselves about how bigbrain cultured they are. The totally got all the niche nods/ode/references and it totally justified their bullshit college degrees…
You watched a children’s adventure comedy movie and surprised it’s a but nonsensical? Unless the critics sold it as something it’s not, I think this one is in you 😄
I saw bits when a flatmate watched it and it was not being treated like a movie aimed at children. Looked dull as dishwater.
right? like… it’s a kids movie. it’s not a biopic or art film. the hell is OP going on about?
Frankenstein was pretty damn good imo.
While watching Frankenstein I realized I was seeing what will be a classic movie. Not sure I’ve ever felt that during a show.
I thought the cgi was pretty lackluster for a 2014 movie. Looked like a ps2 cutscene at times. But I still enjoyed it. The werewolves were hot.
Not sure if joke or just missing the 2025 Del Toro version that came out on Netflix…
i don’t even know if i’m joking anymore honestly
I think this short video may blow your mind then - https://youtu.be/ezncotSdXDQ.
The Creature actor also took 10-12 hours in makeup each day for shooting. https://youtu.be/Z1zX34F5jvs
It was, and that is one of the worst movies I’ve seen from Guillermo Del Toro IMO. If you enjoyed his adaptation of Frankenstein, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you haven’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth or The Devil’s Backbone. Depends on if you’re okay watching subtitled, though.
I’ll admit I haven’t seen Pan’s yet and I will be watching it this Friday after remembering about it. My first child was born in 2019 which is probably why it fell off my list.
I really enjoyed his adaption of Pinocchio a couple years ago.
I did watch Chronos yesterday for the first time, and while it’s quite dated now the overall premise and story still stands out to some degree.
Pan’s Labyrinth and Devil’s Backbone are both really good. Much better than Cronos imo (which was also pretty good)
Pan’s Labyrinth is soooo fuckin good. And brutal.
Or motherfucking Pacific Rim. That movie is literally just “big robot go boom” and it’s fuckin awesome.
Crimson Peak was pretty meh imo. The visuals were interesting, and I liked the designs of the ghosts.
I haven’t watched Frankenstein yet but I want to. Stupid Netflix.
it was very pretty, but it was weak otherwise. i really expected more compelling storytelling from him.
Don’t forget Pinocchio. In my opinion, that is the best Del Toro movie. Practically flawless and it is a crime that Netflix didnt put it in cinemas and that they refuse to put it on DVD or bluray. Fuck them for real.
Our breakfast television has a movie critic straight out of the feuilleton. Any movie that people actually go to is automatically bad, and there is not enough praise for art house films that makes people fall asleep in the cinema and never even make it to TV or streaming.
Sounds like the time Ebert of Siskel & Ebert gave Twister a thumbs down because “it had no plot.”
But were they wrong?
sounds like a good critic.
Yes, she perfectly recommends what to avoid if you go to the cinema to enjoy yourself.
some of us go to cinema to feel pain.
A few of my friends recommended Eraserhead. It felt like David Lynch was seeing what he could get away with.
Yooooooooooooooo, I have been saying this shit for years.
I hate that movie so goddamned much and the recommendation felt like a friend group initiation prank hahaha
Eraserhead isn’t a movie to be enjoyed, it’s a movie to be regretted, for the rest of your life….
fun fact: that’s a real horse embryoAnother fun fact: it was based on Lynch’s feelings of becoming a father to a baby with deformed feet. His daughter’s feet are ok now, they have a good relationship and she became a film director too!
That’s just David Lynch, no?
You’d think so, but then he makes The Elephant Man and The Straight Story. Both pretty grounded and simple to follow scripts with not too much Lynchness to them. I honestly don’t know what to make of Lynch… he was a man of contrast.
I saw someone suggest The Elephant Man as the best way to introduce someone to Lynch, and after watching it, I totally get it. Amazing film.
Unfortunately, it’s next to impossible to find these days and I was only able to watch it after finding a torrent.
These are my two favorite films of his. I’m not much of a Lynch fan though, so I think it tells.
I absolutely love David Lynch, but Eraserhead is not the first, second nor third Lynch movie I would put on at any given time. I love the radiator girl segment in the film. The rest is forgettable.
I’m more of a Mulholland Drive fangirl. It is one of the best movies ever made in my humble opinion.
Someone also mentioned Elephant Man which is likewise a stellar movie.
It’s my opinion on Citizen Kane, and I’ll die on that hill. It’s just… fine. Nothing extra.
I can understand that I could have been something novel and groundbreaking back then, but calling it the best movie ever made in our time is just beyond me.
I feel this way about Synecdoche, New York, with the caveat that I understand it but just think it’s hot garbage.
I only saw this movie once but it still sticks with me. It was such a weird experience that simultaneously hit super hard and was also empty, vapid nothing.
That sounds a lot like my experience. It’s memorable but felt like it had nothing to say.
I’ve got very little time for Charlie Kaufman. I quite liked Eternal Sunshine, but I generally find his stuff pretentious and get a vibe of smugness. That might be unfair – I guess I’m just not the target audience.
I think his films are just very specific in taste. If you fall into his specific target demographoc the movie is amazing. But it can also depend on the day or it depends strongly on things one has heard about it beforehand. When I first watched Eternal Sunshine I was incredibly awake. There were so many things and strange details that didn’t make sense that my brain was working hard to make sense of it. Later everything clicked and fell into place in an awesome way. I absolutely loved it.
But I know so many people who didn’t like it one bit.
His other movies are also that way. My other favourite: Adaptation. I didn’t like the Netflix one. Or didn’t understand it or didn’t care. Don’t know.
Adaptation is great imo
I recently watched it for the first time and loved it. The disjointed flow of it worked for me as a mechanism to immerse in an experience of a person’s life. Like a speedrun. The themes - including never really launching into life, seeking to but never really connecting with others except post-facto, struggling to understand and metabolize losses, breaching out of the self - all resonated with me so that helped.
I watched a trailer that seemed to pitch it as an absurd comedy, which on reflection is an extremely weird approach.
The themes made sense to me, I just had no desire to endure the repeated misery and alienation of it. I mean, it’s definitely art, I simply find it very ugly. It can be ugly on purpose all it likes, I still find it repulsive.
So you didn’t even finish the movie? Or did I misread
I watched the trailer before watching the film.
I was referring to the part about having no desire to continue
I’ve sat through a lot of things that I didn’t enjoy in my life!
In this case it was my optimistic nature hoping that eventually there would be something I felt was worthwhile. Alas, no, it was just a post-modern miseryfest, from my perspective.
I’ve realised that over time, a lot of my favourite films or ones that I enjoy and basically mainstream blockbusters.
I try to broaden my horizons but quite often, I find these amazing acclaimed films boring.
It’s not quite the same but I was amazed when I got the Criterion edition of Armageddon. All these bonus features about a great blockbuster film.
So imagine my disappointment when every other release from Criterion is a film I’ll probably never watch in the first place.
Example, I took a chance on Brazil because I was in a bit of a Terry Gilliam phase. I quite enjoyed that one. Then I tried Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That DVD never got a second play.
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That’s pretty generous
The Prestige
Why are you booing me I’m right
I always mix that one up with The Illusionist Dx
This was Everything Everywhere All At Once for me. Normally I’m pretty easy to please but this one fell completely flat
To be fair, part of the premise of that movie is to immerse yourself in absurd ideas in parallel universes… for reasons. So it’s not surprising that it gets confusing.
See, I didn’t hate it because it was confusing, I hated it because it felt boring and cringy. Once you get over the initial genre hopping whiplash, it’s just more generic action tropes and multiverse nonsense that had already been done to death by the time that movie came out. At the insistence of the people I was watching with, I admittedly didn’t make it past the expository bagel scene, but once I got the pulse that it was a slice-of-life drama and John Wick thrown in a blender with Rick and Morty, I didn’t mind turning it off, and I usually hate not finishing movies.
I kind of agree that’s what I never really got about it. It’s not mind bending. It’s a classic example of movie snobs having never considered that sci-fi could be art and getting confused when the movie asks the audience to make the slightest leap in imagination.
The thing I did like about it a lot is that it’s a very rare movie, especially an action flick, in which the main character is a 40+ year old woman who actually gets a character arc. That was cool.
The gimmick was gimmicky, sure - and they made sure to do it as gimmicky as possible, all part of its charm.
Its staying power was in the unique story of a mother pulling her daughter away from the precipice of spiralling self-destruction by opening her heart and mind to new ideas and breaking the cycle of generations of cultural abuse.
It genuinely has a wonderful message, and I remember it for that, and less for its action/scifi
The ending is fairly relevant to the quality of the movie
Alright, I got around to finishing it sooner than I expected.
Fully agree: the second half of the movie does actually go somewhere with all the nonsense. The character development is fantastic, and the sci-fi actually is used as a creative way to explore self worth and interpersonal relationships.
I stand by my frustration with what comes across as gratuitous, dated feeling humor and tropes (Scott Pilgrim, Rick and Morty, “so random! XD” Internet culture), but it definitely has a lot more depth and substance than I was ready to give it credit for.
Noted. I’ll give the rest of it a shot sometime.
once I got the pulse that it was a slice-of-life drama and John Wick thrown in a blender with Rick and Morty, I didn’t mind turning it off
See, for me that was the appeal.
I feel like a lot of the audience is so media illiterate they didn’t get that and instead treated it like some cinematic masterpiece with all these deep messages.
The bagel scene was silly nonsense completely on-par with your metaphor, but it was fun too. Anyone who thinks the bagel has all these deep layers beyond just a quippy scifi joke is the embodiment of the “To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty” copypasta lmao
It’s not confusing at all, it’s one of the most straightforward and easy to follow plots imo. Would definitely satisfy the “second screen” criteria of most at-home streaming audiences lol
Honestly, maybe that’s the real reason it became so popular. Even a child could keep up with it.
OH MY GOD, THANK YOU.
It’s not that I don’t like the film, quite the contrary.
I just can’t stand that people compare the shit to The Godfather. My impression of these viewers is they walked out of the theater going “I haven’t cried that hard since Endgame!!”
It’s really, really not that deep. It was fine for what it was, well produced and rather entertaining. But it’s a far cry from Citizen Kane or Memento lol
Yeah it’s a comedy about relationships. Pass the popcorn.
I liked the movie, but people sold it as this incredibly weird and awesome masterpiece. I think my expectations were just way too high.
I’ll try to be generous to your meme but it’s hard. I’ll say I used to be like that, part of the majority who thought going to a movie meant it needed to have action, a superhero, or magic. It gets tiring and repetitive though.
A recent example was train dreams. Me 10 years ago would have called it a snore fest. Now? I have much more respect for movies and it ripped me up inside. So this meme is very subjective on the individual
For me, there’s 3 reasons to watch movies. 1 is to kill time because I’m bored while being too tired to do anything that requires real attention. That’s mostly been replaced by YouTube. The second is because I want to experience a good piece of art. And the third is for a fun experience.
If I’m going to a theater, it’s gonna he for a big, splash film with gorgeous visuals. I ain’t paying 15-20 dollars a person for a slow, contemplative film I could enjoy at home.
At the same time, when I’m by myself at home, I’m not really into the flashy stuff, because fun is something to share with friends and family. So that’s when I watch the deeper stuff.
Same, if I’m spending my time I need more than the predictable super hero plot, I want something with character and heart. It’s hard to find but it is out there.
For theaters there are smaller indie ones that do play big titles. Search out your local area to find what may be around you. Those are the ones worth giving your money to. I just won’t go to AMC or Cinemark anymore on my own because of how low quality it is
Train Dreams was awesome
Same. If I see people complaining about a movie being slow and boring 9/10 times I’ll love it
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See, I find, that “critically acclaimed” and “popular” usually don’t go well together. However, something with just critical acclaim from people I like (and sometimes a Criterion release) tends to be some of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.
But to the meme’s point, Tarkovsky’s Solaris was boring, and hard to understand for me, so much so I didn’t ever finish it. I’ll have to try again maybe from a different perspective.
Spoiler for the OP:
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The planet is an alien organism that grants wishes.
All the subconscious thoughts of the people on the space station Solaris come true, their fears, and anxieties as well.
You are supposed to be bored. His films are contemplative. They are also very Russian.
Stalker is even better/worse.
I actually enjoyed Solaris a ton for its pacing. It’s controversial understandably, but it felt like the story was moving at a real world pace, rather than the modern approach of one moment of action to the next.
It’s a slow burn, for sure and I wouldn’t say it’s for everyone.
I had a really hard time getting through Solaris, but the ending with the rain is burned into my soul. Sometimes the slog is important in order to feel the meaning.
