• LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I did a Final Destination marathon recently to prep for Bloodlines.
    While all the movies have their flaws and weaknesses, FD4 was garbage. Even as a easy to please person I couldn’t handle it.

    Genuinely terrible, I am shocked they wanted it to be the last one in the franchise, to the point they called it “The Final Destination”

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    281·
    5 months ago

    I mean hey, if you have low standards, and you’re completely honest about it, nothing wrong with that… and it also puts the onus on the people with higher standards to actually explain why they do or do not like any given movie, easier to suss out the people who don’t actually have consistent standards, but instead just have an amalgamation of their favorite influencers opinions.

    Win win win as I see it. I’m a bit of a movie snob, and I can explain why I do or don’t like a movie…

    But I am also self-aware enough to realize that other people have other standards, and 90% of the time, if there isn’t some utterly reprehnsible trope or caricature or very very misleading depiction of real events in a ‘based on a true story’ type thing… eh, whatever, we have different tastes, wanna get pizza?

  • thejoker954@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 months ago

    This is why I hardly ever recommend movies.

    My criteria pretty much boils down to “did it hold my attention” during the runtime?"

    A “good” movie holds my attention An “ok” movie doesn’t hold my atttention 100% A “bad” movie ‘pushes’ my attention away

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Books are good when you don’t realise you are reading.

    Any film that makes you realise you are watching a film (bad sets, acting, dialog etc.) is bad.

  • defunct_punk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    6 months ago

    Where are you getting your movies? Very few people are just raw-dogging random titles off a database. You mean you kinda enjoyed the movie that the Netflix algorithm showed you? Funny enough, I had almost this exact same argument with a friend the other day about how she “doesn’t believe there’s any bad movies.”

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
    52·
    5 months ago

    Know how to tell of a person is a movie snob? They’ll tell you.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    Yes. This is why I hate movie critics. Your PhD in post romantic Spanish literature does not qualify you to make a determination if the power rangers movie was good or not.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Being I watch plenty of bad movies I have sorta the reverse. 90% of the time im like, did I just waste two hours of my life.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
    171·
    6 months ago

    I’m the exact opposite. I struggle to get through 90% of movies regardless of how good people think they are, especially since they only keep getting longer and longer.

    Hell, the only movies I can get through are the ones that are so bad they’re actually interesting

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      6 months ago

      Congrats, you’re sane. Most entertainment media is objectively bad. That’s just statistically undeniable. Unless you think everyone is a good writer and storyteller.

      • benignintervention@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Just want to let you know that I enjoyed watching your edits update in real time

        Also there’s something to be said for taste. Some people just want action and flashing lights, an exciting distraction from life. Other people (I include myself) want interesting and well-written stories that make you feel and think. Part of the problem is that major production studios don’t want to take a risk on a new kind of story or writing style and keep pushing out whatever formula they’ve recently seen get sales. Marvel is a prime example. Almost every movie feels exactly the same, except a few characters and personalities change.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    74·
    6 months ago

    Me enjoying a movie does in no way exclude it from being a bad movie.

    Seeing as I do enjoy watching bad movies. Terrible acting, bad cuts, awful dialog. I love it.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      Terrible acting, bad cuts, awful dialog. I love it.

      I think there’s a certain “The Producers” threshold beyond which a merely bad piece of art becomes a captivating car-wreck. But it’s an esoteric mix of elements. For every “Rocky Horror Picture Show” there’s a dozen "Mac and Me"s.

        • untorquer@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          I read it the opposite way because Rocky horror is so well done imo. I don’t even know what Mac & me is so i assumed it was the garbage end if the spectrum. Though if it’s one of the movies they made in IASIP then nothing make sense.