Movies you wish you liked more than you actually do? - General Discussion Discussion

[–] AlienWerewolf (130) 7 years ago

Pulp Fiction. Tried to get into it. Didn't work.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 7 years ago

I'm with you, AW. Tarantino & his boundless horseshit.

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[–] AlienWerewolf (130) 7 years ago

Also with all the references to food it's like he wrote the script when he was hungry.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

I did like "Jackie Brown" though. I think that has largely to do with Tarantino adapting another writer's work (and a much better writer at that) than writing another variation on "Pulp Fiction" (which I also enjoyed though not to the degree I did "Brown") And while Pam Grier is excellent as the titular Brown Robert Foster is the one giving the performance of a lifetime. The man is phenomenal in this -- maybe my favorite performance in a Tarantino film (Tarantino, if nothing else, gets excellent work out of his actors) and one of the best performances from the '90s.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I love it now but my first viewing of Pulp Fiction I found utterly confusing.
Once I got it straight in my head I was able to re-watch and thoroughly enjoy.

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Interstellar. I like sci-fi and I like Nolan's movies. Yet the combination of both gave us the infamous "love transcends space and time" bollocks. And corn. Lots of corn.

It's a shame really, because everything else is very well done. The black hole, gravitational time dillation, fifth-dimensional stuffs, dust, etc. Wish I can appreciate it more, for all those hard works by the people involved.

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[–] AlienWerewolf (130) 7 years ago

Interstellar was incredibly depressing. Kids grow up to become astronauts, get stuck in a time drag and miss your daughter's entire life.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I had a similar reaction to Signs.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4086) 7 years ago

Thanks to forgotten son of Mcconaughey they don't even have corn anymore!

My problem with Interstellar (and Nolan in general) is the endless exposition and that he just can't do human emotion right. Not to mention the film is very disorientating (not confusing). He wants to make these challenging movies, but he also wants to be mainstream, and his movies suffer because of that I think. (I know he's super popular and all that, but he's not the second coming of Kubrik)

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[–] Culburn (3638) 7 years ago

About Schmidt

Turnip, the next time you go to view it concentrate on the daughter part. She's excellent there. She is so pissed off at her father she is livid the entire film.

She's also pissed that she is marrying this man and joining that family.

She portends to be a big shot at work, but, during the phone call with her father you can hear them nagging her to hang up and get back to work. She is not a big shot.

I had to watch this twice before I could truly enjoy it.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Hope Davis is great (beautiful too). I didn't dislike the film -- Nicholson is good (mostly because he resists playing Nicholson yet again) -- but felt it went on way too long and aped its main character in aimlessness a little more than I was comfortable with.

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[–] Culburn (3638) 7 years ago

Nicholson is good (mostly because he resists playing Nicholson yet again) -- but felt it went on way too long and aped its main character in aimlessness a little more than I was comfortable with.

Fresh perspective, Turnip. Good stuff, guy.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

Thanks. I just wanted it to be one of my favs ... and it wasn't.

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[–] yatzo376 (7753) 7 years ago

ALL Batman movies

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[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

I'm with you on that.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

The new Ghost In The Shell, for one...
Toy Story 3
Citizen Kane
Ghostbusters 2

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Die Hard 2.

Underwhelmingly directed and a main villain with about 10 minutes of screen time.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

Definitely not in the same league as the first one. I missed the banter McClane had with Gruber.

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[–] olioz (3865) 7 years ago

2001

I love scifi but I find 2001 sooo boring. I've tried watching it several times.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

😂
You can get into trouble saying stuff like that!

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[–] olioz (3865) 7 years ago

I know, I'm surprised no one has told me to go back watching Transformers/fast and the furious.

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[–] Daft_Munks (4840) 7 years ago

Guardians of the Galaxy:

It’s a shame because I love raccoons and GOTG has a raccoon main character who seems pretty cool, but I found the movie boring and switched it off half way through.

I did enjoy seeing the GOTG characters in Avengers Infinity War though.

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[–] missnat (1179) 7 years ago

Gravity

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