Movies that get lauded, that you think are no good?

[tremault]

It often seems to me that movies that get all the awards, Oscars and such, are just not good movies for me. Like they are often very slow and/or very boring. clearly, the awards people watch a lot of movies and look for other criteria than simply whether or not it's entertaining. It's not always the awards type movies either. It might be some movie that has been getting a lot of attention.

The movie that is coming to my mind right now is Babylon. That movie promised a lot from what I read. I tried to watch it but about half way through I just turned it off. It was well made and there were interesting elements, but I felt like it was wasting my time. I feel like the director got too much budget and not enough oversight and was allowed to just do what they wanted.

I get a similar sense from other directors like Tarantino. I like most of Tarantino's earlier movies, but there came a point where he got really popular, after Kill Bill I think, and his movies became his and his alone. They became exactly what he wanted them to be, with no limits. In my view, that meant they became bloated, ambling and way too long and boring. Maybe they are popular and maybe a lot of people like them, but I just don't get it.

Those are just my examples. What movies do you find to be not so good that seem to get a lot of adulation?

 

[Jrzag42]

I get a similar sense from other directors like Tarantino. I like most of Tarantino's earlier movies, but there came a point where he got really popular, after Kill Bill I think, and his movies became his and his alone. They became exactly what he wanted them to be, with no limits. In my view, that meant they became bloated, ambling and way too long and boring. Maybe they are popular and maybe a lot of people like them, but I just don't get it.

In 2010, Sally Menke died, she was the editor for all his films up until that point. A lot of what makes his films good is the editing. I don't know who edits his movies now, but you're absolutely right that they're getting longer, and I wouldn't be surprised if he got more creative control in that regard.

Anyways, there's too many "good" movies that I don't care for. The Lion King, Finding Nemo, and Cars are incredibly boring in my opinion. More recently, I found Oppenheimer boring and was surprised to find that everyone loves it. There's the original Highlander which is regarded as a classic, meanwhile I think the fight scenes are incomprehensibly edited, all of the acting is poor, and the whole thing is generally boring. I don't care for Aliens, half of the actors look the same to me and it makes it hard to care for the characters.
Don't get me started on Jurassic Park...

 

[Editzilla]

So many.

Spider-Man No Way Home, Mean Girls, Scream, a good chunk of the FoX-Men films, Bumblebee, The Dark Knight, another good chunk of "elevated horror" (or as I like to call them, horror films for filmbros too stuck up to like horror)..........................

And Scott Pilgrim vs. The World along with Speed Racer, while may not be criticically lauded as others, are still shitty films that people won't shut up about "misunderstood genius". ESPECIALLY the racial sterotype-fest that is that horrendous Speed Racer adaption.

 

[Eyepainter]

Yup. I have some movies where I've wondered what the fans were smoking. In no particular order, my list is:

Platoon
Captain America: Civil War
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
Casino Royale
Anything that has Paul Haggis' name attached to it
Drugstore Cowboy
Moonlight
12 Monkeys
Parasite
The Lobster
Twentieth Century
The Goonies
On The Waterfront
Dunkirk
Tenet
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Sheesh. I didn't expect the list to be that long.