Movies we're supposed to say are good

Franz Von Peppercorn

Meryl Streep chews the scenery. Particularly in the execrable The Hours. She was never subtle but she’s gotten worse.

Infernum

Every Marvel movie released since the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies.

gmisk

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Meryl Streep chews the scenery. Particularly in the execrable The Hours. She was never subtle but she’s gotten worse.

I think she is excellent usually....but there has a been a tendency lately to over act in literally everything....she made The Post almost unwatchable.

gmisk

Infernum wrote: »

Every Marvel movie released since the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies.

Naw.


The first 2 tobey maguire films were excellent, but I dont think they are even considered part of the MCU?


I would say some of the MCU films are better, captain american winter soldier I thought was especially good. Iron man and thor ragnarok were also terrific.

Annani

American Beauty.

kunst nugget

gmisk wrote: »

Naw.


The first 2 tobey maguire films were excellent, but I dont think they are even considered part of the MCU?


I would say some of the MCU films are better, captain american winter soldier I thought was especially good. Iron man and thor ragnarok were also terrific.

Spiderman 1 was great, Spiderman 2 was good if a little overlong but Spiderman was absolute crap.

This still boggles my mind. There was no CGI in this scene were Tobey Maguire catches everything on the tray. It took 156 takes for him to catch everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFhUOi0srtE

I really enjoyed Thor Ragnarok. I've liked the other Taika Waititi films that I've seen and I was hoping for something fun with his Thor film. I wasn't disappointed.

I enjoyed the Avengers Infinity War movie and the Guardians of the Galaxy movies as well. The rest of them are pretty forgettable fare. Black Panther was pants.

BailMeOut

so many great movies in this thread!

BailMeOut

Sardine wrote: »

Killing of a Sacred Deer was good. As was In Bruges. None of his A list big budget films were any good really!

other than Minority Report of course?

tylercheribini

gmisk wrote: »

I think she is excellent usually....but there has a been a tendency lately to over act in literally everything....she made The Post almost unwatchable.

The Post was absolutely cringe, lets make historical events contemporary by shoehorning references to current cause célèbre gender politics.

norabattie

This times 100000000000 :rolleyes:

Annani wrote: »

American Beauty.

Relikk

La La Land. Dreadful.

CerebralCortex

Black Panther. Very boring.

Hans Bricks

I'm sorry, but I also just cannot stand Meryl Streep on any level.

I've seen her in Deer Hunter , River Wild , Manchurian Candidate off the top of my head. I dunno what it is exactly , but I just don't see what it is about her that separates her from other female actresses ? The hype isn't there for me.
Then again, we've had people admonish Al Pacino completely, so different strokes I guess.

For me, Edie Falco who played Carmela in The Sopranos, is probably the most impressive actress I've watched to date. Some really outstanding performances on that show.

mynamejeff

kunst nugget wrote: »

Spiderman 1 was great, Spiderman 2 was good if a little overlong but Spiderman was absolute crap.

This still boggles my mind. There was no CGI in this scene were Tobey Maguire catches everything on the tray. It took 156 takes for him to catch everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFhUOi0srtE

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unfortunately number five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgfweXQcpY

rest of the vid is interesting too

kunst nugget

mynamejeff wrote: »

unfortunately number five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgfweXQcpY

rest of the vid is interesting too

Booooo, you've ruined it for me!!!

Hector Savage

The Graduate what the actual **** ??

kunst nugget

Hector Savage wrote: »

The Graduate what the actual **** ??

Exactly, what the **** are you picking that for? That film is brilliant.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Relikk wrote: »

La La Land. Dreadful.

Any film set in Hollywood will get undeserved praise.

tylercheribini

Any film where a beautiful star "suffers for their art", by transforming their physical appearance. Its almost a slamdunk best actor/actress as soon as project is announced.

Iseedeadpixels

tylercheribini wrote: »

Any film where a beautiful star "suffers for their art", by transforming their physical appearance. Its almost a slamdunk best actor/actress as soon as project is announced.

Well honestly if the actor goes above and beyond to nail a role they deserve the award.

tylercheribini

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Well honestly if the actor goes above and beyond to nail a role they deserve the award.

The problem is it becomes a trite contrivance for an automatic nomination regardlesa of quality of performance or film overall.

Fox Hound

CowGoesMoo100 wrote: »

Any action movie ever starring a female playing the lead role.

Alien & Aliens??

Capt'n Midnight

tylercheribini wrote: »

Any film where a beautiful star "suffers for their art", by transforming their physical appearance. Its almost a slamdunk best actor/actress as soon as project is announced.

Oscar Bait
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OscarBait

The female equivalent of the mental health angle is having an attractive actress play an ugly character. But Hollywood Homely isn’t good enough; you would have to drastically change your physical appearance to do it. Actresses who have won Oscars this way include Charlize Theron, who put on 30 pounds and thinned her hair and eyebrows for Monster; Nicole Kidman, who wore a number of prosthetics to play Virginia Woolf (a character with mental illness, to boot) in The Hours; and Anne Hathaway, who played a bald, emaciated, filthy, and apparently toothless Broken Bird in Les Misérables (2012).

Greyfox

Hans Bricks wrote: »

For me, Edie Falco who played Carmela in The Sopranos, is probably the most impressive actress I've watched to date. Some really outstanding performances on that show.

She was quite good, nothing special, Sopranos was brilliant and had a few characters better than her. Currently rewatching game of thrones and Lena Heady who plays Cersei is a better actress

Collie D

Fox Hound wrote: »

Alien & Aliens??

Could possibly throw the first two Terminator movies in there too. Obviously Arnie was the star but he's the baddie in the first.

Ray Palmer

For all the people that say every Woody Alan film is terrible I understand the feeling but I really doubt you watched " Take the Money and Run" or "Zelig". These are not as loved by the arty fans but actually show him do full comedy and he was a stand up comedian first and was very funny.

If you don't like Zelig you are dead inside.

tylercheribini

Ray Palmer wrote: »

For all the people that say every Woody Alan film is terrible I understand the feeling but I really doubt you watched " Take the Money and Run" or "Zelig". These are not as loved by the arty fans but actually show him do full comedy and he was a stand up comedian first and was very funny.

If you don't like Zelig you are dead inside.

Yea but he is a dirty old man

Ray Palmer

tylercheribini wrote: »

Yea but he is a dirty old man

There is art, medicine,buildings, design etc... all created by many a beast it does not remove what they have done.

tylercheribini

Ray Palmer wrote: »

There is art, medicine,buildings, design etc... all created by many a beast it does not remove what they have done.

Haha i know, i was ironically mirroring the vitriol for Streep on this thread,where the art is not seperated from the artist. Regardless of this I have never been a fan of his work.

Ray Palmer

tylercheribini wrote: »

Haha i know, i was ironically mirroring the vitriol for Streep on this thread,where the art is not seperated from the artist. Regardless of this I have never been a fan of his work.

Fair enough but those movies aren't really his style as people know it. His humour was originally pretty slap stick.

CowGoesMoo100

Anything with The Rock in it....

Adamocovic

quickbeam wrote: »

Ah yeah, that's where you went wrong. Dr. Strangelove is an absolutely fantastic film - one of my favourites of all time. But it's not a "hilarious comedy". It's not meant to be. It's much blacker, sardonic, tragic even, than that. Maybe watch without expecting The Hangover, or Anchorman (or whatever your choice of favourite comedy is), and you might take something different from it.

Now now, let's not get defensive about it. :pac:

Grayson

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Well honestly if the actor goes above and beyond to nail a role they deserve the award.

effort doesn't mean better. I could do loads of work for a role and I'd still be crap.

Annani

CowGoesMoo100 wrote: »

Anything with The Rock in it....

Ah now. He’s great in Moana although in cartoon form!

Iseedeadpixels

Grayson wrote: »

effort doesn't mean better. I could do loads of work for a role and I'd still be crap.

Well usually these actors are quite good at their job, Leonardo Dicaprio, Christian Bale etc.

kunst nugget

Annani wrote: »

Ah now. He’s great in Moana although in cartoon form!

He was great fun in Jumanji as well. Tbf, I don't think anyone particularly rates his movies as that good.

spodoinkle

cameramonkey wrote: »

The Usual Suspects

Wise up.

PlaneSpeeking

spodoinkle wrote: »

Wise up.

The Usual Suspects is bloody brilliant.

Adamocovic

Not really in same category as the other classics in here people don't like but one that I always heard good things about. Finally watched it and it wasn't my cup of tea at all.

Ted.

PlaneSpeeking

Adamocovic wrote: »

Not really in same category as the other classics in here people don't like but one that I always heard good things about. Finally watched it and it wasn't my cup of tea at all.

Ted.

No one judge but I cried at the end of Ted.

Yes, yes I know!!!

Adamocovic

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

No one judge but I cried at the end of Ted.

Yes, yes I know!!!

I'm not judging, I couldn't believe I had wasted my time watching it either. :pac:

jaxxx

Inception.

Goddamn I thought it was bloody awful.

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

No one judge but I cried at the end of Ted.

Yes, yes I know!!!

That's ok, I cried at the end of Godzilla (1998). In my defence I was a kid, now I see it for the actual $hit it is and wonder what was wrong with me as a kid.....

PlaneSpeeking

jaxxx wrote: »

Inception.

Goddamn I thought it was bloody awful.

Oh I wanted to love that so much - that and Shutter Island - couldn't get through either.

Adamocovic

Also echoing the opinion regarding Moonlight.

One of the most over-hyped films I've watched in recent times.

RayCun

Adamocovic wrote: »

I'm not judging, I couldn't believe I had wasted my time watching it either. :pac:

you are the identity thief from Friends, and I claim my $5 :pac:

CowGoesMoo100

kunst nugget wrote: »

He was great fun in Jumanji as well. Tbf, I don't think anyone particularly rates his movies as that good.

Well he's arguably the highest paid actor in Hollywood. There must be a demand for him. Same way there must be a demand to see the 43rd incarnation of Fast and Furious otherwise they wouldn't be churning out that garbage ad nauseam.

kunst nugget

CowGoesMoo100 wrote: »

Well he's arguably the highest paid actor in Hollywood. There must be a demand for him. Same way there must be a demand to see the 43rd incarnation of Fast and Furious otherwise they wouldn't be churning out that garbage ad nauseam.

Again, few people would call these films good. For most, they'd be a guilty pleasure.

Peatys

Danonino. wrote: »

Loads of Tom Cruise hate, I’m not a massive fan but recently seen American made and was expecting to hate it. It was very good. Really enjoyed it.

Peatys wrote: »

Really? Flicked past it a few times and couldn't see how they'd make a decent film out of it, but I'll give it a go, cheers.

Watched this the other night, both enjoyed it. Cheers

CowGoesMoo100

CowGoesMoo100 wrote: »

Anything with The Rock in it....

I think you misread the thread title

tylercheribini

If ever there was a day for hegemonic trauma overload its today.