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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

Oppenheimer.

3 hrs of nausea-inducing quick cuts

[–] Ixoid@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

BladeRunner - is like they wrote the screenplay based on the excellent source novel, then cut most of the ideas out, leaving only things that make no sense. Rick Deckard is a terrible detective, and only wins the final confrontation because Roy Batty... just gives up? I recently decided that my teenage self might have been wrong and rewatched it... nah, still terrible.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I hate 20th Century Classic that has been so impactful on film making that it suffers from the Seinfeld effect. Every aspect that it pioneered is just so cliched now in retrospect - how dumb were people back then to have been entertained by something pop culture has completely imbibed over the past XX years.

I found the special effects to be laughable; especially the practical ones. How could you watch anything made before CGI matured to a decent level?

Don't even get me started on the actors. None of them went method and abused their fellow cast and crew in the name of art. Additionally the script did not past the Bechdel test which completely ruined any sense of realism that the characters might have been attempting to portray.

20th Century Classic is just one example. There are hundreds of films that don't even have colour cinematography. Pretentious people try to tell us black and white cinematography is "more dreamlike", pul-lease! Why would you want to watch something that doesn't look like real life? You might as well be reading a novel at that point - and the whole point of movies is to completely replace novels so we can consume stories more efficiently.

Don't @ me on any of this. Just hop on your penny farthing bicycle and ride off into the sunset to your hipster neigbourhood.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How about one that will actually piss people off: The Shawshank Redemption

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Tom Hanks at his finest.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

The Princess Bride

... Sorry. It's just not good.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

Whoa there. This was a hard one not to down vote, well done.

[–] Comtief@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

damn, coming out swinging with these fighting words

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Talented Mr. Ripley. Awful, truly awful!

Poor Things. I turned it off after~30 minutes.

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Poor things gave me a headache, genuinely pissed that Emma stone won the oscar

[–] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Pulp Fiction πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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