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Mad Max: Fury Road is a perfect film, and I’ll die on this hill.
10’s had some great action movies, Fury Road, Dredd, John Wick, Baby Driver, The Raid 2, Winter Soldier, Batman
Ugh Dredd fucks, so hard. I’d love some kind of follow-up, but I do appreciate what we got.
It’s so gorgeous
So is Furiosa. I’m so sad I didn’t see it in theaters
Sorry, but fucking shite. One of the most annoying films I ever tried to watch.
No need to apologize, people are wrong about lots of stuff.
Pirates of the Caribbean had enough hype that I went to the midnight showing, got the most applause and laughs I’ve ever experienced at the theatre, and it still stood up upon rewatch.
Those first three are damn awesome imo.
Holy shit it’s Ask a Ninja, I still have that theme stuck in my head after all these decades
I had the pleasure of watching this in the theater with a cadre of goths that had a little too much rum and tequila with lunch. The movie itself is entirely too much fun on its own, but accidentally attending with a crew of drunken pirates made for a 11/10 experience.
That sounds like the perfect crowd to watch it with, fate smiled upon you
Applause…?
Easy its Death to Smoochy
Apparently they do this in the US.
Yeah at the first couple midnight showings newly released movies often get applause! Happens a lot less outside of midnight releases.
Jurassic Park. Easy to name but just about all aspects of that movie are phenomenal. They made all the right changes from the source material. No one needed a genetically engineered dog sized elephant running around.
Oh…my…god… this is beautiful
10 PRINT "Oh no! Dinosaurs!" 20 PRINT "Whew! We're safe ..." 30 GOTO 10Despite being nearly 30 years old, the sfx STILL hold up because it wasn’t nigh on 100% green screen. They actually made props and stuff. Then you look at the Star Wars prequels and it’s just green screened to hell.
I miss when movies were spectacular events. Not this slop they put out today. Yes, I am an old codger. Get off my lawn!
I recently rewatched Arrival and it absolutely deserves to be on my favourite list
I hated it for the same reason I hated Interstellar… ‘the power of love will save the universe’ nonsense ending.
So much build up and world building, and brutally cliche cop out endings… but i guess that’s why most people LOVED them, because you know PARENT-CHILD LOVE SAVES THE UNIVERSE.
The latest Dune movies. Weapons IMO was as good as it was hyped up.
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As for Weapons, when I finished it I thought, “okay movie”. Then the more I thought about it and the symbolism started clicking, the more amazed I was. I need to rewatch it with everything in mind.
I liked the movie a lot more than i thought. Especially like you said, when i thought about it. The only thing that absolutely puzzles me is that scene when that one guy saw this big CG gun above the house.
The way I saw it, Brolin’s subconscious was telling him that the kids had been transformed into objects at that time. The gun imagery, in-universe, comes from Brolin’s character’s toxic masculinity. Out-of-universe it reinforces the school shooting allegory.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail really is hilarious and unique.
Yeah but the ending was a real cop out
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
This movie is too funny and too quotable. It almost ruins it when you’ve heard all the joke for the thousandth time from the least funny people you know.
The Dark Knight The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Matrix
Why yes, you probably can guess my approximate age.
Why yes, you probably can guess my approximate age.
Millenial?
Yep. Older Millennial.
One second, I have to get these darn kids off of my lawn…
Anyway, yes, The Matrix absolutely lived up to the advertising hype. All we knew was that it was a cyberpunk-flavored martial arts film, and that’s all. The “big reveal” was left out of everything which was all the more satisfying when watching for the first time.
Superman (2025). The only movie in recent years that has made me feel genuine hope towards humanity and the world.
First time in a long time where I thought Superman was cool.
More like Superman (1978) if you want a movie that lives up to the hype.
I watched the first Alien film with my parents. They hyped up the scariness beforehand and it definitely delivered, I don’t think I’ve ever been so tense during a film. The whole opening leading into the discovery of the alien is so atmospheric.
District 9
Wreck it Ralph
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy
Star Wars: Rogue One
TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
I’ll throw out Master & Commander: At World’s End. It’s a fantastic naval drama and the actors all have great chemistry, with excellent action sequences throughout
12 Angry Men
I’m not sure about any hype, but I’d add Memento (2000) to this thread.
Controversial probably, but in my book absolutely: The Blair Witch Project
Oh, and also Midsommar (2019)
I did not get why people liked Midsommar.
Same idea of folk/cult horror, old The Wicker Man (1973) was more coherent, and had a point.
I need to rewatch Wicker Man, I remember liking it as well.
On Midsommar: I loved the atmosphere, the whole getting sucked into a cult thing. To me, that was the point. But I don’t actually need a point to like a movie. It just needs to click with me. Could be just atmosphere or even setting or the acting. Everybody seems to hate Exorcist 2, for instance, I really enjoy that one for the whole backstory, setting and, again, the atmosphere.
I just watched it again recently. It’s a sublime piece of filmmaking.
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I watched Pink Floyd’s The Wall for the first time last month and that surpassed the hype for me.
