Repo! The Genetic Opera. I could not get into it at all.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Galaxy Quest. I wouldn't say it was a huge disappointment, it was fine, but as someone who has never seen any Star Trek I feel like a lot of the enjoyment was lost on me.
Princess Bride
So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature
Airplane! It's okay just not my cup of tea
Not a cult classic. It's a mainstream hit.
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..."
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Jupiter Ascending. It's just all around terrible, and not in the it's-so-bad-it's-good way. I don't get the appeal.
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Big Lebowski .. I mean I enjoyed it but not enough to join the cult
Give it another try, I was also confused during my first watch, but now itβs one of my favorite movies
Agreed! I donβt know if I need to rewatch or something, but I could not get into it nor do I understand the hype surrounding it online.
This and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I love TBL now, but I really wasn't sure after my first watch, it all felt quite disjointed. Seen it many many times then though, and I really like it now, so I'd say it's worth another go.
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I find there are few cult classics that can be found by future generations and maintain their cult status outside of the truly timeless greats like Rocky Horror Picture Show or similar. There's a nostalgia associated with most cult films. I can't imagine GenZ glomming onto Better off Dead or Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Goonies because so much of the camp and humor is tied to a time they don't have a reference for.
I'm Gen-X and showed my Gen Z kids Better off Dead recently. They quite liked it. I think it's just so goofy anyone could enjoy it. I DON'T think they'd like Ferris Bueller's Day Off - too talky.
My 13-year-old enjoyed Better Off Dead too. Especially "I want my two dollars!"
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Slightly interesting concept of memory erasure but I suppose I can't relate to it.
Buckaroo Banzai. Itβs an interesting premise but an absolute letdown of a movie. Iβve concluded that itβs only a cult movie because of the fun name.
Clerks. Couldn't get over the shitty forced acting.
Clerks is easily one of my favorite movies.
Pulp fiction.
I think, like most of his work, you got to be really into characters, storytelling, and the interactions between characters.
I didn't really like Kill Bill because of backstory. I like his films that just start and end. You know nothing about the characters, but by the end of the story you feel like you know a lot based on their actions and interactions. Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight are my favourites for this. In-depth and complicated characters and story being told, but know little to nothing outside of the snapshot in time the film takes place.
That's a very specific style of film to enjoy, so I can see why people praise Pulp Fiction while others don't or just pretend to.
I dont know, characters and story were fine it also made me cackle a cuple if times. But all combined just didnt feel quite right, something was missing. I guess I should watch it againg, maybe I could pin point it better, but it just did not live up to the hipe it was and still is getting. Kill Bill is in my eyes more interesting because of cinematography
2001 Space Odyssey.
It's just so bad. Objectively bad. And I rarely use that term, because movies and art are so subjective.
It feels like it was trying to be a showcase of 1960's film technology, and I've got nothing about that. It's shot well, and it's kinda cool seeing how they had to do things back then.
But the plot feels like it was written mostly during a bad acid trip that just wouldn't end. I'm fully convinced that its one of those things that people pretend to like so they can pretentiously chortle with their film buddies about "how the common man just doesn't have the attention span needed to appreciate it."
It's an hour too long and the plot is so basic yet so overly convoluted.
I always interpreted it as Kubrick trying to give you a feel for how vast even just the solar system is, and how long space travel takes. It's slow and not much happens for long periods, because travelling to Jupiter is slow and not much happens for long periods.
I agree that doesn't make it an easy watch, but if you get into the right frame of mind to watch it, it gives you a kind of uneasy existential dread at the vastness of the universe and our inconsequential smallness in it, that very little other sci-fi does.
Faces of Death (1978)
The first viewing was full of shock value.
After that it was not my cup of tea. Repulsive on many levels.
Now that subject matter is just a normal Tuesday on Reddit.
Mulholland Drive
Was going to post this. I like weird, but it tried to be weird for weird's sake. Doesn't help that the first half started off as a pilot for a new TV series and was dusted off and turned into a movie years later.