[Film] It’s not you, it’s me cinematic blind spots

[Stato]

At the other end of the scale if you don't think The Godfather is the greatest film of all time than you're just plain wrong!

Too right. It's second behind Caddyshack.

 

[BBassic]

Donnie Darko.

Lots of people who I generally share taste/opinions on a variety of things like or love it… I think it’s a massive steaming pile of sh|t from start to finish.

Crikey I'd forgotten about this film.

It came out when I was around 16 and most of my classmates loved it. Turned them into these faux-philosophical pillocks. "oh you just don't get it, you don't get it".

In the sea.

 

[Swansman]

I (usually) dont like movies where things happen. 2 hours of people smoking and talking is great but anything goes as long as as little as possible happens.

Agree with a lot of things in this thread.. Tom Cruise, superhero movies... unbearable stuff.

 

[KZNSeagull]

pretty much anything with Tom Cruise, have an irrational dislike.

Nothing irrational about it. The bloke is awful.

 

[GT49er]

Bond. No more to be said.

 

[Weststander]

The Blair Witch Project

 

[Wilko]

Lord of the Rings, obvs. But in general most fantasy stuff with lots of fighting, and Marvel Superhero movies, and anything involving lots of car chases cause me to nod off.

Exactly the same for me, I really like stuff with depth and characters. Things exploding and fight scenes do absolutely nothing for me at all.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

There Will Be Blood. Found it dull and depressing.
Star Wars.

 

[usernamed]

Bond has been rubbish post-Connery, superhero films are childish drivel (as we continue our journey to infantilise ourselves and push appalling individualist narratives that actually weaken us)

Most modern films seem colossally over-indulgent, I personally feel they should remain in the edit suite until they have a run time under 2 hours. I loathe bloat and mourn the lost art of editing.

 

[portlock seagull]

Star Wars! Even as a nipper it did nothing for me.

At the other end of the scale if you don't think The Godfather is the greatest film of all time than you're just plain wrong!

Even Jar Jar Blinks sounded less ridiculous than Marlon Brando talking with puffed out cheeks packed with tissues.

It’s a no from me.

 

[Seagull58]

Star Wars! Even as a nipper it did nothing for me.

At the other end of the scale if you don't think The Godfather is the greatest film of all time than you're just plain wrong!

Pulp Fiction is the greatest film of all time. The Godfather is a great mafia film but Godfather 2 is better.

 

[Seagull58]

I'm t'other way round.

Good Marvel is very good indeed, Captain America, Deadpool, Black Panther, Spiderman.
(The whole 'Endgame - throw everything in the mix' leaves me cold)

But I really can't be doing with anything LOTR's.

Black Panther is rubbish.

 

[m20gull]

Anything and everything with Hugh (smack my smug face) Grant in.

Except The Gentleman. Guy Ritchie managed to get him to act.

What about Paddington 2?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

LOTR films descended into one endless chase scene, punctuated by a couple of battles. Especially the Hobbit films which were effectively all the same.

 

[Acker79]

I think most of the films that are held up as greatest of all time

The Godfather trilogy
Citizen Kane
Pretty much every Stanley Kubrick film (Barry Lyndon was ok)
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Robinjakarta]

Pulp Fiction is the greatest film of all time.

Not in the greatest 100.

 

[B-right-on]

What about Paddington 2?

Guy Ritchie directed Hugh Grant in Paddington 2? I missed that particular slice of cinematic gold.

 

[The Clamp]

The Godfather films. They’re perfectly fine films. A little dull but that’s okay. I just don’t think they are as all powerful as is made out.

Scarface. Now that’s a bad film. Badly acted and badly produced.

Marvel superhero films. Dull as ditchwater. Like watching a computer game (not actual footage).

Woody Allen movies. Some are watchable. But funny? Not in my book.

 

[Seagull58]

Not in the greatest 100.

You are terribly, terribly wrong.

 

[sully]

Another vote for Star Wars.

Didn’t get it when if first came out and never bothered with the sequels.

My kids loved it (they were young when the prequels came out) and I tried again with their guidance but, nope, still don’t see what the fuss is all about.