• affiliate@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    i feel like it’s much harder when you finish a movie, and you hate it, and then find out it’s one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time.

    this was my experience watching taxi driver. to this day, i have not been able to find a single other person who disliked that movie as much as i did

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      3 minutes ago

      I turned off Oppenheimer, felt so pretentious and over the top serious to me. I already new people love it, though.

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      That’s how I felt about Paranormal Activity. It was like I spent the entire movie waiting for something scary to happen. A thing just… stood there. Every “night” on screen felt the same: a being… just standing there. Not standing there sharpening a knife. Not standing there ominously stroking people’s cheeks. Nothing attacked or even made threats to do so. It just. fucking. stood. there.

      Then when something finally started to happen, the movie ended.

      I don’t know if my standards for “scary” are too high, but I found the entire film (save for those last few seconds) to be extremely boring. How it’s so popular (and even spawned a sequel?!) is beyond me.

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        It’s been a while and I can’t remember which one it was that I saw, but I remember that ending coming out of nowhere. It’s like oh, there’s a ghost or something haunting the place, ok. Signs of evil or something, a person floating while sleeping, too iirc.

        Then suddenly there’s hundreds of witches or cultists surrounding them outside and it just ends!?

        Maybe it would have been scary if I was the type to buy into moral panics?

        It was just kinda creepy and then weird. Felt like “rocks fall, everyone dies” kinda energy.

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      3 hours ago

      Same, not for Taxi Driver, but for The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Life is Beautiful, Amour…

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      3 hours ago

      Oh my god I just watched taxi driver and thought it was mediocre at best. Gave it 2 1/2 stars. Saw that it sits at 4,2?!?

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      6 hours ago

      I get this, other than Pulp Fiction, I dislike all of Tarantino’s films.

      I don’t like the style or the pacing, I don’t like the revisionist take on events.

      But people generally like his films.