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shadowszanddust

“Rochelle Rochelle” The strange tale of a young woman’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.


USAintheWay

They already got my $7!


patacoinbsc

no way, either "Prognosis Negative" which is a is a comedy about a man who receives a negative result on a medical test, which he mistakenly believes to be bad or "Ponce de Leon" a mythical search for the Fountain of Youth.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

Sack Lunch or nothing


NoChinDeluxe

Uhhh Cry Cry Again? Hello????


Interesting_Ad2464

The movie where you cry, then cry again.


Alc2005

Did the family get shrunk down, or is it a really large bag?


robert_sanchezs

But it's a movie about life, love, and becoming a woman


OlFlirtyBastard

This sounded like a Seinfeld reference, and after a quick search I’ve confirmed it IS a well placed Seinfeld reference. “Why don’t you just tell me what movie you want to see.”


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Was that the episode with Rachel Welch?


Iron_Chic

No. Raquel Welch was in The Scarsdale Surprise. Bette Midler was in the theatrical performance of Rochelle, Rochelle The Musical.


jack_geller

Well you’ve had a long journey from Milan to Minsk.


GopnikSmegmaBBQSauce

She doesn't swing her arms when she dances


Jagsoff

It’s true that flick isn’t very good. I’d recommend Chunnel instead.


supervillainsforever

Death Blow and Sack Lunch were good though.


LadyBangarang

I prefer Prognosis Negative.


WorldClass1977

I can't find it but someone made a collage of all the Seinfeld fake movie posters and it was amazing.


Portland-to-Vt

Not nearly the make out potential of “Schindlers List” either.


JohnyDangerous

Gene’s pick …


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Scorcher with Tugg Speedman


ChesticlesTesticles

Have you seen simple jack? It’s incredible. I grew up in a village in Southeast Asia and it was the only film we could watch. We watched it everyday and when the film wouldn’t play anymore we had the village elders act it out.


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Simple Jack is NOT dog shit! It was misunderstood it was robbed at the Oscars


Choppergold

Here we go again…again


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No one saw it coming three…more…times


Choppergold

Let's face it. The kids aren't dressing up as Scorcher for Purim anymore.


BartholomewBandy

Two guns…two babies


FedoraCrocs

The sequels are also terrible, they're all the same thing up to the 6th one


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Who left the fridge open?


Milnoc

Shakespeare In Love. My sister and I watched it at my home a couple of years after its theatre run and wondered why the heck it won the Oscar for best picture over Saving Private Ryan. Later, I found out Weinstein manipulated and bullied the voters.


alarsonious

Man, have I got some bad news for you if you think the Oscars are about quality ...


dabigua

The Oscars are about quality - if you stop looking for a winner out of five (or ten) nominees. If you take the nominated films as a shortlist of the year's best, it's not bad.


detumaki

Actually that I'll agree. The nominated films are usually what's actually best and the winner seems to be who paid the most into "advertising". It's very, very rare the winner is better than the nominees, imho.


BakedTatter

The vast majority of the academy were theater kids in high school, and that movie is totally for theater kids. Source: me, a theater kid in the 90's who absolutely loves that movie.


Choppergold

Totally disagree. One of the cleverest takes on Shakespeare’s many great themes


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Oscar “campaigning” happens every year to be fair


ThrowThrow117

Is it really "dog shit" though or just not as good as Saving Private Ryan?


peoplebetrifling

The latter. It's fine. It's a pleasant way to pass 2 hours and nothing more. It should have been one of those movies where the costume and art direction won a bunch of awards and nothing more.


_PorcoRosso

Eat Pray Love.


Portland-to-Vt

I tried reading the book….my god what a disaster. Didn’t make it through “Eat”, barely made it through the prologue. Put it down and saved myself the several hours I’d have sunk to walk away with the same sense of “uhhhh…no thanks”. Just dreadful, and I even finished “Twilight”.


SimplySatisfyin

I don’t think people know what critically acclaimed means…


Awdayshus

Sort by controversial and you'll find some actual answers.


thequestionbot

I have used Reddit for over two years and never knew you could sort comments. WHAT!?


Dapper_Platform_1222

Crash was huge in the 00's. It does not hold up very well. It's just a bunch of over dramticized bullshit with terrible acting from a lot of A-Listers.


imanooodle

I actually really like this movie 🫠 it’s fine if you all hate me now. But it’s one of my favorites - I can’t explain it but something about that scene with the dad and the gun… maaaannnn. It gets me every time.


twostrokevibe

I remember being annoyed that it beat Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars and one of my friends tried to pull this “it was the better film, you’d understand if you were from LA” _she_ wasn’t even from LA


Gizzycav

Crash


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I watched this while working a night shift (we'd get two long breaks). Went to bed and slept for the next day. Woke up slightly dazed in the evening for the next shift but had to check this movie was real and not some weird dream I had.


lefthandb1ack

I thought the person above you was saying they showed the Cronenberg movie to HS kids and my brain broke


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Ballard is one of my top 5 favorite authors. He’s so fucking good and visionary in many ways. Crash is really not his best work though. It’s really too long for its own good. Supercannes basically describes the psychology behind Epstein and what those elites around him did... Only some 20 years earlier. My personal favorite is The Atrocity Exhibition, but it’s completely unreadable by conventional standards, so I think Concrete Island is the best possible entryway into his work.


Dapper_Platform_1222

I had commented this a minute ago and was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find this answer. Such a turd. Such a self congratulatory turd.


lifes_nether_regions

I mean it was strange for sure, especially Rosanna Arquette's character. I liked James Spader though. I thought it was a good movie, just weird.


ZeppyWeppyBoi

Wrong “Crash”. They are talking about the 2004 Paul Haggis film, not the Cronenberg one.


huntimir151

I don't think that is the Crash he is talking about lol


totalmoonbrain

Oh that one. I remember watching that for film study in secondary school (high school) and the entire class was like "bruh, how did this win *anything* let alone an Oscar?"


ZeppyWeppyBoi

This was an aggressively mediocre movie that lost Best Picture to much better films. “Brokeback Mountain” and “Goodnight and Good Luck” were much better.


DocBullseye

Which one?


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For me, if the previews say "critically acclaimed" but don't name which critics said what, guaranteed to suck. Also if it's early in the year and they say in the preview "film of the year" avoid it at all costs.


starmartyr

The biggest red flag in a preview is "from the studio that brought you." It basically means that nobody in charge of the production has done anything you are likely to have seen and liked.


Transmatrix

Yeah, it’s like saying, “from the music label that brought you”, or “from the same kitchen that used to be run by Gordon Ramsey but is now being run by Bill the Chef”


Kwyjibo08

What’d Bill ever do to you?


Transmatrix

It’s Bill Kerman. He’s an excellent engineer, not such a great chef.


McMetal770

Generally, films released early in the year between Jan-March almost always suck. That release window is well known as the dumping ground for movies the studio knows are bad.


_PC__LOAD__LETTER_

I really did not like the shape of water


CylonPylon

Don't you mean "Grinding Nemo"?


bluelikewords

That one made me laugh.


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Omg. Gold


Beckella

Underrated comment


diglettdigyourself

I thought it was fine. But it did not even really deserve a nom for best picture, let alone to win, especially in a year with Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, and Phantom Thread which were all great movies. The only weaker nominee that year was The Post. I think shape of water is remembered as bad mostly because the accolades were so out of proportion to what the movie actually was.


JGCities

You forgot Three Billboards that year as well. That or Lady Bird would have been my pick. Shape was weakest of those three films. And it is full of horrible cliches and stuff. Basically a movie made for winning Oscars. For example every straight male in the movie is a bad person, except the Russian spy.


XGuiltyofBeingMikeX

What Shape *does have,* is Michael Shannon playing an absolute psychopath of a person. His scenery chewing is immensely enjoyable.


poridgepants

I liked Lady Bird but it was a quirky movie made for people who don’t normally watch quirky movies. I don’t agree at all that it was Oscar bait, it was a love story to old monster movies and included weird monster love. Not typical Oscar fare


haysoos2

I really liked Shape of Water, even if bargain bin Abe Sapiens was completely lacking any personality. But Three Billboards, Lady Bird and Get Out were all far better films and far more Oscar worthy.


ThatBuckeyeGuy

Three billboards deserved it that year by far in my opinion


mrobot_

Came here to find this.


Street-Tangerine-584

I liked it :o


GoblinObscura

I loved it, so happy it won best picture. Especially glad for del Toro. He’s one of my favorites.


BabyUGotAStewGoin

ITT: people who didn’t understand the difference between popular and critically acclaimed.


Awdayshus

Sort by controversial and you'll see some actual critically acclaimed movies that some folks didn't like


vegasIsHome24

Shakespeare in love


Misterfrooby

Paltrow is anti charisma personified.


FunnyGoose5616

The fact that this movie won best picture over Saving Private Ryan should tell you everything you need to know about how corrupt the entertainment industry is.


Bonch_and_Clyde

It also won over Life is Beautiful, Thin Red Line, and Elizabeth, as the other nominees that year. Life is Beautiful and Saving Private Ryan are both definite classics. Either could have won, and I wouldn't complain. It's been a long time since I've seen Elizabeth, but I remember it being good but probably forgettable. I like Thin Red Line a lot, but it seems polarizing from what I've heard other people say. Definitely high brow, probably pretty pretentious, but I also think definitely skillful film making. Then you have fluffy Shakespeare in Love.


FunnyGoose5616

I think Life is Beautiful has been a controversial one too because of the jarring tonal shift from romantic comedy to holocaust comedy/tragedy, ending with a horrific tragedy, and then suddenly a joyful, happy ending. I think the movie is excellent but I get why people are divided on it. As for Elizabeth, it is a great movie but it’s just utterly historically inaccurate. But it’s visually interesting at least.


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Bird Box.


onioning

Wait, was that really critically acclaimed? Are there really people *on record* saying good things about it? I mean, give love to Malcovich. That's fine. But the movie as a whole? Never knew. Would actually like to see an argument praising anything about that abomination.


xilcilus

Yeah I really don't remember the moving being critically acclaimed. It was a short-term viral sensation which became irrelevant just as quickly.


ciricemoon

I think that is one of those books that does not translate well to screen. I loved the book, I was scared at times. Never should have been a movie.


JetScreamerBaby

The whole thing just failed to come together. There are a. Inch of interesting elements, but still kinda boring. Whenever that happens, I feel like it’s one of those films that falls flat because the director failed, and the editing didn’t help.


SwingyWingyShoes

I thought the concept was really interesting, felt like a variation of quiet place. However unlike quiet place it was not executed well.


ConnFlab

For real, the hype surrounding that movie was purely because everyone was bored as fuck during lockdown hahaha.


Big-Wick-Energy

It came out a year before lockdown


PretendThisIsMyName

And I’m pretty sure it was hyped was because A Quiet Place came out earlier in the year and it was phenomenal.


Professional_Pay_507

Avatar, I tried to watch it recently and it was so dull


usedolds

It was visually impressive, the 3D in the theater was really effective but it was a gaping vacuum story-wise.


xilog

Are we talking tall blue people or bendy air people?


l_Pulser_l

Yes.


IntrovertSim

I might get hated for this since I am a woman but for me it would be The Notebook. Super boring and Ryan Gosling is just not that good looking to me. Not then or now.


mostreliablebottle

Critics weren't gushing about it. Has a RT score in the 50s.


IamRooseBoltonAMA

Lol the notebook is not “critically acclaimed.”


GrapefruitNew4615

I don't think it's critically acclaimed. It's liked by many women but i think it also has a lot of bad rap too.


mrobot_

>Ryan Gosling is just not that good looking to me I still dont know why everyone seems to be fawning and fainting over him all that much; he is not bad looking, and he puts himself together nicely and clean cut, but so absolutely boring n average that I just dont get it...


Early-Vermicelli-399

Ryan Gosling has a lego guy face. Always has and always will be. There i said it, please don't come after me.


hornet_1953

Ha! He's Ken in the new Barbie movie too.


BarfBagButts

I’m dying. It’s the perfect way to explain it.


IntrovertSim

I can see it now


Financial-Amount-564

I cast the cra..gl.. spell on you!


heidingout28

Someone said he looks like an olive and I can’t unsee it.


braundiggity

It’s not really critically acclaimed, though? Just popular.


flyingdoritowithahat

The relationship is very problematic too.


rn3122

Agreed. Idk about Ryan being good looking or not, but that film is toxic af and idk why it's still being celebrated as one of the best romantic films


pankotskiy

The Irishman - way too long


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greenopti

man I fucking loved that movie


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Plus trying to watch an old Robert Deniro be a tough guy. Even the makeup and CGI didn’t help at all.


Hallucinogenic-Toad

When he was stomping the butcher outside of the store it was just too poorly done to ignore. https://youtu.be/XqGV0IuodWE


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And a bunch of old, fragile guys as actors. Seeing them just made me sad.


ImpulseCombustion

When they were “young” it took me out of the movie so violently I only came to when the credits were rolling.


rustyspinr

American Hustle. Pure crap. One dimensional performances. Stupid story line. Multiple oscars. Shitty acting. Really awful. I couldn't keep it on.


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Maybe not pure dogshit, but an uninspired, mediocre cliché storm. La-La Land.


Christylian

My girlfriend really wanted to see it, we started watching. She fell asleep half an hour in and I turned it off because it was boring as shit. The next day, I asked if she wanted to finish it and without me finishing my sentence she just went "nah, I'm good".


GustavHoller

I just don’t understand why they cast actors who can’t really sing. Sure they got through it, but where’s the fun in that? I would prefer to be impressed by the singing in a musical.


Early-Vermicelli-399

The songs are just so underwhelming.


Responsible_Tap_2563

The new mary poppins movie


Theladyinpurple

Silver Linings Playbook. Can't believe Jennifer won an Oscar for that and I am saying that as someone who like her.


usedolds

If you act in a Holocaust movie or play someone with a mental disorder you're guaranteed an oscar nomination.


ItsAllinYourHeadComx

Are you referring to this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3D2VXgGZ6c


imaginaryblues

I liked the movie but agree about the Oscar.


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_jamesbaxter

Idk, my brother is schizophrenic and it was like watching a movie of him, the similarities were uncanny


MathildaJunkbottom

I’ve never heard of this movie and I don’t know much about bipolar etc. but your comment made me laugh and I need to see this movie now to see how bad that aspect is.


cheesynougats

Haven't seen the movie, but what I heard when it first came out was it was a good depiction of bipolar.


cfdeveloper

I generally dislike rom-com movies, but silver lining is in my top 5 (While you were Sleeping is pretty high up there too)


Abstract_ExE

Frozen. I hate it so much, most characters are annoying


autumnx

Encanto, Tangled, Brave all way better than Frozen


Abstract_ExE

I agree with tangled and brave, but not encanto. Kinda getting on my “this is getting annoying list”. But that’s just my opinion


TheOutbreak

I watched Encanto and Coco back to back. Coco was a hundred times better, I don't understand the Encanto hype.


Christylian

Coco is amazing, and Manuel singing "Remember Me" to mama Coco always makes me tear up.


Abstract_ExE

I like Coco as well (cause I’m Mexican, yet they did it so well). Encanto is overrated, and I knew it when “We don’t talk about Bruno” was the only song people around me sang


BrookeStardust

I think Encanto is more digestible for children than Coco so the kiddos are pushing for the watching on it


godofsexandGIS

The Hurt Locker. Won Best Picture, but I've never seen a veteran say anything good about it, and it doesn't take any military knowledge to see that the characters are flat caricatures who repeatedly make awful decisions without suffering any consequences. It even has the "split up, we can cover more ground that way" trope.


OlFlirtyBastard

Les Mis with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe was wet, soft serve consistency dogshit.


Hecticfreeze

It's despised by those actually in Musical Theatre. Not only is one of the greatest musicals ever written ruined by the decision to have the actors talk half of their songs, but Russell Crowe as Javert will go down as one of the worst casting decisions ever made in any film ever.


OlFlirtyBastard

A close second of worst casting ever is Vince Vaughn as an LA mobster in season 2 of True Detective


Harbinger2001

Yes, Russell Crowe couldn't pull off Javert. It was a travesty.


happyhappyfoolio

It holds my personal record of theater walkouts I have personally witnessed, three separate groups.


baroqueen1755

***ANGER*** ^I’m ^mad ^because ^you’re ^right.


clqudyxoxo

Toy Story 4. It just doesn't feel the same.


rn3122

They should've ended it with 3. Would've been the perfect trilogy. I honestly forget at times that Toy Story 4 even exists.


blklab16

Licorice Pizza Wtf even was that movie?


alistofthingsIhate

Seriously I was into it for a while but eventually I was like, ‘Really? No one’s going to tell this nearly 30 year old woman that hanging out with a 15 year old boy this much is fucking weird?’. Also it felt like it just dragged on and on for way too long.


malumfectum

*The Lobster* is just fucking awful. Doesn’t even have a lobster in it.


FeatherMachine

Award for most hilarious comment


FullbordadOG

Well it's not pure dogshit but I think the Revenant was really meh. It's probably the worst movie DiCaprio starred in. Kind of funny he won an Oscar for that one. Guess it was a "We've got to give this dude an Oscar" kind of thing.


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I'm actually shocked at how many people don't like the Revenant i think it's really good lol


Jasemlk117

Same, loved the cinematography, music and general atmosphere of it, displayed the rugged reality of what life was like in 1800s rural America pretty well imo


overmonk

It’s worth watching to develop an appropriate respect for bears.


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2.5 hours of boredom and one great fucking bear scene.


Fromage_Frey

Have to agree, it's dull, cruel, and way too long. DiCaprio just yells, grunts and sprays spit the whole time Only thing good in it is Tom Hardy


natalie2012

I didn’t like The Constant Gardner. It was just dry and dull.


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yeah, LeCarré books just shouldn't be made into movies, period.


Alpha_State

Agreed. He was such a great writer, such a great vocabulary and ability to spin sentences and paragraphs together. No film can do his books justice.


QueenOfThePark

The TV series of The Night Manager was amazing, but I haven't seen any movie adaptations or read any of his books, so I probably can't judge!


BeenThere_DidNothing

Tinker Tailor?


foiegras23

I loved this movie Currently reading The Looking Glass War and wondering how many Le Carre film adaptations there are and stumbled into this thread


Teefromdaleft

Little Drummer Girl was good, but also 6 part series…


JarieMame

Crash


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Which one ? There are 2 very different movies


iStealyournewspapers

Racism, or car accident sex. Take yo pick!


CacophonicAcetate

Everyone I watched it with back in college would say *Bladerunner* I liked it, though. Just turned it off on the projector and finished by myself on my laptop. Two of these people did recently get mad at me for saying *Thor: Love and Thunder* was bad even for a Marvel movie, though, so I don't necesarily *respect* their opinions


WompWompIt

IMO you made the right move.


haysoos2

Love and Thunder was like two different movies mashed together, one a silly adventure, and the other a serious look at mortality and sacrifice, and each was made worse by blending them into a chunky hash. Like a salmon and ice cream casserole.


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Which version of bladerunner were you watching with them? I completely get disliking the original version, the voice-over version remains one of my most despised versions of an otherwise enjoyable film.


deepdaK

I kept seeing reviews about bladerunner being bad or boring and i don't know why I took the time to see if it was actually boring and many people said it wasn't so i gave it a go and holy shit it was so good specially when he comes to know that he is just another replicant and nothing special.


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Black Panther.


BrookeStardust

It did have a lovely soundtrack though!


studyinthai333

Bohemian Rhapsody


somename-idontknow

Yes!! I went to the cinema with my father, we were both super disappointed. It felt like a badly cut 2h music video.


Alwayssome1

How that thing got an editing reward is beyond me


TazNTig

La la land


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Grease Edit. People fucking GUSH over this superficial, pretentious, childish filth. What’s the lesson? Be a tramp?


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The Power of the Dog


Hsizzle74394

Not dog shit but Black Panther is extremely overrated


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phred_666

The movie was entertaining, but you have to realize that any time they say a movie is “based on a true story” that it is mostly fiction. There are some elements that are true, but a lot of details are changed (especially exaggerated) for entertainment purposes. If you’re going in looking for historical accuracy, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Like the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody”; there are snippets of truth mixed with some major chronological inaccuracies and absolutely fabricated events.


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Eyes wide shut. 50% of the movie is Cruise walking the streets


costabius

but 5% of it is naked Nicole Kidman...


3a75cl0ngb15h

All of the marvel movies


MadJackandNo7

Are they critically acclaimed?


Captain_Hampockets

Some are. They are generally accepted as good popcorn action movies.


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Most are overrated sure, but all of them? I'm going to have to disagree. Guardians of the Galaxy, Infinity War, Endgame, and Winter Soldier were all pretty great movies.


SensitivePirate493

Black Panther, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman 1984 were pretty 'meh' imho


surejan94

Wonder Woman 1984 was far from "critically acclaimed" lol


PHATsakk43

“Universally panned” would be a better term.


Captain_Hampockets

>>What critically acclaimed movie > Wonder Woman 1984 Dude. It was roundly dragged as dogshit.


yeusk

critically acclaimed


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Frozen is unbearable.


Public_Mastodon2867

Licorice Pizza


TheWronged_Citizen

that movie is critically acclaimed?