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[Papa]

Movies I don't like because their politics don't align with mine or they show realities I'd rather pretend to ignore the thread.

I don’t think you understood the point of the thread.

It’s not about movies that include liberal politics.

It’s about movies that are actually shit but the pretentious liberal Hollywood types praise them while huffing their own farts.

You know exactly the type I’m talking about. You’re lying if you say you don’t.

 

[Toecutter]

As much as I liked 'Avengers: Endgame', that one scene where all the female characters got together to fight Thanos was cringe af.

The critics loved it though.

 

[Shizumapower]

Rotten Tomatoes Top 100.... Not all bad, but plenty of WTF? to choose from. starting with #1

And Roma... Whyyy was that so highly praised?

Certified Fresh Movies to Stream at Home (2023)

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1.	97%	Black Panther (2018)
2.	94%	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
3.	93%	Us (2019)
4.	97%	Toy Story 4 (2019)
5.	99%	Lady Bird (2017)
6.	97%	Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
7.	98%	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8.	96%	The Irishman (2019)
9.	100%	Citizen Kane (1941)
10.	96%	BlacKkKlansman (2018)
11.	100%	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920)
12.	98%	Get Out (2017)
13.	97%	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
14.	97%	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
15.	97%	Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Nosferatu the Vampire) (1922)
16.	98%	Casablanca (1942)
17.	98%	Moonlight (2016)
18.	100%	Modern Times (1936)
19.	97%	Booksmart (2019)
20.	90%	A Star Is Born (2018)
21.	98%	The Farewell (2019)
22.	93%	Wonder Woman (2017)
23.	93%	Dunkirk (2017)
24.	99%	The Third Man (1949)
25.	98%	Inside Out (2015)
26.	98%	It Happened One Night (1934)
27.	99%	Eighth Grade (2018)
28.	95%	Roma (2018)
29.	97%	La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (1938)
30.	98%	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
31.	97%	Coco (2017)
32.	98%	The Godfather (1972)
33.	97%	Spotlight (2015)
34.	95%	A Quiet Place (2018)
35.	91%	Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
36.	99%	Selma (2014)
37.	98%	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
38.	100%	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
39.	92%	The Shape of Water (2017)
40.	99%	All About Eve (1950)
41.	93%	Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
42.	94%	Arrival (2016)
43.	98%	King Kong (1933)
44.	93%	Logan (2017)
45.	91%	Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
46.	98%	The Big Sick (2017)
47.	94%	Incredibles 2 (2018)
48.	100%	The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
49.	100%	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
50.	95%	Call Me by Your Name (2018)
51.	93%	The Favourite (2018)
52.	100%	Paddington 2 (2018)
53.	93%	Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
54.	100%	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
55.	96%	Gravity (2013)
56.	100%	Laura (1944)
57.	97%	Boyhood (2014)
58.	100%	Leave No Trace (2018)
59.	85%	Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019)
60.	96%	Manchester by the Sea (2016)
61.	98%	Alien (1979)
62.	96%	Argo (2012)
63.	100%	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
64.	95%	12 Years a Slave (2013)
65.	98%	A Hard Day's Night (1964)
66.	93%	Baby Driver (2017)
67.	99%	The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1967)
68.	98%	Zootopia (2016)
69.	100%	Top Hat (1935)
70.	91%	La La Land (2016)
71.	94%	War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
72.	100%	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
73.	96%	The Florida Project (2017)
74.	97%	Metropolis (1927)
75.	92%	Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
76.	100%	Rebecca (1940)
77.	91%	Widows (2018)
78.	100%	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1956)
79.	99%	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
80.	99%	North by Northwest (1959)
81.	98%	Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
82.	100%	M (1931)
83.	99%	Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
84.	98%	Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (The Bicycle Thief) (1949)
85.	98%	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
86.	90%	Shazam! (2019)
87.	96%	Touch of Evil (1958)
88.	97%	Hell or High Water (2016)
89.	95%	Psycho (1960)
90.	98%	Up (2009)
91.	100%	Toy Story 2 (1999)
92.	98%	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
93.	99%	Chinatown (1974)
94.	98%	The Lady Vanishes (1938)
95.	99%	Rear Window (1954)
96.	91%	Captain America: Civil War (2016)
97.	100%	Pinocchio (1940)
98.	98%	Toy Story 3 (2010)
99.	100%	12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957)
100	98% Lawrence of Arabia (1962

 

[Richard Packer]

Why the hell is Joker coming up? That’s like the complete opposite of liberal wank.

Guys this thread isn’t about general movies you didn’t like. It’s about the ones where you know they stood around sniffing each other’s farts between takes. The movie itself doesn’t necessarily have to be political, but you just know it’s made by the liberal Hollywood types who love flicking themselves off over how artsy and pretentious they are.

This description fits Joker.

 

[Cunth]

lol @ the top ten

 

[Naibel]

That list never ceases to get a laugh out of me. Never change, Marvel shills critics !

 

[Richard Packer]

Black Panther being number 1 brings great joy to my heart, and I thought that movie sucked.

 

[sol_bad]

So glad I don't give a shit about politics. So many good movies mentioned in this thread because people are easily triggered due to their political beliefs.

Someone mentioned Crash, I watched it for the first time recently and yeah it's shit, but it has nothing to do with it's "woke" elements.

 

[Ornlu]

hm, i'm gonna go with good will hunting

The whole movie dunks on the rich wokies depicted in the movie, though. The Southie dirtbags are the heroes.

The Damon train of thought exposition "owns" are pretty lame, watching now IMO, though.

Movies I don't like because their politics don't align with mine or they show realities I'd rather pretend to ignore the thread.

Self fart-sniffing, the post.

You could always point to a movie that is a 'conservative wank movie' as a counterpoint.

 

[Kadayi]

David Lynch is the epitome of fart sniffing

Try being less of a Basic Bitch when it comes to Cinema Matt.

Your entire critical repertoire seems to solely consist of 'me no likie' or 'me no understand' = Therefore Bad

It's kind of tragic tbh dude.

 

[PrellboGark]

Gran Torino

A piece of shit.

 

[Soleil rouge]

This is how I feel about most Netflix original shows. The buddy cop movie about Will Smith being the white cop and the orc being the black cop was downright insulting. You can tell the writer is an extremely sheltered, insufferable pussy who never worked a day in his life.

The premise is that it's a modern fantasy world but orcs are the oppressed minorities (basically Afro Americans).

WOW. So avant-garde. Much groundbreaking.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

You could always point to a movie that is a 'conservative wank movie' as a counterpoint.

That would be agreeing to your premise that one must like the media that appeals one's own political ideas and dislike media that speaks to different political ideas.

I reject that.

 

[Ornlu]

That would be agreeing to your premise that one must like the media that appeals one's own political ideas and dislike media that speaks to different political ideas.

I reject that.

How did you quote someone else when quoting me?

 

[MetalAlien]

As much as I liked 'Avengers: Endgame', that one scene where all the female characters got together to fight Thanos was cringe af.

The critics loved it though.

The last Marvel movie was Infinity War. Endgame is a fever dream of a 200 year old Cap lying in a hospice bed.

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Del Toro's Shape of Water.

 

[MetalAlien]

Del Toro's Shape of Water.

 

[teezzy]

This is how I feel about most Netflix original shows. The buddy cop movie about Will Smith being the white cop and the orc being the black cop was downright insulting. You can tell the writer is an extremely sheltered, insufferable pussy who never worked a day in his life.

The premise is that it's a modern fantasy world but orcs are the oppressed minorities (basically Afro Americans).

WOW. So avant-garde. Much groundbreaking.

Hahaha yeah Max Landis fucking blows

 

[Soleil rouge]

Hahaha yeah Max Landis fucking blows

I am not surprised that he looks like this.

 

[McHuj]

American Beauty - fuck that movie.

 

[kunonabi]

Fat Girl - poorly-made, disgusting feminist trash. Saw it in high school because my friend wanted to see it since Amelie was so great and he figured it would be just as good since it was also a French film.

Than in grad school we got it assigned in one of my film classes. I skipped it but I had to sit around listening to a bunch of pretentious grad students sing its praises for an hour which was almost as torturous as the film itself.

Screw that movie and everybody involved in making it.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

How did you quote someone else when quoting me?

Oh my god I saw that AFAIK what I did when I replied to you was remove everything but that sentence??

Anyways I fixed it haha

 

[teezzy]

Goddammit now I wanna re-watch 8 1/2

 

[oagboghi2]

Gran Torino

A piece of shit.

Fuck you, that movie is great

 

[oagboghi2]

So glad I don't give a shit about politics. So many good movies mentioned in this thread because people are easily triggered due to their political beliefs.

Someone mentioned Crash, I watched it for the first time recently and yeah it's shit, but it has nothing to do with it's "woke" elements.

Why are you in this thread? Are you paid to defend every shit movie that comes out of Hollywood or something?

 

[Darkmakaimura]

The last Marvel movie was Infinity War. Endgame is a fever dream of a 200 year old Cap lying in a hospice bed.

Endgame was okay but a massive disappointment when compared to Infinity War which is probably one of my favorite superhero movies of all time.

 

[ROMhack]

Maybe this thread should be about films that don't have as much to say as they think they do?

When a French movie isn't some lame comedy, it's 90% of the time some pretensious artsy-filled navel-gazing neo-bourgeois garbage, with within those last few years copious amount of obnoxious SocJus/PC messages added in. Some of those movies happen to be good because some actors/directors convey their navel-gazing better than other, but most don't. Yet there are always critics that will label those movies as "inspiring", "groundbreaking" or "important". Each time a movie gets those words printed on its poster, I avoid it like the plague.

In terms of Hollywood stuff, mmhhh, I would say "The Shape Of Water". Not hated it (it's alright), but found it very overrated. They channeled that "Amelie/Jean Pierre Jeunet" look, with unwanted bestiality on top of it. And one of the vilains was such a chauvinistic asshole, I rolled my eyes to it.

I find Asian cinema much more intersting nowadays anyway.

Yeah, French movies are very much like that. I think it's because they see people too much in terms of social class. We have that issue in the UK - which is why our cinema is largely crap.

Asian films usually just feel, for lack of a better term, more humanistic. Although they might revolve around social politics, they aren't bogged down by it completely.

Burning is a good example - it's a really interesting thriller despite the obvious underlying message being about power-relations between rich and poor people in Korean society.

Battle Royale and Oldboy are more famous examples.

 

[Kadayi]

Why are you in this thread? Are you paid to defend every shit movie that comes out of Hollywood or something?

Fuck you, that movie is great

 

[-Troid-]

Yep. Absolutely fucking HATED Knives Out. You can make a political film and do it well - we have thousands of examples of this. I will never know how Rian managed to be as successful as he has in the critical space.

Idk I just saw Looper a few days ago and thought it was pretty good. It was shlockier than I thought it would be but it was interesting. Maybe Rian should stick to gimmicky sci-fi instead of shoe horning politics into Star Wars and spy movies. Knives Out is a spy movie right? I haven't bothered with it because Rian Johnson and it not being free to watch yet.

 

[Airola]

Fat Girl - poorly-made, disgusting feminist trash. Saw it in high school because my friend wanted to see it since Amelie was so great and he figured it would be just as good since it was also a French film.

Than in grad school we got it assigned in one of my film classes. I skipped it but I had to sit around listening to a bunch of pretentious grad students sing its praises for an hour which was almost as torturous as the film itself.

Screw that movie and everybody involved in making it.

Not sure which one is worse though, a disgusting feminist trash movie or a person who thinks a movie must be good because it's French and one French movie was good once.

Fat Girl was pretty good when I watched almost 20 years ago. I have it on dvd now but haven't watched it again. What I remember of it is that it was pretty titillating at first and really shocking near the end. The director Catherine Breillat doesn't seem to pull punches what comes to sex and violence.

 

[teezzy]

I hate other people's opinions so fucking much

 

[Airola]

Knives Out is a spy movie right?

Not really that much.
It at first looks like it's going to be an Agatha Christie style murder mystery, but then it takes a turn in another direction and we start to follow the guilty person trying to hide evidence and not get caught. The investigator is more of an idiot than a clever guy too. When this turn in events happen it's pretty fun to follow what's going to happen next.

 

[Papa]

This description fits Joker.

Yeah Joker wasn’t made by liberal fart sniffers

 

[Papa]

So glad I don't give a shit about politics. So many good movies mentioned in this thread because people are easily triggered due to their political beliefs.

Someone mentioned Crash, I watched it for the first time recently and yeah it's shit, but it has nothing to do with it's "woke" elements.

Another fart sniffer who doesn’t understand the thread

 

[Sakura Doritos]

The most recent that comes to mind is Joker. That definitely fits under the "The artsy emotional wank movie." Can't believe they ruined the Joker and people ate it up. It's a film about a loser made for losers. Not a fucking Joker film.

I really loved Joker...

 

[sol_bad]

Another fart sniffer who doesn’t understand the thread

I can sniff farts all day long because I have no sense of smell.


*EDIT*
Thanks for mentioning Manchester by the Sea Matty, looked at the trailer and it looks cool.

 

[Shodan09]

The babadook, the last jedi.

 

[Kadayi]

Another fart sniffer who doesn’t understand the thread

In all honesty what's to understand Matt? You're an Art illiterate who doesn't really 'get' Creative endeavours: The Umpteenth Thread. I'm honestly struggling to remember when I've ever seen you actually demonstrate any degree of critical enthusiasm on GAF for a book, a TV show, a film, an album or even a game tbh, versus endless rounds of just shitting on things. Change the record mate, this one is well worn. Perfect opportunity in this thread: -

The 90s Album Exchange - Post one of your favorite albums from the 90s

Please only post one album per post. Feel free to copy / paste my format, or change it a bit to create your own. The intent here is to share some albums that you can enjoy from start to finish, and introduce people to some good music that they may not have heard. "One hit wonders" are...

www.neogaf.com

Post about stuff you actually like for once.

 

[Papa]

I can sniff farts all day long because I have no sense of smell.


*EDIT*
Thanks for mentioning Manchester by the Sea Matty, looked at the trailer and it looks cool.

You will love it

 

[Papa]

In all honesty what's to understand Matt? You're an Art illiterate who doesn't really 'get' Creative endeavours: The Umpteenth Thread. I'm honestly struggling to remember when I've ever seen you actually demonstrate any degree of critical enthusiasm on GAF for a book, a TV show, a film, an album or even a game tbh, versus endless rounds of just shitting on things. Change the record mate, this one is well worn. Perfect opportunity in this thread: -

The 90s Album Exchange - Post one of your favorite albums from the 90s

Please only post one album per post. Feel free to copy / paste my format, or change it a bit to create your own. The intent here is to share some albums that you can enjoy from start to finish, and introduce people to some good music that they may not have heard. "One hit wonders" are...

www.neogaf.com

Post about stuff you actually like for once.

Objectively wrong

Sounds like we need to start our own.

It’s not sci fi but I’ll take any chance I can get to plug The North Water by Ian McGuire. Like Moby Dick meets Blood Meridian. Best book I’ve read in a very long time.

The North Water by Ian McGuire.

don’t question me just read it

Read it last year. Wasn’t the biggest fan. Don’t like McCarthy’s disjointed prose. A book that I feel captures the gritty ultra violence and tense atmosphere better is the North Water by Ian McGuire. It’s like Moby Dick meets Blood Meridian but with more coherent writing than the latter. One of the best books I’ve read.

I have a friend who is a bit of a lit nerd and he loves Murakami. 1Q84 was my first Murakami book too and I’m not sure I liked it overall. Some parts yes, others parts no. It was just weird. I read the Wind-up Bird Chronicle which was better but still transitioned into some weird sex stuff at the end. Best book I’ve read in a long time was the North Water by Ian McGuire. Gritty realism is more my flavour.

 

[Kadayi]

Objectively wrong

Four quotes pimping the same book? That's it? You disappoint Son.

 

[Papa]

Four quotes pimping the same book? That's it? You disappoint Son.

Uh, it was an example refuting your claim of me being an 'art illiterate'. I like art; I just don't like pompous wankery masquerading as art for nothing more than boosting the ego of fart-huffing midwit liberals.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

He's very polarizing. I haven't met a single person who likes all his work, it's usually "I like <x> and <y> of his, but the rest is garbage".

i like them all for real. everything from his crazy surreal early things like "Six Men Throwing Up Six Times" to his one off weirdo Disney movie "The Straight Story". i will legit watch anything he makes. lots of people think it's just crazy stuff thrown onscreen but imo there is a method to his madness. he's definitely an acquired taste tho i admit that.

at any rate David Lynch has way more conservative touchstones in his work. he does not try and uphold a liberal Hollywood ideal, he is more like a demented Norman Rockwell. heavy on Americana and 50's nostalgia. definitely not a liberal wanker. pretentious but i really don't see the lib stuff. if anything, many on that side have complained that his works are reactionary.

I don't know if Birdman is a "liberal wank movie" but it was terrible. It was painful to watch in movie theater, one of the biggest movie disappointments in my life.

yeah that movie was terrible. i would call it a liberal wank movie because it was all about capital-A Art and How Important The Theater Is and all this self serving Media Industry bullshit. file it alongside La La Land and other movies that are giant blowjobs to the entertainment industry.

this guy had us watch Crash in our film study class. Just a completely mediocre movie in just about every way. Homeboy was just jizzing his pants discussing it with the class.

yeah i think it's 5 minutes in and Ludacris is giving some speech about "People see two black men walking down the street and think they gangstas gonna rob someone" or whatever to get you ashamed of your white guilt then a second later they pull out guns and are like "Guess what, we ARE robbing people!" HUH? DIDNT SEE THAT COMING DID YOU? the whole movie is like some gatcha thread on racism, constantly setting up weak ass stereotypes and then doing a trick reveal to show "the audience is actually the racist one!" or something. that movie is badly made white guilt porn.

 

[Papa]

i like them all for real. everything from his crazy surreal early things like "Six Men Throwing Up Six Times" to his one off weirdo Disney movie "The Straight Story". i will legit watch anything he makes. lots of people think it's just crazy stuff thrown onscreen but imo there is a method to his madness. he's definitely an acquired taste tho i admit that.

at any rate David Lynch has way more conservative touchstones in his work. he does not try and uphold a liberal Hollywood ideal, he is more like a demented Norman Rockwell. heavy on Americana and 50's nostalgia. definitely not a liberal wanker. pretentious but i really don't see the lib stuff. if anything, many on that side have complained that his works are reactionary.

yeah that movie was terrible. i would call it a liberal wank movie because it was all about capital-A Art and How Important Art Is and all this self serving bullshit. file it alongside La La Land and other movies that are giant blowjobs to the entertainment industry.

'giant blowjobs to the entertainment industry'

v nice

 

[#Phonepunk#]

any movie where a journalist or film critic is a main character is one of these

 

[Darkmakaimura]

any movie where a journalist or film critic is a main character is one of these

Whadda bout tv show?

 

[Kadayi]

Uh, it was an example refuting your claim of me being an 'art illiterate'. I like art; I just don't like pompous wankery masquerading as art for nothing more than boosting the ego of fart-huffing midwit liberals.

LOL. Whom exactly are you hoping to convince here Matt? Pompous Wankery? WTF does that even mean coming from someone like you? What's your favourite painting? Give us 100 words on it. Top 6 films? Give us a 100 words on each. Top 6 TV shows? 100 words on each. 6 favourite fiction and non-fiction books? 100 words on each. 6 Favourite Albums, 100 words on each. Maybe start demonstrating some actual critical nous here at GAF and you might find people like me put some stock in your opinions on this that and whatever, but when you're coming out with howlers like ' David Lynch is the epitome of fart sniffing' you're not exactly selling yourself as someone who even has a scooby about the arts, let alone any informed grounding them. You're entitled to not like Lynch's films, or even only like some of them (I'm not one for blind fandom, works stand on their own merits), but the man's creativity and unique vision of what was possible with storytelling fundamentally changed the nature of television and pushed it past the formulaic candyfloss that was TV before Twin Peaks. Lynch irrevocably altered the paradigm of the modern viewing experience and has been a massive influence of a whole swathe of directors since, both on the big and small screen. Nothing of which had anything to do with pushing 'liberal ideas' versus demonstrating to producers that audiences are a lot smarter than the studio suits were giving them credit for, and like to be challenged. On the edge of Occam's razor, what's more likely? Lynch is the epitome of fart sniffing, or you're pissing in the wind?

 

[Papa]

mmm yes casey affleck braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap yummy

 

[Richard Packer]

Yeah Joker wasn’t made by liberal fart sniffers

So then they we're made by 'conservative fart sniffers.' Other then that it fits your description, Mr. Oliver.

 

[TUROK]

I don't really mind stuff like that, coming from either side of the political spectrum as long as it's not too overt.

One thing that made me roll my eyes though was killing off John Connor just to throw in a Mexican girl as another resistance leader that doesn't seem all that different from John Connor at the end of it in Terminator: Dark Fate.

Something like that just comes across so pander-y in a lazy fashion. But I didn't mind too much. Terminator movies became generic Hollywood blockbusters after 2 and I made peace with that a long time ago.

Oh , and the inclusion of "Just a Girl" by No Doubt in that one Captain Marvel fight scene felt way too on-the-nose . But worst of all, it's pretty shoddy fight scene music.

She had a Nine Inch Nails shirt on at some point, just put some NIN in the damn fight scenes.