villa4europe Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 5 hours ago, Genie said: Once upon a time in Hollywood, we watched it at the weekend. What a waste of time (and nearly 3 hours at that). How was it up for 10 academy awards? I didnt get it until too late if I'm honest, was lost on me, I'd watched mind hunter too but my knowledge of the events wasn't enough to think how clever the film was Whoever said he peaked with IB... There's a couple of really cool moments in it, pretty much any waltz scene, the 3 beers scene (which me and my wife still talk about, it's a real thing!) I don't think it's that good a film In general he is overrated though, I could take or leave RD, think JB is his best film, if he's done 8 films I'd say only 4 of them are brilliant, PF, KB1, django and JB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Probably one for the unpopular opinions thread but I generally feel that every film I watch has been overrated. I very rarely enjoy watching films and they hardly ever hold my attention for their entire duration. Especially in the case of films which last longer than two hours, just no need whatsoever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Genie said: Once upon a time in Hollywood, we watched it at the weekend. What a waste of time (and nearly 3 hours at that). How was it up for 10 academy awards? I'm with you, didn't enjoy it one bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 50 minutes ago, villa4europe said: I didnt get it until too late if I'm honest, was lost on me, I'd watched mind hunter too but my knowledge of the events wasn't enough to think how clever the film was Whoever said he peaked with IB... There's a couple of really cool moments in it, pretty much any waltz scene, the 3 beers scene (which me and my wife still talk about, it's a real thing!) I don't think it's that good a film In general he is overrated though, I could take or leave RD, think JB is his best film, if he's done 8 films I'd say only 4 of them are brilliant, PF, KB1, django and JB I'd rank his films in the following order, best to worst: Pulp Fiction Django Unchained Inglourious Basterds Reservoir Dogs Jackie Brown The Hateful Eight Death Proof KB2 KB1 OUATIH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted March 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 21, 2022 24 minutes ago, Risso said: I'd rank his films in the following order, best to worst: Pulp Fiction Django Unchained Inglourious Basterds Reservoir Dogs Jackie Brown The Hateful Eight Death Proof KB2 KB1 OUATIH been a while since i saw jackie brown but that's a fair list IMO. pulp fiction is my all time favourite film i'd maybe move death proof below the kill bills...and probably swap the two of them over. i preferred part one. didn't get past the first 20 mins of OUATIH back on topic of overrated films, pretty much any of the marvel ones and the live action disneys for me (apart from beauty and the beast. that was alright) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 I'm with you on the Marvel films, apart from a couple of the earlier ones like Spiderman and Iron Man, I don't enjoy them at all. It just seems to be "fill the screen with as many special effects as possible and bollocks to the story." Think the last one I watched was Venom 2, which was abysmal. Watched the trailer for the latest Spiderman and that was enough to make me switch the telly off TBH. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) I missed the boat on the Marvel films, and at the encouragement of some friends started with the early ones with the intent of working through the lot. Didn't mind Iron Man, but wasn't particularly into it. Thought The Incredible Hulk and Thor were appalling and never really carried on from that point. I think Deadpool and Antman are the only superhero films I've really enjoyed, when they try to take themselves seriously it's just far too silly. Edited March 21, 2022 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 25 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Thor The Thor films are probably second best in that whole infinity series of marvel stuff after Guardians of the Galaxy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Reservoir Dogs Inglorious Basterds Pulp Fiction The Hateful Eight Django Unchained Jackie Brown OUATIH Death Proof KB2 KB1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 23 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: The Thor films are probably second best in that whole infinity series of marvel stuff after Guardians of the Galaxy I'll consider it a good decision to call it quits at that point then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Anything with too much CGI just turns me straight off - DC/MCU movies, Transformers, etc Like having a firework thrown in your face. Garbage. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xela said: Anything with too much CGI just turns me straight off - DC/MCU movies, Transformers, etc Like having a firework thrown in your face. Garbage. Watch corridor crew on Saturdays on YouTube where they go over good and bad CGI, some of it is incredible to be fair and also theres a huge chunk now that you'd never even know was CGI Edit - I'll add to that someone said mad max earlier, mad max to me felt like a film that was actually full of practical effects rather than CGI which did give it a nice bit of authenticity and downright coolness at times, set it apart from other summer blockbusters Edited March 21, 2022 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: Reservoir Dogs Inglorious Basterds Pulp Fiction The Hateful Eight Django Unchained Jackie Brown OUATIH Death Proof KB2 KB1 KB1 is great! Love that film 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted March 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 21, 2022 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: The Thor films are probably second best in that whole infinity series of marvel stuff after Guardians of the Galaxy My kids dragged me to Thor: Ragnarok, and I was flabbergasted that people think that's a good movie. If that's representative of the MCU, then put it down as a thing I definitely don't get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, il_serpente said: My kids dragged me to Thor: Ragnarok, and I was flabbergasted that people think that's a good movie. If that's representative of the MCU, then put it down as a thing I definitely don't get. Well its a low bar tbf Ragnarok is ace if for nothing other than Taika Waititi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 While we're ranking Tarantino films, I always thought True Romance was the most watchable of all the films he's written... probably because he didn't direct it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eidolon Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 I disagree with virtually everything from the last couple of pages, maybe my taste isn’t great For me it’s Die Hard tied with ANY Ghostbusters film. Sleep inducing 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizzzle Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 Hated OUATIH, comfortably Tarantino's worst film imo I don't know how the film Drive with Ryan Gosling get's such high ratings! It is two hours of of Gosling staring gormlessly into a camera with shit music in the background. Absolute dog shit film. Braveheart - I watched it for the first time ever about 3 years ago and hated it. Mel Gibson's Scottish accent is terrible too Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - I didn't hate this film but I don't get why it is so highly rated There are so many films that I can't think of right now that people really rate but I can't stand, each to their own I suppose 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 40 minutes ago, Bizzzle said: I don't know how the film Drive with Ryan Gosling get's such high ratings! It is two hours of of Gosling staring gormlessly into a camera with shit music in the background. Absolute dog shit film. Braveheart - I watched it for the first time ever about 3 years ago and hated it. Mel Gibson's Scottish accent is terrible too Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - I didn't hate this film but I don't get why it is so highly rated agree on drive, i didnt really get it if im honest, the soundtrack has a couple of ok songs on it but the film is just a bit mardy and pointless, gosling has a few of them on his CV, i also thought la la land was rubbish* braveheart i liked when it first came out but it gets worse on each viewing, some of it is laughably bad and if you look at the inaccuracies in it its pretty embarrassing * I'll add moonlight to that too, didn't resonate with me in the slightest and despite the great acting i thought it was boring from that year's oscars i throw in hacksaw ridge too, i thought that film was shockingly bad, as in really really bad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXD Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 22 hours ago, Risso said: I'd rank his films in the following order, best to worst: Pulp Fiction Django Unchained Inglourious Basterds Reservoir Dogs Jackie Brown The Hateful Eight Death Proof KB2 KB1 OUATIH Only the top 2 are good films imo, though I haven't seen Death Proof and the Hateful Eight. In general, I feel Tarantino is overrated. He has a sizeable group of fans who think everything he makes is the coolest thing ever. Granted there are some legendary/cool scenes in some of his films, but they are not masterpieces, not even Pulp fiction (the Uma Thurman segment was boring). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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