Inspired by the thread of comments we had on Star Wars original trilogy, are there movies or film series you considered great at some point, or that other people consider great but that you guys consider kind of ? Or maybe not the masterpiece everyone seems to believe?
This is not about being a contrarian “WHAA POPULAR THING SUCKS”, is more about “why do people make such a fuzz on it” sincere feeling
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Drive was aggressively mediocre, trending towards bad but not quite reaching it. Forgettable and unremarkable are the two best words for it.
Blade Runner 2049 was also serviceable but ultimately very low impact. It's the sort of thing I'd expect to be argued about whether or not it's a good mindless hangover movie with the points for it being how vapid and aesthetically pleasant it is vs. points against being its length and pretenses of being lofty. The near-universal praise for it is concerning.
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There are plenty of criticisms you can level against Drive but forgettable isn't one of them considering the amount it is still talked about to this day
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I don't think le autism man jacket meme really qualifies as discussion
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your favorite movie is low-mid popcorn dross im sorry
!commenters all of you
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Big Brother season 2 is better than any of this shit
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i dont even know what that is but id still rather watch big brother season 2 than sit through drive again
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It's the best season of television ever produced. A reality TV show accidently captured the most interesting man in the world working his magic over 30 episodes culminating in some of the most hilarious shit I've ever seen.
A tale of 12 people who's morals are pushed to their limits.
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Oh that sounds promising! Where can I watch Big Brother season 2?
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It's iconic
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2049 looked nice like these mountains
Aggresively mediocre like the average carp post though
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I recognize that mountain range. Have fun getting doxxed, incel
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I wished I was at the mountains right now
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hope a bear eats you
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this is why i choose the man
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I'm jelly
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!r-slurs
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https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/229668/winter-kino-season-reviews-week-1
https://rdrama.net/h/chudrama/post/244929/-
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!r-slurs !fhqwhgads !alligatorfrickhouse !ifrickinglovescience
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Oh that? Yeah, that's bait.
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I agree with this insightful reply: https://rdrama.net/h/chudrama/post/244929/-/5918545#context
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I rate Nightcrawler higher than Drive in the same category cause they seem kinda similar.
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nightcrawler made me feel dirty. fantastic movie, was rooting against the protagonist the entire time
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Nightcrawler is my literally me movie lol.
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I'm learning by the hour about how shit your movie tastes are.
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RUDE. I inject it. I live the kinolyf (also literally me):
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I watched it thinking it was an xmen origin movie and kept wondering how chasing wrecks world lead to teleport powers. I was very disappointed with it.
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Loool understandable mistake to make.
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It's not an X-Men movie?
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No it's not. It's just about a weird cokehead acting guy wanting to be a photojourn*list.
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Watch me bamph my farts
Haha whoops. Haha whoops. Haha whoops
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Lmao. Work that colon
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I love both of them but my contrarian take is that Only God Forgives is even better
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I dont remember 2049 getting universal praise, everyone just thought it was aesthetically amazing with a serviceable plot. Basically what you said
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It was very well rated, but less so then the original.
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The thing about drive is it's all about the form, nothing about the substance. It's basically a movie made for movie directors (and wannabes). It's still pretty great tho.
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Hotline Miami did it better
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But Ryan Gosling in both films is literally me
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2049 was about as perfect as a sequel to the first movie as anyone could've hoped for tbh.
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!besties
Imagine pinning your own forgettable comment
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Embarrassing
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Absolutely agreed on blade runner 2049. If environment was the sole factor for movie quality it'd be the greatest of all time. But the plot straddles a 6 or 7. HE HAS TO DIE B-B-B-BECAUSE THEY NEED A MARTYR. yeah sure man whatever go take him to see his daughter and die on her front porch or some shit rather than going to the only group that could treat you. I don't care if he doesn't make it there it just makes zero sense they couldn't at least try first.
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no r-slur he chose to be. he abandoned the revolution and wanted no part of it, but saving someone and preserving a bit of genuine love that he found was enough for him to lay down his life
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and he decided to just die out of complacency then? The active threat is gone you can't at least go and try and get treated by the people who would happily care for you at this point?
I'm not even saying HE MUST SURVIVE I'm just saying why not even try a little bit?
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The point of the movie is him giving in and rejecting the system and the revolution. I do think that the movie had a weaker plot, but it had a great ending.
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THANK YOU! Drive was boring as fricking shit. There were like two cool ultraviolent scenes and the rest was like two hours of neurodivergent staring.
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People prolly got different things from it than you did.
Trans lives matter
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You can find some great personal epiphany watching a recording of a blank white wall for 22 hours that doesn't make it good
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What makes it good, then?
Trans lives matter
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Good comes from a combination of skill, effort, and beauty
@FBIshill let me know if you disagree
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I dont think anybody ever said drive is great? It was always seen as generic, its just ryan gosling memes boosted it
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Im not sure anyone was saying Drive was great, aside from 4chan. It was obviously an ultra long syntheave music video and it had that b movie charm
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INTERLINKED
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how could this happen. How could I agree to that fish thing
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No
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I just realized @FBIshill was carp I thought it was some fedposter that just got out of prison that I had missed drama on.
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2049 is compelling because of its visuals and style. It's fictional world evokes some of the grimmer realities of the real world.
The plot was pretty dumb though.
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Go frick yourself carp
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Baby Driver was what Drive would have been if Drive wasn't shit.
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I tried to watch Blade Runner 2049 twice and both times I had to turn it off once Jared Leto showed up
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Yeah Jared Leto sucked. I rewatched both BR movies recently, and Blade Runner was even better than I remembered it (as always) while I don't think I'll ever watch 2049 again. It's like a kid putting on his big boy pants and trying to live up to daddy's movie. How do you benefit from decades of innovation and make the movie look worse? Look at the difference between Deckard's apartment and Goosling's sterile 2015-looking piece of shit:
And the only time the music came anywhere close to the DIVINITY of the original was when they inserted actual Vangelis music at the end. I felt something for a split second. BWOMMM BWOMMMM BWOMMM oh wow, so sublime, thank you Denis. Mass Effect featured hours of 10/10 ambient music 17 years ago. No excuse. Deckard and especially Rachel should not have been in it. I will say I think Ana de Armas' character was great, and le crying bandaid man scene was a legitimately excellent moment in cinema. I will also say that Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time, and 2049 is good enough that it didn't piss me off. Just a 7/10 vs a 10/10 despite having the source material and aesthetic already laid out.
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Jared leto had like two minutes screen time in that movie
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Looks like it would be your apartment in a deus ex game
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Goosling apartment would be a terrible place to drink alcohol. Deckard apartment is Alcohalla.
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit here was the best option?
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You feel this way because you are a carp and not a real human being
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I agree with you about BR2077. There's nothing intriguing about the plot
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