stupid, soulless movies that have talented people involved or movies that really trash a good franchise are what anger me and I end up thinking are terrible- #### like cowboys vs aliens or the last die hard movies come to mind.
The thing is, those movies are still entertaining for the most part. It can't be the worst movie ever if it's not in the list of movies that make you want to shoot yourself in the face to get out of watching the rest like say, Tree of Life did.
I hate when movies get a pass because they're trying something different. You see this at Sundance. Every movie that's different or out there gets praised as amazing by a bunch of movie hipsters that somehow think different = good. Something different and unique can still be boring and terrible. You don't get points for doing something crappy just because no one else did something crappy in the same way.
like I said, we are looking for different things.
I could barely make it through the new die hard or cowboys vs aliens, and hated them. wasnt entertained at all.
no different doesn't equal good, but a lot of the movies people are listing b/c they were bored still have good performances, interesting camera movement, good direction, etc.. if that blows your hair back. I find more entertainment in that than cgi robots and explosions.
Same here, maybe we aren't so different on movies. As I am getting older I find I like less and less of the mainstream box office hits.
In 2013 the top 10 box office movies were
1. Hunger Games...no interest
2. IM3...was OK
3. Frozen...saw it on a torrent at neighbors, meh.
4. Despicable Me 2...OK
5. Man of Steel...not so much
6. Gravity...visually was fun to watch
7. Monsters Univ...OK
8. The Hobbit...I refuse to watch them until they are all released and I have time to kill on a long weekend. But I loved the 1st 3, especially TT.
9. Fast and Furious 6...you seen 1 you seen them all
10. Oz Great and Powerful...disappointed.
I wouldn't say any of those are even close to making my list of best films last year.
Her and Dallas Buyers Club were the 2 best films I saw, one of them managed to crack the top 100 barely at 99 for box office respites so it is apparent that many movies I like are not gonna be overly popular with most folks. And a lot of the other movies I like fall into documentary types which I have become a huge fan of over the last 5-6 year as they keep getting better. I would say this is a terrific era for documentaries.
I also liked a movie no one saw called Trance($2.5M) box office return, directed by Danny Boyle, good flick. Side Effects was fun to watch, I'm not above wanting to be entertained and not simply just watching art on film.