When you can’t escape the ads for it.
If it’s desperate to give me the whole plot in the trailer to try to hook me into watching it.
Movies funded by Germany.
It’s always the same type of movie. Either we get some boomer vs. youth plot, a family (+child) with relationship problems or something about the second world war. It’s the most boring slop for our aging population you can imagine.
Adam Driver.
Jared Leto
This is a 100% accurate statement
I see your Jared Leto, and raise you an Adam Driver.
You see my FIFA and raise an orange slice? 😅
If you have a character singing and dancing in the first 5 minutes and it is not produced by Disney, or a musical.
The first three minutes is a mish-mash string of production company logos, and half of them you’ve never heard of before.
budget blown in the first 5 minutes followed by 85 minutes of people in random uniforms in blank rooms with crappy laptops
When the trailer is just a highlights reel of the entire plot. If the movie was worth watching they would let it speak for itself.
- Netflix lighting
- Generic, Zimmer-stolen OST
- Franchises
- Standard blocking
- Overexposition
- Whedonisms
- More broadly, anything that’s been big budget Hollywood for the last 30 years or so.
Whedonisms
What the heck is that? I liked buffy and firefly, so use those as an example if you could.
Yeah, do they mean pre- or post- marvel?
Never watched Buffy but anything that’s been flogged to death by Marvel movies, yes.
Starring Mark Wahlberg.
The only exception is The Other Guys.
Pain & Gain is a goddamn masterpiece, and I’m willing to die on this hill.
Every minute over 90 minutes adds to how much a movie sucks exponentially.
I watched Lord of the Rings, which seems to be one long movie broken into pieces, and I don’t think it sucks as much as the formula suggests for a 720-min runtime.
Two character immediately infordumping to each other as if that’s how humans normally communicate.
“Are you ready? This is going to be a hard job. As you know, they’ve tightened security but we got a man on the inside. As long as does his job then it’s smooth sailing.”
“I was born ready. Eveeything will be fine as long as the shipment is on time. As you know, we put a tracker on the lead car and I can watch exactly where it is from this device in real-time.”
Agreed, this reads to me like the whole introduction hit the cutting room floor
Two character immediately infordumping to each other as if that’s how humans normally communicate.
How dare you besmirch The Princess Bride!
Compare this to the bank robbery opening in Dark Knight haha.
I’ve never seen Heat, but I’ve also never seen any newer movies top that scene since.
Oh, please watch Heat if for no other reason than the sound work. Nobody tell him what I mean by that.
Heat is as good as people have been telling you.
There’s also a novel, Heat 2, written by the movie’s director that serves as a prequel and sequel.
And I hear soon there is Heat 2 the movie
I hope they use younger actors. ‘Space Cowboys’ had younger actors lip synching Eastwood and Jones for the early scenes. Either that or do it an an animation, the way they brought back Adam West to do a final Batman movie.
I hate deaging.
Leo and Bale it seems along with other well known faces
Heat is, in my opinion, a really bad movie. I just don’t see what others like about it, outside the action set pieces.
The cat & mouse between the protagonists and the unfolding similarity of their drives and subsequent impact on their personal lives.
Ok, but that’s through stilted, awkward, and dull conversations … I stopped watching at the halfway point because I was bored, and skipped to the action bits TBH (and that’s not something I’ve ever done for another movie)
Wow first one to say Jared Leto.
Unless I’ve missed morbin time suddenly becoming popular?
Bladerunner 2049 is great. In that, he plays a self-absorbed sadistic rich asshole. Phenomenal casting if you ask me.
Meh, of course this is all subjective but I wish Jared Leto’s character wasn’t there in Bladerunner 2049. The first Bladerunner worked so well precisely because there was no real baddie. Everyone had reasons, a story, anguish, frustrations, internal turmoil. Jared Leto was standard issue evil mastermind creep.
Opening exposition that involves silly names for things …
There’s examples if good exposition (see: the start of Mad Max 2) but anything that starts with shit like
“They came from the skies, mysteriously, the monsters we now call the Xergifaltuns. With their Spiglyzarfix weapons we didn’t stand a chance …”
Yeah, it’s going to be rubbish.
