John Carpenter > Steven Spielberg
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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I could get on board with this. Both were amazing at their best and pretty mediocre at their worst. I'd love to see what Carpenter could have done with some bigger budgets. Although maybe the results wouldn't have been as good. He seems like the sort of director where necessity breeds invention.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original) was a terrible film. The only reason people say it is the greatest classic horror film is because of nostalgia. The acting was horrible and it wasn't scary in the slightest (I understand it was probably for the time).
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The Godfather is meh at best and the acting is melodramatic and overplayed.
Inception is one of the worst executions of an interesting idea. My imagination can imagine anything. Hollywood's? Well I guess you imagined too hard so now there's people with guns. Oh and this applies to everyone.
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The Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, started out great with it's first movie and then it plumed straight down with the two next ones.
Wow, you're the first person I've seen to notice that Batman Begins is the strongest of the 3.
Like, Heath delivered an incredible performance, but everything else surrounding it was not as cohesively put together as the first film.
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6 Underground was a good movie. Michael Bay is just making fun of himself, and I thought it was hilarious
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I don't like the lord of the rings series.
It's not bad bad but with that budget, actors etc it could have been so much better :-/
The hobbit: kind of the same feeling.
Upvoted for actual unpopular opinion.
Can you elaborate on what specifically you didn't like about LOTR? Peter Jackson has always had a penchant for using cutting-edge CG tech in his films, to the point that some people call them tech demos. I think WETA's effects stand out as the best parts of the series, but the cinematography, sets, and acting are about as good as it gets in my opinion
The Hobbit, however....
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Ryan Reynolds finest role in film was Van Wilder. Deadpool is basically Van Wilder in a costume.
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I just don't like Star Wars and I like sci-fi in general. But Star Wars is just one of those stories I can't make myself to like.
I remember fondly the prequels with pod racing and that red black guy with double lightsaber. I wached those movies as a child.
Later I tried watching all of them and I could not bring myself to finish even one. The dated effects (good for their time) just took me out of the story way too much.
I also tried waching the new ones, but they just felt boring so I dropped them.
I don't know what is it about Star Wars, but I just can't bring myself to like them even with nostalgia by my side.
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Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey suck now.
There are old movies that have aged much better, like The Man in the White Suit and Colossus: The Forbin Project. These should be the ones we call classics.
E.T. is decent at best. I wanted to watch it as a young kid, but wasn't allowed. By the time I finally watched it, I found it fell short of my expectations and I found it quite dull. Super 8 was also a middling film, but I thought it was slightly better than E.T.
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