September Film Challenge 🎬

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 14: A film you love that everyone dislikes

I will also say, baring the first fifteen minutes of Saving Private Ryan, which were intense, kinetic filmmaking at its best, Shakespeare in Love is a better film and deserved the Best Picture Oscar award that it won. Bring on your hate...

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

We just rewatched this movie. It was a good movie. It’s one of the weakest Best Picture nods IMHO but it was a weak year overall. I agree re:SPR.

 

[UnquietDreams]

We just rewatched this movie. It was a good movie. It’s one of the weakest Best Picture nods IMHO but it was a weak year overall. I agree re:SPR.

It's usually on or near the top of "Things the Academy got wrong," lists, fighting for the top spot with Marisa Tomei's Best Supporting Actor win, which also was a good win.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 14: A film you love that everyone dislikes

I will also say, baring the first fifteen minutes of Saving Private Ryan, which were intense, kinetic filmmaking at its best, Shakespeare in Love is a better film and deserved the Best Picture Oscar award that it won.

Of course it won, it was 25 years ago and nobody dared stand up to Harvey Weinstein yet!
He bought that award with money, power and threats.

Bring on your hate...

Fuck that film and everything it about it!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Fuck that film and everything it about it!

Thank you!

 

[vagrantx]

Thank you!

You're fucking welcome!

 

[Grant55]

Yes!!! Thank you.

You. Are. Welcome.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

bought that award with money, power and threats.

I have bad news about nearly every other Acadamy Award winner….

 

[vagrantx]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

I'm not usually much for comedies, at least not main stream once. Black comedy, absurdism, be it Young Frankeinstein or What we do in the Shadows, bring it on. I'll devour it.

But Back to the Future? Absolute snooze fest. I truly don't understand why people love this film so much. I find it flat, the jokes are flat, the acting is flat, everything about it is just flat. It's not horrible, it's just dull.

4/10.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

Forrest Gump (1994)

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HOW! DARE! YOU!













Nah, I hated this movie too.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

I'm not usually much for comedies, at least not main stream once. Black comedy, absurdism, be it Young Frankeinstein or What we do in the Shadows, bring it on. I'll devour it.

But Back to the Future? Absolute snooze fest. I truly don't understand why people love this film so much. I find it flat, the jokes are flat, the acting is flat, everything about it is just flat. It's not horrible, it's just dull.

4/10.

Micheal J Fox is just very likeable. That’s all I can attribute it too.

 

[UnquietDreams]

I have bad news about nearly every other Acadamy Award winner….

NO! Weinstein was the only predator in Hollywood! It is now pure since The Weinstein is gone.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

I'm not usually much for comedies, at least not main stream once. Black comedy, absurdism, be it Young Frankeinstein or What we do in the Shadows, bring it on. I'll devour it.

But Back to the Future? Absolute snooze fest. I truly don't understand why people love this film so much. I find it flat, the jokes are flat, the acting is flat, everything about it is just flat. It's not horrible, it's just dull.

4/10.

Hated that one too. Heh. Never saw the sequels.

 

[EndCreditsPart2]

I got laid out for a day from the covid booster so I need to catch up!

Day 14: A film you love that everyone dislikes

It's so over the top and wonderful.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I got laid out for a day from the covid booster so I need to catch up!

Day 14: A film you love that everyone dislikes

It's so over the top and wonderful.

Best comic book punisher movie ever. The parkour rocket launcher is one of the best sequences of film ever

 

[EndCreditsPart2]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

I've never really taken to any of the Marx Brothers classics. Their vaudeville schtick isn't my thing.

 

[EndCreditsPart2]

The parkour rocket launcher is one of the best sequences of film ever

Yeah, that's when I knew this was my kind of action movie.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 15: A film you dislike that everyone else loves

It was a tie between this and Fargo.

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 16: A film from a franchise

It’s that season…

The OG 1980.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 16: A film from a franchise

I think Part II was the best of the three films...

 

[vagrantx]

Day 16: Best movie from a franchise

This one's by far my favorite Bond movie! Lazenby isn't the greatest Bond, not by a longshot, but the movie stands on its own. Had Sean Connery stuck with the series, or if Roger Moore had joined earlier, it would have been the greatest of all time!

It's one of very few films where Bond is more of a spy and less of an action hero, and the suspense as he's deep undercover without fancy gadgets or super cars is absolutely thrilling!! And Diana Rigg lends the movie a veil of humanity, grounding it further in reality.

A wonderful, wonderful movie! 9/10.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 16: A film from a franchise

I think Part II was the best of the three films...
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This was so close to being my "movie you dislike but everyone else loves" but got beaten by an inch

"It insists upon itself"

 

[BreukelenAnima]

This was so close to being my "movie you dislike but everyone else loves" but got beaten by an inch

"It insists upon itself"

I believe that all film, like art itself, is subjective, but there are times when I question that belief...

 

[Grant55]

Day 16: Batman-Michael Keaton

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 16: Best movie from a franchise
Since I've already used the Lord of the Rings films as an answer this month, I'll go with my second choice. The Cornetto Trilogy is a franchise, right?

 

[vagrantx]

The Cornetto Trilogy is a franchise, right?

YEEEHHH BOIIIIII!