Your Movie and TV Hot Takes

[phantom13]

Get em in hot.

Whats your movie or TV hot take (lets not do music here cause that always winds up with absolute flogs proclaiming they have more knowledge than you).

Ill start it off with one that most have heard me discuss before.

Shutter Island is ******* terrible.

Telegraphed plot twist, ham fisted reveal, scholcky writing and delivery. It feels like a shitty 70s telemovie that just happened to have Kingsley, DiCaprio and Ruffalo (as well as a stack of others in support roles) directed by Scorsese. Even the ridiculous last line felt forced.


For clarity on this its hot takes so s**t like "Casablanca is great" isnt what were here for. Real s**t movies you love or really universally appreciated movies you hate. Award winning actors you think are bad. Critically acclaimed TV you hate. Etc etc.

 

[Shell]

Napoleon ****ing Dynamite.

A friend raved to me about how amazing this film was + we watched it at their house- iirc I did not crack a smile once.

THEN... to rub salt in the ******* wound, I work at a camp and guess what the kids (and therefore me) are going to watch one night.




0/10

 

[Gralin]

Napoleon ****ing Dynamite.

A friend raved to me about how amazing this film was + we watched it at their house- iirc I did not crack a smile once.

THEN... to rub salt in the ******* wound, I work at a camp and guess what the kids (and therefore me) are going to watch one night.




0/10

 

[Gralin]

Oh I'm here for this

 

[phantom13]

Oh I'm here for this

You got one? Youve got ******* plenty, have at it

 

[Shell]

As for English Patient and Blue Brothers 2000, I couldnt give a proper review of them cause I switched off/walked out one hour in.

Steaming pile of s**t.

Was more offended at 2000 tho, as a massive fan of the original.

 

[Gralin]

You got one? Youve got ******* plenty, have at it

I'm just here for the melts there isn't a single piece of cinema that I have a hot take about, all my takes are luke warm at best

 

[phantom13]

I'm just here for the melts there isn't a single piece of cinema that I have a hot take about, all my takes are luke warm at best

Mother! is an actual POS film is about as cold as a mother in laws kiss.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

All Spielberg movies are vastly overrated, including the Indiania Jones flicks.

Reservoir Dogs is better than Pulp Fiction.

 

[Gralin]

Mother! is an actual POS film is about as cold as a mother in laws kiss.

see, luke warm take, nothing controversial there

 

[Gralin]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding isn't a comedy, it's a tragedy

Discuss

 

[Shell]

Oh I got another. Silver Linings PLaybook.

Wtaf'ing fuss was that about over that film. Didn't deserve s**t at the Oscars. Whatshername Weaver did not deserve s**t.

 

[phantom13]

All Spielberg movies are vastly overrated, including the Indiania Jones flicks.

Reservoir Dogs is better than Pulp Fiction.

Ooooooft.

I disagree with both these pretty hard but i can certainly see the angle for Dogs.

Just so were clear here, even Schindlers List and Jurassic Park?

 

[phantom13]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding isn't a comedy, it's a tragedy

Discuss

Tragedy it got made and somehow managed 2 sequels id agree with.

It feels alot like Everybody Loves Raymond to me. A completely dysfunctional and abusive family being played off for laughs.

 

[Shell]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding isn't a comedy, it's a tragedy

Discuss

I have fond memories of that film, because I can directly relate to it.

From the family (on a smaller scale) to the little knick knacks on the actual set that my Yia Yia would have owned.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Ooooooft.

I disagree with both these pretty hard but i can certainly see the angle for Dogs.

Just so were clear here, even Schindlers List and Jurassic Park?

Not Schindler's List obviously, an very important movie that every kid in high school needs to see and educated about, but it's so horrible to watch for me personally, seen it twice and I never want to see it again, cause it's too disturbing for me and not really my idea of a movie to watch on a Saturday Night.

Jurassic Park yeah not really a big fan either for some reason. Maybe because it's become a franchise and the recent sequels with Chris Pratt really sucked.

 

[Shell]

All Spielberg movies are vastly overrated, including the Indiania Jones flicks.

I would love to see Duel again- have only seen it the one time.


But tbh yeah... ET meh, Jurassic- seen it once, thats enough (and def dont need 32 million sequels). I can agree.

 

[Gralin]

I have fond memories of that film, because I can directly relate to it.

From the family (on a smaller scale) to the little knick knacks on the actual set that my Yia Yia would have owned.

It's a very real take on Greek Diaspora so of course people that have lived that directly or indirectly via their friends are going to relate to it.

That doesn't change the fact its a tragedy, if you don't laugh you'll cry

 

[vast]

Pulp Fiction is nowhere near the greatest movies of all time, I dont hate but I do not get the love at all.

Forrest Gump is trash and Tom Hanks movies arent that great either, with the exception of Big and the first 28 mins of Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Gralin]

Pulp Fiction is nowhere near the greatest movies of all time, I dont hate but I do not get the love at all.

Forrest Gump is trash and Tom Hanks movies arent that great either, with the exception of Big and the first 28 mins of Saving Private Ryan.

ah here we go

Saving Private Ryan sucks

 

[Shell]

Pulp Fiction is nowhere near the greatest movies of all time, I dont hate but I do not get the love at all.

Forrest Gump is trash and Tom Hanks movies arent that great either, with the exception of Big and the first 28 mins of Saving Private Ryan.

No love for Philidelphia?

I'd add The Burbs to that list of exceptions. I would call that his greatest comedy tbh. So many quotes.

Agree on FG tho. Great soundtrack, shite film.

 

[phantom13]

Pulp Fiction is nowhere near the greatest movies of all time, I dont hate but I do not get the love at all.

Forrest Gump is trash and Tom Hanks movies arent that great either, with the exception of Big and the first 28 mins of Saving Private Ryan.

First one isnt that hot.

First point of the second isnt that hot (although i disagree).

The remainder are hot, good gear.

 

[vast]

It's a very real take on Greek Diaspora so of course people that have lived that directly or indirectly via their friends are going to relate to it.

That doesn't change the fact its a tragedy, if you don't laugh you'll cry

Which part is the tragedy?

 

[Gralin]

Which part is the tragedy?

the whole film

 

[Shell]

Which part is the tragedy?

That the husband guy is a vegetarian