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pointless films or plots

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  • #92
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    Mad Max (2015 remake with Tom Hardy) - at the time of release this was getting 5-star rave reviews so I went to see it but all I can remember is a pointless 2-hour dragged-out drive through the desert. The film ended and I was totally dumbfounded as to how it was so well received, still to this day I feel like there was some kind of intellectual/artistic message that I completely missed the point of.

    Was going to say this. Visually its very nice, but the plot seems to be drive out into the desert, then turn around and drive back.


  • #93
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    Mad Max (2015 remake with Tom Hardy) - at the time of release this was getting 5-star rave reviews so I went to see it but all I can remember is a pointless 2-hour dragged-out drive through the desert. The film ended and I was totally dumbfounded as to how it was so well received, still to this day I feel like there was some kind of intellectual/artistic message that I completely missed the point of.
    The critics and film student types loved it alright, but as a film and more a story it was beyond lacking.
    Greyfox wrote: »
    The action scenes are absolutely breathtaking,
    They are and repeated endlessly. No build up, no crescendo, just repetitions. Any number of the action sequences could be swapped from one part of the film to another and nobody would be any the wiser.
    Charlize Theron's character was one of the most awe inspiring female characters ever to grace a film
    Theron is the best thing in it, but awe inspiring is debatable. Max has to rescue her constantly and she listens and follows him for no good reason. She doesn't grow one iota as a character throughout the "story".
    and the story was just there to facilitate action scenes that are genuinely mindblowing.
    Which is huge part of the problem with the film. A compilation of action sequences, not a story. Action sequence porn. Interchangeable money shots, without even the device of the randy plumber to check the housewife's pipes. Porn might be a good mirror to many mainstream films these days. Where once they had a plot these days people just want the grinding and the money shot. And if "artfully" done, then criticism seems to be lacking.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #94
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Lethal Weapon 4

    American Hustle


  • #95
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    elefant wrote: »
    You're the first person I've ever heard of that didn't really enjoy Whiplash.

    Let me introduce you to another.

    About as interesting as watching someone learn to play the drums. Tedious, repetitive **** fest of a film.


  • #96
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,611 ✭✭✭valoren


    The Amazing Spiderman

    It was the death knell for creativity in the Hollywood studio system.
    A mere ten years after the original Spiderman and they 'reboot' the franchise going over the exact same origin story with Uncle Ben dying again, and Peter Parker enjoying his new found abilities again.


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  • #97
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Showgirls. It was quite popular for some reason or other. ;)


  • #98
    yermanoffthetv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    Go read the plot of "The American" with George Clooney. Im not joking it reads exactly like the Trent thread.


  • #99
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Gone girl, unbelievably huge gaping plot holes. The amount of people that I respect who raved about the film, I just couldn't believe how they were fooled. I was genuinely annoyed at the end of that film, how could a film (the book must have the same plot holes) blatantly treat it's audience as unintelligent fools and still earn adoration from seemingly intelligent people?


  • #100
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Another one that people rant and rave about but which I absolutely detested is "no country for old men"
    Bored me to tears and I have no idea what the crash at the end was about - it may have been clear but I'd lost the will to live by then. Torturous pile of shíte.


  • #101
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Another one that people rant and rave about but which I absolutely detested is "no country for old men"
    Bored me to tears and I have no idea what the crash at the end was about - it may have been clear but I'd lost the will to live by then. Torturous pile of shíte.

    Couldn't disagree more, fantastic film, excellent book too. Probably one of the scariest "bad guy" characters I can remember too.


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  • #102
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I thought the movie INCEPTION was awful.

    I couldnt figure out what the f**k was going on.


  • #103
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Terminator Genisys. What was the point of it? It was only going back over old storylines that we had already learned about from the first 2 films.


  • #104
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Couldn't disagree more, fantastic film, excellent book too. Probably one of the scariest "bad guy" characters I can remember too.

    Bardem was great, i'll give you that - but the film itself just crawled along fairly drudgingly. I found it hard work I have to say, a waste of a perfectly good 2 hours!


  • #105
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,502 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    I thought the movie INCEPTION was awful.

    I couldnt figure out what the f**k was going on.

    Stop that now. Inception was a fantastic movie.
    I love Nolan’s films except for Dunkirk which was awful ****e. I refuse to believe he had anything to actually do with it and interstellar. Those 2 are by far his worst by a huge margin.


  • #106
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Bardem was great, i'll give you that - but the film itself just crawled along fairly drudgingly. I found it hard work I have to say, a waste of a perfectly good 2 hours!

    I suppose it just didn't click with you. Personally I found it fascinating and I was completely pulled in. The standard of acting was really high and I really liked Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones in it (although Bardem just about stole the show).


  • #107
    one armed dwarf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭one armed dwarf


    me_irl wrote: »
    I liked Birdman... :o

    Birdman is alright. A bit of a thespian wankfest as mentioned but had an interesting gimmick and solid performances.

    I just think that any film which isn't an obvious classic which then sweeps up awards is destined to be shat on forever unfortunately.


  • #108
    one armed dwarf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭one armed dwarf


    jiltloop wrote: »
    I suppose it just didn't click with you. Personally I found it fascinating and I was completely pulled in. The standard of acting was really high and I really liked Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones in it (although Bardem just about stole the show).

    If this is about No Country then for me that's one of the best releases of the past decade and one example of the academy getting it right for once.


  • #109
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »
    Melancholia - woman is depressed because the world is going to get destroyed. The end.

    LOVE that film!!


  • #110
    one armed dwarf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭one armed dwarf


    Greyfox wrote: »
    Mulholland drive - let's make a film that has no plot whatsoever, just a load of pointless scenes thrown together but let's make it look artistic so that critics won't realise that we've made a film worse than battlefield earth - garbage
    Aw but that's my favourite film... :(

    I need to make a contribution now..

    Justice League.

    CTRL+C "Avengers" + Find and replace 'Marvel' with 'DC' + CTRL+V


  • #111
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Blazer wrote: »
    Stop that now. Inception was a fantastic movie.
    I love Nolan’s films except for Dunkirk which was awful ****e. I refuse to believe he had anything to actually do with it and interstellar. Those 2 are by far his worst by a huge margin.

    Dunkirk was ok.

    Inception was dogshyte.


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  • #112
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    one armed dwarf wrote: »
    If this is about No Country then for me that's one of the best releases of the past decade and one example of the academy getting it right for once.

    It is indeed and I completely agree with you.


  • #113
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Elizabethtown, still remains the most pointless film I've ever seen. Up there with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
    Orlando Bloom makes a pair of trainers that make his company go bust (the company must have been goosed if that was the straw that broke the camel's back).

    Insert Scene
    Insert Scene


    Kirsten Dunst hides something for him in one of the MILLIONS of trainers produced

    Insert Scene
    Insert Scene

    He finds it in the next town he goes to

    Insert Scene

    Her brother plays Freebird at some sort of event for some reason, this lasts about 18 mins

    Insert Scene

    Blooms gets some sort of payback on his company, can't remember how.

    Film ends.


  • #114
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    War for the planet of the apes was the worst film I've seen in quite some time.

    - No war
    - Predictable
    - Major plotholes

    It was really terrible, it even had a jar jar binks monkey that was probably the best thing about the movie. Besides the opening scene and the beautiful scenery, this was awful!


  • #115
    Deusexmachina
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    The English Patient. Crock Of ****E.


  • #116
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Double Jeopardy is a film that has always annoyed me. Not that it's pointless, just that the premise of the film is bull****

    whilst its true you cant be tried for the same crime twice in the US, its not the same crime just because the victim is the same person!


  • #117
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    jiltloop wrote: »
    Gone girl, unbelievably huge gaping plot holes. The amount of people that I respect who raved about the film, I just couldn't believe how they were fooled. I was genuinely annoyed at the end of that film, how could a film (the book must have the same plot holes) blatantly treat it's audience as unintelligent fools and still earn adoration from seemingly intelligent people?

    Gone girl didnt treat its audience like fools, I found it to a well written excellent film. It had a wonderful air of mystery as to what happened to his wife and it was intriguing to see how it would end and Rosemund Pike was excellent, A very interesting film


  • #118
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Heard good things about Blade Runner 2049. Sat down and watched it the other weekend. Absolutely awful. So thoroughly bored for the entirety of it all.

    Best part was hearing a Dean Martin song being played.


  • #119
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    Mad Max 2015 - Best action movie ever. I don't like pure action movies because they are usually ****e but Max Max is how it's done.

    Birdman and Whiplash both awesome. **** y'all and your wrong opinions.


  • #120
    lmimmfn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    Knex. wrote: »
    Heard good things about Blade Runner 2049. Sat down and watched it the other weekend. Absolutely awful. So thoroughly bored for the entirety of it all.

    Best part was hearing a Dean Martin song being played.
    Did the same last weekend, I thought it was alright,like a 6/10 movie but it's definitely not the best movie ever that critics were raving about.

    Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means



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  • #121
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Terminator Genisys. What was the point of it? It was only going back over old storylines that we had already learned about from the first 2 films.

    The going over the T1 part was good but the 2nd half was nonsensical gibberish, one of the many things that was great about the first 2 films was they didn't overexplain things, this film was full of jargon, the writer should of been shot


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