Movies you don't like and you don't know why

Everybody Wants Some

I usually like Richard Linklater's movies, especially his hangout movies. I just watched Before Sunrise and I loved it.

I really like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood. I also remember Last Flag Flying being pretty good though I don't remember much about it.

This though just bored me; I was honestly on the verge of falling asleep when I saw it in theaters. And I can't put my finger on why. It just...did. https://19216811.cam/

How about you? Can you think of any movies you don't like but it's hard to put into words why it didn't work for you?

Banshees of Inisherin

Whiplash

The Batman (still like it though,)

I like these movies. Just not remotely as much as everyone else.

Inception (2010) - B-Tier movie for me

Apocalypse Now (1979) - A-Tier movie to me opposed to S Tier which people usually rate it.

Halloween (1978) - B-Tier movie for me. Maybe even B minus. Just a generic slasher movie of guy in the mask with unrealistic durability. Good OST but nothing to make it A-Tier or very highly reviewed.

Raging Bull (1980) - I think it is deserving of it's rating but lacks replay value. The scene where the main character has insecurity issues and thinks his boxing coach is banging is wife (he wasn't) which in turn leads to the boxer beating up his own coach never sits well with me.

Schindler's List (1993) - A-Tier movie for me opposed to S-Tier which people usually rate it.

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Movies that I don't like which a lot of people like. But I know exactly why I don't them.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Captain America Civil War

Pulp Fiction

The entire harry potter franchise, every movie has so many stupid moments it's amazing.
Amazingly cringe af.

@emperoreye: Then you know why you don’t like them.

On that note: I know what you mean but every movie also has good qualities.

@emperoreye: Which stupid moments?

@socajunkie: for example they have a tree that can kill students on their territory and they're completely fine with it.
the marauder map didn't show that Ron's sleeping with some dude disguised as a rat.
instead of telling about every weird and bad thing to the director, 3 dumb kids go to hagrid or try playing detectives.

i can go on but i don't wanna sit here and start remembering more and more stupid stuff.
my fav thing tho: voldemort doesn't just bring an ak47 to kill Harry when his magic can't do that.

@emperoreye:

1. That tree was planted there for the specific purpose of stopping people from entering the Shrieking Shack and nobody goes near it anyway.

2. Fred and George only used the map to check for secret passages and if anyone was in their way, they didn’t look at Gryffindor tower because they didn’t need to. Additionally they didn’t know who Pettigrew was as that name had faded away and those of their generation wouldn’t know him unless told.

3. The Harry Potter books are at their core mystery books, not magic novels so having the three ‘playing detectives’ is the whole point, this isn’t a real criticism lol and calling them dumb isn’t accurate given they’re all smart for their age and more often than not solve the mysteries by themselves. We see the events of the book through Harry’s eyes, what would be the point and entertainment factor if he just told Dumbledore or the other teachers about his suspicions and did nothing himself? Sounds quite boring to read.

4. Voldemort hates muggles and sees them as the inferior race, he wouldn’t use their weapons…

There are a few dumb things about the verse but none of them were addressed here tbh

No. People agree with you here.

1 - sure, as if there aren't stupid people that wouldn't try. i mean what did team harry do right after dumbledore told everyone not to go to the forbidden section? right, they went right in.
OH YEA... the forbidden section.. the philosopher's stone is so important that dumbledore didn't put any protective/lock spell. A 1st grader can open the lock with basic alohomora. qeq

2. So they never used it in 13 years? Or they're blind enough to see a sus guy named "peter pettigrew"? totally believable!

3. So acting stupid and non-rational is the whole point, gotcha. What'd be the point? idk, if you can't make a story without such a serious problem as kids not going to the principal asking him what should they do, maybe don't do that?

4. Oh, so voldemort is stupid.

@emperoreye:

1. Yes…Harry and co break the rules all the time and they’re the first ones to do that particular activity since James, Sirius and Wormtail. Yeah the Philospher’s Stone thing is a legit point.

2. If they did they’d just assume he was a student, I don’t know why this is such a big deal.

3. Ok now you’re just being silly. You know for a fact there would be no entertainment if they just ran to the teachers and told told them everything. They have a rebellious nature and like getting things done themselves, once again they canonically are not stupid since they succeed most of the time so I don’t know why you keep saying that. There are also several moments where they do in fact tell authority figures so this point is moot anyway.

4. He’s racist and a narcissist. It’s pretty obvious why he wouldn’t seek the help of inventions made by a perceived inferior race and him being magical feeds his own ego, it’s the whole reason why he thinks he’s special. If he can’t solve a problem through magic or cunning, there must be some hidden magic or ancient magic he’s not thinking of.

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Dragon Ball Evolution ~ by far, that movie clowned every character in the dbz universe.

@socajunkie:

Here are some examples of stupid stuff:

movie 4:

- I guess you could just say the wizards are bad people but Harry is not of legal age to compete, claims he did not put his name in the goblet of Fire, and there are suspicions of Voldemorts involvement but he has to compete against his will in an unnecessarily life threatening tournament where they are throwing 17 year old students in a stadium against a dragon. These are also bad spectator sports, you can’t even watch the 2nd and 3rd games. They should be about the students skills and versatility without being blatantly endangering.

- there’s no way getting Harry through the tournament was the best plan for Voldemort. The movies never say port keys don’t work at Hogwarts so you’re left wondering why he didn’t just have Harry touch a port key. But besides for that Harry trusts Moody, the plan they went with is very over complicated

Movie 3:

-time turners: First of all it’s a paradox to save your past self because you never would have lived to go back in time. Second of all it’s incredibly powerful and never used again. Why was the most powerful device in the wizarding world given to a 13 year old to make it to more classes out of all the possible uses.

- Why did Lupin and Sirius wait so long to say Sirius wasn’t trying to kill Harry.

Movie 7:

- I think the narrative is entertaining but I also found it to be a bit incoherent. Like one moment this old woman is helping them, then she’s revealed to be Voldemorts snake and is trying to kill them. Why was she positioned here, why wouldn’t more death eaters be here if Harry Potter was spotted.

@emperoreye: Voldemort can basically create nukes. Why would he need a gun?

@pizzagod342: That’s definitely wrong

@zafros13:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5qMsXHtU8

@pizzagod342: I don’t think you’re grasping a kiloton of tnt: https://youtu.be/JFiBXFFzT5c

@zafros13:

The magical binding contract is similar to the unbreakable vow, yes it wasn’t Harry himself who did it but that isn’t how the magic works. He had to compete.

The whole ‘Why didn’t Moody make x a port key’ is just lazy criticism to be honest. The answer? Because that wouldn’t have made for an interesting book lol

Most versions of time travel are paradoxical, you honestly just have to roll with it to enjoy it plus HP time travel operates on a closed loop system, everything done is already pre-determined. They’re never used again because they all get destroyed.

This is just silly nitpicking. They didn’t even wait that long and it was for the sake of drama on the viewer’s part.

Because the Death Eaters were needed to keep control of the Ministry, plan the attack on Voldemort and safeguard crucial bases.

I also don’t understand what you find so incoherent about it…she was killed and Voldemort used magic to conceal Nagini inside the corpse, it was a trap in case Harry went to Godric’s Hollow as Voldemort suspected. Nagini also has high magic resistance, making her better in some ways at surprising and incapacitating Harry.

@socajunkie: “The magical binding contract is similar to the unbreakable vow, yes it wasn’t Harry himself who did it but that isn’t how the magic works.“

Killing people must be very easy if you could make an unbreakable vow for another person. McGonagall argued to not have Harry compete but others disagreed with her.

“The whole ‘Why didn’t Moody make x a port key’ is just lazy criticism to be honest. The answer? Because that wouldn’t have made for an interesting book lol”

They made the plot very contrived for there story to happen. It’s a lot better in the book though because port keys are established to not work in Hogwarts.

“Most versions of time travel are paradoxical,”

Some more than others. It’s one thing to effect your past, but it’s more of a jump if your life depends on your future self going back to save you. I think Avengers Endgame has errors but its general premise doesn’t have a paradox.

you honestly just have to roll with it to enjoy it plus HP time travel operates on a closed loop system, everything done is already pre-determined. They’re never used again because they all get destroyed.

“Because the Death Eaters were needed to keep control of the Ministry, plan the attack on Voldemort and safeguard crucial bases.”

Voldemort seems to view Harry Potter as a priority.

“I also don’t understand what you find so incoherent about it…”

I’d probably have to rewatch the movie to explain this.

“she was killed and Voldemort used magic to conceal Nagini inside the corpse, it was a trap in case Harry went to Godric’s Hollow as Voldemort suspected.“

I do not understand that at all and don’t remember the movies ever mentioning this.

In the past I’ve said that Harry Potter movies are a very consistently good movie series. But they’re good because of the production, the character development, and some cool narrative ideas. But pretty much all of them have the drawback of having a bunch of stupid stuff.

Star Wars. Strangely enough, I have no problem reading tie-in comics.

@zafros13:

‘Killing people must be very easy if you could make an unbreakable vow for another person. McGonagall argued to not have Harry compete but others disagreed with her.’

Yeah, because specific instances like the Goblet’s compulsory magic exists in abundance in the magical world. Oh wait, no it doesn’t.

She was arguing from an emotional standpoint where it’s again reiterated than Harry has no choice.

‘They made the plot very contrived for there story to happen. It’s a lot better in the book though because port keys are established to not work in Hogwarts.’

In some ways, yes, others no, not really. Having Harry win the tournament with Voldemort getting his body back and killing Harry wouldn’t have been as suspicious as Harry up and disappearing because people would just assume Harry was still in the maze, thus buying Voldemort some more time to spread confusion and build his strength.

‘Some more than others. It’s one thing to affect your past, but it’s more of a jump if your life depends on your future self going back to save you. I think Avengers Endgame has errors but its general premise doesn’t have a paradox.’

Ok

‘Voldemort seems to view Harry Potter as a priority.’

Harry wasn’t his only priority, he had to spread his resources out aptly and having Nagini there would have taken them by surprise.

‘I do not understand that at all and don’t remember the movies ever mentioning this.’

This kind of sounds like a you problem given filmmakers don’t have to hold your hand for every piece of information and leave things for you to workout based on the evidence presented. I saw this film with people who had never read the books and when it came to this part, they were surprised at first but pretty quickly came to the conclusion of what happened.

‘In the past I’ve said that Harry Potter movies are a very consistently good movie series. But they’re good because of the production, the character development, and some cool narrative ideas. But pretty much all of them have the drawback of having a bunch of stupid stuff.’

None of which bar time travel you’ve even addressed as the rest is easily debunkable.

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