While it is true that everyone is entitled to their opinion, it is also true that opinions are like [back]holes as everyone has one. None of this traverses into the realm of facts, though, as those are reserved for objective statements. Still, both have an equal power to rile folks up, and both have equal force to wreak havoc if the statement is absolutely ludicrous.
Enter folks on AskReddit who share some of the most far-fetched, weirdest, dumbest or just flat-out what? takes about movies they’ve ever heard said out loud in the wild. Scroll down to check out the best of the best opinions found in the now-viral Reddit thread.
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That Blazing Saddles was a racist movie when it infact condemns and makes fun of racists
Memory of my dad (passed away several years ago) practically rolling on the floor at the campfire fart scene. I smile everytime Blazing Saddles is mentioned.
I once saw someone comment they could not get into Ghostbusters because the CGI was so terrible.
The CGI
In Ghostbusters
That was made in 1984
I saw it in the cinemas when it came out in 1984 and thought the special effects were all fantastic. I still think it holds up even now, IMHO.
Doesn't quite fit this thread, but, after leaving Avatar 3D in 2009, we overheard someone say "why was it so blurry", for them to be asked "didn't you wear the glasses"? Dude sat through 3 hours of blurred film lol
"It's ridiculous, gorillas don't get that big." My ex's father after watching King Kong.
I knew a woman who saw Schindler's List and said, "It was just a sad movie about people in jail. Why would they even have kids in jail?"
Legitimately, that was her take. Her mother asked her if she liked it and she said, "It was okay. It was really long and old."
This girl was around 24-25 years old at the time.
Obviously that woman was dozing off in history class when she was at school
In an open class discussion about what movies we thought were best and worst a guy in my film studies class said he thought marvel movies were best because they have the biggest budgets, most effects, biggest stars, make the most money, etc and he thought Monty python movies were the worst because they were cheesy and not funny. He specifically cited the coconut horses as being stupid. I try to be open minded and not judgmental about people anyone and especially those who share my passions but I just couldn’t ignore how god awful of a take that was. He’s a studio execs favorite demographic I imagine
Some people can't handle British humour. Personally, I can't handle much American 'Humour' *shrug*
I'm American and prefer British humor typically. The exception is The Office; I prefer the American version.
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Ok, I admit I still have my son's hobbie horse and will occasionally (while my husband isn't home) pull it out of the closet, ride around the house and replay that scene. My son is 22....
Of course it's stupid! That's why it's FUNNY. Silly British Kn-igits!! Now go away or I shall taunt you a SECOND time 😁
I can understand people not enjoying Monty Python for not understanding the humour. That said, the biggest budget and biggest stars don't always equal the best movies. I personally find James Cameron's Avatar to be really overrated, and it has some great special effects and a massive budget, but the story is very generic, and I find that the characters are bland.
Yeah, I agree. While it looks very cool at times, I don't quite get the adulation. Maybe it would have been a different experience in imax, but the story really does seem surprisingly generic.
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Omg... the best thing was that they had planned for horses in the beginning, but ran out of budget. Can't afford horses, next best thing.... coconuts!! It became the continuous running joke that tied the entire movie together. So brilliant!!
Thing is that older humor can feel dated & dusty because you've seen so many things that were inspired by it. Like I Love Lucy was surely great in its time, but by the time I was old enough to watch, it seemed a little old hat.
Maybe the plots seem old because everyone has copied them. Lucille Ball is a great comedic actress. She was a great physical comedian
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Dude probably doesn't even know the air speed of an unladen swallow
Monty Python. One of the most influential groups of 20th century. And a film student doesn't see what they did? Not only they were the first guys making fun of Jesus and not getting in prison (or killed), they were the first to break a lot of taboos. Not to mention that there is a programing language called after them. (Also you might be familiar with 'spam' for something unwanted or 'llama' for somebody stupid. Those are both from MP)
"Using coconuts for horses is stupid!" That's the point. It's also stupid to expect King Arthur to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at him, but I bet he chose not to touch on that particular point.
He knows the airspeed velocity of swallows that has to count for something. Also I don’t vote for him.
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I will start by saying that I agree with you that the take on Monty Python is "god awful." That said, hasn't Mr. Bean enjoyed massive success, both as the titled character and Mr. Atkinson the actor in other roles/voiceovers? Often times, I feel as if MP simply existed in an era of film that didn't enjoy the same worldwide exposure that Marvel movies have. I showed my 9-year-old son (a devout Marvel fan) the "Fish Slapping Dance" on YouTube, and he shot milk out of his nose!
LOL when I was at uni for film, a kid in one of my classes said, after we watched a scene from the Life of Brian, "but Monty Python just isn't funny." There was dead silence from the rest of the class for a moment, the professor shook his head sadly, and then the class continued as though the poor misguided sod had not spoken. Same kid almost caused a riot in another class when he said he thought Marilyn Monroe looked too fat in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
I don't think people realize just how small of a budget the early Monty Python productions had. Holy Grail was something like £170,000, which would have been around $400,000 in 1974. It made over $170,000,000.
Bless-ed are the cheese makers, Biggus Dickus, He's not the mesiah....the list goes on. Top Film and waaaay ahead of it's time like Blazing Saddles mentioned above.
In complete agreeement with you but that's The Life Of Brian.
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british humor is like a hit or miss with me - it's either really funny and not funny at all
I'm not a fan of British humour, it's just not my cup of tea. It doesn't make it bad movies though, it makes it bad for me.
"Quest for the Holy Grail" was epic. EPIC! "We are the Knights that say NI". Please. "Bring out your dead". Seriously? Epic. Oh, and you wanna talk about the Black Knight who had most of his limbs removed, but it was "just a flesh wound. Come back and fight you pussy!"
People who say, 'that wasn't funny' and mean it, instead of, 'I didn't find that funny' are the absolute worst. RED FLAG for sure!!!
Man, I love marvel movies, but nah, because Monty Python movies are on another level, obviously everyone's going to have different opinions, (and different budgets) that's difficult though...
Monty Python is funny just because. I’d rather watch them than a lot of today’s stuff.
I’ve never actually seen the Monty Python movies, I probably should, though
monty python was funny in a time when you didn't have much... it was also a certain type of humour, often sarcastic, and crude, which some can't do.
I liked the Holy Grail, but I agree with him on a lot of the Monty Python stuff. I'm not really a fan of "British" humor in general. It's just stupid and not really funny.
There's a lot that's not stupid and a vast array to choose from. Some very clever comedy but it isn't always to everyone's taste. Same for stuff from the US, a mix of good and bad. I think the worst comedy I've ever seen was the execrable 'Mrs Brown's Boys' though. Stay away from that complete cr@p!! How it has got to yet another season is beyond me.
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Every single critic in 1997 missed that Starship Troopers was satire. I think our timeline got mixed up with some Bizarro World timeline for a couple months.
Years ago, some Christian movie about the nativity story had just come out. I was listening to the radio and one guy complained about the movie being too predictable.
I went with my best friend in high school to see “Backdraft”. It was a populat movie about firefighters and she was really into whatever Baldwin brother was in that movie. It was a pretty good movie. Some major plot holes and unrealism set aside by good acting and great sets/special effects. I was especially surprised by a small role by Donald Surherland who did an amazing job with just a fee minutes.
Came out saying I was pleasently surprised and glad she dragged me along to go see it. She was silent. I asked what was wrong and she said she didn’t like it. Her reason?
“There was too much fire.”
In a movie about firefighters.
My co worker says she won't watch Star Wars due to the opening text scrolls. Says if she has to read to know the back story it's a bad movie
Fear leads to the Dark side... fear of reading three paragraphs of text
A coworker went to watch Memoirs Of A Geisha thinking that Geishas were some sort of Ninja women. He had some very harsh criticism of the movie afterwards.
I think dingus there mistook geishas for kunoichis. There is a big difference but some geishas could very well be kunoichis in disguise. Dingus might want to watch his back now that there could be some sultry assassins lurking in his shadow with an intention to kill.
It's a heartwarming story, but it's just not believable. Which is why I give E.T one and a half stars. - Perd Hapley
My gf's brother-in-law said that Mad Max Fury Road was a bad film because it was implausible and made no sense how they all had so much gas to drive their cars in the dystopian wasteland.
But he loved Jurassic World. Guess that wasn't implausible.
When Prey came out last year there was an uptick of people complaining about the main character being a mary sue because she could fight the predator at the end of the movie. As if the entire movie… wasn’t about her journey to become a better hunter than the predator. Like that was the whole plot of the movie, she was as far away from a mary sue as you could get
I've noticed that a lot of internet dude bros label ANY overpowered female character as a Mary Sue.
Semi recently someone told me Back to the Future sucks because the incest is creepy.
Yeah. It's portrayed as creepy. Lorraine is being teased in-narrative for being such a prude as a mother when here she is going after her own son. And getting what she wants actually makes the creepiness dawn on her when she isn't even aware. Such a braindead take.
Yeah, that was a definite undercurrent through out all of this, and made this very much a farce. The thing with farces is, like satire, some people don't get what a farce is and thus don't get the movie at all. A lot of people hated the TV show Modern Family because they didn't get farce, and that show was a master of it.
Someone on here criticized Jaws for not explaining in detail why Brody was afraid of water.
I once had someone tell me that they thought the message of American History X was "racism is correct" because at the end >!the brother gets shot by a black kid!<.
A lot of antipathy towards The Godfather from younger whippersnappers these days, but my brother's take has to be the worst I've heard. He couldn't get through the first half-hour because:
* Nobody had been shot yet
* There's too much talking
* Marlon Brando scratches his face in an odd way
Ben Shapiro's take on Barbie.
He contradicts himself several times, claims there is no plot, then proceeds to explain the plot (according to him lol), claims all jokes are in the first few minutes, then shows many many jokes.
Me and my friend heard he did a take on it, we never watch him, but his stupidity was so laughable that we watched the full 45 min.
Some years back I read someone say Mad Max couldn’t be a feminist movie because the brides were too hot
So if you watched the trailers for Arrival [2016] then it wouldn't be unreasonable per se that you went into the movie expecting it to be an Independence Day style invasion movie since it is really particular about including like every single dramatic scene in the movie that might make it seem that way.
As a result plenty of people went to watch it and were kind of shocked that it wasn't really that, it was more about the nature of language and perception and it gets into some way more heady shenanigans as well.
I will never forget, end of the movie in the cinema, everyone standing up and kind of shell shocked by what they had just seen and this group of older ladies in the row ahead of us whinging very loudly about the film.
'It was so boring!' 'It didn't make any sense. Do they think we are stupid or something?'
Hmm, well, indeed.
It was better than any of the pew-pew alien invasion movies starring Badass McActionguy.
That “Dune” is a Chosen One cliche fest with some uncomfy imperialist vibes…which is exactly what I thought, until my sister, who had actually read the books, explained to me that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be set up in order to subvert the whole thing. Which I now think is brilliant.
That is a general complaint about the Dune series of books, actually. Not sure what your sister saw in them to counter that, so not trying to address that. While I'm going to be down voted by people not realizing I'm talking about the basis for the criticism and not my own thoughts or beliefs: The major issue critics have with it is it's a White Messiah story. Basically you have all these indigenous people sitting around doing nothing until the White Man shows up and tells them what to do and what's best for them, and they're so amazed by the magic white man they make him their leader. That's it in short form. People have written pages about it. Google it if you would like to know more.
Guy at the office said Batman Begins was stupid because "in the end he learns about the Joker's existence and in the other Batman movie, he finds out the Joker is the one who [ends] his parents, so the stories don't match. Also, the guy who kills his parents in BB is not even the Joker, like in the other movie" and in conclusion, Batman Begins was based on big plot mistakes. I tried to explain to him that the movies are from different directors and from different eras/universes and that what happened in the 1989 one doesn't have anything to do with BB. He laughed, called me a nerd and doubled down on his opinion.
Consistency BP. "... who [ends] his parents..." followed by "who _kills_ his parents".
My elder brother hated Zodiac because they didn't caught the killer at the end.
When the original 1987 *Robocop* was released, our local paper had a movie critic I had not read before, Laurie Horn, review it. She completely missed the movie’s outrageous satire and gave the film zero stars.
Among the things she noted was that the film was “very violent” and that the target audience was “immature boys”. That “the rest of the human race will want to stay far away from this witless and cynically exploitive film”. “If there was satire in the concept, (director) Verhoeven’s bloodthirstiness destroys it”.
She went on to write, after describing the scene where Robocop shoots a would be r****t through a woman’s dress (and hits his… uh… *privates*): “Humor like this is fit only for the likes of Klaus Barbie and Rudolf Hess”.
My guess is she didn’t like it.
My gf called Alien boring and fell asleep during it.
Wild.
Logan Paul is a goldmine but Armand white is the undefeated GOAT of dumb reviews
“none of these digital-cartoon characters reflect human experience; it’s essentially a bored game that only the brainwashed will buy into. Besides, Transformers 2 already explored the same plot to greater thrill and opulence"
-Armand white talking about Toy Story 3
Recently watched the 4th Toy Story and it was kinda delightful. I have no idea how any of them compare to Transformers movies as I haven't seen any, but my impression is that they're comparing apples to oranges?
"That was the most boringest movie ever." - some teenage girls about *Jurassic Park* according to RedLetterMedia
Well, I wouldn't bother with the opinions of people who use a term such as "most boringest"
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Erin Brokovich: I dated a guy for a little while about 10 years ago. I rented Erin Brokovich. He hadn't seen it. He was visibly disliking it about 30 minutes in and I asked if he didn't like it. He said, "Well, I really hate chick flicks." Apparently, to him any movie where the main character is a woman is a "chick flick".
Because boring is not real film criticism, it is just your opinion.
Load More Replies... I know someone who absolutely HATED the first LOTR-movie "fellowship of the ring" because she had no freaking clue what really would happend after that. That first movie ended with Boromir getting sent down the river on the elvish boat, and then Frodo and Sam walking towards Mordor on their own. But she was sort of like "was that all?" and apparently she had no idea that there was two other movies coming out after that. She probably never heard about J. R. R. Tolkien at all, and of course never read any of the actual books. But to claim the movie was "Absolutly awful" and total garbage - only because of this - sounds a bit over-kill in my ears.
I have two for LOTR. One of my colleagues in grad school thought it was "unbelievable" because "at least one of the hobbits should have died". When I pointed out that none of the hobbits died in the books, he then said that Tolkien was wrong. Another colleague refused to see the movie at all because "elves aren't supposed to be that tall"!
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I saw Fellowship of the Ring a few days after it came out. When the credits rolled (just as Frodo and Sam were setting off for Mordor), a guy behind me said, loudly "Wait, that's it?" His friend whispered, "You didn't read the books, did you?"
Guys, personal preferences are a real thing. Those who hate horror movies (or fantasy or sci-fi or whatever) will probably hate any movie on the genre(s), no matter how good. Then there are the individual prejudices, like being against women or POC as main protagonists. Honestly, their loss. That said, I think this article was meant to be about those who totally missed the message of a movie they may have enjoyed if they understood it. By that standard, more than half of the posts here don't apply, even if I rolled my eyes at all of them.
I saw someone review Genndy Tartakovsky's primal as "Creationist propoganda" or something like that because it had cavemen with dinosaurs and stuff. Its a fantasy. I mean, the second season had all kinds of mixed up time periods and stuff.
Have one from me. The movie Titanic would be so much better if every scene containing Leonardo Dicaprio was removed.
I read a review for The Sandlot that complained about the unrealistic portrayal of the neighbor's dog, completely missing the representation was of the boys' perception. Brilliant movie, dumb reviewer.
My dad’s review of Elvira “it was ok but too much singing.”
my husband hated the movie A Walk In The Clouds (Keanu Reeves) said it was boring. i get it really, romance isnt really a guy thing. i hated the movie The Devil's Advocate (also Keanu Reeves) now dont get me wrong. i love Keanu. but that movie was all kinds of messed up and disturbing as hell. lol see what i did there? edit to add: i wont say its the best movie but a good relaxing movie to just it and enjoy is Elizabethtown (Orlando Bloom)
Erin Brokovich: I dated a guy for a little while about 10 years ago. I rented Erin Brokovich. He hadn't seen it. He was visibly disliking it about 30 minutes in and I asked if he didn't like it. He said, "Well, I really hate chick flicks." Apparently, to him any movie where the main character is a woman is a "chick flick".
Because boring is not real film criticism, it is just your opinion.
Load More Replies... I know someone who absolutely HATED the first LOTR-movie "fellowship of the ring" because she had no freaking clue what really would happend after that. That first movie ended with Boromir getting sent down the river on the elvish boat, and then Frodo and Sam walking towards Mordor on their own. But she was sort of like "was that all?" and apparently she had no idea that there was two other movies coming out after that. She probably never heard about J. R. R. Tolkien at all, and of course never read any of the actual books. But to claim the movie was "Absolutly awful" and total garbage - only because of this - sounds a bit over-kill in my ears.
I have two for LOTR. One of my colleagues in grad school thought it was "unbelievable" because "at least one of the hobbits should have died". When I pointed out that none of the hobbits died in the books, he then said that Tolkien was wrong. Another colleague refused to see the movie at all because "elves aren't supposed to be that tall"!
Load More Replies... I saw Fellowship of the Ring a few days after it came out. When the credits rolled (just as Frodo and Sam were setting off for Mordor), a guy behind me said, loudly "Wait, that's it?" His friend whispered, "You didn't read the books, did you?"
Guys, personal preferences are a real thing. Those who hate horror movies (or fantasy or sci-fi or whatever) will probably hate any movie on the genre(s), no matter how good. Then there are the individual prejudices, like being against women or POC as main protagonists. Honestly, their loss. That said, I think this article was meant to be about those who totally missed the message of a movie they may have enjoyed if they understood it. By that standard, more than half of the posts here don't apply, even if I rolled my eyes at all of them.
I saw someone review Genndy Tartakovsky's primal as "Creationist propoganda" or something like that because it had cavemen with dinosaurs and stuff. Its a fantasy. I mean, the second season had all kinds of mixed up time periods and stuff.
Have one from me. The movie Titanic would be so much better if every scene containing Leonardo Dicaprio was removed.
I read a review for The Sandlot that complained about the unrealistic portrayal of the neighbor's dog, completely missing the representation was of the boys' perception. Brilliant movie, dumb reviewer.
My dad’s review of Elvira “it was ok but too much singing.”
my husband hated the movie A Walk In The Clouds (Keanu Reeves) said it was boring. i get it really, romance isnt really a guy thing. i hated the movie The Devil's Advocate (also Keanu Reeves) now dont get me wrong. i love Keanu. but that movie was all kinds of messed up and disturbing as hell. lol see what i did there? edit to add: i wont say its the best movie but a good relaxing movie to just it and enjoy is Elizabethtown (Orlando Bloom)
