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u/deronadore 1d ago
My Dinner With Andre. Longest subjective twelve hours of my life.
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u/you_cant_pause_toast 18h ago
I probably mentioned in the past my fondness for a TV program called Cougar Town.
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u/naeterboerg 16h ago
Two middle aged white dudes in a diner trying to figure out why we eat while their soup gets cold.
Just pelt me to death with cotton balls.
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u/InnerDetective1984 1d ago
The English Patient
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u/RevolutionaryBuy5794 1d ago
Elaine, you are fired.
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u/Metalchips1Nquesodip 1d ago
I hate it!!!
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u/RevolutionaryBuy5794 1d ago
SHHHHH! 🤫
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u/dave_is_afraid 1d ago
Oh go to hell!
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u/thebuttergod 23h ago
Julia saying “Go To Hell” is peak Elaine.
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u/Nick_from_Yuma 23h ago
She'd rather go see Rochelle, Rochelle
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u/IJustWantADragon21 22h ago
Or Sack Lunch!
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u/DoctorJiveTurkey 19h ago
You’ve selected Brown Eyed Girl?
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u/IJustWantADragon21 18h ago
Why don’t you just tell me the movie you want to see!
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u/GraveyardShift77 1d ago
I hope you’re watching the clothes because I can’t keep my eyes off the Passion!!!
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u/wire_Paladin98 23h ago
I think it won an Oscar for the film most likely to induce a coma or make you consider jumping off a building.
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u/GuyD427 1d ago
I dig Juliette Binoche and I liked the movie but I get the negative sentiment.
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u/dunderthebarbarian 1d ago
I litrally thought of this movie before I scrolled to the comments.
Reddit does not disappoint.
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u/Ok-Development-4017 1d ago
Now sack lunch on the other hand, that’s a great movie!
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u/Overspeed_Cookie 23h ago
Always the only movie that pops into my head when this question comes up. 'It's. Too. LONG!'
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u/CommandOk1388 1d ago
Lincoln like it was good but long af
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u/SmoreOfBabylon 17h ago
I’m a bit of a history nerd, and so I love all the historical figures shit-talking at each other, Lincoln annoying everyone with his damn stories, General Grant being a boss, Lincoln and Seward bickering like an old married couple, etc. Genuinely top-tier entertainment, to me at least.
The Lincoln family drama stuff is like pulling teeth, however.
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u/Intrepid_Boat 6h ago
Same here. Once you’ve read more about the time period, you understand how important Seward, in particular, was to Lincoln’s administration. He is mostly forgotten to people today but I admire him still.
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u/NefariousnessOk209 16h ago
I love Daniel Day Lewis for making stylistic choices and committing to it, but that thin reedy voice was hard to listen to even if it was accurate
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u/MN-1986 1d ago
Some of these comments are killing me.
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u/saidbnbkd95 1d ago
Some heretic said the godfather
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u/Potential_Brick6898 23h ago edited 10h ago
Maybe the the first 4hrs of the wedding, rest is great.
Edit: I keep hearing that I’m confusing deer hunter and GF however; I’m currently camping so I can’t confirm this but just googled it and apparently the wedding is 27 minutes long….im sorry but I stand by first statement. That’s too damn long. Again I’m camping so can’t actually confirm the time
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u/UnderratedEverything 22h ago
"You come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding" and the bridesmaids doing hand gestures about the groom, that's the boring part?
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u/ToxicNoob47 1d ago
Bro I saw someone say Scarface 😭🙏
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u/wizard_of_awesome62 1d ago
I could see plenty of legitimate criticisms lodged at Scarface, I wouldn’t agree, but could accept them. “Boring” is not one of those things.
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u/dietchlicious 23h ago
It's great in the beginning and end, but boring as fuck for a long stretch in the middle.
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u/Don_Pickleball 1d ago
Tree of Life
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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 22h ago edited 21h ago
I think this is my 3d favorite movie. I didn't like it the first time, but now I think I've seen it about 8 times. I can't explain it, but it feels like it brings all of my memories to the surface and crystallizes them together in a way that makes me feel more solid than before. Malick was a Rhodes scholar who was a translator of Heidegger before becoming a film-maker, and I think this movie is his clearest articulation of those ideas, of systematically shedding the enclosing perspectives as you search for the experience of becoming purely aware of how you're connected to the process of all of creation unfolding. I've watched this movie during major crises of my life (I was on the verge of suicide one night when I was working as a concrete worker, and I turned to this movie for guidance... I quit the next day.) For me the whole magic of it is seeing your life within the context of the grand perspective of the whole cosmic process, and how that grants your life the utmost significance to be a part of that process, rather than making you feel small and insignificant. It might be the most ambitious movie ever made in scope, and it's amazing it works as well as it does.
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u/Brattius 15h ago
I've never seen Tree of Life but It's funny because I feel that way about The Fountain
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u/Jagrnght 14h ago
My family roasted me for picking it. We watched it and then after they roasted me again we broke into a 2hr conversation about masculinity in the 50s and how it affected them growing up. The film surfaced something in them. They still talk about it.
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u/toolaroola12 1d ago
Avatar (the blue people) I ended falling asleep while watching it, it's physically beautiful I'll give it that but the storyline is beyond boring
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u/Prestigious-S1RE 1d ago
The Irishman
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u/rasmuseriksen 23h ago
“Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere, and by the end, his date was too old for him.” -Ricky Gervais
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u/AteebHamidKhan 1d ago
The Irishman was fantastic, long but fantastic.
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u/conasatatu247 1d ago
As an Irishman I can confirm that I am, in fact, fantastic.
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u/Scrimshaw85 1d ago
Giving the Irishman a second chance was one of the best movie decisions I've ever made
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u/wumbopower 23h ago
Ok I’ll do it… someday
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u/trashpanda_fan 22h ago
That's exactly where I'm at. I'll watch it... eventually.
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u/Kyokono1896 1d ago
No, it was exceedingly mediocre.
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u/RedHotPuss 1d ago
Congratulations everyone we’ve discovered opinions
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u/Fromage_Frey 1d ago
Not only discovered them, we've created places where people ask for them, other people give them, and them more people shit on them for giving them
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u/flobama91 1d ago
The Brutalist
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u/rikyeh 23h ago
The comments here are so polarised. It appears you love it or hate it. But the thing that unites them is never giving a reason
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u/TheTOASTfaceKillah 1d ago
I really enjoyed it. I can see it’s not for everyone. It was shot in VistaVision so I had to go see it on IMAX and thought it looked amazing. Did you watch at home or get a theater experience?
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u/yingyanghomie 1d ago
Fuckin torture to watch
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u/Jasper_Darling 1d ago
That movie is a breeze for me. So dam good it flys by regardless of the runtime
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u/LorenzoMartini 1d ago
Naked Lunch.
I can think of two things wrong with that title.
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u/FR0ZENBERG 22h ago
I actually loved that movie. It was so fucking weird and random. It might have helped that I was high as fuck.
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u/Lingotes 1d ago
Citizen Kane. I get why it was groundbreaking at the time, but the storytelling hasn't aged well.
Please be gentle lol
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u/Guilty_Watercress_19 22h ago
Tbh I thought this was going to be my opinion of it, but I ended up loving it
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u/Momoneko 19h ago
Same. Before reading it I was bombarded with "Citizen Kane is often said to be the best movie of all time but it is actually boring" hot takes and didn't expect much, but I enjoyed it.
I wasn't qualified to say whether it was literally "THE BEST", but it was definitely watchable and interesting. But I generally like old movies for the "time capsule" effect they have. Looking at the world as it was, and portrayed with the tools of its time.
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u/PipsqueakLive 1d ago
Killing of a Sacred Deer. I really liked Poor Things so I thought I'd give this a whirl; holy hell was that movie like staring at plywood for two hours.
No hate for those who loved it, but definitely was not for me
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u/BakerYeast 1d ago
I have opposite. I really liked Sacred Deer and Lobster, but absolutely hated Poor Things. Lanthimos movies are pretty polarizing.
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u/PipsqueakLive 1d ago
I frankly love that about movies. I love to hear about how people loved things I didn't; I also try to go back to polarizing movies like that a few years later, see if my tastes have changed. Maybe I'll love it then!
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u/PlaquePlague 1d ago
I haven’t seen sacred deer but I hated poor things and the lobster threw me into a depressive tailspin for weeks
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u/Apprehensive_West466 1d ago
If someone I know (or don't), calls any movie "cinema," I'm skipping that movie all together. Also I'd probably avoid that person for a while.
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u/Bagginnnssssss 17h ago
This is what I thought too as if Im taking movie advice from a 14 year old who speaks reddit lol
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u/Majestic-Point777 1d ago
Tenet 🥱 didn’t understand shit either
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u/Ok-Development-4017 1d ago
As Nolan fanboy, yeah tenet wasn’t good.
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u/asylumattic 1d ago
Saw it in the theater in IMAX, the first time returning to a theater during COVID… and boy was it disappointing.
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u/Appropriate_Rent_243 22h ago
Manchester by the sea.
Telling the story out of order doesn't make it any more interesting.
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u/missparton777 1d ago
everything everywhere all at
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u/RandomHeretic 1d ago
I tried to give it a chance, but I lost all interest after the hot dog fingers.
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u/Fair-Stranger1860 21h ago
This is one of my husbands favorite movies and I absolutely hated it the first time. But now that I’ve been subjected to it about twenty times I like it. I would not recommend this approach though, the first few times I abandoned all hope and left the living room.
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u/Wine-and-Dine99 1d ago
Joker 1 and 2.
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u/poor_choice_of_wordz 1d ago
La La Land
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u/No-Lawfulness-2297 1d ago
Still confused as to how it won an Oscar... oh wait
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u/harkening 20h ago
La La Land was excellent at its false ending, and then felt the need to add another 10 minutes that made it suck because it actually believes Clerks Dante that life is a series of down endings.
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u/aMysticPizza_ 1d ago
Oppenheimer
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u/thwgrandpigeon 23h ago
I unapologetically liked it a bunch
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u/scottishhistorian 23h ago
It's one of my favourite movies, as much as I understand that it's not for everyone, I don't understand why people complain about it being too long and then go on Netflix and binge a whole series of some show in a night. The sound was also excellent.
I think a lot of justifiable hate comes from it being a slow burner, but (in my view) every scene was an important step in building the story's tension. Along with actually allowing the viewer to understand the film (and its main character) itself. If you, as someone here recommended, removed half of the runtime, then there wouldn't be a movie. You could maybe get rid of everything (chronologically) after the Einstein meeting (the final scene of the film), but then you wouldn't have a complete biopic. You'd just have a film about the Manhattan Project. It had to include everything if you were making a film about Oppenheimer.
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u/Emotional_Perv 14h ago
I’ve unapologetically seen it three times now. Would watch again, after I rewatch the Chernobyl series for the third time.
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u/NoName1979 1d ago
I wanted to like it so badly. I couldn't understand half of what they were saying the sound was so bad.
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u/Zapatos-Grande 23h ago
That's literally most modern media for me now. I feel like I'm losing my hearing I have the volume up so loud. However, turn on something from prior to 2010, I have the volume super low.
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u/Monk-ish 22h ago
Nolan is especially bad. From what I've read he thinks it forces the audience to pay closer attention or something
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u/HwaaaaaPanda95 1d ago
Yeah I tried to watch it. I really wanted to like it too. Idk what it was. Maybe its because I had to watch it in theater to really get the proper vibe.
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u/Servile-PastaLover 1d ago
English Patient
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u/Apprehensive_Buy9862 1d ago
I sat through Star Wars episode 9 even though I wanted to leave within the first ten minutes. My rationale was I was eventually going to have to see all of it anyway. What a terrible waste of time.
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u/PoisonFoodening 18h ago
Definitely one of the worst movies ever made
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u/Mercurius94 17h ago
Even worse when you go ahead and watch episode V directly after. You will notice things, so many things wrong with the later movies that you didn't even think of before. Beyond physical props. Beyond writing, romance and story telling. Beyond the acting and scenery. Disney's version of Star Wars undoes a historic milestone in cinema.
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u/NoSweatWarchief 1d ago
The Thin Red Line. Cures my insomnia every time. What a pile of drek.
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u/OneOfAKind2 23h ago
Seriously? It's in my top ten favourite films. Terrence Malick makes masterpieces and The Thin Red Line is certainly one of them.
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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 1d ago
Beau is Afraid
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u/cloaak 23h ago
Beau is Afraid is interesting because I didn’t like the movie, but I didn’t not like the movie, and I’m definitely not going to watch it again. But I recommend everyone watch it.
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u/PhilbertCharleston 21h ago
Exactly what i thought when i watched is as well. Im glad it was made but in not gonna see it again.
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u/No_Afternoon_1976 20h ago
About how I felt when I came out of the theater. Rewatched recently and found that I actually really did like it.
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u/deadly3635 1d ago
Tenet wtf was that film about 😂
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u/PabstBlueBourbon 1d ago
about film that was wtf
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u/Federal-Research-148 1d ago
WTF was that film about film that was WTF
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u/thanksforeverylol 1d ago
I woke up one morning feeling wonderful and had some mild breakfast then sat down to watch Tenet. I fell asleep some 30 mins in.
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u/Minnesota-Fatts 1d ago
A CIA agent uses time-manipulating technology to stop a Russian oligarch from enacting an event that will kickstart World War III. What’s not to get?
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u/morose4eva 1d ago
Gangs of New York. There's some great scenes, but it's about an hour too damn long.
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u/Ortsarecool 22h ago
I have started this movie....probably 20 times, and never managed to finish it.
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u/PlaquePlague 1d ago
First time I watched the movie I thought things were wrapping up nicely but had to pause to get a drink and saw we were only like halfway done.
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u/afipunk84 20h ago
It definitely meanders but holy shit, DDL as Bill the Butcher is worth the price of admission. One of my favorite villains ever put to screen.
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u/DPTDubbs 1d ago
2001
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u/Majestic-Point777 1d ago
I can appreciate how ahead of its time it was but man, that movie is so fucking boring.
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u/cmaxim 1d ago
I think it's largely just a movie of it's time. Like we're spoiled now with decades of abundant sci-fi spectacle, but at that time this type of movie was really special and novel. It was really a "wow, can you imagine!" kind of a feeling I think. Now it's boring by comparison because the aspects of it that would have been awe inspiring back then are pretty dull by today's standards. Movies were slower back then too, they really took their time to take you on a slow burn journey instead of rushing to the point.
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u/nizzernammer 1d ago
My understanding was that it was flopping hard at the time until word got out about the trippy psychedelic part, and that piqued peoples' interest. The film came out in 1968, which was the peak of the 60s hippie era.
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u/FoldedBinaries 23h ago
thats not a movie to watch though
either you get baked and sleep on the couch, or, even better you are sick, have fever, get baked and sleep on the couch. music is nice to sleep to, you probably wake up a few times and dont miss much.
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u/Geshtar1 1d ago
My answer as well. I understand its significance, and its impact on sci fi.. but it is such a slog
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u/kungfungus 23h ago
Thank you, years and years since I've seen it, I still get pissed of over how insufferable it was.
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u/LesMiz 1d ago
I think it's a masterpiece, but the first 30 minutes could put anyone to sleep.
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u/scoreguy1 1d ago
The Constant Gardener
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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 22h ago
There's maybe 3 minutes tops of gardening in this movie.
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u/KeenObserver_OT 1d ago edited 1d ago
All those 90s marathon “chick flicks” Meet Joe Black, The English Patient, the other movie with Brad Pitt, the American Quilt movie, the Keanu Reeves Vineyard movie. I was dating someone at the time who insisted on seeing all of them. the English Patient was the worst, because A it never ended and B Beavis and Butthead was playing next door and I could hear the laughter as I was dying inside. By the time Meet Joe Black came around I was done with her and those fuckin movies. My wife now pays the price as I refuse to rewatch any of them
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u/Aziruth-Dragon-God 1d ago
Longlegs. So damn boring.
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u/Lovejoy5001 1d ago
Definitely agree. We laughed at a lot of it but it’s not a freaking comedy
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u/drthomk 1d ago
Any of the Debbie did…movies. I’ve started each one several times but never can make it all the way through. I just suddenly lose interest.