I thought M:I 6 set a new standard for the franchise. And then I went to M:I 7 today and I think it has a real argument for being even better. Realizing full well that it was a part one of two and that I wasn’t getting a traditional movie ending, I was caught off-guard that a 2:45 movie was already over. Truly flew by.
Glad this thread talked me into broadening my horizons and giving the rest of the M:I franchise a shot after M:I 2 just left me rolling my eyes.
Best move Tom Cruise has ever been in
Makes as much sense as the MI movies
Nic Roeg’s cinematography, more like.
Think Amadeus wins in my mind for worst best picture nominee (and winner).
I’m having a really hard time coming up with truly bad movies that won best picture, but plenty of times where the upset isn’t what movie won but what movie lost. Was Crash really that bad? Maybe, but the bigger upset is that if not for that movie, Brokeback Mountain probably would have won Best Picture.
There were four times everyone will agree the Academy had a difficult but not impossible decision and made the wrong call.
1965 - Dr. Strangelove loses to My Fair Lady
1969 - 2001 loses to Oliver!
1973 - A Clockwork Orange loses to The French Connection
1976 - Barry Lyndon loses to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Damn, my boi Kubrick just got robbed over and over.
King Richard was pretty good. The whole Smith is insane thing made it hard to love as was the odd idea to make a movie about two of the greatest female athletes of all time by focusing on their dad.
Tubi is like the Criterion Channel for weirdos.
Look at this classic waiting for fans of Talk to Me.
I don’t think I ever saw this??
Tubi is like the anti-DC. Don’t make more movies until they can do better than the stuff that’s already free on Tubi.
Presenting the sequel to Oppenheimer:
https://tubitv.com/movies/636895/batman
The best Superman cartoons ever made.
https://tubitv.com/movies/486543/superman-the-complete-collection
When the fate of wrestling was at stake, only one hero could be counted on.
https://tubitv.com/movies/654144/batwoman
Honestly, is this worse than Thor 2 the Dark World?
https://tubitv.com/movies/561256/thor-end-of-days
MAX kept advertising a new comic book documentary, but is it better than a free documentary that focuses on Batman?
https://tubitv.com/movies/621968/vigilante
Something for the kids.
There are any number of consensus classics that underwhelmed me, but A Clockwork Orange is the only one I can think of where I actively hated it. Can’t say I’m mad that it failed to ship Best Picture.
You are supposed to hate parts of it. It took me a long time to realize that I was being Clockwork Oranges by the Singin’ in the Rain scene.
But I mean…I can do super dark. Granted that with some of them I won’t rewatch (Requiem for a Dream is always my go-to example for this), but I have great appreciation for my one watch. I don’t demand a bunch of happy horseshit. A Clockwork Orange just struck me as an edgelord pretending to do something deep.
I concede that there was probably stuff in there that sailed over my head, but I only concede that because I’m a remarkably dim movie-watcher and it’s true that lots of movies include stuff that I obliviously whiff on. Anyway, I’m more willing to just potentially be wrong about that movie than I am to sit through it again.
Barry Lyndon is probably my favorite movie of all time.
Very underrated, nobody I talk to has ever even heard of it
ETA: my wife hates it so I haven’t rewatched it in years.
Barry Lyndon and The Killing are tied for most underrated Kubrick movies.
Jesus lol
I think Kubrick is so good that even if you’ve only seen one of his movies, it’s easy to see those match ups and go hmm, seems wrong…
Those movies aren’t even bad I guess, but Oliver beating 2001 is the kind of shit that sends me to orbit.
Only Kubrick I’ve seen is The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. I don’t really seek out old movies now, if I didn’t see it during my childhood then I probably never will.
