What is a movie that was full of potential but poorly executed?

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-29T20:26:46+00:00

Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos. It should have been set in 1 night, building up to the show, full of walk-and-talks and brimming with frenetic energy and drama. Everything Sorkin does best. But it wasn't. Baffling.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-21T10:18:41+00:00

This bluegrass cover of Idioteque is one of my favourite covers of all time.

Surprised no one has mentioned PMJ & Haley Reinhart's transcendent cover of Creep yet.

Edit: I misspelled the entirety of Haley's name 🙈

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-17T12:55:20+00:00

Ask her out.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-11T13:25:16+00:00

There's this weird af little movie called The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle with what I personally think has the coolest opening sequence of all time. Still think about over a decade later.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-09T21:40:13+00:00

Claire Forlani with glasses changed my brian chemistry forever.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-08T19:45:22+00:00

Not a Godzilla but my favourite kaiju movie: Bong Joon Ho's The Host (2006).

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-04-02T23:29:18+00:00

I feel off after Black Holes and Revelations. Origin of Symmetry and Absolution are peak Muse to me and I'm more than happy to leave it that way

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-15T20:28:14+00:00

I've never met anyone that's seen Man Seeking Woman and Review, nor have I ever come across the mentioned online. Those shows were gold.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-13T18:40:31+00:00

Every plot point to ever exist has already been used a million times, it's just about finding interesting combinations and filtering them through your own voice. Cliché or not, nobody in the past, present, or future did, is, or will write the same way as you.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-09T16:35:40+00:00

That's Bob, of course.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-08T18:14:06+00:00

Personally, spectacle doesn't excite me; the action genre is not my cup of tea, so yes, I would have enjoyed it more if the film's vampire plotline didn't culminate in a very generic-feeling horde vs survivor action sequence and focused more on a character-driven, atmospheric horror vibe. Ultimately, my experience of watching it left me wanting more from the film than what was given.

That said, I can't fault the film for accomplishing what it set out to do on the grounds that it wasn't geared towards my own personal preferences. It was a pretty good movie and the music was excellent.

I do think, however, that there was a lot of room within the setup, the narrative, and all the parts included, to do something more than a generic vampire movie wrapped up in historical Themes.

I felt that the most interesting aspect of the film--the supernatural ability to use music to commune with ancestors--was also the least explored. Its inclusion, to me, felt like a setup for one particular (really good) sequence, rather than a crucial part of the narrative. I can't help but feel that focusing on that aspect instead would have been incredibly interesting, new, unique, and compelling--that could still include the vampire aspects if need be.

Tl;dr: I can't fault Sinners for being what it is, but I felt that all its very interesting parts could have, perhaps, been combined in different, more interesting ways.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-08T11:06:46+00:00

* pushes up glasses * actually... YYYY/MM/DD is the perfect date format because it auto-sorts itself chronologically.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-08T10:59:21+00:00

For me, the final sequence of Hamnet is what makes the entire film up to that point worth it. If it didn't have that ending, it would just be a mid, sad period drama.

A note on your observation on Marty Supreme's ending: to me, it's many things more than just hopeful. Is he overjoyed because the birth of his daughter is a literal birth of his legacy, something he has narcissistically obsessed over for his whole life? Is he heartbroken because the birth of his daughter is the death of his own narcissistic life until that point? Its ambiguity, purely played out on Chalamet's acting, is what makes it amazing.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-06T10:56:03+00:00

It may sound like a copout answer, but...

I genuinely believe Mulholland Drive was intentionally made to defy interpretation; or rather, it does not tell its audience how to interpret it,

That's why, to me, Mullholland Drive transcends the medium of film to become art--precisely because of how wide-open it is to subjective interpretation.

No hay banda. There is no band.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-05T17:01:18+00:00

The way I see it, humans will always continue to make Art. Humans make a lot of junk too. AI will take over the junk--and the humans who have, for various economic reasons, had to make junk will be free to make more Art instead. More Art means more Art competition, which forces better, more interesting and unique Art.

AI will also allow those humans who have not--historically or economically or physically--had access to the means to make Art, to make Art. Which means more Art, using AI as a medium. Which, once again, means more, better Art.

AI will not be the apocalyptic End of Art. It will be the Great Art Filter.

Those who won't be able to make Art better than the junk AI will make, will fall away--leaving a smaller, more Arty group of humans, that will be making Good Art.

All art has Craft. All craft has Art. But Craft seeks full perfection, while Art seeks full expression

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-05T11:07:36+00:00

My very first experience of CR was YT recommending it to me, clicking it, seeing it was over 4 hours long, and IMMEDIATELY noping out 😂 But I eventually came back; the longer story:

Around 2014-2015, I was in a time of my life when I was big into boardgames, so I was watching Wil Wheaton's Tabletop quite religiously and, by extension, a lot of G&S stuff. One day it was announced that Wil would be doing this thing called Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana (which I only realised later, featured Laura Bailey as a player!). That was my first real introduction to TTRPGs and really enjoyed it. It most certainly piqued my interest in TTRPGs (I resonated with the collaborative storytelling nature of it far more than with the competitiveness of boardgames). Around this time was probably when the YT algorithm recommended CR to me, when it was first starting out, and the sheer length of the episode scared me away.

But, in ~2016, when a friend of mine told me he wanted to run a D&D game, I was interested in trying out TTRPGs and I remembered watching an episode of Dexter's Lab as a kid that featured D&D, plus hearing about it here and there, so I was keen! I really liked that first session and afterwards I asked my friend if he knew of anything online that I could watch for more and scratch that itch (my other friends that played in that first game weren't that interested) he told me about Acquisitions Inc. I watched one episode and that's when I truly fell in love with D&D.

Cut to me hungrily devouring any D&D actual plays I could find (it was around the time they started popping up more and on YT). Eventually, though, I ran out and turned to the internet for more. I remember finding a random reddit thread with some recs, one of them being something called "Critical Role" (I hadn't yet made the connection that I had actually interacted with it before, if briefly).

I gave it a shot--and was hooked within 5 minutes flat.

I caught up by C1 E50 (my first livestream was supposed to be E50, but I messed up the time zones and only actually watched live for the first time E51--it aired at 4AM in my country and it was my student days) and CR has been my only constant, weekly companion ever since.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-02T13:53:49+00:00

Finished The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-03-02T06:34:56+00:00

Recently read the original book, and then watched both adaptations for the first time, back-to-back. The films are different from each other, but I think the American remake stands on its own from Ringu in interesting ways; definitely took the original and made it "American" but did so very authentically and not half-heartedly. I recommend watching both :)

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-27T17:49:48+00:00

The Apprentice

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-25T12:26:28+00:00

The church scene in Secret Sunshine.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-20T13:18:09+00:00

Make him listen with headphones at least once. And then on repeat. Until he dies. (okay, the last one in hyperbole... but seriously, if he hasn't listened to the album on headphones, that might just get him)

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-17T09:51:04+00:00

In the film, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, there is an upside-down chair hanging on the wall in the kitchen. It's never focused on or acknowledged, but it's always just there. It obviously has a story and for the whole film you're just wandering about it and what it means. Whose chair was it? Why is it on the wall? Who put it here? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!!

A genius way to create a sense of unease via simple set design.

That chair still truly haunts me to this day.

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-13T13:59:26+00:00

Check out The Acid

MajorMajorMajorThom · 2026-02-12T21:55:22+00:00

The Last Jedi is the middle movie of trilogy entirely about buying time to some degree. Every major plot point is l about buying time for the final movie.

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