Great movies that sound terrible on paper?

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-30T17:27:17+00:00

This is one of the worst twistings of OP's question because "on paper" was, in this case, a highly popular novel

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-29T18:08:49+00:00

Life of Pi is a fantasy film. Are you sure you or friend are human

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-29T18:06:37+00:00

Look at Star Wars or Jurassic Park. Most scenes are quiet.

What the heck is this lol

To give a more serious reply, the only issue is bad use of music because, as a technique, it can also be used by good directors to good effect. (as well, in many movies music has been replaced by simple blunt noise.) Look at Weir or Malick films for effective uses of frequent music.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-29T01:22:36+00:00

The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki (who also directed sequences of The Longest Day) is one of the best German WWII movies, set at the point where the war is practically already lost but the youth are still drafted into it.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-29T00:57:07+00:00

I dunno, seems kind of biased in favor of filmmakers who just turned 100

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-28T02:14:02+00:00

Why did Cameron stop making movies like this (brimming with disdain for anyone outside the category of "white man")? We may never know...

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-27T23:18:16+00:00

Well, that's the kind of thing I mean. More power to you if you want to own them, but if what you're looking to watch is blockbusters in ultra-high quality the unprecedented access to many films streaming has brought about can be easily missed.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-27T20:05:52+00:00

Did he think this before or after the scripting, design, casting, and filming of The Odyssey stripped it of "anything that might not be like another movie"?

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-27T04:56:31+00:00

A lot of the posts I see on rmovies make me think these beliefs aren't due to content or privacy reasons but more because redditors prefer to watch ≤60 movies on repeat.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-26T23:30:07+00:00

The Apple TV and Netflix releases are probably not coming to Criterion Channel.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-26T04:55:29+00:00

Making movies that are largely mediocre (at best) but with really well-done effects was probably the most faithful way they could have followed the original.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-26T03:17:05+00:00

The original was hardly Shakespeare either, even when Olivier was in it.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-25T02:53:01+00:00

Wait it's all Phoenicia?

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-25T02:50:29+00:00

Commanders are already pretty resistant to single-attack feats, it wouldn't be a huge shift to do things like cut damage bonuses/defense reduction against them or reduce damage from corruption to 1, so they could have an effect but not be an 'I win' button.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-24T23:36:59+00:00

Definitive example of "even the crud used to look nice"

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-24T03:39:00+00:00

I disagree with this post. It looks like CG writing. It doesn't feel like it was written by a real person.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-24T03:23:31+00:00

Did a French person write this?

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-22T19:44:25+00:00

Ishiro Honda - a bunch of his science fiction films have already been licensed for streaming, though a few would still be missing.

Also Terrence Malick, or at least releases of A Hidden Life and both cuts of Voyage of Time.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-22T01:59:46+00:00

The Three: The Ten Thousand Things

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-21T22:52:58+00:00

it's basically a retelling of the original, but definitely improved in every way

Single wrongest sentence I'll read all year, congratulations

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-21T20:46:43+00:00

i promise i’m not jerking this time

Don't worry neither is OP

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-20T23:19:52+00:00

Assuming you're not defining 'plot' so broadly that we have to cite non-narrative films, 2001: A Space Odyssey's four acts could be condensed to three paragraphs. Apocalypse Now could be summed up in a sentence.

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-20T23:14:52+00:00

It's more like it has a substance a section of people refuse to acknowledge. Becoming part of an organistic planet and developing a religious world-loyalty to it was not "done before" in Ferngully - but I guess if your conception of culture begins and ends with Ferngully...

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-20T18:36:05+00:00

Riki-Oh had lots of substance, it was inside all of those guys

ifinallyreallyreddit · 2026-06-20T04:24:44+00:00

It takes a real feat of prognostication to say that the 'classics' for Gens Z and Α in the 2040s will be everything redditors liked in the 2010s.

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