No director that I can think of can both underwhelm and entertains me as much as Wes Anderson. And just based on threads I’ve seen here, I’m wondering if that might not be the case with a lot of people. He is absolutely an auteur - there is something instantly recognizable about his style. And while there are people that hate everything he does and people who love everything he does, there seems to a be a sizeable cohort of people like me. Love some of his films, bored to tears with others.
I love films like Moonrise Kingdom and Rushmore. Incredibly underwhelmed by The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Superhero/Marvel movies. I haven’t seen all that many recently, but the ones I have seen, even though they’ve gotten rave reviews, have left me underwhelmed. I think maybe I’ve just outgrown the concept of superheroes.
Plus one. First 20-30 minutes were epic. The rest not so much a bore to me, but more of a cringing “oh hell…not another hollywood hero flag-waving fest”.
My dad took my brother and me to see it when it was reissued in the mid 1970s (we were probably about 9 and 12) and we didn’t get it. I’ve tried to watch it a few times since, and was similarly underwhelmed.
Loved that “Skype” scene, though.
I loved “2010”, although I haven’t seen it since it was in the theater. At least that had a plot.
No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood tried too hard to appeal to film aficionados. They both were ok, but I would never tell anyone they’re MUST SEES.
It’s the first one that came to mind for me. I found stretches of it completely boring. If I’d watched it on dvd,I’d have been FFing through a lot of it. I agree it didn’t seem very deep. Also, I was expecting SO much more from the “dreams.” They seemed lacking and unimaginative.
OTOH, the two movies mentioned in the OP (Grand Budapest Hotel and Withnail and I) I loved. Although the latter started a bit rough for me I found it repaid my continued viewing.
I completely fail to see the appeal of Will Ferrell. He’s sophomoric and crass. Which isn’t a bad thing in itself - the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles is a classic of American cinema (hell, the whole movie is) - but Ferrell just doesn’t have the gift. Only thing I’ve ever liked him in was Stranger Than Fiction, when he played completely against type.
That said, he did come to Georgia to go door-to-door for Stacy Abrams, so I’ll give him props for that.
The funniest bar trivia team name I’ve ever heard was “No Country For Old Men Is A Bad Movie And The Coen Brothers Should Stop Making Movies”. ROFL at hearing the MC say that every time she announced the scores. And then it got Best Picture. W/e.
Yeah, I have friends who like that. I’ve actually walked home rather then have to watch them guffaw and high-five over Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell movies.
But* ELF?* I’ll watch that every Christmas. Bothe the 90 yr old mom and 9 yr old niece were guffawing…
The original Magnificent Seven. The gun battles are great. Steve McQueen and Eli Wallach are fun to watch. The Mexican location is gorgeous. The rest of the movie is a bloated bore.
As someone who has watched and read a lot of science fiction, I don’t find Avatar to be all that impressive. For that matter, The Matrix is overrated in my opinion and the sequels to it just ruined any mystique left the original film had. I had the same problem with the Star Wars prequels for that matter; they would have been better off if they just omitted any references to midi-chlorians and left explanations for the Force unsaid.
I am also not a big fan of Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler either; however I will say both of them can’t compare to the horrendousness of Pauly Shore’s film work.