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Citizen Kane

You're in luck, OP, I've got some genuinely riveting cinema for you, and it's wholesome as well. Watch the quirky, classic Russian comedy movie Come And See (1985).

Ugh, lord of the rings. I tried watching it alone, with friends, with a girlfriend... Nope, just boring

How can it be 'gut wrenching' and 'boring' at the same time?

The Godfather films would be a prestige miniseries nowadays. They’re long and episodic enough that it’d be easy to slice up. And that can be our revenge for decades of overwrought crime dramas about man pain constantly being overrated in top 100 lists.

I've tried to watch it several times but always shut it off.

It's a movie that's constantly aware of itself and tries to push that onto the audience through self-conscious directing—which explains all the nepotism in casting too—and hat makes for disengaging storytelling and characters. And then there's the cinematography that tries too hard, so it's more a technical exercise than an effective one, but was successful in its era for that uniqueness.

Not to nrglect it's an awful portrayal of organised crime, much like The Hurt Locker is at war. And Luca Brasi, ugh. It's just awful.

In the modern day, I've understood the trilogy to be a go-to for "movie buffs" that are vulnerable to ad populum.

Citizen Kane. Watched it one because I had to. Never will again.

You should watch 2001 A space Odyssey it is exactly like this.

It is a historical documentary set in the early days of AI and Space Travel before SpaceX and ChatGPT, it's kinda neet to see how far we've came in such a short time though.

I pretty much only like 3 types of movies:

Action, Comedy, and Animation.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

also Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The Dune books.

OK, not boring, but nowhere near deserving the praise they get.

I've only managed to get through the first two.

Anything by Hitchcock that I have seen so far.

I find him to be super overrated and his movies very dated and shallow. There is a world view in his movies that feels incredibly predatory and insect like and after my latest attempt to watch one of his movies with an open mind and once again being left with the exact same feelings I have been left with, with every movie of his I have seen, I looked into him a little bit because I knew nothing about him other than that he made a lot of famous horror and thriller movies in the 50s and 60s.

Oh boy, I now understand what it was about his movies that I hated so much. That thing was every bit the insect like predator I sensed in his movies.

I'm a big fan of separating the art from the artist, but what do you do when the artist uses his art to create, essentially self insert gooner content? In this case I feel perfectly fine having the art and the artist be one and the same.

Used to feel the same way about Woody Allen, btw. I was happy when he got canceled, but confused at how many people acted shocked about him being a creepy guy. His entire filmography and public personal life was already out there to confirm what kind of a guy he was.

I'm convinced the only reason Hitchcock hasn't been canceled is because he's long dead. I don't understand anyone who likes his movies or celebrate him as a genius. It's literally just fetish films from a man who has no personality underneath the facade. His movies are a reflection of that.