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An unpopular film opinion...

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RedIsNotMyFavouriteColour · 01/06/2025 22:40

Home Alone 2 was so much better than Home Alone 1...

What's yours?

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MayaPinion · 04/04/2026 15:05

Films that are shite:

All Richard Curtis films - Notting Hill, 4 Weddings, Love Actually - all painfully butt clenchingly contrived and self conscious. I always fell they’re ’in crowd’ movies and I’m not invited to the party.

All the Bridget Jones movies - Rene Zelwegger is woefully miscast for the Bridget in the books, and it should have been someone much more clever, funny, and feisty - someone like Kate Winslett, Cameron Diaz, or Sandra Bullock would have been better. Bridget was supposed to be a journalist with something about her, not a hapless pathetic halfwit. She was supposed to be madcap, not drippy. I loved the books - they were laugh out loud funny. The movies were such a let down.

Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies are ‘walk a bit and have a fight. Repeat forever’.

Movies that are good:

Marvel movies are brilliant when you want to switch off and just enjoy a fantastical few hours, and are far superior to DC movies.

BebbanburgIsMine · 04/04/2026 15:07

“Brief Encounter” is a heap of rubbish.

I’m not a film fan so haven’t seen a lot of the ones mentioned in this thread.

”The Impossible” is self indulgent and pathetic

MyBirthdayMonth · 04/04/2026 21:19

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 08/02/2026 21:13

Alec in brief encounter was a terrible husband and all round shit person. Laura should have had more fucking sense than to entertain him at all

Alec is a git, but his full gittiness only becomes apparent towards the end of the film when he announces his decision to move to South Africa. In a fortnight. With his wife and child. He has not mentioned this to his wife yet. I would have liked to see a sequel in which he announces the South Africa plan to his wife and she tells him 'not bloody likely, mate'.

paulhollywoodshairgel · 04/04/2026 21:21

All of the Lord of the rings films were about 45 minutes too long.

grumpymacgrumpface · 05/04/2026 13:00

paulhollywoodshairgel · 04/04/2026 21:21

All of the Lord of the rings films were about 45 minutes too long.

Only 45 minutes?

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