'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Gregory]

Would anyone like to hazard a guess what film some online library user was reviewing when they summed up with:

Too many a little too angry.

?

[The Pachyderminator]

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12 Angry Men

, I would guess

[Gregory]

Correct. And as a bonus here's another one of the same film, from "twilightmom":

Spoiler

1/5 stars. "Angry!? They don't even lay a finger (let alone a light slap) on each other in this drawn-out, one-set movie. Look to Twilight for a film bristling with emotions and true anger, characterized by violent rages and emotional outbursts."

In other words, it's a bad film for the sin of being nothing like Twilight.

[knives]

Pretty sure that’s a joke account.

[The Pachyderminator]

After reading that "review," I'm hoping twilightmom is a novelty account whose whole schtik is comparing everything unfavorably to Twilight. It'd be almost as good as the vegan one that puts content warnings on every film where meat appears.

[soundchaser]

After reading that "review," I'm hoping twilightmom is a novelty account whose whole schtik is comparing everything unfavorably to Twilight. It'd be almost as good as the vegan one that puts content warnings on every film where meat appears.

Although unlike twilightmom, that one's shtick is not a joke.

[swo17]

The most upvoted answer on Quora (with 285 upvotes) to the question "Which movie endings are hard to watch?" (includes spoilers):

Anything Christopher Nolan,

This man is the king of endings, all his movies, the twists and turns, make you scratch your head, than go to IMBD, Quora and Reddit to try and find the answer. I recently watched The Prestige, I always liked magic, was watching Magic For Humans on Netflix and my dad found it in an old drive. I think I got a remastered version though, I spent at least 2 weeks furiously trying to figure out what happened. Were they clones? Spare bodies, Angier was very rich and famous, could’ve easily bought off bodies.

Interstellar: How did Joseph Cooper escape the black hole? was the black hole the tesseract? I mean I watched that movie when I was like 9, so I was more confused then than now. How????

The Dark Knight Rises: Hallucination? Dream? Real? How did Alfred know to go to some obscure café in Italy, how did Selina know how to get to Bruce? He fixed the autopilot but…

Inception: This one really stumped me, still in a dream??? Thank god internet exists.

I haven’t watched Dunkirk or Tenet, will definitely be waiting for the DVD on Tenet, and I’m too young, wasn’t alive in the era of Memento, but who knows, maybe my dad has another old copy.

I don’t think any other director does what Nolan does, the twists and turns, not explaining anything, usually left to the cast to answer during interviews, I mean I think Nolan movies are my most re watched movies besides maybe classics like Star Wars, Fast and Furious, but I only watch them cause their on cable. Oh an Home Alone, I watch that like 4 times every year, never gets old, already did my first viewing of the first movie, I mean damm, Nov 29 already airing Home Alone on prime time 8:00

[therewillbeblus]

I'm a pretty consistent Nolan fan, and I don't think things in movies need to operate on external logic (obviously), but to be fair, the "How did Alfred know to go to some obscure café in Italy" pushback on The Dark Knight Rises' ending made me laugh, because, yeah. I know the film has many "It was obviously real, idiots" defenders, which bothered me until my last watch and now I agree- and still, that disruption of ambiguity kinda makes any metaphoric value of the nonverbal exchange vacuous and thus its coincidental nature is unrealistic and cheap within the internal logic of the film as well

[swo17]

The best twist ending of all though is the reveal of

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Home Alone's first holiday airtime

[tenia]

I'm a pretty consistent Nolan fan, and I don't think things in movies need to operate on external logic (obviously), but to be fair, the "How did Alfred know to go to some obscure café in Italy" pushback on The Dark Knight Rises' ending made me laugh, because, yeah. I know the film has many "It was obviously real, idiots" defenders, which bothered me until my last watch and now I agree- and still, that disruption of ambiguity kinda makes any metaphoric value of the nonverbal exchange vacuous and thus its coincidental nature is unrealistic and cheap within the internal logic of the film as well

Doesn't a scene specifically has Alfred describing this trip is his one moment away from otherwise dedicating his life to the Waynes ?
It never seemed to me like Alfred randomly going to an Italian caffé, but Bruce waiting for him at a place he knows Alfred will show up.

[therewillbeblus]

I try to look at it that way too (though Alfred’s dream earlier in the film stated a nondescript cafe in a European country) but even so, the idea that he would be positioned within line of sight to see Bruce - facing the right way, at the right table, the right time, etc.- is a bit much. I’m hardly for realism in these films but if we’re meant to take it at face value outside of only lyrical punch it’s a bit disingenuous

[tenia]

To me anyway, TDKR is quite problematic and formulaic in all these kind of writing details, and indeed, that's one of the symptoms : a very mechanically written scenes that might be contextualised but in practice asks quite a lot to the viewer in terms of credibility. Somehow, it was less the case with BB and TDK, but that's exactly the kind of overkill TDKR falls into.

[therewillbeblus]

I liked it a lot more on a recent revisit, but sure it's guilty of all those neat blockbuster contrivances or dues ex machinas or what have you, which don't bother me in a vacuum because that's the movie it is.. I guess where I'm coming from is: Nolan's endings have never bothered me, and I appreciate their function, including this one's. It's just- when you remove the ambiguity and treat it with the sincerity it seems to be demanding over others'- this guy's rant has a point within the ruff.

[therewillbeblus]

So, it's not a Dr. Svet entry, but good god, this blu-ray.com bottom-line review for Ema is an overshare that completely misses the point of the film (in several respects):

My father and his siblings were orphaned at a very young age and endured years of foster care and/or adoptions, resulting in significant emotional scars for several of them (my Dad managed to get through it all amazingly intact, though his younger sister ended up committing suicide). I kind of wish Ema had focused more on little Polo (who only appears, and then fitfully, when the film is already about halfway over) rather than the endless bickering and recriminations between his erstwhile adoptive parents. The whole dance angle in this film is just flat out weird, but also undeniably forceful and riveting.

[spectre]

The most upvoted answer on Quora (with 285 upvotes) to the question "Which movie endings are hard to watch?" (includes spoilers) …

To be fair, if he was 9 when he saw Interstellar, he probably couldn't have been much older than 15 when he wrote this. God knows my internet posting would rarely have been as coherent when I was that age!

[Never Cursed]

In case anyone was wondering how Film Twitter was doing today...

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Edit: This is the same person that wrote about how they thought that Netflix octopus documentary depicted a human-octopus sexual relationship (it does not) after dropping a lot of acid and watching the film

[Computer Raheem]

In case anyone was wondering how Film Twitter was doing today...

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Seems like Film Twitter doing's fine to me.

[domino harvey]

I mean, the film uses Mai 68 with about the same absent flippancy of many of the student participants in the protests. What does this person think happened to like 90% of the participants after they were out of the schools, streets, and factories? They moved on to something else, and the remaining invested radicals splintered and dwindled into the usual minutiae cells, &c. I'm not sure this person's glamorized ideal of the Mai 68 life is any different than Anderson's rebuffing: they both romanticize the cultural touchstone, just in different ways (for the record the middle segment is the worst one and I got the jokes and found them dumb, so this should not be read as an endorsement, just a defense against an unfair attack in the midst of plenty of fair targets)

[spectre]

"Rediculous" reviews on IMDb are, as we all know, a dime a dozen, but the algorithm that decides which one ought to appear on the main page is pretty screwy at the best of times. As a particularly egregious case in point, I was looking up an apparently pretty disgusting Nazi propaganda documentary today – don't ask why – and saw that IMDb has the following review front and centre:

Has evidence to back up the statements.

I watched the whole thing and was brought to tears many times regarding how events turned out. It is not propaganda like the shills below me are saying. Everything in here is backed up with evidence along with video footage confirming the narrative. It is a very long documentary, but most certainly worth the watch. I recommend everyone who is truly interested in WW2 history to watch this, especially if you are German!

You also learn about the true events of why Germany did what they did and why the masses of German citizens and even other nations followed him in is [sic] campaign …

For context's sake, that review is selected from out of no fewer than 246 possibilities, including at least some – admittedly a minority, because how many people can be bothered sitting through garbage like this unless they're already of that disposition? – articulate negative critiques.

Obviously there's no way that a site like IMDb can get the "featured" review right for every single one of its 10 million pages, and some may even argue that there's a case for a site allowing bad and stupid opinions pride of place if they're reflective of the opinion of the majority of viewers. But is it too radical to suggest that some positions, like Hitler apologism, be considered beyond the pale? And presuming this is just bots doing their thing, perhaps a little curation / human intervention for some of the more dodgy films listed on the site wouldn't go astray?

[domino harvey]

I won't believe a recommendation that says it is like a movie that I recently watched. But there is shooting. There is punching. There is some period cars that are very fine.

[Michael Kerpan]

Domino -- Can't get more succinct than that....

[bottled spider]

An Amazon review of Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking our Bad Habits Before they Kick Us:

The author points out how what we are doing in every day life just might be a sin even though it doesn't fit the dictionary definition of Sloth, Pride, Wrath, Envy, etc. She relates it to the Bible, religious writers and the Catechism. Her views are refreshing, real life, and relatable. The book is a quick, easy read but you will want to go back to reread and ponder certain sections. I'm a voracious reader, yet she managed to throw in 6 words I thought for sure were misspelled but on looking them up found they were just words I'd never come across before. Yes, there are 4 swear words in the book (out of several thousand words in the book) but they are used appropriately to explain the issue - this doesn't mean she is not a Catholic writer or a good person or that the book doesn't have a lot to offer as food for thought.

I find this review a little disingenuous. While it's certainly true that the author limits herself to only four swear words -- cunt, fuck, shit, and balls! -- the problem is she uses those four words over and over and over again. Surely she could have got her point across with more decorous language.

[colinr0380]

I am now going to imagine that bottled spider is a school teacher and they have had to make this kind of comment many times over on school report cards!

[Cinephile1]

The purpose of this thread is to be entertaining. You aren't succeeding at that. As others pointed out before, you would be best off channeling your energy into celebrating the Israeli films you are passionate about. We're going to split this discussion into two threads, one for that and another for your venting. We would encourage you to abandon the latter.

Thank you, looking forward, please keep me posted.

[swo17]

Israeli and Palestinian Film Recommendations

Venting moved here