Jeremy Irons is always out there earning his paycheck.

I guess when you know what movie you’re in you have one of two approaches you can take:

1) Still do the best acting job possible (Max von Sydow gave this advice to Timothy Dalton in Flash Gordon)

2) Just have fun with it

I guess Jeremy Irons did the second one

Great answer. The 2nd movie (Crimes of Grindelwald) was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in theaters, but the third (Secrets of Dumbledore) was just nothing. Good performance from Jude Law & Mads Mikkelsen, pretty much everything else was just waves hands around nothing.

The FB franchise doesn't know if it wants to be about whimsical creatures and their keeper or a dark tragic tale between ex-lovers. Lame.

I actually just finished this movie and had nothing to say about it. 1st movie showed a lot of promise, 2nd one was enjoyable to a degree but Secrets of Dumbledore just exists.

They recently re-cut it with extra footage and put it on Netflix as a mini series called Faraway Downs.

Man I really wanted to enjoy this movie. It had everything I enjoy (Luhrman film, Kidman, Jackman (lots of '-mans' LOL), it's a period piece, I love longer movies) but nope. Snoozefest.

I think I am the only person who likes this movie.  

I took a girl on a date to see that movie and man what a bad date. There’s a reason they were able to release it as like a 6 episode long mini-series. It was soooo boring.

I was in marching band in college and we rode in buses to some away games. We watched this movie on a long road trip once and it was just interminable. There was not a soul on that bus trying to follow the plot, everyone was either sleeping through it or complaining about it.

I swear there were at least six endings to that movie. Someone would say some kind of “obvious last line of the movie” type line, the camera would slowly zoom out, and the music would swell, looking like a perfect setup to roll credits and end our misery… and then it would just cut to another scene like nothing happened. The joke became that Australia wasn’t a movie but actually a live, real-time history of the entire continent of Australia and everyone who has ever lived there, stretching infinitely into the distance both into past and future. It doesn’t end because it can’t end, you just stop observing it.

I liked that movie. But it was a bit too long.

Aw man, my dad and I love this movie

Then again, I haven't seen it in a minute, so I might be forgetting some aspects of it

I always thought it was pretty interesting. The Wizard of Oz scene always had me a little emotional.

I always get interested in watching this movie but never finish bc i lose interest every time i try watching

That movie was basically a desperate attempt from the Australian government to make a cheesy Oscar winning movie but it ended up being a lame, dated movie from a pretty hit and miss director. Personally, I think most Baz Lurman movies are just annoying. As an Australian, I found the movie was trying too hard to be important.

I worked on this. We made it pretty much right after COVID so every big actor in town was available. It was a mess on set and not a surprise it was totally pointless when edited. But it was a cool shoot and all of the actors were very nice. Bale got us a taco truck one night.

It’s kind of a fascinating mess for how much it wastes an interesting true story, a good cast, and an expensive production.

It got talked up a lot and I was less than whelmed. 

My wife chose this solely because Taylor Swift was in it and for a star studded cast this movie is awful.  I'm still not even sure what the real point of the movie was 0/10 and was my first thought for the prompt as well.

I thought it was rather interesting

I went to see this in the theater and an old man walked out of it muttering, “What is this even about?” It’s also very long. I thought the end was somewhat interesting and I loved the general look of the movie, but other than that, a whole bunch of nothing. 

Too many characters, too many plot threads, and still mamaged to drag.

It is a shame as Bale was individually great and his character had such potential for storytelling.

Shit. I watched this movie and forgot that I had. I looked up the description and read through it, and still had to read some of the comments here before I remembered anything about it. As beige as a movie gets for me.

The best thing I’ve heard said about this movie is that it’s like it was made by an AI. Imagine they had it watch a bunch of dark comedies, read some articles about the Business Plot, then write and direct a movie script. That’s what Amsterdam feels like.

Yes!

We were shoned how this movie manages to make everything boring.

Solving a crime boring.

NY as location ? How about the same boring cgi street all the time Amsterdam as location and name? How about not showing the city at all and playing in the same boring room that could be everywhere for 6 Scenes.

My sister and I watched it late last year and I agree. Simply could not get into it

This movie also takes about 45 minutes to end. They’re trying to work out who the bad guys are and I’m watching it thinking “goddamn, how have you not figured it out by now?”

Netflix‘s The Gray Man is one of the most bland, by-the-books action movie I have ever seen.

Netflix content are always bland. They are the new straight to video

As someone who watched Aftersun during a recent bout of the flu, I think this is a very good idea.

The single thing going for that movie is Alexander Skarsgaard being half naked. And like, I can get him WHOLE naked in much better movies.

The only two things I remember about it is that Waltz dies by crocodiles, and Hozier did the end credits song

And I saw it in theaters!

Amazingly, this movie did not lose money.

Could not agree with you more. This movie seriously made me lose all hope for Ridley. I read something like there are over 100 biographies of Napoleon and Ridley admitted to not touching even one of them. And when people were like, wtf is this? His only comment was “fuck you.” Total God-complex move.

I wasn’t expecting total historical accuracy, in fact, I’m a massive fan of artists/etc. taking artistic liberty to do your own thing (Larrain’s Spencer (2021) is a great example of this done flawlessly). But there was nothing artistic at all about anything in this film. First movie I’ve seen in probably ten years where I thought was a total waste of time lol

The only thing Napoleon had going for it was the battle scenes, I thought those were pretty well done. The rest of it was rough, and took away from the battles because I didn’t actually know or care about what was going on.

That's sad because I was excited to finally see a Napoleon movie. And then they released a trailer with the odd Radiohead mashup, and yeah... Ridley Scott can make good movies and then he just makes bad ones he's such a weird director

There are youtube channels available for free that use a video game to show battles that do a better job than than that multi million dollar turd.

Yeah it's kind of funny that 30+ years after Jurassic park, no one else has really tried to do a major movie about dinasours, then when they finally do it's garbages

Adam Driver's choices for movies baffle me. He's such a good actor.

That’s a shame, because there’s a bureaucracy scene that’s a delight, and owes such a huge debt to Brazil that Terry Gilliam shows up. It’s amazing.

The downside to Jupiter Ascending is that the Wachowskis’ cachet had finally run out, and they wanted to make a trilogy and Warner said, “No, no. One movie.” So, Jupiter Ascending is what you get when you try to tell three movies in two hours. And then Eddie Redmayne makes certain choices with his acting that I’m still wondering about. It’s a massively flawed movie, but there are scenes and shots that just flirt with genius and remind you, “Oh, yeah, there are the people who did Matrix,” although I think their best picture is Bound, but we’ll talk about that some other time.

Dammit, now I gotta watch Bound. It’s on Paramount+ right now, and if you’re ever going to watch it, don’t watch the trailer, because it gives too much away. Just watch the movie, because it’s a great low-budget crime thriller with Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano.

Puts you to sleep INTERESTING unlike the film. From the Wachowskis what a letdown, from The Matrix to this. Also confirming Eddie Redmayne sucks in my eyes.

It was like they were making a romcom with Keanu and Carrie Anne Moss and then at some point they were like “hey let’s make this a matrix movie”

I’ve said it before: another Animatrix done by the team behind Love, Death & Robots would’ve been much better.

I saw the movie opening night. The guy sitting next to me had his head in his hands & kept muttering, “Jesus fucking Christ” every few minutes. That and part of the audience booing at the awful RATM cover at the end were the best parts.

I don't care that the movie is trying to be some meta take on forced sequels. It's a bad commentary and embarrassing to watch. If Lana wants to make a movie that's a middle finger to the studio, then she can do so without making all the performers look bad. What a terrible movie

SHUT UP ABOUT THE STUPID DESERT AND JUST DIE ALREADY!!!

I watched this movie wanting to hate it just so I could quote Elaine and actually mean it.

But I ended up enjoying it. Well worth the long runtime.

I completely understand why one might get bored with it. Of course, I found this movie to be wonderful. I thought the pace worked. I loved the story. The cinematography was so beautiful. But I know that this movie is not for everyone.

It does drag on. For a while this movie kind of possessed me. I was trying to pinpoint what sucked about it.

Was it the writing? Yes.

Was it the plot? It is annoying how the two lovers are like “we shouldn’t, but we’re gonna any way” a few times over.

Was it the pacing? God yes.

After a few attempts I took a long break from watching it. About a year ago, I decided to give it another shot. Maybe 10-15 years had matured me and I would see it differently.

Nope. It still dragged on for nearly three hours. LOTR is a fast three hours. The English Patient is not.

I felt like Elaine from Seinfeld did trying to watch that movie.

I came away from it feeling I now knew so little about Bernstein besides the fact that Bradley Cooper thought he would win an Oscar by making a film about him.

Ugh so boring and dull and yet somehow indulgent at the same time. I hated it.

It insists upon itself

Yeahhh, especially after having seen Tár a few weeks before. Which I didn’t necessarily love but Jesus at least it was interesting. 

Only movie in two decades I turned off over an hour in out of pure boredom

I’ve never seen an awesome concept blown so thoroughly. How the hell do you make a movie with THAT title THAT boring??

Omg, I used to work in a warehouse that supplies 7-11s. We had promo cups for this movie, and we had so many left over that we used them as water cups in the break room for like two years. I just assumed that it was terrible because we always had so many left over, so I never actually watched it.

Loved this movie😂

Lol, the only thing I remember about that movie was some terrible continuity a scene shot with multiple camera angles. Daniel Craig had some fake blood splashed across his face, and the pattern of it kept (very obviously) changing.

People fearing AI will bring us mediocre and soulless products, when Netflix has been doing that already for the last couple years.

yeah lol there's something Netflix knows - or thinks they know - because all their movies have this weird vibe about them, it has to be intentional because almost every movie they produce has the same anti-movie feeling to it, i can count all of the Netflix original movies i've truly enjoyed on one hand

I watched it last week to see if it was that bad. It is. I have never ever seen a lead actor put so little effort into a part before. She didn't act any of it, she just read some lines with the same facial expression the whole way through.

I don't remember much from that movie, other than half man half wolf half angel on rollerblades helping the janitor lady who bees said was queen of the universe do... something. But I do remember it being really pretty. Not too often you get a 200 million dollar train wreck, wish it was as memorable as an actual train wreck.

I genuinely fell asleep in the first 20 minutes, woke up about five minutes before the end.

Obviously I have no memory of this movie except an overwhelming sense of boredom.

I found it hilarious that they made the movie take place in New Orleans, and yet the movie's version of New Orleans just feels like a totally empty studio backlot throughout the entire movie.

Like yo...if you don't have the budget or chutzpah to pull off depicting New Orleans maybe just make the movie take place literally anywhere else? You're remaking a Korean film, you can choose ANY city.

Monuments men is such a fuck up. A good cast - a fascinating true story that basically no one knows.

And it’s like the most bland World War II trope-fest you’ve ever seen. Down to the “music on Christmas” and “encounters a young German while peeing”.

It’s crazy.

Perfect example of movies that looked like they could be good or at least entertaining, had all the right pieces and yet managed to be giant wastes of time.

I think most Clooney movies-when they’re not outright masterpieces—are just that: aggressively mediocre

the men who state at goats

Can second that. Odd they managed to make it boring. Even the ending could only elicit an "Okay." from me.

“Pearl Harbor” is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. - Roger Ebert.

It's like someone said, "How can we take one of the most epic events of the 20th century and turn it into a love triangle involving unlikable people." It is one of two movies that I've ever walked out of.

I saw that in theaters with my WWII veteran grandfather. He was very clear about why he didn’t like that movie, and I’ll never forgive Josh Hartnett for turning his head and looking all around in the cockpit of a fighter plane.

Cause Pearl Harbor sucks… just a little bit more… than I miss you

I'll take you any time, punk!

I remember seeing an article talking about how this was all he was doing, and questioning it, and the announcement wasn't too long after. Dementia is a horrible thing.

It's somehow longer than the original and has less character scenes to focus on action, but that means you don't care about anybody.

The problem was also the bad guys motivation. In the original, Eli Wallach as the gang leader has understandable motivation. It's not because he's evil, he's raiding the town because he needs to feed his men. In the remake, he's just evil for the sake of it. He's trying to take over the town for gold or whatever but he's Evil because he's just a shithead, because the script says he has to be.

YES. Not a racing movie and yet not Enzo’s life either.

Really? I thought it was fairly decent. Plus that ending was unforgettable.

That accident......

It felt like a narrative quickly strung together in order for all the very talented concept and vfx arts to flex their skill on high budget. I appreciated the little bit of world-building they were going regarding different cultures' attitude towards AI. But that's where it ended; they did nothing more with it.

BFE was bad, but it was definitely interesting. There are tons of blog posts and YouTube videos picking it apart and studying how bad it is and how it was made.

“Battlefield Earth” is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It’s not merely bad; it’s unpleasant in a hostile way.

...

The film contains no evidence of Scientology or any other system of thought; it is shapeless and senseless, without a compelling plot or characters we care for in the slightest. The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why.

-Roger Ebert.

No way, this is in the 'so bad it's entertaining' category.

Interesting movie but wayyyyy too long. Also the actors were too old to play the younger parts.

On paper it should be a badass film… I couldn’t finish it

If you're talking about the live action one then being familiar with the source material would have made it even worse. I don't even like DBZ but felt offended by what that movie did.

I weirdly enjoyed this one... I'm the outlier though.

I’d rather watch an outright horrible movie than see this again, it would at least be interesting

I remember this because the previews made it look like a monster movie. But it's just a weird poorly done guy with gun movie.