Pandering to the most middle of the road, cookie-cutter, suburban America.
Any Spandex film
Superheroes are for children, and not particularly bright ones. Those films are basically cartoons with the amount of CGI and shallow story-telling.
Star Wars
I know "it's downright sacrilegious", but viewed outside of the circle-jerk of loving star wars, the movies are kind of dumb. The same criticisms people had of the second trilogy would've been made of the original, if fans had've been 20 years older when the original was released.
And the newer sequels are just a blatant cash-grab. Admittedly, I only watched The Force Awakens, but that was enough; it was nothing more than a remake of A New Hope, for a fatter and stupider audience.
Pandering to the most middle of the road, cookie-cutter, suburban America.
Any Spandex film
Superheroes are for children, and not particularly bright ones. Those films are basically cartoons with the amount of CGI and shallow story-telling.
Star Wars
I know "it's downright sacrilegious", but viewed outside of the circle-jerk of loving star wars, the movies are kind of dumb. The same criticisms people had of the second trilogy would've been made of the original, if fans had've been 20 years older when the original was released.
And the newer sequels are just a blatant cash-grab. Admittedly, I only watched The Force Awakens, but that was enough; it was nothing more than a remake of A New Hope, for a fatter and stupider audience.
Pretty much anything with Drew Barrymore or Nic Cage is going to be garbage. Neither can act.
I actually like 50 First Dates, as stupid as it is. E.T. is a worthy movie with Drew Barrymore.
My Top 5 Cage movies:
#1 Leaving Las Vegas - More so for Elizabeth Shue's performance. Love the scene where her character gifts his a whiskey flask.
#2 Adaptation - a lesser Charlie Kaufman scripted movie is still better than 95 percent of what else is out there.
#3 The Rock - Most people probably look down on Michael Bay films, and rightfully so, but you can't argue he isn't an auteur. This is his magnum opus.
#4 Dream Scenario - this movie got sort of lost in a crowd of what was a great year for great movies. This movie is both smart and entertaining, something we had far too little of in 2024.
#5 The Family Man (yeah this list drops off fast). I won't argue this is a good movie, but it's a relic of a time I have nostalgia for, when the biggest movie stars might show up in a mid-budget film that isn't trying to do anything but be a sentimental holiday movie, and people actually go to see it in the movie theaters. Today this would be straight to streaming.
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Pandering to the most middle of the road, cookie-cutter, suburban America.
Any Spandex film
Superheroes are for children, and not particularly bright ones. Those films are basically cartoons with the amount of CGI and shallow story-telling.
Star Wars
I know "it's downright sacrilegious", but viewed outside of the circle-jerk of loving star wars, the movies are kind of dumb. The same criticisms people had of the second trilogy would've been made of the original, if fans had've been 20 years older when the original was released.
And the newer sequels are just a blatant cash-grab. Admittedly, I only watched The Force Awakens, but that was enough; it was nothing more than a remake of A New Hope, for a fatter and stupider audience.
All good reasons to not like a movie, but these arguments certainly dont qualify them for worst movies ever.
Your arguments for any spandex film should really be about "99 percent of spandex films". Spider-Man 2 might have had the most depth thematically in its storytelling as any movie of 2004, a year that 2046 and Eternal Sunshine were released.
And about star wars, yeah your points are spot on and a general consensus. Of course star wars movies are kind of dumb, they are movies about space wizards made for children. It's themes and messages are delivered so that a child can understand. Their acclaim has never been about how smart they are, rather for technical achievements. The empire strikes back is a movie about space wizards made for kids, but it also might have the best score, editing, practical special effects, set design, and costume design out of any movie ever made, while also having perhaps the best cinematography of 1980 (sorry Raging Bull, ESB's style was about 40 years ahead of its time with some of the shots).
I'm not a fan of the first (painfully boring) or third (lots of script nonsense, in a bad way) Lord of the rings movies, but I very much enjoy The Two Towers for its old-timey epicness. Watching it makes me wonder what movie-goers pre home video / tv felt when going to see a big scale epic movie. It looks just the part.
The guy who listed the top Nicholas Cage movies left out David Lynch's "Wild at Heart." I thought the entire cast was good, especially Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru.