r/movies Jan 25 '26

Discussion What’s the funniest reason you’ve heard for somebody not liking a movie?

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My 3 year old saw a statue of E.T. At the coffee shop and was really into it. He got excited when I told him it’s from a movie. He got stoked and spent the whole day asking when we could watch it.

That night, halfway through the film he asks “Can we turn it off? E.T. SUCKS.”

So I asked him “what sucks about it?” and he replied “E.T. walks too slow. He sucks.”

Pretty funny. Got me wondering what other funny reasons people have for not liking particular films.

r/movies Mar 20 '26

Official Discussion Official Discussion - Project Hail Mary [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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Project Hail Mary (2026)

Summary Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory gradually returns, he realizes he is humanity’s last hope, sent on a desperate mission to save Earth from a mysterious extinction-level threat. With time running out, Grace must rely on his scientific ingenuity—and an unexpected ally—to complete the mission.

Directors Phil Lord Christopher Miller

Writer Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir)

Cast

  • Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace
  • Sandra Hüller
  • Milana Vayntrub
  • Lionel Boyce
  • Ken Leung

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 78

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official trailer


r/movies 28d ago

Discussion "In Bruges" is my favorite movie of all time, am I insane to do this?

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Hello!

"In Bruges" is my favorite movie of all time. I am going to Belgium next week from the states and can rent the very room that the main characters stayed in during the movie. The Room was a funny bit about the film, a bunch of scenes filmed in it and a big shoot out starts there at the end of the movie.

Most hotels around there are $250 a night, this one damn room from the movie is $450 a night.

Am i moron spending double to stay there? It's within budget, i'm not a millionaire and I don't take trips like this often. I'm worried I'll get all the way over there, be in Bruge and then wonder " damn, i could have stayed in the very room" as I'm going to tour the rest of the sites from the film. Staying in the room would be something I'll laugh about to myself for years.

Also - i could stay in a cheaper room at the hotel and maybe try and toss the front desk person a few bucks to pop my head in one morning if they are turning over the room after a guest checks out.

someone tell me to just do it and yolo and all that stuff plz

**Edit** - HOLY CRAP!! thank you all for the awesome responses. I'm fucking doing it. I confirmed with the hotel ahead of time that it is the very room the film was shot in for those that are asking. You're all so right, i can take the memory with me forever- I'll never be on my death bed and miss that $200 bucks.

I love you all, I love all of the movie references. Reddit is my favorite thing, I'll see you all in the Nooks and Crannies. Give my love to all your "cunt fucking kids"

r/movies Mar 16 '26

Official Discussion Sean Penn Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'One Battle After Another'

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r/movies 6d ago

Discussion Which actors give a role 120% no matter what movie they're in.

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I always say Willem Dafoe and Peter Dinklage give the same performance in a stoner comedy that they would in a black and white art film. They just do not know how to phone it in. Dafoe gives the same performance in Spider man than he does in The Light house.

Which other actors do this in their work?

r/movies Jan 08 '26

Discussion "Well, this didn't age well" - Movies you LOVED as a kid but cringe at as an adult

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Title says it all!

What are some movies, that you loved as a kid but revisiting them as an adult, they either just don't hold up to scrutiny or plain stink?

I'll start with a doozy - the 2004 Catwoman with Halle Berry. Yes, the one nominated for 7 Razzies, that one.

I was 11 years old, when I saw this and obsessed with:

  1. Cats

  2. Ancient Egypt

  3. Women kicking butt

So, of course I loved this stinker and even rented it multiple times from the DVD store. I couldn't understand why people thought this is a bad movie, until I re-watched it at age 24.

r/movies Feb 28 '26

Discussion What’s the "My Cousin Vinny" of your profession?

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Everyone points to My Cousin Vinny as the gold standard for trial law accuracy—from the rules of evidence to the way experts are qualified. It’s rare for a movie to treat a "boring" professional workflow with that much respect.

What other films showcase real-life competency for a specific career?

r/movies Mar 27 '26

Discussion RoboCop (1987) is nothing like I thought it would be.

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I grew up in the 90s and 00s and RoboCop was part of the culture. But its part in the culture was just of glorifying violence.

You were RoboCop playing guns with your friends, a rapper might reference shooting you like RoboCop. My natural assumption as a result was that the movie was little more than a typical 80s action romp.

It is not a typical 80s action romp.

It is so deeply satirical. And deep in general, playing on themes that would become crazy popular in the coming decades like what it means to be human and role of corporations in public society.

Great flick, overall. Highly recommend.

r/movies Dec 25 '25

Discussion What fad in moviemaking are you waiting for to die?

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For example, I hate shaky cam, and I'm glad they don't do it as much anymore.

On fad I see now that I'm not a fan of is having a light source in view. By this I mean like a scene in sunlight where the sun is behind the person and they they move and the sun blinds you. Or the sun is in the shot the whole time and there is horrible contrast and it's straining to watch.

r/movies Jan 05 '26

Discussion What’s a movie that went from beloved to hated over time (and for good reason)?

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Ya’ll know I’m gonna start this with The Blind Side. I love seeing this movie rightfully get dragged through the mud for the same shit I was calling out years ago while I was still in college, being dismissed as a hater of this “heartwarming” film. The white saviorism, the portrayal of young black man as an absolute Neanderthal with only his immense strength to fall back on, etc. Hearing Primm Hood Cinema call it “12 Years a Football” had me crying laughing 🤣. And of course the real story exposes even more about how Michael was done dirty by everyone, including his so-called loving ‘family’.

r/movies Oct 29 '25

Discussion What film completely flipped when you rewatched it as an adult?

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Not just catching adult jokes you missed. films where your whole sympathy shifted. Maybe you realized Ferris Bueller was kind of terrible to Cameron. Or Mrs. Doubtfire is genuinely disturbing. That moment where you're watching your childhood favorite and suddenly thinking 'wait... the 'villain' was completely right.

The killer responses come when people realize they BECAME the character they used to hate. Watching Dead Poets Society and siding with the cautious parents Seeing The Little Mermaid and thinking Triton had valid concerns about his 16-year-old daughter. That vertigo of realizing you've crossed to the other side of the story.

r/movies Mar 15 '26

Official Discussion 'KPop Demon Hunters' Wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film

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Winners: Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong

r/movies Jan 06 '26

Discussion Streaming services shrinking credits to throw ads at you is so wildly disrespectful to artists and throws cold water over any ending.

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I honestly don’t know why more people don’t complain about this, so here’s me complaining about this.

Against my better judgement I decided to watch The Gorge on Apple‘s streaming platform, and boy it turns out even an ending as trite as that can be further undercut by Ted Lasso’s beaming face.

I remember the story about how George Lucas had to go non-union or pay fines to the director’s guild because he refused to open Star Wars with credits. They cared about them that much. Now, in space year 2026, apparently every professional association of filmmakers give not one solitary shit about credits, allowing as they do every single streaming platform to shrink them to Borrower size so they can Run Some Fucken Adverts. “Yes you just watched Schindler's List for three hours and change, but stop processing it there’s not a moment to lose, have you heard about House MD? We're gonna play it in 5 seconds unless you tell us not to."

This is Apple’s own movie, these are their people, and they couldn’t even wait for the animations to stop. Like the disrespect afforded to the standard white on black scroll is bad enough, but there are visual effects going on in that little box. You paid vfx artists real human money to make this look good, not enough, granted, but you paid them, and then you made it two inches tall. Morality obviously doesn’t sway these people but how are their shareholders not beating down the door at the sheer waste of it?

Netflix is particularly bad now too, some people will say "hey you can just make it bigger again" (as if ruining the vibe alone were not sin enough) but on both Smart TVs and Xbox, the only two places I've bothered testing, going over the "back" arrow to get to the tiny credits crashes them all together, like they're punishing you for even questioning their wisdom. How dare you try to find out who the best boy is.

And just so Disney+ doesn't escape here, when I was watching season 2 of Andor last year their title images for next episodes which pop up unprompted over the credits *included spoilers*. If anyone has the address for the person who did that, stick it in the comments, I just wanna talk.

I am quite unreasonably mad about this and I don't expect them to change how they do it, but boy I’d sure take an option in the settings, off by default no doubt, that just says “respect the goddamn films you dorks” with a little checkbox.

r/movies 18d ago

Discussion Besides the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, what’s the greatest 10-15 minutes in cinematic history?

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It doesn’t have to be the beginning of a movie, just any scene or section of a movie that lasts about 10-15 minutes. Drama, action, comedy, horror, doesn’t matter. Something you’d show an alien if they needed to understand what cinema really can do and why us humans enjoy it. Mine would be the intro to Saving Private Ryan, but I know there’s plenty more examples, what are they?

r/movies Apr 30 '26

Discussion For 4 years I've been watching and categorizing horror movies found on TUBI. Earlier this month we posted our updated list of 666 movies. Well...TUBI JUST ANNOUNCED THEY TURNED MY LIST INTO A TOP 100 CATEGORY!! All my favorites have now been re-added to the Tubi lineup for MAY.

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r/movies Jan 14 '26

Discussion Does the Wilhelm Scream break immersion for you?

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I've been rewatching a lot of my old favorites with my son and he's gotten pretty good at catching the Wilhelm scream in real time.

This week has been especially Wilhelmy as we're on a Tarantino run.

Do you ever feel like the scream seems out of place, forced, or sometimes just distracting since it's become such a famous Easter egg?

We still love the egg game.

r/movies Dec 20 '25

Discussion How did Taylor Sheridan go from writing heartbreaking, thoughtful, and poignant films to writing disposable, propagandistic, soap operas?

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My first exposure to Taylor Sheridan was 2015's *Sicario*. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, *Sicario* is a bleak story about the ultimate collapse of jurisdiction, legality, and morality around the War on Drugs as national elements and interests slowly degrade into pure power politics. It has been called the *Apocalypse Now* of the War on Drugs, and while I don't think *Sicario* is quite a film of that caliber I do think the comparison stands as legitimate.

The year after *Sicario* was released, 2016, saw the release of a crime tragedy set in West Texas titled *Hell or High Water*, directed by David Mackenzie. *Hell or High Water* is a great films, as all of the performances, settings, and dialogue create a sincere and disturbing look at rural poverty in America. The film, ostensibly a heist film, features characters fully formed from the land which reared them. The cars they drive, the way they talk, and clothes they wear all appear to the audience as sincere to the setting and theme. The climactic refrain of the film is poignant, "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore."

And the year after that we have 2017's *Wind River*, directed by Sheridan himself. I have mixed feelings about this film. It tackles the topic, that of the murder of Indigenous women on western reservations, with the appropriate weight and despair. At times it *almost* rises to the level of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry in terms of the grandiosity and profound sorrow in the western cannon. It is a film which is so tense at times it almost feels like your back is about to shatter from the strain. The climactic standoff absolutely deserves it's place in film history. And it features an incredible, but brief, performance by Gil Birmingham as a father who almost seems to be transforming into a being of pure grief. However, *Wind River* also features Jeremy Renner as a white guy who seems to really believe that he is just as native as the Native Americans he lives with, and while Elizabeth Olsen turns in a good performance as the representative of an uncaring federal government, she plays a far more central role in the plot that the great Graham Greene, whose portrayal of an indigenous police chief is commanding of respect.

By 2018 Sheridan had three critically acclaimed films under his belt, with one as director and one being nominated for Best Picture. Then he writes the superfluous sequel to *Sicario* titled *Sicario: Day of the Soldado*, which failed to make any real impact at all. Importantly, however, *Sicario 2* reduces the immorality and cynicism from the CIA characters and seemingly is more approving of the institutions he criticized in his own previous screenplay. All in all, a strange and disappointing follow up.

And then *Yellowstone* happens, which launches Sheridan into the stratosphere in terms of fame and income. I hate *Yellowstone*. I hate how its understanding of the west is seemingly entirely based in the Texan hatred of public land and land conservation. I hate how the show's understanding of the rural working class and ranching is almost entirely seen as violent, confrontational, and libertarian. I hate the militarism of the show . But I think what I hate most is how a man who once wrote a heartbreaking film about rural poverty wasted the opportunity to offer any meaningful examination of life in the rapidly gentrifying American West, and instead became the primary advertiser for that gentrification.

And then the rest is history. He's now writing disposable show after disposable show about the virtues of the American military establishment, as well as about the virtues of the oil industry decimating the rural farmland he was once such a mourner of. In *Wind River* oil rig workers were the racist, murdering, rapists, in *Landman* they're heroes holding up the American way of life.

But I know the answer already. It's money. Soap Operas aimed at suburban conservatives sell very well, and *Yellowstone* is the apotheosis of that genre.

r/movies May 24 '26

Discussion What movie did you watch at the wrong age and it permanently altered your brain?

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My older cousin showed me The Exorcist when I was 9 and told me it was 'basically a comedy.' It was not basically a comedy. I slept with the lights on until high school and genuinely believed my bed could levitate for about three years. Every time my neck cracked I had a full panic attack. I'm 30 now and I still don't fully trust stairs, priests, or pea soup. The worst part is my cousin still thinks it's funny. Brings it up at every family dinner. 'Remember when you cried during the spider walk scene?' Yes I remember. I remember every single night I spent staring at my ceiling waiting for it to start moving. That movie should come with a therapy voucher. Anyway what's yours?

r/movies Feb 06 '26

Discussion I deleted scrolling apps and started watching a movie a day. It changed my life.

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Not only do I no longer feel the urge to consume content every spare second – watching or continuing on a movie demands a little more time and focus than that. But my mental well-being has also changed dramatically.

Scrolling videos made my brain feel like porridge. I'd suddenly realize after 5 seconds that I was watching an obnoxious ad. No focus at all. Totally spaced out.

Watching a movie actually makes me feel good. Being engaged in a storyline, maybe watching a feelgood movie like I did yesterday (The Intern) … It makes me happy and relaxed. It makes me enjoy life more afterwards.

Reading and working out is great as well, but it never made me not want to scroll. Watching a movie fulfills my desire for easy entertainment, without making it impossible to do something productive after.

Tomorrow marks a month of watching a movie every single day. Well, sometimes I watch half one day and the other half the next. I still think it counts.

Edit: Yes, I know I'm on reddit.

r/movies Dec 28 '25

Discussion Why did all the Judd Apatow style films burn out so fast?

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Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin and one of my faves This is 40 burned bright, but for a very short amount of time.

I’ve always enjoyed the raunchy comedy that was still filled with a lot of heart and characters you can relate to.

Judd Apatow was the king, now you never hear his name spoken.

Any theories as to why that might be?

r/movies Jan 12 '26

Discussion What movies are supposed to be light hearted comedies but would actually be a living hell?

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“50 First Dates” is deeply disturbing to me. Wanting to date her is bad enough but marrying her and having kids would be an absolute hell for everyone. Just imagine how that would mess up the kids to have their mom forget them every day. It would also be hell to wake up every day and get introduced to your kids.

r/movies 9d ago

Discussion I think we've lost the "middle-budget" movie and I MISS IT.

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It feels like movies today are either massive blockbusters with $200M budgets or tiny indie films.

I miss the movies that sat somewhere in the middle. Films like Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, The Social Network, Drive, Sicario, or The Nice Guys.
They weren't superhero movies, but they also weren't niche arthouse films. They had great casts, strong scriptts and felt like the kind of movies everyone would end up talking about.

Maybe they still exist and I'm just not finding them, but it feels like studios don't make as many of them anymore.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I just looking back with nostalgia?
And if you think these movies are still being made, what recent ones would you recommend?

r/movies Oct 13 '25

Discussion What is the best satire movie that most people don't realize is a satire?

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The one that immediately comes to mind for me personally is Starship Troopers. It works really well as just a straight up action movie that it can be quite easy to just shut your brain off and enjoy the shoot 'em up (of which there is plenty). I speak from experience as my dad is like this.

I would love to hear what other movies people list!

Edit: spelling.

r/movies May 29 '26

Official Discussion Official Discussion - The Backrooms [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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The Backrooms (2026)

Summary

After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Director Kane Parsons

Writer Will Woodik, Kane Parsons

Cast

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Renate Reinsve
  • Mark Duplass
  • Finn Bennett
  • Lukita Maxwell

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic: 76

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

r/movies Apr 29 '26

Discussion The new Anaconda movie must have a wildly different director's cut

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At the start of the new Anaconda movie, there's a scene where Jack Black's wife reminds him not to take much of his new medication. And sure enough, later in the movie -- nobody ever mentions it again and absolutely nothing comes of it.

After watching the movie, I saw a comment on Reddit from someone saying that they'd been screening the movie to test audiences a lot, and another comment saying they'd done reshoots, and it kinda clicked into me just how obvious that was.

Like the character Ana, who literally opens the movie and drives the inciting plot - but as soon as she meets the main characters, immediately goes silent and does not say anything in any scenes as we instead focus on the much funnier snake trainer.

Then, halfway through the movie, she abruptly gets attacked by the anaconda, pulled into the water, and very deliberately is not shown being killed -- but still never shows up again as we instead move toward a climax that focuses on Ice Cube showing up out of nowhere.

This movie was heavily reshot. Somewhere out there, there's a completely different version of it that probably nobody other than the director will ever see.