Saltburn And 4 Other Popular Movies That Are a Complete Waste of Time, According to Reddit
Not every big movie deserves to be watched until the credits roll.
There are movies that make you want one thing more than anything else: for whatever's happening on the screen to end as quickly as possible.
Reddit users selected popular movies that made them want just that.
1. Saltburn, 2023
In 2020, Emerald Fennell made her debut with the tragicomedy Promising Young Woman. The movie won her an Academy Award for Original Screenplay and gave endless opportunities to create her next project – Saltburn, a rip-off of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
The structure of the movie begins to fall apart in the middle as Oliver "skillfully" (actually clumsily) begins to work his way to the top. Many viewers positioned the movie as one of the most scandalous of the year – Saltburn undoubtedly shocks with some scenes (we feel sorry for every cemetery worker who's seen it), but seasoned viewers were tired of its extreme predictability.
2. Avatar, 2009
In 2009, James Cameron 's spectacular action film set a new bar for computer graphics quality – still unsurpassed – and ushered in a full-blown digital revolution in cinema.
In the 15 years since its release, Avatar hasn’t lost its magic. The world of Pandora, inhabited by bizarre creatures and the charming Na'Vi, is striking in its detail, and the action scenes are impressive in their scope. The main problem with Avatar, however, is that it is one of those movies that make no sense to watch on the small screen.
3. Oppenheimer, 2023
Last year's two biggest hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer, deceive the audience's expectations and turn out to be completely different movies than they might have been at first glance.
And while the former turned out to be an exemplary coming-of-age story, the latter became a monotonous but disturbing movie about the birth of the atomic bomb rather than its creator. No matter how much Nolan tried to avoid quoting Wikipedia, the conventions of the biopic genre could not be avoided.
One of the viewers admitted that after watching the movie, he did not have the impression of a grandiose drama, but of a BBC documentary.
4. Napoleon, 2023
The trailers of the epic biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte looked promising – but the resulting movie received mixed reviews and a modest box office. Well, and rightly so.
Many will call David Scarpa's screenplay a "Wikipedia retelling" – but the theatrical version of the film does not live up to that definition: the online encyclopedia contains many interesting episodes and important nuances that did not fit into the movie.
5. Dune, 2021
Dune is as difficult to criticize as it is to watch. Denis Villeneuve warned that he would stick strictly to the book and that even the first novel would take two feature-length movies. As we now know, this is exactly what happened.
Dune doesn't work very well as a movie, but it's strange to blame it for that – after all, the problem is not in the director’s decisions, but in the basic concept. This is a two and a half hour plot to a story that will happen sometime later, in other movies. The movie is written as if it were not an epic two hundred million dollar blockbuster, but a TV show pilot.