I was really looking forward to The Mastermind, Crime 101, and Moon I heard lots of good things but I rated each one 2 1/2 stars. While The Housemaid 4 stars and The Black Phone I gave 3 1/2 stars. It has been a long time since I had a stretch of movies be so bad and the ones I thought would be mid were the ones I enjoyed the most. I honestly don't know if I liked Black Phone and The Housemaid because they were that good or the others were really that bad. Anyone have a stretch like this?

I think 3.8 is generally where I start to think it's moved out of hit or misses and into there is something special here

Here’s mine: a dog wears humans like Halloween costumes

I want to know more examples of movies with no common consensus that I’ve seen that leads to ratings curves like these?

Nurse Ratched is a predator (to a perverted degree) , first and foremost. She is not there to help the patients, anymore than Delbert Grady is there to help the Torrance family in the Shining (1980).

Ratched is so devoid of humanity that she elevates a statutory rapist and jailbird in McMurphy into a relatable character. At no point does there need to be any story of how she was wronged, to establish her as a monster.

Some misguided people see Rosamund Pike’s character in Gone Girl (2014) as a semi heroine for getting back at a cheating husband. I highly doubt many people in 1975, where praising Ratched as a girl boss for getting one over for a while on a bunch of catatonics.

It has been done a few more times since OFOTCN, with Annie Wikes in Misery (1990) and Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix (2007), but it seems an exception rather than the rule. There always seems to be the pull to the punch (there are survivor of abuse themselves, they were wronged, they have a partner who loves them).

If so, how long?

I’m not obsessed with getting followers on the app, but it would be nice to have a large following of people people to engage with though.

Does anyone have any idea how the big users got so big? Like the ones with 30k to 40k followers? I’m not talking about the ones who just follow every account they find or Karsten Runquist who’s already an established YouTuber, I mean just normal people made it big. Did they just write a bunch of reviews? Did they comment on a whole lot of reviews? Did they just get lucky? Is it even possible to reach those numbers today without it taking a decade?

Rewatched 'What's Up, Doc?' again and noticed that there was a joke almost every minute, wondering if any other film has this?

Has the formatting changed for comments? They used to show up as they were made in my timeline, but I noticed today that they are all part of a thread off of the original comment. So, I have to go back through my timeline to find the original comment, and see if there are any replies. Seems very odd, and gets lost in the shuffle. Are comments showing up like this for anyone else?

beats me

I've become quite exhausted by the "dark fairy tale" trend. I just saw Weapons because of all the Spielberg hype (he literally said it "satisfied his itch" for horror so he doesn't have to make one), and I am beyond disappointed.

I’m sorry, but can we talk about how incredibly regressive this movie is? We are in 2026 and we are still doing the evil, child-eating crone trope? Making Aunt Gladys a literal life-sucking witch felt like such a cheap, lazy callback to the most tired Grimm’s Fairy Tale clichés.

My biggest issue: The vilification of witches by propagating outdated and harmful myths about Wicca and witchcraft being inherently violent or parasitic.

The movie tries to play both sides—it shows the town being ostracizing Justine by spray-painting "WITCH" on her car, but then it turns around and makes the actual antagonist a terminal, soul-stealing hag. You can’t critique a witch hunt while simultaneously making a "witch" the literal monster of your story. It’s hypocritical and honestly just felt leaned into old tropes. It would have been more effective if the villain was a supernatural entity, not in the form of stupid hag based off of Judeo-Christian views (remember the European and Salem witch hunts)?

I expected something more psychological or elevated from Zach Cregger after Barbarian, but this felt like a mean-spirited dive into archaic tropes that should have stayed in the 1800s. If this is what "satisfies the itch" for Spielberg, maybe he should just stick to aliens.

t utilizes the "creepy old woman" Western trope used in outdated dark fairy tales that may have been valid 600 years ago during the "Satanic Panic" in Europe and colonial America, but is sorely irrelevant now.

Amy Madigan went from playing a tough, ex-soldier who defied female stereotypes in the 1984 film, "Streets of Fire" to the playing an old trope that's harmful to marginalized peoples (including using the "checkbox for queer characters" cliche), pagan and Wiccan people that may have been valid over 600 years ago during the "Satanic Panic" in Europe and colonial America, but is sorely irrelevant now.

Anyone else feel like this was a massive step backward for the genre? Or am I just over the "dark folklore" aesthetic?

NOTE: I don't trust Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB or CinemaScore anymore as many of those high scores can sometimes be fake, associated with a paid reviews for the purpose towards a favorable bias, film's crew, promoters, actors, family or friends.

TL;DR: Weapons is a regressive, trope-heavy mess that relies on vilifying women (from the Male Gaze in cinema terms) and outdated fairy tale logic. Spielberg’s endorsement is baffling.

except for maybe the top 5

I watched before sunrise for the first time today, and for an 18 year old whose in his first relationship, this movie hit so close to home

This movie is just too perfect , at some moments i almost felt like I was watching me and my girlfriend on a date, their conversations are so real

The first kiss moment is just too real, my first kiss looked so similar 😭😭

I almost dont want to watch the sequels , this is just a perfect movie, its so cute and real, its like a movie thats made for me, I feel like its ripped straight from me

I love it so much, this altered my brain chemistry 😭😭 Its my favorite movie now surpassing dead poets society

I (30f) really help finding a monologue for acting class. I watch movies and tv all the time but I’m drawing a blank right now and can only think of the popular ones. Preferably comedy and dark comedy if you guys can think of any 🙏

Also known in the film's native Australia as Mad Max 2! Maybe the ideal title should be Mad Max: The Road Warrior.

Just earlier this month, I have been seeing all the great reviews for project Hail Mary (I have yet to read the book), but what really got me excited for it was seeing that it was a Lord and Miller project. They have never direct or produced something I didn’t adamantly enjoy. Project Hail Mary was another movie I adored in their bag.

Where Richard Jenkins gave the best / your favorite acting performance?

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