/tv/ - Movies and Television★

I like movies about suffering so this was up my alley. I get its supposed to be all artsy and shit but I found it more appetizing as a failed artist's life spiraling and wasted around the end of civilization.

Jew York sucks

I've never felt that a movie has frustrated me, I've only felt that way with longer forms of media like anime and series.
I think only documentaries in general really frustrate me.

>>351347 (OP)
Mine has to be Butterfly Effect: but that was because I went through a debate on whether or not the protagonist was actually the villain of the story, the retard in question kept telling me it wasn't time traveling but some sort of loop fuckery the protagonist has to go through with his diary and showed that everyone would kill for that power just to fix any mistakes in the past. Although the protagonist keep fucking up the timeline because of his selfishness, it seems the same thing is going on with the mulatto spiderman movie who wants to wipe out a whole dimension just to fuck the mudshark or saving his criminal uncle.

>>351347 (OP)
I like that movie, it made me cry.

>>351390
What's your most frustrating documentary?

>>351544
I remember hating and loving this documentory on trekkies.

The ones that frustrate me the most are the ones that are so close to being great but have something that brings the entire thing down.
Three Days of the Condor could have been a masterpiece if not for the romance. It's not just that it's handled awkwardly (it's about as good as you can get with a Stockholm Syndrome romance). It's that it throws a wrench into the plot. The assassins are hunting Robert Redford, they know what he looks like, what clothes he's wearing, the area he's in, the car he's driving, and even its license plate number. The assassins are implied to be among the best in the world, who never rest until their target has been eliminated. Robert Redford knows all of this, he's an ex-CIA agent himself, and yet, in spite of all of that, he decides to stop running and spend the entire night with Faye Dunnaway. And the assassins are nice enough to wait until the following morning before trying to kill him again.
Stuff like that pulls me out of the story. It reminds me that I'm watching a Hollywood movie.

>>351548
I still remember my mom wanting me to watch it. It seemed really cool with that alleyway scene where Redford is walking slowly down before making a run for it while the agent tries to kill him. That romance however did kill any sort of tension the plot had.
As for a movie that frustrated me, it was Passengers (2016). Imagine taking such an interesting concept as being awoken in the middle of interstellar travel, with no way to go back into cryosleep, with a rather unique drama to place the audience in with a character and have a genuine moral debate about acts in desperation. Could have been amazing, instead it tried to jam a typical romance in a setting where it can't fit. Having Chris Pratt screw around with Jennifer Lawrence's pod killed any chance of any potential romance in it, and if they are going to go the romance route, then all they had to do was to have her wake up accidentally as well and you have yourself at least a semi-decent movie.
I think that was around the moment I started to realise Hollywood just can't pull off any high concepts anymore (without having to rely heavily on a pre-written source material, which they purposely fuck up now) to be able to make a movie worth watching decades from now.

>>351347 (OP)
Watched this shit thinking I'd see a classic of cinema but it's no better than the dirt under my shoes. Exasperating. I cannot see how back then it achieved so much praise and influence.
Maybe in those times critics and audiences were tired of formulaic slop and this was one of the first to break the mold? It just didn't age well to me.