Personally I’ve gotta go with Paranormal Activity. So much of the movie is literally just watching people do normal day-to-day stuff, which is supposed to “build suspense,” but I just found it incredibly boring. Nothing happens at all for literally half the movie. The plot is the same unimaginative slop of haunted house evil ghost of every generic horror movie of that era. I also hate the whole, “found footage” shakeycam stuff because to me it completely breaks immersion and suspension of disbelief. Does that do it for people who actually believe in ghosts or something?
There’s literally not a single interesting thing about the movie, and not even anything fun to critique or make fun of, it’s just boring. If you’re thinking about watching this movie, instead, go out and watch an empty pool for an hour, then watch the trailer, and you’ll have seen everything that the movie has to offer.
I wonder if this like the Seinfeld isn’t funny trope. Like, it’s awful and boring and unoriginal because it was basically the first horror movie movie to do much of this house cam found footage thing. I say this because I found the movie quite scary when I first saw it (when it first came out), but can see why it would be really boring and derivative today
This one is going to be a bit esoteric because it’s a very “local” movie but I’m gonna try my best to explain.
I’ve been recommended countless time by the gen X of a movie called “Le Père Noël est une Ordure” (Santa Claus is a Bastard) which is a 80’s comedy that ticks all the boxes for garbage conservative humour except for some reason everyone above their 40’s seem to think it’s really really funny.
It’s deeply misogynistic with extreme domestic abuse used as a plot device and running gag, as well as general contempt for women. It’s outright mocking poor people, shows disdain for white collar workers, while poking fun very respectfully at the bourgeoisie. The richer the less degrading. I’m pretty sure it has some racism but I don’t care to remember. And the most egregious of all is how massively transphobic the movie is. There’s a trans woman character, she’s an asshole, she’s creepy, and being trans is mostly what’s expected to be the actual joke.
I’m not even sure it has genuine comedy at some point, the cringe makes it hard to remember anything
The Breakfast Club
Unfinished Business (2015). The title is a reflection of the script.
Tusk
