Baumer's/Tele's/Chas' 25 films that have brainwashed people into mindless adulation (Tele pg 26)

[Ethan Hunt]

Yes

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Deathly Hallows Part 1

Gravity

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Just to point out a handful (there's some more)

I agree with all of these... Except Gravity and maybe Potter ( that one is kinda close) Edited January 21, 2015 by Baritone Pride

[Empire]

Yes

 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Deathly Hallows Part 1

Gravity

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

 

 

Just to point out a handful (there's some more)

I don't agree with all of those, but some great choices.

One that isn't on your list I feel is better is: Edge of Tomorrow

This is also not counting animated films.

[Ethan Hunt]

Of course Interstellar is better than Inception as well.

[4815162342]

Maybe.

 

Trying to

the course I see

[4815162342]

I don't agree with all of those, but some great choices.

One that isn't on your list I feel is better is: Edge of Tomorrow

This is also not counting animated films.

 

I didn't want to list 18 films, just some examples

[MrPink]

 

Trying to

the course I see

 

I can't detach now.

[Dementeleus]

22. Scarface (1983)

 

 

Another movie that's pretty good, but completely overblown in terms of praise and kneejerk adulation (especially after it was rediscovered in the '90s and '00s). It's such a hammy, overdone film, everything cranked to 11, so much so that it's hard to look at it as anything more than a parody of itself.

Edited January 21, 2015 by Telemachos

[MrPink]

I don't like Scarface much at all. Just this gif.

 

[75Live]

22. Scarface (1983)

 

 

Another movie that's pretty good, but completely overblown in terms of praise and kneejerk adulation (especially after it was rediscovered in the '90s and '00s). It's such a hammy, overdone film, everything cranked to 11, so much so that it's hard to look at it as anything more than a parody of itself.

 

I really like Scarface, but I completely agree with you

[BadAtGender]

23. The Goonies

 

 

For some reason, this mid-80s Spielberg-esque effort is beloved and adored by every kid who grew up in the '80s. Everyone except me. It's okay, but nothing that special, and nothing really that other movies in that era did better. Even as a kid, willing to like pretty much everything, I didn't think it was all that.

 

I'm not sure if it was the first, but it's the earliest instance that I can remember of the "roller coaster movie" where you've got a series of sets and events that seem like they're designed for a theme park ride. Honey I Shrunk the Kids is another example.

 

Thankfully, this sub-genre seems to have died.

[Empire]

Yeah, Scarface is way more loved than it should be. Decent flick, but nothing special.

[ecstasy]

Oh my! Tele came out swinging.

[Ruthie]

24. Inception

 

 

BWAAAAHMMMM

 

Look, I like this movie. Quite a lot, actually. But it's been placed on this absurdly high pedestal by crazed Nolan fanboys who will accept no God other than their own. It's a very clever concept and the action scenes are wonderfully done, and Nolan assembled a great cast... but, like he's tended to do with his recent blockbusters, he takes a brute force approach to storytelling. Exposition-filled speech after exposition-filled speech, characters who do nothing but wander around like the audience's Mary Sue, asking "Why?" ... the first hour is really inert.

 

Great action movie. Lots of fun. One of the greatest movies ever made? Not even close.

DUCK AND  COVER, PEOPLE! 

[Sam]

22. Scarface (1983)

 

 

Another movie that's pretty good, but completely overblown in terms of praise and kneejerk adulation (especially after it was rediscovered in the '90s and '00s). It's such a hammy, overdone film, everything cranked to 11, so much so that it's hard to look at it as anything more than a parody of itself.

Fuck you Tele. Fuck you.

[Dementeleus]

[vc2002]

Edited January 21, 2015 by vc2002

[Michael Gary Scott]

I like Scarface but I can see that

[Dementeleus]

21. The Austin Powers sequels

 

 

The original was cute, funny, and a fresh amusing look at a genre which (for the most part) had taken itself very seriously for a few decades. The sequels that followed were considerably more expensive, more filled with cameos and glam co-stars, but basically just regurgitated or repurposed the same jokes from the first film. The bigger they got, the hollower and emptier they felt.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

21. The Austin Powers sequels

 

 

The original was cute, funny, and a fresh amusing look at a genre which (for the most part) had taken itself very seriously for a few decades. The sequels that followed were considerably more expensive, more filled with cameos and glam co-stars, but basically just regurgitated or repurposed the same jokes from the first film. The bigger they got, the hollower and emptier they felt.

All the Austin Powers suck. 

[ecstasy]

I'm just gonna get comfortable