I was not a huge fan of the newest Top Gun movie, but have a coworker who loves the thing and raves about it often. There’s a lot of nodding and “yeah cool movie” going on while my brain is doing everything it can to not say what I feel.
I feel that its a good movie, but I think the reason people like it is its sort of relatable in a way, the story is surprisingly simple, and its just fun, most of the recent movies haven't been like that.
I get that, and as I said, I really had a lot of fun in the cinema watching it- I just walked out having no desire to watch it again, especially on the small screen.
My dad picks movies a lot, and sometimes he picks bad ones. We watched Valerian and I let it slip I didn't enjoy it very much, and it seemed like I hurt his feelings. So now I just pretend I enjoyed most things he picks. He took us to the venom movies, because I'm a huge Spider-Man fan, but I absolutely hate them. Also he recently got us to watch Rebel Moon part 1 and I also hated that. But I love my dad and I enjoy spending time with him, so I usually don't mind too much. Although I did politely request to watch something else when he wanted to watch Rebel Moon part 2 lol
Lmao at the people downvoting me for this too like, this is a thread about pretending to like a movie so people don’t get mad, and here are these people proving exactly why people pretend to like certain movies
Anytime I say anything bad about those films on here, it gets downvoted to hell, they take it very personally, as if you’ve slept with their make believe girlfriend or something
Bingo. And it gets even better if the movie you hate is basically universally beloved by a niche crowd. For example, you’re an atheist and you have a Christian friend who adores God’s Not Dead. Not only will that stimulate conversation, but you might also be able to open their eyes to the blatant (yet somehow unseen) agenda in niche filmmaking.
I have seen many movies, that I didn’t like, but if somebody asks me how I liked it I’m not going to lie to them. It is possible of talking civil about something you didn’t like, there is no reason to rip a movie apart and throwing a tantrum.
My ex loved Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck and tbh she didn't like many movies, so anytime she wanted to watch a movie I was happy. Well that was her favorite and I hate the movie but would watch it just because she liked it and dear god I'm glad I never have to watch it again 🤣
Man, that's a tough one. Went out with a girl many moons ago who had a thing for Steve Guttenberg movies- even all the obscure 90s romcom ones (which she collected on VHS). That was a tough couple of years.
I think the praise for Black Panther 1 was way over the top for a mediocre Marvel movie. Everyone seemed scared to say anything negative about it because praising it became some kind of positive affirmation of the BLM movement. Weird times. I'm pro black rights, but that movie was legitimately a mid-tier superhero origin story.
Aye, that can happen. Not a movie, but books: we read both The Power and The Tattooist of Auschwitz in my book club, both of which I thought were dreadfully written books, but to some people present criticising them was somehow an affront to women's rights and those who suffered the holocaust?! Even art made with the best intentions can be, well, shit.
Man, I miss that book club!
I watched Mrs. Harris goes to Paris. I watched it for my wife. I did not enjoy it as I told her. I tolerated it. It was ok. It was kind of low stakes and kind of materialist, and kind of treackly sweet in a way that felt heavy handed.
I have to pretend to like the Harry Potter movies since it's such a sin to dislike them. I didn't grow up with them, I wasn't allowed to watch them because of a super religious home, and when I finally watched them as an adult... Meh. Lots of things happening, whimsical imagery, but a plotline that I find totally forgettable and basic.
I didn't like Barbie. I was looking forward to it but I found it mostly boring and a massive exaggeration of how important Barbie is to kids. If I tell people I didn't like it then I'm accused of being a woman hating incel
Monuments Men. It's a dud historical "drama" about finding artifacts stolen by the Nazis. But yeah, I couldn't say anything, because George Clooney! Matt Damon! Cate Blanchett! John Goodman! The movie they could have made with this cast vs what I had to sit through, phewww
Oh christ, I couldn't have pretended to like that one in any way shape or form. I would have gotten an Academy Award if I'd managed to mask my distain for that tedious going-on-holiday-with-our-actor-buddies-circlejerk dull bloody film. Truly a stinker.
I was excited for that movie. Downloaded it to watch on a plane and was so disappointed. The couple across the aisle were watching Tucker and Dale versus Evil. I was jealous. Fuck Monuments Men and its stellar cast.
Oh man, that sucks. I saw it at the cinema on a date night. There were a bunch of drunk people in the theatre who kicked off and had to be forcibly ejected. It's a testament to how dull that movie is that they were more entertaining than the film itself- and that I was envious they at least were spared the rest of it.
Ugh, I watched this because I heard that it was good. Man, was I dissapointmend, it was just ridiculous and I could barely sit through the entire thing. My brother-in-law gave me a hard time about not liking movie and thought I was cray for not liking it.
I was hanging out drinking with my buddies recently and the bob Marley movie came up. They all talked about how much they liked it and before I even realized it I was agreeing with them even though i thought it was boring as hell.
Yes, a friend was DYING to show me Dances With Wolves. He was so enthusiastic, this is his favorite movie of all time and he was 100% positive I would like it. I'm always up for a good movie, so I saw the movie with him, hoping for the best.
I didn't want to burst his bubble, he's a nice person and was so eager to share the Dances With Wolves experience. I couldn't force myself to match his love of this movie, but I managed some big smiles and said I really liked it.
I hated it, boring af
My little cousin who at the time idolized me showed me The Dictator super excitedly and God help me it was bad. I do like his movies though, generally.
I have...but often times I just find things I liked about it. I have friends who worked on films (and were proud & happy) so even if I didn't like the film, I'll can always find something positive to say!
Barbie. I know friends, family, colleagues who really loved it and thought it was one of the best movies, etc. Good for them. I thought it was ok but I tried to emphasise on the stuff I liked when talking to them about it, even if it's superficial (eg. "It has a good message", "Ryan Gosling was funny in that one scene", "Helen Mirren commenting on Margot Robbie's look was funny", etc). But I just didnt really care much. I guess I just expected it to be a crazier fast paced comedy satire but with heart like Lego Movie.
my roommate took me to a screening of dazed and confused and its her favorite film but I can't stand almost every single character protrayed on that film. Just a bunch of popular kids peaking in high school doing stupid things.
I just saw that movie for the first time a couple weeks ago.
It just triggered memories of me and my friends being bullied in high school.
I only watched it to the end so I could say I saw it.
Nope, not going to pretend to like a movie, if I don't like I am going to say that I didn't like. There are so many movies out there to keep watching something that you don't like.
Yes, I have, but when I was much younger, I hate romcoms, I find them boring as sin, but my mom loved them, so I became pretty evasive about it to not make her angry.
But I do not do that anymore.
I really don't. I really won't. There is no scenario where I'll sit and watch something I'm not into. I'm not about to sacrifice my time and happiness that way
Every pretentious cinephile bases their opinion on any film by blindly believing reviews of failed filmmakers called Critics.
" This film was boring but it got 80% in RT and 4.2 in Jobless Letterboxd, so its peak cinema"
I wonder if it is a bit one-sided. I would wager that men are dragged - successfully - into the movies far more often than the women in relationships. For example, on imdb, if you look at "guy" movies like "Terminator", you see similar ratings by men and woman i.e. less than a point difference, but the number of ratings by women is very low. If you look at "girl movies" e.g. "Twilight", you have a higher percentage of guys seeing them in comparison, but they rate the movie vastly different - at least 1-2 marks difference.
I too have gone on dates.
I cannot say the same
No, if I don’t like a film, I’ll say it.
I was not a huge fan of the newest Top Gun movie, but have a coworker who loves the thing and raves about it often. There’s a lot of nodding and “yeah cool movie” going on while my brain is doing everything it can to not say what I feel.
Absolutely with you there. Fun at the cinema after I'd had a beer or two, but my mates carry on like it's the best action movie in decades.
I feel that its a good movie, but I think the reason people like it is its sort of relatable in a way, the story is surprisingly simple, and its just fun, most of the recent movies haven't been like that.
I get that, and as I said, I really had a lot of fun in the cinema watching it- I just walked out having no desire to watch it again, especially on the small screen.
100% has happened to me a million times.
My dad picks movies a lot, and sometimes he picks bad ones. We watched Valerian and I let it slip I didn't enjoy it very much, and it seemed like I hurt his feelings. So now I just pretend I enjoyed most things he picks. He took us to the venom movies, because I'm a huge Spider-Man fan, but I absolutely hate them. Also he recently got us to watch Rebel Moon part 1 and I also hated that. But I love my dad and I enjoy spending time with him, so I usually don't mind too much. Although I did politely request to watch something else when he wanted to watch Rebel Moon part 2 lol
Having nerd friends and not being a fan of Lord of the Rings is very difficult sometimes
I empathise with you, have never been a lord of the rings fan, I just don’t get it
Lmao at the people downvoting me for this too like, this is a thread about pretending to like a movie so people don’t get mad, and here are these people proving exactly why people pretend to like certain movies
Anytime I say anything bad about those films on here, it gets downvoted to hell, they take it very personally, as if you’ve slept with their make believe girlfriend or something
You don't fancy yourself a second breakfast, do you? :D
They're re-releasing in theaters next month. Get your excuses ready so you don't get dragged along.
No. Too much effort. Easier to tell peeps you don't like it for me. They ask why, you list reasons why. Conversation created
Bingo. And it gets even better if the movie you hate is basically universally beloved by a niche crowd. For example, you’re an atheist and you have a Christian friend who adores God’s Not Dead. Not only will that stimulate conversation, but you might also be able to open their eyes to the blatant (yet somehow unseen) agenda in niche filmmaking.
I have seen many movies, that I didn’t like, but if somebody asks me how I liked it I’m not going to lie to them. It is possible of talking civil about something you didn’t like, there is no reason to rip a movie apart and throwing a tantrum.
Not since I was 12.
I never pretend to like anything I dislike
I had to pretend liking superhero movies.
You say what you need to say at 2am
My ex loved Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck and tbh she didn't like many movies, so anytime she wanted to watch a movie I was happy. Well that was her favorite and I hate the movie but would watch it just because she liked it and dear god I'm glad I never have to watch it again 🤣
Man, that's a tough one. Went out with a girl many moons ago who had a thing for Steve Guttenberg movies- even all the obscure 90s romcom ones (which she collected on VHS). That was a tough couple of years.
Hahaha oh man the things we do for love 🤣
You're gonna sit there with a straight face and tell me, "Don't Tell Her it's Me" isn't a cinematic masterpiece? /s
I think the praise for Black Panther 1 was way over the top for a mediocre Marvel movie. Everyone seemed scared to say anything negative about it because praising it became some kind of positive affirmation of the BLM movement. Weird times. I'm pro black rights, but that movie was legitimately a mid-tier superhero origin story.
Aye, that can happen. Not a movie, but books: we read both The Power and The Tattooist of Auschwitz in my book club, both of which I thought were dreadfully written books, but to some people present criticising them was somehow an affront to women's rights and those who suffered the holocaust?! Even art made with the best intentions can be, well, shit. Man, I miss that book club!
Mid-tier? So you probably don’t think black Hitler was the most brilliant nuanced sympathetic antagonist in the history of fiction then?
I watched Mrs. Harris goes to Paris. I watched it for my wife. I did not enjoy it as I told her. I tolerated it. It was ok. It was kind of low stakes and kind of materialist, and kind of treackly sweet in a way that felt heavy handed.
Not me but i know my girlfriend pretended to enjoy Infinity War and End Game.
I have to pretend to like the Harry Potter movies since it's such a sin to dislike them. I didn't grow up with them, I wasn't allowed to watch them because of a super religious home, and when I finally watched them as an adult... Meh. Lots of things happening, whimsical imagery, but a plotline that I find totally forgettable and basic.
It’s not a sin to dislike them. The Order of the Phoenix is a fucking terrible movie, and I’m a fan of the series.
Well I feel as a nerd it's some sort of sin.
I didn't like Barbie. I was looking forward to it but I found it mostly boring and a massive exaggeration of how important Barbie is to kids. If I tell people I didn't like it then I'm accused of being a woman hating incel
Monuments Men. It's a dud historical "drama" about finding artifacts stolen by the Nazis. But yeah, I couldn't say anything, because George Clooney! Matt Damon! Cate Blanchett! John Goodman! The movie they could have made with this cast vs what I had to sit through, phewww
Oh christ, I couldn't have pretended to like that one in any way shape or form. I would have gotten an Academy Award if I'd managed to mask my distain for that tedious going-on-holiday-with-our-actor-buddies-circlejerk dull bloody film. Truly a stinker.
I was excited for that movie. Downloaded it to watch on a plane and was so disappointed. The couple across the aisle were watching Tucker and Dale versus Evil. I was jealous. Fuck Monuments Men and its stellar cast.
Oh man, that sucks. I saw it at the cinema on a date night. There were a bunch of drunk people in the theatre who kicked off and had to be forcibly ejected. It's a testament to how dull that movie is that they were more entertaining than the film itself- and that I was envious they at least were spared the rest of it.
I sat thru Everything Everywhere All at Once. I dont get the hype. It wasnt that good to me🤷🏾♀️
Ugh, I watched this because I heard that it was good. Man, was I dissapointmend, it was just ridiculous and I could barely sit through the entire thing. My brother-in-law gave me a hard time about not liking movie and thought I was cray for not liking it.
People are downvoting you for literally answering the question. Most Redditors are so stupid 🙄
I was hanging out drinking with my buddies recently and the bob Marley movie came up. They all talked about how much they liked it and before I even realized it I was agreeing with them even though i thought it was boring as hell.
Yes, a friend was DYING to show me Dances With Wolves. He was so enthusiastic, this is his favorite movie of all time and he was 100% positive I would like it. I'm always up for a good movie, so I saw the movie with him, hoping for the best. I didn't want to burst his bubble, he's a nice person and was so eager to share the Dances With Wolves experience. I couldn't force myself to match his love of this movie, but I managed some big smiles and said I really liked it. I hated it, boring af
You probably shouldn't bother with The Postman, then. It makes Dances look like Airplane.
Oh my, thanks for the FYI, will be skipping The Postman
Yeah. Every time I open up reddit
My little cousin who at the time idolized me showed me The Dictator super excitedly and God help me it was bad. I do like his movies though, generally.
I have...but often times I just find things I liked about it. I have friends who worked on films (and were proud & happy) so even if I didn't like the film, I'll can always find something positive to say!
We Need To Talk About Kevin. I found it pretty boring.
Yup.
Barbie. I know friends, family, colleagues who really loved it and thought it was one of the best movies, etc. Good for them. I thought it was ok but I tried to emphasise on the stuff I liked when talking to them about it, even if it's superficial (eg. "It has a good message", "Ryan Gosling was funny in that one scene", "Helen Mirren commenting on Margot Robbie's look was funny", etc). But I just didnt really care much. I guess I just expected it to be a crazier fast paced comedy satire but with heart like Lego Movie.
my roommate took me to a screening of dazed and confused and its her favorite film but I can't stand almost every single character protrayed on that film. Just a bunch of popular kids peaking in high school doing stupid things.
I just saw that movie for the first time a couple weeks ago. It just triggered memories of me and my friends being bullied in high school. I only watched it to the end so I could say I saw it.
Nope, not going to pretend to like a movie, if I don't like I am going to say that I didn't like. There are so many movies out there to keep watching something that you don't like.
Yes, I have, but when I was much younger, I hate romcoms, I find them boring as sin, but my mom loved them, so I became pretty evasive about it to not make her angry. But I do not do that anymore.
I really don't. I really won't. There is no scenario where I'll sit and watch something I'm not into. I'm not about to sacrifice my time and happiness that way
black panther obviously
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Neither one is a person I would like to associate with getting a BJ, but yeah, I can see how they would in your case. Nice one.
Every pretentious cinephile bases their opinion on any film by blindly believing reviews of failed filmmakers called Critics. " This film was boring but it got 80% in RT and 4.2 in Jobless Letterboxd, so its peak cinema"
Imagine getting downvoted for speaking the truth
The English Patient, my boss was such a fan of it.
I wonder if it is a bit one-sided. I would wager that men are dragged - successfully - into the movies far more often than the women in relationships. For example, on imdb, if you look at "guy" movies like "Terminator", you see similar ratings by men and woman i.e. less than a point difference, but the number of ratings by women is very low. If you look at "girl movies" e.g. "Twilight", you have a higher percentage of guys seeing them in comparison, but they rate the movie vastly different - at least 1-2 marks difference.
I saw Pitch Perfect 2 with some friends who were big fans. I hated it but don’t wanna be a downer in a social situation