21 Objectively Good Movies That People Nevertheless Hate
Though everyone on Twitter would disagree, the fact that you like a movie has little to do with its objective quality. We all have those guilty pleasure movies that we would watch any day of the week even though we know they’re donkey turds (they’re known as 2000s rom-coms), but it works the other way, too. Not that you don’t understand why everyone loves an overhyped trash bag — you can see that everyone involved is at the top of their game. It just doesn’t get you cinematically hard.
For Redditor mrRichardBabley, it’s American Hustle. “The acting is pretty good, the movie is smart and entertaining, it’s beautifully shot, the script is strong, it’s very well reviewed… yet something doesn’t connect for me, something doesn’t gel,” they wrote. “Like I don’t care what happens to the actors or what happens next.”
With that in mind, they recently asked r/Movies, “What’s a movie that you can intellectually appreciate is pretty good, yet you don’t enjoy it?” The responses ranged from bored to annoyed to simply resentful of late 1990s teen humor.
Joker
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
Asteroid City
Oppenheimer
The Banshees of Inisherin
All Quiet on the Western Front
Nope
The Shape of Water
The Revenant
American Psycho
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
La La Land
Phantom Thread
The Lighthouse
The Matrix
Blade Runner
Into the Wild
The Irishman
The Godfather
The Big Lebowski
