What movies are worth the hype?

Submitted by pm-me-unicorns t3_10qaeux in movies

I've noticed a lot recently that hype really seems to be the death of a movie at times. A common criticism that seems to continue to pop up is that a movie 'didn't live up to the hype', or that 'I expected it to be x, but it just wasn't as good as everyone says'. This criticism is especially popular on reddit discussions, and every couple of weeks a new post pops up that criticizes a popular movie because the viewer disliked some aspect of production, or felt (again) that it isn't as good as everyone says it is.

So what movies are actually that good? What movies have you seen that live up to the near-impossible expectations of highly-critical movie fans? Are there any?

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Small_Government2244 t1_j6otpl0 wrote

Double Indemnity. The Night of the Hunter. Pulp Fiction. Vertigo. L.A. Confidential.

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iamsnarticus t1_j6ovrsf wrote

I avoided Everything Everywhere All At Once at first due to all the hype everywhere, then a trusted friend said it was good so I watched it. Definitely a great movie, worth the hype in my opinion.

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pm-me-unicorns OP t1_j6owslk wrote

Replying to No_More_Barriers (#1,682,431)

This is an interesting one, because the genre is really the only thing holding it back from a lot of people's greatest films of all times lists. I think, especially nowadays, we're so overwhelmed with mid-tier to mediocre superhero flicks that it's easy to forget that there have been brilliant films in the genre. They just tend to get washed away in the tide.

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Blade_Trinity3 t1_j6oy0oe wrote

None of them. Hype is a contest among people that rarely has much to do with the art. Hype exists for hypes sake, it's largely separate from the art.

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Throwaway_Codex t1_j6p02iu wrote

Just sticking to recent movies, The Banshees of Inisherin. It's certainly the only movie from last year, and one of the only ones of the last few years, that I'd call "objectively good".

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pm-me-unicorns OP t1_j6p1lxc wrote

Replying to Blade_Trinity3 (#1,683,599)

I'd rather say that hype is a social reaction, sometimes encouraged by a movie's marketing team, but always coming from audience interaction with each other. And can an art really be separated from its reaction? I don't think so, because a reaction is what defines art.

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NGNSteveTheSamurai t1_j6pbap0 wrote

“Hype” is the worst fucking thing to happen to film discourse. I’ve almost unsubbed from here so many times because I’m tired of people talking about movies like they’re a shoe reseller.

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momof2xx1xy t1_j6pbh86 wrote

I thought The Shawshank Redemption was terrific.

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Daimosthenes t1_j6pgcig wrote

Not in my case. I have a contrarian personality and the more others openly like something, the less I will. It is as if appreciation is finite and everyone else used it up before I got some.

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