I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
The Shining isn’t good. There are certainly parts that are good, and its an interesting movie, but theres way too much reliance on corny cliches, and cheap shock for the sake of it.
Though, I wonder how much of it felt like “corny cliches” and “cheap shock” 43 years ago when it came out.
I mean, The Shining came after Halloween, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw, Alien, and a lot of the classic horror movies that I do like. The problem isn’t that its a haunted hotel or anything like that, its things like the racist ghosts (this one admittedly probably wasn’t so shocking in the 80s), the nude woman, the overuse of sound effects for things that don’t deserve it (such as Tuesdays), and the murder written backwards thing. It just felt like it was trying way too hard while not achieving anything 90% of the time. Most of the peaks were good - all the famous scenes - but all the rest of the movie drags it back down.
Except that movie is where those cliches began!
By “corny cliche”, I’m not talking about things like the creepy twins, the isolated hotel, or the typewritter scene. Those were all high-points. I’m talking about things like the overuse of dramatic sound effects, and “murder” written backwards. Stuff that was cliche and corny even at the time.