Angels egg. I get the idea but dam that was an empty movie. Whole thing could have been 12 frames.
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The Tree of Life from 2011. I felt like half the movie was just shots of the universe with music. It was pretty nonsensical.
Avatar, most marvel and dc films, most nolan films
The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (7-9). There's lots of cool-looking shit going on, but taken as a whole, it's completely incoherent.
The Last Jedi had some really powerful messages and was incredibly well made, but sadly it hurt some people's feelings a bit so it's seen as a bad movie despite commercial success and critical acclaim. And sadly that vocal minority made them backtrack a lot of the choices from that movie in episode 9, so yes, as a trilogy it became completely incoherent.
All of Star Wars imho, they have little to no story, especially the first three made, they added space decision to an average western, dulled down the story & characters/ships to make the merch available at the same time as the movie (which was like the main goal with the first movie).
They are a cool space opera, but they all have short/"small" stories bcs that is probably what focus groups predicted will be the most successful for the business.
Enter the Void is pretty bad
Equilibrium.
More recently, Tron Ares.
Hardcore Henry
But its style is so good, the lack of substance does not even matter.
Speed Racer. It was a blast. Sometimes Style is all you need.
Avatar, all of them.
The first one existed purely to show off 3d film technology and push the limits of CGI.
The sequels false started under the premise that the first one had anything past colourful lights and sounds.
Also, Tron: Legacy, which I am very find of because it's essentially a Daft Punk music video.
I barely remember anything about Tron: Legacy besides short Daft Punk cameo that started Derezzed track.
Edit: also that they've used 3d model of CLU and that I have only noticed it was 3d model late in the movie.
Drive. I LOVR the movie, and LOVE the soundtrack, but it's a run of the mill movie.
I'm a real human bean, and a real hero
College and electric youth, fuck yeah.
Also Kavinsky, got me into synth wave and darksynth
I felt that Sucker Punch fits this. They had some cool dreamy sequences, which looked good in the trailer, but then you watched the movie and those were kinda it. I think they tried to get a little bit of depth in there by making a sad story to tie the dreams together, but to me at least it felt shallowly deep 😛
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Absolutely stunning visually with writing that, even if it had been good would never have succeeded because it’s stars had exactly zero chemistry.
Literally the first film that came to mind.
I haven't even seen it and this was the movie I thought of when I saw the question.
Enter The Void is pretty good.
Nah, it's not
I call it Cinematography: The Movie
And yet I didn't remember the plot at all until reading that page. I just remembered the two main characters and the main setting.
I read the book ages ago ... wasn't it just a kid in a boat?
Yup. With an animal.
The Expendables franchise
Michael Bay. Although The Rock is hilarious.
Tim Burton… most recently
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Neon Demon but in a good way, the style becomes the substance. Love that movie
I think you could add most movies by Nicolas Winding Refn here.
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