From time to time, movies completely miss the mark. Filmmakers sometimes delusionally believe that they're making the next Academy Award Best Picture winner, when they're actually making an unintentionally funny box office bomb that will be scorned for decades.
Reddit users have their own opinion of which movies take themselves so seriously that they border on parody, but for the most part, they align with the opinions of general audiences. Between a pseudo-intellectual sci-fi movie, a self-funded Shakespearean-like tragedy, and a couple of self-important superhero flicks, Redditors reckon these movies could easily be parodies.
10 The Room (2003)
As shown in the movie dramatizing the making of The Room, The Disaster Artist, the writer, director, and star of the movie, Tommy Wiseau, now claims that he always intended for the film to be a comedy. But that isn't exactly the case. The movie, which, as far as anybody can tell, is about a love triangle, and there isn't a single intentional laugh to be had.
SandwichSandwich69 believes that "it was meant to be serious and just fails at every point." However, because of how seriously the film takes itself, it doesn't just border on parody, but it has become a cult classic and has made millions from sold-out screenings over the past 18 years. It is the ultimate "so bad it's good" movie.
9 Signs (2002)
The late 1990s saw director M. Night Shyamalan at the top of his game. Film buffs were excited for this new breed of filmmaker who was making twisted and creative phycological movies unlike anyone else. But 2002's Signs was exactly that, the first sign of Shyamalan's career trajectory for the decade.
Dont_touch-me_there explains that the movie "was pretty scary as a kid, but watching it as an adult, it looks like a comedy." Signs pretty derivative of War of the Worlds, where there is an alien invasion, but all of a sudden the Aliens essentially get a cold and die. But in Signs, instead of having a cold, the aliens are allergic to water.
8 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Redditors have so many different opinions about what makes a movie so series that it borders on parody, but out of every movie mentioned, users stand united on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Of all the Reddit users, Procean puts it best by stating that, "never has a movie with so little to say been so convinced of how profound by what it has to say is."
The movie attempts to be a social commentary about praising false gods, but the message comes off way too convoluted with so much baggage, and it doesn't make much sense. And a lot of Redditors found Jesse Eisenberg's depiction of Lex Luthor unintentionally funny too.
7 Southland Tales (2006)
Along with M. Night Shyamalan, Richard Kelly was another early-2000s wunderkind to watch out for, as he was coming off the sci-fi-horror cult classic Donnie Darko. However, Kelly turned out to be a one-hit-wonder director, as he followed the classic with the biggest sophomore slump of them all, Southland Tales.
Atoposchaos explains the movie in hilariously unflattering detail by saying, "take every washed-up B-list SNL star and put them in serious roles they can't act in? a self-important self-conscious script with Justin Timberlake looking 'scary.'" The Redditor doesn't even mention the sequence in which Timberlake mimes along the whole of The Killers' "All The Things That I've Done" directly into the camera. The user ends their rent with a feeling most viewers had when watching the film, "it was an endless facepalm."
6 Joker (2019)
Going off its massive IMDb rating of 8.4 and being the 69th best movie of all time according to the movie database, this is something of an unpopular opinion. However, EvilPersonXXIV doesn't love Joker as everybody else does. They argue that, "it seriously felt like a parody of a serious movie to me."
It's easy to understand where the Redditor is coming from, as the movie does borrow heavily from Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver. But in fact, the film is captivating from start to finish, and it's a great movie where the bad guy wins.
5 Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)
Just like Batman v Superman, The Rise of Skywalker is also a popular choice among Redditors. Where The Last Jedi polarized audiences, The Rise of Skywalker was outright negatively received by just about everyone, including MisanthropeX. The Redditor believes that the movie "basically crumbles under the weight of its own mythology," and that couldn't be truer for any other film.
Following two radically different movies, it was an impossible task to tie them together and come up with a satisfying and coherent story. And more on point is the fact that the user ends with, as they say, "any movie that features the line 'somehow, Palpatine returned' and plays it straight borders on parody." It's the line that the movie will be remembered for, that and, "they fly now."
4 The Happening (2008)
In the years following Signs, M. Night Shyamalan released two massively underwhelming films in a row, The Village and Lady in the Water, but nothing would prepare them for his 2008 effort. The "horror" movie is about people mysteriously getting killed, Mark Wahlberg plays a science teacher, and the villain turns out to be nature.
After The Happening was completed but before it was released, according to CultPrintFilm, Shyamalan tried convincing people he had intended to make a schlocky B-movie-like flick. Though some people believe that Shymalan tried to make such a film, Trylobyte doesn't buy that one bit. Instead, they believe that, "although there may be some intentionally comedic scenes, the whole movie was always meant to be a serious one."
3 Requiem For A Dream (2000)
With Requiem For A Dream being so adored by most who have seen it, the fact that a select few think it borders on parody is another unpopular opinion. In the broadest sense, the movie is about drug addiction, it's one of the most eye-opening movies when it comes to the subject, and it will put people off drugs for a lifetime.
But MondoUnderground doesn't feel the same way, and they believe the movie is "full of moments that should be disturbing, but just end up being funny/silly to me." With an ensemble cast and a multistranded narrative, Requiem can feel like addiction overload, but hardly comes off silly. In fact, it features one of the most terrifying scenes outside of the horror genre.
2 The Core (2003)
Ronearc votes for The Core when it comes to movies that take themselves too seriously. The Redditor posits that the 2003 film has the "worst pseudoscience ever. Period." The Core follows a specialist group of scientists who are tasked to drill to the center of the Earth.
If that doesn't sound ridiculous enough, the group then has to detonate several nuclear explosions to restart the core's rotation. It sounds like a fun schlocky B-movie, but the material is taken so seriously by both the cast and crew.
1 Every Aaron Sorkin Movie Ever
Few writers are held in the same regard as filmmakers are, but Aaron Sorkin is one of the screenwriters who are. He has penned so many films with such rich and rapid-fire dialogue such as A Few Good Men, The Social Network, and Moneyball. His movies are loved by both critics and general audiences, which is why this choice is somewhat of a hot take. KCBassCadet doesn't single out one of the writer's movies, but they instead make a blanket statement about all of Sorkin's work.
They argue that "he's a cringe blowhard that takes his material way, way too seriously." The statement feels more like a personal attack than a legitimate criticism of Sorkin's movies. However, a lot of the writer's dialogue does come off in a kind of a self-aggrandizing manner, and he even recycles a lot of his own work too. There are several supercuts of lines that he has reused over and over in several of his movies.
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