Well, not having The Hateful 8 be 3 hours long with a gratuitous 10 minute blowjob sequence, a voiceover by the director himself, and an utterly pointless 20 minute long flashback scene would be a start.

The Hateful 8 was even worse, not that it's a bad film but it's wildly self indulgent even by Tarantino's standards.

While the studio probably made the problems worse, there was enough of Ayer's original vision left, and enough behind the scenes info to suggest that it probably wasn't that good either. While it was probably better in the sense that it was more coherent, I doubt it was a lost masterpiece.

Also, people forget that Ayer didn't direct Training Day. And you forgot Sabotage which is like the worst thing ever.

To be fair, while I broadly agree with you, Rachel in BB wasn't terrible, but she's a flat character -she didn't have a character arc and exists mostly as an idealized object for Bruce Wayne's affections, and I don't recall any other female with a speaking role. Rachel in TDK also didn't have an arc and was…

When a character exists solely to killed or assaulted in a particularly gruesome manner in order to provide impetus to another character. It's not always a bad thing but it's often a sign of lazy writing, to provide cheap anger to the protagonist while devaluing the life of that other character in the process. A…

I didn't mind the idea of the Kili/Tamriel romance in theory. Middle Earth is a bit of a sausage fest and it's not like they weren't already adding to the source material. But it fails because they barely spend any time with each other to develop their chemistry (Tamriel is barely involved in the main plot and rarely…

I love the way in Live By Night Affleck was dressed in these comically oversized suits to try to hide how fucking jacked he has to be for the Batman movies.

It also kind of raises questions like how someone like the Joker ever manages to get henchmen in the Nolan films. The whole "i have a gang of weirdos like me" thing works in more fantastical Batman movies like Batman Returns, but in a film that's basically a Michael Mann film with a guy in a bat costume, it's less…

I thought John Wick 2 blew the first out of the water. The first was a decent action flick but I honestly felt that it ran out of steam by the third act, and I found myself not really giving a shit about John Wick's (questionable) quest for revenge. I felt the action was greatly improved and it did a good job of…

To be completely honest, I think it's also a reflection on the sad state of American action movies that John Wick is being hailed as a brilliant innovator and savior of the genre.

Okay fair enough, I take your point. The issue in this instance wasn't firing them now, it was not firing the before production started. What the hell was Kathleen Kennedy expecting to happen when she hired them and what made her think that they would be a good fit for Star Wars? Same with hiring Collin Treverrow and…

"here was a time when he would bring in talented directors to do just that."

Basically the first one (which I love for the most part) had the "chaos theory" nonsense and everyone loves to quote Jeff Goldblum's character's insipid platitudes about nature and "playing God", so thjey kind of doubled down on that in the sequel.

The first is okay, and actually pretty restrained compared to its sequels. It's no masterpiece but it's worth a watch. It's more of a horror-thriller, closer in tone to Se7en or Silence of the Lambs than a schlock torture porn film like the sequels. Its sequels are pretty bad - Saw 3 is complete schlock and Saw 5 is…

The Coens at least have some empathy with the subject matter. There's also this sense of smug superiority in Pain and Gain that really irked me - thay literally stop the movie and a title card reminds us "this really happened".It's basically a fratboy going to all his friends "HAHA look at these stoopid people!" That…

You know what I mean. It was an obvious homage to the 60s Batman so it was clearly trying to be fun and closer in tone to what you claim critics prefer. But instead it got panned in part because of its tone. Whereas they ate up the dark Nolan films, even the frankly pretty flawed TDKR.

In what way? It's just 2 recent examples off the top of my head -there's also the critical praise the recent Daredevil and Jessica Jones series got. The idea that critics just hate on serious comic book movies for being serious is nonsense. Honestly the only dark comic movies I can think of that didn't get critical…

Hence why everyone loved Batman and Robin while The Dark Knight and Logan were critically panned flops.

Pain and Gain is basically a poor man's Fargo except made by meathead douchebags. You can tell Bay was trying to do a Coen Brothers type thing {he regularly casts Coen Brothers regulars in his movies) but he lacks the intelligence or maturity to pull that off so it still comes across as obnoxious and juvenile.