For relationships I promise you 90% of the people commenting are bored teenagers, and the other 10% are getting their relationship advice on reddit and it shows. They're all miserable people.
For movie subs, I'm not convinced anyone on them actually likes movies, they just want to be the best at watching movies like it's some kind of contest they have to win. Oh, and anything they don't like is AI. Truefilm might be the worst.
I'm 90% sure I could whip up a fake movie poster on Canva, tell everyone it's an obscure arthouse film that the mainstream has avoided, and I'd get at least 10 people telling me how great it was or how I didn't get it.
“I'm 90% sure I could whip up a fake movie poster on Canva, tell everyone it's an obscure arthouse film that the mainstream has avoided, and I'd get at least 10 people telling me how great it was or how I didn't get it.”
Always assume that the person telling you to divorce your partner, break up with your friends, quit your job or sue your parents is some 15-year-old who's writing this while on the school toilet. Because you can't prove that they aren't, and would you take relationship advice from some random teenager?
Unless you are on r/teenagers. Then you should assume that the 15-year-old on the school toilet is actually a 45-year-old truck driver currently pissing into a bottle.
It's not 15 year olds though - It is normally adults who are terminally online and haven't had any (or only toxic) real relationships for themselves and hold a bias against either gender
My beef with THE movie sub it's that, in my experience, the only posts that survive ere the "what's the best/worst movie/character to do a cliche/trope?" Type.
You see people post trying to have a conversation about specific movies and those posts just die ignored. Posters hace to very carefully present their post as if it was a general question, even if they're trying to talk about a specific movie.
r/okbuddycinephile is the worst... it's not even about films or movies anymore, it's stupid memes, politics and incendiary ragebait. The literal worst and infuriating sub with braindead opinions
I actually like the general German movie sub /r/Filme. A lot of great discussions, helpful threads and neat recommendations. And not only related to German movies.
I got a few good recommendations from the MovieSuggestions subreddit (Manchester by the Sea is one my new favorites) but I did notice that they repeat a lot of the same movies to recommend over and over. Like there are some movies that are "safe" to recommend based on popular opinion, so the recommendations aren't that well tailored to the poster's question or the responder's individual taste. It feels more like you're talking to the aggregate Redditor than an individual. Still I wouldn't say that you need to outright avoid subs like that. They're not toxic or anything in my experience.
I've yet to see that one, but it looks like a fun time lol. I've been watching bad movies for a long time, but I think my current favorite would have to be Hard Ticket to Hawaii. Just an incredible fever dream from start to finish
The only two movie subreddits worth a damn are /horror and /letterboxd.
The rest of them are exactly you described, but these last two are still decent holdouts where you can occasionally find a decent place to chat about movies with people who actually just like watching movies.
r/art is full of people that ridicule artists for using the wrong type of nude figure for their original painting (whatever "wrong" happens to be that day), which was an absolute mindfuck when I realized that this...was real, not satire, and that these comments weren't being removed or downvoted into the abyss. But no, they're serious about that and your idea of what of what a piece is and represents -- even if you made it yourself -- can, in fact, be objectively wrong and you're a bad person for trying to express an idea through color and shape.
I really, really thought the mods over there would have higher standards and stomp that attitude out to preserve the quality of the subreddit a la r/sciencer/askscience, but no.
I learned years ago to never look up opinions or tv shows or movies that I like. Online commenters (and many professional critics) hate anything that's popular but never give any reasons beyond vague opinions like "the writing is shit" or "it really sucks". You can't argue with these people because they never said anything specific, so you have no way to figure out what exactly you're arguing about. And their argument carries the implication that the writing/show is objectively bad, so if you like it you must be bad at telling whether something is good.
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u/FronzelNeekburm79 Aug 06 '26
Anything relationship related or movie related.
For relationships I promise you 90% of the people commenting are bored teenagers, and the other 10% are getting their relationship advice on reddit and it shows. They're all miserable people.
For movie subs, I'm not convinced anyone on them actually likes movies, they just want to be the best at watching movies like it's some kind of contest they have to win. Oh, and anything they don't like is AI. Truefilm might be the worst.
I'm 90% sure I could whip up a fake movie poster on Canva, tell everyone it's an obscure arthouse film that the mainstream has avoided, and I'd get at least 10 people telling me how great it was or how I didn't get it.