Movies from Tenet to The Matrix Resurrections didn't have great critical reception, but Redditors see great potential in them to be future classics.
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My own predictions of the movies mentioned as to what will end up better viewed:
Definitely
Babylon
The Counselor
Possessor
Maybe
Tenet
The Matrix Resurrections
Under the Silver Lake
No
Glass
Not sure
Annette
Marie Antoinette
Cabin Fever
My definitely column includes films that at their full length were actually good.
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Possessor is awesome, I loved this film; but it feels kind of on a level with Mandy, you really have to grasp what it's doing and be in sync with it. I was surprised to see it mentioned as a bad film.
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Babylon's flaw is being too long; having a kind of unearned/over-saccharine ending; and having an outrageous moment or two early in the film (like the shitting elephant) that could potentially immediately drive people away. But I thought the party itself that follows was just stunning with the camera work and music, Margot Robbie just owns this film. And all the bits are just really well-done and fascinating. Again, it's just too long I think overall.
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Personally, I think Glass is always shit, because Shyamalan is just too in love with himself as a director. He's like the Emperor in his "new clothes" (where clothes = his creative and directing skill), where he thinks he's dashing and scintillating, but he's just boring and naked. This is a film where he badly needed someone to tell him what a terrible idea it was and either to change a lot of his story plans OR just drop the film entirely.
The first 15 minutes of the film actually feels like a step down from both Unbreakable and Split, it's not written or directed well (the camera angles aren't good, there's no tension, etc), and the entire plot just kind of is flat. You can talk all you want about how shocking and provocative it would be if Superman II (the first film after Superman's origin/establishing story) had basically been Superman being tied up for the film and drowning in a puddle at the end before he even has a real career on screen, but... yeah, dumb huh? This has got to be the dumbest ending to a trilogy I've ever seen, just poorly conceived and paced -- and all to just introduce another secret faction we've never heard of and that will never be followed up on. It was like pissing the film budget right down the toilet with nothing worthwhile to show.
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I did not really like Under the Silver Lake -- I only got about half an hour in -- but so many people have spoken so highly of it, I'm willing to acknowledge maybe it doesn't work for me but could be a worthwhile film.
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Cabin Fever is just crazy/grotesque body horror by Eli Goth, but I think for its genre (of people being slagged by an infectious disease) despite being rather low-budget, it does exactly what you'd expect it to do, and it's pretty unsettling. If there's an interest in that, then sure.
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And then we've got The Matrix Resurrections -- which I think is ridiculed because it did not follow properly in the footsteps of the first three films. It is best viewed as an "epilogue" film exploring the nature of Neo and Trinity and is kind of a love letter to them, rather than a true action picture.
It's kind of like what you'd expect if Tolkien had written a book after "The Return of the King" about Aragorn and Arwen's relationship -- no great evil out there, no major battles, just their relationship, their love for each other, and both wrestling with what it will mean when Aragorn ages enough and finally passes on. Even if there is a semi-action plot going on, it wouldn't be the focus.
In fact, now that my mind has slipped into the fantasy genre, "The Matrix Resurrections" reminds me (in terms of the feeling) SO MUCH of Ursula Le Guin's book "Tehanu," which is essentially the "fourth" Earthsea book... but not at all like the first three, which are about Ged's origin story, his prime of life heroic tale (restoring the broken armlet + rescuing Tenar), and then the last story of his career where he shuts the gate to the land of the dead at the expense of his power. It dares to consider "what comes next" and it amounts to both Ged and Tenar, now old "normal" people, building a new life together on Gont and while dealing with a new threat, neither really having power (so no heroic fantasy) and how they bear up under it. It's really just laser-focused on them and their relationship and who they are as people. It's very lovely but feels very different in some ways from the first three.
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