Movies People Won't See Because They Think They Know What it's About

I didn't want to see Moonlight because it didn't look interesting. Knowing what it's about now really hasn't changed anything, still don't want to see it.

Being completely honest, I haven't seen the vast majority of Best Picture nominees lately, and the last Best Picture winner I've seen was Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

I think this has more to do with the kind of movies that are being lauded as great movies and nominated for Best Picture. I don't think it has as much to do with politics or agenda as a lot of people believe. Best Picture nominees I've seen:

2016
None

2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

2014
None

2013
The Wolf of Wall Street

2012
Django Unchained
Life of Pi

2011
None

2010
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit

2009
Avatar
The Blind Side
Inglourious Basterds

2008
Slumdog Millionaire

2007
No Country for Old Men
Juno
There Will Be Blood


From 2007-2010 I saw 12 Best Picture nominees. From 2011-2016 I've only seen 5. The movies that are getting the highest praise the last few years just haven't been that interesting to me.

A portion of this board thinks Dear White People is all about how whitey is the devil

There will always be peeps who refuse to watch Oscar nominated flicks b/c their brains are somehow locked into agenda politics 100% of the time.

Any Nicholas Sparks movie - no thanks

Didn't intend on watching movies like Sisters and The Heat bc I didn't think girls were funny but Cartman was right they are; my SO wanted to watch them during lazy days and I find them both to be enjoyable comedies

Fast and Furious movies - but in this case they are correct, ppl don't watch BC you can predict what they are about

Any Tom Cruise movie - I'll be honest I usually don't watch BC I assume it's he's playing basically the same character but the one I watched, Edge of Tomorrow, I did enjoy

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People don't want to see Moonlight because they assume a movie about a gay black guy will just be your run of the mill liberal agenda, we hate white people and black people are great type movie. While it's actually not at all 

People didn't want to see Spotlight cause they just assumed it was 2 hours of Catholic bashing. And it wasn't 

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I don't believe you

There are already many posters who don't want to see another white guilt movie in Get Out

Get Out

Well, I often pick movies based on what I think they will be about.
As an avid supporter and advocate of equal rights, I don't watch most of the civil rights movies because they bring me down. I want entertainment in movies.

I've never wanted to see the Shining. I've seen small parts of it and it just looks like a guy going crazy trying to axe his family. No interest.

Spotlight was great.

Interstellar. People think its just another sci-fi pic and its more about relationships and keeping the connection.

Manchester by the Sea. Its not just another movie about Boston; its riveting in its intensity.