This I agree with.

Maybe you didn’t mean what I quoted but if not then your first sentence is very poorly worded. Because it clearly states the only people who go wild about this movie are people ignorant of those works.

I mean, I found Rick and Morty to be obnoxious and intellectually a snore but I get other people love it. But I’m not going around saying people who like it just haven’t seen a David Lynch film before. It’s just not for me and is for other people. That’s a-ok! I won’t go to the TV sub and post “Rick and Morty is just a good show”.

I didn’t find Seventh Sea confusing at all. But it’s certainly more complex and not the entertaining ride Seven is. More significantly it is far more depressing than Seven in my eyes. Seven is about evil incarnate but it’s not really applicable to daily life; it’s a serial killer boogeyman movie. (And Fincher has made a better serial killer movie.) The Seventh Seal is about the inevitability of death and pointlessness of life. Far more alarming!!

Seventh Seal is just as dark intellectually as Seven. (Also far more complex.) It’s just not as intense I’d say. But it takes place during plague times and its most famous scene is a disillusioned knight playing chess with death.

Seven is the more “enjoyable” of the two, though, being a super engaging thriller.

People should not feel compelled to keep respectful opinions to themselves. But I do question what motivated someone to make yet another post on r/movies to this effect. This opinion is more tired than the opposite at this point. We get it: super popular movie isn’t universally loved. No kidding. That’s true for every thing that is super popular. It sucks being in the minority but you’re not superior for being contrarian. Both sides are valid.

“People who love something I don’t are just ignorant unlike me” is a heck of a thing to believe. Is it not possible their life experiences are just different than yours and thus some of the aspects of the film mean more than them? I really liked the film but it’s not an all time favourite for me. I’ve also seen all of the other works you’ve mentioned have have high opinions of two of them. The third I found insufferable but I don’t think you’re dumb for liking it.

The difference is that Atonement is playing with the unreliable narrator concept not just doing a twist ending It does work better in the book because it’s first person narrated throughout.

To be fair this aligns very well (in a dark, sad way) with the story and message of Tess.

Check out the Japanese film Crazy Thunder Road.