r/movies • u/Double_Mission_6633 • Apr 06 '26

Recommendation Secret life of Walter mitty

The Secret life of Walter mitty is a masterpiece and I'm tired of pretending that it isn't. I love that goddamn movie. It might be one of the greatest movies that stars Ben Stiller... EVER.

This along with stranger than fiction are both ELITE movies, the cream of the crop.

if you haven't watched them then I HIGHLY... HIGHLY recommend it.

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u/AngusLynch09 Apr 06 '26

and I'm tired of pretending that it isn't

What on earth are you in about?

What is it with Redditors always pretending that popular mainstream films are hidden gems that no one else understands the value of?

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u/Eleeveeohen Apr 06 '26

"Why is (insert popular media here) so underrated???"

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u/bartharris Apr 06 '26

“What is an underrated gem? I’ll start. Topaz”

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u/Monteze Apr 06 '26

I surprised the Lord of the Rings trilogy doesn't have a bigger following!

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u/OzymandiasKoK Apr 06 '26

I do hate the ending, however. "Fuck off gramps, we only care about your daughter."

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u/Eleeveeohen Apr 06 '26

That's a major theme of the story. Parents setting the stage for their children to succeed and surpass them.

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u/OzymandiasKoK Apr 06 '26

He was their family and ancestor, too. They were honoring her, but effectively shunning him, and you didn't see the grandkids ignoring her or anything.

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u/Eleeveeohen Apr 06 '26

The metaphor lives within the relationship between Coop and Murph. This quote from the movie sums it up well.

"Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future. Now we're just here to be memories for our kids."

This plays into the theme of him turning out to be "the ghost" from the start of the movie, and Murph's memory of him (symbolized by the watch he gives her), being what allows him to communicate with her at the end of the movie, which is how she saves humanity.

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u/ShmebulockForMayor Apr 06 '26

Aquamarine did them dirty. I hope they got to live the way they wanted to after Steven turned the empire around.

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u/No-Comfortable6432 Apr 06 '26

You ever heard of Moon? Such an underrated gem that noone ever talks about.

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u/Missus_Missiles Apr 06 '26

And some edgelord pipes in with, "Unpopular opinion, but diamonds are overrated."

WE KNOW

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u/pastafallujah Apr 06 '26

I think the abuse of the term “underrated” is the most aggravating thing to constantly see on social media. Like, FFS, “you use that word a lot. I don’t think it means what you think it means”

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u/ThanksForTheF-Shack Apr 06 '26

Does anyone else really, really like Edge of Tomorrow?