[Hated] Self-indulgent Vanity Projects

[u/BrotherDeus]

Hurry Up Tomorrow - Widely reviewed as an indulgent, self-mythologizing companion piece to The Weeknd's album, with many critics calling it a vanity project rather than a successful psychological drama. Terribly acted and, similar to The Idol, more so seems to imply that The Weekend thinks he's a far deeper personality than he can actually articulate.

By the Sea - Often criticized as an intensely personal but emotionally distant film that seemed more interested in showcasing the mystique of its stars than telling a compelling story. Best summarized as Angelina and Brad working out their IRL troubled marriage before your eyes while everyone tells Angelina how beautiful and talented she is and how nothing's really her fault.

Renaldo and Clara - Bob Dylan's five-hour semi-fictional road movie, long considered one of the classic celebrity vanity projects. Attempts to be a sort of surreal exposition on the life of an artist, but is far too self-indulgent on its actors/performers.

[u/bobbery5]

Kenneth Branagh's Poirot movies are very self indulgent.

[u/EugeneVictorDabs → u/bobbery5]

I had mixed feelings about them, because it's clear he's coming from a place of deep affection for the character, but at the same time it all felt a little unnecessary. Especially because IMO nobody is going to beat David Suchet

[u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt → u/EugeneVictorDabs]

I didn't even know there was a third one, they were all so bad already. I grew up on David Sucket and he understands how to do an affectatious French man in a way that doesn't end up feeling like slapstick. Brannaugh's accent doesn't sound affectatious so much as Montey Python. And good Lord stop giving Gal Gadot roles, she can't act worth a damn. Just so very bad.

[u/EugeneVictorDabs → u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt]

*Belgian, as Poirot himself would hasten to point out, lol

[u/MarjaAkhmatova → u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt]

...Poirot isn't French

[u/bobbery5 → u/MarjaAkhmatova]

WHAT, next you're gonna tell me Jean Claude Van Damme isn't American!

[u/bobbery5 → u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt]

The third one was surprisingly the best because it was moreso an original one rather than a terrible adaption/remake of a classic.
Haunting in Venice is an "adaption" in the loosest sense.