What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE? (lemmings.world)

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Ready player one.

That has to be one of the cringiest movies I've seen, is tries so hard, too hard with it's "WE LOVE YOU NERD, YOU'RE SO COOL FOR PLAYING GAMES AND GETTING THIS 80S REFERENCE" message and the whole "corporation bad, the people good" narrative seems written for toddlers... The fan service feels cheap and adds nothing to the story.

Finally, they trying to make the people believe that very attractive girl with a barely visible red tint spot on her face is "ugly"... Like wtf?

Yet it received decent reviews plus being one of the most successful movies of that year.

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[-] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Napoleon dynamite was fucking garbage and don't think it should have ever existed. No humor and barley anything. Honestly feel like the movie rubber was better

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

What?!?

As an older millennial, that movie was a work of art. I was about 20 when I seen it, stoned, and I couldn’t stop laughing.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Whenever I see a mountain range Uncle Rico pops into my head.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

how many dollars would you like to wager that I can hurl this pig skin overtop of that mountain range?

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fellow elder millennial that also never understood the appeal of Napoleon Dynamite, still don’t and I’ve watched it stoned as hell

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I got that it's a movie that subverts expectations, or cheekily thumbs its nose at norms, in a delightful way. It clearly derives its delight from the contrast with... something. I have no idea what those expectations or norms are, so the contrast (and the delight) is lost on me.

[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Also elder millennial. I watched half the movie and turned it off. It was horrid.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I just don’t get it. I absolutely loved every second of it. From the opening scene to the credits it was one of my favorite movies ever made and still is.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Same. But I re-watched it recently and it just aged terribly for some reason.

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, Rubber was a phenomenal movie.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Rubber is a masterclass in film making. We watched a fucking tire and it was entertaining as fuck.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

100% respect your opinion. This isn't me telling you you're wrong, just sharing my experience with the movie.

When my wife and I first watched it, after we finished, we looked at each other and were like, "what the fuck did we just watch?". We thought it was awful.

The next morning we were quoting it and laughing our asses off at the utter absurdity of the movie. We now both love the movie.

Edit: grammar and stupid autocorrect

[-] happydoors@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It really was popular because its humor was so “fresh.” This was just before internet/youtube culture took off and most Americans hadn’t seen such a dry, peculiar film about their own culture. I fucking love it but it’s certainly not for everyone, that’s for sure.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hard disagree, lol. That’s a classic.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder... is it because you have little/no experience with small town America? I loved Napoleon Dynamite partly because it's somewhat nostalgic for me. The movie appeals to people who grew up in the sticks and knew people like Napoleon Dynamite.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I grew up small town America, older Millinial, I'm the demographic for that movie.

I couldn't finish the movie.

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