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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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[-] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ready Player One was so bad, but this is a rare instance where the book is worse than the film. At least the film has visuals the book is just cringe and rememberberries.

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[-] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The princess bride, mostly because everyone my age won't shut up about it. By the time I saw the movie (I think I was 16?) it was like watching a string of cheesy memes.

Also, it's a wonderful life is so frustrating and depressing, the "happy ending" just doesn't cut it.

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interstellar. That ending was so unbelievably dumb that I can't even stomach the rest of the movie thinking about it.

I know it's got rave reviews, a stacked cast, Nolan directing. Plenty was pretty, cool concepts, high stakes scenes. But that ending... shudders

For me interstellar suffered from it's hype. i expected a great, innovative movie and found it... okay.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I didn’t like the ending, it seemed like kind of a big letdown. I don’t remember it, I just remember being surprised at how bland it was when the rest of the movie had me on the edge of my seat.

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago

That's very valid but there's one thing I don't understand : how can the ending affect the whole experience? To me that's like saying "sex is meh because the shower afterwards is boring". Don't know if I'm making sense lol

To me, most endings are mediocre because endings are just very hard to write. It is very rare to have both the elements for a great story, and the setup for a great ending. In that context I feel like investing too much on the ending hurts the whole experience, whereas a weak ending just hurts the last ten minutes.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Oh I have another one. Thor Ragnarok. People loved it because they liked the Thor character and found his earlier films too dull or something, but I loved that they were unapologetically serious about themselves, using comedy in ways that felt very authentic to the characters.

But Ragnarok? It came out later the same year as this excellent essay about bathos, and it was dripping in it. I was hyper tuned to the problem with bathos, and it leaned even harder into that took than nearly any other MCU film did.

What sucks so much is that it had the bones of a really good dramatic story. The Bruce Banner/Hulk storyline had built up over multiple previous films, and come the climax of this film it's established that he's in Bruce form now and has enough control to stay that way, but if he transforms into Hulk it'll be a big deal and he may never be able to be himself again. So they arrive in Asgard at the climax of the film and it's pretty urgent. In a dramatic moment you can see him steel himself to make the sacrifice; he jumps out of their aircraft onto the rainbow bridge, clearly intending to transform into Hulk to fight Fenris.

…and he splats. Faceplants on the bridge. Still in human form. It's played for laughs. The ultimate conclusion of Hulk's story in this movie and probably the most important moment of his arc over the entire MCU to this point, and it's undercut by a joke. Not even a very funny one. A slapstick joke that would make Charlie Chaplin cringe.

And it means nothing, because the very next shit, he's transformed anyway and throwing Fenris around like a doll.

Not to mention it undermines the verisimilitude of the movie. I can suspend my disbelief in these movies pretty hard, but Bruce Banner, in human form, is meant to be painfully average, physically speaking. He should have died from that fall, given he didn't transform. That's certainly not the worst thing about the moment, but it is was the sprinkling of salt on top of the wound that just made it that little bit worse.

That moment was the worst bit, but the film as a whole was full of lazy humour and bathos, and it was really just the worst example of what was wrong with a lot of MCU movies at the time. I was shocked to hear so few people came away disliking it in the same way I did.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

On a vaguely similar note, God of War: Ragnarok was hot garbage that had shit gameplay and worse plot and was a Marvel wannabe (also I detest marvel shit)

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

The only God of War games I've played are the first two, on PS2, which is the only console I've ever had (well, apart from the Wii, which barely counts).

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[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Some Nolan stuff.
Inception: I understand it, it's just extremely convoluted and dumb.
Oppenheimer: It's a movie with 95% dialogue, and he decided to put loud droning music under every conversation so you can barely hear the people talking.
The dark knight trilogy: I just can't take batman seriously in it. The voice is so silly, and the pointy ears just look really out of place in this very serious take.
Anyway, I do like some of Nolans movies, these are my pet peeves.

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[-] Kcap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The English Patient. Sex in a tub? That doesn't work!

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Snowpiercer. The movie was just a weak attempt at socio-economic metaphor, with an absolutely terrible premise, bad effects, action sequences shot mostly in the dark, weird pacing, and goofy characters. It seemed like a live-action Anime, and I hate Anime. I sat through that movie, the whole time wondering how and why it got such great reviews.

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[-] richieadler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Dumb and Dumber.

I don't find people mentally limited or crass humor to be funny.

And Jim Carrey is despicable. He was even before supporting an anti-vaxxer.

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[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Any marvel movie. I just do not get the appeal. The only people who like it seem to like it way too much. Most of them are also grown ass children.

Kill Bill. Boring as fuck.

The Crow. I refuse to elaborate.

Pretty much anything from Kevin Smith except Mallrats and even that I'll admit was dumb but I liked it as a young teenager.

Deadpool. Juvenile humor from the king of "I'm in a movie because I'm unbelievably charming"

Not a movie (well maybe there is one?) but I absolutely hate The Trailer Park Boys. I just don't get it. It's not funny, at all. It's not my thing at all. I've been hated on for this opinion but I don't care, it sucks.

On that same note, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Same reason tpb sucks to me.

Lord of the rings. So boring.

This thread is fun though. I enjoyed reading everyone's opinions, especially those I disagree with.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oppenheimer.

It's probably an interesting movie, but holy shit each shot is less than 3 seconds long and it just cuts around to different camera angles every 3 seconds for 2 hours...

Not only was this making me feel physically sick and disoriented, but this erodes tension in the film and is completely unnecessary. You don't need 14 shots of someone walking down a damn hallway or having a think, you need one (1).

Take all that shit out and you're probably left with a story worth actually telling.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

I love Christopher Nolan.

Interstellar and Inception are my two favorite movies.

Oppenheimer and Dunkirk are the two most boring movies I’ve ever seen.

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

The nightmare before christmas. IDK maybe i've been exposed to it too much but I have never gotten an ounce of enjoyment watching the movie. The songs are lame and the plot is mind numbingly simple, you know so the kids can follow. So many people in my life just love it and want to make watching it every year for both halloween and christmas a tradition thing. I don't want to be a kill joy so I power through it every year. Im so tired of it though, How many more times do I have to hear that barrage of stupid disney sing songs just to spend time with my loved ones? "WhAt's ThiS TheRes WhitE Stuff EverYWHEre!" Fuck you jack skellington you sheltered prick. Its called cocaine and its how santa and his elves get shit done. Now travel around a few other holiday trees and do some world building so Disney can pump out a half baked sequel else they might go for a live action remake starring photorealistic cgi stitched together corpses.

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[-] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lucifer. My sis loved it and I hated it with a passion. I don't think Ellis is any good in it and they're just relying on him (and the other actors) being hot instead of actually telling a decent story or making enjoyable characters.

[-] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I loved it, but not the last season and how it ended.

[-] 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

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

Hey, Rubber was a phenomenal movie.

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

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. What a stupidly overrated movie.

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