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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hate that movie too, but because I read the book and it was great. they completely ruined all the story and worldbuilding to make it a shitty feel-good movie for tweens.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Skinamarink

2 minutes of storyline and any sort of movement at all

98 additional minutes of "atmosphere"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Watchmen (2009 film)

It's so fucking slow and SO GODDAMN LONG.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

During the scene where the naked blue dude says "it never ends", I blurted out "yeah, like this movie", and the girl a couple of seats down laughed so hard that her boyfriend got mad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yaaaas, omg. Luckily I didn't see it in theaters but even renting it at home, I remember by hour 2 I was just laying on the floor begging for it to be over while my now-ex insisted we watch it through to the end.

I also never understood why people thought Rorschach was "such a badass" and supposedly some kind of role model when he clearly needed therapy and was just stewing in his own self-pity and self-hatred and made that his whole personality.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Pretty much every Nolan film, with the disclosure that I stopped watching his movies after Inception. His films are always well-acted and well-produced, but the scripts are just… dumb? They take themselves way too seriously and carry this air of highbrow intellectualism while being riddled with plot holes and contrivances. Not to mention the crypto-fascist messaging.

He’s like Zack Snyder, but he pulls it off well enough that critics buy into it. It drives me crazy when I see his name mentioned alongside great auteur filmmakers like Kubrick and Scorsese.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Comic book movies.

They have dominated the box office over the last 10-15 years, there are infinity reboots/origin stories, and all of them use the ”man, I really hope the bad guy doesn't use the super heroes loved ones as hostages" as a plot point. All of them are so predictable.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (22 children)

James Cameron’s Avatar series.

Then again… Does anyone actually like it? It seems to have all this online hype when it’s such a boring visual spectacle.

It’s like the opposite of the other Avatar franchise, which wasn’t a commercial hit, and seems less popular on paper, but seems to have a massive cultural impact.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

After leaving the theatre:

"Did I just pay 20 bucks to watch a CGI rip-off of "Dances With Wolves"?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember one critic called it “Dances with Smurfs”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What is that other Avatar franchise? I watched the first movie when I was just a kid so my opinions highly influenced by my emotions. I don’t think it is the best sci-fi movie out there but I really like Avatar (2009).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Donnie Darko.

It was so overhyped back when it came out because the OG hipster crowd of the early 90s thought it was cool, as did younger people who valued things that were “indie” as if that inherently adds value.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Nosferatu, the one that just came out, is very well done. It's also just Nosferatu: Again.

I was very bored watching the movie because it's the same story I've heard before many times. Those 2 hours and 12 minutes dragged hard.

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