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

If you think the movie eas cringe, definitely don't read the book. It's so much worse.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (12 children)

If you think Ernest Cline's movie is cringy, wait until you read his poetry. Absolutely one of the worst piece of writing I've ever read.

And it only gets worse from there.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A Christmas Story

I have never been able to watch the whole thing. Ralphie's whining and dull life was just unpleasant. I didn't really like any of the characters. Nothing in it was entertaining except for the kid and the pole. It was just a slog. I think the furthest I ever got was at a scene about a parade?

It seems like this is a really popular movie but I just never saw the appeal.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't hate it, but I can't understand the wider appeal of it, Nightmare Before Christmas. I don't understand why people think the Jack and Sally relationship is so great. She pines away and he's to self absorbed to even notice that she is a girl. And there are people who to this day still make it their entire personality. It is a decent movie, and I like the music, but it's not that great.

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

Mean girls.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Marvel movies. Yes all of them. They're trash. It's just cgi slop, badly written one-dimensional characters, cliché tropes, formulaic stories, plotholes bigger than meteorcraters and brainless action sequences. A cashgrab.

A saw a couple; I gave them a fair chance. They're all the same. The appeal is beyond me. Brainrot at its finest.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Not one comment in here about Lord of the Rings.

Which I agree with. Amazing movies. Glad everyone's on the same page.

For me, it's James Cameron's Avatar. Visually stunning, especially for its time, but the story has to be the most cliche, predictable, boring, lazy piece of writing to ever have existed. It's like they held an environmentally conscious 11 year old at gun point and made them write a story. The cigar chomping military guy working for corpos wants to pilfer a beautiful planet for its resources with disregard for the native populations that live there. Where have I seen that before? Oh yeah, ALL AROUND ME, EVERY FUCKING GOD DAMN DAY. Get an original idea.

Fuck this stupid piece of shit dumbass movie. It's intellectually insulting. It's a disgrace.

/endrant

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

And the worst part? Unobtainium - ugh.

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

The cinematic releases of LOTR were good, but the directors cuts are way too long and quite boring at times 😅

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