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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This was 16-year-old me with The 13th Warrior. Thought it was pretty good. I have never watched it again, so I wonder if today's me would say the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It isn't bad actually.

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

apparently critics hated baseketball but thats one of the funniest movies of all time

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

It is! Critics' sisters must be going out with Squeak.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

My case was with The Witcher's Polish TV show. I was entertained and aware that, being a TV show from 2002, budget would've been slim, so I didn't mind the "low quality" effects. I also watched with subs, so I couldn't tell if some of vocal acting was good, bad or terrible

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago (9 children)

Not as extreme as the case in the OP, but I'm often surprised how "meh" a reaction Don't Look Up got. Maybe people think it was heavy handed? Too on the nose? I don't know but most folks seem to think it was at best merely "okay".

For me, I place it next to Idiocracy as one of the most prescient films about what is in store for us. I think after this last election day, it seems even more prescient. On top of that, it is legitimately funny with really good performances, especially from Jennifer Lawrence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It's been a long time I got as visceral of a feeling as I got when watching that film and Leo's character's meltdown as the impending doom is happening an noone seems to be giving a fuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I just loved the pacing of Don't Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would've felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don't think I'd feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.

So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I've gone over it again and again and again in my head and I still can't make sense of it. He's a three-star general. He works at the Pentagon. Why would he charge us for free snacks?

This part had me absolutely rolling. I loved that movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It suffers from the β€œReality is Unrealistic” trope. Seems so on the nose and heavy handed, yet is literally exactly how it would happen (and is arguably already happening).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

In hindsight its kind of understatement.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah, I'd call it heavy handed. It felt like it was a message first. Not as bad as the Daily Wire stuff, but going down that road. Even if I agree with the message, it felt contrived.

Just my two cents though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Netflix's Avatar the Last Airbender.

Not a movie, but it's moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten's funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!

I'm a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it's only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I'm a massive Korra fan and I don't understand how so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think that both Korra and Netflix's Avatar deserve a lot of criticism (Netflix more so than Korra), but it's definitely overblown in many parts. Korra has a lot of good sides, those rarely get mentioned alongside the bad ones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.

I've seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.

It feels like the Star Wars fandom. Maybe even more extreme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Good point! That's definitely treated as not acceptable, at least beyond criticisms of the first season.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is your regular reminder that a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes means that 20% of reviewers liked the movie. The RT score represents chance that a reviewer liked it, not overall weighted score or how much they enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes it's odds that you will like the movie going in.

Besides, aggregate scores are hard to work with.

The best thing you can do, when dealing with critics imo, is to find a critic with similar sensibilities to you, and then figure out the things they like.

If a critic hates car chases and you love them, it doesn't matter what the score is, because you can see them score it low for car chases and use that information. What matters more than score with critics is consistency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Exactly! The best thing I ever did was find two similar movies with similar scores, but I hated one and loved the other, then find any critics that agreed with me. Turned out there were only two and one of those ended up being one of the most enriching people I read regularly even today.

The critic is Walter Chaw and the movies were Live Free Or Die Hard and X-men 3. Both stupid action flicks that got similar RT scores, but I hated X-men 3 and loved Die Hard. Instantly fell in love with Walter Chaw when I saw his blurb for X-men 3 was "Michael Bay's Schindler's List." lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I saw it the day it came out and thought it was a brilliant departure from the macguffin-based plots that had come before, and it showed so many different things that had never been in a Star Wars movie before.

Turns out all Star Wars fans want is more of the exact same that had been in the previous 7 movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I thought it was alright. One thing that really bugged me is that if you're chasing someone in space why not call another ship to cut them off, or just... fly faster. Idk it didn't make a lot of sense to me lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The original trilogy is over-rated.

There, I said it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a friend who recommends literally every single thing he watches. He'll watch the stupidest movie in the world and be like "wow, that was awesome!". I envy how much enjoyment he can receive from terrible movies and TV shows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm that friend, except I'll preface it with "You know I like a lot of garbage movies, but..."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Batman and Robin. I KNOW it's cheesy as hell but I was a kid and I loved it. I loved the aesthetic of Gotham but found the previous Batman villains too scary (Penguin, Two Face) but Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy weren't scary at all. It was a romp!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Beowulf (2007).

Yes, the cgi aged badly, but everyone panned it for the plot change, which was the thing I liked about it the most!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

I loved Equilibrium and was surprised it wasn't rated as good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Back when Netflix had everything I watched that one thinking it would be a cool scifi film, but turns out its a kong fu movie and I was not in the mood for a that so I was disappointed. The sound track slapped though!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Your Highness for me

Universally got trashed but I honestly enjoyed it and still do on a rewatch

It's stupid and it's fantasy but it doesn't try to be anything else

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