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I'm not saying the worst, otherwise I would need to include the star wars sequels or transformers movies... Just some really dumb movie that somehow got praised.

For me has to be Ready Player One. That movie message is so "uhuh" obvious that is stupid, the whole nerd that saves the world in a thing that otherwise would be useless to know in real life... The so over the top evil gaming corporation. The whole 80s and 90s movies and games references get old after half an hour... And it's so pandering towards the geeks and nerds, they really want the viewer feeling really cool for knowing that is the Shining hallway, or that is a Monty python reference... Or look a GUNDAM! YOU'RE SO COOL FOR COLLECTING THOSE GUN PLA! Look we have also overwatch and halo in the background! You're so cool modern gamer!

Also the obviously attractive "nerd" hacker girl that thinks she's ugly and deformed for having a small hard to see red tint in one side of her pretty face... Cmon man. In no universe anyone would think that actress is ugly.

And the message at the end is so hilarious: Look man, you're cool for getting these references and being a real gamer is cool, but go outside more!

Is like the creators have no self awareness.

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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

For me, it was A Quiet Place. I found it incredibly dumb and impossible to believe that nobody on the whole of the planet ever considered that these aliens with ultra incredible hearing weren't somehow vulnerable to noise? Just dumb as fuck, especially when you consider that sonic weapons already exist and are used, and sound is routinely used in torture/incarceration scenarios.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 5 months ago

I like it but yeah, somehow high pitched noise lose to gunshot.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

Eh, I think of it more in the vein of It Follows. It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to be a minigame for the audience to play along with the characters. It lays out a simple set of mechanics and then uses that to build tense dilemmas, giving the audience a chance to think about what they would do in that situation, and what they definitely want to prevent from happening.

I didn't see the second one, though. Heard it wasn't great (no pun intended).

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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Aquaman. the visual effects were ridiculous, the characters were one-dimensional, the soundtrack was...something, and the overall tone was that of a testosterone firehose to the face. i said the eight deadly words about halfway through, and i was thoroughly bored out of my mind despite action scene after action scene after action scene...the only reason why i didn't just get up and leave was because i was watching with a group

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

My god, even among DC movies, that was such a steaming pile of shit. And so what did they do? They made a sequel.

(Hey, I like DC movies. I really enjoyed The Flash, and I liked the Superman v. Batman, with Batfleck. So for me to say Aquaman was a turd in a punchbowl means something.)

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Purge. They're all dumb as fuck. "No lawz fur wun day. Halps soseyetti."

Yeah no, trust in the government would break the floor and anarchy would reign instead. Not to mention businesses would probably refuse to operate here.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Really? I'd guess the opposite would happen, and the power vacuum would be quickly filled by alternate purge-day-only governments.

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It is too early to say Oppenheimer?

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago

James Cameron's Titanic. It's marketed as a romantic film, but the moment you start looking at other aspects of the movie, it just seems stupid. The antagonist is so cartoonishly evil, it's a wonder they didn't give him a mustache to twirl.

And then there's the ending. Oh dear lord, the ending. Spoiler warning and all that: at the end of the movie, The Titanic s(t)inks and the passengers try to get to safety. Rose finds a floating door or something to stay afloat and finds Jack swimming in the freezing ocean. Then Jack makes the most non-sensical decision in the entire movie: he sacrifices his own life for no good reason. The plot frames it as a necessary sacrifice, but it totally IS unnecessary, because there was enough room on the stupid door for two people. And then we flash forward to the present, where Rose is old, but still has that gem she wore throughout the movie... and then she tosses it into the ocean. WHY.

Basically the plot boils down to: two young people have a fling on a boat and then the boat sinks. It absolutely did NOT deserve all those academy awards it got that year.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

La La Land. Musicals are already on thin ice, but a musical about some arrogant, self obsessed people complaining about how hard it is trying to be (and ultimately succeeding in being) successful?? UGH. Shut it all down.

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[–] tanka@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I did not get the hype for 'Don't Look Up'.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I thought It was a pretty solid critique of mainstream American culture of the moment. What didn't you like about it?

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Probably hit too close to home.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

It's not subtle enough with its critique. Either that or it's not ridiculous enough. It's sitting in the middle zone that just doesn't work well.

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[–] halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com 16 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Barbie.

I like Margot Robbie. I like Ryan Gosling. I like fun movies. But idk, it just didn't really appeal to me, and the plot felt predictable. I don't regret watching it necessarily, but I also have no interest in watching it again.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

:(

I like Margot Robbie.

:)

but I also have no interest in watching it again.

:(

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[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Barbie movie Predictable

Were you expecting a post-modern masterpiece?

[–] halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, but with all of the hype and excitement around it, I thought there was something extra-special about this movie. Like an interesting/unexpected story.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm with halfeatenpotato here. I went into it expecting something that had spawned this whole Barbieheimer thing, and was a billion-Plus-dollar movie that excited the nation for a while.

That's not what I saw. It was hot garbage. It wasn't even fun.

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[–] FookReddit69@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The constant attack towards men ruined that movie, it wasn't even a clever attack just dumb feminism

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

While I do agree that it, at times, definitely stepped into 'dumb femminism' as you put it. I also acknowledge that it was a movie and to do a discussion on feminism justice it would require a lot more than 2 hours. So a lot got simplified, sometimes too much. I disagree with you that it was a constant attack towards men. The movie went wayyyyy out of its way to make it clear they were attacking patriarchal systems, not men in general. That's Ken's whole arc, he's suffering under patriarchy too. He just also gets the benefits of the patruarchy while he's suffering. If I had any criticism about the film it was how much it tried to avoid criticizing capitalism and corporate culture's role.

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[–] Fridam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love the idea, to change the gender and show how it would look if women was the dominant sex

I don't think what they made was plausible. I know, it's barbie, but I don't find this version of "woman power" plausible without it changing the gender expressions. Like, how masculinity and being formed by masculinity being an expression of dominans, and therefore changes how men dress, behave and express themselves would change a lot Also, this is not a matriarchy, it is a patriarchy but where the women have the power. I've read several books where they flip the sexes, and I've found the concept interesting because it points out how much of our society is formed by the patriarchy, for all genders, which makes a lot of fun and interesting situations

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Interstellar: just found it kind of ridiculous, outlandish, in no way believable or connected to anything even theoretically within reality. Pseudo-serious science fiction. Big budget blah.

Inception: I love Nolan but that was big swing and a miss for me. Went in excited, came out wondering where the fuss was all about.

[–] JillyB 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I need to leave this thread. Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time.

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[–] Followupquestion@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’ll outright say it. Other than The Prestige and the later Batman movies, Nolan movies have been very disappointing to me. They’re not clever, they’re pretentious. If you ever saw that Netflix movie where the woman dated Keanu Reaves, the part where Keanu asks the chef for a meal the plays with the concept of time is every Christopher Nolan movie in a nutshell. Also, the action sequences in Batman Begins were unnecessarily choppy, and the idea that it was somehow how a bat would see them is just silly.

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Don’t Look Up. It felt like a movie made by a Redditor who thinks he’s really smart.

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I kind of like them, actually. I know this is a fairly unpopular opinion, so allow me to elaborate:

I grew up with ep IV through VI, as my brother had them on VHS. I was instantly a fan, and I've lost count of how many times I've seen them.
Once I was old enough to be aware of the concept of a story not existing in a vacuum, I started wondering about how ep III ended, and other things, long before I knew they would turn the prequels into movies as well. I was curious about the world building and the star wars universe in general.

And that's what the prequels did for me: They finally answered so many of the questions I had after watching the originals. So it was pretty cool for me to finally see that aspect on the big screen as well.

However, they should've skipped JarJar Binks. And a lot of the world building seemed tacked on as a result of George Lucas realizing he could include anything he wanted thanks to CGI.

And speaking of CGI: Han shot first. I liked the remasters, but they truly fucked ip Han Solo, trying to make him a loveable loner instead of some outlaw who was after a quick buck

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[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gravity isn't a space movie. It's just 2 hours of Sandra Bullock crying and hallucinating. It's probably the second worst movie I've ever seen after Open Water.

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

crash won an oscar for best picture and it was complete and utter garbage

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[–] Brutticus@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Dark Knight. Heath Ledger's Career defining performance can't save this tortuously paced, boring, dreary, washed out slog of a war on terror metaphor. I hate Christopher Nolan, all of his movies are like this.

The star wars prequels get a lot of hate, but honestly, all of the cracks were beginning to show in Return of the Jedi. 4 and 5 are indisputably good movies, and part of the cinematic canon. Jedi has a lot of small things wrong with it... and also Leah is Luke's sister randomly. This is a Lucasism, and as the people who were capable of standing up to Lucas fell away, and were replaced by people who grew up in star wars. Everything that makes the OT good is present in the prequels, and everything that makes the Prequels... contentious is present in Jedi. For the record, I like the prequels but I think they are flawed in really interesting ways.

Jedi is even in quality with all the prequels and sequels that came after, but has a better rep than it deserves because it stands next to the first (best) two.

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Never been a fan of the Dark Knight. So damn boring and ridiculously overrated.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Batman 2022 with it's constant dreary atmosphere and insanely repetitive soundtrack.

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[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

Lucy. I know a lot of people didn't like the ending, but the whole movie was utterly shocking I thought after she took the brain drug or whatever it was

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Dune.

Shower me with downvotes, I don't care.

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

american beauty. it was everywhere, and everyone seemed to LOVE it. feels like history kinda agrees though since all I hear these days is people making fun of it. guess I’m just ahead of the times.

I enjoy a lot of found footage horror, but Paranormal Activity was like watching paint dry

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Most of Wes Anderson’s.

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Crash the 2004 hit movie not the 1996 Cronenberg Cult-classic.

to elaborate, it was insincere corporate virtue signalling designed specifically to bait the academy awards by using a multi-character parallel storytelling style that is only ever celebrated amongst industry snobs.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Frozen was 3 hours worth of movie jammed into 1 and a half hours. So much stuff happens that either didn't need to happen or needed a lot more setup and motivation. I can understand why little kids liked it, I still have no idea why all the young women liked it too.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Jurassic World. It seemed like the definition of color by numbers reboot.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

For me it was Blade Runner. Everyone always talks about how great the movie is, and man, it was a struggle to get through. The setting was cool and that's about it.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

I get it. I love the slow pace, the beautiful cinematography, the careful dialog. But it's not for everyone.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ready player one and also Scott pilgrim or whatever its called. That whole "needs are cool, buy funko pops" craze is super cringe.

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