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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (6 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

I worked on the space shuttle program, and I found Armageddon almost unwatchable. I mean, those things go up with the big solid rockets and an external tank full of hydrogen and oxygen, all of which get jettisoned during launch, then they come down as a glider. But in the movie they're landing on asteroids and taking off again, smashing into things and still flying, etc. (remember how Columbia blew up because of a crack in the leading edge of one wing?). Plus the whole premise of it being easier to teach oil drillers how to be astronauts than to teach astronauts how to be oil drillers is a joke. Every astronaut I've met has been an amazing capable person - many are test pilots with multiple advanced degrees.

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I always love the interview with Ben Affleck about Armageddon: "I asked Micheal why it would be easier to train drillers to be astronauts rather than vice versa, and he just responded with 'fuck you.'"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As soon as you know too much about a certain topic, any movie or series about it turns to shit.

I'm a nurse and badly done medical stuff in movies are so rampant and it drives me crazy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

That's super true. What's worse is that it often turns out to be true of news as well. There have been a few times when I was familiar with events that made the news, and there were always inaccuracies in the articles. It's made me look at articles on events that I'm not familiar with differently; they probably have the same amount of inaccuracies.

I'm software engineering in aerospace, so a lot of computer and space stuff is ruined, which covers a lot of content.

But everyone should smack their heads about Armageddon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Astronauts brains are too big, their soft womanly hands incapable of drilling. Wearing a spacesuit and floating around a bit is trivial. Only some yeehaw boys and one man who 'tells it like it is' can save us.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (6 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Don't get me stated on how fucking dumb it is that everyone everywhere just immediately turns to murder. Crime isn't something I have a problem with, so when I say I've never committed a murder it's not because the pesky laws are stopping me. I just genuinely don't see the need to kill someone. But no, everyone and their mom is going full zodiac all day all night if it went for laws!

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

I would say most people would just do nothing and the rest would go buy drugs

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (7 children)

It is too early to say Oppenheimer?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

More importantly, >!they just gave up on their relationship because one of them was leaving the country? For what, less than a year? After all that, they just threw it all away because they didn't want to deal with FaceTime for a couple of months? Bet they felt real fucking dumb when the pandemic hit.!<

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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

I'm a huge Tarantino fan and enjoyed every single one of his movies, except that one.
Maybe you had to have been in the Hollywood scene at the time to understand the humor, but I was bored out of my mind the whole time and wondered whether he's making fun of the audience and seeing if he can get away with a movie without a real storyline if he just includes his signature foot shots, long conversations about nothing and a massacre at the end.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I think the problem was that half of the movie was a memorial to the victims of the Charles Manson murders and the other half of the movie was about Brad Pitt and DiCaprio, and the two stories had absolutely zero synergy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] EmoDuck 51 points 5 months ago (7 children)

People are STILL bringing up the "there's enough room" arguments?

The movie LITERALLY shows you why it doesn't work. At first they both try to climb on it, but they're too heavy and the stupid thing capsizes. Only then is Jack like "You go take it, Imma good"

Also, Mythbusters tried it and got the same results. 2 people to heavy, 1 ok.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Black Panther.

It had so much hype in the media, i was so excited to watch it. It turned out to be rather boring and forgettable.

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[โ€“] captain_aggravated 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm reliably informed there are people who like Michael Bay's Transformers movies. The most interesting part of the entire series to me was watching a Camaro get into a literal fist fight with a Mustang. Otherwise my memories of the movie were having eye rollingly childish catch phrases boomed down at me, or visuals that are basically just technicolor television snow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Transformers for me was pretty much Megan Fox and nothing else.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

No like is the wrong word. I love them. Don't know why thou, they are fucking stupid.
I mean its clearly an ad for the military where cars beat up cars. Buuuut Its hilariously epic and very comforting in its shallowness. Normally I am more of a weird indie movie guy. But every time optimus calls out all autobots in the end I cry.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I was old enough to see the original trilogy re-released with all the bad dumb filler George Lucas thought was necessary to complete his vision.

All the poopy squelchy gross-out CGI was obviously a crass moneygrab, but it seemed like such a reflection of the man himself that I boycotted the prequels when they came out. Then I found Red Letter Media. Fuck the prequels. Fuck that creepy bastard. Han shot only.

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[โ€“] sentient_loom 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They were so bad, but not nearly as bad as the sequels.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Guardians of the galaxy 3. Would not be surprised to learn ChatGPT wrote the dialogue.

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Thor: Love and Thunder felt like it was written by a Disney executive suite after they ran metrics on what test groups laughed at in Taika's other work, then amplified the lulz by 20%, and rewrote it for the 11-16 year old market.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (16 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

:(

I like Margot Robbie.

:)

but I also have no interest in watching it again.

:(

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Barbie movie Predictable

Were you expecting a post-modern masterpiece?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (6 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Cloverfield. It was a monster movie where you barely saw the monster. Instead, we get the story of 4 characters with a camera trying to escape the monster but then going back to rescue their friend and may or may not have been killed by the monster. I don't know, the movie had no beginning or end and yet it managed to spawn a couple of sequels.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The first Harry Potter was okay, but it just got worse. I'd say the worst was Goblet of Fire. That one should top my list of worst overrated movies.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 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

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