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What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

There Will Be Blood. Wooden acting, almost nothing happens, the soundtrack is earsplitting noise, but everyone loves it because of the "milkshake" meme at the end.

Fuck that movie. Walked out on it halfway through, read about what "happened" afterwards later (spoiler: fucking nothing) and regret nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

An alternative way of saying you don't enjoy subtext.

What did you think of No Country (same year, similarly dark, more action and different theming)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Dune.

Shower me with downvotes, I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To me Dune is too big for movies. It should have been a series. We've had two long films and they've cut the book down so far they still barely make sense. The end of Dune two should have been the end of a first season of 8-10 hour long episodes.

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

[...] 8-10 hour long episodes.

"Now with even more desert panoramics, elegantly scored with Hans Zimmern uninterruptedly farting in an empty can of beans"

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

New one or the 80's one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

New one.
3 hours of soulless cash grab capitalyzing on the fact that we had been starved of cinema for 2 years and everyone was so hyped to come back no one wanted to admit the movie was a boring mess of everyone involved sucking his own dick instead of working together for a good product.
I don't want to see the twentieth 4 minutes desert panoramic: it's a fucking desert, we get it can we move on? Or the stupidly intense stares between Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in random situations: you two are stranded in the desert drinking your own sweat and piss, why are you looking at each other like you're going to fuck?

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

They were working on it long before the pandemic, so that's invalid. But you read the book and believe that? Or did you not know what it was about beforehand?