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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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[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

The Big Lebowski

Interminably dull. Watching it made sense of why the people bigging it up were stoned..

I was looking for this answer.

I tend to like these "slow" types of movies, like Napoleon Dynamite. Maybe it's because I find the characters unrelatable I don't like it? I was honestly waiting for the good part, but every part that was even mildly interesting, I just... Didn't care about any of the characters and didn't care about whatever was happening.

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I up voted you bcz I want others to see how wrong and correct you are.

[-] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago

That's just like....your opinion man

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry I just can't agree with this one. Stoned or not, that movie is absolutely fantastic. I'm trying to do some mental gymnastics to empathize with people who disliked it....but I can't....movie is just one of the best. There's no getting around it :-/

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Well for some people the word vagina scares them. It is a misconception that feminists don't like coitus.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The whole scene with Julianne Moore there is so quotable. I say "He fixes the cable?" to just about anything remotely resembling "You can imagine what happens next."

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

That's a fair criticism. It's the anti-noir which by definition means that the mystery isn't smart or sexy. It's a bunch of idiots and coincidences that resolve their problems through happenstance. I happen to be one of the people who finds those idiots unbelievably engaging. Honestly there's a lot of similarity to Seinfeld

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Obligatory "well that's just like, your opinion, man."

[-] delgato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I think you hit the nail on the head answering OP’s question, sorry you didn’t like it! To be fair it wasn’t popular when it came out and became a cult classic in the 00s. I think it captures an absurdist side of America of the 90s (not to mention starring Buscemi, one of my favorite actors)… bowling alleys for social meet ups, roughneck Vietnam vets, drug-slipping Porn kingpins. I watch it maybe a couple times a year when I have a hankering for a White Russian :)

I'll watch it again at some point so my review is under review

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

I was reading the comments expecting this movie to pop up. I only watched half, because it wasn't interesting enough, but also want to re-watch because maybe I was just not ready or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] pubertthefat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

How do you feel about other Coen brothers movies?

Fargo - fantastic

Oh Brother Where Are Thou - not very memorable

Burn After Reading - funny and entertaining but not very memorable

No Country For Old Men - one of the best films of the 21st century

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Not very memorable? Yeesh. I could probably quote-along O Brother's entire length, and tbe soundtrack is phenomenal.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

No Country For Old Men

I feel the reason that this movie is so good is because it is almost 100% exactly as the story in book

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Buster scruggs needs some love

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

All excellent. Best is ladykillers, then hudsucker proxy.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Hudsucker is such a great film. I didn't care for much of their stuff but that and Lebowski were great.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Fwiw, I wasn't sure about it at all, first time round. Liked it more the second time and every time since.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I always think of The Big Lebowski as a Fletch remake.

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