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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE? (lemmings.world)

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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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[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

I have a letter one of my Grandma's friends wrote her after seeing Gone With the Wind. She did the equivalent of "meh" - I was shocked. No idea if this friend was just not impressed with anything or wanted to come across cool. After my shock wore off, I still laugh off and on about.

-- I didn't see the letter until after Grandma died, so I didn't get to ask about the friend. (Grandma was born around 1910)

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m sure they were both absolute beauties, Granny and her friend.

Without wanting to sound pretentious but that is the magic of any art. Somebody of the time looks at it and goes “meh” and then someone decades later sees it and goes “yeah, I like that”. Horses for courses; and all that.

I personally think the key thing is being able to distinguish between that which isn’t for you, versus stuff that is objectively poor. And now I do sound pretentious… smh. Sorry.

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