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What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?

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.

KISSmyOSFeddit , (edited )

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.

krolden ,
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I never finished it j just got bored

DeltaTangoLima ,
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I’m a huge Tarantino fan and enjoyed every single one of his movies, except that one.

Are you including Jackie Brown in this assessment? Because that’s the one Tarantino film I’d never return to. Bored the shit out of me.

I can see how Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wouldn’t do it for a lot of people. The storyline was pretty bloody thin.

From memory, my wife and I had only just recently watched the Aquarius TV series (a few years after it was made) followed by Mindhunter (we were on a true crime kick back then), so the intersection with the Manson murders kept us hooked. Also, Tarantino using the same Aussie actor from Mindhunter to reprise the role of Manson felt like a really cool Easter egg.

But, that’s the thing about Tarantino - he’s always going to be polarizing. You either love or hate a given piece of his work, I guess.

demesisx ,
@demesisx@infosec.pub avatar

I disagree entirely. Jackie Brown is actually my favorite Tarantino film.

Tasteful and interesting.

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

See? That just illustrates my point perfectly. I reckon Tarantino intentionally sets out to put people firmly on either side of the love/hate fence, with each film.

scops ,

It was hugely freeing for me to realize this. I didn’t really care for Death Proof and I absolutely hated Inglorious Bastards. My friends thought I was crazy. After loving Kill Bill and everything I had seen before it, I thought Tarantino had just gotten too far up his own ass. Then Django came out and was just fun and cathartic and I realized I just needed to take each project as it came

Xer0 ,

Yeah Jackie Brown is my least favourite Tarantino film by a mile.

BigBananaDealer ,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

damn i loved jackie brown i thought it was fantastic. and i also loved once upon a time in hollywood

prole ,

Damn, Jackie Brown is great

MargotRobbie ,

just includes his signature foot shots

To be fair, those foot shots are … as good as foot shots can be, at least.

Sigh.

chunkystyles ,

That was the last movie I saw in theaters until two weeks ago when I saw Furiosa.

I enjoyed Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Furiosa was better, though.

Artyom ,

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.

some_guy , (edited )

Doctor Who

Edit: Gdi I meant Doctor Strange.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Which movie are you talking about? Peter Cushing or Paul McGann? I don’t know that I’d call either one a blockbuster.

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

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

scops ,

Out of curiosity, how old are you? I hold up Scott Pilgrim as the Fast Times at Ridgemont High of my generation (older millennials). I could see it not hitting the same for older and newer gens.

Of course it’s a perfectly valid opinion even if we are in the same gen. I’m sure Fast Times had its detractors, too

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m in that same generation but I like to think I have some taste and am quite able to critique bad writing and stupid stories

Out of curiosity, how many funko pops do you own?

scops ,

1, given to me in a Secret Santa exchange. I’m not following the connection you’re trying to make between a goofy action movie and a toy line.

Catoblepas ,

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.

pjwestin ,
@pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

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.!<

CyberMonkey404 ,

Right?! “Oh no we are so brilliant and talented and smoking hot, but the world won’t just give us success on a silver platter and now that we made our dreams come true we miss being together”.

getoffthedrugsdude ,

Oppenheimer

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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I liked it, but it could have been a 90 minute film

dditty ,

One of the most common criticisms levied against Oppenheimer is its blistering pace that crams in as much detail as possible, so I find it hard to believe that it could’ve been condensed into 90 minutes.

4grams ,
@4grams@awful.systems avatar

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.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

V for Vendetta. For a movie with both Padme and Palpatine as actors, the movie is just an edgy construct. I’m sure V isn’t totally without reason, but bro, you sabotaged a train just because you wanted real butter on toast.

Macaroni_ninja ,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

You got my vote fo unpopular opinion. I love that movie :)

tanka ,
@tanka@lemmy.ml avatar

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

Notyou ,

Yo! That movie sucked. I have a theory the only reason Leo starred in it was so that he could be called a sexy scientist or whatever he was.

NauticalNoodle , (edited )

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

Xer0 ,

Probably hit too close to home.

NickwithaC ,
@NickwithaC@lemmy.world avatar

Badum bum

Liz ,

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.

jacksilver ,

I absolutely agree, felt like they didn’t know what kind of movie they wanted to make and just kinda threw whatever they could think of into it.

TORFdot0 ,

The hype was for its star studded cast. The movie itself was also a chuckle but was really obvious for its critique and satire.

Passerby6497 ,

I still haven’t finished it. So many stars are just unlikable and the pacing (of the half I saw) is just not enough to keep it entertaining enough to overcome the cringey ‘just look at how awful everyone in power is’ caricatures.

multifariace ,

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.

bibliotectress ,

They were all pretty close to the books except that they cut out a lot of the pointless bickering that kept happening all the time, so I’d blame JK Rowling for those.

Zahille7 ,

Funny cause apparently she had almost entire creative control

BruceTwarzen ,

Haha yeah goblet of fire was such an odd movie. I don’t even remember the books or if it was the same but that movie made no sense.

My favourite part is how they let these kids fight dangerous dragons, one only didn’t drown because harry broke the rules. They kept saying how dangerous it was, but then at the end everyone was shocked that cedric died. A dead child in the child murder games? That is crazy

FookReddit69 OP ,

Remember, the movie is based on a book written by a women who didn’t had high education and is a book for children… Most things about the universe make no sense.

boonhet ,

I’ll go ahead and say it, the first one is a great movie even. It has a particular atmosphere of joy and hopefulness.

Then that entire vibe goes away and it just goes generic dark teenage fantasy with mediocre writing

wildcardology , (edited )

I hope the new series being developed is better. The one scene in the entire franchise that I wanted to see was the fight between Bellatrix and Molly. It was a disappointment.

transientpunk ,
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I have no clue how the original Mad Max made it out of Australia, let alone spawn a minor cinematic universe…

HelixDab2 ,

Mad Max is amazing for what it is; an apocalyptic film made on a shoestring budget that depicted something that feels prophetic now. You have to look at it and compare it to other films in the 70s; if you look at, for instance, Roger Corman films, it’s Oscar-worthy in comparison. When you put it in the genre of ozploitation films, it’s solid gold.

NauticalNoodle ,

It was a product of it’s time which is to say that even though it wasn’t particularly good, it was representative of the schlocky action sci-fi films one might have seen just a few years earlier during the drive-in Grindhouse era.

Akasazh ,
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My pick would be fury road. The early ones at least have the appeal (imho) of being a low budget movie with a relatable plot

Then it suddenly gets a gigantic budget with a plot that is basically a back and forth in the desert.

No1 ,
@No1@aussie.zone avatar

I’m curious when you were born and where you’re from?

Melatonin ,

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.

Followupquestion ,

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.

Melatonin ,

Huh. Maybe I DON’T love Nolan.

Melatonin ,

Had to go look up that scene. Thank you. Thank you so much for directing me to the scene.

I do not want to see the movie, but my life is richer for having seen that scene.

No1 ,
@No1@aussie.zone avatar

The stories in both were somewhat disjointed and as with most sci-fi, requires some level of suspension of disbelief.

Nowadays, storytelling and plot takes a big backseat to action and explosions…😔

JillyB ,

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

Melatonin ,

I’m sorry, it just wasn’t for me. A lot of people agree with you!

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

Shitting on Inception and Interstellar at the same time?

My right hand curls into a fist instinctively. My left hand covers it and pats it gently.

No… I must choose peace.

rwhitisissle ,

“My daughter Murph. I keep gettin’ older. She stays the same age.”

Also, I love how he had a son who just wanted to be a farmer and that meant that Matthew McConaughey’s character was justified in being totally emotionally disinterested in him, compared to his genius daughter. Seriously, at a certain point I think Nolan forgot he wrote this guy with two kids. His entire character was defined by his relationship with his daughter. Why even give him a son in the first place?

ser ,

I liked both Interstellar and Inception. I hated Tenet - on how the story was told and the inaudible sound (eye roll).

NauticalNoodle , (edited )

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.

niktemadur , (edited )

a multi-character parallel storytelling style that is only ever celebrated amongst industry snobs

I’m going to agree with caveats here, because some directors who are actual artists do it for the sake of the film and the challenge of it, as opposed to what I’ll refer to as “industry types”, who do it for the prizes. And some crazy bastards manage to pull it off. Three names come to mind - Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh.

I’ve never seen “Crash” and never wanted to, from what I’ve read, the bland yet heavy-handed results onscreen, plus the lazy reflexive accolades, made me view the whole thing with a cynical eye, like you.

In fact, Robert Altman had a thing or two to say about those “industry types”, in his triumphant early-90s comeback film “The Player”.
Also, do yourself a favor and watch Altman’s “Short Cuts”, to see parallel storytelling at its’ best.

BigBananaDealer ,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

crash has like one good scene in the entire film. the rest is total garbage that me and a friend laughed at the entire time we watched it

prole ,

Short Cuts is amazing. Altman changed the game in many ways. I believe he changed the entire way we record dialogue because the way we did it before just didn’t work for him.

niktemadur ,

Altman came in throwing punches with the noisy background and chaotic dialogue wafting every which way, right from the outset, on MASH and McCabe & Mrs Miller, which is why it’s a good idea to watch his films with English subtitles turned on.

I don’t remember the cacophony being as intense in some of his other early works, like Brewster McCloud, California Split and The Long Goodbye.
But in Nashville, it’s most certainly there, front and center and in your face.

prole ,

I’ve only ever seen Short Cuts (loved it), the Player (liked it a lot), and McCabe and Mrs Miller (ehh…). How do you think I’d feel about his other films?

niktemadur , (edited )

My recommendations to you are as follows:

My favorite Altman film overall probably might have to be The Long Goodbye. Check out how the camera is always moving, if even slightly; there are no static shots. Midway through the movie, the great Sterling Hayden steals the show. And keep an eye out for a very, very young Ahnold Schwarzenegger in a bit role as literal and figurative muscle for the batshit insane bad guy.

Brewster McCloud is a bonkers twisted fantasy that caught me by surprise by how much I enjoyed it, it’s about a kid who:

  1. Lives in the Astrodome in secret, in a forgotten construction nook, a big one, between walls and floors.
  2. Wants to be able to fly.
  3. Is being encouraged by an older woman, who might actually already know how to fly.

Also, there are people being killed all over town, and it might have something to do with all this.

prole ,

Thanks, I’ve saved your comment and I’ll add them to the list.

NauticalNoodle ,

“In fact, Robert Altman had a thing or two to say about those “industry types”, in his triumphant early-90s comeback film “The Player”. Also, do yourself a favor and watch Altman’s “Short Cuts”, to see parallel storytelling at its’ best.”

Thanks, I’ll be sure to check those out. I was a little worried I came off too hot with my take. I won’t say it can’t be done well, it’s just that I’ve never seen it done well since I first learned about the storytelling style in my intro to film studies course in college.

AFKBRBChocolate , (edited )

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.

Zahille7 , (edited )

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.’”

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Ha! I hadn’t heard that - I’m glad someone involved called him out on it. I mean, I get that the real answer - to that and all my complaints - is that the movie doesn’t work otherwise, but it’s so annoying.

NickwithaC ,
@NickwithaC@lemmy.world avatar

If the movie doesn’t work unless you include a plot hole then the movie doesn’t work.

Zahille7 ,

The very first bit in this video

FookReddit69 OP ,

I’m sorry but I ADORE Armageddon lol is very emotional and self aware. Is definitely a NO BORING movie and always keeps moving, even when there’s no explosions going on. Ben Affleck > Neil Armstrong, I bet he couldn’t had reached those 400 feet in time! 💣

SomeGuy69 ,

Because it’s easier to put someone in a suite than teach them years of experience of drilling. You might remember that even the experianced driller had trouble. They also send astronauts with them as well to do the astronaut things, not just the driller crew.

The smashing into things thing and still taking off…well the movie was supposed to have a happy end for the remaining crew. It would’ve still been a happy end to have them die, but this way you get a lovely reunion with the families.

I don’t know you, but if you go by questioning plot-armor, you’ll have a really hard time to find something to watch.

shalafi ,

Agreed. All the drillers have to do is ride. OTOH, neither group would fare well learning to drill in microgravity.

captain_aggravated ,
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There’s also the really stupid “high G burn around the moon” scene, which I would love to see Scott Manley try to replicate in KSP.

norimee ,

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.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

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.

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

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.

ramble81 ,

That’s why I liked Deep Impact. It went must more (potentially) realistic than Armageddon. But the latter wanted its “common man, that people can relate to, saves the day” trope.

MintyFresh ,

Deep impact is a great movie! Directed by Mimi Leder. She also directed The Peacemaker, a great 90’s adventure movie with George Clooney and Nichole Kidman. If you’re into that sort of thing.

ryathal ,

I don’t understand the the thinking that astronauts would be amazing drillers. Drilling is functionally a trade, the education aspect isn’t the key factor, it’s the experience. The movie actually does a fair job explaining why.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I never said that being a driller is trivial. Do you think being an astronaut is trivial? That’s a pretty intensely technical job, which is why the bar for entry is so insanely high. I would put my money on those folks leaning how to drill better than drillers leaning how to be an astronaut.

ryathal ,

It’s not trivial to be an astronaut, but most didn’t need to be. Flying the ships, docking, and landing on an asteroid all require intense skills. The drilling required a similarly intense set of skills that you can’t gain in a week. You can probably teach someone the bare minimum of putting on a suit and working in it.

Duamerthrax ,

I would have written it so the drilling crew needed to learn to be astronauts and the astronauts needed to learn drilling and send them both up. That way, they would be each other’s backups and you get another small story arc out of it.

mukt ,
@mukt@lemmy.ml avatar

It is too early to say Oppenheimer?

bunkyprewster ,

Agreed. Bombastic. Felt like it missed the whole point of Oppenheimer’s moral dilemma

Omniraptor , (edited )

I’m biased but I thought it was pretty clear with portraying Truman as an unambiguously bad guy and Oppenheimer as decent but failing at a critical moment and then regretting it later

bunkyprewster ,

I’ve always imagined his moral dilemma was knowing that (after the Nazis were defeated) going ahead with the bomb was wrong, but wanting to do it anyway - because they had become so invested in the idea, and wanted to see if they could.

Toribor ,
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I’d been pretty eager to see it. Everyone told me how intense it was, I actually put it off for a little while because I wasn’t sure I was in the mood for something really bleak and existential.

Watching it I was like oh okay this is a movie. Not bad but I wouldn’t call it an intense experience.

Appoxo ,
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Meh. If you like a political bio pic it’s probably very interesting but it didnt grip me as tight.

Qwaffle_waffle ,

Haven’t been able to finish it, losing my attention on it. Want to join the hype but… 🤷

unionagainstdhmo ,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

I think it was just too long, maybe at half of the length they might have thought more about what belongs in there

Brutticus ,

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 ,

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

BigBananaDealer ,
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return of the jedi is my least favorite, besides rise of skywalker which shit on everything that had been built up. im one of those people that actually enjoyed the last jedi a lot

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