• qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    One thing I had to learn quickly was that my preference towards anything cultural was not in line with what my peers found good/cool, so I strode down the road of enjoying what I enjoy and let others enjoy whatever they enjoy.

    Here’s a short list:

    Roadhouse

    The 13th Warrior

    Both Ewoks movies

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    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl… but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there’s a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.

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    Death to Smoochy, my dark comedy about the mafia world inside of children’s TV show is utterly fantastic and I will not be taking questions.

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    I actually liked sucker punch.

    Seems like alot of people didn’t get the A B C B A style of story telling that it did. I get on so many arguments with IRL people over it.

    A) real world beginning and end of movie. she is in an asylum.

    B) In her mind she is elsewhere dancing to get items to escape.

    C)her dancing is shown as boss battles because her dancing is her fighting for her life in her mind.

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    My case was with The Witcher’s Polish TV show. I was entertained and aware that, being a TV show from 2002, budget would’ve been slim, so I didn’t mind the “low quality” effects. I also watched with subs, so I couldn’t tell if some of vocal acting was good, bad or terrible

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    The Thing.

    Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.

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    Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender.

    Not a movie, but it’s moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten’s funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!

    I’m a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it’s only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I’m a massive Korra fan and I don’t understand how so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.

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      I think that both Korra and Netflix’s Avatar deserve a lot of criticism (Netflix more so than Korra), but it’s definitely overblown in many parts. Korra has a lot of good sides, those rarely get mentioned alongside the bad ones.

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        The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.

        I’ve seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.

        It feels like the Star Wars fandom. Maybe even more extreme.

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            Season one had some problems trying to find its place, but that’s also pretty common for a lot of shows. Season three had serious pacing issues due to the writers’ strike. I’d be interested in seeing what season 2 criticism is like.

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    Not as extreme as the case in the OP, but I’m often surprised how “meh” a reaction Don’t Look Up got. Maybe people think it was heavy handed? Too on the nose? I don’t know but most folks seem to think it was at best merely “okay”.

    For me, I place it next to Idiocracy as one of the most prescient films about what is in store for us. I think after this last election day, it seems even more prescient. On top of that, it is legitimately funny with really good performances, especially from Jennifer Lawrence.

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      It’s been a long time I got as visceral of a feeling as I got when watching that film and Leo’s character’s meltdown as the impending doom is happening an noone seems to be giving a fuck

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      I just loved the pacing of Don’t Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed

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      Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would’ve felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don’t think I’d feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.

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      Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.

      So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.

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      I’ve gone over it again and again and again in my head and I still can’t make sense of it. He’s a three-star general. He works at the Pentagon. Why would he charge us for free snacks?

      This part had me absolutely rolling. I loved that movie.

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      It suffers from the “Reality is Unrealistic” trope. Seems so on the nose and heavy handed, yet is literally exactly how it would happen (and is arguably already happening).

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      Yeah, I’d call it heavy handed. It felt like it was a message first. Not as bad as the Daily Wire stuff, but going down that road. Even if I agree with the message, it felt contrived.

      Just my two cents though.

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        That’s what I saw on reddit only for a week later to see someone argue that it’s not about climate change because it’s literally about a meteor.

        So there you go, you probably weren’t the target audience

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        Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.

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      It’s one of the least forgettable movie I’ve seen in a while (it’s a good thing) and the concept is just so good because it’s idiotic but at the same time completely true

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    I have a bit of a soft spot for a movie called Club Paradise starring Robin Williams. It doesn’t review well but it’s fun enough. I also love some of the lines from it.

    “What the hell kind of a name is ‘Moniker?’” (Robin Williams’ character’s name is Jack Moniker)

    “Just seeing that all is well.” “Is it?” “No.”

    “On behalf of her Britannic magesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to disperse this mob at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a Rather Large Bullet.

    “Say hello to Hat.” “Possible.” (An excellent cook with VERY long dreadlocks was kicked out of the kitchen by the chef because his hair is unsanitary. Jack’s solution? A 3 foot tall chef’s hat.)

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    This is your regular reminder that a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes means that 20% of reviewers liked the movie. The RT score represents chance that a reviewer liked it, not overall weighted score or how much they enjoyed it.

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      Yes it’s odds that you will like the movie going in.

      Besides, aggregate scores are hard to work with.

      The best thing you can do, when dealing with critics imo, is to find a critic with similar sensibilities to you, and then figure out the things they like.

      If a critic hates car chases and you love them, it doesn’t matter what the score is, because you can see them score it low for car chases and use that information. What matters more than score with critics is consistency.

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        Exactly! The best thing I ever did was find two similar movies with similar scores, but I hated one and loved the other, then find any critics that agreed with me. Turned out there were only two and one of those ended up being one of the most enriching people I read regularly even today.

        The critic is Walter Chaw and the movies were Live Free Or Die Hard and X-men 3. Both stupid action flicks that got similar RT scores, but I hated X-men 3 and loved Die Hard. Instantly fell in love with Walter Chaw when I saw his blurb for X-men 3 was “Michael Bay’s Schindler’s List.” lol