• TVA@thebrainbin.org
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    5 months ago

    Super Mario Bros (1993) is this movie for me … it’s weird as hell and it’s adherence to the source material is … iffy at best … but god damn if it wasn’t a fun ride!

    Then you read about how everyone hated the directors so much they literally got drunk on set and openly wore custom made shirts with slogans about how bad the directors were AND Bob Haskins was in a cast for most of it for an injury on set and it gets even more fascinating! The Directors poured hot coffee on people and just openly belittled everyone. It’s insane!

  • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • YonderEpochs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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

  • BmeBenji@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    I saw it the day it came out and thought it was a brilliant departure from the macguffin-based plots that had come before, and it showed so many different things that had never been in a Star Wars movie before.

    Turns out all Star Wars fans want is more of the exact same that had been in the previous 7 movies.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Honestly I loved both the direction that Rian Johnson clearly wanted to take the sequels and I loved the direction that JJ Abrams clearly wanted to take the sequels and I honestly wish Disney had just stuck with one of them for the entire trilogy and let the other do a trilogy as well. We all know how badly Disney wanted to pump out a Star Wars film every year during that timeframe so that way they could’ve had their cake and eaten it too

    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I agree with the other guy somewhat - take out a lot of the casino scene and it’s the best star wars movie so far.

      I’m pissed Johnson isn’t going to get the trilogy he was promised. Instead, we got Abrams making the most corporate star wars to date, and that’s saying something

      • Tujio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        If they had completely scrapped the casino arc it would fix so many problems. Not only would that shitty, worthless sequence not exist, but they would’ve had screen time to put in more quality stuff. Imagine if at the end of the movie the big reveal was that Palpatine was alive. Instead, they had to put that into a messy scroller at the beginning of the third movie.

        • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Or they could just not bring back literally the most boring villain possible.

          And I want to be very clear that I’m not saying the Emperor is the most boring villain in cinema history, even though he is. I’m saying he’s the most boring villain possible.

          When he was introduced in the original trilogy he was a nameless old man in a robe. Defining characteristics? None. Voice? Evil. Face? Evil. Motivation? Evil. Outfit? Featureless robe, black because he’s evil.

          The best part about The Last Jedi was that they were fixing the downgrade that RotJ made of replacing the most badass movie villain of all time with – I can’t stress this enough – the most boring villain possible. TLJ killed the Emperor stand-in and set Kylo Ren up as the real villain. That was exciting.

          But then they let fan forums write the third movie, and somehow, the Emperor came back.