What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?
What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?
Rules: explain why
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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The Ready Player One movie was absolute dogshit. Was that movie even well liked? Pretty sure everyone agrees it was buttcheeks.
71%/77% on Rotten Tomatoes for that stinky cinematic suppository.
Jesus. That's ridiculous. The movie was fucking terrible.
When I read the book, I said aloud "If they made this into a movie, and were faithful to the author's vision, got Spielburg and the writer on board.... Why, that'd be the most amazing picture in all of cinema"
Didn't realize I blew a Monkey's Paw wish, I'd have used it on something I wouldn't mind being delievered to me in a half-assed way.
I'd have said "I want the United States to abandon this Late Stage Fascist Capitalism bullshit", because literally anything else would be better
Even it's because a zombie outbreak happens causing anarchy to break oout, at least I'd be fucking dead and not worrying about this shit anymore.
Maybe my Monkey's Paw only works on movies. Cause I remember seeing the newer Hitchiker's Guide film and hating it so much as the BBC Mini-Series with special effects so bad that it makes Red Dwarf look like Revenge of the Sith and wishing the bozo who mangled the book I loved so much would drop dead.
Didn't realize Douglas Adams, who died shortly after the movie's release, had full creative control of the film...
At least the "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" song is fire
I loved the book. The movie killed the story and raped it's corpse. I was genuinely furious when I left the theater.
The book was def a fun light read but the movie couldn't even legally approach the same level of fun as the book due to licensing bullshit. It could've been a fun movie, and if I'm being honest I enjoy watching it from time to time, but it could've been so much better.
I hate the movie for a lot of things I'll never forgive.
For being insanely un-selfaware (The villain is a corporate executive trying really hard to pander to "the kids these days" and making an ass of himself in the process, which is... a good description of the movie)
Having the most boomer-ass ending ("Lol, the kids have to put down their phone every thursday!" Yeah I can see the face of the boomer writing that part of the story, ya know the fucking luddite did it on a typewriter)
Having the big reveal of the love interest actually being.... a girl who's still conventionally attractive even with the "She's totally ugly you guys!" ultra fake looking scar on her face
But the number 1 thing that really grinded my gears was how the Iron Giant shows up in a movie for the first time since his introduction; to be turned into a weapon of war. Meaning it didn't just kill the book and raped its corpse, it left a flaming bag of dogshit on the doorstep of one of the greatest animated films of all time.
(then Space Jam 2 uses him for.... a sequence where he's a big dumb monster wrecking a studio lot.... Great.... Okay, so no one in Holywood has seen the Iron Giant or understands his character in the slightest. He's not fucking Mecha Godzilla god damn it)