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[–] 46 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I usually have it the other way around. I'll watch something, think it's bad only to discover it has 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    And it's impossible to know if they're artificial or if people actually like garbage.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I find fandoms on reddit to be a decent gauge. I've been in one that was torn in half after the final season. It was hot garbage, but IMDB would make you believe it was actually good. Rotten Tomatoes was also more realistic. I guess good thing IMDB locked reading reviews behind login. I'm not tempted to waste my time on it anymore.

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    [–] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    For me it was people shitting on TRON:Legacy. I saw it opening weekend in 3D by myself. Fucking loved it. Saw it a second time the following weekend with my gf at the time. She was indifferent to it. I still loved it. Then other people would bash it and even The Big Bang Theory jumped on the tron bashing bandwagon. As far as I care, everyone else is wrong, that movie was amazing for a reboot.

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    [–] 23 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Waterworld is one of my favourite movies.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    .. did it get a bad rating?

    I thought it was decent

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It got a bad return, which is even worse from the perspective of the studio. It was just an absolute production clusterfuck. From stunt coordination in aquatic environments to building an entire goddamn aquatic environment when the weather refused to work with the filming schedule, it was just an absolute nightmare for everyone involved. The production costs ended up like triple the original amount and the opening box office weekend made back life half of it.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What's worse is watching a movie years after release, liking it and wondering why there is no sequel. Only to find out one person involved raped everybody.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Happened to me after watching Thor 2 during covid. I enjoyed it. Looked it up afterwards and it was ranked the worst movie in the MCU up until that point.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    That’s why I ignore any sort of reviews when deciding what I should watch. If something looks interesting, I give it a try. I’m not going to let a bunch of miserable assholes who think hating something makes them interesting decide what I get to enjoy.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Also not every movie needs to be a masterpiece. Some movies need to be the Sunday morning hangover movies. I'm not going to watch Interstellar on a Sunday morning when hungover, I'm going to watch Transformers because I know I can shut off my brain and go "big explosion cool".

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My relationship with Morbius.

    Sure, the acting and dialogue is bum, but the story, pacing, etc isn't that bad.

    CGI, while not great by any means, does it's job.

    I'd give it a solid 6/10 rather than the absolutely abysmall ratings given to it officially.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago*

    My experience with watching the movie was seeing it streamed on Twitch shortly after release, chroma-keyed just slightly so that anything blue-ish instead showed an endless loop of Milo’s ridiculous sex dance. I think it was the streamer’s attempt to bypass automatic DMCA protections.

    This went on almost 24/7 for about a week or so. Every time the account got banned, a new one would pop up a couple hours later. I must have watched the full movie this way 8 times or so. It was magical.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Other peoples opionions of stuff I enjoy does not effect my enjoyment.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    From my first viewing in the theatre in 2013 in Singapore until this very second I really like the first Pacific Rim. It could have been really really bad but in the end it’s a movie with heart and you root for the characters. The CG is exceptional and the Robots and Monsters move extraordinarily well!

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    What was the time travel one that people said was confusing? Because I enjoyed that and thought it was good, just to find out apparently people hated it

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    If you're talking about Tenet, people didn't find it confusing because backwards moving time is confusing. They found it confusing cause 90% of the movie is overexplaining the concept through unintelligible dialogue, using a menagerie of unnamed characters in unexplained settings to deliver said dialogue.

    That movie solidified in my mind that Nolan has surrounded himself with yes men and has lost the touch. A warning I should've heeded before I wasted my time on Oppenheimer

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Core. It’s dumb fun but I watched it as a teen and thought it was ok. Fast forward to finding out that it was hated by both movie critics and the scientific community…

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tank girl. I don't care I fucking love the music number and it is quottable

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    The real tragedy is believing a movie you loved is bad just because of what randos think of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't care what others think. If I like it, I like it. Nobody else's opinion is going to matter to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    Not one mention of Battlefield Earth? Really?

    Yes, it's a terrible movie. Nobody watching this (except maybe John Travolta) ever thinks its a good movie. But it is.

    You just have to shut your brain off entirely. Johnny alien (travolta) runs around like an English major high on bath salts. Thousand year old military tech works flawlessly. Humans are so dumb they literally cant tell gold ore and solid gold ingots apart. The dumb humans manage to build and deploy a nuclear weapon in 7 days. Its so horrifically, nut crushingly stupid that it swings all the way around to comedy.

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Rebel Moon. I watched it on Netflix and was like, welp, so much for Star Wars, they might as well hang it up bc they can't compete with this. So I immediately go online and learn everyone HATES it.

    I must be the only one with good taste

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Is that the one where the moon opens up and attacks us? I might be getting movies confused. I think I remember a pitch meeting video on it

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    For me that movie was Gentlemen Broncos. It's one of my favourite movies of all time. I think it's hilarious, clever and imaginative. I adore the bizarre characters and I love watching all the different interpretations of the sci-fi story the protagonist wrote. Online reviews consider it average at best and the humour juvenile.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    That's why I've stopped looking up movies after I watch them. My opinions do not need to be validated.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Really liked Lucky Number Slevin. I wasn't a fan of Lucy Liu until that movie ... then I looked it up later and was like "oh, thought the RT score on this would have been better ...."

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Listening to the opinions of smelly internet people is not useful for matters of taste

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