What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?
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.
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The Matrix. So, so dumb. Dumb, lots of dumb.
Absolutely the most overhyped film I've ever paid money to see.
In a thread full of hot takes, you've picked the hottest. I'd expect Lemmy users and people who like The Matrix have a Venn diagram that's just two nested circles.
Ha, yeah, I thought it might not go down well, but I'm not trolling. I genuinely hated that movie.
Not gonna lie, never seen the full movie(s) and probably never will at this point since it doesn't interest me.
Well, everyone is wrong sometimes, you just chose today. That film is a masterpiece. And yes they ripped off a bunch of other shit, but they did so with proper style.
And if you watch the matrix today for the first time, everything is cliche and done to death.
The reason for this is that every single action movie after the matrix has copied it. When it released, it blew people away. No one had seen anything like it. I remember going to see it after an event because of how much people wouldn’t stop talking about it. Even overhyped, I was blown away.
The Matrix defined action movies for a decade+
When it released, it blew people away
I actually saw it on release in the cinema. Hated it. Ah well :-)
I saw it in theaters too. Two months later, I saw The 13th Floor. Dark City had come out the year before.
I think that all of this was just the zeitgeist of the time.
I mean, the post is literally asking for unpopular opinions, so... respect the honesty at least
Thank you :-)
Masterpiece, schmasterpiece. It's a series of dumb set pieces tied together with a pseudo-philosophical plot and some impressive effects.
Just IMO, of course.
I don't think it's dumb but very overrated and not anywhere near as deep as people make it out to be. It's little surprise that "the red pill" had been embraced by so many arrogant people that are pretty ignorant.
Using people as batteries never made sense since you'd have to continually use energy to feed them and they really dont make that much heat energy.
If I remember correctly in the first drafts they used the brain for computational power but went for the battery idea because it was, for a then tech illiterate audience, easier to understand.
It was dumb, but at least it was semi-fun dumb. Thank goodness they never made any more Matrix movies after the first one.
shut up shut up shut up shut up no they didn't shut up shut up
Ok no. The matrix, the whole trilogy, it's a damn masterpiece. Misunderstood to the max. I won't bother with a essay because I know haters never move from their place.
Hey, you asked for these exact kinds of takes.
Hey, I'm not a hater, at least not in the trolling sense. I just genuinely think it's a poor movie and massively massively overrated. Never saw the sequels as I had zero interest.
I'd be curious to see what you think of the sequels because I only loved the first movie and hated everything that came after it. But I totally understand that you have no interest in watching them.
the whole trilogy, it's a damn masterpiece
An unpopular opinion from OP themselves.
I like the matrix series, but the two sequels are far from being masterpieces. The 2nd was a good action set piece, but the 3rd one got a bit up its own ass at times trying to fit all the exposition in with the action scenes.
As usual people don't understand the hidden message, every dialogue the AI characters say is ON POINT. Even Neo, becoming less human and more omnipresent and digital z everywhere, meanwhile Smith becomes more human. Is perfect, the antithesis, the one and the zero, binary code. Is perfect. Majority of people just don't get it.
And the very hidden references in music and Hinduism... I stand in my position, the movie is too clever for the average dumb viewer.