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What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] -38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The constant attack towards men ruined that movie, it wasn't even a clever attack just dumb feminism

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

The Barbie movie isn’t attacking men, it just lampoons society using the Barbies and Kens as silly caricatures.

Maybe it has a slight vapid girl power message but the real message is “hey remember this Barbie doll? Give us money”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I do agree that it, at times, definitely stepped into 'dumb femminism' as you put it. I also acknowledge that it was a movie and to do a discussion on feminism justice it would require a lot more than 2 hours. So a lot got simplified, sometimes too much. I disagree with you that it was a constant attack towards men. The movie went wayyyyy out of its way to make it clear they were attacking patriarchal systems, not men in general. That's Ken's whole arc, he's suffering under patriarchy too. He just also gets the benefits of the patruarchy while he's suffering. If I had any criticism about the film it was how much it tried to avoid criticizing capitalism and corporate culture's role.

[+] [email protected] -23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nah I'm sorry but it was an aimed attack. The speech about what society expects from a woman is such bullshit. As a man that is very old school I don't need woman to look great for me but not enough for other men, or being delicate, or earning less and all that stupidity. The men were the villain in the movie and the butt of the joke..

And the Ken character was fine. Only at the very end was almost shoehorned the "oh actually the system is the problem" and wtf didn't he got Barbie at the end, she even wanted him at first. Now that he was a better person or whatever why they went separate ways? There's no satisfactory ending for neither of the characters.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for projecting your experience as an individual man, on the experience of all women re what society expects of them.

Fucking Bravo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sorry to break it to you, but everyone projects their own experience. A man’s experience is just as valid, even if you disagree with it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Wow fuckin' wooosh with you and that one hey? Only a very weak beta would feel even remotely attacked by that movie. Good luck Chuck!