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[โ€“] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 15 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Mickey 17 is the latest one for me.

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[โ€“] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CATS

Cats is not a complicated musical. All they had to do was animate it and get actual voice actors/singers. I've seen sketches for what I think was a Tim Burton sketch, and that would have been a million times better. I don't know who looked at Cat's and was like, "Yup, we need CGI." It looks horrendous and sounds bad more often than not. The musical is already pretty out there, how much more fun would that movie had been if we had animators working on it. The creative visuals, colors, motifs. Not to mention a cat is a wonderfully complex animal to animate just because of how they move. That movie could have been a visual delight in part with the Spiderman movies if they let it, but noooooo. Let's make a nightmare.

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[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I in no way call this "mediocre"; Its just a flat our terrible low budget bullshit film that the director made as an excuse to hang out with shirtless dudes.

But years ago the guys at Red Letter Media did a segment on "Bigfoot vs D.B. Cooper", and that premise alone (what happened after D.B. Cooper landed) has lived in my brain ever since.

It legitimately angers me that such a great high concept idea was completely wasted on what basically amounts to gay porn.

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[โ€“] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The ideas behind They Live are fascinating and deserved better treatment than a 20-minute alley fight about sunglasses.

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[โ€“] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What was that anime where you wear a VR headset and if you die in-game, you die in real life?

Ya that one

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sword Art Online had a pretty decent few opening episodes, it just.... for some reason decided to go full-blown Knights of Sidonia and turn itself into a weird harem anime.

[โ€“] justsquigglez@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I HIGHLY recommend the SAO Abridged series. It's one of the few "parody/satire" projects that actually makes the original story better and most regard SAO Abridged as the better version as a whole.

"You see, there's no need to wonder where your God is! Cause he's right here. And he's fresh out of mercy."

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[โ€“] PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Timeline! The movie was completely forgettable but the concept was pretty cool. I loved the book.

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[โ€“] A7thStone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

New Rose Hotel (1998) It's set in the same universe as Johnny Mnemonic, stars Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento. I love Gibson stories and the short story it's based on, while not one of his best, could make a good creepy weird movie especially with that cast. Unfortunately it is one of the most boring movies I've sat through at least half a dozen times.

[โ€“] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Highlander II

The Dark Tower

It's a long list but these two were painful.

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[โ€“] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I am 100% convinced they had a masterpiece and then test audiences didn't get it and they went and changed everything around and added the prologue and gave away the entire twist at the start by explicitly telling the viewer where and when we are. Also made the dinosaurs weird for .... reasons...?

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof. Having the statue of liberty there on the opening credits of Planet of the Apes

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