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Iirc most of the press was just "this cost waaaaay too much to make" rather than "its a bad movie"

Thanks for reminding me I still need to actually watch it, though. And ive got a few hours to kill.

And The Postman.

But I tend to like post-apocalyptic movies anyway.

The Stunt show at Universal Studios was really cool tho

I have a friend, whom I typically respect, who surprised me with that hot take one day. He had similar things to say about Creed and Taylor Swift.

Hes also been known to cheat at DnD, though. I love the guy but...

The big problem, at least to me, is that they were massively overplayed on the radio and I grew tired of hearing the same song over and over again.

Now hearing them again after a long break, I can recognize that they made some decent - not great, but still decent songs.

I’ve always interpreted that show with Marshall as the main character. He goes through the most growth and also has the most altruistic intentions throughout. I see it as a demonstration that your friends and loved ones can be holding you back. Marshall deserved better than that friend group and he rarely if ever sacrifices his morals for the others.

I loved watching that show, but the premise is a bit off. "Hey kids, let me tell you about all the chicks I banged before your mom."

This is kind of how I feel about Friends too. It gets hated on for very valid reasons. But I will always remember being a teen watching the episode where Rachel and Monica have 1 condom left in the apartment and compete over who gets it. Then Monica goes to tell Chandler (I think?) that they can’t have sex because Rachel won the condom. He whines a bit, but she holds her ground. It’s one of the earliest pieces of media I remember watching that emphasized the importance of safe sex.

I'd watch Bob Hoskins read the phone book.

Lol the "deevolution" ray that turns a dude into a monke. 😂

That movie was bizarre and wild. I like it too. I firmly file it under "Task failed successfully." Lol

It's always going to be one of my favorite Star Wars sequels because I got into it around the tail end of a deep depression and watched it early enough not to fall for the bad press

Luke's story hit home in a weird way and I liked that Johnson at least tried to make Rey's parents irrelevant as a much-needed dismissal of the whole idea that the fate of the galaxy far far away hinges on at least one magical bloodline

On top of that it's given me a good litmus test for what differences in opinion should actually be respected. Don't like the movie? Fine, but it is rather telling to me in all the ways people get downright aggressive over hating on it

I thought that most of the movie was somewhere between fine and fun, but that casino planet sequence was so unbearably bad that it soured the entire movie for me. I thought it was poorly-done, ham-handed social commentary awkwardly shoehorned into a strangely long sequence. And then at the end of it, they were in the exact same position they were at the beginning. It took a huge chunk of the second act, and it basically amounted to nothing.

All Star is on my hate list because I've heard it too many times at this point. It joins

• Don't Stop Believing by Journey
• Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
• Nevermind by Nirvana
• A few Red Hot Chili Peppers songs

It's sick.

"Fetch me my sword" grabs a gun named sword. Plus it has the best Mercutio.

Really, a lot of the prequel hate comes from them taking such a huge step down from the OT. In 1999, The Phantom Menace was the first major Star Wars film in 16 years; it wasn't just a cool new thing, it was a cultural event. People expected great things.

Obviously it failed at that. Not once, but twice. Revenge of the Sith barely even got a chance.

And so the backlash was brutal. While the critique wasn't unfair in its points, it also came from a perspective of starkly emotional disappointment. People say the prequels are looked at more fondly now due to 'nostalgia', but mostly I think it's that the emotional pain has faded and we can analyze them more objectively as flawed, but ultimately solid films rather than 'disasters'.

It may be that one day the sequels will be more coldly studied as well, with more focus placed on the issues produced by cycling directorship and management pressures... but I also think even a coldly analytical appraisal of them will still come up as "hollow and emotionless".

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vibes which is another crap movie

Awwww man, I really liked that movie. I wanted to see more on their take of captain nemo

Jason Momoa has great comedy and fun in Stargate Atlantis.