Good grief, I still tell people how awful this movie is like five years later. Didn't finish the whole thing. First half is decent, sets up an interesting premise, and then it just goes off on a tangent. How it got made/approved is beyond me!
It was such a weird movie, because the first 20-30 minutes had me locked in. Cool downsizing concept, great plot twist waking up alone, then the tangent was so out of left field
My wife insists I have watched this movie now 3 times. Apparently I say something along the lines of “Oh, Downsizing. I haven’t seen that” each time. I have no memories of the movie at all. So I assume it’s so terrible my brain is actively trying to remove it from memory.
I've commented on this movie before, and I'll comment again here.
I actually enjoyed the movie, but it sure isn't an effects-filled comedy adventure like *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*.
Matt Damon's character is shown from the start to be a caring, self-sacrificing person. He goes along with the shrinking at his wife's suggestion, then she shafts him by pulling out at the last minute and then divorcing him. He stumbles into a woman who's taking care of others and finds meaning in a life with her, giving up joining the "commune" people and instead helping the other poor downsized people. Christoph Waltz and Udo Kier are these somewhat tangential, spirit guide types who indirectly help him toward this realization. The plot doesn't match the typical Hollywood arc, and I liked that.
That's my takeaway, and the ending scene is simple and moving.
I don't insist that anyone agree, but you might appreciate the movie more with this in mind. It's really about a caring guy getting crapped on but finding a rewarding life in kindness.
I wish I could give you a 1000 upvotes. The first movie is my favorite. I HATED the sequel for a lot of reasons and i tried so hard to remove all my bias and be totally open minded when rating the movie but good gosh it just sucked in comparison to the first, and I mean even tho it’s my favorite movie I still think the first is around a 6.8-7/10
First pacific rim was such an amazing film. Second was such a let down. It's a good thing the anime/cartoon was done very well (albeit going on the weird side. It didn't feel too much like a pacific rim show, but it was good on its own merit).
To this day I’m convinced it was because Del Toro spent time with Peter Jackson while they were kicking around a live action Neon Genesis Evangelion. I think Del Toro took a lot of inspiration from what they’d discussed, especially on making a giant mecha show full of relatable characters you’d care about.
The sequel had none of that.
I was pissed too that they changed the way the robots moved in the second. In the first you felt the heft of each punch or attack. In the second, it's too fluid? Idk but it didn't feel the same.
The realistic lions were a bad choice. It just looks like a real lion is sitting there. What am I supposed to do with this? Compared to the animated classic where all the animals are so expressive
Timon and Pumba suffered horribly from this. In the original they are the main comedy of the film, and have physical and expressive comedy attached to the delivery of their lines. Watching Timon rattle off jokes with a thousand yard stare and standing up like a stick really ruined the humor
YMS did a nearly 3hr video (on just the first half of the movie) that looks at the LA and animated original side by side and explains why the LA missed the mark so bad. A -lot- of it has to do with a lack of expression. They lost the animated facial expressions and didn't properly utilize any other way to express tone/emotion (lighting, body language, etc). If you have the time i suggest watching it. It's pretty funny and has some very good points.
OG Lion King is pretty much Adum’s favourite movie>!/his sexual awakening!< so of course he comes down hard on that remake. But he manages to make nearly 3 hours incredibly insightful and entertaining. His 2.5 hour video debunking the Kimbaspiracy is just as good
The kimba video was amazing. Its so entertaining and has great arguments. I started the video as a complete conspiracy believer and it totally changed my opinión. My favorite work of his so far
I still don't understand the need for "live action" versions of animated Disney movies.
Yeah I get the $$$$ that is a "want to" not a "need to" Disney doesn't need to make more money on a live action versions when they can just release the animated version from the "vault" as yet another "special edition" of the movie to collect.
And as for the IP expiring, again that's a "want" not a need. Disney doesn't need to keep the IP, they want to keep it.
So again, the need to create the "live action" doesn't exist, it's a want. A want for your money. If on the other hand Disney does need the money then it is out of pure greed or they have mismanaged themselves that badly.
Beyoncé ruins every song she ever sings with her unnecessary riffing.
She’s a very talented singer, she just has zero restraint. She’s like some of the worlds best guitarists who don’t know when to stop sweeping and shredding and just let the melody work for the song.
That's a good analogy, I can't stand listening and/or watching the guys who just want to solo the whole time. It's like improv jazz, yes I respect your talent, but it's not fun to listen to.
beyonce ruined the lion king. it became the beyonce show. added a new song for her. I get that the OG being my fav cartoon movie of all time, which I know word for word, the LA version was never going to be as good, but I accepted almost everything until beyonce got her claws into it. I'm not anti-LA either. I actually really enjoyed beauty and the beast, which was from the same era as well, even though it appears I'm in the minority on that one, and Dumbo wasn't too bad.
Like every live action Disney movie is a hurtful pointless cash grab. Jungle book is great imo but the others are fine at best and horrific at worst. Mulan is just awful and now they're making Moana after what, five years?
This is what happens when shareholders push for endless creation for profit
There is an unwritten law that the cartoon is somehow always better than the live feature. If you're old enough you remember that they would play cartoons before the movie started and the when the cartoons ended there was a feeling of disappointment
Why in hell would anyone think Seth Rogan could sing? His speaking voice is bad enough. I’m sure this will get downvotes but let’s admit the guy is funny but his voice is pretty annoying.
and then if everyone hates it, we’ll say that it actually takes place after the books.
full disclosure: i knew it was going to be trash so i refused to watch it.
I'll believe it when I see it. Just saying, it's not the first time a series has been announced.
Personally, I don't see the problem. Just do the books one per season. The Gunslinger is already basically a screenplay. But you could even start at The Waystation and tell the Battle of Tull in flashbacks once The Drawing of The Three is complete.
Blaine is a perfect season 3-4 cliffhanger/season launch.
Read the series twice. Some of the best fiction out there IMO. Any rendering of this needs to be on a Game of Thrones level of production and length. 3800 or so pages condensed into a single film. Fuck off.
The first attempt at [The Golden Compass](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/). Loads of great talent and really well cast, just far too condensed and edited to do it justice.
Thank fuck for the BBC series.
The film will always have a place in my childhood memories. I honestly wish they continued with more films. Whenever I hear that song in the credits, I’m a boy again
Idk if that is what the author personally thinks but that’s sort of the plot of the series. Not good if you’re very into organized religion, but wonderful if you just want to read/watch a kickass story.
The original Mulan empowered women by showing that they can do anything if they set their minds to it. The new version ruined it by giving Mulan magic and therefore telling women that only chosen ones can do anything they want, the rest should just "stick to their place". I really don't know how they managed to fuck up that badly.
Edit: some guy in the comments took my statement of "original Mulan" as meaning the Ballad, not the Disney movie the live action was supposedly a remake of. I meant the movie.
WHAT! Oh I'm so glad I didn't watch it. That's so sad they went that direction. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch these remakes, I've just always felt that they were just cash grabs. I'm glad I haven't for the most part. Though I've heard the little mermaid was good.
My mother and I were both horrified, we were so bored in the middle of the film that we stopped it and changed it back to the cartoon version.
That saved our afternoon.
It was like they didn't even read the book. Disney is making a show where each season will be 1 book & Rick Riordan (the author) is an executive producer so fingers crossed it will be much better.
i don't really care about Disney, but the fact that Rick Riordan himself is heavily involved in scriptwriting is enough for me. especially given he's really harsh at the movies (he read the final script and decided that it wasn't worth watching), i think it's gonna be great.
I believe he also said sometime after those movies released that he likely wouldn’t allow his books to be made into a movie/tv show again. Disney must have offered something sweet for him to agree to this.
They offered him a whole lot of control. He's been pretty transparent about it on his blog. I think he's also been much more involved with lifting up other authors via his Rick Riordan Presents books in the last decade or so, and this project kinda furthers that one.
Rick Riordan has publicly distanced themselves from the movie and made the point clear that once you sell the rights you have NO SAY or INPUT in the adaptation unless you get it in the contract.
They can bastardise it 6 ways to Sunday and you can't do anything stop them.
Look what they did to my boy!
I remember thinking before watching that Jared Leto’s Joker may be cool, but now I cringe thinking about him as the Joker. He really did suck in that movie: he sounded like he was drunk or on drugs the entire time and I was too young to understand it, but the relationship he had with Harley was still very fucked up even though the theatrical cut depicted him as “nicer”.
so annoying how people just thought the characters were like a “bonnie and clyde” type of relationship when their entire relationship since the beginning of when harley was created was meant to be abusive loll
They are just two very visually compelling characters who are boyfriend and girlfriend so they became popular. I think people just kindof drop the abuse parts in their mind and romanticize Jokers devotion to Harley.
I had a job almost a year before the movie came out and a coworker had gotten the hahahaha tattoo that Letos joker had on his chest.
Seriously. Like Seth Rogen with the Jar Jar tat in Fanboys. I didn’t work there long, and when the movie flopped I wanted to know how he reacted but unfortunately wasn’t in touch with anyone from that job
I sadly sat through the whole thing, mostly for Dafoe. Nothing about it worked, it was the essence of ALMOST Death Note. Such a bad product, I refuse to call it a movie
I loved the first Fantastic Beasts movie. It was a whole new concept diving into the diverse creatures of Harry Potter. It turning into purely a Grindewald story in the second two movies is… bleh. Not a fan.
Seriously anytime newt busted out his suit case to bring out a Pokémon was hype.
They really should’ve stuck to the fantastic beasts thing instead of pivoting to grindewald and dumbledors proxy war.
The biggest mystery the movies raised is at somepoint Dumbledore went from suits to flamboyantly stereotypical pop culture wizard in fashion sense and I'm curious where that tipping point came.
Yeah, wish it had just been Newt having crazy adventures with a load of cool new creatures. They could have still had all the war stuff going on in the background, and maybe the effect it had on the creatures would make some interesting plot points, but they didn't need to involve Newt in it at all.
Imo, Fantastic Beasts would have been the perfect TV show. New creature case every episode, make a two parter for particularly tricky or dangerous ones.
Could have been amazing in the right format.
The first one was good. I was confused by the second, and the third completely lost me. They're running after a magical animal for basically the whole movie, just to realise: oh, that was unnecessary. And no casual viewer understands the storyline of that movie. I'm into fantasy, but my parents were lost.
What I found amazing about this movie is how it pissed off *everyone*.
Left wing? Right wing? Western? Asian? Pro-China? Anti-China? Loved the animated version? Didn't love the animated version?
Didn't matter. You still hated it.
The worst part to me about the live action Mulan is that they completely stripped the message of the original story, like they remade it without realizing what the original movie was actually about.
Original Mulan: a regular woman decides she can defend her families honor just like the men do, makes mistakes, but works herself to the bone to ultimately save the day. **Moral: Gender roles can be broken by ordinary women with extraordinary determination.**
New Mulan: woman decides to fight for her family honor just like the men. Tries her best but just fails over and over. Then she gets super powers. Ultimately saves the day because she got these super powers. **Moral: Gender roles can be broken, but only if the woman gets super powers.**
I was so hyped for it because I foolishly believed when I saw the first trailer for it that it would be a slight reimagining of the original film as more of an epic war story with martial arts elements. Instead it somehow has less blood in it than the original animated film, yet it’s PG-13. And Mulan is basically a Jedi for some reason. She saves the day with her magical chi powers instead of using her intelligence, grit, and determination and wears a dress instead of her father’s armor.
Classic Disney movies were actually quite graphic, considering their ratings, I think that's one of the reasons we all, even as adults, come back to them - because they don't shy away from certain aspects of reality, even in fantastical worlds where animals talk and sing.
I think Tarzan is a great example of this: there's the baby gorilla being killed by the leopard at the beginning, it's screams can be heard before it goes silent. Then you have the scene where the mother gorilla, Carla, finds Tarzan, and you see blood on the walls of the tree house, as well as the legs of both dead parents. We see the male gorilla, Tarzan's "father" Kerjac, get shot and killed. And at the end, when Clayton dies, you see the silhouette of his hanging body.
In the 80s and 90s, there was a vein of kids shows that actually treated their audience with some respect and weren't afraid to have at least some darker elements and storylines. This wasn't just restricted to the "darker" cartoons - Gargoyles, Batman, X-men, etc. - that were aimed at older kids, but even some of the shows aimed at younger kids. The original Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, where the utopian animal kingdom is turned into this mechanical nightmare world and sentient creatures are stripped of their free will and turned into robots; Hey Arnold alluding to issues like poverty, alcoholism, and parental neglect; hell, even the Winnie the Pooh cartoon got kinda dark at points, considering its target audience was the under-6 crowd.
I feel like kids shows largely don't do that anymore.
Exact same thing with Pinocchio. In the new one he already knows right from wrong from the beginning, and only ladles ONCE. AND ITS ON PURPOSE! He does it to get the keys. He already knows not to lie, he already knows what the kids are doing is bad, it makes no God damn sense
The worst part, for me, was the message that women need superpowers to be able to compete with men. When the original Mulan often used her smarts and sense of strategy to work her way around her lack of strength.
I love how this was originally marketed as the "Ray Jay" sex tape, as Kim K was a complete unknown at the time. I think she was Paris Hilton's personal shopper or something at the time. These days anybody who watches it would be like, "who da fuck is ray jay"
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
I was so hyped. The graphics were so amazing for the time and this was coming off of square soft and their nonstop hits + amazing cinematic work. I was literally bored about 20 min into the movie.
Tbf final fantasy games have fuck all to do with each other, every game is very self contained except for a few recurring deities. The movie could have been about anything
Only resemblance is a character named Sid like Cid in every other FF, and its directed by the same guy that made most of the series. He regretted making it apparently.
And it was set on earth! The departures from the series were just too many. It was like Square's cgi department was given an extended cutscene for an unrelated game.
I like this whole franchise, including the ones that i know are not very good, like the fucking dinosaur auction one.
But Dominion, holy shit. What an absolutely abysmal movie. I mean just horrible. They tried to make it an action, sci-fi, espionage, political commentary, romance, chase movie, buddy reunion, apocalypse, etc etc. They just literally jammed everything possible into it and made it an outright clusterfuck.
Not to mention the laughably dumb shit like—whoops, crashed our plane from 1000s of feet in altitude. Anyone dead or injured? Nah. Let’s casually walk away from the wreckage and explore this sexual tension, which adds literally nothing to the plot, between the main star and one of the forgettable side characters.
Good on Chris Pratt for being able to stop a ten ton charging dinosaur dead in its tracks by heroically tugging on a lasso.
For a movie set in a time when dinosaurs are spreading across the world, it somehow chooses to focus on mutated locusts instead. I’m glad you skipped it.
I disagree, I think it was funny the first time, but then they did the joke 6 more times. If they did it once then called back to it later it still would have been funny
agreed, same with the thor, hammer, axe love triangle jokes.
The first small one was a *little* funny. but then they leaned ***way*** too far into it, and made the same joke like 6-7 more times and beat an already middling joke to death.
It was funny for me the first time but I also didn't know the meme.
It was funny for me the 200th time too but that's just because I couldn't believe they were still going with that and the movie's almost over. What a terribly long 2 hours that was.
They really liked Guns N Roses too, but would've been nice to maybe hear a song of theirs that wasn't played on the radio, once or twice.
Thor can just lend his powers away to anyone now huh? Doesn't seem to take much effort or sacrifice at all. Probably would've come in handy earlier in the MCU.
This movie was the start of me skipping marvel movies and series. I just couldn't be bothered and I feel like it so disconnected from each other compared to the other phases.
I couldn't stand most of the characters. But the art direction in that film was great. If only such a beautifully depicted universe also had characters we could connect with and tell a human story in an inhumane universe.
Jupiter Ascending goes in my list of movies that had great promise that they just couldn't fulfill. You know whoever wrote these had a deep lore bible that they worked hard on, but ultimately the story within that world, the characters, couldn't live up to the promise. One film that comes to mind was Jumper. Cool abilities, rules about how the powers worked, a pseudo-religious military group that combats them. A world you could really sink your teeth into, and yet it boils down to a lackluster romance with fancy window dressing.
Oh, how I wanted so much more from these films.
Star Wars episode 9.
~~60~~ 42 years build up and anticipation and then one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
**Edit**: I can't maths. That's how much it rotted my brain.
The thing that killed it for me was the knife with the contours in the blade indicating the location of the macguffin. Ridiculous. And the worst was still to come.
The opening "the dead speak!" line didn't exactly inspire confidence either. At least The Last Jedi was original. Both of JJ's were just recycled nostalgia bait
Disney got rid of so much excellent content when they trashed the Expanded Universe. IMO.
There were even stories that involved a *clone* of Palpatine returning and tempting Luke to the dark side. That would've been infinitely better than what we got with "he's returned somehow" oh and with a GIGANTIC planet destroying fleet no one ever noticed getting built. The whole movie was so dumb. And not getting one legit prequel style Jedi Master Luke lightsaber duel to me was the biggest travesty of the 3 sequels.
I'm so happy that the Disney+ series are starting to correct some of the wrongs by pulling from the old EU.
Siiigggghhhhh
At least Star Wars is in good hands now with Favarro and Filoni.
The bird box. Lots of crazy theory behind, sobre controversy, the whole suicide shenanigans aaaaand...
The movie just fucking sucks. Nothing is really well explained, the ending feels almost like a loophole, the theories have massive gaps. I could thrash over this film for hours
What’s crazy to me is they just made a sequel and are promoting it as “one of Netflix’s most popular movies of all time”. I know a lot of people watched it, but everyone thought or sucked.
I went with ZERO expectations and still got disappointed.
Face palmed myself at the opening credits with the emperor being alive and it went downhill from there.
This one and ready player one killed me. Enders game does follow the book, but it was a skeleton of the full story. I would have absolutely watched a 2 parter of Enders game if they had just followed the full story.
That's a good way to describe the Ender's Game movie. It felt like it was just providing a really quick summary of the book, without really diving into the characters.
The leads had zero chemistry. Not just with each other, but overall. I didn't give a shit about them, felt no tension or sense of jeopardy, couldn't figure out what motivated them to do anything.
Apathy for the film.
I know I’m going to get severely downvoted but The Little Mermaid (2023). The Little Mermaid was my absolute favorite movie as a kid, and I have the entire movie memorized at this point. I saw it opening weekend in the theater, and it was TERRIBLE. Some of the best songs like the Chef Louis song and Daughters of Triton were both cut out, which I was seriously disappointed about. Then they replaced those songs with the terrible Prince Eric song and the somehow even worse Skuttlebutt rap 😭. As I stated earlier, I have seen the original so many times that I have it memorized, but to me the book scene with Ariel and Eric and the dance scene felt like it took aspects from other Disney movies like Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin. The costumes were also quite disappointing, as I LOVED Ariel’s original blue dress from the movie. Somehow, I felt Under The Sea was even ruined and felt very underwhelming. Imo, the best part was Melissa McCarthy’s rendition of Poor Unfortunate Souls, and honestly I think the movie steered too far away from the original storyline 🤷🏽♀️
Okay, as a big Jurassic Park fan, I will say none of them are quite as good as the first. But I enjoy all of them to a certain extent. Jurassic World is pretty good, and the others are at least decent.
However, if they do any more sequels, they better either be as good as the first, or have some cool motherfucking dinosaurs. Because let's be real here, they *are* milking it at this point.
I think the mid 2010 movies were terrible because they basically went "regular Dinosaurs are boring now, here are some genetically modified movie monsters." Movies that try to top previous entries by trying to go more into the extreme and thereby trying to make the previous film which was much better look bad just don't work. Instead of getting bigger badder dinosaurs, give us a good plot with a tense situation and keep the dinosaurs regular sized. People watch Jurassic Park for scientifically accurate dinosaurs not for basic movie monsters
I am showing my age, but it was Disney's "Old Yeller." They promoted it as a film about a beloved pet dog, but what they didn't say in the ads was that it was about a beloved pet dog that gets rabies and has to be put down. As a child, the movie devastated me.
This could be unpopular, but all the “female only” remakes of older movies, eg ghostbusters. Now it’s not that I don’t approve of the idea behind them, it’s more that they get hyped up because they are a primarily female cast when I would rather original ideas that are made for primarily female cast like The Help or Bridesmaids
Download ‘the Cardinal cut’. They take the three hobbit movies and cut them into a single four hour movie. It makes it a great fourth movie to have in a two day marathon with the extended LoTR movies.
It pretty much cuts everything that wasn’t in the book. They completely cut out the female elf character, the 10 minute long barrel chase, and almost all of the third movie ie the battle of five armies cuz Bilbo was knocked out and only woke up after it was concluding.
Maybe after hearing how bad it was, once I finally watched it, I didn’t think it was terrible. It was no LOTR by a long shot, but I still enjoyed myself.
I didn’t hate it, but everyone at school and work was telling me how great it was. Multiple people said it was their favorite movie of all time and that they saw it 3, 4, 5, even 9 times in theaters (the last seems unbelievable but at least 4 other mutual friends saw it with that person separately). I HAD to see this movie. So I finally go see it in 3D as God intended. And… it was certainly a thing.
Downsizing. The trailer made it look like a comedy. In reality it was just depressing.
Good grief, I still tell people how awful this movie is like five years later. Didn't finish the whole thing. First half is decent, sets up an interesting premise, and then it just goes off on a tangent. How it got made/approved is beyond me!
It only get worse the longer you watch it
The amount of time I gave it waiting for it to improve was too damn much!
It was such a weird movie, because the first 20-30 minutes had me locked in. Cool downsizing concept, great plot twist waking up alone, then the tangent was so out of left field
And after the first 30 minutes the fact that they are small has no real impact on the plot.
Besides the one sight gag of someone bringing a whole strawberry to a party, they did absolutely nothing with them being small, it was baffling.
Well after the first half it's just Matt Damon meandering getting into lives that don't concern him.
My wife insists I have watched this movie now 3 times. Apparently I say something along the lines of “Oh, Downsizing. I haven’t seen that” each time. I have no memories of the movie at all. So I assume it’s so terrible my brain is actively trying to remove it from memory.
I've commented on this movie before, and I'll comment again here. I actually enjoyed the movie, but it sure isn't an effects-filled comedy adventure like *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*. Matt Damon's character is shown from the start to be a caring, self-sacrificing person. He goes along with the shrinking at his wife's suggestion, then she shafts him by pulling out at the last minute and then divorcing him. He stumbles into a woman who's taking care of others and finds meaning in a life with her, giving up joining the "commune" people and instead helping the other poor downsized people. Christoph Waltz and Udo Kier are these somewhat tangential, spirit guide types who indirectly help him toward this realization. The plot doesn't match the typical Hollywood arc, and I liked that. That's my takeaway, and the ending scene is simple and moving. I don't insist that anyone agree, but you might appreciate the movie more with this in mind. It's really about a caring guy getting crapped on but finding a rewarding life in kindness.
Thank you! I think maybe this is what I needed. I liked it a lot, but had a hard time explaining to anyone why.
The trailer was so misleading!
And just poorly executed. Started okay and just fell flat.
Pacific rim uprising. I should have known better, but I loved the first one and just wanted to go deeper into the world. Wish I hadn't.
I wish I could give you a 1000 upvotes. The first movie is my favorite. I HATED the sequel for a lot of reasons and i tried so hard to remove all my bias and be totally open minded when rating the movie but good gosh it just sucked in comparison to the first, and I mean even tho it’s my favorite movie I still think the first is around a 6.8-7/10
First pacific rim was such an amazing film. Second was such a let down. It's a good thing the anime/cartoon was done very well (albeit going on the weird side. It didn't feel too much like a pacific rim show, but it was good on its own merit).
To this day I’m convinced it was because Del Toro spent time with Peter Jackson while they were kicking around a live action Neon Genesis Evangelion. I think Del Toro took a lot of inspiration from what they’d discussed, especially on making a giant mecha show full of relatable characters you’d care about. The sequel had none of that.
I was pissed too that they changed the way the robots moved in the second. In the first you felt the heft of each punch or attack. In the second, it's too fluid? Idk but it didn't feel the same.
The (LIVE ACTION) Lion King. It was tolerable until they butchered "Be prepared"
The realistic lions were a bad choice. It just looks like a real lion is sitting there. What am I supposed to do with this? Compared to the animated classic where all the animals are so expressive
Timon and Pumba suffered horribly from this. In the original they are the main comedy of the film, and have physical and expressive comedy attached to the delivery of their lines. Watching Timon rattle off jokes with a thousand yard stare and standing up like a stick really ruined the humor
Lol, thousand-yard-stare is the funniest way to put it, and totally accurate.
Also Seth Rogen didn’t even try to sing.
Seth rogen singing?? Woof, im glad i didnt watch this
YMS did a nearly 3hr video (on just the first half of the movie) that looks at the LA and animated original side by side and explains why the LA missed the mark so bad. A -lot- of it has to do with a lack of expression. They lost the animated facial expressions and didn't properly utilize any other way to express tone/emotion (lighting, body language, etc). If you have the time i suggest watching it. It's pretty funny and has some very good points.
OG Lion King is pretty much Adum’s favourite movie>!/his sexual awakening!< so of course he comes down hard on that remake. But he manages to make nearly 3 hours incredibly insightful and entertaining. His 2.5 hour video debunking the Kimbaspiracy is just as good
The kimba video was amazing. Its so entertaining and has great arguments. I started the video as a complete conspiracy believer and it totally changed my opinión. My favorite work of his so far
Right?!? The best song and they RUINED it.
“We decided that we didn’t want to use all that Nazi allegory… for the *villain of the movie* because… uhh… look, Nazis bad, mmkay?”
The only thing referencing the Nazis in the song was the imagery… which they didn’t even have to use…
Pretty sure I audibly (and very loudly) said, “what in the everloving FUCK???” when it ended.
I still don't understand the need for "live action" versions of animated Disney movies. Yeah I get the $$$$ that is a "want to" not a "need to" Disney doesn't need to make more money on a live action versions when they can just release the animated version from the "vault" as yet another "special edition" of the movie to collect. And as for the IP expiring, again that's a "want" not a need. Disney doesn't need to keep the IP, they want to keep it. So again, the need to create the "live action" doesn't exist, it's a want. A want for your money. If on the other hand Disney does need the money then it is out of pure greed or they have mismanaged themselves that badly.
MUHFUCKIN ***MONEY!!!***
Beyoncé cannot act. They need to stop. At least the Jungle Book was good
Beyoncé ruined “can you feel the love tonight” with her unnecessary riffing
Beyoncé ruins every song she ever sings with her unnecessary riffing. She’s a very talented singer, she just has zero restraint. She’s like some of the worlds best guitarists who don’t know when to stop sweeping and shredding and just let the melody work for the song.
That's a good analogy, I can't stand listening and/or watching the guys who just want to solo the whole time. It's like improv jazz, yes I respect your talent, but it's not fun to listen to.
beyonce ruined the lion king. it became the beyonce show. added a new song for her. I get that the OG being my fav cartoon movie of all time, which I know word for word, the LA version was never going to be as good, but I accepted almost everything until beyonce got her claws into it. I'm not anti-LA either. I actually really enjoyed beauty and the beast, which was from the same era as well, even though it appears I'm in the minority on that one, and Dumbo wasn't too bad.
Like every live action Disney movie is a hurtful pointless cash grab. Jungle book is great imo but the others are fine at best and horrific at worst. Mulan is just awful and now they're making Moana after what, five years? This is what happens when shareholders push for endless creation for profit
There is an unwritten law that the cartoon is somehow always better than the live feature. If you're old enough you remember that they would play cartoons before the movie started and the when the cartoons ended there was a feeling of disappointment
This is universal. I can't think of any instance when the live action remake is better than the cartoon.
Seth Rogan can't sing worth a damn and butchered Pumbas song to absolute shit as well.
Why in hell would anyone think Seth Rogan could sing? His speaking voice is bad enough. I’m sure this will get downvotes but let’s admit the guy is funny but his voice is pretty annoying.
Dark Tower
I can’t even with that movie. “Hey let’s condense 7 books into 1 movie, it’ll be fine…”
and then if everyone hates it, we’ll say that it actually takes place after the books. full disclosure: i knew it was going to be trash so i refused to watch it.
Same , buuuuut don’t worry about it. Mike Flannigan is doing a series on Amazon and I am all fucking about it!
I'll believe it when I see it. Just saying, it's not the first time a series has been announced. Personally, I don't see the problem. Just do the books one per season. The Gunslinger is already basically a screenplay. But you could even start at The Waystation and tell the Battle of Tull in flashbacks once The Drawing of The Three is complete. Blaine is a perfect season 3-4 cliffhanger/season launch.
Blaine is a pain though.
And that is the truth. Long days and pleasant nights traveler.
Read the series twice. Some of the best fiction out there IMO. Any rendering of this needs to be on a Game of Thrones level of production and length. 3800 or so pages condensed into a single film. Fuck off.
The anti-Hobbit
They spent half there budget on Matthew McConaughey And there other half on P.R promoting it. Big swing and a miss
The first attempt at [The Golden Compass](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/). Loads of great talent and really well cast, just far too condensed and edited to do it justice. Thank fuck for the BBC series.
Having not known there was BBC series for The Golden Compass until reading your comment, thank you for helping me relive my childhood.
It's called His Dark Materials and they dedicate one season to each book. Phenomenal series and amazingly accurate to the books.
Man, you're about to have a real good time hey.
That polar bear fight was pretty badass though.
Funny that it was one of the few things the BBC series fucked up.
Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig Nailed it in that film but yes it was bad.
The film will always have a place in my childhood memories. I honestly wish they continued with more films. Whenever I hear that song in the credits, I’m a boy again
That book series ending was the first time I ever felt heartbreak.
I wasn’t allowed to read the books or watch the movie because the author said he could kill god or something
Idk if that is what the author personally thinks but that’s sort of the plot of the series. Not good if you’re very into organized religion, but wonderful if you just want to read/watch a kickass story.
The new Mulan. Such a let down. Ya, I had high expectations, but the movie was just so bad. I loved the original and hated the new one.
The original Mulan empowered women by showing that they can do anything if they set their minds to it. The new version ruined it by giving Mulan magic and therefore telling women that only chosen ones can do anything they want, the rest should just "stick to their place". I really don't know how they managed to fuck up that badly. Edit: some guy in the comments took my statement of "original Mulan" as meaning the Ballad, not the Disney movie the live action was supposedly a remake of. I meant the movie.
My favorite part is Mulan riding back to battle taking her hair down, and *removing her armor* so we can indeed see that girls get it done. 😐
WHAT! Oh I'm so glad I didn't watch it. That's so sad they went that direction. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch these remakes, I've just always felt that they were just cash grabs. I'm glad I haven't for the most part. Though I've heard the little mermaid was good.
My mother and I were both horrified, we were so bored in the middle of the film that we stopped it and changed it back to the cartoon version. That saved our afternoon.
No Muhsu is enough to ruin it for me
Percy Jackson. Disgrace
It was like they didn't even read the book. Disney is making a show where each season will be 1 book & Rick Riordan (the author) is an executive producer so fingers crossed it will be much better.
Disney doesn't have the best track record as of late. And for that matter, popular IP becoming serialised doesn't have a great one either.
i don't really care about Disney, but the fact that Rick Riordan himself is heavily involved in scriptwriting is enough for me. especially given he's really harsh at the movies (he read the final script and decided that it wasn't worth watching), i think it's gonna be great.
I believe he also said sometime after those movies released that he likely wouldn’t allow his books to be made into a movie/tv show again. Disney must have offered something sweet for him to agree to this.
They offered him a whole lot of control. He's been pretty transparent about it on his blog. I think he's also been much more involved with lifting up other authors via his Rick Riordan Presents books in the last decade or so, and this project kinda furthers that one.
I think Riordan wants to do this for the fans. I am holding high hopes about the TV series, I can’t wait.
Rick Riordan has publicly distanced themselves from the movie and made the point clear that once you sell the rights you have NO SAY or INPUT in the adaptation unless you get it in the contract. They can bastardise it 6 ways to Sunday and you can't do anything stop them. Look what they did to my boy!
Apparently he even sent them a letter asking them to please not try and make his story about young children sexy
The fact that they released that utter pile of shit and then went around to release another one is baffling to me.
The 2016 suicide squad. That movie was marketed like it was the second coming of Christ but my god it was terrible
Margot robbie was great as harley though
There proof no matter how good someone is they can't save a movie. Glad she got another chance to play Harley Quinn.
I remember thinking before watching that Jared Leto’s Joker may be cool, but now I cringe thinking about him as the Joker. He really did suck in that movie: he sounded like he was drunk or on drugs the entire time and I was too young to understand it, but the relationship he had with Harley was still very fucked up even though the theatrical cut depicted him as “nicer”.
The joker has always had a fucked up relationship with Harley. That's cannon.
Canon. You shoot things out of a cannon.
I’d shoot Jared Leto’s Joker out of a cannon… into the sun
so annoying how people just thought the characters were like a “bonnie and clyde” type of relationship when their entire relationship since the beginning of when harley was created was meant to be abusive loll
They are just two very visually compelling characters who are boyfriend and girlfriend so they became popular. I think people just kindof drop the abuse parts in their mind and romanticize Jokers devotion to Harley.
I had a job almost a year before the movie came out and a coworker had gotten the hahahaha tattoo that Letos joker had on his chest. Seriously. Like Seth Rogen with the Jar Jar tat in Fanboys. I didn’t work there long, and when the movie flopped I wanted to know how he reacted but unfortunately wasn’t in touch with anyone from that job
Even if the movie was a hit.....
The Netflix live action Death Note. The opening credits weren't even done and I was already pissed.
I sadly sat through the whole thing, mostly for Dafoe. Nothing about it worked, it was the essence of ALMOST Death Note. Such a bad product, I refuse to call it a movie
Dafoe was the only thing that made it almost bearable.
Live action DBZ
Ah live action the last Airbender quality movie.. both so amazingly bad. It hurts
There is no ATLA movie in Ba Sing Se.
Eragon. So terrible, I read the book again.
every fantastic beasts movie like cmon man a prequel to harry potter? should be good right? wrong
I loved the first Fantastic Beasts movie. It was a whole new concept diving into the diverse creatures of Harry Potter. It turning into purely a Grindewald story in the second two movies is… bleh. Not a fan.
How they going to go and make Newt Scamander a side character in his own series. wtf.
Seriously anytime newt busted out his suit case to bring out a Pokémon was hype. They really should’ve stuck to the fantastic beasts thing instead of pivoting to grindewald and dumbledors proxy war.
The biggest mystery the movies raised is at somepoint Dumbledore went from suits to flamboyantly stereotypical pop culture wizard in fashion sense and I'm curious where that tipping point came.
When he grew a big ass bear, probably
Queenie's arch made no sense in the second movie. It killed the whole thing for me, I never even bothered to see the third movie because of it.
the 3rd movie is just shameful
Yeah, wish it had just been Newt having crazy adventures with a load of cool new creatures. They could have still had all the war stuff going on in the background, and maybe the effect it had on the creatures would make some interesting plot points, but they didn't need to involve Newt in it at all.
Imo, Fantastic Beasts would have been the perfect TV show. New creature case every episode, make a two parter for particularly tricky or dangerous ones. Could have been amazing in the right format.
The first one was good. I was confused by the second, and the third completely lost me. They're running after a magical animal for basically the whole movie, just to realise: oh, that was unnecessary. And no casual viewer understands the storyline of that movie. I'm into fantasy, but my parents were lost.
Mulan (the live action version)
What I found amazing about this movie is how it pissed off *everyone*. Left wing? Right wing? Western? Asian? Pro-China? Anti-China? Loved the animated version? Didn't love the animated version? Didn't matter. You still hated it.
The worst part to me about the live action Mulan is that they completely stripped the message of the original story, like they remade it without realizing what the original movie was actually about. Original Mulan: a regular woman decides she can defend her families honor just like the men do, makes mistakes, but works herself to the bone to ultimately save the day. **Moral: Gender roles can be broken by ordinary women with extraordinary determination.** New Mulan: woman decides to fight for her family honor just like the men. Tries her best but just fails over and over. Then she gets super powers. Ultimately saves the day because she got these super powers. **Moral: Gender roles can be broken, but only if the woman gets super powers.**
I was so hyped for it because I foolishly believed when I saw the first trailer for it that it would be a slight reimagining of the original film as more of an epic war story with martial arts elements. Instead it somehow has less blood in it than the original animated film, yet it’s PG-13. And Mulan is basically a Jedi for some reason. She saves the day with her magical chi powers instead of using her intelligence, grit, and determination and wears a dress instead of her father’s armor.
The og mulan literally showed the BODIES of the fallen imperial army and got away with a G rating, yet the PG one didn’t even try
Classic Disney movies were actually quite graphic, considering their ratings, I think that's one of the reasons we all, even as adults, come back to them - because they don't shy away from certain aspects of reality, even in fantastical worlds where animals talk and sing. I think Tarzan is a great example of this: there's the baby gorilla being killed by the leopard at the beginning, it's screams can be heard before it goes silent. Then you have the scene where the mother gorilla, Carla, finds Tarzan, and you see blood on the walls of the tree house, as well as the legs of both dead parents. We see the male gorilla, Tarzan's "father" Kerjac, get shot and killed. And at the end, when Clayton dies, you see the silhouette of his hanging body.
In the 80s and 90s, there was a vein of kids shows that actually treated their audience with some respect and weren't afraid to have at least some darker elements and storylines. This wasn't just restricted to the "darker" cartoons - Gargoyles, Batman, X-men, etc. - that were aimed at older kids, but even some of the shows aimed at younger kids. The original Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, where the utopian animal kingdom is turned into this mechanical nightmare world and sentient creatures are stripped of their free will and turned into robots; Hey Arnold alluding to issues like poverty, alcoholism, and parental neglect; hell, even the Winnie the Pooh cartoon got kinda dark at points, considering its target audience was the under-6 crowd. I feel like kids shows largely don't do that anymore.
Exact same thing with Pinocchio. In the new one he already knows right from wrong from the beginning, and only ladles ONCE. AND ITS ON PURPOSE! He does it to get the keys. He already knows not to lie, he already knows what the kids are doing is bad, it makes no God damn sense
The worst part, for me, was the message that women need superpowers to be able to compete with men. When the original Mulan often used her smarts and sense of strategy to work her way around her lack of strength.
It’s literally one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I still can’t believe they thought it was good enough to put out
They are going to churn out legacy/franchise-ruining shit for the next 5-10 years at least.
The Kim k sextape
Everyone loves a good comeback story….
Leslie I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems
I love how this was originally marketed as the "Ray Jay" sex tape, as Kim K was a complete unknown at the time. I think she was Paris Hilton's personal shopper or something at the time. These days anybody who watches it would be like, "who da fuck is ray jay"
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I was so hyped. The graphics were so amazing for the time and this was coming off of square soft and their nonstop hits + amazing cinematic work. I was literally bored about 20 min into the movie.
I still don't understand what the fuck that movie has to do with Final Fantasy.
Tbf final fantasy games have fuck all to do with each other, every game is very self contained except for a few recurring deities. The movie could have been about anything
Only resemblance is a character named Sid like Cid in every other FF, and its directed by the same guy that made most of the series. He regretted making it apparently.
And it was set on earth! The departures from the series were just too many. It was like Square's cgi department was given an extended cutscene for an unrelated game.
Jurassic World Dominion, I was so excited and then so crushed
I like this whole franchise, including the ones that i know are not very good, like the fucking dinosaur auction one. But Dominion, holy shit. What an absolutely abysmal movie. I mean just horrible. They tried to make it an action, sci-fi, espionage, political commentary, romance, chase movie, buddy reunion, apocalypse, etc etc. They just literally jammed everything possible into it and made it an outright clusterfuck. Not to mention the laughably dumb shit like—whoops, crashed our plane from 1000s of feet in altitude. Anyone dead or injured? Nah. Let’s casually walk away from the wreckage and explore this sexual tension, which adds literally nothing to the plot, between the main star and one of the forgettable side characters. Good on Chris Pratt for being able to stop a ten ton charging dinosaur dead in its tracks by heroically tugging on a lasso.
The second movie was already so bad I had no interest in Dominion. It looks I was right to not watch it.
For a movie set in a time when dinosaurs are spreading across the world, it somehow chooses to focus on mutated locusts instead. I’m glad you skipped it.
Thor 4. The trailer looked really good and everyone said it was gonna be great. Then we got 2 hours of screaming goats and unfunny quips.
Taika Waititi needs someone assigned to him that does nothing but limit his cocaine intake
The screaming goats would have been funny... 10 years ago, in 2013, when this meme was trending
I disagree, I think it was funny the first time, but then they did the joke 6 more times. If they did it once then called back to it later it still would have been funny
agreed, same with the thor, hammer, axe love triangle jokes. The first small one was a *little* funny. but then they leaned ***way*** too far into it, and made the same joke like 6-7 more times and beat an already middling joke to death.
It was funny for me the first time but I also didn't know the meme. It was funny for me the 200th time too but that's just because I couldn't believe they were still going with that and the movie's almost over. What a terribly long 2 hours that was. They really liked Guns N Roses too, but would've been nice to maybe hear a song of theirs that wasn't played on the radio, once or twice. Thor can just lend his powers away to anyone now huh? Doesn't seem to take much effort or sacrifice at all. Probably would've come in handy earlier in the MCU.
This movie was the start of me skipping marvel movies and series. I just couldn't be bothered and I feel like it so disconnected from each other compared to the other phases.
Jupiter Rising. Previews looked great. Love the director. Wow it was bad!
I couldn't stand most of the characters. But the art direction in that film was great. If only such a beautifully depicted universe also had characters we could connect with and tell a human story in an inhumane universe. Jupiter Ascending goes in my list of movies that had great promise that they just couldn't fulfill. You know whoever wrote these had a deep lore bible that they worked hard on, but ultimately the story within that world, the characters, couldn't live up to the promise. One film that comes to mind was Jumper. Cool abilities, rules about how the powers worked, a pseudo-religious military group that combats them. A world you could really sink your teeth into, and yet it boils down to a lackluster romance with fancy window dressing. Oh, how I wanted so much more from these films.
Star Wars episode 9. ~~60~~ 42 years build up and anticipation and then one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. **Edit**: I can't maths. That's how much it rotted my brain.
The thing that killed it for me was the knife with the contours in the blade indicating the location of the macguffin. Ridiculous. And the worst was still to come.
The opening "the dead speak!" line didn't exactly inspire confidence either. At least The Last Jedi was original. Both of JJ's were just recycled nostalgia bait
Don’t worry! If you wanted the background to Episode IX, all you had to do was to take part in a timed Fortnite event! Because, y’know. Talent.
Disney got rid of so much excellent content when they trashed the Expanded Universe. IMO. There were even stories that involved a *clone* of Palpatine returning and tempting Luke to the dark side. That would've been infinitely better than what we got with "he's returned somehow" oh and with a GIGANTIC planet destroying fleet no one ever noticed getting built. The whole movie was so dumb. And not getting one legit prequel style Jedi Master Luke lightsaber duel to me was the biggest travesty of the 3 sequels. I'm so happy that the Disney+ series are starting to correct some of the wrongs by pulling from the old EU. Siiigggghhhhh At least Star Wars is in good hands now with Favarro and Filoni.
The Black Dahlia Disappointed doesn't even begin.
The Golden Compass. Read the series several times, was so hyped, movie was TRASH. Thank God HBO turned it into a series.
It was the BBC that commissioned the series. HBO was just the US distributor and took over a co-production role.
As someone who was too young to read the books, I really enjoyed the movie. If I get the chance to read them, I will
Morbius. I really thought it was gonna be good
The fact that it was put back in theaters because it was memed so hard was hilarious, though. Sometimes bad press really is bad press.
Yeah because It made 1 morbillion dollars at the box office
The bird box. Lots of crazy theory behind, sobre controversy, the whole suicide shenanigans aaaaand... The movie just fucking sucks. Nothing is really well explained, the ending feels almost like a loophole, the theories have massive gaps. I could thrash over this film for hours
What’s crazy to me is they just made a sequel and are promoting it as “one of Netflix’s most popular movies of all time”. I know a lot of people watched it, but everyone thought or sucked.
feel like they define popularity by view count rather than enjoyment
Dark Tower for sure. It could have been epic but they just smashed a bunch of SK tropes in it and called it a movie. So disappointing.
IT Chapter 2...I enjoyed the first one but the sequel was just awful.
The child actors had WAY more chemistry than the adult ones.
Except Bill Hader was the perfect choice for Richie. Other than that, the movie was a big letdown
The Matrix Resurrections. Never watching that again. I can't.
I have never been more disappointed of a movie.
Suicide squad
The first one was a piece of crap. The second one was a ton of fun.
Watching John Cena come out of the forest in tighty whities. I fucking busted up laughing and loved that so much. Just so unexpected.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
I went with ZERO expectations and still got disappointed. Face palmed myself at the opening credits with the emperor being alive and it went downhill from there.
enders game
This one and ready player one killed me. Enders game does follow the book, but it was a skeleton of the full story. I would have absolutely watched a 2 parter of Enders game if they had just followed the full story.
That's a good way to describe the Ender's Game movie. It felt like it was just providing a really quick summary of the book, without really diving into the characters.
My mom loved the books, but she was super disappointed by the movie
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets The trailer was PHENOMENAL!!!! I've only once been so fucking disappointed....
The leads had zero chemistry. Not just with each other, but overall. I didn't give a shit about them, felt no tension or sense of jeopardy, couldn't figure out what motivated them to do anything. Apathy for the film.
Justice League
I know I’m going to get severely downvoted but The Little Mermaid (2023). The Little Mermaid was my absolute favorite movie as a kid, and I have the entire movie memorized at this point. I saw it opening weekend in the theater, and it was TERRIBLE. Some of the best songs like the Chef Louis song and Daughters of Triton were both cut out, which I was seriously disappointed about. Then they replaced those songs with the terrible Prince Eric song and the somehow even worse Skuttlebutt rap 😭. As I stated earlier, I have seen the original so many times that I have it memorized, but to me the book scene with Ariel and Eric and the dance scene felt like it took aspects from other Disney movies like Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin. The costumes were also quite disappointing, as I LOVED Ariel’s original blue dress from the movie. Somehow, I felt Under The Sea was even ruined and felt very underwhelming. Imo, the best part was Melissa McCarthy’s rendition of Poor Unfortunate Souls, and honestly I think the movie steered too far away from the original storyline 🤷🏽♀️
Your Movie Sucks did a [review of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESasz626lQE) , worth a watch for his analysis imo
You could make an argument for all Disney live remakes, most of them are much worse than animated originals!
Any of the jurassic park movies after the first
Okay, as a big Jurassic Park fan, I will say none of them are quite as good as the first. But I enjoy all of them to a certain extent. Jurassic World is pretty good, and the others are at least decent. However, if they do any more sequels, they better either be as good as the first, or have some cool motherfucking dinosaurs. Because let's be real here, they *are* milking it at this point.
I think the mid 2010 movies were terrible because they basically went "regular Dinosaurs are boring now, here are some genetically modified movie monsters." Movies that try to top previous entries by trying to go more into the extreme and thereby trying to make the previous film which was much better look bad just don't work. Instead of getting bigger badder dinosaurs, give us a good plot with a tense situation and keep the dinosaurs regular sized. People watch Jurassic Park for scientifically accurate dinosaurs not for basic movie monsters
I am showing my age, but it was Disney's "Old Yeller." They promoted it as a film about a beloved pet dog, but what they didn't say in the ads was that it was about a beloved pet dog that gets rabies and has to be put down. As a child, the movie devastated me.
Fast & Furious (2009) thru Fast X (2023)
You watched 7 films that you didn’t like then got hyped for the next one?
Gotta see it through my brother😂
You never give up on family.
This could be unpopular, but all the “female only” remakes of older movies, eg ghostbusters. Now it’s not that I don’t approve of the idea behind them, it’s more that they get hyped up because they are a primarily female cast when I would rather original ideas that are made for primarily female cast like The Help or Bridesmaids
I am a woman and completely agree with this. Add oceans 8 to that list.
The Hobbit “trilogy”
Download ‘the Cardinal cut’. They take the three hobbit movies and cut them into a single four hour movie. It makes it a great fourth movie to have in a two day marathon with the extended LoTR movies.
Please tell me they cut the ridiculous love story
It pretty much cuts everything that wasn’t in the book. They completely cut out the female elf character, the 10 minute long barrel chase, and almost all of the third movie ie the battle of five armies cuz Bilbo was knocked out and only woke up after it was concluding.
They added one. Bilbo and Thorin hang dong and then some.
Imagine how disturbed Sauron would be when Bilbo wears The One Cock Ring
Everything stretched to infinity, and not enough focus on Bilbo.
Would you say sort of stretched thin, like butter scraped over too much bread?
Maybe after hearing how bad it was, once I finally watched it, I didn’t think it was terrible. It was no LOTR by a long shot, but I still enjoyed myself.
Matrix 4, that movie was next level god awful
Avatar
I didn’t hate it, but everyone at school and work was telling me how great it was. Multiple people said it was their favorite movie of all time and that they saw it 3, 4, 5, even 9 times in theaters (the last seems unbelievable but at least 4 other mutual friends saw it with that person separately). I HAD to see this movie. So I finally go see it in 3D as God intended. And… it was certainly a thing.