Movies are important aspect of the culture

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I tried to watch that movie. But I quit it 15 minutes in.

    What was even the point? It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t enjoyable, it wasn’t dramatic.

    It’s like “look, here is a blatantly obvious metaphor on climate change” that’s our whole movie.

    It seemed aimed for a very particular subset of people that wanted to feel a pat on the head or something. I feel like it’s the same people who enjoy that big ass climate change doom clock.

    Just too much virtue signalling for my taste. Without actually making anything useful.

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      13 hours ago

      I disagree. The point of the movie is not to make people feel to feel smug, it is to provide catharsis for people who feel like the entire world is insane while simultaneously telling them that they are the insane one.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        I think that’s a euphemism for “a pat in the head”. As I said, I think is a movie aimed to a very specific subset of people, of which I don’t belong. The set of people that also enjoy that doomsday climate clock that I keep bringing out because I think it gives away the same kind of emotions to people who liked that movie.

        And for people that does not feel rewarded just for a movie, or a clock or whatever, saying to you “good for worrying”, the movie becomes nothing, it’s empty of anything else. It’s a very simple 75 million dollar message that says “feel better than others, feel special for worrying”. Also the whole message becomes a little ridiculous, when it’s delivered on the biggest media platform, with millions in budget, a bunch of famous actors acting on it, and then praised by millions of people.

        To me it feels like those conservative figures that say that they are being cancelled while they are live on national TV. It’s just silly. And this movie gives the same vibes to me. Talking about the big ignored problem to an audience of millions of people that purposely went there to see the movie about the big ignored problem.

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          12 hours ago

          That is an extremely condescending way of saying that you did not personally find the movie to be funny.

          Different people can have different senses of humor. There are lots of comedies that I absolutely cannot stand; that does not make me right and the people who enjoy them wrong.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It’s a movie, it doesn’t need to be “useful”. Some people were entertained, some people were emotionally affected. It was successful art. And we’re still talking about it.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        I’m just giving my opinion on why that movie is bad.

        I know that probably in the States now even liking or not liking a movie is a political statement, and that some people “like it” just because they have to. But it’s a bad movie. I’ve watch a lot of crap, and most times I power through it to at least see the ending. Imagine how bad had to be that I thought that it wasn’t even worth to try to see the whole thing.