The reverse of that post I’ve made a week ago…

Rules: pick one movie or series and explain why you actually enjoyed it despite the criticism.

For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
    66·
    6 days ago

    Me and about a dozen other people thought John Carter was great. To me, it was just a fun sci-fi/fantasy movie. Never undestood the hate.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      211·
      6 days ago

      John Carter was only hated by people who follow box office numbers instead of watching movies.

      It was great!

      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
        17·
        6 days ago

        My gal hates it because she’s a huge fan of the book and apparently they did the whole of it pretty dirty. One of those, “it’s fine if you weren’t hoping to see anything that made the book unique” type movies.

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          52·
          6 days ago

          My go to for that criticism is that it’s a different medium, so it must be different.

          It’s like complaining that a photo of Statue of David doesn’t show the whole statue.

          • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
            13·
            6 days ago

            Counterpoint: if I sell you a photograph which I advertised as of the statue of David and it’s just a zoomed in picture of his back, you would be in your rights to complain about leaving out the important parts.

      • smokebuddy [he/him]
        5·
        6 days ago

        I went to see it at noon after dropping the car off for work and was literally the only one in the theatre. I thought it was pretty good.

    • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 days ago

      John Carter was great. Zero dollars spent on marketing. They thought it was a household name or something because it was a book.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 days ago

      Yeah I thought it was a fun movie too. It would have been nice to have gotten another scifi series that was more focused on fun.

    • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Me and my wife went to see it and really liked it. Unfortunately I think we were the only couple in the theater at the time. I don’t think it was marketed very well at all by Disney.