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What HATED or highly disliked movie you ACTUALLY really enjoyed? (lemmings.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cats (2019). The story is good, the music is good, the casting is good. People made it a huge meme cause of the CGI, but even that is pretty well done. It has a beautiful story, and if you're a pet lover like me, it really makes you emotional. Its also fucking insane. The entire time you watch it, you just go "people spent years of their life and millions to make this". Its a very surreal experience. I've also haven't met a person who has watched the movie and didn't like it.

To be fair, I haven't met anyone who has watched the movie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I was a fan of the musical long before the movie, and the movie was meh. The celebrity performances ranged from yuck to average, and the attempts at added humor were way off.

But I can't see how it could be translated into a movie much better (I missed Growltiger's last stand, and felt Beautiful Ghosts detracted from Memory as the emotional peak). Dancers in tights would look ridiculous (and we have the 1998 "movie" for that), and any more realistic cats would remove what little remains of the physicality on film.

So no issues with the maligned CGI, would watch again, no match for the adorably ridiculous stage show.