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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers stood the test of time - the rest is just meh.

[–] TooMuchDog@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Are you really trying to say The Shawshank Redemption and Forest Gump are just "meh"?

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What they really trying to say is they like tasteless foods.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If I were to liken some of those movies to food, I'd definitely say Forrest Gump is the pink slime of movies.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Shawshank Redemption's political subtext just seems so utterly naive today - and Forest Gump's is downright alt-historical.

Speed is just cop-prop, Interview With A Vampire glorifies yet another Antebellum South slave owner, The Crow is just right-wing revenge fantasy in goth clothing, and Ace Ventura's gross transphobia is so fucking ick it might just as well be used as a TERF training documentary.

Oh, and Maverick just wasn't that good to start off with.

Sooo... "meh" is still generous, methinks.

[–] TooMuchDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. Those are some truly bad takes.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Really? What about them is bad?