What animated film or tv show is this?
What animated film or tv show is this?
For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don't think it's excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art.
IMO it would have been better received if it wasn't advertised as an Earthsea adaptation and was just its own thing.
Here's the flipside of this phenomenon:
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Absolutely awful, atrocious, lazy cinema. It had a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. When they do the whole under the sea scene, none of the sounds align with anything happening on screen. The plot was garbo. They've got a whole song dedicated to the cruelty of eating fish as if fish never eat any fish, and then that's still not as bad as the fucking "scuttlebutt" song.
Not animated, but since you've hit the frontpage and everyone else seems to be ignoring that...
1994's Street Fighter. It's terrible, but Raul Julia hams his way out of the screen for you. It's Street Fighter: The Pantomime, and it's glorious.
Between that, Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers, and Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, I can't decide which of them was best at saving a mediocre cocaine fuelled movie by playing a panto villain in the midst of undeserved po-faced seriousness.
The Aladdin live action remake was shat on mercilessly by the internet, but I thought it was a fun, true to the spirit of the original while introducing a few new ideas to keep it interesting, and (imo very respectfully) stayed out of Rob William's lane by not trying to recreate his genie. And Will Smith did a great job with his version.
/shrug
My rule is that if the critic score is too high I won't like it, and the audience score needs to be higher than the critic score and we have a banger on our hands
You just remind me I should check Tales from Earthsea.
By the way, congrats for this post, getting nice traction!
As it happens, I just discovered this nice chap: https://youtube.com/@CinemaWins "Because liking things is more fun than not liking things."
This was The Emoji Movie for my kids. I refused to watch it because of obvious reasons, but they insisted and totally liked it. I finally gave it a watch and... It was totally fine. Pleasant at times, even.
Are you my friend? I've had to stop taking any of his movie or TV show recommendations without extra verification. He thinks that everything he watches is great. I kinda envy how he can enjoy literally any TV show or movie.
Exactly the same, I still love Tales of Earthsea. It has its issues compared to the book, but it's still great. My conspiracy theory is that it's a plot by Hayao Miyazaki fans to discredit his son since the father didn't like it.
I really liked Under Ninja recently. Everyone's been shitting on the adaptation because it looks weird, telling to read the manga, but the manga is just as weird. The adaptation is really keeping the same vibe.
Tales From Earthsea wasn't even the worst Ghibli movie. That title belongs to Ocean Waves.
Having different tastes than professional tv & movie critics isn’t a sin.
If you like something that Rotty Ts hates, that’s fine. If you despise something they adore, that’s fine too. It’s not like you’re being mean to someone’s puppy.
I like the Vin Diesel film xXx. It's loud, dumb, and nothing like what I usually enjoy, but somehow it manages to scratch enough mental itches that I'll watch the whole thing through every few years.
As a general rule for Rotten Tomatoes I completely ignore the Critic eating and audience score I only pay attention if it's less than 20 percent. Seems to have served me well.
Well they were wrong. It was a pretty good movie.
Cars 2 I guess. I don't love it, but it's decent and fun.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0216035/
The night of the headless horseman. It's got some great voice actors and storytelling but it also has that rubbery shiny early CG that I think a lot of people can't get past.
This has never happened to me because my opinions are 100% conventional.
To be fair, sometimes we get lucky enough to get stuff made by Autistic artists for us Autistic people and it doesn't do well in the general audience, but we absolutely love it. Our tastes in some things are just a little different. Absurdist comedy, or left-field mysteries... and the emotional writing or acting might feel completely off for normal people, but we won't notice it. We like normal people stuff too, but I got a special place in my heart for stuff that was clearly made by another Autistic person.
If they are incapable of seeing the beauty that is right in front of them, then pity them.
Social media algorithms & enshittification really are destroying everything online, with their "engagement statistics" that predate upon hate & fear to drive continual profits. Trash talk sells, e.g. on X or Reddit, hence people use it, and then spread it to other platforms.
Death to Smoochy, fuck all the haters
I like spy/intrigue movies.
Two recent ones that died at the box office were Mile 22 and The Rhythm Section.
Both are worth a look imho.
The live-action "adaptation" of Death Note wasn't terrible. Calling it an adaptation is a bit generous (more like a separate story in a similar universe) and it nowhere near lives up the source material. But it was alright - seems mostly just hated because of people's expectations of what it claimed to be an adaptation. In general, media that differs significantly from the source material (even if the source material didn't exist at the time, like with Fullmetal Alchemist) gets more hate than it deserves.
Black Bullet seems to have some really negative opinions, but I'm a fan of that genre of shows like Tokyo Ghoul where main characters are some sort of social pariah because of non-human features (guess I find them relatable).
Non-animated, but "In Time" 2011 was a movie I enjoyed quite a bit, but found out later that people generally have a slightly negative view of it I think.