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Just got around to watching it for the first time tonight. We had so many people tell us we'd love it and need to watch it, so it was high on our list. Great cast, and it won so many awards.

I didn't hate it, but I was left scratching my head over all the hype. I like odd movies and books, so it's not that I couldn't handle the weirdness. It seemed like in the same vein as Scott Pilgrim, and if you told me it wasn't a bit box office but got a cult following, I'd totally believe that.

My wife felt exactly the same way. Maybe it's just one of those cases where there was too much hype for us, but I felt kind of let down.

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[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've actually gotten a lot of flack from friends for disliking this movie. The plot is heavy handed, the symbolism is shoved down your throat "everything bagel is everything", changing languages mid sentence makes conversations hard to follow, and I personally did not identify with the cultural background.

Infinite universe removes stakes and motivation, there was no explanation for how or why we had these experiences. To drive the story, we had characters talking drastic action that made no sense, and had skills they couldn't possibly develop. The writers waived the ability to "show instead of tell" by using subversion of reality to keep the boring story engaging. Without rules and boundaries the subjection of reality served no purpose.

I eventually looked up what some of the characters represented because it won 7 Oscars, but it turns out that there was no deeper message than the delivered one and overstated political agedas that were forced in as well. Overall EEAAO was visually stunning but presented nothing of value.

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[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a stupid family drama hiding behind a fantasy curtain in an attempt to make it interesting instead of the boring garbage it is. None of the Fantasy elements were of any material importance to the story and added nothing but visuals to hide how depressing and dull it was.

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[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you aren't. My girlfriend and I hated it.

It was terrible, cliché humor trying to be deep through a pseudo-intellectual and self-centered understanding of nihilism but failing.

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