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True art is polarizing

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    THERE’S LIKE ZERO HINTS ON WHAT MOVIE THESE REVIEWS ARE ABOUT YET EVERYONE HERE INHERENTLY KNOWS WHAT MOVIE IT IS AND I’M JUST SITTING HERE OBLIVIOUS OH GOD

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “War of the Worlds” 2025

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah they call it Crashed Ice, they play it in Quebec, it’s pretty gnarly.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Ice Cube clicks button” is pretty big hint tbf

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This should help, also save you some time youtu.be/2fhLdREPEF4

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      • moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Incredible video lol. Now I don’t have to watch the movie.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Matthew M doesn’t realize that a half star is actually an emotional response and if it took him 15 minutes to write something, that movie had him THINKING. Thats what Art should do. Art can be something you HATE. That is an emotion. Art is suppost to make you feel something, and feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Stepping in shit makes me feel something, but it is not art.

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      • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.

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      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        yeah, but nobody made it with the intent of you stepping in it

        that is a very poor comparison.

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.

      Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.

      I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.

      The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.

      I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.

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    • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      By this definition, performing a genocide is art.

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      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No, this post doesn’t say everything that you hate is art, it says it can be art.

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      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        wow, are you for real? get a grip dude and learn some nuance.

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      • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I thought Hitler was supposed to be middling at best…

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        i mean if you do it with a silly enough hat i guess it can be, but i dont want to test it

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t consider 90 minutes of product placement “art” but that’s just me.

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I made it 10min, once he started “hacking” teamvewer with a generated master password I GTFO. They tried real hard to make it realistic by having real software and apps but it’s bad, really bad.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it’s the same production company that made Searching and Missing. Those movies are good.

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      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Don’t forget Missing 2: Finding

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Real software and apps were used just because they paid for product placement, not for accuracy

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      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Good job team viewer by allowing yourself to look easily hackable by icecube.

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  • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “war of the worlds 2025 featuring ice cube” is simply an insane combination of words to me

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To paraphrase Pitch Meeting: “This sounds exactly like something I want to pay real money for!”

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is definitely one I watched the pitch meeting for instead of watching the movie

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The Pitch Meeting video is how I first learned this movie exists. Sent it to a friend with the message:

        I haven’t watched the pitch meeting yet but there is no chance in hell this movie is better than the original

        Secretly I was hoping I was wrong, but oh boy, that turned out to be an understatement. Turns out my friend had actually already watched it with his mother… Or rather, tried to watch it. They had to stop hallway through because of how shit it was.

        So glad I didn’t have to experience that.

        (Note: I have since learned that the movie I was thinking about is not the original, there was an older movie and they’re both based on a book)

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I watched the Pitch Meeting because of this comment. I’m tempted to watch it. I loved hate watching Madam Web with friends. Would this be fun too?

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    • TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      From what I’ve read, it’s something that Jeff Bezos would pay real money for.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.

    Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The 5 stars review is ironic

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bottle Episode: The Movie

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  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That’s also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I’d have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t forget Phone Booth! It’s Colin Farrell in a phone booth!!

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      • FanciestPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Also kinda similar is Buried with Ryan Reynolds. Just him in a box the whole movie.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There was a whole movie with a guy in a box hoping to be unearthed (Buried, or something like that). It was quite decent.

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I remember watching Fail Safe by chance and that movie was so fucking tense! Completely carried by the amazing cast. Maybe I should watch it again!

      It’s about a cold war situation where iirc the USA bomb a city in Russia by accident and the movie / play is about how the two presidents negotiate to avoid all out nuclear war. Fantastic stuff.

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  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.

      It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s a 89 minutes Amazon ad. “See? We’re delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient” or “See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!”

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      • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.

        Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catywompus.

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  • Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What movie?

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    • young_broccoli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The new War of the Worlds.

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      • Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are We There Yet?.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Evan L is obviously taking the piss.

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  • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nice, 2.6 on IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306/

    And 3% on rotten tomatoes www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025

    And semi off topic: No, Phil Coulson how could you do this to yourself? You are the embodiment of SHIELD!

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    • Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And 3% on rotten tomatoes www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025

      aw, it was headed for a rare 0% rating til Jordan Hoffman from Entertainment Weekly had to ruin it…

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  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My first fucking thought was was “yeah, how about no, I’m in fucking zoom calls all fucking day at work.” I give them credit, interesting idea as a high concept thing, but like no chance I’m even giving this 10 minutes even if the reviews weren’t utter shit.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The concept isn’t bad as such. But I’m not surprised at all that they botched it as it’s not easy at all to pull off.
    Disclaimer: I didn’t see it.

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hate the fact that this movie causes people to make fun of the genre and think it’s bad in general. Searching is an amazing movie and I love it, and it also has its entire plot on a computer screen. But it actually works, if you have a skilled director, great actors, a really good plot, and know how to exactly use that concept to make a great movie.

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  • young_broccoli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The best unintentional comedy in recent years.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The duality of man

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d like to say it was written by Chat GPT but I don’t wanna insult some innocent LLM.

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is it normal bad, or is it Birdemic bad?

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It might be the only case where the Asylum mockbuster version of the movie is clearly superior

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This was the move The Substance for me.

    The first bit was alright, but I really regretted watching it towards the end

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