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Just thinking about the time I first saw The Land Before Time 2 and realized movies can be bad, actually. What movie/show/book/song/etc made you realize quality exists?
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You know what? Not just media. I realized spinach kicks rear end the first time I tried spinach dip instead of canned poo poo.
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Nov 18, 2025 04:19
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my dad showed me blade runner on vhs when i was 8 and that's when i realized blade runner fuckin owns
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Nov 18, 2025 04:19
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The one two punch of Men in Black 2 and Starship Troopers 2
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Nov 18, 2025 04:27
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Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen taught me that there is a level beyond just bad, when even a good MST3K sendup can't fix it. When it is so bad you remember it years later as "that movie where you should have thrown a soda at the screen and walked out"
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Nov 18, 2025 04:28
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Tim Burtons Wonka
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Nov 18, 2025 04:29
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redm posted:Tim Burtons Wonka Is a forgotten classic that i will defend 2 the death
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Nov 18, 2025 05:31
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evilmiera posted:Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen taught me that there is a level beyond just bad, when even a good MST3K sendup can't fix it. When it is so bad you remember it years later as "that movie where you should have thrown a soda at the screen and walked out" The first one is the only movie I ever walked out of, so I cannot IMAGINE powering through that and getting your poo poo wrecked by something worse.
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Nov 18, 2025 05:36
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Ziv Zulander posted:Is a forgotten classic that i will defend 2 the death It is in fact remembered and bad
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Nov 18, 2025 05:40
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I saw the second matrix movie and was flabbergasted by what a piece of garbage it was
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Nov 18, 2025 05:44
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That Beowulf movie that was all performance captured animation in stereoscopic 3d. I was newly working in film VFX at the time so I was really into that sort of thing. It really sucked and it coincided with a growing realisation that I didn't really like films that much as an art form and film VFX as an industry.
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Nov 18, 2025 05:53
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Whole bunch of Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears cartoons from the ‘70s and ‘80s. They had their memorable classics, but also a lot of stinkers. Cable TV reran these endlessly throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s because they were cheap airtime filler. Lots of them were on inaugural Cartoon Network and the USA Cartoon Express. Were CB Bears, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, Turbo Teen or Rubik, the Amazing Cube any good? Hell to the loving no; they sucked poo poo and I knew it. Did I care then? Hell to the loving no because there weren’t any other cartoons on, or I was just waiting for the better shows to come on.
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Nov 18, 2025 05:56
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Watched The Master of Disguise at 12 and realized not all comedies are funny or even watchable  I was a big Dana Carvey fan too
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Nov 18, 2025 06:03
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Rubber Chicken posted:It is in fact remembered and bad Johnny depp was the best choice to play Willy wonka. His introduction scene where they have the terrible animatronics do a song and dance about how great he is and then burst into flame, then it cuts to him clapping gleefully in the audience is amazing. It depicts him perfectly as a hubristic lonely child like outsider who desperately wants to fit in, while everybody else wants to keep him at arms length
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Nov 18, 2025 06:11
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Ziv Zulander posted:Johnny depp was the best choice to play Willy wonka. His introduction scene where they have the terrible animatronics do a song and dance about how great he is and then burst into flame, then it cuts to him clapping gleefully in the audience is amazing. It depicts him perfectly as a hubristic lonely child like outsider who desperately wants to fit in, while everybody else wants to keep him at arms length The oompa loompa situation was very bad Also whenever I see your avatar I get the theme song in my head for hours and sometimes that makes me grumpy (and sometimes it makes me happy)
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Nov 18, 2025 06:13
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Rubber Chicken posted:The oompa loompa situation was very bad The Oompa Loompa was played by one man and he was the original r2d2. You can not do better than that. e: the 165 Oompa Loompas were played by a single hardworking aged dude from Kenya Ziv Zulander fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Nov 18, 2025 |
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Nov 18, 2025 06:14
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6 Million Dollar Man. There was a bit of the show where Steve Rogers is flying himself from one Air Force Base to another or something, and they used a lot of stock footage for the "flight." I was an airplane nerd, and each goddamn clip of stock footage had a completely different airplane. Like he took off in an F-5, then it was suddenly an F-101, then an F-4, and so on. On that day I learned the concepts of "continuity error" and "suspension of disbelief," as that latter was irretrievably shattered.
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Nov 18, 2025 06:27
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The Chair Company taught me that things can suck and be good.
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Nov 18, 2025 06:28
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Ziv Zulander posted:Johnny depp was the best choice to play Willy wonka. His introduction scene where they have the terrible animatronics do a song and dance about how great he is and then burst into flame, then it cuts to him clapping gleefully in the audience is amazing. It depicts him perfectly as a hubristic lonely child like outsider who desperately wants to fit in, while everybody else wants to keep him at arms length you are loving insane
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Nov 18, 2025 06:33
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Cubone posted:you are loving insane It’s really the best version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmzZaB0kss Willy wonka hates those kids. He hates them with everything he’s got, yet he knows he needs to find an heir. Look at that indifference turn to glee after the fat German child gets sucked up into the tube. The panic from the mother, and Willy wonka soaking it all in. He considers it terrible for a child to be in the chocolate river, but doesn’t care at all about the oompa loompas swimming around in it during their song
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Nov 18, 2025 07:01
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you can't fool me I'm looking at it
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Nov 18, 2025 08:09
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one of my vivid memories from childhood is leaving the theater after seeing attack of the clones and being stunned at how noticeably awful it was. it was the first movie i clocked as being a complete loving mess. i was 10 at the time. i'd been okay with phantom menace at 7, mostly for all the toys and lego sets, but 3 years older and wiser made attack of the clones, especially the romance plot, a bridge too far. i was also shocked at how awful the visual effects looked, how everything looked so fake and cartoony. even then my brain noticed a distinct difference between the early hd digital video and the film look of the previous movies. after that i didn't care about star wars anymore and didn't end up watching revenge of the sith until much later after its release, which remains the most recent star wars film i have seen and i mean to keep it that way
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Nov 18, 2025 08:31
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At some point I finally realized that Sublime sucks. But I'd alread bought all of their lovely albums like a chump.
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Nov 18, 2025 09:25
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Still bitter about Zelda II
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Nov 18, 2025 10:07
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I remember preordering Lunar: Dragon Song because I really liked Lunar (I first played it through the GBA port, Lunar Legend). I was about ten, I think. I was really excited about it. So, in Lunar: Dragon Song, running around on the overworld drains your HP. Even in towns. There is no HP regen. In combat, you cannot target enemies manually, your party members will choose someone to attack at random. In... an RPG. There is a fast forward button you can use in combat, but you have to hold it down. I suppose they figured out that battles are really boring when you can't even decide who to attack, but that didn't make them re-evaluate their choices at all. Enemies can and will steal/break your equipment, including drops that are only available one time so you have no way to get them back unless you reload. The story is impressively bland and the final boss is just some loving lackey you fight for the third time in the story. You're like oh, this dickhead again, okay cool I'm past him, time to fight the real final boss the game has been building up to! Then after an exposition dump, a random earthquake happens, he falls off a ledge, and dies. It is hilariously abrupt, not played for laughs or anything, that's just... it. I remember just being so firmly confused as a child playing this. This was supposed to be a good game! It had the name of a good game on it. The same people who worked on the other game that I liked probably worked on this game. The art looked okay. So it just didn't compute in my brain. I was just so stupefied by how bad the mechanics were that I really thought there had to be something I was missing. There's no way this legitimately drains your HP when you run around, a super basic game mechanic, right? Like there's no way they thought that was a good idea, there has to be something in this game that makes it livable and makes that make sense, right?  I think I knew that some games were less good than others, but I guess I thought it was a thing of the past? Like this sort of naive idea that if a thing was bad, it was just old. That it was only bad because you didn't know better. So I didn't understand how new things could be bad because we'd already learned those lessons so why would you make those mistakes again especially if you had a lot of money and smart people behind it? Just make the thing good, what's the problem? I remember hearing about how badly Gigli bombed and being confused for the same reason but I didn't watch that (obviously, I was way too young). It was very jarring to experience something so bracingly, undeniably awful firsthand and yet I think it took me years to fully appreciate just how bad it was. Tiny Myers fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 18, 2025 |
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Nov 18, 2025 10:28
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You also didn't mention that encounters can only give XP or Items, and you must choose which you want before entering a dungeon. Items they drop are also not useable things, they're fetch quest items for the randomly generated quests which are the only way to make money. So there a part where in getting your rematch with a villain who kicked your rear end before you throw your sword at them and it hits them. Then the boss pulls it out of themselves and uses it to kick your rear end again.
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Nov 18, 2025 10:46
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Batman & Robin. Not the first time I watched it, where I quit after 15 minutes, but the second, where I thought "I never gave it a proper chance, surely it must be at least okay" and forced myself through.
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Nov 18, 2025 10:50
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Day of the Dead: Bloodline The original Day of the Dead is an underrated classic. It's actually my favourite of Romero's zombie trilogy. I first watched it the way it was meant to be watched - on a really grainy and beat up VHS tape. Sort of gave it a found footage vibe. Bloodline? I stopped watching after 20 minutes. It was offensively stupid. You know there's something wrong when the voices you hear don't really sync up with the actors lip movements. It's the sort of film where I wouldn't be surprised if I could see a boom mic hovering over the actors heads. In one scene where a group is driving along a road at night and hop out of the car I could clearly see 3-4 spotlights in the background.
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Nov 18, 2025 11:15
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CaptainSarcastic posted:6 Million Dollar Man. There was a bit of the show where Steve Rogers is flying himself from one Air Force Base to another or something, and they used a lot of stock footage for the "flight." I was an airplane nerd, and each goddamn clip of stock footage had a completely different airplane. Like he took off in an F-5, then it was suddenly an F-101, then an F-4, and so on. On that day I learned the concepts of "continuity error" and "suspension of disbelief," as that latter was irretrievably shattered. Steve Austin is just such a badass that he switches planes mid-flight. 
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Nov 18, 2025 11:24
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i believe it was one of those straight to DVD disney releases where i was just baffled, even child me knew this poo poo was garbage
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Nov 18, 2025 12:26
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I was 4 years old, went to see Masters of the Universe in the theatre, and thought what the gently caress was that poo poo?
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Nov 18, 2025 12:36
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My grandpa took me to see Rock a Doodle in theaters. I was 4 years old and apparently when we left the theater I started crying and said it was because the movie made me feel bad.
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Nov 18, 2025 12:57
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Spending birthday money on Spelunker for the NES gently caress YOU BRODERBUND
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Nov 18, 2025 14:56
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The Room taught me media can be good, and how to love again.
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Nov 18, 2025 15:02
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Dudes With Attitude I think this might be my earliest memory of feeling that whiplash between my expectations after seeing the box art and the experience of playing the actual game. I only got two dollars a week for allowance and I spent that every Friday on a three-day Nintendo game rental. I worked for this!!! I felt similar disappointment with Wall Street Kid but to be fair the box art didn't set the bar that high
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Nov 18, 2025 15:12
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credburn posted:Dudes With Attitude Well there's your problem, OP: the diamond tells you it is not designed, manufactured, sponsored, or endorsed by Nintendo and is one of those unlicensed games that slipped by Nintendo's seal of approval and probably came in one of those weird-looking black or blue cartridges. My cousin had one called The Adventures of Captain Comic that was a blue cartridge. The game was... not good. Now if you wanna talk about a legit Nintendo game that let me down, Taboo: The Sixth Sense.  I remember seeing this game cartridge at the video rental place thinking how "taboo" meant something forbidden or prohibited, so this game must be good! The sticker on it stating 'not for children' only made it more enticing to play. I rented it and was let down almost instantly upon the first play. You tediously enter your personal information and ask the game a question, then the game plays itself without your involvement. It's just a simulated tarot card reading game with vague descriptions for each card, then you get some lucky numbers when it's done and the game resets itself for another round. What a bummer for nine year old Werewolf. I have long since come across a copy and own the game for my NES lol
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Nov 19, 2025 00:42
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Super NES Dodgeball helped me realize a game can be pretty basic but still a lot of fun. Especially when drinking was involved.
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Nov 19, 2025 01:12
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One weekend in my childhood I rented Boogerman and Ballz3D. I felt extreme disappointment like I'd never felt before.
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Nov 19, 2025 01:20
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Zork and Zork2. Text based adventure game. "The Grue has killed you!" WTF? No warning, no chance to do anything to live, just a "You are now dead" message. Also the thief, "The thief has stolen from you!" Try to look around (in text) and there is no thief to be seen; but check your inventory and sure enough something would be missing. Absolutely no recourse. Ultima Online taught me that video games could actually be very cool.
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signalnoise posted:One weekend in my childhood I rented Boogerman and Ballz3D. I felt extreme disappointment like I'd never felt before. I liked those games 
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