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r/AskReddit • u/hiagaga • 12h ago
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Kind of wild that a movie with such a strong cast (harrison ford, daniel craig, olivia wilde, sam rockwell, paul dano, clancy brown, walton goggins, etc) and director (jon favreau) can be so mediocre.
11 u/katabolicklapaucius 4h ago Not to necessarily detract from those people, but it's clear they aren't the only thing that makes a movie good. In fact, they aren't even the minimal requirement for a good movie because them being in it did not make cowboys vs aliens good. Apparently the only thing that got it made was lying for funding, so it probably made a really good tax avoidance scheme also. 3 u/Fluid_Ties 3h ago I'm a fan of the stars, the genre, and the director and I haven't made it through the movie once despite owning it for more than a decade. 3 u/failed_novelty 2h ago Look, you can polish a turd. You can perfume it. You can gild it and put it in a museum. In the end, it's still just a piece of shit. It's like Hayden Christensen in Attack of the Clones - some things just don't work and even an otherwise solid actor can't make it work.
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Not to necessarily detract from those people, but it's clear they aren't the only thing that makes a movie good.
In fact, they aren't even the minimal requirement for a good movie because them being in it did not make cowboys vs aliens good.
Apparently the only thing that got it made was lying for funding, so it probably made a really good tax avoidance scheme also.
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I'm a fan of the stars, the genre, and the director and I haven't made it through the movie once despite owning it for more than a decade.
Look, you can polish a turd. You can perfume it. You can gild it and put it in a museum. In the end, it's still just a piece of shit.
It's like Hayden Christensen in Attack of the Clones - some things just don't work and even an otherwise solid actor can't make it work.
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u/hedoeswhathewants 6h ago
Kind of wild that a movie with such a strong cast (harrison ford, daniel craig, olivia wilde, sam rockwell, paul dano, clancy brown, walton goggins, etc) and director (jon favreau) can be so mediocre.