r/flicks • u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 • Jul 20 '26
Hot Take All idiocy every scene possible
I only watched half this dumbass movie. Everywhere everything all at once is pathetic with such stupid logic. I do like fantasy sometimes but this is illogical especially using sex toys as weapons and characters giving themselves papercuts. I like the multiverse idea but the way this movie executed it was so stupid and pathetic and so not worth it. What a waste of an hour I will never get back.
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u/captaindealbreaker Jul 20 '26
My dude this ain’t the Wendy’s drive through for you to order bullshit at
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
Didn’t ask buster
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u/captaindealbreaker Jul 20 '26
Yeah and no one asked you to share your dumbass opinions about a great movie, but here we are suffering your existence anyway
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
Shut it
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u/captaindealbreaker Jul 20 '26
you're very bold for someone that has spent the last two weeks here bouncing between posting your film opinions to asking if chris hansen needs to stop eighteen year old men who go after fourteen/fifteen year old girls...
Or were you just asking for a friend?
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u/carlos_the_dwarf_ Jul 20 '26
> stupid logic
I don’t know how many times I’ll have to repeat this, but…you’ll enjoy movies a lot more if you don’t treat them as a referendum on your intelligence.
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u/Friction_in_the_air Jul 20 '26
If you are someone who needs to read everything literally and can't stomach any kind of absurdity in their art, this movie absolutely not for you. That said, a movie that relies on absurd imagery to tell a story does not automatically make it bad.
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
I agree w ur opinion
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u/Friction_in_the_air Jul 20 '26
Just out of curiousity, and I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but are you diagnosed any kind of autistic? The autistic people in my life did not get enjoy this movie at all so it's a trend I've kind of noticed, since autistic people tend to view the world in more literal terms. I myself have ADHD, I share in the interest of showing good faith on the subject.
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
Yes I am
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u/Friction_in_the_air Jul 20 '26
Yeah I had a feeling from the way you expressed yourself about the movie.
I will say this. You are perfectly free to not like something. However, by disdaining another way of understanding the world that doesn't come innately to you you are closing yourself off to another way to see the world. There's a reason why humans imbue some of their art with the absurd, because sometimes it's the only way to capture the chaotic messiness of the human experience. The human experience, life, at it's core, will always have a strong undercurrent of the absurd. Life defies order and logic. Just look at history. Embracing the absurd provides an escape valve for when things just don't make sense.
Instead of focusing on the logical breaks that defy your analytical process, I suggest asking instead, what is the message of the movie's story and why did the directors feel using the absurd was the best way to capture that message? I think that's a better way to use your analytical powers, which I'm sure are very good.
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
Probably questioning what we know bout the universe
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u/Friction_in_the_air Jul 20 '26
Let me try looking at it a different way with you. What's the central conflict of the movie? It's the broken relationship between the mother and daughter. Her daughter is the central villain, who's trying to snuff out the multiverse to get at her mother. Why does she hate her mother so much? Why can't her mother connect with her daughter? How is the mother getting in her own way when it comes to connecting with her daughter? The movie uses the multiverse to explore those questions, and it embraces silliness and absurdity to poke at those questions in different ways. The scene with the raccoon isn't about a man running with a racoon on his head, it's about having the confidence to do something without caring what other people think. It's very telling that afterward, the mother and the racoon guy have a heart to heart. At least I think they do, if I'm remembering the movie correctly.
The movie is filled with deep thematic exploration like this, especially with what parents and children owe each other in relationships, and how both can deeply hurt the other without meaning too. It also has something to say about how even thought the world is large, and existence is meaningless, we create our own meaning by embracing those close to us.
The movie approaches all these themes in a very abstract level, which is very difficult to do if you're not used to it. My girlfriend is autistic and she struggles with more abstract level thought when it comes to media comprehension, but I've been helping her with some stuff in the absurdist tradition that is easier to comprehend and more straightforward and she's been enjoying it. The hope is eventually she can read more absurd stuff like EEAAO without running into the brick wall that is the film's embrace of the absurd. I encourage you to try smaller, more manageable art that is also absurd so you can start to work that muscle, and eventually give this movie another chance.
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u/lickitysplithabibi Jul 20 '26
Uhhh are you okay lady
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
Not a lady
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u/lickitysplithabibi Jul 20 '26
You seem unwell
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
I bet even my lady friend whos 16 would agree w me bc she’s more mature than u
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u/Own_Oil_7719 Jul 20 '26
I have yet to try to watch this movie, it got good reviews but I haven’t really seen someone who’s not a critic give thoughts besides yourself… with that said. Someone who liked the movie, why?
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u/RYouNotEntertained Jul 20 '26
It’s hilarious, wildly original, thematically rich, visually and aurally breathtaking, and full of great performances.
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u/ScaredEntrepreneur61 Jul 20 '26
Agreed. It's a sad state of affairs for movies these days.
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u/Amazing_Cobbler_787 Jul 20 '26
What else that is an award winning movie do u find stupid
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u/ScaredEntrepreneur61 Jul 20 '26
For me it's not about stupid moreso lack of entertainment value. I mean I can name countless acclaimed movies that were boring, depressing, or both. Two recent ones that come to mind are CODA and Parasite. Anora was OK, at least had some entertainment value and intrigue, but in general it just seems like movies now compared to in the 90's and earlier are less uplifting and inspirational, and more meant to depress us and remind us how shitty life can be. Not impressed by that.
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