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For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don't think it's excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art.
IMO it would have been better received if it wasn't advertised as an Earthsea adaptation and was just its own thing.
To be fair, sometimes we get lucky enough to get stuff made by Autistic artists for us Autistic people and it doesn't do well in the general audience, but we absolutely love it. Our tastes in some things are just a little different. Absurdist comedy, or left-field mysteries... and the emotional writing or acting might feel completely off for normal people, but we won't notice it. We like normal people stuff too, but I got a special place in my heart for stuff that was clearly made by another Autistic person.
I definitely struggle to enjoy a lot of mainstream movies / TV. Never really considered there'd be stuff made by autistic people, for autistic people, but it makes complete sense. Do you have any examples?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0216035/
The night of the headless horseman. It's got some great voice actors and storytelling but it also has that rubbery shiny early CG that I think a lot of people can't get past.
Oh that's interesting. The movie is on youtube and skimming through it I can get why the artstyle would be off-putting. But it does look interesting and I might check it out. Thanks for bringing it up.
It's not quite Foodfight! level jank, but definitely in the realms of a PS2 game cutscene. Good cast though.
If they are incapable of seeing the beauty that is right in front of them, then pity them.
Social media algorithms & enshittification really are destroying everything online, with their "engagement statistics" that predate upon hate & fear to drive continual profits. Trash talk sells, e.g. on X or Reddit, hence people use it, and then spread it to other platforms.
I liked the new Ghostbusters film, because it leans heavily on lore. I think it got review bombed for being woke
How in the fuck was THAT "woke"?! Are we talking about Afterlife or the Frozen thing?
I had two co-workers who spend most of the day talking about trans people and woke this and that argue about a movie being woke or not for like an hour.
Ectoplasm has no defined gender. Is ectoplasm woke?
The live-action "adaptation" of Death Note wasn't terrible. Calling it an adaptation is a bit generous (more like a separate story in a similar universe) and it nowhere near lives up the source material. But it was alright - seems mostly just hated because of people's expectations of what it claimed to be an adaptation. In general, media that differs significantly from the source material (even if the source material didn't exist at the time, like with Fullmetal Alchemist) gets more hate than it deserves.
Black Bullet seems to have some really negative opinions, but I'm a fan of that genre of shows like Tokyo Ghoul where main characters are some sort of social pariah because of non-human features (guess I find them relatable).
Non-animated, but "In Time" 2011 was a movie I enjoyed quite a bit, but found out later that people generally have a slightly negative view of it I think.
I like spy/intrigue movies.
Two recent ones that died at the box office were Mile 22 and The Rhythm Section.
Both are worth a look imho.