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[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Going to give an old example and a new example.

I remember liking the Aeon Flux movie. Don't remember too much about it, but I remember enjoying it, and favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet which came out around the same time. Recently I heard someone bring it up in a podcast as a terrible movie and it turns out it's pretty universally panned lol.

A more recent example is The Watchers. I thought it was pretty good and kept my interest the whole time, but seems pretty middling from reviews. A lot of people especially didn't like the ending, which I guess was kind of sudden, but still alright imo. Not noteworthy in being especially bad or anything.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aeon Flux movie would have been fine as a normal action movie. It was a terrible Aeon Flux movie.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I agree. Kinda hard to make that movie true to the source material though when the whole point is that Aeon dies at the end every time.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I believe it. Coming in blind having never having seen the original probably helped a lot.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Really? I loved it! But, I know literally nothing about the source material.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet

Damning with faint praise.