• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Sounds like Seinfeld committed the gravest sin possible in the race for clicks: he made a movie that’s… okay.

    Which, tbf, is probably about his ceiling without Larry David around.

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      6 months ago

      Yea I’m confused, the article seems to waver between it was confusing to good, but also it misses the point of why the writer likes pop tarts so it’s not good?

      “That’s a nice feeling. *Unfrosted *isn’t about that feeling. It’s about the product […] It takes whatever pleasure that can be derived from a Pop-Tart, and chokes on it”

      • hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        The author is making 2 main points.

        1. This movie exists because studios will fund projects that are connected to ip, and it’s ridiculous that pop-tarts counts.
        2. The movie isn’t choosing to say anything. It is telling jokes to have fun and that’s as far as it’s willing to take it.

        Now, does this make it a bad movie? That’s for you to decide. If all you want from a film is to be entertained with some jokes? It sounds like it’s good, but that’s not what the author is speaking to. The author is speaking to people that enjoy films that have points of view that they are expressing. If that isn’t you, that’s okay.