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Take out all the nostalgia, and it's a badly written mess


Seriously if it wasn't for the nostalgia this movie would be a complete mess. It's badly written and with uninteresting characters and a generic story.

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Got any thoughts other than opinion that people can discuss, perhaps?

Or just, You didn't like it for reasons?

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i watched it for the collection of nostalgic characters it promised. i thought it was a little too cliched. then i tried vr a week later and started liking the film better. wish the movie spent more time on the vr aspect and showing off more of what it ahs to offer.

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Take out the war and fighting and Saving Private Ryan is about people walking and talking.

You could literally say that about almost every movie ever made.

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Except in saving private Ryan the war and fighting are a part of the plot and the movie wouldn’t work without it, the nostalgia in this is not essential

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So you’re saying that history is not important to the human experience. Prithee, elaborate.

I won’t hold my breath.

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Still waiting for your reply, degray. So glad I didn’t hold my breath, you triviality.

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It's not difficult to understand, is it?

Would the film have any interest if instead of the back to the future car it was a random car? If instead of being Iron Giant vs Godzilla it was an unknown dragon vs a random robot?

The point is people were just excited to see in the movie characters they already know.
Equivalent characters but unknown and nobody would care about this movie.

The story is ludicrous, all characters are uninteresting and the entire movie is a total mess.

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Even with the nostalgia this movie still sucks

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