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Gonna say it.. this movie is overrated.

by jwmoz 4y ago

sublinear 4y ago
Agree and I don't understand why anyone reacts to these blatant requests for comment from overt marketing anymore on HN. It's extremely naive to think these articles have any interest in mind apart from determining what sells with various social groups. HN is not an opinion farm and nerd culture has been dead for well over a decade. It's 2022 now, not 2009. No sentiment extracted from this place will capture any meaningful trend apart from maybe the negativity I'm giving off right now.
Ajunne 4y ago
Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world. That being said, I fully agree with you. I've tried watching this movie multiple times. When it originally came out so many years ago, friends of mine recommended it to me and they were absolutely lyrical about it. I've tried watching it high, I hated it. I've tried watching it sober, I hated it. I've tried watching it many years after it came out, I still hated it. There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it.
- noasaservice 4y ago
  > There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it. Spirited Away is beautiful, in the artistic sense of the word. It has no real story, and is just a hodgepodge of Japanese folklore pieced together to half-resemble even a mild plot. The rest of the stuff that isn't folklore-related is just the anthropomorphic elements Miyazaki added in as filler because of "kawaii". ----------------- And as an aside.... "Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world." It's not the "world" that has this problem. It's hacker news. This place seriously has a groupthink problem. For this site, "Disagree(opinion)" == "Disagree(factually incorrect)" == "Disagree(against group opinion) == "Disagree(no reason)" are all given the same weight, and the same gray-on-offwhite text.
joshspankit 4y ago
Downvoted because you gave zero reasoning

Gonna say it.. this movie is overrated.

by jwmoz 4y ago

Gonna say it.. this movie is overrated.

Agree and I don't understand why anyone reacts to these blatant requests for comment from overt marketing anymore on HN. It's extremely naive to think these articles have any interest in mind apart from determining what sells with various social groups. HN is not an opinion farm and nerd culture has been dead for well over a decade. It's 2022 now, not 2009. No sentiment extracted from this place will capture any meaningful trend apart from maybe the negativity I'm giving off right now.

Ajunne 4y ago

Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world. That being said, I fully agree with you. I've tried watching this movie multiple times. When it originally came out so many years ago, friends of mine recommended it to me and they were absolutely lyrical about it. I've tried watching it high, I hated it. I've tried watching it sober, I hated it. I've tried watching it many years after it came out, I still hated it. There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it.

noasaservice 4y ago
> There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it. Spirited Away is beautiful, in the artistic sense of the word. It has no real story, and is just a hodgepodge of Japanese folklore pieced together to half-resemble even a mild plot. The rest of the stuff that isn't folklore-related is just the anthropomorphic elements Miyazaki added in as filler because of "kawaii". ----------------- And as an aside.... "Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world." It's not the "world" that has this problem. It's hacker news. This place seriously has a groupthink problem. For this site, "Disagree(opinion)" == "Disagree(factually incorrect)" == "Disagree(against group opinion) == "Disagree(no reason)" are all given the same weight, and the same gray-on-offwhite text.

joshspankit 4y ago

Downvoted because you gave zero reasoning