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Donnie darko and the fifth element are terribly overrated. Films made to make teenagers think they're deeper than they are.
The Hobbit films (and the rings of power) aren't the worst thing to happen to the Lord of the rings.
Who's claiming The Fifth Element is deep? The style and design are excellent, but it's a bog standard action flick until Chris Tucker shows up and steals the movie
Seriously. T5E is 100% style over substance, and knows it.
The Fifth Element is fun.
Donnie Darko is just weird. I should not need to look up what the story is supposed to be.
Okay, I can at least see where you're coming from with Donnie Darko, but I'm completely confused when it comes to The Fifth Element.
Did The Fifth Element even have any teenage characters at all?
It doesn't seem like it dealt with anything remotely like typical real-world teenage life.
I can't see how it treated anything as being especially deep, either. I mean, the characters were flat and goofy, not complex and angst-ridden.
I mean, there are countless movies aimed at teens could maybe fit your criticism, but this seems like a movie where it's simply inapplicable.
Is there any chance that you're thinking of a different movie with a similar name?
I did not like Donnie Darko until I rewatched the movie with the directors commentary. It felt like reading the Clif Notes after struggling to understand an obtuse old book in English class. I don't think it's a good thing per se that the movie's plot struggles to stand on its own, but my appreciation for what was attempted really went up a lot after getting the supplemental material.
Donnie Darko is such trash I would up vote this twice.
Tbh the actual cast and direction of the The Hobbit movies wasn’t that bad, but intentionally drawing out a single book that could’ve been done in 3-4 hours into 3 whole movies in a vain attempt at recapturing the LoTR trilogy’s fame is what made it weaker.
Rings of Power, however, throws out a lot of the stuff that happened in The Second Age and straight-up ignores Tolkien’s works at times. Granted, Amazon didn’t have legal rights to the Silmarillion and the LoTR appendices, but it’s still a shame we basically got a gutted version of what could have been a great show. Galadriel was also pretty boring as your generic “Marvel strong stoic action woman” kind of character.
What's mad is they could have done a millennium long epic of Sauron's domination Númenor. Could have made the whole thing as long or as short as they want and build from there.
They could have had political intrigue. conspiracies, betrayal, double-crossing and all sorts.
Instead they just shat the bed.