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Name a movie that is both brilliant and terrible


Not one of those "so bad it's good" movies, but a movie that is critically acclaimed yet had some major flaws.

I'll start: Batman Returns. Visually spectacular with an amazing score, but ultimately terrible as well due to the main villain not being an actual comic book character and an overacting performance by Danny DeVito that is hard to stomach.

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Birth of a Nation
The Deer Hunter

Come to mind.

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Easy Rider. A lot of potential but in the end I always feel like I just waded in a cess pool by the end of it.

There's only about ten minutes of legitimately good film there.

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