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There are so many like that! One that really sticks out is the movie Twister. The special effects are so fun and exciting (with an excellent soundtrack), and it expertly hides the fact there isn't really much plot or acting haha!
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The first time I watched it, I was with this really drunk dude who couldn't stop commenting on how awesome the movie was. So it really turned me off to it. Much later I watched it again by myself and got to really understand what it was all about.
Yeah Prometheus got a lot of hate when it first came out. I'm one of the odd ones though, I liked the movie right off the bat. It certainly had flaws (the worst being the running straight away from the rolling ship lol) but overall very exciting to watch.
Negan, imo, is rediculous. This isn't a slam on the excellent actor, who is doing the absolute best he can with what he has been given, but rather everything else. Hear me out.
Much of the earlier part of the season was having most of the characters acting completely strange and unlike themselves, contrived circumstances just to prop up the image of Negan as a badass. Just bad writing. For instance, Darryl jumping up and acting alone in ep. 1 and causing someone's death was not what an earlier season Darryl would have done.
If he'd been written with better lines, he would fit in better with that world, but so much of what he says sounds like something a 13 year old edgelord would write in his mary sue fan fiction. That whole "think about what could happen, think about what did happen" was so stupid that we make fun of it still. Think about how he very smartly plans ahead and uses his nearly genius level intellect to ruthlessly psychologically torment others to maintain his position, but then he opens his mouth and I'm like "wtf?"
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but Negan _does_ remind people of the Governor. And obviously so, even this thread mentions the Governor. Just because it was in the comics that way doesn't mean it translates to the screen in the same way. I never read the comics so to me it feels like a rehashed villain. That said, if they had chosen Negan _instead_ of the Governor earlier in the tv series as a main bad guy that would have been probably a lot better.
Now with all that said, Negan's character - dialogue and clear on screen motivations - have become a lot better as the season has progressed...perhaps the writers have found their groove.