I gave up movies ages ago.. until I though "well, how bad could new Bladerunner be?"... I'll never watch a movie again.
I really liked it. Long, the plot moved in an old-school slower way, but I thought it was good.
In contrast, I gave the Star Wars sequels a fair shake.
Thought the first one was ok, until I got to the Cantina rip-off scene, followed promptly by the ‘Dagobah tree scene’ and the basically the ‘whole last half of Episode 4’, and I was like ‘don’t they have the budget to hire people to write an original story’?
I went to episode 8 against my better judgement, and walked out feeling like Disney emotionally manipulated me to steal my money. I want that money back.
I didn’t bother with episode 9, which by all accounts I heard was the right choice.
I haven’t been to the theaters much since, but really wanted to see DUNE.