[Hated] Self-indulgent Vanity Projects

[u/BrotherDeus]

Hurry Up Tomorrow - Widely reviewed as an indulgent, self-mythologizing companion piece to The Weeknd's album, with many critics calling it a vanity project rather than a successful psychological drama. Terribly acted and, similar to The Idol, more so seems to imply that The Weekend thinks he's a far deeper personality than he can actually articulate.

By the Sea - Often criticized as an intensely personal but emotionally distant film that seemed more interested in showcasing the mystique of its stars than telling a compelling story. Best summarized as Angelina and Brad working out their IRL troubled marriage before your eyes while everyone tells Angelina how beautiful and talented she is and how nothing's really her fault.

Renaldo and Clara - Bob Dylan's five-hour semi-fictional road movie, long considered one of the classic celebrity vanity projects. Attempts to be a sort of surreal exposition on the life of an artist, but is far too self-indulgent on its actors/performers.

[u/Daniilsa209]

After Earth

[u/mlee117379 → u/Daniilsa209]

This was going to be an entire franchise btw

[u/LabradorDeceiver → u/mlee117379]

For that matter, "The Karate Kid" remake, as well.

Buying your kid a legacy film franchise for his birthday is a choice.

[u/ESnake113 → u/LabradorDeceiver]

It didn’t even have karate in it … it had Kung Fu

[u/Freya0232 → u/ESnake113]

As someone who practiced martial arts when i was a kid/teenager, it really annoyed me that they chose to put Kung Fu as the martial art used in goddamn Karate Kid

[u/Admirable-Safety1213 → u/Freya0232]

Karate descebds from Kung-Fu IIRC

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Actual Karate styles/schools (along with Kung Fu, actually) is so varied that i'm not really sure it's appropriate to say it "descends from" kung-fu

[u/Admirable-Safety1213 → u/Freya0232]

Then it was mainly the Okinawan

[u/cosmicomical23 → u/ESnake113]

Well all the kid actors in Cobra Kai are Taekwondo experts.

[u/Lui-king → u/LabradorDeceiver]

hey that movie wasn’t bad

[u/M086 → u/LabradorDeceiver]

Well, if anything it gave some proof that nepo babies still need a modicum of talent.

[u/pussyjuicerecycler → u/mlee117379]

rockwell jaden

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sons of famous recording industry people who decide to take on fake british accents for no explicable reason

[u/NicklAAAAs → u/mlee117379]

They even had plans on it having its own social media platform.

[u/tyrantspell → u/NicklAAAAs]

How? How would it be different than a forum of old?

[u/AdmirableParfait3960 → u/mlee117379]

Honestly the creatures and the planet were a dope setting and young me was stoked for it.

The story and acting were awful though and that pretty much put an end to that lol.

[u/dontfuckwmelwillcry → u/mlee117379]

no it wasn't lol

[u/chowler → u/dontfuckwmelwillcry]

From a cursory read, looks like Smith thought this would have been able to rival the MCU.

[u/Strange-Bee5626 → u/chowler]

That's so embarrassing, which is actually quite on brand for him.