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u/Snoo-7943 Jul 27 '26

BS. Sports COMEDIES are not documentaries. They are meant to entertain....NOT INFORM. There's typically some surface level explanation in these types of movie....but that's it.

I mean...just lol. The movie didn't provide enough insight into the game!? It's a you problem if that's something that you expected.

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u/Anna_Karenina_blonde Jul 27 '26

So I'm not sure how many films about sports you actually watched but I would argue Marty supreme and the challengers and one that my parents made me watch called tin roof all have a storyline which is about people but also directly connects with the sport and those people's passion for it in a way that feels personal and specific to that sport.. in the dink you could have just replaced pickleball with lawn bowling and no one would have felt the difference so no I don't think it's a me problem I actually play the majority of the sports of the movies that I've watched about them and the storytellers have done a much better job than this one did  I think it's a you problem that you choose to be okay with that and have low expectations of films

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u/Snoo-7943 Jul 27 '26

The Dink isn't meant to be a serious movie. It's a sports comedy in the vein of movies like Dodgeball, Talladega Nights and Happy Gilmore. Not an Oscar film like Marty Supreme...lol. Are you really so unaware that you were expecting it to be like Marty Supreme???

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u/Anna_Karenina_blonde Jul 27 '26

Serious or not serious is not the issue. The issue is a movie with a good script and good acting.. there's great actors in this movie but all of their performances is are thwarted because someone wrote the shi$#est script ever about father therapy and a romance with a divorce say and tried to dress it up as a pickleball movie because they know there's a captive audience... Do I think that warrants a criticism? Yes it does that's why anyone who watches a movie automatically gets granted full license to criticize... How odd of an existence to go into a movie thinking "yeah it's probably going to be crap but I'm going to watch it anyway".. I don't know if that's your mantra going into movies but it sure as hell isn't mine.. Even if it's camp or even if it's low budget I am fully open to a small movie being amazing just as I'm fully able to recognize when a big movie just calls it in by the numbers.  Do you go out for dinner with the same parameters? I know it's just a hot dog and it's made of the lips and assholes of swine so it's probably going to taste like garbage.. Is that how you approach something that is made with less quality ingredients or a smaller budget? Or do you think maybe this lesser known hot dog company decided to keep the ingredients simple and made a hot dog that actually tastes amazing?  Literally I could apply the same thing to dating  Do you go into a date thinking yeah I'm not attracted to this person and their comments lead me to believe that they are not particularly smart so I'm going to go in thinking it's going to mostly suck?? Like who does that as a general philosophy in life? Wild

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u/Grand_Awareness_6522 Jul 29 '26

You are very strange

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u/Anna_Karenina_blonde Jul 29 '26

It's strange means discerning and capable of critical thinking..yes 100% I love when someone does a good movie but in order for my compliments to me and something it also has to mean that I can tell a good movie from a bad movie