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Thank you. I really needed something to counter the horror of "The Imitation Game". The fact that the latter had got universal acclaim and many awards really scares me. A lot.

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It's one of my favorite recent (say, >=2013) movies actually, perhaps even my favorite.

I would ask why you call it a 'horror' but I suppose opinions just differ and there might be a great many things one could list about it being bad. Instead, I would like to know why do you say it scares you that it received awards. Like, would you rather contentless movies like Divergent or The Hunger Games got all the awards?

From the same blog, here's what's wrong with The Imitation Game.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7365

Because it has almost nothing to do with actual life and passion of Alan Turing, who was infinitely more interesting person than that cliché Asperger type depicted in the movie.

Nothing to do with the movie, but I thought his autistic aspects to be violently hilarious when reading more about him. He seemed to be at times completely oblivious of social implications and rules, which gave many great anecdotes to punctuate his life.

To rephrase you question, do you prefer something stupid, or something stupid that pretends to be clever (and sully something you like)?

Also, false dichotomy.

Seriously, those are not content-free movies. You're just not the target market.

But you want to look at what got no awards while The Imitation Game cleaned up? Selma, a movie with way more relevance to America than TIG.

But I'm guessing you're not in the target market for that either.

(And also, as others have already pointed out, the content is bad.)

Selma looks like an interesting movie, not sure I'm not the target market, aside perhaps from not being American.

Selma's historical gravity weighed down the movie making like concrete shoes.

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