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Watched Gattaca with friends tonight, because it's been recommended to me from numerous sources. I think I did good by keeping silent through at least half of it, then couldn't help pointing out obvious deficiencies as the film progressed. By the end I realized there was not a single thing I liked about the movie at all, just stuff I hated and stuff I could tolerate.

Gattaca synopsis and spoilers 

Poor poor cishet white dude is discriminated against! Since he has heart problems, they won't let him be a space ship pilot. That's so totally unfair. So he goes to elaborate lengths to hide his actual physical problems and becomes a space ship pilot anyway.

And has a heart attack on takeoff and crashes the ship and all his passengers into the sun. Okay that's not in the movie but I imagine it.

@Mycroft

I think I've maybe seen it twice... years ago... and it had flaws... but all movies do

I think what turned me off was all the gray.

@Mycroft yeah it's one of those films that people i know really like but i really did _not_

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