YMMV / Hidden Figures

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• Anvilicious: The movie is fairly heavy-handed with its anti-racist and anti-sexist themes. Not a bad thing though as the message of discrimination is still relevant to this day.
• Award Snub: The critical praise the movie received only ended up with Octavia Spencer getting any awards; an Academy Award nomination in this case. Taraji P Henson and Janelle Monáe were also overlooked. The film was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, but the film went home empty-handed.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Dorothy says that the newly invented IBM computer will put them out of work, her prediction couldn't be more accurate. In Real Life many people have been out of a job due to computers and robots especially during COVID-19 Pandemic, which also accelerated this process as people were stuck inside.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Janelle Monae came out as pansexual a few years after the movie was released, which makes her line "I got the right to see fine in every color" come off as amusing in retrospect.
• Memetic Mutation: At the Golden Globes, the film was twice misidentified as "Hidden Fences", due to being confused with the same year's film adaptation of Fences. Since about the only thing the two films have in common is their focus on black characters, a lot of fun was made at people for mistaking the two and the implications of the mistake.
• Narm:
  • The line "at NASA, we all pee the same color" is incredibly awkward and forced, especially since the impact of the gesture was felt by just having the sign for 'Colored Bathrooms' being torn down.
  • While the inclusion of Jim Parsons is meant to be a Casting Gag as he's playing a role similar to Sheldon Cooper, only in a period drama, it can come off as jarring for those who can't unsee Sheldon Cooper in their performace.
• Narm Charm: Jim's proposal to Katherine. The sentimental nature of it should make it too sappy to take seriously, but it manages to be quite sweet.
• Out of the Ghetto: Despite being marketed to a black audience, the movie opened #1 at the box office (narrowly topping Rogue One on its fourth weekend) and held the position the following week as well, beating out Martin Scorsese's Silence and Ben Affleck's Live by Night, among others.
• Romantic Plot Tumour: The focus on Katherine and Jim falling in love and getting married can feel like it takes too much time away from the far more interesting NASA storyline for some viewers. The fact that Jim doesn't really add anything to the story beyond being a Satellite Love Interest makes this even more obvious. Many fans of the film felt the friendship between the three main female characters was the most captivating personal relationship in the movie, npot their own personal romantic endeavors.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many felt the scene where Katherine ran across the building to use the segregated bathroom would have been better if she had simply used the whites only bathroom without permission, as the real Katherine did.

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