I don’t really care about Star Wars
I don’t want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs
Is Mark Hamill an exception? Or is he a voice actor that happens to have done some face acting as well?
I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don’t want to recognize anyone in a movie.
I always find the first moments of movies with famous actors disconcerting. Why is Jack from Titanic here? Oh, he is not Jack from Titanic, just has his body-suit…
The Disney-churn Marvell/Star Wars slop has ruined the film industry. No one is willing to risk a thing on original IP when remakes/reboots/continuations are taking in the bank.
We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine while the low hanging fruit is such a hot commodity. And it will never not be a hot commodity.
So really we should vote with our wallets and not watch cinema pollution like that then
Sadly, I think that slop flicks will remain popular the same way and for the same reasons McDonald’s is.
I liked how the 48fps version of the Hobbit looked (even though the movies themselves were mediocre).
Marvel / DC super hero movies are boring besides some of the jokes. Every main character is basically invincible, fights are pointless.
Except for those who died, I guess?
Scnr 😁
But Actually, that’s what I found to be a good thing: letting characters leave, finishing their story. Captain America, scarlet witch.
My hot take is I still watch the series of movies in hope for good stuff but most has passed.
One guy wrote a very true thing: when was the last time superheroes actually saved someone like they originally did.
I actually like sitting in the first few rows.
Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!
The entire concept of cinema is obsolete and I can’t wait for the last one to go out of business.
I like special effects in very cheap or very old movies: it gives me that “wow, how did they manage to do that in 1925?” feeling. I like that feeling. Modern quality effects I just ignore. Some very detailed explosion in the space? Ok, something exploded. I noted that plot point.
Same. I still appreciate modern effects tho but those old movies really impress me. Have you seen The Johnstown Flood? That one kinda blew my mind
I can still find modern special effects interesting enough if I find them aesthetically interesting – as though a lot of thought clearly went into them. I understand there were minimal hurdles to translating that vision to film, but it’s the vision itself I appreciate.
I also definitely get the same feeling you do watching older films and especially stage plays, where the constraints of the medium make it even more impressive.
Star Wars holds a place in my heart mainly for nostalgia reasons. Seeing those original films for the first time was formative back in the day when I was a wee cunt. But yeah, they’re pretty indefensible from a film criticism standpoint.
My takes:
- Goodfellas is fine. It’s a’ight. It’s about 900% more beloved than it deserves. Casino was better, even though it was the same damn movie.
- On Goodfellas: Ray Liotta is fucking awful in it. He gives me second-hand embarrassment watching him. He’s been great in other roles, but he just seemed so out of his depth trying to hold his own in amongst the De Niros and Pescis of the world. I also think the actor playing Big Paulie was fucking awful, but he doesn’t have much screen time so it’s easy to forget how shit he was.
- Also - and lastly, I swear - on Goodfellas: the editing is less “fractured and frenetic like the rapidly-imploding mind of the main character” and more like “fractured and frenetic like the coked up Parkinson’s-suffering editor during a violent bowel movement”. Unnecessarily janky and rough around every single edge, to put it mildly.
- Nic Cage should not be allowed to be in films, full stop. Not even a documentary about Nic Cage in which he agrees with me, personally, through the camera that he’s terrible.
- The Godfather III was good. Yeah, not as good as I and II, and the downright offensively-bad acting from Andy Garcia (you thought I was about to complain about Sofia Coppola, didn’t ya? Andy was an order of magnitude worse) definitely knocks a few stars off my IMDb rating, but the film was fine.
- I’ve posted about this in Unpopular Opinion before, but I think remakes and reboots are great, as long as the film-makers are trying to do their best and make an honest go of it. I especially love when a film is transported from one culture into another. For example, Unforgiven - the Clint Eastwood modern classic - was remade in Japan, except instead of the gunslinging Wild West it was the samurai-sword-swingin’ Meiji period. How cool is that shit? I love it. Now I have two awesome movies where before there was only one.
Nolan movies are mid
They are mid, but that’s better than most of what hollywood shits out.
National Movie theaters are now trying to show UFC and sports games. I support it. Because there’s a lot of abandoned movie theaters and I would rather them fill seats with anything, than become the dying empty malls.
Also, I don’t go to national movie theaters. My local neighborhood theater charges $5 for movies and $3 for pizza and popcorn.
Thats sick, I’d love to watch ufc at a theatre.
In a cinema I used to go to, they used to show the Met’s operas during the Sunday matinee. Absolutely lovely!
I don’t really care about Star Wars
That seems like a perfectly valid reaction to most of the movies beyond the first 2-3. I know there are some exceptions, including some of the animated series, but most of it is just repetitive, useless dreck IMO.
Cinema popcorn is inferior because they can get away with low quality. There’s plenty of good popcorn around, but it’s rarely found at the movies.
I’ll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is “Flavacol” seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.
Cinema popcorn is 60% of why I want to go to the movies. My local cinema changed popcorn maker and now it’s not as fresh… I am not as excited to go to the movies anymore :/
Most movies suck but people don’t realize it because they’re stupid cows.
anyone making noise, shining lights, or blocking the screen should immediately be thrown out.
