I don’t really care about Star Wars
I liked The Happening.
Whether it was intentional or not, there’s a really interesting metaphor for the 24/7 news cycle, the need to blame something, and the state of the world. There’s so much in there to think about but most of the audience just thought “plants make people kill themselves? That’s too silly”. In my mind it isn’t the plants; no one knows, but the need to get the first headline, or feel in control is so great that people get frantic, panicky, and dangerous.
That movie would have been better without that dick Marky mark in it
Movies in general aren’t interesting to me. I much prefer video games.
They really screwed up “The Wizard of Oz” by their knee-jerk reaction to using new colour technologies right in the middle of production. It was jarring, not amazing, as I’d already been accustomed to colours all of my life. /s
More theaters need a rotation of classics. There’s a whole subset of movies I’d love to see in theaters again and having to wait for some small theater half an hour away to show one of those for one weekend a year is a bummer.
We have a local theater here that basically only runs classics, it’s pretty great.
This is why I love my local theater, comparatively cheap tickets and the best prints for old classics running all the time.
Sometimes they also bring in the director, or someone else that was involved in the production to talk about the movie. Those are really fun.
I didn’t think One Battle After Another was very good. Felt like my generation’s Crash, though not nearly as bad
Actual hottake unlike the OP
Cinematic universes shouldn’t live forever. At some point, there is just too much of it, both for people making it and for people watching it.
I think it’s more that we turned cinematic universes into a forced content machine to have x number of side character movies per year, with one major tentpole event every few years, with tv shows, video games, and comics all filing in gaps along the way. It’s exhausting. I’m fine with a connected universe that is allowed to live and breathe in it’s own.
Well wessa don’t care about the you
Holywood is over.
Wow now there’s a hot take I haven’t heard regularly for my entire life lol
Its TikTok now. No Real hollywood is a lot of TikTok slop.
I cannot stand The Godfather. Any mafia shit, really. I hate the whole family hierarchy thing, I hate the guise of freedom when it’s just an organization reminiscent of cops or the military, and I hate the blind loyalty to a system that only serves one person or family, it’s all just so petty and capitalistic, the mafia is fucking stupid.
Yeah thats why you were supposed to take away from that movie, the creator of it isn’t trying to glorify that life but show you how pathetic it is. But idiots watch it and take the wrong message
This is like saying that you hate ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’ because you hate army.
You’re not supposed to like the Mafia in these movies.
I agree that the system sucks and that, IRL, they’re bad people and harmful to society. Still a good movie though.
I lost focus on the second movie, but the first one was decent
Lookie here boys, we gots ourselves a tough guy. Hey, Rico, why don’t you show our friend what happens to tough guys round here. Maybe a little swim with the fishies will show him we ain’t so bad after all.
That’s not so much a hot take anymore.
Pacific Rim is the perfect popcorn movie
Perfect for edibles and the bass turned up
Guilty pleasure movie of mine
Inception isn’t that great.
It’s complex for the sake of complexity and the complication needlessly makes the story more difficult to parse. The revelation about there being an additional layer before reality is such an overused trope that it wasn’t an interesting twist and added nothing to the plot.
I didn’t find the movie to be that complicated or difficult to understand. it had a lot of cool visuals that made it seem like your brain was supposed to be surprised or something. but there was nothing complicated about it
I personally love it because it is genuinely open ended
Movie theaters are money sinks for idiots.
The theatre experience fucking sucks.
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You’re beholden to their schedule
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It’s fucking expensive
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It’s quite often filthy
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Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
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Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
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Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
Another thing that’s bad about theaters is you can’t pause the movie. If you desperately need a bathroom break, you miss part of the movie
Kinda makes me wonder how often the people that clean up after each screening have to deal with bottles of piss. 🤔
Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
ULPT: That’s when you guilt-trip them:
“This was the last thing I watched together with my 8 year old son/daughter before he/she died from cancer” starts crying (it doesn’t have to be true, just dramatic enough to shut them the hell up and to make them mind their own bussiness)
Hard disagree it’s very much you white fuckers (said with love because I’m white) need to embrace the social experience of a movie.
Horror is peak in theaters.
Drag me to hell was the best experience I ever had. Everyone was talking and yelling in the theater. It was rowdy. I was drunk with my friends. It was an 11/10 experience.
Second was Smile post pandemic the theater was packed it was loud and boisterous.
Serious white people get the stick out your ass and enjoy life
Counterpoint: I ruined The Ring for everyone when that bitch came out the TV and I busted out laughing
Participation with the movie like at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening is great.
Some dude talking loudly about some bullshit that has nothing to do with the movie is something else altogether and not enjoyable.
Someone shouting “DON’T GO THAT WAY, THE KILLER IS THERE!” in a horror movie would be funny af.
And, always, some dirty motherfucker has thrown a drink on the screen staining the screen
Real smoking hot take here.
- Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
- Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
And staff don’t do anything about it
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Fandoms ruin movie franchises worse than any bad directing or writing ever could.
I avoid fandoms of franchises I enjoy because they end up sucking the life out of everything. When things don’t go exactly as fans expected or want, people turn to the internet to rage at things we once loved. Many of these “dogshit” movies are entertaining and fine as they are. But we’ve become so obsessed with our own expectations of what story a movie is supposed to be or say, that we have stopped allowing others to tell their own stories and show their own visions. It’s just all about ragging on whatever all the time.
This includes: Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, everything in the Tolkien universe, etc. All perfectly fine franchises that just aren’t for everyone and I think that’s ok.
Exception: The last 2 Ghostbusters movies, those movies forgot what the GB are supposed to be about; adult, raunchy, horror comedy.
Hideaki Anno reportedly dealt hilariously with this: when fans started complaining that the ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ was getting weird, he doubled down on the confusion. Well NGE is now a modern classic worldwide.
That’s the right way to fucking do it! Embrace the weird!
Not a movie but Rick and Morty fans are like this for me. I like it but the fans are awful
I never got into Rick & Morty, but I also didn’t hear about it until it was popular and the fan base had already turned me off of it. “Fans” really can ruin great things.
The more I like a movie or franchise, the less likely I am to read what others are saying about it because I don’t want to hear the negativity
I am the same way, even if it’s a show I don’t like, I’ll avoid fandoms because they make it worse.
The only one that I have not noticed get bad is for The Expanse, but I don’t delve too much into it, so maybe I just don’t see it. I’m just obsessed with the books and tv show.
But adult, raunchy, horror comedy does not sell tickets to kids /s
