I don’t really care about Star Wars
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.
Pacific Rim is the perfect popcorn movie
Perfect for edibles and the bass turned up
Guilty pleasure movie of mine
Movie theaters are money sinks for idiots.
That’s not so much a hot take anymore.
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.
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.
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
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
And, always, some dirty motherfucker has thrown a drink on the screen staining the screen
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
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.
- 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.
Not a movie but Rick and Morty fans are like this for me. I like it but the fans are awful
But adult, raunchy, horror comedy does not sell tickets to kids /s
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.
What is considered film expertise today is a joke. This applies to all mediums, but especially in cinema you see it all the time that a person who has watched popular, top-rated Hollywood movies is considered very knowledgeable. Yeah, it doesn’t matter, especially in a private group, but it’s a cringing pain in the ass to listen to these people talk about movies.
Regular actors should stick to regular acting and leave voice acting to voice actors.
Is this a hot take?
Chris Pratt as Mario was when a lot of people went “wtf why?”
A lot of people wouldn’t even know about it if Chris Pratt wasn’t in it
I think you highly underestimate the cultural catchet of Mario.
I was talking to someone about that movie, and I brought up Chris Pratt. They didn’t know who he voiced in the movie.
Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.
I think you’re reversing causality. Movies that were bound to be bad cast The Rock. We need to experiment by casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson.
casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson
Given his script caveats to get him to star, you’re right.
I’ve only liked maybe two Rock movies and he still had hair in both of them.
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?
based on his voice work as Skips from Regular Show, most definitely he’s actually got the chops for it.
Mark is a voice actor that has done some on screen work. I don’t care much about star wars and his joker and trickster is peak. Note though him in the long walk was epic.
You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE
he was a face actor until that
car accidentwampa fucked it up.Yeah, but the wampa never acted again, so I think justice was done. Their career is over.
Probably not a hot take but audio mixes are often dreadful. If I have to turn on subtitles to understand what someone is saying because they’ve been buried in the mix, someone fucked up and that person shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a mixing console again.
100% this. I say this all the time.
I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don’t want to recognize anyone in a movie.
‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don’t know anyone in it.
My son is big cinephile, and he complains about how contemporary movies are all filled with people who look like nepo-baby actors. He says they all have iPhone face: no matter what time period they’re supposed to be in, they all look like they’ve seen an iPhone.
He longs for the old days when older unattractive actors were in demand as character actors.
Which is why I can’t stand Will Smith movies. Or Vin Diesel. Or any of the other dozen actors who don’t actually go out of their way and act.
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 Bear had an episode with a family reunion where everyone was a famous actor, so you have some familiarity with them, but they were so characterized, it wasn’t off-putting.
I do agree though those actors that are always the same persona (e.g. The Rock), do throw me away from what I’m watching.
The amount of computer generated special effects used in a movie directly correlates with the likelihood of me not liking it.
Superhero movies for example are completely unwatchable because of this.
It’s a bit more complicated than that, just recently stumbled across this guy who looks deeper into it - https://youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE.
CGI is a big part but the (lack of) cinematography plays a much bigger part than i would have thought.
