I don't have a problem with remakes. And neither do the majority of moviegoers, or they'd stop paying to see them. Stop saying there are no original movies or that original movies aren't advertised enough. When you get the theater to buy your ticket to the latest remake, there is a list of other movies playing and you probably have your phone on hand to look up what they're about to decide if you want to see them.

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 agree

I still watch every Star Wars thing that comes out but I'm less emotionally invested than I used to be

Try MovieInsider, it has a good list of all upcoming movies

The theatre experience fucking sucks.

• You're beholden to their schedule

• It's fucking expensive

• It's quite often filthy

• 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

• Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons

Ok for something resembling a more serious answer, I've always found it weird when things outside of a film itself affected people's opinions on the film itself. Like I don't care that an actor or director was caught saying something dumb or the people don't speak out in support of something. If the film is good or bad, then that stuff shouldn't affect it imo. I know films don't exist in a bubble, but whenever I talk to people and they bring this up for why they do or don't like something or think it's over or underrated then I just get really confused.

You'll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

Texas has changed a bit since I was there last...

Same. I watched that Skeleton Crew show on Disney+. I enjoyed it, but I noticed a few plot holes. It also ended kind of abruptly.

Thanks I'll look

Must? Idk about that. Will, sure, for financial reasons usually, but there were too many big, nonsensical changes in Denis story... This is like making Sam from LOTR a sneaky, dishonest fella but keeping the rest of the story as it is. 🤷

He kept all the magic thingies and even added an element that was not present in the books with the random female voice/voices "speaking prophecies" to Paul. But more importantly, he ruined a main character, transforming her into basically a contemporary American. It might be well paced, it might be pretty, but it's not Dune and it doesn't make as much sense as it should have had they not messed with it for the sake of larger audiences.

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you're in awe of the film, there's a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc...

There's no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.

• 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

But adult, raunchy, horror comedy does not sell tickets to kids /s

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.

You clearly dont know enough about how pipeline to make good 3d effects goes.

You cant just toss enough money and time to make good CGI scene. The director needs to understand how the effects work and how design the scene with that in mind. There is huge amount of work to make sure the real parts in the scene work with the CGI parts. It needs just as much planning, story boarding and collaborations between the different groubs than any other special effect shot needs. The lighting needs to match, the eye lines of the actors need to match. Any time when there is contact between real things and 3d modeled things it needs to be planned shot by shot to make it work. Even full CGI scenes need to be planned how they stransit in to ot from the real footage.

If you think special effects are just high speed pursuits or stunt men doing wire work, you really are selling the whole VFX industry short.

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.

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.

I was talking to someone about that movie, and I brought up Chris Pratt. They didn't know who he voiced in the movie.

It is pretty faithful to the manga, which is what I was looking for. I can't imagine they could haveade it better by just ad libbing some bullshit Chainsaw Man fanfic.

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 mean, it's a hot take, I'll give you that. I can't agree with it, though. Every line of dialogue in that film moves plot. It's really well edited and far ahead of its time. Modern cinema owes a lot to the lessons taught by Casablanca.

That's not so much a hot take anymore.

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)

Movie theaters are money sinks for idiots.

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

Pacific Rim is the perfect popcorn movie

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.

100% this. I say this all the time.

I think you highly underestimate the cultural catchet of Mario.

Guilty pleasure movie of mine

I personally love it because it is genuinely open ended

Sure and perhaps I'm wrong but just because you aren't one doesn't mean you don't know any. Heck they often get consultants for medical shows for some bits of realism. How hard would it be to talk to some actual scientists and engineers (would probably be pretty cheap) when you're already spending millions.

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. 🤔

I actually saw a family arguing about this today. The mother was like "we can sit anywhere, don't you wanna sit down here in the front" and the daughter was like "no, I don't want to crane my neck". I was mildly annoyed because there was assigned seating and therefore the mother was encouraging rule breaking, but I minded my own business and didn't say anything

That's when it tastes like plastic IME. Big yikes from me, but different strokes for different folks.

Btw, I happen to love crispy popcorn, and figured out that you can rescue stale popcorn & other snacks by tossing them in the air-fryer a little bit.

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.

And, always, some dirty motherfucker has thrown a drink on the screen staining the screen

Not a movie but Rick and Morty fans are like this for me. I like it but the fans are awful

Perfect for edibles and the bass turned up

A book can just tell you what a character is thinking, your focus as a reader is always exactly where the writer wants it to be, because there is nothing to focus on but the words. None of that translates to movies. The broad rule for screenplays is that one page translates to one minute of runtime. You can't directly translate a 400 page book into a screenplay. You must adapt it and make changes. Some are easy, because descriptions of how something looks like become an image. Others are difficult.

‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don't know anyone in it.

casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson

Would that it were so simple.

‘Man With a Movie Camera’ is great for this.

Throwback to this great rant:

So apart from tumblr fanbase, why doesn't /tv/ like this show?

Because it has smart characters written stupidly.

Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is a smartly written smart character. When Chigurh kills a hotel room full of three people he books to room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can shoot through, where the light switch is, what sort of cover is there etc. This is a smart thing to do because Chigurh is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.

Were Sherlock Holmes to kill a hotel room full of three people. He'd enter using a secret door in the hotel that he read about in a book ten years ago. He'd throw peanuts at one guy causing him to go into anaphylactic shock, as he had deduced from a dartboard with a picture of George Washington carver on it pinned to the wall that the man had a severe peanut allergy. The second man would then kill himself just according to plan as Sherlock had earlier deduced that him and the first man were homosexual lovers who couldn't live without eachother due to a faint scent of penis on each man's breath and a slight dilation of their pupils whenever they looked at each other. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn't kill him at all. The third man removes his sunglasses and wig to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the Secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his mask to reveal he's actually Moriarty attempting to frame Sherlock for two murders. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead men stand up, they're undercover police officers, it was all a ruse. "But Sherlock!" Moriarty cries "That police officer blew his own head off, look at it, there's skull fragments on the wall, how is he fine now? How did you fake that?". Sherlock just winks at the screen, the end.

This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.