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

Casablanca sucks. Also, most “refined” cinema is a fart-sniffing competition of one-upsmanship in how much a person can endure meandering nonsense disguised as commentary.

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.

One-upmanship time!
My take - Much of the movies in the Criterion collection suck.

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.

Marvel / DC super hero movies are boring besides some of the jokes. Every main character is basically invincible, fights are pointless.

I didn’t like it either.

So... 60fps exists... why don't we just use that for movies lmfao? (is this even a "hot take"?)

I like Revenge of the Sith more than every other Star Wars movie, including the original trilogy... (I like the volcano planet lightsaber duel)

Also as an introvert... I never went to a theater... 🏴‍☠️ (Did I miss out on anything?... I like the ability to pause so... 🤷‍♂️) It's not like Christopher Nolan is gonna get a heart attack over this lol

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.

I'm just happy with myself for sitting through a whole movie. I have no idea if it was good or bad. It's always good I sat through a movie.

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 actually like sitting in the first few rows.

some people aren't used to it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

Nolan movies are mid

The Hobbit trilogy was filmed and released in 48 fps (in theatres only, now lost media), and pretty much everyone hated it.

I saw it and can confirm it looked really fucking weird. I thought I’d get used to it after a while but the effect kept pulling me out of the movie throughout the entire runtime.

Is Mark Hamill an exception? Or is he a voice actor that happens to have done some face acting as well?

Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!

anyone making noise, shining lights, or blocking the screen should immediately be thrown out.

he was a face actor until that car accidentwampa fucked it up.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

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.

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.

I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don't want to recognize anyone in a movie.

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.

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 :/

The entire concept of cinemas is obsolete and I can't wait for the last one to go out of business.

In a cinema I used to go to, they used to show the Met’s operas during the Sunday matinee. Absolutely lovely!

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…

I'm fucking sick of remakes.

Not every film needs to have a sex scene.

Films can be so bad that they're good. Black Sheep for instance is terrible but also good.

CGI has ruined the old school prop departments

Thats sick, I'd love to watch ufc at a theatre.

I don't think anyone has "cared" about SW since the prequels (besides children, ofc, I was one of them!), tbh.

I really liked how the 48fps version of the Hobbit looked (even though the movies themselves were mediocre).

Denis either didn't get Dune (doubt it, or at least I'd like to believe so, seeing how fascinated he's been with Dune, historically, but he's a visual artist and not a philosopher/writer so it's always possible) or was forced by money people for money reasons to drastically change some important characters in ways that make no internal sense (but are more appealing to the Western audience). Both movies are basically just well shot, very pretty spectacles and, if you've read Dune, you know the essence of it is in the silent reflection, logical inferences and ideological battles, so even at their core the movies failed to understand Herbert. Idk, it's just a mess, a very pretty one but "random religious disunity in a group that actually believes and is currently being subjugated by the great powers" and "spicy, annoying, immature New-Yorker who's supposed to be the ideal, loving and wise woman (and much of the reason why the plot advances at all) for a man assaulted by visions and the pressure of power" definitely soured the whole watching experience.

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.

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.

I get it... I'm not used to my IRL "Origin Story" feeling like straight out of a movie plot either lmfao

So some tricks from ex cinema employee. Use canola oil and yellow Popcorn kernels and a Aluminum bowl That you can buy from a restaurant supply store.

• salt kernels before you cover then with oil.

• Fill the oil to just enough to cover the kernels.

• Then cover the bowl with Aluminum foil. And roll the bowl over the stove on medium heat. Till it starts popping

• then use More canola oil for butter Lightly Spritzed in a spray bottle.

• That will give you perfect theater popcorn at home.

Optional secret ingredient Tajin instead of salt

Cinema has it's own symbolic language. As does music, dance, painting, etc. They are all different languages with different capabilities. Translation from book to movie is always incomplete, just as The Divine Comedy does not move into English without significant compromise. Adaptation is the best to hope for. And even that is often too difficult to accomplish well.

I take umbrage at item 4, but I don't have the time for the correct kind of reply.

If you could go to chatgpt and put in this prompt for me and then read the result, that'd be great.

"Please make a long, meandering reply to the assertion that Nic Cage should not be in movies, stating that Nic Cage is perfect for those movies that need that Nic Cage energy."

Please include a good movie or producer. Otherwise the gatekeeper can't judge you in their mind.

Too many movies are formulaic and boring. Even if fun, they can be boring substantially.

Watching a movie at home on my 120" projector with 5.1 and comfy chairs with my wife and the furkids is a far better experience than I've probably ever had at a cinema - partly because I can control the sound level, it's just too loud at the cinema.

Action movies & horror movies make me yawn.
I get so bored. Shitty porn has better plot lines.

cause it looks like shit. films, aka movies, have had a certain look and feel to them since the beginning. when you have the resolution and frame rate too high it looks like youre looking at actors on a soundstage. its too clear. it disables the suspension of disbelief.

Superman did, but it's fair criticism for marvel.

I also agree, some of these movies get so fucking epic that I just don't care. I miss the human drama that takes place in a lower scale.

Not that infinity war wasn't fun, mind. But now it's not even enough to just fight for the world, but we have to fight for the multiverse!

I'm sure Doomsday will be good because the Russo brothers have made all of the best marvel movies, but it feels a bit "y'all haven't liked shit since we killed everyone off, so here they are again."

But post-infinity war I've basically only enjoyed the TV shows. Thunderbirds was pretty good. FF was... fine? Compared to previous FF movies, it was great. But it didn't land for a lot of people.

But Hawkeye was good. I really enjoyed Ms. Marvel. Echo was a decent spinoff. Looking forward to new installments of the Defenders characters now that the marvel Netflix people are largely back. Shit, I'll even be interested to see if they can make the Finn Jones Iron Fist work this time. But Colleen Wing was the best part of that show and I hear she isn't coming back. And the Falcon and the Winter Soldier was so much better than the Captain America movie.

Anyway the TV shows all have a limited scale and it gave them so much more heart.

Yeah, but the wampa never acted again, so I think justice was done. Their career is over.

Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.