I look at it more that Denis made a lot of choices to remove a lot of the more esoteric elements to fit that it was a movie and a sequel made years later. A lot was removed from the book, but it still feels well paced for two movies.

And if you're going to make significant cuts, you might as well cut out the really weird shit.

I disagree with 4. Nic Cage is a great actor, he just isn't going to give a subdued method actor style of performance.

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.

Movies are going to go away because either no one has the attention span for them or they want a full season of prestige television.

Given his script caveats to get him to star, you're right.

I think SW 7, 8 and 9 are OK and liked them better than 1 and 2, which I disliked so much that I never bothered to see 3.

Watching a movie in cinemas make the experience better, compared to watching the same mlvie at home.

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.

I've only liked maybe two Rock movies and he still had hair in both of them.

Even the worst practical effects look better long term than most CGI.

You're right about the latest superman. I really liked the movie and him, although mostly the dc stuff was taking itself waaay to seriously for me in the past.
(personal preference)

Regular actors should stick to regular acting and leave voice acting to voice actors.

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.

I love Casablanca, beyond love really. When Ilsa first appears, it's hard for me to breathe.

Sturgeon's Law says that 90% of movies do indeed suck. And given how anyone can make a movie these days with their phones, that's more likely to be accurate than ever before.

As much as I have issues with 2001 space odyssey, it is a technical marvel for its time.

The film/tv industry really really sucks at showing smart people.

Oppenheimer sucked. Barbie was only good in comparison to how much shittier stuff there is nowadays.

I haven't seen a movie in years where exposition scenes haven't felt like they were directed by a condescending 5th grader.

First actual hot take I've seen in this post so far

If you want millennials to go to the theater you need to figure out what we can do with our kids for 2 damn hours.

Books and movies have very different options and rules for storytelling. Changes must be made and those decisions will never make everybody happy. I realized at one point that a movie or show, even if it's retelling a story from a book, will never match my expectations. It's always just another entry in that stories universe. That allowed me to enjoy adaptations more.

Same. I watched Citizen Kane for the first time a year or two ago, and some of the shots blew my mind. Like how the fuck did he do some of that shit?

Casino was better

Stopped reading here

The Aliens in Aliens are loosely based on Naked Mole Rat cultures and behaviours complete with hive mind that talks via chirps and trills, giant queen with extended baby area, specialized roles (this is more from the expanded universe), not liking other clans of Aliens, resistant to pain/acid etc. There are just so many parallels.

I say Aliens as the Alien in Alien was slightly different depending on if you consider the deleted scenes canon or not.

There was once I time where I would have argued against your take on Star Wars. But now, I don't disagree with you. The newer Disney Star Wars films have killed the franchise.

I think 8 is the biggest steaming pile of garbage ever, but 7 was simple fun and 9 would have been decent if it wasn’t forced to rebuild the china shop that 8 had just rampaged through. The Last Jedi took every bit of work building a narrative that 7 had done, piled it up, shat on it, then lit it on fire, all in the name of trying to be a cool rogue auteur. 9 had no choice but to do inane contortions like “somehow, Palpatine returned” because there were no fucking villains left alive.

Rian Johnson should never be allowed within a hundred miles of a beloved franchise he didn’t create. He can keep making Knives Out, but I will die on the hill that The Last Jedi is a selfish, senseless, poorly written piece of hackery.

Partial blame goes to Disney for not having the sequel trilogy plot predetermined in a story bible before ever putting the first ink to script.

Advertising matters for movies. Every time someone says "movies suck now", there's always some guy that says "movies are great if you know where to look". Sure, but where is that? I can find listicles with a few of them, but this is usually only the ones that break into mainstream, a year later. Even generic reddit and Lemmy/Piefed subs aren't much better. It's not feasible to ask someone to join a forum or Discord about indie movies just to not be fed slop.

CGI shouldn't win cinematography or even special effects awards.

Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc...)

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It's not the same.

If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.

Oh...You've got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great...cool shot...but took nothing to actually create it.

If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.

Made it in a computer? It's meaningless.

It's definitely what nailed the coffin closed. Disney releasing a new Star Wars show every few months was what killed it for me.

Is this a hot take?

Chris Pratt as Mario was when a lot of people went "wtf why?"

Hot take: movie goers are so used to suspension of disbelief that movies are too afraid to take risks that challenge the audience.

Like Netflix pushing every movie to say the plot.

But also, how many braindead takes from "influencers" or morons who don't understand the film.

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.

Episode 3 is better when you watch it as a meta movie. Or with the commentary on.

George Lucas really started to learn that his shit does smell with episode 1 & 2, and asked for help with Episode 3. So watching how he got help, and the behind the scenes, just makes each scene more enjoyable.

True just like the Lord of the rings.

the last jedi was amazing. thats my hot take

That will happen when you have writers who aren't as smart as the characters they're trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.

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.

His characters just exist to move the plot forward, I never get the feeling that they have any agency or personality beyond existing so they can be in a Nolan movie.

How do you feel about something like Fury Road, where they make a point of including practical effects?

Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze Arc:

I would live at the cinema if it was possible.

Those seats have to be available for consumer purchase

They are so comfy, love them

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It's not the same

Artists

They need (3D) artists, gramps.

A lot of people wouldn't even know about it if Chris Pratt wasn't in it

I’ll hot take your hot take of that hot take: Cinema popcorn is best the day after a movie when it’s stale

Oh I'm not saying there isn't skill involved. There's obviously artistic skill involved.

But there's already awards for that kind of thing. It's a completely different skill set completely removed from the collaborative nature of film-making and film special effects.

One person sitting behind a computer, no matter how skilled, isn't the same as a team working in tandem to create something awe inspiring.

based on his voice work as Skips from Regular Show, most definitely he's actually got the chops for it.

except the chocolate popcorn at Seattle's Cinerama SIFF Cinema. That stuff is to die for.

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.

Second draft of this comment, because I realize this has happened a lot during my lifetime.

Star Wars, like Star Trek, The Legend of Zelda - a lot of the media I grew up with - started out as stories, and then transitioned to settings, and have now become paint colors.

There used to be an answer for "Who is the main character of Star Wars?" When I was a kid, that answer was Luke Skywalker. When I was a teenager, the answer changed to Darth Vader, and now it's a meaningless question, like who's the main character of brutalism or who's the protagonist of JNCO jeans?