I agree that the system sucks and that, IRL, they're bad people and harmful to society. Still a good movie though.

Oh man, the idea that you consider the worst Chris to be a bigger draw than Mario. Wow

Real smoking hot take here.

You’re not supposed to like the Mafia in these movies.

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 lost focus on the second movie, but the first one was decent

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.

He's a good director, but he keeps making gimmicky films. Someone should hire him with an actually good story.

There are good action films, namely ones where action isn't the whole thing. E.g. 'Terminator 2', the original 'Total Recall', 'True Lies', or 'One Battle After Another'.

Counterpoint: I ruined The Ring for everyone when that bitch came out the TV and I busted out laughing

60fps exists... why don't we just use that for movies

Originally because it felt like tv shows, which were shot in 60 fps and were pretty shitty from the artistic standpoint.

as an introvert... I never went to a theater

As also an introvert, I can report that you're not forbidden from going to movies alone nor are you required to interact with anyone other than getting to your seat. The theatre is not much of a wow factor for me personally, but others likely get more out of it.

Hear me out here... I want more remakes. But remakes for the right reasons.

White Men Cant Jump was a good movie for 1992, but it was hardly oscar bait. The 2023 remake wasnt bad, it was a fun revisit. I enjoy it because it gives me the feeling they actually had fun making it. Do it with Major League or The Replacements, dont reinvent the wheel just make a VERY similar movie with serious actors who want to have some fun, break their mould, tell some dick jokes. Dont cast whoever is currently hot or someone I've seen in 28 contrived comedies. I want Timothee Chalomet and Benedict Cumberpatch as players with unusual names have an in character argument about who has the stupider name.

Good question, it's a lot easier to be negative. I enjoy Tarantino movies, A more high brow movie I liked is The Act of Killing, I liked the HBO series The Deuce, ehm... this is hard.

Translation from book to movie is always incomplete

I wouldn't say ‘always’, since plenty of books don't have anything besides what would be shown on the screen.

But also, conversely, cinema allows for things that can't be put in a book. Lynch's films can't be turned into books with a semblance of the same effect — even though literature has its own surreal tradition, and Ballard, Kobo Abe or Murakami don't quite work in film. And the notion of novelizing ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ doesn't even make sense.

I kind of find the gimmicks to be the most enjoyable parts of his movies. They're also very pretty.

Exactly. And the style, while it's pretty and cool looking, works together with the paper-thin characters to give this introspective muffled and artificial feel to all of his works.

Holywood is over.

Yeah, but his films are all hermetic and self-contained, there's nothing for me in them except the gimmick. I have no desire to rewatch ‘Tenet’ or ‘Inception’, because understanding the story better gives me absolutely bupkis. The stories aren't in any way connected to the wider world and have zero impression on my life afterwards. Like, the mystery in ‘The Name of the Rose’ is a gimmick, but it remains interesting because it has layers and lots of connections to history and stuff.

If Nolan directed some kinda sci-fi ‘Robinson Crusoe’, I might've been left with an urge to build a hut and defensive walls and gather resources, like it happened with the book and some of Cory Doctorow's novels. But his films don't even give me that. It's kind of an achievement in itself, really.

P.S. Actually, there are plenty of self-contained gimmicky films that I still want to revisit sometimes. E.g. 'Man with a Movie Camera' entirely consists of editing tricks, but it works. Lynch's films are self-contained and often don't even have a story. Idk what it is with Nolan's films, but they're dry as fuck.

Well wessa don't care about the you

Its TikTok now. No Real hollywood is a lot of TikTok slop.

Do you just watch films about sports?

Too much of a hot take for the hot take post?

This is like saying that you hate 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' because you hate army.

Wow now there's a hot take I haven't heard regularly for my entire life lol

I didn't think One Battle After Another was very good. Felt like my generation's Crash, though not nearly as bad

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.

lol It’s cool, I know not many people like it. I also love other weird things like candy corn and valentines sweetheart candy. I do draw a line at black licorice though.

Good tip on how to refresh stale popcorn though!

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.

That’s the right way to fucking do it! Embrace the weird!

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

Actual hottake unlike the OP

We have a local theater here that basically only runs classics, it's pretty great.

I wouldn't call it a hot take, just kind of a silly one, akin to saying the Nike logo isn't that recognizable.

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.

I think it's more about drawing other audiences. Kids and gamers will absolutely watch Mario. If you cast Pratt, you could probably pull marvel fans as well. Using the og Mario voice actor may miss out on those sales

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.

That movie would have been better without that dick Marky mark in it

This is why I love my local theater, comparatively cheap tickets and the best prints for old classics running all the time.

Yeah thats what 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

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.

yeah no, I can't really disagree with that. I also don't feel like re-watching any of his movies - in fact i was interrupted in the middle of Oppenheimer, and don't even feel like finishing it

Define Hollywood

It insists upon itself.

Forgot ADs.

I could put up with a lot, but ADs for 30 minutes is too much, and I am too lazy to try and get there after them.

Now begins the age of Hollywoo!

A lot of people would not have known about Mario? 🤨

Again he's the worst Chris. He's not a draw for anybody. Great actors can be draws. That ain't him.

As is the typical pattern.

“So you see, the lesson is that Gatsby’s pursuit of wealth only kept him further from-“
“Dude, that guy’s parties were AWESOME! He had like a freaking circus there and all! What minority group do I have to brutalize to be like him??”