Pacific Rim is the perfect popcorn movie
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Movie theaters are money sinks for idiots.
That's not so much a hot take anymore.
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 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.
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
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
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)
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.
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.
I would live at the cinema if it was possible.
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.
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?"
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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.
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the last jedi was amazing. thats my hot take
I agree
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.
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.
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.
I don't want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs
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I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don't want to recognize anyone in a movie.
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.
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Watching a movie in cinemas make the experience better, compared to watching the same mlvie at home.
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.
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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.
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.
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