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The Wilhelm scream is not, and never was, a funny inside joke. When you're watching an intense action scene and suddenly you hear this high pitched and often way to loudly mixed scream it instantly ruins the immersion.

Any movie that adds it is instantly ruined for me. I can somewhat excuse older movies since it wasn't that wildly used yet but any contemporary director/audio engineer adding it really needs to get the idea out of their head that it's funny/clever/subtle. Cause it's not.

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.

Money enables art only to a certain point. Past that the stakes (money) is so high that all the decisions in making the movie is done by committee.

Committees are incapable of making art.

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.

Movies in general aren't interesting to me. I much prefer video games.

With very few exceptions, the "Theatre" is dead to me. Last film I saw in one was Blade Runner 2049- a proper movie. There was nearly nobody else in my theater, but when I left there were tons of people leaving some stupid piece of shit movie down the hall.

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

That is a hot take.

Or LOTR. Or sports based films.

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

modern movies suck today because Hollywood stopped telling stories and started selling fantasies.

take for example two movies that are somewhat similar, Falling Down (1993) and Law Abiding Citizen (2009).

In FD the audience spends 75% of the movie following a guy around who is clearly not well. he's the antihero that we all sometimes wish we could be, but we also acknowledge it's moralistically unjust to just go around blowing shit up and shooting at people. towards the end of the movie you understand the real cause of why he was acting the way he was which made his character even more relatable. it made you question our society and the cruel realities that everyday people survive. it makes you think that maybe that "pocket protecting pencil pusher" has more in common with you than you'd like to admit.

In LAC the audience is immediately jarred by a violent sexual event that charges you with a desire for revenge. The rest of the movie is about a guy taking that revenge and getting some sadistic pleasure from it. you aren't supposed to relate to the main character, or any character in the entire movie. everyone is shitty except for his dead wife and kid. The premise of the entire movie is to make the audience feel good that "justice" is being administered and sugar coats it in a high fructose action syrup. by the end of the movie you're filled with rage of the injustices within our own world and feel as if you have been wronged like the main character. you spend the rest of the night imagining your own revenge if you were the main character.

FD tells the story of how far a broken man will go if he has everything taken from him.

LAC sells the fantasy that revenge is action packed and you will always win if your cause is righteous and just.

that said, don't get me wrong. I liked both movies, but I'm not going to lie to myself and say that LAC isn't just revenge porn.

modern movies are flat and simple because audiences lack the mental capacity they used to have. this is because we no longer watch them for entertainment, we watch to escape our own realities.

edit: oh yeah and sound engineers can suck fucking dick if they can't understand how to level out the foreground, background, and vocals for a regular not action movie. I'm tired of reading subtitles.

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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.

Holywood is over.