I don’t really care about Star Wars
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.
Try MovieInsider, it has a good list of all upcoming movies
Thanks I’ll look
That’s not so much a hot take anymore.
Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze Arc:
Major spoilers for the movie. You have been warned.
The story should have been about an existing character and not a new character that gets killed off in the end.
Reze’s story wasn’t bad, but I cannot connect with her the same as with any of the already established characters. Plus there was a huge lack of Makima throughout the movie. She shows up at the start for around 20 minutes, then disappears until the last 2-3 minutes of the movie just to kill Reze off.
It feels like nothing was really gained because of this, other than a gun devil piece and a mini arc with the angel dude.
I would have much preferred an arc about someone we don’t know well, like Makima or some of the other devils we met during the show’s finale (We got a mini arc for the angel dude, but what about the Shark fiend or the spider lady?)
Overall, the movie wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t what I was looking for in a Chainsaw Man movie.
It is pretty faithful to the manga, which is what I was looking for. I can’t imagine they could haveade it better by just ad libbing some bullshit Chainsaw Man fanfic.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 disagree with 4. Nic Cage is a great actor, he just isn’t going to give a subdued method actor style of performance.
Casino was better
Stopped reading here
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.”
I actually like sitting in the first few rows.
First actual hot take I’ve seen in this post so far
Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!
Even the worst practical effects look better long term than most CGI.
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.
Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.
Given his script caveats to get him to star, you’re right.
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.
I’ve only liked maybe two Rock movies and he still had hair in both of them.
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.
anyone making noise, shining lights, or blocking the screen should immediately be thrown out.
I really liked how the 48fps version of the Hobbit looked (even though the movies themselves were mediocre).
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.
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.
Too many movies are formulaic and boring. Even if fun, they can be boring substantially.
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.
