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.
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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.
It’s not for me either. Having only seen episode 4 and the one where bb8 was introduced, I could even tell they were basically the same fucking movie. Fell asleep in the theater.
Rogue one was really awesome though.
I didn’t think One Battle After Another was very good. Felt like my generation’s Crash, though not nearly as bad
The resistance was just entirely too goofy. It felt like 3 scenes from Dumb and Dumber were shoehorned into an action/thriller.
Good bones, though. It was a solid idea. Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor are absolutely unforgettable as Lockjaw and Perfidia.
I agree…what was the resistance fighting for? Why did we spend 45 minutes watching them fuck shit up with no explained goal?
All of the performances were great but Lockjaw was a stupid fuckin character. Hated the twist with him and hated the plot around it which…was apparently the ONLY plot because nothing else really happens.
Which feels weird to say because there was so much going on in the movie. But there’s only so much going on because everything in the movie exists for a single purpose and then it goes away. Every character has a single motivation.
I’m particularly mad because I walked in expecting to love it after several people whose movie opinions I almost always agree with told me they loved it. But I don’t love it, I’m neutral on it at best.
But…Crash was a pic everyone needed to have seen. Is OBaA the same?
Crash was a hard watch.
Crash was absolutely trash, this movie was at least watchable. It’s admittedly a really unfair comparison.
The reason I make it is because I feel the movie is getting a lot of praise because of what it’s “about” - and I use that word lightly because it’s not really…about anything. It’s just the pretense for the movie.
The movie opens with a revolutionary group raiding an ICE detention center to free people.
Actual hottake unlike the OP
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
Thus we can only assume that you are a giraffe or an okapi.
there is another option
I’ll just sit in the back and give you some space
Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!
I actually saw a family arguing about this today. The mother was like “we can sit anywhere, don’t you wanna sit down here in the front” and the daughter was like “no, I don’t want to crane my neck”. I was mildly annoyed because there was assigned seating and therefore the mother was encouraging rule breaking, but I minded my own business and didn’t say anything
Holywood is over.
Wow now there’s a hot take I haven’t heard regularly for my entire life lol
we live in the same bubble :D
Now begins the age of Hollywoo!
Its TikTok now. No Real hollywood is a lot of TikTok slop.
Define Hollywood
define it yourself.
I’m not the one who said it’s dead. I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just trying to better understand you.
Very well, where do I begin?
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.
My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard really.
At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.
There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It’s breathtaking — I highly suggest you try it.
And where does Hollywood come into things?
Breathtaking scrotums, mon frère.
Even the worst practical effects look better long term than most CGI.
Have you seen any of the old “living dead” movies?
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.
casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson
It’s complicated.
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.
Because art has meaning only through our emotional attachment. Literally anything can upset that balance.
I’d be willing to bet that you also have a tipping point.
Maybe you you don’t care if a director is charged with allegations of sexual impropriety. But what if it’s molesting a child? What if that child lived in your town? What if that child were your 15 year old niece? What if she was your 10 year old daughter? What if she were murdered?
At some point (hopefully long before your daughter is murdered!), most of us would probably form a personal opinion about this crazy-ass director who’s running around and committing heinous crimes, and it would skew our perception of their work. It’s just that the line in the sand is a bit different for all of us.
I just can’t see myself having that line considering film is a collaborative effort and I can’t bring myself to say this work is bad or whatever cause of what a singular person involved in it did. Woody Allen is a shit head, but Hannah and Her Sisters is an insanely well made film that had me feeling so many different things with an ending speech that hit me hard. I wish nothing but the absolute worst most disgusting things to happen to J.K. Rowling, but Prisoner of Azkaban still blows me away with everything they managed to pull off in it.
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).
