Movie Thread

[Legend]

I'm going to make a weird post here but I feel like movies should be better than they are. 

We've had stories for thousands of years, and movies for like 100.  Why does it seem like so many big budget movies are still bad or at least nowhere near as good as they should be?

There are a lot of movies that I like, but there are relatively few movies that I really love.

I agree fully. I just don't get it.

You are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on these things. Why are they so bad at a fundamental level, so often?


But I'll still defend them as ten times better than tv shows.

[BananaKing]

I'm going to make a weird post here but I feel like movies should be better than they are. 

We've had stories for thousands of years, and movies for like 100.  Why does it seem like so many big budget movies are still bad or at least nowhere near as good as they should be?

There are a lot of movies that I like, but there are relatively few movies that I really love.

Because Hollywood follows predictable scripts and the same arc and story type for everything. There is no creativity.

Also I feel like the art I'd directing is gone. For example, in SEVEN, the director of the movie payed so much attention to where each character stood and moved throughout the scenes. It helped build the story, the tension and the development. That kind of stuff feels dead nowadays.

[Legend]

Because Hollywood follows predictable scripts and the same arc and story type for everything. There is no creativity.

Also I feel like the art I'd directing is gone. For example, in SEVEN, the director of the movie payed so much attention to where each character stood and moved throughout the scenes. It helped build the story, the tension and the development. That kind of stuff feels dead nowadays.

Yeah that stuff still hapens, it just mostly only happens in really niche movies nowadays. The mainstream stuff doesn't care unless it's very in your face about those details.

[BananaKing]

Yeah that stuff still hapens, it just mostly only happens in really niche movies nowadays. The mainstream stuff doesn't care unless it's very in your face about those details.

Which decreases the quality of movies. Directors stoped becoming directors and story tellers. They are just glorified editors at this point. 

[Dr. Pezus]

And here I was just thinking yesterday how the movies I've seen in cinema recently are so good. Movies like Weapons and Sinners and even F1 and superman

[the-pi-guy]

And here I was just thinking yesterday how the movies I've seen in cinema recently are so good. Movies like Weapons and Sinners and even F1 and superman

Superman was very good.

But I feel like with thousands of stories of Superman, they should have been able to make it a 10/10 experience.

Maybe that doesn't make sense.

[Legend]

And here I was just thinking yesterday how the movies I've seen in cinema recently are so good. Movies like Weapons and Sinners and even F1 and superman

F1 was so good, sinners was so lame.

I was really digging sinners until it had that "change of genre" so to speak.


I guess to stay positive, some other recent movies I liked: Anora, Companion, The Monk and the Gun, Trap, Smile 2

Fake edt: ok I've been too busy. I have a bunch on my backlog but the above I think is a list of every movie I've seen within the last year or so that i'd recomend. Plus F1.

[kitler53]

I didn't care for sinners.  walked out halfway though.  ..was my living room mind you not the theatre. 

[Dr. Pezus]

Pff the change was where it got more interesting