I’m done with movies. All the trends are regressive.
If I want a distilled cinematic experience, I’m more likely to reach for a comic book. To my eye, a good one of those can out-movie a movie at its own game, and without lacking for necessary space, and with more coherent writing. Nevermind the pacing issues that movies tend to have, plot wrung into incoherency and crammed into the space of five million unnecessary consecutive changes in camera angles. Two hours of story isn’t big enough. Hold your breath, we’re going to have a lot of shit happen and it’ll be internally contradictory but we’re doing it anyway.
One exception: I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet but I bet Fast / Furious Vroom Vroom 34th Edition is well suited to the medium. I saw a trailer a few years(?) ago, and the part where the motorcycle goes through the bus window reminds me of adolescent daydreams. Or maybe I’m conflating that with some GI Joe movie trailer.
… trailers are the real heroes here. Why ruin them by observing their associated parent media.
@InnocuousFarmer thrillers and comic book movies these days are just a bunch of computer graphics and seem to be just designed for people to base video games on not for something to watch as a plot.
Seriously though, they need to lay off the super hero movies for a few years, they’re so old and tedious now.
Comedies, the trailers show all the funny bits and so not funny once you watch the actual movie.
Ugh, I’m so tired of ridiculous super hero movies, for every decent one (Black Panther, Wonder Woman) there are a number of garbage ones.
But don’t worry, they will probably reboot Spiderman yet again in the next few years.
@Nitewatch You accidentally put Black Panther as a good movie.
/giphy I got your back
I’m done with movies. All the trends are regressive.
If I want a distilled cinematic experience, I’m more likely to reach for a comic book. To my eye, a good one of those can out-movie a movie at its own game, and without lacking for necessary space, and with more coherent writing. Nevermind the pacing issues that movies tend to have, plot wrung into incoherency and crammed into the space of five million unnecessary consecutive changes in camera angles. Two hours of story isn’t big enough. Hold your breath, we’re going to have a lot of shit happen and it’ll be internally contradictory but we’re doing it anyway.
One exception: I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet but I bet Fast / Furious Vroom Vroom 34th Edition is well suited to the medium. I saw a trailer a few years(?) ago, and the part where the motorcycle goes through the bus window reminds me of adolescent daydreams. Or maybe I’m conflating that with some GI Joe movie trailer.
… trailers are the real heroes here. Why ruin them by observing their associated parent media.
@InnocuousFarmer thrillers and comic book movies these days are just a bunch of computer graphics and seem to be just designed for people to base video games on not for something to watch as a plot.
Seriously though, they need to lay off the super hero movies for a few years, they’re so old and tedious now.
Comedies, the trailers show all the funny bits and so not funny once you watch the actual movie.
Streaming killed the cinema screen!
@hchavers
Nah, I think that was COVID.
I don’t know the last time I saw a summer movie.
Usually only go at Xmas for the weak JJ era star wars movies that the kids drag me to.
Plain old comedy.
@katbyter This!
Anyone else sick of superhero movies, though? Like, aside from Into the Spider-verse, most of them really didn’t grab me.
All the novelty’s gone, you’re seeing the same guys over and over again, and there’s something to be said about familiarity, but… come on.
Super hero movies are action movies…
Anyway, I still enjoy them. Obviously a boat load of other people do as well since they keep breaking sales records.
I’m really excited to see Tenet.
Robert Pattinson is so much more than Twilight.
He’s The Batman now too.
/image Robert Pattinson Batman red
