I don’t really care about Star Wars
I don’t want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs
Is Mark Hamill an exception? Or is he a voice actor that happens to have done some face acting as well?
Mark is a voice actor that has done some on screen work. I don’t care much about star wars and his joker and trickster is peak. Note though him in the long walk was epic.
You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE
he was a face actor until that
car accidentwampa fucked it up.Yeah, but the wampa never acted again, so I think justice was done. Their career is over.
based on his voice work as Skips from Regular Show, most definitely he’s actually got the chops for it.
I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don’t want to recognize anyone in a movie.
My son is big cinephile, and he complains about how contemporary movies are all filled with people who look like nepo-baby actors. He says they all have iPhone face: no matter what time period they’re supposed to be in, they all look like they’ve seen an iPhone.
He longs for the old days when older unattractive actors were in demand as character actors.
I always find the first moments of movies with famous actors disconcerting. Why is Jack from Titanic here? Oh, he is not Jack from Titanic, just has his body-suit…
The Bear had an episode with a family reunion where everyone was a famous actor, so you have some familiarity with them, but they were so characterized, it wasn’t off-putting.
I do agree though those actors that are always the same persona (e.g. The Rock), do throw me away from what I’m watching.
Which is why I can’t stand Will Smith movies. Or Vin Diesel. Or any of the other dozen actors who don’t actually go out of their way and act.
‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don’t know anyone in it.
Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.
Given his script caveats to get him to star, you’re right.
I’ve only liked maybe two Rock movies and he still had hair in both of them.
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
I actually like sitting in the first few rows.
Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!
First actual hot take I’ve seen in this post so far
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
Regular actors should stick to regular acting and leave voice acting to voice actors.
Is this a hot take?
Chris Pratt as Mario was when a lot of people went “wtf why?”
A lot of people wouldn’t even know about it if Chris Pratt wasn’t in it
I think you highly underestimate the cultural catchet of Mario.
I was talking to someone about that movie, and I brought up Chris Pratt. They didn’t know who he voiced in the movie.
Oh man, the idea that you consider the worst Chris to be a bigger draw than Mario. Wow
Marvel / DC super hero movies are boring besides some of the jokes. Every main character is basically invincible, fights are pointless.
Except for those who died, I guess?
Scnr 😁
But Actually, that’s what I found to be a good thing: letting characters leave, finishing their story. Captain America, scarlet witch.
My hot take is I still watch the series of movies in hope for good stuff but most has passed.
One guy wrote a very true thing: when was the last time superheroes actually saved someone like they originally did.
Superman did, but it’s fair criticism for marvel.
I also agree, some of these movies get so fucking epic that I just don’t care. I miss the human drama that takes place in a lower scale.
Not that infinity war wasn’t fun, mind. But now it’s not even enough to just fight for the world, but we have to fight for the multiverse!
I’m sure Doomsday will be good because the Russo brothers have made all of the best marvel movies, but it feels a bit “y’all haven’t liked shit since we killed everyone off, so here they are again.”
But post-infinity war I’ve basically only enjoyed the TV shows. Thunderbirds was pretty good. FF was… fine? Compared to previous FF movies, it was great. But it didn’t land for a lot of people.
But Hawkeye was good. I really enjoyed Ms. Marvel. Echo was a decent spinoff. Looking forward to new installments of the Defenders characters now that the marvel Netflix people are largely back. Shit, I’ll even be interested to see if they can make the Finn Jones Iron Fist work this time. But Colleen Wing was the best part of that show and I hear she isn’t coming back. And the Falcon and the Winter Soldier was so much better than the Captain America movie.
Anyway the TV shows all have a limited scale and it gave them so much more heart.
You’re right about the latest superman. I really liked the movie and him, although mostly the dc stuff was taking itself waaay to seriously for me in the past. (personal preference)
Even if they do decide to go dark and gritty and kill off a few main characters, they went so deep down the multiverse rabbit hole that it doesn’t seem possible for anything they write to have consequences ever again
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.
I like special effects in very cheap or very old movies: it gives me that “wow, how did they manage to do that in 1925?” feeling. I like that feeling. Modern quality effects I just ignore. Some very detailed explosion in the space? Ok, something exploded. I noted that plot point.
As much as I have issues with 2001 space odyssey, it is a technical marvel for its time.
Same. I still appreciate modern effects tho but those old movies really impress me. Have you seen The Johnstown Flood? That one kinda blew my mind
I can still find modern special effects interesting enough if I find them aesthetically interesting – as though a lot of thought clearly went into them. I understand there were minimal hurdles to translating that vision to film, but it’s the vision itself I appreciate.
I also definitely get the same feeling you do watching older films and especially stage plays, where the constraints of the medium make it even more impressive.
Same. I watched Citizen Kane for the first time a year or two ago, and some of the shots blew my mind. Like how the fuck did he do some of that shit?
‘Man With a Movie Camera’ is great for this.
Precisely.
Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…
There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.
How do you feel about something like Fury Road, where they make a point of including practical effects?
Were there any effects? I thought they just filmed some documentary in Texas or something…
Texas has changed a bit since I was there last…
The amount of computer generated special effects used in a movie directly correlates with the likelihood of me not liking it.
Superhero movies for example are completely unwatchable because of this.
It’s a bit more complicated than that, just recently stumbled across this guy who looks deeper into it - https://youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE.
CGI is a big part but the (lack of) cinematography plays a much bigger part than i would have thought.
National Movie theaters are now trying to show UFC and sports games. I support it. Because there’s a lot of abandoned movie theaters and I would rather them fill seats with anything, than become the dying empty malls.
Also, I don’t go to national movie theaters. My local neighborhood theater charges $5 for movies and $3 for pizza and popcorn.
In a cinema I used to go to, they used to show the Met’s operas during the Sunday matinee. Absolutely lovely!
Thats sick, I’d love to watch ufc at a theatre.
The theatre experience fucking sucks.
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You’re beholden to their schedule
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It’s fucking expensive
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It’s quite often filthy
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Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
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Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
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Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
ULPT: That’s when you guilt-trip them:
“This was the last thing I watched together with my 8 year old son/daughter before he/she died from cancer” starts crying (it doesn’t have to be true, just dramatic enough to shut them the hell up and to make them mind their own bussiness)
- Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
- Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
And staff don’t do anything about it
Another thing that’s bad about theaters is you can’t pause the movie. If you desperately need a bathroom break, you miss part of the movie
Kinda makes me wonder how often the people that clean up after each screening have to deal with bottles of piss. 🤔
And, always, some dirty motherfucker has thrown a drink on the screen staining the screen
Hard disagree it’s very much you white fuckers (said with love because I’m white) need to embrace the social experience of a movie.
Horror is peak in theaters.
Drag me to hell was the best experience I ever had. Everyone was talking and yelling in the theater. It was rowdy. I was drunk with my friends. It was an 11/10 experience.
Second was Smile post pandemic the theater was packed it was loud and boisterous.
Serious white people get the stick out your ass and enjoy life
Participation with the movie like at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening is great.
Some dude talking loudly about some bullshit that has nothing to do with the movie is something else altogether and not enjoyable.
Someone shouting “DON’T GO THAT WAY, THE KILLER IS THERE!” in a horror movie would be funny af.
Counterpoint: I ruined The Ring for everyone when that bitch came out the TV and I busted out laughing
Real smoking hot take here.
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I cannot stand The Godfather. Any mafia shit, really. I hate the whole family hierarchy thing, I hate the guise of freedom when it’s just an organization reminiscent of cops or the military, and I hate the blind loyalty to a system that only serves one person or family, it’s all just so petty and capitalistic, the mafia is fucking stupid.
I agree that the system sucks and that, IRL, they’re bad people and harmful to society. Still a good movie though.
I lost focus on the second movie, but the first one was decent
Lookie here boys, we gots ourselves a tough guy. Hey, Rico, why don’t you show our friend what happens to tough guys round here. Maybe a little swim with the fishies will show him we ain’t so bad after all.
You’re not supposed to like the Mafia in these movies.
The film/tv industry really really sucks at showing smart people.
Oppenheimer sucked. Barbie was only good in comparison to how much shittier stuff there is nowadays.
I haven’t seen a movie in years where exposition scenes haven’t felt like they were directed by a condescending 5th grader.
That will happen when you have writers who aren’t as smart as the characters they’re trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.
Throwback to this great rant:
So apart from tumblr fanbase, why doesn’t /tv/ like this show?
Because it has smart characters written stupidly.
Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is a smartly written smart character. When Chigurh kills a hotel room full of three people he books to room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can shoot through, where the light switch is, what sort of cover is there etc. This is a smart thing to do because Chigurh is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.
Were Sherlock Holmes to kill a hotel room full of three people. He’d enter using a secret door in the hotel that he read about in a book ten years ago. He’d throw peanuts at one guy causing him to go into anaphylactic shock, as he had deduced from a dartboard with a picture of George Washington carver on it pinned to the wall that the man had a severe peanut allergy. The second man would then kill himself just according to plan as Sherlock had earlier deduced that him and the first man were homosexual lovers who couldn’t live without eachother due to a faint scent of penis on each man’s breath and a slight dilation of their pupils whenever they looked at each other. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn’t kill him at all. The third man removes his sunglasses and wig to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the Secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his mask to reveal he’s actually Moriarty attempting to frame Sherlock for two murders. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead men stand up, they’re undercover police officers, it was all a ruse. “But Sherlock!” Moriarty cries “That police officer blew his own head off, look at it, there’s skull fragments on the wall, how is he fine now? How did you fake that?”. Sherlock just winks at the screen, the end.
This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.
Sure and perhaps I’m wrong but just because you aren’t one doesn’t mean you don’t know any. Heck they often get consultants for medical shows for some bits of realism. How hard would it be to talk to some actual scientists and engineers (would probably be pretty cheap) when you’re already spending millions.
Hot take: movie goers are so used to suspension of disbelief that movies are too afraid to take risks that challenge the audience.
Like Netflix pushing every movie to say the plot.
But also, how many braindead takes from “influencers” or morons who don’t understand the film.
Watching a movie in cinemas make the experience better, compared to watching the same mlvie at home.
Cinema popcorn is inferior because they can get away with low quality. There’s plenty of good popcorn around, but it’s rarely found at the movies.
I’ll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is “Flavacol” seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.
I’ll hot take your hot take of that hot take: Cinema popcorn is best the day after a movie when it’s stale
That’s when it tastes like plastic IME. Big yikes from me, but different strokes for different folks.
Btw, I happen to love crispy popcorn, and figured out that you can rescue stale popcorn & other snacks by tossing them in the air-fryer a little bit.
So some tricks from ex cinema employee. Use canola oil and yellow Popcorn kernels and a Aluminum bowl That you can buy from a restaurant supply store.
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salt kernels before you cover then with oil.
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Fill the oil to just enough to cover the kernels.
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Then cover the bowl with Aluminum foil. And roll the bowl over the stove on medium heat. Till it starts popping
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then use More canola oil for butter Lightly Spritzed in a spray bottle.
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That will give you perfect theater popcorn at home.
Optional secret ingredient Tajin instead of salt
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except the chocolate popcorn at Seattle’s
CineramaSIFF Cinema. That stuff is to die for.Cinema popcorn is 60% of why I want to go to the movies. My local cinema changed popcorn maker and now it’s not as fresh… I am not as excited to go to the movies anymore :/
