I strongly believe we need to all be critical watchers and being pretentious about moving is absolutely vital,or else we’ll keep getting slop. We should never be satisfied with slop. I’m pro pretentious movie ratings and I feel the same about anime, and you should too.
Anyway, my favorite horror movie is Malignant.
Anyway, my favorite horror movie is Malignant.
I mean, it’s just a solid, fun romp with some decent suspense and a twist that makes no sense, but I should have seen coming anyway because of how blatant the foreshadowing was.
Very fun movie, I enjoyed it a lot!
(My favorite horror movie, for reference, is The Autopsy of Jane Doe)
I love this girl. She lives in a state of permanent goblin-mode and I relate, she’s probably all kinds of fucked up with several problematic behaviour traits but I deeply wish for her to have a chill life. Completely relateable character.
Reminds me of Power from Chainsaw Man.
I know it’s capeshit, but this is me with Blue Beetle and Black Adam. Both actually critiqued US imperialism and USians just hate it, I think both are fun as hell. Black Adam rightfully shows USian heroes as villains that only showed up because they had to, before the events of the movie they never cared about the place before and in the case of Blue Beetle USians obviously hate it because it is Latino as fuck, and the grandma being an actual revolutionary is amazing lmao.
do you know the artist?
Its Nhim https://x.com/Nhim_Art
no tumblr, cry. thanks though
Where does “every movie is western propaganda” fall in on this binary?
There should be a third option for those of us that have turned into true sticks in the mud that don’t watch any movies unless forced to by friends or family
shit it’s me
I feel seen!
I just would rather be doing something else most of the time, you know?
I rate every movie I watch based on “how much did I enjoy it out of 10”.
Now I can feel smug about bashing Oscar winning movies and critic scores because I just go…actually that movie was a 3/10 and it’s probably because I was kinda hungry while I watched it.
Jaws? 2.5/10
Battleship Potemkin? 2/10
Minecraft Movie? Idk 6/10
I can not be stopped
I’ve got two scores for every film: how much I enjoyed it on the intellectual level and how much fun I had.
those two scores are one for me because I enjoy good intellectual critique which eventually translates to fun
There are films/games/anime/manga, which are total mess from the intellectual point of view, but pretty fun nevertheless.
Out of 10 is a lot of granularity. Out of 5 ends up for me as: 1 (really didn’t like), 2 (didn’t like), 3 (ambivalent), 4 (like), and 5 (really like).
How much did you Likert that movie
It’s a good system
I actually use half points too but most entries end up being 6-8 anyway lol. I’ve ranked over 100 movies, 5 of them are under 3 and 5 of them are 9-10
I’m sorry to tell you that in my head there is only 1.
And he only has fun if the film challenged me as a viewer (which is what I find fun).the new one is much better
currently trying to figure out if that cuneiform is loss or not
what is loss?
baby don’t hurt me
The fun-factor is why Barbie was better than Oppenheimer.
for me barbie was like they live shit, while oppenheimer was serviceableI did find that 15 minute long fistfight in the Barbie movie to be a little out of place.
i’m now struggling to remember if there was a fist fight in the movie tbh.
no, i mean general feeling i’m being fed ideological slop (and advertising slop at that) never abated, and was overflowing by like minute 30 of the movie. and it’s not like some mega take that ad movies are unenjoyable in themselves, i liked both lego movies well enough to be entertained.
I was mainly joking about how They Live has a really long fistfight in the middle of it, not that the Barbie movie is like an ad. I can see what you mean though, movies that feel like they exist as an advertisement (even if the movie itself isn’t bad) can just feel a bit exhausting.
For me it’s more ethereal quality of barbie of being fed, idk, american ideology? neoliberalism? childishness? like i’ve had closest indescribable feeling for transformers, despite barbie being generally liked by critics and people (especially compared to transformers).
people generally don’t agree with me on that comparison lmao, thus they live association and this meme in the opposite direction (everyone is 9/10, meanwhile im seething at having watched and finished it)
If you go into a movie expecting it to be bad you’re the cat on the right. If you expect a film to be good or ‘important’ you’re the cat on the left.
I watched The Marksman the other week, expecting it to be shit. It was shit, and boring, and predictable, and overly complicated.
The week after I watched The Matador, also from 2005, and had a lot of left cat thoughts about it. The Marksman is a much worse film by all measures but I could just sit there and have it on.
I wish I could even watch movie at the point. I’ve basically stopped watching movies because the financial factors seem to only turn out absolute slop. I think I’m averaging about 4 a year and that’s because I usually give any half decent horror film a go.
im not a movie person at all, but the issue isn’t that there aren’t any good movies, the issue is that there aren’t any good movies with a marketing budget. if you want to watch something you have to go and actively search for it, and with all the bullshit going on in the world it’s just easier to not watch anything or debase yourself with slop because somehow that’s less tiring.
I agree with you that there is some actual cinema out there but another problem is that many of the niche movies that get traction are imho (and I maybe be a meathead for saying this) self-congratulatory (what even is the term for dick riding yourself? Is it masturbatory?) European trash. Can’t even count the number of times I’ve watched a supposedly good lesser know film that is a European film and been totally disappointed by how vapid and shallow it is. At this point I can’t watch European cinema. I’m totally defeated haha. I swear if Europe could compete with Hollywood they would put out the same trash. But they can’t so they just kayfabe about their cinema being cultured lmao.
unfortunately most talented filmmakers are bad authors (because most people besides authors are bad authors). these bad authors don’t write good stories, they write stories that feel like a good story which comes of as vapid and shallow to other people. the niche movies that get traction without marketing are usually the ones that win awards at festivals. i’m not the type to say “indie=good, corpo=bad” (ignoring litigating the definition of indie) or vise versa, but there’s just a ton of crap within the indie awards circles. i don’t know why but playing it up to the festival awards doesn’t make the ratio of crap to good movies worse, but it makes the crappy ones crappier.
as i said im not a movie person. i can’t be bothered to go look for the diamond in the rough, a genuine and heartfelt movie with 1000 views on youtube with 5 comments, i just won’t watch movies. even complaining about it just seems silly.
Yeah it really doesn’t matter but it’s funny to see and funny to point out how capitalism turns everything to absolute dogshit, including culture
Just don’t be a boring movie. Even so-called “bad” movies are delicious because of all the ham and cheese.
They can take my Andy Sidaris boxed set when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
It goes the other way too.
WOW! What an intellectually challenging and unique film! The creators surprised me at every turn with their subtle storytelling and the actors knocked out completely out of the park.
1/10 boring
and if the movie is truly goated
10/10 best movie I’ve seen all year
10/10 best movie I’ve ever seen
I watched all the ‘cinephile’ movies, yet my favourite movie is Face/off because it’s fun :3
Highly recommend The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent if you haven’t seen it.
John Woo rarely disappoints. Except for Windtalkers we don’t talk about Windtalkers.
I’m both about Star Wars episode 9
