Unpopular opinions/Hot takes about movies Thread

Darth Maul vs Obi Wan & Qui Gon >>> Anakin vs Obi Wan

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Literally everyone I know still laughs at airplane?

These are the best hot takes of the thread.

That said they're incredibly r-slurred

!r-slurs it's our kin

You have the most r-slurred turbonuclear takes for pretty much everything. Take my upvote, I'm pinning this

2. Movies based on WW2 like Schindlers list are going to become outdated and unrelatable in a few more decades. Nobody will care about them at that point and all the old people talking about how important it is to watch a bunch of people get killed and suffer would look like a bunch of psycho weirdos.

Lol if you think hollywood and @HeyMoonster's people(but I repeat myself) won't milk the shit out of ww2 and the Holocaust in 20 years during it's 100 year anniversary

I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.

Movies have currently perfected cinematic shots and backgrounds. The quality of 90% of movies today is better than the quality of 90% of movies of the 2000's. People's standards for what counts as good cinema are too high and they only give high scores to fanboy material rather than true quality. Most movies on Imdb rated 5 or above are watchable and even enjoyable if they are from a genre that you generally enjoy.

You talk to too many snobs who won't admit that they like bad movies. Never give professional filmmakers an excuse to create mediocrity because they're definitely taking them.

Nobody cares about black led movies. They will all fade away within a decade every decade. They have far more it's a fad energy than the normal tier of movies.

Most of what you said is r-slurred, but you actually came close to making a good point here. For a long time, movies made by Black directors and/or starring Black actors were inevitably about racism and/or being Black. And as time went by, and America got less racist, you had movies made by Black people that didn't have a darn thing to do with being Black.

And that was great! You could have a mystery film where the detective character was played by a Black actor, and the murderer wasn't a White racist or Black drug dealer. A comedy where 90% of the jokes weren't about being Black or some variation of "Black guys drive a car like this, but White guys...". A science fiction series set hundreds of years in the future where every fricking episode wasn't about how the captain is a Black man. (Why is there no Sisko Marsey?)

But over the course of the past several years, we've gone in reverse. We're back to almost every movie made by a Black director and/or starring Black actors being about racism and/or being Black. And I hate it. Movies about race and racism have their place, but they can't be the only thing Black people are "allowed" to make!

I'm gonna go watch some Denzel Washington flicks and cool down. @Jerry_Cohen, put Fallen (1998) in the lineup for Halloween screenings. It's got a demon that isn't a hackneyed metaphor for "The White Devil".

1. Avatar movies are better than everything else going on in hollywood right now. They do exactly what movies were meant to do. Not make you think or fanboy, but instead to go out and have a few hours of a good time. They are the closest thing we have currently to what the first people who got to see a movie in a theater for the first time must have felt.

based avatar enjoyer, not reading the rest

Oooh ummm sweaty there is A LOT to unpack here. Oh my sweet, sweet summer child.

this neighbor thinks people can immerse themselves into a fantasy universe but wouldnt be able to relate with Paul Newman films. Buster Keaton is even more impressive in the days of cgi slop. the stuntwork of 80s, edginess of 90s etc will always have their rightful place in discourse

as to point 9, every country makes everytype of film. it is your own vision that is drawing theses patterns from limited exposure. one of the major hits of the last decade in indian cinema was a grounded crime thriller which was later remade in 6 different languages (& counting) across the world, purely for its script. even its sequel has 3 scene to scene remake as of now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drishyam

Chinese cinema is meh

It is now but it was some of the best in the world up to the 2000s or so.

I thought this was a thread for bad takes, all of these are reasonably thought out.

didn't read but gigachad brony is a really good username

Chinese cinema is meh and focuses too much on fantastical elements.

A Chinese Ghost Story was pretty fetch though

Mrs doubtfire is still a relevant and relatable comedy

His last two movies 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

And even that is boring.

That movie was 2 hours too long

Don't hate this take.

100% true tbh i think many people would agree (who have watched it) or at least put it on par with 2001

Horror is doing fine. Last ten years we've had The Witch, Get Out, Midsommar, and Hereditary. The vast majority is garbage but it's always been like that and there's a weird appeal to absolutely awful horror movies. Much funnier than any comedies this side of Tropic Thunder.

Long movies were better when they had an intermission. I know the idea is that the streamcel just pause to do whatever and the paying customers in the theater will just piss the 42 oz coke back where it came from, but frick give me a chance to take a piss, maybe grab a snack or have a smoke. Usually I get desensitized to whatever's going on about 2 hours in and I know for a fact I have a longer attention span than the average 21st century westoid.

Are there any South African kinos?