Unpopular movie opinions

[Faster With Feeling]

State your unpopular movie opinions

I liked The Darkest Hour

[saranacX]

Movies are mid.

[potato]

Messaggio originale di saranacX:

Movies are mid.

mid what

[saranacX]

Messaggio originale di potato:

Messaggio originale di saranacX:

Movies are mid.

mid what

Put it this way: potatoes > movies

[Original Cast Recording]

Tenet was better than Inception.

[Faster With Feeling]

Messaggio originale di NoMoreUnderscores():

Tenet was better than Inception.

I might actually agree with that

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Saying that the LOTR movies sucked is an insult to sucking.

[Duck Twacy]

Messaggio originale di Banana Fritters:

State your unpopular movie opinions

I liked The Darkest Hour

Movies are stupid. As a kid I saw a western comedy that I thought was dumb, and realized that all movies are essentially dumb.

All major motion pictures use behavioral science rehabilitation formulas, and those story structures are applied to research done by a group of ladies who keep tabs on social trends for the major studios.

Thank goodness for things like YouTube oir Vimeo or other online media sites, because now mass media has been democratized.

It used to be tough to "get into movies" because it was guarded. Movies were blamed for spreading false information and causing a lot of social misery, but movies only reflect what you have inside of you. Movies can't make you do anything you don't want to do, but the thinking used to be that they did. Or they would make you emotionally upset to the point of acting out in society. Untrue in my opinion, but that's why they were so heavily guarded.

I worked in film briefly, and hated it. Lots of egos. Lots of people who think they're more important than you, even if they're just shooting a corporate video, or a spot for a local business.

It was my opinion that film or visual media could convey more meaning than it could. I hated the hours, I hated the people, I hated the psychiatric rehab formulas that all screenwriters and major studios use. Everything is about mental health or law enforcement.

And most movies and TV shows are about reconstructing criminal situations. Either to educate the viewing audience, or to get someone to come forward about something they witnessed.

It's never about principle.

[Daenoxiis]

Oldschool Grindhouse and Italian style horror kinda spoiled the gore horror approach to me. So after growing up with that kind of stuff I can't get into senseless and plotless things like the Terrifier movies. Gore for the sake of gore kind of peaked for me around the time of like Saw II and Saw III and Hostel and Hostel II.

I take more to cerebral and psychological horror.

Killers and whatnot don't keep me up at night, it's a good laugh sometimes though.
Things like A Cure For Wellness, or In The Mouth Of Madness after a couple days of insomnia though, THAT WILL keep me up at night.

Gore doesn't scare me or shock me like it used to in my teens.
Things that make me question the nature and definition of reality do though.
Especially after a bender of insomnia and fatigue.

Oh yeah, and my other movie gripe is:

Why is it that in highly intense scenes, particularly in action sequences and suspense sequences, that characters are written with or portrayed through cinematography with, little to no developmental critical thinking skills?

I don't get it.
It's all just reactionary response and whimsical, hopeful fantasy.
Bro, you can't realistically run from the cops that way. lol.
You gotta be sharp between the ears as well as sharp on your feet.
I don't get it. Weird power fantasy flex, I guess.
Someone please tell me I'm not the only one that notices this.