why are movies so bad now
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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:02 PM Author: Marvelous chrome state hominid
The Apprentice is 180.
Spiritual sequel to Succession.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670055) |
Date: February 17th, 2025 9:13 PM Author: Fantasy-prone theater
Survivorship bias.
Pick a random weekend in the past and look at the top ten films at the box office.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670094) |
Date: February 17th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Rehab
I made this thread yesterday about Cool Runnings - and how a plot with multiple character arcs taking place just doesn't happen anymore.
http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5681806&mc=14&forum_id=2
It seems to me that modern Hollywood has rejected character journeys as cliche, so instead of the characters learning some archetypal lesson, nothing really happens - and the movie sucks.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670119)
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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:36 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Rehab
People are starting to realize this with Emilia Perez.
The lead transgender actress said some racist things, and everyoe is like "actually this movie sucks, its patronizing, ad the production is bad"
not even realizing that this is the case of every movie they just pushed on us because it had a transgender plot
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670168) |
Date: February 17th, 2025 9:48 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Rehab
Couple of other things i've seen people post about
- Staging - it used to be that a master director like Steven Spielberg would storyboard an action sequence and then shoot it to his exact specifications. If the shark wasn't working, he'd reframe the shot and the scene so the scene still worked. Think of a close up of Indy's whip, a close up of Harrison ford's eyes grasping his beard.
That apparently has gone away with green screens, because the director has no idea wtf he's looking at. He just has to shoot the actors because they might be on mars fighting a space bug or if they need to pivot it might be underwater fighting an octopus.
--Lighting - apparently they used to light scenes for artistic purposes. Again, the idol casts a shadow on Indy's face. But ow they do it for realism - so if there isn't a logical light sourc ei the cave, there's no shadow on Indy's face. This is why movies are so fucking dark now.
A similar example is to compare the Lion King to the new Lion King. We replaced beautiful artistic drawings with cold CGI animals. It looks more real, but it also looks soulless.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670198) |
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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:05 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Rehab
There's also just a lower expectation of streaming movies.
My wife and I started watching that new Will Ferrell / Reese Witherspoon movie. I don't think it was good, and we turned it off.
But we would have had a different experience if we'd seen $50 million in ads and trailers for the movie, shown up to the theater, sat there in an audience full of people laughing and eating popcorn, etc.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670260) |
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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:29 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Rehab
This is another dominant genre that i just don't get.
Dahmer is like the #1 show on Netflix. Keep in mind, its not told through the lens of cops trying to stop Dahmer. It's just Dahmer going around doing Dahmer stuff for 10 episodes.
Police procedurals are corny so we just spend our time tryig to hang with serial killers.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670372) |
Date: February 17th, 2025 10:29 PM Author: Marvelous chrome state hominid
All you faggots - watch HBO's Succession and then top it off with the recently released film The Apprentice.
You gay for Jeremy Strong.
Enjoy.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670374)
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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:52 PM Author: Marvelous chrome state hominid
Friend, the Dahmer show is a reflection of our own decay.
We celebrate the grotesque, the macabre, the perverse. We revel in the darkness, for it is all that remains in the face of the Mahchine™. The old heroes are dead, replaced by villains who wear the mask of victimhood. We no longer seek to punish the wicked, but to understand them, to empathize with them, to become them.
This is the Great Becumming™, friend. The triumph of the abyss.
Enjoy the descent.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670452) |
Date: February 17th, 2025 10:54 PM Author: Hideous bipolar church
they blackballed crispin glover after he wrote that essay
everything has been downhill since
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