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I don't want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs

I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don't want to recognize anyone in a movie.

The Disney-churn Marvell/Star Wars slop has ruined the film industry. No one is willing to risk a thing on original IP when remakes/reboots/continuations are taking in the bank.

We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine while the low hanging fruit is such a hot commodity. And it will never not be a hot commodity.

Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.

I actually like sitting in the first few rows.

Marvel / DC super hero movies are boring besides some of the jokes. Every main character is basically invincible, fights are pointless.

Regular actors should stick to regular acting and leave voice acting to voice actors.

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.

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.

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.

The theatre experience fucking sucks.

• You're beholden to their schedule

• It's fucking expensive

• It's quite often filthy

• 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

• Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons

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.

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.

More theaters need a rotation of classics. There's a whole subset of movies I'd love to see in theaters again and having to wait for some small theater half an hour away to show one of those for one weekend a year is a bummer.

Fandoms ruin movie franchises worse than any bad directing or writing ever could.

I avoid fandoms of franchises I enjoy because they end up sucking the life out of everything. When things don’t go exactly as fans expected or want, people turn to the internet to rage at things we once loved. Many of these “dogshit” movies are entertaining and fine as they are. But we’ve become so obsessed with our own expectations of what story a movie is supposed to be or say, that we have stopped allowing others to tell their own stories and show their own visions. It’s just all about ragging on whatever all the time.

This includes: Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, everything in the Tolkien universe, etc. All perfectly fine franchises that just aren’t for everyone and I think that’s ok.

Exception: The last 2 Ghostbusters movies, those movies forgot what the GB are supposed to be about; adult, raunchy, horror comedy.

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.

Watching a movie in cinemas make the experience better, compared to watching the same mlvie at home.

The Wilhelm scream is not, and never was, a funny inside joke. When you're watching an intense action scene and suddenly you hear this high pitched and often way to loudly mixed scream it instantly ruins the immersion.

Any movie that adds it is instantly ruined for me. I can somewhat excuse older movies since it wasn't that wildly used yet but any contemporary director/audio engineer adding it really needs to get the idea out of their head that it's funny/clever/subtle. Cause it's not.

Cinematic universes shouldn't live forever. At some point, there is just too much of it, both for people making it and for people watching it.

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.

I'm fucking sick of remakes.

Not every film needs to have a sex scene.

Films can be so bad that they're good. Black Sheep for instance is terrible but also good.

CGI has ruined the old school prop departments

Probably not a hot take but audio mixes are often dreadful. If I have to turn on subtitles to understand what someone is saying because they've been buried in the mix, someone fucked up and that person shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a mixing console again.

Denis either didn't get Dune (doubt it, or at least I'd like to believe so, seeing how fascinated he's been with Dune, historically, but he's a visual artist and not a philosopher/writer so it's always possible) or was forced by money people for money reasons to drastically change some important characters in ways that make no internal sense (but are more appealing to the Western audience). Both movies are basically just well shot, very pretty spectacles and, if you've read Dune, you know the essence of it is in the silent reflection, logical inferences and ideological battles, so even at their core the movies failed to understand Herbert. Idk, it's just a mess, a very pretty one but "random religious disunity in a group that actually believes and is currently being subjugated by the great powers" and "spicy, annoying, immature New-Yorker who's supposed to be the ideal, loving and wise woman (and much of the reason why the plot advances at all) for a man assaulted by visions and the pressure of power" definitely soured the whole watching experience.

Even the worst practical effects look better long term than most CGI.

Inception isn't that great.

It's complex for the sake of complexity and the complication needlessly makes the story more difficult to parse. The revelation about there being an additional layer before reality is such an overused trope that it wasn't an interesting twist and added nothing to the plot.

That's not so much a hot take anymore.