I mean before a certain point in time it was only a subculture really concerned with sci fi and fantasy. It was not really mainstream at all even if some movies did well sometimes. Its amazing how mainstream its become.
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Most movies suck but people don't realize it because they're stupid cows.
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It's not for me either. Having only seen episode 4 and the one where bb8 was introduced, I could even tell they were basically the same fucking movie. Fell asleep in the theater.
Rogue one was really awesome though.
I don't have a problem with remakes. And neither do the majority of moviegoers, or they'd stop paying to see them. Stop saying there are no original movies or that original movies aren't advertised enough. When you get the theater to buy your ticket to the latest remake, there is a list of other movies playing and you probably have your phone on hand to look up what they're about to decide if you want to see them.
Those seats have to be available for consumer purchase
They are so comfy, love them
Star Wars holds a place in my heart mainly for nostalgia reasons. Seeing those original films for the first time was formative back in the day when I was a wee cunt. But yeah, they're pretty indefensible from a film criticism standpoint.
My takes:
- Goodfellas is fine. It's a'ight. It's about 900% more beloved than it deserves. Casino was better, even though it was the same damn movie.
- On Goodfellas: Ray Liotta is fucking awful in it. He gives me second-hand embarrassment watching him. He's been great in other roles, but he just seemed so out of his depth trying to hold his own in amongst the De Niros and Pescis of the world. I also think the actor playing Big Paulie was fucking awful, but he doesn't have much screen time so it's easy to forget how shit he was.
- Also - and lastly, I swear - on Goodfellas: the editing is less "fractured and frenetic like the rapidly-imploding mind of the main character" and more like "fractured and frenetic like the coked up Parkinson's-suffering editor during a violent bowel movement". Unnecessarily janky and rough around every single edge, to put it mildly.
- Nic Cage should not be allowed to be in films, full stop. Not even a documentary about Nic Cage in which he agrees with me, personally, through the camera that he's terrible.
- The Godfather III was good. Yeah, not as good as I and II, and the downright offensively-bad acting from Andy Garcia (you thought I was about to complain about Sofia Coppola, didn't ya? Andy was an order of magnitude worse) definitely knocks a few stars off my IMDb rating, but the film was fine.
- I've posted about this in Unpopular Opinion before, but I think remakes and reboots are great, as long as the film-makers are trying to do their best and make an honest go of it. I especially love when a film is transported from one culture into another. For example, Unforgiven - the Clint Eastwood modern classic - was remade in Japan, except instead of the gunslinging Wild West it was the samurai-sword-swingin' Meiji period. How cool is that shit? I love it. Now I have two awesome movies where before there was only one.
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Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze Arc:
Major spoilers for the movie. You have been warned.
The story should have been about an existing character and not a new character that gets killed off in the end.
Reze's story wasn't bad, but I cannot connect with her the same as with any of the already established characters. Plus there was a huge lack of Makima throughout the movie. She shows up at the start for around 20 minutes, then disappears until the last 2-3 minutes of the movie just to kill Reze off.
It feels like nothing was really gained because of this, other than a gun devil piece and a mini arc with the angel dude.
I would have much preferred an arc about someone we don't know well, like Makima or some of the other devils we met during the show's finale (We got a mini arc for the angel dude, but what about the Shark fiend or the spider lady?)
Overall, the movie wasn't bad. It just wasn't what I was looking for in a Chainsaw Man movie.
It is pretty faithful to the manga, which is what I was looking for. I can't imagine they could haveade it better by just ad libbing some bullshit Chainsaw Man fanfic.