Inside you there are 2 cinephiles
(midwest.social)
thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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I wish I could even watch movie at the point. I've basically stopped watching movies because the financial factors seem to only turn out absolute slop. I think I'm averaging about 4 a year and that's because I usually give any half decent horror film a go.
im not a movie person at all, but the issue isn't that there aren't any good movies, the issue is that there aren't any good movies with a marketing budget. if you want to watch something you have to go and actively search for it, and with all the bullshit going on in the world it's just easier to not watch anything or debase yourself with slop because somehow that's less tiring.
I agree with you that there is some actual cinema out there but another problem is that many of the niche movies that get traction are imho (and I maybe be a meathead for saying this) self-congratulatory (what even is the term for dick riding yourself? Is it masturbatory?) European trash. Can't even count the number of times I've watched a supposedly good lesser know film that is a European film and been totally disappointed by how vapid and shallow it is. At this point I can't watch European cinema. I'm totally defeated haha. I swear if Europe could compete with Hollywood they would put out the same trash. But they can't so they just kayfabe about their cinema being cultured lmao.
unfortunately most talented filmmakers are bad authors (because most people besides authors are bad authors). these bad authors don't write good stories, they write stories that feel like a good story which comes of as vapid and shallow to other people. the niche movies that get traction without marketing are usually the ones that win awards at festivals. i'm not the type to say "indie=good, corpo=bad" (ignoring litigating the definition of indie) or vise versa, but there's just a ton of crap within the indie awards circles. i don't know why but playing it up to the festival awards doesn't make the ratio of crap to good movies worse, but it makes the crappy ones crappier.
as i said im not a movie person. i can't be bothered to go look for the diamond in the rough, a genuine and heartfelt movie with 1000 views on youtube with 5 comments, i just won't watch movies. even complaining about it just seems silly.
Yeah it really doesn't matter but it's funny to see and funny to point out how capitalism turns everything to absolute dogshit, including culture
I rate every movie I watch based on "how much did I enjoy it out of 10".
Now I can feel smug about bashing Oscar winning movies and critic scores because I just go...actually that movie was a 3/10 and it's probably because I was kinda hungry while I watched it.
Jaws? 2.5/10
Battleship Potemkin? 2/10
Minecraft Movie? Idk 6/10
I can not be stopped
Out of 10 is a lot of granularity. Out of 5 ends up for me as: 1 (really didn't like), 2 (didn't like), 3 (ambivalent), 4 (like), and 5 (really like).
I've got two scores for every film: how much I enjoyed it on the intellectual level and how much fun I had.
those two scores are one for me because I enjoy good intellectual critique which eventually translates to fun
There are films/games/anime/manga, which are total mess from the intellectual point of view, but pretty fun nevertheless.
My ex used to ask me a question about science before going "I liked it when the cat was on the screen :3" I didn't have a chance because I like it when a movie is fun too! Gross mischaracterization of me - the contrast was entirely artificial.
The fun-factor is why Barbie was better than Oppenheimer.
for me barbie was like they live shit, while oppenheimer was serviceable
I love this girl. She lives in a state of permanent goblin-mode and I relate, she's probably all kinds of fucked up with several problematic behaviour traits but I deeply wish for her to have a chill life. Completely relateable character.
Reminds me of Power from Chainsaw Man.
do you know the artist?
Its Nhim https://x.com/Nhim_Art
no tumblr, cry. thanks though
There should be a third option for those of us that have turned into true sticks in the mud that don't watch any movies unless forced to by friends or family
I feel seen!
shit it's me
I'm sorry to tell you that in my head there is only 1. And he only has fun if the film challenged me as a viewer (which is what I find fun).
It goes the other way too.
WOW! What an intellectually challenging and unique film! The creators surprised me at every turn with their subtle storytelling and the actors knocked out completely out of the park.
1/10 boring
and if the movie is truly goated
10/10 best movie I've seen all year
10/10 best movie I've ever seen
I'm both about Star Wars episode 9
Just don't be a boring movie. Even so-called "bad" movies are delicious because of all the ham and cheese.
They can take my Andy Sidaris boxed set when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
the new one is much better
currently trying to figure out if that cuneiform is loss or not
what is loss?
baby don't hurt me
I watched all the 'cinephile' movies, yet my favourite movie is Face/off because it's fun :3
John Woo rarely disappoints. Except for Windtalkers we don't talk about Windtalkers.
Highly recommend The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent if you haven't seen it.
