Annoying things about Movies these days

[JagSquared]

Rant away… the more specific the better.

 

I’ll start - endless reboots or sequels. I mean how many Halloween movies have there been now? Or how many fast and furious are we up to? Where has all the originality gone?

[Boss]

The superhero obsession. If Martin Scorcese started nowadays he'd hand in Taxi Driver and the executive would say, "you see this Travis Bickle character, can he be the Joker instead?"

[Section_31]

10 minutes ago, JagSquared said:

Rant away… the more specific the better.

 

I’ll start - endless reboots or sequels. I mean how many Halloween movies have there been now? Or how many fast and furious are we up to? Where has all the originality gone?

 Yeah reboots piss me off. Another fucking Batman.

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

Mumbling.

[Strontium]

10 minutes ago, JagSquared said:

Rant away… the more specific the better.

 

I’ll start - endless reboots or sequels. I mean how many Halloween movies have there been now? Or how many fast and furious are we up to? Where has all the originality gone?

 

Movie franchises are nothing new. One of the earliest was Universal's The Mummy, featured in five movies between 1932 and 1944.

 

And not one franchise these days is as prolific as the various western series from the first half of the 20th century. They made 64 Durango Kid movies between 1940 and 1952, and 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies between 1935 and 1948.

 

Where's the originality? Well you won't find any if you look in the wrong places, that's for sure.

[JagSquared]

3 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Mumbling.

Also scenes so dark you have no idea what the fuck is going on.

[Kevin D]

New movies don't really do it, for me. Before this month, the last movie I saw in the cinema was Dunkirk.

[JagSquared]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Movie franchises are nothing new. One of the earliest was Universal's The Mummy, featured in five movies between 1932 and 1944.

 

And not one franchise these days is as prolific as the various western series from the first half of the 20th century. They made 64 Durango Kid movies between 1940 and 1952, and 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies between 1935 and 1948.

 

Where's the originality? Well you won't find any if you look in the wrong places, that's for sure.

Ok I don’t know those movies or seen much before the 60s. It feels like the majority of major pictures are re-hashes or extensions of overly bloated films.

[Mike D]

CGI where the camera view spins around all over the place.

[Kepler-186]

Films with exciting premises that are utter turd, usually on Netflix. I submit Last Days of American Crime as evidence. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

You lot have nailed them already.

 

Star Wars, superheroes, fuck the fuck off.

[manwiththestick]

Trailers that basically give you the whole plot and key action points, hold some stuff back for Christ sake.

 

That trailer someone posted on here the other day for Michael Bay's new film called Ambulance, along with it looking like every Michael Bay film it also gives most of the plot away.

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, JagSquared said:

Ok I don’t know those movies or seen much before the 60s. It feels like the majority of major pictures are re-hashes or extensions of overly bloated films.

 

Okay, well this is the current UK top 10 at the box office

 

Rank	22-24 October 2021	Weekend total/ £	Cumulative total/ £
1	Dune (Warner Bros)	5,876,892	5,876,892
2	No Time To Die (Universal)	4,672,560	78,027,818
3	Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony)	2,470,169	11,193,195
4	The Boss Baby 2 (Universal)	1,193,115	1,193,115
5	The Addams Family 2 (Universal)	885,404	5,289,699
6	The French Dispatch (Walt Disney)	867,672	867,672
7	Halloween Kills (Universal)	771,657	3,195,777
8	Ron's Gone Wrong (Walt Disney)	562,540	1,789,254
9	Dear Evan Hansen (Universal)	236,397	236,397
10	Honsla Rakh (WHS)	78,150	268,079

 

Half of them are sequels or instalments in long-running series, and only one is a superhero film. That still leaves plenty of choice if you want something "original".

[Juniper]

Also trailers for me

 

The intros they now do for them before they show the trailer piss me off each time. It’s a trailer within a trailer. 
 

I suppose it’s a reflection of modern society having lesser attention spans thanks to the internet / people watching them on their phones and needing to grab peoples attention, as you don’t get them in cinemas. 
 

Piss me off every single time though. 

[Harry's Lad]

I can't be arsed with the DC Comics/Marvel stuff. It's a never ending stream of the same old bollocks.

 

[Strontium]

The worst thing about movies these days is people who complain about movies these days, as if we don't live in a supremely exciting era for film.

 

If you can't muster up a bit of enthusiasm at a time when people like Guillermo del Toro, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher, Steve McQueen, Alejandro Inarritu, Darren Aronofsky, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuaron - I could go on but I'm boring myself at this point - are churning out movies like there's no tomorrow, then there is. No. Hope. For. You.

 

Name a better cohort of directors at any period in time. I'll wait.

[Jairzinho]

22 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

New movies don't really do it, for me. Before this month, the last movie I saw in the cinema was Dunkirk.

1958?

 

My word.

[Tony Moanero]

28 minutes ago, Juniper said:

Also trailers for me

 

The intros they now do for them before they show the trailer piss me off each time. It’s a trailer within a trailer. 
 

I suppose it’s a reflection of modern society having lesser attention spans thanks to the internet / people watching them on their phones and needing to grab peoples attention, as you don’t get them in cinemas. 
 

Piss me off every single time though. 

I think Django Unchained was the last film that I saw at the pictures. They don’t show trailers anymore? What about usherettes selling little tubs of ice cream?

[Pete]

They are too fucking long!!! Bond was 150+ minutes. Eternals is the same. As I get older my capacity to drink and hold it in reduces!!! 

[Bjornebye]

20 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

The worst thing about movies these days is people who complain about movies these days, as if we don't live in a supremely exciting era for film.

 

If you can't muster up a bit of enthusiasm at a time when people like Guillermo del Toro, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher, Steve McQueen, Alejandro Inarritu, Darren Aronofsky, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuaron - I could go on but I'm boring myself at this point - are churning out movies like there's no tomorrow, then there is. No. Hope. For. You.

 

Name a better cohort of directors at any period in time. I'll wait.

Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Steve Spielberg, James Cameron, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Jonathan Demme, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Frank Darabont, Robert Zemeckis in the early 90's. 

 

Glad you didn't have to wait too long. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Tony Moanero said:

I think Django Unchained was the last film that I saw at the pictures. They don’t show trailors anymore? What about usherettes selling little tubs of ice cream?

They do still show trailers at the pictures. 

[Vector Sigma]

This is probably just me but the relationship between number of production companies or 'in association with' credits right at the start of a film, seems to give a clue as to how shockingly bad a film is.

 

I think the most I've seen is seven different firms involved in the production. Compare that to just two or three from most top-level films down the years.

[Ken Robber]

Characters/performances not being memorable whatsoever 

Saw Dune last week and while a technically and visually stunning film, I couldn't for the life of me tell you what the main characters name was. Left so little impression

[Bjornebye]

The lack of Viacom. 

 

 

[Strontium]

24 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Steve Spielberg, James Cameron, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Jonathan Demme, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Frank Darabont, Robert Zemeckis in the early 90's. 

 

Glad you didn't have to wait too long. 

 

Almost all of those are still making movies...?