I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
Every animated movie looks the same now
Join the dark side. Watch anime
You’re wrong, and here’s just one example to prove it: Into the Spiderverse
Here’s another. Puss in boots
How bout a third? Aqua Teen Hunger Force movies!
Teenage mutant ninja turtles.
I think the new Disney movie, Wish, copied its style though.
Yup. That movie doesn’t even look like itself.
And the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. The sad fact is that these are the exceptions that prove the rule.
I really think they’re re-using the assets for all the characters now, with slight tweaks from movie to movie.
Disney has been doing this for the last 80 years or so.
What do you mean? There are so many styles of animation, you mean like Pixar movies all look the same?
Pixar, DreamWorks, and Illumination are the largest studios that make animated movies these days and they all have such generic character designs now. Very soft, very round, large eyes, large mouths, and overall visually boring.
And they often have the same cliche actions and expressions.
I think it’s weird to put illumination with the other two because while it’s technically a financially successful studio, everything they put out is borderline bootleg quality compared to the other two.
Okay, so not every movie, just some recent popular movies from the same year from two of the largest studios with personnel and historical ties, and I guess illumination is also 3d animation if a different character style.
I understand the gripe, but that’s a very small section of animation.
Blade Runner 2049 is cliché and boring, and it did not deserve winning Oscars.
Avengers End Game is awful. I usually really like super hero movies, but end game is unwatchable.
Last year’s DnD movie is the best film of the last ten or so years. It succeeded on every level, except in the box office.
My hypothesis is that Hasbro insisted on branding it “Dungeons & Dragons” to push the brand, and non-gamers figured it wasn’t for them. If they’d have made the main title “Honor among Thieves”, all the game nerds would have seen the DnD logo, and others wouldn’t have been turned off *. As it stands, people will find it and it’ll become the new “Starship Troopers” that bombed but shines forever in retrospect.
* See “Arcane”.
Interstellar is a terrible movie that doesn’t say or do anything special and I still don’t understand why anyone thinks it’s so amazing.
I did really like the robot guy though.
Films where I don’t recognize a single actor among the whole crew are almost always better than ones where I’ve seen such and such actor in other movies. Just more immersive. And even if they’re not the best actors I’d much prefer that over whatever the hell Chris Prat or Tom Cruise or Leo D are up to.
Especially when there are a few examples of amazing actors that you can know and still sometimes struggle to recognize them in their characters. Like Gary Oldman, and … uh… OK well I’m not in a movie headspace, but he’s not the only one!
Tons of lesser names that play great side/background characters and it’s hard to tell, too, so I totally agree others need chances at lead characters.
Those are the actors I’m never tired of because their characters are almost always unique characters.
I knew being faceblind must have some benefit. I often only realise I know an actor when I see their name in the credits. Then again it can take me half a movie to realise there are two men with dark hair, a beard and glasses, so I wouldn’t entirety recommend it.
My experience watching The Departed while almost entirely sober felt like a face blindness simulator. I was baffled when one of the characters that had been killed came back and none of the other characters acknowledged it. Cool movie but so confusing.
en again it can take me half a movie to realise there are two men with dark hair, a beard and glasses
I’m not face blind, but this is the reason I never watched another Mission Impossible movie after the first one: Every single male in that movie looked identical to me, and I couldn’t follow any of the plot line(s?), as I never knew who was doing what to whom. I can only imagine how annoying it must be when that’s the norm.
Regardless how you feel about “woke Hollywood injecting forced diversity into films,” it’s really helped the issue of telling all the good-looking white people apart.
I’m somewhat faceblind but great at voices. There’s no escape. It also totally ruins a lot of animated shows and movies because a very small number of voice actors get a majority of the work.
If it’s an actor with a mansion then I know they didn’t spend enough on the actual movie
True to an extent, there are a few famous actors out there who are genuinely good at taking on different roles and immersing you in the character. A great example is Jim Carrey. Obviously I know Ace Ventura and Truman Burbanks are the same person, but it doesn’t feel like that when you’re watching them. They might share similar qualities, but they’re clearly different characters.
Anthony Hopkins is a better example IMO. Or goddamn Gary Oldman…
I don’t know who Chris Pratt sold his soul to to get voice actor work, but I’m hating it and now hoping he disappears like 90% of the 2000’s actors.
So many well known actors play themselves playing the character.
Brand/name recognition + marketing.
It’s part of the blockbuster model, which does everything it can to reduce risk. Before the 70s, studios would go bust when an expensive movie flopped. Studios became very risk averse, especially for the expensive stuff. So they make a sequel to a movie that’s done well, or a plot similar to that of a movie that’s previously done well, based on an intellectual property that sold well in another medium(comic, book, tv-show, …), in a genre that’s previously done well with audiences, starring actors people previously liked, preferably very attractive actors so that audiences like looking at them, pushed by a saturation marketing campaign that gets as many people to watch it on the opening weekend as possible, so that if it sucks they can’t tell their friends not to go and see it. It’s like McDonalds. It’s not the best meal you’ll ever eat, but you know what you’re getting, so you won’t have wasted two hours or your life, or shit yourself after eating it.
Also, video killed the radio star. It’s rare to be incredibly beautiful. It’s rare to be incredibly talented. It’s incredibly rare to be both. If you have to pick one, pick the incredibly beautiful actor, who looks good on posters and in promotional material. Acting isn’t that hard. Even a pretty moron can be a passable actor.
Tom Cruise has employees rewrite movies he’ll be in to make his part more, and more in his style.
He has more acting range and ability than so many other actors
This is basically what I told people when I started to watch some of the most amazing international and documentary cinema in the early 00s. Ciudade de Deus, La Cité d’enfants Perdus, Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain, La Vita è Bella, Der Untergang, Lola Rennt, 올드 보이, Mononoke Hime, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Whale Rider. Documentaries by Adam Curtis or Errol Morris. So many people just don’t know.
My favorite Mad Max film is Thunderdome.
I don’t like the star wars movies, think they’re not nearly as good as people claim they are
This is certainly down to me being raised in a post OT world of good sci fi, but that doesn’t make them worth watching these days. The only reason they are imo is to understand extended media
Extended star wars media though? Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
I’m not sure if this will be unpopular, but if the emperor somehow returned, surely he could somehow go away again like it never happened and we get the thrawn trilogy and katana fleet.
I like a lot of the campy horror movies that typically have 5 or below on IMDb. One of my favorites is Sorry About the Demon (2022) on Shudder/AMC+, which currently has a 4.9 rating.
As much as I love Denis Villeneuve, I still love David Lynch’s Dune more. Yes, the acting is spotty, and there were more than a few questionable changes to the plot, but I can’t get that art direction out of my mind. That being said, I haven’t seen part two yet.
Most movies are incredibly dumb and boring.
They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree.
The thing is, they’re supposed to be that way. The comics were like that too.
I agree that it’s bad that a lot of writers and directors want their film to be “Deadpool-esque”.
Welp got a feeling I’ve got a doozy of an unpopular opinion, but that’s why we’re here. I don’t like any of Tarantino’s films. I find all the characters unlikeable or insufferable. I also fell asleep in the theater watching Kill Bill 2.
The original Star wars trilogy was overrated, the sequels were underrated, and I’d rate them all to be equally mediocre.
