• Jake
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    811 months ago

    Yeah, I can’t watch any of them any more it ruins the nostalgia and reminds me how dumb I must have been. I can’t stand to watch most mainstream stuff any more though. The second the plot goes stupid I turn anything off. I’ve wasted far too much time due to investment banker produced media. First hint is all I need.

    • @flambonkscious
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      811 months ago

      Investment banker media - that perfectly sums up all the modern popular trash!

      And fuck you marvel

    • Square SingerOP
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      311 months ago

      I totally get what you mean. I wonder wheter writing a decent plot/characters/dialogues is really that impossible or whether there’s some other issues at play.

      I mean, book authors routinely manage to do pretty good writing, why can’t we have that for film as well?

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Best-sellers tend to be shite, though. And most of what you’re talking about as “mainstream stuff” is the movie-making equivalent of best-seller books.

        Don’t look at the heavily-marketed stuff. That’s like the “best-sellers” rack at the bookstore (or the “Recommended for you” section of book-selling websites, equivalently). Look for the stuff that doesn’t have billion-dollar budgets, big-name stars and advertising campaigns that cost more than many small countries produce in a year.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Try watching movies/shows from around the world, you’ll be amazed. I gave up on USA shows some time ago and never looked back.

        • Square SingerOP
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          111 months ago

          That is true. The issue is only that it’s mostly hard to find these movies. It’s much harder finding movies from my own country than US movies.