Is Mark Hamill an exception? Or is he a voice actor that happens to have done some face acting as well?

One-upmanship time! My take - Much of the movies in the Criterion collection suck.

I didn’t like it either.

I mean, it’s a hot take, I’ll give you that. I can’t agree with it, though. Every line of dialogue in that film moves plot. It’s really well edited and far ahead of its time. Modern cinema owes a lot to the lessons taught by Casablanca.

I’ll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is “Flavacol” seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.

Cinema popcorn is 60% of why I want to go to the movies. My local cinema changed popcorn maker and now it’s not as fresh… I am not as excited to go to the movies anymore :/

So some tricks from ex cinema employee. Use canola oil and yellow Popcorn kernels and a Aluminum bowl That you can buy from a restaurant supply store.

• salt kernels before you cover then with oil.

• Fill the oil to just enough to cover the kernels.

• Then cover the bowl with Aluminum foil. And roll the bowl over the stove on medium heat. Till it starts popping

• then use More canola oil for butter Lightly Spritzed in a spray bottle.

• That will give you perfect theater popcorn at home.

Optional secret ingredient Tajin instead of salt

except the chocolate popcorn at Seattle’s Cinerama SIFF Cinema. That stuff is to die for.

I can still find modern special effects interesting enough if I find them aesthetically interesting – as though a lot of thought clearly went into them. I understand there were minimal hurdles to translating that vision to film, but it’s the vision itself I appreciate.

I also definitely get the same feeling you do watching older films and especially stage plays, where the constraints of the medium make it even more impressive.

Same. I still appreciate modern effects tho but those old movies really impress me. Have you seen The Johnstown Flood? That one kinda blew my mind

As much as I have issues with 2001 space odyssey, it is a technical marvel for its time.

Same. I watched Citizen Kane for the first time a year or two ago, and some of the shots blew my mind. Like how the fuck did he do some of that shit?

How do you feel about something like Fury Road, where they make a point of including practical effects?

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…

There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.

‘Man With a Movie Camera’ is great for this.

In a cinema I used to go to, they used to show the Met’s operas during the Sunday matinee. Absolutely lovely!

Thats sick, I’d love to watch ufc at a theatre.

Except for those who died, I guess?

Scnr 😁

But Actually, that’s what I found to be a good thing: letting characters leave, finishing their story. Captain America, scarlet witch.

My hot take is I still watch the series of movies in hope for good stuff but most has passed.

One guy wrote a very true thing: when was the last time superheroes actually saved someone like they originally did.

some people aren’t used to it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect

The Hobbit trilogy was filmed and released in 48 fps (in theatres only, now lost media), and pretty much everyone hated it.

I saw it and can confirm it looked really fucking weird. I thought I’d get used to it after a while but the effect kept pulling me out of the movie throughout the entire runtime.

cause it looks like shit. films, aka movies, have had a certain look and feel to them since the beginning. when you have the resolution and frame rate too high it looks like youre looking at actors on a soundstage. its too clear. it disables the suspension of disbelief.

60fps exists… why don’t we just use that for movies

Originally because it felt like tv shows, which were shot in 60 fps and were pretty shitty from the artistic standpoint.

as an introvert… I never went to a theater

As also an introvert, I can report that you’re not forbidden from going to movies alone nor are required to interact with anyone other than getting to your seat. The theatre is not much of a wow factor for me personally, but others likely get more out of it.

Movies are going to go away because either no one has the attention span for them or they want a full season of prestige television.

So really we should vote with our wallets and agree to not watch cinema pollution like that then

I agree with your point about established ip being safe and attractive to executives.

I disagree with your point about “never see another eternal sunshine” type movie. Everything everywhere all at once. The substance. Sinners. There are gems.

We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine

Original movies like that are still being made, much much more than ever before.

But not in Hollywood. And you won’t get a trailer for those movies fed to you by Youtube’s algorithm, you have to look for them yourself.

My recent favorites were Flow and Outrun (both from 2024).

This was a problem before Marvel or the Star Wars reboots. Execs will always go for what seems safer and an established IP with a fanbase is safer than something brand new. A tale as old as time.

Who controls which movies make money? The audience does.

The same thing happened in the 50s with big budget epic movies trying to appeal to everyone, I think Cleopatra was at the tail end of it.