I am so so tired of watching films that I can see thousands of creative artists have poured their love and vision into - practical effects artists and/or 3d animators, people who have dragged themselves over glass to snatch this job from the thousands of other people who have spent years of education and self training trying to make the art they love, the music, building beautiful fantasy worlds, sci-fi puppets, lovingly rendering famous video game characters, custom designing historical fashion, seamless practical fx makeup, beautiful drone shots of stunning locations that the location artist travelled the world to find, interiors that tell a story in the placement of a clock and a towel, actors trying to make you forget for two hours that you've seen them on the jewellery commercial billboard in the mall outside the cinema because this is what they actually waited tables to pay LA rent to do for all those years.
and the script is just dogshit.
dogshit garbage. whedon-poisoned, "he's right behind me isn't me?" jokes undercutting the emotions, which are all melodrama anyway. black and white, hays code morality. women who are boss babes or Born Sexy Yesterday. executive interference. choppy editing. product placement. the violent removal of nuance. netflix says we have to say our actions aloud in case the viewer isn't looking at the screen while they watch. AI hallucinating movie scripts that are the sum of all other movie scripts. attempts to cultivate a Fandom because we all know Fandom spends $$$. remakes, reboots, sassy lines lampshading the fact that we know this is a remade reboot requel. real world concerns like poverty, war, racism, always amped up into a visible, punchable evil. the catharsis of watching cartoon evil defeated while real evil trundles along unharmed.
(are there still good movies? yes, I've enjoyed several this year, mostly indie horror. but lately so often I'm astounded at how many well-made and expensive films are just awful. I'm not an anti-blockbuster snob, I love for example The Mummy, Pacific Rim, Rogue One, Dune, most stuff James Gunn does, Kpop Demon Hunters. not gonna list what I hate because this is me ranting about Industry Trends In Bad Writing And Executive Over-Meddling not thoughfully critiquing that space film you like.)
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