Every theater

The best stuff at a cinema is rarely plastered all over the front, that's just advertising for people who don't really care about movies.

Also if your area is like mine, look for the smaller cinemas that screen the new oddities and forgotten classics

Depends on your town. I live in a small tourist town with one cinema and they only play the biggest hits, focusing on the lowest common denominator. I mean, I'm not even sure they screened Sinners, but they definitely played The Minecraft Movie in 4 (out of 14) theaters for months. If I want to go to a different cinema, I have to drive 45 minutes to get to the next town (where the selection still sucks, but at least they've got more screens) or 75 min to get to the closest independent theater.
I'm not a big movie theater guy, but I do enjoy heading to the local Alamo Drafthouse occasionally because they have terror Tuesday and weird Wednesday. Then near Halloween it's like a full day of horror.
Exactly, support your independent theatre's, they are usually run by people who care about cinema and they have more shows for older classics and modern indies and foreign movies
Get down to 6 Bags Cinema in Victorville. The aircon isn't great but shows nothing but popcorn classics.

Dune messiah a franchise exploit? How?
It's based on the next book in the series. There is a reason for it to exist beyond making money.
- anyone who was in for the love of the art already read the books.
Yeah, e.g. I stopped paying attention to spider man movies for a few years, but the other day I was doing a recap and found that there is a movie with actors/characters from 3 different versions/reboots with the multiverse excuse...this is some dystopian shit.
I know that comics always had heavy intertext and "guest characters", but having the scriptwriting be driven by stupid circumstantial corporate decisions to buy IP rights to a specific character and then have to restart it multiple times to keep the rights going feels...dystopian?
(but I'll be thankful if you have any better words than dystopian to describe this bullshit, gpt suggests "soulless" 🙃).

This is just so inaccurate. Sometimes it's 90's reboots and remakes with talking animals, too.

And now, Disneys latest innovation: Live action(ish) reboots with talking animals!

They still have a few the low budget horror films and originals by Soderberg but no one watches them even when they are really good. I go every week and don't watch any remakes and maybe the occasional superhero flick when it reviews well. There are maybe 9 people in the theater.

It's so annoying to see this shit. Every person who complains about how stale movie releases are only ever goes to see what the ads on tv/youtube tell them to, then whine about their own choice while excellent indie movies eke by or fail outright. They reinforce the problem they complain about with zero sense of hypocrisy.
- Yeah black bag was a great movie that no one saw and only was in the theater for like a week before it got pulled.

Are the talking animals sexy?

Why spend time and money making new things when tried and true stuff sells just as well?

Welcome to capitalism, where art goes to die.

But someone said capitalism fostered innovation!?
- it can, but requires strong regulation to do so. We don't have that these days.
- nah, only if some rich guy can use it to extract money from as many people as possible.

I’m looking forward to the coming superhero universe reboot - now with fun CGI animal.

Made with AI

This is a lazy meme, I've seen dozens of original movies both foreign and domestic in the last few months, people don't want to go to the theatre for anything other than IP blockbusters and then complain that IP blockbusters keep getting made, change your habits first

They're doing 90s and post 2000s remakes now . See Lilo and Stitch and How to Train your Dragon remakes with 3d and live action incorporated that nobody asked for. I think originality in film and tv is also disappearing, along with many other things heading towards extinction these days

Originality is uncertainty, and shareholders don’t like uncertainty. Better to spend the money on certain failures instead.
- In an ideal world, investors (and big shareholders) would be interviewed to see if they’re committed to the thing they’re investing on. “Have millions make me billions” or being a nepo baby shouldn’t be valid reasons. This is why every thing they touch converges to enshittification.

The are movies like Never look away(2018), Amanda(2018), Empire of Light(2022) and Perfect Days (2023) that where barely advertised, but worth watching all the way. Still somehow using an old movie or having more super hero is ok.

It's one film. Howard the Duck.

And coming soon! The one midnight showing of the indie movie everyone secretly wants to watch.

HEY what do they have against talking animals

Eukaryotes should be seen and not heard.

And the Talking Animals will either be the best option or the worst option

It's like when games fail and people complain there is no originality

Dude you ain't buying the original games, you are buying the tried and trusted versions

Superhero sequel 29 looks pretty good this year!

The Phoenician Scheme was fairly original.

Wes Anderson movies are both original and not at all original. The stories are original, but the style is always the same. That said, I love his style, but recently his movies have almost parodies of themselves. I haven't enjoyed his latest stuff.
A grenade, in this thread? Thank you, you're very kind.
Happy Cake Day!
And it is setting up to be a box office flop. Wes Anderson is apparently the only one who is allowed to make original scripts and even that seems to be wearing thin.

Movies in the '90s were more varied, but then after 9/11 and the "war on terror" it seems that there was an intentional focus on superheroes fighting the bad guys, don't know about the '80s.

Probably, but CGI maturing and becoming cheaper may have played a larger role.

Well with new Jurassic park/world stuff coming out, there's 90s stuff going on, too.

ITT: movie opinions based on movie advertisements for the circle jerk instead of seeking movie announcements or even, retroactively, awards/nominations. But I get it, you know what the next Superman is going to be so it's easy to have an opinion on it without seeing it whereas the other half of the movies are original... but risky for your use of time.

Cue complaints about rigged awards stealing from better movies without acknowledging it's a showdown between multiple original movies.

Cue complaints about popcorn pricing as if you're forced to eat popcorn and eat popcorn for every home movie

Cue complaints about gross movie theaters as if this is really about the originality of movies instead of a likely attention span issue

Also, 20 minute "trailers" before the actual movie.

I remember when trailer were a big deal. People went to see a movie they didn't care for just for the trailer. I haven't watched a trailer for like 15 years and it's nice when they don't tell you the whole movie before you saw it.

Best thing is that internet and technology development has brought us masterpieces like this:

https://youtu.be/bl8Z7Dl7P9A

Why would that be?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/23/elio-gives-pixar-its-worst-ever-box-office-opening-despite-positive-reviews

Oh, right.

Never even saw an ad for it but, then again, who watches ads anymore? Good reviews? Can't trust them, most are bots nowadays.
Just as well, people are so broke they don't want to risk spending money on something they don't know when they can watch a remake of a story they know they enjoy or just don't have money to even go to the movies at all.
Gotta love that capitalist innovation and the "invisible hand if the market" at work.
- My favourite thing about movies is that a movie that makes 10million dollars is a flop. It could make 100millions and now we're sad and can only afford to make a cheap remake

Because the movie industry wants money and the tubes keep paying to see these -- and don't pay to see complex, challenging, or odd films

Including the people that make comics like the above.

That's a cinema.

It's also a movie theater, and it's not uncommon to omit the "movie" part since they're more common.
- I concede your point, but will note that where I currently reside we have fewer but larger cinemas than theatres; but it isn't an English speaking nation.

I don't know why people complain so much about this, weren't you like against capitalism and mindless consumption?

If you get one of those apps like HBO or Disney plus, you will have like, a catalogue that last years to watch everything

And about the popcorn? Do you realize you can cook that in your home as well right? Now you don't even need oil, with the air fryers

With the advent of Netflix type apps, you can just do movie nights with your family and friends extremely easy, that's a plus if you don't want to spend so much outside

And if you go the selfhost Route, it's even cheaper

So again why the complains?

It's nice to go outside sometimes, particularly to movie palaces. I dress up a little and so does my date, and we usually have a fun discussion about the plot afterwards.
Later I fuck them so hard their orgasm shifts Earth's orbit very slightly.
So yeah, I like movie theaters.
No home setup beats the theatre experience for me for most movies

Raul Julia playing Mr Bison was peak cinema, no one can take away from us

Also Peter Weller playing robocop was peak acting. Dude made everyone feel all sorts of emotions just by lip gesticulation

the last 2 days have felt like a remake

This was like so clever. I don't even know why anybody would downvote you.

RLM just made a pretty good video about this topic: https://youtu.be/I0Jwv40MkiY

also way too many prequels

I'd love to see a prequel leading to how the hell did Lucius and Narcisa Malfoy got married. How did they date? How did the families get along?
I bet my bottom dollar it was hilarious as fuck
I'm sure Adam Sandler could play Lucius dad

Happy Cake Day!

Thanks!

I really want to watch We're All Gonna Die, but there's no way for me to see it and I'd love to support the creators.

The biggest hurdle for this movie — and any non-franchise movie for the foreseeable future — is getting people to care about something that isn't based on something they're already familiar with.

from https://www.slashfilm.com/1807986/mickey-17-flopped-box-office-reasons/

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I mean, I don't think people take in account the role of Hollywood and the imperialist pig dog empire of Yankee land. Hollywood serves a purpose for the imperialist. They push around the artist and tell them to dance for pennies. And everybody's on the casting couch getting fondled by rich men. We live in the world of the lowest common denominator, and as time progresses and the Empire decays, the movies will just turn to shit. These submissive libturds and right wing pigglet Yankees will just keep buying this crap and their children each generation, each iteration will become dumber and dumber Not aware that they are becoming dumber. Most of anything in our society is low-effort slop for premium price. Yankee Land hates art and artist. I do welcome this era though, because for me avoiding subscription services is like walking and chewing gum or shall we say, just taking a shit. It has become a natural process for me. Also, I'm not as distracted as I used to be and so, most of my time is filled with learning new skills. I mean, they should put more effort into movies. That was the whole point. It was to distract us from the horrors of the American reality. I truly do welcome their use of AI in movies. I am an accelerationist in this avenue. Keep on going, bud. See what happens. It is all just slop, absolute slop and I have no intentions of spending money with these people. It has gotten so fucking bad that I dont even pirate anything. Like sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil drawing is more titillating than going to the cinema. Also, Linux fulfills all of my needs. Why would I ever pay for an operating system that acts like spyware. It's kind of like an indicator telling us that Yankee Land is desperate and running out of tricks funds. Now Yankee Land, I think is somewhat aware of this. And so that's why they're coming for open source. There are angels out there. People that are just doing the good work, you know? It's so easy to just stop watching movies. And, you know, I don't want to think I'm just like a boomer or what not but the movies from back in the day are way better. Hollywood also served the purpose of framing or giving this perception of what American life is like. But now that the veil's been removed and we're like in a depression era and the rest of world sees us as a violent entity, who is a threat to all of humanity... it seems nobody's interested anymore. Like, if you're around a bunch of dildos and you're saying to them, hey, you're getting fucked and they say, well, you're paranoid tinfoil hat, man.... What I'm really trying to say is I'm just excited. I like seeing things fall apart that should fall apart. And what is Hollywood's response? Streaming. Give me a break. Even streaming is terrible. It's so easy and I mean so easy for a refined person who is sophisticated, who desires quality to avoid American propaganda. Anyways, I'm just glad. I'm actually am glad. It's a good thing. It's a very good, very good thing. Death to the Empire. Also, one more thing. I think we fail to recognize the very, very close relationship between the department of defense and Hollywood. Like, even in the military, they have subscription services. We've privatized all of our intellectual property. So, the government doesn't even really own the military equipment. And we're just getting milked, baby. I mean just look at the F 35. It's a piece of shit. Also, you know, the Yankee swung Dick and bullied Europe into increasing its defense spending. Europe was like, okay, and then America was like, now you have to buy my F-35 and they were like, nah, we don't want that subscription shit. I mean everything that these business turdz and soldier boyz do is just coming back to fuck them. I mean, if you've had your ear on the ground long enough and you watch the patterns, it's funny seeing these people look stupid and fail. It's happening. It really is and they're fucking up in all avenues. It's just so goddamn easy to not buy slop. I could stare at the wall and be more entertained. I'm of the persuasion of you just don't have kids, you know. My line is choosing to exit out of existence and I smile at the thought of the American Empire ripping itself apart. My hatred of imperialism is so great. It's so great. 24-7. All day, every day. Every moment that has led up to this to now has been a waste of time. This was always the precipice that we were all going to find ourselves in if you're not a stupid monster. Living in the process is cruel, but what are you gonna do? There won't be angels, I'll tell you that. But there won't be dumb shit either. I embrace the abyss. I lean into it. I dive into it. Head Over Heels. I'd giggle thinking about the Democrat Party. Or Wokeism. Which is basically the establishment co-opting the left-wing people's movements and filling their brains with nonsense getting them distracted with low-level priorities instead of focusing on the fiscal realities of our current situation. America was never a democracy. And what little protections we had are gone now. America is like Disneyland with a mixture of North Korea where you are not allowed to leave and you forgot your wallet. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. When you wish upon a star, it makes a difference who you are. Because when you wish upon a star, you're talking to the sky.