Most movies are disappointing nowadays?

[AION]

Nowadays most movies are just so disappointing. I'hve just watched Gladiator II and it was such an anti-climax after the prequel that was made more than a decade ago. Most movies are so unpersonal and superficial; just soulless. Gladiator I had a soul to it. Such a powerful movie with a powerful message. The warrior archetype displayed with all of its grief, glory, gory and grandeur. A movie greater than life. Movies like Forest Gump and shit. Too sad.

[Cireeric]

Yes, I find it almost a bit scary because it shows how soulless mainstream culture has become. This is cinematic flatland: all surfaces, no depth. There are only a few good filmmakers left, like Paul Thomas Anderson, Giorgos Lanthimos or Lars von Trier.

[PurpleTree]

The woke mob : (

[Sincerity]

Mainstream yes. Niche not necessarily.

Watch some Karsten Runquist to get good new niche movie recommendations or just go on Letterboxd and look around. There's always something worthwhile to watch if you take a bit of time to search.

I just finished watching Carol (2015) with my gf. It was interesting, we had many thoughts. https://letterboxd.com/film/carol-2015/

[FourCrossedWands]

2022-2024 have been some of the best years for movies. It's like a small golden age. You are watching wrong movies.

Here are some good ones:

• Banshees of Inisherin
• The Zone of Interest
• Aftersun
• Saltburn
• Menu
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Poor Things
• The Substance

Also, there are dozens of good European/Korean movies out there, you just have to look for them.

Edited Friday at 07:02 AM by FourCrossedWands

[Princess Arabia]

3 hours ago, Sincerity said:

Mainstream yes. Niche not necessarily.

Watch some Karsten Runquist to get good new niche movie recommendations or just go on Letterboxd and look around. There's always something worthwhile to watch if you take a bit of time to search.

I just finished watching Carol (2015) with my gf. It was interesting, we had many thoughts. https://letterboxd.com/film/carol-2015/

Ever seen the movie CHLOE. Pretty good. It's about an escort and a wife that hired her to see if her husband would cheat on her with the escort, and she ends up sleeping with the wife instead. 

This trailer kind of reminded me of that movie. 

[Leo Gura]

It's not the woke mob, it's corporate hyper capitalism.

Hollywood is corrupt and creatively bankrupt. The whole industry is now about milking old IP to death and catering to dumb teenagers with no taste or depth.

Why would Gladiator 2 be any good? It is a sequel to a perfect film that never needed one. These kind of sequels are just a scam. Why would pay to see it? The solution is to stop falling for the Hollywood scam machine. Don't let them milk your love for classic films for profit. That's all it is. Only pay for original films.

Edited Friday at 07:33 AM by Leo Gura

[Something Funny]

There are many great movies nowadays

[M A J I]

As your consciousness expands movies in general will appear very bland and predictive, you will eventually realize they bind you to a type of matrix that keeps your expression and abilities limited to the conditions of the box or screen you are watching, you will be able to see through them and they will look more and more artificial. This is especially noticeable when you come back from being in nature for a while or coming down from a psychedelic exp[experience. Even books are starting to become dissatisfying as our consciousness expands, forcing us to create more ourselves and tap into our own movie or book of life.

Edited Friday at 08:54 AM by M A J I

[AION]

And the worst part of it all is that IMDB rating are way off. People gave a 6.9 to the soulless creation called Gladiator II. Just sitting through it was a torture. I wouldn't even give it a 2.

Mainstream movies are like nowadays mainstream women. Too puffed up and too much make-up. Plastic surgery and aspiring unnaturalness. Big attitude and lack of self reflection. Too big of a body count and not lack of truth and acceptance. Absolutely no taste and lack of a personality/agency of their own. Too focussed on the outside and not on the inside.

These movies have absolute no depth. It is all about puffing up cheap emotions. It is such an abomination. I looked out for this movie for months. The movie Gladiator was so dear to my heart and they shat on it.

Edited Friday at 10:08 AM by AION

[FourCrossedWands]

It's especially hard to find good historical movies these days. The last good historical movies were made around 2010.

[AION]

5 hours ago, FourCrossedWands said:

It's especially hard to find good historical movies these days. The last good historical movies were made around 2010.

Which ones?

[Luminescence]

I would like to know some good historical movies as well @FourCrossedWands the ones you mentioned were good before 2010. Maybe i missed some. Thanks

[FourCrossedWands]

• Agora
• Arn Tempelriddaren
• Black Death
• Ironclad
• Centurion
• The Eagle
• The Other Boleyn Girl

Just to name a few. Some of them are not historically accurate, but based on history.

Most of them are highly underrated on IMDB.

 

Edited Friday at 05:36 PM by FourCrossedWands

[AION]

None of those are historically correct at all 😂. Agora is a good one although it is not historically correct. The others meh.

Edited Friday at 05:41 PM by AION

[FourCrossedWands]

11 minutes ago, AION said:

None of those are historically correct at all 😂. Agora is a good one although it is not historically correct. The others meh.

Still much better than Gladiator 2. Historical movies are not profitable so they are dying. Just be happy with what you have or go watch documentaries 😉

Edited Friday at 05:53 PM by FourCrossedWands

[AION]

5 minutes ago, FourCrossedWands said:

Still much better than Gladiator 2. Historical movies are just not profitable so they are dying. Just be happy with what you have 😉

I'm watching movies not for accuracy but for the soul of it. If I want historical accuracy I will go for documentaries. I agree that Agora is a gem.

[FourCrossedWands]

Just now, AION said:

I'm watching movies not for accuracy but for the soul of it. If I want historical accuracy I will go for documentaries. I agree that Agora is a gem.

Yes, if Agora was 100% historically accurate, the ending would be a bloody mess and Christians would never let it go public.

[Staples]

Modern indie films have never been better. Problem is the marketing models for indie films suck.

Go to film festivals if you want to watch great stuff.

Blockbusters are financially forced to cast too wide of a net to be truly great, with few exceptions. Also a big studios goal isn't to make good movies, it's to cheat on tax.

Hollywood accounting is biblically corrupt.

Edited Friday at 10:59 PM by Staples

[Raze]