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if it helps i don’t think movies right now are particularly worse or better than any other time in history but i gotta say...

over all we are currently in another period of time where everyone is just fine with... mediocrity in film

the amount of times i’ve been told to watch something because it’s scary and did only to realise it was all jumpscares... like my dude this is no better than that period of time a while ago where most horror was just bland slashers with unlikeable college kids protags, or like right after that when goreporn started to become the New Thing, right now the supernaural is in vogue in horror and i prefer that but the films are less scary because of poor execution too so :/

or like, i keep going to see movies that are just badly written or kind of silly and everyone loses their shit over how good they are and i’’m like ??? (alien covenant is the most recent case of this)

OR COMEDY FILMS! Each decade has it’s own brand of BADDDD comedy films! the slapstick of the 80s, the gross out humour of the 90s, the the sex comedies of the 2000s, and now we get these very very bland visually movies with nothing but improv insults, violent slapstick and cringe comedy, the sex comedy somehow made less funny? it’s just sort of boring now?

like i said, every decade has it’s own mess of bad films that everyone loves, but i feel like at the moment we’re repeating the issue of everyone being too used to boring cinematography, lazy comedy, cheap scares, bad writing, and just over all serviceable but MEH movies

great directors usually shake things up but at the moment the immense marvel cinematic universe and various nostalgic franchises keep employing both indie darlings and very flawed tv writers and i think that may be contributing to this sort of temporary stagnation of taste? (the most pretentious phrase i could think of, yes, but whatever)

the lack of fresh screenplays being promoted is a problem

i’m so glad moonlight got the attention it deserves and people take that mixed with the star wars films and hidden figures to cast stories about more diverse groups of people more often

i hope that people take the stylistic visuals and use of music and colour in la ala land to heart instead of it’s story and have more fun with the medium of film

I hope that the continued success of the MCU gives the scifi and fantasy genre more excuses to come out and play with interesting stories and characters, more like arrival, more like anything other than another paint by numbers scifi plot that the marvel films themselves are guilty of, we are at such a great point technologically for some fun

I hope get out it follows and the babadook and even stranger things show how sometimes atmosphere and sound design can MAKE a horror film, how important visuals are, how important having content beyond awful people get killed as a premise is, how nostalgia is a great tool when handled with sincerity and subtlety, how great special effects can take you a lot of the way but a great concept is the real support

I hope comedy films can take their cues from movies that pay service to their genre first to support the type of comedy writing, that they know the variety of physical comedy that can be employed along slapstick like the nice guys does, that the comedy can be rapid fire and based on as commercial a property as possible without sacrificing effort like the lego batman movie, that they an value their characters journeys like GOTG2, that they occationally try not to look like an SNL skit in terms of cinematography

also.... kids films? when everything coming out is 3d animated there comes the danger of designing for the purpose of the 3d model and simple reproduction instead of visual interest, it gets weird seeing so many hyperrealistic textures in every single animated film, and honestly there is a lot to be considered aesthetically and on a thematic level in using 2d or 3d/2d hybrid styles, at this point the variety would make a film stand out more in a sea of static cartoon designs. and don’t be afraid to scare kids every now and then.... or to design something deliberately ugly.

god knows my personal taste isn’t great but i just don’t like to be bored and i feel frustrated because the amount of times i mentally make excuses for a film while i watch it is too damn high right now, i wanna go to the cinema and be genuinely torn between at least 2-3 movies i really want to see at a time

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