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Arthouse is the only thing worth watching nowadays as the others seem to only rechew the same crud. Change my mind.

by soco 5mo ago

zarzavat 5mo ago
This is the issue I have with the big screen, there's just nothing I want to watch. Meanwhile if I watch at home then there's half a century of classics that I haven't gotten around to watching yet.
hawkice 5mo ago
Cud, I think, is the thing that gets rechewed.
- drcongo 5mo ago
  I've seen Marvel movies and I think "crud" was the better word choice.
ragazzina 5mo ago
Cinemas around here have started showing old films and I have rediscovered the joy of going to the movies, whether it's Some Like It Hot or Suicide Club.
- 4ggr0 5mo ago
  same! in the last couple of years i've seen these movies in a cinema: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, La Heine, Apocalypse Now, HEAT. and i already bought tickets for Run Lola Run, Clerks and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. it's especially cool as someone who's young and wasn't even born when some of these movies initially came to cinemas. at the same time it's unbelievably sad that in recent years about 70% of the movies i saw at a cinema were multiple decades old.
  - ragazzina 5mo ago
    I love Lola rennt so much. Really a one-of-a-kind movie. When you grow up it's not only nostalgia, but the feeling that most of the ideas are really not new. I remember watching 'You Were Never Really Here', that had a huge hype behind it, and thinking "I have seen this same exact movie a hundred of times".
    - 4ggr0 5mo ago
      > I love Lola rennt so much. Really a one-of-a-kind movie. +1, yes! watched it for the first time a couple of years ago after hearing about it and deciding to ethically download it, since then i've watched it a couple of times and at the start of this year even bought a Blu-Ray Player and a 4k Ultra HD copy* just because I wanted a physical copy to put on a shelf and watch it in an optimal quality. and as mentioned i'll go watch it in a cinema in a couple of months. i also created a letterboxd account this year to log every movie i've ever seen. what's weird is that i've logged over 400 movies, but if i look at a graph of the years they were realeased in it's almost a perfect bell curve with the top being between 2006 - 2010. *in these last couple months i started buying used blu-rays and DVDs and now got about 70 movies. guess this is my form of nostalgia. others got vynils, i got movies. physical media just feels different than downloaded movies. cover art, bonus material, DVD menues with soundtracks. love it...
  - funimpoded 5mo ago
    > at the same time it's unbelievably sad that in recent years about 70% of the movies i saw at a cinema were multiple decades old. There are literally thousands of good movies released between ~1890 and last year. It’s improbable more than a hundred or so will come out this year that’re worth your time, and they’ll be harder to sort from the junk this close to release. If anything, it’s amazing new movies have as large an audience as they do.
    - 4ggr0 5mo ago
      good point i guess, time allows for the good stuff to be remembered and stay relevant. kind of how some movies like The Big Lebowski were considered flops but nowadays are cherished cult classics.
      - bombcar 5mo ago
        MST3K is definitive proof that "not all the old movies were good" - there were some stinkers, and they only picked out the ones that were "so bad they're good" - there's much worse. Most movies are decently budgeted and so at least meet some minimum bar for quality - so cult classics can arise time and time again. There are movies in theaters right now that will be the cult classics of the 2050s.
no_wizard 5mo ago
Not everyone is an avant garde movie enthusiast. Some still enjoy the fun and spectacle of action films, superhero films, Star Wars. I am among them. I make no attempt to say they’re high concept or anything, but I leave feeling good for awhile and that’s enough for me
- bombcar 5mo ago
  It's like eating a burger - they're basically all the same, but there are variations. And a burger isn't anything amazing (even if you find a pretentious one, it's still a burger), but it's still nice to go out and get one now and then. So maybe I want to watch some capeshit today, but I don't want it to be exactly the same as the ones I've watched before. Many people feel this way, and the market provides.

Arthouse is the only thing worth watching nowadays as the others seem to only rechew the same crud. Change my mind.

by soco 5mo ago

Arthouse is the only thing worth watching nowadays as the others seem to only rechew the same crud. Change my mind.

This is the issue I have with the big screen, there's just nothing I want to watch. Meanwhile if I watch at home then there's half a century of classics that I haven't gotten around to watching yet.

hawkice 5mo ago

Cud, I think, is the thing that gets rechewed.

drcongo 5mo ago
I've seen Marvel movies and I think "crud" was the better word choice.

ragazzina 5mo ago

Cinemas around here have started showing old films and I have rediscovered the joy of going to the movies, whether it's Some Like It Hot or Suicide Club.

4ggr0 5mo ago
same! in the last couple of years i've seen these movies in a cinema: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, La Heine, Apocalypse Now, HEAT. and i already bought tickets for Run Lola Run, Clerks and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. it's especially cool as someone who's young and wasn't even born when some of these movies initially came to cinemas. at the same time it's unbelievably sad that in recent years about 70% of the movies i saw at a cinema were multiple decades old.
- ragazzina 5mo ago
  I love Lola rennt so much. Really a one-of-a-kind movie. When you grow up it's not only nostalgia, but the feeling that most of the ideas are really not new. I remember watching 'You Were Never Really Here', that had a huge hype behind it, and thinking "I have seen this same exact movie a hundred of times".
  - 4ggr0 5mo ago
    > I love Lola rennt so much. Really a one-of-a-kind movie. +1, yes! watched it for the first time a couple of years ago after hearing about it and deciding to ethically download it, since then i've watched it a couple of times and at the start of this year even bought a Blu-Ray Player and a 4k Ultra HD copy* just because I wanted a physical copy to put on a shelf and watch it in an optimal quality. and as mentioned i'll go watch it in a cinema in a couple of months. i also created a letterboxd account this year to log every movie i've ever seen. what's weird is that i've logged over 400 movies, but if i look at a graph of the years they were realeased in it's almost a perfect bell curve with the top being between 2006 - 2010. *in these last couple months i started buying used blu-rays and DVDs and now got about 70 movies. guess this is my form of nostalgia. others got vynils, i got movies. physical media just feels different than downloaded movies. cover art, bonus material, DVD menues with soundtracks. love it...
- funimpoded 5mo ago
  > at the same time it's unbelievably sad that in recent years about 70% of the movies i saw at a cinema were multiple decades old. There are literally thousands of good movies released between ~1890 and last year. It’s improbable more than a hundred or so will come out this year that’re worth your time, and they’ll be harder to sort from the junk this close to release. If anything, it’s amazing new movies have as large an audience as they do.
  - 4ggr0 5mo ago
    good point i guess, time allows for the good stuff to be remembered and stay relevant. kind of how some movies like The Big Lebowski were considered flops but nowadays are cherished cult classics.
    - bombcar 5mo ago
      MST3K is definitive proof that "not all the old movies were good" - there were some stinkers, and they only picked out the ones that were "so bad they're good" - there's much worse. Most movies are decently budgeted and so at least meet some minimum bar for quality - so cult classics can arise time and time again. There are movies in theaters right now that will be the cult classics of the 2050s.

no_wizard 5mo ago

Not everyone is an avant garde movie enthusiast. Some still enjoy the fun and spectacle of action films, superhero films, Star Wars. I am among them. I make no attempt to say they’re high concept or anything, but I leave feeling good for awhile and that’s enough for me

bombcar 5mo ago
It's like eating a burger - they're basically all the same, but there are variations. And a burger isn't anything amazing (even if you find a pretentious one, it's still a burger), but it's still nice to go out and get one now and then. So maybe I want to watch some capeshit today, but I don't want it to be exactly the same as the ones I've watched before. Many people feel this way, and the market provides.