Cinematic universes shouldn't live forever. At some point, there is just too much of it, both for people making it and for people watching it.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Movie theaters are money sinks for idiots.
That's not so much a hot take anymore.
Pacific Rim is the perfect popcorn movie
Perfect for edibles and the bass turned up
Guilty pleasure movie of mine
I cannot stand The Godfather. Any mafia shit, really. I hate the whole family hierarchy thing, I hate the guise of freedom when it’s just an organization reminiscent of cops or the military, and I hate the blind loyalty to a system that only serves one person or family, it’s all just so petty and capitalistic, the mafia is fucking stupid.
You’re not supposed to like the Mafia in these movies.
I agree that the system sucks and that, IRL, they're bad people and harmful to society. Still a good movie though.
Lookie here boys, we gots ourselves a tough guy. Hey, Rico, why don't you show our friend what happens to tough guys round here. Maybe a little swim with the fishies will show him we ain't so bad after all.
Inception isn't that great.
It's complex for the sake of complexity and the complication needlessly makes the story more difficult to parse. The revelation about there being an additional layer before reality is such an overused trope that it wasn't an interesting twist and added nothing to the plot.
I didn't find the movie to be that complicated or difficult to understand. it had a lot of cool visuals that made it seem like your brain was supposed to be surprised or something. but there was nothing complicated about it
I personally love it because it is genuinely open ended
The theatre experience fucking sucks.
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You're beholden to their schedule
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It's fucking expensive
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It's quite often filthy
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Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
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Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
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Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
Real smoking hot take here.
And, always, some dirty motherfucker has thrown a drink on the screen staining the screen
Another thing that's bad about theaters is you can't pause the movie. If you desperately need a bathroom break, you miss part of the movie
Kinda makes me wonder how often the people that clean up after each screening have to deal with bottles of piss. 🤔
Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons
ULPT: That's when you guilt-trip them:
"This was the last thing I watched together with my 8 year old son/daughter before he/she died from cancer" starts crying (it doesn't have to be true, just dramatic enough to shut them the hell up and to make them mind their own bussiness)
Hard disagree it's very much you white fuckers (said with love because I'm white) need to embrace the social experience of a movie.
Horror is peak in theaters.
Drag me to hell was the best experience I ever had. Everyone was talking and yelling in the theater. It was rowdy. I was drunk with my friends. It was an 11/10 experience.
Second was Smile post pandemic the theater was packed it was loud and boisterous.
Serious white people get the stick out your ass and enjoy life
Participation with the movie like at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening is great.
Some dude talking loudly about some bullshit that has nothing to do with the movie is something else altogether and not enjoyable.
Someone shouting "DON'T GO THAT WAY, THE KILLER IS THERE!" in a horror movie would be funny af.
- Some motherfuckers talk or use their phone and ruin your experience
- Other motherfuckers bring babies or small children to more adult films and do not take them out if they start crying
And staff don't do anything about it
Fandoms ruin movie franchises worse than any bad directing or writing ever could.
I avoid fandoms of franchises I enjoy because they end up sucking the life out of everything. When things don’t go exactly as fans expected or want, people turn to the internet to rage at things we once loved. Many of these “dogshit” movies are entertaining and fine as they are. But we’ve become so obsessed with our own expectations of what story a movie is supposed to be or say, that we have stopped allowing others to tell their own stories and show their own visions. It’s just all about ragging on whatever all the time.
This includes: Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC, everything in the Tolkien universe, etc. All perfectly fine franchises that just aren’t for everyone and I think that’s ok.
Exception: The last 2 Ghostbusters movies, those movies forgot what the GB are supposed to be about; adult, raunchy, horror comedy.
Not a movie but Rick and Morty fans are like this for me. I like it but the fans are awful
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Regular actors should stick to regular acting and leave voice acting to voice actors.
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Having The Rock in your movie makes it worse.
I think you're reversing causality. Movies that were bound to be bad cast The Rock. We need to experiment by casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson.
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I don't want big name celebrities doing voice over for animated movies. Give me actual VAs
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I genuinely do not want to see famous actors in any media, at all. I don't want to recognize anyone in a movie.
‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don't know anyone in it.
My son is big cinephile, and he complains about how contemporary movies are all filled with people who look like nepo-baby actors. He says they all have iPhone face: no matter what time period they're supposed to be in, they all look like they've seen an iPhone.
He longs for the old days when older unattractive actors were in demand as character actors.
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Probably not a hot take but audio mixes are often dreadful. If I have to turn on subtitles to understand what someone is saying because they've been buried in the mix, someone fucked up and that person shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a mixing console again.
100% this. I say this all the time.
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