Recent comments in /f/movies

MichaelMcCrudd t1_jae7zcp wrote

We'd just get more Blockbuster action movies that aren't comic book movies. More disaster films, more terminators, more Michael Bay stuff. I really don't see any other result other than maybe more comic book related tv shows (unless those are gone too, then you're just leaving a large untapped market and likely killing another industry).

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SooperSte t1_jae7ogh wrote

People aren't choosing to not see that small indie darling because they are going to see a superhero movie instead, they just don't give a shit about it and wouldn't have watched it in the first place.

If superhero movies suddenly stopped, there would be another mass marketable genre immediately taking it's place. They haven't "changed the landscape", big budget action movies always have been, and always WILL be dominating box offices, the thing that has changed is that people who don't like them now just have more platforms to pretentiously proclaim about how "cinema is dead" because the next Spiderman isn't a black and white French language drama shot in 10:4 ratio

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Barkblood t1_jae73tk wrote

Ben Mendelsohn is just brilliant. Seeing him in Animal Kingdom (film) as the crazy uncle was chilling.

He can turn a completely benign comment into something truly sinister. Google “Ben Mendelsohn Lion King” and watch him turn lyrics from “I just can’t wait to be king” into a creepy, threatening monologue.

Truly an Australian national treasure.

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