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Every movie is terrible.

#81
Gorn said:
I can't actually enjoy 3d movies because my eyes have uneven wear and tear. 3d might be cool for people who don't get headaches from it but I suspect it's stupid.
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I don’t get headaches when watching 3D movies, but I still hate it. Not because the effect is dumb (though it’s nothing amazing), but the whole picture, during 3D moments or not, seems more blurry to me than non-3D showings.

That said, I’m a lot different than most in this thread - if I’m going to the theatres, it’s to see Avengers or Star Wars or whatever. Otherwise, I’d rather watch a movie in the peace and quiet of my home.

Even these action movies can be atrocious though. I’m a huge fan of Transformers. The 1986 animated film was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. However, that last movie was a stinker and I cannot see another one that Michael Bay is behind. He doesn’t mind if he s**** all over the source material.

I heard good things about Thor: Ragnorok and I caught it the other day, but the “comedy” in it was absolutely cringe-worthy. Spider-Man: Homecoming wasn’t as great as I was expecting (but to be fair, I had really high hopes). Infinity Wars was great though. I’m also really looking forward to Halloween 2018.
 
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we used to go to the movies at least a couple times a month and often more. these days there aren't enough movies that sound like we'd like them to go more than 4 times a year. and when we sometimes netflix the ones we didn't think we'd like, we really don't like them.
 
#87
Gorn said:
I'm about an hour 45 into mission impossible and I just wanna go home. The action is good but it's like the dialogue and story were written by an AI.
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For me to like a movie called Mission Impossible, it would need to have updated 60s tech and fashions, and be set in a sort of alternate late 60s timeline.

Modernizing something so culturally iconic just doesn't work for me. Still love the old series!
 
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#88
mellowinman said:
For me to like a movie called Mission Impossible, it would need to have updated 60s tech and fashions, and be set in a sort of alternate late 60s timeline.

Modernizing something so culturally iconic just doesn't work for me. Still love the old series!
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I've never seen or really wanted to see the original. This could've been any Tom Cruise movie as far as I'm concerned. The horrific story and dialogue ruined what could've easily been a great action movie. All they need is a narrative to move things along from one action sequence to another. Have some sort of dialogue because you have to have people talking. Simple basics like that would've made it great but instead the story was needlessly convoluted and ultimately ridiculous and the dialogue sounded robotic. This movie didn't need character development. It didn't need arcs or catharsis or redemption. It just needed to not make me cringe at every other line and plot point. When all the action scenes are on YouTube a few months from now that viewing experience of what's probably 20 minutes worth of scenes will be so much more entertaining than watching the whole movie.
 
#89
Gorn said:
I've never seen or really wanted to see the original. This could've been any Tom Cruise movie as far as I'm concerned. The horrific story and dialogue ruined what could've easily been a great action movie. All they need is a narrative to move things along from one action sequence to another. Have some sort of basic dialogue because you have to have people talking. Simple basics like that would've made it great but instead the story was needlessly convoluted and ultimately ridiculous and the dialogue sounded robotic. This movie didn't need character development. Just something to link action sequences together. But they couldn't even do that.
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The original show is one of the greatest TV shows of all time! The movies are beyond stupid. The first one, I tolerated, but after that I lost all interest.
 
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mellowinman said:
You have a unique outlook.
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I'd imagine the movie is as true to the spirit of the show as JJ Abrams Star Trek is to the original. Both movie frachises serve the same purpose: to be action movies for the masses. As much as I despise the JJ movies with every fiber of my being because of how much I love Star Trek and how poorly the movies respect the spirit of it, those are good action movies with stories good enough to tie action scenes together. But this mission impossible movie couldn't manage the minimum of cohesiveness necessary to make mindless action entertaining.
 
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mellowinman said:
The original show is one of the greatest TV shows of all time! The movies are beyond stupid. The first one, I tolerated, but after that I lost all interest.
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We have a retro TV station here in Phoenix that occasionally shows the Mission Impossible reruns. The shows actually have held up fairly well over the years. Yeah, they're a bit dated, but I still enjoy watching them. If I ever see the series on DVD, I'll buy it. I have some fond memories of watching that show with my Dad during its original run. It was pretty innovative.

The movies were (are) pretty awful. Not a fan.
 
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People complain that Fender doesn't make anything new too, but they never buy anything other then P or J basses from them. I'm sure the men and women of Fender have plenty of ideas, yet nobody will buy them. The fact is we the consumer are stuck in a nostalgia funk. We want everything to sound, look, and feel the same as it was before, yet we can't help but be bored by the results. Say a movie about treasure hunters comes out. First thing the critics say is that it's no Indiana Jones. So they drag Harrison Ford out and try to reboot Indiana Jones. Well they don't like that either. You make a great drama from an original point of view and the people complain its "indie crap". So you make another Misson Impossible and the same people complain that there's no originality anymore. You tell a story with a gay character, you get the "quit forcing your agenda on us." You make a movie with white actors and you're whitewashing. Minority actors? Well there you go with the agenda again. Let's face it, sequels and superheroes are really the only safe things you can do. Much like politics, the problem isn't Hollywood. It's the people.
 
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#100
Gorn said:
I'm about an hour 45 into mission impossible and I just wanna go home. The action is good but it's like the dialogue and story were written by an AI.
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It may have been – at least in part. Hollywood is a lot more formulaic than many people realize.

A few years ago, IBM let their Watson AI platform "watch" several theatrical releases and then asked it to cut 30-second promotional trailers for those movies by extracting salient footage/dialogue. The Watson-generated trailers scored equally as well with audiences as did the trailers cut by actual human editors.
 

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