RE: Superman (2025): Not great, not bad - will make a ton of money
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I hate contemporary "cinema" so much. It is formulaic, tired, boring, and uninspired. It is too safe, too rigid, with no "original" stories or writing.
Production is cheapened by soundstages and VFX, lazy, flat lighting in favour of LUTs, and acting so banal you can see the fifteen different takes they stitched together into a single scene.
I can't really remember the last film I saw in a cinema that I actually enjoyed, that actually moved me, that inspired me. That I didn't leave thinking "oh ... someone really enjoyed working on this, and told the story they wanted to tell their whole life"
It feels as though these adaptations are just going through the motions, without true passion. Recycling old material, not "created" for the medium, but adapted to try and fit within its confines.
It's like... if we get a XKCD movie, or another web toon turned into films. Perhaps that will be the cinema we get in two decades when the current crop of comic-book driven nostalgia is over.
I agree with everything you said here. I just go to see the things that have clearly been designed to be experienced with a huge screen and loud soundsystem. the only film I saw in theaters that I thought was maybe going to be a "labor of love" was 28 Years Later and that was absolute shite IMO.
I remember Arrival in the cinema, and Blade Runner: 2049. There's one thing in common: the director.
I also went to see the new Dune films as well, again, the same director :P