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24 Sep, 8 tweets, 2 min read
I mean nothing mentioned in the replies by definition.
At this point I feel like the contrarian for thinking "Avatar" is a good, innovative movie that used its effects in interesting ways that have not been duplicated since.
Like "Avatar" gets the audience lost in CGI-land to mirror the protagonist getting lost in his, well, avatar. It's the title and everything.
Jake is disoriented when he gets back to the "real world" and so is the audience. That's interesting! I can't think of another movie that managed that before or since.
Or identifying the patterns thereof. EG, for me, looking at my LetterBoxd, those movies tend to be what I think of as "pretty pictures but undercooked story/characters", like "Drive", "The Lighthouse", or (it's not rated so highly), "Midnight Special".
The highest rated movie I have at two stars or under is "Little Miss Sunshine", maybe that's a little harsh, I haven't seen it since it like came out. But who has.
"Fruitvale Station", didn't care for that one. Octavia Spencer was good IIRC, but when isn't she.
My lowest-rated there is uh, "Toy Story"? That's a little harsh. I'm just sick of those creepy talking toys.

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"As a whole" means, of course, that any individual older person may be very wrong in condescending to any individual younger person.
As would be the case regardless of their respective knowledge levels, of course. Don't be condescending to anyone!
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My blazing hot take is video game movies don't do that well because people like the act of playing a video game and not the specific characters really.
As @ScottMendelson has pointed out, movies that use video game imagery or mechanics can do well, but video game adaptations are a long string of losses.
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Yeah eventually someone will figure out how to write or edit a streaming show and we'll be in business.
I mean I'm kind of kidding, kind of not. I think almost every streaming show/miniseries I watch, I would struggle to call any of them like, a real solid screenplay start-to-finish. But it is a youngish medium. Maybe we'll get there. We have to demand it first, I think.
Or we can act like "The White Lotus" is the most we can expect. You'll take your obviously padded rough draft and you'll like it!
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The whole "Black/female James Bond" thing is part of a set of controversies that interest me, which are basically like, "how much does a story need to revolve around 'Demographic X Issues' to 'represent' Demographic X".
EG would or should a "Black James Bond" movie be about like, Africa, or police brutality, or whatever, or would it just be "No Time To Die but with David Oyelowo".
Both options would probably cause some complaining online, and probably with some justification either way.
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Oh right Ezra Miller was a Dumbledore after that endless terrible movie about which aristocratic bloodline he was from.
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Now it's equally easy to say, oh it'll bounce back, or oh it'll be underwater forever. Why are people so confident about these things. Based on what.
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