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Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video] by ZYinMD on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:35AM (#30651226)
I have a different problem with the modern movies - modern people have pretty much seen everything, but still ask "show me something I haven't seen before", so movies try their best to create "novelties", and end up with crazy plot twists that make the story worse. But then the novelty wears off quickly as we've seen everything yet again, so movies have to find newer and crazier shit to keep us entertained, and deviate father away from the best stories. Sooner or later we'll run out of stimulus, meanwhile our children are exposed to crazy shit from day 1.
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Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video] by jasperry on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:53AM (#30651765)
I think what you're getting at is that novelty is being sought as a (poor) substitute for real substance. Give me a movie made by someone who has really thought about an aspect of the human condition and explores it from their own point of view, and it will have true originality and keep you riveted, even if the theme has been treated thousands of times. There aren't that many different themes, but they are inexhaustible if treated well.

Movies bore us not because of lack of novelty, but because they're just tropes stitched together to fit a formula rather than representing a real creative endeavor.

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Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video] by TipiKoivisto on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:14AM (#30651507)
I agree 100%. A movie doesn't have to be great, but it should be different.

I made a short film and even the people who didn't get/like the jokes said: "At least it was different and not boring."

BTW, you can watch the film in https://youtu.be/LkclVXofHbU

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Re:Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video] by Markoff on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:10AM (#30658446)
I dunno, I watch couple hundreds movies per year for decades and still Manchester by the sea (2016) or Jagten (2012) hit me hard without any crazy plot twists.

It also helps to switch away from Hollywood, lot of great Iranian movies for instance.

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