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Originally Posted by Severian
To be fair, those movies are still being made. They’re just not being made on a massive scale
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right. those “grownup” quality movies are not in your regular everytown box office anymore. you have to go watch them in tribeca or whatever.
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Originally Posted by Severian
Also, I don’t care if you think X and Y movies are for adults. I’m an adult and I’ve been one for a bit. I watched Endgame and enjoyed it and I’ll watch it again probably.
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i enjoy kids movies and overgrown teenage movies just like anybody else. there’s a place for them in life. pass the popcorn. pew-pew-pew... BOOOM.
but my complaint is not about those movies in themselves. it’s about their ubiquity, and a lack of
the other at the box office. those others are now practically absent from the culture at large.
except on tv—those stories are on tv now, more or less.
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Originally Posted by Severian
Just the whole “for adults” take sounds pretty condescending, but whatever. I know what you mean and you’re right about trends at the industry level. Oh well.
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maybe there’s a better word for them but i have to call them like i see them. yes, adults can watch and even love kid’s movies (miyazaki hi...), but i’m talking about... you know the kind of movie i’m asking for, yes? give me a better label and i might adopt it. “adult, not porno”.
the last time the coen bros. were big at the box office was... no country for old men? over a decade ago. which showed in every town and everyone talked about it.
and fargo, fargo was huge in its day. remember?
then fargo moved to tv
last year i was raving about ladybird. and it’s more of a movie about teenagers but it requires a grownup comprehension plus some sort of sensibility from the audience. and it was great to have it around— but it was also almost a rare occurrence.