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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
right. those “grownup” quality movies are not in your regular everytown box office anymore. you have to go watch them in tribeca or whatever.
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.
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.
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I get what you’re saying.
Coens had True Grit, too, don’t forget.
But yes, Fargo was huge back in its day. The film world was treating Pulp Fiction like Nevermind and looking for THE NEXT ... everywhere, and I think Fargo benefitted from that. Coens had been making excellent adult films for a decade by then.
Also, wasn’t the Caesar one I never saw pretty big?
And Buster Scruggs...well, literally was a TV show (for all intents and purposes) on Netflix, so yah.
Cool thing is all those Tribeca and TIFF films are made available on digital services like mad. Never used to have that kind of access to them.
But yes, the ubiquity of the pew-pew movie is a bit much even for me.
No wonder Nolan said fuck that shit and made an immersive and frankly hard-to-Like but utterly brilliant war film.
Oh! Dunkirk! That’s one. That happened! That was for adults and also a fucking smash. So was Ladybird, in a way.
Just looking on the bright side, I guess.
If given the choice between Marvel films of B+ quality and endless Sony X-Men films of D+ quality, I choose Marvel. Choose marvel over Faster & Furioserer Part 19.5 too.