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1. Argona+I3[view] [source] 2024-12-28 10:27:22
>>exitb+(OP)
It’s just slop par excellence. I’ve been watching a number of movies with my wife over Christmas. Everything is so bland, repetitive and ‘design by committee’. It goes further than merely announcing what the characters are doing (in that new wannabe Die Hard movie we hear that they are expecting a baby three times in 5 minutes), you just know there are certain metrics used for every genre of movie accounting for every minute: “if it’s an action film with no action scene in the first 10 minutes then the audience loses interest”. They are all so soulless.

And this is fine when you realise that Netflix replaces direct-to-video movies and not that of cinema, as much as they refuse to admit.

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2. superj+D6[view] [source] 2024-12-28 11:04:21
>>Argona+I3
If you’re curious to try arthouse/international cinema, give Mubi a try. There is less to choose from, but the selection rotates.
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3. bpye+T8[view] [source] 2024-12-28 11:37:42
>>superj+D6
Mubi has some great cinema! Definitely more of the sort of cinema you’d see at a film festival than mainstream.
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