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I rewatched Superbad fairly recently and observed that it takes the main characters’ fears and insecurities very seriously despite being a comedy. If it was made today they’d probably just get laughed off all the way through.

One word about gen Z - nihilistic. Good at destroying. Lousy at building.

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It’s terrible that Hollywood doesn’t care about making good movies anymore. I mean, even Ruin Johnson said this: “I’d be very worried if everyone across the board went ‘Yeah, that was a great movie!!’ It’s much more exciting and me if half the audience went ‘Wow, that was a great movie’ and the other half went ‘wow, that was the worst movie I ever saw in my life.’ That’s the kind of movie that I wanna make one day.” And he did that with The Last Jedi, didn’t he? Gone are the days when people actually wanted to make something special that a lot of people, if not everyone, would love!!! Let’s look at Lord of the Rings. For a long time, Tolkien’s work was declared un-film-able (if that’s even a word). There was an attempt to make an animated movie about it, but it didn’t really work, did it? But along came a man from New Zealand, someone who legitimately wanted to make a tribute to Tolkien, with his version of Lord of the Rings!!! And I remember watching in the Lord of the Rings Appendices that Jackson said, and I quote, “We weren’t interested in putting our own agenda into these movies, we wanted this to truly be Tolkien‘s movies.” I wish movie directors would think more like Jackson than they did like Johnson. Of course, Lord of the Rings could never be replaced by anything, but I wish that filmmakers still cared about the movies they made and enjoyed when they saw what inspired them!!

Thank you for your transparency regarding your replies to the comments and whether you agree with them or not. I love it when people talk like human beings and are sincere in their own views but without offending anyone. I could tell something was off with John Lasseter way before all those things about him came to the surface. I'm grateful to his contributions to Animation in the pre-Pixar years, early Pixar years, and namely how he helped improve the storyline in The Incredibles, but in the following years everytime he talked it always sounded the same, he said things that made it sound like he felt and knew that the movie they were working on was truly a thing of beauty, almost like he was in a museum admiring a painting, or in a cellar admiring a fine wine, when the final Animation wasn't even that amazing. Compare him to Brad Bird, who actually spoke about practical things, and talked openly about the challenges with a certain movie or with being a director, while also speaking about the work's qualities, and you had yourself a robot (Lasseter) next to a human (Bird). It was more than likely due to having a high position in a big corporation. Those people are terrified of talking like humans. They always feel they need to talk in that way "we are very excited, beep-boop, to release this new movie, and we know people from all ages and walks of life, beep-boop-bee-ee-eep, will enjoy it from years to come. We can't wait, it's coming just in time for Christmas, how wonderful, blah blah blah". (Trying to keep his bad habits a secret didn't help him sound genuine either, which is clear now, in retrospect.)

I've been so exhausted with blockbusters for a very long time now but I never knew exactly why. I hated Deadpool and Wolverine and swore I'm done with major Hollywood releases. Now I realize what the problem has been. Thank you!

Ironically, irony only really works when it’s sincerely ironic, and commits to unabashedly satirizing a truly sincere source material. Parodies used to be such gems (Tropic Thunder, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) because they drew on the wellspring of love people have for the genuine movies in the genres they spoofed (action, horror, mystery), and they went all-in on subverting the audience’s expectations. Modern irony in Hollywood just feels like a cop out tool to substitute narrative depth with vapid humor.

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There is room for both n we have a lot a lot of both I don't know how u feel most recent movies are like that. Your brain can have both Stop watching blockbusters only. I would argue there is more "sincere" movies than not.

Omg I WAS waiting for a joke at the end!!!

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Paul Thomas Anderson is my favorite filmmaker, and here is my ranking :) 1. Magnolia (my all time favorite film) 10/10 2. Punch-Drunk Love 10/10 3. There Will Be Blood 10/10 4. Phantom Thread 9/10 5. Boogie Nights 8/10 6. The Master 8/10 7. Inherent Vice 6-7/10 8. Hard Eight 6-7/10 9. Licorice Pizza 3/10

Fully agree, this meta laziness has got to stop. "He's right behind me isn't he"

Being genuine and sincere and not ironic and distanced is the adult thing to do. it requires maturity and self confidence. We're in a time where everybody is forever a teenager, afrid to get hurt, never growing up in our coddled, carefully controlled of social media where we can always log out when thinsg get unpleasant.

We've deconstructed all the stories. Can we now please put them together again?

This explains why i havent been interested in going to the cinema in years. Fast5 really the best in the franchise and the one i am referring to when explaining people the appeal of RRR

Oh, Cynicism is not a sustainable concept? Damn!

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One thing I realized about that scene from _The Incredibles_ with that "You sly dog! You got me monologuing!" was that it was a callback to what Mr. Incredible and Frozen were talking about in the car; Lucius: So now I’m in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I’m an epitaph. Somehow I managed to find cover and what does Baron Von Ruthless do? Bob: He starts monologuing. Lucius: He starts monologuing. He starts like this prepared speech about how feeble I am compared to him. How inevitable my defeat is, how the world will soon be his! Yada, yada, yada. Bob: Yammering. Lucius: Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter, and he won’t shut up. Well, not exactly a callback to that, but Syndrome is well aware of supervillains doing that, so I thought it was a nice detail.

Completely agree, lightning in a bottle production.

Until a director comes along pays due respect to the lore, it will always be just meh.

Uh ok 4mins in and it’s starting to get a bit much. Trying to argue that for all history stories we’re told to convey truths but now all of a sudden everyone’s forgotten that? Marvel movies are terrible, they were never good movies, the scene with Loki and Hulk was never funny unless you were 10, because they are movies for 10 year olds. There’s plenty of great movies out there that are serious.

The fact that you felt trained to be suspicious of sincerity is kinda frightening.

Well Spoken. Preach brother preach.

You know when you are watching a truly great movie when it moves you and you feel the joy and pain of the characters. LOTR not only does this, it continually does this even after watching it many times. The music is also timeless and absolutely amazing.

Author watches super heroic slop too much. What I miss in new movies is characters being smart. Like Mike's intellectual problem solving in Breaking Bad or overcomplicated robbery scheme in Ocean's Eleven.

What is your mic set up? What is that metallic or synthetic sound?

Did he just say Sauron looked like a power rangers villain? Thems fightin words where I’m from pal.

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My though is that at least part of the original motivation for some of this self-referential humour was a realisation that some of the 'serious' themes of earlier films actually deserved to be unpicked and critiqued. A good example is how generations of Vietnam films could be made in Hollywood that never told the story from the perspective on the Vietnamese. I think it was the realisation that so much of Hollywood had been ideological - '50s sci-fi B movies that referenced anxieties of the Cold War, the horrifying presentation of Native Americans, etc., that caused some in Hollywood to want to tear some of that edifice down, and not without reason. The problem is that Hollywood is still part of a money-making system that uses people as badly as it did in the past, so the cynicism ceased to be about trying to hold up a mirror to Hollywood and traditional story telling and critique it and became instead a way to remove all the stakes from story telling - and let's not forget that by making story telling that innocuous you can virtually eliminate controversy and thus protect the profits of the film companies. A deserved cynicism towards some 'traditional' ideas morphed into a general cynicism towards humanity that doesn't help any of us gain any real insights into life, it just makes us all feel tired a motiveless.

Cinema was on a major upward trajectory from roughly 1976 all the way to the early 2000s when Lord of the Rings came out and basically hit the highest possible peak. Since then, nothing has been able to compete and its fallen off badly as a result

You don’t know how happy it made me that you mentioned James Cameron‘s Avatar with praise! I have also always loved that movie (didn’t really like the second one), because even if the plot has been done before, I felt like Cameron did it in a really interesting new way, and created characters that I still really cared about. Plus the visual art itself and the music are just breathtaking. And I agree with you that avatar is one of the most overrated movies ever - right alongside the Hobbit trilogy. Also… I really love the comment at the end. As a Christian, I really feel that that’s true. When the West as a whole mostly wandered away from faith in a loving higher power, they became purposeless, nihilistic, and lost. And so much of modern music, writing, and film reflects that.

Gen X ran out of ideas in their 20s

Im sick to death of irony, it breaks immersion, and all it represents is a fear of human emotion from a pathetically insecure generation. Give me the real sincerity and humanity that leaders and legends, and everyday hearty folk were made of

Gotta be honest, i really liked the previous video but it's this one that made me subscribe. I like the interaction and it's been awhile I've seen a youtuber reading comments

I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head with one word. "SINCERE". The sincerity of these films is why I get a frisson just from seeing a freeze frame of a facial expression from one of the main characters. It's so well realized you can almost believe in it.

The experience you had with LOTR I see as maturity. Like, in an intellectual way, not biological. It's ok to have fun with ironic popcorn superhero movies but at the end it's just childish foolish distraction... Just a theme park ride, not cinema 😉 It's ok once in awhile,but all the time they lose their taste very fast

Tron ???

I recently rewatched ET at a 40th anniversary screening. Not my favourite Spielberg movie by a long shot. I hadn't even seen it since I was a kid, over 20 years ago. And I was pleasantly surprised by its sincerity. ET is unironically compared to Jesus. That kind of on the nose symbolism would usually make me role my eyes, but it just works in this case. The movie has no forced pop songs, no in-jokes... I'm even surprised it hasn't turned into a bigger franchise beyond some merch and video game tie-ins. It's a rare example of a blockbuster that hasn't lost its purity over the years.

YES!! I have been feeling so alone in my disappointment with modern cinema, you put my exact thoughts and feelings into words perfectly. Hollywood doesn’t care about telling great stories anymore. They don’t allow anyone to shine, they only care about making their dollar. The writers don’t get to shine, actors, just everyone overall. It must be terrible, from a creative standpoint, to work in cinema right now. It’s sad.

Your experience with LoTR was genuinly sad to hear. I'd just add that *even comedies* used to take themselves seriously. Ghostbusters is a real boomer example, but it's the only one that has a modern remake. The remake is about a group of literal comedians rattling off jokes, slipping around in green goo, and laughing at themselves as they narrowly escape death. At no point do the characters take themselves, their world, or their situation seriously. Unlike the original, where everything is played straight.

Worth thinking about in this space: The Princess Bride. Very emotionally sincere, but also very self-aware and self-referential (especially in the book). Also, MLP:FiM's sucess probably had something to do with its sincerity.

I love Spider-Man 2, and enjoy the tone of the Raimi Spidey films generally, but I honestly think Raimi sometimes goes a bit TOO far with the schmaltzy, super-sincere tone. The scene that always comes to mind when I think about this is in Spider-Man 3 (which overall I quite like, and actually enjoy more than Raimi's first film), when Harry and Mary Jane are flirting and dancing to Chubby Checker. I remember even at the time thinking -- okay, I get that Raimi grew up reading Spidey comics in the 60s. But really? A pair of twentysomethings rocking out to "Do the Twist?" In 2007?

Just seeing this makes me want to watch LOTR again

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What music do you use in the background?

I teared up after watching this. THANK YOU!! I didn’t know what was missing or why I couldn’t connect with movies anymore. I thought I just didn’t love movies like I used to but this is exactly right!! Thank you for creating this and helping restore my passion and love for filmmaking. I couldn’t out this into words or form the thoughts but this is IT! Thank you!

Hopefully Godzilla Minus One will set the standard of blockbusters going forward.

9:40 to 9:45 movie name?

meta is cool under the right circumstance, it should never be used to explain away trash. The other trick is to tip the hat, not wait for asspats. All these films make a wink and wait for asspats, all of em. There are more clever ways.