Who's interested in "Good 'Movies'"
You should be interested in FILMS (Not Movies, this isn't fucking America - we don't have bastard 'Elevators' or twatting 'sidewalks') that YOU like. Not films that other people tell you are 'Good'.
Yeah, we shouldn't use American words like movie, that's stupid. Now, how many of these 5,6 films you are going to see every month were made somewhere other than America?
Fuck 'good films'. Enjoy films you actually like. It's not a fucking competition. I go to the piccies about 5 or 6 times a month (On a Cineworld pass) and I love going. But I love films I like because I like 'em. Not because some bloated wheezy fucking twat says "Gee! This is an amazing film - look at the cinematography.. Look at the editing.. Look at this.. Look at this fucking farty fucking gobshite fucking retarded filmboy buzz shite'.
It's all bollocks. Enjoy what you like yourself. Shove 'Good movies' up everyones fucking hoop. There seem to be so many arty-farty, up their own arse, oh ever-so wankers out there that spend more time being fucking snooty and bellendy that they forget that films are supposed to be enjoyable.
Who said anything about being arty or listening to some 'bloated' critic? Of course, everyone has their own tastes, but, broadly speaking, it's not just about what you 'like'. Everyone seems to agree that The Godfather is good, and that The Godfather III is shit. So you can make statements about films which aren't just subjective, but that actually say something about the film itself. So if you say, the acting was bad, the directing was all over the shop, the story was boring, the film was too slow, whatever, yeah you're expressing your opinion, but its an opinion about what the film is like - and if you can back it up with enough evidence by pointing to the film itself, you can persuade people you are right. I've definitely sometimes changed my mind about a movie because someone has made a well-argued case to me showing me something about it that I didn't notice myself. Other times, people try to convince and I stick to my guns cause I think they're wrong. But it's not about who's saying it to me, it's about the strength of the argument they make.
Chip on your shoulder much?
Okay, fair enough - I should make my point without resorting to insulting people, so I'll retract that. But when I see people apparently just making up their minds that a film that hasn't even been made yet is great, just cause it has the right name on it, it makes me think that they're going to say its great when it comes out, no matter what it's like. If I have a chip on my shoulder its because if millions of people file into the cinema to watch some shit then the movie makes a load of money, and Hollywood gets the message that they don't even have to try. This whole reboots and sequels etc, thing has got way out of hand. I mean, everyone went to see Revenge of the Sith. I didn't, what was the point? The other two were shit, and totally fucked up a film series that I loved, so no way were they getting anymore of my money. But still millions went, like they were fucking obliged to or something. Just cause of hype. George Lucas gets a big swollen bank balance, and the lesson learned is just make any old crap, stick Star Wars on it, and people will go. Same with the new Indy. I just heard what it was about, heard about the fridge, saw the crappy trailer, and went no thanks. But now they're planning a fifth one. If you'd told me 15 years ago that all the big summer movies were going to be Indy, Transformers, yet more Aliens, I would have thought you were nuts. Yet here we are. And have the films got better over the years?