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| TapeWormInYourGut:
Maverick was the last film I saw in theaters and I enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it more because it's been so long since something good was released. Before Maverick, who knows. I think it was Mortal Kombat. I never read books because I don't really pay attention to what I'm reading unless it's something technical. But, I picked up Audible and now I listen to them. Beats everything in theaters nowadays. I've totally given up on films. I wait for reviews and if there is even 1 woke line of allegory, then I don't even bother because it's likely not worth watching. Makes life easier to simply ignore and forget them. I mean the only thing worse than disliking a movie is being annoyed and disappointed by it. There are "bad" movies, and then there are movies that you actually regret watching. It's crazy how almost everything released by Disney in the last 5-6 years had practically killed the franchise for a huge number of people. Instead of appealing to maybe 70% of their possible audience, they have to only be appealing to 20-30%. I mean they'll spend 400m on a movie and barely turn a profit after including world-wide sales. That's some high-risk investments... It's no wonder their stock has dived even when their assets are higher than ever. On the bright side, I've picked up a lot of hobbies since Hollywood started pushing garbage. I bet a lot of people here have too. I mean I never really went bike riding, kayaking, hiking, painting, wood-worked, etc... And now I do lol. |
| Zakk:
--- Quote from: TapeWormInYourGut on June 06, 2024, 08:50:56 pm ---Maverick was the last film I saw in theaters and I enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it more because it's been so long since something good was released. Before Maverick, who knows. I think it was Mortal Kombat. I never read books because I don't really pay attention to what I'm reading unless it's something technical. But, I picked up Audible and now I listen to them. Beats everything in theaters nowadays. I've totally given up on films. I wait for reviews and if there is even 1 woke line of allegory, then I don't even bother because it's likely not worth watching. Makes life easier to simply ignore and forget them. I mean the only thing worse than disliking a movie is being annoyed and disappointed by it. There are "bad" movies, and then there are movies that you actually regret watching. It's crazy how almost everything released by Disney in the last 5-6 years had practically killed the franchise for a huge number of people. Instead of appealing to maybe 70% of their possible audience, they have to only be appealing to 20-30%. I mean they'll spend 400m on a movie and barely turn a profit after including world-wide sales. That's some high-risk investments... It's no wonder their stock has dived even when their assets are higher than ever. On the bright side, I've picked up a lot of hobbies since Hollywood started pushing garbage. I bet a lot of people here have too. I mean I never really went bike riding, kayaking, hiking, painting, wood-worked, etc... And now I do lol. --- End quote --- The very simple principle of a good piece of fiction, is to make the audience believe the world you're in, to forget their job, their divorce, their politics, and just sail away to a far off land for a couple of hours. However, when the movie makers SLAM you back to earth, with current day "agendas", you get to the point where you don't want to invest a single moment of time or effort into a new world. Why spend $50 at a movie just to be reminded that 1% of the population REALLY cares about pronouns. Movies, streaming, games, all of it has been hijacked away from the creators by people who have no creativity and no possibility of making something on their own that anyone would pay money for. There was residual emotion for things like marvel, but the last couple of years put a nail in that coffin. I don't know if even the deadpool movie will pull in crowds...possibly if it's good but a LOT of people will hold off on seeing it until the reviews come out. As you, if there is a hint of woke in it, I won't see it, I won't stream it, I won't even pirate it. Audiobooks is a great way to dive into books. There is NOTHING like losing yourself in your own imagination, where you flesh out your own version of the world you are reading about. We would say "it was a pretty good movie, but not as good as the books" because the world created was YOURS. I think Peter Jackson did a good version of LOTR back in the day, but I doubt it will ever be topped, because you can't just transcribe a book as it is, you have to "pervert it for modern audiences". The day of cinema is over. Theaters will be the next blockbuster, just a relic of another time. But, it's happened before its time. Endgame was too successful. It made too much money for the studio. Once you don't NEED money, you can pump out whatever crap you want, and that's exactly what they did. But the money always runs out, and if you've done nothing but insult your customers for 5 years, kind of impossible to get them back at the trough. The hobby place in my town is seeing an uptick in business lately, just like our used bookstore. The old feller in there said he's thinking of expanding. Imagine, a HOBBY store looking to expand, in 2024. He said N-scale and HO-scale trains are starting to sell again, that's crazy. It's all directly linked to there being a void in entertainment. |
| fallacy:
I have not been escaping into books… after trying to read Ready Player One after everyone said it was the best thing since sliced bread it kind of killed it for me. I have been doing alot of anime… I just got done watching season 2 of Invisible on amazon prime, that was good. I have been reading alot of I think they call them Web toons.. it’s Good! I like the Isekai stuff when they get transported to a new world, a lot of time it is a fantasy game like world. Some stories you meet up when they are killing the final boss and die, then they go back in time to when they were younger to live their life a second time and of course make all the changes they need to make themselves more powerful far faster. Here are a few I have been waiting for every time a new chapter comes out. https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-the-greatest-estate-developer/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-return-of-the-mount-hua-sect/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-the-extras-academy-survival-guide/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-dungeon-defense/ |
| Zakk:
--- Quote from: fallacy on June 07, 2024, 12:32:31 am ---I have not been escaping into books… after trying to read Ready Player One after everyone said it was the best thing since sliced bread it kind of killed it for me. I have been doing alot of anime… I just got done watching season 2 of Invisible on amazon prime, that was good. I have been reading alot of I think they call them Web toons.. it’s Good! I like the Isekai stuff when they get transported to a new world, a lot of time it is a fantasy game like world. Some stories you meet up when they are killing the final boss and die, then they go back in time to when they were younger to live their life a second time and of course make all the changes they need to make themselves more powerful far faster. Here are a few I have been waiting for every time a new chapter comes out. https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-the-greatest-estate-developer/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-return-of-the-mount-hua-sect/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-the-extras-academy-survival-guide/ https://asuracomic.net/manga/1908287720-dungeon-defense/ --- End quote --- Very likely an age gap thing, my kid LOVES a lot of Japanese animation/anime, because as he says "most of it isn't woke, it's just good stories". I think Japan for the most part just avoided a lot of the garbage that corporate/general western culture got into. He has a lot of trouble with books too, he likes mostly some of the Star Wars clone wars EU stuff, but not a lot else. "Ready player one" was meh. The book was better than the movie but it wasn't a great book by any stretch in my opinion. Honestly, you just gotta get into whatever you're into, but be prepared to dump it if it gets hijacked. The days of being blindly loyal to anything I think is over. Unless you own/control something it can be perverted. New entertainment is going to come from the independent/grassroots sources and almost start from scratch. Corporations bought n bastardized EVERYTHING so they could go "IP mining". The memberberries southpark talks about are personifications of the stupidity of modern hollywood. They can't create something new, so they sprinkle in nostalgia bait. It's not even lazy, it's just that after ~10 years of hiring via checkmark, they weeded out the creatives. Now those people are on the fringe more or less starting from scratch. Get yourself a hobby or 12. When you can entertain yourself, the world is your oyster. |
| fallacy:
Those web novels are not Japanese, they are South Korean. Shows like Squid Game came out of South Korea as well. More and more as our story telling goes to absolute dog shite I turn to South Korea to give me something that has zero wokness and a little edge. |
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