2017 is starting with a lot of buzz. The Oscar season wasn't even contested or beloved, but it fueled more online arguing and embarrassing celeb moments. But the new releases are kinda promising.
Logan, Get Out, Lego Batman, John Wick 2, Kong Island.
Some pretty strong popcorn movies. Middlebrow films are getting better and better. More polished, more crowd-pleasing and more old-school. But we're still in this cycle of unoriginality and beating dead horses. Get Out, while an update of Stepford Wives, seems the most novel and Lego Batman the most experimental and positive. I still feel a lot missing because none of these has lured me to a cinema and I REALLY want to go.
The video game/TV/comic book nature of today's films makes these films feel disposable and not necessary for a big screen and audience. Its fucked because I'm the demographic for all of these movies. But they still feel... too simple. I feel my intelligence insulted with films that are all style and trending social values.
I want something challenging. Something intense and sexy and inspiring. That will make me see it a few times while its playing. I'm not really in the liberal arts gone Spielberg camp. I want to see a gory horror movie or an extremely stupid male comedy or maybe a brutal gritty drama. Shit, I'd love to see a moody political thriller.
Every movie seems like a kids movie for adults. Or adult movie for kids. Hollywood should make kids movies and adult movies. Every single movie from the Oscars to the megaplex to the Netflix indie trash is teenage shit.
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