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SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think I know what OOP means here. Films that people only like because they’re “good movies.”
I think the Avatar films fall into this category, as do most of the “Oscar bait” movies.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think the Avatar films fall into this category
Nah, those movies are ass. They just have amazing special effects.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
… and somehow they still get butts in seats and lots of people enjoy them.
People want to see the cutting-edge cgi. In that sense it absolutely is qualityslop.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Did anyone really feel like the CGI was cutting edge at the time? Maybe I was hard to impress, but I felt like it was a bad movie with mid-grade CGI 🤷♂️
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
The first one felt pretty amazing at the time. It was enough that I left the theater feeling like I had watched a good movie. When I watched it again later on TV I was like… wait a minute, this isn’t good.
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yes, it’s absolutely cutting edge CGI. Every one of those movies pushed CGI technology so much further.
I had the pleasure of watching a talk by the CGI team at an animators convention when the second movie came out and it’s absolutely insane how much work goes into every tiny detail. The first thing they did for example, was to animate a water drop as physically correct as possible. And then they build up from there. They also filmed hours of reference material.
Remember the scene in the second movie where they burn down the huts? They build one of those huts for real, live sized (remember the Navii are bigger than humans) and hand weaved. And then they burned it down. Just to see how fire interacts with that material.
The Avatar movies are nothing special story wise, but from a CGI point of view, they have always been groundbreaking.
Frankddamee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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Frankddamee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Avatar is not a good film and this I refuse to watch it. In this six part series I will lay out my reasoning, beginning with the moon…
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I hate these kinds of “opinions”.
It isn’t their opinion, they copied the opinion from someone else. To have an opinion on your own you have to have actually experienced the media. Otherwise you are just judging a book by its one review.
pachrist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, this is things like most Tarantino films, particularly Pulp Fiction, where it’s a good movie, but every 17 year old you meet who loves it only loves it because everyone else loves it.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
It’s the Kill Bill movies where he finally included enough of Uma’s feet.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Avatar is a glorified tech demo and nobody ever really claim otherwise. I agree Oscarbait might fit this, but I do not understand how Avatar could
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Different kinds of quality. Cgi quality, acting quality
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
i kind of hate avatar because Cameron somehow continues to miss the glaringly obvious potential of just setting loose a bunch of nerds to churn out intricately detailed ecosystems and making Pandora nature documentaries.
Just imagine how popular David Attenborough riding an alien pterodactyl would be, it deserves to exist.
Ach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huge box office numbers =/= people calling a film good. People have absolutely been turning out in record numbers for the films, but have all been shit talking them endlessly for fifteen years.
I’m not arguing its sensible. Look at Call of Duty and the rhetoric around how bad they’ve become, but the same people whining always buy them.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Like how Shindler’s list is supposed to be good? I’ve never seen it. Also Citizen Kane? It’s a hard watch these days. Actually, it might be a little more relevant in the Trump era.
Fight Club is probably in this category. It’s not… I did not enjoy it, but it has so much hype around it.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What did you not like about fight club?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Are you trying to get us to talk about Fight Club?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The characters, plot, setting, dialog, etc.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Like that, except you do like them, mostly because you walk away feeling like you experienced a “good film.”
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Interstellar, Cloud Atlas, Inception, …
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Memento
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Citizen Kane is actually phenomenal though
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Out of potato
sukhmel@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I thought this but opposite of Avatar, good writing/acting and low budget
Hond@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What?
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You know how some restaraunts have a reputation for serving “good food” (I.e. gourmet food), but just because it’s fancier food it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll actually like it more?
So, what are some foods that people only like because they’re fancy? (I’d argue caviar is one)
Same idea, but for movies. What are some movies that people only like because they’re seen as being “good movies”?
Babalugats@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I feel like this is most of shakespears work. Having read a lot of it, i was deeply unimpressed. I found it grueling to work through any of his pieces. And yet theyre universally beloved. Pretty sure its just because everyones teacher told them the book was good.
Its weird though, to kill a mockingbird was actually good, and yet it doesnt recieve nearly as much fanfare as something like hamlet or romeo & juliet. Feels like people just like shakespear because everyone else likes shakespear.
5C5C5C@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Shakespeare’s collective works span virtually every genre and introduce virtually every character archetype that is still used in modern literature and media. His works are brimming with word play, which often has triple or quadruple meaning; often dramatic, philosophical, and comedic at the same time. He was so prolific and such a good writer that there are conspiracy theories that he was actually several different playwrights sharing the same name.
Granted it’s not as easy to appreciate his works today because of how the English language has drifted over the last 500 years, but what other work of literature from 500 years ago can you even point to as being popular today in its original form?
If you want to give Shakespeare a fair shake from the literary appreciation point of view, try reading an annotated copy of his works that provide context and translate the less familiar turns of phrase. It probably won’t make you enjoy reading his works, but it should at least help you understand why he’s so revered.
In terms of actually enjoying Shakespeare, well… He was a playwright, not a novelist! His works are meant to be seen on a stage. There are some really good performers out there whose emotivity can help bridge the language gap. Some troupes also tweak the dialog to make it more accessible to a modem audience, but I don’t generally like that because they tend to lose the puns or at least diminish the layers or the poetry.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Shakespeare’s influence on pretty much all English writing, fiction, theatre, film, narrative form of any sort is so utterly massive it’s almost impossible to fathom. His use of plot has informed how plots are constructed ever since. His use of language is still a massive influence on the way we speak today, and phrases he invented are so rooted in our cultural language we forget they were his. Going on a “wild-goose” chase. Having a “heart of gold”. To “vanish into thin air”. Even: “Knock knock, Who’s there?” was his.
His works might be hard work for today’s student since the language isn’t the language of today. But pick pretty much any genre defining film from 50 years ago and it will seem a bit slow, and flat, and stilted compared to today’s films. “It’s been done better since!” His works are from 500 years ago!
Velypso@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imo shakespeare is like seinfeld.
So incredibly influential and popular that reading/watching is boring because everything that has been said by them has been said by everyone else, but better years/decades/centuries later.
I agree that shakespeare is a slog, simply because ive seen probably 50 “hamlet” television episodes that are better
Another great example: West-side Story is just a much better version of romeo and juliet which is slow for no reason in comparison.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You and I have different friends. One halloween we had a ham costume competition
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I unironically like shakespeare, but yeah, there is an element of inertia to his popularity.
Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
A million flies can’t be wrong.
Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
So like, the entire Marvel universe?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I sort of get what you’re saying, but that’s less because the movie is fancy. More that it has a high budget.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The first iron man was ok.
But otherwise yes.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Caviar is delicious.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh, sure. Not debating that. But it’s popular because it’s seen as fancy.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t worry, I understand you.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
OG Avatar was basically “last of the space Mohicans”.
Also: Jesus tapdancing christ 🤦♂️
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The amount of money spent making Avatar movies could probably have paid for universal K-College education for every American for decades with enough money left over to bribe the politicians into voting for something regular people want for a change!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And they could have still made the movies
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You know how like some stuff is goodbad but people like it because it’s not awful? Like, when it’s not made with minimal effort and it seems like someone actually tried write believable dialog.
What are goodbad movies like that movies like that but good.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What?
Frankddamee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There was a movie in 2002 called the Pianist. If you were around then, you get it.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Do you mean the movie about the Holocaust? How does that fit in here?