All my favorite movies this year have been on youtube.
Most of them by Joel Haver.
suction@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not trying to sound elitist, but…all the content combined still isn’t worth $10. Mind you the last TV show I liked was Better Call Saul, the last Hollywood movie I liked was…let me think…The Irishman, I guess?
Since 2000 the amount of TV shows I truly enjoyed watching and would watch again was maybe 8. The amount of movies maybe 20. So less than one per year.
And because I don’t have to watch stuff when it comes out, but am totally fine with watching things years later, when it’s cheap or free, I’d wager I spend less than $10 per year on TV and movie entertainment.
Doof@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You do t sound elitist, just a little boring.
suction@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ll take that as a compliment. It’s the 2nd time someone told me this, the first time was when a girl found out I didn’t have any tattoos.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hollywood has been sucking ass lately, but lots of small indie films have been kicking ass. Everything from A24 has been fantastic recently. Lots of good foreign films too
suction@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Even A24 has a track record of 1 in 10, getting worse.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, making movies is not an easy feat. But there’s plenty of good stuff coming out. Don’t know what to tell you.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think the shows have been better than the movies
Succession was really good, for example
suction@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, they have been. But Succession is an example of a show which I thought I liked but never finished, because the writing was so lazy and repetitive, and what’s worse constantly pretending huge things happened while nothing actually happened.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 week ago
its a character study, not a bombastic thriller. Same as the shows most folks rave about: Sopranos, Mad Men, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Arrested Development… its fine to not like anything but I’m not sure why you’d take time to write about how you don’t like anything. Do you find posts about, say, an art heist and post about how you haven’t liked any paintings in a couple centuries
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 week ago
Quite a lot happened in the Wire TBF (also I think it’s the strongest of the ones you’ve mentioned, largely for that reason…)
suction@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ouch, comparing Succession to an absolute masterwork like the Sopranos hurts…and shows that you probably don’t actually watch those shows but have them on in the background. And if Succession is such a character study, why do the writers pretend it’s something else? It was a really bad show, man.