It’s already rare for me to find movies that are worth the time to watch those and I don’t really like to watch movies due to it being rather too passive activity. So, i just pick whatever movie I’m willing to watch and it’s up to the other person to put up with it.
Is there a name for this phenomenon? Just did a group road trip and the hotel I picked ended up being shit. Guess whose value as a human went down as a result? Mine.
Why? I did my best, I researched, the online reviews were good. So why does every observation about the rude staff and funny smell reflect on me personally?
I kind of hate watching movies with other people because they turn their interest in the film into a referendum on me as a human being.
it’s so fucking weird. it’s just a movie man, it exists whether we watch it or not. your massive insecurity about your identity is not my issue man.
If someone recommends me a movie with a regressive subtext, I’ll either assume they agree with it or are media illiterate. I loved the look of realization on people’s faces when I explained that Kingsmen was a libertarian morality tale.
I probably would not recommend movies to you. Too dicey. Id love to hear your opinions on stuff but I woukd never attach my name to anything.
To me Kingsmen was just “dude, like, imagine James bond, but like, it isnt. And also the good guy from Bridget Jones totally murders a whole church.”
First Kingsmen had a lot of boilerplate Hero’s Journey stuff in it, but the second one where the villain was anti-marijuana set a pattern with the villains.
When the world government spy agencies fail, it will take a private option one to save the day.
The main character is from a low social standing family, but is discovered by said “private option” and uplifted. Normally, this is just Hero’s Journey stuff, but it matches perfectly with libertarian ideas.
I side eyed the extremist environmentalist villain in the first movie, but making the second villain anti-marijuana is more libertarianism.
I don’t find Mark Millar very interesting, but when someone about him does come my way, he comes across as a very simple minded person.
Kingsmen is supposed to be satire though. The whole thing is drenched in camp and hamminess, as a sort of riff on the old Bond flicks. You can practically feel the writer rolling his eyes ironically during parts of it. They had Samuel Jackson play a character who is almost the exact opposite of the kind of character he’s known for playing. It’s funny that you’d pick that example and then talk about your superior media literacy.
The satire stuff rides along side the issues I have with it. The villains of the first two movies are libertarian boogiemen and the finer aspects of how the MC rises to a higher standing also matches libertarian ideas.
The action is fun and the characters and the dialog are good. Maybe they didn’t need to remind the audience that this isn’t Bond so much, but what the villains represent sets off red flags for me.
I mean, I guess. Short story time: My mom can’t watch King of the Hill. She knows, on an intellectual level, that Hank is supposed to be the butt of the joke. It doesn’t matter. She still doesn’t enjoy watching it. She finds the experience to be unpleasant to watch. She has the same problem with Archer as well, but I haven’t seen as much of that.
If it’s like that for you, then I fully get it.
More that I don’t trust Mark Millar and I’m sick of passive, bad ethics in main stream media. I’m sick of heroes that fight for the status quo and I’m especially sick of environmentalist villains. I can only imagine how pissed I would be if I was still watching Doctor Who when they aired their “The Interstellar Song Contest” episode.
I don’t really watch Doctor Who so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My sister in law got SUPER into the Bay-formers. I showed her the only Transformers movie that was actually about giant transforming robots, the original 1986 Transformers Movie.
She was not impressed.
Okay but why am I watching 2 cats watch a movie?
spoiler
(you used POV incorrectly)
Or the POV just refers to the text, and the image is a separate thing acting as a visual aide
I did this on my honeymoon and learned that the action-packed adventure movie I recommended was actually about healing wounded familial relationships and made my wife cry XD
Fast and the Furious?
Fast and the Furious?
Nah, it was a Korean movie I can’t remember the name of
“Oh shit, I forgot about… that scene.”
Oops. Forgot there was a rape scene. Sorry grandma
Don’t worry grandma, someone’s gonna turn his face into putty with a fire extinguisher. Whoops, spoilers! :)
Did you watch the film backwards? Hahaha
Edit: oh and also wait… did you ever see the movie?
Yes… I didn’t have the heart to tell grandma it wasn’t the rapist who got puttied.
Aha!
I’d love to see a chronological cut to that movie…
There is one apparently (official) which got released recently-ish, like 5 years ago? Which confuses me, because I saw it in like 2014 and remember the fire extinguisher being after the rape (chronological). So now I don’t know if I saw some weird fan made cut or something.
Had this happen with Enter the Void. When I watched it, my perspective on life and death was rocked. Incredible experience. My partner couldn’t get past all the incest. We didn’t finish the movie.
Scene goes on for 20 minutes. Excessive nudity swearing. Tell your family "Don’t remember this part must be the directors cut’
Can someone actually recommend a film with a long scene that has excessive nudity swearing in it?
You pick movies for couples and then watch them watching movies in bed?
sounds like a fetish
Ohh yeah, make 'em watch the prequels now… mmmmm yeahhhhhh
Giggity
Is this a throuple type? Because having one partner who’s primary contribution is picking what show/movie to watch might be interesting to a number of couples out there. Even better if they figure out what to have for dinner as well.
That’s my son’s job. It’s not as sexy as you make it sound. He always has suggestions for dinner, though, that’s not a problem.
That’s what the laptop camera is for!
ive always enjoyed The Man From Earth, a movie about a bunch of people sitting together in a room talking about one of them being a 14000 year old biologically immortal cave man. its such a fun idea and they spend almost the whole time just talking about it with no flash backs or anything. ill admit some of it is a little hokey. one time i watched it with a group of friends and one of them said he wished he could have the time back lol. i still really like it, just dont watch the sequel. its so stupid idk why they bothered to make it.
That’s one of my favourites, though I did find it weird how intense some of them got. Like I understand the one lady as her worldview was falling apart, but Art and Will seemed crazy with how they were reacting. Keeping it vague to avoid spoilers, but John should have turned what Will threatened at the end back on him after what he threatened in the middle. Guy shouldn’t have had his license after pulling that shit, let alone act like he’s the one speaking from wisdom.
But that sequel lol… They dialed the intensity even higher, though I can’t tell if the movie was made with a “this is what you get for pissing a certain group off” mindset or a “this movie wants to show even more how crazy this certain group can be” mindset. The writing was so bad in the second one.
edit: never mind. only read the first half of the comment. Read the second half, and you said you’d seen the second one.
I recommend watching Happiness (1998) with your friends and family.
I show Tetsuo: The Iron Man to anyone I can get to watch it. They thought they knew what weird shit was because they’ve watched some David Lynch, but then they saw a drilldo and a dick tank.
drilldo
Welp, I’m fuckin sold.
It’s fucking spectacular.
Why is the POV from a third person? Is the cat having an out of body experience?
Got harder to handle the pressure the further into the movie they got.
Ha, I remember screening Perfect Blue for some friends and feeling like this. I don’t think they really liked it unfortunately, which is a shame. That movie is a masterpiece.
I had heard The Lobster was funny, so picked it to watch with my wife. I still remember the accusing way she looked at me every other scene.
Decent movie, but I don’t think it’s Yorgos’ best.
And she STILL mentions this movie years later! Fairly I had just suggested watching Tusk with her a few weeks prior ( “it’s Kevin smith sweetie it should be funny!”), and she’ll never forgive me for that suggestion either - or the though that I might have a thing for people turning into animals.
Yeah, mine too
I hate it when that happens. I had a super abusive brother when I was growing up that would berate me all the time whenever I watched any kind of anime around him.
Thank God he moved to another country
all you had to do was not watch anime and he wouldn’t’ have berated you.
it’s so simple
Yeah…good advice there, top quality
