What movie is this for you?
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Walk Hard. Honestly at some points they were so on the nose I was starting to think it was a parody.
Ad Astra
Saltburn when it did the flashbacks at the end instead of letting the audience infer during the dancing scene
Rebel Moon
Candyman reboot.
Conversation about racism. Someone gets murdered. Conversation about gentrification. Someone gets murdered. Conversation about police brutality. Someone gets murdered. Roll credits.
No subtext, only text.
That salt burn movie at the end
The original cut of Dark City.
Longlegs. That whole expository part towards the end was just awful, like the writer/director cldn’t trust the audiences’ intelligence to keep up with his own.
some of you need to learn the difference between a theme and a plot point
Us, they give up with 20 minutes to go and painstakingly explain what the Tethered are and why they act like they do.
The Candyman remake.
Yes, I get it…..
Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. But they get a pass for me since I still thought the themes were top notch
Jupiter ascending
Psycho is a masterpiece and then a guy you’ve never seen before comes out and explains every detail of the film/Norman’s psychology to the audience
Don’t Look Up is the worst at this
Oppenheimer. We get it, Oppenheimer is a modern Prometheus, we got that from the fire opening with text about Prometheus. But then characters keep stating that there’s going to be consequences, especially to him and his life. I mean Niels Bohr, played by Kenneth Branagh, literally says to Oppenheimer “you’re a modern Prometheus”.
Don’t look up
Crash
Barbie Movie
Not a theme, and more the entire plot of the movie but ‘Old Henry’ is an incredible movie but when they felt the need to show a close up of the famous Billy the Kid picture in the news paper clipping instead of letting the audience sit with the line “You’re him, Bonnie”, I felt like they took away from the quality of it all. Trust your audience.
In Time (2011) and Blink Twice (2024) immediately come to mind
Any Zach Snyder Superman film. Constant religious imagery, discussions about ordinary people hating superman because he is like a god to them and Lex Luther going on about “Man Vs God” constantly. Absolutely no subtlety whatsoever or no interesting point made.
The Two Popes is blunt but if you’re vaguely into theology it’s at least an interesting conversation.
Longlegs
Lightyear. They really did Buzz dirty having to tell the audience he lost his entire life while his friends married, had children and died while he was literally stuck in the past.
Fucking Saltburn. I’m planning to show it to my bf because it’s a fun watch and then turn it off ten minutes before the end lol.
Midnight in Paris. I thought it was a decent movie until they started explaining the whole point of the movie.