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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group

Here are some boomer takes for you - in the old days, when the sky was bluer, the water was wetter, and the politicians were more honest, the films were much better as well. Indeed, if we consider the development of cinema from the point of view of the average quibble, then films can be compared to good wine - the older, the better.

It's a funny paradox - twenty years ago, you and I, for instance, heavily criticized Peter Jackson for his adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (by the way, I still wonder, why did they cut Tom Bombadil?), while today the trilogy looks like an absolutely immortal classic. At the time of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio was "just another handsome guy" - but how happy we were for the Great Leo two decades later when his outstanding Hollywood career was finally crowned with a well-deserved Oscar!

But in fact, there are actually some trends in modern films that infuriate any picky viewer. Yes, from a technical, visual point of view, the films have only gotten better, but everything else... Just agree, there are many points here that can be complained about.

Recently, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the topic starter of which asked people just one question: "What annoys you about new movies these days?" As of today, the thread has nearly 5.8K upvotes, and around 8.7K comments, as varied as Eddie Murphy's characters in some of his own films. Acting and sound mixing, plot misses and endless sequels or remakes - in other words, modern Hollywood has left no stone unturned.

The most interesting thing is that another twenty years will pass and we will sing praises to the very films that we criticize with such passion today, but so far Bored Panda has collected for you a selection of the most interesting, unexpected and simply the most popular comments from the original thread. So please feel free to scroll to the very end, and if you don't find something on this list that bugs you personally, just be sure to add it in the comments. Credits.

Post-credits scene. We are almost sure that many claims can be made for the cinema of any era, both justified and not so, but these are all exclusively games of our subconscious. Someday we will talk about this in more detail, but this is a completely different story.

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group How dark they are. Like literally dark. It's difficult to see what's going on, especially for those of us with vision problems.

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group The sound mixing. Turn up the volume to hear the dialogue and suddenly you have damaged ear drums because there was an explosion. It's insane. Looking at you Nolan.

MrAndMsSexy99 , Artem Beliaikin Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Not just movies but TV shows - they take a book that's got great reviews, make a poor job of translating it on screen and then flip the ending so its the opposite of what happened in the book. Proceeds to blame the audience when they pan it for being c**p.

MissionSorbet2768 , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group That instead of actually making gay characters that are legitimately good, and have purpose in the narrative, they just make being gay that character's entire thing. Like: "Hey look at how gay this person is. We aren't homophobic at all" This is gonna sound awful, but no representation is better than s****y representation. Just talk to a gay guy, if you need information. I'm sure you'll get a lot of insight, and it'll make what you're working on even better.

F1600A , Bambizoe Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Trailers. They're always about 4 minutes long, give away the entire plot, show all the best scenes and jokes and basically ruin the movie before you've even watched it.

IJustStoleYourWaifu , Pixabay Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group 300 million budget, plot written out in crayons.

Lcdent2010 , Alexander Mils Report

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191points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Lack of originality and a reliance on franchises.

811545b2-4ff7-4041 , Erik Mclean Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group That it's somehow seen as avant garde to have your actors mumble. If I can't understand what they are saying I *will* lose interest. Also when an entire movie is too dark to see anything. Sure, there are times it needs to be dark for the plot, the time etc, but if I have to spend the whole flick squinting, I'm not going to enjoy it.

synthetictruism , Ricardo Esquivel Report

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group I miss practical effects and props because it forced people to shoot more in real locations. Kept movies feeling more "real" and grounded even with more fantastical setting. I think alot of 80s 90s movies and a perfect balance of practical and computer effects.

International_Rain_9 , Michael Morse Report

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159points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group "Strong female character"= Frowny unlikable b***h contrasted with oblivious, stupid and petty men.

Ferna_89 , Polina Zimmerman Report

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154points

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Luke Branwen 1 year ago

The issue is that when writing female leads, you just kinda... can't win. If she's not a "frowny unlikable b*tch", she is "emotional whiny b*tch". Doesn't fail? She's a Mary Sue. Fails more often? She's useless. Is she queer, person of color or any other minority? She's just pandering to the SJWs. In short, no matter what you write, the anti-sjw morons are gonna tear her apart anyway.

58points

Sonja 1 year ago

Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley would disagree. It's absolutely possible to write strong female characters. But the producers don't really want to. Misogyny is still going strong in Hollywood

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

My personal opinion is that we have focused so much on male leads in the past that we haven't nailed the "formula" for good female leads yet. There is a formula for male characters that writers use every time. There are female leads that everyone loves (Black Widow, Eowyn, Katniss, etc.), script writers just aren't learning from the successes.

16points

rob kneepkens 1 year ago (edited)

There are plenty of movies that have likable strong female characters. Sarah connor, ripley, furiosa, cartoon mulan, wonder woman, alita. Just some how feels nowadays many writers think strong female characters means they have to be unlikable as well. Lately Galandriel and Kit from Willow immediately come to mind.

10points

Zophra 1 year ago

I liked Wonder Woman...

10points

Vincent Philippart 1 year ago

The "anti SJW morons" loved female characters who were not one-dimensional a******s. The people who despise RoP Galadriel, Rey or Captain Marvel are the same people who loved Ripley, Katniss Everdeen or Wonder Woman. Attacking nerds for their imaginary bigotry is a s****y way of excusing s****y writing.

6points

MC C 1 year ago

I find that this is usually correct, however the Star Wars and Dr. Who universes seem to not have to do this to their strong female leads (Princes Lea, Rea, Mary Jane, Rose Tyler, etc. etc.), not sure why others feel that they need to

3points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

What really ruined the perception is the PR done by studios and celebrities - everything revolves around how unbeateable the female lead is, how it's such a step forward to have [enter diversity selling point] and how it will teach all of society how wrong they are. That basically lead to a culture of "guilty for bad writing till proven otherwise". People want to be entertainent and not lectured.

3points

PattyK 1 year ago

What does SJW mean?

2points

lauralett50 1 year ago

You got a down vote. Have an upvote on me.

0points

David Green 1 year ago

"plain" woman removes glasses and then is "stunning".

10points

Bec 1 year ago

Charlize Theron in Mad Max was a total total bad a*s, and a leader, and was not subjected to an unnecessary love plotline.

8points

TheNightOwl 1 year ago

Strong female character does not mean a total lack of any likable male characters.

7points

Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

2005 Tomb Rider, female lead, and One of the antagonists is actually inteligent and likable, he's still an a*****e, but a charming a*****e.

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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago

Galadriel in RoP. How to ruin a character in one episode...

5points

Fembot 1 year ago

How about writing actual (female, male, everything in between and both) characters? Write people with a 3D personality and you never have to worry about which boxes are or are not ticked.

3points

Brittany Howard 1 year ago

Agreed. While there's a greater lack of developed female characters on screen, there are definitely plenty of lazily-developed male characters, too. I don't find either interesting.

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Scarlett 1 year ago

Aka what they turned Galadriel into in the Rings of Power. (Don’t come for me, I just hate what they did with her)

3points

Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

YESSS!!! We need more girls like Nat Romanoff. Feminine and a good team-player, but nobody messes with her.

3points

featherytoad 1 year ago

Or when they totally miscast a character. I spent an hour and a half one night stewing over how unbelievable this actor was for this character.

2points

Tiramisu 1 year ago

I thinkthe people that did the beest job with this were the Encanto creators with Luisa's character.

2points

Jefferina 1 year ago

She's awesome - she's strong (physically and emotionally), she dances, she cries, she has hobbies - she's a *person*. Gasp!!

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Jefferina 1 year ago

Also the inability of directors to recognise that strength comes in many ways, not just a stereotyped 'masculine' strength involving women dressed in leather and throwing punches without hesitation (and without provocation in some places). Sure, I'm not saying women can't be like that, but being 'strong' is still being seen as being 'masculine'. Can I please like pink, be introverted, and still have strength of character without being portrayed as yet another female stereotype? Directors and scriptwriters need to start learning to write women as people instead of, "how can I avoid stereotypes and by doing so fall into another one"

1point

Bored Lady On The Run 1 year ago

Hermione Granger, the book version was a total girlboss, but the movies they totally downplayed her to be self conscious and not much of a fighter as she makes herself known "I'm the smartest b*Tch there is" whatnot

1point

Christopher Southworth 1 year ago

"Badass female lead" is the phrase I hate. If the criterion is "badass," then shouldn't she be a biker ex-con? There are a great many ways to describe strength, resilience and resourcefulness.

1point

That Dude 1 year ago

"Strong female lead = b***h with a chip on her shoulder and something to prove"

1point

Jo Sargent 1 year ago

Loved that show. WtF, netflix

1point

Florine Knight 1 year ago

Less dumb stereotype ladies in movies these days I think! Not just playing girlfriends or sidekicks to actors twice their age

1point

Astrius 1 year ago

Now that men in movies have evolved from the one dimensional chad of old action movies and develop relatable emotions and good characters, women, instead of getting better too, get their emotions and feminity removed and become stoic and lame characters. Basically switched.

1point

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Hate this. The writers don't seem to be able to find a balance of "likeable/ capable" in the female characters. As a woman I can't relate to many female characters in movies. Moneypenny in the latest James Bond movies came close.

1point

Robert Davis 1 year ago

The main female characters when they have to make a quick escape always have to change clothes.

1point

Bleble BlebleBla 1 year ago

I never saw/read a female character written well by a male (hetero) writer, film or book. I will die on that hill.

0points

Jefferina 1 year ago

Ooh you should try Brandon Sanderson - first and only author I've ever found who writes females properly to the extent that it made me cry. His 'The Stormlight Archives' series is pretty good, but it's fairly heavy fantasy. If you're not into that you could just read his 'Tress of the Emerald Sea' which was released the start of this year and is a short light read.

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Josh Carpenter 1 year ago

Or the flip side where she's like Zoey Daschnel (whatever her name is) in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Like every single plot point with her is Martin Freeman just putting completely unreasonable expectations on her then punishing her for not pandering to his insecurity and unhappiness that he can't control her.

0points

Emie N. 1 year ago

Female characters just can't win. And I swear so many producers are literally allergic to the idea of female characters actually interacting with each other. That stupid "only girl in the group" trope is way too often in films and TV shows. And it sucks.

0points

Biana Weatherford 1 year ago

IMO....it's how men view women. I've had a female boss who is aggressive, intelligent, skilled and she didn't come off as a b*tch. But some of the men folk thought so.

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Jo Sargent 1 year ago

It was just their insecurity and how they viewed themselves to react. I have a 25yo son, marine, and have had many a discussion with him about women with authority. He is secure.

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Or the 5 minute sex scenes that have nothing to do with anything but happen 5 times a movie.

SalmonHustlerTerry , Vincent Rivaud Report

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#12

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group When they aren’t “new” but an unnecessary sequel to something from 30 years ago, or a sequel to a movie that had a definitive ending and never needed a sequel. I’m looking at you, A Christmas Story Christmas.

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#13

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group For horror and mystery, everything having to be explained.

A movie like the original Alien would be lambasted by online critics if it were released today, for the simple reason that by the end of it you know next to nothing about what happened. What was the creature? What was the derelict? Why did the company want it, really? The movie has stood the test of time precisely because it avoided answering those and other questions.

stratarch , Dr._Colleen_Morgan Report

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130points

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#14

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group A lot of movies feel like they were written by a marketing department.

It feels like they got 10 execs in a room and everyone wrote down ideas, characters, plot-points, etc that they know will sell - and then tried to organize them into a narrative structure.

There's no vision. There's no plot progression. Its just one random event next to another random event, and characters delivering s****y one-liners. Like writing madlibs.

Even B-movies from the 80's and 90's have better narrative structure and story-telling than half the new movies out today.

They don't make movies - they make 'content'

Ganglebot , Ron Lach Report

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126points

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#15

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Pandering to China

Complex_Commission96 , Mike W. Report

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120points

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#16

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Lack of originality

Cant apply this to every new movie but most of them are recycling movies that have been made before.

Micropot08 , Donald Tong Report

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114points

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#17

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group It’s just Marvel movies. I’m so freaking tired of regurgitated super hero formulas. Please god just give me one morsel more of original story. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once can only go so far.

terribleinvestment , Miguel Discart Report

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110points

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#18

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Several things, really.

There's no Hero's Journey.

No character development that amounts to anything.

Lots of movies go out of their way to not offend the loudest 10% of Twitter trolls.

More and more movies are portraying men as weak, bumbling, incompetent, children.

Fight scenes look like they were shot in an earthquake.

110lb lingerie models with no muscle tone flat-lining a guy that outweighs them by 80lbs like they were Brock Lesnar or Mike Tyson.

"That's NOT how cars work! Like at all!" - me

"That's NOT how physics works!!" - everyone who passed middle school physics

xJD88x , Ron Lach Report

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107points

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#19

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Most movies are getting watered down for the sake of mass appeal. I get why, but it just sucks

Apprehensive_Set3002 , Kai Hendry Report

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106points

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#20

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Worst thing is lack of logic/realism. Inconsistencies within the world movie is in. Unrealistic physics. Awful stories, dumbass `funny` scenes that have nothing to do with the story. List goes on forever.

Eponnn , Naotake Murayama Report

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96points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Movies getting too many sequals.

drgn2009 , Emine Canpolat Report

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95points

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#22

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Forced Comedy

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90points

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#23

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group The overreliance on cgi. It just looks too plastic. CGI should be used where it makes sense, not for the whole movie.

Most movies are remakes. We are currently living in a time of close to zero creativity.

Forced diversity when it doesn't even make sense in the movie. I don't mind diversity, but it shouldn't feel out of place in the movie.

Nafri_93 , Josh Sorenson Report

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79points

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#24

Awful lighting, bad color grading, frequency of cuts, and why is every movie f*****g 2 hours and 45 minutes now a days? Make movies an hour and a half again, obviously I know there are exceptions to everything I said, tons of new movies come out every year that kick a*s but the big budget studio features just aren't doing it for me

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75points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group I hate the new Disney films the animated characters made to look half real half not real and they’ve made them look the same, they should make a new movie but in the old style animation like a lady and the tramp animation(without the racism obviously)

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72points

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#26

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Fight and Action scenes. It took weeks of training back in the days just to get one shot. You cannot fix that with 4 cuts per second. Bad Exampe: Taken 3, Good Example: Creed or John Wick

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70points

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They're so LONG.

Where are my snappy, well-paced, 90 minute films? Why is everything two and a half hours long now?

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66points

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#28

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Story lines that are entirely dependent on special effects.

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63points

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#29

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group The colour palettes of the nowadays movies. Either they have to be way too colorful which destroys the atmosphere of the movie's plot (sometimes improves it too ngl but that's just a small fraction) or maybe just way too dark which sometimes is just hard to watch and make out what's happening with the scene itself.
Perfect example being most of the nowadays Netflix shows and movies, you won't make half of the scenes until the brightness is throttled all the way up to sun in your monitor. Lazy acting on their behalf for sure.

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57points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group 2 things for me

1) Blatant trend hopping. It’s barely even been a year of the multiverse trend and I’m already so tired of it, and how many “Look guys, it’s a children’s property but it’s a slasher and has gore, isn’t that shocking and subversive????” have cropped up lately? It’s just annoying and unoriginal.

2) How American remakes/releases of foreign/international films soften all the edges and hate dark/morally ambiguous endings, i.e., Insomnia, The Descent, Oldboy, etc.

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56points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group It’s all reused garbage with scripts a five year old child could’ve written. Nothing new, nothing original, no risk taking. Just pump out a s****y remake or adapt some poor book/video game into a movie and ruin it for all of the fans. Everything is done according to a formula to try and make as much money as physically possible.

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26points

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#32

They keep forcing woke characters and having them there because they are woke. Like making Velma gay and giving Shaggy the tan of a lifetime is asking for criticism. Long running series like Scooby Doo has made Shaggy an icon, and most of the Scooby media portrays him and Velma having a on/off relationship. Compare that to Jesus from the Walking Dead when he’s actually a badass character and not there for the sole purpose of being a gay character, he is relevant to the plot, same goes for Aaron who is in the same show. Same applies when you make changes to a character. Take Gaz from Modern Warfare, yes they made him black. But they also made him more memorable than his original counterpart, and overall a better written character.

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24points

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#33

30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group We don’t have enough reboots or reboots of reboots. We. Need. *More.*

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23points

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The art of storytelling is gone, its all metrics and b******t and hyper targeting audiences. How they are made pisses me off the most. Total lack of original anything as well because metrics tell them a sequel #8 is better.

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group Just because something was a good choice or controversial but successful thing in a film doesn't mean every other network needs to copy it. Really need to stray away from this formulative b******t.

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group there all influenced by corporate s**t and not just creative vision anymore.

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19points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group The overuse of cover songs. Recently been a lot of classic rock songs covered by an artist who recorded a slowed version of it.

Edit. Just saw the trailer for the new Ant Man. It also does this

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18points

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30 Aspects Of Modern Films That Annoy People The Most, As Shared In This Online Group The wokeness

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-15points

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Tina Smith 1 year ago

I'm tired of Disney just doing live action remakes of their classic stories instead of new stories! While everyone involved in making the live action remakes did a great job and I'm sure "The Little Mermaid" (next remake coming out I think?) will be fantastic, but I really miss NEW movies (both animated and live action) from Disney to share with the young (and some maybe not so young) loved ones.

14points

BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

I don't mind the remake of the classics if they fix the messed up bits in the classics! Like Ariel giving up her entire world for a guy she saw ONCE. Sure, wanting to explore and all but if he doesn't love you, you die/become my slave!

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sturmwesen 1 year ago

Bad dubbing/voice acting. I might cancel a otherwise good movie if the voices seem wrong.

14points

Jo Sargent 1 year ago

Bad dubbing is sooo off putting. I walk out and ask for a refund.

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K W 1 year ago

I can't do movie discussions in most online spaces anymore because they've gotten so toxic. And a lot of people seem to confuse personal preferences with valid criticism. Film literally started as a short spectacle for entertainment. It was about visual effects, vignettes of life and humor, and occasionally the fantastical. It was not originally about complex long narratives. 4 of the original 5 movie studios didn't survive past the early days because they refused to invest in long narrative films assuming audiences would never sit that long. Cinema continues to evolve and there are certainly movies that are more meaningful but the idea that we've left the good days of cinema behind is kind of silly. From its very inception it's been about entertainment. Demand has always left certain film industry people who couldn't acclimate behind. There are still fantastic original movies being put out along with all of the sequels and franchises. Sure the MCU is tiring for a lot of people but

6points

K W 1 year ago (edited)

it's also popular for a reason and somewhat analogous to the glut of Westerns during different periods in Hollywood. Idk. Film criticisms is so weird right now between the very real review bombing phenomenon and the interesting divide that seems to be growing between critics and the audience, it's a very conflict fueled time to want to enjoy a movie. ETA: this is all about American film. The French were really the world leaders of film until WWI broke out and harmed the industry.

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Dave Burley 1 year ago

Try counting seconds between cuts. I bet you never reach ten.

5points

VonBlade 1 year ago

Dear all the people bemoaning holywood films. Watch other films. The whole world makes movies. Indies make movies. You aren't forced to watch the latest "talk for an hour then destroy a city for an hour" CGI snoozefests. Watch Charlie Kaufman if you think films are all the same.

4points

Christopher Barnhouse 1 year ago

Forced car chases through major cites streets that somehow aren't clogged. But if they are, then SIDEWALKS, because of course...

4points

Becca Kuehn 1 year ago

I can't stand all of the flashing lights that alot of movies and TV shows have in them now. They trigger migraines and seizures.

3points

Lynne Hammar 1 year ago (edited)

Character pulls out cell phone, reads text that is so small, you have to hit pause and walk up to your TV to read it. Movie Execs: this will eventually be seen on ghe small screen, please make it legible!!!!

3points

Kevin Hickey 1 year ago

I can't stand stupid, chaotic driving. "I have to get to the hospital!!!", I'll cause four car accidents on the way there!

3points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

When they're driving but never look at the road!!

3points

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

Book adaptation.There is so many great books, that haven't been turned into movies yet, so what we gonna do? Yeah, let's make another Three musketeers adaptation!

3points

Bluebus06 1 year ago

Most of these boil down to profit over art and originality. There are still good films and filmmakers, but the industry has turned into a monopoly for the mass media companies.

3points

Sunny Day 1 year ago

Kids. Either they ignore orders and common sense and traipse off to look at the erupting volcano when everyone is evacuating, or They are the pandered geniuses who must fix all the mistakes their bumbling yet devoted parents make or They make constant smart -*** remarks to their parents and the parents don't do anything except makes excuses for them.

3points

Tanja J 1 year ago

I have to say I hate the movie pot smoking (I don't mind pot smoking per se, but in movies it is getting annoying). Hollywood banned scenes with cigarettes smoking eons ago, unless it's crucial to the plot. But suddenly every movie with rating 13+ has at least one scene where they're smoking pot. Is this overcompensation? Does Hollywood want to show how "free" they are since marihuana is legal in some states? "Let's show how we can be controversial" or I don't know what it is. And don't even get me to start with 'comedy' movies. I can say I don't watch Hollywood movies from 2000 on that are marked comedy, they are mostly gross.

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

yep, I've re-watched some comedies between 84 and 2000 and they are super racist, sexist, ablist, etc. Can't watch them anymore.

1point

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Mike Crow 1 year ago

Instead of rebooting a popular film or tv show, do it to a movie or show that didn’t do well and make it better.

3points

Virgil Blue 1 year ago

There are plenty of movies that messed up good material that should be re done by someone who gets the source material.

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Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 1 year ago

Movies (in a theater setting) are going down. People are not being drawn in and packed in to a theater anymore.... COVID concerns, antisocial behavior, repulsed by inconsiderate disgusting rude behavior, not wanting to be part of the next mass shooting, too expensive, and the thing you're about to experience is NOT worth the money anyway..... The movie industry has claimed for years that they are out of original ideas. I say it's time has come and gone. Let it die. It's only a matter of time

2points

Splash thefly 1 year ago

Its all so fast as well. I mean, the old movies are slower, but the story is decent or really good. The new ones are fast, but very boring sometimes.

2points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

not necessarily "boring" but predictable. Like you know when the sex scene is comng, when the car chase is coming, when there's going to be a big explosion, etc etc.

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V 1 year ago

People yammering for originality, but whenever someone does something different from the formulas people are used to they lose their minds and just spend months complaining. Studios are ina lose-lose situation there.

2points

John 1 year ago

Too many people are risk averse with their money nowadays. they need some promise they'll get their admission worth.

3points

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MeMosabe 1 year ago

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” -- Ecclesiastes-1-9

1point

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Movies are quite tiresome, I basically just go look at the rating on IMDB and watch it if it scores over 6.5. In summary: American movie: Talking. More talking. Something bad happens. Car chase. Shoot out. Sneaking around. Talking. Sex scene. More car chases. VS European movie: Talking. Looking depressed. Smoking. More talking. Sex scene. Looking depressed.

1point

Will Cable 1 year ago

A friends of ours would say JJ Abrams after Star Trek and Star Wars.

1point

Virgil Blue 1 year ago

He managed to destroy a base essential fact of the Trek universe in just one movie. I'm talking about trans warp teleportation making space ships obsolete. Plus the movie plot revolved around a never explained mc guffin. The red matter stuff. It was just there to explain a cool effect.

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les 1 year ago

braveheart is just awful especially if you know the history. highlander was closer to the story than it was

1point

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

also it features a racist cultist weirdo as the lead

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lauralett50 1 year ago

Nothing . Original. Boring .

1point

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Tina Smith 1 year ago

14points

BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

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sturmwesen 1 year ago

Bad dubbing/voice acting. I might cancel a otherwise good movie if the voices seem wrong.

14points

Jo Sargent 1 year ago

Bad dubbing is sooo off putting. I walk out and ask for a refund.

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K W 1 year ago

6points

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Dave Burley 1 year ago

Try counting seconds between cuts. I bet you never reach ten.

5points

VonBlade 1 year ago

4points

Christopher Barnhouse 1 year ago

Forced car chases through major cites streets that somehow aren't clogged. But if they are, then SIDEWALKS, because of course...

4points

Becca Kuehn 1 year ago

I can't stand all of the flashing lights that alot of movies and TV shows have in them now. They trigger migraines and seizures.

3points

Lynne Hammar 1 year ago (edited)

3points

Kevin Hickey 1 year ago

I can't stand stupid, chaotic driving. "I have to get to the hospital!!!", I'll cause four car accidents on the way there!

3points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

When they're driving but never look at the road!!

3points

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

Book adaptation.There is so many great books, that haven't been turned into movies yet, so what we gonna do? Yeah, let's make another Three musketeers adaptation!

3points

Bluebus06 1 year ago

Most of these boil down to profit over art and originality. There are still good films and filmmakers, but the industry has turned into a monopoly for the mass media companies.

3points

Sunny Day 1 year ago

3points

Tanja J 1 year ago

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

yep, I've re-watched some comedies between 84 and 2000 and they are super racist, sexist, ablist, etc. Can't watch them anymore.

1point

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Mike Crow 1 year ago

Instead of rebooting a popular film or tv show, do it to a movie or show that didn’t do well and make it better.

3points

Virgil Blue 1 year ago

There are plenty of movies that messed up good material that should be re done by someone who gets the source material.

5points

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Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 1 year ago

2points

Splash thefly 1 year ago

Its all so fast as well. I mean, the old movies are slower, but the story is decent or really good. The new ones are fast, but very boring sometimes.

2points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

not necessarily "boring" but predictable. Like you know when the sex scene is comng, when the car chase is coming, when there's going to be a big explosion, etc etc.

5points

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V 1 year ago

2points

John 1 year ago

Too many people are risk averse with their money nowadays. they need some promise they'll get their admission worth.

3points

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MeMosabe 1 year ago

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” -- Ecclesiastes-1-9

1point

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

1point

Will Cable 1 year ago

A friends of ours would say JJ Abrams after Star Trek and Star Wars.

1point

Virgil Blue 1 year ago

2points

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les 1 year ago

braveheart is just awful especially if you know the history. highlander was closer to the story than it was

1point

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

also it features a racist cultist weirdo as the lead

1point

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lauralett50 1 year ago

Nothing . Original. Boring .

1point

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