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“Prey Is Everything Wrong With Modern Movies”- Sargon Of Arkkad Video (youtu.be)
posted 2 years ago by Vsid 2 years ago by Vsid +36 / -0
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– current_horror 33 points 2 years ago +35 / -2

I have no idea why this movie is getting a pass from so many people, Critical Drinker and RLM included. It is comically bad and decidedly feminist. I get that expectations are depressingly low these days, but this turd doesn’t deserve nearly so much acclaim.

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– loubag1997 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

I was just thinking the other day how far our expectations have fallen.... from regular people to critics, we often rate a modern movie FAR HIGHER than it deserves, because of how shit we expect movies to be in general now.

Vanilla Sky was a fairly amazing, well written, cerebral movie released in 2001 but critics & audiences hated it. Nowadays it’s sorta a cult classic, but back then it was shit on because it had decent competition. If that movie was released now, it’d get all the accolades. You can say the same about numerous movies from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.

Same with Jordan Peele’s shitty horror movies. They suck… but because they have this air of pretentious ‘art’ and it’s a Black guy making them, critics adore. It’s a sad state of affairs.

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– Greenblatts_4skin 7 points 2 years ago +8 / -1

lol, remember Black Panther was rated 97/100 while being a generic Marvel movie because "black guy" as you say

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– TerpenoidTester 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Meanwhile fantastic films like Old Henry and Vengeance slip through the cracks, ignored by everyone.

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– Smith1980 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

I loved Vanilla Sky. And you are right. Frequently I’ll watch a b movie from the 80s or 90s or some made for TV movie I had forgotten about and it’s brilliant by comparison to a lot we get today. A lot of entertainment today is so obsessed with representation or “the message”. Agree about Jordan Peele. I thought get out was way overrated but I guess I’m in the minority. I kinda feel like if he could a just write stories and shut up about race all the time he would be better. But like you said he is what critics love so he will always get praise. Same thing with female directors

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– thepalagoon 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

This is definitely true of things like Top Gun as well. People are hungry for something new and good, and are willing to settle for decent.

Its probably a "broken clock is right twice a day" thing but I really enjoyed CODA, the best picture winner. It is a bit formulaic, yes, but it did a magnificent job of showing that family dynamic of "we hate each other sometimes, but we sacrifice for each other without (much) resentment" -- characters are fully fleshed out, even the mother who could have very easily teetered into "dumb jealous bimbo."

I hope that some day we look back on the Marvel Age and see it as the wasteland of originality that it really and truly was.

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– lapalapa 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Vanilla Sky wouldn't get accolades today. Something about virtual sex bots of your crush and whatnot.

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– ThomasLincoln 18 points 2 years ago +18 / -0

RLM liking it surprises you? They've been woke libtard faggots for years, if not the entire time. In the previous 'predator' movie they refused to even say 'retarded' and ranted about the word even being used.

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– Assassin47 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Jack will remember your comment, and call you an istaphobe on twitter later.

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– LinkR 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

Predator movies are a cursed franchise. 9 times out of 10 you are better off passing it, which is frustrating, because Predators are so cool.. how could it possibly be bad?

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– bloodguard 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

I think drinker has a very selective big time payola grift with the studios. He'll hilariously pan most of their stuff but every now and then he'll probably take a big payday to go easy on one.

Plus he's a writer. I expect him to announce that one of his works is being made into a movie by one of the studios he pretends to pan.

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– Assassin47 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

He's actually friends with some industry insiders, and he knows that they watch him, so there's an "access media"-esque relationship there. Not quite flattery but he'll give them a pass sometimes. I don't know that he's on the take. What you said about a book to movie option is much more likely.

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– deleted 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0
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– dekachin 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

I have no idea why this movie is getting a pass from so many people, Critical Drinker and RLM included.

The bar has been set so low for them that this is a step above it. I mean, I'm sure next to Star Trek Picard, Prey is like a masterpiece.

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