Topic: Movie thread.

Thanks to my YouTube on my living room TV (which is set to guest mode, I only use my log in on my own devices), I've been getting lots of discussions on the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Honestly, is it me or discussing movies isn't fun anymore.

On my TV, I've gotten discussions from people who like the movie, and more from people who hate the movie. All the discussions so far just go back and fourth with each other, trying to one up the other. "Oh the movie isn't deep, so it's bad," "The movie doing well at box office, it's a hit," "Just because the movie does well at box office, doesn't mean it's good," and so on. It's like the biggest focus is just sticking it to the opposing side, rather than enjoy talking about the movie itself and what the movie had to offer.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie doesn't feel fun to talk about. It's either one extreme or the other, with the end goal of being "right." Honestly, it's tiring. What happened to talking with others about a movie? I have a better time talking about movies with people I know IRL, than those I've seen online.

I could have put this in the "Super Mario Bros. Movie 2" thread, but it's something I notice in general with movies, so putting it here.

@Sunsy I get what you mean. I think a big part of that is the way "internet culture" has shifted, where you're either in the skibity brainrot rizzler camp (sorry) or you are high end socialite — and wherever you land, that's the way the Internet was intended to be used, of course.
I enjoy discussing movies (and other things) online, but thanks to the relative anonymity of it all, it's very easy to act rude or over the top, since (1) no one knows who you are, or (2) because you forget that there's someone on the other side of the screen.
Personally, I find Thor: Ragnarok to be an unenjoyable pile of mush that serves only to slap the face of real Thor fans. However, even though I will gladly argue that to the death, at the end of that day.......... 98% of people think it's amazing, and that's OK!

@CaleBoi25 I honestly, avoid brainrot, but I don't see what that has to do with discussing movies.

Discussing movies should be something fun, I'm glad you enjoy it. Really unfortunate being anonymous brings out the worst in people.

One of the videos I saw was from someone, just arguing people's points to why they like the movie, like a movie being good or bad should be objective fact, when in reality, it's all opinions that vary from person to person. Another video was about how the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is higher than Critics, indicating audiences loved it. Also I saw another say that "every movie on Rotten Tomatoes has a high audience score, so it doesn't count," because they didn't like the movie.

Literally, it's just no fun to see discussions on this movie. Being into Smurfs myself, I loved last year's Smurfs movie as unpopular of an opinion that is, thought it was good. With so many trashing the movie, it's very hard to find anyone who wants to talk about the movie itself outside of "this movie is the worst thing ever," or "how could Paramount go from Sonic to this?"

Even last year with Elio and K-Pop Demon Hunters, I've seen more using K-Pop Demon Hunters to put down Elio, than talking about the movies themselves, while people who liked the movies, talked about the movies themselves. I'm someone who liked both movies.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it feels like YouTube and popular opinion makes movie discourse less fun.

Looks like I have a chance to watch HOPPERS again for the tenth times this Saturday.
This Friday suddenly there is a new Shin Chan movie at my local cinema XXI with rated 13+. LOL
Well, not surprising but not gonna watch another Shin chan movie with terrible character design and problematic Shin chan behaviour.
The only Shin chan movie I have ever watched was the last year movie with Dinosaur theme. It was good but still not a fan of Shin chan character design.

@Sunsy
I thing movie is very subjective.
Someone can love one movie because it meets their expectations, the other hates the same movie for completely out of their standard by trivial reasons (hating the specific things such as the image branding, genre, the actors, the studios, the franchise, the community, the crossover, the art design, the ethnicity, the storyline, the music, etc).
How was your cinema at your place?
Are there any anime cinema being aired at your place by any chance?
Here in my country Indonesia, only bigger city get a chance for anime movie appeared on Cinema XXI, despite they get very short schedule like around 5 - 7 days at one or two Cinema XXI place.
The longest movie schedule in my country was 7 weeks like WICKED part 1 with massive success so the movie got extended schedule until 7 weeks despite only one place cinema XXI which still aired that movie until it replaced by upcoming movies.