Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today

• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you know exactly what you’re getting

  That’s my problem. Knowing is not fun. Being surprised is the fun part.

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But some people only go to the movies to see something they know they will like, so there is a market for him.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t ever go to a movie unless I know I’ll like it either (or at least expect to like it), I just know I won’t like his movies, because they are just always so uninteresting because they are too absurd.

      And absurd doesn’t need to be a bad thing, but I feel like his movies don’t admit or recognize their own absurdity and they take themselves too seriously. That’s why it becomes cheesy.

      🤷‍♂️ What can I say.

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  • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s a time for everything, is my personal take. Sometimes I want a film that will be original and challenge me, but I don’t want that every day.

    Sometimes it’s relaxing to know there won’t be any big surprises.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure. I’d never pay theater money for such an experience though. Like going to a restaurant. One day I don’t want beef bourguignon, some days I want a pack of noodles. But I won’t go to the theaters restaurant to get a pack of noodles.

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      • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s fair, but the analogy is wrong, imo. In the sense that I can enjoy a good movie anywhere. I don’t need to see the green book in a cinema to enjoy it, it’s probably even better at home. I go to the cinema for the experience…the huge screen, the sound, etc. Which is why the only movies I’ve seen in cinemas in the past years are Avatar, Furiosa, Deadpool and into the spider verse, pretty much.

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      • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fair :)

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  • sicarius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In that case go see a different movie, if you want something original or thought provoking you’re not going to choose to watch a statham movie by accident. “Knowing is not fun ‘for you’” there are plenty of people who do enjoy the familiar, otherwise he wouldn’t be so successful.
    Ii like them as a pallete cleanser, after watching too many mind fuck TV shows sometimes I need a break with some simple fun thoughtless action movie.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Knowing is not fun ‘for you’”

      Indeed, I did say it was “my problem” 😁

      In that case go see a different movie

      I will definitely do that 😄 Every single movie his characters are so cheesy and he’s so overly macho it’s just absurd and not believable at all. I feel like it caters to the lower end of the intelligence spectrum, a little bit.

      But I am not one to take away someone else’s fun, so I’ll definitely not tell someone not to watch it. But I will never recommend one to anyone. 😅

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    imagine him in a romantic comedy

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’ll never know… Hey, he might be amazing in it, who knows.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless that movie is Snatch.

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  • sicarius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say Snatch was a ‘statham movie’ it’s a ‘Guy Ritchie movie’. Statham is just in it. Same with the movie Spy, although it is one of stathams best roles, playing an exaggerated version of all his other roles.

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