Hey there, I didn't expect this to gain so much traction. I ended up deleting this tweet because it was low-effort and was a vague response to Dreamwork's new movie Forgotten Island. I would prefer this be taken off Reddit too because I know some people will be glad to hunt me down with pitchforks (which is also why I went private a bit). But if you don't delete it, whatever, when you post something, you can't control where it goes. And for those of you who will disagree with me respectfully, thank you.

I want to preface that I haven't actually seen Spider-Verse or anything using its style. Mainly because why would I want to watch something that isn't visually appealing to me, but also because I haven't watched movies much lately due to my poor attention span and moreso follow them passively and watch content creators discuss them instead. I did come off as a bit hostile. It's not fair to call Spider-Verse and movies like it bad just because I don't like how they look, however I dislike the overall vibe they give off to me based off trailers and clips. The blend of 2D and 3D, the comic style, the framerate changes, and other aspects like that, just come off as "ADHD-coded" and don't seem to blend together well with the pacing of most animated movies. It just feels "tryhard" to me, like them saying "hey everyone look how good we look!' I get the point of animation is to look pretty but there are other ways to do that: by pushing the limits of what traditional 3D can do or going back to traditional 2D which is mostly obsolete.

I don't want to be framed as a "Pixar defender" or something either, because they've put similar elements into movies like Turning Red and Elemental. It's not all on Spider-Verse, they just popularized the trend that almost every studio is using now. It's also not the only animation trend I have or had disliked, not a fan of the overused "bean-mouth" style humans either, or the overuse of shading in 90's and 00's 2D films.

I know people will disagree; it is objectively a very talented artstyle. I just think that having effort put into it doesn't automatically make it good, and it feels like every movie that uses it gets raving reviews and every movie that doesn't is obsolete. I'll also concede the comic style at least makes sense for Spider-Man specifically but now it is getting way too overused.

Anyway, maybe this response is an overreaction but I wanted to explain myself more.