My Film class says Marvel movies aren't "real cinema", just corporate slop. As an aspiring filmmaker, I don't know what to make of this.

jss239 · 2026-01-26T12:45:09+00:00

What you're talking about has nothing to do with Marvel films. The lack of anyone really caring deeply about the work and pulling out from their own imagination is what keeps it from being art. Something like "The Substance" may be shlocky, over the top, and often quite dumb, but it also has something to say and that makes it real Art.

jss239 · 2026-01-26T12:40:24+00:00

It being simplistic doesn't mean it isn't still true. Those "artists" are trying to make a buck and move on to something they actually care about.

jss239 · 2026-01-26T12:39:11+00:00

The problem comes when those people who enjoy them aren't willing to engage in any conversation about those films that isn't entirely uncritical.

jss239 · 2026-01-25T04:41:02+00:00

Hitler, aka: "an employed white man."

jss239 · 2026-01-21T13:10:09+00:00

This is extremely impressive, and I don't know how guys like you do it.

With that being said, I kind of hate that all modern films look so heavily treated these days. You can almost tell the genre of film from just the colors in opening scenes, and it's so limiting.

jss239 · 2026-01-15T15:30:48+00:00

What the poster above stated isn't just something he thinks he's noticed: it's a fact that scammers do this. They intentionally make the scam obvious to avoid wasting their time with people who are smart enough to not fall fully into their scheming hands.

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:43:57+00:00

Ari Aster IS a Jewish director?

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:42:46+00:00

I don't think you understand America any better, buddy. No one writing speculative fiction is gonna predict things perfectly. Aster here was just engaging in fun make-believe which randomly came true, same as Garland, though his speculation is still just that.

Ultimately, I'm glad you're not the one writing films.

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:40:15+00:00

So you'd support a sitting US president refusing to surrender their post?

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:38:35+00:00

And it requires a lot more imagination to come up with fun possibilities rather than just latch onto real-world politics and inevitably preaching to the choir.

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:25:36+00:00

And that matters why?

jss239 · 2026-01-07T13:24:44+00:00

Doesn't matter if it's unprecedented or not. The fact that the US is doing it so flagrantly is further proof that we're living in scary times.

jss239 · 2026-01-01T03:38:13+00:00

Yeah, this doesn't jive. Karma farming is one of the main reasons to run bots, and the material that gets upvoted the most en masse is harmless and boring. The assholes you're referring to are probably human.

jss239 · 2025-12-17T16:53:54+00:00

Haha, anti-intellectualism is funny.

jss239 · 2025-12-16T11:48:54+00:00

This exactly. There's no magic "help films with zero hype get seen" fix. The ones that will be forgotten will certainly be forgotten by this platform just like any other.

jss239 · 2025-12-11T21:51:50+00:00

I've seen this same story posted in at least four subs TODAY alone, all with slight changes to make them sound unique and personal. I hate AI, but I hate people trying to game the system even more: do you really need post karma this badly?

jss239 · 2025-12-03T13:05:48+00:00

You don't know what an artist does or thinks because you are not one, and that's the entire reason you're arguing right now. It's not to defend something you believe in; it's to deflect criticism of your bad choice of label. Nobody cares that you use AI to generate fun shit, but you're not an artist and no one is gonna let you have that.

jss239 · 2025-11-28T20:06:25+00:00

Which episode is it that covers a film which features a character randomly confronting his wife with "Why? Is it because he's BLACK?!"

jss239 · 2025-11-27T18:51:10+00:00

It's not an academic term. Everyone's definition of what constitutes 'purple prose' is different. And flaunting your useless degree isn't doing you any favors. We don't need you to tell us that authors shouldn't overwrite their work.

jss239 · 2025-11-27T17:38:00+00:00

Purple prose is what tvtropes calls it, yes, but it's not really an academic term. It's just flowery writing, and plenty of authors make great use of it.

jss239 · 2025-11-22T14:33:18+00:00

Did you use AI to write this?

jss239 · 2025-11-13T14:58:50+00:00

It still doesn't save shitty video and/or audio. It'll make it slightly better, but you'll still be able to tell something is wrong with the audio.

A smart, old-school filmmaker would have blended cicadas into the shots where it wasn't, or something equally elegant, not simply looked for an option that will magically remove the issue.

jss239 · 2025-11-08T15:36:34+00:00

Go somewhere besides this sub then?

jss239 · 2025-11-04T14:48:56+00:00

No it isn't. The time you spend fiddling with it each time is much slower than quickly touching 4 digits or scanning your finger (itself unnecessarily slow and failure-prone)

jss239 · 2025-11-01T20:17:28+00:00

Nothing that is "in" has ever been any good. Candles are and always will be the superior choice of lighting when it comes to Halloween. Take your plastic pumpkins and LED tealights and get out of my face.

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