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What movies are all style and no substance? Discussion (piefed.social)
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[–] 12 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

Agree fully on Drive even though I love everything about it.

But ghostbusters? Shit was a pretty unique movie when it came out, and still holds up, plenty of substance. Weird item on that list.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Exactly what substance?
    It's fun. It's entertaining. It's a fantastic movie. But what the point of it? What's it's message? What's it's meaning?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    Substance to me doesn't mean it has a message or meaning, but contains a lot more story than run and gun. It's got backstory, great characters (pro and antagonists), funny and/or hidden jokes, great writing, relatable maybe. It's not a run of the mill boring shoot em up or racing movie. Actual effort was put into it.

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    In short, it sounds like you use substance to mean it's a good movie.
    That seems a poor use for a word, to simply replace another perfectly good word with no additional context or nuance.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's not remotely what I said. There are very deep movies with substance that I just don't care about or can't get into.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Now it seems like you're assuming a good movie simply means a movie you like.
    Which also isn't great. I know there are lots of good movies that just aren't for me, and I don't enjoy all the much. But I'll absolutely defend their quality.

    But if I'm totally off base here, I'd appreciate more clarification.

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