Is Mark Hamill an exception? Or is he a voice actor that happens to have done some face acting as well?

Damn. Didn’t think I’d find a psychopath in a comment thread about movies but there you go!

First actual hot take I've seen in this post so far

Thus we can only assume that you are a giraffe or an okapi.

I actually saw a family arguing about this today. The mother was like "we can sit anywhere, don't you wanna sit down here in the front" and the daughter was like "no, I don't want to crane my neck". I was mildly annoyed because there was assigned seating and therefore the mother was encouraging rule breaking, but I minded my own business and didn't say anything

My son is big cinephile, and he complains about how contemporary movies are all filled with people who look like nepo-baby actors. He says they all have iPhone face: no matter what time period they're supposed to be in, they all look like they've seen an iPhone.

He longs for the old days when older unattractive actors were in demand as character actors.

The Bear had an episode with a family reunion where everyone was a famous actor, so you have some familiarity with them, but they were so characterized, it wasn't off-putting.

I do agree though those actors that are always the same persona (e.g. The Rock), do throw me away from what I'm watching.

Which is why I can't stand Will Smith movies. Or Vin Diesel. Or any of the other dozen actors who don't actually go out of their way and act.

I always find the first moments of movies with famous actors disconcerting. Why is Jack from Titanic here? Oh, he is not Jack from Titanic, just has his body-suit…

‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don't know anyone in it.

Is this a hot take?

Chris Pratt as Mario was when a lot of people went "wtf why?"

In a cinema I used to go to, they used to show the Met’s operas during the Sunday matinee. Absolutely lovely!

Thats sick, I'd love to watch ufc at a theatre.

Given his script caveats to get him to star, you're right.

I've only liked maybe two Rock movies and he still had hair in both of them.

I think you're reversing causality. Movies that were bound to be bad cast The Rock. We need to experiment by casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson.

We have a local theater here that basically only runs classics, it's pretty great.

Sorry, chief. Best we can do is a lousy remake instead. That's because the licensing rights for oldies are too hard to figure out so we can't be bothered, and all creativity in Hollywood died in 1999.

Its funny because when I was young bargain theaters would play old stuff they could get cheap regularly. I think its tougher now that people can see something whenever they like.

That will happen when you have writers who aren't as smart as the characters they're trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.

Hot take: movie goers are so used to suspension of disbelief that movies are too afraid to take risks that challenge the audience.

Like Netflix pushing every movie to say the plot.

But also, how many braindead takes from "influencers" or morons who don't understand the film.

I'll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is "Flavacol" seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.

So some tricks from ex cinema employee. Use canola oil and yellow Popcorn kernels and a Aluminum bowl That you can buy from a restaurant supply store.

• salt kernels before you cover then with oil.

• Fill the oil to just enough to cover the kernels.

• Then cover the bowl with Aluminum foil. And roll the bowl over the stove on medium heat. Till it starts popping

• then use More canola oil for butter Lightly Spritzed in a spray bottle.

• That will give you perfect theater popcorn at home.

Optional secret ingredient Tajin instead of salt

except the chocolate popcorn at Seattle's Cinerama SIFF Cinema. That stuff is to die for.

Cinema popcorn is 60% of why I want to go to the movies. My local cinema changed popcorn maker and now it’s not as fresh… I am not as excited to go to the movies anymore :/

Hear me out here... I want more remakes. But remakes for the right reasons.

White Men Cant Jump was a good movie for 1992, but it was hardly oscar bait. The 2023 remake wasnt bad, it was a fun revisit. I enjoy it because it gives me the feeling they actually had fun making it. Do it with Major League or The Replacements, dont reinvent the wheel just make a VERY similar movie with serious actors who want to have some fun, break their mould, tell some dick jokes. Dont cast whoever is currently hot or someone I've seen in 28 contrived comedies. I want Timothee Chalomet and Benedict Cumberpatch as players with unusual names have an in character argument about who has the stupider name.

I think it's more that we turned cinematic universes into a forced content machine to have x number of side character movies per year, with one major tentpole event every few years, with tv shows, video games, and comics all filing in gaps along the way. It's exhausting. I'm fine with a connected universe that is allowed to live and breathe in it's own.

Warm Bodies is an homage to the Shakespeare Cinematic Universe. Just, with zombies.

How old is the Shakespeare Cinematic Universe? Does it count if it started out live-action?

100% this. I say this all the time.

I didn't find the movie to be that complicated or difficult to understand. it had a lot of cool visuals that made it seem like your brain was supposed to be surprised or something. but there was nothing complicated about it

I personally love it because it is genuinely open ended

Have you seen any of the old "living dead" movies?