It is so damn special to me when a filmmaker knows how to properly tell a story through visuals and the actor's performances rather than telling like you said. It is always nice when the filmmaker actually respects the audience not to explain everything that is happening

Yeah that tends to happen at the end of movies

That's true, I've never seen it so I can't say much. I will give him a ton of credit for The Trip (1967), the hallucination sequences in that are wonderful for something that cost so little. There's a reason so many filmmakers who worked under him became bigger names afterward, a fantastic teacher. A lot of what Cameron did on The Terminator seems to be a lot of what Corman probably taught him

It still blows my mind Raimi was in his early 20s (around 20-21) when he directed the first Evil Dead movie. So much of that is so damn creative, natural born filmmaker

I mean Corman's movies still had great matte paintings and miniatures to create a sense of scale that they couldn't accomplish on such a low budget. Hell even look at the Fantastic Four 1994 movie, it's cheap, but it does the best job possible at trying to make a superhero movie on a $1 million budget. In fact, the Thing costume looks better in that than in the adaptations afterward haha

Because no one cares and no one should

Just interested to hear if other people felt the same

Yeah and then she has a seizure after it exits her vagina where it looks like she dies, and then after he cuts the piranha off she is completely fine and in good health. Freaking hysterical

I re-watched Piranha 3D the other night and had a very nice time, reminded me of Final Destination 2 in how utterly mean-spirited and non-stop it is with its horror against the human body. Really entertaining stuff, Aja is a solid horror director because there is moments in Piranha 3D that are genuinely horrifying and have stuck with me for the past decade

People who are chronically online need to realize there are people who AREN'T chronically online and actually go and see these movies. If you "don't know who saw it", that's just on you

Making money

I've been meaning to see this for awhile now, nice to seen unseen movies like this get restored

You sly dawg you

Yeah you’ll know what a good TV Show looks like first

great movie

This guy sounds like a real jerk

I don't mean to be a dick this is because most of these movies are storyboarded before the film is made or there even is a director. "Creative differences" is a nice way of saying the director had to much of a vision. And these scripts follow a very particular formula with a big battle at the end, and are required to include checknotes of future teasers of future films, there isn't a lot of artistic integrity in that.

I used to be obsessed with MCU films in 2019, then in 2020 i slowly switched over to mid-budget/indie American films. 2021 I slowly got more integrated with indie and foreign films (hidden gems). And now this year I have found so many great hidden gems in the indie, mid budget hollywood, and foreign film landscape. There are so many great movies out there, and superheros movies are barely touching the surface of what is accomplished through the power of cinema

I'm pretty sure most of them get nominated for Oscars, hell even Suicide Squad has won one

superheroes/franchise blockbuster movies do get a lot of critical appraisals though, MCU movies have been consistently in high rotten tomatoes scores and metascores since the beginning

Okay just wondering, I know some MCU fans that have blindsides to other films, so glad to hear it

would you be willing to defend low budget movies that don't make hundreds of millions to billions of dollars?

nobody should be insecure over what they like though, especially the highest grossing movie ever made