• Jamie@jamie.moe
    252·
    1 year ago

    Interestingly, Margot Robbie, the actress for Barbie, is actually a Lemmy user. I randomly found her in a thread talking about the movie industry strikes.

  • Redredme@lemmy.world
    192·
    1 year ago

    Actually, if you would go and watch the barbie movie instead of bitching about it you would find a very good Oscar worthy movie which humorously points out several flaws in our current society hiding in plain sight.

    And truly, what or who is bigger then oppenheimer in modern history? The man literally changed the world and is more or less the reason behind the longest period of peace in the west and beyond. It turned out that fear, deterrence, is the only thing that keeps war away.

    They got that message loud and clear in Iran and Northern Korea. Especially after what happened in Libya and Syria.

    Anyway, politic bullshit aside so far 2023 is, I think, a very good year for cinema.

    Next to that I’ve seen this meme repeat itself yearly over the last five years. It’s getting tiresome. It’s time to think up a new one.

    • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Not to derail your point, but I am 100% positive that the meme isn’t saying Barbie is a bad movie at all. This meme isn’t near as deep as you’re giving it credit for.

      It’s making the observation that Hollywood has eroded its creative foundation to the point that there have only been two movies that anyone is talking about this year. Whereas in years past there would be dozens.

      I have certainly noticed that over the last few years I care less and less about yet another Marvel movie or remake of an awesome 80s or 90s movie. It’s extremely obvious why masterful productions like Barbie and Oppenheimer stand out above everything else this year. These would have been great movies in the 90s too, but they would have actually been competing against substantially more films that are worth talking about.

  • MidwestMayonaiseSalad@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    We used to make midbudget movies. Of those, probably speed is the most expensive and it’s budget wasn’t insane.

    It’s good they are coming back

    • JimmyChanga@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Budgets in dollars. GUMP = 55m approx Pulp = 8m Shawshank = 25m Interview = 60m Natural Born Killers = 34m True Lies = 115m Maverick = 75m The Mask = 23m Ace Ventura = 15m Speed = 30m The Crow = 23m

      Films seem more expensive today regardless of inflation, but I’m all for more mid budget, more varied films coming out again too

      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
        9·
        1 year ago

        Trying to think off the top of my head so I’m probably forgetting a lot but for 2023:

        • Beau is Afraid
        • Evil Dead Rise
        • Knock at the Cabin
        • The Boogeyman (haven’t watched but heard it’s good)
        • BlackBerry (Not horror but also a great 2023 movie)

        For 2022:

        • The Menu
        • Pearl
        • Bodies Bodies Bodies
        • Black Phone
        • Mad God
        • A Wounded Fawn
        • Men
        • X
        • Spoonful of Sugar
        • Barbarian (thanks mr_sifl)

        I think there’s a lot of good movies coming out but they just don’t get the same kind of social media attention as the biggest ones like Oppenheimer or Barbie

      • Nythos@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        They were so scary the people who watched them needed therapy to forget the name of the movie and so we are left with one big mystery

  • Hux@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    The Lion King and Shawshank Redemption also came out that year. There are probably other great ones, but I think those two have longer lasting influence than at least half the movies in this list.

  • Magister@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yup, I saw almost all of them in theater when they were released, except Shawshank I never saw it, yeah I know it’s about the best movie in the world, but I never saw it, go figure. And I have not seen Maverick too.