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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8572015">But to bring this back to the original topic. For me, and this is just me trying to find reasons why, not me saying I've arrived at the correct conclusion, the reasons I find a lot of recent films off-putting:-Too much CGI: This isn't just about overuse of CGI but how CGI is outsourced and it never really feels like it connects to the movie for me (for a lot of big CGI scenes I feel like I am popping into a music video or other film suddenly).-Not into superhero movies: If you like these, now is probably a great period in movie making but I have zero interest in super hero films and even non-super hero movies seem to take a lot of inspiration from the super hero films out there-Not enough breathing space. This isn't a new problem. I think movies in the 80s sometimes had this. But I just feel like I am not getting enough time to sit with the characters in a lot of movies-Pacing: I like slower paced movies. Pacing feels like it has increased a lot over time, and often watch thirty or forty year old movies soley because they feel like they have more time to breath-The Scorsese criticism: I agree with Scorsese that a lot these movies coming out feel more like rides than films. That is fine. There have always been movies that were great rides (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars). But the one time I went to the movies to see a non-ride film in recent years, I couldn't enjoy it because the entire cinema was rumbling from all the explosions and sky battles happening in the rest of the theaters. I'd like to see more variety of movies being made that appear in the cinema.-Not enough practical effects. This goes hand in hand with the CGI complaint but I think it warrants a separate entry as they aren't mutually exclusive. I miss practical effects because they feel like they have weight and presence int he movie even when they aren't super realistic (at least there is something physically there the actor is interacting with). And practical effects got very good over time so we should be in golden age of practical effects but you just don't see them that much-Dialogue. This may just be generation but a lot of current movies have a dialogue issue for me, where it feels artificially snappy. I don't mind well done snappy dialogue but a lot of times it feels like the rule of cool is taking over. Some directors can do that (Tarantino's dialogue I have no problem with) but some I find infuriating to sit through because of the way characters banter-Casts seem too young to me (maybe I am just getting older, but I do think crews of ships and protagonists seems to be aimed a younger and younger audience, and I feel like I am not seeing enough weathered protagonists). I could be wrong here thoughThis isn't universal. There have been new movies I adored. I just find it harder and harder to enjoy more recent films on the whole.Note I am not saying modern movies are bad. They just don't appeal to me. Sometimes I try to get people into the movies I like and they give me plenty of reasons why they can't get into older movies (pacing, too many sound stages, etc).</blockquote>

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