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This.
Or Rotten Tomatoes.
That’s literally why Alita and a few others have done well; ‘they’ found something to complain about, and people flocked to it as an F.U.
Yes.
Buy DVDs.
You don’t need internet or a subscription to watch it as many times as you want; just a computer or DVD player.
Streaming services are an anti-ownership racket cloaked in the tyranny of convenience.
Or you know, follow the call of the seven seas if that suits you.
Yeah, I know, I must be getting old, but I find I appreciate media that you can have in your hand not in the aether more and more by the year.
As far as ‘what movies piss off hollywood’;
Well, I wouldn’t really know about the older stuff, but:
Ford Vs Ferrari was a solid recent feather ruffler
(a movie about white guys racing unexpectedly edged out some other ‘approved blockbuster’ nonsense. Can’t have that… :laugh: )
Also Lord of the Rings (there’s a reason they’re so hellbent to remake those… Darn wypippo bein mean to the orcs just trying to enrich and diversify their lands. :laugh: )
I’m going to put Rambo 4 as an honorable top-of head mention as well (peace and love didn’t solve all life’s problems).
And of COURSE… Demolition Man (aka, Life Simulator 2020+ edition).
I’m sure pretty much any reasonably well made, featuring realistic and/or non-line-toeing stories and badass and/or properly masculine characters produced in the last 40 years probably fits the bill. Bonus points if it has a majority-white cast and doesn’t devolve into some form of self-hatred.
Just ask yourself, next time you’re watching one of your old-time favorites, “could they get away with making this today”? and you’ll know.
So if you have a DVR, and there is something that hasn’t been released on DVD, it is possible to capture and authorize a DVD of your very own. Also for pedestrian content, DVD rentals make cost effective rip and burns if somebody was inclined. For the really good stuff, I have all the special editions and directors cuts they ever made, but for the like that movie but don’t love it, getting a $2 copy works for some.
I never look for reviews so I wouldn’t know what’s on Rotten Tomatoes. If the story sounds interesting and the movie holds my attention I’ll watch it.
You don’t have to go far to see what won’t work today. All of Married With Children is out…lol!! Even the show Friends would have issues today and that ended early to mid 00s.
Water World. Hollywood was hating on that movie before it was in post production. They hated on it so uniformly, it bombed before it was released. They hated on it because Kevin Costner somehow pissed somebody off. What made it worse was yours truly was in that movie. The whole scandal sank my acting career!
I never saw it, because it looked hokie and I felt like of all the 'Murican actors who could have done that, an Ausi plays the part, he irks me. With that in mind, worth seeing?
I saw it and as a movie it was a solid “meh”. It tried to slam in about 5 different historical events and a dozen famous people into one big mish-mash. But worth seeing once.
Heh! During a period I was out of work, I signed up to be an extra for $45 a day. I was an extra during the filming on the set depicting the oil tanker. I’m in the crowd waving an AK and diving for cigarettes and Smeat while the Dennis Hopper stand-in delivered the inspirational speech. It was a lot of fun. I’ve watched the scene several times, but haven’t been able to point and say “That’s me!” with any conviction.
