u/Konfliktsnubben

Is there any particular year that you fondly remember as being very fun in terms of following box office numbers? If I had to pick one myself I would choose 2012. The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit to name a few. The hype for those movies in particularly for The Dark Knight Rises was enormous and I just remember how fun fun it was to track those movies. The unexpected succes of The Avengers and the question of exatcly how big The Dark Knight Rises was gonna end up being, ah good old times. Movies simply had another status back then, this was after all before streaming services had completely taken over.

So if you had to pick a year which one would it be?

I've thought about this quite a lot since the ten year anniversary of The Force Awakens and recently with the box office failure of The Mandalorian and Grogu. Remember how excited and optimistic people were not just for that movie but also for the future of Star Wars in general? Compare that excitement to the current cinematic state of Star Wars. It almost feels like two different universes. There is just so little excitement going on right now. I honestly get a sad inside just thinking about this.

Now, I'm not asking which superhero films you think have been the best quality wise, instead I'm asking which ones you think have had the biggest influence on Hollywood in general.

For me if I had to pick two films it would be The Avengers and Deadpool.

The avengers is pretty obvious since many other studios tried to replicate the shared universe that Marvel had created but not as successfully with the DCU being one of the best examples.

Deadpool also had a huge impact but in a very different way. What that movie's success above all did was to show Hollywood that R rated movies can in fact make huge amount of money and that they don't did to be as afraid to make make movies with that rating as they had been ever since the turn of the century since R rating was pretty much a no no for any movie with a big budget. While R rating didn't become the norm in Hollywood after Deadpool it certainly resulted in a lot of movie being allowed to get that rating that would probably never have gotten that if it weren't for how succesful Deadpool ended up being.

So which ones do you think have had the biggest impact on teh film industry and why?

I'm just curious. Why is that the case? Why do so many people here say that now as adults they think the character driven scenes are teh best ones. Why would those scenes in the LOTR trilogy be less entertaining/engaging as you get older? I could maybe have understood those feelings if the films had been nothing but action scenes but that's not the case. I can personally say that I love both the action scenes and the charachter driven scenes just as much.

Ater Hrothgar is killed at the Burning Plains Orik says to Eragon that aside from the obvious fact that he was sad about losing his foster father he was also angry about the fact that Murtagh killed him with magic instead of having an equal fight. What I find so weird about that statement is that Hrothgar had dwarven spellcasters around him during the battle, which is not equal compared to the normal soliders that they were fighting. Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

No, I'm not talking about the changes that were made from the books whether they were big or small, those criticism against the fims have existed ever since they came out. What I'm refering to is truely nitpicky stuff like pointing out tings about some extras in the background and stuff like that, things that does not in any way have an impact on the story. This is the kind of stuff that you often find in a Cinemasins video and I preosnally find it worrying that this is happening. It might at worst lead to more people here intentionally try to look for so called "flaws" and think less of the films as a whole.

How owuld you feel if Paolini decides to make some changes from the books when adapting it to the TV screen? Now, I know that there are always changes made when adapting books to the screen since books and TV are different medium but what I mean in this case when I say that he makes changes I'm talking about changes that ar emade because he now feels that there are some things in the book series that he wished he had done differently looking back. For example let's say that he decides that he wants Brom to die later in the story than he did in the books. Would you be okay with this if he decides to do this?

I was reading the comments to The Little Mermaid on the site Common Sense Media. Now for those of you who don't know Common Sense Media is a site aimed at parents that rates how old their kids should be to watch certain movies. While reading the comments there to The Little Mermaid I was surprised to how much most people there disliked Ariel. There was partly the usual stuff about her giving up her voice for just a man (which as many people have pointed out is not true) there were also a lot of criticsism about her showing so much skin and is at one point naked. However the weirdest criticsism by far was how so many people complained about the fact that she disobeyed her father which left her heartbroken.

So what are your thoughts on this three complaints that were brought up among those users?

I was reading the comments to The Little Mermaid on the site Common Sense Media. Now for those of you who don't know Common Sense Media is a site aimed at parents that rates how old their kids should be to watch certain movies. While reading the comments there to The Little Mermaid I was surprised to how much most people there disliked Ariel. There was partly the usual stuff about her giving up her voice for just a man (which is not true) there were also a lot of criticsism about her showing so much skin and is at one point naked. However the weirdest criticsism by far was how so many people complained about the fact that she disobeyed her father. How can that be a big criticism? I mean he was prejudiced against humans and also destroyed her entire collection which left her heartbroken.

So what are your thoughts on this three complaints that were brought up among those users?

I was reading the comments to The Little Mermaid on the site Common Sense Media. Now for those of you who don't know Common Sense Media is a site aimed at parents that rates how old their kids should be to watch certain movies. While reading the comments there to The Little Mermaid I was surprised to how much most people there disliked Ariel. There was partly the usual stuff about her giving up her voice for just a man (which is not true as many people have pointed out) there were also a lot of criticsism about her showing so much skin and for one moment being naked. However the weirdest and most common criticism on that site was by far how so many people complained about the fact that she disobeyed her father. How can that be a big criticism? I mean he was a racist who also destroyed her entire collection.

Does any of this makes sense to you? I certainly don't get any of these complaints.

A lot of people often talk about how Cinemasins has had a negative impact on how people discuss movies online since it has resulted in people becoming more nitpicky and constantly using the word plot hole for things that aren't actually plot holes. While Cinemasins is certainly is the most extreme in that reagrd and argument could be made that parodies like How it should have ended and Nostalgia Critic also had a negayive impact in that regard since they also focus a lot on being nitpicky and pointing out "plot holes" I mean one of the most famous jokes from HISHE is in the Spider Man 3 video were they poke fun at the fact that the butler didn't tell Harry earlier about what happend to his father.

What do you guys think?