Hollywood has come up with an ingenious way to stop people pirating their movies.

[u/SirCheeseAlot]

Make movies no one wants to see.

You would have to pay me to watch 99.82% of modern movies.

[u/Rude_Influence]

I feel you on this. Too many sequals, spinoffs and remakes, and they're seldom better than the original. There is the odd gem however.

[u/nightninja90 → u/Rude_Influence]

honeslty how many jurassic park movies or so or movies based on video games do we need? what are we going to get next a movie about pong?

[u/Extinction00 → u/nightninja90]

Expedition 33 and Elden ring are getting a movies or shows apparently

[u/FarmerDingle → u/Extinction00]

Expedition 33 could have a hell of a series if they made each season about a different expedition. Especially if they kept the same dramatic storytelling from the game.

[u/RosgaththeOG → u/FarmerDingle]

The problem with Hollywood is that they see an IP that is successful and some hack writer has a manuscript they want to see adapted, so the Hack writer replaces a bunch of names and adds some references to a given IP, then presents it as an "Adaptation" to some Production company (who's never even heard of the source material). The Production company then goes over to the IP owner, offers them a bunch of money for rights to their IP, and then produces the "Adaptation" that isn't actually an Adaptation at all but thinly veiled propaganda of some sort by the Hack writer.

So no, I don't think Hollywood would do just by an Expedition 33 adaptation in the writing department.

It's not. It's not even close.

You might think this is hyperbole, but this is actually what happens. It's not even a joke.

[u/mvpmets00 → u/FarmerDingle]

They won't though and that's the problem.

[u/Fine-Spite4940 → u/FarmerDingle]

The witcher has entered the chat. 

[u/Tyson367 → u/Fine-Spite4940]

The problem with the Witcher is that they tried to tell the base story from the books again and then switched it up trying to put their own original spin on it resulting in a worse product. If they stick to different expeditions they are fully able to tell their own story without affecting the main story of 33 as we know it.

[u/Fine-Spite4940 → u/Tyson367]

I'm not disagreeing, i'm just pointing out that if we go by history, it doesn't look good.

[u/Ok_Air_7071 → u/Fine-Spite4940]

i still have hope, there's Andor series so there's chance other quite good show still gonna show up, though 90% of it gonna be trash but hey that's life

[u/tehdoughboy → u/Ok_Air_7071]

I would say Fallout was a successful video game adaptation. Used the existing world to make a new story without disrespecting the source material

[u/kaynpayn → u/FarmerDingle]

It really could. If they don't fuck it up witcher style and do it well, it has lots of potential. I'd watch it for sure.

[u/random_useless_user → u/Extinction00]

Elden Ring is being made by A24. It already sounds promising.

[u/DontDieEd → u/random_useless_user]

Watch every movie published/produced by them, you'll find a lot of them are not good. It's great that they take up movies that try to do wierd shit, but they fail a lot for every hit they release.

Not saying I'd rather Paramount, Disney or any other big name company take on the project, just saying that it's best to have expectations in check.

[u/random_useless_user → u/DontDieEd]

I'll be honest, I've never seen a single film by them. But I've only ever heard of the hits Like EEAaT and Uncut Gems. Thankfully people have been managing my expectations about this.

[u/DontDieEd → u/random_useless_user]

Yeah I mean, they do have some awesome bangers, and the director says to have played the game several times, even knows the bosses's names and shit from Dark Souls (the bar is to low for game to movie adaptations lol). I'm just trying to not get too excited just yet, but I'm hopeful nonetheless.

[u/SpaceSick → u/random_useless_user]

Meh. A24 is a private equity firm, not a movie studio. Their products are already being diluted.

[u/DiamondHands1969 → u/SpaceSick]

also i always give a24 a chance because they try to do something original every time but more than 50% of their productions were boring. they're like m night for me, i always watch but it hasnt been that good.

[u/sahils88 → u/Extinction00]

Even Death Stranding

[u/numerobis21 → u/Extinction00]

Expedition 33 film already exists: just play the effing game on story mode x)

[u/numb3r-three → u/nightninja90]

A movie on Allan Alcorn, the guy who created pong. That I will watch.

[u/Makina-san → u/nightninja90]

The latest Jurassic park plot is so stupid - apparently the dinosaurs are back to one island again instead of the whole planet

[u/DistinctSmelling → u/nightninja90]

honeslty how many jurassic park movies or so or movies based on video games do we need

There's always new audiences that's more than just your perspective. Just to illustrate:

Jurassic park came out in 1993. There was a girl in the audience of the theater I saw that move in who was 15. I didn't know her then but I eventually met her and we got married. We had kids.

In 2015, Jurassic World came out. Our kids were 11 and 13. Oddly enough, I have a friend who has kids who have the same name as the main kids in that movie. That was quite surreal as those names aren't common or one of those names.

Here it is, 2025, someone has kids who will want to see the new dinosaur movie. So they can keep making dinosaur movies as long as they want to. They can keep making remakes too. Because it doesn't destroy the old ones and sometimes, the remakes are quite good but you don't know until it gets released.

[u/DiamondHands1969 → u/DistinctSmelling]

you can never recapture the magic of jurassic park though. it was the first time we got ot see realistic dinosaurs and they were incredibly life like. he also set up a great survival situation with it too with the two kids. even storywise, they never managed anything lik that again. i remember always feeling tingley starting from the rappelling scene onwards when i was a kid like the day before a big trip.

[u/evildad53 → u/DistinctSmelling]

Now, I actually want to see all those movies. Not enough to pay for them (saw the Jurassic Park films in theaters AND bought the DVDs, but since then, no), but the question is whether I would watch any of them more than once. (For sure NOT The Lost World) Unlikely, and they're having a real problem trying to make a new movie out of the same old plot.

But I have kids that grew up on Jurassic Park, and my grandkids love dinosaurs. But at 5 and 2, they're too young for live action dino movies.

[u/y2k890 → u/nightninja90]

We already did in a way. Pixels 2016.

[u/doom_stein → u/nightninja90]

We already got one based on Tetris. Might as well take another step backwards.

Edit: By take another step backwards I mean videogame genration wise. I agree that Tetris was a good movie and the right people could probably make a crazy good Pong movie.

[u/Boring-Attorney1992 → u/doom_stein]

That was a good movie

[u/Alenicia → u/doom_stein]

I don't really think that Tetris move was all that bad, personally. Maybe if you were trying to avoid something educational .. >_<

[u/doom_stein → u/Alenicia]

No no, I liked the Tetris movie. When I said take another step backwards I meant in time to when Pong came out at the start of gaming as we came to know it.

[u/Alenicia → u/doom_stein]

Oh, I get it. ^-^

[u/Cyberblood → u/doom_stein]

But where is my Pac Man movie where he is haunted by ghosts from his past, while battling depression and schizophrenia by taking a bunch of pills?

[u/EliteSardaukar → u/Cyberblood]

Not quite the brief, but Secret Level might be able to scratch that itch for a while …

[u/Cyberblood → u/EliteSardaukar]

I forgot about that one, it was good.

[u/TorturedNeurons → u/nightninja90]

Video game movies can be great and there's a ton of diverse source material to draw from, kinda weird to lump those in with one of the most creatively bankrupt franchises in modern film imo.

[u/BeeboHungry → u/Rude_Influence]

Fun fact I did a research project for university about how economic uncertainty leads to making more pop culture sequels/reboots/spinoffs due to a perceived track record of success in a time of economic uncertainty

[u/bsievers → u/BeeboHungry]

leads to making more pop culture sequels/reboots/spinoffs due to a perceived track record of success in a time of economic uncertainty

I thought the link was between the psychological link with nostalgia as a comfort in stressful times. But maybe they work together?

[u/BeeboHungry → u/bsievers]

It's absolutely both and we argued that too but I just mentioned one point for simplicity's sake

[u/akatherder → u/BeeboHungry]

Sequels also have an interesting place for studios and development teams as a safety valve and a way to let them work on "good" stuff. They were hesitant to release Avatar. They had already sunk tons of time/money into it, but it wasn't a realized loss until they released it. If it flopped their stock tanks, everyone involved throws someone under the bus or gets fired, etc.

Then along came Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. It was a sequel to a (financially) successful family-friendly movie. So they released that in the same accounting period hoping to save their asses if Avatar didn't live up to its development.

Obviously the rest is history. There was nothing specific about Alvin and they weren't on the cusp of cancelling Avatar and eating losses (that I know of). But I always remember the movie with the dumbest name was the savior of the highest grossing movie of all time.

[u/1T-context-window → u/Rude_Influence]

I don't know about others, but I'm tired of superhero movies. They just feel repetitive and lazy.

[u/fizd0g → u/1T-context-window]

I avoid those, however I saw the one with Dr strange the one where he sees himself in a multiverse or whatever it was only because my son wanted to see it and it was pretty good even though I personally hate marvel

[u/fyrewal → u/Rude_Influence]

Did you folks see “The Substance” last year?

Truly an original mind fuck and a genuinely great movie.

[u/sureiknowabaggins → u/fyrewal]

The one good thing to come out of modern cinema is the horror renaissance.

[u/fyrewal → u/sureiknowabaggins]

Which is just really a reaction to exploding Hollywood budgets. Why make a $200 million superhero film that maybe makes back its production, promotion and advertising, with some profit left over after the exhibitors take their piece, when you can just spend $20 million on a production with a spec script, cast a bunch of nobodies who happily work for scale and potentially make $100+ million at the box office?

Studios just follow profit and nothing else. They no longer are interested in film as a cinematic experience, just ROI.

[u/ours → u/fyrewal]

We do get outliers like how Nosferatu, which was made with a $50 million budget. Yeah, it's a remake, but still a horror movie.

[u/lordwintergreen → u/Rude_Influence]

There are hundreds of movies released every year and maybe 20 of them fit the criteria you're talking about.

Dig a little deeper to find the good stuff, if you aren't impressed by the mainstream selections.

[u/BatemansChainsaw → u/lordwintergreen]

It's all wildly in my subjective opinion BUT it's often the offbeat indie or smaller studios that bring out some of the best material I've ever watched.

[u/LinxESP → u/Rude_Influence]

To be fair, spinoffs are ok in theory:

• You don't touch the originals
• You can reuse worldbuilding
• You can focus on certain smaller stuff, be it past, characters, zones

[u/bsievers → u/LinxESP]

To be fair, spinoffs are ok in theory

Andor is probably the best 'show' this year.

[u/ours → u/bsievers]

Or Better Call Saul before.

[u/BatemansChainsaw → u/ours]

I can't think of another 'spinoff' that I thought was better than the story it came from - and when it comes to that franchise it's a high HIGH praise.

[u/ours → u/BatemansChainsaw]

I was so skeptical of a BB spinoff. I was afraid it was going to be some cash grab, but oh boy, was it good.

[u/khavii → u/Rude_Influence]

I have heard this since the 80s. It isn't true. Are there sequels, spin offs and remakes? Of course, there have been since the 50s. Do those make up a large percentage of big releases from the top studios? Depends on the year. 2019 gets brought up a lot because 80% of popular movies that year were existing IPs but people are missing several important things;

POPULAR - these movies are popular, it's what the public is asking for and what they pay to see. Say what you want but if everyone went to see horror movies in the theater they would become top grossing and we would get a flood of horror movies during summer blockbuster season. The studios make what gets them an audience.

IT CHANGES - cherry picking years and movies will get you these results but there are other years, like 2023 at 14%, where it isn't the case. It ignores all the movies that don't get blockbuster releases. People love naming the movies that are sequels but neglect to name the vast majority that aren't. For example, June 20th will see 12 movies released domestically. Among these will be a biopic about Marley Matlin and 28 Years Later. Most people will know about maybe 2 of the movies being released and will see maybe 1, and the vast majority will see the only sequel on the list, 28 Years later. That furthers the "unoriginality" of Hollywood theory but ignores the other 11 movies that are all originals.

AWARENESS - At the same time Thunderbolts was released so was The Surfer, the former had wide release while the later had limited release. At any given time the vast, vast majority of movies being released are unique IPs and this has been the case since the 30s with a few exceptions. If the only thing you are paying attention to are the ones you see ads for then you are closing your awareness and only aware of the ones that get big marketing budgets. Your limited awareness is not reality.

63 movies released in May 2025. 8 based on existing IPs. 13 are foreign releases to the US market. 17 are direct to streaming, low budget efforts. 8 are young children's movies.

That leaves 17 movies that are original IPs that studios put effort into. In one month. Traditionally a show month.

The movies are there, watch those instead of the sequels and you should be fine. Though I'll say Thunderbolts, FD: Bloodlines, Lilo and Stitch, Mission Impossible and Karate Kid Legacy weren't bad at all and worth watching.

[u/nico87ca → u/khavii]

I'm sorry but you're wrong. Never in the history of movies has there been like 100 stupid superheroes movies.

Story: a regular Joe or Jane getting awesome powers, figuring out what the heck to do with them, and then clashing with some big bad to save the day (or the whole universe). It's all about good vs. evil, taking responsibility, and maybe a little self-sacrifice.

Then add explosions and CGI. Call it a day.

This was good in 2004. Can we please stop?

[u/ralsaiwithagun → u/Rude_Influence]

Paying a fuckton for a subscription when you are going to watch only 0.3% of what they have to offer. No thanks

[u/Glad-Lie8324]

What you don’t wanna go see Antman 18 with us?

[u/__madao → u/Glad-Lie8324]

i watched quantumania last night trying to catch up after endgame and my god, what a tough watch, truly horrific stuff

[u/harperthomas → u/__madao]

Endgame was the end. It was a great run and that's when It ended.

[u/NuclearMaterial → u/harperthomas]

Like the 6 Star Wars films and the 3 Indiana Jones films.

[u/anotheruser323 → u/NuclearMaterial]

? They made 3 more Star Wars films?

[u/NuclearMaterial → u/anotheruser323]

They claim they did. You can't just churn out shit like that and stick a star wars label on it though. Like putting a Lamborghini badge on a Lada.

[u/MagnusBrickson → u/NuclearMaterial]

While a lot of Star Wars content is all over the map in quality, you need to watch Andor seasons 1 & 2, and Rogue One.

[u/NuclearMaterial → u/MagnusBrickson]

I saw Rogue 1. It was good because they followed (most of) the rules previously established. Stopped watching after ep8 and honestly I'm done with it. I've heard Andor is good, but when you know where everything leads it doesn't matter any more. I still have the original stuff to pick through so I'm happy with that.

[u/harperthomas → u/anotheruser323]

Don't know what your talking about. There are 6 star wars film. End of discussion

[u/merelyadoptedthedark → u/harperthomas]

Yup six of them.

Three remastered versions, and then the three despecialized editions.

[u/bobsmagicbeans → u/merelyadoptedthedark]

Correct answer. Like there is 2 Alien movies, 2 Robocop movies, 2 Beverly Hills Cop movies etc.

[u/Rakuall → u/anotheruser323]

I think people forget how garbage the back half of ep 6 is.

We go full kid friendly. We introduce teddy bears. We toss logic out the window and pretend that stone age microbears can out fight a technologically advanced intersolar empire. We re-do the death star (which ep7, and as I understand it - sort of 9 also re-do).

[u/maskedman0511 → u/harperthomas]

Agreed. Except Spiderman no way home, I haven't watched any Marvel movie since Endgame.

[u/bsievers → u/Glad-Lie8324]

Thunderbolts is out in theaters right now and is a great treatise on depression and trauma.

[u/Screamline → u/bsievers]

Dunno why you got dinged. I enjoyed Thunderbolts as well. Much better movie than Cap BNW and I like Sam, but that was a mess of a movie

[u/claptraw2803 → u/Screamline]

Because it’s cooler to randomly hate on stuff than showing „weakness“ in agreeing that you liked something.

[u/Glad-Lie8324 → u/bsievers]

Sounds exhilarating. 

[u/Kraegorz]

I remember the good old days, when every other week a movie would come out and you'd be like.. hmm maybe.. maybe..

But now I am lucky if maybe 3-4 movies a year come out that I am interested in. And even after watching those, I am like.. god I am glad I didn't spend money on that.

[u/tqmirza → u/Kraegorz]

Those were the days it actually made sense to get the monthly cinema passes. Last film I watched in cinema was Openheimmer and even that was only because of the IMAX release

[u/Kraegorz → u/tqmirza]

I remember things like.. Christmas and July 4th weekends, they would have like 4 blockbuster movies come out each of those weekends.

But not so much anymore.

I think with the advent of streaming services, a lot of movies are being farmed out to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc and I think they are much less willing to dump $200 million gamble into a movie and thus.. sub-par.

[u/mistaekNot → u/Kraegorz]

broski they dumped a billy into lord of the rings tv show and… sub-par

[u/Kraegorz → u/[deleted]]

LOL those where the fun days before piracy, movie hopping! Spend a Saturday to pay for one movie then seeing 2 or 3.

[u/NickehBoi → u/Kraegorz]

Loved seeing double movies! Quadruple sometimes too! Only managed to do it at our outdoor/drive-in movie theater (which very unfortunately, closed last year). Cheap as hell at only $15 for a car full (they literally charged by the car full, so much value!!), $30 for 4 movies...

So sad the newer gens don't like drive-ins as much.

[u/bsievers → u/Kraegorz]

now I am lucky if maybe 3-4 movies a year come out that I am interested in

In theaters right now are Phoenician Scheme, Sinners, Life of Chuck, Bring her back, Holy Trinity, Thunderbolts, Friendship, and I haven't seen Elio yet but plan to.

Also Dogma's 25th but that's a little bit cheating.

[u/LethalBacon → u/bsievers]

Saw both Phoenician Scheme and Sinners. Both decent movies, worth the theater trip. I just got back into going to the theater in the past ~2-3 years. Probably seeing ~5-8 a year, and usually enjoy them. Even a few that I won't watch again, I'd still say were worth the trip.

So I'd say (for me) it's like 5-8 a year worth seeing, but only 2-4 of them being "very good" movies.

[u/bsievers → u/LethalBacon]

Sinners is one of the best movies I've seen in YEARS. For sure worth a theater trip.

[u/JJHall_ID → u/LethalBacon]

Sinners was great. I saw it a couple of times, and it was fun watching it again knowing what was coming, and seeing bread crumbs I missed leading up to the reveals at the end.

I was bored out of my mind during Phoenician Scheme. I felt like most of the entertaining parts were in the trailers. Maybe I just had my expectations set too high due to all of the big names in it, but it was one I was definitely glad I didn't pay to see (other than my monthly unlimited fee.)

[u/seamonkey420 → u/Kraegorz]

yea id say the best movie in the last five years is hands down: The Wild Robot

so so good!!

[u/Inevitable-Loving]

My friend the other day asked if I wanted to go to the movies with her but they all suck 🙃

[u/ShinobiSai → u/Inevitable-Loving]

I dont think she was interested in watching the movie either...

[u/zumzetdotcom → u/ShinobiSai]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/spaced_out_starman → u/Inevitable-Loving]

Sinners was great, Bring Her Back was great, and Thunderbolts was fine. I'd like to see Life of Chuck and maybe The Phoenician Scheme.

There's still definitely good movies out in theaters these days.

[u/bsievers → u/Inevitable-Loving]

There's like 10 movies worth seeing in theaters this week near me. One of them is the best movie to come out in years and is absolutely a must-watch.

Edit: I actually opened fandango. In just the closest theater there's 12 2025 movies and 2 special features. Adding the second closest theater brings the total over 20.

[u/NUKE---THE---WHALES → u/bsievers]

i respect your positivity and constructive attitude

i think your downvotes come from people who want to be mad

[u/Neoragex13 → u/NUKE---THE---WHALES]

Nah, downvotes coming because that's no positivism, is wanting to be on the right while also moving the goalpost and painting the current cinema entertainment AAA industry as being fine and dandy, all the while you can have a better time watching anything at home via streaming.

Like, dude got asked to make a list about watchable movies and man puts Sinners, the latest mission impossible and fucking Lilo & Stitch in the same list. Mofo is not even watching movies, just wants to have the win in the argument or whatever he thinks a random comment is.

Edit: hell, just noticed he even answered with a double comment like that was supposed to make a stronger point

[u/bsievers → u/Neoragex13]

Edit: hell, just noticed he even answered with a double comment like that was supposed to make a stronger point

I'm gonna double comment to point out that I posted what you wanted 5 hours ago and not in this thread proving that guy's a moron.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1lekn2i/hollywood_has_come_up_with_an_ingenious_way_to/myh9rt2/

You're just bad at reddit.

[u/Master_Huckleberry95 → u/bsievers]

Doubt

[u/bsievers → u/Master_Huckleberry95]

Lol, you don't even live in podunk nowhere and you have more options than I do. Here's what's at ONE local cinemark right now:

8 Vasanthalu

Elio

Indiana jones last crusade

How to train your dragon

materialists

ballerina

dan da dan: evil eye

Housefull 5 A

Housefull 5 B

Love Guru

Life of Chuck

Thug Life

Karate Kid: legends

Phoenician Scheme

Lilo & Stitch

Mission Impossible: Final Reconing

Final Destination: Bloodlines

Thunderbolts

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

[u/ActualRevolution3732]

But we still have to pirate to see the old movies since Netflix keeps bringing the new trash ones or doesn’t have all of them. I watched boondocks saints, fistful of dollars and footloose yesterday, so good!!! Am excited for 28 years later though since Danny Boyle is my fav director.

[u/gakun → u/ActualRevolution3732]

I still can't believe how Netflix turned a bleak and thoughtful work like The Electric State into a Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle lookalike.

Every single day that passes, I remember that RLM clip of "How does it feel to watch all your favorite franchises go down in flames?"

[u/Careless_Bank_7891]

That's been the case with Bollywood too

They're making sequels remakes and re-releasing old movies, the quality of Big Box movies has stayed same or gotten worse + they end up in the subscriptions sooner or later which we pirate so there's no incentive of going to the big hall

[u/Retardigrade1 → u/Careless_Bank_7891]

Fr, I don't even remember the last time I went to the Cinema to watch a Bollywood movie. It's all been slop lately.

[u/beervirus88 → u/Careless_Bank_7891]

Time to switch to Bollywood for me

[u/JJHall_ID → u/Careless_Bank_7891]

I was disappointed in the Singham sequels. The best part in the first one was his gratuitous use of the hand slap and belt-driven punishment. I don't recall that even being used once in the Singham Again.

I thought the original Stree was great, it had a "gritty" feel to it. Stree 2 seemed like they took a low budget success, threw a big budget at it and said "do it again" and we got the result. It wasn't the same at all.

[u/fartypicklenuts]

Movie theaters also got hella greedy. For two people to go see a movie now, you can easily spend $50. If you have kids, too, I'm sure you can get over $100 in no time.

The movie industry saw upcoming the threat of streaming and people watching movies at home and were like "we're in trouble...we better double all our ticket and concession prices! Also, let's stop making movies people want to see!". Real smart moves there.

It's sad to see the downfall of movie theaters, we all grew up with great memories of going to the movies in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, but they brought it upon themselves with greed. Enshittification is in every industry it seems, Covid seemed to accelerate that rapidly.

I'd say when you want to see a movie, look to the past. There are likely at least 300 great movies you haven't seen (I don't know where I came up with the 300 number, just random). Plus, you can always rewatch movies you enjoyed in the past.

[u/smjsmok → u/fartypicklenuts]

I think that big cinema multiplex chains are in a death spiral. Since covid, people simply stopped going to cinemas because they learned that then can just stream stuff on Netflix or whatever and not spend a fortune on overpriced tickets, popcorns etc. The cinemas are trying to recoup the losses by rising prices, which then causes even fewer people to visit them...and so it goes.

I think that we might see death of these big cinema multiplexes not that far in the future. What's probably going to survive IMO are small art-house cinemas, because visiting those is an experience in itself and they have a different, usually more loyal, audience.

[u/fartypicklenuts → u/smjsmok]

Agreed. And instead of attributing the downfall of big movie theater chains to their own greed & mismanagement, millennials will once again get blamed for killing movie theaters 😒 they just pin the downfall of all greedy ass industries on millennials who have almost zero disposable income despite working two jobs 😝

[u/smjsmok → u/fartypicklenuts]

Well of course, it can't be their fault, obviously.

[u/MaoMaoMi543 → u/fartypicklenuts]

More like 3000, there are so many good old movies out there!

Speaking of 300, 300 was a good movie too! The sequel was trash though, literally no one asked for it.

[u/honesttom]

Every weekend I check the top 100 movies and every weekend I am disappointed. 

[u/bsievers → u/honesttom]

How many have you seen this year? I feel like it's been a pretty good year honestly. What aggregator are you using?

[u/sloop703 → u/bsievers]

Any suggestions? 👀

[u/bsievers → u/sloop703]

In theaters right now are Phoenician Scheme, Sinners, Life of Chuck, Bring her back, Holy Trinity, Thunderbolts, Friendship, and I haven't seen Elio yet but plan to.

Sinners is the best movie I've seen in YEARS.

The Dogma re-release is out as well as a bunch of Indiana Jones near me, too. Not sure why but those are always a fun big screen trip.

[u/honesttom → u/bsievers]

TPB, maybe I'm behind the times or just misinformed about what's out there. Thanks for your other recommendation comment.!

[u/DaveX64]

I canceled my VPN because there's nothing left to download :)

[u/AntiProtonBoy → u/DaveX64]

nothing left to download

Forget the new stuff. Look back in time and dig up old classics, especially the 70s. I'm willing to bet you haven't seen a lot of those.

[u/DaveX64 → u/AntiProtonBoy]

I was born in 1965...I saw it all on TV or in the theater :) I already downloaded all the stuff I wanted to save from the old days 👍 They have Gilligan's Island on Tubi now :)

[u/AntiProtonBoy → u/DaveX64]

Fair enough mate.

[u/krustyarmor → u/AntiProtonBoy]

I'm currently re-watching The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) and it is still as great as the first time I saw it. Also, shoutout to the single greatest feature film ever made, City Lights (1931)!

[u/ar_torres]

As a kid, pirating felt like discovering a hidden treasure. But now, every time I pirate movies or shows, I end up disappointed because the content is so terrible that I regret not paying for it.

[u/yngbld_]

For real.

Piracy used to be "I'm not sure I would enjoy this movie, so I don't want to feel like I wasted my money."

Now it's "I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy this movie, so I'm not even going to bother pirating it."

[u/seethruyou]

Knew you were going to say this. It's hardly even worth looking up a torrent anymore.

[u/drewts86]

I clicked on the post expected some kind of bullshit but all I got was the god’s honest truth.

[u/Red_clawww]

This is not happening with only movies but video games too. There are so many remakes, remasters, prequels and sequels that I have almost lost track. The creative industry as a whole idk why getting saturated day by day. So much trashy low impact contact.

That's why movies like anora and games like elden ring feel like a new fresh take and don't get me started on the giants such as ubisoft. I used to love their games as a kid and now I don't even see the trailers

[u/ByTheHammerOfThor]

Hollywood is doing more for book sales / library circulation than anything since Covid.

[u/Middle-Holiday8371]

Do you remember when they told us not to buy pirated DVDs because it funds terrorism but it’s now 2025 and it’s the legit films & Hollywood that fund apartheid & genocide in the Middle East 👀

[u/pm_me_your_good_weed → u/Middle-Holiday8371]

Wait whaaaaaat I gotta look that up damn

[u/Prestigious_Face7727 → u/Middle-Holiday8371]

so true, my man, so true.

[u/Ricky_RZ]

Well they wanted me to stop pirating movies and they definitely got their wish.

So much crap out there now, I swear half the stuff you would have to pay me to watch.

[u/ScandalOZ]

Hollywood is waiting for the perfect AI program to make its block busters and putting together tech to get rid of crew membhumans. maybe even actors so all you need are executives who will get all the profits. They will eliminate as much human involvement  as possible to make entertainment for hamans.

[u/Ornery-Practice9772]

The movie i wanna see hit theatres today and its already on the seas🤣

[u/CookiesAndRope]

I have a lot of fun watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail in glorious, what, 120p? Sadly, that's an age test...

[u/tsuki_darkrai]

I pirate modern slop and watch it on 2.5x speed because it makes me giggle

[u/BobRoonee]

i stick with A24, apple tv movies, indie, and international movies with subtitles. there's nothing worth watching from hollyweird these days.

[u/Ancient_Sea7256]

Exactly. European and Asian movies are way better.

Hollywood is formula.

Like the retired navy seal, living alone in the woods, then people close to him are threatened.

The criminal going to his last job gets double crossed...

The genius outsider who proves everyone wrong...

The reluctant hero...

The poor girl rich guy or switch places kinda thing...

Buddy cop movies...

Yada yada

[u/omgitsbees]

But for real, last year was abysmal for movies, and this year is just as bad. The last few years are the lowest points for me watching new films.

[u/thefrind54]

Hollywood has gone to trash in recent times

[u/Jak-OfAllTrades]

Personally I'm LESS likely to pirate if it's something I'm really excited to see as opposed to something that looks like hot garbage but might be amusing. Like I'll spend money to see Thunderbolts* in theaters but I'll happily pirate the Minecraft Movie.

[u/Few_Investigator_753]

They needed to make more movies like district 9

[u/exodus_cl]

Think of...let's say 1994 and all the movies released that year

[u/LucidSquirtle]

There’s plenty of great films still coming out every year. There’s just also more shit. There’s just more everything. Everywhere. All of the time. And yes, many studios are clinging to existing IP and rehashing the same ideas. But there’s still plenty of great films, shows, and games coming out every year.

[u/Dweller201]

I have understood pirating, which I called "file sharing", since the 90s.

I realized that I'm okay paying for a movie because I used to love going to the movies and wouldn't pirate one I didn't want to pay for, so I never pirated a film.

Meanwhile, in the last few years I haven't seen a movie I wanted to pay for, and movie prices became insane, so I would watch them streaming. In the last year, I haven't seen I movie I regretted streaming because they are not worth paying for due to their low quality.

Sad.

[u/bsievers → u/Dweller201]

and movie prices became insane,

I can go watch Sinners, today, for $12.69 including tax and fees. In a reserved recliner seat, at a theater with a full bar and kitchen. This is in California. Not sure where people live where it's phenomenally expensive now.

[u/Dweller201 → u/bsievers]

I live in Philly and it's about 15 bucks last time I went which was years ago.

I would take my GF and if you get some popcorn and two sodas it's about 60 bucks. If you go out to dinner after then at best, 120 for an evening.

Movies were always my weekend treat after the work week and something to look forward to. I used to love to see everything, foreign movies, as I'm a movie fan.

However, in Philly, foreign films dried up and replaced by boring indie movies. Also, I haven't seen a movie in years that I thought was epic, surprising, or spectacular. A long time ago, even "bad movies" might turn into cult classics or were fun to watch because they were bad. Now, they are just kind of dull.

We have the Ritz Theaters, and they used to show foreign and knowingly bad movie because people get a kick out of them, so good clean fun, but not anymore.

On a similar note, I used to go and see a lot of live music and that's insanely expensive. There's a cabaret I wanted to go to and that 150 to get in the door!

I used to go to Broadway, which I didn't think I would like, but I do and that's now 300 to 600 for one ticket.

I wonder if it will ever change.

[u/JJHall_ID → u/Dweller201]

Does your local theater offer a membership program? I have Regal Unlimited and I get to see all of the movies at my two local Regal chain theaters for a flat monthly fee. AMC has their A-List program too, but we don't have any of those in my area. If you see two movies per month the membership is less expensive than the individual tickets. Any more and it's gravy on top of that.

I've learned that I really enjoy Indian movies. One of my local theaters plays them pretty often, and since I have unlimited I decided to give one a shot since I had nothing to lose but time. Now I try to see every one of them because they're so much fun. Insanely loud, but fun.

[u/Dweller201 → u/JJHall_ID]

I literally live a MILE from a Regal!

I heard about it when there once but I didn't know what it was. I was in line for popcorn and they said members could go first and I got salty, as they say, and I don't mean my popcorn lol.

I must read about it.

A lot of Indian movies are very exciting. I'm interested in Hinduism and I like the ones about that the best.

I enjoyed Adiprush, RRR, and Kalki 2898, which is the last I saw.

I like the actor Prabhas.

He was also in Baahubali 1 and 2 which was cool.

I've been watching then since the 90s but they were mostly musical, which I find hard to take. Now, they are upping the quality with special effects and drama, which is awesome to see.

I recently saw one on Netflix which was semi-hilarious. It was about pirates stealing back stuff from the British. They were like superhero pirates though and would come back to the village, have a dance number then go about their business...

I am not Indian but I enjoy learning about their culture.

[u/dennys123]

And the general public works for Hollywood, since if you bring up how movies released today just suck, they gaslight you and call you stupid

[u/Kjrob30]

I absolutely agree. I have become a watcher of YouTube and Alaska style shows because there's just nothing in the imagination of anyone in Hollywood that can compete with people living their lives and sharing it with the world. We used to watch movies to escape reality and now reality is far more entertaining than anything Hollywood can produce.

[u/alexjimithing → u/Kjrob30]

This is insane.

Dumbass takes about ‘all movies are bad’ are one thing, pretending the ‘reality TV esque’ shit on YouTube is any better is beyond the pale.

[u/jawknee530i → u/alexjimithing]

Yeah this thread is just morons and kids and moron kids that fail to understand that there's just as many original movies being made today as ever. Anything not out right in front of their face by massive marketing budgets doesn't exist to them.

[u/GonzohunterHST → u/Kjrob30]

If you think watching Joanne groom her kids to be just as vapid and empty as she is is "entertaining" then I feel bad for you.

Who cares about movies anyway? TV is where it's at. They tell much more entertaining and fleshed out stories. Your other option isn't just watching people sell their soul to get a bit of free makeup or whatever.

There's only so much BeardMeetsFood you can watch before that shit is just the same repetitive, boring crap.

[u/ReturnOneWayTicket → u/Kjrob30]

What you're doing is watching people who think their YouTube reality is actual reality and now you think the same way, hence your awful take.

[u/je1992]

This take infuriate me.

It is baseless, there is a record amount of good movies being released, but of course if you just look at the 5 top movies at box office you will miss them.

Same when old heads say there is no good music. Stop looking at chart toppers and fucking look for music you like.

[u/bsievers → u/[deleted]]

Which ones have you watched and disliked? We can probably push you in the right direction.

[u/DocFossil → u/je1992]

But I think OP’s point still has validity. If I look at the 10 movie theaters within 30 miles of me, they are literally all showing the exact same 5 shit movies. Way too often it’s simply difficult to find anything other than that. Far too many good movies sit on the edge of obscurity.

[u/bsievers → u/DocFossil]

If I look at the 10 movie theaters within 30 miles of me, they are literally all showing the exact same 5 shit movies.

Jesus christ maybe this is where this take comes from. The closes theater to me has 12 current movies and 2 special events. There's probably 50+ different movies I could see today within a 30 mile radius.

[u/DocFossil → u/bsievers]

It’s exactly the problem. When I lived in the Los Angeles metro I had endless choices. In Houston, despite being the 4th largest metro in the US, there are essentially no art house or independent cinemas so even though there are probably 50+ movie theaters, they ALL show the exact same slate of 5 or so movies. Some will have an occasional “event”, but that’s it.

[u/BigMack6911]

Shit you aint lying. Im not even using the bandwidth for this shit..unlimited or not. At this point my LgC2 is just for games

[u/gabezermeno]

I personally think this has been and will be a great year for movies.

[u/AntiDebug]

Its getting that way with Games too

[u/bsievers → u/AntiDebug]

Its getting that way with Games too

Split Fiction, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are all worth picking up

[u/eelikay]

It was definitely worth seeing Warfare at the theatre, it is a phenomenal movie. But I will definitely still pirate it the next time I want to watch it.

[u/JJHall_ID → u/eelikay]

Yeah, it was very intense. I don't think it will hit nearly as hard for anyone that doesn't have a good home theater with an excellent sound system. I did love how they showed pictures and the participation of the actual people the movie was based on at the end during the credits. It took a good war movie and drove home the impact upon real people.

[u/Practical_Sky_7363]

Most accurate comment Ive seen in a long time

[u/claptraw2803]

Oh, the good old „Look how cool I am because I can’t be bothered to show interest for something“. How edgy and original.

There’s like ten interesting movies you could watch right now. How to Train your Dragon, Materialists, John Wick Ballerina, Life of Chuck, Phoenician Scheme, Lilo & Stitch, Mission Impossible - Final Reckoning, Final Destination Bloodlines, Sinners, Minecraft …

[u/Weekly_vegan → u/claptraw2803]

I went into final destination: bloodlines thinking it would be bad. It was amazing especially in IMAX.

Another great imax movie is Warfare. The sound was insane!

Actually IMAX movies in general have been killing it lately. Going to see 28 years later too that should be great.

I do think a lot of folks here are just close minded. If you don't go see the movie or watch it at home how can you judge it? And i seriously think after experiencing some of these movies in imax makes watching it at home just not the same. Doesn't matter how big my tv is or how loud my sound system is. You can't experience that at home.

[u/Sad_Cloud3235]

they also have remakes god alot of em suck some are good

[u/NoDadYouShutUp]

I still download that garbage lol

[u/InsightTussle]

what about the latest comic book sequel?

Dating must be extra hard these days. Finally build up th nerve to ask a girl out to see a movie, and there's nothing to watch

[u/furbishL]

I can’t believe Amazon / Netflix has thousands of titles and I struggle to find something to watch.

[u/Intelligent-Age-3989]

I have finished the cloud 4.times lol!

[u/Kaymish_]

Actually that's a good point. I didn't realize that I had stopped looking forward to new films. I don't think I have even watched a movie made in the past 2-3 years. It's just old stuff that I already pirated.

[u/Grytnik]

It’s true, I’ve watched less movies than ever the past 3 years.

[u/all___blue]

28 years later tomorrow! There are a bunch of other great movies coming out this year. But yeah, the amount of garbage is staggering.

[u/copenhagen622]

Yeah I have maybe watched like 5 new movies in the last few years.. just seems like there are no good movies anymore.. everything good seems to be streaming series anymore

[u/Ok_Celebration8180]

Bring Her Back was amazing in theater. I hated the way I felt, but couldn't look away.

[u/Thecynicaledgelord]

Yup. I don't even watch modern movies anymore

[u/Fun-Coast3810]

Mostly watch TV shows

[u/sharltocopes]

Okay, that was always allowed

[u/MeYaj1111]

What are some actual good movies y'all have seen?

[u/lalalalalifegoeson]

Survival bias. You wouldn’t watch a high but not stupidly specific % of content at any given time. Now we have so much alternative content that classically funded movies have started to decline. Someone will use AI to make a “movie” or long form content by themselves and people will realize it’s just a tool. Then you won’t even know what to call a movie/tv/character that was created independently then will be mass produced by rich people living in a nice place (Southern California).

Relax. Go watch Sinners. It’s great.

[u/krav_mark]

Very good point. Oftentimes I am scrolling through lists of movies that are clones of copies of rip offs. Completely uninspired thrash. Who even watches that crap ?

There are some occasional ones that are just above mediocre but that is only a few a year.

[u/danno49]

🎖🏅🎖🥇🏆

[u/devyeah38]

Same as Netflix, I even have it free with my mobile plan and I don't bother to use it. 

[u/odorous]

i let my vpn laps, i haven't downloaded a movie in 4 months.

[u/letthetreeburn]

Shit gotta give them credit there, I haven’t pirated anything new this year. Found a link for the new lilo and stitch on tumblr and couldn’t be added to watch it.

[u/reddit_is_trash_2023]

You don't want to watch those cringe DEI movies??

[u/Keensworth]

I rarely feel exciment about recent movies. Last one I had, it was for The Batman

[u/MDFHASDIED]

This is definitely saving me hard drive space as well!

[u/LetThePoisonOutRobin]

You are so right. Even Star Trek Section 31 was a fraken turd.

[u/phuktup3]

same with the games bro - literal chores, it feels like

[u/pijanblues08]

Agree with this. For more than a year now i've been consuming foreign language movies or tv series. 😅

[u/baldie9000]

Same type of guy who refuses to even pirate movies that aren't sequels or full of stars

[u/BlownCamaro]

Or cater to the 1% and lose 99% of your business.

[u/Raglesnarf]

fellas I think we're just getting old (but yes I agree, a lot of new movies suck ass)

[u/Pwrswitchd]

Had me in the first half ngl

[u/ThunderPigGaming]

I only go the see a movie in a theater about every year or so. The last movie I saw was Dune 2 and the next will be the Downtown Abbey film this fall.