I'm been to the movies over 200 times in the last few years, and gradually I'm becoming better at picking out a great movie from the new releases that suit my taste, and after a lot of trial and errors, these are the rules I follow:
1. Avoid woke garbage: every week there seems to be a few.
2. See who the filmmaker is: I avoid movies by Jordan Peele, Wes Anderson etc.
3. Do not trust the critics especially Rotten Tomatoes: I hate snobs
4. Avoid any movie if trailer has anything that makes you uncomfortable
5. Avoid any movie if trailer tells everything: it's called a condenser
6. Avoid all Disney movies: too woke for me
7. Avoid all superhero movies except Harley Quinn & Suicide Squad: getting tired of it.
8. Avoid shitty remakes: eg Eli Roth's remake of Death Wish, Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story
9. Avoid reimagined classic: eg Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a horror movie based on classic cartoon characters.
10. Avoid movies about movies: eg The Fabelmans, anything that's considered a "love letter to the cinema".
11. Avoid corporate movies: eg Blackberry, Dumb Money, reenactment of recent events.
12. Avoid movies about Nazis: simply too many of them...even in classics like Notorious.
Even with all these rules, the first new movie I picked this year called Night Swim was a crashing bore.
What went wrong?
1. I'm a big fan of James Wan's Saw series, but his Conjuring movies have become very boring, but he also produced M3GAN, which was one of the best movies in 2023, so I took a chance.
2. There is a hot chick swimming in bikini, guess sex sells. but other than her cute butt cheeks there's nothing else.
3. It's Bryce McGuire's debut movie, and originally it was a 4 minute video. I should have known a haunted swimming pool doesn't make a good horror movie.
4. I didn't check the imdb ratings at all.
So to sum it up: I saw hot chick in the trailer and some familiar names and got fooled into thinking it's a great movie. I don't really regret seeing it, but it seems there's no way I could have avoided the mistake.
What rules do you guys use to weed out bad/average movies?
1. Avoid woke garbage: every week there seems to be a few.
2. See who the filmmaker is: I avoid movies by Jordan Peele, Wes Anderson etc.
3. Do not trust the critics especially Rotten Tomatoes: I hate snobs
4. Avoid any movie if trailer has anything that makes you uncomfortable
5. Avoid any movie if trailer tells everything: it's called a condenser
6. Avoid all Disney movies: too woke for me
7. Avoid all superhero movies except Harley Quinn & Suicide Squad: getting tired of it.
8. Avoid shitty remakes: eg Eli Roth's remake of Death Wish, Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story
9. Avoid reimagined classic: eg Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a horror movie based on classic cartoon characters.
10. Avoid movies about movies: eg The Fabelmans, anything that's considered a "love letter to the cinema".
11. Avoid corporate movies: eg Blackberry, Dumb Money, reenactment of recent events.
12. Avoid movies about Nazis: simply too many of them...even in classics like Notorious.
Even with all these rules, the first new movie I picked this year called Night Swim was a crashing bore.
What went wrong?
1. I'm a big fan of James Wan's Saw series, but his Conjuring movies have become very boring, but he also produced M3GAN, which was one of the best movies in 2023, so I took a chance.
2. There is a hot chick swimming in bikini, guess sex sells. but other than her cute butt cheeks there's nothing else.
3. It's Bryce McGuire's debut movie, and originally it was a 4 minute video. I should have known a haunted swimming pool doesn't make a good horror movie.
4. I didn't check the imdb ratings at all.
So to sum it up: I saw hot chick in the trailer and some familiar names and got fooled into thinking it's a great movie. I don't really regret seeing it, but it seems there's no way I could have avoided the mistake.
What rules do you guys use to weed out bad/average movies?