7 People Share The Trends They're Sick Of Seeing In Modern Films

If you squint you might just make out Robert Pattinson in 2022's The BatmanHave you noticed that over the past 10 or so years, films have become so dark. Not thematically – but quite literally. I can barely see what’s happening in some of the biggest blockbusters of the current era. I’m also growing quite tired of haunting covers of 90s songs, the reimagined version of Nirvana’s hit Smells Like Teen Spirit featured in the opening credits of Black Widow being one such example.Reddit user Prabu-Silitwangi agrees, asking users of the /r/Movies subreddit for their suggestions of a “trend in movies right now” they most want to “die a horrible death”. And it seems that the film industry needs to rethink a few things...Lighting. We need lighting. PLEASE.Any-difficulty-1247 says: “Please god, have them hire some lighting people and start shooting back on real places and not just in front of green screens.”User Ratiocinor makes an interesting point, adding that if Titanic was made today, the chilling scenes of the ship breaking and sinking would be barely visible. In fact, half the movie would be too dark to see properly.Reflecting on the 1997 flick, they say: “It’s so refreshing to be able to see everything that’s going on. They just play with the white balance and desaturate the colours and shift everything blue to trick your eyes into thinking it’s night time and dark. But everything is still well lit and easy to see.”Obscene budgetsSome Reddit users feel that film budgets have gotten a little out of hand.AporiaParadox says: “Overinflated budgets that lead to movies needing to make an absurd amount of money just to break even.“Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny did not need to cost 300 million dollars, especially since it doesn’t even look that good, where the hell did all that money go? Was it the 10 minutes of CGI rejuvenated Harrison Ford?”Another user adds: “I recently found out that The Force Awakens is the most expensive movie of all time with a budget of around $500 million, and I think its massive success must have gone to studio executives’ heads.“After it became the second highest-grossing movie of all time they decided they don’t need to bother keeping budgets small anymore and now most blockbusters are struggling to break even because they’re just too expensive.”If this is true, it’s a bit silly. As JesseCuster40 puts it: “I wonder how much of The Force Awakens’ success was ‘Yay, new Star Wars.’”Sound mixing is... painful, a lot of the timeOne user gripes about “terrible sound mixing”, referring to exactly this issue, to which another replies: “Like having to put subtitles on because all their dialogue is fucking mumbling? Yes.” Thomisawesome hassome advice for movie studios, saying: “This confuses me so much. Considering that most people watch movies at home, why are they mixed only for IMAX theatres with 50 speakers surrounding the audience?“What studios need to start doing is making a theatre mix you can choose if you have that kind of set up, or a home mix, where an explosion isn’t 100 times louder than a person speaking.”I’ve definitely wondered in the past whether other people in the cinema with me are struggling to hear actors’ voices in films over the music and sound effects, so reading this on Reddit was quite reassuring.Lord_of_allusions read my mind, saying: “The Robert Pattinson The Batman sounded like it was a secret that I was eavesdropping on.”Bring back bloopersSnake_Plissman224 says: “I wish they would bring back bloopers during the credits in comedies.”YES. We need this whimsy and joy right now. Shout out to recent films like Bottoms, Ride On and Jackass Forever for leading the charge, and reminding us that bloopers in credits are welcomed.Commentary tracks are very much missed, tooRobertm922 says: “We need commentary tracks back. If Netflix can run multiple languages they can include a commentary track.”True! In fact, in a recent interview with the Criterion Channel, Ben Affleck quipped: “I feel like my best work in my career is in the commentary [on Armageddon], people approach me to talk about the commentary on this as much as they do for movies that I’ve been in.”Redeemable villains are growing a bit tiresomeWarm_Shoulder3606 says that making every antagonist redeemable is their personal film bugbear, adding: “Whatever happened to a piece of shit villain?”Hear hear.McFlyyoubojo adds: “This is what KILLS me about modern Disney. Every villain is misunderstood/ redeemable.“Hocus Pocus 2 wasn’t god awful, but I hate how they tried to make them sympathetic while expecting us to forget they were trying to kill (and eat if I remember right) children in the first movie.”Agreed. Let villains be irredeemable menaces! Franchises are getting a bit tiredUser macone-coffee says: “Franchises. Why wont they just die.”Indeed.Related...These Are Our 10 Top Picks Of The New TV Shows And Films Coming To Netflix In April 20257 Films People Would Rate 10/10 But Could Never Bring Themselves To Watch AgainThese 9 Classic Films Hit Very Differently Now That We’re Older

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