[quote=Mr Minio]Oppenheimer and Zielona Granica are two obvious examples. Chlopi to an extent, too. Just doesn't look that good from the trailer plus I disliked Loving Vincent.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]There are many recent films I can comfortably say I'm just not interested in seeing. A few years ago I'd force myself to watch them just so that I could check them out and present my opinion to others, but these days even my film-watching and opinion-giving became solitary, so I couldn't care less.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]The hype Barbie received made me want to hate it even more, but while mediocre, there definitely are worse films. Like [i]Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle[/i] - hands down the worst film I've seen in 2024 so far.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio][quote=Sedai]Well, I spent the past few weeks ignoring newer stuff[/quote] Yeah, all's good. The two most glorious new films are still unavailable or the subs are unavailable. I watched two 2023 films in the past three days, though, which is a lot.

[quote=Sedai]Also: Herzog agrees with you[/quote] Is the context in which he said it clear enough for us to know what he meant by it? I think he might've meant what is shown in the film is hell, not that the film is hell (=bad). Still, Herzog is quite weird with his words. He praised a Kanye West video and I could swear he was being sarcastic and actually hated it.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Also: Herzog agrees with you:

"Werner Herzog saw the first 30 minutes of Barbie, declares them "sheer hell""

For the record, i am skipping Barbie entirely, so will only see 9 of the 10 noms this season...[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Well, I spent the past few weeks ignoring newer stuff while I caught up on a bunch of classic and neo-noir that I had missed, so...win![/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]That being said, The Passenger is a very good recent film.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Nitpicking words aside, yeah, just focus on old films. There are only a few new films a year that are must-see. So many older must-sees since we're talking many decades.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Get into it? As if like, I haven't seen any old films? 

That's all the snark I have for that one, as new films on average are inferior.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Ignore new films and get into old cinema. It's a purifying experience.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Still quite a few titles: American Fiction, The Zone of Interest, Past Lives, Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall and Poor Things, which doesn't hit streaming until later this week.[/quote]