Actually, if you would go and watch the barbie movie instead of bitching about it you would find a very good Oscar worthy movie which humorously points out several flaws in our current society hiding in plain sight.

And truly, what or who is bigger then oppenheimer in modern history? The man literally changed the world and is more or less the reason behind the longest period of peace in the west and beyond. It turned out that fear, deterrence, is the only thing that keeps war away.

They got that message loud and clear in Iran and Northern Korea. Especially after what happened in Libya and Syria.

Anyway, politic bullshit aside so far 2023 is, I think, a very good year for cinema.

Next to that I've seen this meme repeat itself yearly over the last five years. It's getting tiresome. It's time to think up a new one.

Interestingly, Margot Robbie, the actress for Barbie, is actually a Lemmy user. I randomly found her in a thread talking about the movie industry strikes.

I mean this is kinda bs. We had some really good movies released this year as well.

Barbie - besides all the bitching on lemmy, it's actually a good movie

Oppenheimer - Maybe an all time classic

Spiderman Across the Multiverse - maybe one of the best superhero movies ever

Super Mario Bros - Not my type of movie but a commercial hit

Guardians of the Galaxy - Another really good superhero movie

John Wick 4 - Super fun movie

And that's just halfway through the year.

Edit: and mission impossible this year too

1999 was a good year too.

Fight Club

The Matrix

Sixth Sense

10 Things I Hate About You

The Mummy

Magnolia

Eyes Wide Shut

Being John Malkovich

Dogma

The Iron Giant

On the other hand, the crappy live action Flintstones movie came out in 1994, so it wasn't all winners.

Also Dumb and Dumber!

Crazy that Jim Carrey put out three huge movies in one year!

We used to make midbudget movies. Of those, probably speed is the most expensive and it’s budget wasn’t insane.

It’s good they are coming back

The Lion King and Shawshank Redemption also came out that year. There are probably other great ones, but I think those two have longer lasting influence than at least half the movies in this list.

Pretty sure if I went back and watched all those and barbie I’d probably enjoy Barbie more.

Literally 1994

Only Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers stood the test of time - the rest is just meh.

Ah yes, nostalgic gatekeeping bullshit. Kindly go fuck yourself

For any indie movie goers, how has the indie scene been compared to the 90's?

Yup, I saw almost all of them in theater when they were released, except Shawshank I never saw it, yeah I know it's about the best movie in the world, but I never saw it, go figure. And I have not seen Maverick too.

Idk, there's been a ton of great horror movies released this year and last year