What are your movie hot takes?

Modern superhero movies are all pretty much the same. I don’t see any reason to go to any more of them.

I have just about sworn off the films of fan-boy favorites Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Paul Verhoeven, and Lars von Trier.

I wish that Denis Villeneuve would occasionally return to his French-Canadian and his smaller indie film roots such as “Incendies” and “Maelström.”

I much prefer crime and action movies from Asia (particularly Hong Kong and South Korea) to Hollywood product.

I have really, really enjoyed Keanu Reeves in several of his recent films: Man Of Tai Chi, the John Wick franchise, and Destination Wedding. He shows range in these pictures as a billionaire villain, an action anti-hero, and a romantic comedy leading man, respectively.

-I like these films:

Ghostbusters 2016
The Hobbit trilogy
Prometheus
Avatar
The Dark Knight Rises
The Star Wars prequels
The Last Jedi

-Tim Burton is a good-but-not-great director

-Many people love "Vertigo", but I thought it was boring

-Good-but-overrated films:

American Hustle
Spider-Man 2
Juno
The Martian

Even at his best I've never thought of him as a great director.

Those are good films, and I do think he's a good director, but I don't think he's one of cinema's greatest directors.  I haven't seen all his work so I don't know what I'd say is his best film.

I will say his earlier years are better than his modern years.  I wish he'd stop wasting his time on unnecessary remakes like Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dumbo, etc.  But I'm sure those are clearly "one for the studio" types of films he's doing so he can get more passion projects done.

Big Fish is far from moody...and damn near great.

- Subtitled films can be good - excellent even - but are generally a chore to watch because having to read everything that's been said while also having regard to the images on-screen is frustratingly tiring. Non-English-speakers who grew up watching subtitled flicks likely find this a lot easier than your average monolingual Anglophone.

- Schindler's List would have been better in full colour as, for me at least, black-and-white tends to create a kind of distancing effect between myself and the film I'm watching.

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III had a good plot.

- Inception is bloated with exposition and, visual effects aside, quite a boring film.

- Captain America: The First Avenger is superior to The Avengers.

- Movies made from about the 70s onwards tend to feature stronger, more credible acting performances than those made in earlier eras. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but the older style of acting more closely resembles stage acting compared to the more naturalistic, realist style that evolved in later years.

- No movie should exceed 2.5 hours in length. Any longer than that and the creators may as well just have produced a mini-series.