Jasmine Ross
General Manager
**LONG READ**
I love movies and film a lot but I feel like it’s easy for me to grow out of my love for movies due to how pretentious the film world can be. I hate those IG pages like “Filmthusiast.” They post all these basic ass films and u have people in the comments gawking like it’s the best thing they’ve seen in their lives. I feel like some films should be fun and not taken too seriously. They’re here for our entertainment and should be left at that.
I feel like cinema fans can be hella ignorant and pretentious asf to the point where it just comes off as corny too. Thinking that Leo DiCaprio in Wolf of Wall Street should’ve gotten an Oscar when all DiCaprio does is look like he’s on coke and screams the entire time. Or even Christopher Nolan who seems to be hella repetitive (especially in Tenet) with his skills in filmmaking. That’s why I appreciate filmmakers like Tarantino (with the exception of his latest film). As problematic as he is, Tarantino seems humble when you look at the inspiration for his films. Huge fan of Black Exploitation, Chick Flicks, etc.
Film has always been a pretentious mess but nowadays it’s even worse. Everyone tryna be all fake artsy and sh!t. Films always wanna have a blatant message in it. Not even clever with it. Jordan Peele’s films make me roll my eyes so hard. Why do u wanna include racism in every horror movie u do? I understand some racism in your film but to make your entire film based solely on racism?? And thanks to Peele we have disastrous Lena Waithe tryna copy his sh!t which just leads into more disaster. sh!t is corny and weak asf imo. What do y’all think?
I love movies and film a lot but I feel like it’s easy for me to grow out of my love for movies due to how pretentious the film world can be. I hate those IG pages like “Filmthusiast.” They post all these basic ass films and u have people in the comments gawking like it’s the best thing they’ve seen in their lives. I feel like some films should be fun and not taken too seriously. They’re here for our entertainment and should be left at that.
I feel like cinema fans can be hella ignorant and pretentious asf to the point where it just comes off as corny too. Thinking that Leo DiCaprio in Wolf of Wall Street should’ve gotten an Oscar when all DiCaprio does is look like he’s on coke and screams the entire time. Or even Christopher Nolan who seems to be hella repetitive (especially in Tenet) with his skills in filmmaking. That’s why I appreciate filmmakers like Tarantino (with the exception of his latest film). As problematic as he is, Tarantino seems humble when you look at the inspiration for his films. Huge fan of Black Exploitation, Chick Flicks, etc.
Film has always been a pretentious mess but nowadays it’s even worse. Everyone tryna be all fake artsy and sh!t. Films always wanna have a blatant message in it. Not even clever with it. Jordan Peele’s films make me roll my eyes so hard. Why do u wanna include racism in every horror movie u do? I understand some racism in your film but to make your entire film based solely on racism?? And thanks to Peele we have disastrous Lena Waithe tryna copy his sh!t which just leads into more disaster. sh!t is corny and weak asf imo. What do y’all think?