I love the medium and I think 99% of it is shit.
Then again, I think Sturgeon's Law1 is the most correct thing any human being ever came up with so maybe I'm... anti-biased?
Agree.
I think fighting anime with any type of "power" system is shit. That includes Dragon ball, Naruto, and many others.
As for star wars, Empire and Rogue One are the best of the movies.
Raisins in cookies is fine as long as I'm not expecting chocolate chips...
100%. I keep hearing about new things that TikTok encourages people to be insecure about. And creators use those insecurities to sell crap to people.
I agree with this. I just don't like the pacing of them. I have watched a few, especially in college. But most of the stuff now a days, I have zero interest in. I remember trying to watch some anime about a boy who does ballet because it felt unique. But then it just turned into another "sports anime" which I don't really have the patience for.
Honestly, I can't even bother to (re-)watch most of the shows I watched when I was in college.
I tried to give Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood a rewatch a while back - one of my all time favorite shows - couldn't get passed the Nina/Alexander stuff. Watched that and the overly melodramatic episode that followed and haven't continued since.
The only anime I managed to actually sit through in full recently was Dungeon meshi. That was actually really good. But the vast majority of anime is just this juvenile/teenage shit that I've grown too old for. Not to mention the cultural differences between the West and Japan, I notice it's bothers me more and more. They just like different things over there and that's fine, but it's not for me anymore.
I'm gonna drop a hot one right here. I kinda don't like the original Star Wars as a piece of media. It's one that - for me - has not aged all too well. I appreciate it as a piece of cinema history and the technical achievement it was in its time. But I just don't care for it, it's probably the one I like the least.
My personal favorite is probably Revenge of the Sith. Not because I think it's structurally or technically a good movie, it's absolutely not. As a piece of cinema it's riddled with faults. But god damn, if I just don't adore that goofy piece of shit haha.
If you mean the obsession with hyper-sexualizing young girls;
The average Japanese person is embarrassed by it. All that stuff is meant to appeal to the otaku crowd who buy most all of the merch and keep the companies in the black. It's a cliche but the "otaku = sex criminal" is still how they're seen and their shopping habits do nothing to make a lie of that.
It's been hard to get a lot of the hebephilia in the culture killed off because, politically, the nation has been in the thrall of its right wing since the occupation and, for some reason, men with that worldview seem universally obsessed with having sex with young 'uns.
And like here, the majority of Japanese are too disillusioned by the failures of their government & society to think any positive change can happen, so they never push for it. But it does happen. The age of consent has recently been raised after decades of pressure.
Anyway, you probably knew all of this. But I find "Oh, Japan!" is something that needs constant correction.
99% of people making new movies, series, etc about The Addams Family have no idea what makes the Addams Family good as a family and as a show, and I suspect most of the writers for some of the newer entires never watched the original show. Seriously, how do people keep thinking Wednesday is the “odd” one in the family? Pugsley wears a striped t-shirt every day!
No, that's actually not what I was referring to (I block that out as best I can)
It's more the way they tell their stories, the sort of comedy and overall cultural influences that make something unique to Japan. I find this mostly bothers me in the more standard anime shows that get produced. There's this, emotional excess and loudness to it. Like, characters in anime rarely if ever come across as believable people to me. They're all this caricature.
A reason why I can't stand subbed anime, is because japanese style (voice-)acting is incredibly frustrating to me. It's all just too much. You see a similar thing in their game shows and their magazines etc. There's no room to breathe on the screen or the page, it's all so damn busy and loaded with stuff.
It's a recent development and I cannot 100% put my finger on what exactly is bothering me about it all. So if this explanation comes across as an incoherent mess, that is why.
If I'm getting you correctly...
Back through the 1980s and 1990s Wolverine's hair got pointier and pointier until it was looking like this;
It happened because an artist copied another artist who copied another artist who copied another. Eventually "cool" became "stupid"
I find the same thing happened to modern anime. A gag, a character design, a plot, fanservice, and whatever got copied copied copied copied copied copied copied to the point that, yeah, it needs a creative bomb of some sort. An alternate comics scene to match the one that happened in the 60s ~ 90s with Garo2 would be great.
Wolverine had Hugh Jackman's rugged handsomeness to drag his hair back down to Earth. I'm not seeing much in manga or anime to course correct after three decades of repetition. At least, I sure ain't seeing it online.
This might honestly be a big part of it. It's all the repetition of the same tropes, over and over. A formula that has to be followed.
It also reminds me of something Hayao Miyazaki said (at least I think he did), how a lot of modern anime animators and creators only imitate the media they like, instead of being inspired by the world around them.
And it's what sells. It all well and good to make an original work, but if no one reads/watches it, it doesn't matter. Look at tapas and the million of princess stories.
Another hot take: Blade Runner (other than the ending speech) is garbage.
Aliens is the only good movie from the series. Alien is a 35 minute episode drawn out to a movie and the rest are horrible.
That is the saddest thing. Tapas shoves the same dreck down our throats at every opportunity while utterly ignoring all the good stuff, and they do it because it sells. All those princess (and archduke, and villain/villainess, and male/female lead) stories are to writing what McDonald's is to hamburgers. McDonalds sells a metric shit ton of Big Macs, but if you're looking for good food you don't go to McDonald's.
The comment had less to do with what sells. Miyazaki's work also sells. It's more that the individual artists have entered a feedback loop.
You can still make all those villainess romance stories, while also taking inspiration from outside sources, or just life itself. Hell, they might actually become good then.
Alien: Romulus was pretty good though.
Agree with you on Edward there. Edward is creepy.
Why??? Why did I watch Twilight with my mom??? Whyyyyy?
Well… I wanted to see what all the fuss was about around the movies. Worst mistake of my life!
Also… Jacob was really weird. The whole baby thing. I don’t care if the story is supernatural mom. It weirded me out! The wolf man hit on the baby!
Now… Houdini as a vampire. I’m on board!
I know what to do for my next fanfiction ya’ll.
And in case you’re wondering… NO! He will NOT sparkle in the sun!
Tbf, you'll take Houdini anything.
Dress him up as a clown and both you and @pjthetoonaddict can have something to go nuts over.
Another controversial idea?
I don't believe a long life is necessarily a blessing even if many consider it to be a blessing. It just IS. 
I think I’ve driven all you here a little crazy. Lol.
Honestly… he’d be cute as a clown just don’t make him scary.
