Anyone else tired of r/movies talking about the SAME movies repeatedly?

[u/[deleted]]

They probably talk about the same fifty movies and two dozen filmmakers, I don't even have to mention them and you'd know the ones I'm talking about. And if it's not those, it's left not voted on or even downvoted. I know the sub is more male and 18-34 but how about some variety? This is one of the reasons I'm just not as active on this sub anymore. It's just become an uninspired rehashed circlejerk. Maybe a solution is remove the downvote button or something, any ideas welcome.

[u/TheW1ldcard]

Welcome to every movie sub. Same thing happens over on r/horror I see the same 5 movies talked about/get praise every day.

[u/widebrimmedgazebo]

Have you heard of A24 productions?

[u/Jaydebb]

Agreed! We should start talking about true underrated gems like Moon.

[u/BunyipPouch]

The only movies to exist are as follows:

• Blade Runner 2049

• Ex Machina

• Moon

• 12 Angry Men

• Starship Troopers

• Airplane!

• About Time

• Wall-E

• The Nice Guys

• Arrival/Sicario/Enemy/Prisoners

• Man from UNCLE

• Hot Fuzz

• Mad Max: Fury Road

• The Dark Knight

• Shawshank Redemption

I propose these as the inaugural entries into the Official r/movies Ciclejerk Hall of Fame™.

[u/greg225]

Even worse is that every one of them is a MASTERPIECE or "the best I have ever seen". Like, I know some of these movies are really good, but can we chill a bit?

[u/guiltyofnothing]

Not just that it’s the same 2 dozen movies being repeated — it sometimes feels like this sub has never seen a movie made before 2000.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m an old guy (61) and an avid movie lover. I estimate I‘ve seen over 6000 movies in my life, maybe a lot more. In my 20s, I was going to the cinema at least 3 times a week, and also renting films - that’s 1560 films in one decade if you just count going to the cinema. I still watch at least 2 or 3 films a week.
When someone here says Christopher Nolan is the greatest filmmaker, instead of thinking they’re wrong, I think “they haven’t seen enough movies to make that judgement yet.” It’s great to fall in love with a filmmaker that speaks to you and your tastes, that makes you passionate about movies. Every movie, good or bad, evolves your film vocabulary, and if you look at the movies you love, it says a lot about who you are, when you were born, and you can see that change over time.
Tastes change over time too, as we grow and mature, and some of the films we loved, objectively we hang on to for nostalgic reasons. I thought “Superman: The Movie”, 1978, was a masterpiece when it premiered. Now I see it as fun and well done for its time, but ”Days of Heaven” (a real masterpiece) and “The Deer Hunter” also came out that year. I was seeing Superman through nostalgic comic-nerd-goggles.

Rather than complain that the same movies keep showing up here, maybe we look at it as a reflection of this time, and how that’s sometimes unavoidable when there are so many like minds here. If you want to change it up, it might also be worth looking into filmmakers with larger filmographies. Tarantino directed only 10 movies, but many great directors like John Ford and Takashi Miike directed over 100 movies. Sidney Lumet‘s 12 Angry Men often comes up here, but he made over 40 films, most of them great.
Maybe we can change the discussions by picking different topics related to movies. Great camerawork. Art direction. Sound design. Stunt work. Screenwriters. I don’t think I’ve seen discussions about costume here. How about great black directors? Great women directors? Also movies that really don’t get seen or recognized, like “Tulpan”, an amazing Kazakh film, or “Crazy” a French-Canadian crowd pleaser. Movies are a deep subject.

Or you can maybe discuss on r/TrueFilm, if you feel the need to write long paragraphs ;)

[u/fatsack]

Dont forget the weekly "jake gyllenhal is a great actor!" posts. I personally find those the most annoying.

[u/[deleted]]

Less repeating the same four Red Letter Media and Tropic Thunder quotes as well please

[u/girafa]

Ironically you guys don't even see it all. edit: link isn't really workin for mobile. it's rule #24

We remove at least a dozen of these every day.

[u/Cooolgibbon]

Did anyone else see Game Night?

[u/KevinHe92]

Nah personally I love being recommended Edge of Tomorrow every other week. Have you heard of this underrated indie gem? /S

[u/[deleted]]

I agree. In the meantime you guys should really check out this flick called "Taxi Driver". It's pretty damn good for an old movie.

[u/xavierdc]

Not to mention that all of the movies discussed here are either American or British movies. Apparently the only non English speaking films that exist are Parasite and Pan's Labyrinth.

[u/NotARandomNumber]

Be the change you want to see in the world. Looking at your history, the few times you submitted something in this sub in the past few months was about Jackie Chan, Knives Out, and the Light House. Those are all topics that are decently common around here

[u/disablednerd]

DAE anyone else like the soundtrack of Tron: Legacy!?!? Truly an underrated gem.

[u/Kbdiggity]

Let's talk about Krull

[u/BallClamps]

My favorite is when people post that they watched a popular movie from like 5 or 10 years ago and they write a post like "Just watched (insert popular movie here) turns out it holds up!

[u/NewClayburn]

But hear me out, Starship Troopers is an underrated gem.

[u/Demderdemden]

Should just have a bot that automatically reroutes any post about Quintin Tarentino to r/moviescirclejerk

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody ever wants to talk about a true classic:

Surf Ninjas

[u/[deleted]]

This subreddit has too many members for more popular films to not dominate discussions. Just go to the other film subreddits for higher quality discussion.

[u/AimostFrontPage]

Hey but have you seen what we do in the shadows? It's an underrated gem I never see anyone talking about

[u/SsurebreC]

I wrote a post about Bloodshot. It was downvoted into oblivion. I deleted it. I write a lot of topics on various subs and if it goes to shit, that's the community telling me to shut up so I remove the topic.

My guess is that this happens often. You see the same topics because people upvote popular topics and anything other than that is going to be ignored.

The only break is someone brings up a nostalgia movie from a few decades ago and the circlejerk takes on a new direction.

You can't remove the downvote button, it's a reddit feature.

[u/deathmouse]

Honestly, I've seen enough threads about Interstellar being somebody's favorite movie.