I was just wondering this. How common is it to see all the movies from a specific director? Of course, if you a scholar, why not, but what if you are just a fan? Even if you love Passion of Jean D’Arc, Gertrud and Vampyr, would you go out of your way to see all of Dreyer’s earlier movies?
First of all, I’m not saying it’s because of wokeness or anything like that. It’s because people got bored with their product.
It’s hard to make a comedy out of a movie that starts with a husband slapping his wife just because, but it works.
As usual, as a caveat, I’ll start with a list of movies I wish I had the opportunity to see, but haven’t yet.
There’s a fun little website called SteamDB. Now, since you need to volunteer your data to them to use the website, I’m not advocating for it. Use it at your own peril. However, I did and it did give me interesting information.
Ted Sarandos being the CEO of Netflix.
Yes, the name of the movie is ‘MIS?’. No, as of this writing, it’s not on IMDb or LetterBoxd. That must be a big oversight by the distributor or production company and someone should do something about that. I like to check movies before I see them. The only reason I decided to see this was that it’s by an independent company. I like to see those out of interest. Sometimes quite morbid interest.
People expect me to love sci-fi, but to me it’s just one more genre.
Something to keep in mind: there’s a difference between a movie being a whodunit and having whodunit elements. For example, IMDb categorizes Heart Eyes as a whodunit, but if you were looking to have a nice mystery along the lines of Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes, all the gory kills might not really be for you.
Since I’m pretty late to the game with this one, I doubt there’s much interest in my review, but I did find that I wanted to talk about this.