Nothing to say about most films

After a slow start to the year, I've just cracked the 200 mark in the number of films I've watched in 2025, and while my cinematic diet is more like a huge buffet, I really have nothing to say about the vast majority of them.

Some are obviously less noteworthy than others. I went through a regrettable stage of watching a lot of Adam Sandler movies recently, because I just wanted to watch something brainless and fun, and that's pretty much what I got. (Although I do think there is genuine chemistry between Sandler and Jennifer Aniston when they team up, it would be ridiculous to deny that.)

But there are just so many films that I have nothing to say about, or that I need to think about over a long period of time before I have something to say that isn't the usual hivemind cliches. I've watched dozens of straight-to-streaming action films that all kinda blur into each other, and I do like watching the big companies burn insane amounts of money on films that look like 1980s TV. But so does everyone else.

And it's not just the brainless action and the dopey comedies, there are legitimately great films that I have nothing to say about. I really liked the Brutalist, but it's for all the same reasons everybody else liked about it, and I genuinely loved I Saw The TV Glow, and was extremely impressed by some of the things it was saying, but nobody really needs this cis white guy's deep takes on those things.

Which is fine! Some things don't need to be endlessly examined and just be what they are, and sometimes it's just nice to keep something to yourself, to wrap it up in your own heart and not share it with anybody.

I'm well into the second decade on this blog, so I'm probably the last person to listen to when it comes to oversharing and talking about the same things that everybody else is talking about. And while it's been a daily effort at the Tearoom for some time, I don't think I'll ever have to say anything about Hubie Halloween to fill the space.