Streaming services are the bottom of the barrel, they greenlight everything and every metric they use to suggest or reveal “whats good” is a lie that diverges from a century of what people expect. Well funded studios diverging from what established Hollywood was greenlighting is interesting but the potential has so far been squandered.
Discovery is bad. This is a different topic than this blog.
Almost everything the author wrote was not a strong truth or reason.
“Shock Comedy” not being created has nothing to do with people’s sensitivities. It is just the same symptom you already noticed, movie theaters are for Marvel right now. So to make a separate standard for the lack of shock comedies is just latching on to unquantified assumptions that paranoid people are saying about cancel culture.
I hope they find a way to branch out, I have been pleasantly surprised at film festivals.
The post resonated a lot with me. You might be right that we're looking in the wrong place -- but confoundingly, at this point I don't even want to.
It's hard to know what I'm giving up by not looking for good movies. My imagination tends to light on the many bad movies I've seen, not the few moments of awe or other positive emotions. But it's easy to know what I gain -- something like four hours a week! That's so much time!
I experience the same and my solutions are to follow the works of specific directors and actors, as well as look forward to attending film festivals again.
> is a lie that diverges from a century of what people expect. Well funded studios diverging from what established Hollywood was greenlighting is interesting
It was not so much as century of what people expect as increasing predictability ans repetitiveness of Hollywood movies.
Discovery is bad. This is a different topic than this blog.
Almost everything the author wrote was not a strong truth or reason.
“Shock Comedy” not being created has nothing to do with people’s sensitivities. It is just the same symptom you already noticed, movie theaters are for Marvel right now. So to make a separate standard for the lack of shock comedies is just latching on to unquantified assumptions that paranoid people are saying about cancel culture.
I hope they find a way to branch out, I have been pleasantly surprised at film festivals.