Why Hollywood is Falling Apart | Video Essay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- Hollywood is currently crumbling before our eyes. Everything from the major studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, and how they're ruining their major franchises such as Star Wars, MCU, Jurassic Park, Animation, and more! We touch on why Politics are playing a major role in the downfall of Hollywood, as well as why audiences have changed so much in the past few years. In this Video Essay, we leave no stone unturned and dive into exactly Why Hollywood is falling apart.
The Marvels (2023)
Barbie (2023)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Fast X (2023)
Rings of Power (2022)
Snow White (2024)
Ahsoka (2023)
Obi Wan Kenobi (2023)
The Mandalorian (2023)
Top Gun Maverick (2022)
Avatar 2: The Way of Water (2022)
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
She Hulk (2022)
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Part 1 (Diminishing Returns)
8:15 - Part 2 (Politics)
15:19 - Part 3 (Desperation) - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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Never mind, it’s here
And also studios are not actually being inclusive, they’re just pretending to be inclusive in order to get money.
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Hollywood is dying but House of the Dragon literally broke the Internet with a 70 second trailer. You lose as always.
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There’s zero creativity in Hollywood anymore. TV shows are suffering from this also. Instead of creating something original, everything has to be a sequel, a prequel, or a reboot.
I agree. most times, I just wish they would stop making movies unless there is something new and worthwhile to say
we’re a capitalist society and these movies are a business. That and conservatives vote to defund anything arts related, so we aren’t educating our kids to be creative. It’s all hustle culture now.
It's all trope and propaganda and I've been bored to tears for damn near a decade now.
@@avamasquerade Tropes have always been around. I promise your favorite movie has tropes in it. Why don't you tell us one movie and the propaganda you believe it has in it and why you don't like it.
Hollywood movies are now leftist lectures from the writers and directors - just like in Soviet Union. Hollywood has copied from USSR, or is it China that now owns Hollywood?
This may be a golden opportunity for independent film makers to rise.
it is, if a movie can come out that is so well done (which is not hard these days modern day movies are complete dog shit) it will set a whole new standard for movie making thus bringing about new opportunities. have you noticed everything is being remade and it is literally never good they are unfathomably out of touch
That's primarily what I've been watching the past few years. There's a ton of hidden gems out there.
The problem is most the big studios either own the theaters or they’ve scared the theaters into doing whatever makes them happy. Independent film makers can make their films, but its unlikely they will be in theaters so hopefully a streaming service picks it up which is unlikely.
🤔That would be great!
Boom
"disappointed in the comfort of their homes" Best line ever.👍
It's got so bad, that we are not watching new shows, we are digging into the past for our entertainment. Like pre 1980's series.
I've been watching old mini-series from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
The fact that Japan entertainment is more enjoyable than American entertainment is just example why Hollywood in general is dying 😂
Truth be told I have mixed feelings about Japanese entertainment. On one hand they can be extremely entertaining but on the other, they can be very bizarre. Prime example is attack on Titan. Great story build up, character development, but really weird ending.
Y’all be dickriding them
I mean they are just as political
“Thing bad”
“Japan thing good”
I’m not denying the Japanese makes good stuff, they do. Hollywood has been ‘dying’ ever since it was created, so it’s not anything new.
True
I've been an enjoyer of Japanese entertainment as well. Even Arab movies are better than anything in the US.
Part of what makes Hollywood's potential recovery such an uphill battle is that blaming the fans for not liking their "content" for so long has left most of them apathetic at best. Many are enjoying the downfall of Hollywood and pray this means the end (or a least a major reduction) of pandering.
Count me in as one of those that is enjoying the show :)
Guaranteed you don’t know jack shit about what’s going on in Hollywood. Hollywood doesn’t blame fans, fans just complain because they’re spoiled assholes with thousands of choices and a remote control. You don’t like what’s being produced, write your own. Boo hoo.
The well is basically poisoned for me at this point. Even if you use its water to make ice-cool lemonade, I aint drinkin'
@@orangesoda4535 well said. even if by some miracle they do a flawless 180 it will still take a while for all the fans to warm up to them. Granted there's no way they're going to have that good of a course correction.
@@Badmunky64 it could happen. Had the same thing happen with Capcom in the early 2010s and they managed to win me back in 2019 when I saw the reception for RE7 and MH:W
What blows my mind is that every year thousands of writers, filmmakers, producers and other Hollywood creatives move there with a truckload of original stories , ideas and content . And every year the big budget premiere projects that get announced are all remakes and reboots .
That's part of why Hollywood is dead. Nobody takes any chances anymore on original ideas
A lot of these original ideas are also trash honestly.
Misuse by overuse of CGI is part of the problem. Hollow visual effects without telling a story that people care about. Political Correctness doesn't tell a story, either.
One of the biggest issues is movies starting filming before a script is finished. Marvel would be better off financially if they didnt reshoot a film to death and had confidence in their scripts. It also means you can use more practical effects and in general plan better.
If we are talking about The Marvels specifically, I think that the script was done when they started production. The reason for countless rewrites and reshoots is because, at that point, Disney/Marvel probably started realizing that people no longer eat the shit, and so they cut out almost all the pandering and "female empowerment" themes (which one would think has a perfect place in a movie with such premise), and in the end it is just a boring and mediocre movie, albeit without them shoving political statements down your throat for once.
If they hired artists directors, people who have a story to tell that has been burning a hole in their dreams, they would not need to make reboots and sequels and prequels... We'd get new stories with new heroes and new lessons and because it will be artistic vision, there'd be no need for focus groups or reshoots.
We'd pay to see the artist's vision as we used to. Instead, they think they can suss out the perfect formular for a great movie by running experiments and tweaking on the fly. There are no artists at Disney anymore... just MBAs and activists.
The MBAs see all the audience as a cash cow, and the activist see the same audience as an opportunity to spread a political message. That's why movies are the way they are now.
Oh that’s a shame, wanna bread crumb?
That's not very bright to think That's one of the biggest issues plaguing Hollywood.
Yeah right who told you that lie. Scripts with few exceptions are finished before they’re shot buddy. Sometimes the story needs to be changed to make the film better, for a variety of reasons, and that’s a good thing. “Sticking to the script” doesn’t equal better.
one of the problems in modern movies is the people making the movie think they are more important than the movie itself, and the audience should care about their views for whatever reason.
No, a movie should be the product of its creator.
Disney's "we didn't hire you so that you could make your movie, we hired you to make ours, now the market research team says...." is what's wrong.
Yours is a terrible opinion, and is pretty much why we are here right now. It should be primarily what the film maker wants to make.
If you're saying "gimme conservative instead of woke" I can honestly tell you that every movie with conservative messaging out there is at best... Boring as fuck.
Edit: And if you think the head honchos of those studios care more about a more progressive message than the movie itself, then need I remind you that literally last summer they were trying to use AI to officially replace actors and writers instead of giving their own inflated paychecks a trim. The reason is greed. This is an industry... One that's competing with your beloved FOX NEWS for your attention. And each one is trying to grip you with messaging they don't really believe in 😂
And you're a sucker if you fall for either. So please don't think you're onto something here. This is just standard marketing research:
"if FOX NEWS can get them by playing conservative, then we are going to counter that by being liberal, and we are not a news channel we offer different type of content so our chances of filling a specific time slot in an ordinary person's schedule is guaranteed".
There. Not hard to wrap your head around.
@@samf.s.7731You 100% didn't understand the OP comment, he's right, a lot of writers/movie makers think they're prophets and we're just the unwashed masses who need educating. That whole "art is a hammer to create culture" myth has been bought hook line and sinker and art has suffered because of it.
Batman had a black Catwoman and Commissioner Gordon and literally nobody cared. If either had a monologue about how tough it was being black it would have been a disaster
They didn't have to make them black, they shouldn't have to in the name of "diversity". Both of those characters are originally white and that's what they should have been. This is what I dislike about today's Hollywood movies that they will completely change a character's race from white to black or brown to appeal to the left wing masses, just like they did with the Little Mermaid, Snow White and anyone who points it out is labelled a racist.
@@Luna_Anonymous because your mindset is racist. Own it.
@@Luna_Anonymous Veiled and trite racism aside, the clever deflection from the actual problem is female manipulation 101, a thing you are obviously well versed in. The actual problem with all movies and shows is...in a word...feminism! Men have been turned into little more than simps and women's inferiors (laughably) in ALL movies in a pathetic attempt to normalise misandry and give the females what they want, that which get's them excited....POWER!
A good thing about GoT was they didn’t race swap- the places you saw had the correct ethnicities so it made the cities and locations feel authentic
Authentic to...what? It was based on fantasy novels lol
@@kcbh24 yeah but in fantasy world you still have base rules- like a raven takes time to travel between locations. Or for example white walker can be killed but by dragon glass or valerian steel.
In Got there are clear differences in culture which ground the story. For example- dothraki are of similar ethnicity, those in the north are too, so is dorne, and qarth. Qarth is probably most diverse and it fits given its location in the map where one would expect a coming together of different cultures.
So when you see a particular ethnicity or style of culture, architecture you automatically know where you are in their world.
If they mixed it all up you would not be able to easily know where you were until you saw a main character and kniw where they are or you need to always tell the audience.
I hope I explained it ok
@@macflod you did not just mansplain GoT to me. 🤦🏿♀️
@@kcbh24 so it didn’t make sense?
Give the fans what they want. No agendas. Make your own characters instead of swapping or give them better characterization. Make everything as original as possible.
They make those movies. No one watches them. The Creator was the one original blockbuster we got this year and no one saw it.
@PicklesRTasty that's good. But we need more of that than ever
@@PicklesRTastyTHANK YOU. someone who gets it.
@@PicklesRTastybut basically didn’t get much marketing. I don’t recall seeing a single tv spot on the tv. Yet I saw countless tv spots for Mrs Marvel. I still didn’t see it cause marvel has gone woke and I knew it’d be trash, but the trailers looked doped and did give me a desire to go and see it, but the creator although it looked original did not have anything that hook me into making me want to see it
"Make everything as original as possible"
> Proceed to let The Creator be defeated by Saw 10 and Paw Patrol 2.
Mate, Hollywood follows the money. They made so much unoriginal shit because there's a demand for them. That's the only agenda.
Watching Hollywood crumble itself is both entertaining and depressing to watch.
Look up the word “schadenfreude” and see what you find.
self-cannibalism
Depressing? Why? Did you lose your DVD collection? We can always revisit the golden years of television on DVD. That's what they're for :)
lol im just enjoying it. Hollywood is pure trash, if you give me any movie, i can tell if its hollywood or not. Hollywood does not nkow how to produce art.
The crumbling of both Hollywood and the music industry is symbolic of the fall of America altogether. It’s almost as if everything’s going down the drain simultaneously: the entertainment business, the economy, the inflation rate, global influence, you name it.
I'm japanese, In the past decade, the status of Hollywood movies in Japan has significantly declined. About 20 years ago, many Japanese people used to watch Hollywood movies, but now most either don't watch them at all or, if they do, don't discuss them. Personally, despite being a former avid fan, I can't recall the last Hollywood movie I watched in the past few years. I'm not aware of current releases, have no interest, and this sentiment is common among Japanese. Surprisingly, even my parents, who were once avid Hollywood fans, haven't watched any in years, citing that Hollywood films have become uninteresting and intolerable. I share the same sentiment.
Recent Hollywood movies are not only boring to the Japanese but also reach an uncomfortable level of unpleasantness. They often feel like promotional videos or propaganda for governments, political parties, and various political organizations. The constant focus on environmental issues, human rights, racial discrimination, and LGBT topics seems designed to attack individuals with political ideologies conflicting with the creators. When did Hollywood movies shift from global entertainment that everyone could enjoy to political propaganda by activists?
Americans should stop treating their country's social issues as globally significant and discard the delusion that they are in a position to lecture other countries. The U.S. has only been around for about 200 years and appears socially immature, lagging significantly behind other countries in terms of morals, manners, social norms, civic consciousness, and more. I've observed this in my travels to over 40 countries. While Americans often find other cultures strange, the reality of American society, media, and the chaotic events in American politics seems incredibly strange and abnormal to non-Americans like myself. Recently, the depiction of this pathological and abnormal reality of American society in Hollywood movies might be a major reason why many people, including myself, have stopped consuming American films and media.
What a great response. You’ve really nailed the issue. I’m from the UK and Hollywood IP is genuinely insufferable to watch now.
I mean Im an american and even I dont know whats out anymore. Its just all derivative trash. We've become a parody of ourselves.
@@MBEG89hollywood has nothing to do with everyday americans, so no, this nonsense isn’t a parody of us, it’s a misrepresentation.
Spot on, I live in Israel and just agree 100%. No on cares about these issues outside of the US. International audiences don't want to be lectured on American politics.
I‘m Swiss and grew up with Hollywood movies. But for the same reasons as you mentioned I haven‘t watched American movies or series for the last ten years or so. Just sad, they would have the potential for some great things again.
For me as a viewer, it's totally fine that Hollywood is crumbling. I'm eager for low and mid budget independent films to fill the void with fresh creative ideas. The franchise thing was totally boring even 10 years ago and I have no idea how it was possible to drag on for so long.
One big thing is that most movies aren’t entertainment, they’re lectures from the writers and directors and it’s blatantly obvious
Lectures from the liberal left. Its garbage propaganda.
The latest Eddie Murphy movie is a good example. You People. I'm gonna pay $ 15 to watch Jews and black people insult each other over race for 90 mins? NO
They are not. They are trying to easily cash on minorities, without doing a good film. Corporations do not lecture, they want to get the cash.
Look HIGHER... UN Agenda enforces by WEF through Blackrock and Vangard.
Communist takeover always all about the brainwashing.
I don’t see a lot of that. Can you give an example of what you believe to be a lecture and why?
I’d rather pay $10/month and be disappointed at home than pay $50 for one movie and be disappointed
Which is why they’ll never make those movies you loved. Too many options and too many people willing to accept - meh.
Streaming is better than movies in quality and value.
I d rather pay nothing and watch an old movie on youtube . Nowadays it is either a horror story or a series of banalities, and even when they have a good plot it is not nice to watch, yawn
I’d rather watch a black screen then watch a Hollywood movie in 2024
Dune is good tho
Then don't. Quit complaining.
I honestly don't think they care whether people buy what they're selling. In the eyes of Hollywood, the message is more important than the profit.
They just see this as temporary resistance to the messages they're spreading and that eventually when everything you watch and consume are the same quality and substance, people will give in.
We'll see how long that lasts. I mean it's already affecting Disney. Marvel shows canceled or not getting a new season like She-Hulk. It's quite entertaining, almost like a puppeteer making puppets fight. I think we all know who that puppeteer is.
No one is “giving in” to non-entertaining entertainment arts. That makes no sense. They will just go do something else instead, as they already are.
@@ITSAHARDNUGLIFEno, please make the puppeteer. I'm curious.
dude if you keep producing stuff that people don't like people are just gonna shift to other countries media which are right now significantly better and make original entertaining stuff than Hollywood
The box office as of recent has proven that the good movies that have been made by people that treat movies as art ,and not just a way to make money, are the ones that actually make money
Always has been. But the releases the last few years have been nonstop. and it's like they don't see the fails on the balance sheet anymore. Weird.
@brandon_youtube You really have to know how Marxist think to understand what's happening right now. This is one time where "money" isn't the motive - if it were, then they would've simply eliminated the messaging after the first flop.
Knives out 1 & 2
Don't forget the overuse of CGI. It is the unspoken reason Hollywood is in this state. On a bright note, Mad Max has a new trailer, and hopefully it's practical like 2015.
I disagree. Even bad CGI cannot ruin a great movie. CGI is not the reason you like or dislike a good story
hollywood strike was a lot for people
@@Berk-lf6ge actually I kinda agree with op CGI today looks bad than it did in movies 10 15 years ago I mean look at The Pirates of the Caribbean those CGI are decades old and they still hold better than movies that come out today
The problem with Hollywood is the same problem with video games. You don’t need to make good content to make money.
"Everything is only for a season. And Hollywood is no exception. A season could last a few months or it can last for as long as 100 years. Somethings are no meant to be saved. It is the order of the universe and nothing can change that"
The thing that's most frustrating, as someone who is a feminist, is that the majority of feminists don't consider something like The Marvels as a feminist piece of cinema. It's lazy. these companies take identity politics, strip it down to the basics and slap it in their films with no nuance. Great films that utilise feminist themes in a way that are actually effective include Promising Young Woman, Legally Blonde, Little Women etc. It's all about following the trends rather than creating films that are remotely thought provoking or appealing to their supposed target audience.
Who asked
You're part of the problem. Get over yourself. I see women being treated better than men everyday. Why do you think simps exist.
You're a feminist? I can only hope you get the help you need. Perhaps see a psychologist or something to help ease all the hate and misery you enjoy with feminism
I despise feminism in the form it currently inhabits, but I agree with you. Take Barbie as a recent example. It was preachy and on the nose (from my point of view) it it was engaging and entertaining. I didn't like the messaging, but I was engaged and entertained. I can honestly say it was a pretty decent movie.
Most of this other crap has no redeeming qualities. They are cudgels that beat me over the head with no redeeming qualities. At least make it entertaining for heaven's sake!
@@andrewwiggin7433 Feminism is antiquated , obsolete and no longer needed here in the western world as women enjoy the privilege of more rights and benefits than men. All you feminists should immigrate to third world countries to make yourself useful for a refreshing change
Movies like Godzilla Minus One are done by people passionate about the story and how it's translated to film. Movies like The Marvels are done by a committee on which boxes need to be checked off and directed by someone who has no idea what the characters or story is even about. Hollywood isn't about stories anymore. It's all about pandering to that small group of mean girls who threaten to destroy you if you say anything bad about a movie they will likely never see anyhow. In essence, modern Hollywood is about blackmail.
Godzilla MINUS ONE >> THE MARVELS,THE FLASH & QUANTUMANIA & SOUTH PARK PANDAVERSE.
It is completely ignorant to treat everyone as hateful people in need of learning.
Some of them are mean trans.
Minus One was the best movie of the year. Spider-Man was number 2.
Agree. I never saw a whole cinema holding their breath. Ever before.
The internet has taken a big chunk of the world’s attention away from movies. It wasn’t just the pandemic, it’s been a gradual process since the iPhone came out.
true
Yeah maybe!
And now we get a tic tok ification of movies.
Ie no patience, development or arcs. Just straight to climax and punchline but it makes no sense and is meaningless without the slow build up
@@macflod That’s the great thing about the internet, you can choose to ignore mainstream garbage. With traditional media there were far more limited options for content.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582 true but in my experience the independent media mostly take all their info from mainstream media, often the criticise the mainstream despite standing on the work of the mainstream journalists that do the hard work and research.
I see them only as commentators and i see they just represent stories in their own way with their own spin for their own audience.
But in saying this its good to have more commentary on things but i think too many times people get stuck in echo chamber only getting one particular spin on everything.
@@macflod Then don’t watch that crap. There’s plenty of more important things to do online like contributing to open source projects rather than follow media news sources.
Just subbed. I love how you describe topics in your breakdowns. You have passion for this and it bleeds through in not just your choice of words but also your tone. I'm glad I found this channel.
Japanese "Godzilla Minus One" is a perfect example how to make a great blockbuster. Godzilla IP is 70 years old, and yet, the new one absolutely slaps. On a budget of 15 million $ it puts all of 2023 blockbusters to a shame. It looks incredible, has great human characters, great story, emotions, stakes, excellent music, but most of all, it is not a movie about Godzilla. It's an intelligent character driven drama which happens to have a giant kaiju in it. Pure escapism at the highest level of quality. It's not only top 5 movies of the year, it's the best Godzilla movie I have ever seen. Hollywood right now is just not capable of delivering such quality.
Hey thanks for the recommendation! Had not been on my radar, but will definitely catch it.
That's because they are not woke and can focus on the movie instead of the message.
Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay!
You may have nailed it. See the video he makes about Godzilla Minus One. I have this movie on my radar. I liked the original Godzilla but that’s it. I may see this one on the big screen.
You just talked me into giving it a watch, thanks for the recommendation.
You can see why Christopher Lee never got an Oscar. But it wouldn't matter now the award is not worth it.
Mister McCarthy WAS RIGHT BACK IN FIFTIES
Christopher Lee? Oscar? Are you serious?
Dead serious...@@stevensica5918
Alan Rickman comes to mind.
Girl power, don't have to fight and they get an action award,. To much Woke
The sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. These companies have gone insane
Remember the scene in Elf, where Walter insisted on shipping a children's book with 2 pages missing..."because who's going to notice? The audience is stupid."
THAT is how Hollywood sees their audience too.
(also, no one at Disney, Marvel is capable of actually writing a story or script)
Movies have become an abusive relationship these days, you can't even enjoy something good that's new because you're bracing for the slap you know is coming. I didn't even enjoy Andor until my second viewing because the first was me "bracing for the beating" the whole time.
I can imagine how dissapointed Walt Disney would've been if he was alive in seeing those executives turning his biggest empire to literally something else that he would've never wanted in the first place
Disney would not touch top gun because top gun is owned by paramount.
You clearly have no idea who Walt Disney was OR his beliefs/intentions.
@@josephsalmonte4995 That may be true, but at the end of the day, Walt knew what the audience was willing to pay for. He may have been just another businessman who hit it big, but nobody hits it big without help. Under Walt, Di$ney actually grew into the mega-corp we used to know and love.
@@josephsalmonte4995he was conservator, that is enough to know his ideas
@@josephsalmonte4995what were his intentions?
you know, recently I was fed from TH-cam one of those 2024 most anticipated movie feeds. between the sequel, the remake of the remake I could not go beyond the 1 minute mark.
There's such a lack of talent from writers to actors....it gets sickening after a while seeing the same low talent actors again and again. I'd rather see unknowns in film almost always.
This is why a movie like Oppenheimer is so extraordinary. That film would've been outstanding even when Hollywood wasn't in such a shitty state, let alone now, when we have 1-2 good movies per year.
@@user-wl9ue2gd1r so sad that you found the plot lazy, that plot still affects your life... I bet you liked more Barbie over Oppenheimer
@@zinglociabatta3205 Barbie is in a completely different league than Oppenheimer - it is so much better.
Top Gun: Maverick >>>>
Ha ha - I watched that yesterday and today. I didn't even finish watching it. 1st it bored me, 2nd the atomic bomb never existed.
they are useing young B grade talent peeps that have graduated from film school or the arts and they dont teach them anything but gender polotics.
people like James cameron learned how to do it themselfs and have a huge amount of on the job expreance his first films were not to hot but he learned and grew.
these young writers directors and even the actors are just too inexpreanced.
a bad director will not get the best perfomance from the actors, a bad writer will miss all nuances and credabilty of the charicter giveing them lines that just fall flat on the floor or reactions that are unrealistic.
but the real problem is they are boreing i have to make an effort to watch them, thats not right i should be engaged and pulled in and involved.
I'm a huge fan of Indie films and one of the best films I'm seen in a long time was the Banshees of Inisherin. It was a simple story of two men and their friendship and how it falls apart. Subtle performances, gripping storyline, haunting music and it stayed with me long after I left the theater. That is cinema.
Agreed! There are interesting modestly-budgeted movies by creative directors, a good script, and characterful actors.
Mee too.There are very good examples with no so much music and dance, with good acting and script.
I remember going to The Independent Film Festival in Waterford City in Ireland and watching The Wind That Shakes The Barley as well as some other amazing films. I agree with you 💯 about independents.
You failed to mention that it is a metaphor for ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, which was the whole point of the movie.
If you didn’t get that, you didn’t understand the movie.
@@angelcitygirl - your description of the film would suggest otherwise.
The Banshees of Inisherin wasn’t a ‘simple story of two men and their friendship and how it falls apart’.
It was a metaphor for the absurdity of religion and the pointless destruction that dogmatic beliefs can wreak upon a culture, shattering relationships and pitting friends and families against one another in pursuit of an agenda they do not control but nevertheless consumes their lives - quite literally in many cases.
That was the point of the movie, not the personal relationship between the two main characters, which instead was merely a device that served as an analogy for the entire Irish conflict, epitomized by Colm cutting off his own finger(s) to spite Pádraic.
Didn’t Netflix build a gigantic studio in New Jersey, movie making is become too expensive in California so it’s being moved elsewhere like South Korea, Mumbai, and other parts of the United States
Interesting.
Personally, I don't even remember the last time I went to watch a movie at a local theater.
RIP SIR Christopher Lee
I could listen to that man talk for hours
It's not the progressive messaging I have a problem with. It's the fact that it's so clearly insincere and profit-focused.
Exactly!!
I’m getting real sick of the pseudo progressiveness of corporations
Profit-focused yet they're losing tons of money
@deceiver9063 I never said they were actually good at it. Just that they think it's a way to ensure profits. Basically, the way I see it, it works like this:
Say you have a property. Either you don't have total faith in it, or, in the case of Disney, it's mostly a rehash of previous material. You need a way to make it culturally relevant, get people talking about it, and you clearly aren't prepared to rely on the film's own merits. You've learned from the commercial backlash boycotts of the 2010s that making political statements makes your product relevant and a subject of discussion, and if it makes an extreme minority angry, that anger also becomes free publicity because the majority will laugh at and argue with the reactionaries. And most of those who are angry will still go on to consume one of your products anyways when no one's looking. Meanwhile, people who want representation and agree with your company's sociopolitical statement are more likely to pay for the product because it's been culturally positioned as supporting a cause they agree with now. The quality of the actual product becomes one of the things considered in the dialogue surrounding the film, but not the only thing. And it gets people to see your film who otherwise wouldn't.
Of course, over time this trick will wear thin and become more and more obvious, especially if the actual quality of the product declines further or if it's used too often. If either the minority of those who dislike your message becomes the majority, or the majority who likes your message realizes that you're effectively baiting political divisions to exploit them for money and attention, this not only stops working, but further erodes trust in your brand.
@@AlashiaTuol you summed up this whole thing perfectly
The progressive messaging is also a problem though. Now it’s no longer about quality it’s about “how much propaganda can we push into this movie?”
The game industry is following the same script.
"They just wait at their own home to be disappointed" LOL
Barbie and Oppenheimer had the world's largest marketing budgets that told you to go see these films. Top Gun was so good, everyone that saw it said "you've got to go see it." Big difference.
American culture at is best🤡
Barbie spended more money to PR than movie itself and Oppenheimer practically ride it on Barbie pr's coattails aka Barbenheimer and it was simply bc they kept the release date same. Nolan did this before too. Top Gun had massive word of mouth promo by it's organic audience.
barbie was a fun watch, im actually shocked that as a long time fan it went mainstream and didnt stay amongst our little bubble. as its a movie that clearly catered towards people who know too much about the characters (me)
Barbie and Oppenheimer were terrible. The same pandering movies that we're getting lately.
Oppenheimer is overrated.
Really well done video. Seeing someone roast the shit out of Hollywood and how disconnected from the real world they are is in my top 3 forms of entertainment.
WHY modern blockbuster s-ck now more often... is literally a videotitle. By SMN
I thought holly weird gave up on Americans supporting there leftist no talent movies and hooked the money wagon up with the chi coms. So it's not working out? I guess that is what happens when you live in a dream world.
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Very good essay. 👍
Well done, very good observations.
And remembering what Christopher Lee said (so on point, these days) is most welcome. We used to have actors & actresses who used their brain and were honest - he was one of them.
That was some awesome analyzing 👍.
Korean movies are also getting better nowadays.
It’s not just the endless revivals, sequels and reboots but the fundamental misunderstanding from those reviving them as to WHY we loved them so dearly that make me so mad. Bob Iger’s bullshit statement of never doing sequels unless there is a story worth telling is just hollow given all the work he’s overseen.
I’m just done. The future of the industry is in the hands of independent creators and studios.
We’ve gotta start blaming ourselves as consumers here too, bro. We don’t have to see remakes, reboots, bad franchise films and sequels to things that don’t need them every year, but we do anyway over things the original things we claim we want more of like The Creator, The Holdovers, etc. Hollywood doesn’t keep doing this for nothing. They’re doing it because we show interest in what we claim we don’t want more of very often. That has to change, but it won’t, sadly.
I went to see the creator. it was okay-ish not that great. I stopped watching the MCU after the Endgame. Hollywood don't need audiences to keep making crap. they just do it because it's easy and they can see it on streaming after. it's the laziness that's keeps this going. always has been.
Congrats on the new channel, Can't wait for Food Overload and Style Overload next
Went here after watching your review of Dune part two. Lmao. Dune part two single handedly saving Hollywood
Disney right now is like the Soviet Union in its final years. The question isn’t if it will fall, but when it will fall.
The sooner the better. The amount of good films in the past 50 years vs the utter crap the past 3. It’s a disgrace.
And take KK with it
@@ckennedy1973 k k k?
The biggest issue with Disney is black washing roles so it's the opposite of what you're eluding to...
They've gone mad with tokenism
@@ArtVandelayOfficial they mean kathleen kennedy AHAHAHAHHA
Unfortunately, that seems to be true.
You can only remake the same story so many times and then it needs to be put away. Some movies told a story so well, and were made so well, that they should not be remade , even the first time.
Godzilla Minus One being made on 15 million dollar budget AND being one of the best movies of the year really puts what you've said about the inflated budget of films in sharp contrast. Same with the FNAF movie (while not as good); movies can be made for less and can be so much more.
I loved the TopGun Maverick reference and I agree 100% and I can’t believe Disney as forgotten how to do that after Spiderman NWH. That movie was 2 and a half hours of fan service, yet it was the movie that pulled people back into the cinemas. Where did that go?
When you have the person playing Snow White saying the movie is not about love and how that fact is “really wonderful” and you have a whole generation who ate that up the love aspect of movies and want their kids to too, you severely misjudged the situation.
@ckas3 Iirc the original Snow White wasn't about love either though?
What was it about then, dwarf rights?
@@shannonceleste5557
It’s beginning and ending were very much about love. It was something Snow White desired. To cut that out is to ignore a major part of who she is as a character.
@@shannonceleste5557It was about the dangers of accepting food from strangers and oversleeping. 🙄
In the OG Grimm’s fairy tale Snow White isn’t revived by the prince’s kiss, but the dwarves drop her coffin and she wakes up. The kiss scene was from sleeping beauty. But the prince was still important, because he marries Snow White and during their wedding he punishes the evil queen by having her dance to death in hot iron shoes. I love the Brothers Grimm!😂
Why would Disney release the Haunted Mansion in the middle of July and not October.
does it matter?
@@umbrellastudio7481i mean from a marketing standpoint yes. the movie would have been more interesting and marketable to consumers durring that month of october since it is supposed to be a spooky movie
@@umbrellastudio7481Yes it does and that’s one of the reason it flopped z
If Hollywood had just one of these problems, no creativity, rampant wokeness, terrible scripts, unlikable actors, they could get away with it. But having all of that at the same time? I'm amazed they sell any tickets outside of reviewers.
My mom has hated watching movies and tv for the past 20 years. I introduced her to Korean dramas this past year and she’s hooked on them. The Asian markets are already dominating the comic book market in America. I think the movie and tv industries are next.
Yes. This is the way.
I am a major consumer of Korean content as well. I love the unexpectedness and twists of the movies and dramas. I am watching some of the K-reality shows as well even tho I'm not a big fan of Western reality shows.
X'D Same here, though my mom was just tired of the Western tropes. She said she'll just watch Asian series until she gets tired of Eastern tropes as well.
And yet there are lots of themes that are pushed in K dramas. They are filled with feminism as the major audience is women. Egalitarianism is a pretty common theme. And Korea has a lot of real problems in these areas. They are pushing a message.
I ain't gonna watch Korean dramas no thanks☠️
A major problem is how the industry is now run by executives who don't care at all about art, but only money. These people are extremely detached from the audiences.
They don't care about money either. They care about pushing The Message
That's the way it's always been. This is nothing new.
I mean, just the fact that massive producing companies choose to fund the current mediocre star trek series rather than the Orville is proof of that disconnect.
I used to love going to the movies on a Saturday night. I didn’t go every single week, but at least twice a month. I haven’t been in a year at the time of writing; I don’t like Marvel Comics, or kids’ films, and that’s all my local cinema shows these days.
You know what was the best movie I saw all this year? Godzilla Minus One. While it definitely has problems, the character work in that movie was fantastic, paired with phenomenal visual effects for Godzilla and excellent sound design and a soundtrack. That movie was made for supposedly 15 million dollars(or 33 million dollars) from a director who has a background in VFX, animation and has directed some successful hits in Japan. And he was heavily inspired by movies, like Star Wars, Jaws etc. classic Hollywood movies. It says a lot when foreign cinema is able to produce better material than modern Hollywood. Because modern Hollywood right now is failing because of belief: it believes it is a necessity when it isn't. Hollywood is a luxury. People don't have to watch your movies.
They have TH-cam, TikTok, anime, manga, video games. Plenty of other things. When you take the audience for granted and produce stuff that doesn't make them want to come back, it will eat at your profits. And to be clear; I do NOT want Hollywood to fail. I want it to thrive and we can get good stories or even decent ones again. But it won't happen unless Hollywood starts recognizing its own problems, attempt to fix them, and start producing quality stuff that gets audiences to come back. Godzilla Minus One made me want to see it again. That rarely happens nowadays.
There's also past movies and series far superior than most of today's offerings
Another thing that I hate is when they blame the audience for either their attention span, but yet openhiemer or Martin Scorsese fims do very well (from what I remember) or not understand what the movie means, yet the movie is as deep as cocomelon, it's pretty hilarous seeing their meltdown
very well said and now I want to see Godzilla Minus One!
Tokyo may be the new Hollywood in the near future
Gojira 🦖🔥
For Halloween this year I went to my local inderpent cinema to watch The thing (1982) and there was more people there watching that then any of the IP films playing that day. Proof if a good film is playing people wll watch, even if it came out 40 years ago.
@filmreviewer117 I agree with you while also trying to remember if there were any other Halloween movies in theaters this year
Was The Haunted Mansion it? I'm an Old so I remember when there was a new Saw movie in theaters every Halloween for like a decade lol
@@shannonceleste5557 There was none. The last Scream movie came out at the start of the year but nothing else in terms of an solid horror film.
Same with the coralline re release the movie theater was packed
@@trinitycritchfield2696 I heard about those. Shame there wasn't any near me to go.
@@shannonceleste5557I cannot even watch HBO or SHO. The movies are awful messes. I will turn to Starz. It has old movies from the sixties and seventies. I would rather watch an old movie than watch present day junk
R.i.p Christopher Lee.
Instead of letting audiences decide what they want to consume and five it to them, , the studios are trying to dictate what they audience should want.
It’s quite fitting that George Lukas sought to be financially independent to make the movies he wanted to make, and created the iconic Star awards franchise.
Then, as soon as a corporation like Disney got hold of it, it slowly started to crumble…
The prequel trilogy was flawed to say the least but it was george lucases vision.
@@voss0749it’s funny how people got so up in arms about his CGI when now you got the same thing but worse and without a story and characters you care about.
It’s eating itself.
It’s all self-referencing.
Everything is either a remake, a sequel, a prequel or based on an old tv series or iconic character or consumer product. And then crapping out “productions” that it then picks up and eats again to crap out another.
I hope Hollywood never recovers, in my opinion nothing of value would be lost.
You'd find something else to cry about, I'm sure.
I couldn't agree more with this entire video. Once i saw the trailer for the fourth planet of the apes, i was so hyped, but then, remembering that the last few movies I've seen (Thor love and Thunder and Jurassic World Dominion) I've lost most faith in Hollywood studios making anything relatively unique or interesting.
At this point I love seeing Hollywood fall and I hope they keep failing because at least they will reach a point where they will have no choice but to listen to fans and actually make films and TV shows that people actually want to watch.
I'm just waiting for a major studio to go bankrupt, as Larry Fink can't keep signing blank cheques indefinably.
I’m going to disagree with you there. Improvement isn’t inevitable.
There are many reasons for this, from consolidation to global revenue streams, to an overall risk averse mentality, but none of this means that things will improve.
Remember that crap about Hollywood piracy?
Just an excuse to release bad films.
They do listen to fans. Movies are made based on market research.
@@hihihi1q23 nope
I never thought Hollywood would never gone down hill in any way.
When I decide to watch a movie, the first thing I look for is the director of that movie. Like this year, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Hayao Miyazaki names are guaranteed for good movies because they treat movie as an art form, not a business model.
Mate you video hits the nail on the head !
Sadly…100% accurate on every single word mentioned.
I feel so lucky that I was a teenager in the 80’s and got to watch a blockbuster almost every week.
I’ll go and take my wife and kids to the theaters.
The only thing that keeps us from going is the constant flow of garbage movies with zero quality.
And also, why would your #1 goal be to DIVIDE AND PISS OFF A FANBASE?!
This is the kind of stupid shit that’s destroying my favorite franchises 🤦♂️
upward failure = the Peter Principle, which states that people will more often than not promote themselves to a level of incompetence.
Stop making remakes that don’t or can’t capture the original stories, stop making sequels that rehash the same characters and stories, stop casting based on anything other than talent and merit, stop letting people direct because they check DEI boxes, expand the writer pool and take more chances on unknown writers who have new stories to tell. All of this would be a good start.
Tremendous summary of Hollywood today. Congratulations on a job well done!
The barbinhimer was such a great play. Two movies completely different that would have competed with each other actually helped each one. Everyone I know has seen 1 or the other. I hope we get more of that. It was the first time in awhile I went to the theaters and seen so many people all having fun.
I think the biggest factor here is that TVs at home have become bigger, better and many spend hundreds on auxiliary speakers.
Its good too see Christopher Lee talking sense. His HAMMER Dracula movies were great. I encourage everyone too give the oldies a chance 30's thru the 80's. Start with Orson Welles "The Third Man".
Well said, Christopher Lee. The man was a *real* legend.
And a gentleman.
Godzilla minus one is a perfect example of a entertaining movie with a good message about grief, family, friendship and comments on war
Go see this movie totally worth your time
with only 15 million budge as well
The fact it was on that small of a budget was just mind blowing
Shout out to the Japanese. They're awesome!
TOO MUCH HOLLYWOOD PANDERING. SERIOUSLY
@@Depressing_joeseriously only 15 million? That's astonishing given how great Godzilla looked. That was a top 3 film of 2023 for me. Maybe even top 10 of the past 5 years.
I showl can’t see myself sitting still in a theater for hours anymore. 3yr lock down gave us time to adjust to watching movies at home.. doin chores 😂
Holy cow I love this channel! Rings so true to me. Thank you mate. Greetings from Oz to Oz ;D
You are correct in that Top Gun Maverick is what Hollywood needs to study. A legacy sequel where the hero is still the hero, he still has something to teach the younger generation, the characters are all treated with respect, it was made to be on the big screen and not streaming on your laptop, it had the balance between drama, comedy, action, romance, & internal conflict. I liked Top Gun, but I thought Top Gun Maverick was great.
I daresay it's because Tom Cruise, as producer, knows what an action movie should be. I'm aware that he's not perfect, but he is devoted to his craft.
Hollywood needs to study Godzilla Minus One. Made under 15 mil and is one of the best movies this year. RRR is another great movie that came out last year and was way better than anything Hwood made.
Extraction 1 and 2 are also hidden gems in a sea of trash. Both movies’ action scenes are very reminiscent of action movies of old like Rambo, Commando, Terminator, etc. and have no woke virtue signaling. For example you have this leading female character who is strong (both physically and mentally) but she’s also imperfect. And yet she’s by the male main character’s side through and through and both even have a mourning moment together due to the loss of a fellow comrade. I really love both movies even though they both have their strengths and weaknesses.
Yup, pretty much nailed everything wrnog with Hollywood. The change is coming but i don't think it will be a bright one.
Not to mention everyones favourite Bob says and I quote: “I think I don’t want to apologize for making sequels. Some of them have done extraordinarily well. And they’ve been good films too. I think there has to be a reason to make it, beyond commerce. You have to have a good story. And we have made too many. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to continue to make them.”
I don't see a reason to make Frozen 3 & 4, Toy Story 5, Inside Out 2 & Zootopia 2 but Boby here thinks its a good idea.
What really baffles me is that it’s as if they stopped liking making money.
They thought they can’t go outside their “comfort zone”
What does IP mean in this context? And green washing?
Hollywood is dead to me... Great video, your explanation of the current state of the entertainment industry is spot on...
The issue really is the disconnect between the audience and the industry. We have executives who care more about money than making a good product, we have creative teams who actively hate what they are working on, actors/directors who feel they can run their mouths and an industry that seems intent on rewarding failure.
14:52 what is the movie?
"Disappointed in the comfort of their own home..." So right.
Pretty simple fix: give the audience what they want, make good movies based on stories, character development, and not political ideals.
The nail on the head when he said “rather wait to watch a terrible movie at home”
Agree with quantity over quality part but please tell me what's wrong with having strong female protagonists and why are audience not willing to watch them?
I can’t believe we got to the point where we need to explain this
Wow. That video was so good! - As a lifetime professional filmaker of 40 years, making films with tiny budgets because that's the only option I had, it is so satisfying to hear someone else pouring out my heart. Thank you Sir Overlord! :-) I'm officially inspired.
Stick with it! Been making music for about 20 years now, except I've been in a real heavy writer's block for the last 9 years. Just remember David's words in Prometheus, "big things have small beginnings."