I feel like the only exception to this trend of fast pace adrenaline like movies is the Joker. That is one movie that actually has plot and is more about story telling. The producers infused his character with modern day issues to try and break the dead attention span of gen Z.
Investors are always going to place demands on a production, hence the “produce Ed’s mistress” trope. The problem occurs when there are too many investors or a corporation is the investor. The reason the 80s had so many great films is they used to have producer duos like Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, Golan/Globus, Scott/Free…. Working with a single studio like WB or Paramount. These days you sometimes see upwards of a dozen producers and 3 or more studios!!
Shakespeare pleased his investors like King James & the common audience was an after thought as they would likely accept anything they could get. The difference now is that there are millions of things to watch, read, or play & thousands of things get added every year to that long list & audiences can pick & choose whatever they can find.
people watch movies to escape reality. not to be lectured about how bigoted they are or how society is awful. movie studios have forgotten movies are supposed to be an escape.
It really depends on what kind of film it is. If it's a film that specifically is meant to reflect our reality, then I don't think people watching are going to watch it to escape reality.
@@pman56789we don't go to watch such movies! Name such kind of movie which made billion+ at the box office! Movies are meant for entertainment purposes rather than condescendingly preaching, patronizing lectures by the Woke brain-dead leftist Elites!
People do want to see movies that depict how awful the society is. Holliwood is simply too rich to understand what makes it awful and thus doesn`t really even depict it.
As a female moviegoers, I've grown tired of one-dimensional "strong female characters" who seem more like feminist marketing than genuine people. The most compelling heroines don't just punch hard and make tough choices - they struggle with vulnerabilities. I want to see characters who feel genuine pressures and doubts, not just exploits, to hit marketing success.The bravest heroes redeem their humanity by facing what's broken within, not staying angry at the world.
And what's annoying is they already have great blueprints. Literally, the most successful movies which has a compelling male lead, can literally just be genderswapped and have the plot rewritten for an actually good main character. Keep the personality and boom, instant cash cow.
as a girl, that rachel zegler comment about snow white really rubbed me the wrong way. even with all its issues especially in the time period of 1930s and the obvious outdated cliche tropes, there’s still something about snow white that isn’t just a damsel in distress. i had the same thinking as rachel when i was a little kid which led to me disliking snow white because i preferred more badass princesses like snarky belle or physically strong mulan, but as i grew up and rewatched it i just learned that snow white was more than that. it takes a lot of strong will to be able to survive in a house where your stepmother hates you. it takes a lot of guts to be able to wander a scary forest alone for the first time after being sheltered for so long. it takes a lot of faith and trust to be able to just go up and live with 7 strange magical dwarves. even if it is strange, her naivete and pureness about the world also contributed to saving her from being killed. sure, florian saved her from death by kissing her, but throughout snow white’s story she never ever lost her kindness, her genuine niceness, her ability to see good in people. she is perfectly accepting of her chores because she wants to repay the dwarves’ goodwill and charity and that’s what she knows what to do and she knows her limits and is content with it. and that’s perfectly fine! she’s equally strong in her own way and it’s not only through being aggressive with snarky comebacks or physical strength that a woman can be the best version of herself and equal to men.
what you described here just hit right on the newest OnePiece Live Action character "Nami", she portrayed as badass sly fox at the begining but the end of the day at the climax, she finally realized how became strong alone is not enough so she need help from her new found friends/family
I can recommend Gran Turismo. pretty great male characters. A young and naive main character who develops through the course of the movie, and a mentor who is past his time and gradually becomes more of a father figure for the main character. top notch movie.
"Strong female characters have everything they need to succeed from the outset, requiring the world to change around THEM rather than undergoing personal development." Wow! You nailed it. I then ask myself WHY does Hollywood want women to think this way about themselves? Nobody is perfect and everyone has growing to do.
Hollywood and Disney are pandering to the fantasy-world of the modern feminists. It's similar to the pandering that the TV studios have done to housewives and/or working women and kids for the last 40 years- The husband/father is portrayed as a clueless idiot, while the wife/mother is portrayed as wise and all-knowing. It's because they know it's not true, that they portray men this way, among other reasons.
You & Moon nailed that! But the way you worded your last sentence, is funny because it seems that the only one that's perfect is "Nobody," but despite being perfect, even "Nobody" needs to grow up! 😂 But I get that's not the intention.
It's like fat people wanting everyone else to say they are not fat and "accept their fat identity", as they are within 4 lbs of dying of being deathly ill and severely obese rather than admitting they are near death and to get surgery and go to a gym and be a better person.
because a lot of women are weak and feel that without constant reassurance that theyre amazing without trying that they are nothing which is the truth so they incessantly complain on twitter until the companies investors demand shilling woke patronizing feminist garbage
These are some reasons why some movies from Korea, Japan, India, and other countries outside the US have been successful: 1. The trailers didn't reveal the best plot twist of the movie. 2. The actors, actresses, director and others involved in the project NEVER insulted the audience whom they want to support their movie or series. 3. They don't prioritize or focus on diversity unless the plot needs to. 4. They just make movies with far more interesting stories, dialogues, and better execution.
Are you sure because their movies are so easy to predict but you are right about everything else,infact Asian movies and their tropes have been mocked on TikTok multiple times and they don't need diversity because duh,their countries aren't that diverse
Marvel pretty much killed movies as a whole. Now every movie maker believes there has to be a universe. Just because youre connecting a popular movie with urs doesn’t mean urs will take off.
The death of the dvd market due to streaming really is killing the industry as a whole. Those medium sized films used to be way less risky financially because they'd make equal or more than their box office from the dvd sales and rentals.
I have just about everything I care to own on DVD and Bluray. There is still some old classic that comes alobg every now and then that I like to get, but overall I am done. This is where I go when I want to watch something. I don't have streaming or any of the other stuff anymore.
Streaming is honestly dead…it’s just that people can’t let it go like a years long cigarette habit. I don’t know a single person that still talks about new shows that they saw on a streaming service.
@salemmattaniah11 You're lying to yourself my friend. Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Prime, ect. They put out really good series and people talk about them all the time.
I saw someone comment on the most recent Marvel movie trailer something like “ah yes! Another cgi battle on a cgi planet with cgi characters with a cgi plot. Can’t wait!” And that perfectly sums up how the spectacle of being able to create new worlds/effects is being prioritized instead of focusing on stories grounded in reality that people can easily humanize with and connect to.
I think the actual scale spaceship models filmed against the blue screen with the outer space background added later, as with the original 'Star Wars' movies and the original 'Alien' film, for examples, look infinitely better and more realistic than all this CGI crap. They claim that, "Today, we use CGI instead of real scale 3-D models, because it's 'cheaper'". Really? It's cheaper? Then why are movies costing almost a $Half-Billion Dollars to make these days? I think the CGI guys have duped the studios!
I've said since the mid 80s that special effects are like salt and pepper on the prime rib, the story is the meat itself. Btw, the original 'Star Wars: Episode IV', was made for $9 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about, maybe, $23 million today, give or take. Something's wrong somewhere.
@@samr.england613are you kidding me? No they didn't, let's no kid ourselves,I agree with the video but let's not lie as if technology hasn't improved since then
@@jeffersonhassan4558 I am not lying, Jeff. Don't kid yourself. Modern space scene CGI looks like plastic candy compared to how they did it with the original Star Wars. Watch the opening scene to Episode IV again, then watch that ridiculous all-out space fight in 'the Phantom Menace'. The latter looked fake. Computer imaging tech has improved, of course it has, but they didn't USE computer imaging tech as much back then with the older films.
The video is Incredible, with one thing I would like to correct: John Carpenter's "The Thing" was actually a remake of 1951's classic "The Thing From Another World". But it was done right in so many ways.
Possibly the best remake ever? Obviously based in appreciation of the original content, but suffused with ideas meant to add value to and strengthen the experience. Hard to think of many that are even as good as the original, let alone such a massive upgrade.
Precisely ! I don’t wish to be hit over the head with moral meaning I don’t go to be reminded how bad the world is, escaping into a movie should be fun not full of dull pandering
I honestly think we overestimate the effect of tiktok on our attention spans especially when it comes to movies. If a movie is good, it will captivate you enough to sit through it. If a movie is trash, no matter how short, you will zone out. Quality is quality
Attention span problem is real like people get very easily bored nowadays. Thus doesn't matter what the movie is, it is 90 minutes while you are used to watching 300 various tiktoks in that time. Imagine these people trying to read a regular book.
Idk, I do think it's still having a negative effect. I use relatively very little social media (just youtube and quora really) and even I've noticed seriously negative effects on my attention span in recent years thanks to binging on shorts and meme compilations and the like. Movies are my no.1 passion and yet frequently even when I'm watching a really good one I feel the urge to pause it a while and check my phone or whatever. I can only imagine what it's like for people who are on TikTok 4 hours a day...
Has it? I haven't watched a movie in probably five years... and it's not cause I don't like movies, I just have no interest in seeing a fifteenth Avengers movie.
The Barbie movie would care to disagree. Turns out that people like when a film has a message, even *gasp* a socio-political one, if presented thoughtfully and integrated into an otherwise entertaining film, not just shoehorned in to tick boxes.
You nailed it. This industry is set to die. Even if you would explain them what's going wrong they just would look at you as if you were an alien from outer space. Sad.
And there are at least hundreds of films from the past that we could watch again and again and still enjoy. 'Alien', 'Jaws', original 'Star Wars', 'Die Hard', 'Logan's Run', 'Rocky', 'Jurassic Park', 'ET', 'Close Encounters', 'The Exorcist'...
You could see something you've (probably) never seen before like "Nightmare Alley" the original one. My cable Movies channel has film noir night with movies in the style of "The Maltese Falcon" but relatively unknown. It's a gold mine. I could watch "The Petrified Forest" a couple times a year. Don't want to over do it though.
The lack of any real risk or consequence brought up at about 14:00 really does harken back to the "everyone gets a trophy" or not keeping score in a game so you don't leave anyone feeling hurt or left out. People naturally know ther has to be winners and losers, challenges to overcome and real stakes associated with actions. The more you remove those aspects, the less people will connect with the story.
I think Alita was the last movie I remember seeing with a believable female character who had a progression as a character, sure she was build to be the perfect fighting machine, but she didn't just own everybody until she reached her full potential. She even needed the help of others in order to achieve her full potential but other than being a perfect killing machine she had emotions and real human connections with others (even men which is rare these days). The fact that she was a robot didn't matter as she was more human than so many non-robot female characters you see in films today.
Oh the irony of a robot character having more relatability, empathy and likeability than their human counterparts from these newer films is far too good...
It’s not only the film industry that’s suffering, so is the music industry, modelling industry - basically any industry even minimally related to entertainment. When you skip the whole process (Art and creativity) in favour of profits, you lose the whole meaning and magic of what you’re presenting. Basically art is becoming business.
Agreed. Every creative driven realm is hurting. For all of their misses, The Frankfurt School definitely had the ills of the culture industry down pat back in the '60s. The production (that word used intentionally) of culture for profits sake is a race to the bottom. Relegates our civilizations' very art and soul to the same importance as producing a microwave or bicycle tire.
The essay from the classic flash animation, Animator vs Animation III rings true to this day. Today’s society is too busy to see meaning in art. Art today is more about beauty than provoking thought. To understand a piece of art is to stop and think, and nobody has time to do that anymore, because they are preoccupied with their busy schedules. On the other hand, beauty can be seen in a picture right away without thinking. The primary function of today’s artist is to create beauty; people are more affected now by first impressions than by underlying messages. The world is a gigantic, thriving organism, bustling with activity. Everywhere you look, there are people in cars talking on cell phones, getting ready for their next event. The only art in their lives are the ads in their magazines and the commercials on their televisions. Can one pack a provoking message into thirty seconds of television or on one page of a magazine? It is possible, but conveying beauty is much easier. All you need for an impacting beer commercial are pretty women holding ice-cold bottles of the liquid. Just take some slow motion shot of cars splashing through water, and you have a high-quality car commercial. Many people are so lazy that the media can only appeal to them through their eyes. Does anyone think beyond the surface of art? A dying percentage does, and those are the professional fine artists and art historians. Art is no longer the channel through which people pour their thoughts. Therefore, if there is a message you want to convey to the population, writing a book would be a better choice.
I think Wanda from marvel was the perfect recipe on how you can create a super strong female character (the strongest avenger) in the most natural way without feeling like it was being shoved down your throat. They introduced Wanda and it took about 4 years before I even realized she was the strongest one in the group. They never had her make comments about being a woman, none of that. She was there and one day she truly used her power (with thanos) it was perfect. She was the strongest in the group with only real marvel fans realizing that.
@@fr0ck360 Wanda vision is good what are you talking about? It didn't have all the feminist bullshit but about a dream of a woman want to be loved by family. Anh Wanda become that strong is not something pulling out of the ass but fully developed was a plus for me
@@fr0ck360 definitely disagree Wandavision was good imo. It was the start of marvel launching their universe shit so they didn't degrade that shows early airings
She tried to brainwash a whole town in Wandavision and were expected to feel bad for her. Also Multiverse Of Madness made people give up on her character, people did respect her at one point, but I saw that respect start disappearing after Wandavision and MoM
I don't have any stakes in who the strongest avenger is, but I suspect Thor might want to have a word with you if he ever reads this comment... Just a friendly warning.
I love how Hollywood aren't done selling the idea of a strong female protagonist who doesn't need a man, thinking it's still a quirky concept that hasn't already been done to death.
The damsel in distress story is just as tiring. The best movies show we need each other. LOTR did a great job portraying this concept. They survived because they all came together and each had their job to do.
There are no more heroes. Instead, we are inundated with perfectly perfect people who always make the perfect decision so that they can be lauded for that perfection. There are no villains and no Achilles heel to cause the hero to falter. Instead, we watch as our heroes are systematically destroyed and replaced with "modern" characters who are nothing more than watered down replacements for the social justice warriors doing the writing. Everything reads like fanfiction. Hollywood has run out of stories and instead of finding talent and creative vigor, we get preachy perfectionist pacifists who think that the only way to tell a story is by bludgeoning their audience repeatedly with the same talking points set to nonsensical and incongruous soundtracks. It's so boring.
I think it has been driven by the fact that writers now had too structured of upbringings. They had upper middle class parents that put them through the best schooling and experiences. There's no adversity so they can't write about it. The next Stallone can't even get into Hollywood.
@supermodestmouse Part of me knows that there are certain instances where this is true, but not when it comes to talent. Not when it comes to words. Not when it comes to entertainment. Yes, there is equality in living, breathing, and functioning. However, when it comes to integration of thoughts from words to screen, the best people SHOULD get the best jobs. The most talented have to rise, otherwise its all watered down with no place to go but into the drain.
Probably why I like so many independent films. Their director's priorities are the stories and characters rather than overblown effects and ridiculous budgets.
@@lea-anne9133 yes I agree there u can actually find what a film is and how something even on a small scale be such entertainment Yk the saying it ain't much but it's honest work
Making motion pictures has been a, "business" since its inception in the 1920s! Just because it's still, to this day, a business, I don't think is the problem here. It's more compicated than that. The Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court (you know, the decision that said that corporations were individuals with First Amendment rights of Free Speech), as well as the politicization of Hollywood, along with infliltration of the creative arts by Third-Wave feminists, have a lot do with all this, among other forces.
Remember when James Cordon stopped at a Starbucks in Hollywood where all these young Screenwriters hung out? He asked them all what they were writing and every idea was awful. Writing by numbers, tropes and formulas with no strong characters or stories. Berkeley Grads running Ops. And these are the people running Hollywood now... talentless thoughtless career chasers.
Some genre films are traditionally liked by a certain group of people. By trying to make them 'liked by everyone' by forcing incongruous elements, they end up making them liked by almost no one.
One of the best movies i've watched in recent times was Oppenheimer. I think Christopher Nolan is a treasure to society that actually cares about the artform of story telling and practical effects. Other than him, I don't really get excited about going to the movies anymore.
As someone born in 2001, why is it that all of my favorite movies were released between 1980-2011? Of course there are exceptions that have released before and after, but not many.
Interesting you say this. I was born in 1991 and feel the same way. I was not certain if it was just being able to enjoy movies more when I was younger.
I hope that you're going to watch films even earlier than that because the Golden Age of Hollywood and the 70s have some of the best movies you'll ever see.
I used to love going to blockbuster or the movies for the big new thing, but now theaters don't have anything that interest me, especially with the current ticket prices. I prefer sitting at home and watching 80s movies with a story for the Nth time than spending $30+ to get lectured by a greenscreen
94' was such a great year for movies, and just the 90's in general. So many movies that are still watched and talked about to this day came out at this time.
The "strong female character" archetype actually do more harm to women, as we can never actually measure up to their starting point. Eowyn is still my favorite LOTR female character because she knows her limits, but always strives to push past her status to do more in her world. She felt pain, she had fears, but she kept moving forward
Eowyn is one of the best female character arcs in a movie I have ever seen. She does somewhat play the role of "strong female character", but there is a long & in depth build up to her punchline in the 3rd movie. It didnt feel cheesy in the end. We got to see her express genuine fear & sorrow. She had to struggle, just like the people around her, in order to triumph in a tragic situation. Therefore I appreciated he hero moment a lot more than anything in modern cinema.
Before the destined Witch-King moment she even takes out an elephant solo, but she’s not a stone cold badass while doing it, she’s a skilled soldier fighting hard. Really only Legolas gets “invincible combat monster” moments in those movies, and even he freaks out at Helm’s Deep. Damn, those were good movies.
@@npc29182 agree, Hunger Games was one of the only "strong female character" movies that got it right by giving Katniss inner and outward obstacles to overcome. I absolutely want to watch the new Hunger Games because I trust the author of the books and her writing. And this was something Hollywood was actually patient on and they didn't decide to run the franchise into the ground by trying to create 10 sequels immediately after the original story finished.
You shouldn't be "measuring up" to an actor acting out a role in a movie. You should be using your brain tissue to make your own path in life and finding out your own identity, not absorbing someone else's identity and forcing it to fit your lifestyle. You end up a shallow husk of a person with no individual character or personality which in turn makes you narcissistic and sociopathic.
@@MrWolfSnack This is true and how so many people don't realize that to "measure up" is to put yourself in the impossible position of making your life just like someone else's with little to no context of their own struggles and pitfalls. This will just lead you into a depressive mindset and a hollow existence that doesn't actually belong to you
I'm born in 2005 and my favorite movies are all from 1995 to 2005 (it's just a general time frame). Its crazy how these older movies are so much better than the newest movies that came out recently.
I just want fun movies like how they used to make them. Back to the Future is my go to example. A movie about a scientist and his buddy going through crazy time traveling antics while dealing with the problems that brings. To this day its still a joy to watch.
Amen to this. Nowadays investors won't drop even 20 million on a movie that's a newer concept or utilizing a common story line but displaying various characters. They need a sure thing and so far these super hero films have paid out. The tides are turning tho and you can see these films not always succeed. It's unlikely we see any sort of romance films or just a football movie even nowadays
To be fair, Back to the Future barely got made. They had a really tough time convincing studio's to film it. It seems that great movies in all decades were not expected by studio's to be great. They are always a risk.
@piokul But back to the future was always supposed to be a buddy adventure flick. It was only the previous Marty that wanted it to be this serious flick, but thankfully the directors decided against that idea. Funding aside I think the movie would've always been a fun flick. Who knows tho
I love watching movies from 10+ years ago. It’s a refreshing breath of air to know you’re not going to have any one dimensional agendas shoved down your throat. Back when the goal was good story telling over ticking boxes to virtue signal.
9:56 this brings to light something I realized while rewatching Terminator 2 a few weeks ago. During Sarah Connor’s escape of the psychiatric ward, the employees finally catch up to her and restrain her before she eventually comes face to face with the T-800. If the movie were made today, instead of having the employees tackle her and nearly dog pile on top of her just to restrain her, Sarah would’ve single-handedly fought off each person in the room with her bare-fists. The approach made in the actual film is so much more true to life. Even a woman as resilient as Sarah Connor isn’t a physical match for an average man, much less several of them
It's the obvious silliness, absurdity, lameness, ridiculous things they're doing with these almost supernatural female characters that is so nauseating. Kicking men's asses with hardly any effort, men twice or three times their size, with a whole lot more muscle than any woman can have. It's 'dream-wish' for the feminists. (Don't get me wrong, there are some women that could kick my ass, and I'm 225 llbs and 6' 2", but such women are often on male hormones.)
@@jeffersonhassan4558 How about a perfect girlboss who fights hoardes of men while at the same time lecturing them about how all men are terrible. Big whoop?
@@samr.england613 There are plenty of talented writers out there, many of them even working for these huge companies. But unfortunately, their creativities are stunted because of the company's agenda. Imagine what kind of movies could be produced if these writers, even just for once, received unrestricted creative freedom.
@@deezhamad3891not really in the case of Disney, Disney is the definition of giving writers and directors freehand to ruin projects,in their case, it's the opposite,the investors needs to get involved more
The lack of technology meant that only the best and most creative directors are able to create certain shots, like the back to the future hoverboard using camera angle tricks. Nowadays even 3rd rate directors can use cgi to make anything they want to "fly", which ends up making it an empty scene with no unique camera angles
It has become so expensive to take a family to the movies that it is becoming (at least for my family) more of a 'once in every great while' kind of event, as opposed to going once or twice a month.
A child to let is $8 and an adult is $12-14. It’s really not expensive. Whether you buy food and drinks is your choices. But to actually go is super cheap entertainment.
Our local cinema is $7/kids, $13/adults, for a 2PM Monday showing (bump adults up to $16 for non-matinee). Two adults, two kids -- $40 for a matinee is becoming increasingly harder to stomach in this economic climate. I also hold the opinion that it is super expensive to do -anything- right now, so maybe this is an apples to oranges type of argument. @@truthteller4442
@@Nae_ex Sometimes and in some cases, but not really. Inflation, right now, is hurting the global working and middle classes, all over the world. What's left of the middling classes, anyway. (And don't give me any bs about inflation hurting the upper classes or the rich. They just have to go with 2 wild lobster tails instead of 3.
so your "not an econoics professor" brain think that it was okay to not employs those Writers, cameraman, directors, CG Artists, Actor, heck even a Catering man? it bring value and wealth to those profession, and not only that, the reason why US Dominate the Entire world because, the entire world like US Movie or Game, without those Movie and Game, US won't be enjoying their international influence like today Basically Movie or Game contribute more to the Economy and Influence, compared to a spreadsheet job, or speculating stocks. without Movie, there will be less Influence and more Homelessness. you can't see the relation aren't you? if you want to solve the homelessness, nobody is going stop you from solving it, what are your excuses? go solve it, why waiting for someone to solve it for you? see? you're don't have a moral high ground too. go, roll up your sleeves, feeds people with your salaries, and let homeless people sleep at your house
And yet there are still movies like the Oppenheimer, where it was very long conversation based and so many people enjoyed it nonetheless. There is still hope in the cinema and in the viewers, there are still plenty of us who are waiting for the real crative movies. Let those fools in holywood produce trash, it seems to me, like there is a chance for a new wave of independent studios. Fingers crossed that great movie renessaince is around the corner, I cannot stand all the trash everywhere anymore.
I’d say Oppenheimer and Atomic City were exceptions. Dune 2 would have been as well. Good movies seem to have largely shifted to streaming services and adjusted to much smaller budgets.
Haven't been to a Movie in at least a decade and haven't watched TV since '99 except for hurricane info when I lived on an island. I still use a VCR and DVD/CD player. People have lost their minds so I moved to a cottage on a lake where I will die eventually. It is rather terrifying seeing how drastically a TV controls my family as an unintended consequence.
Same here. It's not years but DECADES ago. Love my DVDs Mannix Rockford files A-team Gilligan's Island Hawaii 50 ( old version) Dallas Sanford and son All in the Family 😊
I’ve always been a fan of movies (ideally horror) growing up. My family inadvertently designated me the movie selector when we are to have movie nights, literally any movie reference I can call out, and the list goes on. Since about 2017 I’ve slowly backed away from movies due to lack of interest but I thought it was maybe because I’m just getting older and idk “maturity”, and it would make me feel bad because I know I love movies but nothing at all is appealing to me. So to now see this and read people’s comments I’ve come to realize it isn’t me, it’s the studios! They’ve ruined it all, nothing is original, nothing is entertaining, everything is corny and or predictable. This is a very depressing time my love
Good horror movies are few and far between, as are scifi movies. Each rarely done well. Although, I'd bet mule butts to navy beans that you're a fan of the original 'Alien', yes? Scifi-horror at its best!
@@samr.england613 tho I do love a good sci-fi, I’m more of a slasher gal 🥹. And I do completely agree, good horrors are a thing of the past! For a second I really thought they were on the up and up because a lot a big name directors started taking on the genre. But then they brought the same recycled, cgi, jump scare bs as with everything else. No substance, or enticing plot, just pretty pictures and popular faces
@@_salzberri Good horror movies were rare in the past, too. From 1970 to '80, I can only think of three off hand- The Exorcist, The Omen, and The Shining. Btw, the ORIGINAL Tales From the Crypt, 1972, a medley of four or five short stories, was pretty good. If you haven't ever seen it, I recommend it if you like good horror. Joan Collins is in one of them, and Peter Cushing, aka Governor Tark in original Star Wars, is in another.
@@samr.england613 loool give the time period a little more justice. There were a lot more than three. What about Texas chainsaw massacre, Amityville, children of the corn, hills have eyes, nightmare, Halloween, Carrie, Poltergeist, Pet Cemetery, jaws (tho technically it’s not technically horror but you get me). Also thanks for the recommendations! I’m gonna seriously start watching tonight lol
I was talking to my dad about this the other day he said when he was growing up 70s and 80s films actors didn’t look like models they looked and acted like real people rather than have a pretty face. To me that’s what really stripped away the feeling of movies not to mention back then creativity ran wild.
I think Harrison Ford was a carpenter doing the doors at Lucasfilm when they were doing Star Wars script readings. They didnt have a Han Solo and so Lucas, who had known Ford from American Graffiti, called him in to read the part; and then decided to keep him for Solo, and then also use him for Indiana Jones. Ford probaby worked towards being an actor but he had to do other things - like carpentry - to pay the bills, and that life experience shaped him as an actor to being the everyman, the Gosling before Gosling (who also put in his time, but in the industry).
I hope our culture changes soon, the era of political activism by people with hero complexes is getting very old fast. Hopefully just like the 60s people will grow out of it.
@@Jim90117 60s? Never. The late 90s and early 2000s would be good. In the 60s women were always portrayed as weak and submissive to men. Every female movie character from the 60s were typical damsels in distress, horrible. Or do you mean that we should grow out of this era like people grew out of the 60s? In that case, dont even respond to this comment.
The recent five nights at Freddy’s movie had a budget of around 25 million and still broke records with how good it did. Well of course this is mainly due to it being a major video game and book series. But still this movie was still very well made and did not need a bigger budget.
Meanwhile "Arctic Dogs" was a critical failure but me and my friend enjoy it a great deal, and he even seen it in the theater. it became a Christmas movie for me now.
The downfall of Hollywood might be a blessing in disguise, because it gives film industries of other countries the chance to finally break Hollywood's dominance in entertainment. If Hollywood movies suck, let's watch a Korean drama, a Japanese anime, a Bollywood action adventure or a European black comedy. Plenty of choices.
I agree, Parasite is a great example. Amazing movie that caught me off guard. Similarly, there are lots of amazing Bollywood movies too. I've been consuming nothing but western media for so long, and now it's gotten rather exhaustive...
I have no problem with a strong, female lead. I just want her to be strong in the face of diversity; instead of facing no diversity and always being bold and strong.
i have no interest in a strong female protagonist. i have an interest in strong characters. if i here another movie described as "the female james bond" i swear to god. No one said rambo was the goth version of disney's tarzan. they were just like wow, this rambo guy is a bad ass. just make an interesting character! i don't want to see the female denzel washington or the male ramona flowers. good character being good character. full stop
They all have the same character arc. Her only flaw is she doesn't realize how awesome she is and the climactic final scene is where it finally dawns on her that she was always perfect and awesome.
Literally if you need an honest movie review he's the number 1 choice for it, he'll mostly just share his opinion instead of giving dumb excuses like how shit ragnarok I'm kinda glad someone like him stays honest in his videos if it's abt shitty movies instead of being a desperate fan trying to cover up their mistakes
Maybe we need a Critical Drinker / Moon crossover video.....we just had the Drinker with Ben Shapiro this weekend talking about the new Dailywire production of Snow White......come on do it!!!!!
There’s always been a fight between what directors and creative types want, and what the studio wants. These movies need one creative person driving the storyline. Feels like the studios corporate masters have their fingers into these movies too much these days.
You're right. Way back in 1975, the CEO of 20th Century Fox, after being lobbied for more funding for the original 'Star Wars', said, "I'm sick and tired of hearing about this Lucas kid and his 'science' movie."! hehehehe
Not sure why you kept showing Bladerunner 2049 - Gosling's character was determined to do his own thing, overcome his internal struggles, and uncover the truth, despite his female boss' wishes. The virtual girlfriend was just a dystopian, futuristic take on romance, if that's the trigger here. It was one of the rare modern throwbacks to old Hollywood IMO.
Part of the reason I’m willing to start an anime blind is that you’re likely to see _at least_ a complete arc in the 12 or 13 episodes, with the potential openness for subsequent stories. New TV shows might go for three seasons and not finish their story. That’s criminal to the art of storytelling. Harrison Ford’s suicide of his characters is just so so sad.
Sad thing is. I love classic movies and tv. But pretty much no one from my generation does. I don't know why, but from an early age they always managed to pull me in. I always get so engrossed and enveloped in the stories and the characters, as well as the actors performances. Some of my favorite classics are Twilight Zone, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Murder on the Orient Express, and Andy Griffith. Just to name a few. They are so good. I wish more people could see that. Oh, one more show... Columbo. Amazing. I honestly would put the blame on social media, for peoples lack of interest in good story telling. It takes time to build a proper world, and a fair bit of patients to get immersed. But with peoples attention spans today. That is almost impossible. We have to thank things like TikTok, TH-cam Shorts, and even the convienience of Streaming Services for the massive decline in attention spans. If we didn't have these things. I'm sure more people would be able to actually enjoy a good show when they see it. Instead of getting bored cause of the lack of visual comedy, and action.
I feel like the biggest problem today is that viewers have too many options for what to watch. Back in the days of the shows you mentioned, that was all that was available to watch on TV. Social media and 24-hour streaming services have created a colossal distraction for viewers who might otherwise enjoy older TV shows and movies, but they won't give them a chance because they don't have to.
You said it perfectly. I was born in December of 2000. I often say I grew up in the dying age of DVDs, VHS tapes, and such. My family raised me on the good stuff. I would watch old movies like Pollyanna and TV shows like The Beverley Hillbilies with my two Grandmas. (Paternal Grandma still has all of Beverley Hillbilies on DVD.) I would watch movies like The Live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990 with my Dad, along with Dead Poets Society, Sister Act with Whoopi Goldberg, and The Princess Bride. I have been a bookworm my entire life as well. I love reading a good book. You're also right about streaming and social media. It has completely destroyed attention spans. I wish people could remember what a REAL story, with a world to escape into, was like. I hope people realize this before it's too late.
When you ponder on the greatness of T2, we'll begin to notice how overindulged first world writers are so self-obsessed they have no ability to write a selfless protagonist. Every main character is a shoehorned self-insert where they're the hero and the victim.
7:19 I'm 20 I definitely feel this. My favorite movie of all time is Breakfast At Tiffany's from 1963. I much prefer older movies because I feel its worth my time to watch. Modern movies are insipid and soulless. Older movies have incredible writing and an equally amazing story full of fun likable characters. One example of this is The Breakfast Club (another one of my favorites) and I can't even begin to imagine my generation or the next generation being able to sit down and watch it. Its a shame really
well, there's a bit of survivorship bias there (there have always been bad movies, they just don't get the promotion or preservation efforts the good ones get because, well, they were bad), but yes, the number/percentage of Good movies in recent times is a lot lower. Mind you, we've also finally got video game movies that are actually good (not great, but good) movies rather than intolllerable garbage in the last couple of years, so there's that?
I enjoyed movies that made me feel empowered. If a character who faced tough odds was able to overcome them and be a hero, maybe I could overcome my own little challengee and be successful in my own life. I haven't gotten that feelings from movies in years.
I totally agree with this. I think diversity is important and that female leads can work really well, but not at the expense of storytelling. I think lumping this all together as “woke media pushing an agenda” is really shortsighted because it places the blame on the wrong people. POC aren’t asking for these stories, women aren’t asking for these stories, us wanting to see ourselves is not more important than just wanting to see a good story. I’ve always felt like the film industry doing this one dimensional storytelling under the guise of “wokeness” is simply so they can say, “We tried female leads and diversity and it didn’t work, so let’s go back to what we used to do.” The audience is not the priority for these companies. Storytelling is not a priority for these companies. They’re only focused on numbers and that is negative for *everyone*.
One movie that made me feel that way growing up was Mulan. Seeing her climb that post with weights on her always made me cry because she was so damn strong and determined, proving them all wrong through hard work instead of giving up. Too bad Disney has fallen so far since then
@@Ready-ForTheEnd Yes! I haven't seen Mulan in years but you're right it's an amazing example of how to tell a story about being strong, without any agenda.
I know exactly what you mean although Top Gun Maverick managed that in 2022 I think. He was willing to give his life to save others. He also had obvious flaws and was facing being rendered obsolete but never gave up.
Animation has been taking over in my opinion. Attack on titan, One Piece, and Jujutsu Kaisen has been some of the best cinema I’ve seen in the past years. Kinda hard to top any of that at the moment.
I've been wanting game of thrones in the castelvania style for the longest. I'm over big budget productions with actress/ actor constraints. Just make it animated and you can do A LOT.
Something I rarely hear being mentioned is how recent movies seem to lack any original and memorable musical soundtrack. From the trailers right way through until the final credits, we're given the same cookie-cutter drums, percussion, vocal chorus-type effects, shouts, downers, piano chords, synthetic strings etc. Great franchises like original Star Wars, Jurassic Park, LOTR etc all have instantly-recognisable and purpose-written soundtracks that enhance the storytelling and immerse the audience into their world. I can't think of a single non-reboot movie made in the last 10 - 15 years that does that.
I cannot even name any composers any more, aside from Hans Zimmer who seems to have changed the world of movies scores into continuous generic pulsations as opposed to beautiful compositions. John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Barry...some of the greats that defined movies with their incredible compositions.
Loved the video, and cried because it’s true. Perspective of a young actor trying to make a living of what I love the most. Hate when the audition forces you to share your social media accounts just for the produces to see if they will get free publicity or not. This is the tip of the iceberg
You couldn't pay me enough to watch a Disney TV show. Remember the Woke she Hulk. Watched 1 episode to see if it's really that bad and believe me it's one of the worst hours I've spent on God's green Earth!
It isn’t bad to show other stereotypes or demographics in media, but the entertainment industry has milked it dry to the point of causing a lot more outrage in the culture / identity war. They should focus on making actual movies rather than causing chaos.
You gave answers to all my unspoken questions, and I wondered why I lost interest and can never finish a modern movie, I find myself rewatching old flicks and loving it. Documentaries even excite me more
I've noticed the past few years there's a huge lack of movies that had a big impact on pop culture or are seen as iconic that everyone can agree on is must see, that is talked about for years, compared to past decades.
Slightly off-topic, I like how Monsterverse is one of the cinematic universes that hasn’t “fell off” yet. One thing I appreciate about Monsterverse is that they gave audience what they want which is Entertainment, not lectures
Another factor is mega-budget movies can crowd out smaller films. Theatres only have a limited amount of time and will more likely bet on blockbusters, so a handful of big budget movies can effectively monopolize the audience
Another point is Limitation breeds creativity, constraints and rules lead for more creative solutions within those guidelines, when you have a limited budget you need to make the big scenes count and cant rely on flashy nonsense
As a young film maker, I agree 100 % with the message of your video! It is important to note that there are many young artists like me who don't agree with the way the industry looks and operates right now, at all! I can sense that there is a big trend shift approaching in the media realm in general, not only film! We see the big budget studios relying on brand recognition, high budgets, fast turnout, mediocre quality and lacking talent, so people are getting tired of it and that's a big opportunity for us alternative / indie artists to shine through our dedication, hard work and talent, even on a low budget! Not to mention the "modern art" that's just a flaming trashpile! Support your indie artists, make alternative proper art profitable!
I truly love how deep you were able to get into the issues with Hollywood and how boring most of the films they put out are today. While I do occasionally enjoy a fun and dumb theater experience here and there, it's clear it won't reach the peak of films ever again espcially since the early 2000s were popping out classics. I just pray that hopefully things get better but for now I am not crossing my fingers here at all.
It is sad what they have done to modern villains in their stories. One of the few exceptions in recent years comes from Rogue One (a rare Disney success in Starwars and using a known villain in Darth Vader) you honestly really get the feeling from the rebels at the end when that red lightsaber ignites of “oh fuck”. It’s such a shame we can’t see more of that with previously unknown villains not having to bank on previous successes and notoriety to elicit the same reaction from audiences.
Another reason why films been struggling lately is because of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Because everything's so consolidated and congested there's no incentive to change or do better. That's why we're seeing remakes, reboots and sequels of the same old intellectual properties. The sad thing is that these big media executives don't realize is that intellectual properties depreciate over time.
There are still great writers in the industry, as evident by the number of great tv shows over the last decade, but they aren't given enough movies to showcase their talents as TV is often a more safer route for the studios
It should be mentioned that remakes aren't a new thing. Ben Hur was a remake, so was Scarface. The difference is that the original was often silent and in black & white, and seem lacking in professional polish. So a remake could add something different or new. But what could remakes of Ghostbusters, The Thing or Robocop accomplish that the original didn't?
I feel your videos continue to improve, becoming more concise, informative, entertaining, and thorough with each upload. Your recent output has been very strong.
I've thought about this very thing a lot, I believe social media has amplified social justice causes to seem like they are something the majority of people resonate with, which isn't true but there is no way to tell unless you actually talk to a variety of people in person, most people are fairly moderate politically. Anyway, studios see this social justice trend and make movies to cater to an audience that doesn't actually exist in the numbers studios are getting from social media data. Once they realize the movie is going to flop they create or find a fictional controversy to exploit as a marketing gimmick to try and build within their desired audience that this film now represents a "cause" to support. Despite the marketing effort the problem is still the miniscule size of the audience they are trying to cater to, which means the movie will inevitably flop.
Whats funny is they had strong female characters on lock down years ago, where there was Arnold in Predator there was Ripley in Alien, where there was Ash from Evil Dead there was Laurie Strode in Halloween and Amanda the pig from saw, mulan, Sarah Connor, i could go on, they wrote so many badasses back then, they have so many sources to draw from, and yet it just keeps evolving backwards
Question, were the Tomb Raider movies a good example of this? I saw them when I was like... 9 or something so I can't really remember how good they were.
The real tragedy of the loss of balance in the modern movie diet is the demise of comedies. They try to compensate by boosting the level of comic relief in action blockbusters, but it just isn't the same.
Exactly. There were so many good comedies like 20-15 years ago. Where you just couldn't get a break from laughing and when your cheeks hurt afterwards. Like all Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler movies. My favourite comedy Eurotrip is 20 years old... There's only one good comedy from recently, where I could laugh like that, was Robots with Shailene Woodley. Brilliant. But it completelly flew under the radar. Was shown in theaters for only two weeks, where I live.
People are tired of being told how expensive a film is. Tell us how good it is, let the good movie sell tickets rather than simply saying "it's expensive, please go see it" I avoid going to the theater because of this. It feels like these companies have no confidence in whether their film is actually good. Rather they wanna have the special effects to be the only thing to sell the movie.
in some movies, it feels they are playing it extremely safe, paint by numbers story, granted, some movies specially less known ones are just laughable sometimes, the entire idea is so strange, but you have to give them credit for trying and out of those some definitely hit the mark, like everything everywhere at once. many complaint movies splitting in two for apparently no reason, but then i remember watch the original IT and getting tired half way in, attention span is not the same anymore, the problem comes when movies try to accelerate their plot so much that many aspect has no meaning to you anymore, "oh that character died? ok, we had like two moments with them"
I love cinema, its one of my favorite ways to relax. Make some pop corn and put on a good movie, yet we are in a drought of good story telling or anything compelling to digest. I frequently find myself avoiding any new media and just re-watching classics. I couldn't agree more with Moon on this one. Video games are soon to follow in a real way I can almost guarantee it.
Some movies that got me into older cinema were the Wild One, the Born Losers (which is a very hard watch,) Claudine, Show Boat, BUtterfield 8, Rosemary's Baby (a grueling, slow burn suspense / horror film) so on. After I then watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and it really hit me, I started watching more.
The one thing you didnät mention is that all movies are getting longer, but no one has the time or energy to constantly watch 2-3hour movies all the time
There is something to be said for the "flat character arc" in which the world changes around the hero, but it only works if the flat hero's beliefs are tested. The Strong Female Character is never tested.
The sad thing is that the modern remake of “The Thing” actually did use all practical effects during filming but then the studios made them overlay that with CGI 😅
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Why did you change the name and thumbnail of this video?
sounds pretty good comrade
PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER GAY!! ~ Cartman
I feel like the only exception to this trend of fast pace adrenaline like movies is the Joker. That is one movie that actually has plot and is more about story telling. The producers infused his character with modern day issues to try and break the dead attention span of gen Z.
@@Ayushinwarzonewhat was the name mate?
The industry changed once producers and directors changed their views from pleasing the audience to pleasing the investors.
Investors are always going to place demands on a production, hence the “produce Ed’s mistress” trope. The problem occurs when there are too many investors or a corporation is the investor.
The reason the 80s had so many great films is they used to have producer duos like Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, Golan/Globus, Scott/Free…. Working with a single studio like WB or Paramount.
These days you sometimes see upwards of a dozen producers and 3 or more studios!!
Capitalism ruined everything. ( I am not a commie )
Talks about the original trilogy yet puts up a poster of Crystal Skull.
Fact
Shakespeare pleased his investors like King James & the common audience was an after thought as they would likely accept anything they could get. The difference now is that there are millions of things to watch, read, or play & thousands of things get added every year to that long list & audiences can pick & choose whatever they can find.
people watch movies to escape reality. not to be lectured about how bigoted they are or how society is awful. movie studios have forgotten movies are supposed to be an escape.
It really depends on what kind of film it is. If it's a film that specifically is meant to reflect our reality, then I don't think people watching are going to watch it to escape reality.
@@pman56789we don't go to watch such movies!
Name such kind of movie which made billion+ at the box office!
Movies are meant for entertainment purposes rather than condescendingly preaching, patronizing lectures by the Woke brain-dead leftist Elites!
People do want to see movies that depict how awful the society is. Holliwood is simply too rich to understand what makes it awful and thus doesn`t really even depict it.
SAY.IT.LOUDER!
People watch to be entertained. What is entertaining about being lectured to by woke activists?
As a female moviegoers, I've grown tired of one-dimensional "strong female characters" who seem more like feminist marketing than genuine people. The most compelling heroines don't just punch hard and make tough choices - they struggle with vulnerabilities. I want to see characters who feel genuine pressures and doubts, not just exploits, to hit marketing success.The bravest heroes redeem their humanity by facing what's broken within, not staying angry at the world.
And what's annoying is they already have great blueprints. Literally, the most successful movies which has a compelling male lead, can literally just be genderswapped and have the plot rewritten for an actually good main character. Keep the personality and boom, instant cash cow.
as a girl, that rachel zegler comment about snow white really rubbed me the wrong way. even with all its issues especially in the time period of 1930s and the obvious outdated cliche tropes, there’s still something about snow white that isn’t just a damsel in distress.
i had the same thinking as rachel when i was a little kid which led to me disliking snow white because i preferred more badass princesses like snarky belle or physically strong mulan, but as i grew up and rewatched it i just learned that snow white was more than that.
it takes a lot of strong will to be able to survive in a house where your stepmother hates you. it takes a lot of guts to be able to wander a scary forest alone for the first time after being sheltered for so long. it takes a lot of faith and trust to be able to just go up and live with 7 strange magical dwarves. even if it is strange, her naivete and pureness about the world also contributed to saving her from being killed.
sure, florian saved her from death by kissing her, but throughout snow white’s story she never ever lost her kindness, her genuine niceness, her ability to see good in people. she is perfectly accepting of her chores because she wants to repay the dwarves’ goodwill and charity and that’s what she knows what to do and she knows her limits and is content with it. and that’s perfectly fine! she’s equally strong in her own way and it’s not only through being aggressive with snarky comebacks or physical strength that a woman can be the best version of herself and equal to men.
@@hellbunniez3correct
Funny thing is they did exactly that with Captain Marvel in this movie...righting her choices she made and they still hate it...go figure
what you described here just hit right on the newest OnePiece Live Action character "Nami", she portrayed as badass sly fox at the begining but the end of the day at the climax, she finally realized how became strong alone is not enough so she need help from her new found friends/family
bad writing, bad acting, bad publicity, bad executives, bad effects, bad editing, bad working practices. It's all finally come together in 2023.
I agree!
Beautifully said. My favorite excuse these “creators” have is blaming the fans. We won’t see another groundbreaking film for years to come it seems.
The Creator was a pretty solid original story.
I can recommend Gran Turismo. pretty great male characters. A young and naive main character who develops through the course of the movie, and a mentor who is past his time and gradually becomes more of a father figure for the main character. top notch movie.
@@2am253 Really? Gran Turismo? Lol ok, you said all you needed to
@lucid6392 fr thats pretty much a no brainer ong
Flower on killer moon is a classic that just came out
"Strong female characters have everything they need to succeed from the outset, requiring the world to change around THEM rather than undergoing personal development." Wow! You nailed it. I then ask myself WHY does Hollywood want women to think this way about themselves? Nobody is perfect and everyone has growing to do.
Hollywood and Disney are pandering to the fantasy-world of the modern feminists. It's similar to the pandering that the TV studios have done to housewives and/or working women and kids for the last 40 years- The husband/father is portrayed as a clueless idiot, while the wife/mother is portrayed as wise and all-knowing. It's because they know it's not true, that they portray men this way, among other reasons.
You & Moon nailed that!
But the way you worded your last sentence, is funny because it seems that the only one that's perfect is "Nobody," but despite being perfect, even "Nobody" needs to grow up! 😂 But I get that's not the intention.
"PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER LAME AND GAY!"
Kathleen Kennedy, South Park: Joining the Panderverse.
It's like fat people wanting everyone else to say they are not fat and "accept their fat identity", as they are within 4 lbs of dying of being deathly ill and severely obese rather than admitting they are near death and to get surgery and go to a gym and be a better person.
because a lot of women are weak and feel that without constant reassurance that theyre amazing without trying that they are nothing which is the truth so they incessantly complain on twitter until the companies investors demand shilling woke patronizing feminist garbage
These are some reasons why some movies from Korea, Japan, India, and other countries outside the US have been successful:
1. The trailers didn't reveal the best plot twist of the movie.
2. The actors, actresses, director and others involved in the project NEVER insulted the audience whom they want to support their movie or series.
3. They don't prioritize or focus on diversity unless the plot needs to.
4. They just make movies with far more interesting stories, dialogues, and better execution.
Are you sure because their movies are so easy to predict but you are right about everything else,infact Asian movies and their tropes have been mocked on TikTok multiple times and they don't need diversity because duh,their countries aren't that diverse
@@jeffersonhassan4558 You'd be surprised how diverse are the countries in Southeast Asia like The Philippines and Thailand
Love from India
@@kirbymarchbarcena India is the most diverse country in Asia
@kirbymarchbarcena but what about the Mario movie and Sonic movie
Marvel pretty much killed movies as a whole. Now every movie maker believes there has to be a universe. Just because youre connecting a popular movie with urs doesn’t mean urs will take off.
Stan Lee is rolling in his grave right now I bet over where the MCU has gone
The death of the dvd market due to streaming really is killing the industry as a whole. Those medium sized films used to be way less risky financially because they'd make equal or more than their box office from the dvd sales and rentals.
I have just about everything I care to own on DVD and Bluray. There is still some old classic that comes alobg every now and then that I like to get, but overall I am done. This is where I go when I want to watch something. I don't have streaming or any of the other stuff anymore.
DVD is still more preferable tbh.
It's the same debate regarding reading over watching movies
Streaming is honestly dead…it’s just that people can’t let it go like a years long cigarette habit. I don’t know a single person that still talks about new shows that they saw on a streaming service.
@salemmattaniah11 You're lying to yourself my friend. Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Prime, ect. They put out really good series and people talk about them all the time.
You can still support physical media by buying Blurays!
I saw someone comment on the most recent Marvel movie trailer something like “ah yes! Another cgi battle on a cgi planet with cgi characters with a cgi plot. Can’t wait!” And that perfectly sums up how the spectacle of being able to create new worlds/effects is being prioritized instead of focusing on stories grounded in reality that people can easily humanize with and connect to.
I think the actual scale spaceship models filmed against the blue screen with the outer space background added later, as with the original 'Star Wars' movies and the original 'Alien' film, for examples, look infinitely better and more realistic than all this CGI crap. They claim that, "Today, we use CGI instead of real scale 3-D models, because it's 'cheaper'". Really? It's cheaper? Then why are movies costing almost a $Half-Billion Dollars to make these days? I think the CGI guys have duped the studios!
I've said since the mid 80s that special effects are like salt and pepper on the prime rib, the story is the meat itself. Btw, the original 'Star Wars: Episode IV', was made for $9 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about, maybe, $23 million today, give or take. Something's wrong somewhere.
@@samr.england613are you kidding me? No they didn't, let's no kid ourselves,I agree with the video but let's not lie as if technology hasn't improved since then
@@jeffersonhassan4558 I am not lying, Jeff. Don't kid yourself. Modern space scene CGI looks like plastic candy compared to how they did it with the original Star Wars. Watch the opening scene to Episode IV again, then watch that ridiculous all-out space fight in 'the Phantom Menace'. The latter looked fake. Computer imaging tech has improved, of course it has, but they didn't USE computer imaging tech as much back then with the older films.
Don’t forget women at the forefront.
The video is Incredible, with one thing I would like to correct:
John Carpenter's "The Thing" was actually a remake of 1951's classic "The Thing From Another World".
But it was done right in so many ways.
Based on the novel 'Who goes There' by John W. Campbell/Don A. Stuart
I was just about to comment this lmao. Wasn't the one that came out a few years ago a prequel to Carpenter's film?
Yes it sucked.
Alien is a remake of IT The Terror From Beyond Space.
Possibly the best remake ever? Obviously based in appreciation of the original content, but suffused with ideas meant to add value to and strengthen the experience. Hard to think of many that are even as good as the original, let alone such a massive upgrade.
movies are supposed to be an escape from reality but now they’re bringing reality to movies
Reality has always existed in movies and when done well, it’s great. Most of these films are a parody of reality.
@@talisa222well said
Movies shouldn't be an escape from reality, but rather a change for reality.
Precisely ! I don’t wish to be hit over the head with moral meaning
I don’t go to be reminded how bad the world is, escaping into a movie should be fun not full of dull pandering
Bringing reality to movies is when minorities exist
I honestly think we overestimate the effect of tiktok on our attention spans especially when it comes to movies. If a movie is good, it will captivate you enough to sit through it. If a movie is trash, no matter how short, you will zone out. Quality is quality
Attention span problem is real like people get very easily bored nowadays. Thus doesn't matter what the movie is, it is 90 minutes while you are used to watching 300 various tiktoks in that time. Imagine these people trying to read a regular book.
oppenheimer is close to 1 billion collection and most of it is talking
Fair play, but then how do you explain Avatar 2 becoming the third-biggest movie of all time with its 192-minute runtime and godawful recycled plot?
Idk, I do think it's still having a negative effect. I use relatively very little social media (just youtube and quora really) and even I've noticed seriously negative effects on my attention span in recent years thanks to binging on shorts and meme compilations and the like. Movies are my no.1 passion and yet frequently even when I'm watching a really good one I feel the urge to pause it a while and check my phone or whatever. I can only imagine what it's like for people who are on TikTok 4 hours a day...
kids are on tiktok. grown ups aren't.
2022 was bad, I never thought 2023 could be even worse.
When will Hollywood learn that: Lectures *_≠_* Entertainment?
Never
Has it? I haven't watched a movie in probably five years... and it's not cause I don't like movies, I just have no interest in seeing a fifteenth Avengers movie.
So you didn't find this lecture entertaining that you decided to watch on TH-cam?
@@WaterKirby1994🤓
The Barbie movie would care to disagree. Turns out that people like when a film has a message, even *gasp* a socio-political one, if presented thoughtfully and integrated into an otherwise entertaining film, not just shoehorned in to tick boxes.
You nailed it. This industry is set to die. Even if you would explain them what's going wrong they just would look at you as if you were an alien from outer space. Sad.
And there are at least hundreds of films from the past that we could watch again and again and still enjoy. 'Alien', 'Jaws', original 'Star Wars', 'Die Hard', 'Logan's Run', 'Rocky', 'Jurassic Park', 'ET', 'Close Encounters', 'The Exorcist'...
... The Godfather, Slither, Scary Movie 2, Rush Hour 2, Titanic, Planet of the Apes, Lex Machina, The Martian, on and on.
You could see something you've (probably) never seen before like "Nightmare Alley" the original one. My cable Movies channel has film noir night with movies in the style of "The Maltese Falcon" but relatively unknown. It's a gold mine. I could watch "The Petrified Forest" a couple times a year. Don't want to over do it though.
Who cares let them be broke aslong as I don't pay them
The problem is the Producers push ESG nonsense to please investors, while those below them can't log off Twitter and touch Grass.
The lack of any real risk or consequence brought up at about 14:00 really does harken back to the "everyone gets a trophy" or not keeping score in a game so you don't leave anyone feeling hurt or left out. People naturally know ther has to be winners and losers, challenges to overcome and real stakes associated with actions. The more you remove those aspects, the less people will connect with the story.
I think Alita was the last movie I remember seeing with a believable female character who had a progression as a character, sure she was build to be the perfect fighting machine, but she didn't just own everybody until she reached her full potential. She even needed the help of others in order to achieve her full potential but other than being a perfect killing machine she had emotions and real human connections with others (even men which is rare these days). The fact that she was a robot didn't matter as she was more human than so many non-robot female characters you see in films today.
Read the manga. You will get why.
Spoiler: She is not a strong female. "Female Pinocchio with a forward trajectory" is more accurate.
I remember seeing detractors claim the movie only did well because it was aimed at "pedophiles", which was just all kinds of incorrect.
@@SaiyanGamer95 so then holywood should have been in support then? Like when they supported Cuties.
@@cleanerben9636 Hollywood didn't support Cuties. They had absolutely no involvement with it.
Oh the irony of a robot character having more relatability, empathy and likeability than their human counterparts from these newer films is far too good...
It’s not only the film industry that’s suffering, so is the music industry, modelling industry - basically any industry even minimally related to entertainment. When you skip the whole process (Art and creativity) in favour of profits, you lose the whole meaning and magic of what you’re presenting. Basically art is becoming business.
anything lacking authenticity has become exhausting
Agreed. Every creative driven realm is hurting. For all of their misses, The Frankfurt School definitely had the ills of the culture industry down pat back in the '60s. The production (that word used intentionally) of culture for profits sake is a race to the bottom. Relegates our civilizations' very art and soul to the same importance as producing a microwave or bicycle tire.
Activists are not artists, it's all woke nonsense.
To paraphrase "Chicago"- "cos that's showbiz...kid"😭😂
The essay from the classic flash animation, Animator vs Animation III rings true to this day.
Today’s society is too busy to see meaning in art. Art today is more about beauty than provoking thought. To understand a piece of art is to stop and think, and nobody has time to do that anymore, because they are preoccupied with their busy schedules. On the other hand, beauty can be seen in a picture right away without thinking. The primary function of today’s artist is to create beauty; people are more affected now by first impressions than by underlying messages.
The world is a gigantic, thriving organism, bustling with activity. Everywhere you look, there are people in cars talking on cell phones, getting ready for their next event. The only art in their lives are the ads in their magazines and the commercials on their televisions. Can one pack a provoking message into thirty seconds of television or on one page of a magazine? It is possible, but conveying beauty is much easier. All you need for an impacting beer commercial are pretty women holding ice-cold bottles of the liquid. Just take some slow motion shot of cars splashing through water, and you have a high-quality car commercial. Many people are so lazy that the media can only appeal to them through their eyes.
Does anyone think beyond the surface of art? A dying percentage does, and those are the professional fine artists and art historians. Art is no longer the channel through which people pour their thoughts. Therefore, if there is a message you want to convey to the population, writing a book would be a better choice.
I think Wanda from marvel was the perfect recipe on how you can create a super strong female character (the strongest avenger) in the most natural way without feeling like it was being shoved down your throat. They introduced Wanda and it took about 4 years before I even realized she was the strongest one in the group. They never had her make comments about being a woman, none of that. She was there and one day she truly used her power (with thanos) it was perfect. She was the strongest in the group with only real marvel fans realizing that.
Shame she got ruined in Wandavision and MOM
@@fr0ck360 Wanda vision is good what are you talking about? It didn't have all the feminist bullshit but about a dream of a woman want to be loved by family. Anh Wanda become that strong is not something pulling out of the ass but fully developed was a plus for me
@@fr0ck360 definitely disagree Wandavision was good imo. It was the start of marvel launching their universe shit so they didn't degrade that shows early airings
She tried to brainwash a whole town in Wandavision and were expected to feel bad for her. Also Multiverse Of Madness made people give up on her character, people did respect her at one point, but I saw that respect start disappearing after Wandavision and MoM
I don't have any stakes in who the strongest avenger is, but I suspect Thor might want to have a word with you if he ever reads this comment... Just a friendly warning.
I love how Hollywood aren't done selling the idea of a strong female protagonist who doesn't need a man, thinking it's still a quirky concept that hasn't already been done to death.
The damsel in distress story is just as tiring. The best movies show we need each other. LOTR did a great job portraying this concept. They survived because they all came together and each had their job to do.
And a man sure as hell doesn't need a woman either! I've been single for 20+ yrs and every one of those years have been liberating!
@bigfootindeal1525 well done they could make a boring movie about your story on Disney now
@@OiMitch I happen to love boring and NO HEADACHES
@@OiMitch I bet you do anything your gf or bf for that matter tells you. You're weak
I believe it can sum it up in one sentence:
They make movies for themselves now, to pat each other on the back and not for the paying customer.
no it's mind control, anti-man/anti-family propaganda for control of the population
100%
Deadass!
So a cinema circlej*rk?
Ricky gervaise called it out
There are no more heroes. Instead, we are inundated with perfectly perfect people who always make the perfect decision so that they can be lauded for that perfection. There are no villains and no Achilles heel to cause the hero to falter. Instead, we watch as our heroes are systematically destroyed and replaced with "modern" characters who are nothing more than watered down replacements for the social justice warriors doing the writing. Everything reads like fanfiction. Hollywood has run out of stories and instead of finding talent and creative vigor, we get preachy perfectionist pacifists who think that the only way to tell a story is by bludgeoning their audience repeatedly with the same talking points set to nonsensical and incongruous soundtracks. It's so boring.
I think the Simpsons nailed it: everyone is the best at everything and no one is better than anyone else.
I think it has been driven by the fact that writers now had too structured of upbringings. They had upper middle class parents that put them through the best schooling and experiences. There's no adversity so they can't write about it. The next Stallone can't even get into Hollywood.
@supermodestmouse Part of me knows that there are certain instances where this is true, but not when it comes to talent. Not when it comes to words. Not when it comes to entertainment. Yes, there is equality in living, breathing, and functioning. However, when it comes to integration of thoughts from words to screen, the best people SHOULD get the best jobs. The most talented have to rise, otherwise its all watered down with no place to go but into the drain.
And these are just my opinions. I mean no harm or disrespect. I simply miss actual discourse.
@@rathelmmc3194 In a nutshell, no real-life trials and tribulations to transcribe into their creative fiction.
its not art anymore its business thats why
Probably why I like so many independent films. Their director's priorities are the stories and characters rather than overblown effects and ridiculous budgets.
@@lea-anne9133 yes I agree there u can actually find what a film is and how something even on a small scale be such entertainment
Yk the saying it ain't much but it's honest work
@@lea-anne9133where do you find those movies?
@@jurassicthunder streaming sites usually or sometimes here on TH-cam. Depends what you like watching though🙂
Making motion pictures has been a, "business" since its inception in the 1920s! Just because it's still, to this day, a business, I don't think is the problem here. It's more compicated than that. The Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court (you know, the decision that said that corporations were individuals with First Amendment rights of Free Speech), as well as the politicization of Hollywood, along with infliltration of the creative arts by Third-Wave feminists, have a lot do with all this, among other forces.
Remember when James Cordon stopped at a Starbucks in Hollywood where all these young Screenwriters hung out? He asked them all what they were writing and every idea was awful. Writing by numbers, tropes and formulas with no strong characters or stories. Berkeley Grads running Ops.
And these are the people running Hollywood now... talentless thoughtless career chasers.
Some genre films are traditionally liked by a certain group of people. By trying to make them 'liked by everyone' by forcing incongruous elements, they end up making them liked by almost no one.
One of the best movies i've watched in recent times was Oppenheimer. I think Christopher Nolan is a treasure to society that actually cares about the artform of story telling and practical effects. Other than him, I don't really get excited about going to the movies anymore.
There's like at least 5 movies every year that's actually worth watching as pure cinema
When she gave him the sloppenheimer
My personal favorite was John wick 4 fun yet fantastic movie
@@SalWare686 pfff
@@firefly56embers33John Wick as a whole is everything wrong with action movies
As someone born in 2001, why is it that all of my favorite movies were released between 1980-2011? Of course there are exceptions that have released before and after, but not many.
Interesting you say this. I was born in 1991 and feel the same way. I was not certain if it was just being able to enjoy movies more when I was younger.
I hope that you're going to watch films even earlier than that because the Golden Age of Hollywood and the 70s have some of the best movies you'll ever see.
80's and 90's were the golden days for movies. We'll never see movies like those again
Why go to the theater and spend nearly $30 for a ticket (without popcorn!) when the movie will hit streaming services one month later?
30 WITHOUT POPCORN!? Sir where the living hell are you living?
@@southlondon86 Chicago. Two tickets at an AMC usually run about 15$ each
@@marlowemichaelson1366so not $30… half of that
@@deandaoud3052 😂 Give em a break. A good bunch from Chicago aren't too bright.
@@deandaoud3052 He's going with a +1 and paying for it. $30.
I used to love going to blockbuster or the movies for the big new thing, but now theaters don't have anything that interest me, especially with the current ticket prices. I prefer sitting at home and watching 80s movies with a story for the Nth time than spending $30+ to get lectured by a greenscreen
94' was such a great year for movies, and just the 90's in general. So many movies that are still watched and talked about to this day came out at this time.
Whether good or bad, cinema is dying
The "strong female character" archetype actually do more harm to women, as we can never actually measure up to their starting point. Eowyn is still my favorite LOTR female character because she knows her limits, but always strives to push past her status to do more in her world. She felt pain, she had fears, but she kept moving forward
Eowyn is one of the best female character arcs in a movie I have ever seen. She does somewhat play the role of "strong female character", but there is a long & in depth build up to her punchline in the 3rd movie. It didnt feel cheesy in the end. We got to see her express genuine fear & sorrow. She had to struggle, just like the people around her, in order to triumph in a tragic situation. Therefore I appreciated he hero moment a lot more than anything in modern cinema.
Before the destined Witch-King moment she even takes out an elephant solo, but she’s not a stone cold badass while doing it, she’s a skilled soldier fighting hard. Really only Legolas gets “invincible combat monster” moments in those movies, and even he freaks out at Helm’s Deep. Damn, those were good movies.
@@npc29182 agree, Hunger Games was one of the only "strong female character" movies that got it right by giving Katniss inner and outward obstacles to overcome. I absolutely want to watch the new Hunger Games because I trust the author of the books and her writing. And this was something Hollywood was actually patient on and they didn't decide to run the franchise into the ground by trying to create 10 sequels immediately after the original story finished.
You shouldn't be "measuring up" to an actor acting out a role in a movie. You should be using your brain tissue to make your own path in life and finding out your own identity, not absorbing someone else's identity and forcing it to fit your lifestyle. You end up a shallow husk of a person with no individual character or personality which in turn makes you narcissistic and sociopathic.
@@MrWolfSnack This is true and how so many people don't realize that to "measure up" is to put yourself in the impossible position of making your life just like someone else's with little to no context of their own struggles and pitfalls. This will just lead you into a depressive mindset and a hollow existence that doesn't actually belong to you
I'm born in 2005 and my favorite movies are all from 1995 to 2005 (it's just a general time frame). Its crazy how these older movies are so much better than the newest movies that came out recently.
As well as music and everything else… after eyes wide shit it’s been a free fall
@@YeniuOjiak that's-when-the-mass-hysteria-took-off...liberals-went-batshit...and-they-100%-control-Hollywood...they-changed-from-entertainers-to-"influencers"-overnight-and-without-hesitatation-they-used-that-power-of-influence-for-evil.
Omg yes to that! I would take a 90s movie like Demolition Man over all the marvel movies and extended crap universe combined .
Something about born in 2005 is just funny asf 😂
@@A3421 why? 😂
I just want fun movies like how they used to make them. Back to the Future is my go to example. A movie about a scientist and his buddy going through crazy time traveling antics while dealing with the problems that brings. To this day its still a joy to watch.
Amen to this. Nowadays investors won't drop even 20 million on a movie that's a newer concept or utilizing a common story line but displaying various characters. They need a sure thing and so far these super hero films have paid out. The tides are turning tho and you can see these films not always succeed. It's unlikely we see any sort of romance films or just a football movie even nowadays
And thankfully it’s Director, Robert Zemeckis won’t let anyone mess with it
Rewatch the original 3 Indiana jones movies!!!!! I was so entertained and kept thinking " oh! They don't make movies like this anymore!"
To be fair, Back to the Future barely got made. They had a really tough time convincing studio's to film it. It seems that great movies in all decades were not expected by studio's to be great. They are always a risk.
@piokul But back to the future was always supposed to be a buddy adventure flick. It was only the previous Marty that wanted it to be this serious flick, but thankfully the directors decided against that idea. Funding aside I think the movie would've always been a fun flick. Who knows tho
Modern movie companies are literally the definition “quantity over quality”
@@talak3544 exactly well said ❤
I am just laughing in A24.... "quality over everything else" seems to be their mantra
Even anime has gotten a lot worse over the past 5 years.
@@talak3544so true!!
Same as the video game industry. Then we have absolute gems who put in time and effort, like Rockstar Games.
I love watching movies from 10+ years ago. It’s a refreshing breath of air to know you’re not going to have any one dimensional agendas shoved down your throat. Back when the goal was good story telling over ticking boxes to virtue signal.
9:56 this brings to light something I realized while rewatching Terminator 2 a few weeks ago. During Sarah Connor’s escape of the psychiatric ward, the employees finally catch up to her and restrain her before she eventually comes face to face with the T-800. If the movie were made today, instead of having the employees tackle her and nearly dog pile on top of her just to restrain her, Sarah would’ve single-handedly fought off each person in the room with her bare-fists. The approach made in the actual film is so much more true to life. Even a woman as resilient as Sarah Connor isn’t a physical match for an average man, much less several of them
It's the obvious silliness, absurdity, lameness, ridiculous things they're doing with these almost supernatural female characters that is so nauseating. Kicking men's asses with hardly any effort, men twice or three times their size, with a whole lot more muscle than any woman can have. It's 'dream-wish' for the feminists. (Don't get me wrong, there are some women that could kick my ass, and I'm 225 llbs and 6' 2", but such women are often on male hormones.)
I think she could knock out one or two, but was too scared to fight back when she saw the reprogrammed T-800.
We get it,you want the man to be the hero and save the woman,big whoop
@@kristofgriffin384 yes, he mentioned average man - the average person, no matter if man or woman today is fat and lazy.
@@jeffersonhassan4558 How about a perfect girlboss who fights hoardes of men while at the same time lecturing them about how all men are terrible. Big whoop?
The disrespects
1. Put agendas in the movie
2. Studios/actors/actresses attacks core fans
We've reached the point where technology isn't the bottleneck anymore, its the lack of creativity from the film producers.
You mean the writers. Although producers do suggest directions the writers should take, granted.
@@samr.england613 There are plenty of talented writers out there, many of them even working for these huge companies. But unfortunately, their creativities are stunted because of the company's agenda. Imagine what kind of movies could be produced if these writers, even just for once, received unrestricted creative freedom.
Nope. Close… but…. Nope.
The issue here is that you have ideology > creativity.
This happens when you have both existential and ontological crises…
@@deezhamad3891not really in the case of Disney, Disney is the definition of giving writers and directors freehand to ruin projects,in their case, it's the opposite,the investors needs to get involved more
The lack of technology meant that only the best and most creative directors are able to create certain shots, like the back to the future hoverboard using camera angle tricks.
Nowadays even 3rd rate directors can use cgi to make anything they want to "fly", which ends up making it an empty scene with no unique camera angles
You know its bad when the videogame industry does better movies than the movie industry 😂
Those days are numbered…. Just wait for gtaVI == 🤮
Pokemon,Mario and FNAF to name a few of the good movies out there
@@RabidCondor and Sonic 💪
@@Carlisho I FORGOT SORRY
nope we're just as pozzed lol
It has become so expensive to take a family to the movies that it is becoming (at least for my family) more of a 'once in every great while' kind of event, as opposed to going once or twice a month.
A child to let is $8 and an adult is $12-14. It’s really not expensive. Whether you buy food and drinks is your choices. But to actually go is super cheap entertainment.
Our local cinema is $7/kids, $13/adults, for a 2PM Monday showing (bump adults up to $16 for non-matinee). Two adults, two kids -- $40 for a matinee is becoming increasingly harder to stomach in this economic climate. I also hold the opinion that it is super expensive to do -anything- right now, so maybe this is an apples to oranges type of argument. @@truthteller4442
@@truthteller4442not in all countries. Inflation rates are different in each country
@@Nae_ex Sometimes and in some cases, but not really. Inflation, right now, is hurting the global working and middle classes, all over the world. What's left of the middling classes, anyway. (And don't give me any bs about inflation hurting the upper classes or the rich. They just have to go with 2 wild lobster tails instead of 3.
There aren't many second run theaters anymore, either. Those places allowed me to take my daughter to the movies more
Im no economics professor but homelessness/ starvation existing in a country that can spend BILLIONS on a movie is kinda crazy
so your "not an econoics professor" brain think that it was okay to not employs those
Writers, cameraman, directors, CG Artists, Actor, heck even a Catering man?
it bring value and wealth to those profession,
and not only that, the reason why US Dominate the Entire world because,
the entire world like US Movie or Game,
without those Movie and Game, US won't be enjoying their international influence like today
Basically Movie or Game contribute more to the Economy and Influence,
compared to a spreadsheet job, or speculating stocks.
without Movie, there will be less Influence and more Homelessness.
you can't see the relation aren't you?
if you want to solve the homelessness,
nobody is going stop you from solving it,
what are your excuses? go solve it, why waiting for someone to solve it for you?
see? you're don't have a moral high ground too.
go, roll up your sleeves, feeds people with your salaries, and let homeless people sleep at your house
You are indeed no economics professor.
Well u need take economics classes
How is someone who is mentally checked out going to fix an apartment?
What would your solution be?
And yet there are still movies like the Oppenheimer, where it was very long conversation based and so many people enjoyed it nonetheless. There is still hope in the cinema and in the viewers, there are still plenty of us who are waiting for the real crative movies. Let those fools in holywood produce trash, it seems to me, like there is a chance for a new wave of independent studios. Fingers crossed that great movie renessaince is around the corner, I cannot stand all the trash everywhere anymore.
Oppenheimer is also hollywood trash, just a different coating.
You are forgetting Barbie and yet how mission impossible that had no messaging since you all said the movie was anti woke flopped
Indie movies are also flopping,cough cough the northman,beau is afraid, asteroid city
Oppenheimer was one of the best films I’ve seen in years cause of the story telling
I’d say Oppenheimer and Atomic City were exceptions. Dune 2 would have been as well. Good movies seem to have largely shifted to streaming services and adjusted to much smaller budgets.
Haven't been to a Movie in at least a decade and haven't watched TV since '99 except for hurricane info when I lived on an island. I still use a VCR and DVD/CD player. People have lost their minds so I moved to a cottage on a lake where I will die eventually. It is rather terrifying seeing how drastically a TV controls my family as an unintended consequence.
Probably long before you die, that lake cottage will be surrounded by five subdivisions, with an 'easy-access' freeway nearby. :(
Same here. It's not years but DECADES ago. Love my DVDs
Mannix
Rockford files
A-team
Gilligan's Island
Hawaii 50 ( old version)
Dallas
Sanford and son
All in the Family 😊
I live in the middle of a major city, but I threw my tv in the garbage 20 years ago, best thing I ever did ;p
I’ve always been a fan of movies (ideally horror) growing up. My family inadvertently designated me the movie selector when we are to have movie nights, literally any movie reference I can call out, and the list goes on. Since about 2017 I’ve slowly backed away from movies due to lack of interest but I thought it was maybe because I’m just getting older and idk “maturity”, and it would make me feel bad because I know I love movies but nothing at all is appealing to me. So to now see this and read people’s comments I’ve come to realize it isn’t me, it’s the studios! They’ve ruined it all, nothing is original, nothing is entertaining, everything is corny and or predictable. This is a very depressing time my love
Good horror movies are few and far between, as are scifi movies. Each rarely done well. Although, I'd bet mule butts to navy beans that you're a fan of the original 'Alien', yes? Scifi-horror at its best!
@@samr.england613 tho I do love a good sci-fi, I’m more of a slasher gal 🥹. And I do completely agree, good horrors are a thing of the past! For a second I really thought they were on the up and up because a lot a big name directors started taking on the genre. But then they brought the same recycled, cgi, jump scare bs as with everything else. No substance, or enticing plot, just pretty pictures and popular faces
@@_salzberri Good horror movies were rare in the past, too. From 1970 to '80, I can only think of three off hand- The Exorcist, The Omen, and The Shining. Btw, the ORIGINAL Tales From the Crypt, 1972, a medley of four or five short stories, was pretty good. If you haven't ever seen it, I recommend it if you like good horror. Joan Collins is in one of them, and Peter Cushing, aka Governor Tark in original Star Wars, is in another.
@@_salzberri In original Tales From the Crypt 1972, the one about the Monkey's Paw is REALLY creepy!
@@samr.england613 loool give the time period a little more justice. There were a lot more than three. What about Texas chainsaw massacre, Amityville, children of the corn, hills have eyes, nightmare, Halloween, Carrie, Poltergeist, Pet Cemetery, jaws (tho technically it’s not technically horror but you get me). Also thanks for the recommendations! I’m gonna seriously start watching tonight lol
I was talking to my dad about this the other day he said when he was growing up 70s and 80s films actors didn’t look like models they looked and acted like real people rather than have a pretty face. To me that’s what really stripped away the feeling of movies not to mention back then creativity ran wild.
I think Harrison Ford was a carpenter doing the doors at Lucasfilm when they were doing Star Wars script readings. They didnt have a Han Solo and so Lucas, who had known Ford from American Graffiti, called him in to read the part; and then decided to keep him for Solo, and then also use him for Indiana Jones.
Ford probaby worked towards being an actor but he had to do other things - like carpentry - to pay the bills, and that life experience shaped him as an actor to being the everyman, the Gosling before Gosling (who also put in his time, but in the industry).
what about chris pratt lol
A little known fact is that Ford was "weed guy" for about half of Hollywood.
We don't want to be preached to, we just want a good film.
Specifically, a good story. (With plausible characters, however fantastic.)
@@samr.england613 agreeed
I hope our culture changes soon, the era of political activism by people with hero complexes is getting very old fast. Hopefully just like the 60s people will grow out of it.
@@Jim90117 60s? Never. The late 90s and early 2000s would be good. In the 60s women were always portrayed as weak and submissive to men. Every female movie character from the 60s were typical damsels in distress, horrible.
Or do you mean that we should grow out of this era like people grew out of the 60s? In that case, dont even respond to this comment.
@@morikibbutz2734I think its the last one. By the late 70's we were starting to see more proper female protagonists and characters.
I feel like people have become very desensitized to movies and music in general, heck maybe even entertainment as a whole.
I feel like the detox movement will explode in 2024, among men and women.
I’m one of them. Nothing moves me anymore. No art. No music. Only the art and music I create makes me feel anything anymore.
They gotta show half the movie screen playing subway suffers
This year is a really good year for gaming though.
If I was feeling sceptical I would say this is being done by design, sucking the joy out of our lives.
South Park just called them out with "Joining the Pandaverse" !
The recent five nights at Freddy’s movie had a budget of around 25 million and still broke records with how good it did. Well of course this is mainly due to it being a major video game and book series. But still this movie was still very well made and did not need a bigger budget.
Meanwhile "Arctic Dogs" was a critical failure but me and my friend enjoy it a great deal, and he even seen it in the theater. it became a Christmas movie for me now.
It was a movie made to please the fans of the game and especially its lore, and they actually gave a shit. So of course it did well
That's what blumhouse is known to do.
That's horror movies for you. One of few genres where low budget always pays off.
@@nobodyimportant281 No, high budget horror movies are usually bad because they lose in the draft
The downfall of Hollywood might be a blessing in disguise, because it gives film industries of other countries the chance to finally break Hollywood's dominance in entertainment. If Hollywood movies suck, let's watch a Korean drama, a Japanese anime, a Bollywood action adventure or a European black comedy. Plenty of choices.
TDW has released nothing but bangers
I agree, Parasite is a great example. Amazing movie that caught me off guard. Similarly, there are lots of amazing Bollywood movies too.
I've been consuming nothing but western media for so long, and now it's gotten rather exhaustive...
Honestly this is what I am thinking. Currently, watching more animes than ever before. Most Hollywood movies sucks nowadays
I have no problem with a strong, female lead. I just want her to be strong in the face of diversity; instead of facing no diversity and always being bold and strong.
At first I thought you meant adversity then I got what you were doing 😂 nice
Adversity.
i have no interest in a strong female protagonist. i have an interest in strong characters. if i here another movie described as "the female james bond" i swear to god. No one said rambo was the goth version of disney's tarzan. they were just like wow, this rambo guy is a bad ass. just make an interesting character! i don't want to see the female denzel washington or the male ramona flowers. good character being good character. full stop
They all have the same character arc. Her only flaw is she doesn't realize how awesome she is and the climactic final scene is where it finally dawns on her that she was always perfect and awesome.
yeah more like pretend to be strong @@MakerInMotion
Alice in borderland was INCREDIBLE storytelling and incredibly creative
THIS! Season 3 coming soon! Can't wait! WOOT! WOOT! 😊
This video is basically every episode of The Critical Drinker’s “Why Modern Movies Suck” series and its points put into one 17 minute video
Bravo Moon
Literally if you need an honest movie review he's the number 1 choice for it, he'll mostly just share his opinion instead of giving dumb excuses like how shit ragnarok I'm kinda glad someone like him stays honest in his videos if it's abt shitty movies instead of being a desperate fan trying to cover up their mistakes
Fact
Ugh Critical Stinker I dislike that guy
Maybe we need a Critical Drinker / Moon crossover video.....we just had the Drinker with Ben Shapiro this weekend talking about the new Dailywire production of Snow White......come on do it!!!!!
You're pretty much right. (Love the Drinker!) But this guy did have his own personal take and analysis on the subject.
There’s always been a fight between what directors and creative types want, and what the studio wants. These movies need one creative person driving the storyline. Feels like the studios corporate masters have their fingers into these movies too much these days.
You're right. Way back in 1975, the CEO of 20th Century Fox, after being lobbied for more funding for the original 'Star Wars', said, "I'm sick and tired of hearing about this Lucas kid and his 'science' movie."! hehehehe
The studios are being paid billions of dollars to push propaganda
Except for when it's Rian Johnson or Taika Waititi for example...
Cough cough watch indie films then cough cough cough
@@princealmighty5391 Sigh! Sigh, sigh...
Not sure why you kept showing Bladerunner 2049 - Gosling's character was determined to do his own thing, overcome his internal struggles, and uncover the truth, despite his female boss' wishes. The virtual girlfriend was just a dystopian, futuristic take on romance, if that's the trigger here. It was one of the rare modern throwbacks to old Hollywood IMO.
Agree I feel like he didn't really watch the film
Old Hollywood is movies from the 1940s/1950s 🧐
You forgot to mention BLADE RUNNER 2049 is also a masterpiece of a movie
Part of the reason I’m willing to start an anime blind is that you’re likely to see _at least_ a complete arc in the 12 or 13 episodes, with the potential openness for subsequent stories. New TV shows might go for three seasons and not finish their story. That’s criminal to the art of storytelling.
Harrison Ford’s suicide of his characters is just so so sad.
Sad thing is. I love classic movies and tv. But pretty much no one from my generation does. I don't know why, but from an early age they always managed to pull me in. I always get so engrossed and enveloped in the stories and the characters, as well as the actors performances. Some of my favorite classics are Twilight Zone, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Murder on the Orient Express, and Andy Griffith. Just to name a few. They are so good. I wish more people could see that. Oh, one more show... Columbo. Amazing.
I honestly would put the blame on social media, for peoples lack of interest in good story telling. It takes time to build a proper world, and a fair bit of patients to get immersed. But with peoples attention spans today. That is almost impossible. We have to thank things like TikTok, TH-cam Shorts, and even the convienience of Streaming Services for the massive decline in attention spans. If we didn't have these things. I'm sure more people would be able to actually enjoy a good show when they see it. Instead of getting bored cause of the lack of visual comedy, and action.
I feel like the biggest problem today is that viewers have too many options for what to watch. Back in the days of the shows you mentioned, that was all that was available to watch on TV. Social media and 24-hour streaming services have created a colossal distraction for viewers who might otherwise enjoy older TV shows and movies, but they won't give them a chance because they don't have to.
@@dms79 Yep. Exactly. Thanks. That was said perfectly.
@@Group-935 I prefer older media like the twilight zone too. It just something about that slow pace built up. I love that 50s and 60s vide.
@@dreamteam2320 Yes... Same here friend.
You said it perfectly. I was born in December of 2000. I often say I grew up in the dying age of DVDs, VHS tapes, and such. My family raised me on the good stuff. I would watch old movies like Pollyanna and TV shows like The Beverley Hillbilies with my two Grandmas. (Paternal Grandma still has all of Beverley Hillbilies on DVD.) I would watch movies like The Live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990 with my Dad, along with Dead Poets Society, Sister Act with Whoopi Goldberg, and The Princess Bride.
I have been a bookworm my entire life as well. I love reading a good book. You're also right about streaming and social media. It has completely destroyed attention spans. I wish people could remember what a REAL story, with a world to escape into, was like. I hope people realize this before it's too late.
When you ponder on the greatness of T2, we'll begin to notice how overindulged first world writers are so self-obsessed they have no ability to write a selfless protagonist.
Every main character is a shoehorned self-insert where they're the hero and the victim.
7:19 I'm 20 I definitely feel this. My favorite movie of all time is Breakfast At Tiffany's from 1963. I much prefer older movies because I feel its worth my time to watch. Modern movies are insipid and soulless. Older movies have incredible writing and an equally amazing story full of fun likable characters. One example of this is The Breakfast Club (another one of my favorites) and I can't even begin to imagine my generation or the next generation being able to sit down and watch it. Its a shame really
Walter jr ?
You like breakfast.. So do I
well, there's a bit of survivorship bias there (there have always been bad movies, they just don't get the promotion or preservation efforts the good ones get because, well, they were bad), but yes, the number/percentage of Good movies in recent times is a lot lower.
Mind you, we've also finally got video game movies that are actually good (not great, but good) movies rather than intolllerable garbage in the last couple of years, so there's that?
Yes, it is.
@@pikminologueraisin2139😂😂😂😂😂 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA . YES. your comment got me laughing so hard
Actually, ask yourself: why is everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, falling?
Putin will start WW3 & a NWO will begin thereafter.
I enjoyed movies that made me feel empowered. If a character who faced tough odds was able to overcome them and be a hero, maybe I could overcome my own little challengee and be successful in my own life. I haven't gotten that feelings from movies in years.
My favorite cartoon as a teen was Kim Possible. Female leads can work.
I totally agree with this. I think diversity is important and that female leads can work really well, but not at the expense of storytelling. I think lumping this all together as “woke media pushing an agenda” is really shortsighted because it places the blame on the wrong people. POC aren’t asking for these stories, women aren’t asking for these stories, us wanting to see ourselves is not more important than just wanting to see a good story. I’ve always felt like the film industry doing this one dimensional storytelling under the guise of “wokeness” is simply so they can say, “We tried female leads and diversity and it didn’t work, so let’s go back to what we used to do.” The audience is not the priority for these companies. Storytelling is not a priority for these companies. They’re only focused on numbers and that is negative for *everyone*.
One movie that made me feel that way growing up was Mulan. Seeing her climb that post with weights on her always made me cry because she was so damn strong and determined, proving them all wrong through hard work instead of giving up. Too bad Disney has fallen so far since then
@@Ready-ForTheEnd Yes! I haven't seen Mulan in years but you're right it's an amazing example of how to tell a story about being strong, without any agenda.
I know exactly what you mean although Top Gun Maverick managed that in 2022 I think. He was willing to give his life to save others. He also had obvious flaws and was facing being rendered obsolete but never gave up.
Animation has been taking over in my opinion. Attack on titan, One Piece, and Jujutsu Kaisen has been some of the best cinema I’ve seen in the past years. Kinda hard to top any of that at the moment.
Yeah, even movies like across the spider verse. It’s not just attention span, but quality in animation as well
Literally. I’ll will always choose animation over Hollywood
Watchin the DRESSROSA arc rn and Luffy finsta get in Doffy's a**. 😁
Don't forget into the spider verse
I've been wanting game of thrones in the castelvania style for the longest. I'm over big budget productions with actress/ actor constraints. Just make it animated and you can do A LOT.
Something I rarely hear being mentioned is how recent movies seem to lack any original and memorable musical soundtrack. From the trailers right way through until the final credits, we're given the same cookie-cutter drums, percussion, vocal chorus-type effects, shouts, downers, piano chords, synthetic strings etc. Great franchises like original Star Wars, Jurassic Park, LOTR etc all have instantly-recognisable and purpose-written soundtracks that enhance the storytelling and immerse the audience into their world. I can't think of a single non-reboot movie made in the last 10 - 15 years that does that.
John Williams really spoiled us.
Film scores are what drove us to see films as the surround sound is magnificent don't waste those speakers on bullets and bangs..well said
Dune
Maybe not marvel movies with the exception of the eternals that was praised for their soundtrack
I cannot even name any composers any more, aside from Hans Zimmer who seems to have changed the world of movies scores into continuous generic pulsations as opposed to beautiful compositions. John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Barry...some of the greats that defined movies with their incredible compositions.
It's a landfill / storage facility world and here are more items from Tinseltown to fill both.
Loved the video, and cried because it’s true. Perspective of a young actor trying to make a living of what I love the most. Hate when the audition forces you to share your social media accounts just for the produces to see if they will get free publicity or not. This is the tip of the iceberg
A great man once said: “everything woke turns to shit”. There’s your reason. Not to mention every actor/actress is trash
With great wokeness comes great brokeness
You couldn't pay me enough to watch a Disney TV show.
Remember the Woke she Hulk. Watched 1 episode to see if it's really that bad and believe me it's one of the worst hours I've spent on God's green Earth!
Oh who said that.. what a legend!👏🏻
@@Kushagra.jno you're just a misogynist
It isn’t bad to show other stereotypes or demographics in media, but the entertainment industry has milked it dry to the point of causing a lot more outrage in the culture / identity war. They should focus on making actual movies rather than causing chaos.
Easy, we don’t want to be preached or lectured at.
You gave answers to all my unspoken questions, and I wondered why I lost interest and can never finish a modern movie, I find myself rewatching old flicks and loving it. Documentaries even excite me more
I've noticed the past few years there's a huge lack of movies that had a big impact on pop culture or are seen as iconic that everyone can agree on is must see, that is talked about for years, compared to past decades.
Slightly off-topic, I like how Monsterverse is one of the cinematic universes that hasn’t “fell off” yet.
One thing I appreciate about Monsterverse is that they gave audience what they want which is Entertainment, not lectures
Another factor is mega-budget movies can crowd out smaller films. Theatres only have a limited amount of time and will more likely bet on blockbusters, so a handful of big budget movies can effectively monopolize the audience
i literally enjoyed these "fxck around and find out" era of Hollywood, and damn i hope they found it out good
Another point is Limitation breeds creativity, constraints and rules lead for more creative solutions within those guidelines, when you have a limited budget you need to make the big scenes count and cant rely on flashy nonsense
As a young film maker, I agree 100 % with the message of your video!
It is important to note that there are many young artists like me who don't agree with the way the industry looks and operates right now, at all!
I can sense that there is a big trend shift approaching in the media realm in general, not only film!
We see the big budget studios relying on brand recognition, high budgets, fast turnout, mediocre quality and lacking talent, so people are getting tired of it and that's a big opportunity for us alternative / indie artists to shine through our dedication, hard work and talent, even on a low budget!
Not to mention the "modern art" that's just a flaming trashpile!
Support your indie artists, make alternative proper art profitable!
I truly love how deep you were able to get into the issues with Hollywood and how boring most of the films they put out are today. While I do occasionally enjoy a fun and dumb theater experience here and there, it's clear it won't reach the peak of films ever again espcially since the early 2000s were popping out classics. I just pray that hopefully things get better but for now I am not crossing my fingers here at all.
It is sad what they have done to modern villains in their stories. One of the few exceptions in recent years comes from Rogue One (a rare Disney success in Starwars and using a known villain in Darth Vader) you honestly really get the feeling from the rebels at the end when that red lightsaber ignites of “oh fuck”. It’s such a shame we can’t see more of that with previously unknown villains not having to bank on previous successes and notoriety to elicit the same reaction from audiences.
love this genuine coverage ... keep the great videos coming
Another reason why films been struggling lately is because of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Because everything's so consolidated and congested there's no incentive to change or do better. That's why we're seeing remakes, reboots and sequels of the same old intellectual properties. The sad thing is that these big media executives don't realize is that intellectual properties depreciate over time.
There are still great writers in the industry, as evident by the number of great tv shows over the last decade, but they aren't given enough movies to showcase their talents as TV is often a more safer route for the studios
It should be mentioned that remakes aren't a new thing. Ben Hur was a remake, so was Scarface.
The difference is that the original was often silent and in black & white, and seem lacking in professional polish. So a remake could add something different or new.
But what could remakes of Ghostbusters, The Thing or Robocop accomplish that the original didn't?
Channels like yours seem to be the few escapes that I have from our increasingly mindless society and it scares me for the future.
I feel your videos continue to improve, becoming more concise, informative, entertaining, and thorough with each upload. Your recent output has been very strong.
"Your recent output has been very strong" 💀
@@gloriahavland9844 I boned your mom
I've thought about this very thing a lot, I believe social media has amplified social justice causes to seem like they are something the majority of people resonate with, which isn't true but there is no way to tell unless you actually talk to a variety of people in person, most people are fairly moderate politically. Anyway, studios see this social justice trend and make movies to cater to an audience that doesn't actually exist in the numbers studios are getting from social media data. Once they realize the movie is going to flop they create or find a fictional controversy to exploit as a marketing gimmick to try and build within their desired audience that this film now represents a "cause" to support. Despite the marketing effort the problem is still the miniscule size of the audience they are trying to cater to, which means the movie will inevitably flop.
12 angry men is one of my favourite examples of what it takes to make a good film
Whats funny is they had strong female characters on lock down years ago, where there was Arnold in Predator there was Ripley in Alien, where there was Ash from Evil Dead there was Laurie Strode in Halloween and Amanda the pig from saw, mulan, Sarah Connor, i could go on, they wrote so many badasses back then, they have so many sources to draw from, and yet it just keeps evolving backwards
Question, were the Tomb Raider movies a good example of this? I saw them when I was like... 9 or something so I can't really remember how good they were.
@@phoenixchampion7 i never seen em, but lara croft as a character from what ive seen yea i'd say is a good example aswell
I'm glad that you acknowledged the fact that this has been going on since the 2000s. I'm 33 and even then was annoyed at most of what I saw
The real tragedy of the loss of balance in the modern movie diet is the demise of comedies. They try to compensate by boosting the level of comic relief in action blockbusters, but it just isn't the same.
I miss movies like American Pie, porkies, fuellers days out,national lampoon,hotshot, Jay and silent Bob, scary movie etc
Exactly. There were so many good comedies like 20-15 years ago. Where you just couldn't get a break from laughing and when your cheeks hurt afterwards. Like all Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler movies.
My favourite comedy Eurotrip is 20 years old...
There's only one good comedy from recently, where I could laugh like that, was Robots with Shailene Woodley. Brilliant. But it completelly flew under the radar. Was shown in theaters for only two weeks, where I live.
Comedy doesn't exist anymore because of Woke Culture.
You'd have to make a Comedy that doesn't offend anyone.
8:21 This. Society has lowered the bar so much that it is tripping everyone with its parody of what people want.
Nothing I haven't heard over the last year, but you bring it to the point pretty neatly.
People are tired of being told how expensive a film is. Tell us how good it is, let the good movie sell tickets rather than simply saying "it's expensive, please go see it" I avoid going to the theater because of this. It feels like these companies have no confidence in whether their film is actually good. Rather they wanna have the special effects to be the only thing to sell the movie.
in some movies, it feels they are playing it extremely safe, paint by numbers story, granted, some movies specially less known ones are just laughable sometimes, the entire idea is so strange, but you have to give them credit for trying and out of those some definitely hit the mark, like everything everywhere at once.
many complaint movies splitting in two for apparently no reason, but then i remember watch the original IT and getting tired half way in, attention span is not the same anymore, the problem comes when movies try to accelerate their plot so much that many aspect has no meaning to you anymore, "oh that character died? ok, we had like two moments with them"
I think the thing is that everyone has always had short attention spans. It's just that modern movies don't know how to be interesting.
Short form media has definitely made things worse
I love cinema, its one of my favorite ways to relax. Make some pop corn and put on a good movie, yet we are in a drought of good story telling or anything compelling to digest. I frequently find myself avoiding any new media and just re-watching classics. I couldn't agree more with Moon on this one. Video games are soon to follow in a real way I can almost guarantee it.
Some movies that got me into older cinema were the Wild One, the Born Losers (which is a very hard watch,) Claudine, Show Boat, BUtterfield 8, Rosemary's Baby (a grueling, slow burn suspense / horror film) so on.
After I then watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and it really hit me, I started watching more.
Check out the rest of the Billy Jack films if you made it through The Born Losers. It's probably the worst of that series.
there are still a few movie stars i still respect the hell out of : Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Henry Cavill and Keanu Reeves.
The one thing you didnät mention is that all movies are getting longer, but no one has the time or energy to constantly watch 2-3hour movies all the time
There is something to be said for the "flat character arc" in which the world changes around the hero, but it only works if the flat hero's beliefs are tested. The Strong Female Character is never tested.
Why should they be? They're boss bitches
The reason is almost entirely Larry Fink.
The sad thing is that the modern remake of “The Thing” actually did use all practical effects during filming but then the studios made them overlay that with CGI 😅
Bruh...💀