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Movie industry direction?

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going uphill

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Where's the music industry going ever since Corona? I want to see others perspectives on this. Edit: Movies, not music.
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  • [i]It's been going downhill for quite some time now. I blame streaming and streaming services, as well as the dominance of the super hero movie genre. There once was a time when great directors used to make movies like The Sixth Sence, 12 Monkeys, Gladiator, Fight Club, etc, but noone goes to the cinema to see films like these anymore, so none of the major studios invest money into making these films. They still get made for services like Netflix, albeit for half the budget, by directors who aren't very good, so they feel cheap and mediocre. Meanwhile, big block buster films have become so corporate that its almost impossible to go into a film blind without being spoiled by some form of marketing ( the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trailers ), or a toy ( the identity of the new Black Panther was spoiled by a Lego set ). I went into the Matrix 99% blind ( the only thing I knew about it was that it strared Keanu Reeves ) and i'll never forget that experience.[/i]

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    • The big names are too afraid to take risks across the board from video games to music to movies and television. They play it safe hoping for easy profits and when it doesn't rake in cash they blame it on something other than the real problems, then go on to repeat the same problems elsewhere. The people behind the directors performers and developers are never punished for the bad decisions they force into production because they have obscene wealth and still make gains from failures, so they have no need to learn lessons. The absurd concept of exponential growth isn't helping, the numbers must always go up and if they don't surpass previous records by a large enough margin they're seen as a failure. Art is dead and greed killed it while everyone was distracted crying about buzzwords and culture wars.

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      • Edited by Twin Inferno: 8/1/2022 9:12:59 PM
        Just watched the Gladiator the other night. So from that standard and looking at the the movie industries current state, yeah outside of a few good outliers, movies will never improve or even compete against the classics and legends.

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        • If it hasn’t already happened, I think the trend will be away from movies in favor of more longer-form series. It’s tough to fit a good story into two hours. And so many movies seem to follow the same formula that they’ve just become eye candy.

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          • Edited by Cultmeister: 8/2/2022 12:47:34 PM
            As others have said, we really aren’t in much of a position to judge that as of right now. We only remember the good films from decades past, but there was a hell of a lot of crap released then as well. Does anyone remember the animated film Barnyard for example; the poor man’s Over The Hedge. Hell, who even remembers Over The Hedge? That being said, we do seem to be in an era of decent TV rather than decent movies. When people foam at the mouth these days, it’s over a new Star Wars series, Game of Thrones (as was), Stranger Things, RuPaul, “Gritty Crime Thriller Starring Person With Accent” etc.New films can get people excited, but I don’t think the fervour is there anymore.

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            • Movies are what they are. Other than Disney/Marvel turning the MCU into a cash cow, I don't see much change. What is still up in the air, is what is going to happen to theaters. They were already struggling prior Covid....and now that the studios know that they can just release them directly to streaming services....theaters may become an obsolete business model. A number of theaters...major chain multiplexes.... closed in my area.

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            • Has it ever really been great though? Every year there seems to be at least one or two good movies, but there are far more throw away ones, that they still spent millions of dollars on to create.

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            • Click on any decade for movies and notice the huge difference with what's on offer from that period compared to today's offerings.

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            • They’ve definitely lessened in quality since around 2010.

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            • Kind of hard to judge at this point in time. In a broad sense, if you were to ask this question, say, 10-20 years from now there will be an argument that can be made. Historical analysis aside… I personally have only seen Marvel movies; I had a feeling they were going to hit a rough spot after Endgame.

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            • [quote]Where's the music industry going ever since Corona? I want to see others perspectives on this. Edit: Movies, not music.[/quote] Why do people still edit things like they're on an old message board? If you hit the edit button, you literally could have hit backspace on "music" and typed movie in place of it. I don't get it. Anyways, ot, I don't really pay much attention but on a tangentially related note, I don't understand why people think Jordan Peele is a genius. Someone recently called him "The greatest horror director of all time", I think in response to Nope on top of that... Nope isn't even a horror film ffs.

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            • Edited by MisterMaster93: 7/30/2022 3:07:52 AM
              [spoiler]For some movie companies they're going uphill. Offering content designed to be enjoyed and allowing the audience to escape from the real world for a few hours. They know for to develop their characters and create a good story.[/spoiler] [spoiler]Then you have those companies that are going downhill, creating movies that people refuse to see They push politics and lectures grounding the audience in the reality of the outside world. They take existing franchises and drag them through the dirt then wonder why their movie doesn't get a big following. They push this need for a percentage of "minorities" in every film without really knowing how to develop the character or just using them to call fan racists.[/spoiler]

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            • The movie industry is pretty much disney at this point, they shafted artistic integrity of the media platform into an unrecoverable state that I hope the downwards hill ends to a 90° clifface real soon.

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            • I’ve liked everything I’ve watched since the pandemic hit. Granted, that is almost exclusively Disney.

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            • It’s mostly going downhill for big franchises and studios but I think that’s a good thing cause the current staleness/lack of stuff worth watching is makes it a perfect setting for new companies and movies to become huge and it I think we’ll be seeing a new way of blockbusters that are originals not sequels

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              Make the content you want to see… - old

              To early to tell

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            • Movie or music?!? Though honestly both I’d put to preference. That’s the magic of the subjective!

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            • Edited by Swat: 7/30/2022 8:54:17 AM
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              Here since 2008. @Hi_Im_Swat Twitter. - old

              I would like to see movies released straight on to streaming platforms instead of in cinemas. I honestly think cinema's should be a thing of the past. Movies are best enjoyed from the comfort of your home so you can pause it & don't have to put up with nonsense from people you don't know.

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