Re: Why Do Movies Suck?
We're not talking foreign films or even indies, though. We're talking McHollywood™. But blaming the internet for movies being perceived as wasted film is blaming the media, if not the victim. Check back to 1982...memorable movies were hitting the multiplex on a weekly basis. Not all of them were great by any yardstick, but the bulk of them were memorable. What's being churned out now is just disposable entertainment. Yeah, some of them are good and a few of them are great, but most of them are just instant gratification to be forgotten the minute the end credits start to roll.
This isn't nostalgia on my part. Well, some of it is, of course...but not all. The problem is easily explained...Hollywood began its descent into mediocrity (for those who have a problem with calling it teh suck) when soft drink, liquor and electronics companies started buying up the studios back in the nineties and putting MBAs in charge of the greenlight.
We're not talking foreign films or even indies, though. We're talking McHollywood™. But blaming the internet for movies being perceived as wasted film is blaming the media, if not the victim. Check back to 1982...memorable movies were hitting the multiplex on a weekly basis. Not all of them were great by any yardstick, but the bulk of them were memorable. What's being churned out now is just disposable entertainment. Yeah, some of them are good and a few of them are great, but most of them are just instant gratification to be forgotten the minute the end credits start to roll.
This isn't nostalgia on my part. Well, some of it is, of course...but not all. The problem is easily explained...Hollywood began its descent into mediocrity (for those who have a problem with calling it teh suck) when soft drink, liquor and electronics companies started buying up the studios back in the nineties and putting MBAs in charge of the greenlight.
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