It’s scary how all of entertainment is being subsumed under one company
I watched one of those big trailer videos on youtube where it just shows dozens of trailers for ucoming movies, and it was one of the most depressing things (outside of actually, genuinely horrible shit) I’ve seen in a while.
Trailer-after-trailer for movies I felt like I’d already seen, more superhero bullshit I don’t care about, fucking unlimited particle effects. Never-ending particle effects. Fuckin’ fwoosh here’s a fucking particle effect, oooh! I just imagine the underpaid CG workers toiling away trying to make shit look nice, and the feedback they get is, “no, we need more fucking particle effects! there aren’t enough glowing flecks of shit flying around in that shot!”
Particle effects? I prefer PRACTICAL effects over CGI if that’s what you are saying.
And yes, Hollywood films are shit. The last time there was a full year with a sold line up was probably in 1999, and that was forever ago
Remember when Pixar used their fictional company Buy’N Large as a warning against monopolizing companies destroying the Earth
That was a fun time
Pixar is one example of no matter how cool or noble or woke a business owner is, they will ALWAYS ALWAYS sell out to a megacorp eventually.
I’d also to point to nearly every organic food company - I think a lot of them start with good ideals but now they are all owned by corps. Even Applegate got bought by fucking Hormel.
also like 70% is capeshit if you include dc and kingsman (which I liked but it’s still basically capeshit). Pls God stop with the comic book adaptations.
The average viewers have to burn out with this type of movie eventually. It’s like how in the 50s and 60s almost every TV show was a Western, but eventually Blazing Saddles came along and completely discredited the genre.
my favorite trend for movies that involve non-dystopic vision increasingly being filmed outside the U.S. and pretending to take place in the U.S. (like how Hallmark’s stand-in for small town USA is the Vancouver suburbs) while any movie needing to show a decaying shithole with rusted out infrastructure in a sad sack world is filmed in the US.
and I am here for it, waiting for my fellow citizens to notice we live in a dystopian set piece watching footage of other countries, thinking it’s our own.
:nicholson-yes:
I love it. It’s easier to nationalize one company than six.
Get ready for the next generation to grow up thinking it’s normal that any media they watch is either a self-serious “comedy” about how it’s okay to feel (unless you’re mad at the system, which is toxic yikes), or a freakin epic girlboss superhero movie (funded by the DoD) where all of the dialogue is like “Erm yeah. I’m thinking that just happened.”
:yes-honey-left:
the generation that grew up on endless wholesome family comedies about a lawyer who meets a talking dog and learns to pay more attention to his suburban upper middle class white family ain’t doing much better
freakin epic girlboss superhero movie (funded by the DoD)
wut
Referring to Captain Marvel, which was used to make a bunch of ads for the Air Force.
What’s worse, an epic girlboss movie funded by the DoD or one that’s funded by the IDF?
trick question, they’re both funded by the DoD
What ever happened to Independent Movies? For a while it seemed like they were gonna be the new really big thing and change cinema for the better, but it seems like Indie Movies just kinda fizzled out, haven’t heard anything about them in years.
