What the fuck every happened to the concept of cinema as art? Film is supposed to be the ultimate canvas, and provides an opportunity for the artist to weave a tapestry of visual and audio energy that blends together providing a unique, enjoyable, and entertaining experience for the viewer.
What have we had in the past 2 decades though? A bunch of shit. Film by committee. Liberal arts college tier casting resulting in actors portraying roles that just aren't believable. A reliance of computer graphics that are video game quality, at best.
Sadly, I think the future of film lies in the individual film maker who shirks the (((hollywoodland))) system and brings back the art of practical effects, stunning visuals, and original scores. The (((hollywoodland))) system is broken, and the greed and insistence on "film by committee" and political propagandizing is too far ingrained to be cleanly removed.
So what do you think, is film still salvageable, or is it gone forever?
Hollywood releases a lot of shit, but there’s still good movies coming out >blade runner 2049 >spider-man into the spider-verse >annihilation >ex machina >arrival >looper
Bentley Sullivan
So how many, like 1 a year? Maybe 1 quarterly? Bi-annually?
That's like putting a pristine white sugar cube on a bucket full of shit.
Kevin Roberts
Not OP but your taste is fucking horrid. I like some of these movies but they're absolute r*dditcore not something you would raise as an example of film as art.
Parker Davis
for a website that hates jews and hollywood, you sure love their movies :^)
Haven't watched a new release since BR2049, and I streamed that shit, my man. Can't really call that having a "love" for hollywood film.
So why is it? Is it just a business model that needs to die, or is there just a complete lack of desire to let artists be artists?
Julian Harris
corpotatism happened, production companies merged and now there are maybe 5 when before there were thirty they control the cinemas, the critics, now the distribution with the streaming services
Ryan Butler
Blade Runner 2049 is the only film that I would consider very good in that list
>Looper
Utter shit, can't believe these are the types of film people like these days.
Levi Cooper
Is there a way to stop it you think, or are we just fucked until the next big economic financial failure wrecks everything for a rebuild?
I'd like to think that small scale film makers could actually bring back the artistic side of things with shit like computer aided editing, effects and such.
Nolan Phillips
no polician has the will to make a new antitrust law cause it goes against freedom and lets not lie to ourselves, it goes against freedom, but whats great about freedom if it means that everything has to cater to the lowest of the lowest
Ethan Barnes
> Film is supposed to be the ultimate canvas Well, it isn't, and it never was.
Samuel Lewis
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Cameron Allen
It once was. It isn't anymore.
Sebastian Gomez
I'm a pedophile so hollywood loves me
Andrew Morales
It's a well-known fact that Hollywood doesn't buy big-budget scripts with the intent of turning them into original films. Jon Spaihts wrote Passengers, Shadow 19, and who knows how many other sci-fi specs before getting the Prometheus gig. That's why he has a job - because of the talent he showed in his writing, which can be used for studio projects. They didn't want to make his stories into movies because Hollywood is deathly afraid of taking risks on new, unproven material. They are all about profiting in the future, not profiting now. In other words, it's literally all about the Benjamins, not about the stories. Not in any way at all.
Motorcade wasn't bought to become a new film; it was purchased to become a Die Hard sequel. Same thing happened with Simon Says in the 90s, which later became Die Hard 3.
Nobody is writing big-budget original ideas. It's a nearly impossible sell (and even more unlikely to get past the development stage). Unless the director writes it himself and has carte blanche based on reputation only, it won't happen.
Liam Moore
OP, Star Wars and the destruction of UA by Heaven's Gate pretty much. Directors had it great from the late 60's to the early 80's but hubris, ego and cocaine did them in. After that the studios and Producer regained control!!!FACT!!!
Hudson Sanders
le star wars meme
Leo Walker
>lets not lie to ourselves, it goes against freedom, Human society isn't "free". We tried that in the past and it brought us....Africa. Haiti.
We need rules and leaders to enforce them. We're failing at both, currently.
