Date: July 6th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: Yellow garrison
You think this is clever, Trumpkin?
Your life story as a Trumpkin would be a 10 minute movie max because it'd just show you eating Kraft Mac N Cheese for 10 minutes before shitting your guts out for 5 minutes
How is what you described any different than any of the recent Star Wars movies or Star Trek streaming shows? Fucking lol at least what you described would only take 15 minutes to watch.
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: crawly curious brethren digit ratio
"certain hollywood types" use them for propaganda now and dont give a fuck about making money off of them. movies used to be about getting people to like/enjoy the movie
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:58 PM Author: crawly curious brethren digit ratio
havent seen a movie in theaters since 2014 and never will again. cant remember more than five movies that were even worth seeing on streaming over the past 10 years.
movies used to be about telling a story, sending a moral message, reenacting history and showing the human side; they enlightened up, provoked us, asked us to help solve a mystery, or simply entertained, but now its about selling you low quality shit you dont need and never wanted, for a lot of money, and making sure you buy it over and over and over again until you die or have kids, in which case you pay over and over and over until your kids die, and so on.
Date: July 6th, 2026 2:55 PM Author: splenetic ebony stage
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would like that British Movie Finance Guy's thoughts though. my hunch is something along the lines of:
- home viewing experience killing theaters was inevitable in the long run. so the big moviecos have defaulted to a much safer mode of operation.
- for movies released with a Computer Online Screen First Strategy, streaming services are involved earlier in the process than old style film distributors. so those trying to make movies hit the "does corporate approve" wall at a much earlier stage in the process and true "independent" films are actually less common despite the total number of released films increasing
Date: July 6th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: citrine hospital giraffe
the people who make movies arent the best of the best. this isnt the nfl where you draft the best player. nearly everyone in hollywood is there because of a connection, not talent.
Biggest reason, even beyond DEI casting, is the forced diversity in the writers rooms. Many studios have enforced what amounts to writing by committee with the makeup being diverse. So you end up with poorly written stories and too much focus on surface level shit that women care about the most.
Whereas most of the best stories come from one or two people who have total creative control.
Date: July 6th, 2026 7:40 PM Author: wonderful nofapping church selfie
netflix simply admits that they build their "content" around the notion that people are scrolling on their phones and occasionally looking up at the Screen. that's where we are now.
They never give any up and coming writer directors a chance. Coppola, Lucas, Cameron, Anderson, Fincher, Spielberg, Crowe, Tarantino, Nolan, Besson, Welles, Wachowski, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Malick.
Take your pick. Great Films are made by great directors. Period end of discussion. A very, very small group of white men made every masterpiece of all time. Film is the only art form where you basically need someone with hundreds of millions of dollars in expendable capital to give you a chance to make something special.
You take away the pipeline of genius unfettered creative white men's capable of greatness receiving funds from a rich Jew who believes in them and you have nothing left. Virtually every director I named had some really crazy origin story. They were psychos and savants by birth. They were maximizing the radical struggle of art. They all got insanely lucky or by someone fluke occurrence had some random executive believe in them completely to make real magic happen.
Pretty easy for libs to put the kabosh on genius white guys with no rules spending other people's money. Simple as.
Date: July 6th, 2026 8:28 PM Author: Free-loading plaza gunner
There's clips of Ben Affleck blaming DVD sales, but the overall box office is just much smaller than it used to be too. Fewer tickets to the movies are being sold, and a huge percentage of the tickets that are being sold are to super hero / franchises / IP.
They basically only make independent adult movies now with budgets of like $10 mm. If you adjusted for inflation (and rising production costs which have outpaced inflation), most of the movies people liked growing up would have budgets of like $100 million - and Hollywood pumped out 2-4 of them a week (mature comedies, slapstick comedies, kid comedies, legal thrillers, sexual thrillers, slasher thrillers, romantic comedies, dramas, period dramas, etc.)
People liked Project Hail Mary this year - which was probably the only big budget original movie. The differnce is in 1995, Hollywood produced 50 of those types of movies.
Date: July 6th, 2026 8:51 PM Author: wonderful nofapping church selfie
the weird thing is that we are told it's because short form content is king now, but it actually sucks. youtube used to be good but now there's only like 5 real creators. tiktok idk i'm too Old but even youngs seem to be disenchanted with it.
what could be more entertaining than a maladjusted megalomaniac spending hundreds of millions of some Jew's dollars to construct an entire alternate reality to bedazzle the viewer in 4K? I want it back dammit.