Movies

Do what you want, brother.

The industry is broken. The marvel shit and allowing the studio heads to deeply involve themselves in the creative process through nepotism and ego are what brought us here.

They don’t even care if the content is good anymore. They have insurance. I worked on Madame Webb and got the sense that they knew it was going to bomb. They have stockpiles of the good stuff to fall back on if they get desperate for money.

The Matrix was made in a time that will never happen again.

Anyway, it is my opinion that going to see this movie actively encourages the film industry to continue their fall into mediocrity unchecked. If one dislikes the super hero shit, don’t go see anything until they put out a new movie. Thats just my advice. Again. Do whatever you want…

I don't think you really grasped his point.

When streaming began, I was screaming from the rooftops that we should take the failure of the music industry as a cautionary tale against streaming services. My solution was a decentralized streaming platform that charges users a monthly fee and pays content creators fairly by dividing total viewing time per month.

Since those greedy assholes couldn’t be bothered to listen and have instead moved to the subscription model, competing with massive warchests of licensed-content rather than making any new content, I say fuck em. Pirate it if you will. Netflix and the 500 other walled-gardens have fragmented their own content into irrelevancy.

I say we let the content compete on the open market instead of forcing users to make allegiances with a handful of gatekeepers.

No problem. Thanks for your compassion. My colleagues and I sincerely appreciate it.

I think you’re conflating two different parties of people. I LOVE good content. There hasn’t been much good content released in a decade.
Did you see Free Guy? That wasn’t bad at all.

Dune was pretty good. They seemed to get out of Villanueve’s way to let him tell the story how he saw fit. They were a rare, well-made, nearly unanimously agreed-upon good series of movies.

IMO, it’s Disney funding nepotism in that case. Rather than hiring a creative genius (like a David Fincher or Alfonso Cuaron), they prefer to consider someone that ticks their identity politics focus group numbers BEFORE they think about that director’s talent.

If they hired talented directors rather than their buddies and gave them the freedom of CREATIVE CONTROL (like they would give someone like Spielberg or another auteur) they might be shocked at how much better the content is. But the reality is: the studios make nepotistic hires above the line and, at every single turn, micromanage, withhold funding, and focus-group the production into a stiff, lifeless PC representation of their corporate identity. Marvel/Disney and Netflix are ESPECIALLY guilty of this. Seen that one with Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, and The Rock? What the fuck was that? It was like a whole movie of stupid cameos and dumbass plot twists/plot holes. It felt like it was written by a studio head.

Controversy is actively avoided…and controversy/doing unconventional things is the LIFEBLOOD of good content.

Leaps off a tall building

10 years old is entirely too young for this film. Mature 13-14 year old is definitely the earliest anyone should watch this.

I really enjoyed it, saw it twice. was a classic summer blockbuster with good actors and the CGI for the storms was insane and really well done

It was significantly better than the original film at the very least. Both of them were stupid but at least the new one didn't make me hate the main character the whole time.

Another? Was there more than one film?

True. The latest one was absolutely awful

Well, they already did that not too long ago. So seeing them do this is more like "well, the sequel didn't work, what else can we do to milk this even more?"

Is there a plan to show all of them in this anniversary? Because the first one on its own is not quite enough, I feel. It opens the story of the movies that follow.