Interesting. I liked Joker but I feel like I was less critical because it was a Joker movie. Better yet, I feel as if I liked it because it was based on Joker. Without its tie to DC, it's not bad, it's even rather good especially in the current cinematic climate, but it is definitely not great. At least to me.
One other problem is that Hollywood keep (for whatever reason) making remakes of genuinely good movies. I personally think it would make more sense to remake "bad" or mediocre movies with a genuinely good plot.
I feel the same way when a band releases a remix of one of their best songs. It's always worse than the original because there's not a lot of room to improve. They should remix the songs that didn't work the first time. (There are many reasons this would never actually happen...)
I remember the times when Americans decided to remake every decent Japanese horror there was. The reason was, I kid you not, that nobody wants to read subtitles.
Its like Ricky Gervais said : The best directors and actors all moved along to Netflix and FX (In his Infamous tirade at the Emmy awards) Its true. The Hollywood monolith is on the way down
Yeah. This is way more about the death of movie theaters than about the movie industry itself. Theaters are dead. They ARE theme park rides now. But at the same time, we have many other ways of enjoying movies now and ones that can risk failure even more since it doesn't rely on opening nights anymore etc. It's just adapting, like the music industry had to when cds died. It's so fucking stupid to compare Batman v Superman with Taxi Driver, I'm sorry, but it is.
I think that this is why foreign cinema has become so popular, why parasite was such a breath of fresh air of creativity and storytelling in its message.
Can't stand most movies. But I tend to not tell people in my life that anymore. It always ends up with them convinced it's their life purpose to change my mind.
Hollywood only cares about linings it's own pockets. Like it's not a accident that theres no new blood creating movies. A 200 IQ entertainment genius is a threat to their money, and anyone with potential to evolve their creative processes is never given a chance. You follow their rules or basically get blacklisted and can't even get a job in the industry. They think the public is to stupid to notice the motivation behind something greatly affects quality. The difference between a greedy 1 dimensional dumbass and someone who takes pride in their work and goes above and beyond, is insane though!
Old youtube had trash videos and alot of it was really bad. RUclips today has some amazing creators if your willing to look. Anyone remember Freddie or whatever his name was that was the biggest youtube channel for along time and oh god it was bad.
@@Zimmerh90 agree for exam0le the armchair historian and Time ghost are both "modern" and amazing channels better thab that childish pewdipie trash for example.
The best writing advice I ever got was "If you want to preach become a priest, if you aren't willing to write a convincing arguement for the other side you're just a propagandists, and people can watch the news for that." This was before social media was mainstream.
I kinda half agree with this, it’s ok to have positive messages in films, any kind of bias though could be considered propagandist if you look hard enough
Nah, people who whined about movies being preachy tend to push for consumerist schlock. If anything the movies they complain about being preachy just have messages they don't like, hence they get put down. They would love to lap up movies with messages they agree with. Today's world is a buffet of confirmation bias, take your pick to satisfy your feeling of being right!
The way it angered Disney tells me Scorsese is right. I felt the same. The impact on old movies from the 60ies and 70ies lasts until today. Modern movies simply vanish from our minds a few month later..
Could be, or it could be from your perspective it's like that because when you saw the movies who were populair during your era of being young made it as a core memory and made your frame of reference. Which kids these days will have theire complete own and would have the same impact on them as this is on you? is it not more nostalgica root cause of this phenomenon ''vanish from your mind a few months later''? it's not new for you
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 yes, but that’s something else. It’s quality vs popularity/likeableness. It’s like most popular songs are in chords C - G - Am - F , but a real master pieces like Mozart and such aren’t as popular.
@Raymondd1516 but then after watching the whole mcu series, what did it do you other than entertain you for few hours and leave you empty after a week? There is a reason why real cinema is rare as it leaves a decent meaning you can relate to in your life
@@Raymondd1516I was born 2000. I've seen these awful modern films and I literally couldn't tell you anything about them, they are that boring. All I can remember of Avatar for example is tall blue people that have sex with tentacle hairs and something about nature yada yada. I remember in guardians of the galaxy funny man does a funny dance when everyone is about to die or something, and batman shouts a lot about martha while fighting superman cuz he's got dementia or something. Compare that to Avatar: The Last Airbender which, despite being a kids cartoon, isn't afraid to have darker moments and has some really good writing and top quality animation and choreography. If there's no substance, irs forgettable. If it has actual substance and quality, it'll be remembered.
@@mr.bootleg646 In the script, the line goes, "But if someone is truly exceptional, they shut him down because they don't want everyone else to feel bad."
@@elijahanderson3288 that honestly should of been kept in the movie like that in itself is pure irony-- the whole statement would of made people feel bad if they heard that in a movie theater directed to a simple family/kid night lmao
There is a reason why I prefer older theater or indie movies. You put into words what I didn't realize why I liked old movies so much, now I get it. Thank you!
would you choose art over money? let say you want to make something new and true to you, but someone offer you millions of dollars to make something similar to the avengers. would you say no to that?
@@Dave_of_Mordor as an individual I'd probably take the $ too at least once, but would also want to do my own passion projects regularly (to be fair, individual directors, actors, writers ect. do this). I think that for individuals, the question is a false dichotomy, but I don't really expect a committee of business people to be motivated to make the same decision that an individual artist would make.
That is the truth. "Man from Planet X" (1951) and "The Call of Cthulhu" (2005) had practically zero budgets, but danced cleverly around their limitations. It's not unlike haiku - saying more with less.
There is a certain creativity that comes through limitations. The director's vision adapts to these limitations and soon, you don't even notice there was any sort of "original vision."
A lot of modern movies basically consist of: - explosion - CGI - mr. fantastic who throw “witty” one liner all the time - obscenity - social media hype A lot of movie lack: - good story that does not even need visual to captivate - original storyline - emotion - morale story
@Neil Cantorne This increases the motivation of those in charge to dumb down the populace. Not a good thing, is it? Just because you might be someone who's already in the "Must consume product." group, that doesn't become a good thing.
I've only discovered your channel 1 hour ago and, 3 videos in, I feel I know incredibly more about how the world works than I did an hour ago. I've never felt this way, you blew my mind.
I agree in principle but there is a fundamental problem with that - You have to drop a lot of dough and time sifting through the crap in order to find that rare gem. In theory, that's supposed to be a professional critic's function but they are just another corrupt arm of the marketing machine.
@@ColonelSandersLite why? Some of the greatest gems are free, so why would finding them cost money? If you just want better things to watch in terms of storytelling, then watch anime. Want something intellectual, there's RUclips, brilliant, and skill share. Want something with mind boggling visual aesthetics, just take some psychedelic drugs The reason I suggest anime, the people that create anime go all out most of the time, from voice acting, to even having custom soundtracks created, and most of those soundtracks or intro songs are amazing, so much so that they get a near cult following and become actual songs. Take Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba for example, the storyline is fantastic, characters are amazing and in depth even down to the villains, and the soundtrack? One of the greatest audible sensations I have heard in a long time. Just make sure you watch them in sub, not being racist intentionally, but English voice acting is fucking horrible and lazy and rarely even has emotion.
@@BodyDoubleFilms Ah yes, We got people who dont have money and pirate films so that they can enjoy them and talk with friends about them so that they want to watch the movies. Now the take away pirating, how will the person without money watch the film and show friends the movie ?
The same problem as in the music industry….no one ever hears about it unless it’s referred by a friend who has actually heard or seen it. It gets totally buried by the media, and most never hear about it!!
The Lighthouse is truly a brilliant film, and this is coming from someone who doesn’t like horror movies that much. While most horror movies made today are horrible, it truly is an exception. Wendigoon actually has a video on its brilliance ruclips.net/video/7Hdhpuk0dQc/видео.html if you’d like to watch
train to bussain and parasite were amazing, even though i had to use subtitles for both they were 10/10 and came out in the last couple years. White Tiger was a solid 9/10 imo as well. I think there are still great movies being made, just not in english. ruclips.net/video/pyWuHv2-Abk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/5xH0HfJHsaY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/35jJNyFuYKQ/видео.html
Movies that have been made by the Coen brothers are literally works of art and are pathos driven with touches of well placed bathos. Absolute masterpieces.
No Country for Old Men had some dark points that you could easily mistake for comedic on first watch. Brilliant work. That was the peak of 2000s cinema for me.
I love that guy because he is so honest. When he was on the red carpet for Star Wars Premiere ranting about his own movie 😂👍 priceless. „If you think you can go in there to relive your childhood memories, it’s gonna be a huge disappointment for you trust me skip it.“ and hell was he right with that
@@Bonde7280 well justice maybe late but it will come. Now look at Churchill. He was and mostly in UK still hailed as hero but recently all his bad works come to light. Maybe in future when all of his victims becomes more politically strong on world stage more of it will come. A Bad guy may survive for some time or even life time but his bad work will come to life one day.
@@Bonde7280 the issue with the good guy always winning is that you basically already know how it'll end or you will struggle to relate to the villain because they are big, bad, and scary. I personally prefer morally grey protagonists and antagonists
Other way around dude. The ”heroes” of today are rarely standing for anything good and true. Just look at how they utterly have destroyed most of the classic hero franchises.
Audience's role in responding to these movies is also very important. This makes me really appreciate the audience of the 70s that went to watch movies and In a way support more movies like godfather, alien, mad max, all the president's men, dog day afternoon, taxi driver and many more. Movies were serious and they were taken seriously. They took risk of being original and audience responded to it. These movies are still remembered today.
It's also possible that a lot of crap of the era has been forgotten. But still I agree with you. In my opinion, the 90's/early 2000's were the golden age. Now we clearly are in the dark ages.
Martin Scorsese was on point with his judgement. What he said was actually very obvious. It's the reason why I can't watch movies for many years now. There is almost only trash on the market. People are very mainstream and of course the general population has no understanding of quality input.
Martin Scorsese was not completely on point, honestly. While yes he was right about the future of marvel movies being on the decline but he also said that marvel movies are not "cinema" even tho there marvel movies that are cinema for example Spiderman (Sam Raimi), Captain America The First Avenger, Iron Man, Black Panther, and more. Im not saying that "oh, yeah marvel movies are all peak fiction and cinematic because its that freaking GOOD" but I am saying that not all marvel movies are not just "theme park rides".
good thing you didnt live in the late 90's then, when almost 70% of the movies was basically the same movie, with the exact same plot. or the 70's when a "big movie" was just another way of saying "a bible movie". if you think movies arent intellectually challenging anymore, i really have no idea what to tell you. because you clearly havent watch anything besides marvel movies...
Not every film has to be the greatest piece of art ever made. Sometimes you just come back from work exhausted as hell and just wanna watch guys in silly costumes beat the hell out of each other or a super fast hedgehog for an hour or two. Movies aren’t everybody’s life. Most people (even when they watch “intellectually challenging” movies) don’t think about the film too deeply because (shock and horror) people have LIVES.
You certainly sound like the type to be "intellectually challenged" by old films like 'Showgirls' (1995) and 'They Saved Hitler's Brain' (1968). Stop being a pretentious wank and just accept that every generation has its good and bad films.
@@fuguthefish you don't really know they are crap though, apart from production line films, till you watch them. Something like Life of Pi can come out and surprise people. Helps when the film has a good book to follow to be fair.
I saw Shawshank Redemption when I was 8 and it really got into my head because of how much depth the characters had and how connected it felt. I didn’t find another piece of work like it until I watched the Dexter and fell in love with that a year later. The big deal in that is that it is easier to fall in love with with tv shows because they are many hours long. Shawshank redemption does the same thing in just a few hours. I went back and watched it a few months ago and it is still as good as I remembered.
At the end of the day everyone has their own taste in movies, however I do agree how bad modern movies are because it’s always following the simple rules and always predictable. Nothing Unique or out of the box and story telling’s just getting worse even if the cgi has gotten better...
@Honudes Gai that's why I watch anime, so much better than mainstream movies. Sure there's lots of bad anime, but there's also a lot of great ones, and anime isn't held back by the restrictions movies are.
because of CGI, nothing on the movie screen is impressive anymore. people just go "nah, that's just CGI", rather than "How in the Hell did they do that?"
I'm always amused by the fact that 90+% of the movies that come out - you can figure out whats going to happen before it even happens. Barely any mysteries or twists in movies today and it all just seems so tiring at times.
@@Titere05 I wouldn't call it magic. I listen to the radio sometimes and there is so much autotune I find it painful and have to turn it off. It's the equivalent of just living off smoothies and nothing else.
Oh, plenty of us still write songs. You're just not likely to hear them unless they... and _we_ ...are considered "marketable". Thoughty2 did a great vid on this very subject a year or two ago. The music industry caters to it's lowest common denominator. It homogenizes styles until it all sounds the same, purely because that's easier to market to a wider audience. True innovation is rarely welcomed in any popular art. To find those innovators, you have to go underground. Thankfully, we also live in the age of the internet, so going underground is easier than ever.
As a member of the younger generation, I just assumed I don't like action as a genre. But turns out I was just fed up with the soulless 2010s action movies, and the older 90s action movies actually do have (exciting, funny, touching, inspiring, tought-rising) storylines, despite them being action movies. Also, the budabest hotel was really worth the money!
Kill bill vol 1 and 2. I know not 100% action but they are from around 2004 2005 if I recall correct and amazing. For good sci-fi I was amazed by the new bladerunner 2049. not full action but I went out of the cinema for the first time after 10 years or so thinking „wow this movie flashed me. I have to think about it, 100% worth my money“. There are still some amazing movies between all the trash but they are hard to find
The funny thing is, a lot of the push to create mediocre movies would be gone if we would update our copyright laws to remove corporate regulations. As always, government interference is the real problem.
Bravo, Martin. I have not walked away from an American movie stirred, puzzled, enlightened or otherwise moved in ages. A local theater has an annual Oscar nominee film festival. I spend 10 days in the dark in search of joy, outrage, fear, sadness or any other profound emotion and am not disappointed. It's no wonder foreign films are winning best picture.
Overuse of CGI Mediocre actors Lazy writting Political correctness Lazy music Too many franchises Constant Remakes . Edit: I recommend you guys watch the movie “ Upgrade”. It’s one of the most underrated films that were overshadowed by Marvel.
I agree with most of those, but I don't think we're amidst any dearth of acting talent. I think a big problem is that our appreciation for art and capacity to understand and interpret challenging ideas and themes has eroded. Audiences are dumber than ever. But audiences can only evolve in positive ways if they start seeing the occasional non-vacuous film.
I enjoyed Logan for this reason. As the last in a long series, there was certainly more freedom to show these characters as people, and not brands. It's a wolverine movie nobody asked for, but the one everyone likes. Spiderman Into the spiderverse was really good. The cell shading, cross hatching, and the minor details like the types of loss that propel Miles to put on the red suit, which were different and culturally relevant to Miles's life. Nailed home by the spider guys from other worlds, obviously with their own tragedies. These movies, sadly, feel like they could have dispensed with the branding and been just as good, but needed it to get butts in seats. This is becoming more common. Thor Ragnarok is a buddy comedy, kind of, which is taking the serious situation and making it a joke trope work well, as it is an objectively good movie I will re-watch from time to time. Comedy is an artform, and this movie, it's a really weird one, well executed, but without the marvel, Thor, Hulk branding, would it have got people to go? Would people recommend it? Would people have liked it if it were not for the others to compare to? Logan was objectively good, but not GREAT, but compared to past movies in the franchise, the most seasoned critic would be hard pressed to say it was bad.
@@Shlogger yeah, me too. Out of all the Marvel movies I just love The Guardians of The Galaxy. They are all very well developed characters, who doesn't love those idiots, especially the big blue guy, whose thinking is on a completely different level, but the blue guy with an op arrow too. It's an awesome comedy, especially the second one, they make fun of everything, the 80s arcade was gold (pun intended). Chriss Pratt plays a guy who's just a normal dude who loves pretty women, he's flawed, like the rest of the bunch, but that's what we love him for, that he makes mistakes, like all people, and he isn't a superhero. He dresses normally, without some stupid uniforms, capes and other spandex nonsense. He isn't perfect like Captain Marvel nor Rey from star wars, whose company were just a background without any reason to be there, she's so "awesome" she doesn't need their support, she knows everything and is the best of the best. Star Wars aren't just Jedis, there's a whole fricking universe to explore, that does not involve any Jedis. But no, we got a new, universe logic destroying, plot hole ridden knock off of the old trilogy. But I digress, the music in the GoTG was superb, and I really enjoy the goofiness of it all, that it's not so serious, maybe it's good exactly because they decided to make a comedy of it (I heard the comics are way more serious, I don't think I could handle that, it'd boring). All I'm waiting for is The Guardians of The Galaxy 3, though with today's woke ideology, I doubt it will (if they decide to make one) be half as good as the first one, and the second is the best in my book. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise they aren't continuing it, what with all the firing of the original writer and the leftist sick ideology to preach at us through movies how awful we all are. In fact I stopped a year ago watching anything coming out of Hollywood, especially Netflix, which is red flagged for me after they allowed Cuties on their platform. It's a normalization process of normalizing the abnormal. And I won't watch that, nor will I let my niece.
Yeah, it's a shame that Hollywood is wasting so much money on this easily digestible blockbusters, instead of taking in the big bucks on art films and historical dramas.
No... that's exactly the problem. Everyone is trying to tell their own version of a "worthwhile story" and very few are trying to just make entertaining films. Way to too much politics in film-making.
But you know what Hollywood remembers to do? As a studio that made a lot of shitty movies lately, they treated women like pure shit (Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, the list just goes on)!!! Screw Hellywood!!!!
Dad always said, "People would rather have a laugh than learn something new." Even though learning something is such a good feeling. But the kind of good that can't be bottled, smh.
No man reality IS harsh and cruel, and I'm sorry to hear the helping dished out for you and yours. However I'm unconvinced your uncle _needs_ that tripe - he probably simply prefers it. And he's not alone, a lot of these movies are really cool. But the overarching theme of this video still stands: they'd make more amazing movies with emotional risks and realistic dialog (AND the explosions AND killer CGI and movie technology) - but it's too risky financially. It's sad that everything comes down to money in this high stakes mega-economy we've allowed reality to carve out.
What a relief to see that I'm not alone. I've started watching Italian, Chinese, French and many other non Hollywood movies and it's a breath of fresh air.
if your lookingin to films outside of the hollywood yolk,i recommend some japanese classics like Godzilla(1954) or attack on titan if your in to anime.
So true. I watch way more foreign language film than films in english. I especially love French and South Korean films. Very real, no happily ever after ending. Gritty and well scripted. I'd say 85% of films that I watch are not in english.
So I’m a couple years late on this comment, but.. You nailed it 1000000%. Absolutely spot on analysis! Movies these days are tripe for all the reasons you mentioned. 😮
@@JimmyTulip1 they still line up because the vast majority of the human race has the intellect of a tissue after someone ejaculated in it. They actually are not disappointed after they visited the cinemas and believe that this crap is good cinema.
This makes total sense. For about a decade I have stopped watching movies and started watching documentaries. Eventually I ran out of decent, honest documentaries….especially since crap like the History Channel’s documentaries like the one about “Are Mermaids Real”, “Ancient Aliens” and other ridiculous stuff like that. Now I have found RUclips and things like this. Thank you!
I love Marvel movies, but I can see how they aren't incredibly deep, however fun they are. It is nice that we will get amazing movies now and again, even if it's only a handful per year. Knives Out was a recent favorite of mine.
I always catch myself having very much hatred towards marvel movies but they aren’t really that bad. My problem is rather that Marvel movies release so often it’s like ur brain is getting hammered with it same with music. I am just so frustrated that everyone these days basically gets flooded with less I’d say more artistic movies or at least more old fashioned movies and more movies for consumerism. I feel like in an age of Internet and Streaming Art should get way more diverse but instead it’s more getting stuffed into this machine to make money and satisfy the lowest needs of every human
Comparing Marvel movies to amusement parks is appropriate...sometimes, I just want to be entertained and have fun, and not be required to think very much. And I don't think that there's anything wrong with a movie being made simply to be entertaining. The Marvel movies are well made, well written (for the most part), and have great casts. I love them, and don't feel ashamed of loving them. Having said that, sometimes, I want something different from a movie, and will seek out a less popular, smaller movie that relies completely on a great script and great acting. No special effects, no CGI, no 3D. Personally, I think there's room for both kinds of movies...I just wish that studios promoted their smaller movies like they did their blockbusters. In fact, the blockbusters basically sell themselves just by existing, it's the smaller movies that need the promotion.
I see what u mean but if everyone were dedicated to it all and knew nearly all that happened and the connections from the start to the end then it gets a bit deeper. Extraction was one of my recent favs btw and The 100 is pretty good for most of the seasons
“The Lighthouse” (2019), “Bladerunner 2049”, “Joker”, “Parasites”, “There will be blood”, “Biutiful” are giving me hope for a brighter future. Directors of this movies are masters!
2 years later, and this video is truer than ever. Last year, my buddies DRAGGED me to see "Fast and Furious 9"....and I promptly took a 2 hour nap. "What'd you think of the movie?" "You mean the 2-hour long commercial?"
@Leandro Aude True. The problem is they used to use some of the profits from blockbusters to fund more risky films. Now they want everything to be a big money maker and are unwilling to take chances.
I can 100% see why you would think that, one of the first things they teach you in entertainment when you work behind the scenes is to “make it look easy“ and I think that may have backfired… They really are not made on an assembly line even if it looks that way. If you look at something like Family Guy it takes a year to get on the air, avengers took years and thousands of jobs and a great deal of dedication. Guardians of the galaxy was made and it was not expected to do as well as it did but it was made as a passion project and the gentleman that fought for it Did so because it was his favorite comic... Not all movies may be great But someone believed in them and someone risked money on them... Look what went into making starship troopers, it’s not about people always loving it or getting it, it’s about someone believing in it and sometimes that’s a disaster and sometimes it’s a hit.
Haven't seen it. The idea sounds interesting but I've heard it didn't turn out to well from some people you would think would love movies like that. I see a clip and I have to say.... desterbing!
The way he lists movies at 1:48 is such a cheap way to make it seem like movies have only gone downhill. By listing classics like The Godfather or Citizen Kane, films that are generally considered masterpieces by almost everyone, and then listing a bunch of modern movies like Cats and the fucking Emoji movie, which are considered garbage by almost everyone, he's cherrypicking. What about Parasite, The Lighthouse, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Jojo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and so many other amazing films that came out on 2019 alone? It's ridiculous. Great cinema isn't going anywhere, there have always been both great and terrible films. The problem that Scorsese is expressing is that while there are still many great movies, big franchises like Marvel, Star Wars and such, are dominating the box office, making it harder for new filmmakers to make it big in the industry, and smaller productions to succeed. That's not to say that these kinds of "theme park" movies are bad, he even called them a new art form. They just aren't for him, and he wants there to be a better balance of mainstream entertainment and what he considers to be cinema.
I remember in the 70's my dad told me that a movie with a lot of cussing was because the writer couldn't think of anything to say and a sex scene was because they couldn't come up with anything to do...and if you look back at movies like "Casablanca" and "Wuthering Heights" etc. that are love stories done without a sex scene; Heathcliff got it across he was an a hole without saying a single cuss...and gradually that changed and we thought we were so progressive, look, we can cuss on screen; look, we can have sex on screen and it's part of the story! Really? This general reliance on distractions is part of why we embrace the mediocre in movies now.
The only movie with a sex scene that actually had meaning to it and was integral to the overall plot was Terminator 1, yes! That's an action, Sci fi, horror film
Very true I agree with this. I feel like there is too much normalization of sex as the main romantic element in certain movies and less depth to the romance element.
so does french new wave not exist now? or do you have no idea what you're talking about. There are plenty of great movies pre 70s with sex scenes: "Vivre sa Vie"(Jean Luc Godard), "blow-up"(Michelangelo Antonioni), "Persona"(Ingmar Bergman), "Onibaba"(Kaneto Shindo), "Rosemary's baby"(Roman Polanski), and I could name like fifteen more off the top of my head but I won't belabor the point
You are right. Sex and obscenities get the point across, but in a shallow and lazy way -- and not just in movies. It's like that in books, too, and everyday life. Nobody can speak articulately anymore, they just resort to F this and F that. I'm not saying obscenities should Never be used, but they lose their intensity when overused this way. It's like using an exclamation mark at the end of every sentence, or a comma after every word.
@@Chrisoutwright You need to balance both. Caring only about money creates assembly line cookie cutter stuff designed to make the most money at the least risk. Not caring about money at all allows creators to go off the rails into stuff that is either a disorganized mess, a pretentious vanity project, whiny political/social virtue signalling or some combination of all of the above. I think a major issue is movies have now divided the "art" side from the "money" side completely. There was always a divide going back to silent films but never this extreme a one.
More like when everything corporatized or monopolized. Hard to believe there was once the "Big 8 Studios" in Hollywood, not including Republic and smaller studios. Now there's just 5.
Loved this one. Great job. I saw wick 4 with a dude who is into marvel and he kept ragging on the fakeness and “bad acting.” Besides the hypocrisy of fakeness at Wick but not marvel comments…. Ppl have No sense of the art form, the various art forms of different genres… blah blah… anyway I dream of days when excellent movies come back to the box office. Not many reasons to go nowadays.
I agreed with him at the time and still do! And what is really sad is, the studios have storage units full of boxes of prospective scripts and screen plays that they can choose from and they don’t
Last 10 years movies in one line: A normal person do normal stuff and have to get / go / do something. 244 kills, 18 cars and 4867 explosions later, arrives!
@@jgsh8062 A lot of movies are considered great, or else would Hollywood not earn a cent. But is it due to them "training" the audience to like worse and worse movies? I have not seen that movie, but could you try to tell what it's about, what are the story, if you remove all violence, tough speak and other action scenes?
To be honest, these days I'm watching foreign language films and TV shows as the stuff produced in far flung places like South Korea is often much better than Hollywood. Indeed, some of the South Korean dramas on Netflix like It's Okay not to be Okay, while 14 hours long and subtitled in English, are far more watchable than what's produced in the UK or the USA.
Movies aren't about artistic value anymore, they're about monetary value. You only produce movies that will most likely generate revenue. They're adapting to the eastern market, China in particular, as well. Producing experimental movies isn't profitable for the big players in the industry. Indie movies are easily catching up to early 00' and very early 10' standards in visual and auditory quality. There is hope after all- simply not for the movie theatres.
And this is why I'm slowly giving up on films in general, especially the newest ones. Its such a shame that most movies nowadays simply aren't as good as they once were back then
Indeed, I've gone back to reading for the most part. All of those "pitch meeting" shorts really highlight exactly WHY those movies they're spoofing are so bad, the plots are non sensical, if they exist at all.
Main reason: Movies aren’t made to entertain anymore, just a tool to beat WOKE politics into our heads!! People want to see movies to get AWAY from all that crap! Besides, we have to get permission from China before a movie gets released!! #Hollywoodsucksballs
When Russian swimmer Alex Popov was asked who his favourite Hollywood hero was, at Atlanta in 1996, he answered that what they do in movies is make believe, what I do is real, I should be their hero.
There are still a lot of talented film makers currently making movies: Dennis Villeneuve Coen Brothers Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Christopher Nolan (somewhat) Guillermo del Toro Tarantino The problem is all these artists take their time when creating new work, whereas marvel movies are rapidly completed via assembly line.
I give disney credit. Thanks to their failures i do not hate attack of the clones near as much as i did in 2006. Disneys bad choices have made lucas bad choices seem trivial. Solo was disneys best attempt but its still riddled with flaws but atleast it was worth the watch unlike their other disappointments
Solo was overshadowed in his own movie by the generic “Bad Ass Female Character”. I mean I could be wrong but I felt like he was the side kick in his own movie. She solves all his problems even defeating his final rival while he gets thrown around the room. Idk I just felt like the movie wasn’t even focused on his Character. And they had already done the Bad Ass Female Character while The Force Awakens and Rogue One. Felt very meth to me could have been awesome!
@@samsam828 It was a decent heist film, dressed up in Jedi robes. I think it's biggest flaw was that Han was the Han we knew from the start. He didn't BECOME the Han we knew. That's why he felt like a sidekick, as he lacked much in the way of character development.
One of the best of yours bro... it's true . 20 years ago I had my English dictionary beside me whenever I watched a movie. Cos to understand the movie and thanks to them learned a lot. But today you don't need a dictionary and for some (MCU) don't need ears. Making the whole world dumb.
I wish Marvel movies made new original characters then just take old characters from comics because it would make it more interested, unique and refreshing
Being surprised by a conclusion literally means nothing to me I often watch & read abt a film in great detail before I ever c it ... I care more abt the way we reach that conclusion & how it is delivered
An exceptionally insightful essay. You were uncannily accurate about the financial dynamics of movie-making. Backers are often entities flush enough to bet the equivalent of playing a single number on a roulette wheel, but they still want to make money.
& its much more easily relatable for older audiences to see live action on screen & also Its just a lot of fun & something I always wanted & am so glad they’ve been finally doing it
@@ExodusM30 it's not bad if they plan on retelling a story. Especially if it's from another angle. I really enjoyed Maleficent and the Huntsman. Then came along movies like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and the worst one of the bunch The Lion King. These held nothing new. And they could not capture the essence of their animated counterparts. They all just felt like easy cash grabs.
I remember someone explaining how the new trilogy of StarWars movies uses the exact same plot as the original, just switching up the names and adding a progressive narrative for extra insulation.
Except that most of the live action remakes suck, mainly because the only originality in them is the bits of "wokeness". This is otherwise known as factually incorrect statements that serve no other function but to make idiots feel better about themselves.
Today’s film industry can’t make stories come alive without special effects, loud noise, a music score or brand placements. That’s very primitive, compared to the past.
Meanwhile there is 12 Angry Men made in 1957 with literally only filming a room with 12 guys for 90 minutes in black and white and still one of my favourites of all time
This is because often, indie films that take inspiration from great directors and films of the past don’t know how to actually be good. They’re often pretentious, boring, and ingenuine.
yeah, exactly. imagine if the wizard of oz, its a wonderful life, or some like it hot had been pitched today, they either wouldn't be made, or would be completely adulterated to fit modern trends, and its why when they try remaking those films or stories they fail, like when they tried making Bewitched into a film
@@nahom1318 The best movies of 2020 are mostly postponed until 2021. It's really not fair to even count this year, when we're probably looking at WIll Smith and Jim Carrey getting Oscar nods because theirs are the only films that performed well enough in the box offices.
@@kinyutaka okay.. 2019 then.. or 18.. compare that years best movie to the best movies of 20 years earlier (but then again its not fair to compare 99 to any year i suppose.. i mean eyes wide shut, the matrix, fight club... Etc)
Yeah, but I'd think there was a lot less dross in the past because of costs. I do know that there are much, much fewer great films now. If you pull up oscar lists from the 90s there are movies there that people still talk about and watch, where really great movies are extremely rare nowadays. On plenty of years there would be more great movies in a single year than there have been in the past 5 years+ nowadays.
I love the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but I really hate the ending where Quill sings and dances to distract Ronan. It was such a serious moment. Groot sacrificed himself to save his friends, thousands of soldiers have died, city devastated, and Quill breaks out in song and dance...
Bathos, or as we normies call it - "comedic relief"... This really hit home in explaining why I love older movies, like Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut or Scarface. The mood is very realistic, no bullshitting, no untimely jokes. Pure art!
@@panicked8676 Agreed, A Clockwork Orange is raw genius. There's humour but it's not there to comfort the viewer or to dilute the action, that's the big issue with Marvel and Disney's Star Wars. Films today feel very soft, afraid of effecting viewers, this goes for every genre.
Same with TV. Since 2017 we've had reboots of Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Saved By The Bell, Will & Grace, Gossip Girl, iCarly, Roseanne, Punky Brewster, That's So Raven, Boy Meets World, Party of Five, Murphy Brown, Full House, and Dynasty, to name a few.
I watch RUclips and don’t watch tv or movies at all. And I turn 43 in a few days. So it’s not just young people. Movies, tv shows and music today is trash.
yeah I'm similar, I'm 50 now, haven't turned on my TV for about 20 years now, seriously, all the public TV is just absolute crap, I like sci fi, action drama etc, but, man, it is getting increasingly harder to find decent material to watch. Feminism ruined Dr Who, for example, the WORST director and female lead combo have turned an institution into nothing more than shallow mindless crap, just like a few other movie franchises out there that have been hijacked and re hashed with female casts...total and utter shyte.
psycronizer Feminism has ruined everything. Including the feminists. They’re miserable....hope all their cats eat them after they die of loneliness. 😎😂🤣
Brazilian Goddess Thanks but I’m doing just fine in the female department. And I only watch documentaries or RUclips honestly. It’s the entire 3rd feminisms movement. That’s, a bunch of angry people. Just quit sticking your noses in everyone’s shit is all. You don’t see us trying to get in on book clubs and women’s television like, there aren’t enough positive male parts in Oxygen or Lifetime Movies? 😂 All the guys in those are rapists and woman beaters. But we don’t care. Watch your weird dramas ladies. 🤷🏻♂️ And I love women. Just not angry, nosy, females that don’t really want equality. They want everything except the yucky stuff. Then it’s all on men. 🤦🏻♂️ Uhhhhh I’ve walked out of 2 dates out of 9 in the last 3 months. They started all that...”I expect you too, and any man of mine will,” and I got up and walked out. Left them both with the check too. Lmao The other ladies were cool I guess. Still seeing one of them. Anyway, why can’t all you feminists be as reasonable as you are??? 🤷🏻♂️ You have a great day too.
@@RUclipsareCommis Good for you bro, me ? I've given up, but I'm in no way worried or the lesser for it. I am actually quite content to live by myself and be my own boss, I answer to no one, free as a bee. Wow, they said that to you ?, I expect you to..any man of mine etc, dodged a few bullets there for sure !
This is why I've found myself becoming more interested in independent films, they tend (in my view) to have more unique concepts and ideas than the mainstream crap being churned out and the constant remakes.
It's the same as the video game industry. Only the indie developers take risks to realize more genuine visions that may never be popular, but the will be adored by the few and not easily forgotten.
In the deepest trenches of WW1, troops were 3 weeks trapped there fighting. I bet they were telling jokes to each other just to stay sane. Telling jokes in dark times isn't the problem. But 30 minutes later when their enemies enter right into their trenches to invade, you bet they aren't telling jokes anymore. It was life and death. It just has to happen naturally.
In a horror movie, having moments of comedy can be highly effective, because it brings down the tension a bit and allows for a new build-up, but you should never, ever, try humour during a dark scene.
This is why I've started to incorporate anime into my watch lists. The good ones tend to go for more creative ideas with overarching themes that teach you a lesson. They also know how to seperate humor from serious scenes and almost never interject political agendas into their stories.
@@archockencanto1645 What are you interested in? Action/Fantasy, Romance/Slice of Life, Scifi, Darker Grittier stuff, Philosophical/Existential stuff, light hearted stuff?
@@Justjustinp Slight preference for philosophical/existential. And, NO romance and slice of life. Even a bit of that stuff just ruins the story most times.
@@archockencanto1645 Watch Monster, Death Parade, Ergo Proxy, Psycho-Pass, Cowboy Bebop, and possibly Evangelion (I haven't watched NGE but I hear it's good).
@starkravingnormal You just listed so many of my favorite movies. Anything you listed I either love or like. Finally a rational person in this comment section
I was a big fan of TV’s The Walking Dead. I really hoped the team behind the longest-form zombie story in the world would pull out all the stops for the final episode. What, instead, did we get? An hour of promotion & set-ups for the multiple spinoff series soon to follow their twisted, rotting progenitor. The entire final episode was just advertising. What a wasted opportunity. What a slap in the face for all loyal fans. What a crock.
Furthermore, movie studios these days are afraid to use questionable controversial topics in their movies, such as racism, discrimination towards different people etc.They tend to forget that the movie ISN'T real life. It's a whole different universe where movie producers can decide what is going on. Studios should take the risk if the movie flops in box office and critics beats the whole movie. Who knows if a really controversial movie starts something new like a movement.
Isn't it beautiful? The same woke shit they have been trumpeting is the gut punch that makes me and many others not want to watch their flakey woke bullshit.
It's not that they're afraid, they along with with their other non-hollwood media influence what's popular and acceptable in culture so they don't have to be afraid of anything. If you haven't noticed, racism and discrimination are considered fine in movies as long as it's towards whites.
Memento Mori So? Point still stands, just because a movie has levity, it doesn’t make it bad, similarly to how a movie being serious doesn’t make it good.
Alexander Angelus No the dark knight trilogy isnt superhero movies. It was a character from superhero comics but the movies is much, much darker and more realistic than any other. No character is even “super” with powers which is a given for superhero movies
I chuckled when you mention Syd Field, I read his book on screenwriting, that's what he espouses. I have friend here in Los Angeles who wanted to be a screenwriter. He said he couldn't get a studio to take his script seriously. He said "they only want crap." My response was "then write crap."
Luckily theres still good music being made, it just doesnt get the recognition it deserves. With movies its really hard for somebody with a good story to put it to film
It's extremely aggravating how people have the audacity to try and shame people for their opinions. As far as movies go, I only find myself enjoying Indy movies.
is it shaming or is it simply stating the reason for a conflicting opinion, also i have no idea which direction your statement is going, are you aggravated by this video for shaming peoples opinions for liking new movies? because immediately afterwards you state that you also dont like them?
In my opinion modern movies are just a rehash of popular themes that make money along with political correctness and pandering. It isn’t about good stories, engaging characters, or realism. Just what makes a person of average intelligence satisfied.
I usually agree with you but movies are subjective. I felt emotional danger when thano got gauntlet back I don't even watch movies anymore tho most of them are predictable
One piece of evidence is how people are talking/discussing about the post-credit scenes immediately after watching a Marvel movie. We instantly talk about what is coming next instead of the movie we just watched.
yeah no one talked about what might be coming next after watching alien back in 1979, no one thought there would be a sequel even though it was a good movie. now when you see a good movie you like you expect a sequel and you talk about it. why would you talk about what you all just watched when you are anticipating what may be coming next? i talked about wow, the movie, at the end (did you see the merlocs? and the like) and was really looking forward to a sequel (talked about that too), very disappointed that there isn't one coming :(
Do you mean every movie that's made .because of course filmakers and studios want their film to make money but a filmaker who cares about cinema cares alot more about the artistic side of their work then juat making a quick buck.
There are some legitimate filmmakers who are driven by actual talent and passion. The problem is that they have to go through a studio to get anything made.
Something my writing professor always said to ask yourself while watching or reading something is “what is the meaning of this, or what’s the point?” If you can’t answer or you have multiple different answers, chances are it’s objectively not that good of a movie/ book/ show.
The guy who made joker said the only way to get an actual film made in today’s climate was to dress it up as a superhero film to fool the producers
True. Joker was amazing, but the thin ties desperately connecting it to "the universe" were blatantly obvious and subtracted from the film.
Interesting. I liked Joker but I feel like I was less critical because it was a Joker movie. Better yet, I feel as if I liked it because it was based on Joker. Without its tie to DC, it's not bad, it's even rather good especially in the current cinematic climate, but it is definitely not great. At least to me.
Nice joke
But Logan is better and it's the best in superhero genre
Lol
Too bad he couldn't make a good movie.
One other problem is that Hollywood keep (for whatever reason) making remakes of genuinely good movies. I personally think it would make more sense to remake "bad" or mediocre movies with a genuinely good plot.
Yes leave the good original movies alone and remake something that actually needs a remake.
I feel the same way when a band releases a remix of one of their best songs. It's always worse than the original because there's not a lot of room to improve. They should remix the songs that didn't work the first time.
(There are many reasons this would never actually happen...)
EXCELLENT POINT!
I remember the times when Americans decided to remake every decent Japanese horror there was. The reason was, I kid you not, that nobody wants to read subtitles.
Agree!!
Its like Ricky Gervais said : The best directors and actors all moved along to Netflix and FX (In his Infamous tirade at the Emmy awards) Its true. The Hollywood monolith is on the way down
Bro ,I really hope so ,Cuz I'm tired of their woke BS .
Them moving to Netflix and FX doesn't change the underlining problem though....
Can't happen soon enough for me.
Netflix has its own woke bullshit issues.
Yeah. This is way more about the death of movie theaters than about the movie industry itself. Theaters are dead. They ARE theme park rides now. But at the same time, we have many other ways of enjoying movies now and ones that can risk failure even more since it doesn't rely on opening nights anymore etc. It's just adapting, like the music industry had to when cds died. It's so fucking stupid to compare Batman v Superman with Taxi Driver, I'm sorry, but it is.
I think that this is why foreign cinema has become so popular, why parasite was such a breath of fresh air of creativity and storytelling in its message.
Can't stand most movies. But I tend to not tell people in my life that anymore. It always ends up with them convinced it's their life purpose to change my mind.
I'll never understand why they need to do this! LOL
Yep, just nod and say very little. Hopefully the conversation will change to something else.
I'm tired of the liberal agenda , pushing weakness and political correctness .
@@tomwebber4015 sir, do you by any chance knaow who candice is?
Hollywood only cares about linings it's own pockets. Like it's not a accident that theres no new blood creating movies. A 200 IQ entertainment genius is a threat to their money, and anyone with potential to evolve their creative processes is never given a chance. You follow their rules or basically get blacklisted and can't even get a job in the industry. They think the public is to stupid to notice the motivation behind something greatly affects quality. The difference between a greedy 1 dimensional dumbass and someone who takes pride in their work and goes above and beyond, is insane though!
This happens with RUclips too I’m glad you put out some quality content and not garbage for the sake of views bro thank you.
Old youtube had trash videos and alot of it was really bad. RUclips today has some amazing creators if your willing to look. Anyone remember Freddie or whatever his name was that was the biggest youtube channel for along time and oh god it was bad.
@@Zimmerh90 agree for exam0le the armchair historian and Time ghost are both "modern" and amazing channels better thab that childish pewdipie trash for example.
Agreed completely. Thank you
Happens in music all the time. Will there ever be another Bowie??
@@nathaneverson3262 no never speccially with trap the worst thing to ever happen to music.
The best writing advice I ever got was "If you want to preach become a priest, if you aren't willing to write a convincing arguement for the other side you're just a propagandists, and people can watch the news for that." This was before social media was mainstream.
Pretty stupid quote.
I kinda half agree with this, it’s ok to have positive messages in films, any kind of bias though could be considered propagandist if you look hard enough
"Yes, no, maybe."
-the responses so far
Thank you for sharing! I appreciate learning this advice.
Nah, people who whined about movies being preachy tend to push for consumerist schlock. If anything the movies they complain about being preachy just have messages they don't like, hence they get put down. They would love to lap up movies with messages they agree with.
Today's world is a buffet of confirmation bias, take your pick to satisfy your feeling of being right!
The way it angered Disney tells me Scorsese is right. I felt the same. The impact on old movies from the 60ies and 70ies lasts until today. Modern movies simply vanish from our minds a few month later..
Could be, or it could be from your perspective it's like that because when you saw the movies who were populair during your era of being young made it as a core memory and made your frame of reference. Which kids these days will have theire complete own and would have the same impact on them as this is on you? is it not more nostalgica root cause of this phenomenon ''vanish from your mind a few months later''? it's not new for you
@@Raymondd1516but today’s movies are objectively worse
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 yes, but that’s something else. It’s quality vs popularity/likeableness. It’s like most popular songs are in chords C - G - Am - F , but a real master pieces like Mozart and such aren’t as popular.
@Raymondd1516 but then after watching the whole mcu series, what did it do you other than entertain you for few hours and leave you empty after a week? There is a reason why real cinema is rare as it leaves a decent meaning you can relate to in your life
@@Raymondd1516I was born 2000. I've seen these awful modern films and I literally couldn't tell you anything about them, they are that boring. All I can remember of Avatar for example is tall blue people that have sex with tentacle hairs and something about nature yada yada. I remember in guardians of the galaxy funny man does a funny dance when everyone is about to die or something, and batman shouts a lot about martha while fighting superman cuz he's got dementia or something. Compare that to Avatar: The Last Airbender which, despite being a kids cartoon, isn't afraid to have darker moments and has some really good writing and top quality animation and choreography. If there's no substance, irs forgettable. If it has actual substance and quality, it'll be remembered.
“It’s psychotic. They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional...” - Mr Incredible (The Incredibles)
Wish he finished that quote
@@mr.bootleg646 In the script, the line goes, "But if someone is truly exceptional, they shut him down because they don't want everyone else to feel bad."
@@elijahanderson3288 thanks for that
@@elijahanderson3288 that honestly should of been kept in the movie like that in itself is pure irony-- the whole statement would of made people feel bad if they heard that in a movie theater directed to a simple family/kid night lmao
Because someone who is genuinely exceptional is a threat to the agenda
They suck because Disney practically owns the whole entire entertainment industry.
Edit: These replies have really went down the drain.
@cycl0ps__ Glad you said that bro, I CBA with 10 year olds asking how he commented so early
@cycl0ps__ CAP DAT SHIT!
Facts
@@Difficultfuckhead more like cyclop that shit (:
Correction: Because More than 75% of Hollywood is owned by China.
"Humor sells better than art"
But art is remembered over time.
Why can’t humor be art
Tell that to the great comedy greats of our time, who turned humor into an art form.
Memes
Meme: YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
@@KingKong19100 My man! Nice to see you here!
There is a reason why I prefer older theater or indie movies. You put into words what I didn't realize why I liked old movies so much, now I get it. Thank you!
"Why would we make art, when we could be making MONEY?"
- Studio
Yeah that is accurate
would you choose art over money? let say you want to make something new and true to you, but someone offer you millions of dollars to make something similar to the avengers. would you say no to that?
@@Dave_of_Mordor as an individual
I'd probably take the $ too at least once, but would also want to do my own passion projects regularly (to be fair, individual directors, actors, writers ect. do this). I think that for individuals, the question is a false dichotomy, but I don't really expect a committee of business people to be motivated to make the same decision that an individual artist would make.
@@JazzEKeez that make sense
@@Dave_of_Mordor I'd chose art over money any day
it seems like movies gets worse the most money are put into them.
Like the U.S. education system...
@@Jaxvidstar and the U.S. anything really. really sad that its the case.
That is the truth. "Man from Planet X" (1951) and "The Call of Cthulhu" (2005) had practically zero budgets, but danced cleverly around their limitations. It's not unlike haiku - saying more with less.
Its becuz when u got bigger budget u dont think much bout sets.. but when u got less budget u try to swing around it and gets more creative..
There is a certain creativity that comes through limitations. The director's vision adapts to these limitations and soon, you don't even notice there was any sort of "original vision."
A lot of modern movies basically consist of:
- explosion
- CGI
- mr. fantastic who throw “witty” one liner all the time
- obscenity
- social media hype
A lot of movie lack:
- good story that does not even need visual to captivate
- original storyline
- emotion
- morale story
You forgot memorable soundtrack.
Bad effects and even set can be made up by good acting and writing, bad storyline however can not be made up for with special effects
I think you might have dropped the sex ingredient on your way to posting this.
@Neil Cantorne This increases the motivation of those in charge to dumb down the populace. Not a good thing, is it? Just because you might be someone who's already in the "Must consume product." group, that doesn't become a good thing.
People watch movies to temporarily escape from life's reality. If you insert life's reality into movies, what's the point of watching them?
I've only discovered your channel 1 hour ago and, 3 videos in, I feel I know incredibly more about how the world works than I did an hour ago. I've never felt this way, you blew my mind.
Sad but accurate
When good movies, books, and true works of art are made, we should support them. If we don't, we may loose them forever
I agree in principle but there is a fundamental problem with that - You have to drop a lot of dough and time sifting through the crap in order to find that rare gem. In theory, that's supposed to be a professional critic's function but they are just another corrupt arm of the marketing machine.
So true
I agree with you. *lose
@@ColonelSandersLite why? Some of the greatest gems are free, so why would finding them cost money? If you just want better things to watch in terms of storytelling, then watch anime. Want something intellectual, there's RUclips, brilliant, and skill share. Want something with mind boggling visual aesthetics, just take some psychedelic drugs
The reason I suggest anime, the people that create anime go all out most of the time, from voice acting, to even having custom soundtracks created, and most of those soundtracks or intro songs are amazing, so much so that they get a near cult following and become actual songs. Take Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba for example, the storyline is fantastic, characters are amazing and in depth even down to the villains, and the soundtrack? One of the greatest audible sensations I have heard in a long time.
Just make sure you watch them in sub, not being racist intentionally, but English voice acting is fucking horrible and lazy and rarely even has emotion.
@@thezyreick4289 "watch anime" Thank you for the suggestion but I would rather gouge my own eyes out.
movies are so dull nowadays that I don't even bother pirating them anymore
it was people pirating movies which caused movies to become more boring. You reap what you sow
Nice blame shifting, @@BodyDoubleFilms.
@@adamgray1753 No, no. He's got a point.
Adam Gray he has a point
@@BodyDoubleFilms Ah yes, We got people who dont have money and pirate films so that they can enjoy them and talk with friends about them so that they want to watch the movies.
Now the take away pirating, how will the person without money watch the film and show friends the movie ?
My favorite films from the last year were 1917 and Lighthouse. It seems like the number of artistic and original films being made falls every year.
They are not the norm.
The same problem as in the music industry….no one ever hears about it unless it’s referred by a friend who has actually heard or seen it. It gets totally buried by the media, and most never hear about it!!
Both those films gave me hope for cinema.
The Lighthouse is truly a brilliant film, and this is coming from someone who doesn’t like horror movies that much. While most horror movies made today are horrible, it truly is an exception.
Wendigoon actually has a video on its brilliance ruclips.net/video/7Hdhpuk0dQc/видео.html if you’d like to watch
train to bussain and parasite were amazing, even though i had to use subtitles for both they were 10/10 and came out in the last couple years.
White Tiger was a solid 9/10 imo as well. I think there are still great movies being made, just not in english.
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Movies that have been made by the Coen brothers are literally works of art and are pathos driven with touches of well placed bathos. Absolute masterpieces.
Preach it! Any time Netflix wants to collaborate with my favourite Bros again they are more than welcome.
No Country for Old Men had some dark points that you could easily mistake for comedic on first watch. Brilliant work. That was the peak of 2000s cinema for me.
"In Hollywood, remember kids, it's not important if it's of high quality, only if it makes money" - Mark Hamill.
I love that guy because he is so honest. When he was on the red carpet for Star Wars Premiere ranting about his own movie 😂👍 priceless. „If you think you can go in there to relive your childhood memories, it’s gonna be a huge disappointment for you trust me skip it.“ and hell was he right with that
In capitalist countries
@@NoQuarter1995 First world you mean?
They base a movie's quality off of how much money it makes unfortunately.
@@NoQuarter1995 This isn't capitalism anymore. It's corporatism run by a plutocracy.
Movies now: Good guys vs bad guys and bad guys always lose. Moral? There is none.
Dont be a bad guy, they always lose. How do you not see that moral?
Unfortunately out in real life, its not that simple
@@Bonde7280 well justice maybe late but it will come. Now look at Churchill. He was and mostly in UK still hailed as hero but recently all his bad works come to light. Maybe in future when all of his victims becomes more politically strong on world stage more of it will come. A Bad guy may survive for some time or even life time but his bad work will come to life one day.
@@Bonde7280 the issue with the good guy always winning is that you basically already know how it'll end or you will struggle to relate to the villain because they are big, bad, and scary. I personally prefer morally grey protagonists and antagonists
Good art will always exist. They're just aren't as popular.
Other way around dude. The ”heroes” of today are rarely standing for anything good and true. Just look at how they utterly have destroyed most of the classic hero franchises.
Audience's role in responding to these movies is also very important. This makes me really appreciate the audience of the 70s that went to watch movies and In a way support more movies like godfather, alien, mad max, all the president's men, dog day afternoon, taxi driver and many more. Movies were serious and they were taken seriously. They took risk of being original and audience responded to it. These movies are still remembered today.
It's also possible that a lot of crap of the era has been forgotten. But still I agree with you. In my opinion, the 90's/early 2000's were the golden age. Now we clearly are in the dark ages.
They took the risk of being original and the audience responded to it. I love that :)
Martin Scorsese was on point with his judgement. What he said was actually very obvious. It's the reason why I can't watch movies for many years now. There is almost only trash on the market. People are very mainstream and of course the general population has no understanding of quality input.
Martin Scorsese was not completely on point, honestly. While yes he was right about the future of marvel movies being on the decline but he also said that marvel movies are not "cinema" even tho there marvel movies that are cinema for example Spiderman (Sam Raimi), Captain America The First Avenger, Iron Man, Black Panther, and more. Im not saying that "oh, yeah marvel movies are all peak fiction and cinematic because its that freaking GOOD" but I am saying that not all marvel movies are not just "theme park rides".
They are though. Including your examples.
So glad to hear that other people feel the same way. Films aren't intellectually challenging anymore.
A few are - but most are just vehicles for selling tickets and popcorn.
good thing you didnt live in the late 90's then, when almost 70% of the movies was basically the same movie, with the exact same plot. or the 70's when a "big movie" was just another way of saying "a bible movie".
if you think movies arent intellectually challenging anymore, i really have no idea what to tell you. because you clearly havent watch anything besides marvel movies...
Watch jallikatu ,trance , Kumbalagi nights etc.. films from malayalam industry.. they r the endangered ones
Not every film has to be the greatest piece of art ever made. Sometimes you just come back from work exhausted as hell and just wanna watch guys in silly costumes beat the hell out of each other or a super fast hedgehog for an hour or two. Movies aren’t everybody’s life. Most people (even when they watch “intellectually challenging” movies) don’t think about the film too deeply because (shock and horror) people have LIVES.
You certainly sound like the type to be "intellectually challenged" by old films like 'Showgirls' (1995) and 'They Saved Hitler's Brain' (1968). Stop being a pretentious wank and just accept that every generation has its good and bad films.
Most modern films are once watch films. The classic films you'll watch multiple times, like Green Mile or The Shawshank Redemption.
Nice choice. I love those 2 movies.
*Most modern films are zero watch films.
@@fuguthefish you don't really know they are crap though, apart from production line films, till you watch them. Something like Life of Pi can come out and surprise people. Helps when the film has a good book to follow to be fair.
I saw Shawshank Redemption when I was 8 and it really got into my head because of how much depth the characters had and how connected it felt. I didn’t find another piece of work like it until I watched the Dexter and fell in love with that a year later. The big deal in that is that it is easier to fall in love with with tv shows because they are many hours long. Shawshank redemption does the same thing in just a few hours. I went back and watched it a few months ago and it is still as good as I remembered.
To be fair most old films are once watch films as well.The good stuff stood the test of time and the rest are forgotten.
At the end of the day everyone has their own taste in movies, however I do agree how bad modern movies are because it’s always following the simple rules and always predictable. Nothing Unique or out of the box and story telling’s just getting worse even if the cgi has gotten better...
Nothing unic...
Do you mean nothing unique, or nothing eunuch?
Unique=different from everything else. Eunuch=a man who's had his balls cut off.
I think most horror movies are like this, for example the first woman in black was amazing, but the second one was too generic and terrible
@Honudes Gai that's why I watch anime, so much better than mainstream movies. Sure there's lots of bad anime, but there's also a lot of great ones, and anime isn't held back by the restrictions movies are.
@@thezyreick4289 That is why i watch porn, it's got better quality than modern mov- I'll stop
because of CGI, nothing on the movie screen is impressive anymore.
people just go "nah, that's just CGI", rather than "How in the Hell did they do that?"
I'm always amused by the fact that 90+% of the movies that come out - you can figure out whats going to happen before it even happens. Barely any mysteries or twists in movies today and it all just seems so tiring at times.
Way back when, a musician wrote a song. Now a musician writes a product.
You can still find composers who compose masterpieces. But they are few and far between.
@@trinopoty they just are not respected/marketable by the sheep. Too many brainless assholes who enjoy the awful products we get today.
If you're talking about the pop music industry, then the musician can even get away with not writing much at all. Producers make all the magic happen.
@@Titere05 I wouldn't call it magic. I listen to the radio sometimes and there is so much autotune I find it painful and have to turn it off. It's the equivalent of just living off smoothies and nothing else.
Oh, plenty of us still write songs. You're just not likely to hear them unless they... and _we_ ...are considered "marketable". Thoughty2 did a great vid on this very subject a year or two ago. The music industry caters to it's lowest common denominator. It homogenizes styles until it all sounds the same, purely because that's easier to market to a wider audience. True innovation is rarely welcomed in any popular art. To find those innovators, you have to go underground. Thankfully, we also live in the age of the internet, so going underground is easier than ever.
As a member of the younger generation, I just assumed I don't like action as a genre. But turns out I was just fed up with the soulless 2010s action movies, and the older 90s action movies actually do have (exciting, funny, touching, inspiring, tought-rising) storylines, despite them being action movies.
Also, the budabest hotel was really worth the money!
I thought like most Wes Anderson movies it was boring af
Watch the Raid movies for a taste of awesome 2010s action.
Robocop, Terminator 2, Predator, Blade
@@UntrueAir ppl and their softserved gum drops
Kill bill vol 1 and 2. I know not 100% action but they are from around 2004 2005 if I recall correct and amazing. For good sci-fi I was amazed by the new bladerunner 2049. not full action but I went out of the cinema for the first time after 10 years or so thinking „wow this movie flashed me. I have to think about it, 100% worth my money“. There are still some amazing movies between all the trash but they are hard to find
Corporate greed is ruining almost every type of media nowadays.
Yes
corporate greed is ruining the entire world
The funny thing is, a lot of the push to create mediocre movies would be gone if we would update our copyright laws to remove corporate regulations. As always, government interference is the real problem.
Dont forget the sjws
Yes it is. Take Star Wars, for instance. Political agendas sell, so the story is ripe with them
Bravo, Martin. I have not walked away from an American movie stirred, puzzled, enlightened or otherwise moved in ages. A local theater has an annual Oscar nominee film festival. I spend 10 days in the dark in search of joy, outrage, fear, sadness or any other profound emotion and am not disappointed. It's no wonder foreign films are winning best picture.
Overuse of CGI
Mediocre actors
Lazy writting
Political correctness
Lazy music
Too many franchises
Constant Remakes .
Edit: I recommend you guys watch the movie “ Upgrade”. It’s one of the most underrated films that were overshadowed by Marvel.
And poor adaptations of books
Don't forget that people making films today care more for the physical aspect instead of the philosophy.
I agree with most of those, but I don't think we're amidst any dearth of acting talent. I think a big problem is that our appreciation for art and capacity to understand and interpret challenging ideas and themes has eroded. Audiences are dumber than ever. But audiences can only evolve in positive ways if they start seeing the occasional non-vacuous film.
Alot of independent films go against Rhonda Heston
That's pretty much why I barely watch movies anymore and mostly watch anime cause at least some shows have good storytelling
when I watch these big studio movies these days, it feels like watching a two hour trailer for the next sequel
I enjoyed Logan for this reason. As the last in a long series, there was certainly more freedom to show these characters as people, and not brands. It's a wolverine movie nobody asked for, but the one everyone likes. Spiderman Into the spiderverse was really good. The cell shading, cross hatching, and the minor details like the types of loss that propel Miles to put on the red suit, which were different and culturally relevant to Miles's life. Nailed home by the spider guys from other worlds, obviously with their own tragedies. These movies, sadly, feel like they could have dispensed with the branding and been just as good, but needed it to get butts in seats.
This is becoming more common. Thor Ragnarok is a buddy comedy, kind of, which is taking the serious situation and making it a joke trope work well, as it is an objectively good movie I will re-watch from time to time. Comedy is an artform, and this movie, it's a really weird one, well executed, but without the marvel, Thor, Hulk branding, would it have got people to go? Would people recommend it? Would people have liked it if it were not for the others to compare to?
Logan was objectively good, but not GREAT, but compared to past movies in the franchise, the most seasoned critic would be hard pressed to say it was bad.
that's a good way to put it. I can't even describe how bored I am with the superhero shit.
@@Shlogger yeah, me too. Out of all the Marvel movies I just love The Guardians of The Galaxy. They are all very well developed characters, who doesn't love those idiots, especially the big blue guy, whose thinking is on a completely different level, but the blue guy with an op arrow too.
It's an awesome comedy, especially the second one, they make fun of everything, the 80s arcade was gold (pun intended). Chriss Pratt plays a guy who's just a normal dude who loves pretty women, he's flawed, like the rest of the bunch, but that's what we love him for, that he makes mistakes, like all people, and he isn't a superhero. He dresses normally, without some stupid uniforms, capes and other spandex nonsense. He isn't perfect like Captain Marvel nor Rey from star wars, whose company were just a background without any reason to be there, she's so "awesome" she doesn't need their support, she knows everything and is the best of the best. Star Wars aren't just Jedis, there's a whole fricking universe to explore, that does not involve any Jedis. But no, we got a new, universe logic destroying, plot hole ridden knock off of the old trilogy.
But I digress, the music in the GoTG was superb, and I really enjoy the goofiness of it all, that it's not so serious, maybe it's good exactly because they decided to make a comedy of it (I heard the comics are way more serious, I don't think I could handle that, it'd boring).
All I'm waiting for is The Guardians of The Galaxy 3, though with today's woke ideology, I doubt it will (if they decide to make one) be half as good as the first one, and the second is the best in my book.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise they aren't continuing it, what with all the firing of the original writer and the leftist sick ideology to preach at us through movies how awful we all are.
In fact I stopped a year ago watching anything coming out of Hollywood, especially Netflix, which is red flagged for me after they allowed Cuties on their platform. It's a normalization process of normalizing the abnormal. And I won't watch that, nor will I let my niece.
Idk. Am i the only one who enjoys Marvel, I mean they aren't revolutionary but they have their good ones.
@@belladonnahigh9206 superheroes are so overrated i miss the time when hollywood makes high fantasy films like narnia, lotr, and harry potter
Hollywood has forgotten that what people go tot he movies for is a worthwhile story well told.
Yeah, it's a shame that Hollywood is wasting so much money on this easily digestible blockbusters, instead of taking in the big bucks on art films and historical dramas.
Ghostbusters 2016 gave us that, a worthwhile story well told...
No... that's exactly the problem. Everyone is trying to tell their own version of a "worthwhile story" and very few are trying to just make entertaining films. Way to too much politics in film-making.
@@leecroft1983 ill assume that was sarcastic..
But you know what Hollywood remembers to do?
As a studio that made a lot of shitty movies lately, they treated women like pure shit (Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, the list just goes on)!!!
Screw Hellywood!!!!
I have a crazier idea for you. Like when I was a kid in the 80’s, someone should actually write an ORIGINAL STORY, and invent their own “character.”
Dad always said, "People would rather have a laugh than learn something new." Even though learning something is such a good feeling. But the kind of good that can't be bottled, smh.
No man reality IS harsh and cruel, and I'm sorry to hear the helping dished out for you and yours.
However I'm unconvinced your uncle _needs_ that tripe - he probably simply prefers it. And he's not alone, a lot of these movies are really cool.
But the overarching theme of this video still stands: they'd make more amazing movies with emotional risks and realistic dialog (AND the explosions AND killer CGI and movie technology) - but it's too risky financially. It's sad that everything comes down to money in this high stakes mega-economy we've allowed reality to carve out.
@Raistlin Majere This is exactly how I also explain the rise of mediocrity
Thats why so many international movies are rising too, they might not pump 10 movies a year, but they mostly have something to say.
Most foreign movies are trash.
Yeah, just like soccer is the world’s most popular sport!!
@@Geezer-yf8hv
Soccer is very popular in Europe and South America but outside of that nowhere near as popular.
@@bighands69 its the most popular sport in africa and most of asia.
@@tarik8600
Soccer is nowhere near as popular in Asia or Africa nor is it really that big a market place for soccer.
What a relief to see that I'm not alone. I've started watching Italian, Chinese, French and many other non Hollywood movies and it's a breath of fresh air.
I recommend Indian movies as well, if you miss movies that were just about people and what happens to them jnstead of saving the world or whatever
@@quackingplatypus I love Indian movies too. 💃
if your lookingin to films outside of the hollywood yolk,i recommend some japanese classics like Godzilla(1954) or attack on titan if your in to anime.
So true. I watch way more foreign language film than films in english. I especially love French and South Korean films. Very real, no happily ever after ending. Gritty and well scripted. I'd say 85% of films that I watch are not in english.
So I’m a couple years late on this comment, but.. You nailed it 1000000%. Absolutely spot on analysis! Movies these days are tripe for all the reasons you mentioned. 😮
"Movies must return investment on the first weekend." - because later everybody knows the movie sucks and the dropoff spirals.
Good point.
@@JimmyTulip1 they still line up because the vast majority of the human race has the intellect of a tissue after someone ejaculated in it. They actually are not disappointed after they visited the cinemas and believe that this crap is good cinema.
It's the same with games now too. How many have figured it out and stopped buying in first month (not to mention preorders)?
@@JimmyTulip1 People keep being born, there are simply too many people in the world for this trap to fail...
u r dead wrong, my sister would still go watch
The fact that Hollywood can't tell the difference between a story with a moral and political propaganda doesn't help either...
The fact that thoughty and scorcese can't tell the difference between art and genre is troubling.
@@dalemsilas8425 explain please
@@dalemsilas8425 Please, enlighten us.
@Rittenhouse is a Hero : your name says it all though, I don't expect a person like you to be capable of enjoying anything without getting offended.
This!!!!! Everything is served with a heavy dose of propaganda
This makes total sense. For about a decade I have stopped watching movies and started watching documentaries. Eventually I ran out of decent, honest documentaries….especially since crap like the History Channel’s documentaries like the one about “Are Mermaids Real”, “Ancient Aliens” and other ridiculous stuff like that. Now I have found RUclips and things like this.
Thank you!
I love Marvel movies, but I can see how they aren't incredibly deep, however fun they are. It is nice that we will get amazing movies now and again, even if it's only a handful per year. Knives Out was a recent favorite of mine.
Knives Out was surprising because it wasn’t terrible.
I always catch myself having very much hatred towards marvel movies but they aren’t really that bad. My problem is rather that Marvel movies release so often it’s like ur brain is getting hammered with it same with music. I am just so frustrated that everyone these days basically gets flooded with less I’d say more artistic movies or at least more old fashioned movies and more movies for consumerism. I feel like in an age of Internet and Streaming Art should get way more diverse but instead it’s more getting stuffed into this machine to make money and satisfy the lowest needs of every human
@@gggallin8279 Movies will soon be 90-minute long TikTok compilations, because that’s all the audience expects.
Comparing Marvel movies to amusement parks is appropriate...sometimes, I just want to be entertained and have fun, and not be required to think very much. And I don't think that there's anything wrong with a movie being made simply to be entertaining. The Marvel movies are well made, well written (for the most part), and have great casts. I love them, and don't feel ashamed of loving them.
Having said that, sometimes, I want something different from a movie, and will seek out a less popular, smaller movie that relies completely on a great script and great acting. No special effects, no CGI, no 3D.
Personally, I think there's room for both kinds of movies...I just wish that studios promoted their smaller movies like they did their blockbusters. In fact, the blockbusters basically sell themselves just by existing, it's the smaller movies that need the promotion.
I see what u mean but if everyone were dedicated to it all and knew nearly all that happened and the connections from the start to the end then it gets a bit deeper.
Extraction was one of my recent favs btw and The 100 is pretty good for most of the seasons
I think audience also has to do with this. Marvel movies make billions whereas some good movies just can't get enough screens.
Marvel movies ARE good movies THAT'S WHY they make billlions. Maybe get some logic ;-) Not everything is Transformers.
Not every Marvel movies are good
@@Matt_Mosley1983 What's the difference...every movie is just same. Pewdiepie made a video about this watch that.
@@Matt_Mosley1983 I don't think captain marvel shit deserves over 1 billion dollars. It's all because of stupid audience.
HarindeR SaharaN can u send me the link for the pewdiepies video
“The Lighthouse” (2019), “Bladerunner 2049”, “Joker”, “Parasites”, “There will be blood”, “Biutiful” are giving me hope for a brighter future. Directors of this movies are masters!
Parasite
The platform
Yup
2049 fam!
But half of these are foreign films. And wow.. Biutiful was one of the most depressing things I've even seen, but great nonetheless
Thoughts on “the gentlemen”?
We cant forget the spy kids series, with meaningful lines such as "you think god stays in heaven because he, too, fears what he has created"
Damn from spykids? That's unexpected.
Yes. Spy Kids 2: the island of lost dreams
That’s hilarious that that quote came from Steve Buscemi’s mouth. Damn, good one, mate.
Lol I remember as A Kid those movies seemed so mysterious and Deep I gues I wasn’t wrong
you think god stays in heaven 'cause, he too, fears what he has created*
those two out of place commas really fucked me up, man...
2 years later, and this video is truer than ever. Last year, my buddies DRAGGED me to see "Fast and Furious 9"....and I promptly took a 2 hour nap.
"What'd you think of the movie?"
"You mean the 2-hour long commercial?"
It's the same thing that ruins almost everything: Greed
Sad but true .
You are absolutley right! If people didn't care to much for Money ,the world woud be a much better place.
@Leandro Aude True. The problem is they used to use some of the profits from blockbusters to fund more risky films. Now they want everything to be a big money maker and are unwilling to take chances.
Greed is by far the most destructive sin.
You called?
They're made on an assembly line now that's why.
@Actionbastard That's because the PR department is a major department now due to social media.
I can 100% see why you would think that, one of the first things they teach you in entertainment when you work behind the scenes is to “make it look easy“ and I think that may have backfired… They really are not made on an assembly line even if it looks that way. If you look at something like Family Guy it takes a year to get on the air, avengers took years and thousands of jobs and a great deal of dedication. Guardians of the galaxy was made and it was not expected to do as well as it did but it was made as a passion project and the gentleman that fought for it Did so because it was his favorite comic... Not all movies may be great But someone believed in them and someone risked money on them... Look what went into making starship troopers, it’s not about people always loving it or getting it, it’s about someone believing in it and sometimes that’s a disaster and sometimes it’s a hit.
Kinda the same thing as to why modern pop music sounds the same
@Actionbastard *signaling
@CanadaCommunity Org That's nice and all, but the illuminati has been disbanded for centuries now.
I still can't believe someone made a movie about humanoid cats
dont trust Disney with technology lol
I’m sure Thundercats would work though
@@alexc7857 Disney had nothing to do with the cats movie.
Haven't seen it. The idea sounds interesting but I've heard it didn't turn out to well from some people you would think would love movies like that. I see a clip and I have to say.... desterbing!
Cats is a poor example though considering how hard it flopped.
The way he lists movies at 1:48 is such a cheap way to make it seem like movies have only gone downhill. By listing classics like The Godfather or Citizen Kane, films that are generally considered masterpieces by almost everyone, and then listing a bunch of modern movies like Cats and the fucking Emoji movie, which are considered garbage by almost everyone, he's cherrypicking.
What about Parasite, The Lighthouse, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Jojo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and so many other amazing films that came out on 2019 alone? It's ridiculous.
Great cinema isn't going anywhere, there have always been both great and terrible films. The problem that Scorsese is expressing is that while there are still many great movies, big franchises like Marvel, Star Wars and such, are dominating the box office, making it harder for new filmmakers to make it big in the industry, and smaller productions to succeed. That's not to say that these kinds of "theme park" movies are bad, he even called them a new art form. They just aren't for him, and he wants there to be a better balance of mainstream entertainment and what he considers to be cinema.
Wow what a way to sum up my exact thoughts
Seconded..or thirded present company included
I remember in the 70's my dad told me that a movie with a lot of cussing was because the writer couldn't think of anything to say and a sex scene was because they couldn't come up with anything to do...and if you look back at movies like "Casablanca" and "Wuthering Heights" etc. that are love stories done without a sex scene; Heathcliff got it across he was an a hole without saying a single cuss...and gradually that changed and we thought we were so progressive, look, we can cuss on screen; look, we can have sex on screen and it's part of the story! Really? This general reliance on distractions is part of why we embrace the mediocre in movies now.
The only movie with a sex scene that actually had meaning to it and was integral to the overall plot was Terminator 1, yes! That's an action, Sci fi, horror film
Very true I agree with this. I feel like there is too much normalization of sex as the main romantic element in certain movies and less depth to the romance element.
so does french new wave not exist now? or do you have no idea what you're talking about.
There are plenty of great movies pre 70s with sex scenes: "Vivre sa Vie"(Jean Luc Godard), "blow-up"(Michelangelo Antonioni), "Persona"(Ingmar Bergman), "Onibaba"(Kaneto Shindo), "Rosemary's baby"(Roman Polanski), and I could name like fifteen more off the top of my head but I won't belabor the point
You are right. Sex and obscenities get the point across, but in a shallow and lazy way -- and not just in movies. It's like that in books, too, and everyday life. Nobody can speak articulately anymore, they just resort to F this and F that. I'm not saying obscenities should Never be used, but they lose their intensity when overused this way. It's like using an exclamation mark at the end of every sentence, or a comma after every word.
Your dad sounds like a queef
Peter Gabriel: "There are very few books written by a committee, and for a very good reason." These trite movies are.
The only book I remember ever being written by multiple people is the law LMAO.
Wieland Vandebotermet the Bible
When everything gets commercialized, quality is decreasing...
True, for true art, businees success should be more an afterthought, although business viability can't be discounted too much.
@@Chrisoutwright You need to balance both. Caring only about money creates assembly line cookie cutter stuff designed to make the most money at the least risk. Not caring about money at all allows creators to go off the rails into stuff that is either a disorganized mess, a pretentious vanity project, whiny political/social virtue signalling or some combination of all of the above. I think a major issue is movies have now divided the "art" side from the "money" side completely. There was always a divide going back to silent films but never this extreme a one.
when creativity becomes a fad
More like when everything corporatized or monopolized. Hard to believe there was once the "Big 8 Studios" in Hollywood, not including Republic and smaller studios. Now there's just 5.
@@thunderbird1921 those big soundstage campuses? (campii?) the ones the car chases fly through and come out on the other side covered in movie props?
Loved this one. Great job. I saw wick 4 with a dude who is into marvel and he kept ragging on the fakeness and “bad acting.” Besides the hypocrisy of fakeness at Wick but not marvel comments…. Ppl have No sense of the art form, the various art forms of different genres… blah blah… anyway I dream of days when excellent movies come back to the box office. Not many reasons to go nowadays.
*”Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!”*
-Yogurt
Indeed
May the Schwartz be with you
@@drudown76 Now that's a movie I haven't seen in a long time.
“Yogurt! I hate Yogurt, even with strawberries!” -Lord Helmet
turns out the advertisers and distributors are making all the money now.
I agreed with him at the time and still do! And what is really sad is, the studios have storage units full of boxes of prospective scripts and screen plays that they can choose from and they don’t
There's somethings I don't agree with
@@sonicthehedgehog1606 I guess you are a human being then. Nothing new about that.
Last 10 years movies in one line:
A normal person do normal stuff and have to get / go / do something. 244 kills, 18 cars and 4867 explosions later, arrives!
Arthur Fleck wants to know your location.
Inception was good tho
@@jgsh8062 A lot of movies are considered great, or else would Hollywood not earn a cent. But is it due to them "training" the audience to like worse and worse movies?
I have not seen that movie, but could you try to tell what it's about, what are the story, if you remove all violence, tough speak and other action scenes?
@@friedmule5403 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#Plot critics gave it 87% on rotten tomatoes
To be honest, these days I'm watching foreign language films and TV shows as the stuff produced in far flung places like South Korea is often much better than Hollywood. Indeed, some of the South Korean dramas on Netflix like It's Okay not to be Okay, while 14 hours long and subtitled in English, are far more watchable than what's produced in the UK or the USA.
I miss comedy movies when they where actually funny.
Yeah, but you've got SJW messaging now...that makes it all better, right?
There has been a real lack of comedy movies in general in the past few years.
Word everybody is too scared to make funny controversial jokes anymore, comedies these days are too safe
Prolly cause a movie like snatch would never work today bc of the uber sensitive audience
Sakazuki Watch Jojo Rabbid, it will prove you wrong.
Movies aren't about artistic value anymore, they're about monetary value. You only produce movies that will most likely generate revenue. They're adapting to the eastern market, China in particular, as well. Producing experimental movies isn't profitable for the big players in the industry. Indie movies are easily catching up to early 00' and very early 10' standards in visual and auditory quality.
There is hope after all- simply not for the movie theatres.
And this is why I'm slowly giving up on films in general, especially the newest ones. Its such a shame that most movies nowadays simply aren't as good as they once were back then
Indeed, I've gone back to reading for the most part. All of those "pitch meeting" shorts really highlight exactly WHY those movies they're spoofing are so bad, the plots are non sensical, if they exist at all.
Main reason: Movies aren’t made to entertain anymore, just a tool to beat WOKE politics into our heads!! People want to see movies to get AWAY from all that crap! Besides, we have to get permission from China before a movie gets released!!
#Hollywoodsucksballs
When Russian swimmer Alex Popov was asked who his favourite Hollywood hero was, at Atlanta in 1996, he answered that what they do in movies is make believe, what I do is real, I should be their hero.
I'm so glad to see I'm not the only person that feels this way. I thought I was losing it with age
Omg SAME
Maybe it is our age. Everyone goes bonkers for this crap. I watch and feel empty. I fell asleep at batman v superman. A good flick is a rarity.
There are still a lot of talented film makers currently making movies:
Dennis Villeneuve
Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan (somewhat)
Guillermo del Toro
Tarantino
The problem is all these artists take their time when creating new work, whereas marvel movies are rapidly completed via assembly line.
@@Zytron
Watch the original “Blade Runner” and “Alien”.
I also thought the same, but you aren't alone...the problem is modern hollywood is woke crap now
This is why we need independent movies and studios more than ever. We need to look harder for good movies and see them to help them succeed.
Disney really screwed up Star Wars. I like the fist 6 movies but the one's that follow are crap.
Rogue one was fantastic and solo was good too
I give disney credit. Thanks to their failures i do not hate attack of the clones near as much as i did in 2006. Disneys bad choices have made lucas bad choices seem trivial. Solo was disneys best attempt but its still riddled with flaws but atleast it was worth the watch unlike their other disappointments
Solo was overshadowed in his own movie by the generic “Bad Ass Female Character”. I mean I could be wrong but I felt like he was the side kick in his own movie. She solves all his problems even defeating his final rival while he gets thrown around the room. Idk I just felt like the movie wasn’t even focused on his Character. And they had already done the Bad Ass Female Character while The Force Awakens and Rogue One. Felt very meth to me could have been awesome!
@@samsam828 It was a decent heist film, dressed up in Jedi robes.
I think it's biggest flaw was that Han was the Han we knew from the start. He didn't BECOME the Han we knew. That's why he felt like a sidekick, as he lacked much in the way of character development.
They're meh
One of the best of yours bro... it's true . 20 years ago I had my English dictionary beside me whenever I watched a movie. Cos to understand the movie and thanks to them learned a lot. But today you don't need a dictionary and for some (MCU) don't need ears. Making the whole world dumb.
"Superhero" movies bore the hell out of me too 🤷♀️
And a lot of slow paced "artistic" movies aren't really art but pretentious shit at times.
And a lot of superheroes are just shells of their past actual characters
@@everenjohn Yeah, they have to be "Disneyfied" to get kids in the door. There's not the same degree of censorship in graphic novels as movies.
I wish Marvel movies made new original characters then just take old characters from comics because it would make it more interested, unique and refreshing
@@BrianQuinX Yeah, however that would take creativity and the movie industry seems to void of that these days.
This explains how and why I always know how a movie will end within 10 minutes of watching a movie.... I rarely get surprised
Is that because of this or because they practically show the whole movie in trailers?
I thought i was the only one wth.
Being surprised by a conclusion literally means nothing to me I often watch & read abt a film in great detail before I ever c it ... I care more abt the way we reach that conclusion & how it is delivered
@noxxi knox I saw a movie where she played a 911 operator. That wasn't awful. It was predictable but OK. I didn't puke.
Movies have now morphed into social engineering devices.
you just used a social engineering device to comment that...
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Oy Vey, shut it dowwwn!!!
@@Doorito_ No ones about your style 🤣🤣
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An exceptionally insightful essay. You were uncannily accurate about the financial dynamics of movie-making. Backers are often entities flush enough to bet the equivalent of playing a single number on a roulette wheel, but they still want to make money.
That's why Disney has been churning out a plethora of "live action" remakes. Beloved characters & stories + celebrities = safe and easy money.
& its much more easily relatable for older audiences to see live action on screen & also Its just a lot of fun & something I always wanted & am so glad they’ve been finally doing it
Jonathan Luis It became a big problem when there is a lack for newer movie or work. On the other hand there is occasional gem that come out.
@@ExodusM30 it's not bad if they plan on retelling a story. Especially if it's from another angle. I really enjoyed Maleficent and the Huntsman. Then came along movies like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and the worst one of the bunch The Lion King. These held nothing new. And they could not capture the essence of their animated counterparts. They all just felt like easy cash grabs.
I remember someone explaining how the new trilogy of StarWars movies uses the exact same plot as the original, just switching up the names and adding a progressive narrative for extra insulation.
Except that most of the live action remakes suck, mainly because the only originality in them is the bits of "wokeness". This is otherwise known as factually incorrect statements that serve no other function but to make idiots feel better about themselves.
Today’s film industry can’t make stories come alive without special effects, loud noise, a music score or brand placements. That’s very primitive, compared to the past.
I have a similar problem with comedies and laughtracks.
Meanwhile there is 12 Angry Men made in 1957 with literally only filming a room with 12 guys for 90 minutes in black and white and still one of my favourites of all time
This is because often, indie films that take inspiration from great directors and films of the past don’t know how to actually be good. They’re often pretentious, boring, and ingenuine.
yeah, exactly. imagine if the wizard of oz, its a wonderful life, or some like it hot had been pitched today, they either wouldn't be made, or would be completely adulterated to fit modern trends, and its why when they try remaking those films or stories they fail, like when they tried making Bewitched into a film
brnad placement..well back then they just had the flintstones advertising winston cigarettes...
Let’s be honest - even in cinema’s “golden age” the great movies were few and far between and were separated by an awful lot of dross.
Same with the music industry.
But the difference is 'the best' of 2020 pales in comparison to 'the best' of say the year 2000.
@@nahom1318 The best movies of 2020 are mostly postponed until 2021.
It's really not fair to even count this year, when we're probably looking at WIll Smith and Jim Carrey getting Oscar nods because theirs are the only films that performed well enough in the box offices.
@@kinyutaka okay.. 2019 then.. or 18.. compare that years best movie to the best movies of 20 years earlier (but then again its not fair to compare 99 to any year i suppose.. i mean eyes wide shut, the matrix, fight club... Etc)
Yeah, but I'd think there was a lot less dross in the past because of costs. I do know that there are much, much fewer great films now. If you pull up oscar lists from the 90s there are movies there that people still talk about and watch, where really great movies are extremely rare nowadays. On plenty of years there would be more great movies in a single year than there have been in the past 5 years+ nowadays.
I love the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but I really hate the ending where Quill sings and dances to distract Ronan. It was such a serious moment. Groot sacrificed himself to save his friends, thousands of soldiers have died, city devastated, and Quill breaks out in song and dance...
Bathos, or as we normies call it - "comedic relief"...
This really hit home in explaining why I love older movies, like Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut or Scarface. The mood is very realistic, no bullshitting, no untimely jokes. Pure art!
Clockwork Orange is so special because it treads between dark humor and genuine horror/drama and never lets you get comfortable with either.
"Normies" wrecked Hollywood. Boring tastes mean boring films.
@@panicked8676 Agreed, A Clockwork Orange is raw genius. There's humour but it's not there to comfort the viewer or to dilute the action, that's the big issue with Marvel and Disney's Star Wars. Films today feel very soft, afraid of effecting viewers, this goes for every genre.
"If The movie is so woke why am I falling asleep?" Bill Mayer
@Eroteq Audio Or the viewers brain just can’t comprehend what they are watching
every dad ever
@Censor Tube xD
If you mean Bill Maher, it's probably because of the pot. Or because he's old.
Legend
Right as we transition to “story telling” I get an advertisement for a movie about a talking sex doll.
That might be the most stupid concept for a movie ever
Ever see Jason Lee in Lars and the Real Girl? It was an indie film from around 2010. Probably the only similarity is the sex doll...
And I had a marvel movie ad lol 😂
Im havin literally porn advertisements for an app.
A girl that gets banged in a car wtf yt
Get Ad Blocker. You'll be happier for it.
Same with TV. Since 2017 we've had reboots of Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Saved By The Bell, Will & Grace, Gossip Girl, iCarly, Roseanne, Punky Brewster, That's So Raven, Boy Meets World, Party of Five, Murphy Brown, Full House, and Dynasty, to name a few.
I watch RUclips and don’t watch tv or movies at all.
And I turn 43 in a few days.
So it’s not just young people.
Movies, tv shows and music today is trash.
yeah I'm similar, I'm 50 now, haven't turned on my TV for about 20 years now, seriously, all the public TV is just absolute crap, I like sci fi, action drama etc, but, man, it is getting increasingly harder to find decent material to watch. Feminism ruined Dr Who, for example, the WORST director and female lead combo have turned an institution into nothing more than shallow mindless crap, just like a few other movie franchises out there that have been hijacked and re hashed with female casts...total and utter shyte.
psycronizer
Feminism has ruined everything.
Including the feminists.
They’re miserable....hope all their cats eat them after they die of loneliness. 😎😂🤣
Brazilian Goddess
Thanks but I’m doing just fine in the female department.
And I only watch documentaries or RUclips honestly.
It’s the entire 3rd feminisms movement.
That’s, a bunch of angry people.
Just quit sticking your noses in everyone’s shit is all.
You don’t see us trying to get in on book clubs and women’s television like, there aren’t enough positive male parts in Oxygen or Lifetime Movies? 😂
All the guys in those are rapists and woman beaters. But we don’t care.
Watch your weird dramas ladies. 🤷🏻♂️
And I love women.
Just not angry, nosy, females that don’t really want equality.
They want everything except the yucky stuff.
Then it’s all on men. 🤦🏻♂️
Uhhhhh
I’ve walked out of 2 dates out of 9 in the last 3 months.
They started all that...”I expect you too, and any man of mine will,” and I got up and walked out.
Left them both with the check too. Lmao
The other ladies were cool I guess.
Still seeing one of them.
Anyway, why can’t all you feminists be as reasonable as you are??? 🤷🏻♂️
You have a great day too.
@Brazilian Goddess The Mandalorian, The Expanse are both pretty good, so far. The new Star Trek, don't even get me started...
@@RUclipsareCommis Good for you bro, me ? I've given up, but I'm in no way worried or the lesser for it. I am actually quite content to live by myself and be my own boss, I answer to no one, free as a bee. Wow, they said that to you ?, I expect you to..any man of mine etc, dodged a few bullets there for sure !
I've been watching older movies nowadays as it is so hard to find watchable content as they are predictable, just a car chase, copy of another movie.
This is why I've found myself becoming more interested in independent films, they tend (in my view) to have more unique concepts and ideas than the mainstream crap being churned out and the constant remakes.
It's the same as the video game industry. Only the indie developers take risks to realize more genuine visions that may never be popular, but the will be adored by the few and not easily forgotten.
In the deepest trenches of WW1, troops were 3 weeks trapped there fighting. I bet they were telling jokes to each other just to stay sane. Telling jokes in dark times isn't the problem.
But 30 minutes later when their enemies enter right into their trenches to invade, you bet they aren't telling jokes anymore. It was life and death.
It just has to happen naturally.
In a horror movie, having moments of comedy can be highly effective, because it brings down the tension a bit and allows for a new build-up, but you should never, ever, try humour during a dark scene.
@@cayreet5992 Lol, Tucker&Dale vs evil wd like a word with you :P
This is why I've started to incorporate anime into my watch lists. The good ones tend to go for more creative ideas with overarching themes that teach you a lesson. They also know how to seperate humor from serious scenes and almost never interject political agendas into their stories.
old film did this well..films from the 60's man..and 40's...and 30's..
Mind passing me a list? :)
@@archockencanto1645 What are you interested in? Action/Fantasy, Romance/Slice of Life, Scifi, Darker Grittier stuff, Philosophical/Existential stuff, light hearted stuff?
@@Justjustinp Slight preference for philosophical/existential.
And, NO romance and slice of life. Even a bit of that stuff just ruins the story most times.
@@archockencanto1645 Watch Monster, Death Parade, Ergo Proxy, Psycho-Pass, Cowboy Bebop, and possibly Evangelion (I haven't watched NGE but I hear it's good).
It's sad that almost all of my favourite movies are at least 20 years old.
The ones who aren't are not from Hollywood.
Which movies are they? :)
@starkravingnormal You just listed so many of my favorite movies. Anything you listed I either love or like. Finally a rational person in this comment section
Im gen z and couldnt put my finger on why I like older movies until now
The 70s were the best and that’s before my time.
Because this guy is bullshiting you and you are eating it up big time
@@kostajovanovic3711 what a compelling argument
No you just like older movies
Kosta Jovanovic but they liked older movies before watching this video so what you said makes no sense.
I was a big fan of TV’s The Walking Dead. I really hoped the team behind the longest-form zombie story in the world would pull out all the stops for the final episode. What, instead, did we get? An hour of promotion & set-ups for the multiple spinoff series soon to follow their twisted, rotting progenitor. The entire final episode was just advertising. What a wasted opportunity. What a slap in the face for all loyal fans. What a crock.
Furthermore, movie studios these days are afraid to use questionable controversial topics in their movies, such as racism, discrimination towards different people etc.They tend to forget that the movie ISN'T real life. It's a whole different universe where movie producers can decide what is going on.
Studios should take the risk if the movie flops in box office and critics beats the whole movie. Who knows if a really controversial movie starts something new like a movement.
Isn't it beautiful? The same woke shit they have been trumpeting is the gut punch that makes me and many others not want to watch their flakey woke bullshit.
Money > Art
This is why Tarantino is my favorite lol
It's not that they're afraid, they along with with their other non-hollwood media influence what's popular and acceptable in culture so they don't have to be afraid of anything. If you haven't noticed, racism and discrimination are considered fine in movies as long as it's towards whites.
𖥠 ꧁Æ♱ℍᴲᮄℜᴲⅅ꧂𖥠 please elaborate on how whites are discriminated against
I think Interstellar was the last film I can remember being actually 'blown away' by at the cinema.
Made by a guy who got recognition through superhero movies
Alexander Angelus dark knight trilogy wasn’t cartoony and light hearted like the marvel movies though
Memento Mori So? Point still stands, just because a movie has levity, it doesn’t make it bad, similarly to how a movie being serious doesn’t make it good.
@@YeTism and so was the rest of DC movies until recently and most of them sucked real bad
Alexander Angelus No the dark knight trilogy isnt superhero movies. It was a character from superhero comics but the movies is much, much darker and more realistic than any other. No character is even “super” with powers which is a given for superhero movies
I'm holding out for "OW, My Balls!", the movie. I think it would make a good trilogy.
A trilogy? You mean like Hitler plus another guy?
@@Geezer-yf8hv I think it's the reference for the film "Idiocracy". Hilarious movie!!! I think Elon Musk has what, 6 kids now? I have hope!
@@carok6817 Hitler reportedly only had one ball, plus another guy would make a “trilogy of balls”.
@@carok6817 Can't what for the 6 time academy award winning film "ASS" to come out!
@@EvilMoW 😂😂😂
I chuckled when you mention Syd Field, I read his book on screenwriting, that's what he espouses. I have friend here in Los Angeles who wanted to be a screenwriter. He said he couldn't get a studio to take his script seriously. He said "they only want crap." My response was "then write crap."
This is like the “Modern music” video all over again.
Luckily theres still good music being made, it just doesnt get the recognition it deserves. With movies its really hard for somebody with a good story to put it to film
@@benl8962 Twenty years ago I would agree, but even these days I can't find any.
Rob H what’s your fav genre ?
@@benl8962 right.. But it is right
@Gavin What do you consider good music?
It's extremely aggravating how people have the audacity to try and shame people for their opinions.
As far as movies go, I only find myself enjoying Indy movies.
is it shaming or is it simply stating the reason for a conflicting opinion, also i have no idea which direction your statement is going, are you aggravated by this video for shaming peoples opinions for liking new movies? because immediately afterwards you state that you also dont like them?
@@rbach2 Shhh. He's clearly pissy about something and can't figure it out himself.
They definitely most of the time have a richer story
In my opinion modern movies are just a rehash of popular themes that make money along with political correctness and pandering. It isn’t about good stories, engaging characters, or realism. Just what makes a person of average intelligence satisfied.
It's about selling you an agenda doesn't matter what it is. That's all everything is about now.
That’s the thing too.... society has made being average cool.
below average* since that is the new norm.
I don't even watch tv
I usually agree with you but movies are subjective. I felt emotional danger when thano got gauntlet back I don't even watch movies anymore tho most of them are predictable
A couple of jokes I always think of is Doyle in sling blade throughout the whole movie and the departed when Jack says “he fell funny”
i haven't been to the movies or watched new ones on TV for years.
One piece of evidence is how people are talking/discussing about the post-credit scenes immediately after watching a Marvel movie. We instantly talk about what is coming next instead of the movie we just watched.
Because it’s a ongoing story line we are excited to see how it pans out
yeah no one talked about what might be coming next after watching alien back in 1979, no one thought there would be a sequel even though it was a good movie. now when you see a good movie you like you expect a sequel and you talk about it. why would you talk about what you all just watched when you are anticipating what may be coming next?
i talked about wow, the movie, at the end (did you see the merlocs? and the like) and was really looking forward to a sequel (talked about that too), very disappointed that there isn't one coming :(
I have no problem with post credit scenes but they do not help bad movies.
Essentiallly marvel is the worlds most expensive tv show with very long episodes and so far 3 seasons with a 4th one coming
People saying that Endgame is a money-grab...
Truth is, they all are
Do you mean every movie that's made .because of course filmakers and studios want their film to make money but a filmaker who cares about cinema cares alot more about the artistic side of their work then juat making a quick buck.
A Bored Insomniac spreads some truth
There are some legitimate filmmakers who are driven by actual talent and passion. The problem is that they have to go through a studio to get anything made.
That's the reason you make movies
Don't be sad that it happened,be glad that it's over.
Something my writing professor always said to ask yourself while watching or reading something is “what is the meaning of this, or what’s the point?” If you can’t answer or you have multiple different answers, chances are it’s objectively not that good of a movie/ book/ show.