My _normie_ parents said the other day they can't remember a single good movie in years and have gone back to watching "the classics" and their old DVD collection from when movies were actually good. That's how you know the industry has completely lost the plot. They lost the interest of casual viewers who used to enjoy going to the movies every week.
People don't need modern entertainment since we have 100 years of entertainment to look back on and explore. I hardly watch any new movies or shows. I can count on two fingers how many times I go to the movie theater a year nowadays. I just watch old stuff now. I've been on a 80s and 90s anime kick for a few years now. I discover great series all the time and I don't think I'm going to run out of things to watch any time soon.
Imagine todays teens. Raised on the Rey trilogy, Avatar (the blue people), ghostbusters, and Rings of Power. Imaige how shallow their imaginations are. Imagine how these influences will effect the art that the young generation will create later. Imagine what seeing this standard of media as normal will do to our culture and politics.
Smart ones can separate grain from chaff if they know that grain exist. Don't imagine, help them with a good book (I mean a book from numbers of great authors, not "good book"). If they can grind through all Tolkien / all Glen Cook, they will be fine. Books 500% more important than any serials. Without good books I'll be average glued-to-TV-golem/zombie.
IMO I think Avatar can serve as a decent guide for aspiring Sci-Fi writers who are trying to worldbuild their story, I remember picking up a book when the first film came out about the world of Pandora, the tech the RDA used, etc and being enamored with what I was reading. It is really the only reason why I wasn't bothered by the fact the Hallelujah Mountains were floating because I knew it was via magnetism while my friend never read it and still questioned it until I explained it to him.
Most young people don't even watch modern films, because even they can tell they're trash and have far better alternatives at their disposal anyway. Modern "mainstream" entertainment is so culturally irrelevant it can't even negatively influence the youth.
There's also the problem that much of modern film is based on Millennial and Gen X nostalgia. Gen Z and Alpha don't have any emotional connection to things from the 80s or 90s. They didn't grow up with Ghostbusters or Terminator. They only know Star Wars as bad Disney movies some people pretend to like. The lack of original content has surely turned off at least a couple generations.
Agreed, kids have better things to do. I can't think of a single youngling around me who cares about modern cinema. They have plenty to keep themselves occupied with games, social media and more.
I think this may be the reason why Nick Cage has shifted to more odd films-he knows in the echo chamber of Hollywood where nothing will make cultural impact, his performance in these odd type of films will make a cultural footprint
That and he gets to be choosy on what he works on again now that he's no longer tied down with debt, so the quality stands out a little better against his performances again. Just the last couple of years alone, he's been solid in "Sympathy For The Devil", "Longlegs" and "Dream Scenario", in my opinion, of course. They go beyond watchability for wacky meme Cage, they are interesting in their own rights too.
It’s the celebrities I just cannot stomach anymore, they live lives full of absolute privilege…. But make it their part time job to lecture us about everything, politics, climate change, social justice, morality and everything else they can think of …. But if you shine a little spotlight on them behind closed doors….. at best they are absolute hypocrites or worse, they engage or remain silent about literal atrocities committed by insiders to their cult ! I have so many on my personal boycott list, it’s hard to watch anything new or old now that’s mainstream!
Ironic, because actors were usually frowned upon in society during ancient and medieval times because of their notorious streak of swindling to make a living.
I saw the original Star Wars as a kid in the 70's. To this day, I remember every sight and sound, the smell of the popcorn, and the the stickiness of the floor. Very few movies in last ten years or so leave any real impression on me.
Modern entertainment is failing because they are no longer making entertainment just to entertain, to tell a good story. Modern entertainment is now trying to change people minds on political and ideology ideas through entertainment. People want something to entertain them, distract them from the real world just for a little while, but thats no longer what entertainment is doing.
The worst part is that so many people are looking to Donald Trump as some sort of cultural savior, even though his second presidential term is not going to help redeem our culture. In fact, I believe that most creative types today - including people I know personally - consider Trump to be the modern-day embodiment of both Joseph McCarthy and the Hays Production Code, and are only going to continue to double down on defying him as he grows more popular. Entertainment became more countercultural after Ronald Reagan was elected, and a similar phenomenon is happening today. We all need to remember that, at least in a democratic society, politics and culture are different things, and the president cannot control the culture. We must fix each of those two worlds one at a time, and not necessarily with the same strategies.
100% agree but it's worse than just that. Even if they got away from the messaging, main stream writers are just bad. I've seen a few movies and shows without it and they are still terrible.
Art is always political, but when the story is good and the political themes are subtle or well incorporated into the story, no one is bothered, the real issue, I think, is that the stories are absolute shit nowadays, with no heart, no genuine emotions, no respect for the audience nor the source material in the case of adaptations/remakes/sequels, in fact, they often feel mean spirited and mocking, and the political themes are shoved in your face without a hint of subtlety and then used as a shield against criticism "oh, you don't like my movie with a 'strong female protagonist'? That's because you are a sexist pig!"
I think the bigger issue is just that they make entertainment to make money… you could blame ideology for some of the poor character writing in the _Star Wars_ sequel trilogy, but the driving problem was that they just cranked out the movies as quick as they could, without even having a plot outline or knowing what arcs the characters would have. that, or laziness 🤷🏻♂️
Modern writers are obsessed with trying to look clever by subverting old tropes and winking at the audience. Nothing is sincere anymore. They can't just tell a story with timeless and universal themes that speak to the human condition. Everything has to be some kind of postmodern deconstruction.
It is definitely an all time favorite of mine since I first saw it. That whole movie was woven like an intricate tapestry, with meaning and symbolism all interwoven within the writing, the visuals, the audio and the character arcs, all then coming together at the end to a satisfying conclusion. The comic art style looks odd at first but quickly grows on you and then you notice the attention to detail on split second scenes... Beautiful, you could watch the movie five times and pick up a detail you missed the first four times. It is layer upon layer of detail. The characters had personality beyond the 'stereotype' or role they filled in the movie and dealt with issues as people do, not as characters are 'expected' to. This movie used the subversion of expectation right. E. G. The 'comic relief' character who in one scene actually got serious and helped their friend when they truly needed it. There was no joke made to break the tention of the scene... It feels like it has been years since I last saw movie of this calibre of writing. I never expected that I'd genuinely be excited to see what comes next for this side character from Shrek 2.
It’s a shame when Korea and Japan can deliver such incredible entertainment for a fraction of the cost and fraction of the star power. They are already capturing and entire generation of people while Hollywood is desperately trying to recreate the same old reheated properties many decades later.
@@jamad-y7m That's just it! Think about why you're saying (typing) that. Before episode 8, you'd've probably been ecstatic at the prospect of any more Star Wars! -Yo'ster
What Disney did to Star Wars is unforgivable. It used to be one of my favorite things growing up, now I really couldn’t care less. As soon as Andor Season 2 is over I’m completely done with Star Wars.
The trouble is young people live too much in the bubble of today and don't realize how lame their current entertainment is because they don't check out what's gone before. Wokeness sameness bleakness nothingness. It's like everything these days is created using the same template that requires it to be made in the same way.
And because of the wokeness these people refuse to look at the criticism and instaed they just brush it off with "youre just a hater". And they never improve and keep living in that bubble.
I think it's worse than cosplay, because at least with cosplay you can feel the passion the person has for the character and franchise. Talk to them and they will light up when explaining who they are and what they love about them. But with modern media it's more like those Instagram 304's who dress up as characters because some loser paid them to.
One of the biggest problems is that there is simply too much of everything. Standing out from the endless river of films, TV shows, and streaming platforms is extremely difficult.
Yeah, it doesnt matter if you make an extremely good product, the month the season ends you already have people forgeting it or over analyzing it, its hard to keep momentum when in every instance there is competition, to youtube and instagram for example in different kinds of content, today i see series that are called masterpieces in just three chapters, and people throw under the bus in the third chapter too bcs "it is to slow", everyone has a voice now and that makes really hard to appreciate and distinguish.
Would tend to disagree, Squid Game is part of the cultural zeitgeist and have friends still talking about, though that could be because a second season is dropping real soon now. One of the few genres still pumping out decent movies btw is the horror genre, which amazes me with how actually good a lot of the movies are.
Part of me wants to say Godzilla Minus One may have had at least a little footprint. No one was expecting a human element in a giant stompy monster movie.
I agree! So many people I've watched reactions to "Minus One" said it was a great story that happened to have a monster in it. It's the storytelling that's died out from the world
Godzilla movies have always had a human element but most of the time that part of the movie is pretty mediocre. Minus One pulled off the trick of having both the human element and the monster be equally good.
It's a good thing none of these horrible messages and bizarre, antisocial ideologies promoted by Hollywood are gaining traction among the wider culture.
@Notaripoffbruh oh a RUclips reply guy in 2024. How interesting.... 🕵️♂️ Here he'll pretend he has no idea what's going on in the world and needs you to spell it out for him like he's a grade school student.
@@TheSkepticalPandaFunny how there is always a "define what is woke" or a "what specific thing" posts always appearing when someone says this stuff. It is almost like the clowns want you to answer just so that they can go "nuh uh. That is not what X thing is, it is 'insert something else here' ". A very stupid tactic to derail anyone throwing a spotlight to the problem.
I’m a movie buff, I watch movies all the way back from the silent era to current movies. I have developed a good intuition of movies that I’ll probably like or love, so since we are living in an age in which movies from all over the world and from pretty much the beginning of cinema are relatively easy to get a hold of, current movies need to really pique my interest if they want to compete with the vast amount of great works of movie history. That’s not easy.
@mabusestestament tbr isn't the bad old movies even from like 2000 going to fall into mediocrity oblivion leaving the cool or interesting stuff While now we don't have rime curating
It's a far cry from the 00s, that's for sure. The 00s were probably the last great decade for cultural impact. You had the Prequels, the LOTR trilogy, the Harry Potter films, Elf, Tropic Thunder, Pirates of the Caribbean, Passion of the Christ, nearly every Pixar film, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, V for Vendetta, 300, the emerging superhero genre with the X-Men movies, Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, and of course Ironman. Moving into the 10s really the superhero genre became the overwhelmingly dominant presence in terms of cinematic cultural impact. Both very positive with the MCU and fairly negative with the DCEU. Then, of course, there's Disney Star Wars, which was very impactful but in an immensely negative way. As it is given that younger generations didn't care about Disney Star Wars and older generations prefer it didn't exist, it's very likely that any cultural relevance for Star Wars will end with the Prequels. Aside from that, really, you had Game of Thrones. Although it does seem like people have largely discarded it, I mean HotD isn't exactly a flop, but it's also nowhere near the juggernaut that GoT season 1-4 were. Lastly, the only one I can really think of is Stranger Things, which has definitely made an impact. Of course, the real test will be where it's at 5 years after its last season. Other than that, the only type of impact most things had ranged from slightly to severely negative and were forgotten very quickly, so what impact or influence it had on culture in general was fleeting. When you look at it, the two decades really are one of glaring contrast. The 00s being one of progress while the 10s being one of regress, and it's to point now where we're in a virtual wasteland. Ah well this has happened before and hopefully this wasteland will end soon and giveway to green pastures once more.
The 2000s were also the LAST DECADE where rock/metal were relevant at the mainstream level as well! When TPTB quietly but forcefully forced them out of the mainstream in the early 2010s, pop culture went to shit literally and it has left a hole that has yet to be filled!
@mrconfusion87 Dude, tell me about it. I think a lot of people don't realize how much the digital diffusion has both intentionally and unintentionally isolated people. I mean, when you really think about it starting in the 30s with the lost generation all the way up until the early Millennials, there was so much cross generational transfer of pop culture, largely without any effort due to radio and TV, and movies. I mean, obviously, kids in the 80s weren't listening to Al Jolson, but they knew who the Beatles were, who John Wayne was, that Bela Lagosi played Dracula, etc. I keep seeing these dumb reaction videos like "GenZers hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time," and I think that can't possibly be real, but then I realize, yeah, where would they have heard it before. Prior to the always online generations, people just absorbed this information organically through just living. Now, however, with kids being spoon-fed random, 30-second clips of amateurish nonsense via an algorithm they have no chance to be exposed to any of the past pop culture unless their parents really deliberately expose it to them, which is basically a new type of skill parents have to adopt. I'm sure eventually things will balance out again, but damn it's been nearly 10 years, and it can't continue much longer.
The 1990s are my favorite decade for films. The 00s I would rank right after the 90s. Some films I enjoyed from the 00s: Gladiator, Traffic, Crouching Tiger, Memento, Frailty, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Saw, Minority Report, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, The Dark Knight, Training Day.
@LilannB I was born in the mid 80s, and between the 80s, 90s, and 00s, it's really really hard to pick a favorite decade. The 90s are definitely a contender. The Crow, Blade, Pulp Fiction, Young Guns 2, Clerks, Mallrats, Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Jurassic Park, the Rocketeer, The Big Lebowski, There's Something About Mary, Hook, The Matrix, Dark City. Those are just off the top of my head. I know there's a ton more if I really think about it. One thing's for sure it was a great thirty plus years for pop culture. Movies, music, comics, and, of course, the golden age of video games.
When the creative handlers of a new adaptation of an old IP start said adaptation with a default dismissiveness towards the longstanding substance of the IP, all that is left for the "audience" to do is be dismissive towards the new non adaptation
People still discuss the shining the thing Blade Runner terminator, predator aliens, no one talks about avatar. No one even knows the characters names and yet it’s one of the highest grossing films of all time. The only thing discusses about it is how much money it made.
@kenstrumpf909 tbr I see some people quoting dune succession games of thrones , and I have the high ground from idk what star wars movie , some quote from marvel Tbr depend of the circles you run in , the internet tiktok insta is full of reference Like Winter arc winter is coming was huge this yeat
The same reason so many industries are failing: ESG Scores and the DEI that comes with it. Look at Budweiser, Target, the entire auto industry (except the savvy Japanese).
The problem with modern mainstream entertainment is that it is too safe. Writers are no longer creative nor take risks. That is why I prefer indie comics and shows and movie, as well as fan stories of franchises. They break the mold to be different. It is any wonder folks prefer old school music, TV, movies and games?
@markmunroe-hz8rf creative do create daring stuff.... that don't get green lit because the executives rather have something appealing to the left and the right ? At the same time ? So it feel disingenuous
This is actually been a comfort to me many times recently. So much junk comes out but I know that it will be swiftly forgotten that's most things are and the truly great will continue to persist through the years. Most people have already forgotten many of the great cinematic crimes of the last ten years.
The reason modern entertainment is failing is it doesn't set out to entertain but to lecture and indoctrinate good stories and relatable characters are secondary at best to "The Message". Add in an increasing reliance on AI writing tools - which are naturally very formulaic - and you get something that is very boring anda uninteresting. For me it's gotten to the point that I prefer to sit and read a book or play a game than watch TV or go to see a movie.
I would argue that this is just what they want. Consume product, then get excited for next product. Soul-less, but intentionally so. As long as the plebs keep paying.
Old Star Wars memes: The X is strong with this one, You don't know the power of the dark side, boring conversation anyway, I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further. New Stars Wars memes:
I haven't been to a cinema since before 2016, but I keep discovering and ordering amazing movies from 1950- 1990s. I don't even waste my time with Netflix or any streaming stuff, I watch what I want.
Only those of a certain age will fully understand this, but each decade, from the '20s to the '80s, had a distinct cultural identity that vanished in the early '90s. For me, the past 3 decades has been a shapeless, same-looking block of time with very little cultural change and only political events, wars, disasters, and technology (the internet, etc.) to separate the years instead of the markers of cultural progress. (For example, an obscure movie from the '90s could be released today and more or less pass for a new film.)
If one made an "American Graffiti" today, and set it as far back in the past as that film was when it was made, it would be set in 2013. A "Stand By Me" equivalent would be set in 1998. "Back to the Future" made today would go back in time to 1994.
@@mxmxpr Good observation. Imagine a remake of the "Happy Days" series set in that carefree, nostalgic era of 2013 -- the good old days when life was...er...different?
Yes. Every scene, every line, feels carefully checked to be “unoffensive” Nothing ”offensive” can happen to a character. Imagine “Irreversible” made now
You know how movies from the 80s had such iconic scenes and were so quotable (Star Wars, Terminator, Evil Dead, etc.)? We quote them because they were badass, cold, and just the right amount of snarky. Now we quote movies ironically cuz their dialogue is so awful that we laugh at it.
I think I was watching a Nerdrotic stream when they talked about Disney making a Star Wars and Marvel 24hr channel for Disney+. They wanted it to be second monitor content. That’s the problem, they don’t have the same goal as they used to. They figure no one will really pay attention anyway, it just has to look pretty. Also I take issue with the insult to Ford Escort engines. They try their best.
I am not defending Disney's decision for this but to be fair, there are times "second monitor content" makes what you are doing on your primary monitor better and easier to deal with. At least for me as I enjoy watching old films and history videos and video game analysis stuff on my second monitor. I have done it many times in college when writing papers or doing assignments, and I was even doing it when playing through the story of the latest WoW expansion cause it was that boring to me. I just wanted to say that "second monitor content" is always a bad/brainrot thing, it is just there to provide (Sometimes additional) entertainment to what you are doing.
@ Yeah, I like second monitor content. Most of what I watch on RUclips is like that. I’m not trying to put it down. I’m just saying that Hollywood thinks since people aren’t really watching it intently, it doesn’t matter if it’s good. Star Wars (or anything) should not be made with that attitude.
@@GenralOrder24 Alright then yeah, I agree with you with that kind of context. And it does not surprise me Disney would consider switching to that kind of "content" to give to customers, I read somewhere that Crunchyroll was thinking of switching to anime that had short episodes (4-5 minutes).
You think Hans Zimmer is mid?? Sit down and listen all the way through the Inception and Interstellar soundtracks and tell me with a straight face that his music is mid.
I agree with you-- I think Hans Zimmer has always adapted to what movies want in the current moment, which is why his stuff now seems less memorable, because many scores seems to be minimal/repetitive or synthy/sound effect/rhythmically-driven. I forget he scored Gladiator, The Lion King, The Prince of Egypt, The Last Samurai. Fucking fantastic stuff but the movies were also *better* and required a different type of score. I miss the TYPE of scoring like this, orchestral with melody, rhythm, harmony, clear motifs, when appropriate to a movie. Also I miss real instruments, not just synths. I'm assuming it is too expensive to produce scores this way and the types of movies being made are not suited for them.
@@Sidera17Definitely, he's a professional after all, so sometimes a job is just a job. But even his recent work has some gems! Dunkirk, Sherlock Holmes, Man of Steel, Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Dune...
@@tasamolic Admittedly, I'm not deeply into what I consider "true sci-fi," (I'm a Star Wars girl which is epic fantasy in space, Star Trek and The Expanse, etc, are sci-fi for me lol), so I haven't heard a lot of these newer scores. I've heard parts of the Interstellar score, which seems to have that modern minimalism vibe which really grabs you given the subject matter. There's that additive hint of a Phillip Glass/Arvo Pärt feel to it. It's kind of haunting in an unearthly but also "inorganic"/technological way.
It would be an interesting social experiment to go back in a time machine and abduct Frank Herbert from the early 1960's, then come back and see if Star Wars and much of what followed it even existed.
@@thomriley1036 Please no! Herbert's books were a source of inspiration for people who made the Rouge Trader, which later spawned Warhammer franchise. I need my plastic armies!
Ive been watching a lot of lesser-discussed movies from the 70s-2000s. A lot of them are critically panned and still astound me at how much more competent they are than most movies i see these days. I think its simply because their main focus is telling a story. Theres not all this winking to the audience, just really trying to tell a compelling story
I hardly watch American movies and shows anymore. I increasingly am watching foreign movies and shows, mostly from Asia, that doesn’t stink of DEI, woke BS.
OTOH, you have a movie like "Godzilla Minus One" which, almost a whole year later, fans are *_STILL_* talking about how good it was! (Of course, it wasn't an American movie, which explains a lot...)
In the early to mid 1900's the social strata was - starting with the bottom- lepers, homeless, prostitutes, ethnic gangs, law enforcement (often in the pockets of local politicians), politicians, blacksmiths (and other needed workers), shop keepers, shop and business owners, ultra rich- Teddy Roosevelt's family was horrified of his political aspirations considering politics to be beneath his status. We are merely working on reducing the number of actors and grandly reducing their and their studio's bloated salaries and work opportunities. Many of us see limited value in their craft. They insult customers freely. Who do you think packed the theaters when a new movie was released? The people who aren't there anymore- that's who.
I still recall the feeling of sheer apathy after the first Avatar film and I think back then going to the cinema was still a bit of an occaision. The last time I was as excited walking out of the cinema as I was going in, was all the LOTR trilogy.
@@michalsavatar7 Yep maybe or maybe I just haven't seen a really good film in a long time. But don't let my views jaded and as lacking inner child as they may be keep you awake at night.
You get to a point where the movies/shows are so transparently propagandistic you can’t ignore it. I could ignore leftist pop-culture for 30 years and kind of enjoy their creations, but since that time, I’ve gradually ceased consuming their products to the point where now I don’t consume any of it. Losing me as a consumer is insignificant, but I think the numbers are showing there are millions of others out there just like me.
This is simply because the best of “modern” “entertainment” is derivative, a lame copy and has not a drop of originality, and the worst - Star Trek, Dr Who, The Clowns of Power and the diznee reboot falsely claiming to be Star Wars - are not only derivative but are made with the specific intent of warping bastardizing destroying and replacing the beloved originals. The people making those shows are bitter hate filled losers who are filled with open hatred for both the properties they work on and the true fans of those properties.
I'm currently in film school, and it's packed with people who seem more interested in using films to push a message than in crafting great stories. And what’s the message? The same one already saturating the industry. Programs like ESG and DEI have studios eagerly encouraging this trend. My goal, however, is to focus on storytelling-leaving my personal politics out of it. Movies should be an escape from reality, not a reminder of the filmmaker's agenda. Unfortunately, many filmmakers today have forgotten this, and it's part of why so many movies have lost their charm.
They don't understand the idea of a target audience any more, it's just making a show or movie for "the largest possible audience" or even worse, the audience that reflects the people making the show, very rich old women trying to make sci-fi. There is no imagination in any of it, it's all just taking old stories and trying to make them super woke, like anyone, but the people making it wants this. Streaming services gave us the promise of watching what we wanted, when we wanted, instead what we got was endless new subscriptions with nothing worth watching.
Timeless ... that's the word! Not the every nowadays that sums up little or even nothing. What matters in entertainment is what lasts and outlasts, what is always truth and a fact. Thank you...
There are a handful of great movies in the last few years-Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Godzilla Minus One, Dune: Part Two, etc. Though most modern movies are average AT BEST. I wish we could get awe-inspiring classics again like Back to the Future, The Goonies (my favorite movie), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, the list goes on and on.
"Watching movies when I was a kid was more exciting and sparked my imagination more than the movies do now." Childhood experiences always feel different to adult experiences. "I remember my first several times on a rollercoaster as a 10 year old, but now I'm in my 30s each visit to the amusement park blends into one"
I think even jaded adults can experience wonder and joy of discovery. I'm almost 40 and I can be pretty damn cynical, but I do feel joy when I discover something remarkable. It's rarer than when I was a kid, but it is still possible.
People are waking up to this problem, but I believe it’ll be years until we see a huge shift in our entertainment is created. I don’t necessarily have a problem with fluff, but when thats all we’ve been getting, then it’s considered high art, thats where the issue lies with me.
Genres give you a lot of potential. If you looked at the western, or fantasy film, or science fiction, you could write tens of thousands of pages on what they can do (what element of the human experience or soul their cinematic language is for). If you eliminate subversions for a second, you could just execute a genre film. If you're familiar with south park, there's a scene in one episode where they get in various filmmakers. Eventually, they get in Mel Gibson, who is stark raving mad. However, they make an assessment that everything else aside he knows story structure. By modern standards, that's a high compliment. If you assume Gibson is (only) a moderate talent, his films (passion, apocalypto, hacksaw ridge) probably tower over what a lot of what passes for entertainment. On his day, Gibson is decent and competent. That puts him north of JJ Abrams. Reworking old media means that you're potentially exploring the themes and ideas that animated humans for hundreds of years. Modern cinema might be exploring the ideas that emerged in academia or a HR seminar.
We live in a time that has no cultural memory. We don’t know what it is to collect cultural ideas and values particularly because we are conscious that it will quickly disappear as soon as we scroll
This video meant that I have lived through the Golden Age of great Hollywood movies (born 1975- present time). Wow, it's like a wake for myself but I am still alive. (When did it all ended? 2016? Again?)
Men do not have a problem with strong female characters. I repeat: we do not have a problem with strong female characters. Many of us are dating or married to, the real life embodiment of strong female characters. That is why we were attracted to them. What we want is nuanced characters that we can relate to, and say, "yeah, she is just like my girlfriend and this really reinforces the narrative I saw her live in real life". We want to see reality. And I believe women also want to see this. Don't give me Rue who learns how to master the force in half an hour, and thereby completely defeats the purpose of a female lead. Give us the botanist from Jurassic Park. Attractive, as much for her brain as her face and body. She doesn't talk about being good at her job, she IS good at her job. And we see it in the film. It is saying a lot about an industry when a character from a movie that is more than twenty years old represents women in a better light than films coming out today.
I recently watched "Alita: Battle Angel" for the first time, and I think Alita is the best written strong female character I've seen in a long time. It reminded me that we women can be strong, brave and heroic while at the same time be feminine, caring, nurturing and compassionate.
@@halohalo86 Alita is based on Japanese manga. A man wrote the story and characters. And this is true of all the most iconic female heroine characters, they are written by men. Ripley, Agent Starling, Sarah Connor, Major Kusinage, etc.
"Men do not have a problem with strong female characters. I repeat: we do not have a problem with strong female characters" - who are those we? I, for one, have big problem with "strong female characters", in movies and even more so in life, and I am a man.
I think you made some great points about why modern movies fail to invoke real emotion. The biggest problem I have with modern movies and series (like RoP) is that I don't care about what happens to the characters, because they are just unlikeable. Not only has modern culture on screen lost its soul, but literature and music has as well, in my opinion. Part of the reason why my husband and I started publishing our own fantasy stories is because we were disappointed with modern entertainment. We want entertainment to be fun and we want fantasy to be escapist and immersive. We don't think that good entertainment needs modern identity (or any other form of) politics in them or needs to lecture people in any way. Hollywood actors and directors seem to think artistic skills come with all the divine knowledge to rule the world and we are all just their naive Padawans feeding on their inexhaustable insights. Also, there is an abundance of stuff nowadays. While all the buzz used to come from just a handful of blockbusters in the theatres, now it's just one Netflix show or film after another leaving the assembly line. People rarely watch the same stuff anymore because there is so much out there. I don't see why traditional storytelling and modern technology couldn't make each other stronger. I'm so tired of the mindless CGI hatred and I actually loved the classic trailers with a narrator, that often started off with "In a world". They gave you an impression of the mood and tone of the movie and triggered your curiosity. Modern trailers are loud and usually spoil every single interesting event or line in the movie, which contributes to the actual movie being disappointing. As for music, I think there are still a lot of great soundtracks, but I don't like the modern trends in film scores. While I dont' dislike Hans Zimmer, it's true that some of his more modern scores almost make you forget he created masterpieces like the scores from The Lion King, The Prince of Egypt and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I laughed out loud seeing that poster with "Women Talking: Inspired by True Events". And I truly believe there are creators out there who still want to create original worlds and tell timeless stories. I know I want to.
I haven't gone to a theater since 1992 so they're not getting any of my hard-earned cash. It was just easy money to them and they''re beginning to realize that we're on to them.
I can't help but think when the films this guy extols came out they were considered meaningless drivel compared to the "classic" films of yore...which were probably looked down upon by cultural snobs in *their* day. Reminds me of the "Tom the Dancing Bug" comic page of several years ago announcing (paraphrasing here), "the world was perfect when the person reading this right now was 11 1/2 years old." IIRC, films like the 1st Star Wars or Spielberg's epics were accused of suffocating the "new, thoughtful grown-up Hollywood" of films like Coppola's Godfather films or Apocalypse Now."
I agree with everything in this video with the exception of Hans Zimmer. I think he's awesome and when you listen to Bach and then back to hans zimmer you can see where he gets his inspiration from.
Eh, i think deadpool and wolverine will leave a lasting impression. Already has with the revival of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" in the general zydgeist. And the iconography of Deadpool's red and Wolverines yellow is just too recognizable now.
Most writers of our generation are people who are people who have little to no care for the craft of storytelling. There is something in the sensibilities of our generation that is also a problem. Batman is the 11 most profitable character on the world and It is a character who would never be created today.
1917 was my favorite film of 2020. Actually, I think it was the only film during that year but that is because films coming out do not interest me anymore. But yeah, 1917 should have made bigger impacts than they did, only explanation I can think of why it didn't was because it was a World War I film or it wasn't a superhero film,
1917 is visually stunning, but uneven. The script should've been better thought-out, some scenes are unnecessary contributing to an overlong movie and of course there's wokey poison. The slippage of modern standards is very evident with this one.
Bloody marvelous and bang on the money as usual. Can I just say the way you talked about the process of writing quite recently on a Drinker, or Nerdrotic thing was absolutely inspiring and mesmerising by turns. It displayed a love of craft so deep I felt it should have been extolled from the comfort of a slightly beaten up Parker Knowles, by a crackling fire by someone visibly older than yourself.
It's exactly what I feel about modern culture - it is but a commodification of art, trying to search for a perfect product. And when you try to make a film for everyone, you make a film for no-one.
I keep trying to think of the last film that REALLY stuck with me and i keep coming back to "Children Of Men", that almost 20 years ago. I have never really liked kids and i have certainly never wanted kids, but i absolutely FEEL the despair of that world and the hopelessness of children not being born anymore and the end of humanity. and when she reveals her stomach to him my eyes well up and i FEEL his resolve. NOTHING else matters now, i must protect her and get her to safety and nothing is going to stop me. my life now has only one meaning, to ensure the safety of that child. the future of ALL humanity. HOPE. i feel hope.
In any of these universes, Star Wars, Star Trek, or Tolkien, they could have created new characters and written stories. Instead they decided that they needed to “ fix “ the original.
Entertainment has no cultural impact because no film or TV show is made for any one group or culture anymore. It's all made for multiculture. Every cast needs to look like the rainbow, and so in trying to speak to everyone at the same time, entertainment today speaks to no one. It doesn't connect to the soul. It's just momentary distraction. Nothing has a singular voice or message. Someone once said, "If the purpose of your culture is to celebrate multiculture, that's like saying, 'We believe in everything', which is the same as saying, 'We believe in nothing.' Our core value is that we have NO values."
Have to say, with a 9yo and a 7yo, Wonka was very good and made a big impact, they love all the songs. No, it didn't have the footprint of the original, but sequels rarely do. (yes there are exceptions).
I have my own theory. Many of these people creating these dull, lifeless movies grew up on social media. Social media makes people's minds and social interactions dull and lifeless. That's the end of my theory.
I just spent some time doing trade work at a distant relative's home. The whole time I was there, his wife was watching all the Netflix Feminist Propaganda. It does have a cultural impact. It's radicalised them into feminazis. They told me that there's no difference between males and females apart from what society forces on them. They said there's no such thing as sexism against men or racism against whites. I pointed out that there's 3 female uni students for every 2 male students and the first thing they did was deflect to "how many engineering students are there male to female". They do not give a damn. The scary thing is that they work at the Uni, and they didn't even know there was a dearth of male students. They just don't care. I never pointed out that the trade work that I was doing at their house simply wouldn't be done by women. I installed a triple header airconditioning system across two weekends by myself.
Yes, they don't see it and then it's pointed out to them they don't care. And there's nothing that can be done about it, sadly, as they're brainwashed and are happy like that. Simple answers to all the questions.
I agree with everything except by DV and Hans Zimmmer. They are not mid and not to loud at all… Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece and every frame is wonderfully crafted the same thing for Dune..DV is one of the best filmmakers in our time and Hans Zimmer always create these awesome soundtracks. The reason people can’t handle it is because they need everything fast and furious all the time. Social media gives us everything fast and short our brains can’t handle that much information at the same time. It’s like eating chips every 2 seconds at the end you don’t even know why you are eating the chips your brain is becoming addicted. It’s good watching movies that are long and goes slow so that our brains can actually slow down and get information slower. Dune is slow but it makes us think and use your brains. We need more films like Dune so that our brains can slow down a little..
When I look at the new Dune. I see a masterful and beautiful implementation which doesn't move me emotionally. It lacks the impact of the 1984 Dune. I'm not even saying 1984 Dune is good. Just that it's memorable. I find new Dune totally forgettable. I could watch the old one on any time. I have no desire to re-watch the new one. The same it true of OG Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Indy Jones. I just feel nothing for most new movies.
I'm frequently reminded of Drinker's Why Modern Movies Suck video wherein he points out that the creators of the past lived actual lives while creators today are incredibly shallow, sheltered, and pampered. This is starkly seen in the Wheel of Time series which had to be finished by Brandon Sanderson after the untimely passing of Robert Jordan; and Sanderson is actually one of the better writers of the younger generations. ruclips.net/video/ZY8aisJzIZQ/видео.html
can't have anything original when shareholders like Blackrock and Vanguard don't want them wasting money on new trademarks. People don't think about why, it seems so.
While I liked the video and generally agree with your opinions, I am honestly perplexed by your views on the Dune movies. In my opinion, the Dune films are almost impeccable. Their only flaw is the idiotic, barbaric and outright insulting gender swaping of Liet Kynes. The Dune films are, in my opinion, on paar with the LOTR trilogy and are so vastly superior to anything George Lucas or Disney have ever made, that I view any comparison between the two sagas as a personal insult.
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My _normie_ parents said the other day they can't remember a single good movie in years and have gone back to watching "the classics" and their old DVD collection from when movies were actually good.
That's how you know the industry has completely lost the plot. They lost the interest of casual viewers who used to enjoy going to the movies every week.
I'm doing the same, my parents and I basically are rewatching 30s and 40s films.
People don't need modern entertainment since we have 100 years of entertainment to look back on and explore. I hardly watch any new movies or shows. I can count on two fingers how many times I go to the movie theater a year nowadays. I just watch old stuff now.
I've been on a 80s and 90s anime kick for a few years now. I discover great series all the time and I don't think I'm going to run out of things to watch any time soon.
My cutoff is 1999.
@@davelowe1977 You must give the Lord of the Rings trilogy a chance if you haven’t seen it
It’s gonna get worse with AI. Just wait until we have Fortnite type movies that are just mash ups of Peter Griffin, Gandalf and Batman or whatever
When "artists" prioritize not offending anyone they wind up pleasing no one.
I actually get the impression that corporate filmmakers are eager to offend certain audiences.
@@mymangodfrey Fair enough, everyone except straight white men.
Everyone except SWM
@@mymangodfreyyes. But won't let anything offend them....strange days..
@@glennross85 I tried to say that but my comment was deleted. I guess I shouldve abbreviated it.
Completely agree with " can't build the house but only willing to rearrange the furniture ".
Imagine todays teens. Raised on the Rey trilogy, Avatar (the blue people), ghostbusters, and Rings of Power. Imaige how shallow their imaginations are. Imagine how these influences will effect the art that the young generation will create later. Imagine what seeing this standard of media as normal will do to our culture and politics.
Smart ones can separate grain from chaff if they know that grain exist. Don't imagine, help them with a good book (I mean a book from numbers of great authors, not "good book"). If they can grind through all Tolkien / all Glen Cook, they will be fine. Books 500% more important than any serials. Without good books I'll be average glued-to-TV-golem/zombie.
IMO I think Avatar can serve as a decent guide for aspiring Sci-Fi writers who are trying to worldbuild their story, I remember picking up a book when the first film came out about the world of Pandora, the tech the RDA used, etc and being enamored with what I was reading. It is really the only reason why I wasn't bothered by the fact the Hallelujah Mountains were floating because I knew it was via magnetism while my friend never read it and still questioned it until I explained it to him.
Most young people don't even watch modern films, because even they can tell they're trash and have far better alternatives at their disposal anyway. Modern "mainstream" entertainment is so culturally irrelevant it can't even negatively influence the youth.
There's also the problem that much of modern film is based on Millennial and Gen X nostalgia. Gen Z and Alpha don't have any emotional connection to things from the 80s or 90s. They didn't grow up with Ghostbusters or Terminator. They only know Star Wars as bad Disney movies some people pretend to like.
The lack of original content has surely turned off at least a couple generations.
Agreed, kids have better things to do. I can't think of a single youngling around me who cares about modern cinema.
They have plenty to keep themselves occupied with games, social media and more.
I think this may be the reason why Nick Cage has shifted to more odd films-he knows in the echo chamber of Hollywood where nothing will make cultural impact, his performance in these odd type of films will make a cultural footprint
That and he gets to be choosy on what he works on again now that he's no longer tied down with debt, so the quality stands out a little better against his performances again. Just the last couple of years alone, he's been solid in "Sympathy For The Devil", "Longlegs" and "Dream Scenario", in my opinion, of course. They go beyond watchability for wacky meme Cage, they are interesting in their own rights too.
EXCELLENT ECHO CHAMBERLAIN WORK.
Could be the fact hes a very odd dude himself and is totally aware and fine with this.
I want to see him do Shakespeare though
Color Out of Space and Mandy 👍🏻
Nic’s last six years or so has been basically half of all the good interesting movies ive seen
It’s the celebrities I just cannot stomach anymore, they live lives full of absolute privilege…. But make it their part time job to lecture us about everything, politics, climate change, social justice, morality and everything else they can think of …. But if you shine a little spotlight on them behind closed doors….. at best they are absolute hypocrites or worse, they engage or remain silent about literal atrocities committed by insiders to their cult !
I have so many on my personal boycott list, it’s hard to watch anything new or old now that’s mainstream!
So even what they created when they were younger is retroactively tainted for you?
@ Sometimes, really depends on who .
Ironic, because actors were usually frowned upon in society during ancient and medieval times because of their notorious streak of swindling to make a living.
Someone ought to tell liberals to check their privilege.
Yea, which is why opposition to global capitalism and capitalists is an utter necessity! 🖖🏼
That comparison you did with the crappy modern dance music versions of old songs is perfect. This is exactly how i feel about modern entertaiment.
Modern Hollywood feels like Ray Gun's breakdance performance.
Yes I felt that analogy viscerally!
@@pilouuuuI'd argue she was much more original than these schleps - or at least she tried to be.
I saw the original Star Wars as a kid in the 70's. To this day, I remember every sight and sound, the smell of the popcorn, and the the stickiness of the floor. Very few movies in last ten years or so leave any real impression on me.
I was going to write this almost word for word myself, you beat me to it by 5 minutes 😄
Sure ya did 🙄@@mattwuk
I can't think of a film made this century that's any good. What holds a candle to Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting etc?
@@BleachDemon707 did you make this comment out of jealousy or something? Or are you just a bellend? 😂
Same here
Modern entertainment is failing because they are no longer making entertainment just to entertain, to tell a good story. Modern entertainment is now trying to change people minds on political and ideology ideas through entertainment. People want something to entertain them, distract them from the real world just for a little while, but thats no longer what entertainment is doing.
The worst part is that so many people are looking to Donald Trump as some sort of cultural savior, even though his second presidential term is not going to help redeem our culture. In fact, I believe that most creative types today - including people I know personally - consider Trump to be the modern-day embodiment of both Joseph McCarthy and the Hays Production Code, and are only going to continue to double down on defying him as he grows more popular. Entertainment became more countercultural after Ronald Reagan was elected, and a similar phenomenon is happening today. We all need to remember that, at least in a democratic society, politics and culture are different things, and the president cannot control the culture. We must fix each of those two worlds one at a time, and not necessarily with the same strategies.
100% agree but it's worse than just that. Even if they got away from the messaging, main stream writers are just bad. I've seen a few movies and shows without it and they are still terrible.
Social engineering. Cultural subversion. Jewllywood is trying to bring authoritarianism. They are destroyers of everything good and beautiful.
Art is always political, but when the story is good and the political themes are subtle or well incorporated into the story, no one is bothered, the real issue, I think, is that the stories are absolute shit nowadays, with no heart, no genuine emotions, no respect for the audience nor the source material in the case of adaptations/remakes/sequels, in fact, they often feel mean spirited and mocking, and the political themes are shoved in your face without a hint of subtlety and then used as a shield against criticism "oh, you don't like my movie with a 'strong female protagonist'? That's because you are a sexist pig!"
I think the bigger issue is just that they make entertainment to make money…
you could blame ideology for some of the poor character writing in the _Star Wars_ sequel trilogy, but the driving problem was that they just cranked out the movies as quick as they could, without even having a plot outline or knowing what arcs the characters would have.
that, or laziness 🤷🏻♂️
Modern writers are obsessed with trying to look clever by subverting old tropes and winking at the audience. Nothing is sincere anymore. They can't just tell a story with timeless and universal themes that speak to the human condition. Everything has to be some kind of postmodern deconstruction.
When did every man in Star Wars turn into C-3PO?
C-3PO served a purpose.
@@NJGuy1973😂😂😂😂
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is my favourite movie of this current decade so far. Genuinely hope that one sticks around for more to see
Yeah! I really liked that one too!
Very based. Just saw it 1 months ago and it was outstanding ❤
The Last Wish is a phenomenal film that completely blew away my expectations. Best movie of 2022 (and perhaps my favorite of the decade) hands down.
It is definitely an all time favorite of mine since I first saw it.
That whole movie was woven like an intricate tapestry, with meaning and symbolism all interwoven within the writing, the visuals, the audio and the character arcs, all then coming together at the end to a satisfying conclusion.
The comic art style looks odd at first but quickly grows on you and then you notice the attention to detail on split second scenes...
Beautiful, you could watch the movie five times and pick up a detail you missed the first four times. It is layer upon layer of detail.
The characters had personality beyond the 'stereotype' or role they filled in the movie and dealt with issues as people do, not as characters are 'expected' to. This movie used the subversion of expectation right.
E. G. The 'comic relief' character who in one scene actually got serious and helped their friend when they truly needed it.
There was no joke made to break the tention of the scene...
It feels like it has been years since I last saw movie of this calibre of writing.
I never expected that I'd genuinely be excited to see what comes next for this side character from Shrek 2.
That and The wild robot :)
It’s a shame when Korea and Japan can deliver such incredible entertainment for a fraction of the cost and fraction of the star power.
They are already capturing and entire generation of people while Hollywood is desperately trying to recreate the same old reheated properties many decades later.
The absolutely unbelievable decadence of these studios wastes so many resources that talented people could use to make the next Star Wars.
Why the f do we need ANY more Star Wars?
@@jamad-y7m That's just it! Think about why you're saying (typing) that. Before episode 8, you'd've probably been ecstatic at the prospect of any more Star Wars!
-Yo'ster
@jamad-y7m I read this as making a new film with the impact and cultural relevance of Star Wars rather than another instalment in the series.
What Disney did to Star Wars is unforgivable. It used to be one of my favorite things growing up, now I really couldn’t care less. As soon as Andor Season 2 is over I’m completely done with Star Wars.
Star Wars sucks and always has
The trouble is young people live too much in the bubble of today and don't realize how lame their current entertainment is because they don't check out what's gone before. Wokeness sameness bleakness nothingness. It's like everything these days is created using the same template that requires it to be made in the same way.
If a majority of younger kids truly are that way, I don't want to know 'em.
Me growing up, I was always interesting in nearly all movies.
And because of the wokeness these people refuse to look at the criticism and instaed they just brush it off with "youre just a hater". And they never improve and keep living in that bubble.
When you said Cosplay that really hit home with how these modern productions felt, all visual, no substance.
I think it's worse than cosplay, because at least with cosplay you can feel the passion the person has for the character and franchise. Talk to them and they will light up when explaining who they are and what they love about them. But with modern media it's more like those Instagram 304's who dress up as characters because some loser paid them to.
Modern entertainment shows how bigotry-pretending-to-be-against-bigotry controlled culture for a surprisingly long time.
One of the biggest problems is that there is simply too much of everything. Standing out from the endless river of films, TV shows, and streaming platforms is extremely difficult.
Yeah, it doesnt matter if you make an extremely good product, the month the season ends you already have people forgeting it or over analyzing it, its hard to keep momentum when in every instance there is competition, to youtube and instagram for example in different kinds of content, today i see series that are called masterpieces in just three chapters, and people throw under the bus in the third chapter too bcs "it is to slow", everyone has a voice now and that makes really hard to appreciate and distinguish.
It feels like quantity is king now, not quality
Agree and even when you watch something half decent it's forgotten straight away.
Would tend to disagree, Squid Game is part of the cultural zeitgeist and have friends still talking about, though that could be because a second season is dropping real soon now. One of the few genres still pumping out decent movies btw is the horror genre, which amazes me with how actually good a lot of the movies are.
Part of me wants to say Godzilla Minus One may have had at least a little footprint. No one was expecting a human element in a giant stompy monster movie.
I agree! So many people I've watched reactions to "Minus One" said it was a great story that happened to have a monster in it. It's the storytelling that's died out from the world
Godzilla movies have always had a human element but most of the time that part of the movie is pretty mediocre. Minus One pulled off the trick of having both the human element and the monster be equally good.
It's a good thing none of these horrible messages and bizarre, antisocial ideologies promoted by Hollywood are gaining traction among the wider culture.
What specific ideaologies are you mentioning?
@Notaripoffbruh oh a RUclips reply guy in 2024. How interesting.... 🕵️♂️ Here he'll pretend he has no idea what's going on in the world and needs you to spell it out for him like he's a grade school student.
@@TheSkepticalPanda nigga all I did was ask 😭
@ how is it that Libs can get offended at every single occurrence and question? How are you Snowflakes even able to take yourselves seriously?
@@TheSkepticalPandaFunny how there is always a "define what is woke" or a "what specific thing" posts always appearing when someone says this stuff.
It is almost like the clowns want you to answer just so that they can go "nuh uh. That is not what X thing is, it is 'insert something else here' ".
A very stupid tactic to derail anyone throwing a spotlight to the problem.
I'm tired of girl-boss movies, there, I said it!
Agree 100%
Wow so sigma
So am I!
@@curtiszilla9192 I'm tired of THAT shit too
You act like movies with female protagonists or action heroines are inherently bad.
No, most cosplayers would show so much more respect and effort in their creation than what these people are doing.
It would be more accurate to say new movie costumes feel like low-effort closet cosplay.
I’m a movie buff, I watch movies all the way back from the silent era to current movies. I have developed a good intuition of movies that I’ll probably like or love, so since we are living in an age in which movies from all over the world and from pretty much the beginning of cinema are relatively easy to get a hold of, current movies need to really pique my interest if they want to compete with the vast amount of great works of movie history. That’s not easy.
Pique, not peak
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Okay thanks bro🍻
@mabusestestament tbr isn't the bad old movies even from like 2000 going to fall into mediocrity oblivion leaving the cool or interesting stuff
While now we don't have rime curating
"get a hold of", not "get a hold off"
@@dfordiligence2398
Thanks sweetheart
It's a far cry from the 00s, that's for sure. The 00s were probably the last great decade for cultural impact. You had the Prequels, the LOTR trilogy, the Harry Potter films, Elf, Tropic Thunder, Pirates of the Caribbean, Passion of the Christ, nearly every Pixar film, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, V for Vendetta, 300, the emerging superhero genre with the X-Men movies, Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, and of course Ironman.
Moving into the 10s really the superhero genre became the overwhelmingly dominant presence in terms of cinematic cultural impact. Both very positive with the MCU and fairly negative with the DCEU. Then, of course, there's Disney Star Wars, which was very impactful but in an immensely negative way. As it is given that younger generations didn't care about Disney Star Wars and older generations prefer it didn't exist, it's very likely that any cultural relevance for Star Wars will end with the Prequels. Aside from that, really, you had Game of Thrones. Although it does seem like people have largely discarded it, I mean HotD isn't exactly a flop, but it's also nowhere near the juggernaut that GoT season 1-4 were. Lastly, the only one I can really think of is Stranger Things, which has definitely made an impact. Of course, the real test will be where it's at 5 years after its last season. Other than that, the only type of impact most things had ranged from slightly to severely negative and were forgotten very quickly, so what impact or influence it had on culture in general was fleeting.
When you look at it, the two decades really are one of glaring contrast. The 00s being one of progress while the 10s being one of regress, and it's to point now where we're in a virtual wasteland.
Ah well this has happened before and hopefully this wasteland will end soon and giveway to green pastures once more.
The 2000s were also the LAST DECADE where rock/metal were relevant at the mainstream level as well! When TPTB quietly but forcefully forced them out of the mainstream in the early 2010s, pop culture went to shit literally and it has left a hole that has yet to be filled!
@mrconfusion87 Dude, tell me about it. I think a lot of people don't realize how much the digital diffusion has both intentionally and unintentionally isolated people. I mean, when you really think about it starting in the 30s with the lost generation all the way up until the early Millennials, there was so much cross generational transfer of pop culture, largely without any effort due to radio and TV, and movies. I mean, obviously, kids in the 80s weren't listening to Al Jolson, but they knew who the Beatles were, who John Wayne was, that Bela Lagosi played Dracula, etc.
I keep seeing these dumb reaction videos like "GenZers hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time," and I think that can't possibly be real, but then I realize, yeah, where would they have heard it before. Prior to the always online generations, people just absorbed this information organically through just living. Now, however, with kids being spoon-fed random, 30-second clips of amateurish nonsense via an algorithm they have no chance to be exposed to any of the past pop culture unless their parents really deliberately expose it to them, which is basically a new type of skill parents have to adopt.
I'm sure eventually things will balance out again, but damn it's been nearly 10 years, and it can't continue much longer.
The 1990s are my favorite decade for films. The 00s I would rank right after the 90s. Some films I enjoyed from the 00s: Gladiator, Traffic, Crouching Tiger, Memento, Frailty, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Saw, Minority Report, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, The Dark Knight, Training Day.
@LilannB I was born in the mid 80s, and between the 80s, 90s, and 00s, it's really really hard to pick a favorite decade. The 90s are definitely a contender. The Crow, Blade, Pulp Fiction, Young Guns 2, Clerks, Mallrats, Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Jurassic Park, the Rocketeer, The Big Lebowski, There's Something About Mary, Hook, The Matrix, Dark City. Those are just off the top of my head. I know there's a ton more if I really think about it.
One thing's for sure it was a great thirty plus years for pop culture. Movies, music, comics, and, of course, the golden age of video games.
@@mrconfusion87I miss rock man, I still only listen to music from 00-10
When the creative handlers of a new adaptation of an old IP start said adaptation with a default dismissiveness towards the longstanding substance of the IP, all that is left for the "audience" to do is be dismissive towards the new non adaptation
You're NOT supposed to have your own views and opinions. This is wrong. You're SUPPOSED to believe and spend money on, what THEY SAY you need too.
People still discuss the shining the thing Blade Runner terminator, predator aliens, no one talks about avatar. No one even knows the characters names and yet it’s one of the highest grossing films of all time. The only thing discusses about it is how much money it made.
The only thing anyone remembers is blue sav-natives good, white humans bad.
I tried three times tor watch Avatar. Fell asleep each time
Rented & watched once and 🤷🏾, I didn't really get the hype.
Films like Airplane, The Princess Bride and Office Space are regularly quoted. What film from the past 10 years has dialogue anyone quotes?
Whiplash-"Not Quite My Tempo...."
@kenstrumpf909 tbr I see some people quoting dune succession games of thrones , and I have the high ground from idk what star wars movie , some quote from marvel
Tbr depend of the circles you run in , the internet tiktok insta is full of reference
Like Winter arc winter is coming was huge this yeat
@kenstrumpf909 also hunger games
I volunteer as a tribute
Maybe it's an age thing I see people quoting stuff all the time
Dune also
Somehow, Palpatine returned
@@kenstrumpf909 I have the high ground
I am groot
The same reason so many industries are failing:
ESG Scores and the DEI that comes with it.
Look at Budweiser, Target, the entire auto industry (except the savvy Japanese).
What's "Target"?
@@zhouenlai2569A chain of retail stores in the US.
@@zhouenlai2569 It's a US retail chain.
Comparing it to a mass with no faith is a perfect analogy. It's a perfunctory acknowledgement of something better than itself.
The problem with modern mainstream entertainment is that it is too safe. Writers are no longer creative nor take risks.
That is why I prefer indie comics and shows and movie, as well as fan stories of franchises.
They break the mold to be different. It is any wonder folks prefer old school music, TV, movies and games?
Irony that modern liberal writers achieve what the old conservative censors wanted.
@markmunroe-hz8rf creative do create daring stuff.... that don't get green lit because the executives rather have something appealing to the left and the right ? At the same time ? So it feel disingenuous
This is actually been a comfort to me many times recently. So much junk comes out but I know that it will be swiftly forgotten that's most things are and the truly great will continue to persist through the years. Most people have already forgotten many of the great cinematic crimes of the last ten years.
The reason modern entertainment is failing is it doesn't set out to entertain but to lecture and indoctrinate good stories and relatable characters are secondary at best to "The Message". Add in an increasing reliance on AI writing tools - which are naturally very formulaic - and you get something that is very boring anda uninteresting. For me it's gotten to the point that I prefer to sit and read a book or play a game than watch TV or go to see a movie.
I would argue that this is just what they want. Consume product, then get excited for next product. Soul-less, but intentionally so. As long as the plebs keep paying.
Your entire vocabulary consists of meme talking points and internet slang,go read a book
@@bcal8118 - Books are no good either. Radical misandrists have taken over publishing across the board.
@@bcal8118 You should follow your own advice
Old Star Wars memes: The X is strong with this one, You don't know the power of the dark side, boring conversation anyway, I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.
New Stars Wars memes:
REEEEEY
Luke drinking blue milk
Luke tossing the lightsaber
"They fly now!?"
SOMEHOW X HAS RETURNED
*Crowd laughing loudly*
God bless.
I haven't been to a cinema since before 2016, but I keep discovering and ordering amazing movies from 1950- 1990s. I don't even waste my time with Netflix or any streaming stuff, I watch what I want.
Turner Classic Movies has a whole catalogue.
Only those of a certain age will fully understand this, but each decade, from the '20s to the '80s, had a distinct cultural identity that vanished in the early '90s. For me, the past 3 decades has been a shapeless, same-looking block of time with very little cultural change and only political events, wars, disasters, and technology (the internet, etc.) to separate the years instead of the markers of cultural progress. (For example, an obscure movie from the '90s could be released today and more or less pass for a new film.)
There certainly hasn’t been any change in pop music for decades now. There is no difference in pop from 2000 and 2024.
If one made an "American Graffiti" today, and set it as far back in the past as that film was when it was made, it would be set in 2013. A "Stand By Me" equivalent would be set in 1998. "Back to the Future" made today would go back in time to 1994.
@@mxmxpr Good observation. Imagine a remake of the "Happy Days" series set in that carefree, nostalgic era of 2013 -- the good old days when life was...er...different?
@@mxmxprWouldn't work, marty is mindy, doc is a black lesbian, and mindys dad has a crush on his daughter?😮
Many of the greatest films of all time were made in the '90s and 2010s.
Modern movies truely are like sludge that is jsut tasteless, bland, forgetful. Designed to just eat away the time rather than leave a last impact.
The paradox of great classics is that they are original and groundbreaking while also rife with themes and tropes that are ancient and traditional.
Yes. Every scene, every line, feels carefully checked to be “unoffensive”
Nothing ”offensive” can happen to a character. Imagine “Irreversible” made now
You know how movies from the 80s had such iconic scenes and were so quotable (Star Wars, Terminator, Evil Dead, etc.)? We quote them because they were badass, cold, and just the right amount of snarky. Now we quote movies ironically cuz their dialogue is so awful that we laugh at it.
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I’ve been thinking about this for a year now. After every movie, I can barely remember it even an hour later, even the ones I enjoyed watching.
Its not just the last 2 years... this shit is going now by the last 20 years or so. Nothing after 2000 is worthy of my time.
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I think I was watching a Nerdrotic stream when they talked about Disney making a Star Wars and Marvel 24hr channel for Disney+. They wanted it to be second monitor content. That’s the problem, they don’t have the same goal as they used to. They figure no one will really pay attention anyway, it just has to look pretty.
Also I take issue with the insult to Ford Escort engines. They try their best.
I am not defending Disney's decision for this but to be fair, there are times "second monitor content" makes what you are doing on your primary monitor better and easier to deal with. At least for me as I enjoy watching old films and history videos and video game analysis stuff on my second monitor. I have done it many times in college when writing papers or doing assignments, and I was even doing it when playing through the story of the latest WoW expansion cause it was that boring to me. I just wanted to say that "second monitor content" is always a bad/brainrot thing, it is just there to provide (Sometimes additional) entertainment to what you are doing.
@ Yeah, I like second monitor content. Most of what I watch on RUclips is like that. I’m not trying to put it down. I’m just saying that Hollywood thinks since people aren’t really watching it intently, it doesn’t matter if it’s good. Star Wars (or anything) should not be made with that attitude.
@@GenralOrder24 Alright then yeah, I agree with you with that kind of context. And it does not surprise me Disney would consider switching to that kind of "content" to give to customers, I read somewhere that Crunchyroll was thinking of switching to anime that had short episodes (4-5 minutes).
The entertainment industry has been replaced with the intellectual property licensing business.
Hans Zimmer is NOT mid.
Yeah, that was a pretty absurd claim.
You think Hans Zimmer is mid?? Sit down and listen all the way through the Inception and Interstellar soundtracks and tell me with a straight face that his music is mid.
I agree with you-- I think Hans Zimmer has always adapted to what movies want in the current moment, which is why his stuff now seems less memorable, because many scores seems to be minimal/repetitive or synthy/sound effect/rhythmically-driven.
I forget he scored Gladiator, The Lion King, The Prince of Egypt, The Last Samurai. Fucking fantastic stuff but the movies were also *better* and required a different type of score.
I miss the TYPE of scoring like this, orchestral with melody, rhythm, harmony, clear motifs, when appropriate to a movie. Also I miss real instruments, not just synths. I'm assuming it is too expensive to produce scores this way and the types of movies being made are not suited for them.
@@Sidera17Definitely, he's a professional after all, so sometimes a job is just a job. But even his recent work has some gems! Dunkirk, Sherlock Holmes, Man of Steel, Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Dune...
@@tasamolic Admittedly, I'm not deeply into what I consider "true sci-fi," (I'm a Star Wars girl which is epic fantasy in space, Star Trek and The Expanse, etc, are sci-fi for me lol), so I haven't heard a lot of these newer scores. I've heard parts of the Interstellar score, which seems to have that modern minimalism vibe which really grabs you given the subject matter. There's that additive hint of a Phillip Glass/Arvo Pärt feel to it. It's kind of haunting in an unearthly but also "inorganic"/technological way.
Yes. And I’m tired of pretending he isn’t.
@tailfin6595 what's your fav film soundtrack
Agreed to everything except for Dune.
Dune has done so much for recent Space Fantasy that Star Wars has not done in the last 12 years.
FACTS
Same Dune especially part 2 were amazing flicks maybe Oppenheimer in there too but overall its plain sad that modern cinema is so forgettable
Sorry but gender swapping Liet Kynes, dealbreaker.
It would be an interesting social experiment to go back in a time machine and abduct Frank Herbert from the early 1960's, then come back and see if Star Wars and much of what followed it even existed.
@@thomriley1036 Please no! Herbert's books were a source of inspiration for people who made the Rouge Trader, which later spawned Warhammer franchise. I need my plastic armies!
When Hollywood decided to do only sequels, they stoped writing movies and started to write only fanfic versions of previous successes.
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Zero creatively in America these days; I remember when five Marines took Iwo Jima today, five Marines couldn't get arrested. 😢
What a very eloquent way to say "it sucks". Bravo 👏
Art requires variety, there's no variety anymore. No contrasting opinions, just boot licking.
The term "Modern Culture" is an oxymoron.
Ive been watching a lot of lesser-discussed movies from the 70s-2000s. A lot of them are critically panned and still astound me at how much more competent they are than most movies i see these days. I think its simply because their main focus is telling a story. Theres not all this winking to the audience, just really trying to tell a compelling story
What was considered a lesser effort in the 70s-80s now looks like a minor classic compared to what's being put out in the past 20 years.
I hardly watch American movies and shows anymore. I increasingly am watching foreign movies and shows, mostly from Asia, that doesn’t stink of DEI, woke BS.
Hollywood and gaming went woke. It's ruining both.
Entertainment has been going down the drain the past 20 years. Maybe thats a part of it, but the main culprit is greed.
OTOH, you have a movie like "Godzilla Minus One" which, almost a whole year later, fans are *_STILL_* talking about how good it was! (Of course, it wasn't an American movie, which explains a lot...)
You said,Hans Zimmer is mid…. OK man it’s your world.
Yeah, I heard that and thought it was just wrong.
In the early to mid 1900's the social strata was - starting with the bottom- lepers, homeless, prostitutes, ethnic gangs, law enforcement (often in the pockets of local politicians), politicians, blacksmiths (and other needed workers), shop keepers, shop and business owners, ultra rich- Teddy Roosevelt's family was horrified of his political aspirations considering politics to be beneath his status. We are merely working on reducing the number of actors and grandly reducing their and their studio's bloated salaries and work opportunities. Many of us see limited value in their craft. They insult customers freely. Who do you think packed the theaters when a new movie was released? The people who aren't there anymore- that's who.
I still recall the feeling of sheer apathy after the first Avatar film and I think back then going to the cinema was still a bit of an occaision. The last time I was as excited walking out of the cinema as I was going in, was all the LOTR trilogy.
Maybe you're just a jaded person who's lost their inner child wonder.
@@michalsavatar7 Yep maybe or maybe I just haven't seen a really good film in a long time. But don't let my views jaded and as lacking inner child as they may be keep you awake at night.
@@michalsavatar7 I hate that.
You get to a point where the movies/shows are so transparently propagandistic you can’t ignore it. I could ignore leftist pop-culture for 30 years and kind of enjoy their creations, but since that time, I’ve gradually ceased consuming their products to the point where now I don’t consume any of it. Losing me as a consumer is insignificant, but I think the numbers are showing there are millions of others out there just like me.
This is simply because the best of “modern” “entertainment” is derivative, a lame copy and has not a drop of originality, and the worst - Star Trek, Dr Who, The Clowns of Power and the diznee reboot falsely claiming to be Star Wars - are not only derivative but are made with the specific intent of warping bastardizing destroying and replacing the beloved originals. The people making those shows are bitter hate filled losers who are filled with open hatred for both the properties they work on and the true fans of those properties.
I'm currently in film school, and it's packed with people who seem more interested in using films to push a message than in crafting great stories. And what’s the message? The same one already saturating the industry. Programs like ESG and DEI have studios eagerly encouraging this trend. My goal, however, is to focus on storytelling-leaving my personal politics out of it. Movies should be an escape from reality, not a reminder of the filmmaker's agenda. Unfortunately, many filmmakers today have forgotten this, and it's part of why so many movies have lost their charm.
One my favorite shows of all-time is The Expanse (Seasons 1-3). Also the Chernobyl mini-series is amazing - both massively underrated.
Gladiator 2 was absolutely terrible. Wtf! 😳
They don't understand the idea of a target audience any more, it's just making a show or movie for "the largest possible audience" or even worse, the audience that reflects the people making the show, very rich old women trying to make sci-fi.
There is no imagination in any of it, it's all just taking old stories and trying to make them super woke, like anyone, but the people making it wants this. Streaming services gave us the promise of watching what we wanted, when we wanted, instead what we got was endless new subscriptions with nothing worth watching.
Timeless ... that's the word! Not the every nowadays that sums up little or even nothing. What matters in entertainment is what lasts and outlasts, what is always truth and a fact. Thank you...
The first avatar was great, it was original and beautiful. Also Cameron wrote it in 91.
There are a handful of great movies in the last few years-Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Godzilla Minus One, Dune: Part Two, etc. Though most modern movies are average AT BEST. I wish we could get awe-inspiring classics again like Back to the Future, The Goonies (my favorite movie), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, the list goes on and on.
An excellent commentary ❤😂
Thank you for your insight .
"Watching movies when I was a kid was more exciting and sparked my imagination more than the movies do now." Childhood experiences always feel different to adult experiences. "I remember my first several times on a rollercoaster as a 10 year old, but now I'm in my 30s each visit to the amusement park blends into one"
I think even jaded adults can experience wonder and joy of discovery. I'm almost 40 and I can be pretty damn cynical, but I do feel joy when I discover something remarkable. It's rarer than when I was a kid, but it is still possible.
People are waking up to this problem, but I believe it’ll be years until we see a huge shift in our entertainment is created. I don’t necessarily have a problem with fluff, but when thats all we’ve been getting, then it’s considered high art, thats where the issue lies with me.
Genres give you a lot of potential. If you looked at the western, or fantasy film, or science fiction, you could write tens of thousands of pages on what they can do (what element of the human experience or soul their cinematic language is for). If you eliminate subversions for a second, you could just execute a genre film. If you're familiar with south park, there's a scene in one episode where they get in various filmmakers. Eventually, they get in Mel Gibson, who is stark raving mad. However, they make an assessment that everything else aside he knows story structure. By modern standards, that's a high compliment. If you assume Gibson is (only) a moderate talent, his films (passion, apocalypto, hacksaw ridge) probably tower over what a lot of what passes for entertainment. On his day, Gibson is decent and competent. That puts him north of JJ Abrams.
Reworking old media means that you're potentially exploring the themes and ideas that animated humans for hundreds of years. Modern cinema might be exploring the ideas that emerged in academia or a HR seminar.
But JJ Abrams has the greatest superpowers in Hollywood, Nepotism and Cronyism!
Modern movies, music, books and art have almost zero longevity. Everything is so disposable nowadays.
Also worth noting, to play devil's advocate, is that episodes of Twin Peaks were directed by several people over it's twenty-odd episodes
I heard that David Lynch's contribution to the second season (of the og series) was minimal at best. Probably why that season sucked.
@@fattiger6957indeed. Then he came back for the finale which was a banger.
We live in a time that has no cultural memory. We don’t know what it is to collect cultural ideas and values particularly because we are conscious that it will quickly disappear as soon as we scroll
Massively so, 😢
This video meant that I have lived through the Golden Age of great Hollywood movies (born 1975- present time). Wow, it's like a wake for myself but I am still alive.
(When did it all ended? 2016? Again?)
Kind so, it started about 2012 and it take a rush after 2016
Men do not have a problem with strong female characters. I repeat: we do not have a problem with strong female characters. Many of us are dating or married to, the real life embodiment of strong female characters. That is why we were attracted to them. What we want is nuanced characters that we can relate to, and say, "yeah, she is just like my girlfriend and this really reinforces the narrative I saw her live in real life". We want to see reality. And I believe women also want to see this. Don't give me Rue who learns how to master the force in half an hour, and thereby completely defeats the purpose of a female lead. Give us the botanist from Jurassic Park. Attractive, as much for her brain as her face and body. She doesn't talk about being good at her job, she IS good at her job. And we see it in the film. It is saying a lot about an industry when a character from a movie that is more than twenty years old represents women in a better light than films coming out today.
I recently watched "Alita: Battle Angel" for the first time, and I think Alita is the best written strong female character I've seen in a long time. It reminded me that we women can be strong, brave and heroic while at the same time be feminine, caring, nurturing and compassionate.
@@halohalo86 Love that movie. Wish it’d get a sequel. I think James Cameron said he was going to make another one. I hope it happens.
@@halohalo86 Alita is based on Japanese manga. A man wrote the story and characters. And this is true of all the most iconic female heroine characters, they are written by men. Ripley, Agent Starling, Sarah Connor, Major Kusinage, etc.
"Men do not have a problem with strong female characters. I repeat: we do not have a problem with strong female characters" - who are those we? I, for one, have big problem with "strong female characters", in movies and even more so in life, and I am a man.
Badass anime girls my beloved
I think you made some great points about why modern movies fail to invoke real emotion. The biggest problem I have with modern movies and series (like RoP) is that I don't care about what happens to the characters, because they are just unlikeable. Not only has modern culture on screen lost its soul, but literature and music has as well, in my opinion. Part of the reason why my husband and I started publishing our own fantasy stories is because we were disappointed with modern entertainment. We want entertainment to be fun and we want fantasy to be escapist and immersive. We don't think that good entertainment needs modern identity (or any other form of) politics in them or needs to lecture people in any way. Hollywood actors and directors seem to think artistic skills come with all the divine knowledge to rule the world and we are all just their naive Padawans feeding on their inexhaustable insights.
Also, there is an abundance of stuff nowadays. While all the buzz used to come from just a handful of blockbusters in the theatres, now it's just one Netflix show or film after another leaving the assembly line. People rarely watch the same stuff anymore because there is so much out there.
I don't see why traditional storytelling and modern technology couldn't make each other stronger. I'm so tired of the mindless CGI hatred and I actually loved the classic trailers with a narrator, that often started off with "In a world". They gave you an impression of the mood and tone of the movie and triggered your curiosity. Modern trailers are loud and usually spoil every single interesting event or line in the movie, which contributes to the actual movie being disappointing.
As for music, I think there are still a lot of great soundtracks, but I don't like the modern trends in film scores. While I dont' dislike Hans Zimmer, it's true that some of his more modern scores almost make you forget he created masterpieces like the scores from The Lion King, The Prince of Egypt and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
I laughed out loud seeing that poster with "Women Talking: Inspired by True Events".
And I truly believe there are creators out there who still want to create original worlds and tell timeless stories. I know I want to.
I haven't gone to a theater since 1992 so they're not getting any of my hard-earned cash. It was just easy money to them and they''re beginning to realize that we're on to them.
I can't think of a single western movie of the modern era that will be remembered or written about in 20-30 years.
Dune Part 2
Oppenheimer and Top Gun: Maverick
Blade runner 2049, The Lighthouse, The Revenant. There’s not many
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@@AkamoriRivals the vvitch tho , hereditary , midsommar
Whiplash, , dune., oppeinheimer
There was ahunger game revival too
I can't help but think when the films this guy extols came out they were considered meaningless drivel compared to the "classic" films of yore...which were probably looked down upon by cultural snobs in *their* day. Reminds me of the "Tom the Dancing Bug" comic page of several years ago announcing (paraphrasing here), "the world was perfect when the person reading this right now was 11 1/2 years old." IIRC, films like the 1st Star Wars or Spielberg's epics were accused of suffocating the "new, thoughtful grown-up Hollywood" of films like Coppola's Godfather films or Apocalypse Now."
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They weren't looked down on by cultural snobs, everyone got into the spirit of them.
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I agree with everything in this video with the exception of Hans Zimmer. I think he's awesome and when you listen to Bach and then back to hans zimmer you can see where he gets his inspiration from.
3:17: when you do such a great job at getting the female audience.
Eh, i think deadpool and wolverine will leave a lasting impression. Already has with the revival of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" in the general zydgeist. And the iconography of Deadpool's red and Wolverines yellow is just too recognizable now.
Deadpool and Wolverine definitely catered to its target market (80s-born Millennials who grew up with the Foxverse Marvel movies)! 🤣🤣🤣
Most writers of our generation are people who are people who have little to no care for the craft of storytelling. There is something in the sensibilities of our generation that is also a problem. Batman is the 11 most profitable character on the world and It is a character who would never be created today.
I think 1917 and Waiting for the Barbarians are two great films that should have had a bigger impact than they did.
Waiting For The Barbarians was fantastic. Loved Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp in it.
1917 was anti German revisionist nonsense
1917 was my favorite film of 2020. Actually, I think it was the only film during that year but that is because films coming out do not interest me anymore. But yeah, 1917 should have made bigger impacts than they did, only explanation I can think of why it didn't was because it was a World War I film or it wasn't a superhero film,
1917 is visually stunning, but uneven. The script should've been better thought-out, some scenes are unnecessary contributing to an overlong movie and of course there's wokey poison. The slippage of modern standards is very evident with this one.
@@ВладимирКруглов-к9о ?? What is woke about 1917?
Bloody marvelous and bang on the money as usual.
Can I just say the way you talked about the process of writing quite recently on a Drinker, or Nerdrotic thing was absolutely inspiring and mesmerising by turns. It displayed a love of craft so deep I felt it should have been extolled from the comfort of a slightly beaten up Parker Knowles, by a crackling fire by someone visibly older than yourself.
Thanks!
No offence, but I don’t know how people can listen to you when you keep repeating your points and using hyperbole and metaphors over and over.
It's exactly what I feel about modern culture - it is but a commodification of art, trying to search for a perfect product. And when you try to make a film for everyone, you make a film for no-one.
2:06 - I've never seen a video sum up Hollywood that perfectly, it's so accurate
This sounds weirdly like AI
@@melodycoull9638 I am an ai 😃
I keep trying to think of the last film that REALLY stuck with me and i keep coming back to "Children Of Men", that almost 20 years ago. I have never really liked kids and i have certainly never wanted kids, but i absolutely FEEL the despair of that world and the hopelessness of children not being born anymore and the end of humanity. and when she reveals her stomach to him my eyes well up and i FEEL his resolve. NOTHING else matters now, i must protect her and get her to safety and nothing is going to stop me. my life now has only one meaning, to ensure the safety of that child. the future of ALL humanity. HOPE. i feel hope.
In any of these universes, Star Wars, Star Trek, or Tolkien, they could have created new characters and written stories. Instead they decided that they needed to “ fix “ the original.
@ and this formula worked quite well. There was absolutely no reason to reboot an established universe.
Entertainment has no cultural impact because no film or TV show is made for any one group or culture anymore. It's all made for multiculture. Every cast needs to look like the rainbow, and so in trying to speak to everyone at the same time, entertainment today speaks to no one. It doesn't connect to the soul. It's just momentary distraction. Nothing has a singular voice or message. Someone once said, "If the purpose of your culture is to celebrate multiculture, that's like saying, 'We believe in everything', which is the same as saying, 'We believe in nothing.' Our core value is that we have NO values."
Have to say, with a 9yo and a 7yo, Wonka was very good and made a big impact, they love all the songs. No, it didn't have the footprint of the original, but sequels rarely do. (yes there are exceptions).
I have my own theory.
Many of these people creating these dull, lifeless movies grew up on social media.
Social media makes people's minds and social interactions dull and lifeless.
That's the end of my theory.
Perhaps so, I was banned on social media during the peak of Gamergate. I never was tempted to look back.😅
Rebooting a shit IP every 2 years leads to poor sales?!? Wowsers...
I just spent some time doing trade work at a distant relative's home. The whole time I was there, his wife was watching all the Netflix Feminist Propaganda. It does have a cultural impact. It's radicalised them into feminazis. They told me that there's no difference between males and females apart from what society forces on them. They said there's no such thing as sexism against men or racism against whites. I pointed out that there's 3 female uni students for every 2 male students and the first thing they did was deflect to "how many engineering students are there male to female". They do not give a damn. The scary thing is that they work at the Uni, and they didn't even know there was a dearth of male students. They just don't care. I never pointed out that the trade work that I was doing at their house simply wouldn't be done by women. I installed a triple header airconditioning system across two weekends by myself.
Yes, they don't see it and then it's pointed out to them they don't care. And there's nothing that can be done about it, sadly, as they're brainwashed and are happy like that. Simple answers to all the questions.
I agree with everything except by DV and Hans Zimmmer. They are not mid and not to loud at all…
Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece and every frame is wonderfully crafted the same thing for Dune..DV is one of the best filmmakers in our time and Hans Zimmer always create these awesome soundtracks.
The reason people can’t handle it is because they need everything fast and furious all the time. Social media gives us everything fast and short our brains can’t handle that much information at the same time. It’s like eating chips every 2 seconds at the end you don’t even know why you are eating the chips your brain is becoming addicted.
It’s good watching movies that are long and goes slow so that our brains can actually slow down and get information slower. Dune is slow but it makes us think and use your brains.
We need more films like Dune so that our brains can slow down a little..
Sorry, but BR 2049 sucked, shat on everything that made the original so resonant
@ Don’t say sorry to me because you don’t like a movie lol
When I look at the new Dune. I see a masterful and beautiful implementation which doesn't move me emotionally. It lacks the impact of the 1984 Dune. I'm not even saying 1984 Dune is good. Just that it's memorable. I find new Dune totally forgettable. I could watch the old one on any time. I have no desire to re-watch the new one.
The same it true of OG Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Indy Jones. I just feel nothing for most new movies.
I'm frequently reminded of Drinker's Why Modern Movies Suck video wherein he points out that the creators of the past lived actual lives while creators today are incredibly shallow, sheltered, and pampered. This is starkly seen in the Wheel of Time series which had to be finished by Brandon Sanderson after the untimely passing of Robert Jordan; and Sanderson is actually one of the better writers of the younger generations.
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can't have anything original when shareholders like Blackrock and Vanguard don't want them wasting money on new trademarks. People don't think about why, it seems so.
While I liked the video and generally agree with your opinions, I am honestly perplexed by your views on the Dune movies. In my opinion, the Dune films are almost impeccable.
Their only flaw is the idiotic, barbaric and outright insulting gender swaping of Liet Kynes.
The Dune films are, in my opinion, on paar with the LOTR trilogy and are so vastly superior to anything George Lucas or Disney have ever made, that I view any comparison between the two sagas as a personal insult.