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Most of the movies I like to watch would never be made by Hollywood today. I watch AMC and TCM and Grit, pretty much all old movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s
by douche 10y ago
Most of the movies I like to watch would never be made by Hollywood today. I watch AMC and TCM and Grit, pretty much all old movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. I would bet that most of them were made for a million dollars, or less, frequently with the studio's stable of contracted actors. They could throw out a lot of different concepts, when every movie didn't have to make a billion dollars to break even.
- jasonthevillain 10y agoThat's actually true. In that era, studios would make a wide variety of movies on lower budgets, with the expectation that some would hit and some would flop. When you accept that, it's easier to bet on bold, risky movies. The worst thing that can happen isn't that a big budget film flops; it's that the audience ceases to pay attention to what's being made at all because so little of it feels fresh and none of it blows their minds. Why spend $25 on tickets to see something that's probably mediocre at best? Other the other hand, there are plenty of TV shows trying to be original, and nobody ever seems to stop talking about it.
- Avshalom 10y agoOf course it helped that they forced theaters to pay for all those films if they wanted to get the latest Bogart.