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> This sounds an awful lot like there's no good music/books/films/TV any longer which various people have been saying pretty much forever. No. People in the kn

> This sounds an awful lot like there's no good music/books/films/TV any longer which various people have been saying pretty much forever. No. People in the know have noticed the decline in originality in Hollywood, and predicted it would get worse, and they were right: http://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris http://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris Don't get me wrong, the plethora of film available now is astonishing and nice, but you really have to dig for the gems, especially as it seems they are not advertised. It doesn't help if, like me, you browse TVTropes and watch "Honest Trailers", "How it Should have Ended" and "Everything Wrong With" on Youtube. You start to realize how truly bad and cliche the vast majority of movies are.

bmm6o 10y ago
It also seems like the Thoughtful Adult Movies get squeezed into December after 11 months of schlock. I don't get to the theaters much, but I went more in the past two months than the previous 10. And it's so depressing when you go to see Best Picture Nominee and the trailers are all for Robot Wars 6 and Shyamalan's freshest turd - it's just a reminder that you won't be back for a year.
- will_pseudonym 10y ago
  I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. It's better to release late in that window, to be fresh in the minds of committee members, and it will cost less to advertise to them.
  - npsimons 10y ago
    > I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. Only marginally at best; read the GQ article from 2011. "Summer" has been starting earlier and earlier and ending later and later for decades, mostly because studios realize that "Summer" blockbusters can make a ton of money. Check the cross-over between highest grossing films versus AFI's top lists.
    - ghaff 10y ago
      >"Summer" blockbusters can make a ton of money Which is in part also a function of the fact that international distribution has become a far more important piece of the gross of films in general. And the summer action blockbuster does well in non-English-speaking markets. The "small" character and writing-driven film, not so much.
  - bmm6o 10y ago
    Yeah, I get why it happens and I don't have any solutions, but it is another problem of Hollywood's own making.

bmm6o 10y ago

It also seems like the Thoughtful Adult Movies get squeezed into December after 11 months of schlock. I don't get to the theaters much, but I went more in the past two months than the previous 10. And it's so depressing when you go to see Best Picture Nominee and the trailers are all for Robot Wars 6 and Shyamalan's freshest turd - it's just a reminder that you won't be back for a year.

will_pseudonym 10y ago
I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. It's better to release late in that window, to be fresh in the minds of committee members, and it will cost less to advertise to them.
- npsimons 10y ago
  > I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows. Only marginally at best; read the GQ article from 2011. "Summer" has been starting earlier and earlier and ending later and later for decades, mostly because studios realize that "Summer" blockbusters can make a ton of money. Check the cross-over between highest grossing films versus AFI's top lists.
  - ghaff 10y ago
    >"Summer" blockbusters can make a ton of money Which is in part also a function of the fact that international distribution has become a far more important piece of the gross of films in general. And the summer action blockbuster does well in non-English-speaking markets. The "small" character and writing-driven film, not so much.
- bmm6o 10y ago
  Yeah, I get why it happens and I don't have any solutions, but it is another problem of Hollywood's own making.