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And for me, I miss some of that straightforward cinema today. Sometimes you don’t want ambiguities and meandering characters. Everything is a blockbuster and
by mc32 4y ago
And for me, I miss some of that straightforward cinema today. Sometimes you don’t want ambiguities and meandering characters.
Everything is a blockbuster and a franchise.
- nyokodo 4y ago> Sometimes you don’t want ambiguities and meandering characters. Or antiheroes, or love triangles, or…
- mc32 4y agoYou know, ketchup[1] in the right amount can do wonders but slather it everywhere and it’s the delight of a four year old, but it’s really not the way it should be experienced. [1] pick your condiment of choice.
- Jimajesty 4y agoWhen a movie has a love story that doesn't involve a love-triangle or infidelity I breath a palpable sigh of relief. Realistic or not, does all romance have to involve competition or deception?
- mc32 4y agoCinema instead of being a reflection on society is more a mirror of itself. (look at Weinstein/Polanski and people like them in cinema and how they were treated until they could no more --look at their compasses).
- WalterBright 4y agoI just watched a romance movie where the plot was one was dying of a terminal disease. I watched it because the protagonist was Feynman, otherwise I'd have turned it off because watching people die is not entertaining to me.
- sergiotapia 4y agoMatt Damon said that in the past studios could expect to make half of the money back in DVD sales. Now that DVDs are gone studios are a lot more concerned about funding movies that are _not_ blockbusters/franchises. Sucks! Can you imagine a studio funding a movie like Fracture (2007) today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG1Lxnn8Qa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG1Lxnn8Qa8 - probably not, a movie about a genius man who murders his cheating wife and an egotistical district attorney. But the film is tremendous, can't be made today.
- 1980phipsi 4y agoIt becomes a 6 episode miniseries.
- woevdbz 4y agoExactly. Storytelling format follows the dollars which follows consumer habits. Right now all the dollar is in content made-for-Netflix and franchise movies because most people just want to watch online stuff at home nowadays.
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- Bayart 4y agoYou should hang out around small cinemas and niche festivals, you'd see everything can be and is made. There's a universe beyond studios. I just saw Cronenberg's Futur Crimes (the direct successor to Videodrome and eXistenZ) a few days ago, and Maps to the Stars yesterday. The man is as nuts as ever and he can still get his films made, it just takes producers who do it for fun and inventive financing. Films are the easiest they've ever been to make.