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I hope the Oscars are able to swallow their pride and just shrink down to size. I do still think that a best picture nomination means something and I enjoy pick

I hope the Oscars are able to swallow their pride and just shrink down to size. I do still think that a best picture nomination means something and I enjoy picking a couple off each year's list to watch. The alternative is that the Oscars keeps trying to build a big tent (like when they expanded best picture to 10 movies so they could throw a few gimmes in there to mass audiences) and IMO that's doomed to failure. The MTV Movie Awards already exists and does its thing for big blockbusters, the world doesn't need another. All this said I am going to be interested to see where cinema is in 5-10 years. My personal theory is that once superhero movies face an audience decline (which, to some level, is inevitable) they'll end up in a difficult spot: their budgets are astronomical and will have to be trimmed back, which will result in less impressive movies, which could lead to a downward spiral. Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies. ...but probably not.

kobalsky 4y ago
> Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter keeps the whole mid-budget movie industry in deadlock? could you give a few examples of what you consider good mid-budget movies that would have been affected the current situation?
- geodel 4y ago
  > do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter This in sense large number of people have only so much time. With Superhero stuff dropping in with high frequency and kids forcing families to watch them, other mass movies do not stand much chance to find audience time.
- afavour 4y ago
  I'm not saying superhero movies are directly attributable, just that their decline might be a moment for a shakeup. I'm not particularly convinced it will happen because I think streaming and prestige TV have also had a strong effect on what the movie industry does and doesn't do. In terms of the kind of movies I'm thinking of, looking back through past best picture winners I'm thinking of things like A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men, American Beauty. But also "frat pack" type comedies like Knocked Up, Dodgeball etc etc, they were their own mini industry for a time! Obviously it's difficult to say which of those would be affected today (effectively asking which movies do we not know about that haven't been made today) but the mid-budget decline is a well documented thing.

kobalsky 4y ago

> Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter keeps the whole mid-budget movie industry in deadlock? could you give a few examples of what you consider good mid-budget movies that would have been affected the current situation?

geodel 4y ago
> do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter This in sense large number of people have only so much time. With Superhero stuff dropping in with high frequency and kids forcing families to watch them, other mass movies do not stand much chance to find audience time.
afavour 4y ago
I'm not saying superhero movies are directly attributable, just that their decline might be a moment for a shakeup. I'm not particularly convinced it will happen because I think streaming and prestige TV have also had a strong effect on what the movie industry does and doesn't do. In terms of the kind of movies I'm thinking of, looking back through past best picture winners I'm thinking of things like A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men, American Beauty. But also "frat pack" type comedies like Knocked Up, Dodgeball etc etc, they were their own mini industry for a time! Obviously it's difficult to say which of those would be affected today (effectively asking which movies do we not know about that haven't been made today) but the mid-budget decline is a well documented thing.