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I don’t think that critique applies because it’s not really young people driving this stagnation industry side and I don’t think they are the target of the OP’s

I don’t think that critique applies because it’s not really young people driving this stagnation industry side and I don’t think they are the target of the OP’s ire. It’s people like Lorne Michaels who have decades long careers that have their hand prints all over entire genres, the ones who make up the Great Filter that decides where 90% of the big money goes. Most of those people aren’t very young and I suspect face the same concentration of age problem at the top that our politics experiences.

JKCalhoun 4y ago
I like to pick on "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as the birth of what I call the storyboard film. Characters, dialog, character-interaction, even plot are secondary to the primary construction of the film as a string of storyboarded action sequences. Sure, "Raiders" was unabashed about that. It was reviving the style of serials that were constructed in the same manner. And I think there's a place for those films. Sadly that seemed to become the template for The Blockbuster Film ever since. Then "Pirates of the Caribbean" and their whole franchise took that storyboard model to the point where it became almost a parody. There were so many "climatic battles" in those films that I never had any clue as to when the film was actually about to end. (And we seemed to go past two hours for action films on a regular basis by then as well.) When all the super-hero films started crowding the release schedules they were so bad I stopped going to the theater altogether. :-(
- JetSpiegel 4y ago
  Indeed, the old New Hollywood, the iconoclast directors that were the new hotness (compared to geriatric John Ford and the like), are themselves the old and busted new Old Hollywood, ready for disruption. They did not die as heroes, therefore lasted long enough to become villains.

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I don’t think that critique applies because it’s not really young people driving this stagnation industry side and I don’t think they are the target of the OP’s

by akiselev 4y ago

JKCalhoun 4y ago
I like to pick on "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as the birth of what I call the storyboard film. Characters, dialog, character-interaction, even plot are secondary to the primary construction of the film as a string of storyboarded action sequences. Sure, "Raiders" was unabashed about that. It was reviving the style of serials that were constructed in the same manner. And I think there's a place for those films. Sadly that seemed to become the template for The Blockbuster Film ever since. Then "Pirates of the Caribbean" and their whole franchise took that storyboard model to the point where it became almost a parody. There were so many "climatic battles" in those films that I never had any clue as to when the film was actually about to end. (And we seemed to go past two hours for action films on a regular basis by then as well.) When all the super-hero films started crowding the release schedules they were so bad I stopped going to the theater altogether. :-(
- JetSpiegel 4y ago
  Indeed, the old New Hollywood, the iconoclast directors that were the new hotness (compared to geriatric John Ford and the like), are themselves the old and busted new Old Hollywood, ready for disruption. They did not die as heroes, therefore lasted long enough to become villains.