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Hollywood is also losing the battle at home. It's been a long time since I watched a Hollywood movie that: - felt genuinely cheerful/optimistic - contained jo

Hollywood is also losing the battle at home. It's been a long time since I watched a Hollywood movie that: - felt genuinely cheerful/optimistic - contained jokes that we clever and funny - did not try to lecture me about politics I can name a lot of Asian or Bollywood movies that fulfill these criteria. Why did Hollywood stop making feel-good comedies?

lwhi 4y ago
What you're describing sounds very asinine. I think it's probably because most consumers don't have such a very sweet tooth.
weare138 4y ago
I don't think it's so much Hollywood stopped making feel-good comedies, Hollywood stopped making good movies. Major studio movies have become overly profit driven to the point everything is derivative, formulaic and repetitive, mindlessly chasing every trend just hoping for a hit.
- the_omegist 4y ago
  I don't think they were philanthropists before... The problem is not wanting to be profit driven : I would argue they are not profit driven anymore. Their political obsessions and their probably poor recruiting process since years has led them to think their ideas and tastes are shared by the majority of people. > mindlessly chasing every trend just hoping for a hit. Again, I find they are pretty consistent with their "post-modernist" trend.
  - weare138 4y ago
    The problem is not wanting to be profit driven Of course they're businesses but now it's gotten to the point the big studios have lost sight of why people enjoyed movies to begin with. Now major movies are developed in marketing departments. Everything is reduced to analytics and metrics. They've stopped being creative and innovative. Their political obsessions But that's only because politics is popular and profitable as of late. Again Hollywood is just chasing whatever trend they can. They're so myopically focused on profit and trying to make movies solely for mindless mass appeal we just end up with movies that don't appeal to anyone.
hulitu 4y ago
> Why did Hollywood stop making feel-good comedies? Because heroic propaganda movies generate the best revenue.
TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Also Hollywood's fight for China damaged its reputation at home as well - i.e. removing/censoring black people from posters in China. Nobody likes hypocrites.
- throwaway4847 4y ago
  And yet Green Book made over $70 million in China and the NBA is extremely popular. Looks like the Hollywood marketing decisions were made by out of touch employees.

lwhi 4y ago

What you're describing sounds very asinine. I think it's probably because most consumers don't have such a very sweet tooth.

weare138 4y ago

I don't think it's so much Hollywood stopped making feel-good comedies, Hollywood stopped making good movies. Major studio movies have become overly profit driven to the point everything is derivative, formulaic and repetitive, mindlessly chasing every trend just hoping for a hit.

the_omegist 4y ago
I don't think they were philanthropists before... The problem is not wanting to be profit driven : I would argue they are not profit driven anymore. Their political obsessions and their probably poor recruiting process since years has led them to think their ideas and tastes are shared by the majority of people. > mindlessly chasing every trend just hoping for a hit. Again, I find they are pretty consistent with their "post-modernist" trend.
- weare138 4y ago
  The problem is not wanting to be profit driven Of course they're businesses but now it's gotten to the point the big studios have lost sight of why people enjoyed movies to begin with. Now major movies are developed in marketing departments. Everything is reduced to analytics and metrics. They've stopped being creative and innovative. Their political obsessions But that's only because politics is popular and profitable as of late. Again Hollywood is just chasing whatever trend they can. They're so myopically focused on profit and trying to make movies solely for mindless mass appeal we just end up with movies that don't appeal to anyone.

hulitu 4y ago

> Why did Hollywood stop making feel-good comedies? Because heroic propaganda movies generate the best revenue.

TheLoafOfBread 4y ago

Also Hollywood's fight for China damaged its reputation at home as well - i.e. removing/censoring black people from posters in China. Nobody likes hypocrites.

throwaway4847 4y ago
And yet Green Book made over $70 million in China and the NBA is extremely popular. Looks like the Hollywood marketing decisions were made by out of touch employees.