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As with similar complaints about film, I can only assume folks complaining that there’s nothing good because lots of the big-budget ones are lazy and bad, eithe

As with similar complaints about film, I can only assume folks complaining that there’s nothing good because lots of the big-budget ones are lazy and bad, either didn’t look very hard, or has super-narrow taste (which is ok! Just… not a problem for me) I can’t even come close to keeping up with the probably-good entries in either category, film or single-player(-friendly) games. They could stop making more and it would be quite a while before that was any kind of problem for me. My backlog gets a ton larger every year.

squidsoup 2y ago
Everyone keeps talking about the death of film by superhero, but what they really mean is the death of Hollywood. There are brilliant directors working today - Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Johnathan Glazer, Lee Chang-dong, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and so many more, they just aren’t American.
- vundercind 2y ago
  Hell, plenty of good American movies come out every year, too. There are a shitload of movies released each year, even just the ones big enough to get noticed nationally or internationally, not just art projects that only play once at a local library or something. It doesn’t take a large proportion of those being good before they’re outpacing the rate at which most people watch movies, even if all that watching goes to movies released in the last year or so—me, I’m also still catching up on the thousands of good-to-great movies released in the first century+ of cinema. Some of the good ones are even Hollywood movies. They just might not be action movies (sometimes they are!) or might not have a super-sized marketing budget, so I guess lots of folks only see the handful that get advertised heavily and figure those are the only movies, but even Wikipedia or IMDB’s list of films released each year are looooong and they don’t capture everything.
- kbolino 2y ago
  Asian media has absolutely exploded. China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan have all put out a lot of good TV and movies in the past few years. It's definitely given me a refuge from the increasing proportion of American and British media that's crap.
  - SV_BubbleTime 2y ago
    Squid game was the big breakout. I liked Hell Bound. What else should I look for?

squidsoup 2y ago

Everyone keeps talking about the death of film by superhero, but what they really mean is the death of Hollywood. There are brilliant directors working today - Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Johnathan Glazer, Lee Chang-dong, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and so many more, they just aren’t American.

vundercind 2y ago
Hell, plenty of good American movies come out every year, too. There are a shitload of movies released each year, even just the ones big enough to get noticed nationally or internationally, not just art projects that only play once at a local library or something. It doesn’t take a large proportion of those being good before they’re outpacing the rate at which most people watch movies, even if all that watching goes to movies released in the last year or so—me, I’m also still catching up on the thousands of good-to-great movies released in the first century+ of cinema. Some of the good ones are even Hollywood movies. They just might not be action movies (sometimes they are!) or might not have a super-sized marketing budget, so I guess lots of folks only see the handful that get advertised heavily and figure those are the only movies, but even Wikipedia or IMDB’s list of films released each year are looooong and they don’t capture everything.
kbolino 2y ago
Asian media has absolutely exploded. China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan have all put out a lot of good TV and movies in the past few years. It's definitely given me a refuge from the increasing proportion of American and British media that's crap.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y ago
  Squid game was the big breakout. I liked Hell Bound. What else should I look for?