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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 -
by 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 agoHell, 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 agoAsian 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 agoSquid game was the big breakout. I liked Hell Bound. What else should I look for?