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>Sounds like the German film Das Boot is a winner (the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front is also amazing. Looks like the German film industry is

>Sounds like the German film Das Boot is a winner (the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front is also amazing. Looks like the German film industry is doing well). It is? By what metric? Yes, Das Boot is a fantastic movie, but it came out around 1980; that's about 45 years ago now! The new AQotWF movie has great reviews too. It just came out within the last year I think. That's two great movies in a 50-year period. This is not what I would call "doing well". There might be a few more examples of good German movies, but overall I would not call the German film industry world-leading by any means.

ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
Fair enough, but I have watched quite a bit of German stuff, lately, thanks to Netflix and Amazon. I’m sure that the driver is lower cost, but the shows have still been excellent. There’s also the rather interesting English-language Spanish stuff that Netflix has been broadcasting, and some great Scandinavian stuff (I preferred In Order of Disappearance to Cold Pursuit, even though the American version was quite faithful to the original). I know that Hollywood has been doing a lot of of offshore development (just like Silicon Valley—for the same reason), which has likely been training non-US artists in American production techniques and sensibilities (just like Silicon Valley).
- pjc50 1y ago
  I have a slightly more negative take on the same (positive!) phenomenon of non-English origin content becoming more popular with English audiences: the ability of Hollywood to actually complete and deliver projects is deteriorating, especially among mid-size productions and TV series that don't cost millions of dollars per episode. (also K-drama and telenovella plotting just absolutely trashes focus-grouped US streamer TV insipidness)
  - ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
    The Korean stuff has excellent production value, but, for some reason, I haven't really been able to get engaged with it.
  - shiroiuma 1y ago
    >the ability of Hollywood to actually complete and deliver projects is deteriorating It's the same with everything in America these days.

ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago

Fair enough, but I have watched quite a bit of German stuff, lately, thanks to Netflix and Amazon. I’m sure that the driver is lower cost, but the shows have still been excellent. There’s also the rather interesting English-language Spanish stuff that Netflix has been broadcasting, and some great Scandinavian stuff (I preferred In Order of Disappearance to Cold Pursuit, even though the American version was quite faithful to the original). I know that Hollywood has been doing a lot of of offshore development (just like Silicon Valley—for the same reason), which has likely been training non-US artists in American production techniques and sensibilities (just like Silicon Valley).

pjc50 1y ago
I have a slightly more negative take on the same (positive!) phenomenon of non-English origin content becoming more popular with English audiences: the ability of Hollywood to actually complete and deliver projects is deteriorating, especially among mid-size productions and TV series that don't cost millions of dollars per episode. (also K-drama and telenovella plotting just absolutely trashes focus-grouped US streamer TV insipidness)
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
  The Korean stuff has excellent production value, but, for some reason, I haven't really been able to get engaged with it.
- shiroiuma 1y ago
  >the ability of Hollywood to actually complete and deliver projects is deteriorating It's the same with everything in America these days.