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> Fund the movie on the condition your child acts in it. The customer of such a movie isn’t the audience but the wealthy patron sponsoring the movie. I suspec

• atoav 1y ago
  As a film maker who studied film, the reason why so many movies are so bad are manyfold: - making movies is hard. A lot of things that require years to master need to go right. A *ton* of tech is involved. - making movies is expensive. Money alone won't make you a good movie, but many productions are so on the edge that some choice they had to make for monetary reason will cause the bad. - making movies is complex, that means making a masterful one requires multiple botched attempts and experiences by all people involved. These botched attempts are also what you see. I can't stress enough how hard making a movie is, even in comparison to complicated tech problems, programming etc.
  • blueboo 1y ago
    But it’s also never been easier, cheaper, simpler. So it’s not obvious that these dynamics relate to how the middle has been hollowed out
• dsign 1y ago
  So many movies are bad because their customer is, intellectually, the minimum common denominator. It's a miracle that movie plots don't consist entirely of grunts, chest pumping and farts, but we are getting closer and closer every year. Most block-busters have an awful lot of primal violence in them, but I bet you can't remember when was the last time any of them had any accurate, actual science.