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Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.
by dmos62 4mo ago
Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.
- ffsm8 4mo ago[flagged]
- MajorTakeaway 4mo agoU.S. population pyramid graph is sobering enough.
- gverrilla 4mo agoSpeak for yourself.
- redsocksfan45 4mo ago[dead]
- RankingMember 4mo agoAnecdotally, the people I talk to outside the U.S. see the film industry there as stuck in a Disney/Marvel pattern for the most part. Sure, there are good films, but there's a lot of cynical slop being turned out too and it's become so prevalent that it's a bit of a joke at this point. I blame the stagnation on the extreme consolidation of media companies.
- esskay 4mo ago"Their movies" Meanwhile a huge portion of them are filmed in other countries, edited by brits, staring europeans, etc. There's a good reason major studios have spent billions on film studios in the UK instead of the US. Take something like Andor. Filmed in the UK and Spain, with a team of staff almost exclusively from the UK and EU. With a Mexican lead actor, 1 American co-lead, and then tons of British Actors, a few Australians, Swedish, German, Irish, etc. Very few big movies or tv shows can be classed as "American" these days. They require people and facilities from all over the place.
- marysol5 4mo agoStill US studios who put their money behind projects. In reality they're just off-shoring costs, but it's still "American".
- nitwit005 4mo agoYou can always ruin your advantages. People seem to currently like a lot of US culture and dislike the US (or, it's government at least).
- orbital-decay 4mo agoEven if that's true, the influence is on the decline. It's a combination of factors: fewer and fewer era-defining works and simply novel messages to tell, franchises sucked dry, games and youtube replacing movies.
- lII1lIlI11ll 4mo agoLess and less though. New-ish Hollywood movies started feeling like a slop before ChatGPT was released with all their endless "Batman vs Pikachu"-likes.