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Everything is shit. Quality is down and prices are up.
People gladly have been lowering their standards for years so those profiting off of them can make even more money.
Most actors are awful these days. Like, look at Chris Pratt lmao. That guy is terrible but very popular among children and manchildren.
We don't have this generations' Tom Hanks yet.
The only way to watch live action stuff that isn't kiddie-bullshit is to watch things in other languages. They still have integrity and aren't just loading their actors up on cocaine to cover up bad acting.
This is probably the worst take I've ever heard. It's actually amazing how much i disagree with almost everything you've written here.
And, Tom Hanks is still acting, Tom Hanks is literally this generations Tom Hanks.
There's so much excellent acting and directing in the world at the moment i just can't fathom how you have come to your conclusions.
I'm sorry, we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
Hope you like the new marvel movie coming out.
Yes, only marvel movies come out now. Everything else is actually banned at the moment. Christ, your takes are fucking awful.
Banshees of Inisherin? The Whale? Everything Everywhere All At Once? Succession? The Bear?
There's loads of great acting out there. Maybe the issue is you're buying tickets to Chris Pratt instead of other things?
The big name movies now are so cringeworthy and require zero thought on the part of the viewer. I'd be almost embarrassed to go watch them. The worst part is that I used to watch them because there was just nothing else to see, until one day I was so bored that I walked out of the theatre. To my surprise, I was even approached and given a refund by the manager without asking... maybe they watched it too and understood the pain.
You are equating "big name" with quality. That has almost never been true since movie blockbusters became a thing. Go ask any movie history buff/expert. You are very wrong if you think blockbusters were some kind of artsy tear jerkering, mind bending, raved over by critics products. They've almost always been formulaic.
But the first blockbuster movie is an arthouse masterpiece that really makes you look deep within yourself and wonder how big a shark could actually be.
Jaws. It was Jaws.
But are those the things that get marketing? I'm with you on loving that content, but none of the main theatres in my area (a city of 7 million) even show them. A couple will put them into the standard screen theatres at oddball times to fulfill their contracts, but the good content is in the local dollar theatres where, of course, the movie gets less traffic.
I think what they're saying is that the movies that you're "supposed" to watch are things like those god awful Harry Potter prequels (literally any fanfic amateur could have written them better), the ten thousandth Marvel movie (seriously, just stop), or those Adam-Sandler style low effort white trash movies that run solely on the recognition of the probably male and supposedly "so talented" lead actor.
But are those the things that get marketing? I'm with you on loving that content, but none of the main theatres in my area (a city of 7 million) even show them. A couple will put them into the standard screen theatres at oddball times to fulfill their contracts, but the good content is in the local dollar theatres where, of course, the movie gets less traffic.
I think what they're saying is that the movies that you're "supposed" to watch are things like those god awful Harry Potter prequels (literally any fanfic amateur could have written them better), the ten thousandth Marvel movie (seriously, just stop), or those Adam-Sandler style low effort white trash movies that run solely on the recognition of the probably male and supposedly "so talented" lead actor.
When most people pick movies to watch in a theatre it's typically based on which movie no one will object to. So it needs a bit of action, a bit of romance, a bit of comedy... It also needs to have brand/actor recognition. So you get Marvel. There's nothing wrong with this, but it's a different market from the one you're in.
Chris Pratt is definitely not a great actor, he's mediocre at best. However, he's in tons of blockbuster movies so that's why he's popular, not necessarily because people think he's talented.
The other stuff you said is just nonsense. There are tons of great, well written, acted, and directed movies. You just have to look outside the mainstream/blockbuster releases. If you only focus on the big releases from major studios like Disney, then yeah you'll think that it's nothing but shallow garbage. But there's way more content nowadays, so it's harder to sift thru the massive diluge of content out there.
There are not 'tons.' There is very few quality content out there these days.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's becoming harder and harder to find in a sea of shit perpetuated by people with low standards.
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/year/filtered
As a gen X I can tell you that quality is not down and that you have tunnel vision. Go watch some 80s/90s shows lmao. Most are garbage, with only a few gems. It has definitely gotten better as competition increased.
There's a bit of a point there, though. As summarized by Futurama,
Hollywood caters to what people want. What people want is often not "good".
We remember the good movies and forget the schlock. We remember 1976 as "Taxi Driver" and not "The Gumball Rally".
Um. So watch other languages. They have integrity and.no coke. Cause coke actors.. they are low paid and have to stay up and beat their bodies down to get paid.
Got it. This is fascinating fabrications Your imaginations almost rivals your thoughts.
Ok. Believe what you want and watch what you want.