Mastodawn

Countless Screaming Argonauts Jul 28, 2023

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

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bassplayer Jul 28, 2023

@nickwedig Too many streaming services and not enough competent writers to go around.

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LonesomeDove Jul 28, 2023

@bassplayer @nickwedig or.. the budgets from producers drive down creativity.

Consider the clone world of Hallmark movies.. quirky guy/ gal returns home or forced to SmallTown USA .. gotta be white (historically) and grossly cute & hetero

Or action movies .. white domestic terrorists take over WH or similar .. threaten global security blah blah blah .. single champ saves world

Or political thrillers .. see above - first it was USSR, then China, then ME, then home grown.

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bassplayer

@usanchor There will always be the heros Journey its been around forever the problem is todays writers are bad or are hamstrung by studio interference. Gradual over reliance on formula writing seems more producers milking the current popular thing like reality shows or super heros. My wife likes the Hallmark movies, it's not my thing. I'm not mad she watches it. That would be like getting mad at someone liking music you don't like.