Mastodawn

I know 100% that people will argue with me over this, but I miss when movies were professionally lit, when actors were intentionally blocked, and when more than teal, orange and beige were allowed to be on the screen. The medium has something to do with it--film made a lot of these things fundamentally necessary--but I think it's more complex than just that. The last few years' movies are just not pleasant to look at, with very few exceptions, and the change occurred sometime around 2015.

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Vincent 🌻🇪🇺 en 🌹☘️Mar 15

@Gargron You place that cutoff remarkably late. Otherwise, who do you expect to argue? I won’t

Money is the reason. Movies have become investment vehicles, and investors want safety. Thus aiming for the biggest audiences, and most people want slop. Not just the looks, the storylines, characters, anything, aren’t much better.

Am I too cynical? Think not

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Raven667

@photovince @Gargron

Just trying to collect my thoughts to see if there is anything there.

im going to agree that most movies are slop, and movie companies are just trying to make money, but that is how its always been, the old studio system was built on having new movies to show every week and most were formulaic prior to TV and streaming. Then after the censors were kicked out they could compete on novelty, but that was only a small percentage of films, most are straightforward schlock, sequals and genre exploitation. The film companies just want to sell tickets, if some artistic expression happens in the process thats just a bonus.

I think what is happening is that the expectations are changing because of home video streaming, if you want everyday stories you can get that at home, so movies are only supposed to be the most novel, most prestigious films, or the biggest crowd pleasers, whatever gets people out of their private homes and into theatres. Christopher Nolans sound mixing choices are novel even if they arent good for filmgoers. Streaming allows films with small audiences to find them over time, but films for theatres have to be popular to justify the investment, there just arent enough people getting their entertainment from theatres to justify the investment.