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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Movies SUCK today for these reasons:
1. They are written, cast and filmed for the foreign market, where 75% of the profits exist. The more action and explosions the less sub-titles and therefore more people around the world can watch and understand the film.
2. Movies are filmed today with the DVD release in mind, often filming DVD-only Bonus scenes during principal photography. Therefore there is an internal economic pressure to "fill out" the movie, stretching it too long so there's reason to buy the DVD. This makes the plot, pacing and last act bloated and overwrought.
3. Studios know the only metric that truly determines a film's success, failure or break even is the Opening Weekend box office. Period. So hype the fuck out of a film and get as many asses in the seats that first weekend and the rest is gravy. Besides, what are people going to do? UNwatch the movie and get back two hours of their lives? Hardly.
And I won't even go into the socio-political reason for so many explosions in Hollywood films today. Let's just say the Gov't "supports" such an environment, where constant violence and war help de-sensitize the population.
Blah blah, movies suck today. Carry on.
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I would argue that it is more along the lines of "big studio movies suck in 2015." There are plenty of very good movies being made, but they are harder to find these days and may never get a theatrical release.
Case in point. Go here:
New Movie Releases - Metacritic
That is a list of current movies out right now sorted by average score. There are over 100 movies on that list that rated 61 or higher and are considered by critics and audiences to be good. Obviously there are things there that won't be for everyone or just not your taste, but there have to be a handful of movies on there that you would like and think are good.
The problem is that 15 years ago a lot of the movies would have gotten a wider release and would have slowly built up an audience, but these days with piracy once the movie is out it can be seen everywhere online within a few days and it makes it harder for many of these small movies to build up an audience. So studios aren't as willing to take a chance on them and they would rather bet on something they think is a sure thing to make them money.
There is a lot of truth to what you say, but that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of good movies out there, you just have to go look for them.