Hollywood is in crisis, but history shows a turnaround is coming. Just like in the 1970s, a new wave of visionary filmmakers is emerging as big-budget blockbusters collapse.
I can't agree with you more: "They are telling human stories with scripts that actually mean something, creating unique set pieces, and doing it all on lower budgets that don’t break the bank."
I love big blockbuster movies, but the more recent ones just aren't good. You mentioned this in a previous post, but movies like Godzilla Minu One tell a human story and have good special effects. Let's have les $300 million movies and better stories!
I appreciate small, artistic films very much, but I take exception to your withering dismissal of the Russo Brothers. It remains to be seen if the ‘New New Hollywood’ is capable of producing anything as impactful and powerful as Infinity War and Endgame.
I wish I had your optimism. This was something I thought might happen a while ago (I even had a draft called The New New Hollywood) but even if the creative side of things is revolutionised and smaller studios prevail with no interfering film-ambivalent CEOs, there's still the matter of attention spans and pricing. The only films I've seen young people go to see are the exact ones we're hoping start to diminish — Godzilla x Kong, Deadpool and Wolverine, etc.
This gives me hope. I was thinking that we'd all eventually want to watch movies made prior to the 2020s because of AI slop being employed more and more, enthusiastically diving into moral and legal grey areas and demonstrating less salaries spent on work that would otherwise be done by humans. But I hope the love for film by people who are sincere prevails. The new Looney Tunes movie is such an example; this is what can be done when you let artists make the movie they want to call theirs rather than being the product of formulaic marketing.
I'd like this to be true, but I'm skeptical. TV offered an alternative to going to the movies, but people kept going to the movies. Streaming seems poised to kill going to the movies. I want to be wrong, but I sense that movie theaters are headed for the same fate as video rental stores. They won't completely disappear, but there will be far, far fewer theaters, ticket prices will be higher, and most of the fare will be revival showings of old films. A city that may once have had 50 movie theaters will have 3 or 4, and they'll play perhaps one or two new films per year, and show classics the rest of the time.
I offer a different take on this that you may find interesting.
https://cultureshock.substack.com/p/stop-trying-to-save-hollywood
I can't agree with you more: "They are telling human stories with scripts that actually mean something, creating unique set pieces, and doing it all on lower budgets that don’t break the bank."
I love big blockbuster movies, but the more recent ones just aren't good. You mentioned this in a previous post, but movies like Godzilla Minu One tell a human story and have good special effects. Let's have les $300 million movies and better stories!
I appreciate small, artistic films very much, but I take exception to your withering dismissal of the Russo Brothers. It remains to be seen if the ‘New New Hollywood’ is capable of producing anything as impactful and powerful as Infinity War and Endgame.
100% agree on their Avengers films, but they haven’t done anything noteworthy since then and their constant push for AI is off putting.
I wish I had your optimism. This was something I thought might happen a while ago (I even had a draft called The New New Hollywood) but even if the creative side of things is revolutionised and smaller studios prevail with no interfering film-ambivalent CEOs, there's still the matter of attention spans and pricing. The only films I've seen young people go to see are the exact ones we're hoping start to diminish — Godzilla x Kong, Deadpool and Wolverine, etc.
This gives me hope. I was thinking that we'd all eventually want to watch movies made prior to the 2020s because of AI slop being employed more and more, enthusiastically diving into moral and legal grey areas and demonstrating less salaries spent on work that would otherwise be done by humans. But I hope the love for film by people who are sincere prevails. The new Looney Tunes movie is such an example; this is what can be done when you let artists make the movie they want to call theirs rather than being the product of formulaic marketing.
I'd like this to be true, but I'm skeptical. TV offered an alternative to going to the movies, but people kept going to the movies. Streaming seems poised to kill going to the movies. I want to be wrong, but I sense that movie theaters are headed for the same fate as video rental stores. They won't completely disappear, but there will be far, far fewer theaters, ticket prices will be higher, and most of the fare will be revival showings of old films. A city that may once have had 50 movie theaters will have 3 or 4, and they'll play perhaps one or two new films per year, and show classics the rest of the time.
Would be cool to hear you discuss the ten film leading the charge into this new direction. And why?