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Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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“It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee,” she added. “Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to fucking want to see those.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart

Wow that's funny because my feeling has always been exactly the opposite. It's why quippy, vapid bullshit like the Avengers and star wars is so popular.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fine art only people are so goddamn exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I love art but sometimes art is bullshit I can watch once and that’s ok. Other times art is shit like avatar that I’ll watch over and over as comfort tv for life because it’s good enough to be worth it. And then other times I’ll gladly spend 4 hours watching the first 2 hours of a 3 hour video on twilight because it’s very artistically dense and my wife and I need to keep discussing the bits of it. Not everything I watch can be the latter, some of the stuff will need to be the former.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait a sec. Obviously you're not talking about Avatar... but are you talking about Avatar, Avatar, or Avatar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Obviously Rama

Nah Aang and Korra

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Natalie has hit it out of the park with her last several videos. Always worth the wait.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Bruh sometimes you need to feed the caveman part of your brain. Smart people know that. The unga bunga spectacle is why you go.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think there's different audiences. You're referring to a general, mainstream audience, while I think she's referring to an audience that would be interested in an artsy film going into it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I have room in my heart for both Paul Thomas Anderson films and Infinity War.

Just because I like a good wine and cheese party doesn’t mean I can’t also appreciate a day at the amusement park.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone believes Madame Web was supposed to be an artsy film.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I honestly haven't seen it but I think the point still stands that there can be different types of audiences with different tastes. It seems like she's afraid everything is going to go the route of Star Wars and Marvel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

You're definitely Professional Movie Reviewer material

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

“Do you post as ‘Magnolia_Fan’ on MoviePoopShoot.com?”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Gonna have to agree here, how else could a movie like Beverly Hills Chihuahua get made and also have two sequels.

Also, while AI wasn't as good as it was 8 years ago check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Unpopular opinion: Beverly Hills Chihuahua knows that it's a stupid movie and leans into it. It's actually kinda funny.