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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Imho mainly American movies and TV Shows. Some countries with banger shows and movies:

  • UK
  • Korea
  • The Netherlands
  • Japan
  • Serbia [ ;) ]

I think that Hollywood mainly lost two things:

  • Their Guts
  • Creativity

In those foreign countries i find movies that do stuff i never tought they would do, Some even truly shock me. And that is what i look for in a movie, Thought and emotion provocation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s less a problem of lack of creativity, and more an issue with paying for it. Studios don’t take chances anymore. They will only pay to churn out bad versions of known IP because they are cheap cowards. Until the money and power gets back to the creatives, this will only get worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

s a problem of lack of creativity, and more an issue with paying for it. Studios don’t take chances anymore. They will only pay to churn out bad versions of known IP because they are cheap cowards. Until the money and power gets back to the creatives, t

If you want to make something remarkable you have to take risks indeed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, over half of Korean content could be described as slushy romcoms. It constantly bangs the same drum lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed i was more talking about stuff like:

  • The Whailing
  • Parasite
  • Old Boy (Korean version)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The Glory and Crash Landing On You were superb though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Japanese anime is learning too many of worst lessons from American media:

  • One short season with a limited number of episodes, followed by a 2-5 year hiatus
  • More popular than ever, yet 95% of it is crap
  • Constantly chasing trends, like driving isekai into the dirt for the past ten years

Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of good stuff out there, and some of these bad habits already existed. But, it's more pronounced now.

I don't think we'll ever see another excellent mega-series like Naturo or One Piece or Bleach again. Not when they are going to take long breaks after 10-12 hours of episodes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Yes, plenty of recent articles about its demise. It is all consolidated now into a few big studios who don't want to take risks, mainly because they see the writing on the wall for their future. Not to mention, a lot of other countries are producing Hollywood type shows and movies now, France for one example. Streaming, and eventually AI, which will put the last nail in their coffin, will totally transform what we know as "Hollywood" today into a relic, or a lesser producer, of the past.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honestly, for years I've been saying "Hollywood is dead". What I mean by that, is back in the day when people had nothing what to do for entertainment, they went to the movies. It was an event, and if you didn't see the movie while it was in theaters, you had to wait months for it to be released on video to be in the know about a film. It was a thing to keep up with all the glitz and glammor of the celebs. As content changed, today's younger crowd are not into movies or the life of the actors. Now, kids could care less and look more towards instagram content creators, not to mention have zero attention span. They see most movies in clips on tik tok.

I had a convo similar to this with a friend and told him the same thing, young ppl don't care about Hollywood (nor should they) and told him I bet my 20 year old niece doesnt even know who (I can't remember who it was but it was a big a list star with a great career. Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt or something along those lines) is. I asked her, she had no clue who i was taking about. I'm in my 30s.

Anyways, the industry needs to figure out how to lower its budgets to become profitable again I feel. I'm ok with it dying, too much content to consume these days it's hard for me to get excited to see acting, let a alone most of it seems phoned in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The article (and the headline) is about entertainment jobs moving away from Los Angeles to other cities, not about the entertainment industry at large.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Hollywood killed off the "movie star" on purpose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOx1w24MiGE&t=1463

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The best of TV is still really good.

Also you are generalizing a lot. For instance, I know a few young folks who are into older TV. I find this fascinating, as they really have more access to the world’s back catalog, and more means to sort through it, than other generations ever have.

…I’m less enthusiastic about movies specifically. The big ones people actually discuss are like Marvel junk food, and I find that TV has much more time to build and play with characters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Individual actors as personalities have less star power, and are less prominent culturally because there's more competition now. There's indeed still a lot of high quality modern TV series around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low, with some suggesting the city might go the way of Detroit

Hyperbole a bit? Detroit was entirely reliant in the manufacturing sector, where Los Angeles has a much larger and much more diverse economy.

Soon before his return to the White House, Trump described Hollywood as “a great but very troubled place” and declared that Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight would be his “eyes and ears”, helping to bring it back “bigger, better, and stronger than ever before!”

I hope these three give a press conference together, I can't wait to hear the batshit crazy that comes out of their mouths. They look like death's knocking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Has been for a long time.