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<blockquote data-quote="TaranofPrydain" data-source="post: 398283" data-attributes="member: 51150">I wouldn&#039;t know so much about the modern world of TV via streaming (although it makes sense that with so many shows so many places, stars of new series will be less recognized by the vast majority of the population), and I cannot feign any interest in any internet or reality TV personalities, but I do know the movie world, and that feels close to dead right now.On the one hand, the major studios are in an endless cycle of sequels and remakes, making films that are cynical money ploys to recapture the warm feeling moviegoers had several decades ago. It&#039;s cheap, cynical, crass, and dull.On the other hand, the independent studios make films for the Oscars that have ceased to feel real. They feel cultivated, angry, inorganic. They drip with disdain for humanity in general. They have also removed any decorum of taste.&nbsp; I saw today about a film aimed at Oscars that comes out in December called Nightbitch. Amy Adams plays a woman who loses her mind and thinks she&#039;s a dog, and then proceeds to relieve herself on all fours her neighbor&#039;s front yard because she disagrees with their political views. The studio is calling it a bold statement on the trauma of suburbia and motherhood. What is supposed to be the response to such a thing?In short, to say that movies are good now, you have to drink the Kool-Aid, and, as big of a fan of movies that I am from the 1920s to 2007, I refuse to do it anymore. They took away originality, sensitivity, empathy, literacy, and good actors away from film, and if we&#039;re lucky, we&#039;ve only had 10 films worth saving in the 2020s thus far. The industry has committed suicide.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TaranofPrydain, post: 398283, member: 51150"] I wouldn't know so much about the modern world of TV via streaming (although it makes sense that with so many shows so many places, stars of new series will be less recognized by the vast majority of the population), and I cannot feign any interest in any internet or reality TV personalities, but I do know the movie world, and that feels close to dead right now. On the one hand, the major studios are in an endless cycle of sequels and remakes, making films that are cynical money ploys to recapture the warm feeling moviegoers had several decades ago. It's cheap, cynical, crass, and dull. On the other hand, the independent studios make films for the Oscars that have ceased to feel real. They feel cultivated, angry, inorganic. They drip with disdain for humanity in general. They have also removed any decorum of taste. I saw today about a film aimed at Oscars that comes out in December called Nightbitch. Amy Adams plays a woman who loses her mind and thinks she's a dog, and then proceeds to relieve herself on all fours her neighbor's front yard because she disagrees with their political views. The studio is calling it a bold statement on the trauma of suburbia and motherhood. What is supposed to be the response to such a thing? In short, to say that movies are good now, you have to drink the Kool-Aid, and, as big of a fan of movies that I am from the 1920s to 2007, I refuse to do it anymore. They took away originality, sensitivity, empathy, literacy, and good actors away from film, and if we're lucky, we've only had 10 films worth saving in the 2020s thus far. The industry has committed suicide. [/QUOTE]

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