Why did Hollywood become so boring ?

[MrPancake]

I don't get it.

The money is there so WTF ?

I'm tired of watching garbage.

Can't find anything recent that doesn't suck a$$.

[John Drake]

Many reasons. Not least is the sameness of the product. Movies (and TV) look the same (washed out grayscaling the photography), by the numbers casting, juvenile storylines, and refusal to give the customer what they want.

[OneMoreFarang]

 

 

[mikebike]

Wow. I have so many shows and movies lined up, I know I won't be able to watch everything I've got. No issues in movie land for me 😎

[MrPancake]

11 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Wow. I have so many shows and movies lined up, I know I won't be able to watch everything I've got. No issues in movie land for me 😎

 

Share your list, dude 👍

[Dolf]

Culture died in 2005. Game over. We were all born too late. 

[mikebike]

31 minutes ago, MrPancake said:

 

Share your list, dude 👍

Nah, they way this thread is going, I'll let y'all find your own entertainment.

 

There is an extensive thread on AN which renews annually on this topic.

[BE88]

16 minutes ago, Dolf said:

Culture died in 2005. Game over. We were all born too late. 

Agree.

[NoDisplayName]

South Park already covered this.

 

 

 

[sirineou]

1 hour ago, MrPancake said:

I don't get it.

The money is there so WTF ?

You are not the demographic (I assume you are older) movies are made for. Like anything else the primary concern of the producers is to make money , and out age group is not the Group that goes to the movies a lot. 

So they want to spend as little as possible, and make as much as possible.

No different than if you were a movie producer,

 

Finally  , they seem to be running out of ideas. Pretty much everything has been made. 

I have not watched a movie since I don't remember when. 

[Dolf]

John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Hendrix vs Chick flicks, Jake Paul and Taylor Swift. The current era is so bad.

[MrPancake]

5 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

South Park already covered this.

 

 

 

 

Kennedy should do porn.

She got the right type of face for it.

[sidjameson]

Finite pool of money to invest in movies. 

Every investor wants a sure return.

Investors choose what's made. Therefore Spiderman 24.

 

On the upside indie film all over the world is thriving.

 

Try Mubi...never ending supply of high quality films

[bbko]

2 hours ago, MrPancake said:

I don't get it.

The money is there so WTF ?

I'm tired of watching garbage.

Can't find anything recent that doesn't suck a$$.

How or what are you using to watch movies/tv shows?

I had Netflix (no vpn) for over a year and it was ok, but in the past few months got IPTV/Firestick and it blows the doors off of my Netflix,  My IPTV has over 2000 movies/tv shows ready to watch at the press of a button. 

[narkeddiver]

Most of Hollywood output over the years has been for the mass market and are boring - if you look at any given decade the majority of films will be unappealing 

 

the interesting films have always been independent or foreign 

[MrPancake]

12 minutes ago, bbko said:

How or what are you using to watch movies/tv shows?

I had Netflix (no vpn) for over a year and it was ok, but in the past few months got IPTV/Firestick and it blows the doors off of my Netflix,  My IPTV has over 2000 movies/tv shows ready to watch at the press of a button. 

 

I'm watching everything on Fmoviesz.to
Last film I've watched was Road House.

I thought "Well, can't go wrong with Jake Gyllenhaal".

Yeah my a$$...

Terrible !!!!!

[MrPancake]

2 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

and here i thought projecting was a thing that a film machine did. 

 

😄

[CharlieH]

Trolling comments and responses removed.

[freeworld]

19 minutes ago, MrPancake said:

 

I'm watching everything on Fmoviesz.to
Last film I've watched was Road House.

I thought "Well, can't go wrong with Jake Gyllenhaal".

Yeah my a$$...

Terrible !!!!!

Agree that was an awful film and Conor McGregor, this is what some reviews write

 

"Jake Gyllenhaal almost makes a 'Road House' remake seem like a good idea -- and then Conor McGregor shows up."

 

The version with Patrick Swayze was much much better.

[liddelljohn]

The death of independent productions  is the cause of boring films ,,

The formulaic Big studios  productions are all the same <deleted> 90% of the time

no imagination  zero creativity  just chasing money

[sirineou]

Not boring. Boring  to you if you are a certain age.

" This statistic is significant in understanding the movie-going habits of North American audiences. It highlights the fact that a large portion of moviegoers are from the 12-24 age group, indicating that this demographic is a key target for movie studios and distributors."

https://gitnux.org/movie-audience-statistics/#:~:text=This statistic is significant in,for movie studios and distributors.

 

[malibukid]

a few good smaller films manage to get made.  The Holdovers is a good example. won an Oscar for best supporting actor.

[malibukid]

15 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Not boring. Boring  to you if you are a certain age.

" This statistic is significant in understanding the movie-going habits of North American audiences. It highlights the fact that a large portion of moviegoers are from the 12-24 age group, indicating that this demographic is a key target for movie studios and distributors."

https://gitnux.org/movie-audience-statistics/#:~:text=This statistic is significant in,for movie studios and distributors.

 

HBO, Netflix produce some outstanding series.  Sorpanos, Breaking Bad, Feud, Better Call Saul

[champers]

I am waiting for the film version of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm not holding my breath.

[thaibeachlovers]

13 hours ago, MrPancake said:

I don't get it.

The money is there so WTF ?

I'm tired of watching garbage.

Can't find anything recent that doesn't suck a$$.

They got taken over by the woke.

Now it's all about how great women are.

 

They even took a childhood story I loved and ruined it ( Swallows and Amazons ) with nonsense about German spies and changed the characters into nasty kids. The 1974 version was way better.

 

[sirineou]

13 minutes ago, malibukid said:

HBO, Netflix produce some outstanding series.  Sorpanos, Breaking Bad, Feud, Better Call Saul

As I  perhaps inarticulately tried to say, that it might not be that the movies are bad, but that they seem bad to some people  and some age groups, because that's not what we grew up with and are familiar with. 

No doubt, some good stuff on many other outlets also.

  The many different outlets are also a problem because it dilutes the client base and consequently the  budgets involved. 

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, Dolf said:

Culture died in 2005. Game over. We were all born too late. 

What happened in 2005? I was watching a lot of great movies back then. Covid did ruin movies though. They are so bad now I haven't watched any in a cinema since Top Gun 2. The tickets are too expensive for what we get.

 

I did watch Elvis on DVD though, and it was OK.

[thaibeachlovers]

6 minutes ago, sirineou said:

As I  perhaps inarticulately tried to say, that it might not be that the movies are bad, but that they seem bad to some people  and some age groups, because that's not what we grew up with and are familiar with. 

No doubt, some good stuff on many other outlets also.

  The many different outlets are also a problem because it dilutes the client base and consequently the  budgets involved. 

No, most of them are bad, actually bad. They just became too PC.

 

These days I don't really watch Hollywood anymore. I watch Japanese and Korean movies and series.

[Sharp]

Wait until uiu find out what Hollywood is REALLY all about.

Ricky Gervais touched on it a while back!!

[Ben Zioner]

13 hours ago, Dolf said:

Culture died in 2005. Game over. We were all born too late. 

Movie theatres are gone. The Tiktok video format killed them. 

 

Was shocked when the absurd 4/3 format bounced back, and devastated bu the 1/2.