- there's no secondary market for VHS & DVD anymore. Almost all the money has to be made on opening weekend
- in recent years, content has become preachy instead of focusing on being entertaining
Netflix & Amazon movies are ultra-low quality; you couldn't pay me to watch it. A quality Hollywood production that was made to entertain instead of persuade can still easily outcompete tech company movies
> in recent years, content has become preachy instead of focusing on being entertaining
I'm not sure I feel this? From my perspective, the Marvel films feel like a counter example, where they only care about the "entertainment" (arguably the opening weekend!), and there's no lasting quality to them. Each one individually is a reasonable way to pass 2 hours, but they feel like junk food films, I don't feel better for having watched them.
The alternative is things like A24's output, which one may call "preachy", but while I might not enjoy them in the same way as turning my mind off in front of Avengers 8: Avenge Harder-er, they have a much bigger impact on my life and satisfy me much more as a viewer.
How much is the secondary market for streaming? When Netflix picks up a major studio release, how much do they pay? Or if it's available on Youtube/Amazon, how much do they make on that?
(All of this is made weirder by the fact that half of the biggest movies every year come out of Disney and go straight to its own service.)
Call it what you will but doing the above for reasons of “representation” or “education” rather than entertainment is simply not a fun experience for anyone, even the self-righteous people making those films.
A business needs a laser focus on how it adds value to its customers or it’ll die.
You may very well think that and keep going to the movies, but a large segment of the population sees this as explicit and implicit criticism of aspects that are integral to themselves (white skin, a Y chromosome, conservative beliefs) and won't watch anymore.
Learn nothing and you'll keep losing. You'll never leave 40-60% of the population "behind" (who are you to define "the problem"? What's next, "the solution"? Chilling and revealing language) and it's outrageous this notion ever occurred to you in the first place.
There was only progress. The only people who were losing were lowkey bigots in denial who can't handle change. Bigots might be in charge for the next 4 years, but the pendulum will swing much more forcefully in the opposite direction as a result for the subsequent 8 years. The march of progress is inevitable.
I won't be engaging with you again after this due to your views.
- there's no secondary market for VHS & DVD anymore. Almost all the money has to be made on opening weekend
- in recent years, content has become preachy instead of focusing on being entertaining
Netflix & Amazon movies are ultra-low quality; you couldn't pay me to watch it. A quality Hollywood production that was made to entertain instead of persuade can still easily outcompete tech company movies