Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’
ech@lemm.ee 9 months agoBig money has and will always chase success. That some people don’t like the current trends doesn’t mean it’s the downfall of the industry, and it doesn’t mean things were better or different in the past. And why should we be bothered about trends anyway? Indy film has been killing it for ages now and anybody that cares is looking there for innovation, not at profit driven studios.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 9 months ago
As many people have pointed out, if all the money gets spent on ironman 72, movies like pulp fiction can’t be funded. Yeah indie films are great, but there was also a time that movies in that same vein could reach hundreds of millions in the mainstream, and that impact on culture was a good one imo
ech@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Good things that’s not happening! Again, that you and others aren’t happy with current trends doesn’t mean the industry is dying, or even that it’s objectively worse than it was. Is it really that surprising that the trends today aren’t the same as they were 40 years ago? And in 40 more years, there’ll be entirely different trends. Change is inevitable and fearmongering about it is just pointless. Find the good in it and celebrate the continued success of cinema instead of wallowing in a miserable yearning for something that’s moved on.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 9 months ago
Just because Scorcese frames it as an industry dying doesn’t mean I fully agree with that. I absolutely agree that the overall quality of stories is down and marvel crap is largely to blame. Doesn’t matter if it’s not a new thing for trash media to exist, I can still dislike it
ech@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Ok? If you read my comments, you might see that my point isn’t that people aren’t allowed to like things, though I would recommend against it when it only serves to make them needlessly pessimistic about anything and everything.