I thought about it, but I didn’t see it so I didn’t feel qualified to list it. In a lot of ways we exist in a golden age of weird and interesting movies because we’re all so exhausted of safe movies meant for the lowest common denominator, but the hard part is finding out about those movies as they come out because movie promotion and distribution is so broken. The most common way for a movie to get promotion is a trailer in front of another movie. But we’re not really going to the movies anymore as a society because we’re tired of safe common denominator movies, but since we’re not going to the movies anymore, the studio system is leaning HARDER into safe movies they know will get some return and aren’t spending money promoting the weird shit because they don’t even know if we’ll watch the weird shit.
I’d love a studio to gamble everything on promoting a weird movie on network TV, the radio, and on billboards (the most effective forms of promotion) to reach people who want to see new interesting things but just don’t know what new interesting things are going on. I really think at this point movie execs fundamentally misunderstand the movie landscape in a post Avengers: Endgame world
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I thought about it, but I didn’t see it so I didn’t feel qualified to list it. In a lot of ways we exist in a golden age of weird and interesting movies because we’re all so exhausted of safe movies meant for the lowest common denominator, but the hard part is finding out about those movies as they come out because movie promotion and distribution is so broken. The most common way for a movie to get promotion is a trailer in front of another movie. But we’re not really going to the movies anymore as a society because we’re tired of safe common denominator movies, but since we’re not going to the movies anymore, the studio system is leaning HARDER into safe movies they know will get some return and aren’t spending money promoting the weird shit because they don’t even know if we’ll watch the weird shit.
I’d love a studio to gamble everything on promoting a weird movie on network TV, the radio, and on billboards (the most effective forms of promotion) to reach people who want to see new interesting things but just don’t know what new interesting things are going on. I really think at this point movie execs fundamentally misunderstand the movie landscape in a post Avengers: Endgame world