“If you don’t use real actors, you are just watching cartoons”
Considering hollywoods’ obsession with comic book movies (for lack of creativity), cartoons are about all they’re putting out anyway, wouldn’t you agree?
This is part of what has put the Hollywood on a downward spiral. The big studios have mostly been taken over by the streamers, which are Big Tech platforms run by non-movie people. The loss of creativity is serious. For all its faults, the movie industry used to be run by people who lived, ate, and breathed movies. The best of them wanted to do something of lasting value -- to reach for cinema as art -- while recognizing the need to sell tickets and put butts in seats. That meant accepting the discipline of connecting with the audience. Now, however, the industry is dominated by mega corporations with subsidiaries in the subscription business, and it shows: lowest common denominator fare for generic global audiences.
I need to update my movie recommendation list before I repost it, but I started this several years ago in response to the common freeper lament that Hollywood hasn't made a good movie in ages. Good movie are still being made, but finding them in the blizzard of hackwork and cash grabs churned out by the streamers is the trick.
The best stuff today, IMHO, is coming from the independent studios, not the Big Tech quantity over quality streamers. DEI can't touch a writer-director team of one. I'm heading out for a few hours but will try to loop back in later.
The content of the movie and how a movie is made are two very different things. I agree whole-hardheartedly that their content is abysmal at this time. All they have to do is dip into millions of decent novels in order to have fresh and wholesome content. It would be interesting to discover the reasons they don't do that.