Posted on 07/09/2021 9:18:50 AM PDT by Enterprise
"The movie business is over," Diller said in an exclusive interview with NPR on the sidelines of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, a media and technology conference in Idaho. "The movie business as before is finished and will never come back."
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Girl With Gold Boots willl eclipse it.
Que “Boo Hoo’’ girl.
Mine are just four.
“The Thin Man’’
“Casablanca’’.
“The Shawshank Redemption’’.
“Saving Private Ryan’’.
It is dead. Died 30 years ago when they ran out of interesting plots. Now everything is a sequel or a remake.
catnip, you’ve got an impressive list. I’d add:
The Shield
Hidden
Line of Duty
Wisting (Norwegian)
Mystery Road (the 1st series with Judy Davis)
Longmire
Trapped (Icelandic)
It’s more the computer and CGI business than the movie business, anyhow.
I was being very sarcastic. And I’m an actor...
What followed in the 70s was known as “corporate rock”.
Frank Zappa nailed it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0
Television, VCRs, DVDs, Pay-Per-View, TiVo, the Internet, Time-Shifted viewing, and now Streaming have all put nails in it.
You can't have an industry without good writers, actors, directors, and crews and you can't have them without enough of a market to keep them employed.
Why watch some poorly done television show when you can watch Paul Harrell show you his latest tests against the meat target? Why not watch a video or explore websites about something you actually want to learn about instead of viewing flat shows with too many commercials?
Also, why watch someone else's show when you (or your cat) can star in your own mobile phone production that's posted in real time to your viewing audience?
I challenge readers of this post to go back and try to watch shows they previously viewed. Many are so painfully unwatchable.
Exactly this. Great art cannot exist side by side with totalitarianism.
As Diller pointed out, Amazon buying up video content is actually a potential loss leader.
it is suckerbait to get consumers to BUY their annual site subscription plan to get them hooked on buying things FROM Amazon.
* A loss leader strategy involves selling a product or service at a price that is not profitable but is sold to attract new customers or to sell additional products and services to those customers. Loss leading is a common practice when a business first enters a market.
>>It’s more the computer and CGI business than the movie business, anyhow.
Vid-yagame business.
pow pow pow...
vroom vroom...
boom... boom...
i’ll have to check out some of those
i watched the first 2-3 seasons of longmire and quit because they went 100% woke (fires from water wells, etc.) and they changed the motivations and behaviors of ALL the major characters nearly 180 degrees literally overnight at start of 3rd or 4th season ...
I’ve seen some Indie and Foreign movies lately that are pretty solid. Not the crap coming out of Hollywood!
Midway and In Harms Way were remade? If they were, it shows how utterly unaffected I am by Movies. If you think the originals were bad movies, I would disagree.
Trapped was OUTSTANDING
Well I thought “Midway 2019” was pretty good, followed the history better the you normally can expect from Hollyweird. No hokie love story like there was in the Charlton Heston version (The Heston one I did like !). They remade “In Harms Way” ? When? Dunkirk I never saw. I thought 1917 was a good film. The director Sam Mendes did it as a memorial to his grandfather, supposedly based on one of his grandfather’s stories. It certainly was an excellent memorial and a fair representation of WWI.
I’d like to know what you consider not trash !
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