It's scary how all of entertainment is being subsumed under one company
Get ready for the next generation to grow up thinking it's normal that any media they watch is either a self-serious "comedy" about how it's okay to feel (unless you're mad at the system, which is toxic yikes), or a freakin epic girlboss superhero movie (funded by the DoD) where all of the dialogue is like "Erm yeah. I'm thinking that just happened."
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They do be in fact be capable of flight perhaps flying in fact they do be
Anyone who has a problem with Tremors 3 has a problem with me and I suggest they marinate on that.
the generation that grew up on endless wholesome family comedies about a lawyer who meets a talking dog and learns to pay more attention to his suburban upper middle class white family ain't doing much better
Referring to Captain Marvel, which was used to make a bunch of ads for the Air Force.
What's worse, an epic girlboss movie funded by the DoD or one that's funded by the IDF?
DoD has a way farther reach than the IDF, so they "win" by default
I'm going to go with DoD because US-made movies have more influence and there are more of them. Unless the IDF is also funding almost every action movie and I'm just not aware of it.
Any movie that has military equipment or personnel in it is partially funded by the Department of Defense. The movie has to have their permission to film that equipment, and the permission always comes with strings attached.
I personally can't wait for Top Gun 2's critique of the military industrial complex.
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I love it. It's easier to nationalize one company than six.
We love that they do this for us, dont we folks? Amazon set up the perfect logistics system for us with central control, Walmart too, now Disney has even given us the perfect vehichle for mass entertainment. We just have to take it!
Remember when Pixar used their fictional company Buy'N Large as a warning against monopolizing companies destroying the Earth
That was a fun time
Pixar is one example of no matter how cool or noble or woke a business owner is, they will ALWAYS ALWAYS sell out to a megacorp eventually.
I'd also to point to nearly every organic food company - I think a lot of them start with good ideals but now they are all owned by corps. Even Applegate got bought by fucking Hormel.
I watched one of those big trailer videos on youtube where it just shows dozens of trailers for ucoming movies, and it was one of the most depressing things (outside of actually, genuinely horrible shit) I've seen in a while.
Trailer-after-trailer for movies I felt like I'd already seen, more superhero bullshit I don't care about, fucking unlimited particle effects. Never-ending particle effects. Fuckin' fwoosh here's a fucking particle effect, oooh! I just imagine the underpaid CG workers toiling away trying to make shit look nice, and the feedback they get is, "no, we need more fucking particle effects! there aren't enough glowing flecks of shit flying around in that shot!"
Particle effects? I prefer PRACTICAL effects over CGI if that’s what you are saying.
And yes, Hollywood films are shit. The last time there was a full year with a sold line up was probably in 1999, and that was forever ago
When I say particle effects, I'm talking specifically about the swirly GC dust-stuff in way too many movies. It's typically used to depict magical energies and bullshit like that. I think there are some producers who maybe think "particle effects = good special effects", literally just a "look at all that shit" mentality.
Here's an example of too goddamn many particle effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KdYm_BUZS4
Also that was the most memorable and interesting trailer from the whole compilation I watched, and that shit looks hella lame.
I'm sorry but what the fuck is Cosmoball did they rip off Blitzball from FFX because thats what it looks like
ah its russian no wonder its crap (its ok I'm from kazakhstan I'm allowed to talk shit about russians)
Yeah I know the bit, they figured out how to do that like 15 years ago and have been running with it ever since
also like 70% is capeshit if you include dc and kingsman (which I liked but it's still basically capeshit). Pls God stop with the comic book adaptations.
The average viewers have to burn out with this type of movie eventually. It's like how in the 50s and 60s almost every TV show was a Western, but eventually Blazing Saddles came along and completely discredited the genre.
We’ve been in the “other companies try to rush the EU thing marvel spent ten years making” phase for quite some time now
my favorite trend for movies that involve non-dystopic vision increasingly being filmed outside the U.S. and pretending to take place in the U.S. (like how Hallmark's stand-in for small town USA is the Vancouver suburbs) while any movie needing to show a decaying shithole with rusted out infrastructure in a sad sack world is filmed in the US.
and I am here for it, waiting for my fellow citizens to notice we live in a dystopian set piece watching footage of other countries, thinking it's our own.
What ever happened to Independent Movies? For a while it seemed like they were gonna be the new really big thing and change cinema for the better, but it seems like Indie Movies just kinda fizzled out, haven't heard anything about them in years.
