re: It’s amazing how few good movies really come out these days

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Insane how creatively bankrupt Hollywood is right now.

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It's a multi-faceted issue IMO.

1. I feel like a lot of the creative writing for movies has shifted to TV. Particularly to shows that will do 6-10 episodes a season or a limited miniseries and can bring in what used to be big movie starts. There's only so much talent to spread around. Just look at all of the shows on the major streaming services that have guys even like Gary Oldman acting in them.

2. Sadly, the comic book market siphons off a lot of funding. But I'm sure a lot of that is buoyed by their appeal overseas and across multiple markets. And with budgets tightening everywhere, I imagine that doesn't leave much leftover.

3. It's become more and more unaffordable of a family of 3-4 to go to the movies. And when the quality on the screen doesn't match how much I'm spending it's hard to justify.

4. Outside of a handful of movies that need something like IMAX or big screen/sound experience, I can watch a lot of movies in my home theater set up.

5. Studios don't want to take the risk of producing movies that aren't financially making a ton of money. So pretty much anything that isn't a "guarantee" is getting pushed to the back burner. It's sad honestly.

FWIW, RomComs have also gone the way of straight up comedies in movies too.

It's basically death by a thousand cuts.

you're not wrong, just look at the run from 20 years ago(2006-2008)

The Prestige, The Departed, Inland Empire, Volver, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Apocalypto, The Fall, Casino Royale, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Devil Wears Prada, Children of Men, King Kong, Blood Diamond, V for Vendetta, The Descent, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank you for Smoking, Little Children, Borat, Half Nelson, Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of our Fathers, The Last King of Scotland, Persepolis, Grindhouse, No Country for Old Men, Juno, Gone Baby Gone, American Gangster, Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd, 3:10 to Yuma, We Own the Night, Hot Fuzz, Elite Squad, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, [REC], Ratatouille, Lars and the Real Girl, Eastern Promises, The Darjeeling Unlimited, Michael Clayton, Assassination of Jesse James, Bourne Ultimatum, Into The Wild, Atonement, Synecdoche, New York, Burn After Reading, The Hurt Locker, Wall-E, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Mamma Mia!, Gran Torino, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Che, Man on Wire, Iron Man, Milk, In Bruges, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight

Even television was VASTLY superior: The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, The Wire, 24, Dexter, House, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Weeds, The Tudors, The Office, True Blood, Californication were all running at some point in those 3 years

The Iraq War/looming recession likely played a part as entertainment value was at a premium to serve as a distraction, but frick. There's several movies on that list that were barely nominated in their respective years that would have dominated last years Academy Awards. Maybe it's population engineering, shittier entertainment -> boredom -> frick it, might as well have a kid

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FWIW, RomComs have also gone the way of straight up comedies in movies too.

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It's showing some life with films like The Materialist and Regretting You.

I think control of movies must be in the wrong hands. I read great books all the time.

The source material options are endless (original novels) but the studios/stakeholders just won't roll the dice on that type of thing.

I don't know if quality is objectively worse. But when I was younger, I feel like at any given time you look at a movie lineup and it's 90% things you don't know anything about in terms of the content/IP. Now it's the opposite at times.