I know it's been the trend for low-budget movies for the past 20 years or so (I blame PHONE BOOTH for popularizing it, though it did exist before like LIFEBOAT, ROPE, and REAR WINDOW etc.) but damn is it about time to retire this. Attention spans have never been lower, so why do movies expect us to look at the same place for 90+ minutes?
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No time to die cost 300 million and that film was really crap.
Plus James Bond fans will watch the franchise no matter what, like Star Wars it is a license to print money.
Take a film with an original script, studios do not take any risk at all.
It is all Marvel crap from now on till the public make their mind that that is crap too.
We will end up using the internet and low cost film making sciences to produce original films that will be watched through a pay wall on a website.
Every theater will close down, studios will go bankrupt, crap like Netflix will end. The days of VHS where people spent money, then DVD was the beginning of the end. Hollywood is over is just the $1 billion revenue films that keep the lot going.
Mission Impossible is over. Eventually the franchise system is over.
judging by economics and demographic changes, the whole concept of the feature-length film may soon become extinct. Under-30's people aren't watching long form anymore, spending their time gaming and watching short videos and streams on tiktok and twitch. Add to that, high production costs imposed by unions and a nonstop cavalcade of low-budget schlock gumming up the works and you get movies costing too much and too many of them, so the value to the average person isnt there to sustain the business model.
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You are right, i see it as Gaming for under 30's has more value, they network game play whilst having OmeTV Video Chat running on the side pc, plus a group chat on the phone too.
Their mind is not built to save up, go to a cinema complex, pay a fortune for popcorn which cost pennies to make. Some films have no decent action or stage sets that were constructed, so CG has filled the cost.
I must admit, with my girlfriend we have just walked out the cinema sometimes as little as 20 minutes in, just for pub / bar or stand up comedy. We go to live music venues or cheaper festivals.
The internet has saturated the video content, images and video content is worthless.
When i was young films like T2 blew my mind with CG, because it was done well with prosthetics. Road House on VHS was cool. The new one is just CG shots , poor script and made me hate that type of film.
I do not see it changing.
agreed on all points.
Films and filmmaking also don't hold the mysticism that it used to because it's just so ubiquitous now. When we were kids in the 80's and 90's, filmmaking was extremely rare and actors all seemed to live in a different universe. Now anybody can make a film (the big dividing line used to be video vs. film but the line has gotten blurry because everything is digital) and actors and filmmakers all can't keep their mouths shut on social media. They love to nag and scold about how flyover state people need to live their lives when they all should have been putting their energy into making entertaining things we actually want to watch. It's just another straw on the camel's back to alienate audiences and provide them with content that they have increasingly little demand to see, much less pay for.
Add to that, piracy has never been easier, or even just going to Tubi to skip to the good parts of a film instead of buying the disc/vhs tape like in the olden days. The ads on the streaming platforms ruin the experience of film watching even more by making it disjointed and annoying, and the streamers also keep raising subscription prices, which just pushes people to either pirate or raid the thrift store for ancient DVDs... if they even want to watch movies at all.
Sad to watch an art-form die a death of 1000 cuts. The strikes, AI, bad economy outsourcing, and LA fires have just accelerated it. A friend of mine knows a formerly big Hollywood director who just told him over the weekend "it's over" (meaning Hollywood). All the people he knows are leaving California and leaving film. Hard to see where it's all going but I imagine something to do with AI making instant movies on-demand for every individual, coupled with heavy AI-created ad breaks.
Love them! They are great when done right.
shareI love a good one location movie. One of my favourite types of movie. Burn 2019 was a one from recent memory I really enjoyed.
shareI actually liked Cube (1997) /tt0123755 and it's really a one room set. They just switched on different colored lights to make more rooms cheaply. Now I don't bother with movies with small cast and limited locations.
shareI hate 1-location movies, but will DL this when it comes out!
shareYeah I'll probably end up seeing this too - at least it's a good location in that the scenery outside changes, plus I'll support anything Mel Gibson is a part of.
I'm just tired to Hollywood producers leaping at the chance to finance 1-location movies because it's a cynical movie to save money, more often than not. Your script has a 500% better chance of being greenlit if it can be filmed in 1 location, plus if it has a diverse bipoc tough woman as the lead who doesn't need a man and even gets to beat one up at some point.
If I see a movie has just one location I lose interest. Admittedly, I thought Buried was good (although I'd never rewatch it), and they may be another one or two on top of that; but generally they're not for me.
shareONLY WHEN THEY ARE POORLY EXECUTED.
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