That's a controversial point there. In the movie industry, they are products intended to make money, after all. I'd also mention advertising, education and propaganda for other jobs.
That's brought up as being a part of the reason they fail, ironically enough.
Eh, I disagree that we're all just waiting for a new surprise. Considering how we keep telling the same stories over and over, for thousands of years, we clearly are perfectly fine with the old faithful stories. We just want them told in a way that is entertaining. I think THAT is the bigger problem, that people don't take the time to craft the classic stories well enough to be engaging. So people find themselves bored, because they are familiar with the elements, even if they don't actually analyze and critique film structure, they're still unconsciously familiar with the tropes. And they get frustrated with the delivery.
This. Besides, this guy ranting in the vid, misses the point of Sturgeon's Law so hard. It's not 99%, it's 90% of everything is crap you dingus!
Funny enough, you're not gonna find many defenders of Hostel III. Even from hardcore Hostel fans. Spiral is getting bad to mediocre reception from critics, movie goers, and fans. I stopped caring for Saw after V, and Hostel I immediately quit after seeing the II.
Yeah, saying 99% is a huge bit of hyperbole. It's assuming that everyone shares that article's taste on what is entertaining. I think one issue a lot of these "film is dead" like Martin Scorscese is they are 1) Way to egotistical, and far up their own ass to smell anything but their own farts, 2) Assuming every film is trying to be the next Citizen Kane. Which I personally find really funny, since I don't know a single person who has ever actually SEEN Citizen Kane, but everyone knows "oh yes, it's totally the greatest film of all time." Yeah, I question that. It's just cultural conditioning at this point.
Except for actual garbage. Pretty sure that's at 100%
Considering I doubt you've actually encountered 99% of everything ever to make that statement, I declare you are 99% full of shit
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Citizen Kane was pretty meh for. The only reason it gets "praise" is to please old fools or people who scared that their high snob filming peers will think less of them for being different. The funny thing was, even for its time, most of the public thought CK was either mediocre or average. I don't when started as a requirement for calling CK the greatest film of all time, but if I had to guess, around the 1970s. The men saying that were either high on weed, their own farts, or both.
Like that "expert" in the video, you're wrong. At max, it's 95% at worst, or if you're really feeling pessimistic and cynical. The only thing that comes close to 95% for me is AAA gaming and maybe anime. Granted, I only see what interests me any way, and most anime does nothing for me. With that said, the anime genre in the old-school days was not perfect either. Racism, cultural stereotyping, dubbing was bad or mediocre, and did start get really good until the mid 90s.
Hey, for all I know it IS the greatest film ever made, I don't know because I've never seen it. And I don't know anyone who has, and I suspect the number of people who HAVE seen it, is dwindling every day. I just mean that in the actual, cultural lexicon of films, OUTSIDE of film students, it's basically non-existent. It has no bearing on their viewing of films, and at best, is a pop culture thing they've likely only heard of through things like Family Guy. And they probably were like "...wtf is that? I guess that's something my parents would get." And just shrug and move on. So trying to make these "masterpieces" is just so much masturbatorial self indulgence.
Funny enough, to my parents, Citizen Kane might as well not even exist.
Yeah, that statement was probably several generations out of date. Because even for me, that movie was "one of those old timey movies that maybe my parents watched, but probably not given their tastes in film." And I'm fucking 45 so, yeah. It's basically a fossil at this point.
I only saw it on... (let's see I can dig the date from the movie review thread) Christmas day 2020! Dissing ground-breaking films because people that like them seem smug about contemporary movies is pretty annoying, tbh, and I think it drives a fault between average movie-goer and so called elitists. Enjoying and praising Citizen Kane, Casablanca, or Breathless is still far from watching art movies that are meant to be the opposite of entertaining because of some artistic merit that only the filmmaker understands. Orson Welles got an amazing deal from the studio at the time that allowed him full creative control to make Citizen Kane. Utilizing that control as well as he did already lifts it above most releases, contemporary or modern.
Filmmakers of today stand on the shoulders of giants. Even though some episodes muck about in obscure world cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey is pretty good especially at demonstrating progress in filmmaking.
