The Fall Of Modern Hollywood
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Hollywood has fallen and recovered before, but Hollywood is currently failing at an inopportune time of transition. A.I. is advancing, people are fed up with the constant bombardment of social messaging. Streaming has been a failure for most studios. Home theaters are cheaper and better than ever. The writing industry has been turned upside down by a wave of incompetent writers being given jobs way over their heads. CGI houses are burned out and sick of companies like Disney. All of the old guard, talented animators are gone. Movie budgets are out of control and films are losing money in the billions. Will Hollywood recover and what will it look like if it does?
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Napoleon Dynamite cost 400k to make and brought in about 4 million. It's about creativity, which is something they lost a long time ago. Today, all the good talent is retiring and the new generation just has nothing to offer, no skill, no creativity, just expensive effects and a "dare to be stupid" sense of artistry.
So true and also something to be said about the creativity that constrained budgets can inspire. Meanwhile you have Disney blowing through $$$, next to zero storyboarding and then editing films AFTER CGI is finished and not before. Pure stupidity and waste and then they wonder why they’re losing $
The Golden Age of movies was killed by TV....now the Internet is doing great damage to what is left.....UA-cam provides entertainment on thousands of subjects at about $2/day.
Movies can not compete with YT in the long run......most movie theaters will die.
My understanding is that the studio gets a higher percentage of ticket sales in the first few weeks, the theater gets a bigger percentage of ticket sales after a few weeks. Of course the theater gets all of the money from popcorn.
It depends on the studio. But as a rule of thumb, the easiest way to rough calculate box office is the studio gets 50% of the domestic box office and about 40% of the international, with countries like China taking 70% of the box office. Then for marketing it’s anywhere from double the movie budget to 50%-75% depending on what kind of film it is.
Great assessment my friend...I'm an old Gen Xer, born in '67 and was around to witness some of these cinematic changes....personally I think going forward we'll see a rise of independent film studios, removed from Hollywood completely...along with a rise in niche cinematic products....either way, there's no going back.
@@kennayres6132 I completely agree and so does my sister who is a film professor. A.I. is going ti help indie so much, especially to cut costs on production. I’ve always been big into indie films so it’s nice to see them already on the rise. The best thing for film will be decentralizing from Hollywood. That’s why the video game industry is so healthy. It’s completely decentralized. If US studios go off the rails, the Japanese and other Asian markets can meet the demand. It’s a nice way of keeping each other in check. South Korea, India and Japan have been putting out some great films, but it’s a drop in the bucket volume-wise, so Hollywood still holds all the power. As indie studios flourish in other areas, Hollywood’s “out of touch” grip on the film industry will somewhat diminish.
Comic book superhero movies, endless remakes, sequels, and franchises, 'flavor of the month' stars, leftist political propaganda , lousy multiplex 'cinemas', and CGI have destroyed the movies forever. May they rest in peace. Have you ever noticed how every film looks exactly like the last one you`ve seen??
Pretty much what happens when they’re almost all digital and the studios are creatively bankrupt 😂
It really is sad and pathetic
Right political propaganda
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One problem is way too much reliance on CGI. I think if CGI disappeared Marvel would literally go out of business.
There's also way too much reliance on CGI. Without it, Marvel would go out of business. I prefer practical effects. I want to see something that actually looks like it could be there rather than something that is clearly green screened.
Same. CGI used to be a useful tool to enhance practical effects. Now its just a crutch and companies like Disney try and use it to make up for terrible writing. All ends in disaster. Disney was so dumb they were finishing all the CGI and then editing the film, wasting who knows how many hours of CGI time.
I have not watched a Disney produced film or show since 2015's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", and actually really enjoyed it! That being said, I ditched Hollywood and TV entirely in 2018, and ditched Disney back in 2015. It says a lot that the most excited I got for a Disney thing since 2015 was the Cinderella Playmobil Junior set that released this year. Disney's demise has been really entertaining and fun to watch online.
Bill Nighy and Elizabeth Debicki are my favourite actors because they don't get political.
Totally agree with your point about the quality difference with movies shot on film. Looking as gorgeous as they did until the 2010s (thankfully we still have PTA, Nolan, Tarantino, Guadagnino, Shyamalan and Jeff Nichols shooting with it), you can 100% understand why movies felt like special events to get hyped for vs the forgettable and throwaway look that digital gives where you feel indifferent about whether you have time to see a movie or not.
It’s like CD or MP3 vs Vinyl. I have hundreds of CDs and thousands of iTunes MP3’s, but also have 1,000 vinyls. The only time I listen to CDs of MP3s is when I don’t have access to my vinyls
id say its also a refusal to learn/insisting that what hollywood executives are doing is correct. for example i work in the animation industry, animation as a global thing is incredibly healthy and is actively growing, mostly down to japanese anime with the main reason being, large numbers of people like what anime is providing. but the amount of times ive over heard my boss at work and multiple clients talk about "the western animation industry isnt doing to well, we need to do something fresh, i know lets do the simpsons or adventure time, thats what audiences want" its so frustrating when the people in charge just dont seem actually be aware of the industry they work in.
My friend has worked for Paramount forever, he’s ripping his hair out. It’s the hubris of the executives, they think they know everything when they know nothing. There’s that great Frank Zappa interview where he talks about the old executives, smoking cigars, drinking bourbon in their office, they didn’t know anything about music, but they recognized talent and ambition and they had people under them that got it. Once the executives started fancying themselves creatives, like some executives are now doing, it went to shit. Anime is not only giving people what they want and not belittling heroes, but like video games, the Japanese market keeps it decentralized. Despite Japan, South Korea, India, Indie Film etc, films are so centralized in Hollywood. Hopefully AI helping smaller studios cut costs, will help decentralize Hollywood as the epicenter of film
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Most people don't want woke garbage. Western studios almost exclusively produce woke garbage which is why anime has become so popular. Just saw an article saying that the BBC is going to make an Anglo-Saxon era movie/tv series with lots of black and other non-white actors playing historic Anglo-Saxon people. Some will watch it for the swords and overall theme but millions will boycott it. Why make such a product when the people most interested in the theme are going to be insulted?
@@damionkeeling3103 Your guess is as good as mine. My sister is a film professor and she just shakes her head. Being owned by corporations puts too many cooks in the kitchen, executives are usually protected and insulated, even from terrible decisions. Look at Kathleen Kennedy. She has destroyed Lucas Film yet her paychecks aren’t any smaller and her stock options and retirement package aren’t any less because it would be bad optics for Disney to fire a female president of a company in 2024. Plus they love their social status and being able to pat themselves on the back, thinking they made a difference or something. Sad part is, most people see through their bullshit and are finally sick of it
What people seem to not understand is that movies are a very expensive art form. Do you really expect people to consistently give millions of dollars to satisfy a particular artist's sensibility?
I’d argue the most common thing people know about film is that it’s an expensive art form but to your point, look at it like Monopoly money. What they’re naive to is the logistics and where the money actually goes. I think very few people have an understanding of that.
The average person has no idea the cost and coordination needed for something as simple, yet complicated as feeding a crew of extras on location.
Unfortunately budgets are so out of control as is, then you add in companies like Disney finishing CGI and then editing, as opposed to editing and then finishing CGI, the surprising move away from story boarding and this more recent practice of attaching a bunch of producers on multiple levels that have nothing to do with the project other than collecting a check and slapping their name on the credits and you have the perfect storm for runaway budgets in an already expensive art form.
Have you heard of "Hollywood accounting," when authors and artists are defrauded of their money and films are made to appear to be losing money in order to deny artists their share of the profits?
@@xenon6947 I’ve heard of it. I have an accounting minor and it was originally my major, I wanted to be a Forensic Accountant, basically the accountants that go into places like Enron and tear apart the cooked books to see who hid what, where. Hollywood accounting has absolutely happened over the years in some situations. But that’s not what we’re seeing here. This is a mass exodus of theater goers. When you factor in inflation and the cost of tickets and numbers of tickets sold, it’s unreal how far Hollywood has fallen. Cooking books to cheap out on an old comic book creator or author of a book is one thing. But the numbers don’t lie. Even with corporations buying up chunks of tickets and people not looking at number of tickets sold, just looking at the fudged box office numbers with doubled ticket prices from 15 years ago and those box offices still suck, Hollywood is in catastrophic failure. If you take the Star Wars Prequels and adjust for inflation and ticket prices, they blow away the sequels. The sequels suck and now that the real costs of them have come out, it shows how little Disney made on them, but the average consumer just sees box offices over $1 billion and thinks they were successes when they really weren’t.. The average person just sees box office and doesn’t understand or even care, rightfully, about the numbers behind the “box office”.
Truth! Nice Demolition man cameo....now I need some Taco Bell! 😂
A Border Run is definitely in order
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Nothing lasts forever. Video games are more interesting than Wokeywoke bullshit.
!00% and you get countless hours of entertainment versus a coinflip at best, of whether a 2 hour movie will be good or not.
Rdr2 is a great example
Nicely done hopefully your channel will grow.
Thanks man, appreciate it 🤙🏼
Cogent analysis. Subscribed!
Thank you. Much appreciated! Cheers
My studio is going back to Old School filmmaking.
It’s so long past due and there is a demand for it. My sister has her PhD and teaches film at university and even younger generations are taking an interest in traditional, true film making. Give me majority practical effects and preferably shot on film 8 days a week.
There are heaps of real, compelling stories that are waiting to be told
I agree about mergers, it’s happening more and more. I think in the end Netflix will be all that’s left like before the streaming wars. Only time will tell.
@@imperfectxennial3008 I think Prime will also stick around, not so much because of performance but because it’s tied into 2 day shipping and they’re bringing in pro sports, but to your point, I think Netflix will be the true king of streaming going forward.
I think what’s gonna end up happening is that Hollywood will start making movies the way that the Japanese makes theirs!! which is to utilize an Animae story telling style!! Which in my opinion obviously looks like is where things are headed, even if it’s not Animae per say they’ll utilize a CGI version of that same style which they’ve already been doing already obviously!!! 💯💥💥💥
I think they’ll definitely do that and it will work but the irony is, anime adopted the old Hollywood style of storytelling 😂 So now ironically, Hollywood needs to relearn heroism and character development from the industry that learned from them 😂 Anime still uses the Hero’s Journey. Most of Hollywood has tossed it in the trash.
@@ThePaladinJock Factz!! 💯💥
good analysis
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback.
Ha! So funny….. I mostly enjoy watching “old movies” which I was too young to “get” when they came out…. Or other flicks I missed out on for whatever reason…. And for video Games…. I bought myself an “emulator” system….. now I have EVERYTHING from the past…. I am all set….
😂 You my friend, are a man with a plan. I still have all my old retro systems going back to Atari 7800 and mostly watch older films as well. I try to find and support the random gem that comes through and indie films, but that’s about it for new stuff.
Ha! I got my emulator mostly cause of random arcade games I used to play when I was a teenager in the 90s…. Most of which never got a decent release on home console back in the day!
@@alejandromolinac I have an emulator as well for days I'm feeling lazy and don't feel like changing cartridges and discs 😂
You fired!
1970’s the railway children, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Railway Children was made in UK, not in Hollywood.
Lots of good points, i clicked on this by accident but watched the whole thing because it speaks a lot of truth
Thanks for watching and the comment! Appreciate it
Cable uninventes itself and then reinvents itself as streaming bundled!
To quote Gollum: “Tricksy Cables-es.”
I stay with my old blurays.
Same. I gave away a bunch and sold some but started buying them all back once I realized how F’d streaming was
I feel pessimistic. However, I am very open to being surprised by a currently invisible turnaround
@@jasonsmith530 My sister is a film professor. Lots of talented kids coming through her classes and lots of them interested in analog and actual film. I have a small bit of hope for the future, especially since A.I. will help indies compete with Hollywood
Hollywood will be fine, it has the modern audience to buy its product.
@@damionkeeling3103 So far betting on that modern audience isn’t doing too good 😂 and it couldn’t have happened to a better bunch of assholes 😂
Marvel allready went bancrupt in the 90s, which did in no way hurt the viewer. So dont ever bother about corporate Hollywoods survival.
Marvel's bankruptcy in 1996 was because of dwindling comic book sales, trading cards, collectibles and their purchase of Fleer. There were no viewers other than cartoons. Blade wasn't made until 1998 and the only Marvel related movies prior to bankruptcy were Howard The Duck in 1986 and Dolph Lundgren's Punisher in 1989. Corporate Hollywood's main problem is creative bankruptcy
Funny…. I find most “modern” movies so ugly to look at….. from obvious shots on green screen…. To lazy “pasted on” looking fog and light sources…. To…. Why do “night scenes” now look like they just adjusted the level to make it dark?…. They all look like garbage….
So true. They also use the “dark” or “washes” to hide poor CGI, like on the Kenobi Series and Rebel Moon. Modern films lack the artistry that movies on film could achieve when done right. The stuff shot on The Volume is pure trash. In the hands of a capable director, many of these things can be used as tools but we have so many incompetents making films and shows that they use them as crutches
Yeah…. As I type this…. I am watching the original Alien movie…. Lost of “dark environments” where they shot them just right…. Plenty of strategic lighting to accomplish highlights so you can see what’s going on….. nowadays that would look super flat….
@@alejandromolinac It would be all muddled with zero contrast and minimal use of actual lighting. My buddy and I were just talking about the Alien franchise the other day. Movies like Alien and Aliens show there's zero excuse for not having dark scenes look sharp, other than laziness and/or incompetence.
Appallingly bad movies. Fifty remakes of all action with no story. Actors ruining they're reputation with endless political commentary no one wsnts to hear or care about. All business and no art. I could'nt fit it all in.
This only further justifies why I pirate everything
The High Seas is the way to go these days 😂
The person providing the stream is the pirate. You are going to the pirate to get a view. This is like saying when you buy 2 grams of weed at a skate park you are smuggling.
@@AlexHerroa-vb4ee touché
You can up the watching game in theatres, add all the gimmicks you want, it all sucks. To watch even a basic comedy anymore, you have to watch people making out. To watch cartoons, it's burping and farting. Then, of course, it's always the same bunch of actors, even if they are garbage. Add in all the yelling and loud noise, and it's a mega no thanks. That's my opinion.
Sad and true. I can't imagine trying to make a legit comedy anymore, not with all the Hollywood and Cancel Culture bullshit. Picture movies like Revenge Of The Nerds or Fast Times At Ridgemont High being made now. You couldn't even make Dazed & Confused today. Everyone is so sensitive about everything and nobody can laugh at themselves.
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Thanks!
Well, when will we launch #fixhollywood trends? I think it will be relevant.
I think we’ve reached that “now or never” point for fixing it, once we get through all this backlogged crap