By: vladdy

vladdy — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:01:00 +0000

This isn’t going to happen. The studios have no interest anymore in making the kind of movies these people would want to make, so at the very best, they’d find another Whedon or Abrams to make more junk for them so I can stop seeing the work of even more people I used to like. “Mid-budget” movies are indies now, and they don’t get much advertising and they play in one theatre in major cities and not at all anywhere else. Studios don’t care about that kind of paltry revenue. Even the “underperforming” movies you reference make much, much more (after overseas release and disc and streaming, etc.) than a movie like Nice Guys would have made even if people had wanted to see it and it hadn’t had such a godawful off-putting trailer.

By: Stephen Morton

Stephen Morton — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 02:34:00 +0000

“We can all pretty much agree, now we’re over the half-way point, that this year has been one of the worst in living memory for movies”

What? We can? I mean, few of the big blockbusters this year have been any good, but the number of excellent indie and foreign films that have been coming out so far has been kind of amazing, in my view. My rough run-down of favorites: Knight of Cups, Sunset Song, Everybody Wants Some!!, Love & Friendship, The Witch, Hail Caesar!, Francofonia, Sing Street, The Nice Guys, Midnight Special, and The Boy and the Beast, with both Finding Dory and Deadpool being pretty good. Not to mention O.J.: Made In America and Lemonade, which both premiered on television, I guess, but are nevertheless both cinema. And I haven’t even seen Green Room, The Lobster, Mountains May Depart, Swiss Army Man, High-Rise, The Neon Demon, Embrace of the Serpent, My Golden Days, Eye in the Sky, or Aferim!.

And I think it’s much easier to adapt from writing/directing movies to television then it is to go the other direction.

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