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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I think there was a very significant erosion in quality especially with Covid forcing producers to embrace the new reality of movie theaters. Great scripts dont always get matched with the best directors who pump $ into a star studded cast. So the market was flooded with marvel movies and sequels and kids movies.Agreed there were still great films from independent directors and it’s good to see the industry embrace them, but it feels like we’re finally hitting that happy medium again where a producer can get behind an original movie without the blockbuster gimmicks. I feel like this year was a really good step in the right direction for movies even if the top billing at the Oscar’s was a little underwhelming.
And credit to the Oscar’s for leaning into that. They seemed to very intentionally reward originality. Dune 2 was your Oppenheimer spectacle. A complete unknown was your standard overrewarded biopic like the overrated Elton John/queen movies (shame, since the complete unknown is legitimately good). Wicked is kind of that Barbie blockbuster. Anora and the brutalist are way more of a gimmick free movie which is a little refreshing.
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There have been dips that corresponded to things like covid and strikes, but the greater access to the mechanisms to create film + the need for more content has gotten films made that never would have in the past. Sometimes that means a really shitty movie, but it also means a surge in really creative ideas and interesting voices. The problem is what makes it to most theaters. I really hope you're right and studios are starting to recognize the value of of big studio movies with a brain and a heart. That particular kind of film is missed.