The Death of Cinema pt. 94

I'm quite perturbed by the amount of YouTube videos of film commentary titled things like "audiences hate it when movies do these things", as if they can speak for everyone.

hmmm is this conversation not more "death of hollywood" really

not that other national cinemas are exempt from the lure of franchises but

there was already a Kellogg's movie, Matthew Broderick i wanna say... yeah Road to Wellness https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/

I've seen a bit of it.

I did wonder if there's even the possibility that a different film industry could attract all the big American stars by saying "come over here, we'll treat you better"

It was a different situation, but obviously Europe did that for a number of folks from Hollywood during the era of blacklisting. Not that escaping franchise work is akin to that.

I have several friends who are either writers or directors or both, and one by one they've been sucked up into franchise work and for me it is a little bit depressing to see considering where they started. Much similar to how virtually everyone I know from the cinema program at my school wound up working in reality television. The latter is much more depressing I think though.