“Hollywood is dying. I live here, and I can kind of feel it. It’s all reality shows, youtube, and video games now.”
You left out that there is seldom anything really new.
Films are mostly spin offs of other films, some of which were never successful to begin with.
A younger relative, who was a big time movie fan, came up with this observation about a decade ago that Follywood was incapable of anything that was new and provided value to the people buying tickets.
He appears to be correct each year.
The lack of imagination is most likely the result of years of leftist indoctrination.
Groupthink produces no imagination.
Even if Follywood tries to make something new, it ends up being a vehicle of dressed up leftism ideas.
Yeah, there’s little that’s new. The last really good movie I saw was INCEPTION. I’ll admit, I loved that. I went back and saw it a second time, it was so good. But it’s rare. I can only name about 20 movies that I think are worth the price of a DVD, and I’m talking “since the beginning of Hollywood.”
Hollywood has always done that. Most of the early productions were filmed plays. Some of the biggest movies in Hollywood’s history are remakes, based on other sources or both. You like Charlton Heston’s Ben Hur? That was the third time they made that movie, based on a play, that was itself based on a book. Humphrey Bogart’s Maltese Falcon? 3rd time they converted that book in 10 years.
100% original movies with no previous source of any kind have always been the rarest thing in Hollywood, anybody that thinks it’s new needs to watch the classics.
Entertainers are also a major expense. Their paychecks add hugely to the production cost. Furthermore, the majority of these stars are becoming famous because of their personal lives and that overshadows the movie. Comedy is more disgusting than humerous, they use the same people day in and day out, and it’s all politically correct garbage and age inappropriate innuendo.
A major problem is that Hollywood now receives 65-70% of its box office from outside of the United States. As a result, we get dumbed down films that are supposed to have appeal from Bialystock to Bangalore. Even a blockbuster like Avatar had a weak script and dumbed down acting.