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What do you think is the reason for the decline of movie quality in the last decade or so? There's some gems here and there, but overall the quality of movies has been freefalling.
HBO taking great writers and using them to make long running series started a trend where a bunch of top writers went to TV instead of film. That, along with the rise of streaming services caused an explosion in the size of the film industry. Writers made more money creating lots of new content rather than a slow stream of quality content.
I blame it on the bean counting accountants and MBA running the movie studios. Movies have gotten more and more to produce, so the minimizing risks becomes a paramount objective. This is why you are seeing so many remakes and sequels because you are guaranteed a fan base. It's also the reason why big movies have become formulaic because studios are just trying to copy what worked once and milk the same formula dryWhat do you think is the reason for the decline of movie quality in the last decade or so? There's some gems here and there, but overall the quality of movies has been freefalling.
I do think the 90's is really the period were Hollywood execs started to take back the power they had lost way back in the late 60's/early 70's, yes we';d had "blockbusters" since the mid/late 70's which focused on entertainment but those films tended to be driven mostly by the creative side, there wasnt a formula for sucess. In the 90's though I think that started to change, films with big CGI showpeices and films which pandered to cheesey Americana started to become consistent box office winners.It happened during the 1990’s.
The new crop of creative talent rejected the old guard. They had to do it their way, especially in response to creative experimentation.
The leadership was corporatized. Instead of 10 or so quasi geniuses influencing output, they were replaced by the hive mind…leading to isolated environments where everyone agrees with one another.
HBO taking great writers and using them to make long running series started a trend where a bunch of top writers went to TV instead of film. That, along with the rise of streaming services caused an explosion in the size of the film industry. Writers made more money creating lots of new content rather than a slow stream of quality content.
Good stuff is still made but there is an ocean of stuff being made alongside it, to the point that it floods and dilutes the market.
That's my guess anyway.